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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-14
LEDGER.
george KEENAN,.

The p~leasantest feature Of winter
travel in Siberia is camping out at
night. All day long you suffer from
cold, hunger and fatigue, or lose your
way in binding snow, but the antlcl-
patton of the bright evening campfire
sustains your tagging spirits and ena-
bles you TO hold out until night. We
usually camped out as soon as we
could find wood for a fire, alter 1t grew
dark. Three sledges were drawn up
together. so as to make q little inclos-
ure about ten feet square. The snow
was all shoveled out Of the interior and
banked up around the sides, like q
snow fort, and a fire built.at the open
end. This little snow-cellar was then
strewn to a depth of three or four
inches with twigs of trailing pine
shaggy bear-skins were spread down
to make a warm, soft carpet, Snd our
fur sleeping bags and swan's-down
pillows were arranged for the night.
In the middle stood a low table, I'M
provised out Of a candle box, on which
one of our native drivers soon placed
two cups of steaming tea, a few pieces
Of frozen rye-bread and some dried
fsI. Then stretching ourselves out
10 luxurious style upon our bear-skin
carpet, with our feet to the fire and
our backs against pillows, we smoked,
drank tea and told stories in perfect
comfort. After supper the natives
piled dry branches of trailing pine up
on the fire until it sent up a column
of fame ten feet in height, aud then,
squatting in their favorite positions
around the blaze, they sang tor hours
the wild, melancholy songs Of Kan
chadals and told n%ever-ending stories
Of hardships aud adventure on the
coast Of the Icy Sea. At last the
great constellation of Orion marked
bedtime. Our stockings were taken
of and dried by the FIRE, the dogs were
fed their daily allowance of one dried
fish each, and pulling on our heaviest
fur coats. we crawled feet first into
cur wolf skin bags pulled thea up
over our heads and slept.
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The Next Governor.

EDITOR OF THE LEDGER-I saw, in
your issue Of the 18th instant, a refer
elce made to Judge John L. 7. Sneed
suggestive Of the next Governor of
Tennessee, upon which l venture these
assertions: No man is better acquaint.
ed with the State debt question in its
origin and growth and the capacity Of
the State to discharge it, and none
more capable Of suggesting an equit-
able, honorable and satisfactory basis
OF settlement than Judge Sneed. No
man in the State is more popular with
the voters, and his nomination for
Governor would unite the Democratic
party aud insure success in the next
State election, as the farmers Of the
State are unanimous for him. Let
peace on earth, good will to man reign
and discord no more divide the Demo
cratic ranks. Elk.
Woodstock, March Is, 1882.
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What Is TO be worn When the
Winter Days are Gone.

New York SUM-
The fashions for mems spring cloth
ing do not indicate any very marked
change in the styles Of cutting. Trous.
ers are to be a trife smaller in the Les
and cut straight and small at the bot.
tom. Vests are to be cut high, with.
out collars. Coats are to be buttoned
high, and Of about the same length as
at present The Prince Albert coat
is to have four bottoms. Spring over
coats have buttons in front. Coat
collars are to be smaller a~ndirolling.
There is, in fact, very little change,
and the plates show q variety of styles,
so that old clothes, if not seedy, may
be worn with impunity, as far as the
cut is concerned.
But there are to be so many beauti-
full and fancy new patterns in material
that old clothes will be betrayed,
however carefully they may have been
kept. The new patterns comprise
some peculiar business suitings in
stripes and plaids, Scotch and English
mixed goods, small broken checks,
plain Scotch cheviots, diagonal chevi-
OTIS, English cassimeres of various and
delicate s~hadings.
Some of the imported golden mixed
goods are of novel and attractive pat
tern, not only pleasing to the eye, but
intended to wear we'll. Generally, the
collars are to be darker. although
fashion will provide light colors for
those who insist on having them.
Among the novelties are to be green
mixed, olive-mixed, and other mixed
goods. Fashion will also permit not
only %suitings, or coat, vest and trous-
ers Of the same material. but also some
fancy vestings. Some Of the goods for
vests are of rare and dainty pattern
and shading. There is a slight dispo-
sition to re-introduce the white vest
for dress, but it does not take we'll.
Dress coats are not to be changed
much. The collars may be a little
larger and more rolling. Dress vests
are to have only three buttons. Most
Of the patterns for business suits are
for sack coats, bHt frocks are equally
fashionable. The sacks must have
only four buttons, and should fit
rather closely.
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THE LESSON OF EVICTION,
The Ruin and Loss IL has En-.
tailed.

