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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-07-11
MECHANICS

Building and Loan Association.
Office, Room No. 90, Planters ms. Building.
II OCULAR monthly osetingwIEDNEsDAY
urgently requested TO attend. Payments may
be made to the Secretary during business
hours. G., Y, RAMBAUf, President.
CHAs. Z, PETERSON, Secretary ia i16
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Henrr,n Cnrbollc NnIve.

The best salve in the world for cuts,
bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, tet-
ter, chapped hands, philblains, corns
and all kinds Of skin eruptiOns, freck-
les and pimples. Be sure you get
Henry's carbOlic salve, as all others
are but limitations and counterfeits.
Price rs cents.
DIR. Green's OxyGenated Bitters
is the best remedy for dyspepsia, bill
business, malaria, indigestion, all dis
orders of the stomach, and diseases of
tho blood, kidneys, liver, skin, etc.
Durno's catarrh snuff cures all az
fections of the mucous membFsne Of
the head and throat.
DR.. Motifs liver pills are the best
cathartic. "
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MONEY TO LEND.

VHE DeSotO Building and Loan Association
| have a consider bl fund to lend, and a.
their third erles but recently been begun
anyone wanting money can obtain it at little
outlay.
This money Il he leaned at next regular
meetng'Tue day, July 70, at o'clock pm.
Call before that tins and arrange with
MINTER PARKE r. Secretary,
ll3ll5 239 Main street.
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COTTON snlpuPNra-

The shipments Of cotton from this market
to Friday, the sth Of July, as per cotton ex-
change tables, have boon as follows;
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CLERKS BuIIdinn and Sayinn ASSN.

VII No UuIIUIIH uiu VWVIIY VOO "
THE regular monthly meeting of this
L association will be held WEDNESDAY,
July 18th, 1881, at the Office of the secretary.
No. 26l second, corner OF Court street. at 4
o'clock, p. m. Fines will DO rigidly enforced if
dues and interest are not punetually paid.
By order of the Board.
1llll6 P. B.JONES, Sec'y.
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Memphis, Holly Springs e. Selma
Railroad.
\. Y. Banker and Broker ]

N. Y. Banker and Broker
Mr.. Fred Wolfe has purchased for
himself aud associates the Memphis,
Holly Springs and Selma railroad.
This is one Of the most important
lines, and runs through some of the
most productive parts of that section.
The latest styles of type are being
constantly received at the LEDGER job
printing Office, IL Madison street.
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NOTICE

EMMETT L. wOoDs0N has an interest in
IL our business dating from let day of June,
1881. FARGAsON K CO.
July 0, 1887. 1IOIl5
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COTTON RECEIPTS.

Our receipts Of cotton to Friday, the 9th of
July, as per cotton exchange tables, were dis
tributed as follows:
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We, the Commute appointed by the Board Of D
the Bank, submit the above report. There is nc
ela,s Endorsement or eollaterals We recommend
declared GU of the profits of the past six mont
TO the surplus fund.
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Youths Department.
TIE LITTLE GIRL WHO TRIED
TO MIND.

