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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18
Matc,1ed for "a Esing Context.

New YORK, February 18,-Paddy
Ryan, Prize fighter, and an unknown"
are matched for ring contest.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18
Death OF a WeII known Turf
Man.

New YORK, February 18.r-Chas.
S. Lloyd, well known turf man died
suddenly yesterday at llolmdel, N. j.,
OF heart disease.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18
GnnIIDOvin ROsfou,

BosroN, February 18,-Smallpoz
hasa ppeared in the state prison. Off
Ger Robbins was taken down with the
dlsease Yesterday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18

EADs has been advised to get con-
cestion from Egypt for the removal Of
the pyramids on raft.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18

THE river and harbor bill has passed
the house but not the senate. 1t will
probably go through substantially in
its present shape.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18
THURSDAY, March 81, 1881.


Thursday, March 80, 1881,
upon the premises, sell 10 the highest bidder
al public outcry, the whole 0; a suillcioncy Of
the property In seid trust deed, described as
follows, to-wit; Lying and beipE il lsietts
county, Tennessee, being toe north half e
section ten ll0l township one. range enc o.
west, situate asoyt six miles south of La
grange, Tenn. and being same property upon
which said Riyes has re.ided for the past 25
years and vested in him by deed from a X
Wingfield, dated December 9Th, 1875, regi tered
Ia book 5, page el6. AlsO the other tract in
same state and county thus described: The
northeast quarter Of section nine. township
enc, range Op' west Of the basis meridian Of
the Chickasaw session. UpOn the first If tho
above tract. there il a deed Of trust for about
$50. and the whole property IS subject to a
homestead TO I " Rives, which is expressly
reserved. A plat of the land, showing the
land covered by the trust deed. and uPOn what
portion the homestead has been assigned, will
be on hand at the sale.
Equity Of ofredsmption barred, and the prop
erty wi be sold subject 70 the homestead and
trust deed aforesaid. Terms of salo-cayn.
l4b 1856 ID u POST0N, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-18
Trnstees RnIe.

TN pursuance with The terme Of Q certain
i deed pi trust 20 nc executed hy Thos. W
Rives, dgted Novcmbo, pth, 1879, and du'y
registered in the Register Office Of Fayette
county, Tennessee, IN book Nos, pases 49,
5-6, / will, on
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
Don't sleep in a draught

Don't sleep in draught.
Don't go to bed with cold feet.
Don't stand over hot-nir registers
Don't eat what you do not need just
to save it.
Don't try to get cool too quickly after
exercising.
Don't sleep with insecure false teeth
in your mouth.
Don't start the days work without a
good breakfast.
Don't sleep in room without ventila-
ton of some kind.
Don't stuff cold lest you be next
obliged to starve fever.
Don't try to get along without flannel
Undertaking in winter.
Don't use your voice for loud speaking
or singing when hoarse.
Don't try to get along with less than
eight or nine hours sleep
Don't sleep in the same undergarmeni
you wear during the day.
Don't toast your feet by the fire but
try sunlight or friction instead.
Don't neglect to have at least one
movement of the bowels each day.
Don't try to keep up on coffee and al.
coholics when you ought to go to bed.
Don't drink ice-water by the glass
take it in sips, a swallow at time.
Don't eat snow to quench thirst ii
brings on inflammation of the throat.
Don't strain your eyes by reading OF
working with insufficient or Pickering
light
Don't be too modest to ask the way to
the water closet when you base call
that way.
Don't use the eyes for reading or fine
work in the twilight of evening or early
morn.
Don't try to lengthen your days by
cutting short your nights rest; it is poor
economy.
Don't wear close, heavy fur or rubber
caps or hats if your hair is thin or falls
out easily.
Don't eat anything between meals ex-
cepting fruits, or glass Of hot milk If
you feel faint.
Don't take some other persons medi.
cine because you are troubled somewhat
as they were.
Don't blow ont gaslight as you
would a lamp many lives are lost every
year by this mistake. - DR.. Foote's
Heath MOnthly.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
Girls as Wood EngraYers.

