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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
River TeIegrams.

CAlEo, ILL, April ARRIVED: Henry
Ames and Paragon, New Orleans, 9 pm;
Lady Lee, Red river 10 am; Sam Rob
erts, St. Louis, am; Belle Memphis,
7 am; Iron Mountain, Pittsburg, 10
am. Departed: Chester, Memphis, 3
pm; Paragon, Cincinnati, 10 an;
Lady Lee, St. Louis, midnight; Belle
Memphis, St. Louis, 10 am. Weather
cloudy and cool
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
FOREIGN.

BAYoNNE, April lst-The Carlists as
sert that the movement Of Marshal LoF-
rane against the Royalists before Bel
boa has entirely failed, and that there
was no fighting between the 2sth and
30th of March.
MADRID, April lst.-It is reported that
the Carlist leader Radica was seriously
wounded in the recent engagement be-
fore Belboa.
BERLIN, April lst.-Peter Andrew
Hansen, German astronomer, is dead.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01

GENERAL MARCUS J. WRIeHT and his
esteemed wife have the sincere sympa-
thies Of the community in the loss by
death of their lovely young daughter.
She was just budding into womanhood,
but possessed accomplishments of per-
SON and mind far beyond one of her ten
der years. She was the idol of her pa
rents and the admiration of all who
knew her.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
coNcENTRATEp LYE.
r.. .RABBITT'S

Pure Concentrated Potash, or Lye,
Of Double the Strength of any other
sap onifying - bs ~ N n g @
I HAVE RECENTLY PERFECTED NEW
i method Of packing my Potash, OF Lye. ana
am now packing it only 10 Balls, the cea.!lns
Of which will saponify. and does not lnlnfe
the Soar. Its packed in boxes containing
"a and Is Ii. Balls. and in no Othor way. Di-
rections in English and German, for making
hard and soft sosp with this Potash. accom-
p""'i"s vac" PA0A~7'' B. T.. BBBBITT,
2s.Ild.5-sw "a TO 81 Washinton ST. N. y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
Hallway Accident.

PoRr JERvIs, April 1.-The westward
bound freight train ran into a train
standing on the track at Basket station
last night. The engine and eleven cars
of the freight train were demolished and
burned. No persons seriously injured.
The track was obstructed by four trains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01

Olive Logan writes from Paris about
the Almees. or dancing girls from the
Nile, about whom George William Cnriis
wrote wonderful descriptions in his
" Nile Notes -Four Of them are dane
INK on the stage Of the Folies Bergeres.
and Olive pron0unces them hIdeous
Jusl imagine che says, bur ugly
neEresses see-saEing their bodies 70 the
Vilest instrumental caferwaulinf. must
confess thar an Aimee Is now one Of the
bitter illusions Of my lie.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
narrnEAL cuRREEcY.

Hmay be taken as an almost assured
fact that the $4,000, 900 reserve viii be
added 10 The permanent currency Of the
connirv aud that the entire volume Of
legal tenders will be fxei At sioo ooo,-
COO There are bit $4,000 900 Of the
reserve withheld from eirculation, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
NOTICE.
IMPORTANT TO CITIZENS

DESIRING TO INCREASE THE MEM
bership of the Chamber of Commerce SO as to
have every business interest represented, 1t is
hereby announced that Leon Trousdale is au-
thorized to canvass the city in the interest Of
the Chamber, commencing on Monday, the
2Sd instant, and if one hundred new members
are obtained the dues Of the Chamber
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01
saturdar. Anil N, 1s74,

At The foot Of the steps at No. 500 Second
street la the city oh Memphii, Ienressee,
seil TO the highest bidder. for cash. D. Of No;
M Biocf A III Stephens subdivision, near the
citv III Nemphis, on the Hernsnd0 road IN
shelby county, Tennessee. bale.to take place
darinr LEGAL hours. Equity 4 redemption
waived. Title believed ~ be perfect; PIT 1
only sell as Trustee. ". Y NAiNhA.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01

Rev John L. Stephens, the missionary
lately assassinated IL Mexico, was a ma
tive Of Wales, and vas only twenty
seven years oli. He Eas educated 10
Caiiiornia, aud before entering upon his
work IN Mexico vas for tine pastor Of
o Congregational church a. South Val
ieio California.
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MEETING.
SnaciaI. Meeting.

rNHERE WILL BE A SPECIAL MEETING
| Of the Bluff City Shooting Club held on
Friday evening. April Sd, for the purpose OF
perfecting ARRANGEMENTS for the shooting
match which takes place on the It'll. full
attendance is solicited. By order of the Pres
ident. SIM L. BARINDS, See'y.
1929
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01

THE Secretary of the Treasury has
directed the assistant treasurer at New
York to sell one million of gold each
Thursday during the month of April,
So, 600, 900 in all.
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LEGAL.
Trustees sale.

