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sale may deduct all COSTS charges and expenses and
a reasonable compensation for trouble in the matter
and hold the balance if any, for and pay over the
same, on demand, to the party parties owning the
tatives. - = r. N--'
SECT 10. 1t shall be the duty of all sherifs, depu-
ty shers police officers and cOnstables prosecute
all violations of the provisions of this act which
shall come to their notice OF knowledge; and all
fines collected under this act, shall be paid over to
for which the fine is imposed, was committed; and
in case society should be formed in such city or
town for the prevention of cruelty to animals then
such fines shall nure and be paid to such socie-
y in aid of the benevolent objects for which il shall
have been formed. q ~ ~ 'is~'- = ' ,---'
SECT. IL. The several municipal and police courts
and trial justices in this state shall have
jurisdiction with the supreme judicial court of ali Of
fences under this act. $1,000 Il - ~
[Approved March II, 1861
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Chapter 55.

AN ACT for the establishment of county sunerviso~
SEcr 1. The governor and council shah anno,n.
for each county on the recommendation of the state
superintendent Of common schools, one person as
county supervisor OF public schools for each county
whose term of Office shall continue three wears NM
less he be sooner removed by the governor
SECT. 2; 1t shall be the duty of the county super.
visor to visit the schools of his county as often "A
practicable, to note at such visits in book provided
for the purpose to be designated the "SupervisOrs
Visiting sook the condition Of the school buildings
and out-houses, the efficiency of the teachers the
method of instruction, the branches taught the taxt
books and apparatus used and the discipline govern
ment and general condition of each school, He shsIi
give each such directions in the science. art and
method Of teaching as he may deem expedent. shall
distribute promptly all reports FORMS laws circulars
accordance with the direction of the state supern
tendent and in general shall the official adyis-
er and constant assistant of the school Officers and
teachers In his county. ~ 7 : =
SECT. 3. He shall assist the state superintendent
in the organization and management OF county in
sttutes and labor In every practicable way elevate
the standard of teaching and improve the condition
Of public schools in his county, by organizing town
and county associations of teachers and by personal
efforts with pupils, school committees teachers and
parents -
SECT. 4. No county supervisor shall act as agent
for any author, publisher bookseller nor directly
or indirectly receive any gift emolument or reward
for his influence in recommending or procuring the
use OF any Dook school apparatus or furniture Of any
KIND whatever In any public school in the state and
any one who shall violate this provision shan ha
removed from office, and shall further forfeit ali
ing expenses.
SECT. 8. The state superintendent and the county
supervisors shall constitute state board of educa-
ton, of which the state superintendent shall be M
ofcio secretary, and said board shall hold session
at the capital of the state at least year during
the session of the legislature for the purpose Of con-
ferring with the legislative educational COMMITTEES on
matters pertaining to the common schools Of the
state and to mature plans of operations for the fol-
lowing year. and In general to devise WAYS and means
to promote and elevate the public schools of The
state - o
SECT. g. The county supervisor shall receive tbrea
dollars per diem for service actually performed IN the
discharge of his duties, and also reimbursement So
travelling expenses necessarily incurred: said ssr
vices and travelling expenses to appear in his work-
ing report rendered quarterly to the state superin
tendent for his inspection and thence transmtteS ~
the governor and council for their examination anS
approval; provided that the total annual expense for
county supervisorships shall not exceed the sum Of
sixteen thousand dollars. ~ ~ y.
SECT. q This act shall take effect when approved.
lApproyed March Is, 1861 = :,
Chapter S6.
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Chapler II.
AM AcT to provide for taxing Bank Stock.

