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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-13

Buy your wood from c. II. John
son, III Poplar street. II
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GRAVEL, or composition roofing, both
GENUINE, by e. @. Jones, No 1874 Second
street. 3ST
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CHARLES Stout q Bro, hardware
merchants, 252 Front and 227 Second
streets. AZ
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BOARDING.

DOARDING-0N AND AFTER THE lsT
House for regular boarders will be as fol-
lows: Single room. 81 per week; two occu-
pying same room, Sc per week. each; board
BY the single week. So; regular day board. -
per week. These prices being as low as can
Be afforded are made payable strictly. in ad-
vance, unless well secured by responsible par
ties. Families accommodated on very rea-
sonahle terms w
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Oysters.

Fresh stock received daily by V. d.
Fuchs, Al jefferson street. ITO
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CONCERT tonight at the Tiyoli.

Jet Palace removed to No, 326 Main
street, one door above the old stand. Al
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GAs-v1rrrro at sl5 Second st. a

CoKE AND Coal Tar for sale at Gas
Company's Office, 29l Second st. not
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LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION.
THE CITY.

PIrTsBURG and Camel coal and gas
coke. Brown q Jones, Office 282 Main
street, Bethel Block I
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Play billiards on Phelan & Collenders
beveled tables, at the Peabody [56
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1872-04-13

Walking Motion TreadleA
For oil Sewing Machines, at 223 Main st.
2Qf
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Jet Palncel attractions for everybody.
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Jet Palaeel best place to get watches
and jewelry repaired. Al
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MccULLERs, at Court Street Stables
has elegant turnouts. 35-t
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ELEGANT buggies and well trained
horses at Court Street Stables. 35t
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PAVILION WATER can. be obtained of
frst-class druggists generally. so
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STEAMBOATS,.
For Arkansas River.

For Arkansas River.
Memphis and Arkansas River Packet Co.
U. S. Mail Line-For Pine Bluff and
Little Rock.
PAT CLEBU Pritchard. master
THIS NEW AND ELEGANT re- -
i passenger steamer will leave slRtt4
MONDAY. 10Th inst. at pm. -
For freight or passage apply on board or to
W. II. KENNEDAY, Agent,
Office on Company's Wharfboat,
1899 Foot Of Court street.
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srrAn-Trrrue at 8I5 Second st. AT
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1p.m.-Gold. lO14. Cotton is firm, with a
good demand. Sales since pm. yesterday,
5000 bales receipts. 65l bales. Sight. sc pre-
MUM. Sterling. 1875 to 2O1z; bank. 9O5I.
NKw YoRK. April Is. 10 a-m.-The market
opens quiet. Sales at all United States ports
yesterday. 61SS; receipts. 6i55; here, 1898.
Sales futures last evening. 800
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PuxPs at sl5 Second street. All
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TTNHE PARTNERSHIP OF MORRISON 4
Reid was dissolved on February IL, 1877.
BY mutual consent. nI-aU
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FOUND.
pISSoLUTION.

ISoUND-A BUNCH OF KEYS. CALL FOR
n them at this office. 56-SS
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FOR RENT.

w. A. WHEATLEY, Rental Agent,
Bethel Block, o fHtce No. ,. Receiver.
amps accepted.
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NOR RENT-A NICE. COMFORTABLE
L cottage; six rooms, with servants and
kitchen room. Rent cheap, Apply to
% 40 NO y Madison straet.
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Memphis, White and Little Red River U. S.
Mail LiRe - Fer Helena. Devall's Bluff,
searcy. Augusta, JacksonpOrt, and all va
landings.
LEGAL TENDER....W. J. Ashford. masls
Leaves Memphis every TUES- A.
DAY, at 5 o'clock pm. Ia1zlzls
K. P. WALT. John j. Edsou, master
Leaves Memphis every SAT- II
URDAl. at s o'clock p.m- -
The above elegant steamers connect Al De-
wallis Blud with the Railroad Monday and
Thursday going up. and Wednesday and Sat-
urday coming down.
ELLIOTT A MILLER. hfsnts, q.
lltt Cor. Jefferson and 4s=msnads sts.
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EOR SALE-IWENI1 10 UNE HUNUhED
L shares stock of Pamela Cotton Seed Oil
Company. Apply TO
SO-li q. II. BLOOD, sS4 Main st.
NOR SALE-A VERY DESIRABLE VA
+ cant lot. next to Hollenberg's new house,
81 Madison street, on easy terms. For par
ticulars apply at 81 Jefferson street 29-54
nor sALR-5OO EMPTY OYSTER CASES.
all in good order. Apply to
16f V. D FIJI lis. a Jeferson st.
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WAN ED.

