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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-19
NOTICE.

)FFIcE BOARD FIRE & PQLIcE COMMISSIONERS |
Taxing District, January Is, 1899. !
CEALED pro 0Osals will be received By us
, until THURS DAY, JANUARY, 25, 1883,
II y o. clock noon, for the following worE TO
be done, ,ervice to be rendered and materials
10 be furnished 10 the Taxing Dhtiict Of Shell
by county, Tennessee, for the yer ending
December 81, 1883. The Board re erves the
right to reject any or all bids. ANY infOrpa.
tiOn furnished on application.
For feeding prisoners at ntationhOuse.
Fer furnishing fdel TO various deDartments.
For shoeing hOrles for various departments,
For furnishing fresh meat for hospitll.
For furnishing fresh bread for hospital.
For publishing all ordinances, orders, no.
lioes, etc.. as they NAV be passed or ordered
For lighting the city with gas or electricity,
All bids must be labeled bid for --N
,wh itever you may bid for).
By order Of the Board
y, P. MADDEN, President.
Attest-C. j. PpILEN, Secretary, ll6 l22
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-19

THE Republican National Commit
tee decided, at Washington, Wednes-
day, not to change the basis OF repre-
sentation for the next Presidential
convention. 1t had been proposed to
OUT down the representation Of States
that are hopelessly Democratic, but
this was overruled, and the Southern
and Northern Democratic States will
have the same representation as be-
fore, and, of course, as little influence
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-19

Our versatile and talented Chicago
correspondent, under date OF the 10th
instant, foreshadowed the election Of
Governor Cullom to succeed Senator
David Davis, and gave an intelligent
insight to the Senatorial situation.
His letter will be found full Of fact
and inteLIigent thought.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-19
The Weather.

WASHINGTON, January 19.-For
the West Gulf States Colder, cleudy,
rainy weather, nOrtherly winds, higher
pressure.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley
Cloudy weather. With rain or snow,
variable winds, Sitting TO colder
westerly, stationary or higher pres
sure.
For the Missouri valley Fai,
weather, westerly winds, stationary oi
higher temperature
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-19
Failurcs 81 a Week.

NEW {ORE, January 10 Business
failures for the last seven days, as re-.
ported by II. G. Dun Il Co. S Mercan
tile Agency number, ~, an ,serease
of 10 as compared with last week The
Eastesa states have 26 stern. SO,
Middle, 52; Southern, 81; Pamao
States and Territories, @; Cauada n
and New YoTk City, Il
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The Memphia LEDaEn has Lhrown

The Memphis LEDGER has thrown
aside partisan spirit in the following
reference to ex Governor Hawkins.
Ills administration has been doubt.
less an honest one, and he served his
party faithfully. AS he passes into
private lite, we have no unkind word
to say, but rathpr hons that his laat
days-may hs his best aud that he may
live out in peace and comfort the rem
nant of life that is left him.
'Tis a pity such honest opinions can.
not be expressed when they would be
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Trustee Sale.


TND1R and by virtue Of the terms Of q
u deed Of trust executed 10 me, Thomas
II. Milburn, MS trustee by W. L. Miller and
Maranda J, Miller. his wife, on the Dist day
Of May, 1873, TO secure 10 the Irish American
BpRding and Loan Association the sum OF
$500, q. appears of record in tho Registers
OtiiSe Of this county, In book No. l24, page
$3.50, and default having been made OF the
dues and interest and said loan under tho
charter, constitution and bylaws Of said
as aeiaion. will. as said trustee, Oe
Tuesday. February IL. 1858,
AZ u o'clock m. en- the southwest corner Of
Main aud Madison stIes's, OloF fQr IA 10 nd
sell TO the highet bidder for e.sh. AZ pubiio
outcry, the foli.Wins Described real est. Ia
to-wiu One oeitiin lot Of land situated and
being ia the city Of Memphis, Shelby county,
Ton aessee, known and designated on tao
zap Of said city as lot No, t2S3) two hundred
and thirty-three. 10 the Groenlaw edd tee
TO said city, v eudsd on the north b lot ho.
2}2 Of said addition, on the east By Sixth
s'YgyA On the ,outh by the public alley which
4 mid Nv hetween kahaTans and hreenlaw
stroets, aud West by the public alley uhieh
las midway stwedn FIFTH and Siath stfssis
said lst Atyina q freut Of sgvoLtJ -four and
.ne nu IN feet l7til on the west tlde 81
eikth street BY q depth Of one aDdfoi ana
flrp -oight and one-half ieet, together MA
oil the improvements and apfu tenancea
THEREON Tho III is believed 70 be tssltot.
but convey quly a. uUat4e.
ihOh II. MILBURN. Trustee.
= D. JgIdap, Atty, IUlS3
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One Ceui Damnges.

