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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08
LATEST TfELEGRAMS.
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NEW YORK.

New York, April s.-Last Saturday
a negotiation which has been in progress
for some time between Mrs. Fisk and
jay Gould through one ofthe executors
of Colonel Fisk. was completed, result
ing in the transfer of the Grand Opera
House property to Mrs Fisk. By this
she obtains possession Of the Opera
House itself together with the magnifi'
cent property connected with it, Of
nearly block in extent
Great excitement prevails in financial
circles in consequence of the prosecu-
ton which is begun against the Tenth
National bank for violating the National
Banking act in Withholding from circu-
lation certain United States moneys.
1t is also stated that several prominent
stock spectators who have been engaged
in locking up money will be arrested
and prosecuted for conspiracy under the
statutes of the United States. Com
plant has been filed against the Tenth
National Bank, with the United States
Commissioner, and subpenas have been
issued to the officers Of the bank to APP
pear this morning to testify against the
bank.
The Herald's special from the city of
Mexico says the wife of United States
Minister Nelson died suddenly of heart
disease on the 22d ult., in railroad car
which was on pleasure trip, near NAL
trata. Her body was embalmed and de-
posted in a church, to remain until Mr.
Nelson takes it to the United States for
interment, for which purpose he has APP
piled for leave of absence. His daugh-
ter, aged six years, was in company with
Mrs. Nelson at the time Of her death,
aud Mr.. Nelson himself was expecting
to join them. -sp
Miss Schneider, one of the ballet
dancers in the play of Lalla Rookh, now
being performed at the Grand Opera
House, while leaving the stage Saturday
night met with painful accident by
having a splinter run into her foot,
necessitatiHg her retirement from the
stage for some weeks.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

THERE will be two National Conven-
tons in May in Cincinnati. One Of
them is the Liberal Republican national
convention, called by the convention Of
Liberal Republicans which met at the
capital of Missouri on the oath day Of
last January. The other is the national
reform convention, for which the call
was issued, prior to the convention Of
the Missouri Liberals, by the Republi-
can Reform club Of Cincinnati, of which
Judge Hoadley, Judge Oliver, and other
distinguished Ohio Republicans are
prominent members.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08
sTArp SCHOOLS.

The Nashville Banner has advanced
proofsheets Of the report Of the As
sistant Superintendent of Educat'op tor
the State. tits, says that paper, an in
tellegent and exhaustive statement OF
our educational situation. The facts
carefully compiled and presented show
the effects of diffusion of knowledge
among the masses, upon the productive
capacity of the country, prevention OF
crime, etc. 1t shows that less than thirty
out Of ninety-two counties of Tennessee,
have levied tax for school purposes,
and in the others no action has been
taken by the County Courts. Very few
counties have schools at present, in OPP
GRAFTON. The law requiring the County
Courts to order elections to ascertain
the wishes of the people, has, in many
cases, remained dead letter on the
textbook. In many of the counties
where school-tax has been levied, Com
are elected who are opposed
to any system of public instruction, and
feel a great desire to make public
schools unpopular by making them in
efficient and Of but little value, than to
zee them gaining ground and winning
heir way to public favor by educating,
sleyating and refining the public heart
md mind. In neighborhoods where a
high order of intelligence prevails, and
where decided interest has been mani |
ested by the brst citizens, good schools
,xist under the county system.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

HORACE GREELEY says be still stands
for protection, but asks that the Cincin-
natl Convention shall simply leave the
people free to decide for protection Or
free trade, as they shall seVerally prefer,
in choice of members of Congress. he
says this is the ground the Republican
party has always maintained, and sees
nothing in contrast with this in his let
ter to Mr.. Grosyenor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

The French Freemasons belonging to
lodges situated in the territory ceded to
Prussia, have received orders from the
Prussian Government to sever their con-
nection with the Grand Orient. of
France. In reply, the lodges Of Null
hansen have protested against the or
der, and the lodge of Colmar has de-
cided to suspend operations, and dispose
Of all its property for the benefit of the
French liberation fund.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

1t is sOberly related that firm in
England which puts up prepared meats
for the New Zealand trade, makes a
large and regular portion Of its invoice
to consist Of cans labelled, canned
missionary and that they go off with
the natives g like hot cakes"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08
STRONG CASE.