AN All to provide for taxing Bank STOCK.
SECT. !. Section one of chapter one hundred and
ninetythree of the public laws of eighteen hundred
and sixty-three is hereby amended BY striking out
the word unknown" in the seventh line and insert
ing instead thereof the following words whose resi-
dence is unknown to the assessors SO that the Sec
tion as amended shall read as follows.
SECT. l. The stock of any bank held by persons
out of the state, unknown and that has not been
certified according to the provisions of chapter forty
city town in this state and is not there assessed
and the stock of any bank appearing by the books of
such bank to be held by persons residing beyond the
limits of this state or whose residence is unknown to
the assessors shall be assessed for its proportion of
any state county or town tax in and by the
OF the city or town where such bank is located or
transacts its ordinary business and such city town
making the assessment aforesaid, shall have lien at
taching from and after the date of such assessment to
such stock and all dividends thereon until such tax
and any cost or expenses arising in the assessment
and collection thereofhas been fully paid No assign
ment sale transfer attachment shall pass any prop
erty in such stock unless the yendee shall first pay
such tax and cost and the cashiers of banks required
by the chapter and section aforesaid to make annual
returns to assessors are hereby directed to return to
the assessors ofthe city town where such bank
located transacts its business as aforesaid all the
stock in such bank not returned to the of
other cities or towns according to the provisions of
said section; and such returns shall be made at the
time and in the manner prescribed in said section,
and shall be made the basis of taxation of such prop
erty. f5f - = ~ fr ti.- Tsr,.
SECT. @ When returns of stock in the banks and
national banking associations in this state made
according to the provisions of section twenty-one of
chapter fortysx of the revised statutes and chapter
one hundred and ninetythree of the public laws of
eighteen hundred and sixty-three if it be found by
the assessors of any city town receiving such re-
turns that the holders stock returned do not
reside In such city town, they shall forthwith
turn the of such stockholders with the amount
of stock held by them to the assessors Of the city or
town where such stockholders reside If their resi-
dence is known and within this state, ard if their
residence is unknown or beyond the limits of this
state such return shall be made to the OF the
city or town where the bank is located and such
stock shall be there taxed and shall be subject to the
clo opta md mir fhroo
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Chapter y6.
AN ACT additional 10 an act rosr

AN ACT additional to an act respecting actions
against executors and administrators
An act entitled "an act additional to chapter
eghtyseven of the revised statutes" approved the
third day of February, eighteen hundred and sixty
nine shall not apply to actions pending when said
act takes effect lApproved March IS, 1891
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Chnpter %.

AN ACT to amend chapter one hundred and thirty
five of the revised statutes, relating to the execu-
tion of sentence in capital cases.
SECT. /. In case of trial of an Indictment for any
capital offence the judge presiding SHALL at the ex-
pense of the county employ suitable means to pre-
serve an accurate and full copy Of the evidence and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
Miss Minnie Hauck.

A we'll known New York millionaire
was hunting the buffalo on the plains of
the Far West, mounted on fiery mus
tang, when horde of wild Indians sud-
denly pounced upon him. Courageous
and muscular, the bold traveller faced the
attack, and soon laid in the dust Poca-
hontas, Red Jacket, and Powhattan. But
what can valor do against numbers 7
Surrounded on all sides, pierced with
poisoned arrows, the gallant millionaire
was at last overpowered. The blood
thirsty Indians tied him to q tree, and
we're on the point of committing the
greatest outrage that fiendish spirit can
invent, viz: to scalp his luxuriant nous
tache, when an angelical voice was heard
singing, Bdtti, BATH, o bel Messetfo," !"
from behind the bushes. The savages,
stunned with admiration, abandoned the
poor prisoner, to 90 in search OF the
syren who, by her harmonious strains,
had diverted their attention.
They found, gracefully ensconced in
cluster of wild roses and camelias, a
young maiden, faircr than the light Of
day, sweeter than the sweet brier, who
with voice full of harmony, entreated
the savages to spare the life and nous
tache of the weary traveller. They de-
INJURED; again she begged and again they
refused. Perceiying that the Indians
remained deaf to her appeals, she tore
from the track an iron rail, and boldly
attacked the whole band of Cheyennes
and Cherokeee. Victory smiled upon
her, and when the cowardly Indians had
been duly routed, the courageous maiden
went straight to the tree, delivered the
millionaire from an untimely death, and
moistening his psrched lips, after the
manner of the pious Roman daughter,
with beverage, said to be milk, pro-
cured in the immediate neighborhood,
restored him to life and hope, and
"built herself an everlasting name"
She was the seventh daughter of q
pioneer, who had left his verdsnt home
in Germany TO 90 iu search Of liberty ia
the New World. Her name was Minnie
Hauck, and she had fine soprano voice.
The millionaire, moved by gratitude
TO offer his hand to his pressrver, was
reminded By law-oook casually falling
! in his way at her fathers cabin, of the
statutes against bigamy. Upon this.
with great presence Of mind, he resolved
to prepare his guardian angel for the
stage, nor could he deprive the Italian
opera Of such promising prima donna.
Placing at her feet all his millioHs Zone
hundred. they say), be urged her to pro-
ceed to New York, where she could re-
ceive the benefit Of musical education.
Miss Minnie, struck by the happy
thought, asscnted. and they took the
first train for the Empire City.
There the grateful millionaire settled
upon the maid piece Of property yield
log a yearly income of $500, 900, gold !;
had theater built expressly; and her
fame soon extended over the world.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
Suffrage.

