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Year: 1873

CAPTAIN James d. Davis, "Old Times, F"
j. now delivering to subscribers his
History OF Memphis, the first attempt
ever made to group together the facts
aud incidents attendant upon the settle
ment Of the city. To say that it is re-
plete with interest is not TO tell the half


Not only to the representatives of the
old families whose names are intimately
identified with Memphis, but to the
new conner Of yesterday, must this book
be desirable. To the one it will recall
perhaps much that he has heard


by the fireside, while TO the other it will
convey information not to be had in
any other form. Captain DAVIS has not
only given US all that can be learned in
regard to the original grant Of land and
the laying out Of the city by the origin
al proprietors, but has traced
the march Of Improvement and
progress through forty five years,
picturing TO us in life-like colors the
hamlet out Of which Memphis strug-
gled to her present proportions. Aud not
content with this, he has so interlarded
1t with auecdote and personal reminis-
cences as TO invest his book with hu-
man interest, which all his readers
viii confess 10 be a chief charm
OF it. 1t is book that is
s,i gaeris-like the man and the place
Of which he treats. 1t is not perfect, il
does not pretend TO be q specimen of
high literary effort, and it does not claim
place with Macauley; but, as the first
attempt to grOupe together the facts
most prominent and most worthy
Of preservation in a history of oUr
city, it will find a place higher
up in cur hearts than Maeaulay or
FroUde can ever reach. 1t tells US Of
home in plain, homely style, and rescues
from Oblivion the names and deeds of
those who laid the foundations of our
city. and watched it through all its
struggles, until it reached the vigorous
proportions that bespoke present
success. We thank Captain Davis
for his work, and trust that he may find


it necessary TO publish a second and
rhird editions, for we would like to know
that every household in Memphis con-
tanned a copy of his History Of Mem
Year: 1873

CHICAGO, September s.-The officials
o. the American express company here
state that there is no truth in THE story
of the robbery, by one of their meSssn-
gers, of fifty thousand dollars, and his
subsequent arrest with the funds in his
possession. The story came directly
from the detective who claimed TO have
made the arrest, and of course was sup
posed to be true when telegraphed from
here. The object Of the detective in
manufacturing the story is not clear.
Year: 1873

Messrs. De Ia Vergne G Hare, one
of the largest egg dealing FIRMS in New


York, gives TO the Times, of that city.
the following recipe for picking eggs.
which they use with good success.
To make good pickle, get one bush
ell of clean lump lime, free from dirt
and all foreign matter, four quarts OF
fine salt, and sixteen ten-quart pals of
pure water, hard or soft, and as free
from vegetable matter rs possible.
Slake the lime with two or three pals
of the water, and dissolve the salt In q
pail of il; then add the salt and the
balance of the water. Stir the prepai-
alton well /; let it stand short time,
and stir it again three or four times


Finally, let it settle and dip the clear
pickle into the cistern or cask you are
to preserve in, filling ii about half full.
After this has been done, dip the eggs
into the pickle with q dipper or basket
made for the purpose. When the cis-


tern or cask is nearly full OF eggs, and
they are well covered with pickle,


spread a cotton cloth over them, and
spread on that layer of two or three


ter the clear pickle has been dipped oil.
Be sure that the eggs are we'll covered


with pickle while they remain init.
and the lower the temperature of the
pickle is kept, the better the eggs will
come out. The best arrangement for
preserving eggs is 10 build vat or
cistern below the cellar bottom,s being
careful to get it well made, tight, aud
from six to seven feet long, five feet
wide, and four or five feet deep. EGGS
picked according to the recipe given


have been known to keep well for two
years. .
Year: 1873

A Western New York correspond


cnt of the Chicago Ltpe Stock Joarnat


says:


BY keeping only the best eweslambs
a continual Improvement in the style


and quality of the flock may he eN-


pccted, provided always that good


rams are used. Therefore, all lambs


TO be preserved for breeding should.


il possible, be put at the time OF sep
aration from the ewes into a separate
pasture from the rest of the flock, put
ting in with them tame, dry eve Or
Wether. 80 they can be taught TO
come readily al the call. Many breed
ers put trough into the pasture


where the lambs are put for weaning,
and they are fed bran and oats once
day until winter. Such men always
have sheep that shear heavy fieeces,
| and they do not lose any lambs before
spring from anemia or ''pale diseases.
But If the lambs are put into clover or


other pasture that is mp to their eyes,
they do very well without the bran.


