davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
Knoxville Chronicle, IS.

Judge Houk's organ excuses his
neglect of his official duties by saying
that he was called home on account Of
the illness of a member of
his family. This is false, and is in
tended to mislead and deceive those
who are willing to believe it. The
Congressional Record shows that on
June 10th he was granted ten days
leave Of absence on account of 'im.
portant business" 1t had been pre-
viously announced that he would
speak at Loudon on the Sd of july
The Congressional Record shows
nothing about his being granted leave
of absence on account Of sickness in
his family. We know nothing about
the fact, but if he did have sickness
in his family, common decenoy would
require that he should remain sober
then If at no other time. We repeat
the fact, which the editor of his or
gan well knows to be true, that Houk
was drunk before he left Washington,
was drunk when he left, that he was
on his way home twenty. four hours
longer than the time required to make
the trip because he was drunk, that
he came home drunk, and that he
was drunk for more than a week after
hereached home-too drunk a portion
of the time to be seen, except by a
few intimate friends and his physician,
who were attempting to make him
sober.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
Quinine Trees.

During the last two or three years a
bark containing quinine and quinidine
has been imported into England from
Columbia in such enormous quanti-
ties as to equal or even sometimes ex-
coed the whole of the importation of.
cinchona bark from all other countries.
The botanical source Of this bark,
which is known in commerce under
the nam of Cuprea Oinchona, on
account Of its peculiar coppery tint,
has hitherto been a mystery. NJ.
Triana, the we'll known quinologist,
has recently succeeded in tracing it
out, and has stated, in the Pharma.
ceutical journal for April %, that it
is derived in great measure from two
species of the nearly allied genus
Remijia, none of the members of.
which were previously known to con-
tain quinine. Several species Of
Remjjia have leaves resembling those
of the true cinohonas, and of
these M. Triana has determined
that r.. purdieana, Wedd., and
H.. pedunculata, kaTsten, certainly
yield cuprea bark, the former being
the species which contains the aka
loid cinchonamine, recently discov-
cred by M. Arnaud. 1t appears prob
able that other species also yield the
cuprea cinchoua of commerce, but
definite information on this point is
still wanting. The value Of this bark
has led, according to NJ. Triana, to
great devastation ofthe forest in which
the trees grow, and has produced a
financial stagnation, business being
neglected in order to follow the more
profitable occupation of collecting the
bark. Fortunately seeds of the tree
have been received and are now in
cultivation at Malvern House, Syden-
ham. The tree is likely to prove val.
liable for cultivation in countries
where malarial fever abounds, since it
grows at an elevation Of 200 1000.
meters above the sea, at which even
red cinchona bark will not flourish.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
RADICALS.
Determined That No APprOpria.
ton Shall BE Made for the
Civil Service Com
missiOBers.
special % the Courior.Journnl.

WASHINGTON, July ID. The House
managed to get through the Sundry
Civil Bill to-day, and make a start on
the Deficiency Bill, which comes from
the Senate with amendments. The
Garfield funeral expenses occur in
this, and it may be that the dreaded
minority report will now be made.
The last amendment that passed be-.
fore the vote on the Sundry
Civil Bill was one giving S15,.
600 to the Civil Service Commission.
which is all for buncombe. The
President. last March, in a message
explained that the SIS, 900 on hand
for use by the Commission was not
enough to do any good, and SO it was
covered into the Treasury, as this will
probably be in the end. Mr.. Willis
fought to have it made $25, 900, but
the fact is that Eaton, Curtis and the
other reform fellows have the Repub-
licans so angry that they do not intend
that a cent shall go in that direction.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
The wanderiPgs or De Long.
New York Hotald, 18th.

