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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19
The Age orInYentions.
Cincinnati Times-Star.

AADN1-ItaAs
The number of inventions that have
been made during the past fifty years
is perhaps unprecedented In the hiss
tory of the world, OF course inven-
tions of benefit to the human race
have been made in all ages since mau
was created, but looking back for
half a hundred years, now many more
are crowded into the last fifty thm
into any other fifty since recorded his
tory. The perfection of the locomo-
tive aud the now world traversing
steamship, the telegraph, the tele
phone, the audiphOne, the sewing ma
chine, the photograph, chrome lithO-
graphic printing, the cy linder printing
press, the elevator for hotels and
other many stored buildings, the
cotton gin and the spinning jenny, the
reaper and mower, the steam thresher,
the steam fire engine, the improved
process for making steel, the applica-
ton of chloroform aud ether to destroy
sensibility in painful surgery cases,
aad so on through long catalogue
Nor are we yet done in the field Of
invention and discovery. The applica-
ton Of coal gas and petroleum to heat
idg and cooking operations is only
trembling on the verge of successful
experiment, the introduction ofsteaui
from great central reservoir to gen.
eral use for heating and cooking is
foreshadowed as among the coming
events, the artificial production OF
butter has already created consterna
ton among dairymen, and be would
be bold man who dared predict that
cheese would not next be obtained
from suet or some other product OF
the slaughtered OK with equal success.
The navigation Of the air by some
device akin to our present balloon
would also seem 10 be prefigured, and
the propulsion Of machinery by cleo
triclty is even now clearly indicated
by the march OF experiment.
There are some problems we have
hitherto deemed impossible, hut are
the mysteries of even the most im-
probable Of them more subtle to grasp
than that Of the ocean cable or that of
the photograph or the telephone? We
talk by cable With an ocean rolling
between; we speak in our own voices
to friends a hundred miles or more
from where we articulate before the
micropbone. Under the blazing suns
Of July we produce, ice by chemical
means, rivaling the most solid and
chrystslline production of nature.
Our surgeons graft the skin from one
person S arm to the face of another
and it adheres and becomes an integ-
raj portion Of his body. We make a
mile of white printing paper and send
it on spool that a pcrtecting printing
press unwinds and prints and cuts and
delivers to you folded and counted,
many thousand per hour. Ola VERIFY
this is the age ofinvention. nor has the
world reached a stopping yet.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19
PInex Woods CuIture.

Catherine Cole, in the Nashville
American, describing a recent trip
through the pine woods of Southern
Mississippi, says:
L ride through some Of the interior
counties of certain of the Southern
States is most interesting. Sometimes
the houses are from tsp to eighteen
miles apart; then the traveller comes
up 70 a log edifce Of one or two rooms.
The owner may have ten children and
hundred hes3 Of cattle. The parents
and children all smoke tobacco and
live on sweet potatoes, cofeo and corn
cakes baked in the old fashioned
owens" And stopped at the home
Of rich native. The cottage of two
rooms was squatted under a lonely
grove Of oaks. Here and there STATELY
pima 4aes, like sentinels on duty
reared their lesthery heads. A sweet
Old "hundrea isai" elambered against
the tiny stoop and 0Ae RQodeI
window opening. Pigs and chickens
and big yellow dog or two wer,
sprawling here and there in the coo
shadows and dust. a ten year old boz
crouohing in the doorway, pulled stol
| idly at bis pipe. The owner Of thi
estate and ali its belongings. sallow
faced, lankyindiVidunl, stood undel
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19

A PIANO twenty.six years old and
sold by Steinway to a lady in Louis.
vile, afterward owned by Colonel
Sandy Faulkner, the original "Arkan-
saw Traveller" vas the cause of the
SANDER suit between Mr.. HOllenberg
and Mr.. Smith, which has been in the
court at Little Rock for eleven years
The piano changed hands several
times and was finally sold by Mr..
Hollenberg to a man named Trent,
who afterward returned it, end some
time later gave a letter to Smith, a
rival music dealer, charging that he
had been cheated in the trade. Tho
letter was published, and HOllenberg
had Smith arrested for SANDER. The
trial of the case last week at Little
Rock ocoasiOned much interest, the
court room being crowded with ladies
and gentlemen prominent in musical
circles. The jury deliberated four
hours over the matter at the close Of
the case and brought in a verdict If
mot guilty" The piano is to be
shipped to the Steinwsy factory to
have its geuuineness certified to by
the original makers, il they are alive,
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Terrible Play thing.