A wood engraver, being asked why he
did not employ girls, replied:
81 have employed women very often,
and wish could feel more encourage.
But the truth IS that, when young nan
comes to me and begins his work, he
feels that it is life's business. He is tc
cut his fortune out of the little blocks
before him. Wife, family, nome happi.
ness, and all are to be carved out by his
own hand. and he settles steadily md
earnestly to his labor, determined tc
master it, and with every Indictment
squirting him on. He cannot marry till
he knows his trade. IT is exactly the
other way with the girl She may be as
poor as the boy, and as wholly depend.
emit upon herself for living, but she
feels that she will probably marry by
and by, and then she must give up WOOD
engraving. So she goes on hstlessly
she has no ambition to excel; she doe,
not feel that all her happiness depends
on it. She will marry, and her hus
bands wages will support her. She
may not say SO, but she thinks so, ant
it spoils her work"
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
An Inrenio7s Swindle

4 pair Of swialler> liaved on IN Paris
30 following jnTe Ions trick; 4 we'll
dressed man entered .oj3ccoist's shou
oa The Boulevard InHuo Nonyela, aad
alttr purchasing Sues cigars gave Il five
franc gold pieee ia payment: but after
receiving his change He declared that il
was g tweuty-flanc pie-e which no had
gwen, a"l on tile woman who had
served HIM asserting the contrary. he
added that 1t was piece OF
the reign OF Louis phnlinua.
beiring the date Of lS46: tie
shopkeeper then looked among the gold
in her till. and findu g a gold coin such
rs Scribed supposed she had been
mistaken, I'D al once gave ii the diff
ference. a police agent in PLAN clothes
happened however to be standing Nv.
and having his suspicious excited. de-
tergiued to follow the stranger. He
presently saw the individual Join another
man in the street, and tie two went to.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17

IT is asserted by NJ. Emile de Lave
leye that the worlds available supply OF
the so-called precious metals Is rapidly
diminishing, and, while it may not soon
become exhausted, the time cannot be
far hence when it must become made
ouate to meet all demands upon it. II
can hardly be hoped that the lack can
be filed by new discoveries for any ex.
tended period. as the quantities existing
at the earth's surface can at best be but
very limited, although vast masses prob
ably exist III the inaccessible interior OF
the globe 1t is computed that the world
is five times as heavy as an equal vol
ume OF water, Will the rocks of the
earth's surface only average two and
one-half times the weight Of water. II
follows from this that the still molten
center must contain a great amount OF
verv heavy substances. With water as
a unit, the specific gravity, or compare
tive weight Of gold is about IS, plati-
NUN 81, and iridium %, silver being but
10 and IRON s. When the globe was in a
LIQUID state these metals would have had
a tendency to gravitate toward the CEN
ter, and those OF exteme density now
found by us owe their appearance near
the surface to volcanic agencies. The
great bulk must yet remain near the
center,
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
4 Farmer who Robbed his Boy.

A farmer found in his flock q lamb
which the mother would not own. He
gave it to his son, boy fifteen years old
who saved it and raised it. The bog
called it his all summer, and the family
called it his, and his it was. In the fall,
when his father sold the other lambs, he
the pay for it, he tucked it into his big
wallet and carried it off to pay taxes, or
put it in the bank.
Now this farmer did not intend to do
anything wrong. Least of all did he IN
tend to wrong his boy. Probably he
did not give the matter much thought
any way; and if he did he considered
the boys own eweship of the lamb sort
of pleasant fiction, or reasoned that the
boy, having all his needs supplied out
of the family purse, did not need the
pay for the lamb, and it was better to
put it into the common fund.- But for
all that, taking the lamb and selling it
in that way, and pocketing the proceeds,
was stealing. No, it was robbery; and
as between this boy and his father, one
of the meanest robberies that could be
perpetrated. Not only this, but by
robbing the boy of that two dollars the
farmer did more to make the boy dis
contented, and drive him from home,
than he can undo With ten times that
amount A boy is little man, and if
he has any of the gather and grip to him
when he grows up, he begins at an early
age to feel that desire to own something,
and to add TO the property subject to his
ownership, which is at once the incen-
tive to effect work, and the motive which
reconciles men TO their condition.
No matter how well the boys wants
are provided for from a fund which Is
common to the while family, he takes
no particular interest In adding to that
fund, because he does not feel that it is
his, and he tires Of labor and thought,
the proceeds of which he must share
with several others; but give him a piece
of property of his own, to manage as he
pleases, to keep, to sell, or exchange.
and let him feel that his ownership is
secure, and that his loss or gain depends
upon his own endeavors, and he viii
york cheeffully and contentedlr.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
The Pacific Railway snor sheds.

