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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
The MaunLng.Ohalmers conte,t.

Special 10 Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, December 6.-Last
night an informal conference Of the
Congressional friends Of MI. Manning.
Of Mississippi, was held to determine
what course he should take in regard
TO the certificate Of election owe
Chalmers, which the Governor Of
Mississippi offers him. The Missis-
sippi delegation, all Of whom were
present, agreed that Manning, for the
sake Of the Democratic party, ought
to decline the certificate. Northern
and Western Democrats who were
present thought he ought to accept.
They thought il would SAVE
the Governor embarrassment.
II Manning should decline The
certificate, the Governor could not
very vel, having just declared Man.
ming entitled TO II, turn around and
offer il to Chalmers. Then if be
should declare the election null and
the seat vacant, Chalmers might 70
fuse 10 be bound by the decision and
contest the seat before Congress. Il
Is a question too, whether, If the seat
was given TO Uhalmsrs, Manning
would not have good grounds for con,
test. The conference advised non
action for a fow days, Manning has
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
PaEson JoahuA'a Prayer or FIsh
WILMINGTON Every EVenlng.


One day two residents Of Deals Is.
land, Maryland, were out fishing,
They had padded and rowed in the
hot sun all the afternoon without
getting even a nibble. They had
just anchored TO try their luck again,
when the Rev Joshua Thomas, the
famous Methodist minister came pad.
ding along in his canoe. As no came
up he saluted them with: "Well
brethren, what luck2" bad enough,
Parson Thomas, bad enough" replied
one Of the men. The olher called
out in a joking way: Nov
look yer, Parson Thomas, you pray
and we'll FISH" "Donelp quickly
responded the good man. BE tied
his canoe TO q post and went down on
his knees. Over went their lines.
The psrson poured forth his prayers
in earnest, not forgetting to put in a
word for the salvation Of the souls OF
the men. Presently, excited and en-.
thusiastic, one Of the men straight
ened himself up, aud exclaimed:
stop right thar, Joshua Thomas; I've
got a bite; III jine your eosgrega-
tionl" Sure enough, the first for that
day was a large sun perch, honestly
believed to have been caught under
the inspiration Of that prayer,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
RonnennIoer
AttaChmentNotlce.

Before j. M Coleman, j. P. for Shelby coun-
Z.E. X. Parish vs.. James Kelley.
n this cause an attachment having been
Tennessee, and returned levied upon the
property Of the defendant, and affidavit havs
ing been made that the defendant is Indebted
TO plaintiff in the sum Of $500, due BIZ note,
and that the claim is just, and that the do,
nessee; it is therefore ordered, mai said da-
PENDANT make his personal appearance before
me on the second day of January, 1888, at Ia
O'Clock am. at m office, No. u Madison
ST., Memphis, Tenn, and d~efendsaid attach
ment suit within the time prescribed by law,
and that q COPY ofthis order be published once
. week for four consecutive weeks in the
Memphis Public Ledger.
This the 2Sd day Of November, 1882.
" ~ $40 j, M. COLEMAN I u
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
Boston Courier.


Boston Courier.
Something like q year since our at
tention was called to the raiment in
which are bedight the heroines Of
modern novels. and how universally
they are arrayed in some mysterious
fabrics designated stuff" Once the
fact was noticed, examples and proofs
every day presented themselves.
STUFF" they all wore, and stuff "
they continue to wear, and stuff"
they seem likely to wear until the end
Of time. Even 10 novels by women,
who certainly should know 10 what
manner of habiliments, what material,
what fashion and what hue heroines
should most properly be arrsyed, the
trailing r0bas OF "stuf" still NEE the
minds eye, and their subdued con
v%entional rustic is plainly to be dis
oerned by the inner ear. Whether 1t
Do that blue stockings are set apart
FROM the world of womankind by
knowing nothing of dress and those
things dresses are usually manufac
tu-cd Of, or whether on the other
hand they differ from their sex By a
discretion which iorhids them to
disclose those feminine secrets,
is too deep a matter here to
determine. 1t is usually described as
cling, generally too as being white, or
at most as rarely dun. Ii is therefore
limp and fine, perhaps like cheese
Oloth or damp muslin. 1t trails, it
sticks, it invariably reveals the o
tours of the wearer's figure, a quality
which would make it somewhat less
trying to forms less perfect than those
Of the heroines who affect it. 1t is
made for the most part into dresses,
often into robes, but seldom or never
into gowns.
Much inquiry has been made regard
ing the origin and nature of this
strange and romantic fabric. Seine
connect it with the p%erllous stuff
mentioned by Macbeth, but this is
rather the faneiful surmise OF the
musing antiquaries than the sober
conclusion OF reasonable research;
The most probable and well sustained
theory points to George Eliot, as, If
not the inventor and originator OF this
material, at least the dictionary man
tau maker who introduced its use in
the toilets OF novel herolnes. In
'Middlemarch' Mistress Dorothea
goeth trailing Imply about, dress
cd in this self same white
olinging stuff, and since that time the
heroinesi who follow the fashions OF
their race no less but rather more than
the living people whom they are in
correctly supposed TO resemble, have
trailed Imply about in this same garb
and manner.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