Susan, good sister susan was gentle girl Of
eight.
And Iotty was but four years old, when what
Came to tho happy little pair one bright No
vember day
a sund,y, too-wnile good papa was many
( Il %Hnne' S away {t1. = .
"Good-by, my darlings, don forget. The
little ones wcnt form,
Their hearts Ill in sunny glow, their faces to
Their faces TO the chilling north, bat not whit
cared they,
full half mile away.
For mother with her smiling face and CHEEKY
voice, hal said.
81 cannot 90 to church to-day, but you may 90
instead.
Baby will need me here at home-the precious
little petl
But babies grow in time, you know. She II go
TO meeting vet.
"Tal>e care of sister Sue" she said while ty-
and Tottykns, I'm sure you'll be, oh, Uery
stil and goOi.
Good-by, my darlings Don't forget Now,
And, Tot, be mammals little mouse, and sit up
close to sue"
pretty sight it truly was, to see the rosy
Walk down the aisle and take their seats, with
SweetlS solemn air.
And susie soon was listening, her manner all
intent,
While little Tot sat prim and stiff, and Won
dered what 1t meant.
The quaint old-rashi med meeting house had
pew-SeHtS low an bare,
With backs that reached above the heads when
they were bowed in prayer.
And thus it was when suddenly scratching
so md was heard
Faint at the first, then almost loud-but not II
person stirred.
All heads we're bowed; ana yet it rose-that
scratching, pIzlling sound,
The staidest members rolled their eyes and
tried to look around;
Till Susie, stately little mald felt, with a
startled fear
That, whatsoe err its cause might be, the noise
was strangely near.
Out went her slyly-warning hand, to reach for
TO,ty there;
When, oh, the scratching rose above the clos
ing words of prayer!
An empty mitten ON the seat was all poor SUI
sic felt,
While on the noor in wondrous style, the
earnest lofty knelt!
Poor Susie leaned and signaed, and beckoned
all in vain;
Totty was very much engaged and would not
heel twas pam.
When suddenly a childish voice rang through
The crowded hOu.e: ...
"DON'T, Susie. cause I've dot to be my nam
mas title mOuse!" "
| Many a sober face relaxed and many smiled
outright,
! While others mourned in sympathy with SUI
sizes sorry plight;
! And lofty, wild with wrath because she cOulC
bc mouse no more.
| Was carried soon, a sobbng child, out through
| the wide church-dJOr.
| Now, parents, ponder while ye may upon thit
sad nishHp, .."i '
I The mother not the mouse, you see, wa!
-.a. Caug It within the trap.
I An lest your little listening ones may go be
yOni your reach,
Be chary OF your metaphors and tigurativC
/ speech. '..
joel StdCy in ST. Nicholas.
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NEwTON'S CHILDHOOD.

Sir Isaac Newton is the greatest of
modern philosophers and mechanics.
When he was born, December %, 1912,
three months after his tather's death,
he was so small and feeble that no one
supposed he would live day; but the
weak infant grew to be a healthy, ro-
bust man, who lived until he was
eighty-four years old. He began to in
vent or contrive machines and to show
his taste for mechanics in early child
hood He inherited some property
from his father, and his mother, who
had married a second time, sent him 10
the best schools, and to the University
of Cambridge. At school he soon
showed his natural taste he amused
himself with little saws, hatchets, ham
mers and different tools, and when his
companions were at play spent his time
in making machines and toys. He
made wooden clock when he was
twelve years old, and the model of
windmill, and in his mill he put
mouse, which he called his miller, and
which turned the wheels by running
around its cage. He made water
clock four feet high, and cart with
four wheels, not unlike a velocipede, in
which he could drive himself by turn
ing windlass.
His love of mechanics often inter-
rupted his studies at school, and he was
sometimes making clocks and carriages
when he ought to have been constituting
Latin and Greek. But his mind was 80
active that he easily caught up again
with his fellow-scholars, and was al
WAYS fond of every kind of knowledge.
He taught the school boys how to make
paper Kites; he made paper lanterns by
which to 70 toschool in the dark winter
mornings; and sometimes at night he
would alarm the whole country round
by raising his kites in the air with a
paper lantern attached TO the tail; they
would shine like meteorS in the dis
lance, and the country people, at that
time very ignorant, would fancy them
omens of evil, and celestial lights.
He was never idle for moment. He
learned to draw and sketch; he made
little tables and sidcboards for the chill
dren to play with; he watched the mo-
tons of the sun by means of pegs he
had fixed in the wall of the house where
he lived, ami marked every hour.
At last, when he was about sixteen,
his mother placed him in charge OF a
farm, and every Saturday he went with
a servant TO Grantham market to sell
his corn and vegetables But the al
ia rs of the farm did not prosper; the
young philosopher hid himself away in
a room in garnet which he hired,
! study ing NEE anicS and inventing a
water-wheel or a new model, while the
sheep wandered away in the field, and
! the cattle devoured his corn.
Next he went to Cambridge Universe
ty, and became a famous scholar A
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WIT AND WISDOM.

