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Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

LoulsyiLLE, Ky, June IL In liar
nson county Kentucky, last Friday a
MOB Of mounted men took Robert
Beckett from the house of his employer,
rlddled his body with bullets, soaked
his clothes with coal oil and set fire to
them thus burning the dead body.
Beckett was charged with the mur-
der OF man named Ellis about a year
ago, but was out on bail, Great indig
nation is reported in the community
at this lnhuman outrage.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

William Jones colored was executed
III Culpeper, for the murder Of William
Dnrkin, on last Friday. The murder
was committed last December. Jones
confessed that be Killed Dnrkin, who
Fas avery nice Young mar, in order TO
get possession Of his clothes About
600 people w.tncsse the execution
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

Rev John A. Gere, OF the Northern
-Metht dist Church died on Saturday 9th
inst. lie had filed the position Of
Presiding Elder, a number of years
He was formerly member of the
Baltimore Conference.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

In several of the districts of this
State a numter OF candidates for Con
gress have been named Here we have
no feeling upon the subject. Every
body thinks that Harris will be can
didate; and if he should be, there i.
little chance for any other aspirant.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

Mr.. S. /. Stuart Of Loudoun county
writes to the Leesburg Washingtoliian
that he has this year raised 70 lambs
from rs ewes and sold them for four
dollars n head. The farmers of Shen,
andoah viii soon be convinced that
sheep are more profitable than dogs.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

q. " Campbell has been arrested
near Biacksbr~g, Va, for passing coun
terfeit fifty cent notes. The names OF
a number Of others who are known to
be dealing in bogus money have been
ascertained, and they will probably be
arrested.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

The entire democratic State ticket
has been elected in Oregon. The
Legislature stands-Senate, republican
II, democrats 8, Independents 10.
House, republicans Is, democrats 90,
Independents %.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18
Fire at the Antletan Paper MilIs-Los:
$4,000,

HAGERsrNwN, MD, June 14.-One
OF the large brick buildings of the
Antietam paper mills, two miles from
here destroyed Gy Ere at ten o'clock
last night. The building, containing
machinery worth sixty-tive thousand
dollars, was saved by the exertions of
the Junior and Antietam Fire Com
palies, who took their engines out to
the fire, aided by ct>izers and oper-
atives. 1t is supposed the fire origina
ted by spontaneous combustion in lot
Of rags stored in the rag room, which
got wet while being brought to Balti-
more in vessel. These mills were
totally destroyed by fire in September
last. They are owned by John w.
Stonebraker and Messrs Dushane, OF
Baltimore. The loss is estimated at
forty thousand dollars, fully covered by
Insurance.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

A boat containing three insurgelit
Cuban chiefs, one of whom is named
I5etaucourt has been captured and
taken into Nuevitas
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

WHOLESALE SLAUGHTER or SHEEP
We are informed that Mr.. Daniel G
Blessing, who lives some two or three
miles west Of Wytheville on the maca~
dam road, had the misfortune to have
no less than 80 sheep, nearly his whole
flock, killed by dogs on Thursday night
last
And to~Iay we were furnished with
a local item simular to the above, only
worse. 1t reads: So sheep killed and
wounded by dogs last night, June lst,
out Of drove Of George +. ,Myerley's,
while stopping at Mr. David Sections
farm, preparatory to Being loaded for
market
Think Of it, Thirty sheep in one
night. and thirty eightanother night
making sixty eight sheep killed by
Fof HESS dogs in one neighborhood
within the space ola week.
What proud satisfaction our law
makers must experience in reading
items like the above. Their ''pets
are doing glorious work i'll advancing
the interests Of the 'dear people" Soon
the price of wool will be mere song
and mutton will be drug IN the mar
kct- [Wytheville Enterprise.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18
BRICK DWELLING HOUSE,