GENERAL Joseph Wheeler has been
nomiua ed by the Democrats of the
Eighth A'ablma district, to ell out
the uncSpired term Of Congressman
Lowe, deceased. lie will be elected
without doubt N. will have only
until the farth of March to serve
when the term Of the present House
Of Copgra,s will expire.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

secret among themselves. They al
agreed to play 4 trick on poor Ursulle.
Easter Eve n of the journeymen
gardeners removed the cid sprir of
apple tree from the vial in Ursulle's
bed chamber and put in its place a
sprig covered with blossoms.
When Ursulle went into the bed
chamber she could not believe her
eyes. She returned to the servants
hall; her face was radiant with delight
as she showed her trophy;the laughter,
jeers, hooting of her comrades revealed
the trick put on her. She stood dumb,
confounded, trembling, scarcely able
to restrain her tears. Just al this
moment the mistress entered the SER
wants hall The mistress said: Ursulle.
the apple tree sprig may be trusted.
believe il; you will be married before
Christmas next. You are q virtuous
girl am sure you will make a virtu-
Gus wife. All you want to get a hus.
band with is money; tie money wanted
| will give you. AS she spoke. the
mistress twined a 1000 franc bank note
around the sprig, and returned 1t to
Ursulle. A fortnight afterward the
journeyman gardner who had put the
trick on her, asked her 10 marriage.
but she refused him, at which he was
grtatly jeered, and married another.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
Americans and Nature WOr-
ahfn-
London Atheneum.I

A'AANA AhhehoAAAst
With all our admiration Of a great
and wonderful people, we are obliged
TO say that at present nature Worship
such as Borrow's, or even as Words
worth's, is scarcely possible in Amer
lea. The proud self. suficiency of a
Wordsworth is needed for the soul TO
be able to draw itself from human
surroundings and bring itself en- rap
port with nature. Like a great eagle
u~aiedged, which feels, but as
yet dares not trust, the power of his
wings, America. while in her heart
knowing how foolish is convention.
yet answers TO convention idle breath
like an Bolian harp. Not knowing
how really great she is, her chief de-.
sire is still to show to the European
world that without a long history abe
is a great country, and that without a
titled %aristocraey she is patrician and
perhaps genteel.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
Opinion OF Eminent DIR. r. A
EfpmnNa

President Maryland Hospital, Baltimore.
q" | have used CoLpENs
LIoUD BEEF Tonic for more than A
year. 1t combines the virtues of food
and tonic remarkably, and, l am sat
lsfed, has saved life when any other
medicine wodid fail" Remember
the name, CoLDEN's-tak no other.)
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

.AIraDAr Ev.sIsa. DloENsrn .. lss2.

AMoSo tue nominations sent in by
shs President Thursday was that Of
James Il. Smith. for postmaster of
Memphis. a position he was assigned
70 before the las, election, and which
he aHs slidesdy AID satisfactorily to
The pebble
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
INsOLvENT NOTICE.
sEATE o. TESSEssEE. s9ELBY COL

