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bers was ELECTED during the trial that
Pickett was reported to have said, with
a sigh: Too more such trials srould
XIII the public schools" The commit,
tee, after patiently hearing all the evi-
dence, brought in a verdict, NOT GUILTY.
The School Board ring, yet in the ma
jority, refusing to hear Colonel Faulks'
report of the evidence, instantly went
into secret session and, metaphorically
speaking, then and there cut of the
head of the woman its own court and
jury had found innocent. Thus thai
corrupt carpet-bag ring proclaims itself,
shamelessly, free from any idea or in.
tention of justice, going through the
farce Of appointing a committee to in
vestigate charges and then going
back on its own committees Judgment.
The ut is the colored schools have
lost their ablest teacher. and the negro
lawyer, Turner Hunt, who SO energeti-
cally served Barnum in his efforts to
GUST Mrs. Thompson, now reaps his re.
ward, as his son, an inexperienced
youth, has Mrs. Thompson's place. For
all this gross injustice Superintendent
Pickett is chiefly responsible. Had he
stoed for the right, instead Of for the
friend who voted him $4,000 for nine
months, Barnum would have been dis
missed as incompetent long since, 1t is
worthy of note that the Appeal, with its
usual dullness on school matters, in
commenting on this Ease exactly re
versed the attitude of the contestants
making it appear hal Mrs. Thompson
was on the carpet-bag side and Barnum
on the home rule side. The facts are
notorious that she is victimized and per
secuted by the carget-bag clique thai
now runs the public schools. Barnum
Pickett, Pierce, Vernon, Andrews, etc.
are as a band of brothers in the School
Board. Rev. Mr.. Walk attended the
trial and heard the evidence; let him
speak out in the interest of justice. Lei
Colonel Faulks speak out; he owes little
Difference to his associates in the Board,
who put on him, as chairman Of the
committee, the gross insult Of sweeping
aside the committees report, refusing
to hear the evidence and proceeding at
once to the spiteful mesnness Of decap-
itating a woman teacher to satisfy the
malice of a male principal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19
Indian Atrocities.

ST. LOUIS, March ia Globe spe-
cial saysi at roll call of the Cheyenne
Indians at the Cheyenne agency last
Friday, Catherine Germaine, one Of the
white girls recently held captive by that
tribe, identified four of the Indians who
murdered her father and mother. They
were Medicine Water, who shot her ia
ther, a squaw, who burned one of her
sisters, and two others. The remaining
thirteen Of the murderers could not be
found. During roll call several young
Indians fed from the camp and we're
pursued by cavalry, but could not be
captured. General Neil and agent Miles
have discovered that the terms of sur.
render of Stone Calf and his band has
not been complied with. More than one
hundred Of the young fighting
Indians of the band, having the best
horses and arms Of the tribe, are still on
the plains making their way NORTH
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loo I'm N-InrrInnh.

PokT DEPOSIT, Nd, March l9.-The
food here is fearful. The water is from
FIVE to fifteen feet deep in the streets.
Nothing like it was ever seen before.
Nearly the whole town is flooded, and
there is great destruction of property.
No lives have been lost so far. The
railroad depot is full of water as we'll as
the telegraph Office, which was aban-
dOned last night in a boat.
The ice has gorged about FIVE miles
below the town Of Havre dc Grace.
The wbaryes are flooded and whole piles
Of lumber have been swept from them.
A large number Of men are engaged in
saving it, The street next 10 the river,
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Gathering samphIre.

This perilous trade ia extensively
practiced in the Isle OF Wight; it is a
small succulent plant, found in abund-
ance in the hollow OF the cliffs, and is
much used throughout England as a
pickle. The chief indictment its col
lectors have to follow the risky calling
is, we are told, the hope Of at the same
time securing the eggs and feathers OF
the various sea birds which build their
nests on the lodges and in the ~crevices
of the cliffs, from the sale of which a
good profit is derived. In order to get
at either the samphire or eggs, the men
fasten a rope to an iron bar, which they
have driven firmly into the ground, and
then placing themselves on a rude seat
formed of two pieces Of wood placed one
across the other, they lower themselves
by means Of a second rope down the
face Of the cliff. The practice seems to
be extremely dangerous, and many per-
sons have lost their lives while engaged
in it. Myriads of elder ducks, gulls,
cormorants, davis, razor-bills, p%ullins,
guillemots, ETC., haunt the cliffs, and
when a gun or pistol is fred they rise
suddenly from a thousand cavities, until
the very air is darkened with them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19
WASHINGTON.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-The Repub.
lican Senators had another caucus this
morning to consider the ~advisability Of
taking positive action in the Louisiana
matter during this special session. No
agreement was reached, and the caucus
adjourned tothis afternoon, Immediately
after the adjournment OF the Senate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