The following is the official descrip
ton Of the Fenian bomb recently cap
tured at Liverpool:
Il is made of tin, and is polished to
3 great degree of brightness. 1t stand:
about sixteen inches high, and is
about six inches square at the base.
The lid is at the bottom, ard fits
closely on With an overlapping hange,
like the top of an ordinary tea or sugar
canister. At the top is inserted a
funnel, about an inch and half in
diameter, extending about five inches
into the interior OF the canister. This
is the whole Of the construction Of the
internal machine itself 1t is prepared
for use in the following manner: The
canister is filed with sawdust. highly
charged with nitro. chlorate of potash
aud ordinary sugar. The machine is
then fully charged and needs only the
ignitiug medium. This is supplied IN
the shape of tube filled with oil OF
Titriol, and stoppered BY some porous
material. When the machine is placed
In position for its purpose, all it needs
is that the tube of vitriol should be
thrust into the mixture Of the funnel.
In a few minutes, sufficient to allow
the preparation Of the outrage to make
good his escape, the vitriol eats its way
through the porous stopper, which it
ignites; the mixture leaps into fame,
and the confOed space 10 which it is
placed causes a conclusion, and this
explsdes with the mass ofimpregnated
sawdust. An inspection OF the empty
cases renders it at once obvious that
skilled hands have been employed in
their manufacture, for the workman
ship is thoroughly finished"
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and 81 course les breath vas short,
and dissolution seemed rapidly com
ing. The treatment Of the disease
had to be made more vigorous, aud,
Instead of poulticing the body, cold
strips, or sheets bathed in water, were
put around the little, haggard, lean
child every half hour, making
him scream from the cold az
it he had been dipped in ice.
The boy fought his nurse and
mother and the doctor in putting on
these strips,and begged after each one
that the next should not be used. The
medicine was also distasteiul, and the
mother could not make the child take
it. AT that junoture friend came 10
Of whom the boy had asked the gift Of
o bicycle, and he had refused it on the
ground that the boy might break his
neck. Seeing the trouble about the
medicine, this gentleman said: Now,
if you get we'll | am going to give you
that bicycle. To get we'll you must
take your medicine. If you don 'ttake
your medicine you will die, and of
course | shall not have to buy the
bicycle" The little fellow shivered q
minute, but the influence of that toy
was greater than the love Of life.
He said: well, l will take the
medicine now: That night the
child's father, lying in the next room
where the mother was worn out and
slumbering, and the child was deliri>
Gus from acute pain, modified by
morphine, heard some muttered words
from his boy, and he seemed to feel
that the shadow of death had come.
Stealing from his bed, he slipped on
tip toe near the little sufferers bed,
aud instead of hearing these appre>
tensions of death, he heard the NUT
tered words: II am going to get my
bicyclel | am going to get it." At
that moment, as the doctor related
when he soon after came in, the child
was in the very crisis of his disease,
with death and life throwing the last
dice for his life. Yet the memory of
a toy to amuse children adhered in
that fading brain greater than any
thing in life. And SO are we all, till
the last struggle, clinging to our toys!
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Horace GreeIey's Farm.
New York Herald, Is.