The ewes should be put into rather
short feed for few days after the
lambs are taken away, until the flow
of milk has ceased and they have be-
come dry. Then let them be thor
| oughly over-haulcd and examined, and
all whose teeth are getting narrow
and loose, and those that do not pro-
duce good lambs, should be separated
from them and put into good feed, so
that they can be fattenea for the butch
err. Uusually there are enough year
ling and two-year-old ewes that have


never had lambs to take the place in


the flock of the old and. Improbable


ewes.so that the flock can be kept up to


the required number. If the selection
OF the breeding flock is left later than
August, the hollow places of the
coarsly-built sheep becomes so filled
up with wool that it is much mere
| difficult TO throw out those that are hot
| perfect in shape, and as consequence
| the f1Cck of lambs is apt TO be some
what uneven. Indeed, some prefer to-
select their breeding ewes at shearing
time, rather than later.
Year: 1873

No iirst-class road can exist without
the water can readily escape from its
substance as we'll as lis surface. We
know of roads that are pretty we'll
arched that absorb SO readily and hold
water so long that smart shower in
summer will reduce them TO a hiaeous
condition OF mire, which will last
three or four days, even in the most
favorable weather; and iu spring il
seems as if they would never get ssset-
tled." A drain of tile, or stone, or
brush, on any other material which
will act as i drain anywhere. with an
occasional outlet at the sides, will
prove an efiectliai remedy.
Year: 1873

We notice that il is suggested that
the Constitutional Convention of Ohio
should change the time of holding the
general election from October to No.
vember. We think the suggestion Il a
good one, to this extent at least, that
the change should be made SO that in
Presidential election year the State
election should be held in November.
on the same day of the election for
President. This is the law OF Iowa,
and if the change was made in the
three great States Of Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana, it would do away
with the significance Of the result OF
the State elections in those states in a
Presidential year, and asa consequence
do away with the strife and induce
ment to corruption in the fall elections
in those States.
Year: 1873

i ~ 10 tue oTgdhIEaIlOn0 oil an lmmcnS'


stock company, with capital of ter
| million dollars, for the purpose of con


structing twenty ocean steamers of five


thousand tons burden, adopted to car.


rying the crops of grain, cotton and


tobacco of the Mississippi valley from
New Orleans to Europe. tits report


ed that such a company is being organ.
lied in London under the name of The
Mississippi Valley Company. This
will attract the attention of all the peo.
pie of this country, and seems to be


project eminently wise and proper


It will go far, we think, if carried out
to its legitimate end, to solve the pro.
ject of cheap transportation for the
produce of the valley to remunera-
tive market. Proper CO operation by
developing the cheap transportation
capacity of the Mississippi river in
connection with this line of ocean
steamers, we sincerely believe would
very materially add to the price OBJ
tanned Tor the produce of the great
west.


The Hon. Matt Carpenter, Senator
from Wisconsin, has undertaken in a
carefully prepared speech to defend
the back pay swag of Congre IS. He
is an able lawyer and fine speaker,
but he is foolishly digging his own
political grave in this attempt. Doubt
less it was expected by the members
of the Democratic party and OF the
Republican party, who voted them
selves back pay, that they would COM
prise SO large portion of each of
these parties, and form so strong an
element of the talent among our pub


lie men, that the parties would not
dare to take up the wager of battle
that they threw down, but would aui-
etly swallow this insult to the conn
try. In this they made great mis-
take. The people of the country are
gravely in earnest, and these men will
find out that their services can and
will be dispensed with very easily by
the people, and better men fill their
places. The people of this country
cannot be bullied by all the members
of Congress combined. The Repub-
lican party is not run by its Congress-
men; there are tens of thousands of
just as able men, who are now high
privates in the Republican party, who
are in ability fully equal to the best
men we now have or ever have had in
Congress. The talent of Carpenter,
John A. Logan, or hundreds like
them, can be dispensed with by the
Republican party if they will have it
so, and not produce any injury to it,
but on the contrary, the party viii be
all the stronger, if it boldly denounce
all such men for offenses, such as yot-
ing and receiving back pay. The Re-
publican party has taught scores of it's
most eminent members time and
again that catching the bits in the
mouth, and running counter to its
wishes, avails nothing to the person
doing II. but political burial. So of
fensive measure as "back pay" can't
be crammed down the people of this
country by any man or set of men.
Year: 1873

