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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
The Poets on Autumn.

"Golden autumn, from her open lap,
pours her fragrant, bounteousshowers'
is the way Somerville, the poet, wrote
of this October season. Had he resided
in this particular section, and suffered
from the past copious dust supply and
scantiness Of water, he never could
have entertained any sentiment Of the
kind.
The poet Hobhouse, a warm, com
panionable friend of Byron's wrote
nearer the mark when he said Of this
particular period, Approaching au.
tumn just begins to tinge the leafy
yerdure with a golden fringe through
the fair scenes unequal shades appear,
that speak the downfall Of the waning
year." Fall showers, dry water
pipes and heavy dust didn't worry
Hobhouse. Nor was Thomson,
who touched up the seasons SO
handsomely, annoyed in the slightest
degree by dust and dryness when he
indited the following to suit this par
ticular time
"The breath CT orchards big with bending
fruit,
obediont to the breeze and beating ray,
From the deep loaded bough a mellow shower
InceIsant melts away"
The quotation most used just now
by the country, and many city dailies.
was written by w. G. Bryant, for O
month later than this, when the
earth is supposed to be covered with
snow, and the fur-mufled woodman il
busy by day getting a supply of fue
out of the leafless forest to keep hi
fires up at night. His lines run thus
"The melancholy days have come. the saddles
o the year,
Of Wailing winds aud naked woods, an,
meadows brown and sere.
Heaped in tho bellows of the grove, the au
tumn leaves are dead,
They rustic TO the eddying gust, and to th
rabbits tread"
There is a good deal moro Of it i
the same strain, and very beautiful
too, but this will do for the rresen
It's the business season and peopl
have to look after more importan
matters than sentimental poetry ,unles
they catch it in very small doses, a
above.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
The Reported Killing OfCOIOneI
Love at Huntsville.

Chattanooga Times, 6.I
The reported killing of Colonel
Love, a prominent citizen of Alabama
and Mississippi, who has been identi-
fed with several very extensive cotton
mill enterprises in the South, and is
now President Of the Huntsville
(Ala.) Cotton Seed Oil Mill, which
was published a few days ago, trans
pires to be premature. The report
arose fromthe following circumstances:
Colonel Love recently paid devoted
attentions to a young lady Of Hunts
vile, Miss johnson, who is noted for
her beauty and varied accomplish
ments, but about a month ago
she greatly surprised him by marry
ing a gentleman named Lenier, one Of
the best and most promising young
men of Huntsville. Love seemed
deeply mortified, and it is alleged he
stated that he had been engaged to
the young lady, and it is reported, out
of revenge, had printed and circulated
extensively, wedding cards, on the
back of which it is said he had a card
printed in which he spoke of the
young lady in the most outrageously
scandalous manner, accusing her Of
lack of virtue and other foul crimes.
HO is now in West Point, Mississippi;
it is confidently believed that Lenier
will kill him. Considerable excite
ment prevails at Huntsville.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
What Ingenuity noes.
5 hiladelphia Press New York Letter,I

nliauelphiH Press New York Lettcrsl
Every one has heard, | suppose. O,
Evans, the American dentist. who
carries the city of Paris 10 his coat
pocket. He was the Emperor
protege, and he has given EuropeaD
royalty more pain. for cash, than any
man in the world. lie operates in q
dress suit, drives superb horses, and
lives in a wonderful mansion that was
given him by Napoleon III. Well.
there is his like in New York lust
now. | was riding through the park
the other forenoon and my attention
was called to q big, handsome man
sitting with a self possession which
did him credit in one of those most
atrocious vehicles, a dog cart. THAT"
said my companion, is Richmond.
the new dentist"
WHO is hef" | not u~nnaturally in
CURED.
He came here from California
some two or three years ago, with some
contrivance for putting artificial teeth
upon natural roots so that nothing
could remove them without hauling
out the whole tooth. 1t is called the
Richmond crown setting, | believe.
The crack dentists Of the city went
wild over it, but he had patented the
whole thing, and had them where they
couldn't move. He came hero with
only a little money and no practice.
Now he imploys seven skilled work.
men, has Offices that arc simply
palaiial, and is enabled to support the
style you saw just now. He is, in a
word, q sensation. and will make
iit0,i0O 10 2 yeas That sh.ws ,nn
What a little ingeuaiiy will do for a
nan
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