In his last letter to the Cincinnati En-
ouirer Mack" thus refers to the suf-
irage question in Congress:
II seems that what are known as the
advanced Radicals" are opposed to the
new amendment by which it is sought to
engraft universal suffrage upon the Con-
stitution. They think it unsafe to risk
its ratification by sufficient number Of
States, and boldly advocate the short cat
of law of Congress instead. In the
Senate ehis view of the case has been
held by at least dossn of the leading
. lights Of Radicalism for two years. 1t
is difficult just now TO say which of the
two propositions will be finally adopted,
but it seems likely that one of them will
be passed before the 4th of March
The advocates of the right of Congress
to control the suffrage of the States
base their views upon the Four
tee nth amendment, which they claim
establishes universal suffrage even with
out an ret of Congress-.
II will not be forgotten that when this
amendment was before Congress, and
subsequently, when it was before the peo-
ule of the States for ratification, the
right to interfere with the suffrage ques-
ton was di,avoweI by its friends. 1t is
only another added to the many in
stances in which the voters of the country
have been deceived by those whom they
trusted. In Ohio the Radicals won the
fight by explaining the amendment en-
tirely away, and demo ustrsting that 1t
meant almost nothing as applied to the
Northern States, but only punishment to
rebels. It was with this understanding
that it was ratified in the Northwest
but now comes new Interpretation oi
it-that it carries with it in some way or
another the right of Con gress to CON
fer suffrage on the negro OF Ohio
and Indiana as well as of Georgia
and Alabama. One would think it about
time for tire people to cease to put conn
dence in leaders who have so often de-
ceived them m and betrayed them. The
history of Radical legislation during the
past four years has been an uninter.
rupted series of d,sceptions and treaohe-
ries of this kind, and there is no likeli-
hood of its being ch anged in its purpose
very soon. Either tf the two suffrage
propositions now be. eore Congress will
bring the question inio the State can
vass in Ohio next fall. We shall see how
the people, who have so recently voted
it down by an immense majority, will
like it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
AUCTION SALES.
Bankrupt Sale OF Real Estate
and Personal Property.

In the matter Of W. II. Grider. Bankrupt, In
Bankruptcy at Memphis, Tennessee.
pY VIRTUE OF AN ORDER OF SALE
ID entered in the above matter by the Dis
tri,t Cenrt Of the United States for the Dis
triot of West Tennessee, in Bankruptcy, will
proceel 20 sell.
On "Wednesday, February Sd, 1869,
to the highest and Lest bidder, at the sales
room of VI onsarrat, Lanier 4 Co., 276 Second
street, Memphis. Tennessee. between the ehours
of9 o'clock a. IN. aud O'clock m. of said day,
all the right, title ard interest, legal and
equitable, which belonged to said Bankrupt at
the date OF fling lsis petition in Bankruptcy,
in and 10 the personal property described as
folloss, to- wit: All the. promissory notss, Sc
curities.. debts, demands, caims equities, ac
counts. books of accounts, choses in action, and
all and singular, the personal effects and
assets of said Bankrupt. of every kind and de-
scriptioR; as well as to the real estste set out
ss follows, to-wit: Ist. His interest in lots and
Z. block 27, in the town of Fort Pickering, near
Memphis, Tennessee. This property is encum
bered by yender's lien for the payment Of
1860. due O, IL and Is months after date, given
fer purchase money, with interest on said
notes. ID. His interest IN lot on the corner of
Main and Broadway streets. l0S by, l26 feet.
sasa ssS Tot q sc1o y nots u syos
estate of w. B. Fant, due February lat, 1868. 3D..
Also, the right of redemption on the following
described property to wit: A three-story brick
IeelueuCos lue odIue Dflug tub Wc5ttT OI
tenement sold IN w. II. Grider by W. p. Wal
dram, and located on Adams street, adjoining
Wadran cotton shed, in the city Of Memphis.
Tennessee. This property. was leyied on and
sold June 10TH. 1867, by the Sheriff. to satisfy
an execution in favor Of N. d. Elliott, Execu-
tor Of estate of Q. G. -Athason. deceased, tor
$500 20. cost, etc., sou 80: 4th. Also, bis
equity of redemption in lots | and 2. and the
north half Of lot 3. in block q, in Fort Picker
ing, near Memphis. Tennessee; said prtrerty
has two story frame house on it. This prop
erty was levied on and sold ky the sheriff OF
Shelby cousty. to satisfy n execution in favor
| of the Southern Bank Of Kentucky, June 81,
I 1867, against w. II. Grider. and bought by +.
M. Cash. for s27e3 50; amount of execution,
costs, ETC., sl5s 81. 5th. Also, his equity OF
redemption in the remainder interest in lois ! 4,
and 8, block "a. $50 feet on Sixth street 800
| feet on Georgia street, located ia Fort Picker
| ing, near Memphis Tennessee; the Same has
| a one e-story frame house. This property is.in-
numbered By life estate; the remainder in
terest which belons cd TO said Bankrupt was
sold under execution, but is subject to redemp-
ton. II is the equity OF redemption in the re-
mainder that l propose to cell. which was sold
first for $275 costs, etc., and again for S224l rs.
costs, etc.. Schedule can be seen at my office.
| 27s Second street.
80 @. A. LEFFINGWELL. Assignee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
A Wedding Jaunt

