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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

rejecting honor and destination upon
the club, and fully demonstrating that
the Irish In free America and in the
great city Of Chicago, are worthy sons
Of noble sires, no matter how much
the English venal press may proclaim
its base insults to the contrary. IF
Mr.. Gladstone could have, for one
moment, gazed into that banquet hall
and noted with what profound interest
those four hundred guests listened to
the speeches Of the orators, and espe-
cially those of Mr.. Finerty aud Chi
cagos splendid Mayor, Mr.. Harrison,
and watched the points greeted with
the loudest applause, he would have
easily discovered that the Irish in
America, and the American Irishmen,
and Irish American women, and the
American people generally, are deter
mined that Ireland must be freed from
from British bondages that the doc
trines Of the immortal Emmett, as
proclaimed BY Parnell, Davitt, Dillon
and the other patriots languishing in
British bastiles in Ireland, must pre-
vail, and that ireland shall once again
be free from England's hated, foul and
aceursed thraldom, and take her place
among the great nations of the world.
He would have quickly discovered
that the sentiments proclaimed recent
ly in Congress by Mr.. Robinson of
New York, were not meaningless
utterances, but sentiments that are
dearly natural in the hearts of millions
of patriotic and liberty loving Ameri-
cans, who have sworn that Americans
will do for Ireland what Irishmen did
for Americans when they threw off
the tyrannical yoke Of England
aud declared themselves free
from her devilish control.
In those dark and bloody days Of the
revolution Irishmen furnished brains,
muscle, stout hearts and strong arms
to the cause Of liberty, and sanctifed
every glorious battlefield with their
best blood where brave men fell fight
ing for liberty. What Irishmen did
then in holy cause for America,
Americans are now going to do for
Ireland in her determined struggle
for liberty. These determined ex-
pressions do not emanate from novices,
but from those well schooled in the
horrors Of war, and England would
do well to hearken to the warning be-
fore it is too late.
The Importance of the subject
treated in this letter warranted its
length, consequently l will have to
defer other matters Of less moment
for another. NAYR
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
A Dakota Romance.

A romantic episode comes from
Bon Homme, Dakota. A young and
attractive Bohemian girl who went
into a hotel as a servant when quite
young, and matured under influences
different from those which surrounded
her at home, is the heroine Of the
affair. Like great many other young
and attractive young girls, she fell in
love, and her affection was recipro-
Gated BY the stage driver upon whom
it was lavished. They were very
happy in their regard for each other,
and life was one summers dream
until the arrival the other day Of the
parents of the young damsel. They
came in a two-horse wagon, with a
command to their daughter to place
herself and her baggage therein, and
20 home and be married to a young
Bohemian, whom they had selected
as her partner in the future. Under
the Bohemian code strict obedience
to parental commands is exacted, and
she complied with the order. But she
had become sufficiently Americanized
to think little for herself, and she
succeeded in sending word to her
stage driver lover regarding the stu
alton of affairs. The residence occu-
pied by her parents stands at the
junction of two roads, aud travellers
are frequently compelled to stop at
the house and make inquiries regard
ing the route they are to take. During
the evening after the arrival of the
girl at home, while she was conversing
with her future husband, a buggy
hailed at the house aud the stage
driver aforesaid alighted tharetrom,
knocked at the door and asked which
road he should take to 90 toa certain
place he was DESTROYS of reaching.
The applicant for information was not
known to the parents of the pros
pective bridegroom, and the only
person in the family circle who could
converse in English was the girl who
loved the stage driver. She was
accor 'ingly deputized to 90 out to the
forks of the road and show him the
way. She went, but did not return,
and in the course of time horrible
suspicion entered the mind Of the
householder. The horses we're hitched
up and pursuit begun. But it was
The stage driver and his
fair companion skipped across the
prairie TO the nearest Justice of the
Peace and were quickly married. The
parents Of the blushing bride were
compelled to give up their claim on
their daughter, but Ghey held fast to
her worldly effects for several days.
Finally, however, the new made hus =.
band found that the family was absent
from the house with the exception Of
a younger brother. He accordingly
made call at the domicile, possessed
himself of bis wife's baggage, and got
away with it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
In Pork Barrel.


