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simple and plain that any one car
make great profits from tho start No one can fail
who l. willing 10 work. Women are a. successful
az men. Boys and girls can earn large Fun..
Many have made at the business over one hundred
dollars ~ single week Nothing like Il ever
known before. AL who engage are surprisd al the
ease and rHpidity with which they are able 10 make
money. lou can engage IN THIS business during
your spare time az great profit IoUGo not have 10
invest capital IN T. We take oil me ri,k Those
who need ready money, should wtire 10 Us Of once.
All furnished free Address TRUE d CO, Ag.
gusta Maine.
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It's virtues are unQucstlonablo and its curative
character absolute, ~ the writer can PERSONAL,
testify, both from experience ana observation
Among the many readers Of the eyiew IN one
part ma nnO ther of the country II IL probable that
numbers Nre afflicted with deamess. and TO such It
may be said Write 8, once to lhyock Co..
receive by return remedy TINT win enable you 10
hear like anybody else and whose curative effects
will DC pcfmoncut You VIII never regret doing
so Editor OF New York Mercantile Review
Sent 18th, 1850
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MEDICAL.
EARS FOR THE MILLION
Moo Cboo's Balsam of Sharks Oil

po,,,,,o,v Restores the Hearing, and is the ony
los'''' absolute Cure for Deafness known
r,to OIL il extracted from peculiar species No
nnm white shark, caught IN the yellow Son
rulnm ne Carchuredon Rondelctii Every Chimes
Ssberrnan knows IT, Its virtues as restorative 81;
Wearing we're discovered by u Buddhist Priest about
mo year 1910. It's cures were so numerous anu
mnny 20 scemincly miraculous, that the remedy
WINS Officially proclaimed over the entire Empire
Its use became 70 VI yersa That for over 300 year
no deafeness has existed among the Chinese ppo.
pie Sent charges prepaid, TO any address at 81 ne
bottle.
Only Imported by IlAlLOCk Is CO.,
SOLE AGENTS ron AMERICA. Z Dey ST., New York
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To Nervous SuiIcrcrs--lhe GrCa, European Rem.
edy-nr. j. j. Slmpson's SncciIlc Mediclnn.

DR.. j II. Smpton's Specific Medicine Is n pou
tive cure for Spermatorhca, Impotoncy, Weakness
md MI dlecases resulting from ScfAbueo. nm Ncr
yous Debility, lrrltabillty, Mental Anxiety Lanruor
Lassiude Depression ofSprile aud functional dc
rangomcns the Ncryoue System generally pnlns
IN liRck or SIDE. loes Of MennrY. prnmnllIrn on
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Only Morning Daily in Southern Illinois.

Largest Circulation OF any Daily in
Southern Illinois.
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NEW EMBELLISHMENTS

WANTED Manufacturing concern wants
ready taken A few hundred doliar- Leces,er 10
pay Tor goods on delivery ST cr order. have ben
secured for the same. $40 per month r,5s,
guaranteed The most searching inye.iigs.l0u
solicited 4 $ AHNULDE co. corner III.
Street and Broadway, Brooklyn. y, Y
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

S--- AY EAR and expense. N
y 1 4 4 agcuts. Outfit free Address
o, NiCKEKY, Augusta. Maine
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eFy"Thc ieO p, m express has pULLMAS,
SLEEPING CAR Cairo TO Clncinna,i' W,'n and
changer, ana through sloorers to 81. LOUIS ""'
Chicago.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
AGRICULTURE.
The Reports as Received at the
Department.

WASHINGTON, April 15.-Tho re.
ports Of April 1st, received at the de-
partment of agriculture, show an in
crease of nearly four per cent in the
area sown in winter wheat. Kansas
and Missouri show the largest increase,
Ohio and Illinois but slight, and New
York and Pennsylvania remain the
same as last year. Indiana, Kentucky,
Tennessee and Virginia each report
some decrease. Owing to the prevail
ence of snow at the date Of the re-
turns, the condition of the crop was
not given in large portions Of the prin-
cipal wheat growing states, but wher-
ever mentioned it was stated as below
the average Of last year. The
alternate freezing and thawing during
the month of March was the most
detrimental Of all weather during thq
winter. The live stock Of the country,
notwithstanding the scarcity of food
and provender, caused by the long and
severe winter, has come out in fair
health, though depleted very low in
flesh. No malignant nor prevailing
disease is expected over any large ex-
tent of country, although local dis
order Oflungs and stomachs are often
mentioned. Great losses from cold
and exposure are reported from the
far west.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
WILD BEASTS.
Two Men Attacked by n Panther
while Asleep.

