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Public Ledger from Memphis, Tennessee • 4

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winiii MEDICAL LEDGER Office: No IS Madlsoa Street SPRING SEASON TRADE! ere now reed 7 for th Trade with our ueual Hoary Stock of BOOTS SHOES AND IIATS Whieh offer to Merchant at our euatomary low price Aleo a tine let of 8TBAW GOOBS for Men Women and wear which will be (old at latiefactery price to tho Trade only HILL TERRY MITCHELL 329 Main Street Memphis Tennessee 1-T9 PIEDMONT AND ARLINGTON LIFE INSURANCE OO OF RICHMOND VA I CARRINGTON President R- HABTSOOK Secretary JOHH EDWARDS Eire 1 HOPKINS Atn't Secretary Assets And Inrestmenta oxer $2500000 Somber of Policies over 17000 DIVIDENDS DECLARED ANNUALLY PLAN MUTUAL ALL CASH BRANCII OFFICE 5 1-3 MADISON ST MEMPHIS 6 DENNISON Preeident DILLARD Secretary BUSBY and A L0WDEN Vic President 1 1 TRUSTEES! Denniion A Stephen Busby Anderson Geo MeUersh JALond Rambaut John Johnson Ware 0 Preseott Dillard FDBarnu medical G- THORNTON JL FREEMAN TRRZEVANT CouxflKLLOB DILLARD SPOTS WOOD General Agento 158-t th war and word has just been sant to the family of the late General that it is at their disposal A Georgia woman manages her census returns by installments in this wise One Suuday a daughter on the Sunday following a pair of twins and at the latest accounts two days afterwards at least one more was momentarily ex pected and the happy father was packing his valise to go to Texas Des Moines has the model young man of the age He is twenty-two years old and never tasted or smoked tobacco bas never encircled a drop ef beer or liquor has never made an oath or played game of chance Several years ago Georgefrancistrain boasted of the same thing and now he is a candidate for the lunatic asylum It being reported that a Western member of Congress had purchased a large tract of land and was going into the vegetable bnsiness on an extensive scale an old lady of the neighborhood remarked: Well had some useful experience for raised his own celery for the last two She was undoubtedly thinking of salary Tennessee journalism still continues ornate The followiug beautiful expression comes from a Union City Herald editorial: earth blessed man and the creeping things for nearly G000 years with her vegetable kingdom and so soon as man found out that yeast was good to go in bread his head commenced Two of the present ministers of the Emperor of Austria have been under sentence of death for treason Count Andrassy Minister of Foreign Affairs and Herr Florian Ziemalkowski Minister for Gallacia Count Andrassy while in exile in London supported himself by giving lessons on the guitar and was often so poor that like Johnson and Savage he paced the streets throughout the night having no means to get a lodging and is now the most powerful subject in the Austrian empire A musical amateur complains of people frequently applauding at the wrong time and thinks it is very bad taste fill with applause the very short pause between the different movements of sonata and symphony It jars upon the ear of the music lover and the conscientious student it is out of place before the fnale of the piece It is not uncommon for rash persons to take advantage of the rest of a bar to give expression of their approval" Might we not suggest that managers would do well to provide somebody of accepted musical taste whose business it should be to give the signal when the audience should weep or laugh and when they should applaud or remain silent? Advertise in the HOLLY SPRINGS REPORTER 1 THE Best Advertising Medium in North Mississippi A DVERTISEMENTS PROMPTLY INSERTED ADDRESS A CAIHOON A HOLLAND 64-t Editors and Proprietor Holly Mrlnit If lee COMPLIMENTS OF 1 HlflFELfl a SOI Una1 CHEAP READIK3 A 36Coluinn Journal The Weekly PUBLIC LEDCER! PUBLISHED EYEBY TUESDAY MORNING $2 Per Annum! THE BEST NEWS LITERARY Miscellaneous Journal In Tenoesset Term ot Hutaaorlptlon 12 per inn urn Invariably In Advanoi "Spooimn eopie Bailed free Hate of AdvertJelng tl 00 per Square for Flnt lieertien 10 Eaeh Sab neat Iatertloa All eommuaioationi ihenld he d-dressed to WBITI0BC PibUibir lit Prop IS Hadlaaa (t unykls