The concern that always makes
money--the mint. -LoOeH Courier. ''
1t S pretty bad but we're going, to
spring it on you. An undertaken is
really bug-hunter-an entomb- ologist.
Boston fOSt.
Although early in the season, we
announce, at the request of Mr.. Ven
nor, that during the coming winter wa
ter will as usual freeze with its slippery
side up. - CbronicLe- Herald.
The remark made by a st. Louis
girl when she first saw Forepaugh's
beauty was: "Well, if l couldn peel
the socks off7n her in good lookiness d
sell out an go TO Chicago"- Detroit
Free Press. ~ 4At1 KS ta A.#..
Literary: Wanted-A story of a
burglary or ghosts in which the night is
not very dark without, and the wind
does not blow in titful gusts and the Old
oak in front OF the house does not groan
dismally. On receipt of such we agree
to return the manuscript.-Loweu Citi-
zen.
The people down East need not
laugh at our Western ways of doing
business. 1t amounts to about the
same thing all round, after all. We
rob railroad trains and mountain stages
and our neighbors down East keep sum-
mer hotels. And, dearly beloved, al
low us to say that the difference in
methods doesn't make continental bit
of difference TO the traveller. Barti9g-
ton HHWkeye.
Several wagon loads of leather
have been dug out of the ground near
Sandwich, Ont, and the people have
no recollection how it came there. The
mystery is easily explained. A rail
road restaurant once stood on the spot,
aud what is supposed to be leather is
merely the remains of thousands of
ham sandwiches, which passengers
threw around promiscuously after vain
" endeavoring to insert their teeth into
them. Hence the name of the adjacent
town-Sandwich.- NorriStot0R Herald.
The politest man in Boston has
been discovered. He was hurrying
along n street the other night when
another man, also in violent haste,
rushed out of an allie way, and the
two collided with great force. The
second man looked mad, while the po
lite man, tax ng of his hat, said: my
dear sir, | don't know which of us is tC
blame for this violent encounter, but
am in too great Il hurry TO investigate
Ii ran into you, beg your pardon; il
you ran into me, don't mention it, -
and he tore away at redOubled speed. -
Boston journal
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the age OF twentv-touI he began hiC
study OF the spectrum. rs philosophers
call that brilliant picture OF the co.ors
of the rainbow, which is shown b. the
suns rays Shining through three
sided piece of glass. called prism. II
is one OF the most beautiful objects IN
science or nature. and Newton's study
of its splendid coIors led to his greatest
discoveries in OPTICS, or the science OF
the sight In our own time the use of
the prism RndIits spectrum has shown
us OF what the. sun and moon are com-
posed.
One day, as Newton sat musing in
his garden at his retired country home,
an apple fell from tree to the ground.
A great idea at once arose in his mind,
and he conceived the plan of the uni
verse and of the law OF gravitation. rs
it is called lie was the first 10 dis
cover that famous law. he showed
that the heavier body always attracts
the lighter; that as the apple falls to
the earth. 50 the earth is drawn toward
the SUM- that all the planets feel the
law OF gravitation, and that all the uni
verse seems to obey one will Newton
soon became the most famous of living
philosophers But at the same time he
was the most modest OF men; he never
knew that he had done anything more
than others, nor felt that he was any
more studlOus or busy. Yet he never
ceased to show, even in late old age
the same love for mechanical pursuits
and the study of nature he had shown
when boy. His most famous work,
the PriHcjDia, proving the law OF CRAWL
tation and the motion OF the planets,
appeared in 1857. He made beautiful
prisms OF glass and other substances,
and fine rejecting telescopes, the best
that were yet known. lie wrote valu-
able histories and works. He was al
ways devout Christian and scholar.
He died in 1927, and was buried in
| Westminster Abbey.
Thus the puny babe that was scarcely
/ thought worth the care Of his nurses
/ became an active and healthy boy and
man, with the clearest mind of his
/ time He was stout, ruddy, healthy,
and never, it is said. lost tooth. But
he preserved his health by avoiding all
that was hurtful. He was philusO-
| pher at twelve wears old, and the world
owes much OF its progress to Newton S
well-spent childhood. -AGrpcr' Young
| PeODiG.
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A Plea for the Pig.