The famous Greeley farm, in Chap
paqua, Westehoster county, has re-
Gently been advertised to rent. and
will before long be sold under the
provisions Of Mrs. Greeley's will.
Colonel Nicholas Smith, who occupied
the farm until recently, has removed
to Kentucky with his three children
and Miss Gabrielle Greeley, who, With
these children, is heir to the property
Is living in'this city 1.-THE farm contains
eighty acres and has several buildings
upon it, including Mr. GreeIey's biz
stone barn. The old homestead, where
Busy Life" aud the History of the
Rebellion" were written, was destroyed
By FIRE.
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the tree watching our approach, He
shouted at the baying dogs as We came
into the yard. He eyed US ouriOusly
and we thought rather eOldE. bG;
when we asked if he could take US in
for the night, he said with rough
hospitality that was genuine and
pc sing, "The house is free TO yer.
Anything we've got is welcome to yer.
Yer can stay as long as yer like, and
go when the notion takes yer. This
is free country"
This man owned hundreds of acres
/ of land, hundreds of head OF cattle,
and had about $4,000 ia hard cash.
With all the cattle such q thing as
drop Of milk was unknown il
his house They never MIXED
q COW. White bread was as much .
rarity to them as it would be to an
Irish peasant. Their coffee they
sweetened with molasses. Their bread
was corn cake. If they had fresh meat
or fowls it was always boiled. They
we're even barbarous enough TO boil
wild turkey-sa saerilege for which l
somehow never forgsve them. They
never saw a newspaper, and neither
they nor their children could have
read it if they had.
The South will never truly prosper
until education is compulsory. Kali
fences, tumbled gates, baretooted and
smoke sodden children and discomfort
will prevail until these three RS are
introduced by law.
To be sure, such people are very
happy in their way, but it admits OF
argument that their way is not the
right way, and see no chance for
their methods being revolutionizsd un.
tilthel law steps in and makes education
compulsory upon children.
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CHANCERY SALE OF
REAL ESTATE,

REAL ESTATE.
No. aS6, R-Chancery Court Of Shelby county
20 Sullivan ,admr, VS., G Is Griffin ct al,
Ia virtue OF an isterlocutOry decree for
~ sale, entered In tho above cause on the
10Th dag Of March, 1883, m b 3S D 1877, / will
sell, at public auction, TO the highest bidder.
In front Of the Clerk and Matters Office
courthouse Of Shelby county. Memphis, Ten,
nOssee, on
Saturday, April 81, 1883,
within legal hours, the remainder interest In
the homestead of the following described
property, situated In Shelby county, Tenn,
Being part of lot Al on tho plan or man of
Memphis, beginning at the point of intersec
ton OF the east linv Of Chickasaw street with
the south line Of Concord street and RUNNING
thence south "a feet: thence east on n lima
parallel with the south line of Concord street
las feet more or lesg to the west line of the frat
alley eat of Chickasaw street; thence north
with the west line Of said alley "a feet TO the
| south line of Concord street; thence west
with the south line of Concord street 148 feet
more or less TO the point of beginning. bein0
"a feet of the north side Of said lot No, Al.
Terms Of Sale-0n a credit of seven month";
purchaser executing note with security; lien
retained, etc
This March %, 1888,
4 J BLACK. Clerk and Master.
By George Mallory, d. @. and NJ
Warbler, sol. Is 26 50 3SNl
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CIingIng 20 Our Toys.

Another gentleman related a child
story that was also touching He said
that only last week his only boy had
pneumonia, a disease which has ragged
in this city fearfully during the
spring. The father has lost previous
boy Of good growth, and when such q
fearful vititoP as this disease seized
his child, be- felt that the labor OIL
raising family was oil thrown away
The disease made rapid progress, gil.
ing the child's lungs with fever, and
its little body glowed like furnace
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A REV fish Law was passed the mid
die of last month BY our State Legis-
1sture and is DOW in force, making II
an ofense punishable BY fine Of s. to
$26, and confscatiOn Of traps, boats,
and paraphernalia generally, to catch
fsh any other way than by angling
with hook aud line in ell running
streams. The faes collected are to
90 to the public school fund. Lakes,
ponds end bayous covering fifteen
square miles Of territory not connect
ed with running streams are exempt
from this law, and fishermen may use
nets, traps dams, snatch or grab
hooks in the same, as much as they
like, without being guilty of law
breaking.
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Facts About Indis;

