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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-14
LsuiyiaHa State Lottery COuDaDV.

Incorporated in 1858 for 25 years by the Log
lslature tor Educational and Charitable pur-
poses-with o capital Of 81 200, 000-to which a
reserve fund Of $3.50. 900 has since been added.
by an overwhelming popular vote its fran
ehise ,wag made q part of the present State
Constitution adopted December I'd, AID, 1879.
The only Lottery ever voted on and Endorsed
BY the people Of any State.
IL never scales or pestpones. Its Grand
single Number Drawings take place
monthly.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
"A WIN A FORTUNRi
EIGHTH GRAND DRAWING. CLASS
III, at New Orleans, Tuesday, August 5,
lSS2-14Tth Menthly Drawing.
Look at the following Schome, under the
exclusive supervision and management Of
Gen. q. I. BEAUREGARD, Of Louisiana,
and Gen. IUBAL A. EARLY, Of virginia,
who manage all the drawings of this Compa.
ny, both ordinary and semi-annual, and attest
the correctness Of the published Ofioial Lists.
Capital Prize, SIS, 900.
100000 Tickets nc Five D0lIsTs Each.
Fractions, I'm FIflhs in proportion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-14
LOTTERY,

The Public Is requested carefully TO netioe
the new and Enlarged Scheme to be drawn
monthly. 11W 0H6IT "N
Tickets emily So. ShaTeef IL nor 49,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-07-14
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
"A WIN A FORTUNRi

n ~INVALHhIION ThIHEDs
Approximation Prizes of s750...8 6 $50
Approximation Prizes Of 5Oo.... $500
3 Approximation Prizes Of 250-... 1850
1867 Prizes, amounting to......S2S5,bCO
Application fer rates to clubs should be-
made only to the Office ofthe Company in New
Orleans.
For further information, write clearly, Civ
lag full address. Send orders by express,
Registered Letter, or Money erder, addressed
only TO
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07

down, and the varieties company built
another, upon plan prepared by Tom
Placide himself, and after its compile
ton, gave him the whole property. No
manager had ever been so great a
favorite none had ever ministered SO
successfully to the public demand tor
theatrical amusements. He had a
room fitted up over the boSoffice, and
after few seasons of successful man.
agement, the building was again burnt
down, and Manager Placide narrowly
escaped being burnt with it. He had
neglected even to take out an insur-
ance policy, and the whole was total
loss.
On his then return to New York he
located in the Park hotel, and one day
received a note from lady who was
temporarily staying at the house, in
viting him to see her, as one in whom
she had felt for many years deep in
terest. He called, and she said:
"Mr. Placide, l fell IN love with you
when an actor on the old Park stage,
and the sentiment, as you see, even
now prevails over my discretion. l
have been married since, am a widow
without children, and rich. Will you
marry me 2"
Tom complimented her upon her
skill in popping the question, and
answered, "Yes.' They retired to her
home in Lower Canada, but were not
permitted to enjoy long or felicitous
union. Tom soon became victim of
cancer, and his sufferings were intoler-
able. In the absence of his wife from
home, about two years after marriage,
he determined to end them and.bade
her an affectionate adieu in a written
note. Then procuring a pillow case
and covering his face, he fired bullet
through his head.
Thus one of the rarest histronic
geniuses, man who had no enmities,
and of a disposition as childlike as in
his earliest years, reluctantly handed in
his checks. Harry died years before,
at his place on Staten Island.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07

IT IS all matter of taste or incllna-
ton. If the slaves of fashion are hap
pier for being slaves to fashion, let us
be mindful that the pursuit of happl-
ness is the business of life. 1t may be
that many follow false gods, confound
the pursuit of pleasure with the true
worship under decisions too agreeable
to be disturbed. Be it so. A coun-
terfeit sentiment, like counterfeit
money, entails loss only when it is de-
MED recognition or ceases to be cur
rent. The aggregate satisfaction with
which any mind contemplates or feels
its situation is probably the measure OF
its success, perhaps wisdom. II IN
clined to philosophy, let us be re-
cluse, but if a patent medicine man,
let us remember that the public must
know it through the newspapers. If
we have the weakness OF the states
man let us indulge in eloquence, or OF
the politician, let us steal. In the
higher walks of life it is the same. If
posing at receptions, or in the saloons
of the rich or aristocratic, brings us en-
joyment, let US pose. If it be pleasing
to lady to have her charms adver-
tised, and her dress or the lack of it.,
let these be advertised. He who is
making the journey of life should be
able to feel his way. The pursuit of
happiness is principle of the declara-
ton of independence, and it can only
be pursued as one knows how. We
have our own ideas on this important
subject, and we write this with view
of not making them known. An edi-
tor has rights which the public is bound
to recognize if not respect.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07
THE BROTHERS PLACIDE.

