Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1867-06-08

SOUTH EISN ASYLUM.
After the first Drawing others will occur each
month"; All Agents for the sale of Tickets
must sive bond and security.
Persons who would dispose Of good lands, at
low cash rates, should address Gen. FRANK
| @. ARMSTRONG, Memphis, Tenn,
All property must be assessed by disintere,ted
parties. If not done, IL will not oe included in
any scheme, and will be stricken from this.
At each Drawing the quantity and value OF
lands distributed are equalzed 10 the number
Of tickets sold, as provided in the charter.
Managers Of the corporation can hold no
Tickets.
Ten per cent. Of its profits, under the oath Of
the President and Managers, must go to the con-
struction and maintenance ef the Asylum for
| WIDOWS AND ORPHANS.
The profits Of the company consist in the dif-
| ference between the cash and time valuations
ofproperty, as provided in their charter.
MAGNIFICEN PRIZE ESi
Gen. Marcus J. Wright's residence. on Madi-
son street, Memphis fourteen rooms. besides
cellars and servants apartments. Assessed
Raleigh Springs, twenty-six acres. sub.divi-
| ded into twenty prizes. Improvements cost
| $1,000. One prize. Springs and eight acres; an
other, eighteen lots, the owners of which have
| right OF access TO Springs. Assessed, S3O,OOO.
Twenty-one and three fourth acres, property
Of DR.. Il. A. White, on fernando and Raleigh
road; assessed at ST per acre-fye prizes.
| A Dwelling, with six rooms, IN Someville,
Tenn, opposite the Episcopal Church assessed
One hundred and six town lots in the town
Of Corinth, at the intersection Of the Memphis
| and Charleston and Mobile and Ohio railroads.
Leon Trousdale's eighteen acress, three and
one-half miles southeast Of Memphis sub-di-
| vided into one acre lots assessed at S6OOO.
DR.. X. +. Browns ll42 acres, 1--WE miles
southeast of Memphis, sub-divided into ten
acre lots; assessed at 500 per acre.
Residence and lot in Holly Springs, one hun
dred and fifty yards from the public square
property Of Mr.. Pointer; value, $4,000.
-Four resideBce lots on Bourland avenue,
Memphis. 3OxlIO feet value 90 per to9tfront'
Six acres Of land on Pigeon koost road-mag-
nifcent mansion with all modernimprovements
-sne prize value, Sl2.5e0.
Lanier's plantation, $500 acres-25O cleared
on Mississippi river. sixty miles above Mem
phis; the shipping point for wide back c0un-
Try; fine place for store and warehouse, wood
yard, ash timber; twenty-one prizes.
Southern Planng Mill, engine, tools, ma
chinery. ETC., complete, on the Nj. d q. X. r.,
at the intersectisn with Linden street; assessed
BY Cubbin, Gum x Coover at Sl7.0OO-cost
$4,000.
Two thousand one hundred and twenty acres
east Of Sardis Miss, near Miss. * Tenn. r. r.,
residence, farm house, fenced and cultivated;
property Of C. G. Wilbsurn; twenty-one prizes.
Twenty-six acres. sub-divided into city lots,
part Of the Lumpkin tract, east of Memphis,
between the old and nav State line roads;
twenty-six prizes.
Richard j. Jeffres' plantati on thirteen miles
| ejssippi and Tennessee railroad, consisting of
$40 acres-sub-divided in forty acre tracts-5OU
acres in cultivation. with mill, gin, sixteen
houses, dwelling, well fenced; assessed at
x Section of excellent Cultivated Land near
Ashport; property of William Conner.
Franklin Institute and Grounds, in Holly
Springs-property of Rev. j. E. Douglas; as
''siS Stock Farm Of DR. Bailey; 600 acres, divided
BY Spring creek; 400 acres cleared and good
improvements-4 prizes, on Memphis and
Charleston railroad, at Moscow.
Six Lots, 20 by go feet, on Tennessee and
Chester streets. property OF II. b. Martin. Four
Lots. 33l& by 80 feet, on Chester street. Two
Lots 30by go feet, on Chester street. Assessed
by j. NJ. Provine, S2O,SOO,
-Four Lots. ten acres. in Col. John Ropes
sub division on Raleigh road $3OcO
800 acres in tkelsuburbs of Chattanooga, for
merly owned by Hon r.. B. Brabson, 20 acre lots.
