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Memphis Correspondence Louisville Courier
Journal.l
The thermometer at about ninety
degrees does not soothe the apprehen-
sions of the Memphians. Every u
is on the alert to catch the first wind
of a return Of the pestilence. This
delectable quarter of the city nance
Pinch could not possibly hold out a
fairer invitation to the pale monster
that waiketh about at MONDAY. In
Pinch the houses are all turned
around, and hold their kitchens to the
street, just for the convenience of
throwing garbage out of the window
and into the gutter. | have often
wondered why the street ears 20 so
slowly through Pinch-perchance it is
the Memphis mule that fingers low
ingly among the fattening fragranees,
or perhaps it is more difficult to drag
the car Thoughts denser atmosphere.
The ride seems wearing from its vari.
ETY. OF odors-a long rainbow of high
colored smells. But there is a happy
feeling Of relief when you finally pull
through and come into the finer part
of Memphis, especially ifyou are going
TO dine at its center of elegance-the
Peabody hotel-whose purity of at
mosphere, fine ventilation, and free
dom from even the usual fragrance Of
a hotel are sufficient to inspire full
confidence in all its other apartments
Its dining room seems to have been
planned for a chapel and changed ia
lts present use after f%rescoing. The
side walls are pierced, or, rath-
or, made up of double sashed
windows. In circular openings above
these, the fresco artist, taking Ra-
phael's barrel head Madonna for his
model, has thrown in ~variegated
groups Of fat, chubby angels, who are
comfortably suggestive of good board.
ing and plenty Of ambrosia. They dc
not seem to have any special mission
or occupation except rolling and
tumbling about-gambowling, as John
Owens calls it, In the altar place.
where you might expect a "transfgu.
ration" or some grand subject, a ford
portrait of Mr., Peabody-an idea
picture of mine host from Arkansav
Of thirty years. years ago fashion
smiles blandly down upon the deyo.
tees Of good living. l here suspected
that the slightly anxious glance of Mr.
Peabody was directed toward tn,
transept where the dinners wer,
brought forth. II an artist wer,
seeking religious or biblical sub
iects for the illumination of a hote
dining-room, he would not need mucl
research. Old st. Peter, with hi
vision of a restaurant baywindow
holding all sorts of flesh, fish anc
fowl, at once suggests itself; and ther
as . dessert picture, Samson scoopin,
the honey out of the lion would serve
Such illustrations would have vel
taken the place of these angels, espe
cially as you can find more beautiful
specimens Of the latter style OF sub
ect sitting down at the tables.
But above the angelic pictures is a
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arched ceiling with tracing of mold
ings which is a mix of art, and really
beautiful and instructing IS a study,
when you in turn must wait upon
the walters.
The good venerable DIR. White
generally graces lperhaps says grace
fn) this chapel With his presence and
sits under the benign portrait of MIR.
Peabody. His church-Calvary-is q
quaint old building, reminding me OF
old Virginia churches of that faith.
The Episcopal church is very
latitudinarian. An incident occur
ring at Calvary a few weeks ago
shows how it can stretch its wing over
its contrast of dispensation. 1t APP
pears that the organist has lost his
choir by way Of the usual accidents
and explosions incident to these har-
monious combinations. The genial
soprano, the pretty alto, the high
strung tenor and manly basso all con-
trived to be conspicuous by absence
on one fair Sunday. The good, old
doctor wanted hearty congregational
singing for a change aud ordered
familiar hymns. Nearer my
Cod was to be sung, and
Levy the organist, was prepar-
ing to let out hat grand organ, whose
tremble has shaken the paper from
the ceiling and now menaces the plas-
tering in full force to wind around
that melody the arpeggios Of Hotf-
mans Sweet By-and by" and pile
upon it such splendid harmonies as
old John Sebastian Bach in his IA
nous Kyrie. Grand music he would
have, maugre the recalcitrant singers,
But at the height of his triumph the
wind csased-he knocked vainly at
| the bellows signal, then went around
to find his uninspired blower fallen
asleep. He was infuriated, and for
getting the place, he collared the cul-
prit. shook him with violent hand,
and while the venerable doctor at one
end of Calvary was dispensing the
peace that passeth understanding
the organist at the other was giving
the despOiler Of his triumph piece OF
his mind and understanding, which
ended in his executing a torcible
"Nunc Dimittis' with him down the
gallery steps into the vestibule. Poor
Pomp departed not in peace but in
pieces, and never came back for the
rest Of his wardrobe, which hung
upon the pump handle of the organ.
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One Hundred Years Under Wa
for

