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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-25

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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-03-25

Memphis and A arkansas River Pack
Cd Company q. =. Mail Line.
NNHE ELEGANT PASSENGER OATS OR
i this line leave Memrhii 'Or All polnts on
a. 4 LIZ pm.
For freight. passage, OF other Information,
apply 10 ". II. KENEkDAl. Ag't.
Office on Company's Wharf boat,
l5f Foot Of Court street.
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FRAZER & Co., 224 Main street, are
SELF ng their splendid light-running Blees
mac hines at cost. Every machine guar
ante ed.
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NOR SALE-A NO. l SECOND H. AND
rockaway. Inquire at Phi. Maui e5
wagon shop, 2O7 Poplar street. IS.
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The Chicago Bill.

The bill now pending in Congress to ad.
NIT into this country duty free all building
materials to be used in the reconstruction OF
the city of Chicago is pronounced by many
persons to be unconstitutional. There can
scarcely be any room for doubt on this
point; but its unconstitutionality will not
defeat the bill. Such consideration, as we
of the South know too well, is not sufficient
to prevent Congress from passing any bill
which it desires to pass. Mayor MEDILL, of
Chicago, characteriZes SHERIDAN's interior
enee in the affairs Of that city as usllrpa-
ton of authority but he does not consider
it wrong for the army to harry the southern
people. These constitutional questions are
too abstruse for the practical mind of your
genuine New Englnder. What he wants
to do is to accomplish his own purposes !;
and it seems to him to be folly to raise any
question as to the power of Congress to do
anything which he wants done.
This Chicago bill is the seyerest blow
which the protective system has received for
long time. 1t admits that the people of
that city will save many hundreds Of thou
sands ofdollars in their purchases Of building
materials by receiving these free of duty !;
and this admission implies that every man
who builds house pays large sum to the
lumber-getters Of this country. In fact, this
admission means that the people who buy
any protected article not only have to pay the
duties upon whatever quantity Of it is I'M
ported, but also a sum equal to the duties
upon whatever quantity is produced in this
country. For if the duty Of seven dollars
per ton upon imported pig iron adds that
much to the price Of the iron, it Is plain that
the consumers must pay to those who make
it here seven or nine dollars upon each ton
that Is made. This result does not always
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D JANUARY, 1871.
GREAT BARGAINS IN DRY GOODS
COLORED AND BLACK DRESS GOODS
LINENS, &c
It. r. PRICE s CO.,
In accordance with their usual custom at Jus season'
will sell upon their rear counter
MANY VERY DECIDED BARGAINS
In FALL and WINTER POPLINS; also, goods 'of
Ladies and Misses suited for carly spring
These goods are desirable In every rtspect andon!
sold to reduce stocE.
Will he included In the lot,
BLACK MOHAIRS and ALPACAS-alwa!s Id "
quest ....
Also, some fine Jobs IN
LINENS, TABLE DAsIAsKs, NAPKINS, &c. Tor
housekeeping purposes:
Their stock Ia fresh and Attractive being kept up
all the time.
| Just opened, by steamers and express,
| LADIES' aud GENTLEMES'S KID GLoFEs'Vs!
| best; ..
LACE and LINEN COLLARS and SETS
aoURNISG Wells aud COLLARS,
| BLANKETS,
BROWN and BLEAcuED coFoSs
sHEETINGS,
| DIAPERS,
W. ~ WY 7. X. PRICE & CO..
| ,,,, 110l Main street
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grEGfAa NOTICES. ggs7 z
M THE GREAT CLOSING sALEoF
WINTER GOODS WILL BE CONTINUED,
A FURTHER REDUCTION IN pR1cEs-ALL
GOODS TO BE SOLD BEFORE OUR RE-
MovAL TO THE NEW STORE.
WHITE EDGE gLACKsnK at sLas worth s,.,o
per yard; IS 4

