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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-02-08
THE RAILROAD ACCIDENT,
Particulars Of the disaster.

ST. Louis, February S.-The accident
on the Rockford and St. Louis railroad at
Alton yesterday was not so serious as
at first reported. Further advices from
there place the number of killed at five
and thirteen wounded. The names of
the killed, so far as ascertained, are
Mrs. Reuben Rains, Joseph Twesin and
three others, who have not yet been
Identified nsa asai El
The following is nearly correct list
Of the wounded: eiiAF
Isaac Burnhardt, badly burned and
head cpt; Reuben Rains, cut about the
head and body; A. Manble, of Rock
island, ankle broken; W. Cannon, leg
broken; Fred Bugle, of St. Louis, badly
burned and bruised; train boy severely
bruised, and six or seven others slightly
wounded. The responsibility Of the col
lisiou Is said to rest with Baker the con-
duetor of the freight train, who was run
ming out of time. When he saw that the
collision was about 70 take place he
jumped off his train aud ran away. The
shock of the collision was very severe.
Seats and timbers were janmed together,
wedging the passengers between them in
such manner that axes had to be used
to extricate them.
The baggage-car and first coach took
FIRE Immediately after the collision and
burned. Mrs Rains was wedged in be-
tween two seats, and notwithstanding
Mr.. Graves used almost superhuman eS-
ertions TO save her, she was burned to
death. A little child belonging TO Mr..
and Mrs. Rains escaped without serious
injury. .ffv0f-
. The bodies Of the dead we're terribly
burned and blaekened, presenting a
most shocking sight. An inquest viii
be held tomorrow.
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NONRESIDENT NoTIcE.
NO. 496.l 5000
In the First Chancery Court OF shelby
County, Tenn.
George N. Raymond

George N. Raymond \
vs.. Z
The Unknown Heirs Off I. o. Manning ,dec'd.J
IT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the names and residences
Of the heirs Of ]. G. Manning. deceased. are
unknown and cannot be ascertained upon
diligent inquiry; i Is therefore ordered
Al the court-house in the city Of Memphis.
Tennessee, on or before the second Monday
in March. 1s72. and plead. answer or demur
TO compliments bill, or the sane will be
hearing .ex parte: and that a copy. Of this
order Be published once a week, for four sue
cessiYe weeks. in the Memphis Public Ledger.
EDMOND A. COLI.
Clerk and Master.
ByR. j. Back. Deputy Clerk and Master.
A copy-Attest:
j. M. Gregory. solicitor for complainant.
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MArsyILLE. N. Y, February s.--Chas.
NARROW, jamestown brewer, convicted
OF the murder Of VIM. Bachman, was
brought into court yesterday forenoon
and sentenced 10 be hanged on the 2sth
Of March next.
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AT the annual charity ball at the
Academy of Music, in New York city, on
the first instant, the Times says that a
lady who sat near the stage boxes in the
early part of the evening was much adj
mired by connoisseurs. Whether by
connosseurs in ladies or in diamonds
the Times does not specify.
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Attachment Notice.

n. Calhoun x Co. J Before W. H. Hoegel. JUS
Hurdle. s sSsb q COUNTY sSS f' Tenn ,'r
"A before me and bond given as required by
law In attachment causes, that the defendant
Is a nonresident Of the State of Tennessee,
and On attachment issued and retured,
ami By the proper officer, the defendant
will take notice that this cause is set for trial
before me, or some other Justice of the Peace
for Shelby county at my office in Memphis.
m. the defendant will take notice and come
into court and defend said cause. or the same
will be taken as confessed and tried exparte.
and that this notice be polished once week,
for four successive weeks, in the Public
Ledger. a newspaper published in the city Of
Memphis. w. II. HOkGELs J, r..
February 2, 1872. Shelby county.
1qQ-1A2-IAQ-1h5 .nIT.f VI H.ft
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In pronouncing the benediction at the
wedding of the Princess Marguerite
d. Orleans, eldest daughter of the Due
de Nemours (who is son Of Louis Phil
lippe) and Prince Ladislas Czartoryski,
Mgr. Dupanloup Bishop of Orleans,
spoke of the brides family as the royal
family, and of the time when restored
France should be able to recover for the
princely Polish bridegroom bis country
and his rights. The marriage took
place January l4th, at the parish church
at Chantilly. The Emperor of Brazil,
whose son-ih-law is brother to the bride,
was present. e.s tss
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STEAM GAUGE,
STEAM GAUGE.
To Owners and Captains of Steam
Vessels, and all others inter-
ested in Steam Gauges.
CLARK STEAM REGISTERING GAUGE