The New York Sun alludes to the
Connecticut election by supposing a
case Let us take an average-sized town
in Westchester county, and then suppose
that at the close of contest for super
visor, in which the Republicans held a
great many meetings and spent great
deal Of money, while the Democrats did
nothing of the kind, the Republican can
didate, in poll of nine hundred votes,
got seven majority, would not everybody
say that the Republicans held the town
by very frail tenure2 This is precisely
the result Of the election in Connecticut,
when the figures are so far reduced that
all can comprehend them. In a poll of
ninety thousand, Jewell is reelected
Governor by a majority of seven hun
dred-a majority which breath can
sweep away. ramN H
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Destructive storm Mt Brownsville
Tennessee.

Tennessee.
! BRowNsyILLE, Tenn, April S.--The
storm near Brownsville at half past ten
o'clock this morning slightly damaged
Mr.. A. Pracht's house. Mr.. Burton's
house was blown over, and Mrs. Burton
badly hurt. Also a Mr.. Jones house
was entirely destroyed, and Mr.. Jones
badly hurt. The residence of Frank
johnson and out houses were destroyed.
A negro named Peter Rice had his house
blown down, and both Of his thighs we're
broken. The storm passed in a south
easterly direction. doing considerable
damage, the extent Of which is not yet
ascertained. The town is in an awful
state of confusion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

The question Of removing the capital
OF Peunsylvanis from Harrisburg to
Philadelphia is under discussion. al
though one would suppose that the
Pennsylvania Legislature was already
sufficiently demoralized without expos
ing its members to the temptations Of SO
wicked q city.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

A ToN Scott paper breaks out: With
Colonel Scott for President, surrounded
bya cabinet Of such men as Judge
Black, Mr.. PendletOn, Governor Sey-
mour and Mr.. Hendricks, the student
of history would be able to recognize the
government IS designed by the cOnsti-
tuition, which it is utterly impossible 70
do under the existing military dynasty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

J. B. Hills, administrator. etc.,
and j. B. Hills and wife.
vs..
r. e. Blenkenship and Katie
Blenkenship.
1T APPEARING FROM BILL WHICH is
Il sworn TO in the above cause that X. h.
Blenkenship and Katie Relationship are non
residents Of the State of Tennessee and resi-
dents Of the city Of Richmond. yirg mia; 1t
is therefore ordered that they make their APP
pearance herein. at the courthouse Of the
Probate Court Of Shelby county. Tennessee,
in the city Of Memphis. on or before the first
Monday in May, 1872. and plead. answer OF
cemur TO complainant bill, or the same will
be taken for confessed as to them and set for
hearing ex parte, and that copy of this
order be published once a week for four con-
secutive weeks in the Memphis WEEKLY
LEDGER- This April 8, 1872.
A copy-attest:
JAMES REILLY, Clerk.
ByJ. II. CULLEN, Deputy Clerk.
Elicit * Phelan, solicitors for complainants.
6-9W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

An English paper mildly insinuates
that Austria doesn't stand very strong
on her pins" 1t viii be some time, we
imagine, before the map Of Europe will
assume a settled shape.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

The New York Sun thinks that unless
all the signs of the times are utterly de-
ceptive, Grant is doomed to defeat in
every one of the sixteen Southern States.
Driven beyond their borders, there is
not the faintest chance Of his retrieving
his fortunes in the North, where he will
encounter the hosts of his foes led by
Trumbull, Sumner, Davis, Brown, Schurz
and the founder and architect of the
Republican party, DR.. Horace Greeley.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

ONE of the bad papers says that the
Khedive of Egypt made very grave
mistake in rendering General Sherman
such splendid reception. aud totally
ignoring Prince Fred It will take
numerous and costly gifts to restore the
Presidential equanimity alter slight
Of that kind. T WWFr
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

A REcEST decision in United States
Court by Judge Benedict declares that it
is not crime to steal single newspa.
per under the law which declares II an
ofense 70 steal a packet Of papers
Under this decision, il man WAITS to
steal hundred newspapers and escape
the penalty Of the law. all he has to do
IS to take them one at time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

