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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25
ChanCerY Sale of Real Estate.

No. sol, r. hancery Court ofShelby county.
-Sallie r. Coffee VS.. James d. Rudin.
DY virtue Of an interlocutory decree for
ID sale, entered in the above cause on the
18th day Of April, 1874, and renewed October
4th, 1870. l viii sell, at public auction, to
the highest bidder, in front Of the clerk and
masters office, courthouse building. Main
street, in the city Of Memphis, now known as
the Taxing District Of Shelby county, on
Saturday. October so, 1850,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
and in the city Of Memphis, to-wit:
Beginning on the northwest corner Of Main
and PObtotoc streets; thence north with the
west line Of Main street IS feet to a stake;
thence west us feet to a stake on a private al
ley 10 feet wide; thence south 50 feet to ponto-
toe street; thence cast with Pontotoo street us
feet to the beginning, together with oil the i'm
prOyements thereon.
Terms of sale; 0ne-ffth cash, balance in six,
twelve and eighteen months; notes TO bear in
terest at six per cent from date, with approved
surety; lien retained, oic.
r. j, BLACK, Clerk and Master.
This October 9TH, 1880.
Humes & Poston, and j. A. Taylor, Attor-
nasra IN 70
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25
ENCOURAGEMENT

f'0 the Voters Of the Tenth Congressional
II District, composed OF the Counties III
Shelby, Hardsman and Fayette-Urged by my
friends and called upon 10 do SO byR unanim-
ity of public sentiment most grateful to nv
feelings, and which embraces all parties, I
candidacy for reelection as your Representa-
tive in Congress at an early day, but in defer
epce H. the political party to which | belong.
/ deemed 1t proper 10 defer doing so until il
sanction was obtained in some authoritative
way. 1t now having been declared by COM
petent authority that there viii be no Demo
cratic Convention called in this district to
make q nomination, | feel at liberty to an-
n0unce myself a candidate before the people
for reelection 10 the lower house Of Congress,
and to respectfully solicit the support Of my
tellow-citizens Of every party at the ballot
box, on the third day Of November next,
Very respectfully,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25
National democratic Tiekef.

MONDAY evening Oct. sS. lssO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25

FoR NIcE-PREsIDENT;
W. II. ENGLISH, OF INDIANA,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25
D1srafcr FLForoRs.

D1sra1cr ELECTORS;
First District -CHARLEs R. vAECE, Of suli-
van.
Second Distries-W, L. LEDaERwooD' OF
Knox.
Third District-JoBs r. NEAL, Of Rhsa
county.
Fourth District-JosEFhE z. WASHINGTON, Of
HObertsoD.
Fihh Distriot-J. Il. BuRSAN, Of Lincoln.
sixth Distriet-W. A. THoxA, Of Davidson.
Seventh District-R. A. TNLIAFERRo' Of
Giles.
Eighth District-A. G. HAWKINS. Of Carroll
Ninth Dis,riet-T. Z. RICHARDSON, ofDyer.
Teeth Dlslrict-R. j. MoReAS, Of Shelby.
FoR CoSeREssi
CASEY YOUNG.
FoR ooYEBSsR,
s. Il. WILSON,
OF suNShR,
The Peoples Candidate.
FSur4h. We demand that no settlement Of
re Stsfs debt shall be made which l. not sub
witte4 10 snd ratified b. the people at the bal
lot box. st q spscial election to be held ior
that purpose.
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE TICKET
For the Senate-From Shelby, James
n. Harris G. Z. Smith.
senator from Upton, Fayette and Shell
b--J. H. Iauierdale, Of Upton.
Reuresentafive from Shelby and Fay
e.-C Al Stainback. Of Fayette.
Re1-s Te from Shelby-M. D. L.
SsEan Thomas r. Boyle, B. G. Bledsoe-
MSrarE r C. Wlhams0n, w. b.
WTrston.
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The accumulated evidence Of nearly thirty
years show thot the Bitter, is a certain remedy
for % alarisl disease. as well as its sure.t PEE
Y%entiYe; tiat it eradicates dyspepsia, con, i
patton, liver complaint and nervousnC e,
vigor to the feeble. aud cheers the mind
while il inyisOrates the body.
For sale by all druggists and dealers gener-
ally
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-25

FOR President;
W. s. HANCOCK. OF PENNSYLVANIA
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
A Leaders, Way.

