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and pinned in front with an emerald
set in diamonds, a bunch Of crimson
roses to the left and below them in
succession two other diamond pins
cleaning in the chenille trimming of
the corsage. A low crowned velvet
hat of mole color, with two short
feathers shaded to gray falling oyer the
lett front was very becoming. The
sleeves were elbow length, filled with
lace, and she wore a pair of undressed
tan gloves oircled with several bangle
bracelets, each sparkling with large
diamonds, rubies and emeralds. A
tringed parasol ornameuted with a
cluster OF red shaded roses held over
the head made the first pretty and
only picture that Mrs. Langtry figured
in the entire evening.
The Globe Democrat having sent
nine trained critics and one impress.
sariO to do" the Langtry, the Ohron-
icle quotes:
l. Mrs. Langtry is pretty, but not
beautiful-not in the sense that Mel.
son was beautiful. There are marked
imperfections both as to the mouth
and the nose.
Y. Mrs. Langtry is a very attractive
woman. Judged from an ordinary
standpoint, she is a beautiful woman.
3. Two surprises are in store for
one seeing Mrs. Langtry act, unbiased
either by the professional jealousy of
American women or the determine
ton of the New York critics TO write
her down as mo actress" She is less
OF a beauty and more Of an actor than
the local public had been led TO sup
pose.
A.. Mrs. Langtry's beauty is best
displayed in quiet repose. 1t is girl
ish rather than womanly, and of a
frigid order. She has a lustrous eve,
a fine intellectual forehead, but a
front view presents Irregularities of
facial contour. She has excellent
teeth, shown too often,
Perhaps nearly the first impression
one has Of Mrs. Langtry is that her
mouth is large, but her teeth are per-
feet and her smile is altogether pleas
ant, | should say that her eyes were
good enough, perhaps a shade too
much penciled.
Mrs. Langtry's talent is not above
mediocrity, but she is not without
dramatic ability. She display little
or no emotion in her acting. In the
character of a refined LADY she is
graceful, but in that of an unedueateJ
country girl she is clumsy, instead of
being supple, as country maidens ara
generally.
T.. Mrs. Langtry is a woman who
can look at herself in a mirror A sec.
ond time without having anv verv
disagrooable impressions made by The
operation, and there are hundreds of
other women who can do the same
thing.
Crit No. 8 and the impressario ortiz
else the multitude that assembled TO
see the woman from the Isle Of Jersey.
Hand bills of all sizes, Hrom the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office.
Prices as low as the lowest,
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POLICE POINTS.

Six more were added to the chain
gang to-day.
Bill Duke, a darby prowler, was
nlbbed last night.
Twenty-Seyen arrests yesterday and
eight dollars in cash to-day.
A dollar fine was paid by a merchant
for storing cotton on The sidewalk.
The Metcalie case was again con.
tinued until the 22d, on Mr.. Hunt
account.
Fitten men, women aud children
who occupy an unsanitary house, were
brought into court and fined a dollar
elch.
John Butler hit Albert Millspapsly
in the head With a stick and paid 81
The young man with the unpardona.
BILE name also paid that amount.
The police have instructions to ar,
rest all teams running, or merchants
and others doing business without
having their licenses which expired
January LIST.
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II LILY.
Just How She Strikes the 81.
Louis Intellect.
St. Louis Chronicle, l6.