WASHINGTON, March l9.-For Ten.
nessee and Ohio valley, upper Missis
sippi and lower Missouri valleys and
Northwest, falling barometer, northeast
winds, colder and cloudy weather, and
occasional snow or rain. The river will
continue to fall at Pittsburg and st
Louis, but elsewhere rise slightly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

above the bridge, is completely blocked
with ice, wood aud lumber. The water
is about ten inches deep in the street,
but is falling slowly. The canal tow
path, at the upper end of the town, is
covered with ice.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

VNELAND, N. Y, March l9.-Mr.
Carruth. editor of a paper published
here, was fatally shot this morning by
Charles X. Lands, who is known as
I" Father Of yineland." The affair grew
out Of an article in the paper which
Lands thought referred to him, but in
which no m were mentioned.
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FrIday, ssd DAY Of AprlI. 1s75.

within legal hours, part of John c. Nc
IGNORES g95 acres, subdivision of John
Hansom's 5000 acres, said parcel beginning
1873 GIL feet north Of the northeast intersec-
ton of Fifth and Division streets, at Eche-
warns northwest corner of his two acre tract;
east with Echevarn's line $50 feet to Sixth
street extended, Of Fort Pickering; thence
north with the west boundary line of Sixth
street p6 $40 feet; thence west $50 feet TO the
$ $40 to the beginning, containing one acre,
and the same land sold TO farquire BY Willo
Williams by his deed entered in Book Sc, part
!, page 272. IT'LL. believed to be good; re-
demption waived, but l sell only as Trustee.
1915 II. III. LANES
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The LEDGER job Office is one Of the
most extensive in the South and capa'
Bile Of executing any class of job work.
lo9f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

An old lady in Boston heard her SON
reading about a oongressman-atIarge
and at once took warning, Go right
out John, and take in the clothes, and
set a shotgun in the back yard. for. e
there is a Congressman at large, we must
be careful"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

ST. LOUIS. Mo-, March Is, 1875.
G.. B. Wexford, Life Association of America;
The Life Association of America is
solvent, with a good surplus. Runners
to the contrary are false. The directors
have asked the Insurance Superintend
ent to make an examination immedi-
atsly of the affairs and accounts of the
Association.
H. W. Housu, President.
EnRN ". BRYANT. AotnarY.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

Mrs. Joseph Searles, Of Perkins Plan
%tation, Maine, a widow, had her house
destroyed by fire last summer. Her
ueighbors went into her wood lot a few
days after and cut and framed the tim
Der for a new house for her. Since that
time Mrs, Searles has with her own
hands boarded and shingled the house.
She also cut her own hay last season,
with the help Of a boy thirteen years old.
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Mary L. Aborns was advertised by her
husband in San Jose, California, as hav-
ing left his bed and board without Just
cause, and so forth. Mrs. Aborns re-
torted in a card, in which she said that
she had been married ten years, and in
that time had cooked about ten thousand
meals, spent fifteen thousand hours over
a hot stove, borne six children, MIXED
COWS over ten thousand times, and per-
formed other %housewifery duties in pro.
portion. She adds: II have drawn the
picture very mildly. have made allow
ances for my sickness, when / have had
help, something after the way that a
farmer would hire a horse if his own was
sick and unable to work. had nothing
when | went there, and nothing at the
end of those ten years OF servitude."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

EVERY year a pastry cook in Dresden
COOKS up a lot of pancakes, in one Of
which a ducat is placed, and advertises
the sane, %whereupOn all the good people
OF that city rush to invest five %pfeninps
IN one Of the cakes in the hone Of being
the lucky winner of the prize.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

The London papers announce the
arrival Of a new phenomenon, a gentle
man with only one eye, and that in the
middle of the forehead. he does not
come from Mount Etna, but Australia,
and bears the name Of Pipe Wilson,
aged twenty-five.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

Mansford has 300 old novels which he
is offering cheap; 1000 old magazines at
ten cents. to close out.
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In Canadian cities bsggars make quite
a living by picking up ears which have
frozen and dropped off aud returning
them 10 their rightful owners.
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LEGAL.
Trustees Sale.

