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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-05
NO. 1856
EIGHTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
lAt Wythe.l

EIGHTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(At Wythe.)
Hayes.
Deputy Sheriff. w Herring.
(At Log Union.)
.Judges-E B English. I P Wylie and S.
Clerks-SL Heron and r Anderson.
Deputy Sherif-Henry Bragg.
NINTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
cat FishervilIe.)
Jndges-A Fletcher, M L Williams and w
Clerks-J II Stephenson and W D Ridout.
Deputy Sheriff. A Allen.
(At Delauney's Storey
Judges-J W Allen, N Justice and w
Cierks-T Crenshaw and w G Allen.
Deputy Sheriff. X Delaney.
TENTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(At Collierville.)
Judges-M Scott. ] C Anderson and G R
Clerks-P II Hulburt and W Cohen.
Deputy Sherif-William Hill.
cat Forrest Hill.)
SJudges-W M Perkins, L Kincannon and
Robert Boyman.
Clerks Robert Cash and John Kushman.
ELEVENTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(At Germantown.)
Judses-T Thompson, + A Hurt and F
Harrison.
Clerks-S B Sheppard and VIM Carter
Deputy Sheriff. Rhodes.
TWELFTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(At 0akville.)
Judges--N F Lemaster, Z. A Edmondson
and l. Burford.
Cierks-J ] Monahan, W II Nelson.
Deputy Sheriff. / Hildebrand.
(Buntyn Station.)
Judges-C White, NJ D Deadrick and A
Martin.
Olerks-W d Cannon and DR. G 0 Buntyn.
Deputy Sheriff. b Rhodes.
THIRTEENTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(Arnold's.)
yudges-F c Stevenson, W A DooIey, DIR R
L Raines.
Clerks-zeno 7 Harris, L Elam.
Deputy Sheriff-W II Hoegel.
sIxTRENTH CIVIL DISTRICT.
(Albert Pike Masonic Lodge.l
.Judges-Joe Graham, r NJ Mason and B w
Mccullough.
Clerks--J Hill and A s Brown.
Deputy Sheriff-C L Brooks.
SEVENTEENTH CIVIL DISTRICT
Mount Vernon Church.)
Judges-A Roarke, Toleen Choate and ]
G Campbell.
Clerks-R R Stone and E ] Massey.
Deputy Sheriff. McMurray.
walnut Grove.)
Judges-Maurice Mitchell, 1 A Hagan and
+ Inman.
Clerks-R A Pennington and Andrew Taft.
Deputy Sheriff-Ben 0verturff.
In the Fifteenth civil district outside the
city limits voters will vote at the Ninth ward
precinct.
In that portion of the Fourteenth civil dis
trict outside the city limits, and east of the
Hern ando road, voters will vote in the Sew
enth ward; and the voters in that portion of
said district west of the fernando road in the
Tenth ward.
1t is ordered by the County Court that an
election be held to establish voting place in
the Tenth ward; therefore each voter in said
ward will indicate the place of his choice
upon the ballot he may cast.
Polls will be opened at am. and closed at
pm.
Deputy Sheriffs will please make prompt
returns to me at the Second Chaneery Court
room. W. j. p. DOYLE,
Sheriff of Shelby County.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-05
Henry Ward Beecher ON the Fate
of MIR. Davis.