cheap; -: =,
SILK and WOOL vELoURs at 81 worth s,.b:
PURE SILK and WOOL PoPLINs at sLas and
slso per yard worth Sits and g.;
DOUBLE-WIDTH ALPACAS at CSC. worth asc.;
REPS for ladies' and gcntlemen's dressing gowns.
the best goods, at 25c worth ssc.;
DE LANES for dressing gowns, handsome pat
terms, at zoe. would be cheap at &C.;
HANDSOME dag ONAL TW1LLED PLA1Ds at
CSC. worth a5c.;
WIDE DIAGONAL TWILLED PLAIDs, war
ranted all pnre wool, at csc. worth sl2s per yard
PLCM-COLOR PoPLIS POISTELLE a. &C.
worth Sl.25 per yard;
EMPRESS CLOTHS, warranted all wool, at 20, %,
and &c.;
PURE WOOL sATTEENs at &c. worth 81 Der
yard;
BLACK AND WHITE .ALL-wooL PLAIDs at.
CSC. worth 40c. per yard;
SHEPHERD PLAIDS at ACC. worth 7sc.;
BLACK CREPE DE PARIS, full yard wide, at SOC.
BLACK.ALPACAs at IS, 10, IS, Soc, and up 10 sl.1
per yard;
BOS1BAZINES, of the best manufacture, at el..s,
Sl.so, sl75, and 81 per yard, al exceedingly
cheap and much below regular prices:
TAMISE, BLACK ALL-WOOL DE LANES,
BLACK FRENCH MERINO, POPL1Ns AND
EMPRESS CLOTHS;
HANDSOME EMPRESS CLOTH ROBE DE
CHAMBERS at go worth SIS;
FRENCH MERINOS at great bargains;
REMNANTS OF DRESS GOODS Of every descrip-
ton at very low prices.
Now is the time to purchase your DRESS GOODS.
You will find the largest, best assorted stock, and ts
CHEAPEST GOODS, ut .
,aaO LEVY BROTHERS..
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completed. win be about $50 ,e0o, 600; ana II
Il estimated that thevniue Of Its property anu
franchises, within five years, cannot DO less
than s50,60O,0OO. Its affairs have been CO.. eoiE-
Quoted with conspicuous energy ana aolhsy,
and comprehensive, wise, and successlui
policy Is evident throughout in It's manage
ment,
This road, with its superior route anu
other conspicuous advantages, ana its ifliiu'
ence upon the development of the MOST ml,
portant mineral regions Of the continent anu
upon the transportation OF western produces
to tbe Atlantic seaboard, is one of the most
imnortant contributions to the railway system
Of The United States and to our national de
yelopment and prosperity which the enter
prise of our citizens has made in recent years,
Ne,o York Daily Bulletin.
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ata increase in the number OF dogs and the
Iack Of proper Legislation to prevent Ihelr
irayages among the sheep. The Leglsia!uIe
of Maryland is Sconsidering The same suo5ea yea,
iThe returns from five counties report no over
LOO sheep killed in one year by dogs. ISe Mes.
are all country dogs, however; our NeM
York dogs have never been accused Oh Su'N
wickedncss.-NeU York Sun.
To ascertain the status of dogs In vIslnL la
take this fact: man who had twenty neg..
families on his estate Mt the close OF tne wa.
had, at the highest, ten dogs. Now the same nn,
parties have not less than sixty: Inc % va,
and the emancipation decreased the num De,
of sheep, and the latter has increased a .u'
number of dogs. Peoples nllnas LAY
changed. A dog license will be sus s,ad n,a
it will take taxes off more important anu N''
terial interests.-Anherst Enterprise.
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Last year the rural members of the Illinois
Legislature expended good deal of their
time In efforts to legislate the Canada thistle
out of the State. This year they are discuss
ing measures to rid themselves Of dogs
There is no doubt that the ravages of dogs
upon sheep flocks are very serious injury to
the farming interestsin nearly all the States.
Official reports show in Ohio an annual loss
Of g., COX, 900 in sheep killed by dogs and
nearly 81, 00O,0 900 in injuries, loss equivalent
to 6 900, 600 pounds of wool, OF 4 tax of two
per cent. upon the total sum invested in sheep
in that State. 1t is said that in two years
from 1868 to 1870 Illinois sank from the
sixth to the ninth rank among the States in
the number and value of its sheep, and this
great falling off is attributed to proportion,
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A orestion or Two.

