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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1874-02-16

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COLEMAN's PRESSED FINE CUT
Received this day by Express.
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FRESH OYSTERs.

AZ panic prices, az Victor ID.
Puebss. No. Al Jefferson street. 81
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ADJUSTMENTS.

MEMPHIS THEATER.-To.night Law
renee Barrett one Of the very best
American actors, will commence an en-
gagement at the Memphis Theater in
Richelieu. As the great Cardinal and
Prime Minister of France in the days Of
Louis XIII, Mr.. Barrett has acquired q
high reputation. Those of our citizens
who witnessed Mr. Kings mastery rem
dtion Of the role will be more than anx'
ieus to witness Barret and compare
notes. The fourth act, where the feeble
Minister hurls the curse Of Rome at the
satellites of the King who attempt to
carry of Julia" is generally regarded
as the finest in the play, but to our mind
it is not so. The following words, aided
by a sweep of the hand, are regarded as
very dramatic:
MARK where she stands around her form l
The awful oircle of our solemn church;
Set but foot within that holy ground,
And on thy head-yea. though 1t wear a
launch the curse of Romel"
The cast of the play is quite good. 1t
will be observed that several old Mem
phis favorites make their appearance:
Armand Jean de Plessis. Cardinal
Inc de Richelieu Lawrence Barrett
Chevalier de Maaprat..-....Mr Mr.. ) "; Norton
Count de Enthusiastically ii. mereultn
Louis XIII.....;.:..;............-Mr; &; Morton
CASTOR (Due d'Orleans..........Mr. y flsner
Sieur de Beringhen.....'....;s;sMr' Al s nose
Francois .............~...Mr. W. Seymour
Huguet Edwards
De T nvis
'Juiie de Mortimer Miss Louise Hawthorne
Marion de Lorme....-............... d. Orhis
The Memphi will occupy the theater
tomorrow night. Wednesday evening
Hamlet will be presented; Thursday,
King Lear; Friday, julius Cesar; Sat
urday matinee, Rosedale; Saturday
night, Richard III.
HuMprY DUMPTY.-Ifyou wish to laugh
and grow fat visit Greenlaw Opera House
tonight and witness Fox Il Denier's
pantomime troupe in Humpty Dumpty.
Those of our citizens who witnessed the
antics of the clown Pantaloon, Colum'
bine and the Sprites last season, will be
pleased to learn that the pantomime
has been changed. and hundreds OF new
transformations and specialties have
been introduced, all of which are most
grotesque aud amusing.
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RAILROAD.
SOUTHERN
RAILWAY SECURITY COMPANY
lessee Memphis and Charleston R. RI

SUPERINTENDENT's OFFICE,
MEMPHIS. TENN. February IA. 1874.
ITO ACCOMMODATE THOSE WHO MAY
i wish TO return home after witnessing the
grand display Of the Memphi" at night, the
SomervilIe train will leavs Memphis on the
18th inst, at IL o'clock midn ght, instead Of
the regular schedule time, 4:45 pm.
1914 WI ROSS, Superintendent.
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Masks-Leubrie's.

Fresh OYSTERS Wright from the
SHELLY, at % cents per dozen, at Ill Beal
street. 1861
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HAyr yOu played on those small tables
at Wnlsifsi lzsf
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OFFICIAL.
AN ORDINANCE