yXTANTED-A PERSON WITH EXPERT
w ence competent to take charge Of n
clothing. gents furnishing and. tailoring de-
partment, in neighboLing city. Agplyto
GAGE x FISHER,
Q72Q No 9O8 Front st.
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WANTED-EvEsRY LADY IN MEMP Pills
that FRAZER & CO., 224 Main street. are
selling the finest English Needles for all
machines lower than any other house IN the
South, 1914
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yITANTED-A PAkrN Err WITH A CASH
w capital of $500 to invest in a country
newspaper. Location excellent, Address
95.f X. this office.
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nR. J. M. ROGERS OFFICE REMOVED
~ to 247 Second street. lust north OF Court
Square. Residence, first brick house north Of
railroad, Second street. 25-53
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~INANTED. = SECONDHAND FURNI-
w niture, feathers and housohould goods
Of all kinds bought at 2s2 Second street,
lot II. J.. SINNOTT.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

{. H. Force & Co., contractors Of the Otta.
wa Fox River Valley r. r., we observe, have
commenced suit in the Kendall Circuit Court
against the individual subscribers to the stock
of said railroad, TO compel payment. Thus
far, we believe, of about $4,000 of private
subscriptions of stock, scarcelya dollar has
been paid. AS the contractors took these
subscriptions as part of their pay, it looks
like hardship to them to lose them. Yet as
the company, through the connivance of the
contractors, virtually extingulshed the stock
and rendered it worthless by the sale to the
Burlington company, it would strike "com-
mon mlnd," unskilled in the niceties of legal
legerdemain, to guess how the subscribers can
be made to pay hard cash for stock which is
in reality no longer in existence.
The contractors are doubtless encouraged
to bring these suit, by the decision Just render
ed by the Supreme court in the case of Hays
vs. the 0. o. & +. RV. r. R-a case taken
up from Kendall county, we believe. Hays
had subscribed for $500 worth of stock. civ
ing his note for the amount. In defence
against the payment of the note he put in
three pleas:
l. That the company had sold portion of
the road to another corporation.
2. That the company had leased the road IN
perpetuity to another corporation.
3. Fraudulent representations to induce
Hays t. take stock, to the effect that the Fox
River road was to be a competing road with
the Burlington road, whereas it has been
turned over to that road, &c.
The court below sustained demurrer to all
these pleas, and the Supreme court affirns the
decision. In reference to the first two pleas
it holds with the court below that if true,
the charge amounts only to an unlawful act by
the Company, for which it can be brought to
account, but which does not release the sub.
scribers from payment of their stock notes. As
to the third plea, offraudulent representations,
the court decides the plea bad because there
was no proof Of the fact in the record, init
mating, possibly, thereby, that if there had
been such proof, the decision might have been
otherwise.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03
Legislature.

