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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
The RIr,n.PIaco Of IOhu A. murrel'

A Maury county correspondent
writes as follows to the Columbia
Herald and Mail: In the adjoin-
ing Eleventh district of William
son county, but little over a mile
east from the Ridge Westinghouse,
a Presbyterian church on the
Franklin and Lewisburg pike, there
is a,noted historic hill.
A few scattered hearth-stones
and wild rose vines now alone mark
the birthplace of John A. Murrell.
The place where the celebrated
bandit chief was born, and played
around those now scattered hearth
stones, in boyish innocence land
prattled by his fathers side, and
bowed his curly head upon a fond
mothers knee) looks dreary and
desolate. 1t is a hill of broom
sedge and thorny thickets, a covert
and walk for foxes; like the birth
place of other great criminals, il
seems to be avoided as a habitatior
by man, and blighted by the hanC
Of Providence, and made desolate
Murrell was great robber ant
chief Of banditti, but he was no
believed by those who had know
him long and we'll to be the red
handed murderer as painted b.
Virgil A. Stewart, betrayed 70
money, and by many, believed t
be a member Of the clan. A highl
colored life Of Murrell was write
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
Wednesday, april is, 1877,

on the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets, in the city Of Memphis Tennessee, at
l2 0 clock m, offer for sale at public outcry,
and sell to the highest bidder Tor cash, the
following described tract Of real estate, lying
and being in Shelby county, Tennessee, .to-Tit:
Bounded on the north by the Memphis and
tract, on the south by j. NJ. Brooks and
Registers land, and on the west by Royster' S
land-cOntaining l41 acres, more OF less.
The equity Of redemption is waived. Title
supposed to be good, but sell and convey
only as Trustee.
Beloher & Jordan. Attorneys 2l.42
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n: TUESDAY EVENING, APRIL II, 1877,

compelled to fight face to face with
the terrible invader. For twenty
long minutes the battle ragged in
royal style. The neck and shoul-
ders of the lioness were deeply fur
rowed with red gashes. But her
victim was over-matched, and at
length thrown on her back, when
the coup de grace was given by the
savage fangS of the victor. The
lion, who had been looking on
probably with mingled feelings-at
the scene will now, no doubt, be
restored to the affectionate conf
dence of his spouse. Nothing re-
mained at the end of the encounter
of the pretty spotted skin which
had SO captivated him but a few
torn and mangled shreds, and the
romance of the cages, if romance
there was, came to a tragic end.
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sell whenever my landlord thinks
proper to ask me for the amount Of
my board, for / have no other
means Of raising a dollar. At the
period of my husbands death we
had no income except what de-
pended upon his life. He had re-
Gently invested all his funds in un-
improy'd property in this district f;
and in some instances the payments
had not been completed, and | was
obliged to borrow money for that
purpose and to mortgage the whole
Of the property for it. The debt
with the nine years interest
amounts to more than the property
would sell for. The house in which
Mr.. Clay resides is the only part of
it that has ever yielded any income,
and that has been one-third Of the
time without a tenant, and when
occupied the rent has generally
been absorbed in the alterations
and repairs required by the differ
ent occupants, and for insurance
and taxes. The house rents for
eight hundred dollars a year, and
my taxes for graduating and i'm
proving the streets for the last
year amount to a thousand dollarsl
If congress had decided against
my claim four years ago, | might
then have employ'd my furniture,
books and instruments in opening
a school or a boarding-house; but
during that time | have been OBJ
lig'd, for daily subsistence, to strip
myself Of every article except the
testimonials Of my husbands pub.
lie services and they are at this
moment prepar'd for the hammer
and do think it will be an ever
lasting stigma upon the Nation il
they compel me to sell, for bread,
the evidences of my husbands pa
triotismi and valor and that, too,
after a large majority Of the Senate
has twice acknowledge a debt of q
hundred thousand dollars - and
moreover, when it is recollected that
1 am the only individual of my un
fortunate class who does not re.
ceive a pension; and yet | presume
that no one can think that my hus
bands services have ever been ex.
ceeded by those of any officer il
the navy; and yet if my landlord
had been as regardless of my hus
bands memory and as unteeling tt
, myself as the Nation has been,
might have been long since in jail
for | have not been able to pa,
him a dollar since have been un
der his roof, and | am indebted t
his delicacy alone that the sword
/ and plate presented to my HUSBAND
! have not been gazetted and sold a
auctionl
,, 81 therefore again entreat you
. my dear sir, to use all your inau
ence to have the question decide,
this session, that may, if it shoal
be unfavorable, seek some mode
F. however humble, of earning m
! living before age and infrmity rem
f der me incapable of doing so.
+ 81 beg you to believe me, yer
. sincerely and respectfully yours,
IS. DECATUR.
? "The Hon. John c Wright"
!; What became of the claim Of tn
1 hero's wife we are not informed.
{ is pleasing to note that in all he
g g sorrow and poverty she did not as
J for anything more than that he
y y claim should be considered an
u acted upon. Think of it, ths
} among the memorials she prizej
Il and that were her last resource, th
. sword voted by congress for burnin
: the Philadelphia in the harbor
u u Tripoli, and the gold medal for I'll
u capture of the Macedonian, we
. enumerated!
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AWonderfnI BaIIntDresden.

