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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-08

. HlUaOWV EEE u lot SIX IGAEN
a Magnificent Trade for the
STATE.
Nashville American, 7th.l
When the Cathedral bell tslled
the hour of - yesterday, a crowd
of anxious people strutted into the
Office of the secretary Of State and
awaited the opening of the bids for
the lease of the p%enitentiary for six
years, with breathless interest. The
governor, secretary of State, comp.
troller and treasurer, having seated
themselves around the secretary's
table, opened and read out the bids,
which were as follows:
a. NJ Shook, Tracy City, $40, 800
f. n. Lavender, Franklin, IS, 900
A.. Hstchett, Memphis, for him
self and associates, 6I,06l
Jamea T. McEwen, Franklin, 1925
Vim Moore and Martin Il. White, $4,000
Thomas 0'Couner, $1,000
The lease was awarded to A. NJ.
Shook, the highest bidder. His
bondsmen are William H. Cherry,
Thomas 0'Conner and DR.. Vim.
Morrow, president Of the Tennes-
see Coal and Railroad Company.
Heretofore the State has paid for
the transportation of convicts from
the place OF conviction, but under
the law recently passed by the legis-
lature the lessees will hereafter have
to pay for such transportation.
This transportation of convicts has
cost the State S25, 900 during the
past two years, or $12, 500 per an
mum. The Legislature provided that
persons hereafter convicted of petit
larceny must be sent to the peni-
Tertiary instead Of to the county
work-houses. This will probably
increase the cost of transportation
to SIS, 600 per annum. Add this
to the $4,000 at which the institu-
ton is leased, and the actual cost
to the lessee will be about $50, 900.
The State pays the salary of the
superintendent, which is $25OO,
warden, $1,000; deputy warden.
$500; physician. $1,000: chaplain
$500; total, $1,000. Subtract this
from the $4,000, about the amount
at which the penitentiary is leased.
and there remains $40, 800 net that
the State will receive from this
source.
We can but congratulate The
State, as every competitive bidder
yesterday did, upon this gratifying
result Of the leasing system.
The successful bidder, Mr.. Shook,
has long been known to the people
of Tennessee and the South as the
energetic manager of the Sewanee
coal mines at Tracy City. While
he is nominally the lessee, the bust.
ness will be conducted hereafter as
heretofore by CHEEKY, 0'Uonner &
70. under their firm name. This
firm has established a business repu.
tatlon which is known throughout
the South. That they will sustain
that reputation their past success
is a full guarantee. With Major
IOConner, Mr.. Shook, Dr. Morrow
and Mr.. Cherry as l%e8sees, the in.
stitution must pay both the STATE
and her contractors. We certainly
hope so.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-08
lndIcauonu-

WASHINGTON, June 8.-For Tennessee
and the Ohio valley falling barometer,
warmer southeast to southwest winds
and cloudy and rainy weather, probably
followed at the western stations by rising
barometer and colder northwest winds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-08
GensrnI Grant Ahronn.

LONDON, June Sat the Oxford Uni.
versity the honorary degree of DEL.
will be conferred on ex.Presideut Grant
on Wednesday next. The ceremonies Of
presenting him tho freedom of the city
will take place on the 18th.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-08

When a mar attempts to pull the wool
over a billygoat's eyes be should wear a
breast-plate Of boiler iron we'll down on
his stomach. -[0il City Derrick.
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The young Earl Of Shrewsbury, now
seventeen years old, will have an income
OF about s9O, 900 when he Of aye.

Aleck Stephens shrewdly remarks
that it don't often split a party to have
its opponents come over and practice its
principles.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-06-08

have a voice and an influence.
There can be no doubt that such
conferences will lead to the estab-
lishment of simple but rigid rules,
easily understood and highly bene-
fetal on both sides of the water.
Classifcations and universal stand
ards of grades and rules of bust
ness are essential to a good under
standing and the proper facilities
of business.
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River Teiexran,s.