OHIoAgo, January 10 10 the Caso
Of Weber vs.. Colonel II. Abner a'ay
lOr for damages for seduction of plain
tif's wife, the jury this morning re
turned verdict awarding Weber one
cent damages.
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Crushed byn Belt.

CINoINNATI, January l9,-W@,
Messing, blacksmith, working at
Emerson 4 Fishers carriage and
buggy factory, while lacing a belt this
morning, was caught around the neck
by the belt md crushed to death.
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NOTICE,

HHE undo signed Commissioners will re-.
oeive scaled proposals until Jnuuary 27,
1893, at 10 o'clock M, to furnish tho Poorhouso
of Shelby county with the following aitioles;
Bread, meat, drugs and groceries. The com
pittee reserve the right to reject any or all
bids.
J. NJ. C0LEMAN,
Chairman P II oem'rs.
j. N. HARRISON,
a, G. WELLB0KN,
III 1875 Commissioners,
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NOTICE.

THE undersigned committee will receive
sealed bids til January q, 1888. at u
o'clock m for burying the paupers Of Shelby
county. The committee reserve the right to
reject any or all bids
January ls, 1883.
JIM COLEMAN,
JOHN SpELMAN,
TH0S FLEMING,
III l5 Committee,
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House bill passed the Senate yes
torday reducing the compensation Of
tho State Treasurer from 5000 to
5000 per anngm.
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NOTICE TO FARMERS

FARMERS or others who need ditohine or
y levying done this sprips will find it to their
fully, HENRY K RnRS
ITO l2o Gown gtOu, Tenn.
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For Cincinnati

southern TranspQttation Llne-For Cairo,
Louisville and CinoiAAati-'The steamer
PARIS c. BROWN, ,esrSS7ssS~. /.
w leave ,ISli'dIS; ns ,Ssvs S9SsHE TspEs nav ~ q
pm. For freight or passage apply on
board or to HENRY G. LOWE, ARt,
,.. Foot of Jefferson 81.
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III l2s
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-03-23