The following description Of
Count Lucknew's recent ball at
Dresden is given by correspond
ent:
Nothing of its kind has been
heard Of since the days Of Augustus
the Strong, Of Saxony. The affair
has created quite a sensation in the
fashionable world. From $50 to
200 persons were present. AS the
count is an unmarried man, her
Excellency Frau Won Fabrice did
the honors by receiving the guests.
The road leading to the Schloss
was brilliantly Illuminated with
large bon-fres of pine wood, and
the gorgeous interior arrangements
were such that from the moment
you entered the portal you were
transported into the relms of fairy
land. The floral decorations OF
the halls, rooms and staircases were
superb. No end to servants in the
counts full livery. The large suit
of rooms and the handsome ball
room were dazzlingly illuminated.
Two sumptuous suppers were served
up, at 10 o'clock and at $50 o'clock
Both were announced by heralds
playing the "Aida" march.
The tables decked with a proru'
sion of flowers, displayed the hand.
some gold aud silver family plate
A military band of sixty piece;
performed a selection Of the most
rapturous music. At II O'Clock
the heralds announced the cotillor
the great attraction of the even
ing-which was unique in its kind
A blast of trumpets announced
each new figure, which were 81
numerous that | can only mention
the principal ones. A large ben
sitting on a basket full of COLDER
and silver eggs, each containing
present for the dancers. A heav,
snowfall, one foot deep, lasting
half an hour, and completely GOV
ering the ladies and gentlemen (thi
snow was contained in five thou
sand small bags of paper, whicl
took two weeks to cut up). Agail
blast of trumpets, when the cei
ing opened and an electrical SUI
shoots its rays in the center Of tn
room, displaying the coat Of arm
of Saxony and the Count
monogram in many pretty color
on the surface of the snow
Sudden darkness - reappearanc
of the sun, casting its rays a
ONE end of the room on a tablea
vivant, in the middle of which is
magic fountain of many colors-
Observation-Disclosures it is Gale
, here. The dancing continues, whe
: the ceiling opens and a large she
T descends filled with presents, sue
J as fans, bracelets, bonbonnierei
! laces and little nick-nacks of ever
description. A pauSe-each lad
receives an apron, and each gentle
man basket to tie on his back.
blast of trumpets, when 10! and be
l hold! there is a shower of the mos
: costly flowers for fully ten minute
!. So ended this princely entertain
| ment toward 4 o'clock in the morn
t ing. Many Of the gentlemen rC
, mained to partake of a recherch
e breakfast, and then to drive wit
!. the count in his four-in-hand to tn
e city. 1t is said this ball cost hir
+ 10000 marks $4,000 fry, which
y very likely"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
RAILROADS.
IORiSTilGal Great S0QtAGTlR

lll5 Nm. Night Express Connects at Milan
for 81 Louis and Chicago, at Mckenzie for
Nashville. ChattanOoga, Atlanta and the
Southeast, atGuthrie for ll9pkinsyille, Hen;
dersoD and Evansville, at Louisville ior all
points North and East.
1:95 am Day pzpress-Connects Tor st.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North aRd East.
AIS p m. Milan Accommodation - Daily
except sunday ,1i.
VILE. and on Night train to Nashville.
For tickets or Information, apply at Tiekei
Office, 287 Main, Northwest corner Madison
>" John T. FLYNN. Sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent
H-f
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
Trustee,s Sale.