ST. Louis Chronicle, l6.
There was an excited and sudden
rustic Of expectancy in the Olympic
Theater last evening, when the pre-
lude to Mrs. Langtry's entrance in the
Yorkshire blacksmith's garden scene
was ended by the domestic's exclama.
ton: Here comes Hesterl' Then fol.
lowed a clapping of hands as the flesh
and blood counterpart Of the milk
maid, in a Dolly Warden, garnet petit
coat, blue hose and bowed slippers,
which have become familiar to every
one who has studied the windows Of
picture stores and photographers
rooms in the past few months, walked
forward to the foolights, followed by
her admirer, who carried the milk
pail, also familiar through the pho
tograph OF Langtry in hat costume.
She acknowledged the greeting with a
low bow and a smile that spread across
her face, showing a full upper row of
white regular teeth set close together,
except in front, where the center in
cisors are separated by a distinct space.
There was the strong masculine chin
with its dimple and c%urviDg lip, the
short, straight upper lip hat seldom
came in contact with the under
lip save when anger was
simulated, and then the unnat.
ural elongation of tbs already
unbeautifully long, narrow nose and
the contraction of the eyes made the
face a picture of stubborn ~mediocrity.
The lady's eyes are blue, and only
moderately expressive. Her hair is
an unglossy brown Of the plebeian
shade, and showed none Of the gold
tints that have been claimed for it..
The color had been daubed on her
lips exaggerating the size Of her
mouth, which is not pleasing except
when in repose. Her profile Is pretty,
but there are few who would call it
beautiful; and her complexion is what
in this country would be considered
ordinarily good. She smiles too often
and her smiles seem forced and unna.
tural. As no one has termed the Lily
an actress, there is little to find fault
with in her conscientious effort to
walk, pose, and declaim according TO
rule. Her figure is well proportioned,
except that there is a little too much
taken in at the waist line, Her hands
are shapely, but large, and Of q piece
with the exceedingly ordinary arm,
which together, were the
only natural part in her
delineation Of the daughter of
G%razebrook, the rough old iarrier
Her feet are large, and manifest no
effort at artistic dressing. In the sec.
ond act Mrs. Langtry wore a blue satin
walking dress deliberately trimmed
with white lace, her hair hanging in
a braid. In the last act her costume
was admirahle-a mole color satin,
demi train, with a V shaped front Of
steel beoded chenille sweeping to her
feet. There was a wide piece Of rich
lace basted 10 the neck, turned back
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John Webster was sentenced to.
day to one year in the p~enitentiary,
for stealing a suit of clothes.
The jury were out at noon to day
considering the evidence against Nor
ton, charged with check raising.
Licenses to marry were issued to-
day to Robert Alexander and Fannie
Wright; Il. Peyones and Lula Jones.
Deeds were recorded this forenoon
from L. NJ. Gartrell to H. Riehlman;
H. and D. M. Richman to w. B. Roy.
ster.
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ISL
MAxIMS OF BU SlNESS.
PRO BONO PUBLlCo.
tooNriNUED.l

Habits of Business include six
qualities, Industry, Method, Calcula-
ton, Prudence, Punctuality and Per.
severance.
PyNcTUALITY is the hinge Of bust
ness. All reverence it in theory but
few put it into practice. The want Of
it argues the absence Of other essen.
tial habits which constitute a good
business man, An unpunctual man
interferes with the plans Of others,
consumes their time, causes uneasy
feelings aud implicitly tells them they
are not of sufficient Importance il
his estimation to make him prompt
The punctuality with which Sol Cole.
man receives imported and domestic
cigars and other articles in the tobacco
line is often remarked by his brother
merchants in his vicinity, for it is
daily affair, punctually with the arri
val Of the express wagons.
no BE o%oSrISUKD)
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AMUNEMENrs
IIabbI SamaeId.n Lcctnrc.

NaDDi Sanlfteld's Lecture.
intellectual Life and its Foes" is
the title offs lecture to be delivered
tonight at the Hebrew synagogue, by
that scholarly divine and d~eservedly
popular gentleman, Rabbi NJ. Sam
field.
Shakspeare's Julius Cesar.
Another large and fashionable at
tendance gathered at the theater last
evening to witness Shakespeare great
play of julius Caesar" represented
by Mr.. Lawrence Barrett and his
capable support. The performance
was in every sense worthy Of the high
reputation Of the eminent tragedian,
and the strong cast of characters
which assisted him. and a m%eritorious
illustration of the powerful tragedy
was given. Tonight Mr.. Barrett
will appear as Shylock, in Sbakspeare's
we'll known Merchant of Venice
and also as David Garrick."
He is known by his admirers
to be especially clever in the latter
part, while his Shylock is also certain
to be an artistic and finished imper-
sonation. Tomorrow afternoon Mr..
Barrett will give "Yorick's Love" a
play never rendered here, and to
morrow night his highly successful
engagement will close with Bulwer's
popular historical production, Rich
ellen" upon which occasion entirely
new costumes, recently imported from
England, will be used, that of MIR
Barrett's being made in exact accord
ance with the Roman formula.
Third Anniversary.
The Tennessee Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
and Children will hold its third an
nual meeting next Tuesday, the 23d
inst, at Mozart Hall, corner of Union
and Second streets, under the auspices
of the Mozart Society. The occasion
will be interesting, as in addition to
a report Of the operations of the So
ciety for the past year there will be a
concert, in which a number of our
amateurs will participate. The so
ciety is doing a vast amount Of good,
and has now a strong place in every
human heart.
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We propose closing ont 0ur
Christmas stock Of Desks, Sec.
retaries, Children's Ladies' and
Gents Fancy Rockers, Brackets,
Baby Bnggtes. etc., ut greatly
reduced prices.
Special Bargains I'm Furniture
and Carpets, wholesale and re-
tail.
AMEs, BEATTIE l. Co.,
1907 1863 Main street.
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JOHN WALSH, UNDERTAKEN,
S4l Second street. l07t
Going Ahead.

