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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-09-06
In supreme Court at Jackson

James g. Collier ct al VS.. James A. Anderson,
Administrator, etc., OF al.
IN PURSUANCE OF THE DECREE PRO-
j nounced by the Supreme Court of Tennes-
see at jackson, the Sth day OF June, 1875, in
this cause, l will offer for sale, to the highest
bidder, for cash, in front of the Court House
Of Shelby county, in the city of Memphis, on
Monday, the 4th day Of October, 1876,
within legal hours, the real estate mentioned
and described In the pl~eadings and DEGREES as
follows: A certain tract or parcel of land
lying and being in Shelby county, Tennessee,
about one mile south Of the city of Memphis,
and being the north half Of what is known
| and described as lots SO and 60, on the plan
and survey Of q l254-acre tract of land GEM
posing part Of the estate Of Andrew Kerr, de-
| ceased, and being the same land conveyed by
John Wildberger to Sarah @. Wheaton by
deed, registered in the Registers Office of
Shelby county, Tennessee, in Book No. %, PIP.
1856, 1857, S89.
Terms Of Sale-Cash.
JOHN II. FREEMAN. Clerk.
CLAP Il MEux, Solicitors.
September 2, 1875. 2.30
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IN. R. 1871
Ohancery Sale of Real Estate.

Henry Buck vs.. II. BIS. Williams ct a .-First
Chancery Court of Shelby county.
DY VIRTUE OF AN INTERL0CUTORY
ID decree for sale, entered in the above cause
on the I'd day of July, 1875, / will sell at
public auction, to the highest bidder, in front
house building. Main street, Memphis. Ten
nessee, on
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Thursday, Sept. 80, 1875.
LIST OF GIFTS:

2.l7s Cash Gifts. amounting to....,.s 81 0 zoos
NUMBER OF TICKETS. ......I 100, 900
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LEGAL.
Attachment Notice.

Before 4. W. Caldwell, Justice Of the Peace
IN THIS CAUSE AN AfTACHMENTHAv-
i ing been sued out under section 1856 Of the
Code Of Tennessee and returned before me lew
led on the personal property Of defendant, and
affidavit having been made that the defendant
isjustly indebted to the plaintiff in the sum Of
fifteen dollars. and that defendant is a non-
resident of the State Of Tennessee; il is there
fore ordered that the said defendant, W. j.
Slater, make his personal appearance be-
fore me on the I'd day Of September, 1875, alto
O'Clock. am, at my office in the city of Mem
phis,. No. . Court street, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
law, or the same will be proceeded with ex
parte, and that a copy Of this order be pub
hshed for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This the Sd day Of August, 1875.
lH-l40-l46.4 e.. W. CALDWELL, j, p.
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Remittances for tickets may be made BY ex-
W sSSsih Prsps.1 i e0,t oI sv rs @GRsy G Isttsr a On
dressed % HON. JAMES BARBOUR,
Pres't n. Y. II. A., Alexandria, V.
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BoNDs

WILL BUY QUARTER BOND OF THE
w. Industrial Exhibition Company Of New
York.
Each Quarter Bond participates in -Four
series allotments every year. until it is re-
deemed.
The following Premiums show what any
Bond may receive. A quarter Bond would
receive enc. quarter Of the below named pre-
minus
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O.5ol l.Oo( N'" fTiss 3aiIy:
memphis 4 Charleston -, a. ,
.SOl II. R.-Daily. IL III IN
mississippi 4 Tennes-
see r. R.-Daily.
memphis 4 Little Rock 40
I'm r. R.-Daily.
fPaducah & Memphis 800
SOOt R. R.-Daily.
miss. river 10 EelenR6
3 sol Friar's P't-daily. :
IVicksburE(tri-weeklyll
33Ol Mon., Thurs, Sat-.
miss. river to St.Louis
D1 Mon. Thurs. Fri. D
White ~kiver-Semi-
30 Woekly-Tues. d Sat. y
Ark river, semi-weeklyl
8 20 tTuesday and Saturday, 8
Marion (t~ri-woeklyl-l - =,
IN Mon, We'd, Fri. III 81
Cuba, Tennessee
weekly-Friday. III
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Buy Before september 9th.
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PRICE OF TICKETS:

Whole Tickets. 500; Halves, SIC; Quarters, IS
EighthB, or each Coupon, $3.50; Five and
one-half Tickets. for 800; Eleven
Tickets for 800.
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PREMIUMS.