There is nothing more positive than
that the present condition OF swine in
the list of live stock is undeServed. The
result OF judicious breeding and good
care is product of wholesome pork fit
for the most fastidious taste. 1t has
been the rule to ignore the rightful
position of the humble pig and to gen.
orally relegate him to q cOndtiOn where
he becomes simply the farm scavenger.
When other stock has been allowed to
eat all that is nutritious in field, or
has exhausted the contents of corn
crib, the swine are turned in to eat up
the remains, and to mingle with this
refuse the dirt, and in many cases
germs of disease, left by its more for
tunate fellow candidates for the market.
If the farmer has anything about his
premises which no other class of stock
will touch, because of its repulsive
character, the swine are called upon to
regale themselves with the unsavory
mess.
Whole droves of swine are fed in this
way for two-thirds of every year, and
Just before killing time, i'll order TO pre-
sent good round bodies and to get all
the lard possible, they are stuffed with
decent feed and called corn-fed hogs.
The germs of disea:e, however, have
been planted previous to this time, and
the unfortunate "scavenger" goes to
the block or packing houses in alto
gether too many instances with his flesh
full of parasites caused by unwho esome
| feed, nasty pens, and other objection
able features which are the result OF a
system of almost criminal neglect To
/ insure wholesome pork cleanliness and
good, wholesome feed are necessary,
and the apparent carelessness in prepar-
ing swine for the market is, to say the
least, very censurable. Pigs from tie
moment they are weaned should be
afforded clean pens, good airy runways,
and feed that is something better than
the refuse of an obnoxious sWill-pail.
The breeder who conducts his business
upon this principle is the man who Sc
cures the best prices and makes Tor him
self an extended reputation. &c. Chicago
Tribune,
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Last winter a little boy playing on
the wharf of q river town in Pennsyl-
vania fell into the river. The current
made by passing steamer carried HIM
into deep water. 1t was late in the
evening, and nobody saw the accident
but little lame girl of eleven, named
Katy Breschkowsky. With the aid OF
her crutch she hObbled out Oh the pier,
and then, dropping on her face, she
climbed down to The edge of the water
The boy was wedged between two
blocks of ice ne II the pier. Katy
climbed like a cat out to the end of the
tlmbers, and then dropped into the
water, stretching out one feeble hand
towards linn, but she could not reach
him. \ step farther-and another.
She was now up to the neck in the icy,
surging current She caught his arm
and pulled his head above water, hold
inc to the timber overhead with the
other hand. In this position she re-
manned tor an hour in peril of death
every moment, until at last she was
seen by some passerS-by, and with
difficulty rescued The boy was I'M
known to her.
Another heroic child, boy of six, in
New York, left its baby brother for a
moment to bring drink, and return
ing, found it had crawled near the
stove and its clothes had taken fire.
The little fellow wrapped the child in a
blanket and battled with the flame until
he put it out, but not before his own
arms and breast were badly burned.
Now every boy and girl would like
to do heroic acts such as these. In
deed, young people are apt to spend a
good deal OF time dreaming of the valOr
and GOODNESS they will display in saving
life when an emergency comes. The
emergency seldom does come, and
when it does, there is usually no heroic
self-sacritice to meet it, either from
children or men and women. The
reason of this is that one person in a
thousand makes self-sacrihce acOnstant
habit in trifiing things, while the other
nine hundred and ninety-nine are plan
ming for the supreme opportunity. That
one alone is ready for the opportunity,
and rises by habit to meet it, The 9th
ers are appalled, by it into indecsion or
cowardice.
We are sure that this poor little Grip
| pie, Katy, and the siX-year-old hero are
/ unselhsh, gentle children in their daily
| plays. Surely the habit of unselfsh-
ness is worth cultivation, for if the
crucial moment of trial never comes,
it makes of the life of any man or
woman high heroic strain, which up
/ lifts the souls of all who hear it. -
! lOWtb'S Companion.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