A three story brick store is about ia
be erected at "a and 36 Main street by
A. KOhlbry & Co., hardware and tin
merchants, and it is an evidence that
the people of Pinch are a progressive
people. In view of this fact that il
will be necessary to move as soon as
the new building is completed, Kohl.
bry & Co. offer their present stock al
cost. The entire stock, except the
famous Alligator stoves, will be sold
off at cost or less. The Alligator can
not be disposed of below the regular
rate, but everything else must 30 ant
buyers will take notice.
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CUSTOM SIH|RTS 70 ORDER

We have just completed arrangements
for making Custom ShirtstO order in short
or time and for less money than hereto
fore. WeknOw our ability to supply custom
shirts is equaI,if not superior, to any shirts
manufacturers in the city. Therefore can
guarantee satisfaction in fit or quality,
either in Laundried or UnIaundried Custom
Shirts.
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PERSONAL.

Major Mike Waldron is still very i'll
at his residence on Market street.
Mrs. Will c. Address, of Decatur,
ILL.,, is visiting her mother, Mrs. NJ.
j. Locke, 90 Madison street.
Thos. H. Wilson, cabinetmaker and
upholsterer. All kinds furniture re-
paired at short notice, 43 Jefferson. +
Miss Carrie Davis, after a pleasant
soiourn at St. Louis, has returned to
this city, and Mrs. Gertrude Holland
is home from jackson.
Major Walter Goodman has been
quite sick at his residence on Shelby
street since Tuesday last, and Mr.. A.
j. Vienna, the gun store merchant, is
reported no better.
Mr.. Frank Wright, q brother of the
wife of Postmaster j. H. Smith, was
married last evening to Miss Edible
Blythe at the residence of the brides
mother near Horn Lake.
Mrs. j. l.. Alcorn and daughters,
from Friars Point, are at the Peabody,
and Mrs. c. T. Curtis, with Mrs.
Lillian Read as her guest, are also at
the same popular house, having re-
emily arrived from New York.
MIR. James H. Vigus, a we'll known
citizen long connected with the drug
t'ade here, died on yesterday morning
AID was buried this afternoon, the
fu leral starting from the family resi-
dence, No. rs Carroll avenue, and
under the auspices of Unity Lodge,
Knights of Honor.
AYR. George L.. Hill, a brother of
Mrs. VS.. Smith, Mrs. w. F. Boyle
and Mrs J.F. Sellers, also we'll known
as a faithful and useful soldier in the
old Fourth Tennessee on the side of
the South died at Coyington, Tenn. last
Wednesday, and his demise is greatly
lamented by a wide circle of affection
ate and %sOrrOwing friends and acquain-
tances.
Mr., Walter G. Stephenson, of Little
Rock, and Miss Jude Smith, daughter
Of G. E. Smith, of this county, were
united in wedlock yesterday at the
First Methodist church in this city, the
Rev. S. A, Steele officiating. The bride
is the daughter of that we'll known cit
izen, G. L. Smith, and the groom is
popular about Friars Point and
Helena, as well as here and at points
further west.
Choicest Steaks a. ROasis. I2toI5,
Pure Pork Sausage, I5c lib,
Oysters, Fish and Game received
daily.
SEESSEL'S MARKET,
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THE CITY.
LEDGER LINES.

Monarch -four, Lyle & Shields.
Long steels for dresses. Lange's.
Creamery butter. j. P. Carey & Co,
For bricks, telephone JnO. Cubbins.
Ozanne& Mays new store, 257 Main.
Use Lyle & Shields prepared buck.
wheat -four.
Brown Il Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
DeSoto Lodge, f. and A. NJ, is ia
meet to night.
Gentlemen desiring shirts to fit leave
your measure at Mays.
1000 punches ripe bananas for sale
cheap at D. Canale &.Co.
The Waldran Guards elect officers
at the corner of Madison streets to,
night.
The staple is quiet to day, with the
tone rather iayOring buyers, the samO
as on yesterday.
Creamery butter in small packages,
new cabbage, celery, lettuce, at Matt
MOnagbsn's, ga Front.
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ADDITIONAL I