CIR. N. Y. Herald.l
Returns have been published Of the
eviction in Ireland during 1881. They
show that 3,4l5 families, comprising
1874 persons, were evicted, OF
these 1885 persons were readmitted
as tenants and 8,077 as ~caretakers,
leaving 1875 as the total number
turned out on the roadside. Where
are they aud what are they doing,
these 1875 homeless people? The an.
swer may be sought in a paragraph
which l will quote from a remarkable
little book by Mr.. Standish 0'Grady
just published, Mr.. 0'Grady belongs
to the landlord class; he sails, to use
his own striking metaphor, in the lit
tie heet,in which are embraced the
persons and fortunes of the Irish land
lords, and which strong tides, which
no fierce can stem, bear closer and ever
closer TO an iron bound shore. He
says:-"As an illustration of the enor-
nous power possessed by a revolution
airy and discounted people over a class,
even when the latter is backed by
overwhelming military force, consider
the possible and probable difficulties
involved in the effort to break up
the No Rent combination and to
enforce an even temporary and
sullen aequiescence in the law.
While the temper Of the people is still
in that intermediate state in which
it will yield rather than suffer evic-
ton, the law indeed triumphs, though
at what cost-what a mortgage upon
the futurel But suppose that it has
reached that point Of obduracy and
desperation at which it will not yield.
Suppose that the peasantry resist the
law up to and after eviction, and hat
estate after estate is cleared out in
consequence, the population mean
while encamping on the borders OF
upon farms necessarily exempted from
eviction, and Of which the rent has
been to that end paid. Then comes
the real tug ana strain-estates idle
and unproduotive, occupied by cmer.
gency men, an average of one man L
each farm, aud at an average cost Of
ten shillings a day, while the landlord
remains liable for rates and taxes
/ annuities and interest on charges be
sides the initial law costs which a poo
| pie who have screwed their pugnacit.
| and determination TO such a point vii
fn6 many means Of evadiDg." Mr.
0iGrady then takes as example an es
tate Of 220 tenants, charged to halt it
: value aud with a rental Of $4,000
S year. Twenty tenants pay up, tina
l their farms may serve al campin
/ ground TO the others who are elected
z The expenses and liabilities of th
!. landlord, law costs, rates and taxeI
/ emergency men, will amount to f42I
r 500 for the years campaign, Two 0
0 three such estates would exhaust an
8 fund the, landlords might form
0 Therefore, | say" continues Oh
4 author, ~ say deliberately that th
No Rent movement, If the peopl
voluntarily or through terrorism +
out rather than pay, constitutes . dii
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MERCHANT MASON'S FATF.
DIshOnOrabIe Discharge Prom
the Army and Eight Years
Imprisonment.
s,0,i,lto CipoiBpsn coumsrei.l.l

