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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11
wall street.

New YORK, December 1.-THE
stock market opened irregular, but in
the main tall per cent higher. the
latter for Minneapolis aud St. Louis
In the early trade the market was
active and strong, and recorded an
advance of la2l per cent? which the
Northwest, New Jersey Central and
Union Pacific were most prominent.
AT II o'clock there was a reaction of
tall per cent, the, Union Pacific, Oma-
ha and Minneapolis and St. Louis
leading.
Wheat, shade better and quiet, but
firm.
Money 5 per cent; prime mercan-
tile GAG per cent; bar silver 1901.
Exchange steady; SOl long; 84t sight.
Government bonds strong, and gener-
ally tat higher. States dull. Rail-
road bonds steady.
Stocks-Since II o'clock the market
has been moderately active and strong,
prices having sold up TAFT per cent,
the Northwest, Minneapolis, st. Louis,
Denver, Lackawana and St. Paul lead
ing in the advance, and st. Paul drop
ped per cent.
BOndS-Extended 5s, 1925; Ats,
1l3ti As, 1901; 9s, 1921; Pacific 6s Of
'95, 127.
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FTTz JOHN PORTER.
Senator Logan VIII Oppose 10
the End the Bill for His
Relief

WASHINGTON, December H.
When the bill for the relief of General
Fiiz John Porter is reached in the
Senate, Senator Logan says he will
oppose it to the end. In converse.
ton on the subject this morning, when
reminded that General Grant and
others were bringing strong pressure
to bear in General Porter's favor,
Senator Logan said that he did not
think General Grant was any better
informed about the case than he was,
and at all events, he had no vote on
the pending bill.
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Hha WenIIlep.

WASHINGTON, December ll,-FoF
the West Gulf States, fair weather,
with nOrtherly winds, becoming varia.
BILE, stationary or a slight rise in tenn
perature and falling barometer. For
lgennosses OAd tho Ohio valley, south
to west winds, stationary or loyer
barometer and stationary or a slight
rise Of temperature. For the Missouri
valley, slightly warmer fair weather
in the southern portions, increasing
olouiiness and light snow in the
northern portions, and lower barom'
eipr
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ED JOHNsOh's GUARD PAR.
DONED.
A GarrOting Incident of Mem-
phis Recalled.
Nashville World. 10.

One Of those pardoned last Satur.
day, George Clements, is marked on
the books at the penitentiary as
escaped. He has been working at
the mines near Tracy City for some
time past. About eight weeks ago he
managed to get away and has not since
been seen by the officers. He is the
penitentiary guard who, in 1873,
aided a prisoner named Ed johnson
to escape. johnson was sent to the
penitentiary from Memphis under a
sentence Of 20 years for knocking down
and robbing man who was carrying a
package Of money to the express Office
to send away. johnson enlisted the
sympaties OF Clements by giving him
a deed to an imaginary piece Of land
in Iowa and several drafts. which were
not worth the paper they were written
on. One day Clements, who was
driving, concealed johnson under
load Of furniture. Instead of coming
on up Church street, as usual, he
turned down to Cedar, and put John
son out at a house where he secured a
change OF clothing. After unloading
his wagon at the store, Glen
ents returned his wagon to the
penitentiary and went home.
That evening at the count johnson
was missed, and upon inquiry it was
learned from one of the prisoners how
he had escaped. Warden Cummins
sent for Clements, who denied having
aided the escape. His wife was sent
for and in her possession we're found
the papers IohRsOn had given her
husband. Clements was tried, and
waa the first man convicted under
the statute requiring that any
man who aided or permitted
the escape Of a prisoner should
serve out the unexpired term, Clema
eats was sentenced to seventeen years
three months and eighteen days i'm
prisonmeut, that being the time John.
son yet had to serve. johnson was
captured on the Ohio river and re.
turned to the penitentiary. Clements
case was carried to the Supreme Court
and the Judgment was sustained. 1t
is said by the officers at The penitenti-
arY that Olements is a weak minded
man and easily Influenced by others.
1t is supposed that Governor Hawkins
IN bis wisdom knew nothing Of Glenn
ents escape.
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THE Mozart Society of this city
will give a concert Wednesday night
at Leubrie's Theater. 1t will be a
fill dress affair, attended only, by
members aud invised guests. and 10
one will be admitted after s o'clock
except between pieces. This rule
prevails in other cities at concerts
conducted under the auspices Of sim
liar organizations, and will be neces-
sarily and positively enforced here.
Those who value their invita-
tions can afford to be on time.
The Mozarts are doing much to build
up musical taste aud develop the
great talent that exists 10 this com
munity. Prof. Downs is a thorough
musician, and is enthusiastic over his
work. The Mozart Society has large
membership and held together by a
love OF the divine art, and not for the
sake of profit to any one. 1t
includes many Of our most
substantial citizens and brightest
and most promising young people.
The concert of Wednesday night bids
fair to be an event Of unusual local
interest, only to be surpassed when
Theodore Thomas with three prima
donna and one hundred first class
vocalists makes his appearance next
spring, under the auspices and in
conjunction with tho Mozart Society
Memphis never does anything under.
taken by halves, and in this in
stance may fairly expect to elicit
favorable comparison with the efforts
given forth by Cincinnati, Chicago and
other metropolitan cities. Why noi2
We have the native talent, the energy,
taste and facilities for higher culture
The results to be attained are worthy
ef iaudable ambition, and will prove
to the world that love for all that
tends to ciyilize, refine and ele-
vate generous people finds here an
abiding place.
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The superintendent Of the Lee
Line.


