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MUNICIPAL.
Called Meeting OF the General
Council.
COMMON COUNCIL.
ioFFICIAL REPORT

CRY HALL. MEMPHIS, January 3. 1874.
At a called meeting of the Board Of Al
dermen of the city of Memphis, held Satur-
day, January 8, 1874. present--Hon. John
johnson, Mayor; Messrs. Chairman Gent,
Aldermen Walsh. Robbins. Davis, Mall
atesta, A. J. White and Colligan.
quorum being announced, the Chairman
called the members present to order, and had
the roll of Aldermen called.
Whereupon the Mayor invited the Board OF
Aldermen to take seats in joint Council.
For proceedings Of joint Council see pro-
ceedings of Council of this date.
On motion of A. J. White the Board ad-
journea TO next regular meeting.
S. X. RICHARDS,
CITY Register
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On Monday, 10Th january, 1874,
sHEREFF,s SALE
Part OF Lots Nos. $50 and 361, Oh
North Side Of Webster Street.

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
Il that BY virtue OF yenditiOni exp0nas
10 me directed'fr from the Hon. First Circuit
Court Of Shelby county, Tenn, In the case Of
j. III. Parkhurst Y. j. ID. Edwards, NJ, V.
Holbrook, and CT. Bullock .lstayor. judgment
rendered on the 9th day Of November, 1872.
for the sum Of one hundred and eight dollars
and thirty-twe cents. with interest and costs
Of suit. 10 satisfy said judgment, etc, will,
On Monday, 10th Of January, 1874,
Al II o'clock am, in front Of my Office. No.
s5l Second street. Memphis. Tenn, proceed to
sell, 70 the highest bidder. for cash, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit;
A certain lot or parcel Of land, described as
follows: Part Of Lota 360 and 35i, fronting 80
feet on the north side Of Webster street, City
OF Memphis, running north along the line Of
Lot $50. l62 feet 70 an alley; thence west along
the line Of said alley. % feeti thence south to
Webster street; thence east 10 the begin
ming point, % feet. 10 Lot No. $50, Levied on
as the property Of Charles T. Bullock. as Sc
curity on stay Of execution In the above re-
cited case. to satisfy said Judgment, interest
saiosto commences at II o'clock an.
WI. p. DOYLE,
Ioi-tw Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
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OFFICIAL.
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ORDINANCE,

Levying a Paving Tax OF seventy
Cents, payable In Certificates OF
Indebtedness.
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saturday, the lOth Of January, 1s74

at IL o'clock m, at the southwest. corner Of
Second and Madison streets, in the city Of
Memphis, all the following described tract of
land, containing lao acres, more or less, sit
uate in the county Of Shelby and State of Ten
nessee. being the eastern part of the tract Of
land owned and occupied by George l.. Holmes
at the time Of his death, lying about five miles
east Of the city Of Memphis. by the German
town road or Poplar street extended, formerly
known as the old State Line road, and being
the lots numbered IL. IL. Is. IA, is, 16, II, IS
and 10, between Rembert avenue and High
land avenue, as marked and shown on and
by a map OF plat of said land attached to and
made part Of the said Deed Of Trust, in;
Guiding therein the land lying between said
lots, designated as Holmes avenue, and all
the land belonging to the said tract lying east
of said Rembert avenue.
Right of redemption waived and title be-
lieyed to be perfect, but sell only such title
as is vested in me as trustee. Ten per cent. of
the purchase money will be required in cash
when the property is bid off. and the remain
der on delivery Of the deed:
h. I. Elicit, Trustee.
Dacemhar g. 1874 83-1i8
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PLAsTERERs.
PLA s T e r. I'm G..

VIZ ID. JOCKEY a. CO., PLAIN AND
w. ornamental plasterers, is Gayoso st.
Jobbng promptly attended 10. M-ll3
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A Certain Lot or Parcel Of Land,
sHERIFFs SALE
Lots Numbered 8, 4, 5, and 6, In
Block ID, Fort Pickering.


DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY. GIVEN,
il that By virtue Of a venditioni exponai
to me directed from the honorable First Cir
cult Court of Shelby county, Tenn, in the
case Of s. NJ. Walcott VS.. John ii. Hartley
and Stephen Lynch, Judgment entered on the
18th day Of August, 1872. for the sum Of one
hundred and thirty-nine dollars and sixty
cents. with interest and costs of suit, to satisfy
said judgment. ETC., will,
On Monday, 10Th January, 1874,
At II o'clock am. in front Of my Office, Ne.
35l Second street. Memphis, Tenn, proceed to
sell 10 the highest bidder. for cash, the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit:
Lots numbered 3, 4, 5, aud 8, in Block ID,
Fort Pickering, City Of Memphis, county Of
Shelby State Of Tennessee, being the same
property conveyed to Stephen Lynch by John
II. Hartley and John Gurley, and registered
in Book 81, page 56, Of Shelby county records.
Levied on as the property Of Stephen Lynch,
as stay0r in the above stated case, TO satisfy
said Judgment, interest and costs.
Sale 20 commence at II o'clock. am.
w. j. p. DOYLE,
lOl-tw Sheriff Of Shelby county. Tenn.
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Weduesday, gsth Of January, lsi
Trustees Sale.

IDY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST Exc
ID cuted by George O. Holmes and William
r. Holmes, and BY their respective wives,
dated November 2S, 1871. to secure note for
S52l4 16, the undersigned. surviving trustee
will sell at public sale. for cash, on
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odd Psnovsd:HAH. corner Main and North
Court streets.
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"RECORD,
sEARcY, ARKANSAS,

CIRCULATEs AMONG ALL THE MKR-
~ chants 10 the v bite ana Red river val
lsTs.
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is the Peoples Organ.

Memphis merchants viii End this . good
medium - make their business known % the
e2gntr3 merchants In that section particu-
JACOB RHOLICH, IN,
~ neaFsy, Arkansas.
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z. AyDs.k.
EUREKA CousoM, No. e-meets 81 Thur
dsy OF each month-0dd Fellows' Hall. O..
Reder, Tn. H.; G. II. Myers, Rec.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
Condensed TeIegrams.

The Cincinnati Exposition opened yes
terday with an enthusiastic holiday. The
department Of fine arts is particularly rich.
A prominent young man Of Omaha was
yesterday gOred TO death by a COW.
Tennessee was represented in the Con-
yentiOn of insurance companies held yes
teriay at Detroit.
A boiler exploded at Meadeyille, Pa,
yesterday, leaping 500 feet, demolishing
the mill, killing one man and injuring seY-
eral others.
Delegates representing StOO,OO0,0OO at
tended the National Board of Steam Nayi-
CATION at Buffalo yesterday.
The Kansas Republicans renominated
another salary grabber yesterday.
The Western Union Telegraph declares
a quarterly dividend of two per cent.
The National Maltsters are in session al
Niagara Falls
The funeral services Of the late actor,
Mark SmSth, will be held in the "Little
Church Round the Corner" in New York.
Thomas 4. Morris, senior Bishop Of the
Methodist Church, died at his residence in
Springfield, o., yesterday. He was eighty
years Of age.
The Michigan Republicans renOminated
only two salary grabbers yesterday.
The leading Western railways convened
in Chicago and abolished all commissions
to ticket agents. This is very well, if they
reduce fares somewhat in proportion.
( The lumber men Of Minnesota resolve in
convention that the business of destroying
forests has been OyerdOne. 1t does not pay,
even from their mercenaTy point of view.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
THE THIRD DTsTRICT.

In order to succeed as a Democratic
candidate for Congress in this district,
it seems to be necessary that the man
should not have acquired his title of
Colonel, Captain, etc, In the Federal
army. This is the United States now 4,
and not the Southern Confederacy, and
it is too bad that some people have not
yet found it out.-Chattanooga Com
mercidl.
We used to think that the CONNER
cidl tried to be honest andtruthful and
we sympathized with it, knowing the
difficulties Gnder which it labored. But
"evil communications have done their
work. 1t is not necessary for us to re-
mind the people that Garrett, elected
by the Democrats four years ago, was
a Federal colonel, and that they have
nominated and elected more Federal
officers than Confederates since the
war-Spdrta IHder.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
AN MAID BADLY FOILED.

