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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-24
FACTS AND rANCIES.

A Troy printer mas nve wives, ana
four wards yet to hear from.
An American girl won the gold medal
at the recent examination Of the College
Of Brazil, at Rio de Janeiro.
A continuation Of balmy breezes, and
perhaps the speculative hen will yet give
us Easter eggs at reasonable rates.
A Williamsport woman tried to have
her husband arrested because he "wlnked
at and nudged the girls" at a party.
1t is reported that the lake ice at La
porte, Indiana, is twenty inches thick,
and SO clear that print can be read
through it.
An Illinois judge has decided that a
young man who pays his board has a
right to fiddle in his room all day and all
night if he pleases.
The autograph of George Washington
now commands a higher price in the
market than that of any man save Spin
ner. -Richmond Enquirer.
A colored barber at Atlanta, Georgia,
publishes a card, refusing to shave col
ored men. He concludes with this i'm
pressive t) sentence: II keep a white
mans barber-shop, and, so help me God,
will accommodate none but white men,
The postage on an ordinary Russian
letter is to be reduced to FIVE kopecks.
This will be a great relief to the letter
writing maniacs of that country, but the
arduous duties Of the bearded ~postofice
clerks will be doubled.
Don't sit up nights to see how long
that young gentleman stays with the
young lady across the street. If she
thinks him worth the oil burned it is
none Of your business; he isn't making
love to any Of your folks. - Yonker's
Gazette.
The American Charity Society of
Paris has lately been sending home as
charity passengers several poor tops,
who attempted to live by their wits in
thai city. Five other applicants are now
on its books, two Of whom are women.
Very kind of the society, but there are
too many such people in America
already.
1t is a fact not generally known ito
students Of the history of Massachusetts
that as recently as 1850 a woman was
burned at the stake at Charlestown, in
hat commonwealth, ON the northerly
side of the Cambridge road, about a
quarter of a mile above the peninsula"
The woman was q colored servant of
Captain John Goldman, and was burned
for poisoning her master.
The Boston Post makes the rather
alarming assertion that -four babies at
a birth are getting common" The press
should be careful about Publishing this
kind Of news. An epidemic can never
be checked by talking about it, and we
ought ia beware how we frighten the
overburdened communities of
this country into quadrupling their pop
ulation with little immigrants who bring
no money with them.
Of two gentlemen forming a we'll
known firm in this city, one possesses
The largest capital, the other the larger
business influence. The latter became
dissatisfied the other day, and adver-
Used anonymously for a partner with
capital. One reply was received
70 the advertisement, and a correspond.
ence ensued between the two parties.
At last these parties met and-the an
to the advertisement proved to be
he advertisers partner. Tableau.-Bos
ION Traveller.
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Trustees Sale.
Monday, goth day Of March. 1s75.
mo. 1851
NOn-R Resident Notice.


In the First Chancery Court Of Shelby County.
Tennessee-L. B. Mcfarland, Admir-. WITH
the will anneved, Of Peter Hiestand, decd,
VS.. A. D. Hiestand ct al.
TT APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the defendants Enoch r.
Breeder and T. J. HieStand arc non-residents
dered that they make their appearance
horein, at the courthouse in the city Of Mem
phis. Tenn, on or before the first Monday In
May, 1875, and plead, answer or demur TO
complainant bill. or the same will be taken
for confessed as to them and set for hearing
published once a week for four successive
weeks in the Memphis Public Ledger.
Ibis 18th day of March, 1875.
Acopy-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, G. and NJ.
By 3. 3. MoHENRY. Deputy G. and M.
L. j. MCFARLAND, Sol. for complainant.
1918 "a 30
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-24
Tuesday, March 80, 1876,

