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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26

Other stables are on the way, and che
prospect is that there will be the larg-
est attendance Of horses and people
that has been seen in the South since
the war.
The clever little actress. Ada Gil
more, now with the Hssel Kirks
Troupe, acted here % eoubretse ap
entire Ssasou, and The cue when
frank Evans Vas shs leader, . dorsn
gears OF % back, She Iss mpsl sspa,
bic actress and very popular 10 New
/ York, Shste she has played for NUM-
Der Ofsessous.
The death list in this city last week
vas 30, Of which ID were white and IS
colored. Nine we're children and q
adults. Six died OF pneumonia. only
one of consumption, one, q female, Of
alcohol, one Of diphtheris and the re-
maiuder of scattering disorders. Five
died at the city hospital and inquests
were held over four.
The corn market, under the inau-
ence Of heavy receipts here and de-
cline in the West, was slinghtly easier
here to-day, aud sellers offered car
loads Of shelled at $50 per bushel in
sacks, A lot Of over 100 sacks in the
ear sold for $50 per pu'hel. In Chicago
to-day spot corn was ic below Satur-
days prices and wheat was le lower.
A, mile and 3 half Of iron track has
been laid at this end of the Selma
railway, and construction trains now
move as far out as Judge Wright's
place, and there is now iron enough on
hand to extend it out FIVE miles from
this end, while from Holly Springs
there is twenty miles Of iron on hand
and ready for use. The gap between,
for which there is yet no iron, is about
twenty miles.
The police headquarters were draped
in mourning yesterday, in respect to
the memory of the la'e Phil X. Athy,
and a large photograph of the lamented
dead, representing him in the uniform
Of Chief Of Police, hung in front of the
Office of the police chief. The flag on
top Of Odd Fellows Hall was half
masted yesterday and to-day also in
memory of the departed gentleman,
he having been consistent and
worthy member Of Chickasav Lodge
for many years past
About dozen persons have inter-
viewed Commissioner James Lee, jr.,
upon the Coal Oil Iuspectorsnip with
in the past forty. eight hours, all be-
cause he told the Governor while at
Nashville that he didn't believe any
one here wants the position. A prom.
inent colored official among the rest,
told Captain Lee that as be now holds
a place which pays no salary, he would
like to get in. The. Captain replied
that the gentleman could not possibly
be spared and is too valuable in his
present Office.
"The worst feature about this off.
cial business is the trouble with some
saloon louuger trying to tell you how
the streets should be paved, and it in
variably takes him an hour to run
down. Then some back Of town gro
Ger always uses up two hours to tell Of
a street crossing or lamp post wanted,
and this on a man who has as much as
| have to look after, is enough to
drive one crazy. That's the reason l
don't want to be Coal Oil Inspector or
Police Commissioner" Dir. Graves re-
marked day. The gentleman aught
to try news reporting a spell.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
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AZ phss W. Hunters, on Wolf
river, aboys gas works. 1856
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
Receipts Reported 10 the Mcr.
chants Exchange To-day.

Per Louisville and Nashville rail-
rOad-5O rolls baggiug, so bbls meal,
6 sacks oats, 100 bbls onions. 147 do
potatoes, 8 pkgs tobacco, l car cotton
seed, | do lumber, 4 hogs, 10 mules.
Per Memphis aud Charleston rail-
rOad--l8 bbls beans, 6 pkgs butter, 16
pkgs bacon, lO4 do cheese, IS do eggs,
900 bales hay, 5 bbls whisky, $50 kegs
nails, $50 sacks oats, 800 bbls potatoes,
234 pkgs tobacco, 3 cars lumber, | do
cotton seed, 81 cattle, 20 mules.
Per Mississippi and Tennessee rail-
road-42 sacks coffee, 1893 bbls sugar,
l car lumber, 2 do cotton seed, 80
sacks do.
Per Chesapeake, Ohio and Sounth-
western railroads. cars. corn, 80 hogs,
% cattle.
Per steamer Mark FwaiR--lT sacks
corn, 493 sacks cotton seed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
store KO6hed.