Under AND BY VIRTUE Oh, A TRUST
- deed duly ezecateoas 70 os me Ia will on
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NOTICE.

OPFIcR PFoFLE's Is sURAScE Co.,
MEnPHs, March p, 1874.
nHE ANNUAL MEETING OF THE
| Stockholders Of this Company Will be
held at the Office Of the Company. No Is Mad
ison street, on Wednesday. April ], 1874, az
which time Seven Directors will be eleotet 20
i7'a j A. SIMMONS. ssc'y.
MORNING. CLASSIC.
81 52il5 q 90 1913 lsi SC So 20 q ls-2i
Memphis. April 1. 1874
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-04-01

Tom Taylor will succeed Shirley
Brooks as editor of Punch.
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MORNING. Glass;

81 50 Il5 % 1l9 lsI So 50 no a ls-2i
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

This has been Mr.. Titon's prevailing tenn
per of of mind ana way of speech. He regret
ted nothing much as the necessity which
forced him to say anything about the matter
whatever. If Mr.. Beecher is smitten, he has
only himself and friends to blame for the blow.
Various Matters.
George Ellis. president of the Commonwealth
National Bank. arrested for msappropriatiDg
S85, 900, was held to bail by ommssioner
Osborn in $4,000.
George e Miles, reporter of the New York
Tribune, says that the story of Parton in a
monthly magazine about the reporters who fur
nshed accounts of the hanging of Lusiguani at
Morrstown. N. j., is entirely untrue, and Mr..
Miles clinches his statement by recounting the
facts connected with the hanging.
Officer Shaw of the po ice force is under
81, 500 bail for trial on charge of robbing man
of large amount of money on his beat
During a quarrel tonight between George
Stone, at one time wealthy builder in Brook
llyn. and his wife, he picked up soda water
botte and beat her over the head fracturing her
skull
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03
BY TELEGRAPH
MATTERS IN MAINE
CoI,;.;ou ON the Peuobsc OF.

Collision Oh the teuODsCOt
WINTERpoRT, July 2.-The steamer Cam.
bridge, in her passage from Bangor to-day fol
Boston, when rounding the point off Mill Greek
near Winterport, came suddenly upon and ran
into the schooner Bloomfield, Opt Trask,
from Boston for Bangor in ballast, striking
the schooner just abaft the fore-rgging and
cutting her completely in two.
Mr.. Ingraham, mate of the Cambridge, with
remarkable celebrity, lowered his boat and res
cued Capt. Trask, his wife and one man from
the water, the other two men composing the
schooner's crew clinging to the wreck. Mrs.
Trask and the three rescued men were taken
on board the steamer 10y Capt johnson and
cared for. Mr.. Thomas, second mate of the
Cambridge, and Capt. Trask, were left in
charge of the wreck
No lives were lost and the steamer suffered
no damage by the collision.
Fire i'm OIdtown.
BANGOR, July 2.-Early this morning the
hotel in Oldtown, known as the Wadleigh
House, was destroyed by fire with the out
buildings. Two valuable horses persisted.
Partial insurance.
Launching Mt Richmond.
BATH, July 2.-Launched at Richmond this
afternoon, from the yard of Harvard & Theo-
bald, a. ship of 1881 tons, named Storm King.
The odel was made by VIM. P. Patten of
this city, one of our best craftsmen, and in her
build nothing has beeu spared to make her
thoroughly first class. She rates A 1, for ten
years, French Lloyds. Her owners are the
builders, Lincoln Patten, f. B. Torrey and
Capt A. p Boyd of this city, an old and sue
cessful navigator, who will command her.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03
New York Stock and Money Market.