LOUISVILLE Post, ~.
Passengers from down the river
who arrived on the packets report
considerable excitement at Leaven-
worth over the finding Of mysteri-
ously occupied barrel. The barrel
was discovered floating down the river
and two men went out in a skiff to
catch it. 1t was regular mess pork
barrel, and the men supposed that
they were the proprietors Of good
supply of pork, but when it was
opened it was found to contain the
body Of a woman, in q good state Of
preservation. The body was not
mutilated, nor we're any marks of
violence found to throw light upon
the horrible spectacle. It was eyi.
dent that the woman had been the
victim of foul play at the hands of
some one above that point, which
could not be explained. Her hair
was red, and her condition indicated
that she had been in good health.
But who she was, where she was from
and by whom she was put in the bar
rel will doubtless never be known.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Old Lace and Imagination.

Providence Journal
The demand or the rage" for old
lace abates not and will not so long as
any time-stained variety is to be found
anywhere. Mr.. $3.50, rumaging among
the attic cobwebs, found two window
curtains Of the inner, fall.away, wool.
en- kind that had been in use years
before. They were trimmed with lace
about two yards on each. An open
blind had admitted the sun upon the
lace Of one curtain, by which it was
turned to ancient hue. Mr.. Soso, base
and practical joker, quickly transferred
the lace to his pocket. Making a
purchase at fashionable store he put
the attic lace in the marked wrapping
paper and presented it to Mrs. $3.50.
Twas a great day. The neighbors
we're called in. One thought the lace
was like that worn by Catherine dc
Medici when her son, with five pups
in sling about his neck, received the
Netherland envoy that asked for pro-
lection against Philip Of Spain. AT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Nonresident VsOlIcs.

No. S293-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tenn. = state Of Tennessee vs..
w Il Butler ct al.
/ I appearing from amended bill, which IL
j sworn to in this cause, that the defendants,
Martha A Owen, Mary T Owen, SnlIie nj
Owen, Miles Owen, jr, Ida Owen, Augustus
owen, WI liam Owen, Jshn Smith and
Martha Smith, his wife, Thos. B Melvin
and Anne Melvin, his wife, Mrs. Jane
Lawrence, Willie Tomeny, Blanche Tomeny.
L ID Mckissick and Lizzie MoKissick, his
wife, Henry w Brooks and Blanche Brooks.
his wife, Mrs. Maria + Giles, Miss Maria O
Giles v : Waddcll, trustee. Parker @ EVAN,
y W Tucker, Chas. I harrison. trustee, Mrs.
Mary Looney, Cbas. Sanford and Bette San
ford, his wife, Mrs; Mary Burbank and -
burbank, her husband, Robert LOoney, jr,
Kate Looney, Dora Iooney, Chas, S Loonsy,
W Q falkner, Annie Pope, Camilla Pope;
Samuel Kerr, or Carr, and Mary Ann Kerr, or
Carr. hisIYite, Ben Eiseman, EA Cole, Henry
Laird, hallie \ Harris, unknown heirs Of
George A Mccall, John s Williams, 0 H
Williams, McCarty, L @ Noel and Mamie
Noel, his wife, Bank Of Louisville, Kentucky,
and Mrs. 5 A Baker, aro all non-residents
OF the state Of Tennessee; It is there
fore ordered that they make their ap-
pearance hereins At the courthouse Of
Shelby county, In Memphis Tennessee.
on or before the FIRST Monday in May, 1882
and plead, answer or demur 10 Complainant
bill, or the same will be taken for Conferred
as 70 thom and set for hearing. ex.parte. and
that copy OF this order BIO published once a
week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This 2Sd day of March. 1852.
A cOpy--Attest.
RI BLACK, Clerk and Master.
ByJ NJ Bradley, D. CAM.
J w Hampton, sol'r for oOmpl't 2073 3s3s
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Knocking Newspaper Maps
EndWise.
Little Rock Gazette.l