MI. j. W. Dutton, the construct
ing engineer of the celebrated Duff
fern palace in Quebec, recently pre-
sented a journalist with a zane and a
pencil holder made of the wood OF
the vessel L'0riginal, which was sunk
before Quebec in the year 1866. In a
letter accompanying his gifts Mr.. Dut-
ton says:
aboriginal was built just below the
citadel, scarcely a quarter of a mile
from where Montgomery fell nineteen
years later. For those days she was a
large vessel, but in this age a l0O0-ton
vessel is not much to tell of. She was
built of oak timber, which must have
been brought from France, as none OF
the western oak forests had then been
cut into, it being impossible then to
bring the timber down. The vessel
was built of the best timber and iron,
but she was fated never to do much
execution for her country, as shortly
after being launched she was sunk,
Just opposite where she was built.
There she lay until last sum
mer, when she was raised and
towed to shore. She sank in Septem
Der, 1850, so bal she had laid under
the waters Of the st. Lawrence about
1913 years. In spite Of her long i'm
mersion, when they first attempted to
raise her it was found impossible, on
account of her being sunk in the mud.
and it was equally impossible to tear
her to pieces, as the oak was as solid
as on the day she went down. The
only thing that was gone was the iron,
IN those places where it had been ex>
posed, and this had completely rusted
away. After several vain attempts to
stir her, a diver was sent down, who
fred a heavy charge of dynamite un.
der her. This broke her up some
what, but it was only after many ex-
plosions and two years hard work,
that she was finally got rid of.
The wood was eagerly sought for,
and now it is almost an impossibility
to get a piece of it large enough to
make anything of any value. The
frigate was the last relic of the old
French government, having been
built under the superintendent OF
the Intendant BigCt. She lay in so
feet of water, and while she has been
there many are the changes that
Quebec has seen-as we'll in manners
and customs as ip men. When she
was removed there we're found to be
over 100 anchors of all sizes and many
hundred lathoms of chain entangled
with her. These were, Of course,
raised, and in some instances claimed,
but most of them were sold by the
government to satisfy expenses.
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INC OrLginnI or CnrInne.

Saturday Review.
There was a certain Maria NADIA.
lena Morrelli from Pistoia, Of queer
ish reputation, known as poet and i'm
proviser, and much in request for her
powers Of social entertainment. She
was Gorilla 0limpica among the Ar
cadians, and according to the man.
ners of the period was honored with
public invitations to Vienna, Venice
and Bologna. The Pope, Clement
XIV, gave her permission to read
books prohibited by the Inquisitiop.
and she was quoted by all the celeb.
rites Of Rome-0rlotf the Corsicau
Paoli, and the English Duke of Dor.
set. Her receptions were brilliant.
she was a musician as well as a poet.
could play the violin, and patronized
the young Mozart. Altogether she
became a parsonage almost adored by
many people, while denounced as a
pretentious and disreputable adven,
turess by others.
Finally came the laureled honors
OF the capitol, when the poor lady was
exposed to a very bad quarter Of an
hour. Something unpleasant had
been expected, and the ceremony was,
II consequence, appointed to take
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Living on a Volcano.