The Illinois legislature has been "pegginv
way as Lincoln would say, all week a. the
revenue, the fees and salaries, the eminent do.
main. and other heavy bills, not forret,i,, the
heaviest of all, the bill OF half million 70 nav
for the expenses their prolonged session ia cost.
ing the state. None Of these important bills has
yet been passed, though it is ev,deu, il won,a
BE dangerous to adjourn without passing them
The house has rejected the senate bill maxi,
women eligible as school directors.
PR coHtra, however, the house has palIa,,,n
passed bill for the benefit Of the widows Nv
viaing that when a man dies leaving no cb,Iare,
all his personal and onehali of his real nronar,,,
shall go to the relct. Under the present law y,
Illinois and in most of the other states .be
widow receives but one-third of the real estate
of the deceased; but there has been tep5srcu
in recent legislation to enlarge her share.
The legislature is expected TO adjourn about
the time of the opening of the spring work
among the farmers.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03
In reference to Senator Mortop's tayori

In reference to Senator Morton's tavorite
declaration that 1--WE have the best civil ser
vice in the world,' the New York Tin,ee. rad
ical) complies from authentic sources some
pleasant figures by way Of illustration They
prove that there have been detected and pun
ished during the last three years, forty inter
nal revenue officers, fifteen custom house Off
GERS, sixteen money order officers, four army
and two naval officers, and one hundred and
five postmasters-in all, one hundred and
ninety-eight. The amount of cash lost to the
government through these thieves IS set down
at $2,30l,G21. How much has been lost
through the uncaught thieves, we leave our
readers to guess; but Norton and those who
share his opinion concerning our civil service,
may ransack the records of the English gov
eminent for ten years without finding as much
stealing traced to officials there, as has been
actually proven in three years of Grants ad-
ministrstion.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

PEsHrIGo, the region in Wisconsin devasta.
ted by fire last October, is rising from her
ashes and bravely struggling to regain her
feet. Since the fire which swept her down
she he's erected 20 buildings, and started out
with new lease of life. But the woods and
waters still retain the effects of that disastrous
flame, the timber dying where it was not
burned, and the water, teaching through the
abundan: ashes on the ground, tasting so
strongly Of lye That it is useless for household
purposes This effect upon the water is so
marked that the lumbermen, even where the
river is 100 feet in width, are obliged to melt
snow to drink.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

An exciting election took place in Philadel
phia on Wednesday, to fill vacancy in the
state senate. That body being at present a
tie, the successful party in the local election
gets the senate. AS the district last fall gave
1926 republican majority, the democrats had
no chance by themselves but by a union with
the anti Grant republicans upon Is candidate
OF that persuasion, they came within $40
votes Of succeeding, 4 loss of some $500 N
Il year argues badly for Grant in Pcnnsylva.
MIA against union of the democrats and con.
scrvatiyc republicans IN that state next fall,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03
SNApPIsM don't go down even with the rad

SNAPPIsM don't go down even with the rad
ical papers of his district They openly rldi-
Guile his speech on ''retorm,' and call him Il
mountebank and humbug. The Joliet Reoul-
hran alone seems apologize, but ''damns him
with faint praise" The Ottawa RepuIlican.
in its Miss Nancyish mlk.and-water way
obviously trusts that Mr.. Snapp will make
no removals IN this district without cause
other than political differences as IA men C,ic ,
inside the republican party" &c. The
hankakec Gazette intimates that Snaps pro-
tessed regard for the nights of the dear peo-
pie, while insisting on retaining in the hands
OF congressman the appointmcu, of federal
officers, is bosh and hypocritcal cant, and
that his opposition to civil service reform
arises solely from the fact tia. If would de
prive him Of what lie c,tcen- q valuable
auxiliary to his own persona ageran lie
ment.' IT, yl- is particularly severe on
Snapp in reminding him how bitterly lie
complained Of tie use against him TWO years
ago OF this same power which h. now SO un-
blushingiy insists on retaining in his own
hands. And lastly the Worthwhile E-5r3 Is
savage on Mr.. snapp, telling hun he has made
an ass of himself in thus attempting TO defy
reform in the civil service advises him to re-
t'est, and rdicnles his speech as sprcad-eaglc-
ism, saying the ''dear people" to whom he so
grandilo4uently appeals, "have nothing to do
with the appointment of federal officers" and
thinks it wonld be most fortunate if il could
cease to he perquisite of congressman by
which they have heretofore been able to pack
conventions and cheat the people out of their
honest choice Of candidates for congress
Isn't it shameful that clown like this man
Spapp should be placed in position where
decent people must stand in awe of him
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