Line.
A correspondent writing the LED
GER from Scanlhn's Landing is moved
to make mention Of one of our prom.
inent public spirited citizens in the
following terms:
What comes next-where will
honors cease2 / learn from a recent
issue Of your paper that my old friend
Captain james Lee, jr., is in luck
again-the recipient from the Kenne
saw Manufacturing Company of a
beautiful brass banded bucket, cedar
bodied, and that, like Grant, he
didn't decline (his modest merit for
bidding this), and then the honor of
being singled out, for this special
preferment quite overcame all instinct
i've reluctance, and the deed was done.
Was there or not covert irony in the
metallic feature of the gift signifi-
cantly typical Of personal character
istio Of the complacent done.
had known that in propriety he
was an exemplar-in morals a model,
in faith, if not wholly in practice, a
Christian, only the over devout sug
gesting that compression might i'm
prove q piety, too diffuse, raFi6ed and
emotional to be entirely practical or
wholesome.
That he was a bank director, a
shrewd, sharp cut financier, superin-
tendent of one of the best handled
packet lines on the southern waters
an influential, working member OF
your municipal board, styled in the
barbsroua legislative vernaoular of
the day, The Taxing District (name
enough to sink corporation, though
its debts be imponderable), but un
prepared was your correspondent
to realize this last browning
honor. Yet fortune does sometimes
rain honors on the heads Of the de-
serving, aud to merit meets the we'll
won guerdon Of praise.
But, badinage aside. Appropriate
the gift, deserved the token, intrinsic. !.
ally Of small value, but evidencing an
enterprise that would develop one Of
the industries In the South, and car
rying with it a graceful compliment
to one who, while building up his
private fortune, 80 largely contributed
to the commerce. wealth and pros
perity Of your city.
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MEssRs. Cherry, Morrow & Handy
lessees Of tho Tennessee penitentiary,
have closed contract of lease with
the State Of Texas, by which they get
control Of one of the prisons, which is
located at Rusk, in the hills and
broken country of the Northwestern
portion Of that State. They get 1850
convicts, 300 of which they are to
work in the prison, and the others in
tho digging of ore and making Of iron.
They foot all expenses and pay the
State $4,000 por appum for fifteen
years. The State owns large bodies oI
timber which they can use in the
making Of charcoal. Major Thomas
0'Oonncr had just returned from
Texas when he was killed, and il
passing through Nashville told his
friends that he had secured the lease
Of the Texas penitentiary. This wai
probably the contract now secured by
the firm named above.
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ADDITIONAL COTTON.

Receipts of cotton to-day at New Or
leans were ll,065 bales; at Galveston.
$3.50; Mobile, 173G; Savannah, $500,
Charleston, 1850; Norfolk, 4SS4.
Receipts of cotton here to date sum up
24,86S hales, and 1856 bales in excess Of
last year; also IL $50 more than the wear
before at the same time.
LIVERPOOL, December IL, 1880 p.m.-
Cotton firm. Uplands, 8 l5-l6d Or
leans, 6%d. Sales to-day, 10000 bales.
Receipts, 600 bales; American, $3.50.
Futures quieter
New YoRK, December II, 1890 pm
Cotton quiet Ordinary, i8-lGe;
good ordinary, 91-l6c; low middling'
9 l5-l6c; middhng, 1880; good middlins'
1885 middhng fair, 10 5-l6c;flir, l2l-l6c.
Futures are steady at 2 to 8 points above
Saturdays closing figures.
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CABLE NEWS.