The Yazoo Valley Flag recounts a
terrible encounter which recently took
place near Greenville, Miss, in which
two men, while camping on the banks
of the Tippo river, were set upon by a
panther, and one Of them had his
arms and shoulders terribly lacerated
before the enraged beast was dispatch
ed. Dick Maxwell and Sam Mann
retired to their tent about 9 o'clock,
and had just gone to sleep when a
large panther sprang through the open
ing of the tent upon Maxwell, who
threw him off by vigorous motion of
his feet. The panther then sprang
upon Mr.. Mann, who, being aroused
by the scuffling was then sitting up
right in bed. 1t succeeded in fastening
its teeth in his left arm, and,
tearing and mangling his arm and
shoulders with its claws in fearful
manner. Mr.. Maxwell having had
a trial, had no desire to fur
ther test his physical powers
with that of the infuriated beast, and
FASTENED to get his Winchester rife,
but when he had thus armed himself,
the darkness of the tent was such that
he dared not shoot lest he kill his
comrade instead of the panther. Mr..
Mann, in the meantime had enough to
engage his whole time and attention in
entertaining the panther and keeping
him from tearing out his very vitals.
Finally, however. Maxwell managed
to feel his way until he got tn, barrel
of his gun perfectly under Mr.. Mann s
right arm, and fired, happily with
good effect. Another shot followed,
promptly, and the panther lay dead at
their feet. The panther was a very
large one, and had been prowling
around the vicinity for some time.
After it was dead the screams of its
mate cautioned them to keep awake,
but they had no further attack.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
The DICTATOR FASHION.
How Worth Tyranl es Over E1is
Slave.

A Paris letter of recent date says:
| may be mistaken, but have always
understood that NJ. Worthcommenced
life as a cutter.out in Messrs. Shool-
breds' establishment. That he has
now to a certain extentretired from ac-
tive participation in the business in
favor Of his son is well known fact.
Though, Of course, the tales told Of
this autocrat of the fashion have often
been foolishly exaggerated, still there
was some truth at the bottom. Instead
Of, as is usually the case, being the
slave of his customers whims and
fancies, he, from the very beginning,
turned the tables upon them, and die
tated to them. To many women this
was an uncomfortable state of things,
and they preferred going elsewhere,
but enough always remained, and
these finding they gained by submis-
sion, we're only too glad to wear the
chain for the sake Of the result.
never saw Mr.. Worth in dress
ing gown, but have been assured he
has at times appeared thus accoutered
before his clients" and the latter
often deigned to partake oil a cup of
afternoon tea while discussing, or per-
haps it would be moro correct to say
listening, to the suggestions Of the
oracle.
The following scene, which took
place in the rooms over which Mr..
Worth, jr., presides, were detailed to
me a short time since by a young Rus
sian lady. The toilet in course of
preparation had presented moro than
usual difficulty; it had been tried on
once, twice, unsuccesslully. Art
triumphed at last and the lady was re-
quested to give her couturiex one last
audience, but to get her hair dressed
previously in a particular fashion by
some specified coiffeur. The dress
was put on and Mr.. Worth came in.
He was enchanted with the result of
his work. The lady, standing in the
middle ofthe room, was minutely ex-
amined from near and afar, and the
attendant was desired to draw out
fold here, and take in a bit there.
Still there was something wanting.
Was it in the toilet? No. The sur
roundings were inharmonious, that
was it. AS soon as this dawned
upon the perceptions Of the artist
he led the way into his fathers pri-
vate room, hung round with pastel
portraits of Louis XV.s time, and
then, and not till then, he was salts.
fed, and desiring that there should
be as many witnesses Of his triumph
as possible, he called not only to all
young women employed in the show
room, but also for the female book.
keeper The heroine, if the lay figure
which she enacted may be so termed,
fully accustomed as she was to run the
gauntlet of hundreds OF spectators in
her own world, Acknowledged that
she experienced a feeling Of shame,
and felt herself blushing painfully
beneath her poudre de riz and her sci
entifcally arranged bandesus.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
OFFSET TO HYDROLTTM.
Oil as Black as NigEt-CharcOnl
Would Make a White Mark
on ID.