At the northwest corner Of NJ ain and Jefferson
legal hours, sell TO the highest bidder. Tor
cash, the property In such trust deed described
as follows; Lying and beingin Shelby county
Tennessee, and the city Of Memphis, being
the undivided. one-third 70 interest Of the
lot at the northwest corner of Main and JEFF
and 2lh feet on Jefferson street, between par
Riiei lines. Equity Of 70 lemption waived,
Title believed 70 be good, but | will only sell
JOHN W. t. FALKNER,
lbO-Xx-H Truetea.
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LTvERPoOI. March "a. 1890 p.m.-Cotton
is firm Urlands. 7H@sd; Orleans, 8gS1sd.
Sales, IL 900 bales, OF which 5000 we're for sx-
port and speculation.
LFor additional and latest market re-
ports, see third page.]
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trustees Sale.

pY VIRTUE OF THE TERMS OF A DEED
June, 1874, duly registered In the Registers
office Of Shelby county. Tennessee, In Deed
Book No. l0l. page 1928. to which reference n
here made, l will. on
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saturday, 27th OF March, 1875,

at the southeast corner Of Court Square, In
the. city. of Memphis, =. tennessee. sell TO the
highest bidder, for cash., the property therein
described as follows, TO wit: A lot In Hills
subdivision in Memphis being the north part
OF lot .. having a front Of 81 feet on Walnut
street; extending eastw lrdly In parallel lines
100 feet TO a l5-foot alley. See record Of Reg
ister's Office Of Shelby bounty, Book 80, page
ltg. Terms Of sale, cas'h. Equity Of redomp-
tion barred.
.0WEl DIVER. Trustee.
HUMEs 4 PosToE, Att prnoy. l5-xx-3O
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Thursday. April Is. 1873.

at the southeast corner of Court Square, in
the city Of Memphis, Tennessee. sell at public
auction 10 the highest bidder. for cash, the
property set out and described in said trust
deed as follows: Known as the east half Of
lot eight Of block thirty-one of John Over
toms subdivision Of his 1Sl-acre tract. 'front.'
ing the south side Of Calhoun street fifty feet.
and running back one hundred and seventy
feet to an alley. said lot being in Memphis,
Shelby county, Tennessee Equity Of redemp-
convey only as Trustee.
g-4O ID. b. POSITION. Trnstaa.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-24

Odd FsllOwsEHalI. corner Main and North
Court streets.
MEMPHIS LnpeE. No. 6.-mests every, Tues
day. E. o. Milton, n. O.; George Walker.
V. g.; L. S. Burr. Secretary; J.. 7. Risk.
CsIcxAsAw LooGx, No. s-meets every Mon
day night. D F. Goodyear, N. g.; r. Dud-
ley Frayser. V. j.; r. J. Black, r. s.; John
A Holt. Treasurer: Th0mas Bacon. p. 8,
SOHfLLER L0DGE, No. l40-meets every We'd
nesday night. Henry SchillinR. n. g.;
Philip Maurer. y. g.; Chas. Borner, Score
tary; P. Steinbrecher, Treasurer.
BANNER LODGK, No. H7-mees every Friday
hight J.J Ross. N. g.: ]. n. Shepherd, v.
g.; Wm. Henry, P. and R. ST. J. s. Wilkins.
BLU7p CRY LoDoE. No. 1s7-mests every
Tuesday evening at $50 Second street. @. w.
L. Crook, N. a.. A. e. Kenneday, V. g.; W.
II. Moyston, Secretary; q. Gross, Treasurer.
E~EoANPNKETs.
GAYoso ExcANPHEsT. No. 3-moets on the
lst and Sd ThursdEy nights Of each month.
John L. Graf. G. P; Charles N. Carroll. II.
p; Frank Underwood. s. W.; ThoE. Bacon,
Scribe: P Q SIN th, J. W. .
MEYPHIs EsoAM NJ xEsT. No. 39-mects ID and
9Th Thursday nights Of each month. Thos.
L. Risk, c. p; Joe Locke. II. P. VIM. NJ.
Homan, s. W.; II. B Cullen, Scribe; 7. s..
Bingham, Treasurer; II. Bacaer, J.W.
DEGREE LODGE.
MEMPHIS DEeREE LoDGR No. 3-Meets first
Saturday Of each month g, M, Carroll. d.
NJ; D. G. Trader, d d. NJ; 4. r. Jack, A.
D NJ; Thomas s. Bingham, sec'y; Chas.
Richmond, Treas.
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lR. 1921
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