HAVING BEEN THOROUGHLY TESTED
III and approved by the United States Board
of Supervising Inspectors for application to
Steam Vessels, in conformity with the rules
and regulations passed by them for the carry
ing out of the Steamboat Law, requiring the
all vessels propelled in whole or in part by
steam, az promulgated by circular order from
the Treasury Department. bearing date No
vember G. 1871 fGg T .'
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- owing from a Louisville paper
na' well-de6ned application to our
city. "a list Of ladies not mentioned
in the FIRST report of the ducal ball at
the Gait House continues to be published
in the daily papers. The number of
these fair unfortunatesis quite marvel
GUS. We will, after a while, have every
lady in town bulletined in extenso, under
stereotyped head lines Il is probablya
bad precedent to establish, but it will
give our sister cities ground for, marvel
at our vast female population and limit
less dry goods etceteras. ea,sa.s.
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And being the only Registering Gauge
now manufactured.


And offered to the public, filing the require
ments Of said rules and regulations. we, the
undersigned, respectfully call your attention
to the fact that we are the sole owners Of the
right to manufacture and vend said Gauges,
and are now ready to fill orders therefor In
any required number and pressure. We war
rant these Gauges to be Of superior workman
ship, and to have been tested by o Standard
Mercury Column before leaving the factory
This Gauge Is specially adapted for applica-
ton to all boilers in use for land purposes, 1t
being the FIRST invention in the history Of the
world brought out at any time for the purpose
of registering steam, thus giving to all parties
who are using steam for land purposes, not
only protection to life. but absolute protection
to property, affording positive knowledge as
to whether their boiler under excessive press
ure has at any time been strained. which no
Steam Gauge now in use except this has been
able to give. Parties who are using steam
can readily appreciate its importance, and
we cordially invite all such to call upon our
Agent, who will be happy to show them the
Register and its operation. In proof of their
merit, we insert the following testimony:
WASHINGTON. D. c.. March %. 1870.
Rear Admiral John A. Dahlgreen. U. 8. N.
Commandant:
Sm--In obedience 10 ysur instructions Of
the 18th inst, have examined and tested the
Registering Steam Gauges invented by Mr.. d.
Clark, and respectfully report, that il, is ,ex-
oeedingly simple in its construction, certain
in its action, reliable in its indications. and
liable TO little or no arrangement.
/ think the device complete for the purpose
intended TO be accomplished.
Very respectfully, your obedient servant,
Signed: CHAS. Ii. L0RING,
Chief Engineer, U IS. N.
Respectfully WHITE Il PAYNE,
JEWELL Il BACHUS.
Louisville, KY.
General Agents South and West.
O. FELrHOUSE, Agent,
13s-l49 cod 19l Main st., Memphis, Tenn.
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saraRahher Railed.

CRows PoIyr, ND, June l0.-A little
after midnight on Saturday night, a
stranger called at the Office of the
County Treasurer with a small box, said
to contain valuable jewelry, which, at
his request, was deposited in the safe in
the vault. An hour or two later the
night-watchman heard an explosion, and
upon his approach discovered a suspic-
ious looking prowler. He fred at him,
and the burglar fred in return and then
fed. 1t seems that instead Of contain
ing jewelry the tin box was a torpedo
with q lighted match 50 adjusted in the
box as to cause the torpedo to explode
at certain hour, hoping thereby to
blow up the safe and vault without being
heard. The burglar expected to be able
to enter and rob the institution, which
contained funds to the amount OF fifty
thousand dollars. The explosion Of the
torpedo blew open the safe and fractured
the brick gals Of the vault, but failed
to blow OPEN the vault doors, and conse-
quently the burglar failed to get the
treasure. alUallt lto a.tl
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-06-11

