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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27
Indications.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-For the
South Atlantic States: Light variable
winds With partly cloudy weather and
light local rains; stationary or lower
barometer, with light change in tenn
perature.
For the Gulf States: Slightly warm.
er and partly cloudy weather and rain;
variable winds, mostly from east to
south in west portion, with stationary
or lower barometer.
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley:
Warmer and partly cloudy weather.,
with local rains iD east portion; in
Tennessee winds mostly from south to
west, with stationary or lower baron
eter,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27
PEN DELIVERY,
Pete bergman aud John Woods
Scale the Walls Of the
PenitentiaFy.
Little Rock Democrat, 20.


This morning about six o'clock an
alarm was given at the penitentiary by
one of the oonvicts. The guards ran
to the part of the inclosure in time to
see two men wearing the stripes in the
act of passing over the wall. Several
shots we're fred at them, but to no
effect, and as quick as possible horses
were caught and mounted men fol-
lowed the iugitives, tracked by the
blood hounds.
Pete Bergman, the safe blower. and
John Woods, a horse thief, sentepccf
in Pope county Tor a term of Syo,..
must have been planning this e., spe
tor some time. They we're both armed,
but it is not known who supplied them
with pistols. Woods is very inge-
nious mechanic and is an adept AT
making skeleton keys. He had made
key that would unlock the tool
chest from which he secured some
rope and an auger. A long niece Of
scantling was used foT ladder with
holes bored through it in which pins
we're inserted. This was not ionp
enough to reach the top Of the wall
The rope was used in piecing tho lad
der and in scaling tho wall, y"
One oi the desperate men (it is moi
known which one) knocked the guard
senseless with a bar of iron; the Other
adjusted the ladder, and the two were
scrambling over when the alarm was
given. The stunned guard was car
ned IN and soon recovered.
Bergman was overhauled beyonc
Capital Hill, and was ordered ia halt
After the guard had fred At him h,
stopped. The guard rod,
up and dismounted to disarm Berg
man, who, as the guard was dismount
ing, ran again for his liberty. IN,
guard fred and Bergman fell. Tn,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

A SIXTEEN acre field near Ft.Smith
Ark, belonging to Mr.. FoltEe. has
been closely planted with fruit of va.
rious kinds, and among other varieties
are 10000 strawberry plants. The
Crescent species promise the best and
earliest yield, and arrangements have
been perfected to ship the product tC
Kansas City and Omaha by express.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

THE county OF Upton ranks fourth
in the list Of cotton producing coun-
ties of Tennessee. being exceeded by
Fayette, Haywood and Shelby. The
latter ranks third of all the cotton
growing counties in America, being
exceeded only by Washington and
Yazoo counties, Mississippi, and
Yazoo is only a couple Of thousand
bales ahead of us,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

THE Historical Eliza Pinkston, who
cut prominent figure as a witness be-
fere Congressional outrage committees
seven or eight years ago, died in Jail at
Canton, Miss, several days since, and
was buried as pauper.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

SINCE some mill building engineers
have announced that cotton seed oil
factories, costing fifteen thousand dol
lars or thereabOuts, can make a profit
Of $500 per day, by close work, a num-
Der of interior towns are agitsting the
erection of oil mills.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

THE cotton shipmens from Ft.
Smith, Ark, this season, aggregates
28,5l9 bales, while $500 barrels cotton
seed oil, and 1900 tons Of cotton seed
meal, have been shipped; of the latter,
200 tons went direct to Germany.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27
ELECTION NOTiCE.

I'HE a1nuai meeting Of the stockholders Of
4 the VANDERBILT ms. co. will be
held at the company's Office, M, ,18 Madison st.
on wednesday, May "a between the q urt
oI ~ Am and pm. for the purpose Of elect
ipg THlkTEEN DIRECIQRS 70 serve during
tn9 ensuing year. W. N, BROWN, Pres.
JOHN Z. MiASER5oN, Seo'y. 46 So
STOCKHOLDERS Of the DeSoto B. and Z.
~ Association ARE hereby notified that tho
annual election for NINE DIRECTORS will
office, 2S9 Main street w
-, JAMES RLDER, President
Minter Pagket, Secretary. 'S" Sa 20
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27