Our special correspondent in Siberia
forwards some details OF the wander
ings of De Long and his companions
which impart a still more sombre
shade to the narrative of their fate in
the diary OF the commander and in the
official dispatches Of Mr.. Melville.
Every chance failed them. Had
they landed but thirty miles further
westward they soon would have en-
tered a village Of the natives. Had
their course after landing been de.
fected but little from the path it took
they would have found a hut where
the carcasses Of twenty reindeer were
hanging. They passed within twenty
versts Of it--only a little more than
thirteen miles. Had some struggling
natives who saw their fresh footprints
in the snow been attracted to follow
them instead of frightened by the
spectacle; had even a shotgun net
been abandoned On the ice after the
wreck of the Jeanette, they might
have been rescued.
But these speculations are futile. 1t
is Improbable to dwell upon them.
To unbalanced minds they tend to
enhance the poignancy Of grief. To
minds well balancedathey impart no
consolation. Nothing can relieve the
sadness Of the picture of the beacons
blazing nightly over the snowy waste
without their CLEAN catching the eye
OF a human being except those who
vainly kindled them.
Our country yves gratitude to Gen.
eral Tchernaief, the Governor OF
Eastern Siberia, for his tender care Of
the tomb Of the heroic dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
MIR. sRELDON's coon SHOT
Knocking Down a Grizzly Bear,
an Elk and Himself by One
Discharge of His Gun.
Santa Fe,sNews.


H. ]. Sheldon left his camp at
Copper City, on the Pecos, last Satur-
day afternoon in search of game.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon the
burro, which had wandered ahead,
came running back, apparently in
great terror, ears and tail erect, eyes
glaring, making that peculiar mourn
full sound for which its species is
noted, and refusing to be caught or
c%emforted. Not being able to make
out from the report Of the confused
burro just what had happened, Mr..
Sheldon cooked his gun and advanced
slowly and cautiously on the unknown
enemy. Crawling along on his hands
and knees for about a quarter of a
mile, he at length doubled a bend
in the river, and there, standing in
full view in the meadow and not
more than a $50 yards away, be saw
"a huge grizzly bear with three cubs,
and, just beyond the bear and in
direct range with her, an animal that
he at once recognized as the long
sought for elk. Neither of the beasts
was aware Of his approach, so, quietly
rising upon one knee and resting his
rifle across the other, which. is Mr.. SIS
favorite position in shooting, he took
deliberate aim. Bang went the gun,
away sped the bullet, and down fell
two animals-in fact, three-the bear,
the elk and Mr.. S. himself. The bullet
bad cut the backbone of the bear
completely in two and, passing on
through, had lodged in the heart Of
the elk; and the extraordinary task to
which the rife had been subjected
produced such a violent recoil that
the hunter himself was stretched fat
upon the ground. Recovering himself
speedy, Mr.. s. advanced upon the
prey, hunting knife in hand, but life
was extinct in both animals. The
little cubs, on hearing the report of
the gun, fed; but, being only a few
weeks old, were speedily captured,
tied in bags, and fastened on the back
of the horse.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

has given orders 10 the officials North
that every care shall be taken to pre-.
sefve the tomb and the monument in
good condition. Captain Jurgens
chief Of a Russian meteorological expe-
dition to the Lena delta, who leaves
for the North in ten days and will re-
side on the delta for eighteen months,
has consented to keep a lookout tor
relics of Chips boats during his
journeys, and will urge the natives as
well to keep a lookout, and reward
them if they find anything. Captain
Jurgens has built a wooden house
here, in which he takes up his resi-
dence, and it is to be Aoated down on
a Aatboat to the delta, where he will
establish his headquarters, probably
near Barkin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