The first census Of India has Just
been completed aud presents some
very interesting figures and statistics
as to this thickly settled section Of
Asia. The population Of thiG vast
country nuns hers 1891 ,72l per-
sons, occupying l,372,5S9 square
miles, and inhabiting over 43,50O, Oco
dwellings It is massed ia 7l4,7OO
towns or villages, and is made up Of
1894, 95l males and l23,949 fe'
males. Religiously. the population
is divided as follows: 1871, $50, 400 Hin
docs: 90, l2l ,585 Mohammedans;6, 49,
sill native worshipers, who represent
the aboriginals Of India; 3,4lB,s9i
Ruddhists. 1852 GA Christians; l..
1853 426 Sikhs and l,22l, 1896 jams
The other forms of religion are SO
small In representation that we need
ACT enub1erate them. The Hindoos
are divided into no less than seventy.
two castles. The Roman Catholics
embrace more than half of the entire
Christian community. The effect Of
the Hiudoo civil laws which ordain
that 9 widow shall not remaFFy is
shown by the fact that there are no
less than "a 100000 widows among
she Hindoos alone. The dissimilarity
Of the various people Of India is APPLY
illustrated by statement which shows
that, exclusive Of dialects and Eprope
a., languages, no less than l25 distinct
Ian. uages are spoken By them. The
most ,1idely spoken langaaes ip Hin.
dnstani. Out Of all these haRdEedS o.
m;IIions on " 100000 persons speak
Ensl;sb 0oe secret of the distress in
InSia NAV he foGud in the following
r r Officials Of the imPeri9'
government, $4,000; mS.niciipssdl,; local
and village government, 75i, SS'; ma
tive officials, 1873, 265.
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BURNETT'S COCAINE
Will Save the Hair

And keep it in a strong and healthy
condition, because it will stimulate
the roots of the hair, and restore the
natural action upon which its growth
depends.
Burnett's FlavOring Extracts are
absolutely pure.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19

If you experience bad taste in
mouth, sallowness or yellow color OF
skin, feel stupid and drswsy, appetite
unsteady, frequent headache or dizzi.
ness, you are bilious" aud nothing
will arouse your liver to action and
strengthen up your system equal 70
DR.. Pierce's Golden Medical Dis.
covery." By druggists.
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Journalistic Night Owls Mus
GIn
Lafayette Journal.

Human nature is generally on tn,
side OF fair play, truth and respecta
bility, and the paper which appeals Ia
the baser elements generally tails with
the reaction Of public sentiment
which is sure to come. The age OF
Machiavelism and cold blooded Der,
secutlons have passed away. The
night owls Of Journalism and theil
venomous brood must certainly dis
appear before the rush Of light Of
public intelligence.
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Price $500.

:. A scientific and economical apparatus for
lighting for Home. Business, Office, Mining
and Manufactur ng purposes. COMPLETE
IN ITSELF. The Electric Current being
ratus by our adjustments. for which we make
extra charges, can be adapted to use "a a
Burglar Alarm, Medical Battery, Call Bell or
for Automatic Electric Gas Lighting Our
burglar alarm is 80 constructed that the in
truder is Immediately confronted with q
light and bell alarm at the same Instant.
Reliable agents wanted all over the country.
Enclose stamp for ciroular. PORTABLE
ELECTRIC LIGHT TO, q Water street,
Boston. Chartered under the laws Of Massa,
chusetts. December, 1882.
"a Portable Electric Lighter for S Is being
extensively sold by thu Portable Electric
Light Co, Of % Water street. Boston. II Is
an economical and safe apparatus for light
ing for home and business purposes. Sci
entihc American, Now York, December 16.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19
cHAPER 1.

Ask any or all Of the most eminent physi-
clans:
What is the best and only remedy that
can be relied on 10 cure all diseases Of The
kidneys and urinary organs; such rs Brisht'S
disease. diabetes, retention OF ins5ility
TO retain urine and al the diseases and nif
ments peculiar 10 Women
phntioslly 'Buchu
Ask the same physicians
:. What Is tbs most reliable aud sureft cure
for ell liver diseases or dyspepsia. constisa.
ton. INDIGESTION, biliousness, malarial r.
yer. ague, etc, and they W II tel goui
Mandrakei or DandeliUNP'
Hence, when these remedies ara combined
with others equally valuable
And compounded in'o Hop Bitters, such a
wonderful and mysterious curative power is
developed which Ia so varied In it's operation
that no disease or III health can possibly
exist or resist Its power, and yet IL Ia
Harmless for the most frail woman, weak.
est invalid or smallest child 10 use.
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vlml eussilSnsi

Ask the most ointment physician
OF any school. what is the best thing in
the world for Quisting and allayins all irri-
tation of the nerves and curing all forms Of
nervous complaints. Swing natlral, child
like refreshing sleep alwaysi
And they will tell you unhesltatirsly
Some form Of HoPslr
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19

VENNOR is rather poor authority
on The weather, but be says this
month will end cold and stormy, and
May day will be ushered 10 with snow
and sleet in northern and western secN
tions, and cold rains at others. All
of his prognostics for the early part of
this month missed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19

NJ. st. Paul, a Paris physician, has
offered the French academy the sum
OF $4,000 to found prize for the dis
covery Of cure for diphtberia. He
has evidently not heard of DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup, which has cured hun
dreds of cases of this awful disease.
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Rfgh Authority.