Horace Greeley refused to sign the call for
the Republican National Convention. called
to meet in Philadelphia in May. He puts
this on the ground that he stands pledged to
the one 'erm principle, having advocated it
for over thirty years, never supporting the
President for reelection but once, and that
he has reason for believing Grant asserted it
less than four years ago. He does not say
that Grant will not, if nominated, be elected,
but he VIII not support him, and his nomnn-
ton renders doubtful the Republican tri-
umph which one-term pledged candidate
would make certain.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

The Chicago papers give the details Of case
o. vaccination that threatens to become an ugly
puzzle for tho experts. a man was vaccinated,
and it "took' be.utifuly-in Fact extensively, for
not only his arm swelled up to twice its ordi.
nary dimensions, bat half his body participated
in the distension but more remarkable STILL in
the height of the fever the man showed unmis.
taxable symptoms Of hydrophobia, or horror at
the sight of water. Vigorous poulticlng, how.
ever, saved his life, and es the wound healed,
"the scab" was as large as a man hand.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

STOCK LAw.--By the act, lately passed ty the
Legislature, and which goes into effect on the
18th OF July next, it will be unlawful for the
owner or owners Of any domestic animals Of to
species of horse, ass, mule, cattle, sheep goat or
hog TO suffer the same to run at large in any
county il this state, under penalty Of a fine Of
50 for each violation, oue-half Of which goes to
the iutormer, aud the balance to the school fund
OF the county. This law will be general all over
the state, except that i is provided that an cleo
ton be held irtany county, at any general cleo.
ton. IN which the citizens of = =. county may
vote to permit certain animals % run at large in
that coun,y-but il all counties where no such
vote is taken, the general law prevails.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03
COngres~.

Congress has actually passed one important
bill since the meeting in January, though if its
passage could have been avoided that, too. would
probably be still in the same limbo with the am
nesty arit.rsduction, and other important bills.
The bill alluded to is the superintendent bill.
So uVny state legislatures are in session and
getting ready to adjourn. that the apporton-
ment could be delayed no longer. The bill, as
fixed up by the house, made the next house con-
sist of 2S3 members This the senate committee
changed back to the old number-243. When it
came up in the Senate, however, Morton explain
ed that the change to 243 wsuld never DO. az i,
would take % votes from Grant in the electoral
college. So exclusively as piece of party
finesse the Senate voted down the proposal of its
own committee to confine the house to its old
number, and voted an expense of half million
year on the people for the next decade to give
Grant 90 moro electoral votes in the next electo.
raj collsgel
Having accomplished this delectable piece of
dirty work, the Senate passed resolution in
favor OF final adjournment on the Goth of May,
giving another characteristic reason for the ad.
Journment. that it would cut off action on the
tariff reduction and other important measures,
the passage OF which could not fail to have q
mslign influence on Grants prospects, The
House. however, had the decency to hang up the
Senate adjournment resolution for while by
referring it to the ways and means committee
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03
Singular Complications.