CAIRO, June s -Departed-Por Eads,
New Orleans, midnight. Raining since
daylight and warm.
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INSURANCE.
Represents Following Insurance
Companies:

Mtna, Of Hartford, assets ...-,~.S7 ,0S7, 9T E
PhePix, Of Hartford. assets........ 2,407'63lSs
franklin, Of Philadelphia, assets 3,S52,S65M
Insurance Company Of North
America, Philadelphia, assets. 6,6O1.83
Springfield Fire and Marine, Of
Springfield, Mass, assets......., Isle. 672O3
Amazon Insurance Company, Of
Cincinnati, assets. ........ I.OOOOOC0Q
Mercantile Mutual (Marine) Insus
surance Company, ofNew York,
assets 1,OOO, O00O
1-xxVii-1
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THE PENITENTIARY LEASE.

IL is Awarded to A.. N. shook at
ezO,5 800 Per ADuum for Six YeArs
A Magnificent Trade FOR the
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20
FANCY CHANGERS.

From the Rochester Democrat.

From the Rochester Democrat.
1t has been Of late proposed tC
raise by public subscription
enough to enable Mr.. Evarts to
hold the Office of secretary OF
State without damage to his pri-
vate interests.
One of the best features in any
such measure would be to abolish
the Vermont farm, which IS said
to exhaust the best part of his
income. He has 20 head of cat
tie, 20S sheep, Is horses and %
swine. Last year 200 tons of hay
were cut, costing the proprietor
not much moro than double the
market price. More than 1900
bushels of corn were raised, at
an estimated loss of fifty cents 8
bushel, and therefore, ought to be
good quality. His pork is es-
timated at twenty cents pei
pound, and chickens at nine doll
lars a pair.
Beecher last year raised about
Is, 900 bushels of onions on his
Peekskill farm. They cost him
$3.50 a bushel,- according to es-
innate. and as the market in this
city was 81, any one can see how
much he made. Beecher can send
beet to the New York market at
so cents a pound, and can raise
oats at as low a mark as 50 q
bushei. His butter is reckoned
at $1.25 a pound. and his eggs at
rs cents a dozen. He cleared
$4,000 by lecturing last winter,
and if he maintains such an in
come he will be able to continue
farming.
Cough lectures five times a
week, his fee being 5000. He has
farm at dorchester, which at
one time contained IT'S acres. He
has no children, but his expenses
are very heavy, and to bring mat
tiers in asnug shape, he sold part
of the land and reduced the farm
to 125 acres, which is as extensive
as his income will admit. A few
years ago his wife, who is a Yam
kee girl, undertook to raise fancy
fowls, which some say are very
profitable. She got up a fine
variety, and at a rather reasonable
expense. for the Shanghias did
not cost more than $75 a pair.
The Cochin Chinas were q little
cheaper, and Bantams could be
rated at from $25 to $50.
After stocking the place with
these rare birds, Cough, it is said,
found that If they were TO be kept
up he would abe obliged" to lee
ture on Sundays as on week days
to make a living. When it costs
$12 to winter a chicken a man
needs a good income. The sys.
tenn was, therefore, changed; the
fowls were abolished, and regular
crops were tried with success.
AS long as Coughs rye does not
cost more than So per bushel and
the other crops are kept an equal
ly reduced rate, his present in
come will enable him to live in q
very decent manner. There is
nothing like farming life for men
who have plenty of money.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20