The memories of the brothers Pla
eide, Harry and Tom, two great come
dams of old times, are almost gone out
of mind. In the days of the old
Park theatre, in New York, which took
its name from the city park, opposite
which it stood, fronting on Park place,
and was commonly called old Drury,
from the Drury Lane of London, three
celebrated commedians engrossed the
whole histrionic fame of the continent.
These were Alison, Barnes and Placide,
the last of whom was Henry Placide,
the elder, Tom, his brother, being then
STRIPPING of nineteen, an incompar-
able dandy, whose theatre was not the
Thespian temple, but rather Broadway,
for on the stage he never knew his
part, was even sometimes Kissed, and
cit was when he was offhe was acting"
Tom was equally the terror of drap-
ers and tailors and of his brother
Harry. In his persuasive moods he
was irr =sistible, and rarely failed,
when SO inclined to rifle a dealer of a
pair of kids or Harry of bank note.
One day he said:
Harry, lend me $1o."
81 will, Tom, but on one condition
only"
"Well,what condition." inquired Tom.
THAT you will not or write, or send
to me again till the sum is repaid"
"Agreed." And a $40 bill changed
wallets.
Tom arrived at mans estate, began
to love his profession, left the old park,
and soon made Repatriation abroad
second only to his great brothers..
Both were consummate actors and
looked as like as twins. Many years
after the incident above related, indeed
the interval was from 1885 to 1916,
when Tom had become manager of
the New Orleans varieties, he
wrote to his brother Henry from that
city in the following concise and con-
ciliatory words:
DEAR HARRY: Enclosed please
find $40. l propose you shall COM
mence an engagement here of six
weeks, to date, from 1st of January,
&c. Please answer. Yours,
Tom.
Harry came, and was most of the
winter in New Orleans. The older
inhabitants of that city have not yet
forgotten it. They delighted the town
with the two Dromios, in Shakespeare's
"Comedy of Errors" whole scenes of
which were habitually encored. A
few years after the theatre was burnt
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07

IT SEEMS that the outward SEM
blance of good feeling between Mr..
Blaine and the president has been all
put on. The president seems uncon-
cerned, but Blaine talks good deal in
private, and it is thought that open
warfare is the order of the day.
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07
Tuesday. Feb. z. 1882.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.