Maps of overlooked districts are
sometimes more disastrous than the
deluge itself. There is one, for in
stance. which ornaments the st. Louis
Globe Democrat. Its dark lines show
that in Arkansaw all Of Mississippi
county, one.third of Poinsett county,
and all of Crittenden, Cross, st. Fran
els, Lee and Phillips counties are
under water, which also covers a por-
ton of Woodruff county. Helena is
gone out Of sight, and-probably as a
result of the force Of the current-the
Little Rock, Mississippi River g.
Texas railroad track runs into Napo-
leon, which caved into the big
Muddy" long ago. Nearly all of Dyer
county. on the Tennessee side, is sub
merged, and if the dark lines can be
relied on, Memphis is entirely under
water, which covers every foot Of
Shelby county except small patch in
the northeast corner. The popular
belief is that a food twice as great
could not climb up the high
bluff at Memphis, or make
serious impression on the county
beyond. But the map shows that
nothing is left Of either but name; if
it be correct, large size steamers can
now float eastward as far as the Fay
cite county line. DeSoto county,
Miss, on the south, shows a bare
fourth outside of the dark line. The
north half OF the county, extending
eastward to the Marshall county line,
is trackless watery waste-on the
map-and the town of fernando,
supposed to be high and dry, appears
in that wonderful production at the
waters edge. Having been told that
the overflow was OF from thirty to fifty
miles average width, the map maker
seems to have considered it about the
correct thing to equitably distribute
the dark spots. He had never heard
of the high Tennessee bluffs; and
being unwilling to place all the hor-
rors on the Arkansaw side. safely
decided to equalize things by burying
Memphis and sending the food thirty
miles east and twenty miles north Of
that city. An inundation of this
magnitude should have been mer-
toned by our usually enterprising
Memphis contemporaries, which are
strangely silent on the subject.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
DISAPPOINTED TRAGEDIEENE
What Mile. Rhea is Reported 70
Have Said About John Nc.
CullOugh.
NO. Times-D emOcrat.l

NO. Times-Democrat.l
John Collins, the manager Of Fred
erick Warde, tells very good story
about an interview he had recently
with Mile. Rhea. Said she: sven |
vos in London Won day gentleman
COON to see me, an say he vos Mees-
tair Sargent, 20 great Americana
manager, who hav made re fortune OF
Modieska, and he weesh to engage me
to COON to Ameriquc viz him. / say
l doant know him, and ask heem if
he can git me re grand reference, be-
cause / think OF Salvini, of Bern
hardt an Of Modjeska, and re money
gay make in Amerique, and | tink |
like to COON here, too. He say: Ger.
tainly, Mamselle. You go see John
McCoollow. He veel tell you who |
am. tink dis vos grand. Meester
MoCoollow vos re great Americana
actor, and be veel gif me vot you call
eem in zis country oui re straight Of
eet. | take my carriage an call on
Meester McCoollow. Oh, | find
heem re grand gentlehomme. Glorious
John McCo0llowl Genial John Nc
Coollowl Oh, | am SO pleased viz
heem. | say to heem, who is Mr.,
SARGENT He say, "Mademoiselle, if
vas to tell you re man Of all men in
AmeriQue, who can geeve you ze
proper steer to fortune | sail tell you
he ees Harry Sargent. i tank heem,
re glorious, re genial John McCoollow,
and ven again see Meestair Sargent
l say TO heem, Meestair Sargent. how
about the responsibility? If sufficient
money come not into re theater every
night to pay re bills, will 20 landlord
keep my box? Meester Sargent looked
so panied ven l say these and he lay
hees hand on his head an say, %
mademoiselle, in Amerique re land
lord nevair keep re box or re trunk of
re guest. Gay are too gallant | tink,
oh glorious, genial John McCoollow;
oh happy Rhea; oh magnique Ameri
que; oh splendid Harry Sargent |
sign re contract and | koom to Amer
ique, re land of re grand, re glorious,
re genial John McCullow. By and by
we begin to play and we do not meet
wiz re success that Meestair Sargent
promised. By an by receipts are not
big enough to covair re expenses, and
by an by re landlord seze re box, all
my boxes, for hees heels, an zen l
tink, oh glorious John McCoolloW, oh
genial John McCoolloY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Production OF Rice, Sugar and
MOIasSes.

Late census bulletins give some in-
teresting facts as to the rice and sugar
cane production OF the United States
during the year 1880. There were
ITO, 1888 pounds of rice produced.
South Carolina took the lead, furnish
ing nearly one half, 52,077, 5l5 pounds.
Then came Georgia, with 25,369,687
pounds; and Louisiana followed with
q, 1877 81 pounds, and North Carolina
with 5,609,19l pounds. The average
yield per acre was 725 pounds in Geor-
gia, 664 in South Carolina and $50 in
Louisiana.
The production Of sugar reached
1882 hogsheads, and Of molasses
1858, 273 gallons. Of this Louisiana
furnished III ,706 hogsheads of sugar
and ll,696,248 gallons Of molasses.
Texas produced 1851 hogsheads Of
sugar and 8l0,605 gallons Of molasses;
Florida, 1913 hogsheads of sugar and
], 029, 1888 gallons molasses, and Georgia
COL hogsheads of sugar and 1,565,78
gallons molasses. The average yield of
Louisiana was very nearly one hogs
head Of sugar per acre; of Texas, less
than half a hogshead; Of Florida, 1-6
Of hogshed, and Of Georgia, 5 s Of a
hogShead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Useful and Beautiful.