The safe Of Mr.. Alex. Goodrich
postmaster and merchant At O,sOsola,
was opened and robbed last Thpraday
night. Fhe amount taken. was about
$500, Of whiOk some 800 was special
deposits LETT Tor safe keeping, and
Sel5 postal money. Mr.. Goodrich
was on bis way to this city at the time
Of the robbery. The gentlemen lefi
in charge Of the store have mo idea
who the soampa were.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
The Memphis brokerage Ass0'
citation.

The Memphis brokerage AssO'
citation,
AT No. 8 Madison street, are now
taking orders, deliverable in Chicago
for wheat, corr, pork and lard, month
of May; cotton orders, delivery in
New York, for April, Msy.'June and
July; also orders immediate delivery
of twenty Of the leading railroad
stocks. Dispatches posted every few
minutes from Chicago, New York and
other markets.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
Attempt 70 Wreck n Train.

Attempt 70 Wreck a Train.
Some bastard attempted to wreck
the incoming passenger train on the
Louisville and Nashville railway
early yesterday morning a mile and a
bali beyond Bartlett, and some four
teen miles east of this city. A rail OF
other obstruction lwas laid on the
track, and when the engine bit it the
end few up aud knocked off the head
light, but did no other damage. The
train carried large number Of pas
sengsIs,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
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Improved autographs ZEN,
which places this useful instrument Of
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26

Oysters, Fish and Game receive
daily.
SEEssEL's MARKET,
I24 d 33I Main, near Union. l12t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26

The novelty Folains s6iA He'd
best IN the world.
Intersected Rubber Door Mats.
AMEs, BEATTIE 4 Co.,
1887 1863 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-26
PAT CUNNINGHAm,
Nor. MOnrOe and DeNsIo stree,s
Manufactures MAJ Ra,...

Dray carts, lumber wagons and trucks.
Painting buggiss and wagons specially.
Firstclaas work at low prices.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
\ Cave IN Devonshire. England.

Of kent's Cave.n, in the vicinity of
Torquay, remarkable cave, consisting
of a great excavation in the Devonian
limestone, a writer says:
1T is entered by narrow passage
some seven feet wide and only five feet
in height. The central cavern, which
is almost 600 feet long, has number of
small cavernS or corridors leading out
from it. Its further extremity is ter
minated by deep pool of water. In
the bed of this cavern modern research
has been rewarded by some deeply in
teresting discoveries. Over the original
earth bottom of the cave is bed or
layer of considerable thickness, in which
are contained strange mixtures of hu-
man bones with the bones of the ele-
phant and the rhinoceros, the hyena,
the bear, and the wolf, intermingled
with stone and flint tools, arrow and
spear heads, and fragments of coarse
pottery. The animal remains testify
to the presence in the ancient forests OF
Britain of beasts of prey which long
since have become extinct. Speculation
may be exhausted in the endeavor to
account for the curious intermingling in
this cavern of the remains of human
beings and wild animals. The place
may have been used successively by
man and by the lords of the forest; or,
as the presence of the rude weapons of
man might seem to indicate, the beasts
of the field may have been brought into
this natural recess as trophies of the
chase, and their flesh and skin used for
purposes of food and clothing. Moth
ing less than the most persevering and
enthusiastic search could have discov-
cred the interesting remains which, for
vast period of time, had been buried
in this retreat; for the fossils were
covered by a thick floor of stalagmite
which had been formed, there could b.
no doubt, by great blocks of limestone,
which had fallen from time to time, ex-
tending over a very heightened period,
from the roof of the cavern, and had
become cemented into one mass by the
percolations of lime-water
from above"
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Habits of the Panther in California.