During the year 1871 thirteen Swiss
guides lost their lives up the Alps. Ava
lanches are the most fatal calamities,
though the guides sometimes fan over
precipices-- nalafsn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

GRANTS District Attorney at New
York, in his anxiety to show that the
Administration is savagely in favor Of
reform, prepared bills of indictment
against several persons who were
charged with being defaulters to the
Government, and the United States Grand
Jury returned them as true bills.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

Az exchange thinks that Grants
brother-in-law Cramer ought TO be sent
as Minister to the Cannibal Islands. He
would be perfectly safe there. There is
not a hungry Fijian il existence who
would go to the trouble of grilling him
while there are any salt herring to be
had s s.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

Az Illinois paper relieves the minds Of
all the supporters Of Judge Davis BY
stating that that gentleman has but one
brother-in-lav, and his Cousins are all
capable Of caring for themselves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

Tbs New York World has gone back
on the Liberal Republican movement,
after commencing it for a time. What
are the New York Democracy after now
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

THOUGH merit may be neglected while
It lives, it is sure 70 have an ovation
when il dies. See life, death and burial
Of General Robert Anderson.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

When women ass in a=sas they never
oppose Ihe liberty q the pres.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

IT is stated that only six CT .As 20
German papers in the United States
support Grant ~ 81 a US
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08
Corena Del Reys.

i have received n Iot az Corona
Dol tey cigars. fresh and fine.
GEO l.. GRAHBER,
"a 237 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

NINE DEMoREsT's PATTERNS, all kinds
styles and Sizes at 2l3 Main st. 1897
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Winter scheduIe-NOv. ISth.

Day Express, ~ a'm
New York Express. daily.....-......---- AsoV Pm
Brovnsviiio Accommodation leaves -
daily SUNDAY excepted) -----.------- $40 Pm
ELEGANT SLEEPING CARS WILL Run
~ through 70 Nashville, 81. Louis and Louis-
vile on the 80 Pm. train daily. Inc SID
q N. and s,lk Pm. trains 90 NOT run on
80 for tickets and otkss affirmation apply
at Ticket ofice, 10. 73zH Main street;
Tf JNO. I. FLYNN, Superintendent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

Families can be supplied with every
thing they desire in the family grocery
line, at j. Devotos, corner of Adams
and Third streets. The best is the
cheapest" 1 ~. got
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08
LEGAL
NONRESIDENT NOTICE.

In the Probate Court Of Shelby
County, Tennessee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-08

EUNERA AL NOTICE.
The relatives. friends and acquaintance of
Miss Joe Richards and of her brother. Mr.
Walter Richards. are respectfully iL.,ted to
attend the funeral of Miss Joe Richards. from
the residence of Mrs. l. Manly Jeffords. No.
81 East Court street. ON tomorrow afternoon
at % o'clock pm
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
NOAH,S ARK.

Skeptics have objected to the size of the
Ark, and have asserted that it is quite ab-
surd to suppose that ever there could be a
vessel constructed large enough to hold all
creatures that must have been placed in it,
together with sufficient food-Ot may be,
for six or twelve months)-water for the
fishes( ?)-corn for the four-footed animals
seed for the birds, and so on. Now, we
will take the dimensions of the records Of
Moses, and calculate them on the lowest
possible scale. There are two definitions
given of a cubit; one that is eighteen inches
or a foot and half 1.-The other that it is one
foot eight inches. We will take it only at
the lowest. Moses states that the Ark was
800 cubits long; this would make 1t $50
feet, or about the length of st. Paul's Ca
thedral, London. The breadth of it be states
to be so cubits, that is Is feet, and the
height 80 cubis that is 45 feet. Accor-
ding to Moses, then, the Ark was as long as
St. Paul's Cathedral, nearly as broad, and
haif as high. The tonnage Of the Ark, &C
cording to the calculations Of modern car
penters, must have been 81, 900 tons. Now
900 tons is the size ofone of our largest
steamships, so that the Ark must have
been equal to eight such ships, and II equip
ped as our naval vessels are it would have
contained (beside its armament) 10000
men, and provisions for them for eighteen
months. Button says that all four-footed
animals may be reduced to $50 pairs, and
birds to still smaller number. On calcn-
latio1, therefore, we shall find that the Ark
would have held more than five times the
necessary number of creatures, and mora
than five times the quantity of food to main
them for twelve months.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
uDDs AND ENDS.