THE REQUIREMENTS OF JOURNALISM.
Journalism cannot be taken up as the
pastime of an idle hour, or as a special
means of gain, or as stepping stone to
other literary work, and made complete
success. It requires laborious appren-
ticeship, special skill, the result of train
ing, and single-minded devotion, to the
exclusion of other fields Of labor. Like
the law. journalism is a jealous mistress,
and will not permit divided allegiance,
except in very limited degree. Its re-
wards are success and influence, but not,
except in very rare instances. any person
al fame. Its product is ephemeral. and
the newspaper writer must be content to
see his product swallowed up in the
pile of daily accretion, and forgotten with
the memory of the occasion which called
it forth. But this should make the pride
IN the profession all the stronger, and the
more honorable the determination to do
good work for its influence, and not for its
reward. 1t is growing to absorb more OF
talent as it rises In requirements, and its
product as whole is even now superior
in quality. as it Is greater in quantity,
to that of any form of contemporary
literature except the work of supreme
genius, and its members should govern
themselves by the spirit OF the words of
Thackery in speaking of the literary pro-
fesssion: SIT may not be given to most
of us to win the baton and the epaulets,
but we can all sustain the honor of the
fsg;p-P Providence Journal.
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all his strength III keeping even an al ba-
tross's wings in motion half an hour. I'VE
have in the Bird" says the Engineer, "a
machine burning concentrated fuel in
large CRATE at a tremendous rate, and de-
yeloping very. large power on small
space. There is no engine in existence,
certainly no steam engine with boiler com.
bined, which, weight for weight, gives out
anything like the mechanical power exhib-
tied by the albatross.'' Consequently no
machinery yet devised can operate wings
with sufficient power to sustain its own
weight In the air, and there is no known
machinery by which man can WELD the
force necessary to fly like bird Kelly's
alleged discovery, or some new process Of
storing and exerting great electric power
in apparatus Of light weight, might sup
ply the deficiency, but science has not
learned how to. develop in inanimate ma
chinery anything like the mighty nervous
energy which acts in the bones, sinews and
muscles of living birds wings.
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reached their ears that he had pleaded
want OF notice. And if this defense was
good at law. it would not be in equity; and
IL they took it into chancery, it mattered
; not what became of the case; the property
would all 60, and he never could expect
to see the last of it. Nom he would
pay it. and had as we'll set about it at
onces ,ss.,.q sat3oY I'D BAL. 7ass
The irumor of the majors condition
spread far and wide. Ct reached old N. d.,
AN angel whom the major had ''entertain-
edn and one of the few that ever travelled
that road. He came. post haste. to see in
to the fair saw the creditor; made him,
upon threat OF defense, agree to take half
the amount and discharge'the major; adj
vanced the money and took the majors me-
Egroes, except the house servants, and put
them on his Mississippi plantation to work
out the debt. The majors heart panied
him at the thought OF the negroes going
off he couldn't witness it, though he con-
soled himself with the idea of the discip-
line and exercise being good for the health
of sundry of them who had contracted sed
entary diseases.
The major turned his house into tavern
that is, changed it's name-put up sign,
and three weeks afterward you couldn't
have told that anything had happened.-
The family were as happy as ever. The
major, never having put on airs of arro-
gance in prosperity, felt no humiliation in
adversely; the girls were as cheerful,
as bustling and as light-hearted as
ever, and seemed to think of the duties
of hostesses as mere bagatelles, to enliven
the time. The old major was as prolific
of anecdotes as ever, and never grew tired
of telling the same ones to every guest, and
yet the MAJORS anecdotes were all Of Vir-
glnia growth and not one of them under the
the legal age of twenty-one. If the major
had worked his negroes as he had these an
ecdotes. he would have been able to pay
off the bills of exchange without any Diff
ealty. The old lady ard the girls laughed
at the anecdotes, though they must have
heard them at least thousand times, and
knew them by heart, for the major told
them without the variations, and the
other friends of the major laughed. too.-
Indeed with such an air of thorough be-
Devolence, and in such truly social spirit
did the old fellow proceed "the tale to I'M
fold" that a Cassiuslike rascal that
wouldn't laugh, whether he saw anything
to laugh at or not, ought to have been
sent to the penitentiary for life, half of
the time to be spent in solitary confne-
ment.-Flush Times IN, Alabama
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Why a Man Can't Fly.

No combination of wings, says the Lon
don Engineer, will enable man to fly
until he can WELD them with as much
muscular power to the pound of weight as
a bird exerts in flying. If man had in his
legs the muscular energy and leverage of a
flea, he could jump mile in three leaps,
and if his arms had in proportion to his
weight the driving power of wild pigeon g
wing, he would have no use for railways
OF balloons. The transportation problem
would be solved. Moving himself so easi-
ly and so swiftly, he would not need to
move anything else. The albatross, weigh
twenty eight pounds. can keep its wings,
thirteen feet from tip to tip, in motion all
day, while the strongest man. weighing
six to eight times as much, would exhaust
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Intermarr1ages Of Diseases.

