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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

ColoHel J. N Heating, writing from
WashingtoR City to the Appeal, gives the
following information:
In reference to the lot OF land in Mem.
phis, owned by the United States, bound.
ed by Jefferson aud Third, and the alleys
running parallel with these streets, and
upon which il was intended 70 build the
oustom-house bow under construction on
the bluff, l learn that the congregation OF
the German Evangelical Protestant
Church, whose church building is located
upon a lot the lease OF which is about to
expire, has petitioned through Senator
Harris for q donation of so much Of that
part Of the public domain in Memphis as
will afford an ample site for their church
edlice. | also learn that Mr.. Pat Meath
has petitioned to be reimbursed in the
difference between the amount he re.
ccivd for that lot from Uncle Sam aud its
actual value at the time Of sale, alleging
as a basis for his demand the failure Of
the government to comply with the stip-
ulations upon which he was induced to
part with the lot so chesply. l regret to
say that both our friend Pat aud our
friends OF the church are on a cold trail.
The government, as all corporations,
never makes restitution save under COM
pulsion, and it takes but does not give,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

SPEAKER RANDALL appearance in the
house of representatives is described by
a Bohemian in the following graphic
style: Mr.. Randslrs presence in the
chair is extremely winning. Gas. in Ro
man mould, tall and powerful, he sits
high and looks the man be is. He ID
ust fifty years old. but does not look
forty Eve. The traces of wear aud tear
80 palpable on the faces Of many public
men, telling sometimes Of too little sleep,
sometimes Of too much drink, Of eating
ambition, or of namsless dissipation, are
in no wise visible here. The face tell:
somehow another sweeter and rArsr story
of a happy home aud Of household
loves. doubt if any man could carry
that expression who has a home and il
not happy in it. Mr., Randall has a fine
head, covered with closely curling black
hair, clearly cut, strong features, with a
square, solid, but not heavy, Jaw; &
mouth taat could hardly fail to have it,
own way if It 'set about it. The very
strong will Of the man is perfectly sp
parent in his counteuance; but, com,
binsd With the head and brow, gives the
impression Of large power rather than Il
mere wil'1lness.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
BULL.
A Personal sketch of h great
sioux chief bis Contempt fer


sioux chief Bis COntempt foI
Yankees.
Cor. New York Herald
Chief Sitting Bull is a full.
blooded Teton Indian, the Teton
being a branch of the great Sioux
nation. In stature he is rather in.
clined to be stout than tall. Per.
haps in his moccasins he will mea.
sure five feet eight or nine inches
Weight, 10 pounds. His age i:
about f~orty-eight; his hair is a little
gray, his eyes dark, and his whole
appearance that of a full blooded
Sioux on the war.path. He is
brave, ambitious, clever in the In.
dian fashion, active and, in the
Indian creed, somewhat fanatical.
He has long cherished the convic-
ton that he is ordained as the In
dian who must wrest from the
whites the country of his fathers.
lie has a great and almost immea-
surable hatred toward Americans,
as distinguished from Europeans or
Canadians. He is even expert in
detecting who are from the United
States and who are not, and in
stances are not wanting in his
bloody and savage career where he
has shown wonderful patience and
humanity, often with his own hand
protecting captives toward whom he
took a liking or whom he regarded
with so much contempt as to let 90
free for the sake of showing the
captive how little he esteemed him.
OF course he is a polygamist, hav-
ing three squaws in his tepee who
are bis wives according to the In.
dian code, but he has more con.
stancy than Bear Spirit, his broth.
er in-law, chief Of the Yanktons.
and other ASSOCIATE chiefs. His
!" private life is described by half
breed hunters, who have long been
acquainted with him, to b. excel.
lent, according to the Indian code
His great ambition seems to be di.
rected in a military way-tO become
a great s%Oldier-and heintends even
yet to carry out the Indian policy
"America for the SIOUX
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
FOREIGN AFFAIRS.