sawgstaew a FACTS AND FANCIES Canada talks of expelling the Jesuit It is a bad sign to be skilful in apologies St Louis physician are styled "Mo Docs" State of affairs in Harem 8carum The bone of contention is said to be the jaw-bone Chili too means to have a universal exposition in 1875 Grasshoppers are setting the wheat crop all awry in Texas The husbandman sow wheat while his wife sews tares" Are the Michiganders any relation to the Portuguese? A remote next of kin lays claim to the entire town of Hickman Kentucky Lodi chronicle the birth of three sets of twins within a few days Mississippi hires out her convicts at sixteea dollars a month and find them The A of Buffalo has pro cured the arrest of a cruel fisherman who cut off a tail A poetic Hibernian explains that leye is commonly spoken of as a "flame" because it is a tinder sentiment The New Haven police are said to be so well drilled that they will not speak to their wives unless properly saluted A wealthy citizen of Trenton Indiana is said to have presented every poor widow in the city with abarrel of flour Professor Agassiz desires to throw open te women' all the educational in stitutions and facilities under his control The women ot Ohio are getting np huge suffrage petitions to be presented to the Ohio Constitutional Convention A woman named Wade shoes horses at Fort Scott Kansas while her husband plays billiards around the comer Fort Smith Arkansas has a woman blacksmith who can throw a mule and shoe him in fifteen minutes by the clock Moore eounty Tennessee manufactures fifty barrels of whisky a day and yet the inhabitants like Oliver Twist cry for Moore A Peoria man says that his tongue wears out so many sets of false teeth that the dentist's bills have nearly broken him op A medical writer says the healthiest position to lay is with the' head to the north People who own hens should bear this fact in mind Danbury Xews The first base baliist was James Fitz James who said or ought to have said: Come ene come thi rock shall tj From this firm base es soon a Somebody asks What is home without a cradle?" Hang the cradle the little cuss in the cradle that makes home howl if anything does The New York Mercnry regrets that the President hasn't a son just graduated from a law school for then he could appoint a Chief Justice from the family A St Louis girl signalled a train with her parasol and prevented an accident She was rewarded with a free pass by the company and realized two dollars extra profit on the sunshade A St Louis man is preparing a Pocket Directory" with type large enough to be read by moonlight It will be very valuable to policemen who are strangers to the city The planet Vulcan lying within the orbit of Mercury accomplishes its year in thirty-four days and some hours The Albany Journal says everybody can be his own Methnselah in Vulcan The Louisville Journal in speaking of Capta'm Jack says: His ideas in regard to back pay are uncertain but he has a way of going for an adversary's back hair whieh is unpleasant to say the least of it While a Texas man was trying to anchor his mule to a stake recently the animal managed te get the rope around the neck and then ran away at the top of his speed The )widow wants to sell the mule The following is going the rounds as a very proper amendment to the Constitution: Every scoundrel shall have the right as Congressman and Senator to vote himself an increase of salary whenever he feels like Barnum wanted to spread his tent over Rhode Inland but was foiced to go over the line as bit show would interfere with the spring photograph trade in the State and stop all sittings while his canvas shut out the blue iky By cable dispatches we leara that calico is higher in England than for years before This is severe on the aristocrats who use fabrics of this character but in no wise affects the servant girls and lower classes who wear silks and sating A Milwaukee girl with a morbid craving for ear-rings has been supplying herself by stopping ladies in the street to tell them that their pendants were coming out aud while pretending to adjust them taking them out in reality and making off The Poughkeepsie Eagle says of Billings (Henry