tbs AHsAlan tsss lays bib pOseFtul
paw upon kef.
Wealth, two buckets full of It, one
gold the other paper, was buried by
Mrs. Henry Zemimer, the wife Of a
laborer, a resident OF Chicago. 1t
amounted to over $500. the savings of
many years of hard toll. When she
went for her treasure some one had
been there before. She found the gold
missing. Since the discovery of their
great loss, about $500 in all, Mrs. rs
mind has been considerably out of
balance.
A John Brown Monumental celebra-
ton will be held in Chicago August
%. j. B. will be remembered as the
fanatic who went into eternity at the
end of a rope, at Harper's Ferry, Vir-
ginis, for heading a band Of despora.
does in a raid on the lives and proper.
ty of Virginians. 1t is strange that he
is rated as a martyr" At the cele-
bration Harriet Beecher Stowe may
speak. She will be remembered as
the author of that sensational lie
"Uncle Toms Cabin" etc.
Over 725. 0OO, 900 dollars was the
sum earned by all the railroads in the
United States last year, an increase of
100000 over the year previous.
The Chickasaw Guards success at
Indianapolis did not surprise Chica-
goans.
Lumber, in Chicago, has taken a
downward tumble from fifty cents to
So per thousand.
Chicago philanthropistsar working
on the feelings Of the Judges to have
young criminals receive a quick trial,
SO that the contamination ia Jail with
old offenders may be lessened.
The Illinois Central railroad will
soon have six tracks leading into Chi
cage. Its business is becoming enor-
nous.
Captain Hall, detective Of the
UDited States Secret Service,
says that he and his staff
staff captured over $780, 900 in coun-
terfeit money the past two years in
this, Illinois, district. This will soon
be sent to Washington to be destroyed.
The iron workers strike in Chica-
COS southern suburbs has caused the
bosses" Of the nail factories to intro
duce machines, one Of which, attended
by a single person, can do the work of
five men, and it is said Of a much bet
ter quality. OF course, these machines
will create considerable hardship, at
first, in the ranks Of the operatives.
NAYR.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
An ArmIess Horse Thief.

Dallas has just had a visit from a
singular character-Jack Hall, alias
No Arm Jack-.en route to Stephens
vile Jail, from which institution the
prisoner escaped six months ago. after
receiving a sentence OF ten years in the
p%enitentiary for horse stealing. Both
his arms are off above the elbow, hav.
ing been crushed in a sugar mill when
he was a child, but the bones grew
out several inches from the flesh, and
their surfaces are rough like corncobs,
and Jack writes a beautiful hand by
holding a pen beside his chin and
pressing the protruding bone against
it, He shoots a pistol or firearms
expertly, and manages a horse as well
as the average two-handed man. The
hight Of his ambition appears to have
been stealing horses successfully. He.
is about thirty years Of age. He was
arrested in the Choctaw Nation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

Il want an agent" exclaimed a man,
entering the Arkansaw Traveller Office
the other day, and looking around
with an air of abrupt business. Il
was told that you might put me onto
an active bill poster and advance
man." Got a show on the road2''
mo, sir, blame the show business.
No money in it," Been to the Holy
Land and are now travelling with
panoramic scenes, | SUPPOSED" mo,
sir; | killed a fellow the other day
and me aud the fellows wife arc going
on a leeturing trip"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

Mr.. David D. Jones, of Parkers-
burg, w. Va, writes: Il experienced
for many years great annoyanc9 and
suffering from rheumatism and weak
ness of the kidneys, and my bowels
were almost always irregular, l tried
Browns Iron Bitters, which acted
like a charm, restoring me at once to
regular health, and banishing all pain
from my body"
S. Mansfield & Co., W. N. Wilker-
son 4 Co., and G. w. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
The Bloodhound as a Peace
Preserver.
P~hila Press,

English Liberals will enjoy the grim
humor Of the assertion of the Dublin
Journal that the bloodhound is to be
added to the government detective
system. 1t quite recalls our own
pleasant ways in the South before the
war, and must transport with joy the
heart Of the Imperialist Tory, who
believes in Russia as the model for
repression and ~aristocratic admins
trat:on,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
The Brightest InteIIects Suffer
Most.

Young men who have led a life Of
excess and dissipation, reforml Give
tone to the stomach, regulate the liver
and bowels, strengthen the urinary
organs, relieve those dull pains in the
limbs, rid yourself of that feeling of
nausea, biliousness, laDguOr and ner.
vous debility; give tone and strength
to each organic function, by using
Browns Iron Bitters; then will you
experience a genial warmth and awak-
ening life in place of that dead feeling
Of decay; and dyspepsia, milky urine,
etc, no longer undermine your consti-
tuition. Delay is dangerous.
s. Mansfield & Co., W. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G. w. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
Genius in Crime.
Philadelphia Ledger.

If the ''engraver' who had skill
enough TO produce a counterfeit bond
plate so like the genuine that it took a
dozen experts several weeks to ascer-
tain whether it was really a counter
felt, and some of them doubtful, had
had an average amount Of honesty,
what a priceless man he could have
made himself in his legitimate trade.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
The Young Men Of the south.