Authorizing the Mayor to issue change war
rants in lieu Of the certificates Of Indebted
ness issued to persons who had paid for
Nicolson or stone payements. so as to make
them available for paying the special tax.
/. Be il ordained by the General Council
that the Mayor be authorized and required to
issue to persons or corporations holding GER
tificates of indebtedness for payments made
for Nicolson or stone pavement change war
rants of the denominations OF one VI, two ana
a half z 5O, five %, ten Q0l, twenty t2O) and
fifty $50 dollars, whenever any such person or
CORPORATION presents their certificate of in
debtedness and surrenders the same and d.
mands the change as above provided for.
2, The Mayor, upon taking up any certif
cate of Indebtedness, shall cause the same TO
be cancelled immediately. and TO be illed in
the warrants issued under this ordinance; and
the Comptroller shall keep record book of all
certificates surrendered and Cancelled, and
shall note on each certihcate surrendered the
numbers and denominations of the change
warrants issued in lieu thereof, and shall also
register said change warrants in said record
book. with the name OF the person TO whom
they are issued. the dates and amounts OF the
change warrants, and the certificates of in
debtedness surrendered shall exactly corre-
spOnd, except that in cases where the fraction
Of dollar. less than fly cents. occurs. Tho
party receiving the warrants shall be paid in
money, but no one person shall receive more
than said fractional sum, and that only once.
g. The warrants issued under this ordinance
shall bear the same rate Ofinterest as the GER
titicates of indebtedness for which they are
issued and shall be receivable. principal and
interest, in payment Of any special tax that
has been or may hereafter be levied By the
General Council. to reimburse those who have
Maid for the Nicolsou pavement in front of
their property. but not in payment OF any
other dues.
4. The warrants issued under this ordinance
shall be substantially in the following form:
1.-THE City Of Memphis is Indebted to -
or bearer in the sum Of - dollars, with in
terest at per cent per annum from the -
day of until this warrant is redeemed.
This warrant is ISSUED in lieu of a certificate
Of idebtedness No. -, issued under the
provisions Of an ordinance approved Feb =.
1874, and is receivable in payment OF the
tar already levied and TO be levied by the
General Council, to reimburse those who have
maid for NicolsOn or stone pavements, hut not
receivable in payment Of anY other dues
5, That the Mayer be authorized to contract
for plates and paper fol. lithographing, and
printing Of the warrants herein provided for.
and TO have the same well and speedily exc
cuted.
witness the signature Of the Mayor and
the seal Of the city, this - day Of 49,.
49,.
- Affosfs CITY RaOiqter -
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.
NEW YORK.

SPECIALS ny THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION.
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Old Pictures Enlarged

to any size, aud colored in oil, India
ink or water colors. photographs, Gems,
Ambrotypes aud Porcelain pictures
made in clear or cloudy weather. All
work warranted.
mOYsTON's STAR GALLERY,
No. 2i9 MAIN STREET.
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COstumes-Leubrie's.

Masks-LeubrIe's.
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Masks -Leubrie's.

Dressed Poultry
At Victor D. Fuchs, Al Jefferson street.
142
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AN ORDINANCE.

Section l. Be It ordained. That the Wharf
master shall charge and collect from the own
ers, agents or persons In charge Of ali wharf
bOats lying at the city landing the regular
rates Of wharfage charged steamboats,. as laid
down in section al Of the city ordinances.
See. 2. That this ordinance shall take
effect from and after is passage.
Passed first, second and final reading By
Aldermen, February 18th passed FIRST. second
and fnal reading By Council, February
18th. 1874.
Approved, February 18th, 1874
JOHN LEAGUE, Maya.
Attest ~. I. WILLIAMSON, City Register.
TrfTrW
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FIVE HUNDRED POUNDS

FIVE HUNDR POUND -
-oF-
PRE- So ED FIN IL Gu II
Ia new invention),
FOR SALE ONLY AT
SOL. COLEMAN'S CIGAR STORE,
900 nj ain street.
Between Washington and Adams streets.
l47 M
Masks-Leubrie's.
DIED.
. KINNEY-This morning at o'clock, d. g..
KINNEY. in his forty-nrst year. at 200 Adams
street.
His friends are respectfully invited to at
tend his funeral from st. Peters church at
am. tomorrow.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
ARIZONA.
Indian Affairs - Major Randall AfteI
Renegades from Apache Reserve
Cattle Thieves Overhauied.

PRESCOTT, July 22.-Telegrams re-
ceived from the San Carlos Reserva-
ton yesterday convey information to
the effect that Major Randall had left
the post on an expedition up the Gila
river, where he hoped to find the rem
devious of a handful Of renegades from
Camp Apache Reservation.
Nothing has been heard from the
parties in search of the renegade chief,
Chuntz.
1t will be remembered that about a
month ago some stock belonging to
Leopold GARLIC of Tucson was driven
off from near Camp Lowell by O party
of Indians, whose trail was promptly
followed by Capt. Hamilton, with his
company of the Fifth Cavalry, until
the Apaches, as they proved to be, were
apprehended Capt. Hamilton found
the meat of the slaughtered animals
in their possession and would have
taken them back to Camp Lowell for
punishment, only that they claimed to
be acting under orders from the com.
manding officer at San Carlos. Upon
this, Capt. Hamilton sent courier to
apprise Major Randall of the behavior
of these Indians and enable him to
take the necessary steps to bring them
to punishment. Upon their return to
San Carlos, Major Randall singled out
the guilty ones and confined them in
the guard-house.
MARICOPA, July 20.-Companies D
and E, 23d Infantry, arrived here this
morning, on the way to Yuma. It is
reported that two soldiers belonging to
Capt. Pollock's command from Camp
Mcdowell, died at Mohawk Station
from sunstroke.
PHOENIX, July 21.-The store of Tr-
vine & Co. was robbed last night, the
money-till emptied and articles taken.
Some men employed on the ranch Of
G. Dennis are this morning minus their
pistols, saddles and clothing, the same
having disappeared during the night.
Mr.. j. J. Gardner and James Murray
are each missing a good horse this
morning. supposed to have been stolen
last night.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
Pacific Coast Items.