Shaw) Essay on a Mule was the small beginning of his popularity eight years ago and he has since accumulated in cash above all expenses and now has at interest $41000" The Yale Record relates that once when a party of students bad inveigled Daniel Pratt the great American traveler into a small close room which they were vigorously filling with tobacco smoke he in his mild way remarked Gentlemen your speaker a ham" It is stated that a sword belonging to late General Meade presented to him by the United States for his services Mexico was picked np by a Confederate at Charlottesville Virginia during "Dr Curtis on Manhood sesik EDirioB Revised end Corrected by the Author CURTIS eto eto si A MEDICAL ESSAY on the cause and of Premature Decline in Man showing health is lost and how regained It gives clear gynopri of the 1 in pediment te Marri- the treatment of Exhausted Vitality Nervous and Physical Debility and other diseases ap pertaining thereto and the remedies therefor the result of twenty years suoceasful ON There is ne member ef society by whem tbi book will nnt bo found ncefal whether ho bo parent pro- by mail A he a nth or I 40-xviii39 9 Tremont Flaoo Boston fa RilSAtALlS The great southern remedyforthecure of crof-ula Scrofuloui Taint Rheumatism White Swelling Gout Goitre Consumption bronchitis Nervous Debility and all diseases arising from an impure condition of the Blood The merit of this preparation are so well known that a passing notice is but necessary to remind the readers of the necessity of always having a bottle of this medicine among their stock of family necessities Certificates can be presented from many leading Physicians Ministers and heads of families throughout the South indorsing in the highest terms The Fluid Eft rad of Roaddt Dr Wilson Carr of Baltimore says he has ased it in case of Scrofula and other diseases with muibsatisfactien Dr Pujh of Baltimore recommends it to all persons aufTerstng with diseased Blood saying it is superior to any preparation he has over used Rev Dabney Ball ef the Baltimore Conference South says he bas been so much benefitted by its use that he cheerfully recommends it ail bis friends and acquaintances Craven fit Co Druggists at GordoLsville Va say it never has tailed to give satisfaction Samuel McFadden Murfreesboro Tennessee says it cured him of Rheumatism whet all else failed Rosadaiis is not a secret auack preparation its ingredients are published on every package Show it to vour Physician and be will tell you it it composed of the strongest alteratives that exist and is an excellent Blood Purifier Did our space admit we conld give you testimonials from every 8tate in the South and from persons known to every man woman and child either personally or by reputation is sold by all Druggists CLEMENTS Co BaltixORR Sole Proprietors JOHN HENRY No 8 Collroi Place JY-ns York WhtletaU Apeiti 707xiv-10STv1-eod dw LEGAL Chancory Sale of Real Estate Raynor er et al 1 First Chancery Court of Shelby county Lou Raynor et al Tennessee By virtue of an interlocutory decree for sale entered in the above cause on the 21st day of March 1873 1 will eell at private sale not to be concluded however until Saturday Juno 211873 during which time bids will be reduced to writing and addressed to the undersigned Clerk and Master which on said day will be submitted to the Court for confirmation or rejection etc the following described property situated in Haywood county Tennessee to-wit: A certain tract of land in range 5 and section 10 being art of grant No 13614 ler 463 acres granted )j the State of Tennessee to Richard if Green and the heirs of William Horsely being the southern half of said grant No 1364 bounded as follow? Beginning at a red-os and maple corner it being the northeast corner of graBt No 262 entered in the name of John Williams thence north one hundred and ninety poles to a hickory two gum pointers on the northeast side of the Williams lake thence west across said lake ooe hundred and ninety-five poles to a small black-gum with a maple and two gum pointers thence south with the cardinal point one hundred and forty-five and a half poles to a stake white-oak and hickory pointers thence east