BERLIN, December 1.-The state.
ment Of the Imperial Bank Of Ger
many shows an increase in specie Of
one million marks.
DUBLIN. December H. Parnell
has lodged a petition in the Land
Court for the sale of his property in
County Wicker.
PEsTH, December ia duel be-
tween HecrOnyni, Minister of Public
Works, and Rohonezy, Member of the
Hungarian Diet, took place this morr. .
ing. Each fred two shots without
any result.
PARIS, December 1.-THE Repub.
lique Franchise has again violently
attacked the policy of the British
government in Egypt. The article
concludes: Egypt is too big morsel
to be swallowed even by England, and
this she will find out"
The Senate, by a vote Of 1873 to 81.
appropriated lO,OOOf for the expenses
Of the funeral Of Louis Blanc to-
morrow. The Anarchists threaten to
make a hostile demonstration at the
funeral.
BERLIN, December 1l.-Duriug the
discussion Of the budget in the Reich.
stag, Saturday, Richter strongly Pro.
te,tionist, declared that the interdic-
ton of the importation Of American
pork was as much a sanitary as a
protection measure. There is no
doubt that that the fate of the bien.
nial budget scheme is already sealed.
LONDON, December IL Lord
Houghton has had two stroks of par.
alysis in the past two days.
Exceptionally close fogs prevailed
yesterday and to day, and traffic on
the streets, on the river and on the
railways is much impeded, and in
some cases suspended.
Five persons were drowned by the
breaking of ice while skating. The
thermometer is seven degrees below
the freezing point.
The steamer Stranto, from Hull for
New York, arrived at Plymouth. She
has burst her cylinder, and will prob.
ably return to Hull.
DUBLIN, December 1.-THE second
trial of Patrick Higgins began to-day.
It's understood the one juror who
refused to concur with the other
members of the jury in returning a
verdict Of guilty ia the case of Patrick
Higgins, the alleged principal in the
murder Of Huddy, is the same man
who disagreed with the other Jurors
in an arson case last Thursday in
which the prisoner was clearly guilty.
The counsel for Patrick Higgins
ELECTED at the trial the fact that the
Ladies Land League supplied money
weekly to the informer Kerrigan whom
the counsel claims was the real mur-
derer.
LONDON, December 11.-A fresh
outbreak at the scene of the recent
greet fire in Wood street occurred
Saturday night and tho warehouse
belonging to Silber 4 Fleming was
destroyed.
MADRID, December 11.-A heavy
snow storm accompanied by gales
prevails. A number ofshipwrecks are
reported.
ST. PETERSBURG, December Ill
The Minister Of the Interior has
authorized the publication of an
English newspaper here.
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DURING the late cold snap the ther-
mometer was 67 degrees below zero at
Winnepeg, Manitoba, place some
thing near fifteen hundred miles north
Of Memphis. Southern people enjoy a
trip up there in summer time, but
hearing that the ground often freezes
ten feet deep, they generally make a
short stay.
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ChIcagO RnecInIu.

CHICAGO, December 1l.-Vin-
cenues, Ind, special: A fire in Peters.
burg yesterday destroyed a number Of
stores and residences. Loss $4,000;
partly insured. Aman believed to be
On incendiary rode out Of towp:at a
bard gallop just before the flames
were discovered. The believed.to be
incendiarism grows out Of quarrel as
70 whether the county seat shogld bs
Hetersburg az EiustQn.
Lincoln, Neb,, speciAli Hon. @. O.
BuTr'r elegant new mansion burned
yesterday. Loss $4,000; half Insured.
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Last Nights nIsnntnhAs.