About seven miles west OF the "boro
limits" of Fauburg, on tho Blue Jay
peninsula, is place called Balltown,
and among other developments going
ON in the vicinity is we'll that pro-
duces black oil. This oil is so black
that even the glimmer of the brightest
light cannot be seen through bottle
containing a sample of it. 1t bears a
perfect resemblance, in fact, to the
substance known as coal tar, and emits
a powerful odor precisely like that of
spirits Of tar What it is good for, or
what particular qualities and elements
it possesses have not yet been deter
mined upon, though we may depend
upon it that it would not exist as a
mineral production, unless there were
some use to which it could be applied.
What that use may be, however, is a
question for future settlement. In its
present state this oil (if we may call it
OLD will not burn without emitting a
denre black smoke, almost as black as
the liquid itself, which deposits a SCOT
that would present the idea of its be-
ing a very useful production for the
manufacture of lamp-black or other
substance of that description. 1t has
also been suggested that it may turn
out to be very valuable as basis of
extraction for analine dyes, though
this is a subject that no one can speak
upon with authority till a chemical
analysis of the substance has taken
place, and this, we understand, will be
commenced Immediately. The strike
is certainly an extraordinary one, and
as far as we can learn nothing like it
has ever been known in the history of
the oil trade. No other we'll in or
near the vicinity has anything ap-
preaching to it. The oil seems to be
found in the slate-at depth of 270
feet, and what is the more singular is
that, although the drill passes through
the same kind of slate and at the same
depth in adjacent wells, no such yield
as we have been describing has come
from any other except the one in
question.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
BERGH ON DRINK.
He Would Cure Drunkenness
and Wife Beating by tho
Whipping Post.

Mr.. Henry Bergh has written a let
ter in which he says of the whipping
post as applied to the temperance
cause:
If there be a personal devil in this
world he is here, | think, in the form
ofrum. Rum, or anything else that
steals away the human senses, is the
instiRator of all crime, il the long cat
alogue Of which stands conspicuously
murder, robbery aud wife beating.
When once this liquid fire is taken
into the system the wretched slave of
that demon is ready for anything, and
| would hold him who furnished the
devilish poison equally responsible
with the perpetrator of what ensues.
| see no difference between the man
who commits murder and he who pro
vides the material. Both are accom-
plices, and both should suffer alike.
Let the laws be administered in that
spirit, and in less than six months the
number of rum shops and distil-
leries would be diminished one-half
at least.
| have had the courage, some call
it impudence, to advocate whipping
the man who beats his vile or any
other female Of the human race. |
will go further, ard declare that, in
my opinion, if to every ten rum-shops
there we're to be found convenient,
well-appointed whipping post near at
hand, where fellow who makes a
person drunk, and he who gets so,
would be taken, and there receive a
dose of twenty lashes, we'll laid on
their bare backs, the number of suf
fering wives and children would be
reduced to minimum. | suppose
that total abstinence is not attainabIe,
however desirablei but the use Of
and its abuse are two dis
tinct things, and he who cannot trust
himself to drink without getting
drunk should no more be trusted
with alcohol than with dynamite. l |
often take glass of wine or beer
with my dinner, but never at any
other time, and l have never been
drunk in my life. lie who drinks to |
stupefy his senses is worse than a
brute, for the lower animals never get |
drunk,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
BY CABLE.

LONDON, April l5.-The doctors
and sailors from the American ships
particularly distinguished themselves
in tending the wounded at Chic.
A meeting of delegates from the
Tenants Rights associations Of Ulster
was held at Belfast yesterday to con
slider the land bill. Resolutions were
passed urging that further facilities
be given tenants for acquiring their
holdings, and summoning the Tenants
Rights association of Ulster to Lon
don to assist in urging the amend
ments required in the bill.
BERLIN, April 15.-The anti Jew
iSh petition sent to Bismarck on the
18th had been going about the empire
for signatures for six months past, and
aims at imposing restrictions on i'm
migration of Jews into Germany and
excluding them from certain walks of
activity altogether. In fact, undoing
much legislation Of the past in their
favor, but the objects OF the petition
are hopeless, as the government does
not intend to permit the existing laws
affecting j ews tobe repealed or altered.
Bismarck has also told Bundesrath
that the anti.Jewish agitation is
against his wishes. The Crown Prince
Frederick William, if not the emperor
also, has still less sympathy with the
movement.
ST. PETERSBURG, April ia
man has been captured having in his
possession unlawful prints. He de-
clines to answer any questions He
has been made to stand upon the chair
of the prefecture of police, and all
the house portcrs aud general public
have been invited to pass through the
apartment to Gee if any of them could
identify him.
LONDON, April Is. = Gladstone
writes that the government will not
adopt any apologize tone in the coming
debate on the Transvaal question. 1t
was, he says, a question of saving
England from sheer blood outlines.
ST, PETERSBURG, April 15.-All
the nihilists except the woman, Hes
sy Hoffman, condemned to death for
their connection with the czar's as
sassination, namely, Roussakcif, Mi
chaslof, Kibaltschitsch, Jealibof and
Sophie Preoffsky, were hanged at ten
o'clock this morning. Michaeloff s
rope broke twice. The order was not
disturbed. There was an immense
concourse of spectators.
PARIS, April 15.-The Rothschilds
house here has notified the Italian
government of its ability to issue a
loan for resumption of specie payment
as long as difficulties between France
and Italy are not entirely smcothed
away.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
River Telegrarls.