Rev. Henry Ward Beecher once deliv-
cred long sermon upon the fate of Mr..
Davis, which is suggestive of the lines:
That mercy 1 to others show,
That mercy show to me.
In conclusion he said:
/ speak with a certain reluctance, and
the thought oftentimes, when it comes,
even touches me with grief, but believe
that Mr.. Davis, for example, will be
hung. Already the scene rises before
me. He is tried; he is convicted; he
stands on the scaffold All nations have
watched the sure process of the law; all
nations have listened to the charges laid
at his door; all nations gather about the
scafold. There are some things to plead
for him. He is a man of distinguished
ability; he has conducted his war with
pertinacity and courage; he was the be.
loved leader of the multitudes of the
South, and even now millions of them
would shield him if they could. He has
wife who loves him, and children who
cannot understand his crime; he is sur
rounded by a mighty, innumerable
North, who, the war being over and its
hot passions cooled, have NO hate and
no malice, and nothing worse than a
chastened, sorrowful indignation toward
him. They would release him if they
could. If they could forget the dead;
if they were not compassed about with a
great cloud of witnesses; if their bells of
victory were not drowned by their bells
of mourning; if they could forget their
country; if they could forget their God,
they could give way to their pity for
brother man in his extremity.
They hear voices from over the
sea- voices of sympathy for him;
voices of pleading, occasional voices of
threatening may be. But nothing
avails; he can't be spared; he would not
consent to peace; he would not be just;
he would be patriot; he must die. And
the ak comes down, and the world shud-
ders, and the great traitor is dead. And
| claim that such scene and spectacle
as that will do more for the stability of
the country and for the cause of public
order than almost any dozen great acts
of these last four years. 1t will take
rank among the sublimities of history.
1t will have moral dignity and weight
which no magnificent battle we have
fought could have. 1t will engage the
attention OF mankind as none OF our
battles have. 1t will be more easily
comprehended by them. 1t will be re-
bellion and slavery epitomized and en-
bodied in the form and person of their
chief man, and then beheaded for their
sins. And the people will understand
that simple, tragic thing. And it will
sink into them; and it will hallow love
in their feeling forever more. Let it
come, then. History waits for it. The
greatest work of modern times-our
loyal war, l mean-waits for its cap
stone Let it be raised. And, in the
words of our great martyr, when he
wrote the decree which has made him
immortal;
"Upon this, our coming solemn act OF
Justice, we invoke the blessing of AL
mighty God and the considerate judg-
ment of mankind" Amen and amen.
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Trustees Sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED MADE
ID TO me June II. 1873, by u. B. Weber, and
J. NJ, Williams and Henry Williams, recorded
in the Register Office of Shelby county, Ten
nessee, in Book 81. pages l46. etc.. will. on
Monday, August 10, 1874,
between 10 o'clock am. and o'clock p.m.,
at the southern gate of Court Square, Mem
phis, Tennessee. sell for cash, at public out
cry, the property conveyed-to me by said trust
deed, described as follows, to-wit: Part Of
lot 10, of block So, in the city of Memphis,
beginning 81 feet west Of the intersection Of
the south line Of Vance street with the west
line of Orleans street; thence west 30 feet;
thence south with Pettit's east line l56 7-12
feet TO a 20-foot alley; thence east with the
north line of said alley 80 feet; thence north
l56 7-12 feet to the beginning. Also tract of
$50 acres in the Eleventh surveyors district
and Eighth civil district, one mile south Of
Shelby Depot as particularly described in said
trust deed, to which reference is made for
fuller description. Also a tract of land in the
Second civil district on the waters Of Big
Creek, part of 2000-aere tract granted By
North Carolina 10 A. Sharp. and more par
ticulary described as lots 6. 7 and 8, said three
lots containing together $50 acres; all Of said
property in Shelby county, Tennessee. Equity
Of redemption waived. Titles believed good.
but will sell and convey only as trustee.
W. X. POST0N, Trustee.
MCFARLAND Il GOODWIN. Attorneys.
110-140
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Stout old lady getting out of avenue
car" Well, that is a relief, anyhow"
Conductor says" So the horses think,
madam.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-05

Young girls" says cynic, who
want to remember anything, write it
down and put it on the looking glass" "
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The 22d Day Of August, 1874,

between 10 am. and PM, at R. Van Brock
lin * Sons. Nos. 299 and 301 Second street,
Memphis, Tennessee, sell at public auction,
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following
One dark bay horse, about fourteen hands
high; ono rockaway and harness. one buggy
and harness; and one wagon. The sale is 10
be made TO pay the debt in said deed men
toned. W. /. COLE.
COLLIER & Houston, Attorneys.
July 20. 1874. 122-I5I
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LEGAL.
Trust Sale.

TTNDER THE POWER GIVEN ME BY
~. the deed Of Thomas Koffod, executed
July 25, 1873, and registered in Shelby county
will, on
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Trustees Sale.

