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Year: 1867

HIGH FALL Mat. was met Wednes-
day morning on the tressel, near Col. Finley's
at its highest point, by the hand car, going
at rapid rate with four men in it. The
fog was SO great that he was not seen
until The car was too close upon him 10 be
stopped, when the foreman cried out to him
to suspend himself under the tressel In bis
hurry to do SO, time being short, his hand
slipped, and he fell fully forty feet, sustain
ing only fracture Of the thigh bone, which
was duly attended to by Dr. Todd.
Year: 1867

RoUcn ON BREwERs-We have been
shown letter by brewer in this county,
from the Deputy Collector Of Internal Rev
enue, which calls the particular attention OF
the brewers to the l54th section OF the Rev.
snue law, which went into force August ls,,
1885,


That every person who shall withdraw
any fermented liquor from any hogshead,
barrel, kee, or other vessel upon which the
proper stamp or stamps shall not have been
affixed, for the purpose Of bottling the same,
or who shall carry on, or attempt to carry
on, the business Of bottling fermen!ed liquors
in any brewery or other place in which fer
mented liquor is made, or upon any premi-
ses having communication with such brew
cry or any warehouse, shall be liable to a
fine Of five hundred dollars, and the proper
ty used in such bottling or business shall be
liable to forfeiture"


The above is the law. and brewers must
look to it and see that they do not violate
the foregoing section.- Union Democrat.
Year: 1867

WILL 1T DE BUILr.-Every now and then
thero is spasmodc effort made TO build a
road between Dutch Flat and Little York.
Recently The question has been agitated to a
considerable extent, but we learn it is liable
to fall through from the fact tba, one party
desires Tho road to terminate at the Railroad
Depot, aud another in the town OF Dutch
Flat.
Year: 1867

To Cook AN ARMY.-A Swiss engineer has
just announced delightful invention tha,
he has recently achieved, to wit: a burning
glass, or, as he terms it an incendiary mir,
ror, by the aid of which one can roast an
army to death just as easily as one could
cook mutton chop on an ordinary gridiron.
Year: 1867

VoTERs.-Wth a voting population Of
over five thousand in Nevada county, the
Great Register on Y contains about sixteen
hundred names. At the next State election
no one can vote who is not registered. the
law, in our estimation, is nuisance, but it
can't be abated just at this time.-Nationul.
Year: 1867

A SOLUTION Of chloride Of copper is a test
by which gilt articles can be distinguished
from those which are bronzed. The latter
are stained brown by it, while the former
suffers no change.
Year: 1867

Hold not thy head too high, my friend,
For surely thou must know
The heaviest heads of wheat will bend
The stalks on which they grow;
And everywhere the lovlieSt flowers
Bloom nearest to the ground
The sweetest songsters of the wood
In lowly shades abound.
Hold not Thy head too high, my friend,
Though rich in lands and gold;
The throngs that on thy steps attend
Speak not the thoughts they hold
Their true respect is only paid


Where worthiness they SEE
Those deierential bows are made


Unto thy wealth not thee.
Hold not thy head too high, my friend,
Whate'er ny station here;
For brains will triumph in the end
Where then will be thy sphere?
We envy not thy lordly tread,


Nor at thy lot repine--
Who could not hold erect head


That weighs so ligh, as thine?
Year: 1867

| An aRsper to Poor Pedestrian -


Street Cars as run in Memphis a


Nuisance-ShaU they be Tolerated ?


