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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04
BERRIESi BERRIESI
500 boxes choice
Home Grown Strawberries at
CLEMENTS, Sc BEAL,
For Sale Low. 66

Isn't Mad.
The darkyAlex Hill, who was taken
in, fed and clothed by an old colored
man named Townshend, and wife, on
the EnSley plantation, and who rose
from his couch in the night 10 slaugh.
tor the old people, has been adjudged
sane by official experts and will be
placed on trial for the atrOCiOus muir
der.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04
THE CITY,
LEDGxR LIBES,

RefrigeratOrs. F. ]. Turnbull.
Water coolers at OEanne 4 Mays.
Cheap school speakers at Williama.
RefrigeratOrs at N. sehyargenberg's
H. l.. GuiOn, agent for Estival Park,
Creamery butter, 35c, S, L. Moore
Il 90.
Brown h JepeS. coal dealers, 232
Main street,
Fresh home grown strawberries at
Lytle & Shields.
Five hundred boxes choice straw
berries at Clements, cheap.
Two hundred choice :pompano at
Clements, Zoe and 500 each.
Golden Crown -four, finest In tbs
world, q. l.. Moore & Co.
Mrs. Stotz's ice cream saloon open.
Corner Main and Washington.
The war song Of the mosquito was
heard last night and this morning.
Pebble speotacles aud Gne window
shades, at 3. Wrieht's, 1866 Main.
Clear as a bell yesterday, but the
clouds and the sunshine alternate to. .
day.
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POLICE POINTS.

Twenty~One arrests yesterday, and
nine dollars in cash in fines to-day.
Martha Coleman, who picks rags
and buys whisky, will have dozen
days to repent.
The cases of Van Robson and
young Wilson, charged with vagranSy,
were continued until to morrow.
A human prowler of the female
persuasion and gutter bird of the
male persuasion. spent the last half Of
the night in the calaboose.
G. ]. Higgenbotham's case was pro.
nounced "coagulated drunk" and
be was kindly allowed to remain in
the protecting care Of Mr.. Jewell for
eight days.
Judge Hadden has decided to put
the women prisoners at work cleaning
of the walks and pavements about
Court Square, and ordered two women
turned over to square keeper Cooney
this morning.
I'm 'er 'Mer'can citizen" yelled
the patriotic Tim Moran, when he was
waltzed into the station house yester-
day, AN l amt goin' to be tried by
no Gar. Take me for a Rooshun
Mh'list?"
Mike Whalen, fresh from Racken.
sack and imbuea with ell the native
Arkansian spirit wanted to have a lit.
tie street soiree as soon as he landed
yesterday, and was admonished this
forenoon to the extent of So, with the
alternative Of twelve days.
I'VE fellows don't have no show at
all, murmured a plain drunk to his
comrades in the door to-day. "The
Judge don't knock off a cent for,
black eyes, but just fixes the regular
two dollars go and sin -no.more
tariff"
"How much is Clabe's fine?" asked
man just after court adjourned this
morning. 1.-TWO dollars" was the
reply. Cant you make it $1.75?"
asked the supplicant. Have you got
the cash2" Yes, sir" "All right,
121 per cent discount-fork it over"
The cause of one of the ,fahts yes
terday didn't come out in court. One
fellow called another psychologist"
and the other fellow laughed and
asked what that was. That means a
liar, said he, and the next moment
ne was studying the signs of the zodiac
with his nose on the pavement.
Jim Kinley, the waiter accused of
cutting Allison Whitelaw in the face
with a broken goblet, declared ALI
son cut hisself. His only offense
was holding the broken goblet in DO
sition while Allison performed the
operation. Kinley was discharged.
There was no prosecution.
An old darky named Young Huston
was tried to-day for kicking a tape
line stretched in front of his premises
by Mr.. Stratman, with whom Huston
has had two or three lawsuits about
the land. Huston evidently believed
that if he allowed Stratman to take
the exact measurement of his lot, he
would lose it and therefore he resist
ed. He was fined 81 to-day.
"Sir," remarked the classic attorney
to a country client this morning,
You are a marked, man, and the
smoky vault of heaven shall too soon
echo with the laundering blows of
Vulcan as he sorges thunderbolt for
JOve to hurl at your devoted head. | |
now turn you over to the awful ven
geance Of the Court, and may your
blood be on your own head" The
plain drunk was smitten with hun
dred cent thunderbolt, and thus the
prophecy was realized.
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a MOtIel CItIsen,

