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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25

A citizen Of Pawtucket entered a
grocery the other day and said he
wanted a private word with the pro-
prietor. When they had retired to
the desk he began:
81 want to make a confession and
reparation. Do you remember Of my
buying sugar here two or three days
ago2"
81 do"
well, in paying for it | worked Of
a counterfeit quarter on the clerk. II
was mean trick, and | come to ten
der you good money"
"0h, don't mention it, replied the
grocer.
but Iwant TO make it all right"
"It's all right--all right. We knew
who passed the quarter on us, and
that afternoon when your wife semi
down dollar bill and wanted a car
Of sardines, gave her that bad quar-
ter with her change. Don't let you
conscience trouble you at all--it's al
right"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25

to move our encampnent, taking care
not to expose to the sunken eyes Of
our neighbors the little meal and -four
left US.
Fortunately, about two days before,
several Of our companions seeing no
prospect for a fall in the water, had
commenced the construction of Ca
noes with axes, hatchets aud such
implements as could be had. They
were now ready. and men were started
off in search Of provisions. The next
day they returned, bringing something
of a supply. Then we sent off the
women and children in these boats.
Finally we embarked ourselves, and
joining them, took the steamer, and
have arrived here.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25
PERFECTLY AWFUL.
Anna DlckinsOn's Terrible Nils.
take in Going on the Stage.

Mrs. Jane G. Swisshelm has her
opinion Of Anna Dickinson as an ac-
iress, which she has thus freely
expressed in the Chicago Tribune:
For years Anna Dickinson perse-
yered in her great work, and before
her lay lifetime of honorable labor
for the welfare of her race; but the
stage wanted some one to come and
reform it, and to this petty task she
set herself, leaving undone her own
great work. For whole winter she
labored hard to put a quart Of beans
into a pint measure, to crowd Anna
Dickinson into Anna Boleyn, the great,
grand representative woman into the
selfish, unprincipled, pretty flirt, but
never succeeded, and never will sue
coed. thank God, in making herself
anything but Anna Dickinson. 1t was
bad enough to have her come down
from her high eminence, from her
great work, to represent a very ordi.
nary woman; but when she left that
plane and come still further down and
represent a man, it was a little more
than bad enough. When the Creator
set about peopling the globe, he began
with the lowest form Of animal life
and worked steadily upward until he
made man out of mud to act as
steward Of the realm, and when every
thing was in order he made woman Il
crown the enterprise, thus makinG
man a bulwark between woman and
all the rude forces of nature, and sht
is the link between him and all higher
spiritual life and being. But AIMS
Dickinson, not content with comini
down to represent man, must need
come still further down and represen
a very mean type Of men; FIRST tn,
talking machine, called the Prince o,
Denmark, thing destitute Of tn
simplest and noblest properties o
manhood, then Claude Melnotte, th
tool of set Of knaves. That she doe
not succeed in putting herself in th
place Of either is all the more to he
credit. Her Hamlet seems to me al
improvement on that of Booth, be
cause she has no stage strut, Blu
! neither she nsr Booth acts as any on
would be likely to do if placed in tn
! circumstances represented in the play
but Booth has the advantage Of look
ing as much like a man as Hamle
could have done, which Anna neve
/ can do. There are woGen of sue
! stature and frame that in male cos
S tune they may pass for men, but Ann
{ Dickinson is not one of them "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25
i HOPEFUL VIEW.