Superintendent Parker in his late address
before the teachers of New York gave this
interesting item from his experience at
Quincy, Massachusetts. 1t sets forth our
expressed views first, concerning the perni
cious habit of adhering SO persistently to
the exact matter and m amer laid down in
the textbooks by men who perhaps never
saw the inside of country school-room, and
secondly, in regard to the treatment of the
young children of the schools The address
was filled with just such pithy remarks, and
we regret our inability to reproduce it en-
tire, but it will be sought out and read with
pleasure by all teachers who are really bound
to improve. The other class would give it
hardly glance were it furnished them in
pamphlet form, and right there is the rub.
Five years ago the committee placed the
control of the Quincy schools in my hands.
l thought the school should be made JOY
full place. was against textbook teaching.
With twenty years work behind me, went
TO work. The great obstacle was the ignor-
ance of the subjects shown by the teachers.
Text-teaching does not require an absolutely
exhaustive knowledge of the subject. l
tried, then, to teach my teachers to learn
the minds of those under them. impressed
upon them the necessity of doing well what
ever they did. set the teachers free to
work out their own salvation. When
found teacher who could not catch the
spirit asked her to resign. made change,
too, in the management of the children.
like hum in school that is the hum of real
work. do not believe in stiff-backed rules
of order. We introduced play into the kin
dergarten. Blocks and toys were drawn
upon, and we tried to make the children
happy. Ihold punishment to oe an indication
of teachers weakness strong doctrine,
you may say, but if children are well fed
and treated well, the question of order will
take care of itself. l believe, too, in the
right of rebellion on the part of boys who
are not fed with sufficient or with suitable
work. object to drudgery, but healthy
earnest, happy work believe in"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Solomon, the Preacher.

Solomon was great experimenter on hu-
man life. He tried all ways of it. He tried
what wealth, what wisdom, what mirth and
music, building of houses, planting of vine
yards, making of orchards and gardens,
could do to make a man happy and keep
him so. And he conducted each expert
ment of this kind upon the largest scale,
and carried to its furthest issue. His posi-
ton gave him full command of all the
means and instruments of human enjoy.
unent, and he exercised that command with.
out limitation or restraint. Whatsoever his
eyes desired he kept it not from them he
withheld not his heart from any kind OF
joy. We are not to imagine that he did all
this at the promptngs of any higher mo.
tive, or for any religious end. He did it as
multitudes in lesser spheres and to more
limited extent are doing ito crafty the
devices and desires of his own heart. But
he was all the while, though unconsciously
| fulfilling high and benevolent purpose OF
the Supreme, and when afterwards he was
brought to the love and service of God, he
was directed to put on record, for the guild
ance and warning of all after generations, {
history of earlier experience 1t is in this
| light, regarding them as written for thi,
purpose, that the opening chapters of the
| Book of Ecclesiastes are to be read by US
| Dr. Hanna.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10

church-yard will come, and that minute
when you are put into the grave will come,
and the throwing in of the loose earth into
the narrow house where you are laid, and
the spreading Of the green sod over it-all,
all will come; and in few short years the
minister who now speaks, and the people
who now listen, will be carried to their long
homes, and make room for another genera
tiou. Now, all this, you know, must and
VIII happen your common sense and com
mon experience serve to convince you of it.
Perhaps it may have been little thought of
in the days of careless and thoughtless and
thankless unconcern which you have spent
hitherto but | call upon you to think Of il
now, to lay it seriously to heart, and no
longer to trihe and delay when the high
matters of death and judgment and eternity
are thus set so evidently before you. And
the tidings wherewith / am charged-and
the blood lieth upon your own head, and not
upon mine, if you will not listen to them
the object of my coming amongst you is to
let you know what more things are to come !;
it is to carry you beyond the regions Of
sight aud of sense, 10 the regions OF faith,
and TO assure you, in the name of him who
cannot lie, that as sure as the hour of laying
the body in the grave comes, so surely will
also come the hour of the spirit returning
to the God who gave it. Yes, and the day
of final reckoning will come, and the ap-
pearance of the Son of God in heaven, and
his mighty angels around him, will come,
and the opening of the books will come, and
the standing of the men of all generations
before the judgment seat will come, and the
solemn passing of that sentence which is to
fix you for eternity will come.-Dr. Chalmers
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Saving q Child.