EARLY RIsIxG.-In the country the
habit Of early rising is devoid Of any
serious objection; but in the city the
early bird catches so many early worms,
that the habit may be considered more
honored in the breach than the obsery-
ance. Business hours commence at nine
o'clock throughout the city. The early
pedestrian, as be travels up Main street,
receives as a matutinal greeting the
sweepings and dust Of dozen stores
that are franticaily sweptinto the streets
by athletic Africans or reckless white
employees. You see a door open in
front Of you. and for an instant yon con-
graduate yourself on being able to go BY
without being busted from hesdsto foot.
But what are vain hopes As you reach
the door a volume Of dust and dirt, with
a broom attachment, rushes out
ward Ike the smoke from a CO
lumbiad, au5 half hours toilet is
ruined. Your clothes are covered with
dust. and your polished boots nov 50 be-
grimmed, entices the little blacking
6end from his lair around the corner to
rush after you and yell out Black yer
bootsl" The finding Of treasure troye
on land or hotsam and jetsam on
water BY the early pedestrian or water
man is tale known TO be a weak inven-
ton Of the enemy. gotten up by men and
women who, like Macbeth, can sleep
no more" after the dawn Of day; hence.
they furiOusly denounee those Who in
dnlge in tired natures sweet restorsF,
balmy sleep"
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poLEFuL HOWL.

One Boston newspaper speaks dole
fully of 1.-The strange, sad spectacle pre-
sented by the senior Massachusetts, Sen
ator delivering such q speech as never
before was heard in the American Sen
ate in criticism Of an American Execu.
tive" The New York Tribune pro-
nounces this stuff and nonsense, and
says Speeches just as severe were
delivered long ago in criticism OF Jetfer-
son, Madison, Jackson and Van Buren,;
and speeches not much milder, if not so
able, against Andrew Johnson. 1t isn't
the severity of Mr.. Summers speech
which troubles the Grantians so much
as Il is the difficulty of confronting the
facts. No attempt has been made as yet
worthy of mention to answer the speech
as Senators should answer it or hold
their peace"
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HARPRRs, WEEKLY.

This villainous sheet doesn't like
Greeley. 1t is late thing. 1t was only
the other day that Mr.. Greeley was its
apostle OF. Liberty. 1t now objects to
him on the ground that his election
would restore to power men who have
been brought up in contempt of the ne
grol What pity, one of our exchanges
remarks. that Sumner and Curtis eannot
be blacked into negroes. If they are
not doubledyed hypocrites, they hold
that negro is as good as a white man.
Grant is thus put forward by the most
influential Of his organs as the negro
candidate. Indeed, the Radical party
seems to have been struck with judicial
blindness. In its anxiety to get the
votes of race that is in q woful minor
ity in all but three even of the Southern
States it crystalizes into solid body of
opposition to Grant the voters Of that
race which constitutes the large majority
of, the voters.
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BRIGHAM PRFAcHIEs.

The St. Louis Republican says that
Brigham Young appears to be now en-
gagged in mission Of preaching through
out the length and breadth Of the terri
tory, and like Beecher, Spurgeon and
other prophets, is having his sermons re-
ported verbatim and printed as they fall
from his lips with all their imperiections
on their head. Brigham's sermons are
more practical, perhaps, than any other
sermons preached to the generation.
They grasp the highest and lowest things
in their extempore sweep from heaven
to earth, and from earth TO heaven. They
bring the Almighty into the closest rela.
tons to his people, his corn, potatoes
and beans, and other articles Of food
which he has beautifully provided fol
his chosen community Of worshippers il
their new Eden, walled in by mighty
mountains.
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NOTHING WITHOUT THE ARMY.

Grant is nothing without the army.
He was not exactly born in the army,
but it has absorbed all the brain with
which an economical Providence has
endowed him. But for the army he
would not have been elected President,
and it is only the army that can re-elect
him. He has beset Congress to give
him power to enforce his reelection by
the aid of the army. Most gallantly the
Democrats of the House have resisted
his appeals for help in the form of Ku-
Klux and Enforcement bills. Weak as
they are in point of numbers, they have
successfully eombated these measures.
Thanks to twenty-three Liberal Republi-
cans, Congress has adjourned without
passing the infamous measures de-
manded. The last hours were stormy.
Bingham, of Ohio. who prosecuted Mrs.
Surratt to death, drew from Gen. Morgan
of the same State the epithet of liar.
Morgan was a gallant soldier in the war,
and is Democrat. And now there is
dismay ia the ranks Of the Radical
party. IL had predicated the campaign
upon bayonets. The failure of the Ku-
Klux and Enforcement bills compels it
to walk into the arena with nothing but
the weapons that nature gave it. But
it has not yet abandoned all hope. An
extra session of Congress will probably
be called and another struggle for a
bayonet law had. And thus is defined
the great issue of the bayoDet, or free
ballot. Mere questions of policy in this
contest are overshadowed by this greater
issue. 1t might be difficult to elect
Greeley in the face of an army. but
when a Congress, two-thirds Of whose
members we're elected as friends of the
President, refuse to him the use of the
army to re-eleet himself, there is ground
for hope of the future. The South is
for Greeley and will vote for him unless
prevented by the bayonet. The strug-
gle in Congress was 10 prevent the bayo-
metz Well, It is adjourned. If it has
done no good for the people by its en-
actments, it has developed traces of de-
cay and loss of prestige. A
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THIEYEs.