lR- 1925
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.
Fannie WATSON vs.. Jane A~twoOd-First Chan
Gerry Court Of Shelby county.
QY VIRTUE OF AN INTERLOCUTORY
- decree for sale, entered in the above cause
on the 10Th day of Marc1, 1875, l will sell at
public auction, to the highest bidder, in front
Of the Clerk and Masters Office, new court
house building, Main street, Memphis, Ten
nessee, on
Saturday, April 10, 1876,
within legal hours, the following described
property. situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
to-wit: Known on the map of the city Of
Memphis as lot No. 237 of the Greenlaw addi-
ton, being on the west side Of Sixth street in
Chelsea, and bounded as follows: Beginning
IA feet from the southwest intersection OF
GIeenlaw and Sixth streets; then SO south with
the west side of Sixth street 744 feet to the
north side Of an alley; thence west with the
north line Of said alley 14SH feet to the east
side Of an alley; thence north with the east
side Of said alley Az feet; thence east paTal-
lei with Greenlaw street 1851 feet to the be-
ginning.
Terms Of Sale-0ne-tenth cash; balance in
9, is and "a months. Netes with approved
personal security, bearing interest from date.
Lien retained until same are paid.
This March II, 1875:
E.A. COLE, G. and M.
By r. j. BLACK, d. @. and NJ.
MCDOWELL q JOHNSON, Attorneys.
IL o..
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DIRECTORY.
a

LoDeEs. ~
aou-u MFuPEfs, No uS-meets Sd Fridaj
10 saeh month-at Odd Fellows Hall. B,
2. HaIler, W. NJ; B. K. Pullen, Secretary.
AEernONA, No. lbs-meets LIST Monday IN
very month, at Odd Fellows' Hall corner
| 1onrt and Main. John Gordon. w. NJ; B.
Richmond. Secretary:
LTITA 6CoTT, No. 2s9-neets 1Et Thursday
q each month at Old Fellow Hall. A. r.
! Davs, W, NJ; A. 5. Myers, Secretary.
yE6oTO, No. zAs-meets Sd rrday Of each
Month ODD FolloEs' Hall. Ed. Workman,
| " M: r, ". Bbalton, Secretary.
KuwNSIEG, No. 3fl--moets 4th Friday Of
,ssh month-at ed Fellows Hall. j. A.
Taylor, ". NJ; Jas. ). Carpenter, Secretary.
ROYAL ARcH.
PKyE CHAPTER, No. 2-meets I'd Monday Of
cash m~onth-at MASONIC Hall in Gayoso
Block. A.. J.. Wheeler. N. Z. II. p; j. J..
Weller, Secretary.
sonic Hall, in Gayoso Block, Sd Monday of
eaeh month. W. s. Matthews, n. z. II. p;
R. w. Shelton, Secretary.
Z. n 3. n.
EuRKKA C0UECTL, No. 6-meets Sd Thurs
Aay Of cash month-at Masonic Hall, In Gay.
oso Block. A. J. Wheeler, Tn. ILL.,; c. Il.
T~xHPLARe.
CYRxEE COHMAEDERY, No. 4-mests 9Th Mon
say Of each month at Masonic Hal,, Gayoso
Block. ]. W. Ward, <. c.; 7. ]. Bsrchus.
ST. BLxo CouGASDERY No. 15.U D.-Meets
Sd Tuesday Of eash month at Masonic Hall.
GayOso Block. B. F. Haller, E. c.; r. W.
Shelton, Rec.
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FINANCIAL AND UoMMEROIAL
honey.
PUBLIC LEDGER OFyTon.
MEhPHIa. TRIM. March q, 1871