A fire broke out in large steamer. The
vessel was headed for a near shore. A man
on board, returning from California, was
buckling round his body a belt filed with
gold. Just as he was about pluugug in the
waves, little pitifu voice was heard, say.
ing, "Please, sir, can you swim :" I" Yes y
" Then won't you save me ?" He could not
save the gold and the child so flinging
down the gold, he said, Yes, God helping
me, l will save you" Giving the child in
structions how to act, he plunged into the
water. The surf was almost too much for
him. The gold would have carried him
under, but the pressure of the little clinging
arms lent force to every stroke. He fought
for that precious little life as well as for his
own, and both were saved. Can it be that
men and women, bearing the name of Christ
will care more for money or fashion than
for the childrens souls ?-Christian fntelli
Oeucer,
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Longitude and Time.

The best of teachers sometimes get puzzled
in endeavoring to explain this somewhat Pc
culiar subject, and those who never have given
1t any thought generally stop the expana-
tion just when their classes begin to under
stand it and wish to know more about it.
The following very clear solution is from
the March 81. Nicholas; "Apparent noon, or
twelve o'clock apparent time at any given
place, is the time when the earth, by her
rotary motion from west to east, rolls the
meridian Of that given place directly under
the sun, and therefore the meridian of Green
wich comes under the sun one hour sooner
than the meridian of l5o west. So, when it
is twelve O'Clock, or noon, at Greenwich 1t
will be eleven o'clock forenoon at all places
in longitude 15o west, consequently, only ten
o'clock forenoon in longitude 800 west, nine
o'clock forenoon longitude 45o west, and so
on, counting back one hour of time for every
fifteen degrees of longitude. Thus we find
that, when we get across the western henri
sphere to longitude 1900, we are twelve hours
behind the time at Greenwich or, when it
is noon on January 1st at Greenwich, it is
midnight, or Just the commencement OF
January lst, at the longitude Of 1900. But
for the same reason, by the rotation of the
earth from west to east, any place in 150
east longitude will come under the sun one
hour before Greenwich or, it will be one
O'Clock in the afternoon at those places when
it is only noon at Greenwich, and so, count
ing across the eastern hemisphere, one hour
ahead of Greenwich for every fifteen degrees
of longitude, we come to the longitude of
1900, twelve hours ahead of Greenwich time.
Now, on January 1st, it is midnight, or the
end of January LIST, say, for instance, one
inch on the tcest side of meridian 1900. But
we have just seen that, at that very same
time (that is, noon, January 1st, at Green
wich), it is only the beginning of January
1st at, say, one inch on the east side of me
ridian 1900, 10 that there is twenty-foul
hours, or one whole day, difference in time
between two persons supposed to be stand
ing, one Immediately on the east side, thu
other Immediately on the west side of 1909
and so, while it is noon of January lst witt
the one at the east, it would be within few
minutes of noon, January I'd, with the on
at the west. Therefore, by stepping acros
the meridian, the day of the week and tn
date would be changed. The one wh'
stepped from east to west would lose day
and the other, stepping from west to east
would have two successive days of the sam
name and date, and so would gain day."
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
HumOrsOme Waits.

A MINISTER visiting brother minister
was invited to lead the family devotions.
He prayed so long that little Mary arose
from her knees, and whispered in her moth
er's ear, Mamma, you keep very still. He'll
be through pretty soon."
AN Irishman was accused Of stealing a
handkerchief of a fellow-traveler, but the
owner, on finding it, apologized to Pat, and
said that it was mistake. "Arrah my
Jewell" retorted Pat, "it was a two.sided
mistake you took me for thaif, and
took you for gintleman."
A MAN was once asked how he and his
wife got along with so little friction IN the
family machinery. swell" said he, when
we first married we both wanted our own
way. wanted to sleep on linen sheets, my
wife preferred cotton. and we couldu't agree.
Finally we talked the mater over, and came
to the conclusion that It was un-Christisn
to live in constant pickering; 90 we com
promised on linen, and have got along all
right ever since"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Time for Reading.

