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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1873-03-08

SHIPPING TAGS printed just at New
York prices at the PUBLIC LEDGER
Office. AT
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M, tER's "Cut OF" saloon, in rear
of German National Bank, is the place.
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J.w. S. BROWNE, l6 Jefferson st. 98t
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III u. GUI0N, RIAL ESTATE BROKER,
Main street. Bethel Block. li2,xyi,ll
Dff ssSl. VILLAINS SI11i .,Isss CO.. ooriGS
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NOR RENT-0NE OF THE BEST, oE NJ lee
L in the city. ground floor. No S.o Is MS ontb
s SnST al e business tIe oes Of PUBLc LEEGER
LIST
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For white River.


Memphis and Evansville Packet Company
For Cairo, Evansville and way landings.
IDLEWILD.. A. Lowth, master
| WILL LEAVE AS ABOVE re-. =
w on SATURDAY, Sth inst. LaAla9t,;4
S. B. MILLER. Agent.
1871 2 Elliott Block, foot of Jefferson 81.
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NOR RENT-A GOOD FRONT 9 .e,EIS T.
bnsiness ofice. iS Madison street II Ii
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NOR RENT-A FINE RESIDENCE On
X Union avenue next to Baeeigalupo' place.
Aiso n Two. story basement hsuse on Dunlap
s'''e' "'"' MARX Il BENgD0RF,
Oh No. Madison street.
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NOR RHINESTONE ON JEFFERSON 81,
near Main, and one on Front street; near
Court. Jos. 1. ANDREWS SoNs,
Uy,11St No. 252 Front street.
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FOR SALE.

TSsR sALE-MILK GOAT. APPLY AT !, 27l
n Poplar street. D-ll
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NOR RENT-A LARGE BRICK tt0uSEE
suitable for factory, situated on the Da ian
Of the Mississippi river in Fort Plckerihg, mer
the gas works; formerly occupied as d pro"'i'
ana uis'iii'i'' MARI & BENSD0RF,
11q-+ No. 7 Madison street.
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FOR RENT.

NOR RENT-THE SHELBY PLACE" AT
IL ellis Station, 22l miles east Of Memphis.
has eight rooms, besides Kitchen and servants
rooms, good stable. splendid water. ten acres
of ground, and fine garden spot and orchard.
Apnlv 10 L. III. NELSON,
% Madison st.
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NOR sALE-A VERY DESIRABLE LOT
( on Beal street, 30 feet from the inte rs
.;on Of Real and Turley streets. SAID lot Is
6nxilS. snlendid location for a retail grocery
store. A great bargain is offered If immediate
"pp'''"'' GREENLAW & AM0NETT,
- No. u Madison street.
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TJOR NT-COTTAGE-A HANDSOME
v cottage home, 92 Marshall avenue, COR
4 Orleans; 5 rooms. out-houses and garden.
Apply %CKINsoN, WILLIAMS & CO.,
DI, 266 Front street.
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-T1eR sALE-AGOOD SINGER MANUFAC-
"a su' i"S - FRAZER & CO.. 224 Main st.
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ISOR SGLE-RESIDENoE- SOB. I wish b
i loss by the late FIRE at my 5. Scset; house
sell my residen &c. at 81 Avery s. lad front
new, with four rooms and hall. side ~sll and
porches, basement and kitchen, good Ipply
cistern title pertectapd terms liberal.
20 rrezevant X CO.. or 10
Il5-f 4. LEMON. Al Avery street.
JNOR sALE-sPLENDIp BUSINESS LOT. 4
y Apply to Mrs. NJ. W. Brown. 4s2 Main |
street or G. W. Frazer, Is Monroe. l36-t
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30
The United States Chief JustIceship.