A prominent citizen Of tie Yazoo
valley writes the following interesting
points of the present food and its
probable results to the Yazoo City
Herald:
"In the Eastern or Yazoo river por-
tons Of Yazoo bottom there is nos uf-
fering, | presume, nor is there likely
to be any, consequent on the now cur
rent flood. Flowing is arrested, stock
has to be removed to the hill country,
and security provided for provender
and provisions. This / do not call
suffering. And to this may be added
considerable loss Of fencing, and some,
but | presume no great losses Of cattle
and hogs.
In some respects this present food
is extraordinary, perhaps unprece-
dented since the country was settled
which period may be dated about 1927
or 1923. | have no recollection that
we ever had high water in this coun-
try before. without the cooperation OF
both the upper rivers, also assisted by
large local rains. And up to the
present writing, March 14th, the
upper Mississippi is low, say eighteen
feet at st. Louis. But the Ohio val
ley, as well as all Tennessee and Mis-
sissippi, has been visited by almost
constant rains for more than two
months past, which if not unprece-
denied were certainly very great.
But there is another aspect to this
subject. The food is one thing; what
to do and how to do it is another.
Flood water from st. Louis may not
reasonably be looked for before the
latter part of April, and by that time
the water at and below Cairo will have
passed away, and we will not see the
Missouri water when it passes. We
will likely be blowing and planting
by that time, and talking about the
overflow that was.
Then there are few considerations
that might be born in mind:
/. Cotton on overhowed land will
require one full month less time to
mature than that,planted on dry land.
/ have tested this to my satisfaction.
2. Corn will do well planted any
time in May. The earlier the better
of course. 1t is said that worms are
bad on corn planted on land that was
overAowed. That may be so, but
have not observed it. Certainly it il
not always so.
3, The sediment left by the receding
water, or something else, gives most
wonderful fructifying force to vegeta-
ton. Corn and cotton grow most
rapidly and large. Moreover, much
of the weed seeds are destroyed.
| 4. The water leaves the land in
most beautiful condition for cultivat.
ling, 1t may be safely set down that
| from one-half to three-fourths the
labor will suffice, other things being
equal.
And then, again: All cultivated
land is liable to injury, more or less
| by redundant water, overflow, wash.
ing summer rains, etc. Now, divide
all the cultivated land in Yazoo county
into three classes. The first class il
the rolling upland. The second is
the creek bottoms. The third is il
| Yazoo bottom. Now take period O.
twenty or twenty-five years, and strike
the average of loss and Inconvenience
in these classes separately and in that
time which class suffers most in pro.
portion from all kinds of redundant
water? They take theirs in small
broken doses; ours comes in long in
stallments, say once in seven or eigh
years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25
Journnl of Bnnkinr Lnm.

The Journal Of Banking Law, edited
by Geo. H. Stever, and published at
rs Fulton street, New York, has been
received. 1t is the first number of a
quarterly magazine to be devoted to
reporting legal decisions upon bank
ing and financial cases, and will prove
Of great value as book of reliable
reference to all who are interested in
laws bearing upon the finances Of the
country. Questions Of banking law
Involving interests Of great magnitude
are continually arising, and there is
no branch which seems so much to
need a legal journal, especially devot-
ed to its interests as that Of banking;
and as no business is SO nearly allied
to the practice of law, it is essential
that bankers should be continually on
the alert" The foregoing is an ex-
tract from the magazine, explaining
the object it has lin view. The sub
scripsion price is fixed at FIVE dollar
per annum.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25

No. S299-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn. = State Of Tennessee VS..
w x Butler ct al.
1T appearing from amended bill, which Isl
j sworn to in this cause, that tho defendants,
Martha A Owen, Mary + Owen, Sallie NJ
Owen, Miles Owen, jr, Ida Owen, Augustus
Owen, WI liam Owen, Jehn P Smith and
and Anne MoRwin, his wife, Mrs. Jane
Lawrence, Willie Tomeny, Blanche Tomeny.
L McKissick and Lizzie McKissick, his
wife, Henry w Brooks and Blanche Brooks,
his wife, Mrs. Maria + Giles, Miss Maria O
Giles, V Is Waddell, trustee, Parker g Evan,
r w Tucker, Chas. 4 Harrison, trustee, Mrs
Mary Looney, Chas. Sanford and Bette San
Burbank, her husband, Robert Looney, jr.
Kate Looney, Dora lOoney, Ohas. LoonSy.
w O falkner, Annie Pope, Camilla Pope;
Samuel Kerr, or Carr, and Mary Ann Kerr, or
Carr. his wife, Ben Biseman, u A Cole, Henry
Laird, tallie ! Harris, unknown heirs Of
George A MCCALL John Williams, II
Williams, MeCarly, i G Noel and Mamie
Noe, bis wife, Bank Of Louisville, Kentucky,
and Mrs. 5 A Baker, are all non-residents
Of the State Of Tennessee; II is thore-
tore ordered that they make their ap.
pearanoe herein, at the courthouse OF
Shelby county, in Memphis Tennessee,
on or before the first Monday in May, 1852,
and plead. answer or demur to complainant
bill, or tho same will be taken for confessed
a. TO them and set fol-. hearing ex.parto. and
that copy OF this order be published once a
Ledger.
This $50 day of March. 1882.
A copy-Attest:
RI BLACK, Clerk and Master,
By J M Bradley, DC. NJ.
w Hampton, sol'r for comppt. 2026 2Bs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25
Is Physical Perfection Worth
striving for?