NEW York, January 10, 1894 pm
Cotton dull. Ordinary, TIC; good
ordinary, $40; low middling, 8 1l9l6c;
middling, 10 8-l6c; good middling, 1OIc;
middling fair, lltci fair. 12c. Futures
are dull but steady, at l to 6 points below
last evenings closing prices.
LIVERPOOL, January 10, $3.50 p.m.-Cot-
ton opened %easier, now l-l0d lower. Up
lands, b 7-l6d; orleans,5 1l-l6d. Sales to-
day, 10000 bales. Receipts, 80, 900 bales.
American, 5000 bales. Futures are weak.
NEW ORLEANS, January 10, lI:90 am.
Cotton easy. Middling, 9%c. Sales
to-day, 800 bales. Receipts. 1861 bales.
At Galveston, 1908 bales at Mobile,
1904 bales; at Savannah, 1900 bales; at
Norfolk, 1907 bales.
MANCHESTER, Enc, January 10, $3.50
pm.-Yarns and fab les are easier.
The Liverpool weekly cotton statement,
oabled to-day, reports weeks sales at 65,-
900 bales. Receipts for the week, 208,000
American, l9l, COO. Sold since September
let, l,l3G,3O0. American, 9Gl. 600. Stock
on hand, $4,000, American, $40, 600.
Stock aaoat, $4,000, American, 300, OOC
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BTardi Gras NIystIcs.

Invitations to attend mystic revels
at the coming Carnival in New Or
leans have been received here by sew
eral favored citizens. They are of the
most elaborate and faDciful as veil as
beautiful design. A sealed book, GOV.
cred with cabalistio letters and strange
symbols, eDcloses a unique st~ar-shaped
and superbly Illuminated carte, upon
which are drawn a thousand fanciful
figures. There is a full moon, a
waning moon, a new noon and the
man in the moon, Neptune and Am
phitrite. Several hundred sea gods
and goddesses are plainly observed.
Mercury also figures in one of his airy
voyages. Apollo and Jupiter have
a hand in the matter, and
show up in brilliant style; the
nine muses. participate; Moses riseH
above a crowd Of law givers, and from
the Egyptian Grecian, Hebrew, Assy'
rian, Coptio, and ounneifOrm charac-
ters with palatial pictures scattered
around on the borders, a casual obser-
yer knowing there is meaning in all,
can only conclude that the object of
the society is to picture in a poetic
way a complete history Of the world
from the creation down to somewhere
about the Christian era, The tickets
are worth something, and any artist
would pronounce them admirable in
design conception and execution.
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Comptroller Nolan.

80
The committee appointed to settle
with the Comptroller and Treasurer,
submitted a report to day. We make
the following extracts:
MIR. Speaker am instructed by
the committee to report that they
have examined the Comptroller
accounts, and for this purpose they
employed Mr.. j. NJ Ellston, an OK.
pert accountant, to carefully examine
the same, item by item, commencing
with the term Of office Of the present
Comptroller, and they find said &C.
counts as kept on said book accurate
and correct. There is a dis.
crepancy of $1.74, which is ac
counted for and explained in said
statement Of the accountant, Ellison,
herewith filed. They have also exam .
ined the papers and other valuables
turned over by JAS. l.. Gaines, former
Comptroller, to the present Comp
roller, j. N. Moan, as per his receipt,
and find same on hand, as called for by
the receipt. The committee will, at
the earliest practicable moment,
report such recommendations as to
steps proper to be taken with regard
to some of these papers, which they
consider OF Importance TO the State
The Oomptroller's regular financial
report not yet being ready, they
cannot at present make any fur.
Their report than is herein indi.
Gated. The committee are making
further investigations in connection
with this and the Treasures office
affairs, the results of which they EN-
body in a supplementary report.
d. T. PORTER, Chairman,
Joint Select Committee.
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He Understood.
A fellow who is apparently deaf
and dumb, but still possesses the
sense Of taste, and takes every OppOr-
tunity Of getting drunk, was locked up
last night in the calaboose. This
morning he was called in for trial and
the following written colloquy en-
sued between him and the
Judge, the prisoner leading with the
query
"Sir, yad you yant2'
"Sir, will you let may go2 VIII LEI
the sity."
Don't you ever come back here, or
I'll put you on the chain gang"
The prisoner pulled a little round
glass from his pocket, evidently taken
from a pair of old spectacles, and
clapping it to his eye with his thumb
and f%orefnger, read the last passage
over two or three times. Then he
bowed and waved his hand, the Judge
did likewise, and the case vas over.
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%CIearinahodae Renort.
Letter heads. bill heads. bills oi

Letter heads, bill heads, bills Of
lading, envelopes, hand bills and every
other kind ofjob printing executed in
the best style and at the lowest prices
at the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
Office and blank book mandatory 10
Madison street,
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school Boy Robbed.