STATE OF TENNESSEE. Shelby Cor
OFFIoE COUNTY Coz At CLERK,
Toe. Il. Jeter, administrator of Cbaries w
Jeter, deceased. -
HAVING suggested the insolvency Of the
IL estate OF Chss, W. Jeter, deceased, youare
hereby ordered to give notice, BY advertise
mentin some newspaper published within the
SAID state and also at the courthouse door OF
shelby county, for all persons having claims
against said estate, to appear and file the
same, with. the Clerk Of the County Court an
thenticated in the manner prescribed BY law.
on or before the Sth day Of March, 1888;
n any claim not filed on OF before said day
estate Is made, shall DO forever barred, both
Witness ny hand, at Office, this 7th day Of
HUGH B. CULLEN, Clerk,
By Louis Kettmann, D. O.
Notice Is hereby given as required by above
order, Q. +. JETER, Admr.
a IN IA iO1
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

thirty days Ia Rhish 10 decide What
he will do. Should the contest be
prolonged It is understood that Ohal-
mers, who is not rich, viii be given a
good tat office here, whose income will
comfortably support him and his
family until the matter Is settled.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
N%On.resident Notice.

No. 4eS R.D,-In.the Probate Court of Shelby
county, ,Tenn.-Dayid 7. Varnoll ct al VS.,
Joseph H. Varntll OF al. '"
appearing from amendment in this cause
4 that the defendant, James D.. Laughlin
Is a nonresident of the State Of Tennessee,
and . resident Of the State Of Texas: II Is
therefore ordered that he make his appear
ance herein, at the courthouse ofShelby ooun-
Y, In Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first
Monday In January, 1888, and plead, answer
or demur to complainant bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as to him and set
for hearing ex-parte, and that a copy of this
erder DO Published once a week, for four sue
oe4suiiIe Mfeks.ln tne Public Ledger.
A o~opy-Attest:
By Louis Kettman, D. G.
Sykes x GlisRon, soils for complainant.
"a 76 ~ 90
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

Sick and bilious headache, and all
arrangements of stomach and bowels.
cured by DR.. Pierce's "Pellets"-or
anti bilious granules. rs cents a vial.
No cheap boxes to allow waste of
virtues. By druggists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
TX PAYERS NOTICE.

VilE State and, County. taxep, raal estate
and BiEh b Wsrds and Fifth Civil District,
are IN. ny hands for collection. Parties ow.
Ing said taxes will call and settle AZ once Al
the once Of County Tfuytee and save further
~oosis; TH0S. GARVRY,
" lW Constable Fifth Civil District,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
A0ARTr.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiEcretions Of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc., | will send
q reeire that viii cure you, FREE Oh
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
BY q missionary in South America. Send a
Ielf-addressed envelope 10 the Rev, JosRPH u.
lNhAH. Station d. New York City.
hTKxivb7d
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

Premature Loss of the Hair
May be entirely prevented by the use
Of BURNETT's COCAINE.
HoUsRKEE&ERs should insist upon
obtaining Burnett's Flayoring Ex-
tracts, they are the best.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
jackson Clarion,

jackson Clarion.
II is distressing news that Colonel
William II. H. Tison, Speaker Of the
Mississippi House Of Representatives,
lost his lite by the hand OF violence at
his home in Baldwin, Lee county, on
the 4th inst. The State could not be
called to mourn a worthier moi more
devoted son. For more than thirty
years he served her in various capaci-
ties OF importance and trust, and
always with ability and a heart
single to her welfare. His early
occupation was hal of a saddler,
and while pursuing that calling in
the now obliterated village of CARROLL
vile, in the old county Of Tishomingo
before she was shorn OF her grand
propositions, he was placed on the
ticket for the Legislature and elected
BY a large vote. Deprived Of oppor-
tunlty OF a collegiate education, he
early became a hard student of books
as well as of men, and on his entrance
into the Legislature he bore q leading
part in the deliberations Of a body
which numbered among its members
the most intellect Of the State
thirty years Rago. Time and again
be was returned to the Legislature,
before the war, and the journals Of
the House contain no record of
service more faithful and more
beneficial than his. When, war
was inevitable, he was one
OF the first to enlist and was promoted
in the course ofhis service to the rank
Of Colonel of his regiment which he
always led with the courage and i'm
petuosity characteristic of the man.
dc was severely wounded, and has
carried to his grave the honorable
scars which he received in defense of
the cause which he believed to be
just. After the war he was again
elected to serve the people in the
State Legislature, and on two coca
sions he came within a few votes of a
nomination to represent his district
10 Congress. Such was his hold upon
the confidence Of the people of
the county in which he lived,
that whatever position he aspired
to, he was invincible before them. He
was chosen Speaker Of the present
House Of Representatives, and we will
venture to say that no one ever pre-
sided over that body who conducted
It's proceedings with more skill and
judicial fairness. Long experience
and study had made him an adept in
Parliamentary law. He possessed
great force of character, and was a
leader Of men. His honesty was in
flexible; his twill indomitable. His
courage was unfailing. In his nature
there was nothing temporizing, and
he followed his convictions without
counting the cost, To his enemies he
was open and maguanimous; to his
friends oonfiding and true. He leaves
a large family to whom he has be-
queathed the legacy of an honoEed
name.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
Executors Notice.

