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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11
mo. SS5 R. d. siaa4 s
In the Second Chaneery Court Of
shelby County, Tenn.

Joseph Q. Butler.
vs..
James C. Moores. Peter J
Peters, Robt b Moores ct al
TT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT
filed in this cause that the defsndant, f x;s
sonri and that the defendant. Robert Is;
Moores, is resident Of the State q ONO, and
both non residents Of the state OF Iennessee,
h IL therefore ordered by the Clerk and mas
Ter that they make their appearance herein,
at the court. house Of the Second Chafneery
Court Of Shelby county, IN NE sa.S OF n,S';
Sentembcr, 1871. and plead, answer or demur
10 complainant's bill, or the same VIII be
taken for confessed as 10 them and set for
hearing exparte, and that a copy Of this order
he published once week. for four successive
weeks, in the Memphis Pnblls, ,I;;ss.dgsrs inns
.Tnlv 81. 1871. NJ. D, l., STEWART,
'"'' - - 10 ~ = Clerk and Master.
BY C. BEucHrR. Deputy Clerk and Master.
RsnSoISA, Hammond 4 Jorden, solicitors
for complainant. l-o-l9a -lsV-lto
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Trustee's Sale.

nNwEDNRSDAY. THE aOrH DAY OF SEP
TENDER, ISL, in pursuance Of deed OF
trust made 10 me BY Andrew j. DonelsOn. to
secure the notes therein specified, and
Amounting 10 81, eSl Il. besides interest,
which said deed Is duly recorded in the Pro,
hatS Clerks Office OF Bolivar county. state Of
N;ssissippi' February q, 1867, in deed book
"T. r." pages $50, SIS. Ss9 and $40, will
sell for cash. upon the premises. south hall
81 section Z. township 3. of range 8; on
stokes bayou, sections. "A and ., and All
purkenaw, in township Is, of range ;. west,
in Bolivar county, State of Mississippi; 81
head Of mules, 100 head of cattle, 200 head of
hogs, all the wagons. carts, blacksmith tools.
farming implements. household and kitcnen
visions, and the growing crops of cotton. corn
and fodder upon the said premises. convey
only as trustee. Sale subject 70 widow g dover.
10Y Il. II. MARTIN, Trustee.
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S!l93as!laS!'!33

sequence OF youthful indiscretions.
or This medicine has been used in our prac-
tice for many years, and with thousands
treated, it has not failedin single instance.
Hs- Each package Of Vegetable Cure is
wrapped in ultramarine blue paper, printed in
gold letters, and contains one bottle filed with
Sugar-coated Pills, and one vial Of Medicated
Powders, sufficient to make one-half pint OF
injection; and one Syringe. aIIGF
a8- Price IS, per package, sold by Druggists,
or sent by mail ON receipt Of $3.50.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11
MEMPHIS POsTOflICE.

OFPIOK HouRs-FRONS An. TO P.M.; SUNDAY,
From TO JOAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11
Interest all Readers,

Minus making the WEEKLY LEDGER well
ono, pleasing and interesting
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WESTERN METHODIST,

p-n p IEFFERsON sT., MEMPHII.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11

Ferryboat will leave wharfboat. foot OF
Union street. daily. at $50 an.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11

Z. WHITMORE, PsslIsher and Prop,
"a Madison "a, Memphis.
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s-Am communications should be ad-
dressed 70
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FIREsIDE VISITOR AND FAMILY
COMPANION!
ADVERTISERS

Cannot fail to see the unrivaled inducements
offered by US in the way Of cheap and profit
able advertisements.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-08-11
RAILROAD TINE TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
The Tax on Incomes.

The following letter was written on
the Doth ult., by Commissioner Pleasan-
ton, and sent to Supervisor butcher, at
New York:
SIR: 1t appears that there is misunder-
standing as to the proper execution of the
act of Congress assessing incomes. The fol-
lowing decision will govern: Section IL of
the act of Congress of July IA, 1870, only re-
quires every person of lawful age whose gross
income during the preceding year exceeds
50 900, to make and return to the assistant
assor of the district in which he resides.
Persons whose incomes are less than $4,000
are not required to make returns, nor is there
any authority of law to assessors or assistant
assessors to call for such returns. In case
any assessor or assistant assessor has sufi-
cient evidence that a person who has not
made a return on his income has defrauded
the Government, then they will proceed
against such persons as is prescribed by
law. A. PLEAsASToN,
Commissioner.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
More Indian DepredatiOns.

