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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20
GOOD news
IN SIX HOURS

A new discovery in tho vegetable line, a
medicine that cannot BIO found ia any Drug
Store in the United States or Diminion of
Canada at present, until the druggists call for
Il; and all Druggists that order my medicines,
| win advertise their names and places of bus
mess in the same column with my advertise
ment in the paper.
No Druggist has the genuine medicine un-
less you soc his name and place of bushes in
my d ertising column.
This medicine IS produced from a vegetable
la Spain and Portugal, called Bellina de Sal
u~taria, an almost miraculous herb, for the cure
Of all Chronic Diseases, etc., viz:
Female weakness, Dyspepsia In its worst
form, Sore Eyes, S%CrOfula, Syphilis,
ChiIls and Fever, Gravel, BilOusnesS,
arrangement Of the Bowels and all dis.
eases arising from the lmpurity Of the
blood.
All persons afflicted with any Of those dis.
eases arc referred to the above, and y oTs,
three or four hours time after takin0 the med.
icine, you do not find it imp covino vou,
health, l viii refund double IL amonnt von
have paid for a bottle Of the .nedieine, and M
agents also will be Instructed To refund tbe
money proylded you haT Q it pronounced by a
by it, And l will also say this mucb. fhai I IL
not care by what doctor you have been treated
and pronounced incurable. Do NOT be dis-
couiaged, but come and see me. To ali ply
sIicians who have cases Of this description un-
der their care I should DO pleased II thew wonId
give II a trial. Give my medicine a fair trial
and 1 will guarantee a sure cure, If taken ac-
c0rding to directions.
OFFICE H0URS-S to II am. and 2 to 5
Pho.
Chronic Diseases a Speciality. Charges from
tl 10 SlO. Cure guaranteed.
Price Oh per ROttIo.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20

Why throw away your illustrated
papers and magazines when you can
have a nice book made from them al
the LEDGER hiudery2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20

DR.. johnson is acknowledged by all parties
interested as by far the most successful
physician in the treatment of private or secret
diseases. Quick, thorough and permanent
cures guaranteed in every case, male or female;
Recent cases Of Gonorrbea and Syphilis cured
in a few days, without tho use. of Mercury;
Secondary Syphilis, the last ~vestige, eradicated
without the use of Mercury. involuntary loss
Of semen stopped in q short time. Sufferers
from impotency or loss of sexual powers re-
stored to full vigor ID 8 few weeks Victims
of Spermatorrhea and loss Of physical and
mental power speedily and permanently
cured.
Particular attention paid to tho diseases Of
women, and cures guaranteed.
Throat and Lung diseases cured by new
remedies.
piles and old sores cured without the use Of
oaustic or the knife.
All consultations strictly confidential.
Medicines sent by express to all parts Of tho
country.
Office hours from s a to 3 pm. Sundays
ST ID. s. JOHNSON. N. u.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20

Under and By virtue Of two deeds 10
" trust to me executed, NJ Anderson and
wife Mn Anderson, one on the 18th August,
1915, recorded in the Register ONCE Of Shelby
county in boob. No. lDs, page ll, Of seq; the
other on the I'D September. 1875, recorded In
The Register's oface Of Shelby county in book
lO3i page 42s, et seq, 70 which reference h
hereby expressly made, / will, .as sueh trustee.
therein. default having been made In the pay.
ment Of the debts therein secured, offer foI
sale al public 0utcry 20 tho highest bidder for
cash, the following described real estate, TO-
getner with the improvements thereon, stu.
atoi lying and being In the city Of Memphis.
county Of Shelby, State Of Tennessee, 10 wit.
Lot No. Is on plan OF n. W. Smiths gab-divi-
sion, fronting "a $500 feet on east side fCyn.
lhih street. and running back between parallel
linte l0i n. 100 feet to an alloy.
Sale will be made on the southwest corner Of
MAR and MsdisOn Streets In the city Of Nom
PHI at12 M, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20
saturday, February Ia, 1851.