THE SENATE CHAABER.-Workmen were
engaged yesterday in removing the desks
from the Senate chamber and preparing gen.
enlly for the alterations which are TO be
made in the room, in accordance with the
action of the body at its last session.
Year: 1873

A SAVE OF TEN PER CENT. In the purchase OF
your goods will enable You to LAY by something for
n rainy day Levy BROTHERS promise to save you
twenty per cent In the purchase Of your dry goods.
So take the advantage of their offer. '.i
Year: 1873

How One Of Bryant d Strntton's Students


Studied tho Art--Forty Tons of Nater Let


Loose in Ruildfn1.


A forciblo Illustration OF the unfortunate ef:
-fects Of the historical deluge, was given BY an
enterprisiug young gentleman Studying marine
bookkeeping at Bryant 4; Stra.ton's College. on
tho corner OF State and Washington streets.
That precise corner Of the city is notable for the
artesian well therein, and the application Of the
water power to elevator purposes. To carry out
this useful design, about forty tons Of artoeian
we'll water are stored On the roof, to
serve as elevator power, and, when necessity de-
mands, rs fire e1tinguishor. It is huge body
OF water, enough to help the young marine book
keeping student to acquire practical know1-
edge Of his art in q wAsh-tub. But he did not
try the experiment in the right direction. His
soul Was above waah-tubs and the water above
him. He looked with IN aching soul upon tho
string that connected the water tank With tho
occupants Of the building. He thirsted to give
it scientific jerk. 1t was . source Of anxiety
to him for some days, but be finally mustered
courage to satisfy his thirst for knowl-
edge. He jerked the rope. There Was d rush
as Of Niagara broken loose. The students clung
to the floating tables in order to escape being
washed out OF tho windows books, chairs,
desks were being dashed by the overwhelming
cataract down the etairs, and q flood on state
street seemed inevitable. The student Of mn
his future profession, being Of the opinion that
it is dangerous. II forty tons Of water would
occasion so much annoyance, what would the
lake OF ocean do, he argues. Water ran down
tho stairs all day aud repeated the glacial period
for half block round the building.
Year: 1873

decline tender courts vet the p
pie IN any all the counties Congressional district assert
primary equity to the backpay by expression defenee
her wish VIII take pleasure sending its m
rata share on application of agent


Accepting an advantage under and
commits endorsement of it, = - ~


Many pures citizens have taken stock in on
Banks who opposed the and woud have
voted against the law authorizing them had Of Con
gress They avaed themselves Of their
lawful although the avOwed object Of break dove
the Banking institutions of the States and bauIis ow
OF the nation in the general government oeope
became the currency
inabhty OF me would be to by which me
of you would be willing to be measured -


sOrdid
repealof privilege
from paying $500 wear and TO
impose the burden salary when
prospect of increasing at the time thought privilege right
within ITSELF but asserted that the privilege greatly
yielded private advantage to public


voted against the Salary Bill known that h
defeat would called
my personal expenses.


1t bad law, and represented you in vorc
against You stand right through representative,


had cause the
extravaganza In 1856 the increased
from IS to $4,000 with meagn
$1,000 with mileage and increased
to 81 800 with actual travelling mileage
the
gvernmentand at time when there site I
blight
the cost of living to famine pricesnd
CALLED and staggering under the burden been
lifted against subsidies mOnOpoies and exobant


been highest ambition service win vour an,
probation which the true reward of patriot BLIGHT


Fayetteville, Tenn.
Year: 1873

The Governor OF Illinois recently pardoned peniten
tary convict bee they said he dying Of consump
ton. That pardon did more for that young man tha
would have been done by dozen bottles of cod OIL
In twenty four hours bis lungs sound ifihey
had been made Of brass
Year: 1873

SHREwD LAWYER. Chief-iustice Parsons Of
massachusetts, always maintained that reputation for
eloquence was injurious to LAWYER He said that II
jury generally braced themselves against such man,
determined not to be begued by his .eloquence and
1t took both time and tact to this prejudice
Ills practice was III harmony with his theory. On
OF his first visits to Maine, young lawyer was atrac-
ted to hear him. He found Mr. Parsons already en-
gagged i'll his argument He stood with one foot on q
chair, and with his elbow on his knee was talking Of
the case as iamiliary if at his freside 1t
evident that his simple and easy had taken the
jury captive. He very Short and the deliberations
OF the jury much shorter. They gave verdict
for his client, and 'Who is this Mr. Parsons? He isn't
much OF a lawyer, and doesn't talk or look like as
1t he would ever be one; but he seems to be a real
good sort of of man." The theory worked we'll in
that case.