Whatever may be the habits of the
panther in other localities, we have the
authority of Mr.. Livingston Stone for
the statement that those about the
McClOud River will always run from Il
dog, no matter how small he is, and
when closed upon will spring into tree
to a height of even twenty feet. So
intently will the panther watch the
barking and excited dog from his posi-
tion ON the branch that the hunter can
come as near as he pleases and take
deliberate aim. Near Mount PersephOne
panthers' tracks were observed TO be
thick at the base of vertical wall about
twenty feet high, forming the foot of a
precipitous mountain side. Once upon
the summit of this rock the panthers
were safe from white man, Indian or
dog. Though the panther is so coward
ly with dog, perhaps from inherited
fear of chase by a pack of wolves or
wild dogs, he will encounter and con-
gu Tthe grizzly bear. Combats between
these two animals seem to be not infre-
quent, and the Indians have found dead
bears that have been killed by panthers,
but never dead panthers that bears
have killed. The panther is said to
spring on the shoulders of the bear and
cut through the throat witt its teeth.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Night Air.

An extraordinary fallacy is the dread
of night air. What air can We breathe
at night but night aiir The choice is be-
tween pure night air without, and foul
air from within. Most people prefer
the latter. An unarcountable choice.
What will they say if it is proved to he
true that fully one-half of all the d.
seases we suffer from are occasioned by
PEOPLE sleeping with their windows
shut? An open window, most nights
In the year, cln never hurt any one. In
great cities night air is often the best
and purest to be had IN twenty-fours.
L could understand shutting the win
dows IN town during the day than dur
ing the night, for the sake of the sick.
The absense of smoke, the quiet, all
tend to make the night the best time
for airing the patient. One OF our
ri lhf st medical authorities on consump.
t.on and climate, has told NE that the
air i'll London is never so good as after
ten O'Clock at night. Always air your
room from the outside air, if possible
Windows are made to open, doors are
MAJ to shut-a irdth which seems ex-
tremely difficult Of apl rehension. Every
room nu be aired from witEout-every
passage from within But the fewer
passages there are In a hospital the
better.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Tackled the Wrong Man.

Have you seen man come up to the
desk within the last half hour with side
whiskers and yellow gloves ?" asked an
excited young man at the Sherman
House of the clerk who stood placidly
behind the desk
II don't know exactly. Did he have
black side whiskers ~
"Yes -
Sand yellow ribbed gloves 90
81 think so.''
And a silver-headed bamboo cane ?''
Il don't know about that" said the
young man dubiously, studying for an
instant to remember whether the man
did have such cane. ''but he wore a
high silk hat.
Oh, yes" said the clerk, ''that was
-. What is the matter ?''
''Why, while l left my sister in the
railroad office few minutes ago he
came up and took her by the arm and
attempted to speak to her. She resented
his insOlence but he insisted on talking,
and she was about to ask protection
from one of the office clerks when he
turned on his heels and came in here. -
THAT could not be-" said the clerk,
confidently A.; ''he wouldn't do anything
like that
swell he had yellow gloves, a high
hat, and black size whiskers. and if l find
the beggar l will teach him what it is
to insult young lady whom he has
never met in that fashion," The young
mans tones were ferocious and his eye
had in it the legendary blood, and the
clerk thought it might be as well to give
him chance to discharge his extra heal
of steam. "Where is the fellow 2" in
qulred the avenger. I'm parlor d."
replied the clerk. and the avenger shot
off upstairs without waiting to take
the elevator. Those who had over
heard the conversation waited to see
the denouement. They hadn't more
than about ten seconds to wait when
the ayengor came down. He had
thought it best evidently to take the
elevator this time, as being more CON-
Portable. His aquiline nose had a tri-
angular scar on it, his left eye was
larger than it had been ten seconds be-
fore, and his hat looked as if it had
been blown into the street and returned
to him by a newsbOy. "Did you see
him ?" inquired the clerk sympathe-
tlcally.
81 thought 1 had," was the young
mans response as he asked a bellboy to
brush his coat off, "but 1 discovered |
was wrong. That man has black side
whiskers, a high hat, and a silver-head-
ed cane but he doesn't wear yellow
gloves"
81 thought you had tackled the wrong
man." said the clerk, pleasantly, and
the young man went out by the Clark
street entrance, limping painfully.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
THE MILKING HOUR.