ON TUESDAY, MAY SrH, 1877, IN FRONT
lot l6, block II, Fort Pickering. under a trust
deed executed TO me by John Morgan, and re-
corded in Book 81, page lsS, Registers Office
to which reference is made.
e. c JONES, Trustee.
L. B. mcfarland, Attorney. 1883
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
MEMPHIS q llTTLE ROCK R.R.
Smot Line to Arkansas and Texas,
TIuECARD;

TINE GARD;
Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train. daily.........5.OO pm. lilo pm
Freight train leaves Hope ,u
Passenaers going on this road will take
trains at the depot Of the Louisville Nash
vile and Great Southern railroad. Mail
trains make close connection az Argsnta ier i.L
!oilroa6 and at Little Rock with the Cairo
esd Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
P1limen ralaco Sleeping Cars on oil night
trains - it'll, n,
oaices 27 and 2g7 Main street, and at. depot
fa1t of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot
or TO The dndersigned
H. A. WILLIAMS, PSss Ag ! M;smip4RlS, E;s,ip RSck
W. d. SMITH, 6up't, Memphis Tenn.
123-t
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LEGAL,
trustees Sale.

TTNDER AND BY VIRTUE OF THE pow
4 ers vested in me by a decree Of the Chan
Gerry Court of Fayette county, Tennessee, OF
date 3Oth day Of March, 1877, substituting me
in the room Of joel L Pulliam as Trustee, un-
der two certain deeds ef trust, Of date Janu-
airy l, 1875, executed by Jos. r. Mosby. one
registered in Shelby county in Book No, lie,
page l24, and the other in Fayette county,
Tennessee, in Book No. 5, pages 562 to 564. and
&c., said trust deeds made for the purpose ol
securing certain Indebtedness therein recited
to which said deeds Of trust and decree Of
ChanceryOourt iefereEee is here made for more
particular description. will, as the Trustee
substituted BY said decree, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17

Trustees sale.

DY VIRTUE OF A DEED OF TRUST
ID to INC executed by r. L. Hall and X. r.
h. Hall. to secure the indebtedness therein
mentioned, recorded in Book 75. pages l0l and
l02, Of the Registers Office Of Shelby county,
Tennessee, IL, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
MISSISSIPPI O. TENNESSEE
RAILROAD.
Change of schedule
Mrupars. TEss., March 8, 1877.

nNAND AFTER SUNDAY, MARCH 4TH,
1917 trains will rER as follows;
Leave. Arrive.
New Orleans mail, daily ..S:4O pm. l2:4O pm
sardjs Ae N dation, daily,
(except Sunday ............ll:3o am 10 d III
Freight train, daily Tex s.oo
IA M.BUBKE, Sup't.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
EXTRAORDINARY Seml.Annual DraMlng

Under the personal supervision Of
Gen. g. 7. BEAUREGARD, Of Louisiana,
and Gen. JU BAL A. EARLY, Of Virginia.
Tuesday. June 5th,
Capital Prize, 100000. Tickets go only.
1855
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Price, twenty-five GENTS.
NEWSPAPER AlYERTISINn

ONE HUNDRED AND NINTH EDITION.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17

1877 Prizes, amounting to e1lO 400
Write for Circulars or send orders 10
NJ. A. DAUpHlN,
p. O. Box SOP, New Orleans, La.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-04-17
LOTTERY.

A SPLENDID OPPIRTUN CrY To
Drawing, 1877. AT New Orleans, tuesday,
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LOUIsIANA STATR LOrTERY Cn.
OAPITAL PRIZE, $50. 900.
100, ,O00 Tickets mt Two Dollars
ERch-Half Tickets 81.
LIST on PRIZES

APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
Approximation prizes Of SSQQ ...~. 200
i0O...~. 1900
lOO...... 800
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
A Horrible Death.