The FREEPREss is in error. The first an
nOuncement in Vermont. at least, tina SEN
ator Edmunds was ineligible to the Chief
Justiceship of the United States was made
in the Herald. and the item was copied uer-
6dtim by the FREE Press the following day.
The FREE Pass is further in error. Judge
Poland rs eligible to the appointment. The
increase of salary bill passed during; the
term of Office of Judge Poland as a Repre-
sentative in Congress, which expired NJ arch
9th, 1873. His present term of office, W hich
commenced Immediately thereafter, has
nothing to do with his eligibility, as viii be
seen by reference to the constitutional pro-
vision. The FREE Press is still further in
error. The salary of the Chief JUST ce of
the Supreme Court Of the United States has
not been before raised during Mr.. Ed
munds' present term of service. The first
increase, from sixty-fve hundred to eli yhty-
five hundred dollars, in the salary, was
made during the first term of Mr.. Edm unds'
service, being the unexpired term for which
our townsman, Hon. Solomon Foot, was
elected, and to fill the vacancy caus ed by
the death of whom. Mr.. Edmunds was first
appointed by the Governor and afterwards
plected by the Legislature, and which ex-
erred March 4th, Ise9.-Ruldnd Herald.
The Herald talks pretty positively, for
paper which is drawing on its Imagination
Tor most of its facts. The increase of the
salary of the Chief Justice from Sc 500 to
$500 took place in 1871, which was during
Mr.. Edmunds' present term.
More than year ago, we noticed para
graph in the letter of some Wasl lington
correspondent charging Mr.. Edmun,ds with
currying favor with the President. in the
hope of securing. a scat on the bench. at
the first opening. We thereupon, called
to the fact that Mr.. Edmuiids was
ineligible. and quoted the constitutional
provision. We had never seen anything in
any other paper on the subject-and GER
tainly not in the Herald. In fact the Herald
was then, it seems, and up to the last salary
bill, under the impre ssion that Mr.. Ed
nunds was still eligible If any such an
as the Herald alludes to has re-
Gently been copied ''rer6atina" or other
wise from the Herald by the FREE PRESS, it
was without our knowledge, and has en-
Eirely escaped our observation, in our own
columns.
In one particular the Herald may be cor
rect, and We may have been in srror, We !
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ordered as first instalment for the Brattle-
hnrn r,oaf oN,oo

ordered as a first instalment for the Brattle-
boro post Office.
John B. Miller, of Brattleboro. had a
slight difficulty with a bull, recently, in
which the former got the worst Of 1t.
The record of deaths in Bellows Falls
shows eleven persons in the month of April.
The aggregate of their ages was s2l years,
making an average Of about seventy-four
years and six months each
WINDSOR COUNTY
W. NJ. Wright, who has for several years
filled the position of principal of Green
Mountain Perkins Academy at South Wood
stock, has severed his connection Herewith
and will enter the Medical Department of
Dartmouth College.
Some farmers of Bethel have their plan
ting all done. Rather tough work planting
corn when one needs Overcoat and mittens
on.
1t is announced that on the first of June
the Ludlow Gazette will be improved and
will also pass into the editorial hands of
Mr.. William Allen Bacon.
Seneca Haven and family of Ludlow,
thought poke leaves would be nice things
for greens, but discovered there was death
in the pot" They are now conyalescent,
ana they won't go there any more.
The log drivers of Windsor have com
menced the work of running logs down the
river, and quite number have gone by the
past week. The drive last spring contained
five million feet. This drive is said to con-
tain twenty seven million feet
A family named Chandler, living some
two or three miles from Chester, eleansed
couple of milk cans and set them against
the house outside to dry soon after the
family left for church and while absent the
suns rays were 30 powerfully reflected from
the cans as to set fire to the house But
for the wickedness of boy who was fishing
near by, and discovered the fire, the build
ing would undoubtedly have been destroy
ed. To make certain that the fire had its
origin from snch a source, the experiment
was tried the following day with like result.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30
Decoration Day.