Special to C~ineinnsti COmmsreial.l
NEW YORK, March 10.-The finding
of the court martial, in the case Of
Sergeant Mason, who shot at the muir
derer of President Garfield last Sep.
TENDER. was made public to-day By an
order issued BY General Hancock,
from the headquarters Of the Depart
ment of the East, at Governors
Island. The court martial finds him
guilty and prOnounces sentence as fol
lows;
TO be dishonorsbly discharged from
the service Of the United States, with
the less of all pay and allowances now
due to him, and then to be confined
at hard labor in such penitentiary as
the proper authority may direct for
eight years
The order states that the findings
have been approved, and that sentence
will be duly executed. The peniten-
tiary at Albany IS designated a the
place Of MasOn's confinement. he Is
now at Washington. and will be held
there until further orders. The Sc
lection Of the Albany ~peDitendary as
4 place Of Imprisonment for Mason, j;
subject to the approval Of the Sesre.
tary Of War.
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~ l. Norld.I
In the dining hall OF Bunneli's Mu-
scum, at 5 O'Clock last night, a meeting
was held by the sGriosities for the
purpose Of taking action in regard to
the death Of David Navarro, the fat
boy, who died Of smallpox at Pitts
burg the other day. Colonel Goshen,
the giant, was elected Chairman upon
the nomination Of he Midget and Sir
Walter Stuart, the limbless man, was
made Secretary. The Two Headed
Girl proposed hat DR.. Khan and
Professor Hutchins be appointed q
committee TO draw up resolutions, and
her proposition was fayorablyreceived
The following resolutions we're pre-.
sented, after having been changed
somewhat by suggestions made by Fu
Gee Jim and the Bearded Lady:
Whereas, We have recently heard
Of the death of the giant boy, David
Navarro; therefore be it
Resolved, That while in the deatl
Of David Navarro we feel that We hag,
lost a friend, We are not as those with
out comfort, for while we miss hi
gigantic form, his beautiful face anC
honest grasp Of his manly hand, ye
we carry with US as we journey alonI
life's highway without him the genor
Gus memories Of his kindly acts, ant
while wo extend TO his family gu.
profoundest sympathies We believl
that we but voice the sentiment Of hi
millions Of friends throughout tn
world when we say, 'Requiescat il
pace.
The Professor and Doctor wer
! highly eomplimented on their effort
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TRUTA ATTESGED.
Some Important Statements
Of Well Known People
Wholly Verified.

In order that the public may fully realize
the commences Of the statements, Is well as
the power and value Of the article Of which
they. speak, we publish herewith the fac
smile signatures Of parties whose sincerity
Is beyond question. The truth Of these testi-
monials is absolute, nor can the facts they an
nounoe DO ignored;
Memphis. TENN, April 20. 1881.
Messrs. Il. Il, Warner & Co:
GEKTLRNEE-I have been . sufferer from my
infancy with disease Of the kidneys, and have
expended. q great deal of my hard earned
wages with physicians and at various springs
In search of relief. None did me any good,
Finally, after reading several testimonials Of
the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, / concluded
TO try Il, and aftor having used four bottles
found that l 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 thai
some one affected with this dangerous disease
may see 1t and be induced to try II. II Is thu
most wonderful medicine I have ever seen,
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Satisfying the Majesty OF the
Law.

Texas Siftings,l
There is a Justice OF the Peace out
in Crosby county. Week before last
he found a man guilty Of shooting a
bull that did not belong to him, and
fined him s~eventy-fyc dollars.
why, Jedge," said the doomed
man, Il haven't got no seventy.ive
dollars. | cant pay no sch fne."
The State of Texas puts me in this
Office to find a way to make men pay
their fines. You will cut cedar poles
until you have cut enough to satisfy
the majesty of the law" replied the
Justice,
But, Jedge, what use has the State
of Texas got for Cedar pOles2'
the State Of Texas hasn't got no
use for cedar poles. It's this court
who needs them cedar poles to build
fence. I'll take the poles and settle
with the State Of Texas for them"
And the poor devil is cutting cedar
poles for the State of Texas now.
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His Darling.

Chicago Tribune,
DO you 60, darling" and as she
spoke the words, spoke them in low.
tender tones that thrilled him from
main truck TO keelson, Gwendolen
Mahaffy laid her soft, white cheek on
Plutarch Riordan's shoulder, and
gave him a look with her lustrous,
dove-like eyes that would make your
head swim.
Il can not stay he replied, kissing
the peachy. red lips as he spoke, and
feeling wistfully in his ovorcoat peck.
ct for a plug Of tobacco. 81 must 20
now, right away"
But the girl placed her arms around
his neck arms whose soft. rounded
curves and pink tinted skin would
have made an anchorite throw up his
job, and pleaded with to stay a little
longer. II can not" looking al her
teDderly.
Can not9" repeated the girl, a shade
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RAILROAD MACNATES In
NASHVILLE.
Messrs. G. p. Huntington aad
+. w. Pierce on Their
Way 70 Texas.