A Large Store House,
Stables Barns, and all necessary oiutbuildinrs.
The several tracts OF land belonging to the
Furnace
CONTAIN SEVEN THOUSAND ACRES.
and are heavily tmbered. Ore can be had in
great abundance, and the mines are located
close to the Furnace Stack. No proper
ty IN Virginia hasa higher reputation TO IA
ciiities for maxi ing metal, and tie metal is re-
garded as first quality. Capitalists will find il,
this property very profitable investment The
property is entirely unencumbered and the OBJ
ject of the sale is to effect partition betw cen
the parties.
TERMS OF SALE:
One fourth ofpurchase money to be paid at
the contrma ton of sale BY the Court the
next term o the Circuit Court of Shenandoah
county begins On the 10th of August and
TIE residue in three equal installments one, two
and three years respectively from the date of
the confirmation OF sale ana bearing int rest
from that date, and to be secured by deed of
trust Or other lien upon the property and such
other additions security as the Special Com
missioners may deem judicious and proper
subje ct to the approval OF the court.
GILES COOK,
MARK BIRD,
MOSES WALTON.
Ii. G. Lien,
AtNp Il
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

SAD AND FATAL AccIDENr.-M Miss
Kate Luster, daughter of Mr.. Edwin
B. Luster of this place, (says the Fin
castle Herald), who has been on a
visit to Mill Greek for several weeks,
was thrown from a horse last Tuesday
evening; and sustained such serious in
jury as to die within fifteen minutes
after the accident. She had been to
the postoffice at Blue Ridge, and was
returning to the home of the friends
she was visiting, MIR. Peter Obenchain' s,
when the unfortunate occurrence took
place.
She was riding a spirited horse, and
in attempting to quicken his gait, fell,
her foot hanging in the stirrup, in
which condition she was dragged about
seventy five yards She was accom-
panied by Miss Della Obenchain, who
summoned assistance at once. but be
fore the physician arrived she expired.
Her remains were brought to Fin
castle, the same day, tol interiment.
Miss Luster was about eighteen
years of age, and was a most amiable,
sweet~tempeFed young lady Her
friends have the warm sympathy of our
people in this sad bereavement.
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18

VIRGINIA CRors.-A recent circular
of a firm in Richmond says:
I'VE are approaching our wheat
harvest in Virginia with an unprece
dented yield we have not had a
prospect eqnal to It since the war
Our next tobacco crop cannot be very
large on account Of the general rava
ges by the ety. and it is too late to
ralse more for planting. This fact has
improved value ofall good tobacco Of
the last crop; now coming forward anil
hpoti' THE market
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1874-06-18
AIeGGndri0 Markets, lime Is

IL "A i-TIMoRE MARK 2rr,sS
Jnliu Is.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
NEW YORK.
Steamer River Belle BurDed-Erom
Cuba-DOckFay on the Chatn-Gans
Maryland Politics Bankrupt De
eisiOn-1 he Red Republic auu COM
mime in Rome.