Ii is, of course, no new sentiment when
leads people to hold in honor the memo
ry of those who have died for their country
1t is not altogether new custom when
decks with flowers the last resting places oil
such honored dead. In many parts OF Ter
many the graves of the patriots who fell in
the Liberation War Qsl3-lD are covered
with flowers at each anniversary of their
death. And the Spaniards keep as holy
day. with similar observances, the anniver-
sary of the slaughter of the patriots in the
streets of Madrid, by Murat, in 1905.
But in the numbers who join in its serv-
ices: In the care and expense put into the
floral offerings; and in the character of its
public exercises-the sermons and addresses,
and music and professions, with which It is
celebrated no similar observance ever
equalled our American Decoration Day. 1t
is fitting it should be 50, and that its OBJ
servance should grow in extent and import
ance from year to year. If the Romans,
people not greatly given to sentiment, held
sacred the memory of the brave Brutus, who
freed Rome from the cruel Tarquins, and
instituted a special festival in his honor,
shall we not also make it sacred duty to
remember the thousands, as brave and pa
triOtic as Brutus of old, who died during
our civil war that the government Of the
people, by the people, and for the people,
should not perish from the earth ?
Such grateful and honored remembrance
we promised them, when they went to the
field and they shall have it, year by year,
while the free institutions they preserved,
remain the heritage Of our people. On the
preservation of those institutions. the rev
erent and elaborate celebration Of Decora-
ton Day, will have an important influence;
for traitors and conspirat0rs at home and
abroad will hesitate to tamper with the lib |
critics Of a people which thus holds sacred |
the memory of those who died to maintain
the unity and freedom of the nation.
Let, then all classes OF our citizens, young
and old, male and female. unite in the dec
orous observance Of the day we devote to
remembrance of the fallen - boys in blue, "
and remembering their sacrifice. let u, as
President Lincoln said at Gettysburg, take
increased devotion to the cause for which
they gave the last fall measure Of devo-
ton, and highly resolve that the dead
shall not have died in vain
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30
SUMMARY or NEWS.

DOMESTIC.
The Ohio republican convention was held
on the 2lst inst, and Governor Noyes was
nominated for re-electiOn.-A tornado
swept over portion of Iowa, Thursday
22d. causing terrible destruction of proper
ty and life. Houses, barns and buildings of
all kinds were demolished, and many per-
sons killed or wounded. The force Of the
wind was appalling, and its roaring could
be heard for ten miles away. The tempest
was accompanied by fall Of hailstones Of
marvellous size. Great damage was done
also in northwestern Illinois.-President
Grant issued a proclamation on the 22d,
calling upon the " turbulent and disorder
~ McEneryites Of Louisiana 10 disperse,
and retire to their abodes, within twenty
days.-The failure of the New York lum-
Der dealers combination was announced on
the oath. their liabilities being placed at
100000 Later dispatches, however,
state that the firms Of the combination are
solvent, that the liabilities were greatly ex-
aggerated, and that under an arrangement
with their creditors they will continue bust
ness and finally pay dollar for dollar
The papers in the government suit against
the Union Pacific Railroad, the Credit No
bilier, ETC., were filed at Hartford, Ct, on
the 26th.-Hangings average about one
man a day Murders are Of rather higher
figure. At the close Of last week and the
beginning Of this week there was a swarm
of murders, affording a large variety to con-
nOisseurs. Among Others a planter named
Butler was shot dead on a Mississippi steam
boat at ldlewild, fifty miles below Memphis,
on the 2lst, by drunken fellow named
Cannon, who jumped ashore and escaped.
In recent shooting ARRAY over a game Of
cards in California saloon, three men were
killed. During an alteration in Brooklyn,
Sunday, between a young man named
George Roderick and James Corcoran, both
drew pistols Mrs Roderick mother Of the
former. rushed between them. and. in the
struggle TO prevent her son from firing his
pistol, it went off. the ball passing through
his mothers eye into her brain, killing her
latest news from the
country Of the Modes Is encouraging.
About one-half of the surviving members Of
the band have come into camp given up /
their rifles and surrendered. lt seems TO !
be an unconditional surrender, but they |
will not be harshly dealt with. There are |
none of the noted warriors Of the tribe |
among the number Captain Jack and his |
'emaining followers are closely pursued by /
'ayalry, and the indications are that the
var in that quarter viii soon be over
The news Of the raid into Mexican territory
y Gen. Mckenzie is confirmed by an official
eport received at the War department. No
ction has been taken by this government,
nd the Mexican minister awaits further
before communicating with the
authorities at Washington.-Some eight
weeks have now elapsed since the Inflated
teamer Atlantic struck the Nova Scotia
ocks off Prospect and went to the bottom.
II the $40 souls which went down in the
atlantic 42s have been recovered. and near
= all Of them have been consigned TO the
ough and rude graves along the shore where
hey met their fate
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