Nashville Ansriean-l
q. p. Huntington, President Of the
Chesapeake, Ohio 4 Southwestern
railway, and 7. W. Pierce, President
of the Sunset Route" the Galveston,
Houston 4 San Antonio railway, ar
rived here from Memphis, last night,
en- route to New Orleans and Easle
Pass, the present terminus Of the
'sSunset Route" They came here In
a special car from Memphis, not hay-
ing been able to go down the jackson
route in consequence Of the foods in
che Mississippi valley.
Mr.. Huntington is a tall, Rportly
looking gentleman, Of easy, afable
manners aad talks huently. Though
he has lived out his three-score and
ten years he is still full of vim and
life. Mr.. Huntington said he would
not return to New York before next
month, as he was interested in the
Sunset Route and would spend
some time in Texas. He also stated
that he lived in Nashville during the
winter Of 1899, and was a guest OF tht
old Nashville Inn. He desired u
know whether the building was still
standing and also whether the cedar
on the knob-Capitol Hill-had eve,
been cut down. He expressed grea
regret that he had not sufficient tim,
to take a view of the city, as he woulI
be delighted to see the many change
that must have taken place in forty
three years. Mr.. Huntington ais
made inquiries about the Woods an
Yeatman families.
Messrs Huntington and Pierce, i
the formers car, left at 8 o'clock iC
New Orleans, a special engine havin
been procured to haul it.
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Of anger tlnsslns Che tons In which the
word was uttered. "And pray, sir,
what is it that 50 imperatively calls
you hence?"
Bending over her with a careless
grace that artfully concealed the slight
baqriness at the knees Of his pants,
Plutarch said in low, bitter tones that
were bitter in their intensity:
81 have broken my suspendersl"
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Mr.. Horace Seyvill, of Altoona,
Pa, says: my wife and | are upward
of seventy years of age. OF late We
have both begun to feel the in6rmities
of old age. Nothing seems to revive,
exhilarate and strengthen US, as does
Browns Iron Bitters. We would not
do without it for ten times its cost
s. Mansfield X Co, w. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
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Health is Wealth

Dr.. u. O. WEsr's NERVE AND BRAN TREAT
MINT; q specific for Hysteria, Dizziness, Con
v~ulsiens, Nervous Headache, Mental Depres
sion, Loss Of Memery, Spermatorrhma, limo.
tonoy, Involuntary Emissions, Premature Ola
Age. caused BY oyer-exertion, self. abuse, or
and death. One box will cure recent cases.
Each box contains one months treatment.
One dollar q box, or six boxes for five dollars.
sent by mail prepaid on receipt Of price. We
guarantee six boxes 10 cure any case. with
panied with i've dollars, We will send M epnT.
chaser our written guarantee to return the
money II the treasnent does not effect a cure,
Guarantees issued only BY A. RENKERT q
CO., Wholesale and Retail Druggists, as Main
stregt. Memphis, Tenn. Orders by mail will
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-14

The PUBLIC LEDGER book bindery
Ii Madison street, is in the same build
ing as the newspaper and job printing
establishment; is owned by the same
proprietor; embraces all machines and
material used in a frst-class book
bindery, aud is conducted by compe.
tent workmen, capable of executing
work in as GOOD and substantial a
style as can be done anywhere.
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Fred Grants Narrow Gauge
Texas Railroad.

Little Rock Gazette
HoUsToN, TEXAS, March l0.-The
stockholders of the Texas Western
Narrow Gauge Railroad resolved to
bond the road at $4,000 per mile from
Houston to Preside del Norte, a dis
lance of six hundred miles, the bonds
to bear six per cent interest, to be
issued on the completion of every ten
miles. Fred Grants President Of the
road, and his brother Jesse was
elected Treasurer.
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Ask YOurseIf.

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you troubled with any urinary disoa-
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wholesale agents.
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The First Shipment Of Cotton
Direct 10 the Paciic Coast.

Special to the Little Rock Gazette.l
DALLAS, TEX, March lO.-The
first shipment of cotton from Texas to
the Pacific coast by rail passed west
to-day over the Texas & Pacific to I'll
Paso. From there it will 60 via the
Southern Pacific to San francisco.
The shipment wa made from Calves.
ton to Houston, via the Galveston.
Houston q Henderson railroad; from
Houston to Longyiew, via the Inter.
national d Great Northern, and from
Longview, via the Texas & Pacific, to
III Paso; the traffic being confined
exclusively to the Gulf system. There
we're one hundred bales in the con
Segment. The cotton is to be usediu
the San Francisco wooden mills fol
mixed fabrics. 1t is learned SO salts
factory freight rates have been secured
as to justify large future shipment,
from various Texas markets.
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OAED.