Solano county votes for Supervisors
on Wednesday, the I'd of September.
The burnt district of Vaca is rebuilt,
and improves the looks of the town
very much.
Articles of Incorporation have been
adopted for the Santa Barbara Hotel
Company; capital stock, 100000.
The wheat warehouse of Napa begins
to show signs of activity. About 100
tons of wheat have been received from
Berryessa.
The North Star FIGURING Mills at
Tehama started up on Monday, the
18th instant, on new wheat, and are
now turning out large quantities of
fine flour.
The work on another vessel was be-
gun Tuesday, near Greenwood wharf,
Vallejo, by Mr.. Harvey. The new
vesse will be about 35 feet long, with
Is feet beam.
The amount of sweet-corn in So
lano county this year is very great, it
isa drug in the markets of the inte-
rior towns, and at Suisun can be
bought at almost any price.
The Lassen Advocate learns from
c. r. McClelland, of Milford, that the
farmers in that vicinity are we'll along
with their haying, and will commence
harvesting their grain this week.
According to the Vallejo Hadepend-
ent, the wheat crop throughout Solano
county does not turn out as heavy as
it was thought it would two months
ago, yet the yield is larger than it was
last year.
Suisun, the county seat Of SolanO,
is very dull at present. The store
keepers think the dullness is owing to
the fact that now the Grangers buy all
their goods through their San Francis
GO agency.
Parties have struck very rich placer
mines in the hills above Mountain
Meadows, Lassen county. 1t is said
that the deposit is quite extensive and
several claims have been taken up
which prospect first-rate.
The contract for building the bridges
over Putah creek was awarded by So
lano and Yolo counties to E. d. Saw
yer, of Napa, for the sum of Sc Is per
foot The bid of the California Bridge
Company was 81 95 per foot.
Thompson, the missing Sacramento
box-maker, is still wanted" Report
has ~ tIlStt hc Aldo SOilc W iltlllds
The creditors are running the box
factory, they having appointed a re-
ceiver to look after the business.
Simpson & Sultz Bro. have finished
threshing on the Buckeye ranch, Te-
hama county. The total yield is 7,442
sacks of wheat. The number of acres
harvested was 400. The average
yield to the acre is a fraction over forty
bushels.
Says the Sierra Mountain Messenger
of Saturday: "Recently a diamond
was found by A. l.. Emerson in Straw
berry Valley, Yuba county, which
weighed one and half carats. 1t has
q yellow shade, similar to one discov-
cred by Col. Baker at Gardners Point,
in this county.
Stimulated by the success of beet
sugar works in Sacramento and en-
couraged by the fact that the soil
around Davisville and Woodland is
admirably adapted to the growth Of
the sugar beet, Dreisbach and other
capitalists of Davisville have con-
cluded to organize company for the
purpose of fstarting sugar at that
place.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
Oregon Items.

Benton, Linn and Lane counties
have purchased fifty threshing-ma-
chimes this year.
Eighteen Linn county Grangers
made up club and sent to Moline, ILL.,,
for wagons.
J.J. Scrafford sheared 254 pounds Of
wool from pair of twin lambs, last
week, in Linn county.
The Willamette Woolen Manufac-
turing Company have purchased about
two hundred thousand pounds of wool
this season.
The crops in Ochoco, Eastern Oregon,
are doing we'll, and sheep and cattle
are rolling fat. A number of settlers
are going in there to stay.
The owners of the large warehouse
at Albany offer a premium of fifty
dollars for the best lot of 1000 bushels
of wheat stored with them during the
season.
The Oregon Conference Of the NJ. f.
Church will meet at Salem, Septem-
ber 10th, instead of at Tangent, as
has been reported. Bishop Pierce
will preside.
A gentleman who has just made the
trip from the California line to Port
land on horseback, examining the
country, reports the crops as excelling
in prospect anything he ever wit
messed.
There is farmer living not many
miles from McMinnville who owns
1,120 acres of land which he became
possessed of In the following advan-
tageous modes: He first secured GAO
anrea under the donation law: after
ward he pre-empted 100 acres; then
stead law, and finally he purchased
100 acres of school land, at 81 25 pei
acre.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
PROFESSIONAL CARDS.
DR.. ]. w. OLIVER,