EDlroRs LEDGER: A "Poor Pedes-
trian asks you very innocently why, IN
Memphis, we are compelled to pay ten
cents for a ride on the street cars, when
| in st. Louis an attempt to increase the fare
to sir cents failed? The original charter
of the Memphis Railway Company per-
mitted a charge not exceeding five cents;
but the incorruptible Legislature which
so ably perform the part of the Old Man
of the Sea for us was soon furnished con
vincing agreements in favor of an ad'
vance to ten cents. Of the nature Of
the agreements, of course, | know moth
ing. The people pay the bills, and that S
enough. If any reasons are needed we
may fall back on the good old principle
that valueless articles are always
dearest, for one street railway
taking the experience of the past
nine months as a test, has proved simply
public nuisance instead Of conve-
nience. If a man isn't in hurry, pa
tience and half hour will sometimes
bring him car; and occasionally he
may obtain one for trip off Main street
as late as nine O. clock at night. Gen
orally speaking, our street cars have been
run on the principle of coasting boats,
whose movements depend on the state of
the trade. If oral utterances are indices
of public opinion the people are utterly
disguised with the Memphis street rail
way, and would deem its pretensions as
public convenience a splendid
farce if not so badly played.
The determination of the Board Of
Aldermen to take up the Main street
track for paving purposes was applauded
universally on the streets yesterday.
The unsightly public convenience
hadn't an apologist and deserved none.
If put to a vote nine-tenths OF the
citizens would declare it a nuisance
and insist or its abatement Probably
the company is doing the Oest they can,
which isn't very fine compliment If
unable to do better it would be advisable
to sell out to somebody who can improve
matters; always provided the depre-
ciated stock is worth selling. This is
what should be done if the railway
is to be any longer palmed of as pub
lie convenience" II only intended,
however, to promote the cause Of pro-
miscuous cussing and as a test Of the
barometer Of human endurance, let the
thing run until an opposition company
starts in and wipes it out


THAr's-WHAT s-THE-NATrER


Memphis, August p, 1861.
Year: 1867

Grants election, even while Grant will
fail to lend the Administration the moral
power that would be given by his con-
fessed adhesion to the policy of Andrew
johnson. Grant, therefore, will defeat
the Vaccinations Of Congress by failing
TO assume an attitude of hostility to Con
gress. He will control the negro vote,
or a share large enough, in combination
with enfranchised whites, to prevent the
consummation of plans against which the
LEDGER and New York Herald inveigh.
The South, through Grants intervention,
will escape black domination.


Can any other man achieve such a
purposep Name your candidate or de-
scribe the man. Tell us his history. If
it differ from that of Grant, he is impo'
tent for good or evil. We are accustomed
to read that magniloquent exposition of
the unwasted strength of Democracy
which Southern papers have borrowed
from the New York World. We are
told that a change of thirty thousand
votes would give the Northern vote to a
Democratic candidate in 1868. How
happened it that Illinois, whilom Dem
ocratc State, not long ago gave a rene
gade secessionist, John A. Logan, fifty
thousand majority? Southern newspa-
pers q speak what believe) have given
the coup de grace to Northern DemOc'
racy. Ohio will soon tell the story. The
very fact that extremists oppose Grant
will assure his triumph, and ! would
fain hope that he may be denounced
each day by every organ of Democracy
in America. He has been harmed by
their praise of late.


FREE THINKER.
Year: 1867

totally unreliable. 1t is due, however,
to the negroes in the community to say
that previous to the preparations for ne
recent farce they evinced a disposition
to be peaceable and work enough to OBJ
tain bread; and possibly they would
have continued to do so, had it not been
for few bad white men who infest this
locality. They now think of little else
than talking politics, voting and running
to town aud to any other place where
there is the least excuse for gathering.
This cannot be easily remedied now, as
most of them are interested in the grow
ing crop, and are not getting wages. But
next year farmers will employ white
labor exclusively, if it can possibly be
obtained. In our efforts to supply the
demand for white labor, concert of action
on the part Of those interested is indis-


pensably necessary. Farmers should
express their views fully and freely I;
associations should be formed and agents
sent to those places where laborers can
be obtained, with liberal inducements for
them to come and settle among us. am
satisfied that no white man who will work
at all can come into this community,
even at this season Of the year, with
out finding permanent employment
and liberal wages. This is no
doubt the case everywhere throughout
the entire South Let the newspapers
make this state of things known far and
near. The new order of things brought
about by the war will necessitate an en-
tire revolution in the system of farming
in the South. A smaller area, with the
liberal use of fertilizers, and the latest
improvements in farming implements,
will now be necessary. In this way one
acre can be made to produce what three
formerly did, with saving of more than
half the labor. The Southern cotton
planter does not know how to manage
successfully under this system. In this
emergency, the day laborer from the
Northwestern States who has always
been accu stoned to this mode Of farm
ing, would be valuable assistant, and
as foreman could command double the
wages that he now does at home. We
need not only ordinary laborers, but
good practical farmers and stock raisers


When this class Of men become con
vinced that they can live in peace in the
South and can command better wages
than they do at home, they will be sure
to come. The articles that have recently
appeared in the LEDGER are well calcu'
lated to do much good in bringing to our
desolated land far better class of labor
ers than we now have. FAYETTE.
Year: 1867


The Cumberland UaiUersity-The death


of ca. Governor Campbell The Ne


groes and their Employers The Crops.
Correspondence Public Ledgcr.l


LEBANON. TENN. August 10. 1867.