Many busy people declare they have no
time for reading; but they are mistak en-.
They have all the time there is, and some
of the worlds busiest men have found that
enough to make themselves accomplished in
one or more departments of knowledge.
The trouble is no lack of time, but wasteful
habits in regard to it. Many persons enter
tain the notion that one must have regular
and definite hours of the day or week set
apart for reading in order to accomplish
anything valuable. There never was a
greater mistake. The busiest life has mar
gins of time which may serve, like the bor-
ders of the old missals, to enrich and exalt
the commonplaces written between. Fifteen
minutes in the morning and as many in the
evening, devoted faithfully to reading, will
add appreciably in the course of few
months to ones store of knowledge. AL
ways have book at hand, and whether the
opportunity brings you two hours or ten
| minutes, use it to the full. An English sci
enlist learned a language in the time his
wife kept him waiting for the completion OF
her evening toilette; and at the dinner given
to Mr. Froude in this city, some years ago
Mr.. Beecher said that he had read through
that authors brilliant but somewhat lengthy
history in the intervals of dinner. Every
life has pauses between its activities. The
time spent in local travel in street cars and
ferries is golden opportunity, if one viii
only resolutely make the most of it. 1t il
not long spaces of time, but the single pur
pose that turns every moment to account
| that makes great and fruitful acquisition
possible to men and women who have othel
work in life.-Chrisiidn Union.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
OyerWOrk...The Breakdown,

[ met a man some time ago who used to
travel in business, and almost passed his life
upon the rail. He came home one evening"
aud walking across his dining-room, he stag
gered like drunken man. Uncharitable
people who did not know his habits might
have thought him intoxicated. He sank on
his chair all the rest of his life. He was
completely paralyzed in his lower limbs
The incessant travelling on the rail had at
last proved too much for his nervous system
Hence the collapse; and have strong i'm
preston that other collapses might be traced
to similar source. | knew of lawyer who
was in great rush of business. He liked
his fees but like all men who succeed, he
liked business thoroughly for its own sake.
He was unable to refuse business and in
deed, to refuse business is the hardest trial
which can happen to any professional man.
His mistake was, that he did not provide
himself with adequate assistance. The i'll
treated brain took to softening, and then all
business came to an end. knew of man
who was enormously wealthy. In addition
to the constant employment which his own
vast property gave him, he was trustee for
ever SO many widows and orphans and char
tiles. He worked hard at accounts till the
small hours in the morning. A boy clerk at
fifteen shillings a week might have done it
all for him. But he preferred "doing his
own work himself" and accordingly he had
to quit this inferior existence, where such a
condition of things is not always possible.
One of the best known men in the country
once told me that he was going to take six
weeks holiday at the seaside. | was re-
joiced to hear it, No man better deserved
or more required such holiday. Then he
told me that he was going to take his new
book with him to the seaside, and hoped to
have it ready for publication by the time his
holiday was over. expostulated with him.
explained that he was only exchanging one
kind of hard work for still harder kind of
hard work. But he took the advice of what
is often mans worst counselor-himself,
His book was successful; but he never knew
of the success. London Society.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Educational nfparfmenf.
Conducted by W. w. AINswoRrH. Calais. VI,



A teacher sat in a pleasant room,
In the waning light alone;
Her head was bowed In anxious thought;
with the work and the day had brought,
She had faint and weary grown.
And the task that seemed light in the mornings ray
As she thought Of II now at the close Of the day.
When weary with iol and faint with care,
Seemed more than human strength could bear.
Since the scholars had left her, one by one,
Nearly an hour had flown;
She had given them each kind goodnight,
And while they fingered her eyes were bright
But they dImmed with tears when alone.
She had borne the burden the day had brought,
The daily task she had faithfully wrought,
And now. to solace her weary mind,
A Lesson Of life she sought to ind
The work and cares OF the day she scans,
But no lesson from them receives.
1.-THE day had no lesson for me-" she said
"a lesson, III read in the Book instead"
And she opened her Bible leaves.
When 10 the lesson she had sought In vain,
To draw from her fainting and weary brain.
At once from the holy page she drew,
Though always the same, yet ever new.
Establish thou the work Of our hands,"
Twas this that met her gaze
The words went up from her lips like prayer;
And as she read she treasured there
lesson for many days.
Not alone for her let the lesson be,
May It come well TO you and Inc.
Let our prayers be the words Of holy writ,
Yea, the work Of our hands establish thou it,"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Husbands aud Wives.