GALVESTON has had another young
fire; only $4,000 damage.
HoUsToN and Galveston are to be
connected by telephone.
THE Ryan-Sullivan mill comes off
to-day in Louisiana.
THE city of Galveston has SUBJ
scribed $1,000 towards the mardigras.
Col. LANG is reported as gone to
Europe to pilot some 500 German i'm
migrants to Texas.
>, THos. ]. DURANT, prominent law
yer of Washington city, and formerly
of Louisiana is, dead.
Two ladies, Misses Nellie Burke and
Lillian Devere will ride a ten mile race
at the Austin fair grounds on the 18th
inst, for $1,000 aside.
THE president has confirmed the
sentence of death in the case of three
Indian scouts, Dead Shot, Dandy Jim,
and Skippy.
The President has in the appoint
ment of Col. D. H. Rucker, as quar-
termaster general, vice General Meigs,
and Maj. w. B. Rochester, paymaster,
vice General Brown, retired.
The death of Judge Steven Powers
of Brownsville is announced. Judge
Powers was an old, honored citizen of
that section of Texas, and represented
. the district in the state senate.
A TUESDAY or two ago, J. Barron
Hope delivered over again, at Lincoln
hall, Washington, that grand epic
poem which was said to "recall the
ring and martial air of one of Homer's
epics," first recited at the Yorktown
centennial, last October. At 8 o'clock
Senator Johnston, of Virginia, intro
duced Mr.. Hope to an audience of
fifty persons, and urged them to recall
the glorious recollections of the 10th
of October. But they could not re-
call worth a cent. Did Barron, or the
senator, expect that the country was
going to stand a grand epic poem
twice?
THERE is a disturbance in that speck
of neutral territory known as the Dis.
trict of Columbia. By misapprehen-
sion in the census office it has been
shorn of its due proportions, and of its
corporate name. The census bureau
has failed to recognize the consolida-
ton of that national patch of earth into
one municipality, and the population
of its cities into one people. 1t is un-
aware that there is no longer any Wash
ington, d. c., or Georgetown, D. c.,
and that these names, both designed to
commemorate the Father of his Coun-
try, have been merged and lost in the
corporate title of the District of Column
bia. The complaint is that the nation
al capital is called Washington instead
of District of Columbia; its population
given as 147,293 instead of >177,638,
and that it is rated as the fourteenth
aggregation of people under corporate
names instead of the eleventh. Such
is the ground of the disturbance. But
Colonel Ingersol is on the spot, and
having recently adjusted the official
economy of President Arthur at the
national capital, he might give this mis-
understanding about the national capt.
tai his attention. The proper scene Of
the row is the census Office. Break
things there, Bob, ~
The evening light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1881-1883, 1882-02-07

rrEntered at post Office at San Antonio, Texas
as second class matter.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
Hands on.

Some years ago Hon. James Emmit.
of Waverly, Ohio, visited Europe, and
while there made the purchase of two
marble statutes of girls, clad simply in
their virgin innocence. On his return
home he had his "stone girls" as the
boys called them, placed in the rotunda
of the State House with the expectation
of selling them to the State. Those
"stone girls fooled good many fellows
from the back districts by their quiet
and modest demeanor. They looked so
neat and life-like that many a ruralist
was taken in at their expense. One day
a couple of lads from Sharon township
dropped in to watch the proceedings of
the Legislature. When they reached
the rotunda they walked around taking
in the pictures. All at once they came
to full stop. They had discovered the
'stone girls" and for the time being
stood spell bound. gazing with all the
rapture of mortal life at the faultless
beauties before them. At last one of
them spoke up and said
bill, do you see that?"
"See what?"
"That card hanging just over the girls
heads?"
Eyes, but what of that?'
"Why, don't you see that it reads,
Hands OFF,
Eyes"
"Well, Bill, them girls amt genuine
live girls, for what live girls would say
anything about keeping hands OFF,
Columbus Bohemian.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
HOUSEHOLD.

Tablecloths. spite of the attempt
to introduce color into the tablecloth,
preference in the highest circles is still
given to fine white damask, but occasion
ally the cloths are trimmed with lace
edging.
Candelabras. - Fashionable dinner
tables are lighted by candelabra on
either side of the center piece, or occa-
sionaily by central cluster of branch
lights, which surmount pair of vases,
all springing from the same base.
Usually the foundation is a mirror. and
the support the figure of child or
neurological subject.
Westphalia Loaves.-Beat one pound
of mea.y potatoes with one-fourth pound
of grated ham, two.eggs, little butter
and little cream, taking care not to
make it too moist; form it into balls or
small loaves and fry them a nice light
brown; they should be fried in butter.
Pile them on a napkin, and serve with
garnish of fried parsley.
Noodle Soup.-Add noodles to beef or
any other soup after straining; they will
cook in fifteen or twenty minutes, and
are prepared in the following manner:
To one egg add as much sifted flour as it
will absorb, with q little salt; roll out as
thin as wafer; dredge very lightly with
-four, roll over and over into large roll,
slice from the ends, shake out the strips
loosely and drop into the soup.
Cheese Fingers.-Take a quarter OF q
pound of puff paste and roll it out thin.
Crate two ounces of English cheese, mix
with with q little cayenne pepper and
salt. Then strew the cheese over half
the paste, turn the other over and cut it
with sharp knife half an inch wide and
two or three inches long. Bake in o
quick oven and serve them quite hot,
shaking little grated cheese oyer be-
fore sending to the table.
Rolled Apple Dumplings-Peel and
chop fine tart apples. make crust OF
enc cup of rich buttermilk, one teaspoon
full of soda, and -four enough to roll;
roll half an inch thick, spread with the
apple, sprinkle we'll with sugar and Gin
namon, cut in strips two inches wide,
roll up like jelly cake, set up on the
rolls ION end) in dripping-pan, put
ting teaspoonful of butter on each, but
in a moderate oven, and haste them
often with the juice. Use the juice for
the sauce, and flavor with brandy If you
choose.
Corned Beef-A housekeeper of forty
years experience gives the following di-
rections for preparing corned beef for
the table. If dinner is at six o'clock,
put on piece that weighs eight pounds
at one o'clock, and let it boil gently un-
till it is time to serve. If dinner is at
twelve or one o'clock, The beef should be
put on to boil as early as seven o'clock.
If boiled for this length of time, and
gently, it will be very tender and have
fine flavor. 1t will cut easily and
smoothly, and notwithstanding the ira
dition that it should be boiled rapidly
and in less time, will be found to be more
digestible and in every way more desir-
ahla
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
A Troubles me BED Quilt.