We notice that some Of the Radical papeis
charactcrize the refusal of st. LOUIS iahu'o'"
10 accommodate FRED. DOUGLASS ms an ou'
rage upon that individual. Ihese s,'ie ~ ~
ners are constantly protesting that they uo
M. wish to force upon the country SOCIAL
eoualitv between the whites and the pi''ea' :,
Now we would like to know what =" SOCIAL
equality " is if it is not involved IN 'ne flsn.
[s,,nnosing such q right to exist on the part
nf both hacks and whites to stop al the same
hoto,s oot at the same tables, and sleep In the
same beds. Further: If the landlord IN ques-
t;op had received DOUGLASS as guest, anu
mt him into bed in which no white person
had ever slept, and had done this with the
intention never afterwards TO put "hite
man into the same bed, would the landlord
have perpetrated ian outrage" upon INN =
surprising, Of course, that the bed ana 'he
room were as good as those which BoNlFAcE
il in the habit of putting white people into
Come. now, yc cqual-rightS men, answer
these questions. Mr.. GREELEY docs not oitei'
finch. but he can hardly get his consent 10
answer them. For if the landlord Is obliSets
to furnish his negro guests with BEDS ana
rooms in which whites lave slept or VIII pe
required to sleep, then we have soclal
equality forced upon us by law g.; and IT. on
the contrary, he may furnish to the negroes
rooms and beds in which no whites nave
ever slcp; or will tic required to sleep, then
il follows necessarily that he may apportloh
onc-half Of his rooms that is, onc-fmlt OF MS
bousc,) to negroes and the other half TO
whites: and, if so, that he may have one
house for negroes and another for whites !;
and if he may have two houses thus flllco'
he NAV lease either TO another man. Or
would both these notes.-the one for whites
and the other for blacks-bc lawfully kept
rs long as one man kept both, but neither be
lawfully kept after two landlords came into
the ring?
There is no error in this logic. Either the
landlord of hotel must have the right to
keep negroes out of his house, or social
equality is to be forced upon us by law.
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General Assembly of Virginia.
MONDAY, january 90, 1872.
SENATE.
Tho icIt qua nj I, OvprpOr in thp chair.