sixty-two poles to a hickory thence south ferty-five poles to a stake among pointers thence east one hundred and forty-nine poles to the beginning containing by estimation acres Also another tract of land lying in said Haywood county in the Tenth surveyor's district ranged sections 9 and 10 entered originally (tne whole tract of 10) acres) in th name of illiaras entry No 787 being part of saidlOOO acre entry ana bounded a follows to-wit: Beginning at the southeast corner of a lot of 180 acres of said 1(XX) acre entry and allotted to locator thereof tuns thence west one hundred and sixty poles or his southwest corner then south twenty poles to a stake with a walnut pointer the southeast corner of 2b7 acres allotted in the division of said 1OO0 ere entry to Pillow and heirs then with their south boundary west two hundred and twenty-five pole to an elm marked with a gwood and hickory pointer the sonth west corner of said Pillow and Bradshaw heirs' division then with the western boundary ef said original entry and also with the eastern boundary of gTant No 4041 according to the magnetic point south one hundred and sixty-two poles to the southeast corner of said grant No 404 thence south by the truemendian eighty-eight poles to the southwest corner of Mark entry No- 7tf7 for 320 tores thence east two hundred and sixty-five poles to Scruggs' northeast corner of entry No £4 for 260 aoref thence north sixteen poles to Cocknll i entry No 302 for 2ed acres then east one hundred and twenty poles to Scudder's corner then north eighty poles then east eighteen poles to the southwest corner of entry No in the name of Tyre Rhodes tor $3 acres then with said line north one hundred and sixty-five poles to the beginning containing by estimate 62U acres except however 8lJ4 acres the metes and bounds which will appear by reference to said Green's two deeds to said Tarlor dated January 18th and February 16tn 184y respectively for description of which see deeds of record in the eflice of Haywood county in book pages 371 and 404 which leaves in said tract to be sold 4-il4 acres more or less all of which will folly appear by reference to deed from Green to Catherine Kayner recorded in book pages 407 and 408 Register's office of Haywcod making in all to be sold about 6644 acres Tsana os One-Uurd l) cash balance ia one and two years with interest at six per eent from purchasers to exeeute notes with approved sureties and a lien retained until same are paid This May 20 1k73 t- EDMUND A COLE and Mokisirx Tnunr end McFakid Attorneys 64194 NOTICE HAVE THIS DAY AS ASSIGNEE OF A JL Loewenthai A Co under the deed of as signment made April loth 1873 declared a dividend of twenty-five per centum on the debts te which the estate under said assignment is to be applied All creditors of said A Loewenthal Co can receive said dividend upon filing their claims with me properly authenticated LEOPOLD LEVY Assignee No 299 Front street Memphis May 21 1K73 71-76 Sale VIRTUE OF THE TERMS OF A TRUST deed made to me as trustee on the Sd of December l8oh by Nelson for the purpose of securing to Mrs Fraier a cer-j therein described which deed is recorded fn the Register's office of Bhelby eouaiy Tennessee in book No 73 page 347 etc and being called on by said beneficiary to execute said trusts I will on Xondar16th Day of June 1873 between the hours of im and 8 pm In front of the entrance to the law office of A Beard No 83 Madison street in th city of Memphis offer for sale for cash to the highest and best bidder the following described real estate the same conveyed to me in said trust deed via Beginning at a stake on the Berth side of Poplar street 173 feet from the intersection of Poplar street and Fourth alley east and running east 117 feet along Poplar street thence north 10 an alley thenew wst 117 feet and thence south feet to the beginning this property lying in bhelby eounty Tennessee and in the city of Memphis Equity of redemption is waived Inr said trust deed Title is believed to be perfect but I sell and convey only me trustee BEARD W-W Trustee i RAILROAD TIME TABLES MEMPHIS AND LOUISVILLE RAILROAD Lmtm ax ra Iav 310 1 825 vin 12 Brownsville 849 1 440 Tli Brownsville Accommodation