Hand bills of all sizes, from the
smallest to three sheet poster. So.
With neatness and dispatch, At Ne tbe
PPUBLIo LEDGER job printing Office
fHces as low as tho lowest
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27
OIearinghOIse Report.
CRYPTIC RASONRY

uWeka Coun ell No. 6, R. and S.ms, o
64yS 5o9 S iti1Sf S assembly Ss SSco e, TBIi
in the Select Masters degree and dispatch Of
business. Companions, Royal and Select
Masters, fraternRlly and cordially invited
BY order Of W, S. MATTHEW'S, 4, I'M.
Attest: ID @. TRADER, Recorder.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-27
ABSTRACTS,


is row prepared to furnish Abstracts Of
JuGg ments in all courts of reeord m
shelby County, except Criminal court and
criminal side OF Bartlett Cqggt. 1ndiapan-
Courthouse. V'"'s so m "
d. 4, NEcOMBER, Manager. 7. %
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
A Wonderful Instrument.

The magnetic needle Is one of tho
most sensitive and delicate of instrll-
ments. 1t quivers like the aspen leaf
at the approach of any object that re-
pels or attracts it. 1t shakes with
every tremor of the earth or sea. 1t is
salaeni at ,vot, el,"oet II alive, it
wanders around its limited circle. 1t
seems TO have its likes and dislikes. its
feelings, and its impulses. Sometimes
a magnetic storm sweeps over ii and
drives it from its course. Sometimes
it seems raised to wild excitement by
some opposing influence. But soon
again rest comes, and the delicate, fee
BILE needle points forever to the north.
Upon its tirmness and Interchangeable
nature rest the most important human
affairs. II guides the steamers that
cross the Atlantic, and brings them
safely to their harbors. Without this
feeble instrument the Alaska would
never venture to rush over the ocean in
cloud, mist, or night, or the Servia
reach her destined aim. Ii leads the
great host of immigrants to the land Of
plenty; it carries back the crops of
America to feed the people of Europe
Without it Columbus could never have
found the New World, and centuries
might have passed before the two hem
ispheres were United. It's delicate
guidance leads the explorer through
tropical forests and over the polar sea.
IL was known In Sweden in 1850. 1t
seems To have come first from Holland.
But the Chinese assert that they used
the mariners compass before the tenth
century, and it may have been brought
to Europe from that inventive people.
The Western races took up the inven-
ton, and have made il the foundation
of n new science They have built upon
the magnetic needle the science of
electromagnetic. Magnetism not
only guides great steamers over the
vibrations are made to carry knowledge
around the world, and enable nations
to converse with each other, however
far apart. The system Of electric tele-
graphs depends upon the peculiar prop
critics of the magnet The strange,
mysterious power that was first unfolded
in some Eastern city by the shores of
the Pacific has been turned to new uses.
Atsksl.s $50. st"aatsg .ennape saaaaaeaa1
writes, and may one day drive the rail-
cdf anu cOHuuGt lIiosl VI lHt oDtTHtlDHS
of labor. The steam-engine has found
a rival.
The needle does not always point to
the pole. Even Columbus discovered
and was alarmed by its variations. 1t
varies; it changes. And careful OBJ
servers in all parts Of the earth have
studied its peculiarities, and endeavored
to account for them. But in vain; no
one can explain the mystery of the
needle. Scientific men have offered
probable theories; careful observers
have noted its changes in different lati-
tudes and places. It is still everywhere
the same delicate, restless, variable
thing that seems often half alive. But
with all its variations II is yet sufficiently
true to afford a safe guidance. 1t re-
turns from every vibration to point
again to the north. 1t is the symbol of
constancy in all its changes. -Harper's
Young People.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
PUNGENT PARAGRAPHS.