1880 acres, Calhoun county, Miss: J. W.
Fant's plantation; well timbered-40O acres
1850 acres, on Mississippi river, east side o
miles above Memphis magnificent planta-
ton, cultivated; Is prizes of 100, and one of 50
acres.
Charleston, S. O.; three story brick house
| Hon. W. +. Avery's Residence and Grounds,
near and east of Memphis, 81 acres, sub
divided improvements worth Sl5,0O0 I'm
proyements and six acres one prize the rest in
| two acre lots for market purposes.
F.A Tyler's Lot-nOrth halfof lot 397 as laid
down in the map Of the city OF Memphis, the
same being on Third street, east side, between
Jackson and Overton streets, and sub-divided
into four lots, lying between parallel lines, is
feet Ga inches apart and all running l4S12 feet
deep TO the first alley east of Third street. The
estimate at cash is $50 per feot for the north
ernmOst and corner lot, and Sl25 per foot for
the other three-making $l0,725 for all.
james G. Blain's l33 acres Marshall county,
III. and F. R. Lanier's Stock and Cotton
Farms. on the line Of the Memphis and Iron
Mountain railroad, three miles from the Mis-
sissippi river, in Mississippi county, Ark; 300
acres. Another tract of 1910 acres, and one of
100 acres; elegant residence-cOst Sll ,00O
l2O acres Of Land Mt Pleasant. Miss; as
sessed at SO per acre 10 prizes.
Anderson and Litton's Lot, on Trezevant
street. Memphis, to be assessed and sold in this
scheme.
assessed, and to go into this scheme.
John M, Anderson's l6O acres, on Pigeon
Roost creek, five miles southwest from Holly
Springs, cost so per acre in 1860; assessed ut
SIS per acre four prizes.
400 acres Of Land, 10 miles from Como, Pa
| nOla county, Miss; hne improvements prop
erty of w. Wiburn q prizes.
| 400 acres, on Memphis and Ohio railroad
seven miles from Memphis, sub-divided into 70
| acre tracts, costly Improvements.
Seven acres, on McLemore street, Memphis;
to be assessed. and go into this scheme when
500 acres, adjoining Marshall Institute-l5O
cleared-good improvements; three miles from
the Memphis and Charleston railroad; assessed
| at IS per acre.
Joha e. Logwood's l57 acres in Limestone
county, Ala, on Alabama and Tennessee rail-
road.
35U acres on Pigeon Roost road. finest land in
| West Tennessee, improvements cost 5000; ten
| miles from Memphis 200 acres cultivated, or
| chards, etc.. between Memphis and Charleston
and Memphis and Ohio railroads divided into
| 20 acre lots.
Two Farms. in Panola county, Miss, on Lsng
| and Chaney creeks, country densely populated,
Farms admirably improved, three miles from
| Mississippi and Tennessee railroad; $50 acres
| cleared fine Improvements, gin and farm
| houses to be sub-divided and assessed prop
| erty Of Dr. James K. Paine.
| A. MaXWelPs 567 acres, near Torn Lake on
Mississippi and Tennessee railroad, twelve
miles south. of Memphis; to be suB-divided
| and assessed.
geO acres, in Carroll county, Miss, three
| miles from Greenwood assessed at $3 50 per
acre sold for So per acre before the war-zO
br. Peetes plantation. 1917 acres. on Hatchie
| river, above overflow, very rich, three miles
| from Memphis and Ohio railroad TO be sub
| divided and assessed before the drawing.
| John ii. TappseOtts 20 acres, admirably
improved, near Richmond, Miss, fine i'm
| prOvements.
| counties of Mississippi assessed az 50 per acre
| distributed in tracts Of fifty acres all fne
| farming and grape e-groWing lands.
DR.. Pointers plantaiios, eight miles from
| Holly Springs, Miss. taS acres residence mill,
| and gin now rented at 5000 per anHHm as-
| sessed at Sl2 per acre-nine prizes.
So acres, opposite the Mansfield place; p
| prizes-assessed at $4,000 I'm suburbs Of Mem
Residence in Holly Springs, Miss; brick
| buildings, with 80 acres Of woodlands, one and
/ A half miles distant-four prizes.
| Magnifcent Residence and Grounds, proper
/ ty Of Dr.. Pointer. four miles from Memphis;
i assessed at SIS, 900. Residence and tws acres;
one Grand Prite, ana s1 one;hali acre piTzes