A boy on his way from Desha
county, Arkansaw, to attend school in
Atlanta, Georgia, got into bad com.
pany yesterday evening, and was
robbed of $40 o his money, lie man.
aged to a v $50 that he had sewed up
in the lining Of his cost. The woman
interested gave her name as Mollie
Foley. She remarked to the turnkey
who locked her up that she had spent
many a night in that very cell. Judge
Haddeu bound her over, and took &C,
casiou to warn her landlady that, upon
a repetition of the o%ifense, he would
close her doors. She was pretty badly
scared by the time he got through, as
Chief Davis had already given her a
good lecture.
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Squirrels,
DRESSED TURKEYS,
All kinds of Fresh Fish.

OthACAh anu
POrteFhOuse and LOin Steaks,
also Prime Rib RORsts trimmed
close and sold al lowest market
prices. Seessel's Market,
I17t I24& 33I Main, near Union.
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The receivable warrants have been
carefully compared, item by item, with
the Treasurer duplicate receipts, and
also with the Oomptroller's cash book,
and have been found to agree within
a few cents.
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Fish, FISH
COURTHOUSE Il

endless quantities, at Clements. II
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Hand bills Of all sizes, hom the
smallest to a three sheet poster, done
with neatness and dispatch, at the
PUBLIC LEDGER job printing Office,
Prices as low as the lowest,
The Osceola times., 1883-06-16
Pure Water for Cows.

An anonymous but sensible writer
says that "cows are not near so sensitive
in the matter of taste as horses, yet this
should not be an excuse for negligence
in the quality of water furnished them.
The stock-breeder and the dairyman
owe it to themselves to supply their
stock with the purest and freshest OF
water, How often should animals be
allowed TO drink? | presume were
stock allowed free access to water in
summer that each individual. would
drink nj least dozen times during the
day. If they are not allowed free access
TO water, but compelled TO drink at stated
periods, they are quite liable to drink too
much This is one of the greatest ad-
vantages OF having water in the pasture.
In winter ] am aware that the practice
is to water horses, perhaps, twice day
morning ard night. With COWS the
practice is to turn them into the yard
and allow them TO drink VIII It they
want during two or three hours. Per-
haps an Improvement upon this plan
would be to turn them out for an hour
at time, morning and night. All those
who own horses should have some way
arranged for taking the chill off water
for horses during the winter. II will
pay TO do So"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-16
Packing Butter.

The President of the Boston Butter
Cheese and Egg Association says: "A
serious obstacle in the butter business is
that farmers will persist in packing but
ter in the tub. The tubs should be soak
ed in the strongest salt and water that
you can make for at least "a hours; then
wet cloth in strong brine and put it in
the bottom of the tub before packing.
After the butter has stood about three
DAYS there will be little space between
the tub and the butter, caused by the
butter soiidifying put in enough strong
pickle TO fill this space between the but
ter and tub. This is the only way to
pack butter and have it keep perfectly
The average number of pounds of milk
for pound Of butter is "a. Salt is the
hest preservative. Butter should never
be overworked, and should be worked
by hand and packed Immediately. Ice
should be kept in the milk room, to
condense impurities"
The Osceola times., 1883-06-16
mostly above ground,
A Wash for Fruit Trees.

MIR. William Saunders, Superintendent
ofthe Government Botanical Gardens,
Washington, b. c., who ought to be good
authority, says; For the past twenty
years have used mixture of lime and
sulphur as wash for the prevention
and destruction of fuhgoid growths on
all kirds Of fruit trees, and with decided
ly beneficial effects. 1t is now well as
certained that many of the diseases Of
both vegetables and animals are due to
fungoid grqwths, and sulphur is the best
known and one of the most potent anti
dotes for the mycelium and spores of mi
croscopil fungi, and the most practical
mode of using it " is AIN ingredient in
the. ordinary lime-wash, applied TO fences
and external rough woodwork. The
wash is prepared by placing halfa busbel
of fresh-burned lime and eigh, pounds of
powdered sulphur In a tight barrel,
Stacking the lime with nearly boiling
water, the mouth of the barrel being
covered with a cloth. When cool it is
ready for use as ordinary whitewash."