Nothing could present more peace
full appearance than one of these varie-
gated combinations known to rural
housewives as patchwork bed quilts; but
appearances are deceitful. The other
evening in London, Ont, meeting was
held in the town hall to dispose of au
article of that description made by the
ladies of the Episcopal church. Two OF
the church wardens, John Fox and VIM.
Stanley, nominated Miss Porte and Miss
Goodacre as candidates for the quilt, and
the voting began. When about $50 had
been collected the pool was declared
closed, and the quilt was awarded to Miss
Goodacre; but a mistake was discovered
and the voting went on, amid great ex
citement. When 800 had been received
Miss Porte was declared the winner, but
Mr.. Fox demanded that the poll should
be opened again, and laid down his gold
watch and chain in favor of Miss Good
acre. This bold stroke was at once out.
done by Mr.. Stanley, who put up his
house and lot, to which Mr.. Fox re-
sponded with $500 in cash and the offer
of $1,000 more if necessary. At this point
the confusion was beyond control. and
the meeting broke up without making
the award. The clergyman has since re.
turned the house and lot, the watch and
chain and the 5000, and it is understood
that both the wardens have resigned.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28

Soon after the entrance of the train
containing the great commoner, a coun-
tryman was sighted on the rear end of
the back car, prominently perched on
the top OF the bumper, gazing with a
look Of mingled admiration and awe into
the face of Henry Grady, who was max
ing his exit through the doorway. After
minute of gratifying survey of the
able physic of the Apollo of the local
press, he lost all consciousness of his
humble station and gave way to the
heroic prcmptings Of patriotic spirit.
He ventured, Governor, can have the
honor of shakin' hands with you, SEEM
as I've come good ways to do it, and
might not never have the chance of APP
proacbin' you again"
Certainly, sir; but am not the gov
ernor-here he comes.
ISIS that him?"
"That is Gov. Stephens"
"Well, I'll be durnedr'
"What did you remark"
"I'd heard he was progeny; but if
that's the biggest man they could trump
up for governor of Georgy, l think we'd
better leave the State, for the country's
deeeneratin'
1--WE don't estimate statesman by his
physical development; it's the brain; the
governor has the greatest brain in
Georgia.
81 don't care nothin' about brain; but
the idea of man bein' governor that's
got to be carried aroun like a bundle of
clothes. p Atlanta (Ga.) Post-Appeal.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
Luc,'s SpaIsxtn BacQue.