Jesse Grant writes as follows
about his private experience in
London. The extract is from a
private letter to a friend:
"Of course you have seen in the
papers the gratifying manner in
which father has been received in
England. It is rather a nice thing
to read about, but when you go out
every evening to . dinner at some
Dukes or EarPs, and every after.
noon at some Lords, it gets to be
what you might call q bore. When
one travels he wants to see the
country, and study the manners
and habits of the middle classes,
and not the fashionable, which is
the same al the world over. =
It is rather amusing the way am
treated here. They consider me q
prince, and at ali the dinner par
tieslI sit ahead of all the noblemen
and the walters say: "Will his Elk
cellency have some fish p etc., and
once 1 started to speak to some old
fellow near me, who did not hear
me, and the waiter gave him 6
punch, interrupting him in some
conversation, and told him that
"his Excellency" was speaking.
have had to make several speeches
at different banquets, and have,
had, generally, q miserable time.
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Hey, Get Along! Get Your Quf.
nine,

m1RGs
A correspondent in the Turkish
camp at Shumla writes: 81 was
present to-day in the Doctors pri-
vate tent while he saw his morning
patients, and curious experience
it was. Two non-commissioned of
ficers stood at the entrance by the
sentries and ushered in man after
man for about two hours. The
Doctor seated on a medicine-chest
just inside, felt pulses and prescrib-
ed with the regularity of clock
ticking. Two native doctors as
sistants, who squatted behind,
handed pill or gave draught as
directed. Now and then when an
unmistakable case Of fever was dis
covered the man was told to go
into hospital, but the majority were
dosed there and then. One man
came up with the toothache. At
a signal given up jumped one of
the Turkish doctors, seized a pair
of blacksmith's pincers, and, going
behind the fellow, threw his left
arm around his neck as if he were
about to strangle him. In an
instant a capital double tooth,
as sound as a young elephants
sucking tusk, was lying on the
earth on the other side of the tent.
The patient, who never winked,
mildly suggested that the wrong
one might have boon drawn, as he
felt the offender at work still.
'Haide, haide,' BE of, be OFF, said
the operator, pushing him out the
tent with his p:ncers. Then, calm
ly resuming his seat on the floor,
he lit up a fresh cigarette and po-
litely handed the live coal in the
t0nOa tn meo
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20

Prof Z. j. Mallet, Jr., q graduate
of the school Of mines of Columbia
College, New York, has discovered
q process of extracting silver ores
which Is 80 much cheaper and more
effective than any process previ.
ously known, that ore is extracted
at about an average coat of 50 pei
ton, while the cost has been Sli
per ton. The result is that ore con-
tanning five ounces of silver per
ton, can now be probably handled,
whereas until now silver ore con.
tanning less than 25 ounces per ton
has been worthless. A series o.
practical experiments at Adaville
Custer county, Colorado, has de-
monstrated the success of Prof
Aallers process. If all this is true
the production Of silver can be I'M
mensely increased whether new
mines are discovered or not Sill
YER Is o good thing, and we CAM
have too much of it.
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MEXICO.

The New York papers call atten-
tlon to q new and interesting phase
of the approaching theatrical seas
on, which is to be the great number
OF travelling combinations taking
the place of local companies. Each
Of the following distinguished per-
formers will next season travel with
q supporting combination, instead
OF starring it" for local companies,
as heretofore: Boucicault, Lingard,
Joe Murphy, Edwin Booth, Frank
Mayor, Frank Chanfrsu, Rose Ely.
tinge, Sothern, John T. Raymond
Mrs. Oates, Lydia Thompson, Emf.
ly Soldene, Aimee, GeneVieve Ro-
gers, Lawrence Barrett, Kate Clax,
ton, Katie Putnam, Janauschek
George Ringold, Mrs. G. c. How.
ard, John Brougham, and John Dill
lon. AT this rate, ordinary towns
wall be apt to have several chances
OF seeing high art.
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Gle with which to redeem their
own notes when called upon
Such reqHiremehts would operate
ultimately to retire every dollar
of the greenbacks from circula-
tion. This void could be filled
only by the increase of nation
al banks under the free banking
law. But what inducenent can
there be to this end, when gold
shall be the only legal tender for
amounts above So, and when the
total of gold coin in the country
available for the purposes of specie
resumption, shall not be more, at
the outside, than one dollar to each
two or three dollars of national
bank notes? Nearly all the gold,
except what was exported, would
be held by the government or the
banks, between whom there would
be a continual struggle for its pos
session, even after the withdrawal
of the greenbacks; on the part of
one. to accumulate a store for the
discharge of interest on the public
debt; and on the part of the other,
to provide safety fund for the re-
demption of Its circulating notes.
Such a condition of affairs would
reduce the paper money to issues
by the banks, besides restricting
their volume, which would be liable
to sudden and disastrous contrac-
tion on our being forced to export
any considerable amount of specie,
as was the case in 1857, and the di-
rect cause of the panic and col
lapse in that year. Contraction,
fianked by specie payments based
on gold alone, marches steadily
along the road which leads to in
dustrial ruin and universal bank
ruptcy.-Inter Ocean.
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NOTICES
NOTICE,