"a iity Of redemption waived and tito per-
feoi. but | sell and convey a. trustee only
w. c. MCCLURE. Trutieo.
WIiabt, Folkei 4 Wright, ATTORNEYS. ? W
Roysteri Auctoneer, nl lA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20
On the I9th day orFeb ,runry. 1851,

between the hours Of 10 aD d II o'clock am,
at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets. in the Taxinc. District Of helby ooun-
y Ha.e CITY OF MeF phis), sell TO the highest
Wit: 4'"i o''' W
taIt 81 org nal county lot No. SOB. known
anu am ue5igns' ed upon the plan Of John john
iOn anu = J. Murphy's sub-diyisi0n Of said
iot N2.0 8, as the north half of lot No Is Of
% lnson and Murphy's subdivision, and
1oun' ed as follows: Beginning at q stake in
snS outh side Of Alabama street.. the north
st corner Of said johnson and MuIphy's
y ,ur-acre lot; thence with south side Of Ala
pama street. eastwardly IS feet 5 inches TO- a
stake; thence southwardly Mt right angles with
Alabama street 81 feet u a stake; thence vest
wardly, parallel with Alabama street to a
stake in the west line Of said lot; thence north
Wardly with the west line Of said lot 81 feet
10 the beginning.
This property has a good twe-story franc
house on 1t, has nice eyergreens in front yard,
and will make a good home for n small tami y.
Homestead and equity of redemption waived.
The title has been examined, and / believe ii
10 be good, but / will convey only as trustee.
I5 al HUNSDON CARY, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-20

NJ ar the authority vested in me BY the
ySCu" NJ Of q deed of trust, executed By
iUtn 1873. which deed is recorded ip the Reg
ny RS Office Of Shelby county, Tenn, in book
~, page 2gS, default having been made in tho
'2ayment of the debt therein sgcU red, I will, at
the que of the beneficiary,
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
The Spiders Intelligence.

! If you anchor a pole in body of
water and put spider upon it, he will
exhibit marvellous intelligence by his
plans to escape. At first he will spin a
web several inches long and. hang to one
end while he allows the other to float
off in the wind, in the hope that it will
strike some object. OF course this plan
proves failure, but the spider is not
discouraged. He waits until the wind
changes, another direction. Another
failure is followed by several other
similar attempts, until all the points of
the compass have been tried. But
neither the resources nor the reasoning
powers of the spider are exhausted. He
climbs to the top Of the pole and ener-
getically goes to work to construct q
silken balloon. He has no hot air with
which to initiate it, but he has the power
of making it buoyant. When he gets
his balloon finished he does not go off
upon the mere supposition that it vii
carry him, as men often do, but he
fastens it to guy rope, the other end
OF which he attaches to the island pole
upon which he is prisoner. He then
gets into his aerial vehicle, while it is
made fast, and tests it to see whether its
dimensions are capable of the work of
bearing him away. He often finds that
he has made it too small, in which case
he hauls it down, takes it all apart, and
constructs it on larger and better plan.
A spider has been seen to make three
different balloons before he became
satisfied with his experiment. Then he
will get in, snap the guy rope, and sail
away to land as gracefully and as
supremacy independent of his surround
ings as could well be imagined. Seth
Green.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
AN ENGLISHMAN'S OPINION OF US.
Whit Bull Run Russell Thinks ofthe United
States Now.

Whit Bull Run Russell Thinks ofthe United
States Now.
While the welfare and prosperity of
this republic do not, in any manner,
depend upon what our English cousins
think of us, yet we never object at all
to hearing them express their opinions,
and we can take them for what they are
worth. DR.. William H. Russell, the
English correspondent, DIETER known
in this country as "Bull Run" Russell
from his remarkable departure from the
scene and description of that BATTLE
having finished his tour of the United
States with the Duke of Sutherland and
his party, has now given expression to
his views upon some of the things he
has seen, and they are not uninterest-
ing reading. He pats Americans on the
back triAe, or rather, gives them q
back-handed compliment by saying that
they have improved greatly. "Their
traditional inquisitiveness," he says,
"either never existed or it has disap-
peared, and I have seen no evidence of
the self-assertive manner that was once
attributed to Americans. No one shows
an impertinent curiosity as to your
business, who you are or whence you
come. ] find no offensive self-assertion
among the American people now, what
ever may have been the case
years ago" In addition to this DR..
Russell said "Where you can't raise
wheat you raise gold, and where you
can't raise gold you raise lead, and
where you can't raise lead you raise
silver. It's something everywhere-a
country of wonderful resources. OF
course, border life was expected to be
little strange and rude; and when
people asked where Sutherland was, or
crowded to see the Duke, it was all
accepted as part of the play. But
when you come, as you will by-and by,
in the great West, to separate the vice
and the crime from the industry and
stesdiness and to settle into crystalline,
social body, it will be great country,
with great future before it. It did
seem little unusual, however, that
every spot in the West the party visited
should possess some legend of how some
person was shot. But these things, I
suppose, are inseparable elements of
life on the border, and as the civiliza-
tion of the East pushes westward,
furthera and further, they will disappear"
DR.. Russell does not tell us anything
striking that we did not know before,
but he seems to have learned q lesson
from Dickens, and to have resolved not
to say anything about this great land
of ours and its inhabitants. which in
after years he would be compelled to
ask our pardon for.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
An Old Norwegian Town.