These wonderful wOo7ea tunnels cover
forty miles of the Central Pacific rail-
way. They were first suggest by its
practical Yire President, Chas. Csocker.
hut his companions hesiiated thr ugh
fear Of their impracticabbity AID *
pense. There are two kinds, Que with
very steep roofs ard the 9th with fiat
roofs. They cost per ollie from s., coo
10 Si2, 600, and in soa places, where
heavy masonry Vas needed, the cost
reached $50 600 n mile They are firm
~ constructed to support the great
weight If snow and resist the rush Of
avaianches. Fire precautions are very
thorough. Corrugated plates Of iron
separate tie buildings INTO section,
and Ia the great ten-lnIle shed there are
autoR.n tie eieeasic fire alarms. At the
summit l. aa engiue and tank always
really TOO, the ignitesi spot in an IN
stgnt Thee sheds shat in the vica Of
the great Sierras, but without them
win tet travel would he impossible.
Sometimes five feet OF snow falls up on
the IN a day, and o-ten thirty feet lie
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
Divorce and Saloons.

An ingenius dean In Switzerland has
discovered a close relationship between
divorce courts and drinking saloons. and
claims to be able to ascertain. ON an
average, the number of divorces per
Thousand marriages by doubling the
number of saloons per thousand men.
In Appenzell, for instance, there are
thirty-seven public houses and seventy
eight divorces in Zurich, twenty-fiv
and tifty-seven, and in Berne sixteen and
thirty-six. A Russian statistician has
proved that there is a not less note.
worthy connection between the number
ofvodky shops in village and the numbe,
OF live stock possessed by the villagers.
In the government of Orel the village OF
Jarnovo has three public houses, whereas
the village of Petr0tfskoe has none. In
the former. although the farms are dou-
bic the size of the latter, SO per cent. Of
the peasants have neither horse nor COW.
while In the latter the number destitute
of live stock is only per cent. These
and similar facts are being made good
use of by NJ Kathoff and others, to
whose 1abors in the cause of a temper.
ance reformation is largely due the ap.
pointment of representative committee
to report on the means which should be
employed to diminish the drunkenness
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
Garfield and Rliss.

The faithful Crump, the Major Domo
at the White House, tells story that
has more are less plausibility, to account
for the employment Of DIR. Bliss when
the President was wounded One day,
according to the Boswell, DIR. Bliss had
Just left the Presidents bedside, when
the latter, in familiar way, asked
"Crump, did | ever tell you about the
first time | saw Bliss ?"
OF course Crump said no, and the
President then went on to tell how he
was on his way afoot to enter Hiram Col
lege with SIS in memorandum book
that he carried in the side pocket of his
coat. 1t was all the money he had in
the world, but, strange to say, he took
off his coat, carried it upon his arm,
with the openings to the pockets turned
downword, and, of course, lost it on the
road. When he discovered his misfor-
tune he went back milo or two, and
saw boy hanging over gate.
Have you seen memorandum book
asked Young Garfield.
Eyes" replied the boy.
with money In it?"
eyes"
"Then it's NINE" and the future
President described his property, which
was restored to him, money and all.
The boy who hung on the gate after
ward became doctor, and his name, &C.
cording to Crump, was Bliss.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS.