-"Yes," said the landlord, pointing
to his block of new houses, "they're all
full, 'cept the one at the end. That s
last, but not leased"
German geographers propose tc
chrsten portion of the Northern ocean
the Nordenskjold sea. Don't, it's kjold
enough now .-LoUeH Courier.
Mrs General Tom Thumb would go
shopping oftener than she does if she
had more money. Her husband is always
little short. o. Hcayune.
The latest novelty is a looking glass
upon whose surface can be found indi
cations of clear sky or coming storms
Such looking glass should be placed
upon the weather bureau. --Phitadelphia
bulletin.
-"Av ye p'aze, sor,'' said Mrs. Nc.
Carthy, "me oald man sent me here for
to buy him pair o Shoes "What
size," MADAME" asked the dealer. 80,
The biggest we have, shure, the ould
mans fate u unlimited. '-Etevated
Rattroad Journal
Fashionable young club men OF New
York, sans aihs and sans brains, who
ape the British snob in their dress, are
called "dudes" We don't see much
economy in tPe new name. The old
title, "idiots," contains only one more
letter. NorristoWn Herald.
Fifteen genuine Sioux Indians, who
are seeing Gotham, amuse the people at
hotel by eating with their hands and
dressing outlandishly. As they wear
silk hats they think they are civilized.
This is very common mistake among
other people besides Indians. -Loweli
Citizen.
"A Frenchman, learning the English
language, complains of the irregularity
of the verb ito co. the present tense Of
which some wag had written out for him
| as follows: "Igo, thou startest, he de.
parts. We lay tracks, you cut sticks,
they absquatulate or skedaddle."
Mrs. Josiah Fender is very simple
sort of woman. An old gentleman by
the name of Ryckman and his wife
moved into the vicinity of the Fender
mansion, on Austin Avenue. Mrs.
Fender, who is very neighborly, baked a
nice cake and took it over to the new ar
rivals. 81 have brought over some cake
for Mr.. Ryckman' children" said Mrs
Fender "But we have never had any
children" said Mrs. Ryckman. ''Well,
then, give it to your grandchildren, "
said Mrs. Fender. = Ieras SJtings.
1t is said that a word once spoken
is never lost, but goes on circi;ng around
the heavenly spheres forever and ever.
The stories, jokes and witty sayings now
doing duty were current with our fathers
and our fathers fathers. So with news.
paper curiosities. Here is quaint dog
gerel that has just started afresh on its
endless round:
Miss Flora McFlimsey McVeigh
Went sailing in Wallabout beigb
When her lover met her, upset her, and wet heI
All over with old oceans spreigh.
Miss Flora she thought it quite rough,
And called her bold lover a mough;
But her lover he caught her, and taught her
that water,
Like riches, is unstable slough.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
Cleanliness in the Dairy.

If there is one habit which any one who
keeps COW should avoid mourning, it is
a habit of uncieanliness in butter making.
We ale now speaking more particularly
of uncleanliness at the time of milking.
Any impurities which may come in con-
tact with the milk will so infect il with
an offensive odor as that its presence
may be detected in the butter product,
although it has been strained and churned
and worked and rinsed most thoroughly.
This fact is generally known by farm
ers and dairymen, but they do not al
ways attach to it due importance. In a
large dairy the milking must necessarily
be done by ''hired help and it is de-
plorabe fact that the average hired man
scarcely ever has sufficient interestin his
work to take such care as is needed at
milking time to keep the milk clean.
But, of course, there are some exceptions
to this rule.
Even in a small dairy, where but few
cows are kept and no help employed,
carelessness and uncleanliness is too
often noticeable, and the good farmer
has none but himself to blame if there is
a strange odor about bis butter as he
spreads his bread or if he finds that his
butter fails to bring the best price in
market. We were cOnversing, recently,
with an experienced dairyman on this
subject. who receives from twenty to
thirty cents more per pound for his butter
than most others get, and he said that
he never sat down to milk COW. MOI
ever permitted any one else in his en-
ploy to do so, without having first
thoroughly cleansed the cows udder and
teats, as well as her body and hind legs,
from every vestige Of impurity. We are
fully aware that it is no pleasant matter
to 60 through such a process of cleaning
and washing on a cold winters morn
ing, when the thermometer registers ten
degrees or more below zero; but eternal
cleanliness is the price of pure butter
and it will pay in the end. A plentiful
supply of bedding, either of marsh grass
or straw, should be given the cows every
night, which will prevent much trouble
on the part of the milkman. T.
Independent.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
Testing the Quality Of Milk at Diaries.