Stavanger is one of the most ancient
towns in Norway. 1t looks as If it were
one Of the most ancient in the world
its very brightness, with it's faded red
houses, open windows and rugged pave
meats, being like the color and smile
one sees sometimes on cheerful,
wrinkled old face. The houses are
packed close together, going uphill as
hard as they can roofs red tiled gable
ends red tiled, also, which gives droll
eyebrow effect to the ends of the houses,
and helps wonderfully to show offpretty
faces beneath them, looking out Of win
dows. All the windows open in the
middle, outwards, like shutters and it
would not be much risk to say that
there is not window-sill in all Stavan-
ger without flowers. Certainly, we did
not see one in three hours ramble.
From on old watch-tower, which stands
on the top Of the first sharp hill above
the harbor, is sweeping offiook, sea-
ward and eastward, to north and south /;
long promontories, green and curving,
with low red roofs here and there, shot
up into relief by the sharp contrast of
color bays of blue water breaking in
between distant ranges Of mountains
glittering white thousands of islands
in sight at once. Stavanger's approach
strikes Norway's keynote with bold
hand, and old Norway and new Norway
meet in Stavanger's market-place. An
old cathedral, the Oldest but one in the
country, looks down little inner harbor,
where lie sloops loaded with gay pottery
of shapes and colors copied from the
attest patterns out in Staffordshire.
These are made by peasants many miles
away, on the shores OF the lords bowls,
jars, fower-pots, jugs and plates, brown,
-colored, red and white /; painted
with flowers and decorated with Grecian
and Etruscan patterns in simple lines.
The sloop decks are piled high with
them-a gay show and an odd enough
freight to be at sea in storm. The
sailors heads bob up and down among
the pots and pans, and the salesman sits
flat on the deck, lost from view, until q
purchaser appears. Miraculously cheap
this pottery is, as well as fantastic Of
shape and color: one could fit out his
table, off one of these crookery sloops,
for next to nothing. Along the whary es
were understands of all sorts; old
woman selling fuchsias, myrtles, carrots
and cabbages and blueberries, all to-
gether piles of wooden shoes, too
clumsy things, followed out of a single
chunk Of wood, shaped like a Chinese
junk keel, and coarsely daubed with
black paint on the outside; no heel to
hold them on, and but little toe. The
racket made by shutting along on pave
ments in them is amazing, and "down at
the heel" becomes phase of new signi-
ficance, after one has heard the thing
done in Norway.-Atlantic Monthly.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
In O Siberian Prison.

