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Mr.. Harrington asked percussion to
make statement, which vas granted.
The purport Of his statement was that
in all the proceedings connected with
young Coreys insurance, he had acted
In an honest. upright manner aud that
be would do the same thing again II
be had q chance. The only compen-
sation he had received was cigar
from Mr. Corey. The Miss Eva Will,
liams who had appeared as a witness
he believed to be the person referred
to in his letter.
Are you sure this is the lady you
saw at 0Reilly 81" was asked. 4 u
81 might be mistaken -
DO you know who reported Mrs.
Deems death to the council?'
No, sir. | know Looney,who died
few days ago" ffff'la
Have you not a sister named Cath
crime Crowley"
II have"
rs she not a beneficiary inLooney's
certificate to the extent Of $40OO2"
II think Mr.. Harrington had better
stop answering any more questions,
interposed the Judge.
II am not afraid Of questions.
have nothing to oonce ], vociferated
Harrington. t
No further questions were, however
put 70 him. and 10 additional wit
nesses cllled A motion was made
and argued at some length to dis
charge MIR. Corey, which motion was
denied. A speech in vindicatiOn Of
DR.. Peacock was also made, but the
counsel refused to make any motion
in his behalf, saying that they should
abide the action OF a higher acted
wholly in a spirit of fraternal kind
nesi, aud court. tAiH W
Judge Stilsing, after denying !
motion to dismiss the complaint, de
cided to require the prisoners TO fur
pish bail in the sum Of $500 to avail
the action Of the grand Jury.
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Now York Herald. IS.


Evangelinus Apostolides Sophocles.
University Professor Of Greek at Har.
ward, died yesterday in Boston. He
was born near Mount Pelion, in Thes.
sally, March s, 1907. He studied for
some time 10 the convent on Mount
Sinai, but came to the United States
under the auspices OF the American
Board Of Commissioners for Foreign
Missions. about 1925. Here he first
entered Manson Academy. and went
from there TO Amherst in 1929 For
several years after his graduation he
taught in Hartford, Conn, bat from
1872 TO l8l5 filed the post Of tutor In
Greek at Harvard. After two years
absence, occupied in teaching else
where, he returned to Harvard, with
which his life has been since then
identified, first as tutor, then as assist.
ant professor, aud, since 1860, as pro.
lessor Of ancient, Byzantine and mod
ern Greek.
An enthusiastic student all bis life
and never married, PROT Sophooles
lived in almost Spartan simplicity in
the western room on the second door
Of Holworthy Hall, known as his
home to successive generations of
Harvard students, who have recount
ed his eccentricities, marveled at his
apparently inexhaustible wealth Of
learning and yielded to his character
a mingled respect and affection. Year
after year the earnings OF his diliQent
life were sent to his early Greoian
home TO aid his kindred. Professor
Sophooles published q number Of vol
umes, all designed to aid the students
Of Greek. In 1897 he received the
degree OF A. NJ. from Yale, and ten
years later a similar degree from Har-
yard. In the interim had appeared
his Greek Grammar" First Les
sons in Greek" Greek Exercises
"a Romantic Grammar" Greek Les.
sons for Beginners" and Catalogue
Of Greek Verbs" In 1913 he followed
these with History Of the Greek
with Remarks on Greek
0rthography aud Pronunciation /" and
in 1860 his Glossary Of Later and
Byzantine Greek" formed volume
seven Of the new series Of the Me,
moirs Of the American Academy" AL
much more elaborate aud extremely !
valuable work to Greek scholars, oc- |
cupied the leisure time which he could |
command during the next ten years
and was published 10 1894 Greek
Lexicon Of the Roman and Byzantine
Periods" II will be long before his
strong. mobile, gracious Greek face,
framed in snowy hair and beard, which |
might have served Pheidias as model |
Tor bis ruler Of Olympus, will be for
gotten 10 Harvard"
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Hon. John Erskine, of Georgia,
10 be PensiOned Alter an Hon.
Orable Career - Republican
Factions and Ofllee-Seekers In
GeOrgia.
Special 10 Commeroial gazette.