Notice of Condemnation of Right of
Way for the Kansas City, EmpOria
and Southern Railroad
Company
WYE, the undersigned, commissions duly
w appointed for the purpose of laying OF
along the line of the proposed railroad locat-
ed by the Kansas City, Emporia and Southern
Railroad Companp in Lyon county, Kansas,
q route for such proposed railroad, not eX-
ceeding one hundred feet in width Except
for the purposes of cuttings, embankments.
side-tracks, depOts, water Stations, &c.) and
to render appraisement and assessment OF
each owners interest of the land to be con-
demned for such purposes, do hereby give
notice to all parties interested, that we, as
such commissioners, will, on the 9th day of
August It, 1877, proceed along the line of the
proposed railroad, as located by the Kansas
City, Emporia and Southern Railroad Co. in
Lyon county, Kansas. and lay OF a route for
such proposed railroad, not exceeding one
hundred feet in width Except for the pur-
poses of cuttings, entertainments, side-tracks,
depotS, water stations, &c.) along the line of
SAID railroad, as located by said company;
and that we will, then and there, make an
assessment and appraisement of the damages
resulting to each owner OF any interest in
the land so to be laid OF as q route as afore-
said. e. BORTON,
27-5t VAN L. HOLMES,
NJ MULCONERY,
Commissioners
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Few persons realize the scope
OF modern commerce. Every
thing nowadays is measured by
cost. That country is the near
est to us, for all practical purpos-
es OF trade, from which we can
obtain things at the least cost.
As an illustration of this, it is
stated in a Philadelphia paper
that the Cambria Iron Company
has recently been importing iron
ore from Spain at q cost not ex-
ceeding eight dollars a ton, and
yielding about sixty per cent. of
iron. 1t costs less to bring ore
to Johnstown from Spain than
from Lake Superior.
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LagaI NofIca.

NOTICE is hereby given to all interested
IN That the undersigned did, on July 9th
1877, produce to the Probate Court of Lyon
county. Kansas, . copy Of the win Of c. b.
chapman, deceased, and the probate thereof
duly authenticated from the county court Of
Dane county, Visions in. and did, on said
day, make . motion before said Probate
Court, to admit said will 10 record and pro-
bate therein Whereupon the hearing of Said
motion was continued until September 7Lh,
1871 at which time said motion viii be heard
and determined by said Court at the Office OF
the Judge thereof, in Emporia, Lyon county,
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RENT MY EARMI