London has discovered, says the
Daily Telegraph, that it is undermined
in every direction by a network OF
pipes, filled with a gas, which, when
mixed in a certain well. known pro.
portion with air, becomes at once ter
ribly explosive that this network is
divided off, according to the districts
served by the different gas companies.
into special sections, and that each
section is liable, from a single act Of
carelessness at any point within ii
area, to be suddenly involved in q
common ruin. No matter how care.
iul the individual household may be,
its safety lies practically at the mercy
of a stupid workman a mile of, fol
any day, when a flaw in a pipe in some
distant street or square is being re,
paired. the fatal train may be ignited.
and a sullen roar, rolling down the
center Of the thoroughfare, and turning
corner after corner, may announce
the rush Of the exploding gas, as il
plows up street after street, and the
houses on both sides are shaken
and shattered by the awful
force OF the swiftly travelling
devastation. Such an accident as
this may, it appears, happen in
the most crowded thoroughfares OF
the city or the,most a~ristOcratic quar-
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ters of the West End, may include a
railway station in its radius Of havoc
or a crowded operahouse, and, instead
Of wasting its violence on such com.
paratively unfreQuentcd spots as
Charlotte street and Perry street, may
revel in the carnage Of the Strand or
Piccadilly, or the great business cen
ters round the Royal Exchange. 1t is
no e~xaggeration to say that such a
disaster is always possible, and that
without an instant's warning, or from
no negligence Of their own, whole
rows Of households may be overtaken
by sudden ruin, and whole streetfuls
OF human beings blown suddenly into
the air. We are speaking literally
within the facts, for so long as gas
has to be used for light the public
must live with this new danger added
to their already too dangerous exist
ence. The explosion of Monday even
ing is but the repetition on a large
scale of what is by no means unusual
in a small way with gas laying. Any
foreman of works could tell an in
Quirer of dozens Of similar accidents,
which have fallen short Of the present
catastrophe only by slight differences
In the attendant circumstances.
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OF Ladies'

Who have been unable to attend to
their duties owing to periodical sick
nesses, have found Warmers Safe
Kidney and Liver Cure a real "friend
in need" Being a purely vegetable
compound and containing all the ele-
ments Of safety as well as those of
power it has become universally popu-
lar. Daring the summer especially,
it is a certain preventive for the nu-
merous kidney, liver and urinary
troubles incident to the season. All
druggists sell it, and none except
those in perfect health can afford to be
without it.
Sold Wholesale by s. Mansfield &
Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-29

The right of trial by Jury. the ha-
beas corpus, the liberty Of the press,
the freedom of speech, the natural
rights of persons, and the rights Of
property must be preserved.-Ex-
tract from General Hancock'S order,
November 18th, 1867.
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The California HnrYesf.

San Francisco Commercial Her raid
The wheat will this season be Of
better quality than for two years past,
and will, we think, be cleaned with
more care than heretofore. Farmers
are now granted monetary facilities
much greater and on more liberal
terms than ever before, and, being un-
willing sellers to any extent below
$3.50 per GENITAL, they prefer to store
their grain and accept o cash advance
of one cent per pound thereupon, and
interest at seven to nine per cent per
annum, according to location and the
credit Of Borrowers. Thus far in
the season very little new wheat has
been sold or marketed. A private
circular before us in the interest of the
REORGANIZATION c0ntainsth following,
Private correspondence and news
papers reports from all over the state
give % to IS bushels as an average,
and the Colusa Sun Of the Sd inst.
places Colusa, recently supposed to be
so badly damaged, at from 25 to &c
bushels. Taking the lowest estimates,
California would have 81, 900, 900 bush
els Of wheat, $4,000, 900 barley, 5000
900 oats, 1909, 900 corn, in all a.
600, 800 bushels, or take the
average of wheat, barley, etc, all
round as being only twenty bushels
to the acre, 75,8l7,820 bush
els: equivalent in sacks to
43, 900, 900. Add for Oregon and Wash
ington Territory 100000, for all
other wants, yardage, islands, etc,
81, 900, coo, the total would be 100000
900 sacks that are required for the
year before US" Again, the same
party gives the names Of prominent
grain dealers who give this years
yield at 20 bushels of wheat to the
acre, barley and oats at 40 bushels
and corn at 80 bushels to the acre.
Again the circular referred to says.
I'm dealing with crop estimates Of
such magnitude, it must be borne in
mind that last year fully one
third Of the acreage seeded
yielded scarcely a sack to the
acre. All the southern countries,
considerable Of the Salinas valley,
Fresno, Tulare and the west side Of
the San Joaquin were dry and barren.
or where not so, blighted by rust.
This year the yield in the southern
counties is enOrmOus-far beyond ex.
pectation on the west side, Throughout
the Salinas valley, and extraordinary
for Fresno and Tulare, Irrigation
and reclamation works have brought
thousands of acres under the pillow
this season for the first time. KEN
county and Roberts island will prob.
ably give in the neighbOrhood of one
hundred thousand tons of choice
wheat as almost 0 maiden contribu.
ton to the wealth Of tho state"
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A DOUBLE PROFESSION.
Saturdays and Sundays a Bar Der
and The Rest of the Time a
LaWyer-A San AntO-
MO Boy.
St. Louis Republican,