The Greeley Banner" of Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, has this definition Of
thieves: "The petty thief is one who
steals, say loaf of bread, or a fiity-cent
stamp, or a pair Of shoes, or something
to supply the immediate wants of an
empty stomach, or to cover a shivering
body. The big thief is one who man.
ages to steal on more extensive scale,
say the contents of a bank safe, or a
well.fillcd pocket-book, or an extensive
assortment of valuable goods. The big
gest and NEST dangerous thief is one
who takes advantage of high official
position, and manages to appropriate
large sums of public money to his own
use to which he is not justly, fairly or
legally entitled"
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LATEST ITELEGRAMS.
AxraIoAH PREss AssocrArIos. VIA 6. p. . A.
fnLnonAfH COMPANY.
specials 60 the ledger.
SEwAYORk.

NEW York, June 1.-THE Japanese
Embassy arrived here yesterday from
Washington. They intend making an
extended tour through New England,
and be present at the Boston Jubilee.
The steam and gas filters met last
night and organized for strike in favor
A Times special from Washington,
says that The President yesterday stood
ready to reconvene Congress within half
an hour after the session if the appro-
priation bill had failed. He first pre-
pared proclamation for 1890 ,. m, and
when the time was extended, he changed
it to $50 pm, so the members would
scarcely have been out of their seats
before they would have been back again
under the Presidents mandate. The
President leaves Washington tomorrow
for Long Branch, with his family.
"A Herald special from London says;
Earl Granville, seconded by the Italian
government, has proposed conference
of the great powers to project a new
course Of policy to be adopted by the
Cabinets toward the East in view of the
constant recurrence of the barbarous
outbursts of popular violence against
the Jews in Roumania. Prince Gort-
chalk, of Russia, has replied to the pro-
posal, aud says the Emperor sympathizes
with the prosecuted Jews, but appre-
bends that the course proposed will
serve only to excite the agitation of the
Eastern question, and his majesty there
fore is unwilling to enter into such a
conference. The Russian Emperor pro-
poses that the powers address joint
note to Prince Charles of Roumania,
demanding an explanation of his inten-
tons, and definition of the guarantees
which he can offer for the protection OF
the Jews in the future.
The Herald's special from Washing
ton says: Fish was yesterday in
structed to notify General Schenck to
abandon further arbitration concerning
the treaty. Bancroft Davis was also
notified that the United States would
not concur in the proposition of the
British Government for an adjournment
of the conference, and that in case the
British agent filed declaration asking |
for a postponement, of the arbitration,
the American agent should protest
against it.
A Tribune special from Washington
says: The House military committee
to-day made report on the loss of the
Buell. court records, and submitted the
testimony to the House for printing.
The committee can find no trace of
where the papers are or may be early
enough to report. 1t is stated that
nothing was disclosed on inquiry which
tended to make an injurious impression
regarding General Grant or General
Sherman,
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The New Yorker Demokrat German
says: "a Western journal publishes
the announcement from New York that
the Germans of that city are against
Greeley. This is an error, as the result
will show. There are, indeed, great ex-
ertions made in the interest Of Grant,
to turn the Germans against Greeley,
but hitherto without effect. The Ger
man Republicans are almost unanimous
for Greeley, and the German Democrats
wish that the Baltimore Convention
would nominate him. All the efforts of
the Stats Zeitung and other administra-
ton journals will be Of no avail. The
Germans are for the Philosopher of
Chappaqua."
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The Philadelphia Age of the 9th in
slant asks: did taxpayers reflect last
night as the office-holders' procession
swept through the streets, that all the
expense attending that exhibition came
out of their poekets2 Revenue collec-
tors, customhouse officers, postoffice en-
ployes and all the attaches of the Grant
administration were drained to meet the
demand for funds, and they in turn fell
back upon the government. In this man
ner the people are made to pay for the
shackles that bind their own limbs"
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The New York Tribune Of the 9th
inst, makes this telling point: "The
Renominationists insist that no Repub'
licans in Indiana favor the Cincinnati
ticket. Atthe same time the Indiana
delegates are almost frsntically beseoch-
ing the convention to nominate Colfax
or the State will be lost to Grant. Either
statement might be reasonably effective.
but when the two come to be made al
most simultaneously the result is not
alarmingly cogent."
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The Cincinnati Commercial says:
1.-THE New York Post indicates an anx-
iety to have Charles Francis Adams
nominated at Baltimore. There is still
an Adams movement, and the heightened
free-traders and the Germans are be-
lived to favor it, but it seems pretty GER
tain now that whatever the Democratic
party will or will not try to do at Balti-
more, it must break up there as badly as
it did at Charleston in 1860. The heavier
masses of the debris will, we believe,
drift 70 Greeley"
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LLOYD was the old editor of the Bos
ton Liberator; did not believe in any
government at all; advocated genera
non-res:stance upon the part of every
body to oppression; refused to vo:ei
tried to persuade every one else from
voting, and had as his motto at.the head
of his paper the celebrated words: The
Union League with He'll, the Consti-
tuition Covenant with peath." Thisis
the old chap who is now playing Small
weed for Grant.
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The Boston Globe says Each
Presidential candidate of latter years
has had some personal popularity by
which he has been especially referred to.
Mr.. Lincoln having split rails and Mr..
johnson having done something in the
tailoring line were thus alluded to; Mr..
Greeley's career with the Ak and his ex-
PLOTS at the printers. case are daily
brought up in connection with and in
place Of argument"
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Amuaementa.