ATLANTA, Ca, December 49,
Judge John Erskine, Federal Dis
trict Judge, forwarded his resignation
to the President, he having passed the
age at which Judges are allowed to
place themselves on the pension list.
It's his intention to pass much Of his
time in Europe, probably making his
headquarters in ireland, Of which
country he is a native. The admins
ton OF Judge Erskine is remarkable,
from the fact that he is about the only
one of the Federal Judges. appointed
for service in the reconstruction Of
the States, who pursued q line Of
duty steering clear OF partisanship, and
succeeding in winning for the Federal
bench the renewed respect Of the
people. Many trying questions IN ad,
ministrations created by various re-
construction and civil rights laws, have
been quieted by his firm and oonserva
tive course in the management Of the
court, and his discOuntenancing Of
demegogy.
Asa result the Federal courts in
Georgia are as much respected il
their findings as are the State courts
His resignation has stirred up the am.
bition of all Federal politicians who
seek through the judgeship return tC
public lite.
Colonel Farrow has been workinl
vigor ously upon the. President in an.
ticipation. Judge James s. Hook,
native Georgian, related to many o.
the ruling families Of the State, basel
his claims upon past services in behalf
of independentism, having been one Of
the siguers Of Feltons celebrated
Markham House call.
Emery Speer also is not without
hope that he may be called to the
bench. The District Attorneyship
Of course, pays him better, but that
office is heeting, while the JudgeshiE
is eternal. 1t is generally conceded
however, that Farrow's wires are well
laid, aud that after the usual maneuv.
eriuRs and visitations to Washington
he will be appointed.
There are evidences Of renewed
quarrels among Republican factions
OF the State. j. Il. Bryant is very
anxious to be Marshal instead Of
Longstreet. Local politicians have
hatched up a scheme for the President
to give Longstreet a foreign mission
and thus clear the way for Bryant.
Wilson, who was supposed to have
the Atlanta postofice as a certainty,
now feels that he has been defeated.
It seems that Georgia, with fewer
Republican votes than almost any
State in the Union, manages to mon
Opolize more Of the Presidents atten.
ton than any one Of the States whose
adhesion to Republicanism makes
them worth consideration.
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An Indignant EngIIshmsn.

MENPHIs. Tenn, December 2l.
To the Editor LEDGER
DEAR SIR-Asa subscriber Of your
worthy sheet for the past twelve wears
aud in justice to England aud Eng.
lishnen in general. whose justice has
never been doubted by no one but
lrishmen. and their allies, | should
like to see your views IS independent
as you claim for your sheet to be- or
hoist the standard OF Ireland and
murder, as your ChicagO correspond
emit had It 10 yesterdays issue Please
argue both sides Of the question fear,
less and independent, not as your
Chicago correspondent has it, biased
and murderous, who Is but injuring
Ireland's cause, as he has undoubtedly
the lost cause, OF rather South.
Yours very truly,
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A STRANGE ROMANCE.
A Cleveland "PerSOn" MarrIes q
Girl. and the Girls Father
WEEDS the Person.


Cleveland Herald.
On Bridge street, West Side, re-.
sided last year a fairly we'll 70 de Wid
over with one charming daughter.
They still reside there, though both
daughter and father have become
married TO the same person. That
person still lives with the family, il
still the fathers unincumbered wife,
and all is harmony. How come these
strange events to pass2 II is not o
long story. The widower loved his
daughter. who is a bright, pretty girl,
and some years ago sent her toa board
ing school in an adjacent State. While
there the daughter formed q school
friendship with a girl chum. 1t was
deeper than usual, and when the
Cleveland girl left school she resolved
not to be long separated from her
friend. The Cleveland girl came home
and was installed as her fathers house
keeper. Her parent refused her com.
panions, and the two chums we're only
able to keep up their friendship by
correspondence. 7 One day. IS the
Cleveland glrl sat sewing in her coy
house, a knock on the door. She
opened it, and a jauntily dressed boy.
with handsome features and a pretty
mustache, stepped in, took the girl in
his arms and kissed her. She was
but explanations followed.
The boy was her school friend in
masquerade. A long talk ended 10 az
uttered resolve never again 70 part
The boy went away. but a few days
after the father lost his daughter and
Gid not hear from her for some time.
Thin letter came from an adjoining
town, saying she was married aud ask
ing fOy the usual forgiveness. The
fathesf took it TO the newly married
pair himself, aud brought them home
The daughter had married her school,
mate But the father never sus
pected it. The plot had resulted as
the pair had hoped. They we're not
TO be separated. Some months rolled
by and the iather took a deep liking
Tor his son.in.law.
One day be noticed that the young
fellows clothes we're shabby, and pros
posed that they be renewed al a
we'll known clothing store, Here was
\ dilemma. The girl husband OBJ
ected. the father insisted, explains
lions came and an inadVertent remark
BY the father led the pair to suspect
that he knew their secret, aud tears
md double confession followed. The
Tidower was dumbfounded, but for.
gave them, and now the girl husband
s her father n-law's wife, and all 10
.he house Is as merry as the bell that
should have pealed at the wedding.
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be breathed so hard in the more ex
citing passages that she was afraid be
would blow Der away. Then il was
that, unprepared by q novitiate of
theatrical training, unseasoned in
stage business, undeyeloped In figure
and thoroughly raw 10 action. and in
spite Of the fact that she stumbled on
the train Of her dress. caught her vail
in such = way as to almost tear il from
her head in the balcony scene, and fell
with unpremeditated aud crushing
force finally on the corpse Of the 10.
fortunate Romeo, her debut was yet
not failure. Some Of the
local papers damned her with
faint praise, but there was
still an impression deeper than this
that she was something extraordinary.
1t was left for the people OF New Or.
leans to first aud fully recognizs her
ability, and this they did generously
and enthusiastically. This young
tragedienne's first aspirations for the
stage were excited by Edwin Booths
rendition of Richard Ill" 1t is
said she came home from this presen-
tation stage struck and crazy to play
the part Of Richard. She immedi.
ately began the study of it, and soon
forced so successfully with the bro d.
sword that her step father, who was
handling Riehmond's weapon on one
occasion, withdrew vanquished from
the contest, while she fell from ex-
haustion amid the scattered remnants
Of the chandelier she had broken in
her excitement. This occurred be-
fore she was sixteen years old, and the
spirit that animated her then is the
spirit that will eventually make a sec.
ond Charlotte Cushman Of her.
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DOG OIL.
A New Remedy for strained
Limbs and COnsumptiVes.