A dispatch received from Santa Fee,
dated AAil 9th, says: The Daily
Post has the following correspondence
from La Messilla, under date Of April
%: Mr.. Cosgrove, of the firm of j.
for the West, to look after the last two
coaches, as they have not arrived. 1t is
reported, and it is doubtless true, that
they have been captured by Indians,
and all on board killed. Every account
from the West says the Indians are get
ting worse and worse, both on and off
the road. They have been killing again,
near Silver City, and a party of soldiers
and about fifty citizens are now out III
pursuit.
Things are coming to focus in this
part of the country, for the Indians
seem more determined than ever to an
initiate the whites of Southern New
Mexico and Arizond, and unless some
assistance is given pretty soon, 1t really
seems that they have good grounds for
hoping to accomplish their end. The
Indians seem determined to entirely in
terrupt the mails between this place and
Tucson, and thereby cut off the commu-
nlcatlon between the two sections OF the
country.
Another dispatch says: Mr.. Hartz,
conductor of j. F. Bennett IL Co.
Southern Overland mail and express
lines, just reached Santa Fe, and gives
the following information He left
La Messilla on the afternoon of the
oath. News had then reached there
that one of the coaches of the Company
had been found on the road, between
La Messilla and Tucson, burned. The
body of the driver was also found, with
his breast cut open and his heart taken
out, split in two and laid over his face.
! Four ranchmen at San Pedro on the
route, were killed also six immigrants,
coming from Tucson to New Mexico.
Some of the captured mil had been
found, with checks cut to pieces, and
was brought into Messilla by one of the
conductors.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
BetrOthalS in China.

In one Of his letters from the East,
the correspondent of the Cleveland
Ledder writes
" Betrothals in China are contracted
at very early age, and even among in
innate friends it is etiquette that all the
negotiations shall be conducted by a
class of women called gobetweens,' or
match makers. The BOYS and girls are
supposed to be entirely Indifferent as to
the whole matter. The idea OF court
ship or love letters would be quite
shocking to all right.minded persons.
After betrothal, which is consummated
by an eXchsge of presents and the max
ing over of formal document to the
parents of the groom, the engagement
is considered as legal and binding as if
the marriage had been performed. If
the boy should die it is considered the
proper and tilial thing for the girl to re-
main widow for life, and devote her
self to the care of her deceased hus-
bands parents--a custom which our
girls at home would consider particular
ly hard.
4" Before the wedding day the bride
has her eyebrows pulled out, which in
Nhiiib MAJ N vi Il
married woman. On the the morning
of the lucky day chosen for the mar
riage, the bride is carried from her own
home to that of her future husband in
great state and ceremony. With her
face closely yelled, she kneels with her
husband before an altar and they wor-
ship together the spirit tablets Of the
ancestors of the groom. The parties
first see each others face when the
brides veil is removed and they drink
wine out of the same cup, after the we'd
ding day spent in feasting, congratula-
tons, and general hilarity by their mu-
tual friends and relations. If not en-
tirely satisfied with the choice in which
they have had no part, it is certainly
too late to repent, and they have only
to make the best of ia conclusion
which the sensible in other lands some
times arrive at when they have entered
into the marriage relation with eyes
wide open, as they suppose, but in real
ity closely bandaged by that blind little
imp and match maker, Cupid"
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
How Nations Perish.

