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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
PROFESSIONAL.
DEATH TO DISEASE.
DIR. BAKER,
The man whom we have all read about so
much, Is located at
100 Jefferson street, Memphis, Tenn,
And is performing great cures by the use
Herbs.
PROFESSIONAL.

INFINITE WISDOM HAS PROVIDED A
i remedy for every disease that man or wO-
man is heir to, by the vegetable matter Of the
earth, and when judiciously. gathered, en-
pared and administered. they never fail. So
those afflicted or suffering from every disease
whatever 50 and see the Doctor. You will
find him 10 be most scientific man, endowed
b. nature and art 10 relieve you Of your
physical ailments. Instead Of dragging
through a heightened state Of suffering and
misery, apply 10 him for relief and you may
feel confident Of having your sickness or dis
ease promptly, safely and permanently cured
W ut half the expense attending where the
die els nursed instead Of removed. lot
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
NEW YORK.

New YoRK, February 24.-Last night VIM.
T. O'Connor. aged sixteen, and an unknown
boy, engaged in an alteration on Fortieth
street, when the unknown stabbed O'Connor
in the left breast with a clasp knife and fled.
O'Connor cannot live.
The strike of the cap and hat makers has
ended. The agreement between the employers
and workmen has been completed. and work
in nearly all the factories resumed to-day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

March, April and May form the most
fatal quarter, exceeding any other three
consecutive months by over $1,000. The
births number l,lOO,475, or about 5000
per diem. The blind number about 70
600; the deaf and dumb about l6,OOOi
the idiotic about $4,000; the insane
about 81 900, nearly one-third OF whom
are of foreign birth. Persons over 81
years of age number about l5OOOO;
over 80 years Of age about 7OOOi over
100 years of age about $500. OF those
over so years the females out-number
the males by about $4,000. OF those
over 80 years the females are in excess
by about 1900. 0fthose over 100 years
the females exceed the males by about
1000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
Ease OF tne caroIlna I.owrys KIIIed

Last of the Carolina I,Owrys Killed.
NV YORK. February 2i.-The Herald spe-
cial from Moss Neck Depot. Robson county.
North Carolina, says Stephen Lowry, the last
and probably the worst Of the Carolina swamp
arg is, who rioted in blood and held such
high carnival Of crime in North Carolina for
so many years, was killed about half-past four
yesterday CMonday) morning. in the Scuffie-
town region. by three young white men. farm
ers, named David Holcombe, Thomas Dutton
and Mcneil Patterson. The scene of the
tragedy is on the Carolina Central Railroad.
six miles from Moss Neck. and about sixteen
miles from Lumberton. the county seat Of
Robson county. They had been searching
for about three weeks. and he was found on
the plantation Of joan McNair. who had been
repeatedly robbed by outlaws. Lowry was
surrounded BY a gang Of negroes, and the
young men Joined the company. After iden-
tifying Lowry they left. but remained in the
vicinity. and taking the FIRST opportunity fred
upon him. and the outlaw dropped dead.
After raloading they secured Lowry's body,
hired a cart. and placing the body in II start
ed for Lumber.on. arriving there at nine
o'clock yes erday morning. where Il was
given 70 the Sheriff. The rewards for killing
Steve Lowry amount to six thousand two hun
bred dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

AND now Governor Moses, of South
Carolina, has also set up for a Christian
statesman, and the way he goes to work
about it is characterize. We are told in
the Charleston newspapers that ell South
Carolina was on broad grin when it
was announced that Moses was to de-
liver lecture on religion; but it proved
no Joke, and the Governor actually APP
peared before large audience and de-
livered lecture which is described as
an able and eloquent defense Of Chris
tianity against free thinking. Indeed,
the lecture made such an impressions
that some of the enthusiastic friends Of
Moses Insisted on having it printed, and
not until then was it discovered that the
Governor, from force Of habit, probably
had stolen all the piety he had EN-
bodied in this production. Not to pa
too fine point upon it, be had planned
of on h.s uususpeeling audience one o.
the Rev. Robert Halls sermons pub
Iished in London in 1858, for his OWL
ideas on the subject Of religion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