A Model Citizen,
James Davis called at the court.
house yesterday and asked for the
Taxing District Office. Here he
found Judge Hadden, 10 whom he
said he wanted to pay his city poll
tax.
"Sir2" asked the astonished Presi>
dent, who was not sure he heard
Alright.
II want to pay my poll tax, SIR"
"All right, sir, you shall do it.
Come right along with me" and the
Judge collared the applicant and led
him to the Trustees Office. He is
said TO be the first to volunteer to pay
poll this year and owes no other
tey.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04

Tickets to Baptist convention via
New Orleans on sale at 2S7 Main
street. b
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04

Delegates end others geing to Gal.
weston to attend Suprsms Lodge
Knights Of Honors can make the trip
via New Orleans for $3.50 for the
round trip. Tickets are good to 70,
turn until June Is, 1883. Finest
month Of the year to visit New Or.
leans and the gulf coast. Call on
Spence Finley. SO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04

Raleigh Springs Open.
Uncle Tom and Aunt Mary are
ready for their guests, with all the
good things OF the season. 81
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CONFESSIONAL.

DR. PURNELL. 279 Main street, over
~ Floyd's Hours: to am, 1890 TO 2:sC
p.m,7 tO8p,m. So
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FOUND.
STRAYEp.

e6 REWARD for the recovery of a small,
~ nearly black. COW, with a gray nose;
above the hoof. Horns small and turned in.
Apply to 81 Madison street. 81 SO
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-04
EOR RENT.

OUTAGE AS Mississippi avenue,
" Store and rooms, Is Market,
Office, front, corner Main and Jefferson,
5St NJ Z C0NAWAY, 2S5 Main.
H00L, pleasant rooms for young men, at "a
" Madison street 81 SO
. ACRES land with good buildings there
ID on. Ensleyss farm, east of Cutoff,
called the Freeman place. 1878
ON SECOND ST, Apply to B HILL,
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13

Shute was deeply in debt, but he had
taken away nearly everything that was
valuable. All that remained to satisfy
his creditors was a certain amount of
Indian mating, two pairs of flimsy cur
tains, a few rush-bottomed chairs,
empty picture frames, and some furni-
tusc too heavy to be moved. The china
plates which had looked so imposing
were cracked in every direction, and
neatly mendcd. Not one of them was
worth one shilling! Everything else
was much the same. This little palace
of estheticism had faded away in an
hour or two.
Ny wife and I were so happy that<ke
did not grieve over our lost rent. My
uncle lent me G1O0, and three months
afterward came to Dorothea's wedding,
on which occasion he satisfied himself,
ard me, too, that my Turner was still
on my walls, and that the estimable MI.
Shute of Sheffield had contented himself
with making a copy.-Belgravia.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY.