NAeAN Aihe4s
Everything is wrong this morn.
ing, exclaimed Springswell butcher
yesterday. II have just lost my hest
customer. He was anxious 10 see me
killing and dressing. so he stspped
into my slaughter house Just as | was
about 70 remove the fat from q dog"
"A dogl You don't mean to say"
No, l don't mean TO say that we
butchers shove dogs and cats on the
market; but this particular dog was
brought to me by aoonsumptive young
chap who lives near by He wished
me TO remove the fat that he might
render it, and used it as cure Tor his
malady, and, as said before, Just as |
was doing so, in walked my best Gus
toner You never saw madden man
in ell your life. He wouldn't awe me
q chance to explain; but, after swear
ing enough to make that boys hair
stand on end, he rushed out saying he
would have me lynched."
Isn't that a rather novel cure for
consumption"
"Well, | don't know; | have killed
dogs for halt dozen who have cons
sumption, but there is a man up town
somewhere who makes dog oil whole
SALE"
Further inquiry revealed the fact
that the manufacture OF dog oil may
now be numbered among De, roit's de
funct industries The dogs from which
the oil was extracted were procured at
the dog pound after having been
drowned When the fat had been
taken out, it and the canine carcasses
were steamed and pressed, and as q
result, Lyman W. .Blavely, manuiac.
turer, obtained, as he described 1t, "a
transparent oil, almost as clear as
water and sweet to the taste" He
rtceived only 50 per gallon for the oil
and found it did not pay, although this
amount was supplemented with a
small sum paid by fertilizer company
for the flesh, bones and hide. Tho
purchasers Of the oil we're veterinary
surgeons, who used it in compoundinp
liniments, aud people suffering from
throat and lung diseases, especially
consumptives. who are usually willing
to use any and all remedies suggested.
1t is entirely unknown in the pharma,
cies, and why it has gained even the
molety Of popularity it enjoys it would
be bard to say.
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80 Joe Brown" writes Cleveland
Leader correspondent, lis being de-
nominated the slaye-gang Senator, be.
cause lie has q lot Of penltentiary con,
victs who work 10 his coal mines In
Georgia. They cost him less than $40
q year apiece, and warrant you they
have 10 work hard, for Brown was
brought up to labor. He was born In
the Pickens district Of South Carolina
aixty-two years ago, aud when boy
used 10 haul vegetables to the county
scat and had team with which he
slad 70 plough the garden plots Of the
gillagors. He has a brother in South
Eaf0llnn now who has a good planta-
ton, snd 4 worth some money, brit
nothing Ike That Of Joe, who Is worth,
] ami told. perhaps Eve millions, and
k1eps adding 70 his pile by compound
Interests
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Mary Anderson,s Emily nnrn.