During recent storm at Whiteyille Va, the light
ming struck the telegraph wires near the railroad de-
pot IN that place, and trayersed thousand yards in
flame OF fire | was in position, writes spectator
to observe about one thousand yards of the WIRE from
right to left when flash the left was instantly sue
ceeded by prolonged smacking noise like the fusil
lade OF a thousand fire-crackers This was instantly
followed by like sound to the right when the whole
wound up with the usual explosion again to the left.
Evidently the fluid had attacked the wires which
was found true upon examination. About every third
post was rilted and SCARED from the earth while the
wires remain wholly intact in their insulators.





CURIOUS STATEMENT "A correspondent of the Coun-
Try Gentleman has discovered ,hut law of nature
y spotted dog has the end of bis tail white and every spot
ted cat the end Of the tail black. He says he has
ined many dogs and in France England and Amer,
ca and Away noticed the result Our former Min
ister Japan, Mr. Harris fret mentioned the fact
eernlng the dog in letter published years since. He
has looked at many paintings of dogs in the galleries of
Paris and elsewhere in regard to this and found there
the dogs spotted always order proving him that the
artist had invariably copied after nature.


An illustration of simplicity is afforded by the reply
of candidate for the office Of teacher The examiner
was endeavOring TO elicit the candidates idea of tie
market value of labor with reference to demand and
supply; but, being baffled, he put question IN this
simple form 'f there are in your village two shoe
makers with just sufficient employment to enable them
to live tOeraby, and no more, what would follow if
third shoemaker set up in the same viIlage?' 'What
would ollOw,sir? echoed the candidate; ''Why fight
70 hoo %
Year: 1873

PIsToL FRING.-Last night, about 10 O'Clock
some person fred pistol in the neighbOrhoOd OF
Eighth and Taylor streets, the ball from which
struck an awning post, close to where = gentle
man was standing at the time. The ordinance
IN relation to the reckless use of firearms in our
city, should be enforced, as such occurrences
have become frequent of late
Year: 1873

IHE w. d w. r. r. EXTENSION. A correspon-
lent Of the Oxford Press, speaks follows of the
progress of surveying the route for the proposed
extension Of the Wilmington & Western Rail
road


Mr., jackson is surve, ing the Coon Hollow route
aud speaks favorably thereof He will probably
make report of the survey at the meeting al
Franklin school house ON the 9th, at Az o'clock
P. NJ The subscription canvass is being pushed
forward with more energy and success than at any
former time, au1 We trust that the road will be
built at least as far as the KimbIeviIle and New
London road this winter The Hickory Hill route
Is to be surveyed soon and the question of What
route will be adopted will be a question Of dollars
and cents Now is the peoples chance to get the
road. II this chance is lost it will probably bt
long before such another ia offered Now is the
time to subscribe and literally, too
Year: 1873

1t appears that medical experts in
Europe can stultify themselves as sue
cessfully as some of their brethren
here in Yankeeland A writer IN Apple
toms Journal gives an account of the
trial of man in Belgium, charged with
the crime of poisoning. The alleged
victim of poison, NJ Rigaud, resided in
Bruges the trial of the person accused
took place in that city, and at that very
time was held meeting of the royal


medical society, of which the deceased
was a member. On the trial two doc
tors testified confnently to the pres
ence of arsenic, their testimony being
of the highest interest, to professional
men especially. A third expert gave
his opinion that the evidence was en-
tirely inadequate to prove the presence
of poison in the stomach of the deceas-
ed. He is reported to have said furth-
ermcre that the process employed
would generate arsenic. Somebody
must have blundered here, however
either the chemist in his testimony, or
the reporters. The last witness sum-
moned was Il physician, who produced
letter which was handed by the de-
ceased, while in the death agony, to his
landlady. That letter was addressed
to the witness, by whom it was produc-
ed, and it states that the deceased died
by his own act, and that the poison he
used wrs antimony. This evidence was
reserved to the last, in order to test the
reliability of the evidence of experts.