RY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED MADE
ID to A.. S. Kittredge by Frank Farquire, with
power to appoint an agent, and / having been
duly appointed agent, recorded in Registers
office Of Shelby county, Tenn, in Book So,
page 2l0, | will sell to the highest bidder, for
each at the south gate Of Court Square, Mem
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-19

MO0RE-At Hibernia, Florida, March II,
1875. Major VIRGIL V. MOORE, Of this city.
His remains will be brought here for burial.
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TINS Broadway silk dress hat SC at
Cohen's. II
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THE THOMPSON CAUSE.-THE UEBLUsH.
ING SCHOOL BOARD RIEG-LO0K AT


THE THOMPSON CAsR-THE UNBLUSH
ING SCHOOL BOARD RIEG-LO0K al
THIsi
It is a well.established fact that Mr..
Pickett was made Superintendent and
the salary raised from $2l9O per year to
$4,000 for nine months by the instrument
tally Of his personal friends in the
Board, chief among whom were W. j.
Smith. Judge Pierce and Bsrnum. What
the Others gaiued by this generous
friendship lit is easy to be generous with
the public money!, ia not certainly
known; it is certainly known, however,
that Barnum profits largely by the graf
itude and friendship of Mr.. Pickett.
Barnum (who had lost his place in the
LeMoyne school because ofincompetency
and inharmony with the teachers), was
instantly by Pickett given the %sinecure
place Of principal of the Clay street
school, salary $3.50 per month, and Mrs.
Barnum was given a teachers place at
$50 per month (she also had been a
teacher OF LeMoyne). The LeMoyne
tsachsrswere and yet are, paid a salary Of
about s25 per month. Thus twill be seen
what a good thing befell the Bsrnum fam.
lily, by reason Of Barnum's being a
School Board member and one Of the
~csrpet-bag ring. Now in Clay street
school Was a teacher MRS. thompson
who was, and yet is, by those competent to
Judge, considered the ablest teacher in
the colored schools. She was a little
too able for Barnum. Mrs. Thompson
was experienced in school management.
knew how to grade schools, and Barnum
old not Barnum took an intense dis
like to Mrs. Thompson, showing it in
many petty and prosecuting ways. Fail.
ing to Gust her from her place BY these
means barnum at length preferred a
long array Of charges against her,
and she was arraigned for trial before a
committee appointed by the Board. Col.
onel Faulks was chairman Of the com.
mittes. The trial assumed large dimen.
sions, lasting over a month; many wit
nesses we're brought up by both parties
and testified under oath. Barnum EN-.
ployed Colonel McKisick, an able law.
yer, to conduct the prosecution. Turner
Hunt, the negro lawyer, was also in
Barnum's employ. The defense was
managed by Colonel CANT. Many of
the Oldest and best citizens Of Memphis
we're deeply interested in the issue of the
case, believing that Mrs. Thompson was
the victim Of a vile conspiracy. Among
those who testified in Mrs. Thompson's
we're Rev. Mr.. Walk, Rev. DR..
White, Colonel Tyler, Mr.. Slaughter,
school superintendent, Miss
doou, teacher in the schools, Mrs. Mi
Tor Meriwether, and other equally we'll
citizens. Trickery and bad man
cement we're proved on Barnum; in
,ct so much that was diacreditable to
,hool officials and School Board mem |
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RENDEa UNTO CRsAR.

The Appeal Of this morning in an
editorial Of some length most properly
attacks and opposes the passage of what
Is known as the Fee Bill" by the pres.
ent Legislature. The object Of the
measure is principally to strike at Shelby
county, as indeed nearly all of the legis-
iation proposed or enacted by that body
has been intended. The bill in question,
under the aimsy pretext Of conserving
reform" by " equalizing salaries OF
the clerks Of the different courts through.
out the State, without regard to the great
diiterencein labor and pecuniary respon-
sibility, was designed 10 put the remune
ration Of the clerks Of Shelby so low as
10 drive efficient officers from their
posts and throw our legal affairs into
domination and inextricable difficult.
ties BY the appointment Of cheap
and incompetent successors to the
present ineumbents. We say this is the
object because the result we have named,
lon the bills becoming a law, cannot be
avoided, and its advocates in the Legis-
@lature from this county are perfectly cog
infant Of its truth. The bill is not yet
defeated, as the Appeal seems to think,
and that journal falls into another error
concerning its authorship when it says
that 1t was an effort on the Fart of a
bitter Radical (Mr. Gibson) in the House
to perpelrate q wrong on Democratic
of~ice-holders." Mr.. Gibson is not the
father Of that unjust and unwise proposed
enactment, as we are informed bya very
responsible and reliable gentleman at
the State capital, who is in a posi-
ton, and has been throughout the
session, to know what he says OF
the acts and doings Of members of
the General Assembly. That bill was
framed and worded in the ranks of the
immortal nine" of Shelby, and if it
deserves to be characterized as a party
measure at all. it should be called ian
effort on the part of bitter johnson men
in the House to perpetrate a wrong upon
Democratic ofice-holders." The act is
of Shelby county paternity, and Mr..
Gibson merely stands godfather to the
iniquity, We have made the correction
of the Appeals unintentional mistake
ont of no unkiDd feeling to that journal,
but simply from a desire TO render
unto Cesar" that which belongs to that
in~diyidualin the way of worldly honors.
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IF YOU WANT PRINTING DONE IN AN
artlttlc manner send your ofdersltolthe
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Trustees Sale,