Miss Whittier, y in a letter to tho
New Orleans Times. Democrat, relate,
some Interesting things about a visit
she made TO Mary Anderson seven
years ago in the little old home on
Walnut street, louisville, then her
home.
| was, at that time,a school girl and
Mary Anderson was sixteen or seven.
teen years OF age, Her tall, 1.-THE.
slender figure lacking the roundness
to make it beautiful, and earnest face
that wore an almost moody expression
Of studious abstraction, impressed me
lndelibly VIXEN l first met her. Prof
Noble Butler had taken several OF bis
pupils TO see his protege, this young
girl, who, from having been a student
under him, had gone to New York 10
be under the instruction olVandenoff,
and now had returned TO Louisville
for brief interval OF rest.
The house, which has since become
Historical was an old tumbIed down
looking structure, which, notwith
standing the poverty Of its furnishings
had yet an air OF homelike comfort In
the small front bed room into which
We were ushere1. / remember there was
an open piano at which Mary had been
praeticing and something was said
about her possible intention of ulti.
mately going on the concert stage; for
at this time her profession was not
chosen and the bud Of her genius
Fhioh, under pressure Of circum.
tances, was soon TO burst into full
hower was still In embryo. She re-
cited Collins lode to the Passions"
anda scene from Tho Hunohback p
her mother reading the corresponding
parts in the dialogue. She threw her.
self into the ode thoroughly, and |
have never heard il 50 well rendered,
the graceful, boyish figure swayed
with passion as her genius famed up.
Her clear cut features glowed and her
eyes shot fire asshe sounded with her
deep, rich voice tho gamut Of hatred.
rage and despair. When she had
finished her little audience sat speech
less with an awe struck wonder, and |
went home wild RIB enthusiasm for
lhe girl who bad been q sort Of rove.
Iation TO me. Two weeks later she
made her debut before louisville
audience, Arrayed in the garments
all too short for the form "divinely
tall aud most divinely iair'D that
Mrs. Rachel McAuley bad kindly
loaned her, she hoated out before the
Iootlights IS Juliet. ! shall never
Iorget with what beating hcsrts we,
her friends and admirers, watched her,
and how we laughed afterward when
the told vs. that Romeo's hands were
in such cold Precipitation that she
hated to catch hold Of them, aud that
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-12-22
An Editors Testimonial.

A. NJ. Vaughan, editor of the Green
witch Review, Greenwich, o., writes
Last January | met with a very severe
accident, caused by a runaway horse. /
used almost every kind Of salve to heal
the wounds, which turned to running
sores, but found nothing TO do me any
good till | was recommended Henrys
Carbolie Salve. l bought box and it
helped me at once, and at the end of two
months was completely well. 1t is the
best salve in the market, and l never fail
Of telling my friends about II, and urge
them to always use it. tfNMr
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G0MSuMp TI0N.
Non.Realdenl holIoe.

No, bl2iRD-In ths ohancory Court Of Shelby
County. Tenn.-AndroW LoTomarsino al
u. " ] d Williams, err, etc Of Barnett
Graham decd al.
TT appearing from bill which Il sworn 10 In
this oaufo that the defendant. J d
Wnl laus, executor, etc, of Brnett afah an,
decd, u resident o. The State Of Afknn.
sas.and nonresident o. the State Of Ten
ne1aee.
u Z therefore ordered that he make
pie appearance herein al the court
house Of Shelby county. IL Memphis, Ten.
nelsee, On or before the dral Monday
In fobruAry, 1884, and plead, Ansver on d.
muir 20 complaipant bill. or the eame
will BE- taken for confessed as 10 him
apd ~ for hearing "A parte, and that copy
q tnh order b ptbllihod once week, for
foqt lueee,alvs Weekl, In the Public LSdgsf.
Ihh nth DAY Of December, 1885,
n 4 d. black. clstt and mssssi.
byJa n bradley, b, B. AN
"a hng md lee Thofason, solicitors for
e0mpihihant " % " 1W
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cRIsEsE AIHILrsTs.
Fears tor the safety Of European
christians In China-Riots
Near Canton.