To all Who are suffering from the errors and
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early decay, loss Of manhood, ETC., Twill send
q recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
OHARGE.. This great remedy was discovered
By a missionary Ia South America. Send a
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~62rxxiV52d
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THEM
LOTTERY.
particulars Notice.

All the drawings will hereafter DO under the
exclusive supervision and control Of GENE-
RAILS G.. T. BEAUREGARD and JUDAL A,
EARLY.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
"A WIN A FORTUNEi
THIRD GRAND DISTRIBUTION. CLASS O,
at Now Orleans, Tuesday, March IA,
1Ss2-142d Monthly Drawing.
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Gratitude Beyond Expression.

HAMPTON G. H., S. c., May 2, 81.
FL. II. Warner & Co: Sirs-The
result of your Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure in my case has been astonishing
so much SO that l can find no words
in which to express my Indebtedness
to you.
Rev. ", II. PRENTIss,
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a man Is Tser for his learning, and
the sooner he learns that the only
proper way to cure a cough or cold, is
TO ne Dr.. Balls cough syrup, the bet
ter be i Of.
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gAegaAvM
MrHrHrs. TnrN.. April d. 1ssl.

HvasId. n ~ WaIutI q OOs
GKHrLEMEN-For over twenty years I have
been a sufferer from kidney trouble, accom-
panied by a female weakness which culmi-
natod into falling Of the womb. have been
treated by numerous doctors in Georgia and
Alabama but none of them gave me any
benefit. In 1879 a friend adviRed me to use
bottle did me more good than all the other
medicine l had taken in eighteen years, and
q continued use caused further improvement,
until considered myself well. ] believe 1t
TO be the best remedy in the market for such
mend 1t to all.
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sherlH,s Sale Of Real Estate.

DUBLIC notice Is hereby given, that by
j virtue Of m execution, to no directed
from the Hon. Probate Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn., in tho case Of James NJ Bailey
VS.. Zaoharlah Harri on, OF al, Judgment Q
sum TSN Of siSty.six dollars and tiirty-SVveS
cents, with interest and costs Of suit, TO sat-
isfy said judgment, etc., 1 will, on
Saturday, the Ist day Of April, 1882,
In legal hours, in front Of the courthouse, in
the Taxing District Of Shelby county, Tenn,
proceed to sell, TO the highest bidder, for
cash, the following described property, TO-
wit:
Situate, lying and being in county Of Shell
BY, state ofTenn, ssei In section 8, range 5 Of
the 18th Surveyor District. and IN the Fourth
Civil bistri I Of said county, about 3 miles
south Of Cuba, one tract OF parcel ofland, be-
ginning at n stake on Gifts south line. thence
with said line n S9A degrees Q 10 chains and
% links to a stake with poplar points, j M
Bailoy'sn " corner Of his69 aero tract; thence
south with faid Bailoy's west limo q chains
% links 10 q stake with box elder points
thence a 81 degrees west with williams and
Butler line Is chains IS thinks to q stake;thence
north with John Oldham's east line 10 chains,
3 links 10 the beginning, containing "a 75'lOl
acres. Also one othor tract or parcel Of land
beginning ut Bailey's . 0 corner Of % aero
tract, q stake n AZ degrees east ~ links from n
white oak stump; thence north IA degrees
west With said Bsiley's east line and apart oil
James Campbells line 81 chains and ~ link
to a poplar marked TIP; thence east . chain
81 links TO n stake; thence blM degrees east -
chains A linkg 70 . black gum marked u Al
thonco west WithWilliams' north lines chain
and IS links 10 the beginning, containing .
acres. .
Levied on as tho property Of the defendant
IL Harrison, 10 satisfy said Judgment, In
terost and costs.
Memphis, 2Sth day Of February, 1852.
HATHY,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn
- BIZ ] DOUGLASS D. b. SlbH
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Be Carolina afrnet.

MEMPHIS, TENN, April l6, 1881.
Messrs. H. H. Warner 4 Co:
GEETs-I have used nearly every variety OF
pills made, bat never until / tried yours ala I
find enc that seemed suited to my system. /
find Warmers Safe Pills do precisely what
they are claimed to do. They leave no bad
effect, and are in every way the pleasantest
and most reliable in the market.