Louisville, April 10: River falling
with 10 feet 10 inches in the canal
and l3 feet 10 inches in the chute on
the falls. Weather clear, cool and
windy. Arrivals and departures
Charles Morgan, from Cincinnati; En-
terprisa and tow, from Pittsburg to
Pittsburg.
Wheeling, April Is: River % feet
2 inches, and rising slowly. Weather
clear and pleasant.
Pittsburg, April Is: River 16 feet
2incheS and falling. Clear and pleas
ant.
Cairo, April Is: Arrived-Jay
Gould, New Orleans, 8 pm; Vint
Sbinkle, Memphis, IL; Scuddor, St.
Louis, 6 am. Departed-Colorldo,
Memphis, 10 p.mG Jay Gould, St.
Louis, Ill Shinkle, Cincinnati, mid
night, Weather clear and pleasant
Evansville, April Is; Arrived
Guiding Star, from New Orleans Yir-
gle Lee, from Cincinnati, River ri
sing with 80 40 feet on the gauge.
St. Louis, April Is: Arrived Belle
Memphis, Vicksburg; Ste. Geneyieve,
Memphis. No departures. River
rising, but steamboatmen think it has
almost reached its limit, and will be-
gin to fall by tomorrow. Weather
clear and warm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
SHOTGUNNEO.
A Wife Stealing Tramp SIaugh-
tered In the st. Francis River
Valley.

Five weeks ago or such a matter, a
couple Of tramps drilted over into the
st. Francis river valley, and dropped
in on Mr.. Ben Davis, who, with his
son, run plantation on Fifteen mile
bayou, forty miles below Madison, and
about seyenty-ive miles southwest of
this city. The pair hung about the
place, and were kindly treated by the
Davises, father and son.
The tramps made themselves agree
able to Mrs. Davis and her daughter
in-law, the wife ofthe younger Davis.
Last Sunday the two women left home
in company with their newly formed
acquaintances, and took passage down
the st. Francis river on fatboat.
AS the steamer Macready passed
down the St. Francis river on her last
trip, the younger Davis took passage,
and he had a double barrelled shotgun
on his shoulder. At Grants landing,
twenty-five miles above the Cut Of,
he came up with the Aatboat, the
runaway wives and their tramp com
panions Davis asked the captain to
land the boat, and as the steamer neared
tho shore Davis went to the fOrecastle
on the lower deck to go ashore. About
this time one Of the men on the fat
boat showed himself. Davis leveled
his gun and turned her loose. A load
Ofbuckshot lodged in the man and he
fell dead in his tracks.
The steamer backed off and without
even landing Davis, pushing down
the river, and none on board, not even
Davis, knowing the result. A mile or
so below he requested the captain of
the beat to put him ashore. Davis
went back up to where the hatboat
lay, found he had killed the man who
had stolen his wife and then made
himself scarce. He has not been
heard of since. 1t is expected that
old Ben Davis is out on a still
hunt for the other fellow, name un-
known.
Upon the body of the dead man
paper was found which proved to be
pardon from the governor of Illinois,
releasing a man named Clark from
the penitentiary. This is all that
could be ascertaiued regarding the
man or the tragedy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
WELL, | SHOULD SMILE
There is No Cigar
CAN EQUAL SOL C0LEMAN'S
MO. los /!
The Best Scent Cigar on Earth.
memphis Water Gauge Bulletin.
U. S. ENGINEER OFFICE,
MEMPHIS. Tenn. April l6. 1881