mune in Rome.
NEw YORK, September 3.-The loss OF
the steamer River Belle last night is
placed at seventy-fve thousand dollars.
The vessel was scuttled to save the
hull.
A letter dated Havana, August 2Sth,
says that on the the 10th an order was
given to put Frederick Dockray on the
chain.gan which was accordingly done.
He was, however, spared the indignity
of being sent to work with the remainder
Of the chain-gang. All communication
with his friends in Puerto Principe was
denied him, and on the twenty-sixth he
was shipped from Nuevitas for Havana,
where be arrived August 18th, and was
forthwith sent to Cabanss fortress. No
one had had communication with him
up to the time the letter was written.
A special from Baltimore says that
the Democratic Convention which met
at Hagerstown yesterday nominated
William Walsh for Congress. and that
Montgomery Blair was one of the de-
feated candidates.
Judge Blotchford in a bankrupt case
gave decision yesterday to the effect
that when the assets of bankrupt fail
to reach fifty per cent. of the claims
proved against the estate he cannot have
a discharge unless by consent of ma
jority in numbers and value of his cred
itors, in accordance with the provisions
of the act of 1868, which the Court hold
has not been modified by subsequent
legislation.
One hundred and tea Menonites ar
rived here yesterday and will leave to-
day for Dakota.
A letter from Rome says that the Rev
! olution now desires to set up the Red
Republic and the Commune and to play
in Rome the prapks it played in Paris
and became bold enough to Summon
Congress to be held at Ferrara on the
I'd of August. There was a sort Of
meeting preliminary to this Congress
held at a villa near Rimini, and at this
we're assembled twenty-eight leaders in
the revolution from all parts of the pen
insula. The government marched a
body Of troops to the villa, surrounded
it and arrested twenty-eight Of the
Reds. They were searched, and from
papers found upon them, and from other
information the government obtained
list Of over two hundred clubs of Reds
and Internationalists in the provinces of
Rsveuna, Acona, Bologna and Ferrara.
These clubs we're all closed within the
next few days, their papers seized and
some Of their members arrested on the
9th and 10th. Acting upon information
obtained from papers taken at Rimini,
the government arrested three of the
Internationalist chiefs at Forti and thir-
teen at Florence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
An Inventive NeWport Belle,

A good story is told Of a young lady
whose taste and invention we're much
greater than her means. Invited to one
Of the villa parties, where she knew that
point lace would be at a discount and
diamonds at a running scale of magnifi-
cence, she set her wits to work to make
herself presentable in such gorgeous
company. She had neither point lace
nor diamonds, and what is more to the
point, she had no money to buy much
more than a calico gown. What was to
be done2 She did as Cinderella did
transformed what to the less brilliant
mind was untransformable by the aid Of
her fairy godmother-mother wit. Hang.
ing up in her closet was sn old white
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

WASHINGTON, September 3.-0ver Ten
nessee and the Ohio valley and lower
lake region, warm southwest winds,
shifting to the northwest, with rising
barometer, lower temperature, cloudy
weather and local rains. Over the up.
per Mississippi and lower Mississippi
valleys, Northwest and upper lake re-
gion, stationary or rising barometer,
low temperature, northerly winds, cloudy
and clearing weather.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

HoS. JOIN f. House, of the Nashville
district, was nominated for Congress
yesterday at the GAINESVILLE convention.
He is one of the best men and ablest
speakers in the State, and has record
OF which all Tennesseeans may be
proud. His election is a foregone con-
clusion. Such men sent to Congress
from every district can do much to re-
store the ancient fame of our State.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

While not large vote will be polled
for delegates to-day to attend the County
and Congressional Conventions good
men are likely to be selected in every
ward and district. Much interest is man
ifested, yet there is no excitement or
over-zealous partisanship visible. a
good ticket is likely to be presented on
the 10Th inst. for the Legislature, and if
so its election is assured.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

The Nashville Union and American
establishment has recently been re-
moved to a new and eommodious build
ing built by the proprietors at As Church
street. The event is made the occasion
of q proprietary and editorial retrospect
of the:paper extending over a period of
nearly forty years, as the Nashville
Union was first issued March Both, 1885.
1t was the offshoot Of a split between
General Andrew Jackson and Hugh
L. White, there being then no
paper in Nashville that defended
Jacksons administration. 1t has had
an interesting and eventful career, and
Of late years has been prosperous almost
beyond precedent; and the best evidence
Of this is in the splendid new quarters
isst occupied. We are grati6ed to OBJ
serve such signal success on the part Of
our valued contemporary. which ranks as
one Of the leading and most Influential
papers Of the South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
$4,000 TICKETS 5000 CASH GIFTS
5 = s q 900 o O !!
TT RE GIVEN AWAY