Left Pittsfeld at eight o'clock in the
Bennington stage, intending to go to Wiz
Jamestown. Inside passengers--a new
married couple taking jauni. 'fhe
lady, with clear, pale complexion, and
rather pensive cast of counter ance,
slender, and with a genteel 6gur e; the
bridegroom, shopkeeper in New York,
probably, young man with stout,
black beard, black eyebrows, which
formed one line across his forehead.
They were very loving; and while the
stage stopped | watched them, quite en-
HANGED in each other, both leaning side
ways against the back of the CO ach, and
perusing their mutual comeliness, and
apparently making complimentary obser.
vations upon it to one another. The
bride appeared the more absorbed and
devoted, referring her whole being to him.
The gentleman seemed in a most para
disical mood, smiling ineffably upon his
bride, and, when she spoke, responding
to her with benign expression of matri-
monial sweetness, and, as it were, COM
passion for the weaker vessel, mingled
with great love and pleasant humor. II
was very droll. The driver pseped into
the coach once, and said that he had bis
arm around her waist. he took little
freedoms with her, tapping her with his
cane--love pats-and she seemed to see
nothing amiss. They kept eating ginger
bread all along the road, and dined
heartily Notwithstanding Hawthorne $
Note Book.
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Lost ia a Western W. ilderness.

Mr.. Charles Crapo, broth or to the Gov
ernor, and Mr.. Alderman, q surveyor,
when returning through the woods from
examining lands on the Sheboygsn river,
and when In the town 1874 cut his foot
very badly, disabling him from travelling
any further. His companion, supposing
that there were lumber camps 53-4, made
the wounded man as comfortable as he
could, fixed his tent, built him q Ere and
cut goodly supply of wood, and, leav-
ing him all the provisions, which were
three days rations, took only two hard
taeks and started fer help, expecting to
get through in one day He ate all his
provisions at noon, but at night, when he
reached his destination, he found dreary
wilderness where be expected to find
camp. He Immediately started for the
main river, but soen became entangled
in dense swamp, aud, thu 'ough fatigue
and want of food, and having to sleep on
the ground without blanket or tent, he
was taken sick and could max but very
slow progress. After three mo re days OF
intense suffering, he reached Erskine's
farm, late OF night and utterly e; vhausted,
Mr.. Spratt, happening to be tn ere, took
him next morning to Comstoek' 9 camp,
which was the nearest one to W here he
left the wounded man. Mr.. William
Comstock Immediately started, with eight
men, to the relief of Mr.. Crapo. They
found him without wood, and suffering
from his wound and anxiety. He sup
posed that his friend had either peri shed
or was lost, and certainly expected t o be
left to die. He calculated his provisi ons
to last him twelve days, and cut his
name on bis gunstock and the bottom Of
his boot, so that any one finding his re-
mains might know who he was. Having
laid there six days ell alone since his
comrade lett him, be describes the SEN
sstion of the arrival of help as the hap
piest moment of his life. His rescuers
brought him to camp upon litter, and
the next day brought him to town. Both
nen, after recruiting, started for Sag
inaw.-Alpena (Aiehigan)l Pioneer, Jan.
20.
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RACES had to he committed in the name
of the Ku-Klux. Thess outrages are
now being proven on the real perpetra-
tors, and the whole color Of things is
changed. Every outrage charged against
the Ku-Klux within tho last few months,
has turned out to have beea committed
by Radicals. The murderers of the me-
gro Harlan are the intensest of Radicals.
The reported outrage at Murfreesboro
several weeks ago on the person of q
horse thief, and which was so readily at
tributed to the Ku. Klux, has turned ont
to have been done by the Radicals. he
was not murdered, but ives released from
prison by his fellow thieves, and was re-
captured the other day in Nashville.
These and similar facts are slowly re-
lieving the ex-rebel element of our COM
munity of the unjust odium that has toe
long been attached to them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
The Demise of Distinguished Women.