DURSUANT TO THE TERMS OF A DEE
il in trust to me executed on the 14th day Of
November. 1873, by E. W. Provine, and filed
for record in the Registers office Of Shelby
county, Tenn. ON the 23d day of June, 1874.
the indebtedness thereby secured remaining
unpaid. will on
Friday, the 31st Day Of JIly, 1874,
within legal hours, at the south gate of Court
Square, in the city Of Memphis, Tennessee
sell for cash to the highest bidder, at public
outcry, the property therein described as
follows. to-wit: Situated, lying and being
in Shelby county, Tennessee. near to
and south Of the city of Memphis.
and beginning at a point on Hernando
and the Memphis and Selma railroad Uor-
southwardly along the east line Of the Her
nando road 100 feet TO a stake; thence east
Wardly and at right angles with said Her
nando road $50 feet to the point Of intersee-
ton of the 30 feet left along said railroad for
a street, which we will call Railroad street;
thence westwardly with said 90 feet left be-
tween this lot and the railroad to the begin-
ming corner on fernando road being part Of
original lot No. 80 of WillO Williams division
Of land. laid of and surveyed by 4. s.. Todd
for said Williams, and lot No. Is off. NJ. Pro-
vines sub division, on the east side Of Her
nando road. and being the same lot conveyed
to the said Z. n Provine by j NJ. Pr0vine.
on the 9th day of February, 1872.
Terms cash. Title believed to be good. but
/ will sell and convey only as trustee. Equity
of redemption barred.
1913 DAVID II. P0ST0N. Trustee.
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Only Thirty-One Hours.
OYLY ALL RAIL LINE
PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS

ERIE RAILWAY
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.Jepot at foot Of Main street.
Ticket Office. 2S7 Main street. corner Of
Madison.
NJ. BURKE. Gen'I Sup't.
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MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE R. h.
Arrives. Leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-08-05

xEMPHIs AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
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RAILROAD TINE TABLES.

MEMPHIS AND LoUHVILIE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
An Honest Confession.

In 1872 the vote of Arkansas was de-
clared by the radical manipulators to be
Al ,784 for Baxter, Grant Radical, and
49, 73 for Brooks, Greeley Conservative
Since the Brooks and Baxter imbroglio
of last winter, an appeal has been made
to congressional investigating COM
mittee, and the election returns of 1872
when sumbitted to the committee at Lit
tie Rock under oath, showed IS, 99S for
Baxter and 1851 for Brooks. This is
conclusive proof that the Greeley Con-
servatives or Democrats carried Arkan-
sas by 9,553 majority. Yetit was count
ed for Grant. And those who perpetra-
ted the fraud are the parties to expose
and acknowledge it. Such are the fruits
of Republican rule. And their feats il
mathematics have not been confined tt
Arkansas.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
How to Keen a situation,

Be ready to throw in an odd halt
an hours time when it is an accommoda-
ton, and don't seem to make a merit of
it. Do it heartily. Though not a word
be said, your employer will make a note
of it. Make yourself indispensable to
him, and he will lose many of the oppo
site kind before he will part with you.
Those young men who watch the clock
to see when the very second their work
ing hour is up-who leave, no matter
what state the work may be in, at pre-
cisely the instant-whO calculate the eX-
ira amount they can slight their work,
and yet not get reproved-whe are Law
ish of their employers goods-will al
ways be the first to receive notice when
times are dull, that their services are no
longer required.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
Savage VS.. johnson.

Col. Jno. H. Savage and Ex-Presi-
dent johnson, candidates for the Q. s.
Senate, spoke at Franklin last Monday.
Col. S. closed his speech as follows:
Gentlemen, what if l were to tell
you that an aspirant for this high office
once desired and was bent on hanging
Gen. r. E. Lee? Would not some
/ johnson man say it was false! Yet L
can prove it by the sworn testimony OF
Gen. Grant upon oath before Congress,
and Grant is a good witness against
! him, for they were cOnfederates in re-
ducing the South to bondage. Here is
| what Grant swears:
81 frequently had to intercede for Gen.
Lee and other officers on the ground
that their parOl protected them from ar
rest and trial. The President at that
time occupied exactly the reverse
grounds, viz: that they should be tried
and punished, and wanted to know when
the time would come when they should
| be punished" And Grant swears this
after repeated crOss-eXaminations. (See
McPherson's Handbook, page 299.)
Now this high parsonage who wanted
to hang Gen. Lee, oftentimes, and IN
my judgment in very bad taste, refers
| to the crucifixion of our SaVior-and
| WIlllC L ulSllkc dlluuluB " SdCA Cu SSCICo
in connection with ipolitics, / hope l
may be pardOned for carrying your
mind back TO that greatest of crimes,
when the sun hid his face, and this old
! globe trembled to its foundation, and ask
you to let your memories run over the
long catalogue of dark and infamous
deeds that have disgraced humanity or
drenched the world in blood. Is there
any crime committed or attempted by
bad men from the crucjhXion to the
present moment so dark and Infamous
as the one that Grant sweaTs he prevent
ed this bad President from committing.
Appalling thought! Andrew john
son hanging r. Z. Lee! the man of this
age before whose honor and bright name
the renown of the CAESARS and Bona
parts-the Emperors and Kings of Eu-
rope-your Grants and Shermans rale
almost into darkness-and whose name
will now brighten with time-he has nc
peer in history but Washington. One
drop of his blood contained more patri-
otism, honor and truth than a hundred
such bodies as that of the man who de-
sired to hang him.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
EIk RiYer Land fOr Sale.