pY VIRTUE OF A TRUST DEED MADE
y TO me by T. 7. Eddins, recorded in the
Registers Office of Shelby county, Tenn, in
Book No. 100. page 2O9. i will sell to the highest
bidder. for cash, at the corner Of Main and
Madison streets, Memphis. Tenn. on
Monday, Goth day Of March, 1875,
east corner Of W Washington and Second streets,
in the city Of Memphis, and being lot No, 9 of
subdivision of said lot No. 1874, and fronts 90
feet on Washington street. extending back 70
feet deep to a private alley ~ feet wide, be-
ing the same lot sold by John b. Signaigo to
be perfect, and redemption waived, but l will
convey only as Trustee.
l5-N SOLOMON ROSE, Trustee.
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The subscription prise of n
PUBLIC LEDGER Is IS per annum
for Daily, IA SO per annum for
weekly. POSTAGE FREE.
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Go to Cohen's aud buy a spring style
hat. II
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Il. W. HoUau, President.


Epwm ". Bryant. Actuary.
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-06-01
NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS

UyaxpAYERS TAKE NOTICE THAT IN
pursuance OF Acts Of the Legislature, yon
are required 20 make out a statement under
oath or affirmation according 10 the form fur
uished bv me, IA far m the same is applicab'e
10 your case. and deliver the sa'se to me y a.
my office within Ave days from the day de-
nand il made. or the Assessor will estimate
the value Of your property and assess the same
accordingly and no deduction will be mado
by the Board OF Equalization In the assess
ment made by the Assessor. And yon an
further notified that in case YOU have not Real
Estate within the county. Of sufficient vslae
to secure the taxes. demand viii be made for
immediate payment of the same. and II naE
paid without delay. IL will be my duty to i
lect the same by distraint and sale Of properly,
Assessors office, Wnnenueca. Nevada.
April 10. 1875. JAMES BUCkNEh,
Assessor Of Humboldt county, Neyada
ap19 II
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-06-01
Notice Of Sale OF Real ES-
tate.
ADMINISTRATORS SALE.

NOTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN
~ pursuance of an order of the District
Court of the Fourth Judicial District of the
state of Nevada, in and for the county of
Humboldt, made on the nth day Of MAJ,
A. ID. 1875, in the matter Of the estate of Mary
dodgers, deceased, the undersigned the Adj
rlinistrator OF the said estate will sell at pub
lie auction to the highest bladder, for cash.
United States gold coin, and subject to con-
hrmation by the said District Court, ON Thurs
day, the 10th day Of June, A. ID. 1878, at
o'clock p NJ at the house and lots hereinafter
described. all OF the right. title aud interest
and estate OF the said Mary Rodgers ut the
time of her death, and all the rig Il, ii lie and
Interest that the said estate has by operation
Of law or otherwise acquired, other than or
in addition 10 that of the said Mary Rodgers
4. the time of her death, in or to all those
certain lots, pieces or parcels of land. with
dwelling house thereon. described as follows:
Block %, lots numbered /, 2 and 3, in the
town OF Winnemucca Humboldt county, State
of Nevada. erms and conditions of sale,
cash. gold coin Of the United States to be
paid on confirmation OF sale by aid Dis ,lict
Court; deed at expense Of purchaser.
DAVID MELAKKEY.
administrator of the es; ate of Mary Isodgers
deceased.
Winnemucca, May 10, 1878. myI8 3w
The silver state. [volume] (Unionville, Nev.) 1870-1903, 1875-06-01
Order to Show Cause.
TN THE DISTRICT COURT OF THE
I County OF Humboldt, State Of Nevada.
In the matter Of the Estate Of MARY I.
PEASE, Deceased.
Order 10 show cause why Order Of Sale OF
Real Estate should not be made.