MONDAY, january ~. 1917.
SENATE.
The Lieutenant Governor in the chair.
BILLS REPORTED.
Senate bill to amend and rcCnact the 4th
section Of an act passed March Goth, 1860,
entitled an act to incorporate the Masonic
Hall Association, III the town Of Harrison
burg.
Senate bill to incorporate the town of
Mount Jackson, iu the county Of Shenan-
doah.
Senate bill to prevent the destruction of
sheep by dogs.
Senate bill to Incorporate the Blue Ridge
Springs Company. ..---.-..
Senate bill to prevent the placing of OBJ
structions in the Mattaponi and Pamunkey
rivers. -..,.
Senate bill to amend and reenact an act
entitled an act for the protection of fish in
the Shenandoah river and its tributaries, and
the tributaries of the Potomac river west of
the Shenandoah river, approved November
5th, 1870, so as to exclude the Shenandoah
river and it's tributaries from the operation
of said act.
In relation to the relief Of sureties of
William Sample.
By Mr.. GRAHAM: TO amend and reenact
section /, chapter 125, Code of Virginia, as
to maintenance of illegitimate children.
BY Mr.. CoNNALLY: TO amend the charter
OF the Tredcgar Company.
BY Mr.. LAKELAND TO extend the charter
OF the Sweet Springs Company.
BY same: To amend and reenact section 5
of chapter Is Of the Code, concerning the
duties and privileges of members of the Gen
cral Assembly.
BY Mr.. WYNNE: Petition Of Oliver Beirne
demonstrating against the extension Of the
charter Of the Sweet Springs and White Sui
phur turnpike to r. D. White, and asking
that a charter be granted to him from the
Sweet Springs to Allegheny Station.
COLLECTION OF TAXES DUE BY RAILROADS.
Mr.. SMITH offered joint resolution in
structing the Auditor to proceed ut once
with the collection OF taxes due the State by
internal improvement companies. Referred
to Committee on Finance.
FENCING IN OF RAILROAD TRACKS.
On motion of Mr. LAKELAND, the Commit
tee on Roads and Internal Navigation were
instructed to inquire into the expediency of
all railroad companies to fence in
their track, or to pay for all stock that may
be killed or injured by the passage Of their
trains, &c.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
Senate bill to provide for the funding and
payment Of the public debt was taken up, on
motion of Mr.. FrTzPATRIcK, read the first
and ordered to be read the second time.
This is the majority report
Mr.. CoNNALLy subsequently moved to make
this bill and the minority report, which is to
be offered MS a substitute, the order OF the
day for tomorrow.
Mr.. Johnson moved to amend the motion
so as to make it the order for Thursday at /
O'clock;
When, on motion Sof Mr.. COCHRAN, the
motion was Laid On the table.
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An Act TO Amend and Re-Enact section
5of an Act approved July 9th, 1870,
entitled IAN Act to Reasscss the
Lands throughout thc Common
...a,rtr, ., III. fn-no Ia.,uars o. lS-n

wealth. Hi IOEce JstNAdEy ~, lSf-.
/. Be ii enacted by the General assembly,
That the fifth section Of the act entitled can
act for the rc,iSscssment of the lands through
out the Commonwealth" approved July 9th,
1870, be amended and reenacted SO as to read
as follows:
2. Any person feeling himself aggrieved
by the assessment of his lands or lots made
under the provisions of this act may, upon
giving notice to the assessor, or in the event
that there is 4 vacancy in said office, notice
shall be given to the attorney for the Com
monweath, apply to the court by which the
assessor was appointed, at the first, second,
third, fourth, fifth, or six term after the pass
age of this act, and not after, to have the as
sessments OF bis lands or lots corrected !;
which notice shall be i'll writing, and shall
have appended thereto an affidavit that in
the opinion of the affiant the assessments of
his lands or lots is above the true value
thereof, which affidavit may be made by the
owner OF his duly authorized agent. In all
such applications Il shall be the duty Of the
attorney for the Commonwealth in such
court to attend to the interests of the COM
monWealth, and if the court shall be satisfied
that the assessment is too highS it shall
reduce same to what is in its opinion the
true value of such lands or lots, but if it
shall be of opinion that the assessment is too
low, then it Shall increase it in like manner,
and such application shall have precedence
over all other causes pending in said court.
In any case in which the owner of lands or
lots, or his agent, shall be dissatisfied with
the value assessed, because it is too low, the
assessor shall adopt the estimate Of the owner
or his agent; but in cases Of appeal from the
decision to the court, rs herein provided for,
cost shall not be taxed for or, against the ap-
pellant or the Commonwealth.
8. The Superintendent of Public Printing
is hereby authorized to print and forward to
each clerk of the county court of each county
in the State six copies Of this act as soon as
practicable after it has received the approval
of the Governor, and shall also print one
thousand additional copies for the use Of the
members of the General Assembly.
4. This act shall be in force from its pas
sage.
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Tho COMPROMISE stato.Debt Bill.