5000 CASH GIFTS. aggregating.... 600
PRICE OF TICKETS:
Whole Tickets. $40; Half Tickets, So; Quar-
ter Tickets. 50 90; Eleven Tickets, 500.
NO IEDIVIDUAL BENEFITS.
This Concert is strictly for MASONIC pur-
poses, aud will be conducted with the same
Iiberality. honesty and fairness which char
acteriked the frat enter rise.
JOHN Il. ROPER President
For Tickets and Circulars giving full infor-
nation. address.
HENbY v. MOORE. Sec'g Norfolk, Va.
nF- Information furnished by Joe Locke,
$50 Main ,tr ct, Room /, up.st4irs.
3 81 eOdkw27. IS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

The Chicago Inter-0cean, speaking of
the silly people who are eternally trying
to appear intellectual, says: In music
they affect classical severity of taste.
Vocal music they find trivial; instru-
mental music, if merely beautiful, is
worthless. Depth of thought is what
they are after. In painting they jabber
about symphonies in green, harmonies
in white, and notturnos in al sorts OF
colors. They beg of you to admire the
tremulous tones of an atmosphere, or
the swell of q foreground or the diapson
of scarlet in sunset. They themselves
might not inaptly be described as inhar-
monious swells in green, and it is diff
cult to say which are the greatest null
sances these really soulless windbags,
whose appreciation is all aaectation, or
the honest but uncultivated eountrymau,
who listens to a sonata of Beethoven and
exclaims "Ohl dry up that scrapin and
give us Virginia reel. :"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

A LETTER received in Washington
from a prominent Republican politician
in Memphis expresses the conviction
that General Forrest and Jefferson Davis
are sincere in their opposition to out
RACES like that recently perpetrated in
Gibson county.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

Cooley, Harper and ell the late fash
ion magazines can be found at Mans
fords; also late New York, New Or
leans and Nashville papers, and all late
weeklies and dailies from the prominent
cities of Europe and America. Call at
Mansford's for your reading matter, cor
ner Of Second and Monroe streets.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
sUMMER REsoRT.
Bon Aqua Springs.

BOARD FOR JUNE AND SEPTEMBER,
ID $40 per month"; July and August, s45 per
month.
Children over four and under thirteen years .
old, and servants. half price.
Children under four years old, So per
month.
Beard per week. sli; board per day. $3.50.
Round trip tickets from Memphis 70 Bon .
Aqua Station and return. good until used. ei3. .
JOS. @. lAPRADE. Sup't.
w. Cur P1TIEeOS. Cashier.
May 20, 1874. l17-t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
Apply at this Office.

Cooley, Harper's Monthly, Leslie,
Demorests, Popular Science, Galaxy,
Atlantic, international Review. all for
September, together with full assert
ment of literary ard illustrated weeklies,
daihes, etc., can be found on the coun-
tiers of Billy Lieben's lightning news
stand, 1854 Main street
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
saturday, Sd day Of October, 1874,

tho real estate mentioned and described in
said decree as follows: A certain lot OF par
eel Of land in the city Of Memphis, shelby
county, Tennessee, being the west half Of lot
No. 6, in Block No AZ. as described on the
plan Of what was known heretofore, as the
town Of South Memphis, said half Of said lot
fronting. as supposed, forty or forty one ieet
on the south side Of Browns avenue, and ex-
tending back southwardly one hundred and
seventy-fve feet, more or less. aud being the
same lot conveyed by W. b. Ross TO John d.
cor veyed To defendant Eliza Jane Bectel,
May 20, 1851, who with her husband Richard
X Beotel sold and cony eyed said lot on the
10Th of July. 1865, 10 defendant Jane Q. l..
Thomas. JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
for COmplaiuants. 5-z5
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

JUDoE JOHN L. T. SNEED has written
letter suggesting that the remains of
General jackson and his wife should be
removed from the Hermitage and placed
beneath the northern terrace of the State
canitol
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

silk-yellowed, wrinkled, tattered. Its
next allotted use was to figure in a
patchwork quilt but in her dilemma
this ghost Of a gown, this phantom from
a score or more parties confronted her
and with it sudden inspiration. She
took the phantom from its peg and
opened her paint box-for she is an
artist of no mean ability--opened her
paint box, and presently over the faded
surface sprang delicate tracery Of
field flowers. And the end of her labor
was the result that not only Solomon in
all his glory was eclipsed, but, all the
other women in their diamonds and
lace.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Fn I'D te 20 mtr.