Permit me, through the widely-read
columns of the LEDGER, to call the atten-
ton of those interested In educational
matters to the opening of the next ses-
sion of Cumberland University, which
takes place on the frat Monday in Sep
tember next. This long established in
stitution, situated in the beautiful village
from which / write, and in the healthful
and picturesque valley whose name it
bears, deserves to receive patronage
even greater than that which it has
already been favored with. 1t peculiarly
State institution, and one in whose pros
perity Tennesseeans should feel pride
During the war, in which many of its
faculty fought heroically for the " lost
cause" the buildings Of the university
were demolished, and in order to re-
build these, the patrons of education
throughout the State must lend their aid.
Until this is done, temporary recitation
rooms will be occupied, though it is
hoped by another season a new structure
can be reared upon the ruins of the old
building. OF the present faculty l could
not speak in too encomiastic terms. The
President, the Rev. B. w. Mcdonald,
D. D., is, l believe, known throughout
the South, and among his associates l
would mention, especially, Lieutenant
General A. P. Stewart, who will fill the
same chair Of the University which, in
times gone by, he filled with so much
credit and distinction at West Point.
Like his brother, in your own city, he is
a finished and profound scholar, and an
eminently successful instructor.


A profound sensation of sorrow was
felt throughout our village this morning
upon the sad and very unexpected an
nouncement of the death of ex.Gov. W.
B. Campbell. But day or two since !
chanced to meet the deceased upon the
street, aud be looked then quite as hale
and vigorous as had ever seen him. AL.
though in his sixtieth year, he seemed TO
possess a hardy and robust constitution,
and the promise of many years of life and
usefulness before him. His sudden de-
mise is universally mourned. Our State
can poorly spare such men in her pres
ent emergencies, and the deaths Of such
in this hour of political gloom are felt
more keenly than ever, as public calam.
tiles.


Since voting for Brownlow, as they
almost universally did, the negroes here
abouts have given their employers more
trouble than usual. The Intoxicating
effects of being permitted to vote away
the liberties of white men have created
a decentralization among the race which
only the strongest remedies will be able
to subdue. They have already begun to
count over the days that must intervene
before another voting spree, to which all
the males at least look forward with i'm
patient eagerness. The planters would
be glad to entirely dispense with their
services if white labor can be substituted.
Any scheme looking to foreign emigration
will meet with favor and encouragement


The reports of the crops throughout
the county are quite favorable, though
in some sections rain is needed for the
corn. CUMBERLAND.
Year: 1867

SHARP SHOOTING BETWEEN CoUN.
sEL.---At county court, held not a
hundred miles from Lynchburg, Va,
a distinguished member of the bar,
in appealing to the court for the
discharge Of his client, wound up
with the statement that if the court
sent him on for further trial "a
stain would be left on his character
that could not be washed off by all
the waters Of blue ocean, and all the
soap that could be manufactured
from the ponderous carcass of the
Commonwcalth's Attorney" To
this the ponderous attorney prompt.
ly replied that t'while he deemedit
foreign to the case at bar, he de.
sired to advise the court, if they
thought it advisable to boil his body
into soap, that they should look to
the opposite counsel for the con-
centrated lye out of which to make
it.n t.
Year: 1867

llvered before the horticultural and PomoIogi-
cal Society Of this city. This was sent 20 them
by telegraph by their special reporter al this
point, NJ cost OF sloo, by special order. This
fact not only speaks creditably FOR the enter
prise of the Times, but ia n volume In favor OF
the fame Of Firginia's great orator.
Year: 1867