BOttSTllles "a mlncic COuEndls
A Phenixville maid, quite old, be-
coming anxious about her matrimonial
chances, recently concOeted plan to
deceive a young fellow as to her age.
This was the way she tried it: The old
family Bible contained a faithful
record of all births, marriages and
deaths. This volume the maiden took
TO her chamber, and selecting the
birth page, she managed by dint of
scratching and writing to change the
date Of her birth to a period eleven
years later than what it had legitimate
ly been recorded. Then the Bible was
placed on the sitting room table IN a
conspicuous manner. That evening
came along the lover. He soon began
to finger with the Bible pages, and
finally reached the birth record, where
and when he discovered, to his surprise,
that his Angelina was Just one year
younger than he. He thought it
strange, as she appeared older. He
kept his mouth shut ard continued to
tumble over the pages. Next he be-
gan reading the death list, and made
the very astonishing discovery that the
radiant maiden, according to the Bible,
had actually been born ten years after
the decease of her father. The young
man quietly arose and bid Angelina
good-by, and now swears that eternal
vigilance is the priGsef liberty"
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
LOOK To THE LEGISLATURE,

The Convention of Saturday will
name Davidson county's delegation in
the next Legislature-if that cOnven-
ton does its duty. We elect legisla-
tors primarily for State purposes.
There never was a time when this fact
should be kept SO prominently in view
as now. Our interests depend infinite
ly more on the next General Assembly
than on the next United States Sena-
tor. This habit of making all the pub
lie interests subservient to the personal
promotion of few men is demOraliz-
ing IN principle and ruinous in prac-
tice.
We are fully aware that the pipe
layers are at work, and that their pro-
gramme is being arranged in utter dis
regard Of the vitality important ques-
tions which the incoming Legislature
will have to settle. The people did not
elect the delegates 10 the County Con
vention for the purpose of intriguing
for the succession to BrownlOw. The
schemes of dextrous wire-pullers to di-
vide the Legislative candidates between
two Senatorial aspirants, with the bar
gain that they shall all mass on one, if
the other should be withdrawn,
are perfectly well understood. We
know whereof we speak, when we say
that such a disgraceful arrangement
viii not 60 down with the honest voters
of Davidson county. Political trick
sters do not seem to understand that
the people are paying some attention
to their own interests this year, and
Will stamp the thing out IN the Conven-
ton, OF, if need be, at the ballot box.
The lobby of the people, from town and
countryside, viii attend Saturday s
Convention, to squelch the lobby Of in
trigue, and see that the delegates ac-
quit them selves of the trust reposed in
them, with an eye single to the public
interests. Pipe-layers must take back
seats
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
YESTERDAY At CHARKSyILLE.

The Congressional Convention for
this district has met and accomplished
its work. We give the details else
where. The verdict of the several
counties interested Will be an emphatic
and unanimous Well done, good and
faithful servants" The integrity and
ability Of the nominee, Col. John f.
House, are too well known throughout
this State and section to call for ex-
tended commentation. We believe
him to be the choice OF the people, and
we expect for him, in November, the
full strength of the anti-Radieal vote.
The nomination Of Gen. VIM. A.
Quarles for State Senator was one emf
nently fit to Ebe made, and affords a
sample of the Icalibre we may expect
to meet in the next General Assembly.
Davidson is put to her mettle, if she
would command the prestige that
should attach to the wealth, culture
and varied interests of the capital
county of the State. On Saturday we
must put our best foot foremost.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03

"H. V. R." the Tennessee cores
pondent of the Cincinnati Commercial,
writes three columns of wholesale
murder in Tennessee" describing in
vivid style, of which he is so accom-
phshed master the horrible atrOcity
of the Gibson massacre, and the muir
der Of Julia Hayden in Trousdale.
Throughout thase three columns
we fail to find any recognition
of the universal Indignation
and horror which these fearful crimes
have elected from both people and
press. H. V. R." knows Tennessee
and Tennesseeans well enough to know
how earnest and genuine is the alarm
of our people. He knows that no
white nan worthy of the name, can
permit the melting of a war of
races that would jeOpardize his wife
and babes during his absence In the
field or workshop. He knows that our
every interest, material and political,
is wrapped up in peace. Therefore We
have the right to expect from him a
postscript to the Cincinnati Commercial
vindicating the representative people
Of Tennessee from the odium that they
and all the world attach to hellish
deeds
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FREIGHT DISCRIMINATION.
Some Figures of Interest 60 Tennessee
Farmers