WAS this day appointed and qualified Ok
l eeutor Of Alexander Keek. decsasod
ELIAS KECK'
December 2, 1882.
Post1n, Hill & Poslon, attorneys. 70 1O5
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
Highway Taxes

--,-HNI HVUI uIIU IUUEa
Books for above tax, levied in the
Fifteenth Civil District, are now ready,
9Rd can be found at No. s Madison street with
J.P. Prescott, who is authorized 10 collect
n receipt for the same. Property owners
In said District, or their agents, should cali
and pay said taxes without delay and thereby
save costs. Call between 2 and ( O'clock nm
JOSEPH FREY,
Olerk, Of Road Commissioner Fifteenth Civil
District. 5S5 "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

To steal an umbrella is at last a
crime. But if a man steals q bottle Of
DR., Bulls Cough Syrup to cure his
cough. can it be called a crime2
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
AdninIstrator,n Sale.
Administrator,a Nofice-

HAYING been appointed administrator.
1Awiththe will annexed, Of Elizabeth Bee.
ton, this is to notify. all persons, II any, WIN
have claims against her estate TO present h
same 70 my attorneys, Flippin A Rlippin.at No
Il Madison street, within the / me prescribevd
By law or the same will DO forever barred.
pu u Il. RAYNER,
go "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09

or Colonel William n. N.
risen, Speaker OF the MissIs-
sippt House OF Representa-
tiVes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-12-09
No More Rheumatism, GOut or
Neuralgia.
Immediate Relief Warranted.
Permanent Cure Guaranteed

Five years established and never
SHOWN 90 fall in n single ease. aoute
or chronic. Refer 20 all PROMINENT
physietanB and 0rugxtsts for the
standing Of SalieyIica.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09
Bill Arp's Philosophy.

1t don't pay to get mad about
anything, much less about politics.
Getting mad cheats a man out of
his time. He can lose day or two
days or even a week, thinking about
it and fretting over it, and that in
terferes with his business and de-
ranges his digestion, and makes his
family unhappy. He had better go
dead for while and come to life
again. Getting mad is the poorest
way to get even with an enemy I
ever tried. 1t don't pay worth a
cent and always makes a man lose
his own self-respect. Now man
may get mad with himself for be-
ing a fool and it will do him no
harm. In fact, it may do good, for
it's a sign of repentance. | knew a
young man to go to church fair
and the girls honeyfugled six dollars
out of him and he went home and
undressed and tied one arm to the
bed post and whipped himself with
the other, and as he cut himself
round the legs he would say: "You
90 to another church fair You let
them girls fool you out OF your
money again You pay ten cents
for every fool letter they stick at
youl You give half dollar for a
lite dab of ice cream--I'll learn
you some sense, l will" and as he
talked to himself he kept the switch
going lively, and would dance uI
and down just like he was another
fellow. Now that is a good idea
When man makes a fool of him
self and goes a ripping around lct
him tie himself up and give him
self geod whipping, and then take
a fresh start in the morning. If {
man gets into fight with another
man he might accidentally ge
whipped, and everybody would here
of it, but if he whips himself all by
himself it will do more good, ant
onbody would ever know anything
about it it,-Atldnta Constitution.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09
THE BRA VERY OF TIE EGYP-
TT1 Ms
Alexandria speci i TO the London News.