The death of Madame Davoust, at the
age of eighty-eight, is announced. She
ought to be called, we suppose, Duchess
of Auerstadt and Princess of Eckmuhl,
as her husband was made Duke of Auer-
stadt and Prince of Eckmuhl by Napo-
leon /. L,uis Dsvoust, or Davout, was
the ablest of all Napoleon's marshals,
unless Massena is entitled to the first.
place in that remarkable roll of splendid
soldiers Davoust was made o marshal
of France when bat thirty-four, having.
distinguished himself in the wars of the
republic, and he was not less distin
guished in those of the empire. At.
Austerlitz he was second to no man. He
won the battle of AuersIsdi on the same
day that Napoleon. cor quered at Jena,
his force being only half as large as that
of the Prussians, while the Emperor
force was superior to that of the enemy.
In 1909 he stood in line with Massens.
and had his advice been followed at Bo-
rodino, in 1872, that battle would have
been as fruitful as Austerlitz aud
Friedland. He married Mile Le-
clerc, sister of Pauline Bonaparts's
first husband, who persisted in the
attempt of the French to reconquer st
Domingo. This lady, though but ten
years his junior, survived her husband.
almost forty-six years She must have
been the last Madame de Merechale of
the first imperial creation. Many wo-
men of note have long survived their
husbands, as Olympias, Cornelia, Ser
villa. Terentis, Junia Tertis, Livis Let
tice Knollys Lady Leicestcr), the Coun-
tess of Shrewsbury (''Bess of Hardwick"
Mrs. Cromwell, Rachel, Lady RUSSELL
Lady Rich (Cromwel's daughter
Frances), the Duchess of Marlborough
Mary of Modena, Maria Louisa, Mrs.
Alexander Hamilton, Lady Byron, Mrs
T. Moore and others. Lettice Knollys
survived her first husband, the Earl Of
Essex, more than fifty-eight years her
second husband, the Earl of Leicester.
Queen Elizabeth's Leicestar-more than
forty-six years; and her third husband
Sir Christopher Blount, more than thirty
three years. But her second husband
was suspected of having poisoned her
first, and she is said to have poisoned
her second husband, accidentally, by Civ
ing him dose of poison, which, scandal
said, he had prepared for her; and
her third husband was hanged for tres-
son. But all women cannot have her
luck. Besides, she lived 10 be ninety
four years old-and many husbands can
be buried in almost ivescore years. Bcss
of Hardwick had the satisfaction Of
burying four in her ninety years; and
she survived her fourth husband more
than seventeen years, her second more
than fifty years, and her frst seventy-fve
years. How lcng she survived her third
husband is not known, but it was more
than forty years, as she was married the
fourth time when she was fifty years at
least.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-02-04
Sanaible Talk.

Under the head Of Ku-Klux and Mill
tia, the Columbia Herald Of last week
INDUCES in the following sensible talk:
The different counties into which the
irate Governor proposes sending the
militia Except Maury) have been send
ing delegates to Nashville, for the pur-
pose of assuring the powers that be that
The kind assistance Of the militia is not
needed. We are not advised as to the
positive good these delegations are ac-
complishing, but we think 1t quite likely
that General Cooper can be prevailed
on 10 keep his militia at home, if con-
vinced that they are not needed, but it is
worse than foolish and useless to ap-
prOach the Governor with any such petit
tions The strongest evidence that we
do not want the militia, is proof positive
10 Brownlow that we need them. We
have been assured all the time of the fact
that the Radicals only wanted to call the
militia ont for party effect but IN
fortunately for them, to get up
q seeming necessity for the militia, out