THE lions tongue is furnished with
reverse proxies so large and strong as
to be able to lacerate the skin.
In China there is a fish that crosses
the meadows at its pleasure from one
creek to another, often mile apart.
A HEALTHY man of average weight i'm
bibes eighty ounces of water, in liquid
state or mixed with solid food, every
twenty-four hours,
In the year ITO the weight OF fat cat
tie in the London market averaged only
$40 pounds at the average age of years.
In 1875 this was increased to 4S2 pounds
In 1880 the weight was $50 pounds,
nearly double that Of ITO. 1t is prob
able that the average weight at one year
less age (say 4 years old is at the pres
emit moment fully three times that of
ITO, and the beef-owing to the supe-
rior quality of the cattle and the better
methods of fattening-fully so per cent
more nourishing and economical to the
consumer.
DYNAMITE has been used in sgricultu-
raj operations. Signor Rossi Fedegrotti
found that he saved so per cent. in mon
ey and so per cent. in time. One piece
of ground required in order to dig to the
depth of 1.20 meters the work of eight
men for seven days and an expense of
62} lire. The other piece of equal size
was turned up to the same depth by
mines three meters apart, containing
each seventy grams of dynamite, No. l.
The work required the labor of eight
men for only three days and half, and
cost 43i lire.
IT has no doubt been q mystery to
many how the iron ball inside of sleigh
bells got there, and it is said to have
taken considerable thought on the part
of the discoverer before the idea struck
him. In making sleigh bells the iron
ball is put inside sand core, just the
shape of the outside of the bell. This
sand core, with the iingler inside, is
placed in the mold of the outside, and
the melted metal is poured in, which
fills up the space between the core and
mold. The hot metal burns the core so
thatit can be all shaken out, leaving the
ball within the shell. Ball valves, swiv-
81 joints and many other articles are cast
in the same manner.
SOME relations between the Uranium
and the skeleton of human beings have
been discovered by NJ. Manouvrier. The
weight of the skull varies in general
way with the weight OF the skeleton,
but not proportionally as the weight of
the brain. The weight of the skeleton
without the Uranium varies nearly in
proportion to the weight of the femur
The weight of the Uranium is greater
relatively to that of the femur the light
er the latter is. The weight of the era
mum is much more considerable to that
of the femur in woman than in mana
difference so pronounced that it consti-
titles one of the best secondary sexual
characteristics. Abouteighty two women
in 100 have the Uranium heavier than the
two femurs, while eighty-two men in 100
have it lighter. The lower jaw is heav-
ier relatively to the Uranium in the an
thropoids than in man.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
NOVEMBER ELECTIONS.

Elections were held in twelve States, on Tues
dry, Nov. s. The general result of the polling
il summarized below
In New York, Maxwell, Democrat is elected
State Treasurer, and Carr, Republican, Seore.
tmy of State. The Democrats have
majority of two in the State Senate,
and majority Of six IN the Assembly.
The four Congf essmen elected to ill
We n"5es are equally divided between the Re-
MI h"ans and Democrats, being Republican
loss o. Ole. The Democie tic majority In New
York city ls 81. 100. Brooklyn elected a Re ub-
lean Mayor, Sheriff, Super visor-at-Iarge ten
(cut oi total of tbirteen) Supervisors and
i've Aldermen.
III Peu, sylvsuia, Bailey, Republican. is elected
state Treasurer 6g about 1000 maj )rlty.
MASSACHUSETTS, with but two towns to hear
loip, made toe following vote fer Governor
Long (Bcp J, sc, 562 Thompson Dem). S.
559; Anllows Prohibitionl. ATS; Almy
t!feeniaskl, l.74l The Legislative is largely
II Connecticut, out Of fourteen Senators
SeieA Tor the Republicans elected ten, which
ike tLop scyenttPn Ctlt Of twerty. four in the
se:.Ate Ihe House stands $40 Republicans to
3S y ,ns crafts. n Democratic gain of eighteen
Owl !a.t Gears election.
In Wisconsin the Republican State ticket is
elected by majouhes ranging from 5000
to 7.hC0 The Republicans have good
working majority in both branches of the
Legislature,
In Virginia tho Readjusters have elected Their
| candidate for Governor (Cameron) and capt
urd majority of the members OF both
biHnches OF the legislature.
The Democrats carry Maryland by good
found majority, though the Republicans gain
several members Of the General ssombly.
In Mississippi the Democrats sweep every
ting tue majority for Lowery for Governor
beng estimated at $4,000 to 10000
IN Minnesota Hubbard, Republican, is
elected Governor by a majority estimated at
$4,000. Al the constitutional amendments of
general effect were adopted. The land-bond
proposition was defeated
The election in Colorado was for the purpose
q locating the State capital, aud resulted in q
victory for Denver by large majority.
! In New Jersey an election was held for mem
bers Of tue General Assembly. The Democrats
| gained three members Of the scrate and fom
memh,rs &c the House. The Republ cans will.
however, have a small majority on joint ballot.
The election in Nebraska was a very quiet
! AFFAIR througi Il the State. Tire Republican
| e3nd dates f.T supreme Judges ard University
Regents were elected by ma jorities ranging
! nom Is 600 to q, 600
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
Totals -. s23, asa la7 81, 479, 263 s4o,o42, oss
Quaint Sayings Of the Pacific Coast.