That milk from cows well fed with
grain and good forage is richer in butter
and cheese material than that from COWS
poorly fed, or not fed, is too well known
TO need argument This fact is reeog
nized in theory, but has been and is
largely ignored in practice in those
diaries where whole milk is bought from
farmers for the purpose of making butter
or cheese, or for sale in cities. In the
vicinity of Chicago, for example, many
dairymen feed little besides brewers
grains-about the poorest stuff one can
feed to mich cows, since it contains
little or no nutriment. 1t does, how
ever. stimulate the flow through the
cows bag of fluid which looks like and
sells as milk. This fluid can be by such
means produced at a cost SO small that,
if the demand for milk did not exceed
the supply, those farmers and dairymen
who feed sound grain and hay would
quickly be driven to use Stops or quit the
business. This has happened in the vi
cinity of Chicago, and will no doubt
again occur.
The milk supplied to each customer
should be tested, and each lot should be
valued and paid for in exact proportion
to the ascertained value of the milk, for
butter or for cheese making as shown
bv the test lot. Justice demands that
this shall be DONE If this testing shall
become general custom, as it probably
will in time, some marked changes will
result Under the old plan he whose
cows pick up scant living from the
straw-stack and the corn stalks, and find
their only shelter under the lee of a
fence, receives as much per quart for the
skim milk his cows yield as is paid for
the milk of cows carefully sheltered and
highly fed Yet the milk of the neglected
COW NAV be worth less than one-third as
much as that from the cows of the thrifty
farmer. premium has for years been
paid for shiftlessness. The careful, hui
name, and reasoning man has long been
compelled, through the medium of the
dairy or the cheese-factory, to contribute
to the welfare of his lazy, ne'er-do-well
neighbor The latter has been in.
jured in some measure by this, for all
motive for improving his manner OF
treatment of his cows that the value OF
their milk might be increased, has been
taken away. He has been paid for
quantity, not for quality. If by being
liberal in supplying salt and water tc
his stock he could increase the flow )f
milk, he would thereby increase his
profits. = Chicago Tribune.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
SCHOOL AND CHURCH.

Alaska is begging that school-teach-
ers be sent there.
DIR. Arnold said that he preferred a
Christian and gentlemen, an active
man, and one who has common sense
and understands boys, to high scholar
ship.
A Tennessee school-master kissed
the girls as a punishment, and before the
trustees put a stop to the practice ii took
him about an hour per day to requite
their disobedience.
One hundred and fifty italian chill
dren are attending Protestant Mission
Sunday-school in New York City. An
Italian branch of the Young Mems
Christian Association of that city has
been organized.
"A tablet has been placed in the
Center Church, New Haven, in memory
Of Rev. James Pierpont, of the class OF
1851 Harvard University. who was pastor
If tho fsarish fsoas 1898 To 171a He wss
one of the founders of Yale College.
In the kingdom of Siam all college
students are allowed but two wives.
This is shameful They are putting
more rules on every year. After while
they will probably be limited to one The
freshmen should certainly kick. College
Mercury.
Professor Blackie once chalked on
his notice-board in college; "The Pro.
lessor is unable to meet his classes to-
morrow A waggish student removed
the &C." leaving classes" When the
Professor returned he noticed the new
rendering. Equal to the occasion the
Professor quietly rubbed out the .'l'' and
joined in the hearty laughter of the asses.
The ministering hand of gentle
woman has been felt again, this time in
Pawtueket. r. |. A child in one of the
schools there whistled. The teacher
asked who it was, and failing to find out
logged the whole school, with one ex
ception, a girl who chose to be turned
out instead. There were fifty-eight
scholars, and tifty-seyen of them got five
olows apiece with rattan.--- Boston Post.
Mr.. Sturgeon, of London, has de.
elared himself against the Salvation
Army. In the new number of his mag.
.zine he writes. 1t is time that some
BODY spoke, now that the attempt is
made to make men religious by turning
I'll religion into game Of soldiers. Be-
,ause they would not hinder anything
hat promised well. Christian men have
borne with much that grieved them, but
here is point beyond which longs
iering charity cannot go. That point is
nearly reached; even the most ultra tol.
Grant must feel that hope has been dis
appointed, and fear now takes its place"
Bishop Coke, in letter to the Bul'a-
o On. W Erpress says the church wants
to coeree no Clergyman into belief in its
creed, but it does insist that when he has
departed from the creed he shall go out
of the church. That is entirely reasona-
BILE, and If the baoksllder, the progress
sionist, or whatever he thinks himself, has
any self-respect he will voluntarily leave
the establishment he has ceased to be in
harmony with, and not wait to be invi-
ted or kicked out of it. And if his con-
gregation chooses to stand by him it will
do the same thing; not that it and its
favorite are not right, but that churches,
like other Institutions, must be consist
ent and must stand by and vindicate
their articles of faith.-N. Y Graphic.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
GladstOne's Lost Finger.