NO CHANCE FOR LOSS.
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ADVERTISER

Cannot fail TO see the unrivalOd inducements
offered By US in the way of cheap and profit.
able advertisements.
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3. WHITMORE, Publisher and Prop,

10 Madison streets
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07

against many older ones that Jared
no better, though nobody disputes
their title to the distinction of suc-
cessGnl agricultural States.
Right here we want to call atten-
ton 10 one fact in behalf of Kan
sas, and that is, she has had more
rain, during the past four or five
years, than has fallen in a number
of other. States that formerly
boosted of unfailing crops. The
latter part of last year was dry,
though no more SO than was the
case throughout q large portion of
the country. And yet the Neosho
Valley country produced q very
fine crop Of wheat, . fair crop of
oats, and an abundance OF fruit,
grass, ETC., and the fall rains came
in time for the farmers to put in a
large breadth of winter wheat,
which is now everywhere reported
in good condition.
The present is as favorable a
time TO go to Kansas as there has
ever been in the past. AS good
lands still remain vacant aud un-
sold as there are in the state, and
they can be bought as cheap now
as they could many years ago.
Stock, including work horses, car
now be obtained very low, and all
kinds Of implements and materials
for the use of the farm, are cheap
er than ever they have been be-
fore. A person can take a thou,
sand dollars now and accomplish
as much with it toward buying
land and opening up a farm as he
could have done with double the
sum before the railroads were
built into the country.
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GO TO KANSAS.
From the Real Estate Register

From the Real Estate Register.
Do not be discouraged from GO
ing to Kansas by what you hear,
or what you read in the papers.
We do not mean to say that every
thing now current against that
country is false, but simply wish
to remind you that there are
two sides TO this question, and
that there are abundant facts on
the bright side To warrant you in
going there now, provided yoa
want the best OF homes. at the
cheapest possible prices, and are
prepared TO take hold of the mat
ter in earnest,
There 10 another iallacy. We
sometimes hear persons speak OF
Kansas as though it was yet an
experiment, IS regards its adoption
to agriculture. It is no such thing.
The public statistics of the State
prove that no period since the Get
Element of the territory began has
she shown q more rapid increase
in population, wealth and produc-
ton, than during the years 1871
and 1879, and the partial failure Of
crops In 1874 Is no more argamen,
against that state then il il
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-05-07
THE NAY QUEEN.
BY nRKr HARrE.

If your waking, call me carly. call me early,
mother, dear,
And see that my room Is warm. mother, and
the nro 10 burning clears
And talloW my nose, once more mother, once
more ere you go away,
For I'm TO be Queen o. tho May, mother, I'm
TO DO Queen o. the May
It froze 50 hard last night, mother. that really
conldn't break
The lee in my little pitcher, mother. till I
thought the poker t. take.
You'll find IL there on the hearth, mother
but oh, let that hot brick stay,
For I'm 70 be Queen o, the May, mother, I'm
10 be Queen o. tn May.
shah put on my G7ses-scets'a outside my
seal-skin coat,
And two or three yards OF flannel, dear, will
20 around my throat;
And you'll sec that the beneset-aea, mother, Is
drawn while your chilc'a away,
For I'm TO he Queen o. the May, mother, I'm
10 be Queen o. the May.
Little EMe shall go with me. if her nose Is Mt
And you shall be there, too, dear mother, 10
sec me made the Queen.
Provided the doctor'l let you; and, II II don't
rain instead.
Little Johnny Is to take me part ofthe way on
his Aled.
50, IL you're waking, call me early cali me
For tomorrow may be the chilliest day OF all
the glad New Year;
Forto-dAy Is the thirtIefh, mother, and bless'd
If your child can say,
IL che amt an April Fool, mother, instead OF
RQueen o. May.
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snneri1ed Crime.

Ninety years ago a poor girl in
eastern New York was refused help
by the county officers, who told her
to take care of herself. She be-
came q castnway, and they are her
descendants whom the following
paragraph tells about:
MIR. Dugdaie has traced the his
sorry and gtansl0gy OF six persons
found in ceriain jail ia this State
until at last No has discovered 100
persons belonging to the family,
and traced back their ancestry for
ak generations. This family, esli-
mated a. numbering 100 persons,
has, during the last 70 years, cost
tho community by its debauohery,
pauperism aud crime, over $1,000
600. 1t numbers among its mem.
bers ESQ paupers, who have receiv-
cd an aggregate OF 1850 years o;
outdoor relief, and $50 years OF
almshouse life, which cost in cash
over S47, 900 TO the country. There
were l20 criminals and Offenders,
who had received 1z0 years impris-
onment at cost of SS9, 600 for trials
Ana maintenance. Fifty per cent.
OF the women were hArlots, and %
per cent. OF the children illegiti-
mate"
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n,mE CANAL RING.