A political offender gives an interest
ing account of his exile in Siberia ::
When we were locked up for the night,
our cell suddenly assumed more home
like and comfortable aspect. Night is
the only time when convict feels at
home in his prison. During the day he
is always on the alert, always expecting
sudden Eruption, an unwelcome visit
from the officers on duty. But as soon
as the doors were locked everybody sat
down quietly in his own place, and
almost every one got out some work.
The room was suddenly lighted up, as
each man had his own candle and candle
stick, the latter being frequently made
of wood. The air grew worse as the
night advanced. In one corner group
of men squatted around small piece of
carpet which served as a card table.
There is in almost every cell a convict
who is the fortunate owner of a square
bit of carpet, a candle, and a pack of
horribly greasy cards, all of which
articles are designated collectively by
the name of madam" A madam is lot
for the night for fifteen copecks.
The men always gambled high, each
player laying down before him hand,
I'll Of copper coins, and never leaving
the game till he had either won or lost
everything. One Of the poorest of the
prisoneys vas employed as sentinel, and
mounted guard in the passage, ready to
give the alarm to the gamblers in case
the major or one OF the officers on duty
should come in. Not unfrequently the
poor fellow had to stand for six or seven
hours on bitter cold winter night in
dark passage, listening attentively to
each noisesor sound from without. for
sometimes the major caught sight Of the
candles from outside, and burst into the
prison like whirlwind. In such cases
it would have been too late to put out
the candles, hide the MADAM, and pre-
tend to be asleep. However, as a neg
ligent sentinel was always cruelty beaten
by the irate players, such interruptions
were comparatively rare. These card
parties frequently lasted all night.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
WORDS OF WISDOM.

No man is sd wise that he may moi
err.
No ashes are lighter than incense, and
few things burn out sooner.
Faith and hope Themselves shall die,
while deathless charity remains.
There are as many wretchcd rich men,
in proportion, as there are wretched
poor men.
Men may say Of marriage and women
what they please, they will renounce
neither the one nor the other.
Wecensure the Inconsistency of women
when we are the victims. We find it
charming when we are the objects.
There is no greater fool than he who
thinks himself wise; no one wiser than
he who suspects he is fool.
Every man has three characters; that
which he exhibits, that which he has,
and that which he thinks he has.
We are always more disposed to laugh
at nonsense than at genuine wit; be.
cause the nonsense is more agreeable to
us, being more conformable to our own
natures; fools love folly and wise men
wisdom.
No life is wasted unless it ends in
sloth, dishonesty and cowardice. No
success is worthy of the name unless it
is won by honest industry and brave
breasting of the waves of fortune.
There is great difference between the
two temporal blessings, health and
wealth wealth is most envied, but
least enjoyed; health is frequently en-
joyed, but the least envied /; and the
superiority Of the latter is still more OBJ
Uious that the poorest man would not
part with his health for money, but the
richest would gladly part with his
money for health.
When a man thinks nobody cares for
him, and he is alone in cold and selfish
world, he would do well to ask himself
this question "What have / done to
make anybody care for and love me, and
to warm the world with faith and gener-
osity9" 1t is generally the case that
those who complain the most have done
the least.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
A Glimpse OF Mecca.

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The town lies in basin among steep
hills Of from five hundred to seven hun
dred feet in height and probably not
more than one Thousand two hundred
to one thousand five hundred above the
sea. The whole Of this valley--about
one mile and a-half long by one-third OF
o mile across-is packed and crammed
with buildings Of all shapes and sizes,
placed in no kind of order, climbing far
up the steep sides Of the surrounding
hills, with here and there an outlying
house on the summit of some rock, look
ing as though crowded out and waiting
for chance to squeeze into the confu-
sion below; curious gray mass, fiat
topped, to European eye roofess, half
plastered, for plaster in this climate is
always either being put on or we'll ad-
vanced in coming off, but never to be
seen in it's entirety.
The walls of the houses are composed
of uncut stone and rubble from three
to six feet thick, in very high buildings
even thicker. Gut stone is used only
for the stills of windows or jambs and
arches of doorways, and very little brick
is employed anywhere. Notwithstand-
ing the substantial thickness of the
walls, tottering ruins may be found by
the side of the most thronged thorough
fares in every part of the city. Many
OF the houses are Of great height, large
and factory-like, full Of little windows.
Seldom two adjacent houses face the
same way or are the same height. Moth
ing resembling row or street could by
any stretch OF imagination be extricated
from such chaos of masonry. 1t is
impossible, even from an elevated point
of view, to trace q hundred yards Of
open space between houses in any direc-
ton (many of the passages are boarded
over, which to certain extent conceals
them, except on the outskirts Of the
town, where two or three suburbs
struggle off up the less inclined outlets
from the valley, and where the ground
is not so thickly built ever, though with
the same systematic irregularity. y
The rule seems to be that no two
things must be alike, an Eastern char
acteristic developed into a fixed law of
non-uniformity in everything about
Mecca, town which, built as it is of
the crumbling rock about, made to ad-
here with thirty per cent. Of coarse lime,
together with the dusky crowds creep
ing in swarms about it's dark lanes and
streets, if such mere tortuous intrica-
cies can be called SO, suggests the smile
of the giant ant hill most strikingly,
and indeed it applies better than any
other description. There is q great
sameness about all this detailed dissim-
ilarity, from the midst of which the
harem stands out most prominently, ct
once fixing the attention, and indeed it
is the main feature of Mecca. It is
large and quadrangular open space, its
longest direction, northeast by east and
southwest by west, inclosed within four
arched colonnades or arcades, one hun
bred and ninety yards on the longest
sides by one hundred and twenty-seven
yards on the shortest, close up to which,
except on the east side, where it is
bounded by street skirting the hall of
the harem.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
Car Sickness.