"A LONDON urn IS uOW mahln2 ulSu-
.es of paper.
Little boys and girls are considered
a necessary part of bridal procession
now-a- days.
Over 100, 600 Frenchmen have COM
mitted suicide since the opening of the
present century.
1t is found that the effect of the
electric light in conservator es is slim
uating TO Che vitality of the plants.
Los Angeles County, Cal, claims
6.5OO,0O0 grape-vines bearing, and
5000, 600 planted last winter; and co.
900 bearing orange trees, and 100, 600 to
begin next year.
Notwithstanding the terrible power
of the electric eel, equal to fifteen Ley
den jars, there is little parasite fish,
two or three inches in length, that
preys upon it, utterly oblivious of its
shock.
Opium consumption in this country
is increasing at an alarming rate. 1t is
estimated that 1000 Americans at least
are victims to the baleful habit of opium
smoking. while over 10000 Chinese in
the country pursue the same vicious
practice. The use of opium in other
forms, however, far exceeds this. The
importation of opium in 1880 was II, 1876
pounds, an increase of IL, 600 pounds in
one year. ....
According to calculations made by
the Medical Academy OF Paris, there
are at the present time l89, 600 doctors
scattered over the world. OF these
there are 65, 900 in the United States,
$4,000 in France, 5000 in Germany
and Austria, $4,000 in Great Britain
and its colonies, 10000 in Italy, and
5000 in Spain Putting aside pamphlets
and memoirs innumerable, it is esti-
mated that 10000 works have been
published on medical subjects. OF the
writers $500 are American, $500
French, $500 German and Austrian, and
100 English. ".".
The largest steam hammer in the
United States was recently placed in
position in the Black Diamond Steel
Works of Park Brothers & Co., at Pitts
burgh. The hammer weighs seventeen
tons, while the anvil-biock under it
weighs 100 tons With full head Of
steam it will strike q blow of ninety
tons, but, as this tremendous weight is
not always necessary in hammering, il
Ntlh bC lltbNO W obllhC 90 llAuO 10 AC'
sired. 1t has thrty-eight-inch cylin-
der and nine-foot stroke. The ponder
GUS blows make the earth quake for &
radius of nearly 200 yards. .s .
There is at present in round mum
bers $4,000, 900 barrels of crude petro
leum stored in the iron tanks in the OF
regions of Pennsylvania. 1t is an in
land lake of oil that may be described
as having reached its highest ebb, mas
much as indications now point unmis
takably to a falling of in the daily pro
ductiOn of the wells and consequent
decline in the amount tanked Not thu
least striking feature of the oil region
are the clusters of these enormous irOl
reservoirs, located on hill and valley
and whose construction keeps activel.
employed great workshops and an arm.
of men in Pittsburgh, Titusyille, Oi
City and elsewhere. The oil held b.
the 1900 tanNs dotting the oil region
would fill to depth often feet squar
reservoir or lake measuring 3,747 fee
each way.
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Moon Blindness. There is no per-
manent cure for this evil, which is apt
to ret again and again at uncertain
intervals, and finally leave the horse
more or less completely blind. In the
beginning of the attack place the horse
in darkened stall, Having fed one or
two meals of bran mash, give purga-
tive dose of medicine, composed OF five
drains OF aloes, one dram of podophyl-
lin, two drains of inter and a dram of
capsicum. Battle the eyes twice daily
with warm water, by means of soft
sponge, and apply between the eyelids,
b. means of small camers hair pen
ell portion of mixture of half an
ounce OF Goulard's extract, one ounce
of fluid extract of belladonna, and a
pint of distilled water. Apply also to
the lids, and to the hollow over the eve
a portion of fluid extract of belladOnna.
Give loosening food in moderate guam
titles. Strong light and strong winds
/ should be avoided. - Western %tra
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TThe Captain calls it "Baby Mine" and has stored
therein signal rockets, thermometer, compass,
provisions, etc and | have but little trouble.
Before starting out rub myself thoroughly with
the article, and its action upon the muscles is
wonderful From constant exposure am some
what subject to rheumatic pains, and nothing
would ever benefit me until | got hold Of this
Great German Remedy Why, on my travels
have met people who had been suffering with
rheumatism for years by my advice they used
the Oil and it cured them. | would sooner do
without food for days than be without this rem
edy for one hour. In fuct / would not attempt
trip without it The Captain became very en-
thuSiastiC on the subject of ST. JACOBS on, and
when we left him ne was still citing instances Of
the curative qualities of the Great German Rem
edy to a party around him.