NEW YORK, Jnly 2-Erenin0.-Money was easy
at q 9 per cent on call. Imports of dry goods for
the week t',173,442; amount marketed 1891. 139.
Sterling Exchange was quiet and firm; prime rates
nominaly at 4SS1 9 491 for sixty days. selling rates
4S74 q 49OA. European steamers took $2sO,O0O gold
coin and $4,000 in silver, and Havana steamer $25-
GOO in gold Gold weak at llo4 q 11os The rates
for carrying were 2. q per cent Government
sold one million at 40 57100 a 10 60-100 The Gus
tom receipts to-day S369,O0O. The Assistant
Treasurer paid out 49, 900, 900 in gold account of
interest and 5000 in redemption of bonds, and dis
bursed $425,0O0 in currency on account of July in
terest amount of Gold paid out by the Treasurer on
account of July interest is $7s12 900. Governments
firm. 1t is reported the European Syndicate, which,
previous to The adjournment of Congress made an
offer to the Secretary Of the Treasury to take from
$15 900 to 900 positively of per cent
bonds with the privilege of call on the balance had
withdrawn their offer. The Stock market opened few
erish at decline Of al per cent, and later on
made further decline of / to II per cent. The at
tack of the bears the market assisted by low
er quotations from London for Erie, The report of
the non-payment of the Atlantic & Great Western
coupons the suit of Angel against the Erie Railroad
Company, the reduction of freight and passenger
rates by Western roads and the action of the ROCK
Island road in determining to test the Iowa Railroad
law. The mai ket rallied later to 24 per cent, fell
off again to per cent? and at the close rallied and
xuaa firm,
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

The shooting clubs in this city will be repre-
scented in November at the Sportmen's Conven.
ton in New York.
A young man sent note to the city clerk
yesterday asking what the city would pay him
to walk across the Park on wire on the
Fourth. er'glaaf st98Ih a.e
Charles A. Spofford of Deer Isle, will start
for Washington to-day to look after the Rob.
bins case. The Attorney General will give the
case hearing next week.
The Cape Elizabeth ferry boat caught a line
in her screw yesterday morning, ard some
time was spent before it could be got off. She
was crossing the line when it caught
Avery, the walkst who walked at Lapcas-
ter Hall last spring, is to walk from Boston to
Montreal, about AGO miles, in eight days.
This evening Burke slTa beaux ofiErin will
be presented at Fluent Hail. All who have
witnessed theseitableaux will testify that they
are entertaining. H9
The Eastern Railroad now runs Pullman
drawing room Car on the G. 20 p m. train from
Boston to this city on Tuesdays and Fridays.
The car will return on the $40 a. m. train from
here on Wednesday and Saturday mornings.
Muster will take place August 18th and it is
said Bangor will be the place.
There will be aunion. temperance, prayer
and conference meeting this evening at the AL
len Mission An opportunity to sign the total
abstinence pledge will be given. The public
are invited.
Don't forget that you can get your dinner at
the Second Parish vestry ON the 4th, iDs tead of
cooking it at home
The Maine Central Railroad transported last
year II, $40 tons of granite from the Hallowell
quarries, in competition with sail and steam
navigation.
The managers of the Board of Trade at the
monthly meeting yesterday voted to accept the
M. L. A. invitation to join in the excursion on
the 18th inst,
The yacht Ella, belonging to Capt Delano,
has been stolen.
The yacht Josephine of the New York yacht
club. got in here yesterday.
Next Sunday is a children's Sunday at Con-
gress Square.
A meeting of the Bosworth Relief Corps is
called for this afternoon. A full attendance is
requested.
Notes falling due tomorrow must be paid to-
day, as the banks are closed on the Fourth
Complaint is made that a pool of water is al
lowed to stand ON Oak street.
Mr.. Marston, organist at the Congress Square
church, will sail for Europe August LIST, and
Mr.. A. G. Quinby will take his place.
There are about thirty applicants for posi-
tions as teachers in the public schools.
There are a number of vessels loading here
for South America and Liverpool with lumber.
The presiding elders of the Methodist church
who were appointed committee to designate
plan for assisting in raising money to pur-
chase Bishops residence in Boston, met in
this city recently and decided to recommend
the churches of Maine Conference to each take
a collection for that purpose some Sabbath dur
ing the month of Augustine money to be
forwarded to j. p. Magee
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

MERCANTILE LIBRARY ExcURsIoN.-The
arrangements for the grand excursion to the
White Mountains by the members of the Mer
camille Library Association and their friends
are completed, and include beside the attrac-
tions already published a dance at the Glen
House, Thursday evening, July 10th, with
music by the Glen House Band, w. B. Ryan,
leader. The tickets to the summit will be
good for the 18th, 18th and 18th, and arrange
ments have been made so that those who wish
to remain at the Glen over Sunday can do so
at half rates, returning to Portland, Monday,
via Glen station, by any of the regular trains
on the Portland and Ogdensburg railroad.
Those intending to join this excursion are re-
minded that but limited number of tickets
can be sold, and those whose names are on the
book first at the Treasurer's office, will be first
served with tickets.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