An accident of shocking nature oc-
Cured Saturday afternoon at 4:SO
O'Clock, at the Valley Paper Mill, at
Verona, on the Allegheny Valley Rail-
road. A young woman named Mary
Ann Collins, who had been employed in
the mill three or four years, had been
assigned to new position on the second
story, in which there is large trap
door Immediately over vat on the
ground floor. At the time stated Miss
Collins had been called over from an
other part of the room, by companion,
to assist in dumping box of rags. She
started to answer the call and walked
into the open hatchway, which was OBJ
scured by steam rising from the vat,
which contained boiling water and
vitriol. She was precipitated directly
into the vat, and must have died very
speedily. In three minutes after she
fell her body was taken out scalded
white. 1t seems that she had II pre-
monition of death in this manner, and
had remarked several times that the vat
would be the death of her. The COro-
ner held an inquest, and the Jury found
a verdict Of death ly accident. The de-
ceased was 16 years of age, and resided
in the vicinity of the mill.-Pttts5atrg
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

GEN. JOHN M. HARLAN, the new AS
sociate Justice of the United States Supreme
Court, was sworn in and took his seat ON
the 10th.
ASSISTANT SECRETARY of the Treas
ury Hawley took possession of his office on
the 10th.
THE President has nominated j. G.
Bancroft Davis, of New York, for Judge of
the Court of Claims, vice Loring, retired.
P. C. RICE, Republican, has been
elected Mayor of Boston by PSI majority,
Republican gain of over 5000 on last years
vote.
j. A. G. RICHARDSON, Democrat, has
been elected Mayor of Lowell, Mass, by IS
majority, the first Democratic Mayor in 10
years.
SENATOR PATTERSON has been adj
vised that all indictments against him in
South Carolina have been nolle pros'd.
CAPT. GREENE, "a United States mill
tary attache, has received the Russian order
of st. Andrew for his GOODNESS in the battles
of Shipka Pass and Plevna.
j. w. COLLINS, Republican, was
elected State Senator from Beaufort County,
S. c., at special election held on the 10th.
MINISTER WELSH was rendered a
grand reception upon his arrival at Liver
pool on the 18th.
REV. j. j. BLoONER, pastor of st.
Patrick's Catholic Church in Elmira, N. Y,
was committed to Jail on the 11th for con-
temptof the Recorders Court in refusing to
answer question put by the Court in ref
erence to case of alleged bigamy. The
pastor stands on the ground of professional
confidence, not church discipline.
Mr.. NEWTON CRANE, for several years
the American Consul at Manchester, Eng
land, who recently resigned his position,
was presented with an address at the Town
hall in that city by the Mayor and business
men of that place, on the 9th of November.
EX-PREsIDENT GRANT arrived at
Genoa, Italy, on the 14th, and left for Leg
horn on the following day.
Gov. RICHARD G.. MCCORMICK, of
has been appointed Commissioner
General to the Paris Exposition.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
The Ice-Question Down South.

The South is deeply interested in ice.
Here, where it is hardest to get, it is
needed the most. 1t does not form with
US, but we use it the whole year round.
1t may safely be said that the greatest
drawback to our country life is not the
warmth of the climate, but the scarcity
and costliness of ice. The northern
farmer puts up his own ice at trivial
expense. The southern farmer, as a
general rule, has to do without it. OF
course, rich planters have ice sent from
the cities in sacks at great cost, but the
masses have to suffer. An occasional
glass of ice-water only whets the appe-
tite for more and is worse than none.
Ice can not be sold at retail 20 miles
from New Orleans at less than three
cents pound, and this puts it beyond
the reach of the poor. The melting
and the retailers profit, added to the
transportation, swell its cost, which,
last summer, at one of the large facto-
ries, was only half cent pound. Ten
dollars a ton for manufactured ice seems
a low price to people who have been
paying 800 for northern ice, but, even
if it could be made at S5 ton, it would
not solve the problem for the country.
The new and wonderful refractory,
which opened here last summer and
made ice not in thin slices, but in solid
blocks, which the dealers sold for north
ern ice, brought the price in the city
down to 80 ton, but already another
invention is out which, it is claimed,
will supersede it and drive all northern
ice from the market. This machine,
invented by citizen of France will, ac-
cording to the claims of the inventor,
make ice at cost of only 63 cents a
toni 1t is complicated machine which
freezes water by vaporizing anhydrous
sulphurous oxide. This costly substance
is not consumed, but is condensed and
used again and again. 1t is a contin-
ually freezing ice-pond. Still, if ice
could be furnished for nothing in the
city, the cost of its transportation to
many parts of the country would ex-
clude it from numerous houses.
What is wanted is an ice-machine for
every country farm, and the inventor
who will produce one not more costly
than a sewing gmachine will not only
make colossal fortune for himself, but
will do for the comfort of the southern
people what the inventor of the cotton
gin did for their material development.
There is no apparent reason why a min
iature machine could not be construct
ed. Only recently pocket ice-cup
was patented, which cools cup of WA
ter by vaporizing small bottle of fluid
immersed in it. But it is evidently toe
costly for general use because it does
not provide for a second use of the fluid
-Net0 Orleans Times.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1877-12-22
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