A correspondent of the Detroit
Free Press has the following to say
about the young men of the South:
One who has visited the principal
cities and towns Of Alabama, Georgia,
South and North Carolina, must have
a fair idea Of what the young men are
doing. According to some Northern
writers, they spend their time in
drinking, card playing, horse racing
and loafing. Let me say that in At
lanta, Augusta, Macon, Charleston,
Savannah, Montgomery, etc., the
number Of young men in stores, shops
and law offices is fully equal to the
number in any Of the Northern cities
you may name, taking population into
account. In a four weeks trip in the
South | did not see one young man
drunk. | did not see a game Of cards
or a horse race. [ did not hear a
dispute. | found them everywhere.
l talked with hundreds, and in every
case l found them studying law or
medicine = keeping books, behind
counters, OF out in the fields with
their coats off. They not only work,
but they are ambitious. The young
men Of the South are not only doing
fully as we'll as the young men of the
North, but in many cases they are
doing far better. l found scores Of
them making money hand over hand
by their unaided efforts, and scores
more with bright prospects ahead.
He who asserts that they shirk labor
wrongs them. He who asserts that
they drink or gamble more than the
same number of young men in the
North is reckless of facts. There
may be black sheep among them, but
taken as a whole, they are g%enteel,
courteous, hard working and anxious
to secure Dlaees of hiph standing
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

The system is often so rapidly
reduced bya severe attack Of diarrhea
or other affection Of the bowels, as to
get almost beyond the reach Of medi-
cine, before the patient can realize the
necessity Of looking about him for a
remedy. Better keep by you DR..
Jsyne's Carminative Balsam, a safe
cure for Asiatic cholera, cramps, dys.
entery, and the summer complaints of
children, and thus be prudently pre-.
pared to treat these disorders on their
first appearance, thsattu
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
No. 42s5-In tho Cbancery Court ~ 81


No. 4295-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tenn.-J W McCoWn VS.. Rob't II
0ber ct al.
I appearing from the bill which is sworn to
y In this cause, that the defendant, Rob't Il
Ober, 10 a resident of the biate of Mis-
souri, and a nonresident OF tne state az
Tennessee; IL is therefore ordered that
no make his appearance herein, at the
courthouse Of Shelby county, in Memphis.
Tenn, on OF before the first Monday in Sep
TENDER, 1882, and plead, answer or demur To-
cOmDlainant bill, or the same will be- taken
for confessed as to him and set for hearing
ex.parte, and that q copy Of this order be
published once p week for four su9oessiye
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This 18th day Of July, lN2.
A copy-Attest:
IN BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By J M Bradley, D, O. 4 M.
Myers y sneed, soils for compl't.
ll5 III l21 1888
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

Every mother and father should
read Sarah Bridges Stebbins' delicious
home idyl, The Annals of a Baby"
which 7. B. Peterson & Brothers,
Philadelphia, will shortly publish.
1t goes straight to the heart, and is as
natural as life. The baby is a darling,
and the changes it works are wonder
q
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

The best remedy for exerting a
powerful tonic effect on the muscles
governing and controlling the action
of the heart, is Browns Iron Bitters.
s. Mansfield q Co, w. N. Wilker-
son u Co. and G. w. Jones L. Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

Mr.. Austin Lobson could not sing
with Beranger the praises Of a garrett.
He lives in one Of the prettiest of
modern English houses, where among
many attractive objects Of art ard
nature, there are none more beautiful
than his nine well behaved olive
branches.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
THE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.

WILLIAM B. BATE, for GOVERNOR.
P. R. ATHY, for Sheriff.
A. J.VAUGHAN, for Clerk of Criminal Court.
A. harris. for County Trustee.
JOHN F. MoCALLUM. for County Register.
P. M. WINTERS, for County Court Clerk.
JOSEPH UHL. for Circuit Court Clerk.
B. j. KIMBR0UGH,
for Attora ey- General Bartlett Court.
I. B. CRENSHAW,
for Clerk Of the Bartlett Court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
LOTTERY.
State Lottery COnDalV,