How TO CURE CALUMNY.-"If
any one speaks i'll of thee" said Epic
tetus, "considcr whether he hath
truth on his side; and if so, reform
thysclf, that his ccnsurcst: may not af-
feet thee" When Anaximandcr was
told that the very boys laughed at
his singing he said, "Ah, then I must
learn to sing BETTER" Plato, being
told that he had many enemies who
spoke i'll of him, said, cit is no mat
ter; l shall live so that no one will
believe them" Hearing at another
time that an intimate friend of his
spoke detractingly of him, he said Il
am sure he would not do it if he had
not some reason for it. This is the
surcst as well as the noblest way of
drawing the sting out of a reproach,
and the true method of preparing a
man for that great and only relief
against the pains of calumny.
Year: 1867

How to get ricl-stick to your bust
ness. There is man in New York
city who has q chicken stall at one of
the maskets. He is now reported to
be worth 100000. He lives in a
large brown stone palace on Brooklyn
Heights, tho furniture for which cost
s12O,0O0. Ho attends to tho sale of
his own chickens, nevor taking break
fast at homo, but coming over to tho
market every morning between the
hours of four and five o'clock. He can
bo seen every day. standing behind a
marble counter, with white apron on.
In the afternoon, he drives out, with his
wife and family, or few friends, in an
elegant carriage.


Why is printer like tattling wo-
man? Because he spreads the news.
Year: 1867

FRIENDsuIp.-Life is to be forti-
fed by many friendships. 10 love
and to bo loved is the greatest happi-
ness of existence. If 1 lived under
the burning sun of the equator it
would be pleasure to me to think that
there were human beings on the 9TH
CT side Of the world who regarded
and respected me; I could not and
would not live if were alone upon
the earth and cut off from the re-
mcmbrance of my fcilow~creaturcs.


1t is not that q man has occasion to
Year: 1867

We CANNOT GO BAcK.-It is a SOL
ema thought that we cannot go back,
but we can only 60 forward. We
cannot recall the past. What has
been done has been done forever
1t Is recorded in the book of Gods
remembrance as san accomplished fact,
andis more enduring than if notched
in the everlasting rocks.


'I wish I had never been born, -
said David Brainard to his mother,
when he was an impenitent lad,
wrought upon by the Holy Spirit.
~ wish I had never been born!'
"You are only born, David" was
the mothers calm reply; which re-
ply only sent the arrow Of conviction
yet deeper into his soul.


"You are born )" it is now too
late to help it; you must live, and
live eternally; the only question is,
where you will live, whether with
Jesus in heaven or with the lost spir.
its in perdition!


Yes, reader, we cannot go back
Having set our feet down upon exist
ence there is no arresting our prog
rcss. We must move onwards either
up or down. Which shall it be p
Shall we mount up and rejoice in
lightand glory, or sink and wall in
the blackness of darkness
Year: 1867

TIE MUsoUITo.-It is unscicntifc
to say that mosquitoes bite, for they
have no teeth, and have no need of
teeth to seize upon and prepare their
food, for they arc dainty, and take
food only in liquid form-spoon vic
tuals- they are a chivalric race, and
attack their enemies with a sort Of
sword or lance. No doubt they con-
slider biting and gouging quite vul-
gar. The lance of IL muquito is a
very beautiful and perfect piece of
work. 1t is smoother than FURNISHED
steel, and it's point is so fine and per-
feet that the most powerful micro
scope does not discover a flaw in it..
AS a most delicate cambria needle is
to the crowbar, so is q muquito' S
lance to the best Damascus blade
The lance is worn in a scabbard or
sheath. The scabbard is suction
pipe through which the musquito takes
it's food.


The musquito is the most musical
of all animals. There is no bird that
sings so much. He never tires of his
simple song. How happy must he
be, cheerily singing far into the night.
What a volume of melody from so
slight creature. If man had 4
voice so loud proportionatc to his
weight, he might hold a conversation
across the Atlantic, and there would
be no need Of the telegraph.