In Fountain Bluff Township, Jackson
County, ILL.,, on the 7th, Charles Maulrich,
in fit of insane jealousy, shot and killed
his wife with rifle, and then deliberately
reloaded the same and shot himself. The
parties had been married but four years,
but had separated on account of various dis
agreements.
Five persons were seriously burned
by the explosion of kerosene lamp in the
house of Mr.. Ragner at Glenwood, Iowa,
on the night of the Sth. Two died soon
afterward, and the condition of the others
rendered their recovery doubtful.
Mrs. Gaskill was fatally burned at Gin
cinnati, on the 10th, while kindling fire with
kerosene oil.
The Simpson Bank of Lawrence, Kan
sas, has been placed in the hands of a re-
ceiver. 1t is believed that the assets of the
bank, if not sacrificed, will be sufficient to
pay the creditors of the bank in full.
Frederick Shurer, an estimable citi-
zen of Fort Wayne, Ind, after a few days.
sickness became violently insane, and sud-
denly seizing his two-year- daughter
threw her out of second-story window,
causing fatal injuries. He then armed him
self with an AK and drove his wife and family
from the house, after which he locked him
self in and began ehopping the furniture to
pieces. A squad of officers endeavored to
capture him, but with his uplifted ak he held
them at bay for three hours. He was finally
overpowered and manacIed and taken to the
insane asylum.
The family of Mr.. Roger, at Glen
wood, Iowa, were seriously burned on the
night of the Sth by the explosion of a kero-
sene lamp. Two children died of their in
juries, another was thought to be fatally
burned, and the father and mother were both
seriously injured.
George Ellis, United States Deputy
Marshal, on the night of the 9th undertook
to arrest notorious desperate named Tom
Moore, in Casey County, Ky. Shots were ex-
changed almost simultaneously, and both fell
mortalIy wounded and soon after died.
By the explosion of steam boiler in
Clark & Bucks machine-shop at Vincennes,
Ind, on the 11th, John Miller and James
Coleman were instantly killed. Several 9TH
ers were more or less injured.
A continuance has been granted in the
case of Scott, alias Rand, the st. Elmo QIl.)
murderer, until the February term of the
Knox County Court. The defense will set
up plea of insanity.
The German-American Bank of Chi
cago suspended on the 18th. Its liabilities
to depositors are $4,000; assets, $10s, s,0oO
The stockholders will lose 50 per cent.
Allen Congdon, aged years, of West
field, Mass, died on the 7th of hydrophobia
after three days sickness, caused by the
bite of a Spitz dog, received six weeks
previously.
A. B. Mccartney, of Mercer, Pa, was
burned to death in the City Hotel at Berin-
ger City, Pa, on the morning of the 18th.
The hotel was totally destroyed together
| with several adjacent buildings.
The Newark Savings Institution, of
Newark, n. j., which has been doing busi-
ness for over 30-years and has $I1 900, 900 of
deposits, has been taken charge OF by the
State Chancellor, on 4 petition of its man.
ayers, to insure an equal division of assets