Next Monday the Gar Alexander
Of Russia and the Emperor Francis
Joseph of Austria will meet and have
a conference at Granica, a village near
the boundary line Of their respective
realms. Francis Joseph is afraid to
60 to Warsaw, where Alexander
wanted to meet him, so the Gar com.
promised on Granica. His imperial
friend is afraid of Russian dynamite.
and does not want to come nearer the
dynamite centers than is necessary.
The object of the conference is prob
ably to confer about mutual safety
and to make pledges that, in the event
of domestic disturbance in either
realm, advantage will not be taken Of
the situation by one or the other.
Austria Hungary is an empire whose
disintegration is always possible, the
population being an aggregate of un-
sympathetic nationalities. Had Russia
chosen to do so, she might have de
tached Pennsylvania and other terri
tory in 1913 aud l849, when the Hun
garians were in rebellion against
Austria. To day Francis Joseph is
aware that sooner or later the German
portion of his realm will be attached
to the German empire, and he is ar
ranging to secure as much of the
Balkan peninsula as possible. ~increas
ing thereby the Sclav population sub
ject to him. His success in this
direction depends upon the good will
OF Germany, who would be willing to
permit Austrian extension eastward
in consideration of the transfer of
Austria's German provinces. Russia
would doubtless impose conditions on
such extension.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

may take it upon the best authority
that the Queens frequent manifesto
tons Of concern are not only sponta-
neous, which any body can see, but
that they are the expression Of a feel
ing which has been the preoccupation
Of her life for these eighty days.
Letters arriving at the American
Legation and elsewhere from distin-
guished and undistinguished English
men, are all in the same tone. Almost
without exception they deplore. a per-
sonal loss. The resolutions OF town
councils, Of conventions, of all sorts
Of assemblies all over the land, bear
marks of a similar feeling. An Ameri-
can who sees and hears what is going
on may be permitted TO speak more
plainly than the English themselves
speak. President Garfield, they tell
us, endeared himself to the English
nation by his fortitude, and he
and his wife and mother were soon
beloved in England. That perfect
picture Of patience, heroism and do
nestle happiness every English
household. 1t remains too add that
it won the admiration Of a great PEG,
pie, because they sawin it what they
most honor, but seldom speak of, in
themselves, the capacity for facing
pain and death, blended with the
softer virtues ofthe Preside and fam
lily circle. The finest ofactual races,
said Emerson of the English. And
their hearts went out TO the Presi-
dent in whom they recognized one Of
themselves, and not less an English
man for being an American, a man ap
pointed to vindicate, first to them
selves and then to the rest of the
world, the equal worth of the parent
race at home and the children abroad.
G. W. S.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

Tom Bragg, Of Ennis, Texas, was
aroused by a loud rap at the door, and
went to learn. the cause of the uproar,
when a tramp informed him he wanted
lodging for one, whereupon Tom told
the tramp that he would rather pay
his lodging at the hotel than be dis
turbed. The tramp left and early
next morning called on Tom for fifty
cents, the price of a bed, to which
Tom responded with a half dollar.
Tom felt quite at ease until his neigh
Dor informed him that the same
tramp slept on the grass in his yard,
and this was the bed Tom paid for.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
President Arthur's FIRST Pardon.