To the Union aud American.
see from articles now and then appear
ing in the UNION AND AMERICAN, and
other newspapers in the State, that the peO-
pie are getting aroused upon the subject of
freight Determinations, as practiced by our
railroads, and in OrdOr TO bring this subject
directly to view,I give you comparison,
taking lJOhnsOnville, on the Nashville and
Northwestern road, as the starting point
and Montgomery, Ala, as the terminus.
The rate of freight on Tennessee raised
grain from JohnsOnville to Nashville, is Is
cents per 100 lbs. From Nashville to
Montgomery il is 30 cents per 100 lbs,
making a total Of 43 cents.
Other grain IS hauled by the Nashville
and North Western and the Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern roads over
the same ground from JOhnSOnyille to
Montgomery for q cents pei 100 fbs., ma
king difference in its favor of p cents
per 100 lbs, provided the grain be raised
outside the State and be brought to John
sOnyille by river. This difference in
freight makes the Illinois, Kentucky, Indi-
ana or Missouri farmers grain, if intended
for the Montgomery market, worth l2a
cents per bushel more on the ears at John
sOnville than the Tennessee farmers grain
is, although the latter be as good, be loaded
on cars at the same time aud place and be
carried over the roads by the same train.
Again, to show the absolute and extreme
absurlity of the rates, we viii take car Of
home-raised grain at JohnsOnville and ship
to Nashville, the cost being IS cents per
100 lbs. The Nashville eOnSignee wants
10 send it to Pulaski and, without taking il
from depot, renews or takes new bill of
lading to Pulaski. For this the charge is
. cents per 100 lbs, and whenit arrives at
Pulaski, the cOnsignee then wants it at
Montgomery and has TO pay for the balance
of the route IS cents. Thus the
grain costs from JohnsOnville 10 MOntgOm-
cry, in all, "A cents per 100 lbs. freight,
while the foreign freight which goes over
the same road and the same distance, but
on a through bill of lading, costs but 2l
cents, OF about IL cents per bushel, while
the domestic article costs about Al cents
per bushel-a difference of nearly so cents
per bushel.
Grain is shipped from st. Louis over the
Iron Mountain railroad to the Mississippi
river at Columbus, then transferred across
the river, taken by the Mobile and Ohio to
Union City, by the Nashsille and North
western road to Nashville, and then by the
Louisville, Nashville and Great Southern
to Montgomery for 20 cents per 10O lbs. the
entire distance, while the Louisville, Nash
vile and Great Southern charges SO cents
per 100 lbs. from Pulaski TO the same point.
Is there any wonder that our farmers see
hard times? SUBSCRIBER.
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WEST TENNESSEE.

Hon. Il. p. Cole Nominated for FIOater
From Henry, WeakIey, Gibson and
Carroll Counties.
Special TO the Union and American.
MCKENZIE, Tenn, Sept. 1.-The Dem
ocratic FlOaterial Convention for the cOun-
ties of Gibson, Carroll, Weakley and Henry
met here to-day, and nominated the Hon.
+. p. Cole, Of Henry, on the forty-third
ballot. Col. II. w. Wall, of Henry, and
Capt. A. NJ. Boyd, of Weakley, were his
opponents. The session lasted ten hours,
but was harmonious throughout. The
nomination will be hailed with general
and enthusiastic satisfaction throughout
the entire district. Everybody is well
pleased, and all will be well in November.
D. /. Il.
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VERMONT.
tuesdays northumberland Defeated.

tuesdays EIeetiOn-POIandD Defeated.
MONTPELIER, VI, Sept. 2.-Returns
still come in slowly, but enough is known
TO indicate the election of Judge Peck, Re
publican, Governor, by the usual Vermont
majority, after allowing for n lighter vote.
The House will be overwhelmingly Repub-
Iican, and the Senate unanimously the
same way. One hundred and ten towns
return eighty-One Republicans to the Leg
islature to twenty-iotIr Democrats, there
being no choice in five.
The contest in the Second Congressional
district has been a very hot one and results
in the defeat Of Poland. The boilers
mainly supported Hon. ID. g. DennisOn
but their advice to their followers was TO
vote for any body to draw votes from
Poland. The exact result of the ballot OF
yesterday as far as heard from in AZ towns
ont of so is as follows: Poland, 3,S52;
Dennison, 5,2j1; Davenport, 1880; scatter
ing, 5S4. In 1872 in the same towns
Poland received 1866 votes. In 1872
Poland led the State ticket in these towns
5,436 and this year Dennison leads Poland
1899.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
CALIFORNIA FARMING.