Tn pursuance of an order of Giles Co. Court,
j l viii on the premises sell to the highest
bidder,
On Saturday, october cath, 1874,
219 2-I0 acres Of valuable Elk River bottom
land, known as the Josiah DAILY homo plaza,
situated on the south side Of Xix River OPP
posite tho mouth of Riehland creek, = about
4 miles east of the Nashville q DecatEr Rsil
Boad, in the LIST district Of Giles county, ad-
joining the lands OF Thos. B. DAILY, decd,
others, and on which there are several settle
meDts, with good Gin and Press; and most
of the land cleared and in high state of Gull
tivstion, and on which there are two or more
lasting springs, and we'll adapted to corn and
cotton culture, as well as stock-raising.
These lands will be sold in one er more
lots to suit purchasers, on l & years, with
interest from date, except cash payment OF
5 per cent. Notes and approved security re-
quired of the purchaser and lien retained for
their payment. H. II. AYMETT,
s24-4t Cl'k Giles Co. Court.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15

Es5- Ex-President johnson criticises
and condemns that part Of Gov. Browns
Pulaski speech i'm which he advised his
people not to agitate the Senatorial
question, but to elect good men whom
they are willing to trust with their in
terests without asking whom they favor
for the u. ). Senate. The eX-President
claims that It is question paramount to
all others and that the matter should be
fully discussed by and before the people.
The result of Mr.. JOhnson's policy
would be to distract the cOunsels of the
democratic party, now so harmonious,
and Hood the State with Independent
candidates, some for each of the half
dozen aspirants, and thus secure the
election of bob-tail legislature, made
up mostly OF radicals, and thereby in
sure the election of a radical Senator.
Gov. Browns position is the true one,
and win be endorsed and approved by
the democratic party OF the State. Mr..
johnson, however, would sink the dem
Ocratic party if necessary for his own
preicrment, and his canvass Of the State
to-day is made for the purpose of dis
tracing the Counsels of the party,
hoping thereby to promote his own per-
sOnU interests.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
CANNED GOODS,
In ConntH Conrt at Pnlaski-

VIM. G. Tidwen VS.. Danu May ct al.
I n this cause it appearing TO the satisfac-
ton Of the Clerk from the bin of com
plainant and affidavit thereto that the de-
PENDANTS, Bird Stepp, Hezekiah @. Stepp,
Thomas Motifs, Manerva Motifs, lie Roy Rob-
erts, Newt Alternately, Harriet Alternately,
Robert !. Roberts, John Roberts and
Vincent Roberts are non-residents of
the State Of Tennessee, so that the
ordinary process of this Court cannot be
served on them On motion il is therefore
ordered that publication be made for four
weeks in succession in the Pulaski Citizen,
a newspaper published in the town of Pu-
laski, in said State, requiring the said de-
PENDANTS TO be and appear before the County
Court 70 be held for the county of Giles, az
the courthouse in Pulaski, on the LIST Mon
day in october next, and answer com
plainant's bill, OF the same viii be taken for
confessed as TO them and set Tor hearing ex-
parto Il. Il. AYMETT, Clerk.
Matthews d Tslialerro, Att'ys Tor Com. ais
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15