PUBLIC LEDGER 0FyTon.
aEnPEls. TRNs.. March a. 1851
Business in financial circles this NOR
ming was exceedingly quiet, with little
animation in money circles and little
doing aside from local checking and de-
posting. Money remains comparatively
easy, with the supply Of currency equal
to the demands of trade. The discount
market is steady and unchanged, first
class commercial paper ruling at lO@l2
y cent. o annum; on the streets money
is active at 2S3 . cent. y month. Bro
kers are paying ll50ll5t for gold, with
little offering. Exchange is steady and
easy: On New York and Eastern points
bSying at &c discount and selling at fc
premium; New Orleans 4c buying and
selling at par. Local and foreign secu-
rites remain quiet with quotations nom
ihally unchanged. City warrants are
approaching to some extent and growing
more in favor with brokers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-03-24
By HuaH B. CULLEN IND B. G. O'''h'

In accordance with tho above, all parties
holding claims against said estate will hle
them in the said Court within the time re-
i46-16 JACOB LACROIX, Administrator
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Saturday, April 10, 1875.
Trustees Sale.

by VIRTUE OF THE TERMS OF A DEED
- in trust to me, executed BY Thomas Leon
ard and wife. dated 9th Of February, 1874,
and registered in the Registers Office o fShelby
county, Tennessee, in Deed Book No. 100,
page 1865, l will, on
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InsOlvent Notice.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY COUNTY, |
0PPICE COUNTY COURT CLERK,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, January %, 1875.

0PRICE COUNTY COURT CLERK,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, January Is, 1875.
To Jacob LaCroix. Administrator:
HAVING SUGGESTED THE INSOLVEN-
IL cy Of the estate of Louis LaCroix, de-
ceased, you are hereby ordered to give notice
by advertisement in some newspaper pub
lished within the said State, and also at the
court house door of Shelby county. for all
persons having claims against said estate to
appear and file the same with the Clerk of the
County Court, authenticated in the manner
June. 1875; and any claim not filed on or
before said day, or before an appropriation Of
the funds of said estate is made, shall be for
ever barred, both in law and equity.
Witness my hand, at office, this 18th day Of
January, 1875.
JAMES REILLY, Clerk.
By Hu0H n. CULLEN. ID. O.
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N. FIX. AK. Pm.
L Memphis & Chic r. r.. $500
u.O 3.Nl Twice Dsiiy. $50 2.H
Memphis 4 Nharlostcn
g.3 Il q. k.-Daily. III 90 1.6
JGIlezpui q TennsB-
Las SIS y. h.-Daily. -2.&
Mem mis- y Little kook(
liz Z. R.-Daily. 500
Mis- river 70 selenad(
Gl hrisT'g P't-daily. s
IVicksburgttri-weeklyl
sol Mon,, Ihurs., Sat. 8
Miss. river t. St.Louisl
sol Mon. Thurs. Fri. s
White R~iver-Ssmi-
8 sOtWeskly-Tues. b SRt.1 8
ARK river ,se~mi-WseklSl
A S,iTuesday and Saturday. 8
JMaricn (tri-weekly-t
0 Mon.. We'd, FRI. 10
Cuba, Tennessee
10 weekiy-Friday. 10
jByhalia&oIve Branch
4 sol -Faes. and Fri. $50
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Trustee,s Sale.

pY VIRTUE OF THE TRIMS OF A DEED
ID in tTust to the undsrsi gned executed on
the 9Th day Of August. 1871 2, duly registered
in the Registers office of Sh elby county, Ten
nessee. in Decd Book tl6, page 64S, TO which
reference Is made, l will 1, on
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O. o. =.

odd PsIlovs.EHalI. corner Main and North
Court streets.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-22
GRAIN CONfESSEs.