George w. Hubley, lately a route
agent in the Postal Service, who was
convicted of the theft of a college
badge from the mail under his charge,
and sentenced by Judge Butler to an
Imprisonment Of one year, a few
months ago, has been pardoned by
President Arthur, on the recommended
ton of Judge Butler, District Attor-
ney Valentine, and others. The case
was not free from doubt in respect to
the manner in which Hubley became
possessed Of tho badge, and there was
nothing to controvert his statement
that he had found it on the floor Of
the mail car. That he wore it ex-
posed on his vest was shown on the
trial, and that he told a friend he wa,
wearing it in the hope Of finding the
owner was also proven.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
sTr. TiIden-s Home.

Hartford Times New York letter.
Persons passing in the neighborhood
Of Gramercy Park stop to look at a
building that is all covered with can
vas, and are puzzled to make out what
it means The canvas covering is an
immense frame that encloses the
entire front of the building from side
walk to roof. People stand and look
and wonder why the house is covered
up in this way. Those who ask whose
house it is are told, Mr.. Tilden's.
The enormous canvas envelope has
been on it all summer. 1t was put
there to protect the premises from the
dust and dirt arising from the building
operations next door. Mr.. Tilden
vacated the house early in the summer,
when the work of the masons began.
They first took out the front and rear
of the adjoining building, aud then
ran the walls back to a depth of about
100 feet. The brick front that was
taken out is now being replaced by
one of heavy brown stone. This
building is to be connected with and
become part of the we'll known and al
most historic No. Is Gramercy Park,
where Mr.. Tilden transacted most of
his campaign business FIVE years ago.
When the work of the masons and
carpenters is completed, the two
structures will be one. 1t is advan
cling very slowly and probably won't
be finished before next spring. Every
part of it is done in the most substan-
tial manner. doubt if the work on
the Vanderbilt mansions on Fifth av-
enue is much better. Mr.. Tilden's
new house will certainly be one of the
finest residences in New York. He
is spending a large amount of money
on it, and will furnish it in the rich
est and costliest manner. The most
stylish Of the Fifth avenue establish
ments won't surpass it in this respect.
Some of his friends wonder what he
will do with so fine a mansion, as
there is no likelihood, they say, of his
taking a wife to preside over it and
erjoy the delight Of having such a
home. But Mr.. Tildeu probably
knows very we'll what he will do with
it. And, at all events, he may as we'll
use his money this way as any other.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
FrIdey evening, Oct, 2. 1854.

ITi,reported that there is to be an
effort at holding a Shelby county fair
some time this month. We hope it
will be something worthy Of the name
"a fair in fact, and not a catch penny
arrangement like that of last spring
worked up to take in the Cotton
Planters Association. Shelby county
is about as wealthy as Davidson
county, and ought to make acrcditablC
showing in the way Of an annua.
fair
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
AWtsconsin Tragedy.

Two years ago two brothers, Frank
and John Mcdonald were arrested at
Menomonee, Wis, after a free fight,
and we're sentenced to the penitentiary
for two years. Two weeks ago their
term Of confinement expired and they
returned to Menomonee, and a few
days after got into a row with VIM.
Kittson, whose brother, Norman,
hearing Of the row, went to the house
and was leading his brother home,
when they were followed by the Nc
Donald brothers, overtaken and
stabbed. William was instantly
killed and Norman MORALLY wounded.
The McDonalds were arrested and at
once placed in Jail. In a day or two
a brother of the dead Kittsons arrived
from the North, and soon aftera crowd
numbering about five hundred assem-
bled in front of the Jail, exhibited a
rope, and made a break for the jail
door. They were warned by Sheriff
Barclay, who informed them that the
guards within were armed to the teeth
and instructed to shoot the first per-
son who should attempt to en-
ter. The mob retired to the street,
but in about an hour. having been
reinforced, led by young KittsOn and
provided with a heavy stick of timber
for a battering ram, they made an
other rush. The Sheriff retired with.
out firing a shot. The door was bat.
tered down, the cell of the murderers
reached and they we're at once over
powered aud Knocked down. One
was killed 10 the building and the
other was dead before the courtyard
was reached. The frantic mob
dragged the dead victims along the
road for half a mile, when the dead
bodies were pulled up wei a sign at
the railroad crossing. After hanging
there awhile they were taken down,
dragged to the house of prostitution
where the row first began with VIM.
Kittson. Here they were hung to the
limb Of a tree and the houst set on
fire, and as the red flames Jared upon
the hideous spectacle the crowd dis
persed. Meme of the party were
masked, and many were recognized.
but, it is said, it will be difficult to OBJ
tain evidence against any ofthem,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