PARIS, November l.-Genersl Grant
yesterday visited the Palais de Industris
and the works where the statue of Lib,
erty for New York harbor is being con.
structed. The sculptor, Barthold, pre-.
scented him with a miniature model OF
the statue. In the evening the general
attended the opera, where he was we'll
received by the audience and treated
with great ceremony by the officials.
LONDON, November l.--Au effort is
being made to gain possession of the
Plevna and RahOva road. A Roumanian
force between the rivers Vid and Iskra
yesterday made a Reconnaissance along
the Danube ia the direction Of Rahova.
AT Vadina they found a Turkish detach-
ment occupying some earthworks, aud
after a brief canuonade the Turkish
magazine exploded and the garrison re.
treated in the direction Of Rahova. Two
companies Of Roumanians occupy the
redoubt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
SENATOR NORTON.
The Last OF the War GOvernor-His
Death Hourly Expected.

INDIANAPOLIS, November Ill 80 a. m.
Efforts are now being made to relieve
Senator Morton's sutferings by the in.
hslAtiop Of oh!oroform, morphine having
ceased to have any effect whatever, the
v~ssioles of the skin refusing to longer
absorb the drug. The wife aud SONS Of
the dying mSu are at his right hand, pros
tratel with grief, while the friends are
grouped around the bedside and else.
where about the room watching in 81.
lence for the FINAL breath. The senator
is conscious, at Intervals giving direc.
lions as 10 the disposition Of the sup.
porting pillow, or calling for more air.
Dr., Thompson says life may be pro,
longed through the day,
!pm-There is no change in Senator
Morion's condition. he is still under
the Influence Of ehloroform
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
TIE HOUSE co4MIrTEE CHAIRMAN,
SHIPS.

The various committees OF the house
appointed by Speaker Randall are as
follows. We append the name Of each
chairman: Elections Harris Of Virgins;
ways and means. Wood Of New York;
appropriations, Atkins OF Tennessee;
banking and currency. Backnsr Of Mis-
souri,; Pacific railroads, Potter Of New
York; claims. Bright Of Tennessee;
commerce, Reagan Of Texas; public
lands, Morrison Of Illinois; pOstOfiees
and postroAds, Waddell Of North Caro-
lima; Judiciary. Knott of Kentucky; war
claims, Eden Of Illinois; public expen-
dilures, Hatcher Of Missouri; maRufae-
lures, ". Wright Of Pennsylvania; agri-
culture, Cutler Of New Jersey; Indian
affairs, Sales OF North Carolina military
affairs, Banning OF Ohio; militia, Miles
Ross of West Virginia; naval affairs,
WhitthOrne Of Tennessee; foreign af-
fairs, Swami Of Maryland; territories,
franklin of Missouri; revolutionary
pensions and war Of 1872. Msckey Of
Pennsylvania; invalid pensions, Rice of
Ohio; railway and canals, Schleicher Of
Texas; mines aud mining. Beebe Of New
York; education aud labor, GOode Of
Virginia; revision of the laws, Walsh Of
Indiana; Coinage, weights and measures,
Stephens Of Georgia; accounts, Roberts
of Maryland; mileage, Cobb Of Indiana;
expenditures in the treasury department,
Glover OF Missouri; expenditures in the
war department. Blackburn of kentucky;
expenditures in the navy department.
Willis of New York; expenditures in the
postofice department. Williams Of Ala
bams; expenditures in the interior de-
psrtment. Sparks Of Illinois; expendi-
lures on public bnildings. Lynch Of Wis
c%onsin; expenditures in tie department
Of justice, Bragg Of Wisconsin; reforms
in the civil service, HsrrisoR Of Illinois;
Mississippi %levees, Robertson Of LOuisi
ana; rules, the Speaker; revision of the
law regulating the counting Of the cleo,
tOral votes, Southland of Ohio; printing,
Singleton of Mississippi; enrolled bills,
Hamilton OF Indiana; library. Cox Of
New York.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
Saturday, November 10, 1877.
l2l67.l
No Resident Notice,

In the Chanoery Court of Shelby county.
Tennessee John M. Lea. John 0verton ct
al. VS.. City of Memphis ct nj.
TT. APPEARING FROM AFFIDAVIT IN
i this cause that the defendant, T, b Brown.
is q non resident Of the State of Tennessee /,
II IS therefore ordered that he maize his ap-
Of Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first Mon
day IN December, 1877, and plead, answer or
demur, to the. original and amended bills
filed herein by said Lea and Overton.
or tne same will be taken for confessed
as to him and set for hearing OK parte. and
that a copy Of this order be published once a
week. Tor four successive weeks. in the Public
This 18th day Of October, 1877,
A copy-Attest:
p.p EDMUND A. COLE, O. and NJ.
Estes q Ellett. and W. W. Goodwin, $ lie.
= iSI comR.alnant so 5 62-68
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photographic.