The great West has become noted for
quaint and expressive phrases coined
by the rough element of the coast. The
miner and prospector, as he wandered
through the hills and followed the cir
cuitous valleys and narrow passes, pre-
fixed names TO these places such as
"gulches, and "canyons," until almost
every canyon and gulch has been dubbed
with some odd name which forever
Afterwards will designate the 10
calty.
Tie lnountaineer, after years Of West
era life, finds himself lost in an Eastern
metropolis and fails to meet his engage
meut on prompt time, but IS not at o
loss to give n decided reason for his
delay. because OF getting lost among
thu canyons. Terso and pointed re.
marks Ike that OF tie man who said : u
did not fsut him, but had he come q
step further the doctors would have
thouaht when they dissected him, that
they had struck a new lead mine,
are quite common among miners.
Flow expressive are the sayings. "He
: gushed vein, and has pinched. "
H. shows wen on the surface, but
tberc IS nothing in the lower levels : or,
h, tidn't assay worth anything" He
who IL Ks courage IS III Western par.
lance ievoi3of ''grit andhas no sand. =
Men who roughed it III the early days on
the Pacific coast are called 'fold-timers, .
and when they die it is not uncommon
for their associates to speak OF their TAX
ing Of as their having passed IN their
checks.
Those VINO have toiled through the
SHOWS and braved the dangers of cross
ing great mountain ridges, have coined
a style Of expression upon the death ol
an old friend which to them IS fuller
Of meaning than the plainsman can
reahze-.'he has gone over the range.
/ Each State and Territory on the
Pacific slope has its peculiar phrases,
and there are many common to all
Omaha Be-
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
One.Tyed Gambetta.

The story thai Gambetta poked ont
one of his eyes wha 4 child, because his
father would no permit him to do as he
pleased, is perfectly true. What is not
so generally known is that the elder
Gambetta remained infiexible even after
this display OF willfulness. The boy was
being educated at the Lycee Of Cahors,
aud, conceiying a dislike for the institu-
ton. ssked to be removed from It. His
father refused again and again. At last
Leon said: "In put out one Of my eyes
if you send me back to the Lycee. 1t
was holiday time. "As You please, =
said the father, to whom il seems never
to have occurred that his boy might
have inherited bis own strengt. Of par
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
rOLIrICAy.

JvpGE FoLGER VII ne. enter on his
aViies g.. Secretary Of the Treasury until the
c.sos nuw pending before the New Yo-k Court
~ Appeals are disposed Of.
SECRETARY WINDOW is said to have
proposed 10 President GARFIELD st Long Branch,
the week before the latter was shot. plan Of
cvl-ecryce reform Tor tie Irasurv Depart
m- Ont. THIS Plan, which met with tBe approval
ci Oh" iotc President proposed 90 aliot To eacB
Na'c number Ut appointments the sp-
V0iutment Of r committee OF three in each
State before whom candidates for the places
slould lie examined at least cnco a wear, tine
examination 70 be sn conducted as TO test tbs
experience and capacity of the applicants; sp
Toniments 10 be inside from among those WHO
stood highest on the list according a. vacsn
cics 90 which the State Of the applicants VS.:
entitled occurred II was also contemplated
that, ether things being equal. soldiers. tbeii
widows snd children should have d preference.
TIE President has received a number
Of protests against the retention Of Pabl.t
Printer Iefees, Urging the appointment o.
Younger and more active man Il is sale
President Arthur has offered .be p9sihou 81
Secretary Of the Interior 10 James A. Nllisul
son. OF lows, formerly commissioner Genera
Of the Land Office. .Tho New York Hero.5
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1881-11-17
ding June 80, 1880 /:
Totals so. on0. ono Saa ann ana AZ. 2nn nnn


After completing the above table and fortify-
ing the CORE ctness of the total from every
available source, statistics were gathered for
the last half of the calendar year of 1880, in
order to show the product from Jan. /. 1885, to
Dec. 81, 1880. The It suit shows only a com
paratiyely slight variation from the reported
yield for the fiscal year. and is given as con-
tirmatory evidence Of the accuracy of the table
presented above. The purchases Of silver for
coinage purposes in 1880 were 24,659, 600
ounces, valued at S28, 694, 500 1t is estimated
that ~, 600 900 of this was foreign production
This would leave S26, 700, 900 for domestic pro-
dnction. The amount of silver exported in
1880 was S7,750, 000, and the amount consumed
IN the arts was S4,000,000. This gives total
product Of silver for the calendar year of $685.
100000, against $50 200, 900 for the fiscal year
Following is q statement OF the bullion pro-
duction of the Pacific coast States and Terri
torres, for the fiscal year ending June So 1881,
according to returns made by owners of mines
to the Superintendent Of the United States
Mint at San Francisco Cal.