In the Circuit Court, ut Marion. on last
Tuesday, Marshall Grain confessed that
he was the murderer of unfortunate
Spence. 1t will he remembered that on
the night Of the day on which Sisney was
buried, Spence was slaughtered while in
the act OF opening his store door. The
first shots did not kill him, when pistol
was put to his head and discharged, the
ball passing through his brain. The
murder was brutal and unprovoked, and
In connection with the killing Of Sisney
caused the excitement and meas
lures that have brought tn,
perpetrators to justice. Grain
confessed before Judge Crawford. Wit
nesses will be examined by the judge to
enable him to fix the penalty for the
crime. When Grains case is disposed
Of Musick will be tried. 1t is believed
he will also make confession. JEFF
Grain, Black Bill and yellow
Bill Grain, alleged participants in tn,
Spence assassination, will be tried thi
term Of court. All this looks like bust
ness, and We now commence to thinl
that Williamson county will see bette
days In the future.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-22
SOMEBODY'S OPINION OF CINCIN.
Natl.

Some people call it a "blast," a "turn-
ing over" the bluff" a "racket,' etc,
but what head will the following come
under:
Poor old Radical Cincinnati II al
ways hated the South and the Southern
people. Ii has stuck to that party and
seen Chicago burn and pass it in growth,
st. Louis reducing ii TO n fourth-ratc con-
Germ, and even Louisville will leave it in
the lurch in a few years. Its merchants
are worldwide known as picayunc skin.
tiints, mistrusting everybody, its people
at large as narrOw-ninded bigots in poll
tics and religion. and exceedingly vulgar
In Manners The. highest education maj
| ever attains there Is to kill and clean hogs
They have coarEe compilations. large feet
and would skin flea for its hide and tai.
low. especially If they could shove the
tallOw of for butter."- augusta Constitu-
| tiondlist.
| "llalstead Murat. the becf-catcr of the
Cincinnati Commercial, can reply to the
foregoing whenever he gets ready, and
when he does we may reproduce GER
tain speech of a certain member of the
Ohio Legislature forninst him. Vich,.
burg Herald.
/ - ioSN p'iiiS outi III pun
of population and commercial importance
| by her sister cities OF the West, and be-
fore many years, when the Mississippi
valley is reinvigOrated through the in
strumentality of the genius of Eads oil
Cowdon, she will be left far behind by
Cairo, Memphis, Vicksburg and New Or
leans. and all cities watered by the broaa
and useful tributary. She will be cut of
from the South and West by cities larger
richer and more active than herself. Hcl
very pulse-hcr hog trade, may bt
tapped by broader and more powerful
artery. Then she will bristle up in vain
II has not been our good fortune in late
years to examine, with critical eye, the
modern Cincinnati foot; but we have
seen Murat IIalstead, and were impressed
with his capacity for lunch and fluids,
and the voubility and vagarics of his
tongue. General Peter Tracy, the ac-
knowledged Southern lecturing agent,
once toured him through the South, and
Murats Cincinnati habits would con-
stantly assert themselves, and like the
Grand Duke, with his commodore ad
junct, he would eludc the vigilance
OF the constant Peter and
pcrambulate and lunch, and
take fluids by himself, haying no special
regard for the perspective audience that
was in the minds eye Of General Tracy
the public agtator and manager of the
comical sayings OF the brilliant and adj
pose genius. We do not know mucl
about Cincinnati's big feet; nor do W,
know aught Of her hogs, but we hav,
seen her Murat OH the stage, and in vari
GUS stages peculiar to members of the hu'
man family. There's money in him.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-22
4 Royal Scandal.