Do you wish to be perfect in mind
and bOdy2 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, 1882-03-25
Rescued from Death.

William j. Coughlin, of Somerulle.
Mass, says; in the fall Of 1876 | was
taken with a violent bleeding Of the
lungs, followed by severe cough. |
was so weak at one time that / could
not leave my bed. In the summer Of
1877 was admitted to the city hospi.
tai, While there the doctors said /
had hole in my left lung as big as a
half dollar. was SO far gone at one
time a report went around that | was
dead. gave up hope, but a friend
told me Of DR.. VIM. Halls Balsam for
the Lungs. got a bottle, when TO my
surprise and qualification l commenced
TO feel better, and to-day l feel in bet
tor spirits than | have in the past
three years.
II write this hoping every one
afflicted with diseased lungs will be
induced to take DR.. Halls Balsam for
the lungs, and be convinced that con
sumption can be cured" Sold by
druggists.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25
ABAT BONANZA.
Alleged Deposits of PhOSPhates
in UVaIde County, Texas.
Nsr Yert world.I

New York World.l
Mr.. NJ. Frewer, of this city, gave q
World reporter to-day some informa.
ton about the immense cave deposits
of bat guane in Uvalde county, Texas,
which have just been made accessible
by the recent railroad extensions,
There are several caves Inhabited by
myriads Of bats of different species.
The entrance of the smaller of the two
large caves is about fifty feet in height
and twenty. Eve wide, on the side Of a
low hill. The bats begin coming out
of this entrance about $3.50, aud pour
forth like a thick, black cloud until
after ten o'clock at night. They go to
some vast marshes, where they obtain
food, and return to the caves in the
morning. Analysis made by DR.,
Habirshaw, Of this city, and also
by Messrs Techemacher and Smith,
show that the deposits contain over
II per cent of ammonia, besides bone
phosphates of value in considerable
quantities. This analysis compares
very favorably with any Peruvian
guano now in the market. Until re-
Gently man named New owned the
largest cave, and wanted $l2O, 900 for
the property. He said that the guam.
tity of guano in that one cave was
so enormous that he would lease it to
a company to work without limiting
the quantity of guano to be removed
annually, for $1,000 a year. He was
satisfied that the deposit could not be
worked out in hundred years. The
work of getting out the guano has only
just begun. The first shipment was
made from the Cibolo cave few days
ago. On the analysis made, this bat
guano will be worth from $50 to $50
per ton. The Uvalde caves have not
yet been touched. Large gangs of men
will be at work in them very soon.
Messrs. Wylie, Teacher & Gordon, of
London, the proprietors of the phos
plate deposits at Charleston, are
working the caves, and propose to
erect at Uvalde a mandatory for the
production of sulphate of ammonia. "
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American Women the Best
Dressed.
London Daily Nows.l

American women are unquestlon-
able the best dressed nowadays. Why
it should be is question too profound
to enter on here. Much and subtle
analysis would have TO be expended
on that problem. One explanation,
which seems to lie on the surface, may
be that, while acting with authority
on questions of taste, and fully COM
petent TO judge them, they bring TO
the business a certain originality Of
conception and national freshness Of
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-03-25

A doctor at Richmond says that if
people will take bath in hot whisky
and rock salt twice a year they will
never catch a cold. Until somebody
has tried this new remedy We would
say this: stick to the old and reliable
DR.. Bulls cough syrup.