st. Louis Republican,
The other day q tall young man
dressed in a tight fitting, long-tailed
broad cloth coat, with pants to match
stood up in Judge Denison's court
and argued a case for a client in a log
ical sort of a way. The lawyers who
sat around were inclined TO smile al
the efforts Of the young mar to swing
the jury, but he'paid attention to nc
one, His rather long legs and arms he
kept moving as he made a clear anal.
ytical statement OF the facts in the
case, while to give color and effect tc
his remarks, he held the right finger
of the right hand extended, at times
pointing it at his client and then al
parties on the other side
There was something about the
young man that attracted the
attention of an old court attendant
who ventured to ask who he was.
A lawyer, old in the business and
like too many, eager to run down the
effort of a new aspirant for legal hon.
ors, said: THAT fellow? Why he's a
barber. He works in a shop down ON
the corner Of Sixth and Wath
streets"
A reporter who happened to hear
this statement, upon the first oppor-
tunity asked the young attorney
described above if he really was a bar
Der. His answer was as direct as
speech to the jury. 1t was in the
words of Burns, and was something
about a man for all that.
You're a barber and yet practicing
law, how comes that?' the reporter
asked.
III tell you" the young man said.
Il have studied law for three years.
But when | began | was very Door
and had a young wife to take care for
and had to work and study too.
learned how to shave people when |
was a boy, and the last three years |
have done work in a barber shop on
Saturday night and Sundays"
What did you do during the week."
interrupted the reporter.
II got a lot Of bills to collect for
several parties, and | used what spare
time | had in trying to collect them.
| made a little money in that way,
but it was hard work, | tell you"
"lfyou workedlike this, what time
did you get to study"
Il studied at night, reading some
times until away on in the morning"
rs this your first case?"
"Oh, no. Since | have been read
ing law | have appeared in thirty five
cases and won all of them but one.
Of course, none Of them were i'm
portant cases, and nearly all of them
we're in justice OF the peace or police
courts.
Il suppose your brother lawyers Of
ten laugh at you for practicing the
law and the tonsorial profession at the
same time?"
They do. They laugh at me all
the time. Didn't you notice them
laughing this morning? l did; | no.
tics everything that's going on. But
their laughing doesen't bother me in
the least. | work at the barber's
trade still and its an honest calling
am not ashamed to acknowledge it.
Several young friends of mine have
advised me to give up the barber bust
ness, but caa't afford it just YET. /
did quit collecting some time ago, and
in a little while I'll quit shaving
peoples faces and do nothing but
shave clients"
The young man halls from San An
tonic, Texas.
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Hurried TheIn Up.

Several men lately swan the Mis-
sissippi river, above New Orleans on
a wager. A reporter on the race
says:-"None Of them seemed to be
putting forth much effort till it was
discovered that an alligator mac
struck out from shore as a competitor
and then-well, every man did his
best to keep the alligator from carry
ing off the stakes"
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The story of Four Law students
Adrian (Nich.) Times.l

Adrian (Nich.) Times.l
In the law Office of John S. Spencer,
at Canandaigua, N. Y, in 1872, were
four young law students to fortune
and fame unknown. Under the care
full guidance Of Mr.. Spencer they were
duly admitted to the bar in 1884, and
one of them at once struck out for the
west, locating at Cleveland. Here he
stuck fast, and while waiting the ex-
piration of the six months prescribed
by the Ohio laws before a citizen OF
another state could be admitted to
practice in her courts, he was sur.
Pfsed by a call of his three fellow
students. They we're looking for
places to hang out their shingles.
We'll, one of you can stay here with
me another of you a 60 further to
the little French village they call
Detroit, and another can push on to a
new place they call Chicago, on the
site OF old Fort Dearborn" After a
little consultation this plan was agreed
on. The one who went to the little
French village was George 9. Bates;
he gho went further on was Stephen
A. Douglass, WHO vent to Springfield,
instead G4 Chicago, making a mistake,
while he who remained in Cleveland
was Henry B. Payne. This was in
1924. The young man who planned
out the careers Of bis three compan-
ions was Il. II. Thompson, now Of
Flint, this state; who told us the cir
eumstances.
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Southeastern MotIeo.