" If Mr.. Suttle had killed his
black assassin last Saturday, instead of
becoming the victim himself, howl
would have gene up through the North
that would have made the strongest
heart shudder. The lawlessness of the
Southern whites would have been de-
picted in the most extravaganza excla-
nations, and eXecrations deep and
damning would have rent the air. Ten
nessee whites would have been repre-
scented as fierce and merciless savages,
thirsting for the blood of poor innocent
lamb-lille negroes, whose lives were
sacrificed by us as n morning and even
ing pastime. But rs it is only white
man who yields up his life to this in
ternal yankee idea of negro superiority
rs white children only are orphaned by
this insatiate thirst for southern blood
as woman with anglO-saXon blood
alone coursing her veins is widowed and
crushed by this damnable hygera of
hate, not ripple win disturb the tran
guilty OF the North not single regret
Will escape the lips of our haters, not a
sigh will heave the bosom of the hypo-
critics and incendi8ries who are respon-
sible for this condition of society; but
u demouiacal laugh and a shrug of sat
istaction will spread like a wave OF
peace over the entire North. But if
Mr.. Suttle's assassin had been lynched
as some feared he would be, then the
howl would have been terrific. But
thank God, our people are law-abiding,
and are willing to await the slow pro-
cess Of law even in such cases as this.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15

EE- Attorney General Williams, by
direction of Gen. Grant, writes to Gov
Brown, in answer to his request that
Federal Military interference be with
drawn from Tennessee that the Presi-
dent "does not feel at liberty to inter-
fcre with the Judicial proceedings(D
referred to, and they will therefore be
allowed to proceed in the usual way to
a final determination in the courts oil
the u. So SO the mills grind on.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1874-10-15
QUESTIONS
SATISFACTORILY ANSWERED
Only Lock Stitch without
a Shuttle.
Which is the Best Family
Sewing Machine?
READ the EVIDENCE

Is the new Wheeler & Wilson simple in
construction that it may be easily learned
and not liable to get out of order ?
i VIII Give $1,000
for any standard shuttle machine now in
market that does not contain at least twice
as many pieces and consequently that many
more to learn how to manage and to get out
of order than the New Wheeler & Wilson.
Is the New Wheeler & Wilson silent in its
operations
I viii Give $1,000
for any shuttle machine that runs as silently
as the New Wheeler & Wilson.
VIII the New Wheeler & Wilson sew rap
idlyl
chine that will sew ten yards of seam az
quickly as the New Wheeler and Wilson.
Is the New Wheeler and Wilson easily
changed from one kind ofwork to another
/ Will Give 600 for any shuttle ma
chine that the change of needle, thread, ten
sion, stitch, feed and attachments can be as
quickly made upon as the New W & Wilson.
Will the New Wheeler and Wilson do sll
kinds of work required of family machinei
1t win emphatieally.
Will Give 81 900 for any machine
that will do a greater variety or better work
than the new Wheeler and Wilson.
Does tho New Wheeler & Wilson run easy
/ Will Give 81 900 for any standard
shuttle machine that runs as easily.
is the New Wheeler and Wilson durable
Its joints are 80 constructed that all lost mo-
ton can be taken up as fast as it accumulates
and the Oldest machine thus be made to ope-
rate perfectly and run as silently as if new.
l Will Give $1,000 for any shuttle ma
chine with all joints adjustable like the New
Wheeler and Wilson.
Has the new Wheeler 81 Wilson stood the
test OF time 1t has been manufactured and
sold for twenty tour years.
/ Will Give $1,000 for Wheeler and
Wilson machine that is worn out.
w no DarSS Follow Me?
l hereby challenge any frst-class family
sewing machine to follow the New Wheeler
q Wilson in its unequalled variety of work
and test of strength without meeting with a
complete failure and in addition being COM
PEELED to pick up the pieces of their broken
machines.
The Above Challenges were made con-
seeutively through the columns of this pa
per, and which for the benefit of all agents
are still open for their refusal or acceptance.
Buy no other until you have seen the New
Wheeler & Wilson, which Twill bring to
your home and show you, and it it don't
satisfy you l charge you nothing. Terms
easy. Address your orders to
Office at F. Winship's Yours respectfully,
.Iewelry Store, lst T. r. Burgie,
Main street south. Agt GILES and sur
Box 129, Pulaski. rounding counties.