New YoRK, November 1.-The West
ern Union and Pacific telegraph com.
panies having failed TO agree upon a
division Of expenses, the question was
referred TO William Il. Vanderbilt, who
decided hat the Atlantic and Pacific
Company should pay Is l75.lOOO per
cent. Of the gross expenses Of both com
psnies. The decision HIS been ratified
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01


THE Nashville American does not in
dOrse Hayes appointment Of John Bsx'
ter to I'll the place made vacant by the
death of Judge Emmons. It says; The
President has appointed Colonel John
Baxter, of Knoxville, Judge Of the Cir
cult Court Of the United States for the
Sixth circuit, composed of the States Of
Tennessee. Ksaiucky, Chic aud Mich.
gan, vice Emmons, deceased. This we
understand to be q tribute from Mr..
Hayes TO the consistent and eonserva.
tive Republicans Of Tennessee. So we
learn the President sHi the secretary OF
State put the decision. Il Colonel BAx.
ter has ever beep either consistent or
conservative ia politics, or ia anything
else, it is yet to be learned by the people
Of Tennessee, As the new ligh, Of Ten
nessee Republioanism We hope the cd
guard viii appreciate and enjoy
him. The appointment, of Colonel
Baxter to a judicial position is one
which was eniRently ua6t TO Be
made. His life has been one Of
brOils and personal difficulties, Perhaps
the Ethiopian may change his skin or
the leopard his spots. When this is done,
We shall be prepared to believe that John
Baxter can lay aside his vindictiveness,
forget hi. personal pique aud prsiudices,
take up the scales sit like the Goddess
Of Sustics with blinded eyes and weigh
out to each sud to al that which is legiti
maiely theirs. In this appointment Mr..
Hayes has sacrificed the prestige which
his pleasant Southern visit gave him.
The endorsements which his sppointee
received cannot relieve him from the
grisvous mistake be has made. From the
bar Of Tennessee, Irrespective Of party,
the President could not have made a
more unpopular selection, or one more
completely unrepresentative of the peo'
pie Of the State
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
RhlIroad On,Ii.inn

HARRISBURG, November 1.-The day
express train on the Philadelphia and
Erie railroad came 10 collision with a
freight train one mile east of Ridgeway
this morning The engineers and fire.
men on both t%rains, aud one brakeman
we're instantly killed, and another brake
man fatally injured. Several passengers
were injured; none q%eriously.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

THE poverty aud needs OF the South
says the Cincinnati Enquirer, "and her
incomplete condition are precisely what
resumption alone is calculated to rene.
dy." That is what The New York Times
says. VIVA; the South needs is what
avery new country needs. for it is in the
condition OF new countries generally. Il
needs plenty Of money. 1t needs what
alone viii give it life, animation add
push to business. To make money
scArcer than it is, which resumption will
do, for resumption means contraction,
strikes US as about one OF the last ways
that could be devised to help the South
out of its present poverty and incomplete
condition. The South has the basis for
great wealth. II has the richest Of soil,
the most genial climates, and ample la.
boz. Its development requires money.
aud a great deal Of it. There Is not
enough now. To shorten the present
volume must retsrd development. 1t can
not be otherwise. The true interests Of
the South should demand the repeal Of
the resumption act; and we shall ac-
knowledge ourselves sadly mistaken if It's
members do not vote for the repeal.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