Dr.. ". Z. Scott, President Of the Col
lege Of Physicians. Montreal, writes; 81
have recommended COlden's Liquid
Beet Tonic as the best preparation for
debility, indigestion, dyspepsia, fever,
ague. and loss Of appetite. (Take no
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-04-19

70 all yhs 20 suffering from Che errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nerYous WeaknesS.
early decay, loss q manhood etc, will sen
eu Ffgep,pep th9t viii cure you, . FREE OR
By Q missionary In South America. Sand 4
lelf-addTessed envelope 70 the Rev, JOsYpF n
'SuAE, Station D. New York City.
62xxxiVh2d
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Trustees Sale.

Under and by virtue Of deed Of trust
" executed to me as trustee by John Cor.
man on the 9Th day of February, 1881, and re-
corded In Book No. 135, page ISL Of the Regis
ter's office. Of Shelby county, tennessee, q
secure TO the Memphis Building and SayingI
edness fully described in said deed Of trust.
will on
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saturday, May 10, 1883,

within legal hours the following described
property, situated in city Of Memphis, Shell
by county, Tenn, to-wit:
A. certain lot or parcel Of ground fronting
on Market SQUARE and consisting Of lot 27S
the map Of said city, the whole Of said lot Il
be sold, being bounded as follow: Begin
ming at the northHest corner OF said lot 27S,
and running theme east with Market street
ftty-aIe feet eight and one-quarter inches
D'eH-l2) to a stake; thence south one
hundred and foriy-eight and one.
half feet QlSN to an alley; thence
west with said alley to the southwest eorneI
Of said lot as; :hepoe north with the wesi
lile Of said lot 27S TO tho beginning, upor
which stands a brick residence.
Terms fsale, cash.
This April IS, 1888
R J BLACK, G and NJ.
By N Bradley, d. G. a NJ.
Heiskell, Weatherford 4 Hei,kell, G, W
Heiskell, Estes 4 Elicit AMI r. NJ. Heath
gllioitsrs. ID oQ
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CHAPTER II.
Patients
Almost dead or nearly dying"

:, For years, and given mp by physicians Of
complaints, severe coughs called oonsump-
ton. have been cured
Women gone nearly crazy
From agony of neuralgia, nervousness,
wakefulness and various diseases peculiar to
women.
People drawn out Of hape from oxeru-
oiating pangs OF rheumatism,
frem sorofulal
Erysipelasl
Salt rbeum, blood poisoning, dy,pepsla,
Indigestion, and in fact almost ali diseases
Nature is heir to
Have been cured by Hop Bltlers, proof Of
which can be found in every neighborhood In
the known world.
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NEW BERN, n. C.-Rev. G. W. Oalev
says u haye taken Browns Iron Bitter.
and consider i one Of the best medicines
knOWnU
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CHANCERY SALE

OF
Real Estate.
No. I22l, R-Chancery Court Of Shelby coun-
ty--Henry W Joiner vs.. VIM L Joiner.
RY virtue of an interlecutory decree for
- sale, ,entered in the above cause on the
18th day Of November. iSS2,in NJ IS, page $50.
l will sell, at pub ic auction, to the highest
bidder in front of the Clerk and Masteris
ONCE, courthouse Of Shelby county. Memphis,
Tenn.i on
Saturday, May 3, 1888,
within legal hours, an undivided one half
interest in the following described property,
situated in the city of Memphis, now 4 axine
District Of Shelby county, Tenn, to-wit;
beginning at the northwest corner Of Ex.
change and second streets, running north
with the west line Of Second street 81 feet and
~ inches; thence vest IA feet and 8 inches
thence south 81 feet and ~ inches; thence
east "a feet and inches to the beginning,
Terms of Sale-0n a credit Of seven months,
note with good personal security required
lien retained. redemption barred.
This April II, 1883.
RI BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By George Mallory, D. G. Il NJ.
W GlissonI sol. for cOmp'lt.
rs 80 a. 50bS