ion Sood oid Boss, stand quietly now
Ana uon De turning your head this ,,. :,
on re looking for Donald, it's plain 10 -
But he won't be here TODAY. sec
Nobody came with me, dear old Ross
N"t even Ia carry my pail; for. Won ses
Donald gone whistling down the iane
And Donald is vexed with me
And all because of trifiing THING.
Heasked me a question, aud said ss>y.-
never dreamed that he would not onss
1t Was only woman's way.
l wonder II Daniel has ever learned
The motto of TRY and try again ;,
think, If he had, it might h.. We hasn
lie had not learned in vain.
And there needn't have stretched betwee,
Us two, '''
ON this iair evening, the meadow wild.
And | needn't have MIXED alon, ,,.,,;,'S'e
With nobody at my side.
W hat was IL he said to me yestereve
SoIneihlD about-about NV eve.-
Ii strange how clever that Donald cam l.a
That is, whenever he tries. e
Now, BoSsy, old cow, You mustn't tell
mat We cried little while MILKING von
foI, don you see? II is nothing to me
W hat Donald may choose To do
II he chose TO 60 whistling down the lane
l chose TO sing gayly coming here.
But it's lonely without him, after ALI.
Now isn't it Bossy dear?
I-harkl who's that? Oh, Donald, it's youi
Did you speak?-excuse me-wba, Ala
you say?
May you carry my pail" Well. YES: at
least,
l suppose, if you try, you may,
Irr- =. 4
Do you think it would have occurred 10
you
Not TO be veNed at a woman's way.
but TO try what eoaxing would doe
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Peter Gates Bad Fall.

One of the most wonderful accidentf
that can possibly happen to man and
leave life in him is that experienced by
Peter I. Gates, son of the famous hotel
keeper at Dewitt, Iowa. Peter Gates
is experimenting the work of the mine
of the Gunnison Mining and Exchange
Company, of Davenport, Iowa, which
is in Treasure mountain, Gunnison
county, Colorado. The great altitude
of the mine brings winter about it very
early. As early as the middle of Sep
tember snow-stOrms commenced. Peter
writes that he left the cabin with his
report and vouchers ready for mailing,
An Overcoat. belonging to one of the men
and gunny sack filled with clothing,
and all strapped together on his back,
all in "apple pie" order-and then
81 fell over the cliff ON my way down.
l intended it to be my last trip for seve-
raj months, but it came near being my
last in fact. l had gotten one hundred
feet above the cabin when a snow slide
turned loose, knocking me instantly
from the trail. For the first four or
five hundred feet 1 struck the grOud
but four or five times-and my last fall
from the top of a precipice to its bottom
was about one hundred and twenty feet.
1t seems incredible that / could have
tumbled down three successive preci-
pices without being killed, but every
thing was in my favor. The pack l was
carrying and the snow which went
down with helped to break my fall. L
am badly bruised about the hips and
body, but with rest and lower altitude
the doctor thinks will come out all
right in month or So"
The letter was written at Crested
Butte. Mr.. Doe says that to one who
has seen the place of this accident,
Peters escape is of piece of luck that
may be termed miraculous. The cliff
which Peter was swept from had anal
most perpindicular height of 1000 feet
from the bottom of the precipice, and
it was the great masses of snow which
had accumulated ON its sides that
broke Peters fall every 100 feet, and
then went on down with him to the
next one.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Watching Ones Self.