The Rev. DR.. Day, editor of the Morning
Star of Dover. N. H., has been elected Presi.
dent of Hillsdale College, Michigan.
Among the passengers-by the steamer City
of Portland. for st. John, Wednesday night,
were Chief Justice Gray of Boston, who goes
to fish for salmon in New Brunswick; Mr.. w.
Z. Norton, the artist, who takes a trip from
ST. John to Europe: and Messrs. John Muir
dock and HI. A. Burgis of the Geological Mus.
cum at Cambridge, who go to Eastport on
sea-dredging expedition.
Congressman Burleigh was in town yester-
day.
Congressman Hale is at the Falmouth. He
arrived from Boston on the 1890 p. m. train,
and goes east this afternoon. He needs an all
summer 8 rest. a
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

FOURTH OF JULY.-Workmen are busy put
ting up fine set of scenery in City Hal
for the performance of the New York Comedy
Company, on the afternoon and evening Of
July 4th, and our citizens may expect two fine
entertainments. Wilson, the fine comedian
excels in his limitations of the celebrated
actors of the day. Tick cts are already selling
at Stockbridge's. Excursion parties from out
of town can obtain reduced prices of admission
by applying at the ticket office at the hall, not
the music store. l--
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03
rne following were the a,otas,ons OF Government


NEW YORK. July 2-Evemng.- on is duh and
easier; sales 1873 bales; Midding uplands 17sc; for
bbs; the market is dull and in buyers favor; sales
II, 100 bbls superfne Western and State at 90 a
$50; White Wheat Western extra at 60 a 9O ex-
ira round hoop Ohio at 50 Is extra st Louis at
10 9 II 90, closing quiet; Southern flour at 90 a
II 90. Wheat-receips 254, 500 bush; the market is
les active csa and 81 easier sales BUSH
@ 80; No 2 Minnesota 80 1 80; ungraded Iowa and
Minnesota Spring 80 a 40; 81 a 40 for Winter
As tor White Western Ohio; No Il Spring at 40 "a
49, sales "a, 100 bnsh No Milwaukee to arrive next
week. Corn-recepts ,4U5 bush; the market is
demand; sales 361 900 bush Western Mixed at Il a
&c, sosng at 1S1 75c for coed to choice; 7S g nc
f foG Mestern Yellow White Western a. Sc also
77c 5000 do deliverable from 18th TO 18th July 77c
Oatsreceipts 49, 900 bush market more active sales
tor White Western. Coffee firm at 1873 q 22ac in Gold
for kio Sugar steady fair TO good refining at u "a
Lice; prime 81 SIC; sales of 1887 hhds at u q
moasses 916c; refined firmer at 10 q 1Gac: granu-
lated log "a lCac; 10sc for crushed and powdered
Moasses gniet Rice quiet at % 9 &c for Rangoon;
lower; crude &c on spot refined at 12sc spot and
12ac seller July. Tallow quiet at 81 q Ssc for prime
is g
at 36c. Pork is hrmer; sales so bbls new mess at
Is 50 sales 1900 bbs do seller July at IS 80 a IS 4O
1850 bbls seller Aug at IS 80 "a IS IS. Beet dull Lard
rmer; prime steam at II 1l-oc; sales 800 city do
l14c; sales $50 ties do seller Aug 15c; seller July is
quoted at 1lac Butter unchanged at 10 q 26 for
Western: 20 q SOC for new State Whiskey steady;
sales at 99c.
treights to LIVERPOOL firm; Cotton per sail Gle q
Sd; do do steam q 7-16d; Grain-Corn per steam
10d; Wheat per do at 10ld
CHICAGO, July 2.-Flour dull and unchanged with
no export demand; extra Spring so q So Wheat
in good demand and lower; MOI Spring at 49, q
10; No2 Spring at l5sc cash; seller for Aug at
lot; No do at OS3; rejected 99ac. Corn is dull,
unsettled and lower; No Mixed at 5Sac cash or
q 55ac Oats are steady; No at AT q 424c cash !;
40a a 41c seller July; 80 q 32ac do Aug rejected 40A
a Ale. Rye is dull and nominal; No 2 at 50 q $50.
Barley dull and nominal; NO Spring 10 q 90.
ProvisionsPork is active and higher at IS 90 cash
seller July; Is % seller Aug Lard is active and
higher at 114c cash and seller July; 1lsc do Aug.
Bulk Meats quiet and unchanged; short rib middles
80 on spot loose; seller Aug 9 To- Whiskey dull
and lower. In the open board this afternoon Wheat
closed at l55 seller Juiy 10s do Aug. Corn at 59c
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03
Notice OfFOrecJOSure.