Mr.. Gladstone is fond Of the open air,
but field-sports have never been his
forte 1t is not known that he ever rode
after the hounds, and for many years he
has not fired a fowling- piece. The
reason for his absence from the moors
and preserves, so dear to most English
men, is thus given by the London Stand
ard:
Dozens of members of Parliament have
probably sat in the House of Commons
with Mr.. Gladstone for years without
having noticed that, as the black silk
guard tied round his wrist indicates, he
has lost the index finger of his left hand
Like the famous Lord Anglesey's leg,
which was buried in the Belgian village
from which the battle of Waterloo takes
its name, Mr.. Gladstone left his lost
finger, in q sportsman sense, on the
field of honor.
Nearly forty years ago he was staying
at Eserick Park, near York. as the
guest of the grandfather of the present
Lord Wenlock, who was the uncle of
Mrs. Gladstone.
Mr. Gladstone went out shooting as
one of a large party, and while he was
loading his Run-there were no breech-
leaders in those days-one barrel ex-
ploded and blew away his finger.
There was no hope of replacing it or
of setting the bone, which, indeed, was
entirely carried away, and from that day
to this Mr.. Gladstone has always worn
the black finger-stall to which we have
just alluded.
The accident seemed to be a protest
against his further use of fowling-
piece; but it was not until some years
later that he took to the amusement of
cutting down trees.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
For Young Readers.
JICK-IN- THE PULPIT.


Cracklel crashl the ice Is melting;
From the west wild showers are pelting;
Swish and gurglel splash and spatter!
Haloo good folksl what the mattcr2
Seems To me tho roof Is lcakingr'
Jack from down below is speaking.
You know little Jack2 In the spring he
stands up on the swampy.edge
OF the hemlock-wood, looking out from the
shade of the ferny ledge;
But in winters he cuddlcs close under a thatch
of damp leaves,
Hank the water is trickling fast In through
his garret-eavcs,
And he opens his eyes, and up he starts out
of his earthly bed:
And he carefully holds. while he climbs aloft,
his umbrella over his head.
High time for you to be up, Jack when every
living thing
Is washing and summing ITSELF Jack, and get
ting ready for spring
Little Jack, the country preacher,
Thinks: These rustics need teaeherl
shall reprimand the flowers
Flirting with the rude March showers
What fh"fel tGe scftS Sersi sG no Gisslline
They cali him Jack-in-the-pulpit. so stif he
looks, and SO queer,
As he waits on the edge of the swamp, for the
tiower-folks to come and hear
The text and the sermon and all the grave
things that he has to say;
Nut the blossoms they laugh and they dance,
No hearers-so never II word has the little
minister said,
But there in HIS pulpit he stands and holds his
umbrella over his head;
And we have not u doubt In our minds, Jack.
you are wisely listening
To the orUan-choir of the winds, Jack and
the tunes TINT the sweet birds sing!
Lucy Ldrcont, fn Wide-AmIhe.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1883-04-21
THE DAIRY.

During the past winter number OF
cheese factories in Ohio were in opera
ion, and the proprietors were so we'll
winter dairying will become quite gen.
eral in the Buckeye State.
The old stock of cheese is practically
exhausted and the new make will come
into market in time to obtain a benefit
from the high price. However, the hay
cheese will not be of a fine quality and
the price will gradually lower as the
new stock is put on the market -Elgan
1dDocate.
Regarding the dairy interest of the
Province of Quebec, the Canada Globe
has the following: According to the re-
port of the Commissioner of Agriculture
for the Province of Quebec. there are
$50 cheese factories, AZ butter factories
and % cheese and butter factories count
ed at present in operation in the Prov
ince, being an increase of 155 estab-
lishments during the year. These have
had the effect of augmenting the product
Of milk, and consequently have caused
greater attention to be paid to grazing
lands
w. F. Brown, in the Rurai New
Yorker, says; IL find more profit from
the cows that come in fresh in the fall
than from those that are fresh in the
spring. Not only does butter bring a
better price, but | think the cows give
more milk in year under this manage
ment for just when they come to the
time when they would naturally
begin to shrink largely in their milk,
they go on fresh pasture and increase
the flow; while COW that is fresh in the
spring begins to shrink just at the season
Of failing pastures and the transition
from green to dry feed, and a great fall
ing off in milk is unavoidable"