NJ. Paul de st. Victor has published a
feuilleton i'm the Paris Liberte, entitled
F." How Nations Perish" The conclu-
sion of this essay is striking Having
shown how Poland persisted, NJ. de st.
Victor adds: "Amid variety and un-
likeliness' the situation of France is, at
the present moment, as tragic as that OF
Poland. France has her Russia in the
Prussian power. A world of barbarians
has formed itself around her, supplied
with all the arms and appliances Of de-
struction. 1t has inflicted terrible de-
feats upon her; her torn frontiers lay her
her heart bare; her military genius seems,
for the time, to have withdrawn from
her. Like Poland, France contains the
deadly germs which will infallibly de-
stroy her if she does not extirpate them
in time from her bosom. Drawn in diff
ferent directions by the Republic and
by three rival dynasties, she, in some
sort, suffers the torment of being torn
asunder in political sense. The per-
petual revolt of her miNorities against
the government of law is neither less
impious nor less pernicious than the
Polish veto. A first ACKNOWLEDGMENT
has cruelty mutilated her; the second
will come, and then the third, if, fallen
and grovelling on the ground, she is
convulsed in anarchy instead of raising
herself by firnness and harmony.
Prussia will excite her parties, add fuel
to her hatreds, rouse her rAobs, and
then. under the pretext of social police,
establish the invasion upon.her territory.
The time will come, Prussia will take
the world to witness that this incorrigi-
bic people must be enslaved. She will,
perhaps, impose on France tributary
Prince, a helmeted vassal Of Il crown
charged to keep guard on lehalf
of il, and to hold the gates open 20 it.
Europe, seized with disgust or terror,
will allow everything to proceed. Con-
tempt will stihe the sympathies which
she still retains for us. She will accus
tom herself to the idea of dismem-
bered France, and will think of nothing
but being permitted to share in the par
tition; order will reign in Paris "a at
Warsaw A legend relates that Kosci.
usko, falling at Podzamee, beneath the
lance thrusts Of the Cossack, traced
| these fateful words upon the the snow
Finis Poloni@. If France, bruised and
wounded. loses in the commissions of
civil war the life which remains to her, it
will be in mire and blood that her last
combatant will write the epitaph of his
! dead country -
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

ner OF SldIlutT.
The South.
Mr.. Patterson, Of Paducah, XIV.
was killed near Fort Smith, Ark, last
week, by mule running away and
dragging him over the rough road.
-Ex.Gov. Manly, Of North Carolina,
died, at Raleigh, on the LIST inst, aged
seventy-five.
j. r. Roberts. known in New York,
Chicago, and other cities as labor re-
formist, was fined, on Thursday, 800
for vagrancy.
Judge Dibble, of New Orleans, on
the 9th inst, gave Sheriff Sauveieret,
colored, $1,000 damages, in his suit
against the proprietors of the Band sa-
loon, for refusing to furnish him re-
freshments on account of color.
The City Surveyor of New Orleans
reports the river falling, and the levees
safe along the front Of the city. The
Bonnet Carrie crevasse is now 200 feet
wide. Otherwise there is no material
change in the situation. The water is
within half mile north of Kenneville
1t has also made its appearance on the
low ground east and south.
There were discharged from the
Printing Bureau of the Treasury De
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
DoINGs OF THE JOINT Hen COMMISSION.

DoINGs OF THE JOINT HIGu COMMISSION.
1t appears from what has just leaked
out as to the ooings of the High Com
mission, that the Senate will not be long
in disposing of the treaty for the settle
ment of all the disputed questions be-
fore them. The only matters finally
disposed of are the fishery question and
the navigation of the st. Lawrence.
The Alabama claims and the San Juan
boundary have been referred to com.
mission of five persons, composed of one
each from the United States, Great
Britain, Brazil, Russia, and Germany.
They are to meet in Vienna at such
time as may be hereafter designated,
and this action is to be final. 1t is un-
derstood that the principle upon which
claims are to be presented has been
agreed on. The President has decided
to appoint Secretary Fish ON the part OF
the United States. He will resign his
position on the lst Of June. One OF
the Commissioners stated that he did
not think the special session of the
Senate could last more than a few days
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
SUDDEN DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER NAN.

SUDDEN DEATH OF A NEWSPAPER NAN.
The community of Lawrence, Kas.,
was shocked on the 9th inst, by the
announcement of the death of j. NJ.
Ruth, business manager of the Tribune.
He retired in the evening at ! / o'clock,
and was found dead in bed the next
morning. He left note in his memo
randum-book substantially as follows, to
his wife, dated 1890 p. m.:
~ have taken prescription of qui-
nine, at the direction of DR.. Nedlicott. |
feel a strange numbness. My syesight
is growing dim. wish my body exam
ined. If we do not meet again, hope
we shall meet in Heaven"
To day an examination was made by
the Board of Physicians. They have
found symptoms of poison, but have not
yet concluded their examination. DR..
Midlicott was arrested and lodged
in Jail. The Coroners inquest was adj
journed till after the examination of the
stomach is completed. Mrs. Ruth is in
Leavenworth. The former husband of
Mrs. Ruth was a lawyer of st. Louis,
from whom she was divorced, and subse-
quently married Ruth.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