The DELAY OF THE POSTAL CAUSE.-THE
following extracts from Washington let
ter in the New York Journal Of Commerce,
will explain to some inpatient people why
postal cards are not obtainable at each and
every post Office The cards have thus far
been supplied to but very few Offices in the
country
WASHINGTON. May 2O.-Chagrin sits on
the mouth of the postmaster general just
now, and the third assistant postmaster
general shares the deep-seated feelings ofhis
superior Sharply toned letters are daily
received from p0stmasters and from Con-
greSsmen expressing annoyance on account
of failure to supply the requisite number
of postal cards. Early last spring the post
master-general, as per advertisement, made
a contract for pure hasing postal cards. The
contract was awarded to a Massachusetts,
firm by virtue of the lowest terms. 1t was
stipulated in the contract that on the first
of MAY there should be 5000, 900 cards in
the hands Of the contractor ready for de-
livery, andthat like quantity should there
after be kept constantly on hand. In addi-
ton to this, the contract directed that the
iOnAAAA AhA 0AAfAll AHA All'I tAAAAN any AAAAiA1
desired by the postmaster general. This
provision was intended to make certain that
the ability to supply should never be less
than the probable demand. Let Us see how
the contract has been complied with. On
the first of May the contractor had no cards
on hand, and up to this day has made only
one delivery. when he should have made
eighteen. The public have complained,
and are met by the notice posted in the
various Offices that postal cards cannot be
furnished for ten days. The demand has
been tremendous, but the postmaster
general Acknowledges that it Is no larger
than he expected. Some say the contractor
has taken the job at too low a price, but
that should not yitiate the force Of the con-
tract. 1t is rumored here that the post
master-general has written curt letters to
the contractor, stating that, unless he can
carry out his contract, he need not send in
his bill On the whole, matters seem de |
cidedly mixed, with quite unenyiable situa-
tons on either side.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30
The New President of France.

Marie Edme Patrce Maurice MacMahon,
Duke of Magenta and President OF the
French Republic, is sixty-si1 years old. lie
is descended from an old Irish family, whose
ancestors followed the fortunes Of James
H., the last Of the Stuarts, and after the
fall of that house emigrated to France. de
was educated for the army at the military
school of St. Cyr, took part in the ezpedi-
tons to Algiers, evineing great courage
and capacity. lie rose rapidly to the rank
of General of Division, and, as such succeed
ed Gen Canrobert in command of the French
forces in the Crimea, in 1855, where he dis
tinguished himself in the siege of Sebasto-
pol and especially in the famous storming
Of the Malakoff, for which he was rewarded
with the Grand Cross of the Legion OF
Honor and the rank of Senator. When
Napoleon entered upon the Italian war in
1859, MacMahon commanded the second
corps, and the victory at Magenta is chiefly
ascribed to him. For his success there he
received the rank of Marshal of France and
the title of Duke of Magenta. Returning
to France by imperial decree of September
|. 1864, he was appointed encouragement
of Algeria. Personal government of the
strictest kind prevailed in the French towns
in Algeria under MacMahon's administra-
ton, and serious charges were brought
against MacMahon, but the only result OF
the agitation was that the idea of the Arab
monarchy was abandoned without entalllng
q more liberal government in Algeria.
The record Of MacAlahon's career during
the recent war between France and Ger
many, and subsequently as commander OF
the army of Versailles against the rising OF
the Commune in Par.s is familiar to all.
At the great battle and slaughter of Sedan
he was wounded and became a prisoner in
the hands of the Germans, when the en-
peror surrendered his army. He was sufh-
GENTLY recovered from his wounds to as
sumo command of the army which NJ.
Theirs organized against the Commune
when Paris was taken. Politically, Marshal
MacMahon has pruicssed no bias or partisan
ship in the current complications of France.
When questioned he has refused to givea any
satisfactory answer " | am a soldier" he
would reply, land | will do my duty as
commander-in chief Of the army" In his
new position it may be taken for granted
that he will do nothing to precipitate a
conflict. Although he was so unanimously
taken up by the conservatives as their can
didate, he has not indicated by any act or
word whether he most regrets the BOurbOns, |
Louis Philippe, the republic of 1913, or the
second empire,-for he served under them
all, and he will undoubtedly bend his ener-
gies to preserving the present status. Yet |
as the candidate of the mOnarchists he will !
excite the suspicion of the republicans. as
NJ. Theirs never did, and in this is his weak
ness
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

have not the words of the section increasing
the salaries ofthe Judges, before us; but If
that increase took effect as soon as the bill
became law, then it was during Judge
Poland's last term, and not during his
present term as Congressman, and he
would consequently now be eligible to the
appointment,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