The interest taken by the cultivated
people Of our city in the splendid rendi-
ton of Sbakspearean characters by
Lawrence Barrett at the Memphis Thea
ter recalls to mind the number of Eng
lish dramatic poets who lived about the
times of Shakespeare, which latter bard
died in 1916. There we're Christopher
Marlowe, Thomas Decker, John Mars
ton. Thomas Haywood, Thomas Middle
ton, William Rowley, John Ford, Cyril
Tourneur, John Webster, Fulke Greville,
Lord Brooke, Ben Jonson, George
Chapman, Francis Beaumont, John
Fletcher, Phillip Massinger, William
Rowley, James Shirley and others, yet
not single play written by them is now
produced on the stage. of the entire
set but Fletcher and Massinger in the
estimation Of the literary world are
entitled TO be considered after the great
Shakespeare, which shows how far in his
divine mind and manners he surpassed
them and all mankind. These men are
the last of great race, all Of whom
spoke nearly the same language, and
had set Of moral feelings in common.
A new language aud quite new turn Of
tragic and comic interest came in with
the Restoration.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
PUBLIC LEDGER.
Of,ce: No. IS Madison Street.
EMP HIS;
Tuesday Evening, Feb. "a, 1874.
con IN THE CONSTITUTION.

The following extract from letter OF
Thomas Jefferson to Albert Gailatin'
June I6. 1917, shows what was attempt
ed in that day:
Three Of our papers have presented US the
cony of an act Of the Legislature Of New
York. which, IL Il has really passed, VIII carry
ms back to the times OF the darkest plgotry
and barbarism to find a parallel. 1ts purpoit
r. that ali those who hereafter JOIN IN COM
munion with the religious sect q sna .Sdis
Ouakers shall be deemed ciyilly dead, thelr
marriages dissolved, and all their properly
and Children taken out Of their hands. 1hIs
ACT being published markedly IN the papers
without the usual signatures. or any history
without a hope it may have been mere apor-
five attempt. 1t contrasts singularly win
Contemporary vote of the Pennsylyanla Leg
islature who. on the proposition 70 MAKE tne
belief in a God a necessary quallhcation i0r
office, rejected it by great majority. though
assuredly there was not a single atheist IN tne
body. And you remember TO have heara mat
when the act for religious freedom was before
the Virginia Assembly, a. motion 70 insert me
name OF Jesus Christ before the, phrase, the
author Of our holy religion. which stood IN
the bill, was rejected. although that was the
creed OF a great majority OF them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

A class Of four boys about sixteen
years Of age each in Lansing, whose
teacher was absent, we're turned over 10
the tender scrutiny Of an old professor.
who was neither loved nor liked by the
class. 1t is the practice in the school TO
appoint one in each class treasurer,
whose duty it is TO collect the pennies
and keep the records Of the class The
professor, therefore, handed a small card
to one Of the boys, saying, l appoint
YOU treasurer to-day" The boy looked
at the card, and, handing it 10 his class
mate, said. Il pass" The second boy
also mutterei, pass, on receiving il,
az he turned it over to the third. No. 3
said. turn It down" and handed il to
the last boy, who handed il back to the
teacher, remarking, +" I can't make it. %
The training those boys get at home is
one Of the things the doctor don't com
prehend.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
CITY TAKES.
Notice to Tax Payers.

yDHE ASSESSMENT OF 70 CENTS on THE
s1O0 of taxable property, payable in cash
for the L. Il. Blown mandamus, ana the ~
cents of like assessment. payable IN paving
certificates and also the 10 cents assessed on
the 500 of taxable property for the MISSES
not having been collected from those persons
who have paid their taxes for 1873, and as II Is
imperatively necessary that the same be col,
lected at once, notice Is hereby given 10 ~
year 1873, as we'll as to those who have PAID
their general tax and have not paid the spe,,
cial tax above mentioned, to come forward
After the Isl day of March, 1874, distress
warrants will be issued against all who fall 10
comply with this notice.
Il6-i5S +. G. sCHAPER. Tax Collector.
Morning papers copy ten times.l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
NOW is THE TIME TO BUY
LEGAL
SHERIFF's SALE
OR
one OK and One Wagon.