The Canal Ring which Gov. Til
den ls trying to break in pieces, has
long been one of the most power
full political organizations that ever
existed in this State. A great deal
ofits strength has been due tothe fact
that II has always been made up of
active and Influential members Of
both parties, thus giving lite repres-
entAtives the right 10 participate In
the counsels of each.
This copartnership between DEM
ocrats and Republicans has enabled
the Ring to exert . good deal Of
control over the nominations of
both parties, and especially for such
officers as award contracts for work
on the canals, and have the general
management of the canals, and are
members OF the Canal Board. In
pursuance of this policy, the NOM
bers of the ring and their retainers
have been wont to attend the State
Conventions of their respective par
ties either as delegates or lobbyists
and many are the Candidates for
nominations upon the Democratic
and Republican tickets who have
OS6n cut uOWu NJ tuclI- RlASo SOn-
ventions without knowing that il
was the Canal Ring that welded the
weapons. By the same methods the
Ring, in many portions of the State,
has controlled nominations TO the
Legislature in both parties, and
thus facilitated the enactment Of
spec al statHtes to pay canal claims
for alleged damages, or for extrs
work done or imagined to have
been done under contracts which
were swindles from the stare.
There never was al Oath-bouno
secret society whose members were
more closely sssQciated or stood to-
gether more firmly, than the varied
political elements which make NJ
the Canal Ring. All these elements
are difTused all through the counties
that spread westward and north
ward from Albany to Lake Eri'
and the St. Lawrence.
These are some of the salient feA
lures of the powerful, willy, and cor
rupt combination which Gov. Til
den is trying TO overthrow. In thi
contest every contest every gOoC
citizen ought to stand by the Gov
ernor.-N. Y. Sun.
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.YAR1OEs UkMa.

Why do people call for a piece
of string. and did any body ever
hear of one calling Tor a whole
one?
A muff-A thing that he Ids 81
young lady's hand without
squeezing it. Very few OF them
in this city.
George Washington may have
been a very smart man. but any
stupid boy can get a head of him
by buying a three-eent postage
stamp.
"John! John, wake up; there's
burglar in the house.' said the
wife. John sat upright in bed.
"BuFglar-b-u-r-2-. e-r" and he
rolled over, waiting for a harder
word.
This is the realistic way in
which a California miners de-
scribes hotel elevator: Through
the centre ofthe house q skaft is
sunk, and it contains a cage, in
which the guests ascend to and
descend from the different levels.
A Hocsier family passed through
Illinois recently, headed essf, whose
wagon bore this strange device ::
'sTO Indians or bust
Goodbye, Nebraska,
Grasshopper, adieu;
i may emigrate to hell,
But never back to you.
A man in Sacramento read on q
sign, "Oys'ers in every style for
twenty-five cents" so he went in
and had a raw, fry, stew. pan
roast, and fancy roast, and when
he got through he put down a
quarter, saying to the astonished
caterer, THAT'S what your sign
Says"
An elegant edition of the Scrip
lures was sent to q Washington pa
per for notice. The volume was
placed in the hands of the regular
book reviewer of the establishment,
who read it entirely through, and
proceeded to speak of it in high
terms as q meritorious original
production. Fortunately his mis-
take was discovered by the chief.
Some one has written Col. For
ney, at Nice, asking if the vile
stories about his pocketing that
$4,000 have any foundation in
fact, and the Colonel, in a very
gentlemanly manner. replies that
''the very air is heavy with the
fragrance of mimosa and orange
blossoms
The captain Of Western ferry
boat found negro aboard who
hadn't the nickle to pay his fare,
and he shouted to him, Didn't 1
tell you before we started that
you couldn't cross f you hadn t
any money!" 81 guess it was
you," replied the darkey, "but
dere was so many around the dock
spittin' frew DER front teeth and
a-hollerin' at deck hands dat
couldn't make out whether you
belonged on de boat or not"
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The Fair Sex.