A california farm has lately been
rented for five years at an annual rem
tai of forty thousand dollars. The
farm consists of twenty thousand acres,
stocked with one thousand nine hun
dredhead of cattle, one hundred horses,
fifty mules, one thousand five hundred
hogs, which, with crops, cost the lessee
the sum of S74,25O; adding rental
makes the transaction foot up Sll4,-
$50. This was only a farm-all
arabic land-while they have sheep
ranges in that wonderful country of
100000 acres, with flOcks of 10000 to
IOO, 900 head. Single farmers boast of
crops Of $4,000 to 10000 bushels Of
wheat, and some of enough to load a
thousand-ton ship Cattle-rising was
once a large interest, but is going
down
VINEYARDS are attracting more az
tention each year. As an instance Of
the scale on which the Californian does
whatever he undertakes, there are
VINEYARDS Of 10000 vines IN bearing
and many Of 100 acres IN extent, and
companies which have 400 acres.
The dairy interest is also growing IN
Importance, and dairymen count herds
of /, 800 COWS, with ranches of $1,000
acres.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03

THE new State Democratic Central
Committee is announced in this morn
ing's UNION AND 8 AMERICAN. A
glance at its personnel shows that the
selections were made with a view to
earnest and thorough work and the
cordial co-operationIof the large anti
Republican majority in the State. 1t
rests with the people to strengthen their
hands in the double work before us of
defeating Radicalism at the polls and
in its foul scheme to precipitate race
collisions and place our friends North
at a disadvantage.
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A pncIacCnhIe

SAN Francisco, Sept. 2.-The United
States steamer Tusearoro, sent out to make
soundings for a cable from this coast to
Japan is passing up the harbOr.
The first attempt from Cape Flattery
(Australia) was abandoned on account Of
the lateneSs Of the season, and she made
sOundings on and of the coast from Cape
Flattery to San Diego. From that she
struck for Honolulu, making soundings.
As she went from Honolulu she proceeded
to YokahOma via Borim Islands, and the
deepest water found on this line was 3,2S7
fathOms. Two lines were started from the
coast Of Japan, but abandoned on account
of the great depth of water. The third line
was found feasible, and line was run to
Kuril Island, one Of Aleutian group, thence
run to Aunataski and from there to Cape
Flattery. The greatest depth found on
this line was 81 miles.
Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-09-03
LOUISIANA.
A Radical Pet,

NEW ORLEANS, sept. 2.-Justin Bor-
donny was murdered by Alex. Newton last
night. The bloOd-thirsty disposition Of
Newton is the only cause for the deed.
Bordonny was an industrious, inoiiensive
ieweller, and leaves wife and several small
children. Newton, in 1872, murdered pO-
lice officer Townsend, but being a pet of
the Radical authorities escaped unpun-
ished. During the past two years he has
been engaged in half a dozen cutting and
shooting scrapes. He is now locked up.
The Citizens Bank suspended this morn
iuo
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THE TURF.
'sThat's the Kind of a Girl i
Anl.v
Goldsmith Maid TrOts a Mile I'm
2:14!
Rochester and Buffalo Mourn Il

Rochester and Buffalo Mourn To-
Eether.
BosToN, Sept. AIT Mystic Park to-day
a special purse Of $500 was offered to
Goldsmith Maid to beat her own record of
2:l4sa, she TO have three trials. The Maid
appeared etSeen the heats Of the second
race and made the first heat iu 2:19i, going
easily all the way round accompanied by
runner attached to buggy and driven by
James Golden.
The second trial was made under the
most favorable auspices. The track had
been scraped close into the pole, and there
was absolutely no wind. Budd Doble
nodded for the word the first time he came
down. The Maid trOtted the first quarter
in 33t seconds, and the half mile in 1901,
lifting her head once Just before she reached
there. The last half mile was trotted with
out the least show Of break, and she made
her best recorded time-2:14-amid the
cheers Of assembled thousands.
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TERRIBLE DEATH OF A CHILD.
waynesbOro, lTennl., citizen.

We learn that one night last week little
child of Jerry Griggs, residing on Factors
Fork IN this county, got out OF the bed
where it was sleeping with its mother and
crawled into the tire and was burned to
death before it was discovered. It seems
that Mr.. Griggs and some ofthe older child
rem had gone to the house of Rev. w. w.
Kimbro to sit up with one Of his children
who was hourly expected to die, and that
Mrs. Griggs and some Of the younger child
ren were asleep and did not discover the
burning child until death had freed it from
its horrible sufferingS. When discovered it
was literally burnt to crisp. The heart
broken mother is said to have become in
sane on account of the loss of her child.