The Louisville Courier Journal is glad
to learn at last what constitute the proper
qualifications, under the present politi-
cal dispensstion, for a seat on the bench
Of the Supreme Court. These, it must
be remembered, are not the days of John
Marshall or Roger B. fancy, or even Of
Salmon P. Chase. When such men lived,
it was generally understood what sort Of
material was best suited to the compost
ton Of a Supreme judge. For some
years since the war, however. the public
mind seems 10 have lapsed into a col.
dition of entire indifference on the sub.
ject, and people have come to think that
it is no disgrace for even Joe Bradley
perjured partisan that be is-!o occupy
a place once h9nored by an Adams and
a Story. This being the case, it is hardly
probable that the nomination Of General
Harlan, Of Kentucky, will be seriously
objected to; for morally aud mentally.
as we'll as physically, he is head and
shoulders above the man who forgot both
law and justice as a member Of the cleo
toral commission. According to the
Cincinnati Gazette, moreover, he j.
fully up TO the latest standard Of require
ment. He is a true Republican. mol
tinctured with States rights heresies;'
ne is in the meridian of life. as ali
men should be who are placed upo
the Supreme BENCH" be lied the
Kentucky delegates over to Hayes.
which, by the way, may not recommend
him to the Edmunds crowd ia the senate
add on top Of all this, there are YER,
few fner looking men in the countr,
than General Harlan" all Of Whict
should certainly combine to make him
great and just judge, worthy of the ad
Manifestation that Joe Bradley PLAYED
such a desperate hand to foist upon tn,
country. 1t would certainly be uuwis,
in a Republican senate to reject an SD
pointmeut that comes thus fortified will
middle age, gond looks and opposition t,
States rights. True, his Cincinnati rec
ord, with it's original weakness for Bri.
tow, and it's subsequent weakness 70
Hayes, is no great feather in his cap l.
the Republican majority 10 the senate
but Cincinnati doesn't count any more
Hayes has surrendered. aud carried viii
him not only the arms and requirement
Of office, but likewise the numerous ststet
men and patriots who engineered hi
nomination and pledged their all upoI
The altar Of civil service reform and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

THE lsat published statement Of Gen
eral GibSou 10 the Catholic Quarterly in
relation to the Indian difficulties may be
read With profit BY the administration,
but will certainly not be With patience by
the band Of thieves called Iudian agents,
who have robbed without a blush and
aaunt their fortunes in the face Of the
people without shame. General Gibbon
ia an impartial aud important witness,
and speaks whereof he kGoas. He say,
that conflicts with all the Indian tribe,
are inevitable under the present system
and cost infinitely more than it would Il
furnish a home, farming implements and
the best Of food for every Indian in the
land.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

Under the heading F." Another Grand
Duke the London Times announces
that The Russian army 10 Bulgaria has
beeo reinforced BY the sixth son Of the
Emperor, the Grand Duke Alexandra.
vieh. This is the 6rst CLEAN of sun.
shine the Turks have had lately.
The chief exports from the United
States 10 Russia are moving machines,
locomotives, railroad cars, cotton (this Is
by far the heaviest item), firearms,
leather, naval stores and petroleum.
Cotton supplies nine.tenths Of the value.
aud petroleum, nearly oue.twelth, these
two making nearly eleven millions Of
the $lI ,922, 600 shipped in 1876.
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Indications.

WAshiSdroY, November For Ten.
nessee and Ohio valley warmer, cloudy
and rainy weather, with winds mostly
from the east and falling barometer.
For the upper Mississippi and lower
Missouri valleys cloudy aud rainy wealth
en-, warm soutberly winds and falling,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

About fifteen families at Trenton, N.
j., are making arrangements to emierate
to Navasota, Grimes county, Texas, on
or about the 18th of November.
Mrs. Dorcas Howton, of Fayetts
county, Ala, is eighty.two years old,
and has one hundred and seventy-eigh
children, grand children and greAt.grand.
children.
A number of persons who received in.
j%uries by the firing of the militia during
the Reading riots are about bringing
suits for damages against the municipal
corporation for its failure to suppress
the riot in its incipient stages.
The British board of trades returns
show that England's trade still declines,
the imports for September having de-
clinsd one.iIteenth and the exports one.
thirtieth from those Of the same month
last year.
The salaries of officials at Lawrence,
Mass have been reduced in the aggre-
gate $4,000, the mayor being cut from
$500 to $1,000, the city clerk from $500
to $500, the treasurer from $25OO to
$4,000, the city marshal from $1,000 to
$1,000, and others in proportion.
The Washington Star says that il is
understood that the position Of third
assistant secretary of State, made vacant
by the appointment of Governor Camp.
bell to the consulship of Basle, Swiizer.
land, has been rendered to Robert T.
Lincoln, son of ex,President Lincoln.
A notorious American parsonage ad.
v%ertises as follows in the Liverpool Mer.
curry: Victoria Woodruff, acknowl
edged by all leading American papers
TO be the greatest female orator extant,
will lecture in Concert Hall next Thurs.
day evening" What will John Bull
think of American female orators"
and especially Of the judgment Of the
American editor2
II there is one character more than
another in modern life that the modern
playwright fails Of, both in couceution
and execution, it is that Of the newspa-
per man. The cause of this defect in
the modern drama might be a very profit
able subject Of study to one who could find
the opportunity and desire forthe specula-
ton. Whether the social phenomenon
of a man who writes, not when the no..
ton takes him, but daily and nightly and
daily throughout the week from one end
of the year to the other, is one of such
recent appearance that it cannot be
viewed in the proper perspective, or SO
complex in its manifestations as to be.
wilder the dramatic writers, may fairly
be left a. a problem for the critics. Ger.
tain it is that while the almost invariable
design of play writers, where they have
attempted to portray the journalist has
been to hAtteT the profession, the result
Of their efforts is a succession of absurd
os~ricatures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