Lucy placed her Lily-White Hand on
her papa's brow and began to smooth his
hair, saying how glad it would make her
if she could only smooth the Burrows of
Care that time had placed there. Then
she artfully Shifted the Subject and
spoke of how cold the weather was get
ting and Of what lovely Sealskin Sacques
she had seen in the store windows down
town that afternoon. Then her papa saw
what she was up to and Dropped On
Himself. So that by the time Lucy got
around 20 that part of her talk where she
put her arms around his neck and kissed
him and asked him to buy her Sealskin
he had neatly arranged his lie. He told
her of how poor the Crops had been and
that Trade was in very dull state be-
cause of the uncertainty as to what Of
fee Ben Butler would want next and
Sung Such song that Lucy began to
think she was lucky to have place to
sleep in and pair of Heavy Shoes for
the winter.
mo, my child" he said. 81 cannot
think of spending Three Hundred Dol
lars for Sealskin Sacque when times
are so Hard"-and Lucy said that she
was sorry she had mentioned the Sub
ject and went away feeling quite sorry
for her Papa.
Soon after she had left the room her
Big Brother came in. 81 saw that Horse
you were talking about" he said to his
Papa.
ibid you?" asked the Old Gentleman.
"How fast can he go?"
"Two-thirty," replied the Big Brother,
and thousand dollars will buy him."
Rising quickly from the sofa Lucy's
Papa wrote check aud handed it to
his Son. $50 ami close the Trade to-
night he said, land to morrow after
noon will make seine of these people
that think they own Trotters look like
Hired Men,"
So you see. children, that some Papas
think more of beating Two Forty than
they do of making an Only Dang liter
happy.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28

the propensity of bold players to freeze
out" the more timid ones, and this can
not be done unless the limit is strictly
maintained. For example, when poker
is played with one-dollar limit, tie
limit would be hollow mockery were a
player permitted to bet So or $40 at a
time. How can the London Baptists
maintain that there was q limit in their
game when any man could stake as
many votes at time as he could pay
for?
If there was no limit, as was evidently
the case, on what ground was Mr.. Fox
compelled to resume his house and
watch and Mr.. Stanley compelled to take
back his 5000? There is no pretense
that the game was played unfairly, and
no player expressed the least desire to
have his money returned. 1t may be
that the Baptists had doubts as to the
exact value of Mr.. Fox's watch and
house, but that would not explain their
refusal to accept Mr.. Stanley's 5000. The
truth of the matter seems to be that the
watch and house and 5000 were returned
simply in order to put an end to the
scandal which the affair had created, and
the act must be considered weak and
cowardly one.
The necessity of having limit and adj
herring strictly to it in ecclesiastical
games is make clearer than ever by the
great Baptist bed-quilt game. Let us
hope that hereafter no such game will be
played with limit and that in no cir
cumstances will the limit be set aside.
Were few veteran poker-players to be
employed to take charge of church fairs,
there is little danger that any game
would be played in an unfair or scandal
Gus manner, and all occasion for scandal
would be avoided. York Times.
The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1882-12-28
Sending the Wife Ahead.

The aboriginal heart of old Winnie
years has been subjected to the civiliz-
ing and Christianizing influences of
Nevada, must have been greatly COM
forted by the assurance that his young
wife had been taken and stoned to death,
and the brains of her infant dashed out
in order that their spirits might be sent
on ahead of the lingering chief. Winnie
mucca has pretty good hold of this
world, and former days his grip on
pioneer whisky was as strong as that of
any fighting Indian in the country. The
newspapers of Nevada published the re-
voting details of this double murder as
if there was nothing in it much out of
the way. The killing of the wife and
child we are told was pursuant to an In
dian custom But so Is the killing of
whites in accordance with and Indian
custom. But the custom, as a general
rule, when it reaches over to white men,
does not excuse the crime. In Modoc
county, a few years ago, Captain Jack
and four or five other noted men of his
tribe, we're hung by the military au-
thorities for having destroyed the lives
of a number of white men. The tribe
was broken up and transported.
But it was according to the Indian
custom to lie in wait behind the rocks
and shoot down white men. The custom.
however, did not avail to save these In
dian murderers. In Arizona, recently,
number of Indians were executed after
formal trial.
If Indians living within organized
States and Territories may not murder
white men and women, why should they
be permitted to murder defenceless wo-
men of their own tribe? Recently, in
Oregon, an Indian was hung, after a for
NAL trial, for having killed the medicine
man who had failed to cure his child.
Now, the killing, in that instance, was in
accordance with custom which is
older than the history of the country {;
but the custom could not be pleaded in
justification of the offense. II old Win
nemucca, and all the Indians who took a
hand in one of the most revolving MUIR
ders recorded in modern times had
been hung up in row, according to the
forms of law, there would have been
something like justice done in that case.