"OMEOPATHIST. Office and residence,
Ill brick building, east side of Spring ST.,
between Court and First streets, Los Angeles.
je lS-ly-H
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25

The Sacramento Beet Sugar Com
pany has 200 acres of beets near Davis
Vile. They were attacked by the
army worms and grassheppers, but no
great injury has been inflicted. Last
Saturday carload of turkeys-about
500-were let loose in the field, and
they have nearly cleaned the country
of the pests. The beets at Davisville
will yield finely, from thirty to forty
tons to the acre, and are of the best
size adapted to the use of sugar
makers.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
J. n. MCKEE, NJ. D.,

DHYSfCIAN & SUR GEON OFFICE,
Il No 1 Spring street, Opposite Temples
Bank. REsIDENCE-No. 239 Main street, Los
Angeles, California. mrl8-tf-2
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
Montana Meat Market.

ERELINGER & FRANCK. cFgW
A. The best and tenderest Meats (tHL
in the market. None bnt the S=A
PrImest Beef and Mutton
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25

ever to be found. Note the address--Montana
Meat Market, Main Street, near First, Los
Angeles Junltr-S
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25

During three or four weeks of the
busiest part of the season the ship
ments of fruit and vegetables from
Vacaville averaged fifty tons day,
and they still average about thirty.
Los Angeles daily herald., 1874-07-25
FOR SALE-TO LET.
Los Angeles Petroleum Refining Co

AT A MEETING OF THE DIRECTORS
IA of the Los Angeles Petroleum Refining
Company, the Secretary was authorized to
sell a limited amount of the Company's
stock
quested to call at Temple & Workman's
Bank, where they will be accommodated.
BY order of the Board.
b. l.. PEEL, Secretary.
June IL, 1874. jn2S tf-4
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NEW YORK


New YoRK, December 1.-THE man
ayers OF the Monmouth Park Associa
ton have resolved to celebrate the Cen
tennial of Independence by the offer oil
a purse of $4,000 for all ages in race Of
four mile heats, and have sent a special
notice to all great race horse owners in
the country. Entries will have to be
made on or before June lss, 1875, year
and half in advance of the time SET
for the race.
The Longshoremen's Uuion has au-
thorized its members to accept thirty
cents an hour for day work and forty
cents for night work. These are the
rates proposed by ship owners six weeks
ago, when the longshoremen struck.
The specie shipment to Europe was
81, 100000, of which $95O.OOO was gold
coin and the remainder silver.
The Stock Exchange has decided not
to close the Exchange on the Saturdays
following Christmas sni New Year.
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pnRL1c SCHOOL MArrERs.

We see notice in the morning papers
that the School Board Committee,
Massrs M. B. Trezevant. H. Townsend
and A E. FARMLAND, have appointed
Rev W. E. Boggs, T. NJ. S. Rhett, |. NJ.
mn John johnson and Thomas Boyle,
ESQ to act with them in the investiga-
tion of matters pertaining to the public
schools The high standing of these
gentlemen in their respective profess
s;ons and pursuits in life gives assurance,
we believe, of an impartial and just re-
mort We hope all the gentlemen named
can give their attention to such an i'm
portant duty, to the end that the public
NAV have some positive and reliable data
as basis for future action and policy.
Without presuming to dictate, the
LEDGER will await the result OF the COM
mittee's report with interest, and with
out prejudging must adhere to the
posit;on that some economical re-
forms are necessary in the city schools
as we'll as elsewhere. All mere
personal considerations should be
left out and this question settled in the
interest Of the public. Popular eduea-
ton is desirable, but there is such
thing as going to extremes even in that.
In building up a system some regard
should be had to the ability of the people
to pay the taxes. A classical and orna-
mental education is not a necessity for
the masses, bat rather a luxury to be
paid for by those who can and are willing
TO afford it. Let ns be just
first, and generous afterwards The
general diffusion Of useful knowledge
does not depend upon expensive edscs-
ton. This is an era of utility and new
necessities, when the youth of the land
should be taught to work first and think
afterwards. There is demand for ac-
tive, practical men and women, but not
much request for the ancient classics,
except by those who elect to enter the
learned professions. The practical sug-
gestions of the LEDGER in regard TO re-
ducing the course and tie expenses OF
the city schools. we believe, meet the ap-
provsl Of all thoughifui-minded readers,
and will eventually be adopted.
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A young lady in Paris, KY, remarked
to a companion in a conversation the
other day, that she would never paint
her eheekz before attending q funeral.
"Why notY' asked her friend. Because,
replied the young lady, II was painted
up when l attended a funeral last sum-
mer, and never wanted to cry so bad in
my life, and was getting my handker-
chief ready, when, glancing around at
-, saw that coarse, yellow skin Of
hers Though the tears tracks, and it
looked horrible never had such hard
work to hold my tears in since was
born. I'm done painting for funerals. !"
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A InuRNALIsrTc oPEnIHG.