"A factory in Elmira, N. Y, ''turns"
out between two hundred and three hum.
dred augers daily, and is the only in
dustry of its kind in the State.
Another Pennsylvania has discov-
cred a new mechanical force, and wants
US all to stand on tiptoe to hear it hum.
His name is Bromily, and he claims to
multiply power without fuel.
"A Georgia farmer, after making
practical experiments, announces his
belief that an acre of melons will yield
as much syrup as n of sugar-cane,
while the former does not tax the land
near so heavily as the latter. The syrup
has a peach flavor. /.
"A Maine man has invented and
constructed a great improvement on the
Indian birch canoe, being made of tin,
and to avoid the great danger Of upset
or being swamped in rough water, he
has conveniently arranged on either
side a series of air-chambers.
We have in the Southern States in
operation, or in course of erection, 191
cotton factories. This outnumbers by
twenty-seven all the cotton factories in
New England, outside of Massachu-
sets, and exceeds by sixteen the num-
Der in that State.-Pulashi (Zeaa.)
Citizen.
To remove fish-bones from the
throat, Professor Vololini, of Breslau,
recommends a gargle composed of mu-
ratio acid, four parts; nitric acid, one
part, and water, 24O parts. The teeth
have to be protected by lard or oil. The
fish-bones become flexible, and they dis
appear entirely after a short time.
The Germantown (Pa.) Telegraph
notes the fact that, as the Western
States are steadily coming into formida-
BILE competition with each other in the
production of tobacco, fruit, cheese,
butter, vegetables, etc., the East is com-
ing back to wheat-growing, and urges
the seaboard farmers to jump in, raise
all the wheat they can, export the Jul
plus to Europe, and thus arrest what is
called ''the drain of the agricultural
districts to supply emigrants to the
West. In fact" it says, ''the Eastern
farmers have suffered in many ways
from a policy wholly adverse to their
interests, which has built up the West
at their expense"
To build a ship so that in case Of
accident to the bow the stern half can
be instantaneously separated from it,
and a continue the voyage securely
and easily On it's own account, is the
latest contribution to the list of safe
guards against the dangers of the sea.
The idea is that of a German inventor,
and is set forth with some detail in the
Hamburg Courier, which sees no rea-
son why it should not be entirely FEAST
BILE. 1t would require many departures
from the present mode of building YES
sells. as well as from their internal ar
rangement and equipment; but the in-
ventor asserts that, az a whole, a vessel
SO constructed could be fully as sea-
worthy and swift as any built on the
present plan, and would be twice as Sc
cure against disaster.-M. Y. Sun.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
Ducks in the Poultry Yard.

Farmers do not agree in their exper-
fences with ducks. Some affirm that,
being more hardy and possessing in
discriminate appetites, ducks are the
most profitable Of poultry. Others con-
tend that, being careless layers and bad
mothers, with voracious appetites, ducks
will not pay in large numbers.
The facts in the case appear to be as
follows: First, ducks are strictly water
birds, hence ought to be reared near
ponds. Second, they have voracious
appetites and require extended runs.
Third, they are Indifferent sitters and
nurses, and therefore for best results
the eggs should be Matched under hens.
Supplied with the necessary require
ments, there is no doubt but that ducks
pay we'll. They also prove serviceable
by keeping the ground over which they
run free from slugs, the gardeners
great plague.
When the feed consumed has to be
paid for in cash, ducks would be found
an expensive bird to handle, for their
appetites know no bounds. Their in
discrimination, by the way, renders
them unfit for the table unless kept out
of the reach of garbage and offensive
matter.
There are an innumerable variety OF
ducks. The best known for domestic
purposes are the Aylesbury and Rouen.
These are large in size, with flesh Of
delicate flavor, when the birds are fat
tened on sweet, clean food. The black
Cayuga is also a valuable sort. The
varieties mentioned lay a goodly num-
Der of eggs in the spring, if well fed and
not allowed to set. These eggs are
larger than hens eggs, equally rich,
but not so delicate.
Ducks drop their eggs in most out-of-
the-way places, and are unfaithful as
settlers and nurses. Farmers of exper-
fence, with the requisite water priv
leges near at hand, find most profit in
ducks when kept in connection with
the fowls. They will eat food that the
hens refuse and the hens make good
mothers for the ducklings.
Young ducklings should be kept away
from the water the first few days. Feed
them for a time on boiled oat, barley or
Indian meal. They will soon acquire
strength enough to take care Of them
selves if supplied with good run and a
pond. They are ready for the table
when full grown and are best fattened
on clean grain that has been steamed
or cooked.-N. 7. World.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
New Dress Goods.