eaves at daily except Sunday Depot at head of Main street Ticket Wince Main met ru of Jefierson MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE Arrive Leave am rM 0 Mail (daily) 315 Bxpresr 840 Freight (daily's Sunday) 810 rjt 215 145 25 Depot at foot of Main street Tioket Office 237 4 Main street one door Orth of Jefferson JASYONGE MEMPHIS P0ST8FFICE Ornoi Fton 8 iw to 5 rM Bcidat Fnon 9 to 10 aM Closes Arrives a a I rM aM rM Memphis A Ohio I Twice Daily I Memphis Charleston pi Dai I Memphis A Little 1230 1050 100 1230 8 3 8 8 8 230 1050 see Daily phis A Lit tie Rock R-Dsfly Miss river to Helena A 1 daily Yicksbnrpl tri-weekly) 1 Mon There Sat Miss nver StLottls Mon and Thnrs Whit River Semi-1 Tues A Sat I tri-weekly 1 Mon Wed A Friday I Marion Mon Wed Fri Cuba Friday I EyhaliaAOlive Branch 10 ASOSIC DIRECTOKT toner South MrusBH No meet 2d Friday in each hail corner Madison and Seo-ond Ben Pnllen A IV heeler Secretary A sorrow a No meet 1st Monday in every month et Odd Fellows' Hall corner Court and Main Locke Richmond Secretary Llu Scott No meet 1st Thursday of each hall corner Madison and Seo-cond A Davis Goldsmith Secretary DrSoro No meets 3d Friday of each month-Odd Fellows' Hall Bun Price Mi Shelton Secretary KiLtrmyigo No meet 4th Friday of each at Sonth Memphis Hall eerner of Madison and Second Richard Creighton Louis Csapski Secretary EOT At AECEt Pggg Chpt wit No meets 2d Monday of each Odd Fellows' Hall Locke Pt A Wheeler Secretary MmsrHT Cbaftm No 95 meets at Odd Hall 3d Monday of each month Matthews John Ward Secretary AND Edbsia Cowncil No meets Sd Thursday of each Odd Fellows' HaU Redor Th 111 Myers Ree TIMFtAU Ctkini CoHMANPiKT No meets 4 th Monday ofteaeh month Geo MeUersh Com Batches Ree Calvaet Ch aptvr ov Rori Croix 18th 1 Charles Adams 32d M' WVs Tomlinson 32d DIRECTORY Odd Follow' Ball cornor Main ud North Court itreets LODGXB Memphis Lodge No fi-moot every Tuesday Geo Mathews A New-fom John Waynesburg goo-rotary Risk Treasurer Chickasaw Lodo No meets every Monday night John A Holt (tee Crook John Car row Thomas Bacon 1- Connell Treasurer Schillss Lodgs No 140 meets every Wednesday night Henniver John Hoffman Shilling Secretary Baxwkk Lorn's i No meets every Friday night Fischer Wm Henry Jakes and George A Waring Treasurer DEOXKl LODOK Memphis Dkgrke Lodoi No meet 1st Baturaay of each month Cha Carroll 1) Trader 0 George Mathew? A I) 8 Bingham Secretary Jack Treasurer IHCAMPMS9T8 a Togo Encampment No 3 meet on the 1st and 3d Thursday nights of each month Mystoa Alexander Geo Mathews Thoe Bacon 8 Connell John Garrow Memphis Encampment No meets 2d and 4th Thursday night of each month A Newsom Geo bmith P5 Joi Locke 8 Plitchke Scribe nkes Treasurer Millard BIGHTS OF FTTH IAS Trwsrssw Lodoj No Meet every tsaturday night nt Cyren Commandery Hall No 2u4 Front street Divver Fisher JaekPj AHunnM of IS Coleman of Fi Bigelow of 6 nlted Ancient Order of Dr aide TiRrsn Grotr No 1 A 0 moot nt the Drnid Hall Ne 37 Booth Coart etroet on the 1st end 3d Tuesday venins in ach month Heiligers A eehler Buttinshnos Secretary John Pi hberg Treasurer Mxwphis Grov i No moots at th Drnid Hall 37 Co art street every Thursday evening Wo Loeb A Oertel A Bhide Secretary Barney Gray Treasurer Clravthr Grovr No meets nt the Drnid Gall 37 Coart street on the 1st and 3d Monday evenings in each month A Davis NA George Baxter A Bren Secretary Martin Coben Treasurer Corookdia A Cbaptrr No meets at the Drnid Hall on th 2d and 4th Tneaday evenings in each month JBeehler A A Uitifeld Secretary rpEMPERANCE SOCIETY NiToii Tekpi srd No meet evary Tuesday night at hall of Cyron Com-mandory No 204 Front st Loop A Corwine VT JoH Shepherd Smith PLUMBER A' BROWNE No 16 efferson Street i Between Main and Fron PLUMBER STEAM AND GAS FITTER The place to get tour water Pipes Gas Pipes Street Sprinklers Hy-drantsJBethtubs Pumps ete at the Loweat Prices 25-102 245 718 525 11 the in NO 235 SECOND STREET (JEFFERSON BLOCK) Memphis Tennessee SOLE PROPRIETORS OF THE PATENT MAMMOTH OIL VESTA FLUID AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN COAL OILj GASOLINE BENZINE ETC MANUFACTURERS OF PORTABLE GAS LAMPS AND OWNERS OF THE MAMMOTH OIL BURNER