Ifyou want golden rule that will fit
everybody, this is it: Have nothing
10 your houses that you do not know
to be useful or believe to be beauti-
full"
And if We apply that rale strictly
we shall in the first place show the
builders and such like servants Of the
public what we really want; we shall
create demand for real art, as the
the phrase goes; and in the second
place we shall surely have more money
to pay for decent houses.
Perhaps it will not try your patience
too much if l lay before you my idea
of the fittings necessary 10 the sitting
room of a healthy person, a room l
mean, which he would not have to
cook in much or sleep ia generally,
or in which he would not have to do
very much litter making manual work.
First book. case with a great many
books in it; next a table that will keep
steady when you write or work at it,
then several chairs that you can move
and a bench that you can sit or lie
upon; next a cupboard with drawers;
next unless either the bookcase or
the cupboard be very beautiful with
painting or carving, you will want
pictures or engravings, such as you
can afford, only not stop gaps, but real
works Of art on the wall, or else the
wall itself must be ornamented with
some beautiful or useful pattern; we
shall also want vase or two to put
flowers in, which latter you must have
sometimes if you live in town. Then
there will be the fireplace, of course,
which in our climate is bound to be
the chief object in the room.
That is all we shall want, especially
if the floor be good; lift be not, as by
the way, it is pretty certain not to be-
| admit that a small carpet which can
be bundled out Of the room in two
minutes will be useful, and we must
also take care tina. it is beautiful or il
will annoy US terribly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
snoring in a Foreign TOng0e.
Bill Nye's Boomerang,

AAA NsN RNNA@SAeAhI
It's funny how careless they get
about giant powder after they get used
to it, said Woodtick Williams tie
other day to a Boomerang man.
ITS mighty harmless looking stuff,
and you wouldn't think il you didn't
know what it was. that it would blow
a man up any quicker than a ball Of
noD-explosive Nebraska butter,
II know when / was sinking on the
Fcverish Hornet and had q cabin up
in Slippery Elum gulch, at FIRST we
was powerful careful about our giant
powder and kept it in a hole in the
side Of the hill, but after we got more
familiar with it we got to keeping it in
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

al events the lacs. was old By osntu.
ties, and became the wonder Of kettle.
drums. But day Of reckoning came
for the lace impostor. In a search for
patchwork material the mate to the
curtain came to light. We dwell not
upon the consequent rumpus, but the
fact remains that it does not matter
50 much what a thing is as what It is
thought to be.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

Mr.. Palmer T. Dale, living near
Savannah, Ca, says: Myself and
family have always, since living in this
locality, been troubled with malarial
disorders. Hearing that Browns
Iron Bitters we're a sure preventive,
we have all used it sparingly, and as a
result none Of us have been sick"
S. Mansfield & Co., W. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G. w Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Fun and Folly.

Now York Iimes.l
A Boston man on rainy day, see
ing a man ahead of him whom he
thought friend with a silk umbrella
hoisted over his head, rushed up to
him, clapped his hand on his shout.
Jer and shouted, by way Of joke:
Al'll take that umbrella, if you
1leasel" The individual addressed
looked around and disc losed an entire
stranger, but before the other could
apologize, be said, hurriedly. "0h,
it's yours, is it? Well, | didn't know
that. Here, you can have it," and
broke away, leaving the umbrella in
hIa hand,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
Is Physical Perfection Worth
striving for?