singular SOmPuCoSAOuo.
Senator Thurman, of Ohio, in the discus.
sion of the amnesty bill in the U. S. Senate
last week, drew attention to some very singu-
lar political complications that had manifest.
eel themselves in the radical lines.
Whenever there has been an intelligent
Executive at the White House, the Legislative
theory has heretofore been that whatever
measures were recommended by the President
became, by mere force of circumstances, adj
hlnistration measures, and to oppose them
was to pl &c the opponents in antagcnism to
the ADM istration.
In his last message Grant recommended
amnesty, revenue reform, and civil service
reform, yet the most bitter and determined
opponents to these measures IN congress are
those who have the administration in their
keeping.
John Sherman, who looked to the admins.
tration to secure reelection in Ohio, with his
finance committee blocks all senatorial action
which looks to reduction of taxation.
Morton and Conkling oppose amnesty, or
at least the spirit of it, aud would prescribe
the very men whom Grant speaks SO highly
of as the better class of people of the south.
The same set attempt to annihlate the ad-
vocates of civil service reform and failing to
meet men like Sumner, Schurz, Trumbull and
Logan in argument, would read then, out of
the party.
Such is consistency. They are the enemies
OF the President who advocate what ne advo-
Gates ! They are friends who are hostile to
his recommendations
This IS the tangled political situation of
to-day. We have free trade President with
tariff supporters. A broad, national Presi-
dent with sectional indorsers. A President in
favor of the largest civil publication, with all
the corruptionsts of the country at his back.
One of two things is certain The Presi-
dent is too deep Cor criticism, or too shallow
to be held responsible. He either means what
he says in his messages, or he don't. If he is
in favor of the reforms he advocates, he places
them in very bad hands to be carried out sue
cessfully. If he is not in favor of the reforms
ne recommends, then he has taken just the
course that all the demagcgues of history
have attempted since time began This read
ing people out of parties don't pay, especially
when the people thus set adrift are the brains
of the organization. The elimina.ive process
has already gone on until the republican party
of to-day is mere walking skeleton, stripped
of flesh, fibre and sinews
Let Grant 90 one of two things, il he is not
a mere puppet in the hands of denagegues.
Let him declare that he means either exactly
to the contrary of what he says in his mes
sage, or that he has no influence over the men
who assume to represent him. Until he does
that, people are bound to believe that Grant
either designs to deceive and mislead, or that
he knows nothing of public affairs and has no
comprehension of the significance of things.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

4 radical paper thinks there is deal of
sly sense in Grants Portland speech thinks
II fine writer might take one of them and
build :. fine Grafton on it. SAID cooper
once "All kinds of scraps of kegs and bar.
rcls have been brought to me to patch up, but
finally, when id fool came in with
nothing but bung hole, and asked me to
build barrel around it, l caved."
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

AMERICAN VEssELs.-At tho recent confer.
ence of the postmaster general and the house
postal and commerce committees, the fact comes
out very prominently that American capital was
building several large steamers with American
names, on the Clyde, but which will, of course
be compelled to sail under the British flag with
British register.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

The coach dog of the late Daniel M Seymour,
Of Hartford manifested deep grief at the death Of
his IN ester, aud ,,ched the coffin iii it was re.
moved from the house He then il,jowel Il 20
the grave which he refused to leave for ZEN days,
when he WA. found dead Of starvation.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

Ford county is having some trouble with
her county bonds which were voted to the La
Fayette and Bloomington railroad. The Ian.
gu.ge of the resolution when adopted was said
bonds shall draw not TO exceed ten per cent in.
terest." The supervisors decided to make the
bonds draw six per cent, and the railroad com.
pany take the case to the supreme court,
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-02-03

Pocket books Of all sorts and qualities, and
different prices. at Osman y lIapeman's
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-06-01

Not THAT KIND or AZ EXiMlSATIoS.-In
Denver few days az, two young ladies.
victims ot "a mistake. stepped into the office Of
young insurance agent and told him they
would ike 10 he examined. The gentleman
was slightly embarrassed. bat told them "a
politely rs he could that the examining physi-
clan was in the mex. room and after that he
would be- happy to make ont their policies.
There va, some hiu,hing and ,tammcrimg,
and the girls lief, in short order after giving
HIM ln understand they wanted to teach
school and Thought he w.> the superintendent
who Won, test their proficiency.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1872-06-01

A gentleman in New York gave letter Of
introduction 10 student of music about TO
visit Leipsc, who wished toput himself un-
Ger the instruction Of Professor, a famous
teacher OF music in the stler city Upon the
students return home. the gentleman asked ::
'How did you like Professors
'Oh, wonderfully. He gave me fine les
sons but he is a very singular man. He kept
praying all the time be was teaching me"
Praying Why, how do you mean p well,
while | was playing LIE clasped his hands,
lifted his eyes 10 the ceiling, and kept say
ing, Good Lord what sin hare committed 10
deserve this punishment "'-SinHHus