A disease, like the individual in whom
it is localized. has genealogy. 1t has an
ancestry of morbid conditions" all COM
mingie5. and transmitted from sufferer to
sufferer, until, "by inherited dispositions,
accommodating and combining in definite
proportions" altering for good or evil &C
cording to the soil on which it grows, a
new one is produced. This in few words
stripped of its teehnicalities, and deprived,
unfortunately, also, of the wealth of illus
ton with which it is accompanied, is sir
James FACETS ingenious theory. Its at
fractions are undeniabie, its plausibility
great, and though the author, in address
ing professional audience. forbore de-
Quoting moral, the lessons which it ire
sistiOly suggests are too patent to escape
notice. That children inherit the courage,
cowardice, prodigality. frugality. face,
figure, complexion, tone of voice, and tai
ents of the parents is. of course, a truism.
1t is equally certain that diseased parents
bequeath their frailities to their offspring
Scrofula, cancer, consumption, epilepsy
hooiou1, eOdes IUys CICUlulSuts
and albanism are among the most familiar
of the diseases or defects which run in
families A craving for alcohols is a
recognized ''morbus' handed down from
father to son, while listlessness, sloth, inn.
practicability are as readily transmitted
as capacity for work and clear brain
from one generation to another. A pru.
dent person hesitates to marry consump.
tive. or member of family in which in.
sanity has appeared, thus acknowledging
the soundness of the data mentioned. Con-
sanguinity is belleved-and justly SOTO
intensity the ! isks of TRANSMISSION, though
only because there is chance of near rel
atives, such as cousins. being tainted with
the same family trouble. Yet little care
IS taken to avoid dangerous ''inter-marri-
ages of disease to use tie phrase which
DR.. Benjamin Richardson has so happily
coined. + both parents have tendency
to the same malady, the children can
scar cely escape. But if cancer and cen
sumption wed, there is hardly hope OF
the offspring escaping early death or life
long misery from cancer, lupus, consump-
ton, tuberculosis of the brain, epilepsy,
diabetes,from nervous injury, or some va
ration or combination of all three. The
intermarriage of rheumatism and con-
sumption is productive Of hydrocephalus
and diseases of the bony frame work of the
body such as the hip-joint disease, SO COM
mon among weakly children. The state
does not in modern times, as in a more
heroic age, exercise a control over marri-
age. It Is therefore, all the more impera-
tive on those who are swayed by some re-
gard for posterity not to neglect i'll mar
rage every consideration save those of
affection, wealth, position or social fit
ness, when their own future sorrow and
that of another generation are involved in
their neglect of the laws of nature.-LU,-
don Standard.
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FARM AND FIREsIDE.

FACTS WORTH KNowING.-That salt
fish are quickest and best freshened by
soaking in sour milk.
That cold rain water and soap will re-
move machine grease from washable fab
RIGS.
That fish may be scaled much easier by
first dipping them into boiling water for q
minute.
That fresh meat, beginning to sour, will
sweeten if placed out of doors in the cool
air over night.
That milk which has changed NAV te
sweetened or rendered fit for use again by
stirring in little soda.
That boiling starch is much improved
by the addition of sperm, or salt, or both,
or little gum arabic, dissolved.
That tablespoonful of turpentine, boil
ed with your white clothes, will greatly
aid the whitening process.
That kerosene will soften boots and
shoes that have been hardened by water,
and will render them pliable as new.
That clear boiling water will remove tea
ooOidO, pun oaO Wou0l tuIOuRu tu0 Stalu&
and thus prevent its spreading over the
fabric.
That salt will curdle new milk, hence
in preparing milk porridge. gravies. ETC..
the salt should not be added until the dish
is prepared.
That kerosene will make your tea kettle
as bright as new. Saturate wooden rag
and rub with it. 1t will also remove stains
from the clean vanished furniture.
That blue ointment and kerosene, mixed
in equal proportions and applied to bed
steads, Is an unfailing bug remedy and
that coat Of whitewash Is ditto for log
house.
That beeswax and salt will make your
rusty fat-irons as clean and as smooth as
glass. Tie lump of wax in a rag and
keep it for that purpose. When the irons
are hot rub them first with the wax rag,
then scour them with paper or cloth
sprinkled with salt.-Hall's Journal of
Health.
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I Scarlet Fever
Cured.

Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.
l testify to the most excellent qualities of Prof
Darbys Prophylactic Fluid As disinfectan,.as
detergent it is both theoretically and practically
superior to any preparation with which am &C
Quainted.-N. T. LUTON, Prof Chemistry !.
Darbys Fluid is Recommended by: :
Hon. ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS, of Georgia3
Rev. CHAs. F. DEEMS, DID,, Church Of. the
Strangers, NJ Y;
Jos. LECoNrE, Columbia, Prof, University,S.C.
Rev. A. J. BATTLE, Prof, Mercer University;
Rev. GEO. F. PIERCE, Bishop NJ. E. Church.
INDISPENSABLE TO EVERY HOME.
Perfectly harmless. Used internally or ;. ,
externally for Man or Beast.
The Fluid has been thoroughly tested and We.
have abundant evidence that it has done everything
here claimed. For fuller information get Of your
Druggist pamphlet or send to the propretors,
j. HI. ZEILIN & CO.,
Manufacturing Chemists, PHILADELPHIA.
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Eradicates
MALARIA.

the Sick should use it fr
never been known TO .spl
used. Yellow Fever has
black vomit had tai
cases of Diphtheria yield
Fevered and SickPer-
sons refreshed and
Bed Sores prevent
ed by bathing with
Darbys Fluid.
Impure Air made
harmless and purified.
For Sore Throat it is a
sure cure.
ContagiOn destroyed.
For Frosted Feet,
Chilblains, Pile 8,
Chafings. etc.
rheumatism cured.
Soft White Complex
ions secured by its use.
Ship Fever prevented.
To purify the Breath.
Cleanse the Teeth,
it can't be surpassed.
Catarrh relieved and
cured.
Erysipelas cured.
Burnsrelievedinstantly.
Scars prevented.
Dysentery cured.
Wounds healed rapidly.
Scurvy cured.
An Antidote for Animal
or Vegetable Poisons,
Stings, etc.
l used the Fluid during
our present affection with
Scarlet Fever with de-
cided advantage. 1t is
indispensable to the sick
room. VIM. F. SAND
FORD, Eyrie, Ala.
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|DipAthsria
| Prevented.

The physicians here
use Darbys Fluid very
successfully in the treat
ment of Diphtheria.
A. SroLLRNwERcK,
. Greensboro, Ala.
letter dried up.
Cholera prevented.
Ulcers purified and
healed.
In cases of Death il
should be used about
the corpse lit will
prevent any unpleas-
ant smell.
The eminent Ply
1sician, j. MARION
SIMS, M. D., New
York, says: al am
convinced Prof. tDarbys
Prophylactic Fluid is a
valuable disinfectant. ="
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PERSONAL! To Men onIv!

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red as thirty DAYS trials allowed. iupe3
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XNOW AllO
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IRON BITTERs. In the
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Spring it enriches the blood
and conquers disease; in the
Summer it gives tone to the
nerves and digestive organs;
in the Fall it enables the
system to stand the shock
of sudden changes.
In no way can disease be
so surely prevented as by
i keeping the system in per-
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IRON BITTERs ensures per-
feet health through the
changing seasons, it disarms
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and it prevents Consump-
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II. S. Berlin, Esq, of the
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ton, D. c., writes, Dec. 9Th,
1881:
Gentlemen: take pleas.
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Beware of limitations.
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Theleadins Scientists of to-day agree that most
diseases are caused by disordered Kidneys or Liver
II, therefore. the Kidneys and Liver are kept in
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Il is an excellent and safe remedy for females dur
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