The new fabric for wedding dresses is
white silk gauze with large velvet fig
ures in high relief. This is used for
panels or for the train in CONJUNCTION
with white satin, and the new garni-
ture for such q dress is white silver
cords, GALLON and embroidery of silver
threads. The beads imported for dress
garniture, as well as for millinery, are
OF light silver shades in large sizes, OBJ
long, in pear shapes, and flat like coins.
There are also silver-netted laces with
beads of the same color wrought in
them, and silver embroideries, from
which silver or steel beads are pendent
like a fringe. The new white ottoman
silks, gauzes and satins for brides
dresses have a silver sheen upon them,
and are called silver white to distin-
guish them from the cream and ivory
white of last year {; they ire often shown
in combination with silver brocades that
are used for the p%etticoat front and hip
%draperies, while the waist, sleeves and
train are of the plain fabric. Velours
Muscovite is the name given to repped
velvets that have large figures of cut
velvet in high relief on the plain uncut
velvet ground. These come in Moscow
green, hussar blue (Which is almost
gray, Gar brown, and Russia gray,
to be used for long redingotes and
cloaks trimmed with gray or black fur.
Faille Renaissance has smaller reps Of
silk for the groundwork, with
antique figures in satin brocade
copied from old tapestries ; these
are in dull, faded colors in strange
contrasts, or else in several tones of a
single color. Satin princesse is simply
satin of an unusually rich quality, but
with less luster than that given to satins
of inferior quality. The thickly corded
Antwerp silks are again in favor for
both dresses and cloaks, as they come in
single and double widths for dresses
and for circulars; these have none of the
luster of satin, to begin with, and as
they are not adulterated they do not
take on a suspicious and unwelcome
gloss after being worn. Plain India
cashmere as fine as that seenin the GEN.
ter of camel's-hair shawls is largely inn
ported in gray shades and also in vio-
let-purple shades for early autumn cos
tunes. These are made up with velvet
borders of a darker shade. a full satin
gathered vest shirred at the waist line,
and a velvet e collar beside this
vest, passing around the neck below q
standing collar of velvet, and studded
with small silver buttons. The over
skirt is turned up en- reversin milkmaid
fashion, and the lower skirt may be
kilt-plaited Or box-plaited, or in fine
tucks, according to fancy, and is fin
ished with a broad velvet band neal the
foot. Correspondents who have asked
about travelling dresses for brides, and
church suits for the first cool weather, will
do we'll to follow out this design. There
will also be many dark blue wool dresses
trimmed deliberately with red braid, or
else made up in conjunction with red
wool Of a brilliant hue like ponceau, or
else the new vermilion and. cerise tints.
-Harper's Bazaar.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
P1TH AND POINT.