uvulDDQlQ DlQlI uUllGlJ UUWpaly.
Incorporated in 1858 for Is years by the Leg
1slature for Educational and Charitable pur-
p0ses-with a capital of 81 900, 900 TO which a
reserve fund Of S550,0OO has since been added.
" an overwhelming popular vote its fran
cnlse was made a part Of the present State
Constitution adopted December I'd, A.D., 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and Endorsed
BY the people of any State.
IL never scales or postpones. Its Grand
SINGLE Drawings take place
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
IA WIN A FORTUNEI
RIGHTH GRAND DRAWING, CLASS
II, at New Orleans, Tuesday, August 9,
lSS2-l47th Monthly Drawing
look at the following Scheme, under the
exclusive superyision and management of
Gen. 6. 7. BEAUREGARD, Of Louisiana,
and Gen. IUBAL A. EARLY, of ViruinIa,
who manage all The drawings Of this Compa.
both ordinary and semt-annual, and attest
the correctness of the published Off sial Lists,
Capital Prize, SIS, 600.
100000 Tickets NJ Five Dollars Each.
Fractions, I'm Fiffhs IN proportion.
LIST OF PRIZES,
Sapital htize"-"..."'...,.....,,,....S 1000
capital trlze.....""...................., 26 900
Capital Prise.~...".................. 1000
z Prizes Of SBJO0. ....,..,. 1000
. Prizes OIL. ........... 10000
~ frlEes OF lUOO. 10000
20 Prizes Of 600......,.,,..-.,... 1900
100 Prizes Of 20...,.....,..,..... M,vO0
800 Prizes Of lOO.......................... $1,000
800 Prizes of 50.0O0
1909 Prizes Of 25'n01
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
Approximation Prizes OF S750...S 6 $50
Approximation Prises Of 500....,, $500
. Approximation Prizes Of 25O..... $3.50
1867 Prizes, amounting tOr.....~..,......&265, 500
Application for rates to clubs should be
Orleans.
For further information, write clearly, Civ
lag full address. Send orders by express,
Registered Letter, or Money erder, addressed
m. A. DAUPHIN,
or n. a. DAUPHIN,
607 seventh At, Warrington, ID. O..
orr West Court street, Memphis, Tenn.
u, B.-Ordors adhered to New Orleans
will receive prompt ate lion. w&sl3S
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
RECORDS or Dc LONG.
Showing How Near the FIX
plOrerS Came to Safety.
FOOD CLOSE AT HAND.
Twenty Reindeer Carcasses Hang.
ing in a Native Hut.
THE TONES IN THE DELTA.
Cor. New York Herald.

YAKUTsK, June 8, 1881 have
just arrived at Yakutsk after visiting
the Lena delta, Gemovislek the blutf
whereon Captain De Long aud party
persisted and their tomb, and follow
ing the course taken by Noros and
and Ninderman from the place where
they left the party to Bulun. With
me arrived Engineer Melville, Bart
lett, Ninderman and Captain Berry
and Lieutenant Hunt, Of the Rodgers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

The tomb and the large cross over
the grave on the mountain, zeal the
hut Of Mutock, may be seen at a dis.
lance of twenty or thirty versts. Ar.
engagements have been made by Gov
ernor T~chernaief, of Yakutsk, to have
the entire cairn covered with a deep
layer of earth to prevent the possibili-
ty Of the sun thawing the bodies in
the tomb. If this be done promptly,
doubtless the bodies will remain IN.
touched by decay forever, as the
ground remains frozen on the delta
all the year round, at a depth Of two
feet. The bodies can therefore be re-
moved at a later date if desired. Gen.
Tchernaief has also caused a Russian
inscription to be prepared to
be placed on the tomb, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15
I~sOn-rosIdont MOtIoS.

p1Orders for every size and quality of
newspaper promptly filed. loot
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-15

The blaze from such a large bonfire
on the plains Of the delta should have
been seen in hat frosty air from forty
to fifty versts away, aud had the
search parties been out the probabili-
ties are that De Long would have
been rescued. The river was open
till October 5, as De Long says in his
notebook. The Leua's mouth near
Gemovialck is very wide and very
shallow. 1t was frozen over and
broken up repeatedly from the time
Melville and his party landed to o.
tober 8.