We learn from the Appeal Of thiH
morning that new evening paper, with
g capital of $4,000, is projected in this
city. There is a good opening for the
10000, we kncW, but as to the paper,
that is another question. We would like
TO see he money in circulation among
the printers. There is great deal Of
unemployed Newspaper talent foatiag
around Memphis, aud it is surprising
that it has not been utilized long ago.
Journalism is pleasant profession, and
we only wonder that more men do not
engage in it. No experience is neces'
sary whatever, justso a man has been TO
college, read law year or failed ia any
other profession, he is eminently
qualified at least to run the
political aud news departments
of daily Newspaper. The work is
very light. and requires no study, inves-
tigation or previous training. Then il
is so pleasant to 90 to the circus and
carry ones family and wife 5 country
cousins on free tickets; also to step
down to the opera of an evening and
occupy front seats in the dress circle
anti she piece is two thirds over and
then leave Just to let folks know that we
have seen better performance in New
York. The Prerequisites, the free passes
and the constant association with other
great men fills the editors measure Of
internal satisfaction all the year round
As to the business department, all thai
is necessary is to hire a clerk and tel
aim to run the machine and pay him
self reasonable salary after the editor
drafts are honored. If the cofferl
are not always full It Ia the faul
of a short-sighted public, but will com,
right in the course Of time. Some. fey
men have failed at enterprises of thi
kind, but others are always ready to al
M the ranks. A few failures might b
mentioned in this city, but that shout
not discourage any man with $1,000
from investing Il right away. Surel
there is an opening IN Memphis for
new evening paper, as the LKDGER is Ii
only one ia the whole South on bus
ness footing. The field is wide, and, 4
Daniel Webster once said to your
lawyer who spoke Of The legal probe
sion as crowded, there is plenty
room up here"
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From the Detroit Free Press.l
He is boy of deep thought, and il
much given to deductions. The Coroner
is not his father, but he is a lad who was
engaged 10 mind the office, shake up the
coal stove and answer inquiries. He is
a good boy, and he has learned TO sym.
pathize with reporters. When there has
been an inquest the boy puts on a cheer
full look, and he has the whole case SO
that he can rattle it Off from beginning
to end.
Awful sad case he says to the re-
porter. "They found the old man hang.
ing to beam in a woodshed, stiff and
cold. Splendid chance for you to say
that his wide.open eyes seemed 10 glare
down upon the Coroner, and that he had
one arm stretched out as 1t TO
shake hands with the grim monster
death. You can say the body swayed
to and fro in the night breeze blowing as
through broken pane, and that an owl
sat on beam over the corpse and utter
ed his mournful hoo hoo
An then he rubs his hands, bis smile
grows broader, and he continues;
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WASHINGTON.
Loulsiapa Affairs.

WASHINGTON. December l7.-Gentle'
men of prominence in Louisiana, who
arrived here last night. say the Conserv-
atiye party, to which they are attached,
clearly elected g majority Of the Legis-
lative and other candidates at the recent
election; that the Conservatives are anx-
iously awaiting the report of the return
ing board, which they distrust, and such
is the feeling among them that, should
the board reject any Of the returns with
a viey solely Of giving ascendancy to the
Republicans, the Conservatives wpEld
undertake to right themselves by force
of arms.