"A restaurant announces ''eighteen
carrot vegetables soup."-C Chicago IrI-
bune.
AS the New England tobacco crop
promises unusually we'll this year we
cigars presently.
Some people are never satisfied.
Show them how to live happily on a
small income and they will want you to
furnish the income.-N. 0. Rcayune.
-"My dear Polly, 1 am surprised at
your taste in wearing another woman's
hair on your head" said Mr.. Smith to,
his wife. .'My dearest Joe, I am.
equally astonished that you persist in
weafing another sleeps wool on yours
back. "--Boston Post.
Two white tramps have been sent to
the chain gang for throwing kisses at,
the young ladies of a Georgia SEM.
mary. The privileges of the Americana
citizen seem to be. getting very limited
indeed.-M Y. Commercial advertiser.
DIR. Chalmers used to say that when,
one is in the act of tipping his hat to a,
lady whom he supposes to be an ac-j
quaintance it requires a good deal of!
tact to make believe that he is only,
scratching his forehead when he finds
she is a stranger.
One fellow might hang around d
surf swimming place for weeks and;
never have a chance to rescue q rich
mans daughter from a watery grave.
Another would grapple a millionheiress
the very first day and be invited to her
house to dinner. 1t is all luck.-N 0.
Picayune.
"A lady subscriber wants to know
how to catch q husband. We have had
no experience in this kind of sport per-
sonallv, but we have known a husband
to be caught by his wife as he was
leaving a bar-room. When she got him
home, we believe she caught him by the
hair of his head-and the husband, well,
he caught particular Jesse.-Detroit
Post.
I'm a new light. 81 have been with
you now three MONTHS" said the junior
| clerk, and 1 think l ought to have a
| salary something nearly Commensurate
to my services" '.H'm!'' replied the
employer; "well, times haven't been
very good; you haven't had very much
to do, you know. Couldn't think of
giving you more than fifty dollars q
month" Clerk-''Beg pardon, sir,
| am not to blame because you haven't
done business enough to keep me busy.
1 expect to get paid for what L know,
not for what l do" Employer-"Oh!
| That puts the matter in a new light.
I shall give you five dollars a month
hereafter. IN. Z. Graphic.
-"I tell you, pard," said old Jimmy
Cannon, a guide, "the West has lost it's
romance. Only a little while ago, it
seems to me, where once there was
nothing but the whoop of the Indian
and the song of the six-shooter, now
there are railroads and churches and
commercial men and high schools and
three-card monte men and lecturers and
daily newspapers and every little while
q natural death. Why within two
months, if the blasted papers tell the
truth, several men have died in Wyom-
ing of disease. l tell you, it looks as
though us old timers would have to
move away. When we have to wait for
lingering disease to snuff us Quit time
to light out for the 'front.' ."-Layamia
] B0Cme7a7As.
Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1883-10-13
MODEL CHILDREN.

Dat fust chile am Abs,lum 'Neezer.
An dat mex ones Ephaham;
ohcr dar am Potiphar Cesar
lin as we fo' short call Sam.
sorter 'semblin'? Like free pins. sab.
Can't mos tell which which one am:
Dat, / spec, is case dey's, twins, sah-
Abs'luln, Ephaham, n Sam.
w ncbber seed SIGH peaceable chillun.
No. dcy nebber disumgree:
les watch 'em eat dat water-millup-
Peaceable, sab, as dey ken be.
Oar, low, chillun, quit yer foolin':
Frow dat piece O. peel away;
But dey'l mind jes' when I say.
lur him be, e., aass; r. Ephaham; 70
Fo' de solem' tack I'll fam 70,
If We doan divide dat fair!
Did'n We heah me talkin', Absluml
LuH right go OBJ Eph'ham's ha'rl
Oars enutf; We all ken hab sum
Cuff him agin, sab, If yo' dare!
rotiphar, stop dat! Mind yer mudderl
Look out 70 We tear his cloze!
Hain't yer shamed to scratch yer brudderp
See dat poor little Abs'lum's nosei
Hi: 20 wile.cat, dar! he's stranglin'l
Doan G da's to frow dat stonei
Pears yer wuss'n dogs fur janglin',
Ii l da's to leah yer lone!
Whist! / heah de ole man 'wakin'l
SKATER quick, wild oil yer might;
ken bet yen git a shakin'
If We doan skoOt out o. sight.
See EN- git! Yah! yah! What chillunl
Coorse dcyll jangle when dey's mad:
But dcyn quit, sab, mighty willin',
When I menshun de ole mans CAD.
Charles Ii. Turner, in Ccntu,y Mdgazinc.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-06