DID Nor SUCCEED VERY WELL.-On
Monday night, the oath inst, at about
dusk, two we'll dressed young men ar
rived at Deposit Ny. by train from Bing-
hampton. Their manner excited the
suspicious of the ticket agent, and when
he sold them tickets, he took duplicates
of their numbers. They remained there
until o'clock, when they burglarized
the store of one of the largest mer-
chants by forcing window, and Sc
cured 1000 in cash. The thieves went
directly to the depot, and caught the
train for New York, which came along
few moments afterward The rob-
berry was discovered soon after their de-
parture, and the news spread rapidly
through the village, and reaching the
ears of the ticket agent, he at once tel
egraphed the number of the tickets pur-
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
New Transportation Scheme.

Negotiations which have been in pro-
gress in this city for several days past
were concluded on Friday, and the pa
pers to the contract were formally
signed, by which Mr.. Henry Eames, of
st. Paul, representing the Lake Supe-
rior and Mississippi Railroad, has char
tered Of Mr.. John Robson, of this city,
the powerful tow boat Imperial, of the
Red Line, and six barges, to run in the
grain trade from Winona, carrying
wheat and other grain to st. Paul and
Saltwater, to be shipped thence over
the Lake Superior and Mississippi Rail
road to Duluth and thence by the lakes
to the East. The contract is to go into
effect between the 10th and Goth of
NAV. In the meantime an elevator is
to be constructed at Saltwater, so that
when the water is too low to permit the
Imperial to 60 to st. Paul she will run
directly to Saltwater and unload.
1t is plain to see that this move is to
be Of incalculable benefit to the pro-
ducers of Minnesota, giving as it does a
great northern competing route for
freight to and from the East. 1t will
inaugurate at once a spirited COMPETE
ton between the great routes which
have heretofore reaped rich harvest
from the trade of Minnesota, and the
new candidate for favor,which is backed
by the powerful interests of the Penn
sylvania Central. 1t is the dawn Of
new and promising era for Winona and
the State at large, and will show it at
once in the saving of thousands Of dol
lars in freights on the grain which yet
remains to be moved before the new
crop comes forward Wi,ona RepuJi-
can.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

A Son OF THE Emerald Isle wished to
present a parrot to an intimate friend.
He accordingly called on dealer, who.
having just sold his last parrot, persua-
ded Mike to buy an evil, which he
claimed as belonging to rare and val
liable species of parrots. Mike paid
three dollars for the bird, and immedi-
ately marched off to the house of his
friend, who was highly pleased with it.
About four weeks after, Mike again
called to see the progress the polly had
made. |" And how does she spaik ?n
asked Mike. "She don't spaik at all
niver word since the day you bought
her. Mike was off in a jiffy to ask the
dealer why the bird didn't speak.
"She hasn't spanked one word as yit -
said Nike, as soon as he could breath.
"Oh," replied the man of business, with
cool assurance, - he's not great speak.
er, but a very great thinker" Mike
left, nonplussed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

Notwithstanding recent frosts, the
fruit crops in Iowa, give promise of great
neutrality-suspicious. wheat is splendid,
and all farm work is well advanced.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12

Another daily paper has made its
appearance in New York city. 1t is a
morning penny paper, called the Ray,
and is published by Wilbur Il Hasen.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1871-05-12
A Good Wife.

The following sentences from Arch.
bishop Seekers Wedding Ring, are
worth reading twice:
Hast thou soft heart? 1t is of Gods
breaking. Hast thou sweet wife
She is of Gods making. The Hebrews
have a saying, He is not man who
hath not a woman" Though man
alone may be good, yet it is not good
that man should be alone. Every
good gift and every perfect gift is from
above" A wife, though she be not a
perfect gift, is good gift, a beam darted
from the sun of mercy. How happy are
those marriages where Christ is at the
wedding Let none but those who have
found favor in Gods eyes find favor in
yours. Husbands should spread man.
tie of charity over their wives infirmi-
ties. Do not put out the candle because
of the snuff. Husbands and wives
should provoke one another to love !;
and they should love one another not
outstanding provocations. The tree of
love should grow up in the midst of the
family as the tree Of life grew in the gar
den of Eden. Good servants are great
blessing; good children a greater bless
ing; but good wife is the greatest
blessings and such help let him seek
for that lacks one; let him sigh that
has lost one let him delight in that en-
joys one.
A man died at the Meinzer House,
in Centralia, ILL.,, from the effects of
morphine taken for the purpose of sui
eide. His name appears on the hotel
register as Thomas WEIGH, although he
afterward wrote letter to the landlord
in which he said his real name was
Horace or Harris Henry-that he had
deliberately done the deed and had
come to Centralia for that purpose
that his wife and one child had died
and his greatest desire seemed to be
that his friends should not learn of his
whereabouts and death.
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-10-19