Do you wish to be perfect in mind
and body? Do you wish to be healthy
and strong in all your parts2 Then lay
all other remedies aside and use
Browns Iron Bitters. 1t will surely
infuse new life and vigor into the
whole human system. 1t gives per-
lection to every part, increases the
muscles and strengthens the nerves.
s. Mansfield & Co., W. N. Wilker-
son & Co.. and G.. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
He Anew the Bunko Nan,

St. Francisco News letter.
He was plain old man from the
country; he wore an old-style, bread
brimmed hat, and his clothes were
homespun, bat when a sick looking
stranger stepped up to him and pro.
fessed to know him, and asked all
about his wife and family, and wanted
to know when he came down and
when he was going back, the old man
declined the profered hand, and
drawing back, said: That's all
right, young man, never mind the
preliminaries; git right down TO bust
ness 'twonce. You've got some goods
at the depot and want to pay the
freight. Hadn't got nothin' but a
hundred dollar check. Would l hold
the check and let you have $50 43 to
pay the freight2 Or p'r'aps you've
just drawed prize in a lottery, and
would just step round with you and
see you git the money; or p'r'aps--"
but the confidence man had slipped
away; the granger was too well posted
altogether. AS the old man gazed
after his retreating figure, he chuckled
out: Slipped up that time, Mr..
Bunko; I'm posted-I read the pa
pers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

Tbs most fsiiahls Asimulsns iof shs
growth Of infants and children, and
the one most gentle il It's soothing
effect, is Browns Iron Bitters.
s. Mansfield 4 Co., w. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G.. w. jones Il Co.,
wholesale agents..
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

The publishers Of the Richmond,
Va, Enquirer heartily recommendDr.
Bulls cough syrup and say: 1T has
been we'll tried in our Office and com
posing room, and has cured our city
editor Of a very bad case Of bron-
chitis."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
AA.1H3egNp,
MEMrHIs, TRNN., April Is, lsSl.

DIEMFHIBI 1kNNsI April I5s 1871
MeSsrs. II. II. Warner q Co:
GESTLMEN-For over twenty years have
been a sufferer from kidney trouble, accom-
panied by q female weakness which culmi-
mated into falling Of the womb. | have been
treated by numerous doctors in Georgia and
Alabama. but none. of them gave mo any
benefit. In 1873 q friend adviEed me To use
bottle did me more good than all the other
medicine | had taken in eighteen years, and
q continued use caused further improvement,
until | considered myself well. l believe It
70 DO the. best remedy in the market for such
female disorders. can chesrtully recon-
mend 1t TO all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24
TRUTH ArTEslEp.
Some Important Statements
Of Well Known People
Wholly Verified.

In order that the public may fully realize
the genuineness of the statements, as well as
the power and value Of the article Of which
they speak, we publish herewith the fac
smile signatures Of parties whose sincerity
"a beyond question. The truth Of these testi-
monials Is absolute, MGR can the facts they an
nounce DO ignored;
MEMPHIS. Tenn. April 20. 1881
MesArs. II. II, Warner & Co;
gEsTLEMEE-I have been sufferer from my
infancy with disease Of the kidneys, and have
expended great deal of my hard earned
wages with physicians and at various sprinRs
In search Of relief, None did me any good.
Finally, after reading several testimonials Of
the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, I concluded
to try II, and aftor having used four bottles
found that had been entirely cured. and am
to-day as streng and healthy as any enc.
have not seen any testimonials from any one
in this section Of the country, and on this
account send mine voluntarily. hoping that
some one affected with this dangerous disease
may see it and be induced to try it. 1t Is the
most wonderful medicine have ever seen.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-24

PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office
and book hndery, Is Madison.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1882-03-24
Boys Will be Boys.

An exchange says boy will tramp
two hundred and forty seven miles in
one day on rabbit hunt and be timber
in the evening when, il you ask him
to 90 across the street and borrow Jones
two-inch auger, he will be as stiff as
meat-bock. OF course he will. And
he will 90 swimming all day, and stay
in the water three hours at time, and
spash and dive, and paddle and puff, and
next morning he will feel that an I'M
measured insult has been offered him
when he is told by his mother to wash
his face carefully so as not to leave the
score of the ebb and flow so plain to be
seen under the gill. And he'll wander
around dry creek bed all the afternoon
pilng up pebble fort, and nearly die
off when bis big sister wants him to
please pick up basket Of chips for the
parlor stove. And he'll spend the big
gcst part of the day trying to corner q
stray mule or bald-backed horse for
u ride. and feel that all life's charms
have fed when it come time to drive
the cows home. And he'll turn ten
acre lot upside down for ten inches of
angle-worms, and wish for the voiceless
tomb when the garden demands his at
tention. But all the same, when you
want friend who will stand by you,
and sympathizo with you, and be true
to you in all kinds of weather. enlist one
of those same bows.