Berlin dispatches convey the idea that it
is the prevalent opinion in the German capt.
tai that MacMahon will prove the counter
part of Gen. Monk, the restorer of the
House of Stuart to the English throne, and
that his election heralds a Legitimist resto-
ration in France. A despatch from Paris
says that the new French government has
resolved to adopt free trade policy and
also to reduce the military expenditures.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

A cable despatch states that George Smith
the London Daily Telegraph correspondent
in Assyria, has found the Kings library at
Nineyeh and discovered valuable fragments,
particularly the missing portions of the
broken tablet containing the history of the
deluge, hitherto deciphered in the British
Muearn,
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

In Middletown, Delaware, the other day.
there was dreadful time, in which old men
and old notions alike, ,were slaughtered. A
heavy storm came up and ragged severely
over house where about dozen colored
people were playing cards. One of the men
was 50 frightened that he declared he would
go up stSirs and lie on bed for safety.
This is the old-time rule. Accordingly be
ensconced himself between the sheets, when
another crash came, the roof was knocked
in, and this mans head was bored from
temple to temple, killing him at once The
cards and players in the lower story were
scattered in all directions, and the crowd
rushed from the burning building to the
porch ola store, where they opened prayer
meeting. The thunder still roared, how
ever, and pretty soon another crash came
and the store was struck at which they
were seeking shelter. This broke up the
party and they took different routes, deter
mined that at least one should escape.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

Oliver Charlick has brought suit in the
Court Of Common Pleas against Messrs.
Bryant, Henderson and Goodwin, Of the
New York EreniRg Post. for two alleged
libellous articles which appeared in that
journal, commenting upon his appointment
as Police Commissioner. He lays his DANA
ges at s. 900 for each article. In one Of
them he Is spoken ofas being member of
the old Common Council known as the
forty thieves
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

The MONUMENT TO FIsK.-On the Grand
Central Depot at New York is the memorial
erected by Commodore Vanderbilt in com
memoration ofhis own successes and virtues,
cast in brass, which malicious people have
said was typical of the quality to which
much of the Commodore's success is due.
Vanderbilt's brother ''fnancer', James
Fisk ,Jr. cut off in the midst.of his benefcent
career, left no such memorial of his great
ness. His friends,-and whatever we may
think of Fisk 5 character, it is certain that
he had many and strong friends-are ac-
eordingly erecting a monument to his
memory. Iarkin g. Meade, our Vermont
sculptor, is now making it, at Florence,
Italy, and when done it is to be placed over
Fisk's grave at Brattleboro. A correspon-
dent thus describes it: The design Is an
obelisk twenty feet high, on which will be a
medallion bust of deceased at the corner
of the pedestal are placed, very appropriate
ly, four female figures, allegOrical of the
ways and means by which Fisk attained
such celebrity-"Commerce," with Mer-
curry wand and sack OF gold; the
theatre called by compliment the Drama"
with the Tyre and laurel the Railroad"
having as Distinguishing ornament on her
coronet diminutive locomotive; and,
fourth, the Steamboat" who will as her
symbol wear tiny side-wheeler. The idea
Of the design was given by Mrs. Fisk. |
Meade's success is in the yigor of his male |
figures, his soldiers and sailors, and these |
nymphs are still waiting for the Prone
thean spark. The best point Of the work
S the bust in relief This is nearly full
lace, forehead not high, firm features, lower
part OF the face heavy, mustache only-all |
n all a countenance which impresses one
lgreeably, and which one would not pass
y without asking, Who is that man?
Meade, beinsa townsman and schoolmate
II Fisk, has probably succeeded well in the
of his portrait.
Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1873-05-30

A few years ago there were scarcely any
shad in the Hudson, and the fish was rare
and costly luxury in the New York markets.
Now, according to the Troy Times, "shad
lie like snow banks on the shores" and are
retailed to the city householders at 80 cents