DUBLIC NOTICE Is HEREBY GIVFN.
Il that By virtue Of an order q sale tome
directed from the honorable First Circuit
Court Of Shelby county, Tenn. in the case Of
Trantham \ smith vs., J. W. Davis. 1 viii. on
Thursday, 26th Of February, 1874,
al II o'clock a. m, in front Of my Office. No.
35l Second street. Memphis. Tenn, proceed g
sell 10 the highest bidder. for cash. one OK and
enc wagon. Levied on as the property q de-
fesdant j. W. Davis, 70 satisfy the judgment.
interest and costs in the above stated case.
Sale promptly az II o'clock an
w. J. p. DOYLE,
Sheriff Of Shelby county. Tenn.
Memphis, 2ist Of February, 1874, 1i9-l5l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

A keokuk, Iowa, dandy rubbed his
hands with glyceriue TO make his New
Year S gloves 60 on easy. When be had
concluded his calls, be was delighted 10
discover that he lad mistaken liquid
glue ior the glycerine, and al that night
and he next day be sat refectvely hold
ing his hands IN a WATERFOWL Of warm
water.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

SANTA ANNA returns to his home this
month, after q long exile. He will not
again NEEDLE in Mexican politics, being
convinced that after all there is good
deal of vexation and not much glory in
the life of Mexican statesman.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24

TnE total population Of the country IS
about thirty-eight and quarter millions.
Total number Of deaths in the current
census year, 2.26S, or about ls49 per
diem. March seems the most fatal
month, leading ell others by about 1000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-24
Reconstructlng a Greek city.

Among other public works, either in
contemplation or being carried ont in
Greece, is the reconstruction of the port
of Egina at an outlay of 10000 drach-
mas. The modern town Of Eglna is
built on the site of the ancient city, at
the northwestern end of the Island,
which is almost eleven miles distant
from Athens. This site is still marked
by a Doric column, a remnant, most
probably, of the temple of Venus, to the
South of which lay the principal port;
another port being situated near this
theater. Both these ports are still
clearly marked. The first is oval in
shape, and protected by the ancient
moles, leaving a narrow entrance, on
each side of which stood a tower. Re-
mains of these moles and towers, evil
IDENTIFY reconstructed at q later time
by the Yenetians, still exist. The sec
ond port is situated in the same direc
ton, is oval, twice as large as the for
mer, and is similarly protected by
ancient moles fifteen to twenty feet
thick This latter port seems to have
been the broad port, as il was called,
whereas the smaller one was the secret
port mentioned by Pausanius. The
reconstruction Of these ports will, says
the Athens correspondent Of the Levant
Herald, give new life to the mercantile
activity of Kgina, which has already
begun to be conscious Of its ancient
glory, when 500 years B. G. the Kgine-
tans held the empire ofthe sea, and their
maritime skill and valor entitled them,
according 10 Herodotus, to the FIRST rank
among the victors Of Salamis.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
FOR TAX COLLECTOR,


We are authorized to announce Robert
son j. Turner Il candidate for Tax Collec-
tor of Franklin county. Election LIST
Thursday in August, 1874.
We are authorized to announce A. j.
SkidmOre a candidate for Tax Collector
Election LIST Thursday in August, 1874.
We are authorized to announce ID. 7.
Reynolds n candidate for Tax Collector of
Franklin county. Election in August,
1874.
We are authorized to %announc William
Prince Il candidate for Tax Collector of
Franklin county, Election in August
next.
We are authorized to announce j. r.
Merritt, Esqr., a candidate for Tax Collec-
tor. Election in August, 1874.
We are authorized to announce j. N.
Wakefield a candidate for Tax Collector.
Election in August, 1874.
We are authorized to announce Herndon
Green q candidate for Tax Collector ut the
ensuing August election.
We are authorized to nnoun Sherrod
Williams DIETER known as Peter Will
liams,) a candidate for Tax Collector of
Franklin county, at the ensuing August
election.
We are authorized to announce Henry
Weaver Il candidate for Tax Collector at
the ensuing August election.
We are authorized to announce A.. j.
Norwood a candidate tor Tax Collector ut
the ensuing August election.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

prised. lie deserves to die the death
of adog, ana any man who haga dauSh
ter or a sister here, will be justified in
the eyes orGod and man in shooting
MIN down precisely as he would shoot
y wolf or a rabid dog!
Every negro voter in Davidson
county will applaud to the echo the
damnablc sentiments uttered by Da.
vcnport; and every candidate who Las
bargained for colored voters by a pre-
tended endorsement Of the Civil Rights
bill is still more Infamous. This is 0
White Mans fight for White Mans
ticket, against the yilest combination
ever formed to bctray the interests o.
the people.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
Senatorial Question.
WlNcnEsrER, July goth "a