cert; Michigan Central II; jersey Central
Is; Chicago d Northwestern, !: ST. Paul. Min
neapolis & Manitoba. IL; Texas Pas &c !;
Union Pacific III; Western Union i Mis-
seuri Pacific 4 and the remainder OF the list is
less than 1 per cent. Afterwards Deiaware,
Lackawsnna & Western quoted an ez-dividend of
2 per cent. flor quarter which dividend was
declared to-day:
Transactions 122,29O shares: Delaware,
Lackawanna & Western, $4,000; Lake Erie
& Western, 5000; Louisville & Nashville,
SOTO; Chicago & Northwestern, 5000; New
Jersey Central, II 200; New York Central, 5000;
Philadelphia l. Reading, 10000; St. Paul, Min
neapolis.& Manitoba, 1900; Texas Pacific, 1000;
Union Pacific, 1900.
MINING STOCKS.
Mining stocks very dull: Iron Silver sold
295 and 300; Sierre Nevada, 375 to ass closing
at 400. Bosick dull at 10 to Is; Silver King
10; Homestake l.o50; Sierra Graude, lis and
Robinson Irol q. Sales of the day, y, 100
shares. Pipe L., certificates fairly active,
declining from IA4H to 1885. closing on call
at ll215
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-06
FINANCE It COMMERCE.
Board of Trade.

ST. PAUL, July 6. 18s3.-No improve
ment was noted in the markets on the
board yesterday. Wheat was quoted nom
inally at $1.09 for No. 1 hard, but figures
are merely nominal and there is no demand
whatever. Corn was without change and
nominal. Oats were slight shade stronger,
still the demand was very light indeed.
Eggs were all taken. All other articles
were unchanged The following are the
quotations:
WHEAr-No. 1 hard, $1.O9 bid; No. 1
$1.161a bid; No. hard, 81. 0615 bid; No. 2,
S1.OO bid.
CoRN-No. ., soc asked; year 45c bid; No.
3, 47c asked.
OATs-No. mixed SOC bid, SIC asked;
July Gle asked; August soc asked; Septem
Der, &c bid, SOC asked: year, CSC bid, 29c
asked; No. mixed SOC asked; No. 2 white
$50 asked; No. 3 white 31c asked.
BARLEY-No. ., $50 bid; No. 8 extra 45c
bid; Ne. 8, 35c bid.
Reno. 2, 47c bid.
GROUND FEED-k. d. $500.
BRAN-S7.50 asked.
BALED HAY-$6.O0 bid, 500 asked.
s.EGGs-1315c bid; lac asked; July lac
asked; August, 141ac bid; September, 15c
bid; year, 1870 bid.
Sales-1 car baled hay Sc; car No. ?
white oats $50; car No. mixed oats Sic;
cars feed $21, outgoing; car feed $50.
Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-06
Retail Market.

The following shows the prices for which the
articles named sold the day before publication:
Messina oranges retail at 35c@60c per dozen
Lemons, SOC per doz. Bananas, scarce, 75c per
dog. New lettuce sellingat 60c per doz. Apples
t5.5o@4.5O. Early Rose potatoes, SOC per Blu;
others, SOC. Onions, Csc per bu. Gran
ulated sugar in rs lb. packages, 10c;
powdered, lie; cut loaf, lie; crushe!,
I11zc; Ext. c., 91zc; Yellow c., sic; brown
7c; Minnesota, Zoe. Best o. G. Java coffee,
ss15c; best Mocha, S91566c; best Bio, 221Sc. Best
teas, Eng. breakfast, 81 per ID; best Young
Tyson, 81 per ID; best Gun Powder, $1.20 PEI
o1,; best Japan, SOC; best Basket tired Japan,
25e: Orange Blossom -four, 1915 per cwt;
Pi,labury's 1915 Per cwt.; Straight, 1925.
Eggs. zoe per doz.; fresh, 23c.
Meats-Sirloin and porter house steak,
lSo; rio roasts, 15c; cuck reasts, 121Sc; muttor
chops, 1Sc; fore quarter, 15c; round steak, 15c
shoulder, 1215c; veal, 15@1sc; pork chops, 15c
po-k roasts, 15c; ham, Is; bacon and dry bacon
l5c; shoulders, SC; corn beef, 699c; sausage
pork, 15c; smoked sausage, 15c; lard in jars
l5c; per single h., 15c; in kegs, 12c; dried
beef, 15c.