M I'M lllll11s q.
1ksaetion ofths aisss pol ibitls aists
Vic. - = S. PasI Ill wssk i s.lras
OonventiOn," and aouinatsd : tisket.
haa. sxeitsd i..lo 81 % iatsrss. III.
iEs.slisg IS geasrsl that their action VIII
rsl1lt 80 70 good % tho eaass th4y.
champion, as the political field i MOI
= place for reform of this charaolsr..
Ne rover save public sentiment oan O..
g isssss prohibi,osy l.vs, i pa.asd and
&c 9 ballos, which merely sxproaDas pub
Y s!'a4ntansat : nsyps IL ersatoe & i.
The following i the ticket p,ae,d +.
noninatios !.
2, as. ~ -
1.se u. ;s,s u = q, Ut
pafo City. $40 go -
.. s;s.ssy e &c No. & ~
g. Sc i = l!1lh...,, ], M
pl. 1i:,si.;;y es' g II s..s.... I,
! ,a:.tsss y "a. p,s.. e,,s;,,.. yud a
: =; s.. h,; q 9. Cloud. and 4. P.Jsxets.
3. a,sss c..rsl os.is.sss Hon. 8. M.y.,l.
ST. raul vs. a. Bsntly, a. N. G,seley. 81,
J "lAoas. nd :. 8. Hal. q Mankato. ).
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-10-19

Upoa sxsninattUa Il hss bssA fouAd
hat there i nov no special ess il force
bssAosAiag The issue d, bonds By this
Ety 10 I'D Of railroads. A no bill can
bs obhiasd tor this purpose from the
LsgAhtsrs until next January or Feb
}}aary, and I = The Rallroad Company
hesiras = begin work i much earlier
bate, II has bssn found aeees.ary to
dot sons other measures g most the
requirements q The. oocasioa. From
p. 9. BurbA,k Esq, Who returned
fton 81 Paul last evening, ve learn
That Nj. Becker, President Of the Come
Pany, statsd. 10 him daring an interview
hat ) 'tssverip' bond, signed By thirty
br forty Of the leading business men Of
81. Cloud for the sum Of S65, 600, pay
Ible il one ysaI from date, would b.
satisfactory = bin, and would Be refer.
Jed, with BIZ approval, to the Directors
4 the Northern Pacific. Al an alter
hative, hs suggested that city bonds, to
- dull, lsg.lised BY the Legislature, b
Ilso offered in al increased amount
losA proportions 70 3 forwarded and
Lnbniitsd, that tho Directors naY
Ihooss between the two. L..
Nj. Becker deohsss e aesept the 70
possibility Of ,deoidisg this nat.ar.s
Hs assures ~ that hs feels very istor-
|biy toward St. Cload, and that he win
- bis indaenes With, the Board TO-
Rave ono or the ether Of the proposi.
ions accepted, but he wants to have
|hs Directors make the deoision. =, T., +.
No time is to be LOST. The $4,000
5ond dan bs raised, and should be with.
lut ! single days unnecessary delay.
Ehis amount i but tribe compared 70
he enedts-immediats and faturs-,
Fhich the construction pf thess roads
: the msnnsr proposed would sssurs =
his eaty. 81 Cgo.d ,sa.ts sless raj.
toads. Let our eitissns aet prosptly
: securing thsla. s ) 4 I 50 II
The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1871-10-19

The y. 0esrsas'd e xla.ts. ; e Osto-
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noticeable contributions. J. H. Carmaay.
+ Go, publishers, San F,aneisoo, Cal.
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French language. Pkioe, forty cents.