SPECIAL NOTICES Obstacles to Marriage Happy Relief for Toung Ken from the effeets ef Errors and Abuses in early life Manhood restored Impediment to Marriage removed New method of treatment New end remarkable remedies Books and Ciroulan sent free In aealed envelopes Address HOWARD ASS OCIATION No 2 Sonth Ninth it Philadelphia Pa an Inititutioa having high reputation for honorable eondeet end professional skill 29-tlVl ROOFING GREAT EXCITEMENT rjTHE ATTENTION OF BUILDERS AND property holders is invited to the wender- Fell Hoofing And to my Gutta Perch a elastic ROOFING PAINT For Tin Iron and Metal ronfa And aisn to my COMPOSITION PAVEMENTS forwalke cellar flooring reweri ate As I defy any competition I request any parties intereted to examine samples and UDG FOR THEMSELVES No person authorised to solicit orders Call nt Jones Cogswell Bonds 55 Madison street -144 A St YAVtRRA ALL Whom it May Concern Wild BUFFER FROM LIVER A Complaint Indigestion Chills and Fever Colics sad ache CosUveness Dyspepsia Palpitation of the Heart eto should try the ANTI-BILIOUS BITTERS INDO-AMERICACTA TTiey are composed of the tame vegetable fBti principle as iry renowned Fills Indo-Aiaerirana famous all over Europe for their purity efficacy and virtue It is also the best appetiser ever Invented and an unfailing preparation to reinforce aud clear the voice of singers This miraculous specific baying been analysed bv the Royal Med- procured me the BrtUo from His Majeaty the King of Italy They are no humbug and can be procured at all the principal druKRiits and saloons this city General Depot at Mew I Podeaui Co' Front street and at retail at 60 Jefferson corner of becond stmt Memphis Tenn In order to guard against counterfeit here I insert a fao simile my trade-mark with my initial A 2S-lf7 PUBLICATION NO PAPER IN MEMPHIS 13 A BETTER advertising medium than the 4 eat era lt having within the limits of which Memphis is the commercial center a rwj large circulation Thia can be known and read of all who may become Interested Judicious advertising will pay Our office is Main street up stairs ia same building with Boyle Chapman BLEW OO YEAST POWDER fS RAPIDLY SUPERSEDING ALL OTHER preparations for producing elclant sweet nd wholesome rolls biscuits bread buckwheat and other griddle cakes Perfectly pure and reliable and always ready for immediate use The cheapest Baking Powder in the world and it will keepon land or sea in any climate for years It is well adapted to the use of housekeepers miners mariasrs Emigrants etc and is in fact in every rerpect the best Teasi Powder made for the kitchen the camp the galley" Sold by grocers and dealers every-here Manufactured by Dooley A Brother i New street New York Without ohitnney producing light equal to coal gas at less than half the cost Oity Gas Street Lamps Warehouse an Stable Lanterns also Glaas and Brass Lamps of all kinds at lowest wholesale price always on hand Having added a large quantity of new tnventioni to tm mammoth Stock coir stating of all kinds of household articles too numerous to mention we invite your patronage being now prepared to fill orders ia any qaan tity and at all times Lights for Balls Parties Weddings etc furnished on ghort notice i Premium Washing Machines anJ4 Clothes Wringers Always on hand Hoping to receive yonr aiders we remain yours truly! lii-wwii-m A' YaTzvELP fe Mpy EDUCATIONAL ADVERTISING LEGAL ADYEimSING FiR'JM AND AFTER THT8 DATE WE twill chare (10) cents per lin for tho flrt in -rertion and five (5) cent per lii for each atMeqnent insertion of all legal ndrertise-r rents except such as may be inserted for Airly days or longer oonseoutiv ely wbieh will be charged at card ret by th squere eight (8) lines nonpereil solid to th eettare Th fees to bo paid in advance in every instance ALEXANDER Memphis Appeal Fab Co A KELLAR MRS Memphis Female Seminary 462 shelbz Street' 1 I MUCH pleasurb to thi? old vniron friend and -oun Wiii 1 re-open my rehool for hn Se January 22J I ffy friend and onrotl I MRS ANNIE HAILE i 0 3 Shelby rtrest Oirooler to be bad nt th muaic hnr-k drug Memphis Avalanohe WHITMORE jger fil-t January 31 1873 Memphis.

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