II appearing to the Judge OF said Court. BIZ
the petition this day presented and filed By
w. J. Hutton. the Administrator of The Estate
of MARY l. PEASE, Deceased, praying for an
order of sale Of real estate, that 1t s necessary
to sell the said real estate to pay the debts
expenses Of administration of said estate.
II is therefore ordered by the Judge Of said
Court that all persons interested in the estate
OF said deceased. appear before the said Dis
trict Court on SATURDAY, the 18th day Of
June A. D. 1875 at 10 O'Clock in the forenoon
OF said day at the Courtroom OF said District
Court at the town Of Winnemucca. In the
county OF Humboldt, Nevada, TO show canse
why an order should not be granted to the
said Administrator TO sell SO much OF the
real estate Of the said deceased as shall be
necessary.
And that copy of this order he published
once week for ut least four successive weeks
in the SILVER sTArE. newspaper printed and
published ~ gii oo'u{y
WA : BON NlFlGLD. District Judge.
Dated NaY l3 1915. niyit 9aWiW
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PATENT NOTICES.
APPLICATION FOR PATENT.
Matte. No. 26s, United States Survey
No 81.

United STATES LANr OFFICE,
CARSON CITY. NEVADA, I
April 3, 1875.
NyoTICE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAT THE
~ " white Cloud Consolidated GOLD ana
Silver Mining Company w JUrpo' Postofics
adayess is at San Jose, Santa clara county.
SaI;fornia has made application for United
49, pstent TO two thousand 2.000l linear
60 81 a certain lode Of quartz or other rock
IN nlace. bearing gold, silver, copper ana
other metals, commonly called and known as
the "White Cloud Lode, and the white
1ne Consolidated Gold and silver Mining
Claim White Cloud Mining District, Churc-
Ill comfy. State of Nevada, extending two
thousand n OOOl linear feet in an easterly or
sontheasterly direction from Post No. tine
,soint Of berinning) along the line Of said lode
and embracing the same with all dips, spurs,
angles and variations. with surface ground
siy hundred 5000 feet in width, and described
on the plat and neld hoIes Oh hie III my oiii0c
as follows to wit:
beginning at a post marked "No. l, U.
survey No 81, whence chimney OF the stone
cabin Of the White Cloud mine bears south
go deg. 80 min. east. 1,225 feet, said cabin
being about mile and one half from mouth
of white Cloud canyon, and north 81 deg east
700 feet. of monument of location of theWhite
Of the White Cloud lode bears south 81 deg. A.
min. east, ,041 feet. and whence the highest
peak on the north side OF White Cloud canyon
and cabin bears north 20 deg. 30 mtn. east
Q 152 feet: thence, first course. south Is deg
10 min. west 600 feet, to post marked" No.
Q. u. s. Survey. No. 81" thence, second course
south II deg. 30 min. east, 1000 feet. to post
marked No. 3, u. \. Survey, No. SI;' thence
running third course north Is deg. 30 min
east. 600 feet to post marked " No. 4. U. ).
Survey. No, 81" thence running. fourth
course. north II deg. 81 min. west, 1000 feet
to post marked No. /, the place Of beginning.
coptaining within the above described boun-
DIARIES N 5i-lO0ths acres. Courses and bear
ings expressed from true meridian, magnetic
variation. II deg. Is min east
This claim is bounded by no other claim as
far as known, and Is on unsurveyed land, and
being far from any United States public land
SURVEYS. no connection was made. This SUE
yev was made to conform with the record Of
location. This location is recorded in the
mining records Of White Cloud Mining Dis
trict. kept ut the Office OF the Mining Recorder
Of said White Cloud Mining District. Churchill
county, Nevada
apI2 G5t Register.
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NvoTfCE rs HEREBY GIVEN THAI
~ under the law each male resident o
this State over twcntv-onc and under sSi
wears IL subject to poll tax 81 four dolia'''
Any person. or persons company or corpo''
N IN Il ing business in this state. and havl,E.
by direct contract. or indirectly through oihe'
contractors. In their employ one or more pr.
sons liable to and owing Prll Tax. shall
liable for any and All Poll Taxes that mav 9
due from such employees The law VIII "
strictly and promptly enforced.
JAMES II 1CKSER,
County Assessor.
winnemucca. April %. 1S75--tf