OLYMPIC VARIETIES. Manager Bach
auan has secured the services Of first
class variety troupe to appear at bis
Washington Street Theater every even
ling. The Olympic is well patronized
and attended. tits the coolest resort in
the city. Go aud see the star troupe to-
night. The programmes are changed
nightly, and are filed with rare attrac-
tons. yNyg wNTui r89 y
Brooks OPERA House. Broom has
now one OF the best variety companies
lin the South, having made such addi-
tons as entirely complete the combina-
ton, and places it in the power Of the
present management to arrange a
programme to suit the tastes Of all who
attend this popular place of amuse-
mcnt. Manager Broom is determined
not to be outstripped by any like estab-
lishment in the country, stl,o
You've HEBREWS PIcNIc.-This an
nudl Iete COtutS On oh inc tom 'hoe@''
at James Park. The managers will
make this picnic come up to the stand
ard of that given last season. A Chick
ering piano, valued at one thousand dol
lars, will be ratified for on the grounds;
tickets, one dollar. The affair will be
enjoyable in the extreme, and will be
attended by the best people in our city.
IRON MoULDERs' PICNIc.-On Satur-
day, June 22d, the Iron Moulders' Union
No. &c, of Memphis, will give its second
annual picnic at James Park. Com
mittees have been appointed to make
the affair one of pleasure to those in at
tendance. c'He9H gl9
PIcNIc. Thursday, June 18th, the first
annual picnic Of the Machinists' and
Blacksmiths' Union. No, ], of Tennessee
will be held at James Park. The com
mittees are making all the necessary
preparations for the fete.
ST.. JoHE's DAy-The Masonic bodies
of Memphis viii picnic at James Park
on. Monday, the oath of June (St. Johns
day).l
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The Banner thinks Grant tolerably
safe man." Well, butdo not fifty thousand
office-holders precede the Banner in that
opinion2 But the Banner is all right
on the Greeley question.
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The Democratic Executive State Com.
mittee could popularize their meeting on
the 18th by putting an editor on the
track for Congressman for the State a
large. Does any one object to that, OF
prineiple2 We dare him.
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IowaDsmoeradIe state con yrntIon

DRs MONIES, June ll.-A l&EEe num-
Der Of delegates have arrived to attend
the Democratic State Convention which
meets in this city tomorrow. Indica-
tons are that twill be the largest con-
ventiOn held in the State for some