The bill reported by the joint comHlG.ee
of thirty-two of the Legislature we uo nos
think will result in anything but increased
trouble and complication of our y hn! .,I =
After il has passed both Houses IL Whl NC
met with the Governors veto, VINO inc peo,
nln have every reason to believe VIII s'aiiu :
firm a. n rock in defence of the credlt anu
honor of the State. 1t will then pIoDapi!
Dass the House over the veto, ana iait e. " e.
the requisite two-thirds vote III tlit oe a.;o,
where all former efforts in the same uii ee.io,
have been brought to Halt. Ahu 80 800 -
should it pass both Houses over INC w ~, ~
will he met with the funding bill Deiors s ti.o
courts. and the contract between tiiG oa'.I
and her creditors, embodied in the Dili, WIZ
be sustained. rs the supreme Ioui. n.'s .i
questions precisely similar aiirmca tnG pm no
dii,,io of law that subsequent Legislature
,a ap ,hrooote n contract made by former
r legislature between State and her creditors.
The oucstion of the constitutionallty OF the
funding bill has been raised, and is now be,
fire the courts, and will he pushed to hnal
decision.
The funding bill was an offer of contract
hv the state to her creditors, with all the
forms md sanctions of legislation, to the
effect that if the creditor would surrender 10
the State his bond and takc in place OF 1t
new hond for two-thrds of the value of the
old bond, the State would pay the creditor
interest promptly on the two-thirds repre-
scnted in the new bond. The creditor &C:
cppted the offer, finished the contract, and
now demands of tue State his interest upon
the two-thirds of her obligation to him..
This new bill proposes, in violation of this
contract, to force the creditor to take but
three per cent. for twelve years instead OF SIX
she bargaincd with him for, and to make up
the remainder i'll the next twenty-five years
by six and nine per cent Can the State an
null this contract without her creditors con-
sent? That Is the question which the courts
| will decide.
We hope the Senate Of Virginia will be
true to its former judicious and conservative
character, and prevent the passage OF TINS
new bill. The right is just and always expe'
dent. -Leesburg Washingtonlan.
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RIcnxoSD, YA.-Richmond Is destined to
no the great commercial mart Of North Car.
DINA and Virginia, and our merchants are
beginning to look to that market for their
supplies. In the mean time Richmond is
busy making preparation to meet every de.
mand fully as well as New YORK, at New
York prices. The completion of the railroad
from Fayetteville to the North Carolina Cen
trail road opens the fertile Cape Fear valley
previously cut Off to the trade of Richmond,
and the railroads bring the Richmond mar
ket, as it were, to the Cape Fear door. Let
our merchants stop in Richmond when they
go after new goods this spring.-HtlsJoro'
IN. ca Recorder.
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In Manchester, on yesterday morning, after pain
full illness of consumption, GILES 7. MOORE, In
the twenty-sixth year of his age.
The fn,ierai will take place THIS Tuesday AT
TERNOON mt half-past = O'Clock from the residence
of his stcpfather (Alr. Robinson Wrenn), corner or
Decatur aud Seventh streets. The friends Of the
family are invited to attend without further notice.
On Monday, january o. 1872, at quarter TO O'Clock
P NJ of pncllmoni at the residence Of his parents,
in this city. THOMAS HANNING, aged two years,
eleven months and tweuty-one days, third chlld OF
Thomas L. and Elizabeth &. Moody.
The funeral will take place TO-MOEROW wed
nesday) MORNING at half-past 10 o'clock from inc
residence of his parents Twenty-fourth between
Grace and Franklin streets. The friends and &C
Guaintanccs of tie family are invited 10 attend.
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TIE NONRESIDENT TRADER QUESTION
AGA1y.-Chicf Justice Cartier sat in the Cri-
mnal Courtroom on Saturday for the pllr-
pose of giving hearing to the case OF +: &.
Mann. who had been committed to jail by
an order from the Police Court, charging
him with exposing for sale certain goods, he
lprisoncr) beingan agent for one John All
near, a nonresident manufacturer ana q
wholesale dealer. The hearing was upon n
writ of hdbeGS corpus.
Mr.. Mann. in his petition, represents that
he was charged with being commercial
agent under the list section OF the act OF
August %, 1871. That his occupation, how
ever. is that of soliciting orders for goods by
sampc that he is nonresident of the Dis
trirt, and is not commercial agent within
either the letter or meaning Of the law. AT
ter hearing the argument Of counsel in the
case the Chief Justice discharged the prisoner
at once Washington Patriot.
NOW, some simpleton will argue that this
decision shows our laws to be wrong but
such is not the fact. The law in Washing
ton was very foolshly made to read, "any
resident of this District selling goods by
sample shall be deemed commercial travel
ler," and be taxed so much. Or course
MANN had only to plead that he was not
resident thereof to entitle himself to dis
charged
The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1872-01-30