The only way q young lady
could spell "moulting" recently,
was-M. o-u-l-t-o-n.
Juliana Macoy, a New York
maiden, writes that she considers
kissing ga silly, meaningless, dis
gushing, loose thing" She says
that for years she. has ''set her
face against them" which we do
not doubt.
A young lady in Illinois got up
at midnight, foddered the cows,
split some wood and got the water
on to wash before she awoke.
That's the kind of a girl for a man
to marry. She'd go out some nights
and hoe two acres of potatoes
Detroit Free Press.
A Milwaukee chap kissed his
girl about forty times right straight
along, and when he stopped the
tears came into her eyes and she
said in a sad tone of voice: "Ah!
John, / fear you have ceased to
love me-" "No l havn't," replied
John, ''but I must breathe"
A New York man, who has been
to freely given to kissing in the
households of his acquaintance,
has recently been enjoined from
so doing by an order of the Court.
Such an injunction as this a few
years ago in Brooklyn, would have
saved much trouble that We now
see.
Out in Colorado, the woman's
rights business don't seem to pros
per. They got up a meeting some
time ago, to which none but wo-
men were admitted; but some in
visible miscreant let down q live
rat through the skylight, and,
amid shrieks and screams, the as
semblagc suddenly adjourned.
The Ohio State Journal tells of a
village clergyman, who, visiting 3
parishoner suffering from 8 linger-
ing disease, expressed to his wife q
hope that che sometimes spoke to
him of the future. 81 do, indeed,
olAg " as tAO EcpiGs OiaCu anu Vi {"
ten / makes him in the night and
says: John, John, you little think
of the torments as is prepared for
you"
The writer of this had poetry in
his soul: "You may go on in
venting washing machines for the
next fifty years, but to the aver
age eye you can't patent anything
equal to the sight of a lady's dia-
mond rings flashing in and out of
the sparkling suds as she thumps
. wet towel up and down the wash
board"
The Houston Mass Messen-
ger has the following notice of a
genuine working widow in Chick
asaw county, that State: MARY
Ann Thrift, q widow living seven
miles northwest of Houston, in
informed Us the other day that
she made all the shoes for her
fathers family, consisting of eight
or ten persons, and not one of them
had spent single dime for shoes
or boots in five years. She also
makes q good hand at cooking,
washing, sewing, and working in
the field"
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The leading humorist of the conn

The leading humorist of the coun-
try, the ''boss fun-maker" of the
American press, is at present the
Gree Press man." the 'sDanbury
man" having made too much money
to be real funny any more. Afr.
Lewis of the Detroit Free Press,
owes his start in life to being start
ed sKyward In 1867 by the expIos-
ion of the boiler of the steamer
Magnolia, on the Ohio RIVER. It
was on that occasion that Mr.. Lewis
acq uired the peculiar experience
which he afterwards embodied In
bis FIRST notable article, "How il
Feels to be Blown Up" This arti-
Gle he made up out of his own head
and set up out of his own case
while working as printer on the
Pontiac (Aich.l Jacksonian. This
Nsereed" was signed an Quad" and
was copied everywhere. Mt. Lew
is then wrote letters from Lansing.
concerning the Michigan legislature
for the Detroit Free Press, and in
1865 went on the local force of that
paper. The "Bijah" who figures in
Mr.. Lewis famous Detroit police
court sketches Is Mr.. Abiieh jay,
who has been . public officer in De-
troit for the past twenty years. and
snow doorkeeper ct the Ninth
Avenue station house. It only re-
mains TO be said that, from writing
about "Bijah" and other matters,
Mr.. Lewis realizes about $4,000 .
year.
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SELLING EAIS WIFE.
a New Way TO Raise the VVInd

- new ay 10 RAISE tine w al
There are some countries where
women are made personal proper
ty,but this custom has been entire
ly foreign to this vicinity till quite
recently, when a man who lives a
few miles out of Rome, New York,
by the name of Hezakiah Wright,
sold his wife. The bargain was
made one evening last fall be-
tween Mr.. Wright and his neigh
Dor Joseph Terrence, and the
agreement was this: "Witnesseth
That I, Hezekiah, Wright of the
first part, for the consideration of
three punches of shingles, one
half of an acre of unharvested po-
tatoes, do sell, assign 0nd transfer
all my right, title and interest in
and to my wife, Mary Wright, to
Joseph Terrence, of the second
part" (Signed and sealed.
After the instrument in writing
has been drawn the same was read
to the wife of the seller, who wit
messed the same and agreed to be-
come the property of the purchas-
er, and accordingly gathered her
personal effects and took up her
abode with Mr.. florence. They
lived together according to the
contract.
Mr.. Wright possessed himself
of the shingles, and went to work
and harvested the corn and pota-
toes for which he had conveyed
the title of his wife. After they
had been secured, Mr.. Wright
concluded to visit his former wife,
and went to the house of Tor
renee, with whom he came in con-
tract. The latter accused the
former OF intruding upon his
household and denied him admis-
sion thereto, aud some harsh
words onsued, which called the
object of discussion to the scene.
and she secured the admission OF
her former companion. After
some controversy the woman con.
Guided to return to her former
home, which greatly enraged her
purchaser. He tried to recover pos
session of his farm products, but
failed. The traffic does not end in
this transaction; there was a mort.
gage of four hundred dollars on
Hezekiah's little place, held by q
man in Rome, and who desired
his pay. AS the mortgager's fin
ances were badly embarrassed, be
applied to an acquaintance for
assistance, whereupon another
sale OF his wife. occurred. The
man promised to furnish the mon
ey with which to pay up the lien
upon the premises and take in re.
turn his wife. To bind the bar.
gain, the woman accompanied her
new master home, and he agreed
the money should be forthcoming.
After waiting three days and re-
ceiving no money, Mr.. Wright
considered that the contract had
been forfeited, and again demand
en- possession of Mary, who, with.
out reluctance, renewed her abid-
ing place with her double seller
with whom she declares she viii
live out her natural term Of exis.
tence. This is the most remarka
BE case Of female selling that hal
ever been known about here, bui
is nevertheless true, IS told, by
those familiar with all the trans
actions and the people who partic
ipated in them.-Rome Sentinel
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SHERIFF'S SALE.