Philadelphia has four thousand carpet
looms.
China coal fields cover 100000 square
mics.
NatureIcreates merit and fortune brings
it into play.
Omaha has Grand Central Hotel cost
ing $4,000.
A California be4t-sugar rancho has been
been sold for $4,000.
On the 18th of August 80, 900 people were
at Long Branch.
The amount of clover seed exported from
the United States this season is about 2OO,-
900 bags, not varying from 2S,OOO,OOO
pounds.
A young lady in England recently had
her chignon frizzled by a very rade flash
of lightning, which did her no other in
jury.
Two members of the Legislature re-
Gently chosen in North Carolina on the
Caldwell ticket, have already come out for
Greeley.
The yield Of precious metals in the mines
Of the United States has amounted to
$40,OCO,0 900 for the first half Of the present
year.
Messrs. Bass & Co., the English ale and
beer manufactures, paid to the Midland
Railway Company, England, last year,
$74O, 900 for carriage of beer.
Tho fruit crop Of England this year is
the smallest ever remembered. The cause
of the dearth of fruit is the cold weather
which prevailed during March and April.
Eighty-eight millions of young shad have
been turned into the Connecticut river, at
South Hadley, Mass, during the summer,
and left to AXE care of themselves.
A Pensacola lady has taught her parrot
to hurrah for Greeley.
A negro girl at GAINESVILLE, Ga, killed her
little sister with rock the other day.
The track of the Texas International
railway Is about finished to Jacksonville,
1l8 miles from Hearne on the Central.
| A little girl in Washington is dead from
The poison of nickel cent which she swal-
lowed three months ago.
Two Galveston, Texas, swells on coming
ont of the bay the other evening did not
| find their clothes on the beach, and travel
ed home lively.
| The police caught man in Baltimore
! last Wednesday who had engaged six clerks
| at fair salaries, on condition of receiving
from each one a deposit of $3.50. The Eel
| low had no business.
1t occasionally happens that for show
of virtue some Western court hams a poor
devil; but it never happens, so far as our
observation goes, that at rich or influential
! murderer pays the extreme penalty OF the
! Iay.-.St. Louis Democrat.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
TgNNEssgR NEWS.

t. y
Gallatin Is to have race course. . -
Flux Is prevalent in Decatur county.
The free school at Trenton is prosperous.
The colored church at Trenton Is coIn-
pleted. 1850 #gss. Fse q
nessee.
Wayne county crops are suffering from
the drouEh. ~
Memphis has received ten car loads Of
water pipe.
Memphis is to have an inclined railway
toSthe river.
Memphis is to have another elevator;
cost 100000. ass
Knoxville has had an immigration meet
ing, with speeches. f -
The National Camp begins near
Knoxville on the 21st inst.
Apple brandy is being distilled on large
scale in Washington county.
DR.. J. 81. MoDgle, of johnson city, has
raised peach that weighs one pound and
| three ounces. rE
At the Gallatin Fair last week Frank
Allen won the "box Of cigars for the best
looking man present"
A negro who recently broke jail at Tren-
| ton, Gibson county, has returned OF his
own accord to the prison cell.
The Memphis Chamber of Commerce has
petitioned the railroads centering in that
city to reduce the cotton tariff.
The cotton and peanut crops of Decatur
county will fall short one-half the usual
yield in consequence of drought.
In the convention at Athens, Sept. IA, ]
C. Morgan, of Bradley, was nominated the
Republican candidate for the State Senate
Recently negro assaulted Robert Nc
Mackin, of Gibson county, with large
piece Of scantling and broke his arm in two
| places.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
KILLED BY A TRAIN.
A Mute is Run Over by q Locomotive
and MangIed In the Machinery.