Cable to the New York Herald.
LONDON, December l8.-The fol-
lowing has been received here from
our special correspondent in China:
ri HoNG KoNo, December Is, 1888.
Great excitement prevailed in Can
ton yesterday on the arrival Of the
American PRESBYTERIAN missionaries.
Mr.. Henry and Mr.. White, with ma
tive Christian preacher from Shek-
loong,about sixty miles east of Canton.
During a riot in that town chapels
were destroyed and many worshipers
were seriously Injured. The native
was also severely hurt A Roman
Catholic arrived later under military
escort.
The Canton nihilisls are causing ex
citement by the circulation Of rumors
that large quantities Of powder are
concealed in the Roman Catholic ca
thedral Of Canton, and they threaten
to blow the ediice down. II is a
splendid edi6ce. Of imposing height,
and has ever been an eyesore to the
Chinese
Quiet has been only maintained by
the presence Of gunboats and Of the
military 10 the city.
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70 all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscIetiona, Of youth, nervous weakness,
reclpe that will euro You, FREE on
ghAhGk.. This great remedy was discovered
BY missionary IN South America, Send .
li-addressed envelope TO the Rev. JosnPH 7.
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CHANGES OF FORTUNE.
A FriendIess Girl Who Ae.
quired Wealth and Hired
Her Employer as Nurse.


As proof that this Is a country Of
"pliable equalties aud intqualties, " >
correspondent Of the New York Sun
relates that be saw beautiful woman
OF 30 come out Of 4 store. She was
tall, 1.-THE, graceful, with tho face and
bearing Of an IDEAL Duchess. Her
costume was the richest and least
SNOWY materials. Her whole aspect
proved her possession Of refined taste.
She got into carriage, iu which sat
two children and their nurse-a
coarse featured woman Of middle are,
wearing the prescribed cap and apron
Of her employment. Take a good
look at that establishment" said the
writer's companion; the young lady
came 70 this country about twelve
years ago. She was poor and friend.
less: She got employment at house-
work, and then was made a NURSE
maid. She soon made up her
mind that she could get a living
at making the kind OF infants clothes
that her duties iamaliariSed her with
She began bygetting work in ! Shop,
but in a year had a aourishinR bust.
ness OF her own. She married man
for love alone, but he also proved A
good business partner, too Together
they built upa bigirade, and now arAI
very wealthy, Il was her own car
riage that you saw Der in. The strans
fact about the establishment, how
ever, was that the nurse you saw was
the mistress's 6rst employer. Never
educated or bright, Impeachment
has reduced her to the cap aud apron
that her present mistress used 10 wear
Is the latter q shoddyite2 Not a Bill
q :. SsS 10 Is a lady every way.
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The PUBLIC LEDGER job
Printing Office and Bindery is
nog located at II Union street and
ready for all business oferin0.
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Opinion Of Eminent DIR. II. 4
hleuari.

President Maryland Hospital, Baltimore
have used COlden's
Liquid Beet Tonic for more than a
year II combines the virtues Of food
and tonic remarkably, and, / am satisfied,
has saved life when any other medicine
would fail. (Remember the name COL
DENS-take no other.)
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IAN your sWn fault
II you remain sick when you can
Get hop bittefe that never-Pail

w IVY bANeaAe AnaN HNNul- II hlls
The weakest woman, smallest child.
and sickest invalid can use hop bitters
With safety md great good.
Did men Tutoring around from rheu-
matism, kidney trouble or any weakness
VIII be almost new by using hop bitters.
My wife and daughter were made
healthy by the use of hop bitters and |
recommend them TO my people-Metho-
dist Clergyman.
Ask any good doctor II hop
Sittsfs are not the best family medicine
-Malarial fever, Ague and Biliousness
will leave every neighborhood as soon as
hop bittors arrive.
MY mother drove the paralysis and
neuralgia all out Of her system with hop
bitters. ed. Oswego Sun.
Keep the kidneys healthy with hop bit.
tens and you need not fear sickness.
Ice water is rendered harmless and more
refreshing and reviving with hop bitters
in each draught.
The yigor Of youth for the aged and
inhrrn in hop bittersl
AT the change Of life nothing eouals
Hop bitter. 70 allAy all troubles Incident
Thereto
-"The best periodical for ladies 10 take
monthly and fIom which they win receive
the greatest benefit Is hop bitters."
,ZMothers with sickly, fretfhl, nursing
children, will cure the children aud bene-
nj themselves BY taking hop bitters daily.
Thousands die annually from some
form Of kidney disease that might have
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Alexander Dumas contributes 10
the Curioux an, Anecdote told him by
the late Henri Didier, who was I
Deputy under the Second Empire.
Didier's father was Secretary TO the
Minister Of the Interior II che time
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The PUBLIC LEDGER job
Printing Office and Badery is
non located at II Union street and
ready for all business OFFERING.