WHEREAS William P. Bbber. of Harpswell, in
wv the County of Cumberland, on the I'D day of
April A. D., 1871, by his deed Of mortgage Of that
date, recorded in Cumberland Registry IT Deeds.
Vol 1856. page s., conveyed to one John Pinkham OF
said Harpswe, certain lot OF land, situated on
Haskes Island $50 called) in said Harpswell, with
all buildings and wharf situate thereon, and bounded
and described as follows: Beginning on the shore at
the corner of stockbridge Ealon's and thence run
ming southwestery fifteen rods and fourteen links
thence southeastery two rods and three Inks thence
southwesterly twenty rods by said Eatos Lana
thence at right angles with said first line tc the
marsh; thence by the marsh northeasterly to the
north west side of wharf by land of Z. s. Bibber,
forty rods less. to the shore aforesaid thence
by said rods and sixteen links to first
named point; to secure the payment of certain note
of hand therein described.
And whereas said John Pnkham, mortgage of said
Mortgage Deed, on the seventeenth day Of Novem-
Der, A. ID. 1871, By IN assignment duly executed and
recorded in Cumberland Registry OF Deeds, Book
$780, &c 265, sod assigned and set to the sub
scrber said mortgage, and the note, debt and claim
thereby secured, all the right title and interest
he, the said Pinkham, had to the premises the eby
conveyed. And whereas the conditions of said
mortgage has been broken this is to give notice that
l clam foreclosure of the same according to the
statute in such cases made and provided
s- 3. JOHN w. GRANT. E
Freeport, Me-, June 80 1874. w3w27
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03
Furnaces Flooded /.

CHIcKIEs. Pa, July 2.-The heavy storm
which passed over this place this evening raised
the streams several feet high, stopping the en-
gines of Henry Clay furnace, flooding the cast
ing house and stock house, vast ing away
Pennsylvania railroad track with three feet of
earth. Trains were prevented from passing for
several hours. The Chickies creek rose five
feet and at ocock was still rising. The furn-
aces at Chickies are uninjured.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

NEW ORLEANS, July IA summary of the
cotton exchange report to June Both Missis-
sppi reports from A counties show a decrease
in the acreage of seven per cent, but a far
average. The stand of the crop is two weeks
behind last year. II is remarkably clean,
though small and backwards. The labor sup
ply IS satisfactory. Louisiana, 26 parishes re-
port decrease in the average of 20 per cent.
The weather is less favorable than last year.
The average stand condition of the crop is gen.
orally good and promising, though three weeks
later There is no complaint about labor.
Texas, 45 counties, report an average increase
in the acreage of about 10 per cent. The st nd
is good, though it has been planted two weeks
later than last year, but is in fine growing con-
dion and free from grass.
The supply of labor is good. Arkansas, %
counties reports a decrease in the acreage of
eight per cent. The weather is less favorable.
The stand is better than last year, though
three weeks backward. Labor is seficient.
Tennessee. "a counties, reports decrease in
acreage of 81 per cent. Weather favorable,
stand fair and crop clsan, but small, being two
weeks later than last year, labor about the
same.
Alabama, 81 counties, reports an average
acreage decrease of l6 per cent Later planted
and looks better than the old cotton CROP
Somewhat later and generally clearer than
ever before. Growing rapidly. Labor never
better.
North Carolina, counties, reports weather
less favorable, acreage decrease Of 10 per cent.
Planting two or three weeks later; fair aver
age stand, crop clean and healthy and growing
finely, though small and backward Decrease
in the use of fertilizers of 40 per cent.
South Carolina, q Counties report acreage
decrease of II per cent; weather unfavorable:
since replanting it has given fair average
stand: plant in small condition, good crop,
clean and growing well: labor sufficient; de-
crease in use of fertilizers 80 per cent. 1.sf
Georgia, SO counties, reported decrease in
acreage of 10 per cent; weather less favorable;
stand and condition of crop good; it is generally
growing finely and clean though small, being
ten days later than last year. The labor is
good; the use of fertilizer has decreased 30 per
cent as compared with last year.
The reports from Florida are meagre; the
average is said to have decreased per cent
the stand is good and the condition very fine,
and clean and growing well, being one week
earlier than last year. No complaints of
labor.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

DIRIGOS,

Umpire, G. W. Foster, W. S. B. B.
Scorer, j. f. Day, Deering.
The Portland daily press., 1874-07-03

NEW YORK, July q DR.. Hammond exam.
ined the brain of the printer Entwistle, report.
ed to have died of hydrophooia, yesterday, and
found no evidence of that disease. The doctor
thinks that his death was caused by hard drink
ing, aggravated by fear of hydrophobia.