A Mute is Bun Over by q Locomotive
and MangIed In the Machinery.
Sunday last, near Knoxville, the south
bound passenger train for Chattanooga was
stopped and the engineer and fire man,
much alarmed, seen to run towards the
rear coach. 1t seems that man had been
run over, yet nothing Of him could be seen
on the track, which was closely examine d
for a hundred yards or more; hat and
blood on the cross-ties being the only evil
dence Of the fearful fate which had befallen
the unfortunate individual. At last some one
looked under the engine where shocking
sight met the gaze Of the passengers and
train hands who had now collected on the
spot. In the machinery under the engine
was a maDgled mass of bones and flesh,
once the form of human being. The
body was smashed TO q jelly and every bone,
perhaps crushed. Although the engineer
when first seeing the man in front OF the
locomotive gave the alarm, and then whis-
tied down breaks when it was seen no at
tention was given 1t, yet the engine soon
rushed upon lis unsuspectiDg victim
whose body after passing under the
pilot was caught in the machinery and
horribly maDgled as above stated. 1t was
ascertained that the deceased was a mute
and student of an institution for that
unfortunate class. Being unable to hear
the rumbling of the train or the whistles
alarm, as the engine Numbered along the
trac it is probable he never realized his
danger uulil caught under the pilot and
battered to death. l. seems that he was a
young man and at the time of the accident
was out walking for recreation. We were
unable to learn his name.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
PERSONAL.

Bismarck's autobiography is nearly ready
for the press.
A niece of the late Lord Palmerston is
travelling in the Western States.
A fresh lot of magnesium in the suns
photosphere, We expectroscops.
North Carolinians are getting up fresh
excitement about their deserted gold mines
in Mecklenburg County.
Miss Josephine Mansfield, 1t is said, will
request lecture audiences to Put Them
selves in Her Place. We'd rather not.
A Canal ian matron one hundred and
eight years old is still able TO devote much
energy to The bringing up her little boy
aged ninety-three.
The Princess Louise of England ha:
been elected an honorary member of a
New Jersey branch of the Society fer the
Prevention o. Cruelty 10 Aaimils.
Miss LSurs Keene has just inaugurated
the first costume recital, a class of enter
tainment now exceedingly fashionable in
England among the best readers there.
The princess Salm-Salm has received
from the Empress Of Germany m Ignii.
cent Testament, valued at 81 200. A copy
of The Psalm-Psalms Of David would have
been more appropriate present.
British correspondents are Informed that
Buttermilk Channel is not in the vicinity OF
the Isthmus of Dairy-en. 1t is near Staten
Island, which, as they are of course aware,
lies Just off the coast of Terra del Fuego.
A good Michigander has been pronOunc-
ed non compos mentiS because he rushed
through the main street of Detroit In
search of ''the road to heaven"
A common scold" in Dunkirk, n. Y,
has been fined $40 under very old but I'm.
repealed statute. Inasmuch, however, as
the file must probaly come out Of the peck.
ct of the lady's husband we would suggest
that in future cases of this sort the good old
fahioned penalty of the "cucking stool' be
also revived as likely to be much more eff
fectual.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1872-09-17
THE COURTs

CRIMINAL CoURT.-Lem. Foster, color
ed, who was charged with stealing $50 from
w. D. Austin as yesterday tried, convict
ed and sentenced to four years Imprison-
ment in the State Penitentiary.
The case of Charles W. Stewart, who is
charged with numbering his wife, was
brought up yesterday, and ten jurymen
were empannelled. To-day the case viii
be commenced with all possible vigor.
CIRCUIT CoURT.-In the matter Of A.
w Paul VS.. R, B. Cheatham, the jury rem
dered a verdict in favor of the defendant.
w. II Hampton sues the Nashville and
Chattanooga Railroad Company, who are
the owners Of the Northwestern Railroad,
for s., 500, which he claims as damages for
his thoroughbred mare Ella Temple that
was killed on the latter road some time
ago. The case is not yet decided.
CHANcERY CoURT.-JudgeG Guild render
ed decision in this court yesterday in the
mater Of the people of the State and the
Bank OF Tennessee, which will be found in
full in another column.