Mr.. Samuel Mckenzie, Cumberland,
Md, writes: II am sixty-eight years
Of age. About four years ago began
to go into decline. / suffered from
dyspepsia, stone in the bladder, weak
lungs, and general nervous debility.
Nothing l tried did me anygood until
| used Browns Iron Bitters. This
remedy has made me again robust
and strong, and | feel all the fire and
activity of youth once more in my
veins"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
Notice of Settlement.

No. IJOs, R4-In the Probate Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn.-E M AppeIson, executor Of
Wade II Bolton. deceased.
THIS is to notify all persons interested In
i the estate of ssidWads II Bolton, deceased,
that / will, at my Office, In the city Of Mem,
phis, on Monday, Uctobor, 18th, 1881, al 10
o'clock am, take and state a settlement Of
me accounts q y ApPerson, executor Of
This October 4th, 1881.
BY HUGH B. CULLEN, ID. o. IN 20
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

A short time ago a Georgia Metho.
dist minister heard some disturbance
among his chickens at night, and at
once arose to investigate the trouble.
When he reached the tree where the
chickens were roostiDg he spied a boy
up the tree, and, calling him down,
at once invited him to prayer. Tie
minister and chicken thief went down
on their knees together, and about the
time the minister got well warmed up
to his work, the chicken thief left that
locality in a much greater hurry than
when be came, leaving the minister TO
perform his holy work all alone.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
Attachment Notice.

Before J n Coleman, p. for Shelby county
Ienn;-H Andrews Va. L W Outlaw.
N this cause an attachment having bean
sued out under section 1856 of the code oi
and returned levied anon the
property Of the defendant, and affidavit hav.
10 the plaintiff in the sum of fl50.76 dne nv
account, and that the claim is Just, and that
tho defendant Is n nonresident Of the State
Of Tennessee; 1t is therefore ordered that
said defendant make bis personal appear
before me on the 10th day Of November,
1881, AT 10 o'clock al Ut my Office. No. 12Mad.
lson street, Memphis, Tonn., and defend said
attachment suit within the time preseribed
BY law, or the same will be proceeded with
eK.Parte. and that a copy Of this order Ia
Public Ledger. 'uo
This, the Sta day Of October, 1881,
W@ AS 81 COLEMAN, j. P.
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Detroit Free Press: Why is it that
the public do not look kindly upon a
man carrying an umbrella on a hot
day is a mystery yet to be solved, but
the fact sthey do not, and that not
one man in a hundred has the moral
courage to carry.one. Yesterday, when
an eminent and dignifed citizen, com
ing back from his dinner, turned into
Griswold street with an umbrella over
his head, he was accosted with, Been
raining down your way?" mo, sill"
carry the umbrella to keep the flies
OFF, Yes, sir" well, that's a
good plan, and all soft men ought to
practice it." The next man had a
grin on his face as he called out,
What's hat for?' ITO keep the sun
off," "What do you want to keep
sun off for?" "Might get sunstruek.h
Suppose you did," Suppose you
mind your business, sir?" The next
one presumed upon his friendship to
halt the mar with the umbrella and
whisper, Pretty sharp in you, old
fellow-keep the bulge towards your
creditors, aud they can't see youl''
Other men told him that wearing a
poultice on the head would dispense
with the umbrella, and Others said if
he was afraid of his ears being tanned
he should fasten a fan on each side Of
his hat. Not one single man took
him by the hand and encouraged him,
and when he reached the postofice he
was so discouraged that he lowered
his shade and used it to punch the
ribs Of a boy who had begun to sing
Hes hat-He'sa Teller,
And he Tugs an old umbrella"
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The GoumenIoal Methodist Con-