No. 1367-In the Ohancery Cont % sh,,L.
county, Tenn;-F g Connell ct al vs. SAA9 nDSS
Mckenna ct al. q" hhna
WHEREAS, in a certain cause pending in
w tho above mentioned court. whereas h
Connel OF oil compliments and Anna NJ
kenna OF al are defendants, instituted for a.
purpose Of settling, winding up and dividi ;no
the estate Of Eppy White, deceased. on Ky bs
oth OF June, 1851, al order OF court was entar
cd rociting that the said Anna MeKenna baid
dep8Tted this life leaving as her only heir.at1
law Maud Blackstone MeKenra and dirsnItanu-
scirl taelas to issue to her, oonmandinS bass
70 appear and show cause, ETC., and II arnoas
ing from the return Of the Sheriff that XIV I,
not to be found in this county: Il II HAS ID
lore ordered that she make her apnearaneo.
nereln, az the courthouse of Shelby conntv
II Memphis, Tenn, on or before the
Monday IN September, 1880, and show csnss
II any she have, why this cause should nor ~,
Ievlvea against her as the heir-at.lsw AZ sSoggyy
anna mchenna, and that a copy Of sbis opdaa.
DC puDlished once a week, for four suecessiye.
weeks, IN the Public Ledger.
m \, J; BLACK, Clerk and masts,.
by n; "; MoHENRY, D. g. and M. ~
ueo' dluhems sol. for compPt.
I6 10 l2Sls4-
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To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc., l will send
q recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary In South America. Send Z
~self-addressed envelope TO the Rev. Joseph I,
Imam, Station D, New YQ-k City,.
lis XXI ia eOd&w
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Sure Cure for Coughs, Colds,
Sore Throat, Bronchitis,
Asthma, Consumption,
And All Diseases Of Throat and Lunus.
Extract from Report of the Commits.
stOner of internal Revenue.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Office of Internal Revenue, !
Washington, ID. c., January 26'' 1890.

AAe1hbOhI LEI
Office of Internal Revenue,
Washington, d. c., January rs, 1891
Messrs. Lawrence 4 Martin, Ill Madison
street, Chicago, ll~l.-Gentlemen: I have re-
ceived "a certified formula giving the Inc
gradients and relative proportions used in the
manufacture of an article which you advertise
and sell under the name of ''T0LU, ROCK
AND RYE" This compound, according to.
your formula, in the opinion of this Office,
would have a sufficient quantity of the BAL.
SAM OF IOLU to give it all the advantages,
aserlbed to this article in pectOIal complaints,
while the whisky and the syrup constitute an,
emulsion rendering the compound an agree
able remedy to the patient.
In the opinion Of this office, an article con-.
pounded according to this formula may prop
erly be ,classed as a medicinal preparation
under the provisions of schedule A, following
section 437, United States revised statutes,
and when so stamped may be sold BY Drug
glSts, ApOtnecaries and other persons without
rendering them liable to pay a special tax as
liquor dealers. Yours respectfully,
lSignedl GREEN b. RAUM,
Commissioner.
Put up in quart size BEETLES for family use.
VHO lUNs principled dealers who inv 10
palm off upon you Rock and Rye in place of orr
T0LQ, ROCK AND RYE, which Is the onIv
gENUlNE medicated article made, having n
Government stamp on each bottle.
LAWRENCE Il MARTIN, Prop'rs.
Ill Madison street, Chieago-
sold in Memphis by all Druggists, Groeers.
and Wine Merchants generally; at wholesale,
by y. Mansfield a. 10, &. r.. Hunt a.
Co. and A, VaccarO & Co., who will simply.
The trade at manufacturers prices. xxxit-10