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 10, 1881. !
the following announcement is
made for the benefit of pilots and 9th
ers interested;
A water gauge bulletin has been
placed in the northwest corner of the
customhouse yard at this place. 1t
faces tho river, that pilots in passing
during daylight, may read the condi-
tion of the river as indicated by the
water gauge.
On the bulletin the reading Of the
gauge will be given to the nearest
quarter of afoot, and one of the let
ters, r. +. or s., will follow the figures
to indicate whether tho river is rising,
falling or stationery. AS an illustra-
ton, suppose tho gauge reading is
28-4 feet, and river rising, the bulletin
will then show as iollows-28I r.
The figures and letters are each 224
inches high by IS inches wide, and can
be distinguished from boats in mid
stream. With the aid of field glass,
they can be read from the opposite
bank.
At8a.m. each day the bulletin will
be made to correspond with the
guage ereading at that hour, hence the
bulletin reading will always corre-
spond with the gauge reading as found
at the preceding s am.
The zero Of the gauge is 0.95 feet
above the low water Of 1872. BY ad
ding this amount to the bulletin
reading the height above low water
of 1872 will be obtained.
1t is the intention to have similar
bulletin boards erected at the various
gauge stations below Cairo.
W. H. H. BENYAURD,
Major oi Engineers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
CINCINNATI.
Clerk Detected RObbing the
MaiIs-The Street Car Strike.

CINCINNATI, April 15,-J. G.. Mu-
ser, a dispatch clerk in the Cincinnati
postofice, was arrested this morning
for robbiDg the mails of letters con-
tanning money. Mr.. Burt, superin-
tendent of tho mails, set a decoy for
him, hid, watched and discovered him
in the act and arrested him. He ad,
mits this case Of stealing, but denies
having stolen previously. For several
months valuable packages have been
stolen from the mails. He was held
to answer and is in Jail.
The street railroad strike continues,
but it is peaceable. Scarcely any Of
the cars Of the consolidated street
railroad are running.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15

Lord Carlingford, who succeeds the
Duke OF Argyll, is a whig, but his
acceptance of the privy seal places an
expert on Irish questions in the eabi-
net. He is as sweeping Ieiormer in
regard to Ireland as Spencer. The
Dake of Argyll s secession is regarded
by the tories as a proof Of the revo-
lutionsry tendency of the land bill.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15

CLEVELAND, April 15.-Cleveland's
tsam played its first game this season
with the White sewing machine com
pany nine, a very strong local semi
professional club. Score Clevelands,
II; Whites, O. The Cleveland team
only went to the bat eight times.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
Don't InoIude Mnhone.

Boston PostI
According to Bradstrcet's circular
Tor the first quarter of 1881, ''the
number Of traders, proper, in the
United States, is about 100000" F"
This doesn't include Malone, who is a
very improper trader.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
Fresh Strawberries, at
JOS. p. CAREY g. COS,
222 Main 81.
LEDGER Bindery, 10 Madison.

Captain John D. Waldran is at Fort
Smith, Ark, seeing about the condi-
ton Of a cotton company. MF. John I.
Burns and family have gone to live at
Little Rock, aud Mr.. Hu L. BrinkIey
is over in the same city on a business
visit.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15

AT the dedic ton of a Unitarian
church in Hartford, Christian cler-
gyman preached and a Jewish rabbi
pronounced the benedletion. The
church is one Of the most hourishing
in that city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
Fire.

New York, ApEil ia six story
building at 145 and 147 Mulberry
street, occupied by various manufac-
turing companies, was damaged by
fire this morning $4,000. Mostly in
aured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15

In the case Of the steamer Illinois
this forenoon, Judge Baxter affirmed
the decision of the district court. The
history of the case is, briefly, that some
time since Mr.. Neely, Of Brooks,
Nicely & Co., aud Hanauer, of School
field, Hauauer & Co., advanced some
5000 in money to the boat for the pur.
pose Of enabling it to carry on lis
business successfully. Aftervard sup
plies were advanced by some mer-
chants, and when the mortgage fell
due, the question came up as to which
had priority the holders of the
mortgage or the home furnisheFs of
supplies. The case was brought before
the district court which held that the
domestic furnishers of supplies were
entitled to be considered first, in spite
of the fact that a mortgage had already
been given. An appeal was taken and
the decision is as stated above.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-15
A. o. U. w.

REGULAR meeting Of Equity Lodge No %,
~ this (FRIDATl evening az a'o'ciock, A
tull attendancs reqge,sed, rs Bro. T. II. Ever
EFT, Grand Recorder ofthe State, will be S-es-
ent. All brothers in soOd standing invited.
-, go, A. B. HILL, Recorder