In the debates in the Legislature "ule peo-
pie" are made the scapegoat to bear off the
odium of legislative wrongs which are being
inflicted upon the State. 1t is a reflection
upon them which the public sentiment of the
State will not warrant. The "people" make
no such demands as some of their re-
representatives. wish to make them response
hle for. The "people" wish to do what is
right and help their State, whose honor is
theirs, and whose reputation they wish to
hand down to those who come after them as
unsullied rs they received it. The "people"
never yet required Virginia to do an ignoble
act such as to refuse to pay an obligation con-
tracted upon her faith and honor, and upon
her own preferred terms. What would be
the standing Of an individual who should
thus act; and can it he presumed that the
"people" would mark out q lower standard
of morality and honor for their State than
that by which they would square individual
actions.
The proportion of those who are embar.
raised by debts contracted before 1851 is not
more than one to six, and probably not one
in twelve Of our present voting population.
And while the voice Of portion of that few
are heard in the halls of legislation, and their
sentiments reelected in their efforts to pre-
vent the State from paying her interest, the
great body of the voters will sustain those
who will sustain her credit.
They believe it is right. and would rather
bear present taxation, which is ample for the
purpose, than to cripple the energies Of the
State by withdrawing capital and calling
down upon her the scorn and contempt of
mankind in consequence of her non-payment
of her interest justly due. This coquetting
and squirting at reputation, under the plau-
sible and demagoguical plea Of "relieG" has
no sanction in the honest sentiment Of the
"people," aud to charge it upon them is to
add insult to injury. Washing
Iont1u
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No Goat the instance of some of the
"fundcrs " Of this county our county trcasu-
rcr sent down this week to tie State Auditor
over 81 900 of coupons clipped from the new
bonds, and on Friday they all came back in
the same way they went, with ono go'
tagged to the package.-Loudom Repudll-
can.
We do not understand upon what pre-
tencc any collector of taxes can refuse to re-
ceivc these coupons at present. Certainly
the law is plain enough; and it is equally
certain that we have no "higher-law officials
in Virginia that is, those who obey the laws
which please them and refuse to obey those
which do not please them.
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~ CLoAKs, EMBROIDERED AND

ln~ CLOAKs, EMBROIDERED AND
BRAIDED sACQUEs,
WATERPROOF CLOhKS.
BLACK hERIEU SHAWLG,
Handsome STRIPED SHAWLS at 81, sold al ~ III
the beginning OF the scason;
SMALL SHAWLS at 75c. would he cheap at
Heavy BLACK and WHITE PLAID SllAWL5 at
e. would be a tnrgain at $3.50;
Handsome BROCIIE SHAWLS;
BREAKFAST SIAWLS at 81, Sl25. $3.50, and Sal
LEVY BROTHERS,
1913 aud 1915 Main street.
CSBLEACHED KNITTING COTTON at SOC.
pound: COTTON YARNS, all numbers. tan
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A GarruIous Old Fellow Tells his
Experience.
WEDNESDAY, January "a, 1872
Twenty miles from Richmond.

Messrs. Editors,-It SHOWS as light as
feathers, even "down." My ideas may be as
airy; nevertheless, here goes. I see the sub
ject of debts takes q huge place in your
columns. Some Of it concerns me-yiz.,
taxes and tue States debt. know the debtor
is servant to the creditor, and exceptions
rare individuaBzed but when our debts can
be heaved on postprity, OF rest on corpora