A good husband makes a good wife. Some
men can neither do without wives nor with
them they are wretched alone in what is
called single blessedness, and they make
their homes miserable when they get mar
ried they are like Tompkins' dog, which
could not bear to be loose, and howled when
it was tied up. Happy bachelors are likely
to be happy husbands, and happy husband
is the happiest of men. A well-matched
couple carry a joyful life between them, as
the two spies carry the cluster of Eshcol,
They are brace OF birds OF paradise. They
multiply their joys by sharing them, and
lessen their troubles by dividing them this
is fine arithmetic. The wagon of care rolls
lightly along as they pull together, and when
it drags little heavily, or there's hitch
anywhere, they love each other all the more,
and so tighten the labor.-John Ploughman.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
Hating Evil.

"The fear of the Lord is to hate evil
Proverbs viii: l3, " Ye that love the Lore
hate evil" Psalms cxvii: 10, Thou loves
righteousness and hatest wickedness, there
fore God, thy God, hath anointed thee witt
the oil of gladness above thy fellows,
Psalms xiv; 7. Rowland Hill, when preach
ing to very plain people, said :" want you
to have holy aversion to sin. Do yor
know what | mean by aversion Suppos,
any one of you were to put your hand il
your pocket and feel toad there, you wou6
draw it out instantly, from your aversion tc
the animal Now, my desire is, that wher
conscious of the presence of sin, you should
have just such an aversion as this to it-s
hatred of it, and disgust at its horrid ma
ture."
"Quick as the apple Of an eye,
God, my conscience make;
Awake my soul when sin is nigh,
And keep it still awake"
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
"OnIy the Chiseling.v

A Christian mother lay dying. Beside
her loving daughter stood, smoothing from
the death-damp brow the matted hair. Pro
longed suffering had made deep lines on the
once beautiful face; but still there rested
upon those features calm, peaceful express
sion, which nothing but hope in Jesus
could give. Tears fell upon the pallid face
from eyes that were closely watching the
"changing of the countenance." Conscious
of the agony that caused them to fall, the
mother, looking heavenward, whispered,
" Patience, darling it is only the chiseling."
Reader, the Master Sculptor "seeth not as
man seeth." There are many deformities
that must needs be chiseled off before thou
canst find place in the gallery on high
Presbyterian.
Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1880-03-10
VOL. 75.-3S3O. NO. %.
OUR PATTERN.


ny PH0sE CARY.
A weaver sat one day at hls loom
Among the coos bright,
with the pattern for his copying
Hung fair and plain in sight
But the weaver's thoughts were wandering
Away on a distant track,
As he threw the shuttle in his hand
YEARLY forward and back
And he turned his dim eyes to the ground.
And tears fell on the woof.
For his thoughts, alas were not with his home.
Nor the wife beneath It's roof;
When her voice recalled him suddenly
To himself, as she sadly said;
"Ah, woe Ia me- for your work Is spoiled.
And what will we do for bread?'
Aud then the weaver looked and saw
His work must be undone;
For the threads were wrong, and the colors dmmed
Where the bitter tears had run.
"Alacki alack |" said the weaver,
" Aud this had all been right
II had not looked at my work, but kept
The pattern in my sight"
Ali sad 1t was for the weaver,
And sad for his luckless wife;
And sad II will be for us II we say,
At the end OF our task Of llfei
"The colors that we had to weave
Were bright In early years;
But we wove the tissue wrong, and stained
The woof with bitter tears.
1--WE wove q web OF doubt and fear
Not faith and hope and love-
Because we looked at our work, and not
AT our Pattern mr. aboye"