WINCHESTER, July goth IA.
EDITOR HONE JOURNAL;
In your last issue is an article
signed j.. Il. B., which does injustice
to our county of Franklin.
We concur with the writer Of that
article that the mere residence OF an
aspirant for the State Senate, in any
one Of the three counties, should con-
stitute a superior claim to the Office,
all other considerations aside, But
we insist, that under a long established
agreement between Lincoln and Frank
lin, that each county should furnish
the candidate alternately that our
county is clearly entitled to it, for we
have been represented in the Senate
but once since the war, and then, by a
Lincoln county man, or II who had
removed from Lincoln to Franklin a
few years before his election.
The gist of j. r. BIS, argument is,
that there are not in our county men of
equal talent and other qualities essen
tial to q competent representation i n
the State Senate with the other coun-
ties in the district. This we deny ;
and while VIC would be proud 10 have
q representative in the person OF the
Hon. George w. Jones If Lincoln was
entitled to the candidate We can
find a few men in our county who
would creditably ill that position, and
among the rest would mention Col, j.
j. Williams, DR.. j. w. Payne, j. b.
Fitzpatrick, Esqr., and II. X. Moore.
Our county would be reduced to a
great straight, indeed, if we were to be-
stow our suffrage for a mar simply
because he resided in the county lin
its. The great mistake made by j. Il.
b. is in drawing an illogical deduction
from the fact that GU! people claim the
Senator this lime, as a matter Of right.
And as to the case supposed 1. c. where
the other counties furnish candidates a
head and shoulders above men whom
we have in our county in all that C on.
s~titutes a patriot and statesman, we
they hav'nt got them.
We do not suppose Lincoln will have
a candidate; and if not, and Marshall
persists in the purpose Of running one
in plain violation Of said agreement,
then we think the people Of Lincoln
should cast their vote solid for our
candidate and thus compel Marshall to
pay a decent regard to our rights.
And we think the convention to meet
here next Monday week, should nomi-
nate a candidate for State Senate and
the lower branch Of the Assembly.
This will keep down a multiplicity of
candidates, and give more general sat.
Isfaction to %aspirants for the offices,
and at same time show whether our
people are 10 lacking in patriots and
statesmen as to surrender their rights
md interests to the patriots and states.
men of Lincoln and Marshall, but i'll
Geo. w. Jones wants to 60 higher
han State Senator we are for him. that
$, the people, a goodly number of them
will give him a cordial support.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

Rev. DR., A. L.. 2, Green, one of the
most prominent ministers in the Meth
odist Church, South, died in Nashville
Wednesday last. The Union and
American says:
"He was born in Sewer county,
Tenn, in 1907, and was in the sixty
seventh year of his age at the time OF
his decease. For the last half century
his name has been identified with the
progress Of Methedism in the South,
during which time he has been actively
engaged in all the enterprises of his
church.
Spending the early part of his life in
Alabama, he joined the Tennessee
Conference in 1924, at the age of seven
teen. In 1926 he was ordained a dea-
con, and in 1928 was ordained an elder
by Bishop Soule.
When twenty-four years of age in
1881, he was elected to the General
and was a member efevery
subsequent General Conference. In
1886 he received the degree of D. d."
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
"A White Wife for Every Negro,

20 From the Union and Americana
II In II speech at Vicksburg, one nigh
II last week, a mulatto scOundrcl name,
Davenport, Chanccry Court Clerk O.
that county, referred as follows to the
elopement of Il white girl of Port Glib
son with n negro member of the Legis,
%laturc: The time was not far distant
when the Port Gibson affair could be
repeated daily-it would be nothing to
see large numbers follow the example
Of that young lady. lie would 90 fur
Their, and say that there were thous
ands OF Southern women. many here
in Vicksburg, ofthe most respectable
families, who would do so to-day were
they not afraid. But these things
would change, barriers would be broken
down, for the white women now see
that the negro is the coming man and
that they have the control of the city
and State governments. II he were
not n married man he could get the
laughter of one of the best families in
Vicksburg, and were he in the matri.
nonial market, he would buckle on a
'air of revOlvers and meet the womcn's
'rethers or fathers who would dare to
interfere with his love affairs, or rather ]
to prevent daughters and sis ,
'ers from their choice in the selection !,
d a good husband (whom they were I
anxious to havc) among the colored e
men. t
This moved the V~icksburger to r.. D
,ark the next day:
We have seer the time when this Il
ing scoundrel could not have lived G.
re minutes after uttering such afro S,
ous sentiments, and if he is permitted d
live now we shall be greatly sur L
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
THE WAR ON ANDREW JOHN
son.
A Defiant Ultimatum From Hon.
George w. Jones.