CAIRO, ILL, December lO.-Ar-
rived: Golden Grown, Cincinnati, 6 p.
M Missouri, below, z pm. De-
parted; Andy Baum, Cincinnati, 3 p
m Vint Shinklc, Momp his, 4 pm.
EVANSVILLE IEp., december 10.
Arrived: Golden Rule, 2:3O am.
Departed: Reilly, New Orleans, and
U. P. Scbenck, Cincinnati, noon.
LOUISVILLE, KY, December TO-,
Departed; Jas. W, Ga4, Memphis
Warren, New Orleans.
CINCINNATI, December l0.-Ar.
rived; Guiding Star, New Orleans.
New ORLEANS, December lO.-No
arrivals, Departed; Sidney Dillon and
barges, st. Louis,
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Rev. DR.. W. e. BOggs preached to
an unusually large congregation at the
Second Presbyterian church yesterday
morning, and DR.. Mack preached for
Rev. Mr.. Daniels. AT night there
was a union meeting Of the various
Presbyterian churches at the First
church, on Poplar street, where the
claimes Of the Columbia Theologice
Seminary, which has furnished SO
many eminent and useful ministers,
we're presented by Rev. DR.. Mack.
DIR. Boggs preached short sermon
He has lost none. of his force and elo
quence, but has improved, if possible,
aud his efforts of yesterday were list
ened to by large OonsrogatiOuV With
deep interest. He breaches to-
night at the Second Presbyterian
church again, and will attend
a church sociable at the same place to-
mersow nieht, when he desires to
take by the hand as many Of his old
friends as possible. The occasion
will be one of unusual interest. 1t is
more than probable that the visit Of
DIR. Boggs and ilr. Mack will result in
aliboral a contribution to the GolumbiG
Seminary, which gave to this city DR.
Gray, DR.. Witberspoon and DR.. BoggI
himself, and has sent forth SO many
able sBq useful ministers to various
States 10 thc South apd the West
The PrOsbyteFians, ~ . rule, aye YER
liberal in giving to the support Of TIL
church, though very quiet and unos
tentatious.
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ALit,Ie Rock psfaultsr.

LITTLE Book, December 11.-Oon-
siderable sensation was created here
this morning by the discovery that
Robert 8. Champion, for Ave years
cashier and paymaster of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith railroad, is a
deiaulter. The amount has not yet
been ascertained, but it is believed it
will exceed $4,000. Champion left
Tuesday, Ostensibly for Searcy, Ark,
with his wife, and when reaching
Walnut Ridge, on the Iron Mountain
railroad, told her the facts, and she
returned to Little Rock. His where.
abouts are unknown. Champion il
also a resident Of the State ard here.
tofore been regarded as man Of strict
integrity and possessing the confidence
ofthe officers Of the road.
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A MULBERRY Sellers of man out
in Texas engaged in ostrich farming
thinks that his business will soon lift
the pressure from the iron market,
as the fowls must have iron and nails
as part Of their diet. He ought to
mova his crop and plant it on farm
in the vicinity of tho mines and thus
save the cost Of transportation both
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

Rev. Mr.. Long preached to a well
filled house at the Strangers church
last night, sermon Of rare depth Of
thought and interest on the Christian
religion as compared with the three
religions of the world: Juda-
ism, Mohammedanism and Buddhism.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

TIE steamship Carmona went to
sea last Saturday through Eads jetties
with the largest cargo ever taken out
ef New Orleans in one bottom. 1t
included 10,36l bales of cotton, $4,000
bushels Of wheat and 1850 stakes, the
total weight of which was $4,000
lbs, nearly 5000 tons, and its value is
figured at $4,000, the cotton alone
being worth about half a million.
What will Cowdon and the Avalanche
and the Cincinnati Commercial say to
this2 They will probably still insist,
like Brother Jasper, that "the sun do
movo -
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CITIZENS of Louisiana now here,
report the Louisiana sugar crop the
best in twenty years, and the season
for harvesting the cane has been un-
surpassed. Many fields turn out
stalks with rich joints over twelve feet
in length, and rich with sacclarine
juices upwards Of ten pounds to the
stalk, while on numerous plantations
l6O to 170 gallons of molasses and
three hOgsheads of sugar has been
saved from each acre cultivated.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

GOVERNOR Hawkins pardoned five
conviots last Saturday, among the
number one had escaped and is still
at large. lie car return to Nashville
now, get his old clothes and call Oh
the Governor.
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MEMPHIS, TgYN., Dec. s, 1889.
GEO. +. WILLIS. Sec'y and Treas
MEMPHIS MUTUAL AIp SocIETy.
Receipt Of 1886, in payment of certificate
80 no. 81 Is hereby acknowledged
ms Is the second benefit / have re-
ceiyed, and can recommend the MEM
rms MUTUAL AID SOCIETY for
prohptness IN paying claims, having
secure plan, and doing all they promise.
Respectfully, A. X. TAYLOR.
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Letter heads, bill heads, bills Of
lading, envelopes, hand bills and every
other kipd,of Job printing executed in
the hest style and at the lowest prices
al the PURLIo LEDGER job printing
office and blank book mandatory l3
Madison street. /
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