To these the result was not gratifying.
Year: 1873

beauty. Jane Eyre" for time set the
fashion of ugly heroines, but We have
long since reverted to the old system.
Accordingly, an exaggerated estimate is
placed upon the charms of beauty, and
upon the aniable qualities of mind and
person which form part of the ordinary
ideal of feminine merit The error in
volved IN this doctrine is that it laws
far too much stress on the objective
as distinguished from the subjective
causes of falling IN love. It assumes
that the passion is determined by the
external rather than by the internal inn
pulsss-that q person falls In love be-
cause an attractive object is presented
to him or her, and not because he or
she is prepared for passion of some
kind. When the true principle is firm
II grasped, it is obvious that the most
successful match-makers must be those
who adopt a different line of attack.
Among the passions, for example, which
go to form the aggregate is the desire
for sympathy. Suppose, then, that a
gentleman has taste for political -econo-
my or pige0n-shooting He may be as
sailed more effectively by plain young
woman who viii submit to hear him
lecturing on the theory of rent and the
incidence of taxation, or who will ap-
plaud his successful slaughter of birds,
than by the most beautiful girl who
will not condescend to take an interest
in his pursuits. The great art of fat
terry provides the most efficient instru-
ments for bringing down game of this
kind. A clever man often prefers fool
to a clever woman, because the fool has
the one talent oflistening, andthe clever
woman may have the vanity to keep
opinions of her own. The brilliant man
of fashion is attracted by the apparently
uninteresting old maid, because nothing
is more hattering than that humble
alteration which other women are too
proud to bestow. Almost all cases of
perverse matches may be explained after
the event by the skill or the accidental
felicity with which a commerce of re-
ciprOcal hattery has been established.
Once put two people in that. relation,
and all the associated emotions may
easily be INTRODUCED. It is as easy to
produSe an aesthetic admiration by
working upon the desire for sympathy
as to proceed in the inverse method;
and the assumption that we should al
ways begin with what is supposed to
be the natural beginning is the cause of
half our perplexities. But, though
these seem to be the first principles of
the science, we admit that its complex
ty battles all attempts at a systematic
deduction of its remoter doctrines.
Luckily or otherwise, some people have
developed so much practical skill in ap-
plying the most efficient methods that a
philosophy of the art seems to be super
fuous as well as chimerical. l.-LOndoya
Saturday ReUietO.
Year: 1873

without humor society would exist
in Icelandic SHOWS wit, like the winter
sun, might CLINT upon the icebergs, but
they would not be plastic IN his glance;
calm, lofty, and cold they must remain.


But humor is the summer heat that gem
crates while it smiles-the power which
touches dead things and reyivifies them
with ITS generous warmth Hnd genislity.
Wit engages and amuses the individual
intellect; humor knits hearts together ;
is, IN truth, IN a broad sense, that
Touch Of nature which makes the
whole world kin Now the world may
be regarded IS being composed Of three
classes, namely. those Of US who laugh.
those with whom we laugh, and those at
whom We laugh and the tendersst 50
Ecituds is experienced by cash unit Of
Year: 1873

A Danbury young man, who was once
a clerk, lately went on farm to work.
The first night in his new position he
was detailed to remove calf from the
apartments of its parent to another
shed, and while engaged, as thousands
have been before him, IN showing the
contrary beast along, the mother reach
ed under the tails Of his coat with her
horns, and suddenly lifted him up
against the roof of the building with a
force that threatened TO shatter every
bone in his body. The first thing he
did on returning TO earth was TO rub
himself, the next thing was 90 throw mp
his place. He said he didn't doubt that
agriculture was a noble pursuit, and
that the farmer needed an assistant IN
the discharge Of his multifarious duties,
but he didn't believe the Creator de-
signed him for making slyy-lights in cow
aboda
Year: 1873

Tmz Bishop of Ermeland has carried
out his threat against the Prussian
Government by lodging his complaint
against it at the Berlin Law Court and
suing the Crown for the temporalities
settled upon his See and withheld from
him by ordsr Of the King since let
October Last.