We are authorized to announce JOHN
OVERTON, in a. a candidate for the State
Senate subject to Convention of the 10th OF
Sentemher Lite
To the people of the Senatorial District COM
posed of the counties of Shelby, fayette
aud Upton:
hereby announce myself a candidate for
the position of Senator, subject to the action
of your nominating convention called tor the
18th of September. ,,-,o,- s,,,rr,,
bite PEfTON >. SMITH.
We are authorized to announce A. B.
HAYNES as candidate for the State Senate.
subject to the action of the Shelby County
Convention to assemble September 10Th.
For representative.
MEMPHIS. Tenn, September l, 1874.
To Messrs. King. Porter, Vaecaro. JOY and
GESTIEuRN-In reply to the VERY fattering
call you have seen fit to make oa me TO be-
come a candidate before the next Democratic
and Conservative Convention ofShelby county
for the nomination of Represen tative in the
State Legislature, will say that, If am the
choi,e of the Convention and the people see
proper to elect me to that position. VIII
serve them in the utmost good iaith.
Respectfully. JOHN B. ROBINSON.
Ste
CoLIAERvILLE, TENN. August 20, 1874.
I am a candidate before the Democratic
Conservative nominating Convention Of the
18th of September for the Lower House OF tine
Legislature. I1-tcl B. @. BLEDSOE.
R. DUDLEY FRAYSER is candidate to
represent Shelby county in the Lower House
of the next Legislature. He submits his
name to the County Convention to assemble
the 18th of September. l-tc
For Congress.
THOMAS @. LOWE, of this city, Is can
didate for Congress to represent the Memphis
District, and will submit his name TO the Con-
eressional Convention at Bolivar the 6th OF
September. ioo'c
To the people of Shelby. Fayette and Harde-
man counties:
i respectfully announce myself a candidate
for Cor gress to represent your district In the
Congress of the United States. My name
will therefore, be submitted to, and i will be
governed by, the Convention which meets in
i RSi,dSl '"0 o." u ''' HOSEA TOWNSEND.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

supreme Court sale.


In Supreme Court at jackson.
James NJ. Heathman VS.. Henry G. Dent ct al.
DY VIRTUE OF The DECREE PRO-
ID nounced in this cause by the Supreme
Court of Tennessee at Jackson, at its April
term, 1874, will sell to the highest bidder. for
cash. in front Of the office Of the Sheriff Of
Shelby county, in the city of Memphis. within
legal hours, on
Saturday, 3d day of October, 1874,
the real estate mentioned and described in
the pleadingI as follows: A certain tract or
parcel of land in South Memphis, Shelby
county. Tennessee. and being at the southeast
intersection OF Elliott and Hernando streets
fronting seventy feet on east side of fernando
street, with depth and front of one hundred
and fifty feet on Elliott street, being parts of
lots Nos and 2, in Block IL. OF Buffers ad-
dition to Memphis, and same conveyed to de-
PENDANT Sarah T. Dent by A. NJ. Ferguson by
deed from A. NJ. Ferguson and N. Stout reg
istered in the Office OF the Register of Shelby
county. JOHN II. FREEMAN. Clerk:
HUNEs q PosTOS, Solicitors for Complain
ants. 3-zo
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

IT is understood that Colonel j. h.
Savage, of Warren county, will be a
candidate for the United States Senate
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03
NOTICE.

ON THE Urn DAY OF SEPTEMBER
" next we will sell at public auction. in
front Of our warehouse, No. 40 Monroe
street. about 100 Wheelbarrows TO pay
charges. WALKER wendell.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-09-03

1t is said that the hardest thing for a
woman to do after holding her tongue,
is to iron a shirt.