Exchange.
Year: 1867

The San Francisco Bulletin has the


following:


"One day last week, as the Los
Angeles and San Jose stage coach


was travelling in the night between
San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara,
an incident occurred which produced
anything but a pleasant impression
among the passengers. A lady was
occupying one of the front soats, and
the whole company had been talking
and singing in the most sociable man
ner After time the lady settled
down as if to go to sleep, and one of
the gentlemen passengers asked her
if she would not have pillow under
her head. She made no reply, and
the company INDUCED in another song.
AS the song ceased one of the passen-
gers opened the curtain SO as to let in
the moonlight, and looked down at the
face of the woman, exclaimed, "Why,
can it be that she sleeps with her eyes
open Z" Another passenger placed
his hand upon her forehead, and cried
out, "She is dead I" The stage was
stopped, and the inanimate, pulseless
form of the lady carried out in the
open air. She was deathly cold, and
her face was wet with cold sweat
to gather only on the face
of the dying. After 30 long time
passed that all hopes of life remaining
was given up, she recovered under
the vigorous rubbing with whiskey
in which all the passengers had en-
gagged, and the journey was finally
1t turned out that the lady
was afflicted with heart disease, and
had the discovery of her condition
been delayed little longer, she would
have been past human aid"
Year: 1867

ATTENTION Whenever you hear
Of a man grumbling about the ticket,
objecting to this candidate or that
candidate, you may be sure his De-
mocracy isn't skin deep, and that he
only wants an excuse TO serve the
enemy. In these times when the
Jacobin conspirators against the lib
critics of our country, are busily plot
ting to make slaves of all who will
not worship at their political shrine,
the Democrat who stops to higgle
about personal objections to Demo-
cratic candidates, who halts to throw
his own private grudges into the bal
ance against his party ticket, cares
moro for the qualification Of his own
little spite than for the success of the
principles he processes The ballot is
a sacred thing. 1t is rot merely a
slip of printed paper. 1t represents
principles. 1t is the embodiment Of
ideas. Shame on the man that would
permit his private grudgcs TO inter
pose between him and the principles
which he processes before all the
world l-Bedford Gazette
Year: 1867

CHURCH ETIoUETTE-Let the lady
advance one pace beyond the door Of
the pew she wishes TO enter, halfabout
face and salute The pew must then
be vacated by such gentlemen as are
in it by a flank movement. The squad
should rise simultaneously when the
lady presents herself, face by the right
flank, then deploy into the aisle, the
head man facing the lady, and the
rest walking to his right and rear,
the direction of his halt being changed
by right oountermarch, and forming
again into line up and down the aisle,
still faced by the right flank. The
lady, when the cost is clear, completes
her salute, and advances TO hor posi-.
ton in the pow. The gentlemen


break off by files from the rear, and
resume their rplaces. Great care should


be taken, of course, by other parties,
not to enter the aisle when this evolu-
ton is in progress, untilit is completed.
Year: 1867

SoRRow.-Sorrow sobers us, and
makes the mind genial. And in sor-
row we love and trust our friends
moro tenderly, and the dead become
dearer to us. And just as the stars
shine out in the night, so there are
blessed forms that look at us in our
grief, though before their features
were fading from our recollection.
Suffering let no man dread it too
much, because il is good for him, and
it will help to make him sure of his
being immortal. 1t is not in the
bright, happy day, but only in the
stormy night, that other worlds are Ia
be seen shining in their long, long
distances. And il is in sorrow-that
night of the soul-that we arc farthest,
and know ourselves natives of finite
and daughters of the Most High.
Year: 1867

meets, but old dogs have but few asso,
ciates.


1t costs agood deal to be wise, but it
don't cost ANYTHING to be happy.


Most people decline to learn only by
their own experience, And guess
they are more than right, for do not
spose man can get a perfect idee on
molasses candy by lettn another fellow
taste 1t fer him.


Success in life is very apt TO make M
torgit the time when we wasn't much -.
1t is just so with a frog on iump bo
can't remember when he was a tadpole
but other folks can.


An individual to be a fire gentleman
has either to be born so, or brought nm
so from infancy; he can't larn it sudden
any more than he can larn to talk Iniun
correctly by practclng on the toma-
hawk.


| wonder if there ever was an old
maid who ever heard on match that
she thought was suitable.


Ii man wants to get at his actual
dimensions let him visit a graveyard.


Precepts are like like cold buckwheat
slapjacks-nobody feels like beng sassy
to them, and nobody wants to adopt
them.