a terrible story comes from Spain.
which. if true, destroys all hope OF a de-
cent government under King Alfonso.
and proves that he is following in the
footsteps of his infamous mother. The
facts as told by a Madrid correspondent
Of the Boston Jo'nmai are as follows
1.-The king and the duke of Sexto have
been corrupting the daughter and the
wife of an officer in the army, whose
home is the second or third door from
Mr.. Cushing's. He was in the north
fighting, but hearing of the kings fire.
quent visits at his house.
he came suddenly to the city,
and entering his home late al
night, found the king and the duke of
SeXto in the house: he shot at the king,
but missed him, and was himself shot
dead by the duke Of ScXto. who was be-
hind him. The street police heard the
pistol shots, aud came running to their
rescue, but were sent about their bli,i-
ness. The body was given to night
Waterman, who carried it nobody knows
where, and is now receiving. ii is said.
800 month. The maid servant. who
was an eyewitness OF the murder, dis
appeared the next day-somc say was
assassnated. But she had had time TO
tell her lover. When he found she was
disposed of he hid himself tor some DAYS,
but venturcd out at last, and was found
dead in the street, stabbed. one morning"
The judge before whom the case ofthe
first murder would have come, being a
firm and incorruptible man, was muir
dcred, and the report given ont that he
had committed suicide. None of the pa
pers dare TO comment upon the facts. and
the courts are silent and inactive. al
though the story has gone privately from
Lisbon TO Barcelona. and there is intense
feeling on the subject. Several persons
have been hurried eff to prison for daring
to talk on the subject. Canoyas del Cas-
tillo. the prime minister, has resigned.
and radical change has been made in
the ministry in a liberal direction. with
the hope of wardng off a revolution.
The young king is said to be surrounded
by those who strive to govern him by
pandering to his passions, as they did to
those of young Amadeus, who was thus
ruined. and the peace of his family de-
stroyed. The whole government from
head to foot is peryadcd with licentious-
ness and corruption.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-22

and corruption no avenue OF escape
Notwithstanding the covert work of the
Republican tools. that party. which for
merly rolled up 10000 majority. has sunk,
with all its fraudulent devices and trick
cry. to about 5000 majority. The records
show that in forty-ninc counties Allen
gained over his previous election. The
remaining thirty-nine counties show a
gain for his opponent, mainly in the
counties of Cuyahoga, Lucas, Hamilton,
Franklin and Ashtabula. These are con-
sidered the counties where the false counts
were made-the bulk Of the work being
done in Cuyahoga. Lucas and
Ashtabula. counties convenient to
Canada, whence the majority for
the Republicans was purchased with
Republican gold. Cuyahoga county
gave 500 Democratic majority in 1874. 1t
was changed TO G,375 Republican majority
in 1875. The Cincinnati Enquirer asks (:
"Docs anybody suppose that this was
done with an honest vote? Is it reason
able to suppose that change of seven
thousand would be made in county
casting less than twenty thousand votes
Cincinnati is on the frontiers of Kentucky
and great railroad centre, and we ac.
cordingly suffered largely from The tam
pering with the ballot-boXes by the
money power" This vast and palpablc
fraud may. serpent.likc. unwind its poi
sonous body and show the magnitude o.
its treachcrous work. gold bought ;
Republican victory in Ohio, gold vii
surely open the lips of those who were
base enough to assist in the criminal un
dcrtaking.
The Cairo bulletin. [volume] (Cairo, Ill.) 1872-1878, 1875-10-22

favor of universal suffrage. They are
content to appeal to the people in order
to give an expression to National will.
The Twelfth Annual Convention of
the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engi-
neers was begun in New York on Tues
day, NJ. W. IIolbrook, of that city, pre-
siding. Among those present were w.
Robinson of Toronto, l.. u Green of
Cleveland, G. \. Hunt of urichsville,
Ohio. &. II. Sherman and George W. Fo-
yor, Chaplain. of indianapolis. The pro-
ceedings were opened with prayer by
Rev. l.. +. Moore, after which a letter
was read from Mayor Wickham, express
ing his regret at being unable to attend.
An address of welcome was read by
Clarkson y Potter and replied to by
First Grand Engineer. :. I. Ingraham.
of Cleveland Grand Chief, Peter Ar
thur, OF Cleveland. then read the annual
address,