"When / was boy" said an old
man. eve had schoolmaster who had
an odd way of catching the idle boys.
One day lie called out to US, Boys, /
must have closer attention to your
books, The first one who sees another
idle want you 10 inform me, and 1 viii
attend to the case.
"Ah," thought to myself, 'there is
Joe Simmons that l don't like, I'll
watch him, and if L see him look of
his book I'll tell. 1t was not long be-
fore saw Joe look eff his book, and
immediately 1 informed the master.
Indeed" said he, ''how did you
know he was idle?"
II saw him." said /.
"You did? And were ycur eyes ON
your book when you saw him?'
II was caught, and never watched
for idle boys again"
III we are sufficiently watchful over
our own conduct, we shali have NO
time to find fault with the conduct OF
others.
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
oliver Windell Holmes.

Mo nory is a net. One finds it full ci
| fish when he takes it from the brook,
bat dozen miles of water have run
through 1t without sticking.
God bless all good women. To their
soft hands and plying hearts We must
| all come at last.
Pat not your trnst in money, but put
your money IN trust.
When strong brain is weighed with
true heart 1t seems TO be like balanc-
ing bubble against a wedge of gold.
Controversy equallzes fools and wise
nen In the same wav-and the fools
know 1t.
find the great thing in tLis world
Is not SO much where we stand as IN
what direction We are moving.
Ii the sense of the ridiculous is one
side of an impressible nature, it Is very
well, but If that Is all there is in man
he had better have been an ape ard
stood ut the head of his profession at
once.
Travellers change their guineas, not
their characters.
There are three little wicks to the
lamp of mans life brain, blood ani
breath. Press tine brain little, its
light goes out followed by all the others
Stop the heart minute and out goes all
three of the wicks. Choke the air out
of the lungs and presently the fluid
ceases TO supply the other centres of
flame, and all Is soon stagnation, cold
and darkness.
Th,re are a good many real miseries
, III this life that We cannat help smiling
al. but they are the smiles that make
wrinkles not dimples.
We must have weak spot or two in
character before we can love it much.
People that do not laugh or cry, or
take more of anything than is good for
them, or use anything but dictionary
words, are admirable subjects for bio
graphers, But we don't care much for
these fine pattern flowers that press best
in the herbarium.
Faith always implies disbelief of a
lesser fact In favor Of q greater.
L would have a woman as true as
death. At the first real lie. which works
from the heart outward, she should be
tenderly chloroformed into a better
world, where she can have an angel for
a governess and feed on strar ge truit,
which shall make her all ever again,
even to her bones and marrow.
Why can't somebody give US list of
things which everybody thinks and no.
body says, and another list Of things
that everybody gays and nobody thinks?
Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-12-05
Work of "a Butchers saw.

A reporter lately watched John
Battersby, of Albany, while cutting
sirloin steak. The operation suggested
an arthmetical calculation:
''How many bones should | guess l
had severed in the course of my career?
That's poser sure enough. Ever since
| was boy | have been constantly at
work, anu in the thirty years work l
have done Il heap of bones have been
parted by my sawl L would like to
have a cent for every quarter of beef
have cut up. I'll bet you my average
would sum up to ten quarters a day. /
have cut that amount up individually.
A fair days work for man is three or
four carcaSSeS.
''How many cuts are there in a
carcass of beef"
THAT depends ON the way it is
divided. III tile lOins are used for
roaSts instead of steaks, there are not
nearly SO many cuts. | would say that
in one Carcass of beef we will make
from 100 TO lbs cuts through and
through. y fair average would be 1l0
cuts"
With his information the reporter re-
sorted To arithmetic. Tie butcher has
worked at the block for thirty years.
Taking 3O0 as the average number of
days i'll which he worked each wear, the
total would be 1900 days. If on each
day two carcaSSeS and half were cut
up the total number of carcaSSeS would
be y, 800. The bones sawed will
average two inches. There being 10
cuts in each animal, or an aggregate of
Z, AS, 600, it is seen that Mr.. Battersby
has sawed 5,9j0,000 inches of bone
Reduced to feet the total is AZ, 500,
which is equivalent to IS LILO miles.
Therefore, in thirty years, the butcher
has sawed through bones which would
cover that distance.