Alexandria speci i TO the London News.
The truth is the Egyptians fought
much better than was at all expect
ed. They haye we'll earned the
honor Of being the first to face
throughout long day the most tre-
mendous artillery fire ever opened
in any warfare. Nor can it be said
that ignorance made them bold, for
the first few rounds from our heavy
guns produced effects positively
frightful to witness even from a
point of safety, while to have stood
under such avalanches of iron with
out flinching proves the Egyptians
to have some good stuff among
them.
If the Egyptians oppose our
troops with the same gallantry with
which they fought their four last
guns, our soldiers will have their
work cut out for them before they
reach Cairo. With the tremendous
FIRE of four iron -clads concentrated
upon them, with the forts crumb-
ling in ruins among them, their
gunners yet sent shot after shot
back through the storm of shell and
bullets for more than an hour. Sir
Beauchamp Seymour himself ex-
pressed his sense of relief when at
last it was evident that the guns
were silenced and the unequal and
heroic contest at an end.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09
as TO BOLTERS.
Athens Post

Our friend over at Fay etteville
says, "John Knox and Martin Luth-
er bolted the Catholic Church" To
be sure "Bolting" antedates the
christian era, and is almost as old as
the chronicles of creation, written
by the finger of the great cosmos
upon the towering mountains and
in the hollow caverns of the earth.
According to sacred tradition, the
devil lost his high estate and was
sized by the scruff of the neck and
the slack of the trousers and hurled
from the celestial battlements for
organizing a bolt against the regu-
lar nominee. (No irreverence is
meant) We mi ght mention other
cases of bolting, of ancient and
modern Origin, wherein the result
has been, oftener than otherwise,
disastrous to those most actively en-
gagged in them. Still, we think
Knox and Luther were right, al
though we can't see the analogy be-
tween their case and the one now
agonizing the public abdomen.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09

The gross earnings of the Norfolk
and Western Railroad Company for
the month of juno were S174, ,843. .38,
being an increase as compared with
the corresponding month of last
year of SI7,955.12. Expenses in
Guiding the estimated proportion of
yearly taxes were $1O,199,O52, an
increase'of S10,A74, IA over the same
month of last year, leaving an in
crease in net earnings as compared
with the same month of last year,
S11 ,480.98. Net earnings for the
six months ending June Both, were
S4O4, O.45, a decrease as compared
with the corresponding period of
last year of S31 ,511.68.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09

The Nashville american has
changed hands and editors. Hon.
Duncan F, Cooper, of Columbia,
bought a majority of the stock, and
it is understood, or at least rumored
that Mr.. Baskette, of Murfreesboro,
a competent journalist and educated
gentleman, will take the helm as
political writer. The Chattanooga
Times gives him the following com
plimentary notice:
1t gave us pleasure to learn that
Mr. G. III. Baskette, of Murfreesboro.
will take charge of the political de
partment of the Nashville american
next Monday. No better selection
could have been made. Mr.. Bas-
kettle is strong fin scholarship, ex.
perience and adaptability to the pro-
fession. II he does not make bis
mark in the wider fields to which
he has been called, we shall be dis.
appointed. Mr.. B. is brother O.
our fellow citizen w. E. Baskette
cashier of the Third National Bank
Bank of this city.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1882-08-09
RICH AND PARSEHONIOU US
QUEEN.

From a London Letter in the Philla. Press.
Victoria is the richest and best
paid sovereign in Europe. She
draws for her expenses never less
than an even S2,000,000 a year.
This is granted by Parliament. Be
sides this she is great proprietor,
drawing revenues from her estates
that equal the sums paid the mon
archs Of continental kingdoms. Nor
does her wealth end here. Under
the laws the fortunes of intestates
or illegitimates, and, in some instan-
ces aliens, revert to the crown. In
1850 the Queen inherited direct a
million and 3 halt from a miscr
named Nield. Her annual gains
are further swelled by the revenues
of the duchies Of Lancaster and a
royalty on certain ancient royal
grants in India. Add to these the
fruits of Prince Albert's lucky in
vesgments, witch were made in the
heart of the most affluent part of
the London of to-day, and it will be
seen that Victoria will have a stu
pendous fortune to leave her chill
dren.- The Queens wealth and her
parsimonious boarding of it is the
favorite grumble of John Bull, behe
aristocrat or commoner. The Prince
of Wales with modest grant of
half million from tho State and
half million more from various
other sources, likewise coming
eventually from the people, is as
lavish as the Lueen is close. He is
always in debt, but he finds good
credit ON his MaYnncfafinnS y