We find the following communica.
ton in the Shelbyville Commercial o
Friday
The cry of the would be leaders il
public affairs is for harmony and uni
ted action Of all the elements opposed
to The Radical party-the Civil Rights
party" This party, which some are sc
exceedingly anxious TO unite and har-
monte, is called sometimes the Demo.
cratic party and by others, the Conscr.
vative party. | am a Democrat, but
am not u Conservative. | do not wish
to conserve and continue the present
state of things. Being a Democrat |
am ledto tho inquiry-is there q Demo.
cratic party2 If so who compose It ?
And where are they? In 1872 what
was termed the Democratic party of
Tennessee met in convention in Nash
vile, resolved itself into the Liberal
Republican party, under the leadership
OF Horace Greeley, of New York, who
never had a Democratic sentiment or
emotion in his life, nor did he ever
q Democratic breath. On the
contrary he was the bitter ~reviler, the
slanderer and vilifier of that old party
all the days Of his life, and that con,
tinually.
The so called Democratic National
OF 1872 met in Baltimore.
and there adopted. without the a~ltera-
ton of a single letter or word. that
which Horace Greeley declared was the
mos intense Republican PLATFORM ever
FORTH by a National Conventions"
upon that platform nominated
Horace Greeley rs their candidate for
PRESIDENT of the United States. The
in all its history has never wit.
'essed such abandonment of principle
nd party organization before, and it
) hoped never will again. Then where, ,
h, where, is the Democratic party ? +
in the Republican party and q
lie dead Greeley, whose soul is still {
arching, it may be, on to still greater a
and more sure destruction, is
possible. n
But it is said that the Denocratic .
'rty is divided. If so, when and p
iere did that division have its origin !?
lie best if not the only way to rectify
lis and adjust discord and division is 4
remove the cause. 1t the cause can T.
ascertained, by lis removal harmony
q united action will be secured.
In the Tennessee Legislature Of 1869
ire was a clear majority Of Demo W
us and anti Radicals. Andrew John.
and Emerson Etheridge were can- y
latcs for the United States Senate a ?
c anti.Radical enemies of johnson row
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23

FOR CONGRESS-.

We are authorized to announce Capt.
W. j. Tolley a candidate to represent this,
the 9TH Congressional District. Election
S. TuGsday in November.
We are authorized to announce w. +.
Kercheval, of Lincoln county, a candidate
for Congress from this (5th) Congressional
District of Tennessee, for the next ensuing
term subject, however, to q central con-
yentior ofsaid District.
We are authorized to announce Col.
Matt. Martin as candidate tor Congress
from this, the 9TH district. Election first
Tuesday in November.
MURFREEsBoRo, July leth 1874.
W. d. Slatter, Esq;
Please that | am q candidate
to represent the people Of the 9Th Con
gressiOnal District of Tennessee, in the
next Congress ofthe United States. Sub
jcct, however, to the action of the nomi-
mating convention OF the Democratic anC
Conservative party of the District.
Very respectfully,
j, B. PALMER.
The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1874-07-23
The Third Term.

The following glorious sentiments
we take from the Memphis Appeal
The Home Journal seconds them:
Elk Chief Justice Lougherv and Sen.
ator Gordon, of Georgia; Elk Govern,
or Herbert, Of louisiana, and Governor
Kemper, of Virginia, have either
squinted toward or espoused the cleo
ton of Grant as President for q third
term, With all the lights before US.
we are now opposed to it. 1t won't
do. The Democrats of the south can
not afford again to be taken in with
"independency" or "liberalism."
When next we select a Presidential
candidate it must be through a Demo
cratic convention, and we shall expect
him to stand upon a Democratic plat.
form, pledged to strictly Democratic
politics. We want a simon.pure Dem
ocrat like Thurman, of Ohio; Hen
bricks, of Indiana; Eaton, of Con.
necticut, or Hancock of Pennsylvania.
AS the Mobile Register says: eff
General Grant wants to try his hand
tor a third term, let him run on his own
strength, or let the Radicals carry him
if they Ear Conservative men of all
parties would simply disgrace them
selves in the eyes of common sense and
common justice and propriety who un-
dertake to support the most selfish, I'M
patriotic and unprincipled chief mag
istrate who has ever sat in the chair of
Washington. Jefferson and Adams.
Let the south, of all sections, beware
how they are seduced into this mon
strOus folly"