THE Pittsburg Post is Of opinion that
there is method in the gushing mannfi
in which every movement Of Grant ia
Europe is paraded in long and costly
cable dispatches His "ovations" touch
a weak point in American human ma
ture. I;isa sort Of preliminary cantsr
this clarifying Of Grant, to the grea.
race Of 1880 He is tho pre- ordained
4 publican candidate. Nothing woult
please the Democrats better
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
River TeIeerAms.

CAIRO, Ill, November l = Arrived
Hickory, St. Louis, 8p m; silverthorn
Evansville, . p M Celina, Nashville, 8
am Belle St. Louis, Yicksburg, II am.
Departed Hickory, Tennessee river, Q
pm; S%ilverthoru, Evansville, midnight;
Celina, Nashville, IL am. Cool aud
raining.
CINCINNATI, November ! River 8 feet
6 inches and falling Cloudy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
Queon vIctorIa,s FnmlIy Innueuc,
Cor. Philadelphia Press.

Cor. Philadelphia Press.l
Victoria always is a good deal
spoken about, 1t is said that she
and none other untangled the raw
eled skein between the Prince and
Princess Of Wales, who are now SO
much together and apparently so
well content with each other that
the lady must have relinquished (if
she ever entertained) the intention
of going to Copenhagen for an in
definite period, The queen regu-
lates and disciplines her children,
just as if they still we're boys and
girls. Here is a recent instance
Prince Leopold, who is over twenty.
four years old, has been spending
the autumn In Scotland. His
slightest movements and purposes
are telegraphed to Balmoral by one
Of his suit. On Sunday week, be.
ing in a county town in Elginshire
which he had not visited previously
he accepted the polite offer of a
gentleman of the locality to sit in
his pew in the Episcopal church
just as he was about entering the
sacred edifce a telegram from hii
royal mother was put in his hand
positively ordering him p%referep.
TALLY to attend divine worship il
the Presbyterian church, and tht
poor young man had to obey orders
by making q lame apology to the
gentleman whose courtesy he wai
forced to abandon.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

The common council Of Trenton. N.
J., has passed a resolution requiring two
hours work upon the streets Of the city
or other city work for each meal or
nights lodging furnished every tramp at
The expense OF the city. and during the
performances Of work the tramps are to
wear the ordinary ball and chain.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

WfLKEsDARRE, PA November l.--Jas.
@eenley a Mollie Mcguire" has been
arrested at the Enterprise Colliery, upon
the charge Of being accessory to the
murder of Wren and Sanger, near Potts
Vile, in September. 1875
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01
SPECIAL NOTICE
A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood. etc.. l will
send a receipt that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
By a missionary in South America. Send a
self-addressed envelope to the Rev. JOSEPH
T. lSMAS, Station D, B5le House, Neto York
Ciiv. 36-xxvii.2-,odhw
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

Prince Arnaue, the new King Of Ia.
hit, married the Princes Maran in 1874
Two years ago Mr.. Dorance Atwater, the
United States consul at Tahiti, married
her elder sister, the Princess Moetia.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-11-01

The new catalogue, so long expected
and SO often promised Of the Louvre
works of art, section of paintings. is ad-
%vsRcinG. The publication of the Italian
portion is promised this year.