AgANhGEs
Cor. Cincinnati Commercial by oacurs D..
Conway
LONDON, September II. 1881.
Just fifteen centuries have el,nsed
since the Council met which was first
called ACKNOWLEDGMENT, that of
Constantinople, in the year 3Sl. OF
the nineteen Councils which have
been declared e~oumenicll hy the
Church of Rome, none represented
such widespread Christian interests
as the Methodist Conference which
assembled in London on September
18th, 1881. John Wesley said the
world was his parish. The @ umen-
ical, or universal, conference has re-
lat;on with a fair proportion of that
parish, geographically. Numerically.
too, Methodism is of picturesque pro-
portions. It's work OF a century. rep
resented by lin round numbers) FIVE
million members and twenty million
sympathizers, renders it unnecessary
TO explain the early spread of Chris
tianity by miracle. Christianity had
not in the same length of time
achieved anything like that. The
Rev. DR.. Tiffany, of New York, in an
able address in Exeter Hall. stated
that the Methodist churches ia Amer
ica, if set three miles apart. would
reach from New York to San Fran.
But within a similar extent of
from the birth Of Christ
|he Apostles were still preach {
ng in the open air, or in private i
louses, or tkeaters. However, moth '
ng has been more familiar, in the b
iscussions Of this conference, than a
he ascription Of inspiration to John a
Wesley, and tho attribution to special Ii
lpernatural power of the success Of a
Iethodism, l.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

The greatest curiosity at a country
fair is the orator. He is usually in
his speech SO distant from anything
agricultural, even when he talks Of
crops and stock, that the farmers like
to listen to him. He p~atrouizes the
countryman by saying that the sons Of
the soil are as good as other people.
Mr.. Beecher used TO talk about heifers
and pears and posios in a name that
causrd the farmers wives to smile
when they discovered how little he
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

The subscription price of the
DAILY PUBLIC LEDGER is So per
annum and SOC per month for less
than one year. The WEEK Y
LEDGER is 81 per annum-pOstage
free. Payable in advance invaria-
bly,.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07
SOM ETHINC
EVERY LADY
OUGHT TO KNOW.

There exists a means of Sc.
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Complexion, no matter how
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Hagan's Magnolia Balm is a
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Freckles, Tan, Redness.
ROughness, EruptiOns, EuI.
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delicate and natural are its
effects that its use is not
suspected by anybody.
No lady has the right TO
present a disligured face in
society when the Magnolia
Balm is sold by all druggists
for IS cents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

The Boston Post says: It is as diff
cult to solve the Indian question as it
is to keep Governor Fremont at his
post in Arizona.
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A RemarkabIe Hermit.

DECATUR, IND, October About
five miles southeast of Paulding lives
one of the most remarkable hermits
known. lie is supposed to be an
Englishman, although on this point
he is not communicative. He is gem
orally known by and answers to the
name of "0ld Batch" but his name
is Samuel Paten. He is GO years of
age. very white. haired and patriarchal
in appearance. He has not been
shaved nor had his hair trimmed for
more than twelve years. Around
him are gathered some of
the finest specimens Of cattle
and horses ever seen in any
country. Fat, sleek fllies and gentle
bovines; lazy porkers and tame Merinos
run to him Whenever be emerges from
his house. which is simply a few pieces
Of bark thrown up against a log. There
is no semblance ola house to it, but in
this worse than dog-kennel "Old
Batch" lives both winter and summer.
He is not rude and unlettered, but
really a refined and cultured man,
when he chooses to lay off the rude
wrapping which he has thrown about
himself. He has Travelled extensively,
is a fine l%inguist, aud conversant with
both foreign and domestic politics up
to the closing of the war Of the re-
bellion, since which time he has lived
the life OF a hermit.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-10-07

Everybody is using Browns Iron
Bitters, and everybody is astonished
at its many marvellous cures where all
others have failed.
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