A NEW electric light company has
been formed in Louisville, and it has
adopted the Weston system, for which
many advantages are claimed. 1t is
the present intention 10 have from 100
to 200 lights by Christmas.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

1T is reported that Mr.. Blackburn,
Of Kentucky, will positively be a
candidate for Speaker Of the House,
the candidacy Of Mr.. Carlisle to the
contrary notwithstanding.
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RuiIding and Loan Association
EQULAR Monthly meeting Of thiss, Ass2
X, ciation will DO held at the Office NJ. lei
Secand, corner az Court street, VksDAil
December Y. a T o'clock, PM nssn.o.S Duss aSp
ipfySsd ~ order II the Board,
PSV'N < 3. LfVERM0RB, President.
P.B, JoHEa, Secretary H1
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

JUDGE VIM. Mcfarland, of the
Supreme bench, is seriously i'll at bis
home in Morristown.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

Mr.. A. Gill Martin, prominent
citizen Of ArkansAw City, aged about
forty years, died there last Saturday
morning.
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nrr Goods Store Rurne.I.

NEWARK, N. j., December H.
The 9ry goods store Of Terrence Nc.
Maness was burned this morning.
Loss, $4,000; insured,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-11

THE eulogies on Senator Ben Hill
will be delivered iu Congress about
the 10Th Of January.
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FfIday, JanunrY I2. I9Ra.

sell on Plesident's Illand. at former resi-
senee Of late 7 2 Davis, sr, In shelby coupiy.
Tenn, between the hours Of IN and 2 N,
cash, the following property doseribed m ~
trust deed, to-wlt, Unr black marc mnis
loi. bangs tlgh, eight yeags old, nhihed Kiy.
IHlil jAaEsbMYTH, Trustee.
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ship News.

NEwYoRK, December ll.-Arrived;
Saline Bremen Germania, Liverpool;
ROundland, Antwerp,
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MASONIC NOTICE.
MEeNRNlER
Clerks Building and Savings Assn.

rr,ur re0ular monthly meeting Of this
sssoc;slion will be held WEDNESDAY,
hsNsmE 81 Isl 1852. al the office Of the secretary,
~ JEI seeoNI, corner OF Court street, at u
o'deek, s. m. flpes will be iPidly enforced II
dnes md in nssret are pgt ppnetually paid
BY order OF tho Boarq.
ss@ P.B. JONES, Gsa'y.
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clearinghouse Report.
TRUSTEES SALE.

HNDBR and by certain trust dead exs-
~ coted June II, 1881, to mo as trustee bv
Tg Davis. q, duly recorded 10 the holster
Once OF shelby county, Teun, In Cbsttel
HOOK NO " nafa sOa, 90 secure On indebted
ness therein Set forth. win, on
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PunLIq LEDGER bindery and lob
Office, l3 Madison street,
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firm of PORTER this day dissolved b ur,r1 - ~ ,r
of said firm. W MAKE settlement
T. PORTER
Memphis, Tenn November 49, 1882 ~ /. TTAXbtoE;
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NOTICE.

d9y
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and odf
Liemphia SUCCESSORS W +. TAYLOR.
Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1882-09-02
Sealskla Sacques In the Rough.

SAYS the San Francisco Chronicle:
The Alaska Commercial Company's
steam schooner Dora discharged her
cargo of fur sealskins at the Beale
Street Wharf lately, the result being
that there was more seal fur in sight at
the water front than is TO be met with
on any day of the year on Kearney
street. The water front sealskin. how
ever. does not exert that peculiar at
traction which its Kearney street
variety possesses. In fact, people,
with sensitive olfactory nerves are apt
TO give it wide birth. for the said
skins. unlike those of Kearney street,
are not perfumed with musk, cologne
or altar of roses, but with sperm oil.
Each skin is rolled up into as small
package as possible, after being stripped
off the animal, and salted, strong cords
keeping the package in shape. A gang
of stevedores were playing ball with
these packages, which were counted as
they left the hold of the schooner and
placed upon the wharf. Here men were
busy placing the skins into new barrels
holding about fifty each. They were
again freely salted and rammed down
with an instrument similar to that used
by street PAYERS. The barrels were
then headed up and weighed. In this
shape they will be shipped to England,
from whence they will return bereft OF
their smell, dyed to a dark brown, and
soft and furry enough to capture any
woman's fancy and money.