VS..
Evan W. Williams, ct al
District Court, 9th Judicial District Jvon
County, Kansas.
PY virtue of an order of sale issued ont of
~ the District Court of the 9Th judicial Dis
wherein Rees Howell is plaintiff, and Evan
". Williams IS defendant, WILL on Monday,
at the front door OF the court house. in said
county, offer for sale at public auction. to the
highest bidder for cash in hand, all the right,
title ana interest Of the defendant, Evan w
Williams, in and to the following described
real estate, to-wit: The southeast fourth (10
OF the northeast fourth % and the south
half "a OF the southwest fourth (l<) of
the northeast fourth % of section
two ~ IN township nineteen G9), range
Twelve ~ containing 80 acres more or less.
in Lyon county, Kansas. Said real estate will
be sold as the property OF defendant. Evan w.
Williams, to satisfy said order of sale.
Sherif's Office, April 10th, 1875,
JOHN BAY
1b-W5 Sheriff of LYON Co Kan
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sHERIFF's SALE,

VS..
Evan w Williams,
County, Kansas
ID the District Court of the 5th Judicial
District, sitting in and for Lyon county. kan
Sas, wherein aces Howell is PLAINTIFF. and
Evan w. Williams is Defendant / win, on
Monday, the lit day of May 1875, at II y O'Clock
a. m, at the front door of the court house in
said county, offer for sale at public auction' TO
the highest bidder for cash in hand, ali the
right title and interest of the defendant.
Evan w; Williams, in and to the following
described real estate, to-wit: The undivided
one-half % of the southeast quarter ~ of
the northeast quarter (x) and the south half
Os) of the southwest quarter (I<) of the
northeast quarter % of section two or;
township nineteen Qsl, range twelve C12), in
more or less. Said real estate is levied upon
as the property Of defendant, Evan w. IL
liamss and win he sold to satisfy said order of
sale. -
sheriff 5 office, April 10th. A. D. 1873
JOHN BAY
1.-TWO Sheriff Of Lyon Co. Kan
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The Supreme Court of Illinois
has recently made 3 decision to the
effect that sidewalks are the proper.
ty of city corporations, and must be
6uilt and repaired by them, and not
by the individuals owning the prop
erty on the side of the street where
the sidewalk is built. Heretofore
the properly owners have had TO
make these improvements at their
own expense. The court decides
that the sidewalks are for the bene-
&c and convenience OF the public,
ana should therefore, as . public
benefit, be built by the public.
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SHERIFF's SALE.

vs.,
William Boutwell,
County, Kansas
RY virtue of an execution issued out of tho
ID District Court of the 5th Judicial Dis.
trtct, sitting in and for Lyon county, kansas
wherein Samuel 10y is PLAINTIFF and William
Bothwen is Defendant, will, on Monday, the
18th day of May, 4. D., 1875 at II O'Clock a
m, at the front door of the court house in
Lyon county, Kansas, offer for sale at public
auction, TO the highest bidder for cash in hand
all the right, title and interest of the defend
ant, William Boutwell,, in and to the follow
ing described real estate Uo-wit: Lot No.
nine t9), in block ninety-four l94), in Amcri-
Gus, Lyon county, Kansas. Said real estate is
levied upon as the property Of defendant
William Boutwell,, and will be sold TO satisfy
said execution.
Sherif's office, April 10th, A. D., 1875.
JOHN BAY,
l6 wa Sheriff Lyon Co.. Kan.