q simple cure is recommended fol
thjS trying malady, which is as hard to
e14ure as sea-sickness, and attended
Ih even more inconvenience. Ladies
nR lily suffer most from this nausea.
ney by rail has for them all the
lfort and suffering that an ocean
. has to the majority Of travellers.
9.dy who had occasion to take short
,p on the Lowell road-and she never
tavels by rail for pleasure was, as is
sual with her, as thoroughly sick as
'er landsman is on the chewing
s - by the time she had ridden q
Odd nailes. The conductor of the
palace-carS who was apparently familiar
with such cases, told the sufferers COM
panion that sheet of writing-paper,
worn next to the person, directly over
the chest, was sure preventive of the
3,crouble in nine cases out of ten. He
had recommended it to hundreds of
travellers, and never knew it total. The
lady was skeptical, but thought there
would be no harm in trying SO perfectly
simple remedy. For the return trip
sheet of common writing note paper
vas fastened inside the clothing as di-
.ected. Result: perfectly comfortable
journey, without hint of the old sick
ness that had for years made travel by
rail horror. 1t was so like super
stition or o happy accident, however,
that the lady would not accept it as real
until subjected to a more severe test.
This came in day journey to New York,
and that hardest of ala night trip in
an 'alleged" sleeping-car. Both were
taken in triumph. The "charm" worked.
The cure was simply wonderful almost
too good to be true.
The Goldsboro star. [volume] (Goldsboro, N.C.) 1881-18??, 1881-10-01
General Rutler,s Lost Dog.

A famous Washington dog-catchel
said to Republican reporter: There's
more romance about my business thar
you think. I could tell you a story
about Ben Buffers dog, Tiger, thai
would open your eyes. Perhaps you
won't believe it, but it'sso, every word
of it. l told yop while ago that
thought $50 was y big reward for find
ing dog. 1t cost $4,000 to look fol
Ben Buffers dog, and yet Tiger has
never been found. The case was this
way: Some five or six years ago Butler
had very fine Sibeyian bloodhound
that he priced very highly, and which
had been given to him by q Boston
friend. One day the dog was missing,
and Mr.. Butler was very angry. He
advertised extensively for Tiger, but fol
many days he could hear nothing from
his favorite. At length the dog was
brought home by pale young man, and
Mr.. Butler willingly paid him five dol
lars as reward. Soon afterward Tiger
was again missing, and the same agony
was suffered by Mr.. Butler. Again the
same young man returned the dog, and
Mr.. Butler again shelled out V. But
this time he tied up the dog and ordered
his man to keep an extra watch on his
kennel In three weeks that dog was
again missing, and,po search Mat. could
be made turned hi'c' tier
had the young MP ..ce
found him hunted VI and
accused him of ka, .ier.
The charge couidu proven, how
ever, and then detecSi were put to
work on the case. They soon reported
that the dog had left the city. Mr..
Butler, visiting the treasury department,
had talk with Mr.. Whitney, who put
several members of the secret service on
the track Of that dog. First they got q
clew of Tiger away up somewhere in
New York State. Then they heard from
him in Portland, Me-, and again in In
dianapolis, Ind. They visited many
cities, and the public thought they were
looking for counterfeiters and bogus
plates. They were in reality after But
ler's dog. But after search of nearly o
year they Vave up the chase, and Tiger
has never to this dav been heard from.
The cord and the tassel gains slowly