For three or i've years-renter's option--con-
sisting of 100 acres. 100 acres in cultivation,
40 in meadow, and 20 in creek and timber, ali
garden paled in. and corrals; 4, 8 and 10
acres creek and timber through each; two
and closets. stone basement, 16x36, parti-
toned and floored for winter kitchen and
dining; underground stone pipes leading wa
ter into it from well and out of it to creek.
Railroad and state road on south; an i'm
mense range Joining on north and east; rail
90 wards; post ofiice in the house,; mails
twice daily; hillside harm with stone base
ment; granaries for 1900 bushels of small
grain and 5000 bushels of corn; stalls for 20
horses; managers and sheds for 200 head of
cattle or 1900 sheep. In short, one of the
very best located and improved stock farms
in Kansas. For further information call on
or address L. w. COLEMAN, Elinor. KS.
II. w. PEARSALL, Auctioneer. 26-5t
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JOSEPH RoHEE, DefendantS Notice:
The above named defendant will take no
tice that he has been sued by the above nam
ed plaintiff That the petition is filed in
the above entitled court, and that he must
answer the petition filed by said plaintiff on
or before Friday, August "a, 1877. or said Pc
tition will be taken as true, ami judg-
ment rendered accordingly, decreeing the
amount OF taxes paid by plaintiff on south
east = of southwest = of section f. town 18,
range II, Lyon county Kansas, to wit: one
hundred dollars and interest thereon at the
goth, 1876, to be q lien on said land; that said
lien he foreclosed and said land sold, and the
proceeds OF such sale be applied In satisfaction
of said claim; and in case the court should
refuse to decree said lien for said sum on said
land, and to order q sale in satisfaction there
OF as aforesaid, that this plaintiffs title to
said land be forever quieted against said de-
PENDANT, and any and all persons claiming
through or under him. Il. N. SRDGWICK,
2S-3t Atty for Plaintiff
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20

One of the best routes on the way
from Chicago to New York, is the
Canada Southern, running from To-
ledo to Buffalo, via Detroit, through
q level country, and making Buffalo
without crossing the suspension
bridge. 1t is g well managed road,
has frst-class coaches, makes quick
time, and at Detroit and Buffalo the
trains are run on immense ferry
boats and carried with perfect safe
ty from shore to shore. Col. Franz
z. Snow, the general passenger
agent. is one of the most capable
and popular railroad men in the
country.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20
Local Notice.,

GILAS W. TENNEY and Charles T. Melvin
- non-resiients Of the State of Kansas will
take notice, that they, as defendants, have
been sued by William 8. Sulgrove, as plain
tin; that the petition has been fled in the
District Court of Lyon county, Kansas; that
the names Of the parties are as above. And
the said defendants are further notified, thai
they must answer said petition on or before
August 18th, 1877. or the same will be taken
as true. and the said plaintiff IS title in and
70 the southeast quarter section fifteen. town.
snip seventeen, range eleven, Lyon county,
Kansas, Will be quieted as against said de-
PENDANTS, and an order taken declaring VOID
certain tax deeus, under which said defen-
danGs claim, and for costs.
CUNNINGHAM & MCCARTHY,
S-SW Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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SheriTss sale,

SAOFIH 3 SaIOo
District Court, Fifth Judicial District, Lyon
county, Kansas.
CHAs. E. BUTTERs,j
US.
G.. +. PIERCE Coz
DY virtue OF an order of sale issued out OF
ID the District Court, sitting within and
for the county of Lyon, IN the above entitled
cause, will, on Monday, the 23d day of July,
the court house in Emporia, Lyon county.
Kansas. offer for sale at public auction to the
highest bidder for cash, the folio wing de-
quarter OF section eleven [11], township sew
enteen M. range eleven FIJI, in Lyon coun-
ty, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
of the defendants, c. r. Pierce & Co., to salts
fly said order of sale.
SheriG'S Office, June eth, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff.
26-5e Lyon county, Kansas
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Great Excitement
AT ELINOR!
SHORT CREEK ECLIPSED!

On Wednesday, August LIST, 1877,
r WILL offer at public auction, al Elinor,
Il Chase county, Kansas, on 81 Y months time
Il three-year old cOrn-fed domestic steers; ;
brood sOws. and 20 stock hogs; Is horses,
mares and mules; 1000 bushels of corn; 70
bushels of fall wheat; 60 acres of corn in the
field; 40 OF oats in stock; wagons, reaper
and mower, sulky rake, sulky pillow, grain
drill, tanning mill, corn planter, 2 cultivators,
ments and household goods. Also, at same
time place and manner,
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1877-07-20

The st. Louis Times answers our
conundrum, "Why is 1t that the
man who plays the bun fiddle in
an orchestra is always, baldT" by
saying that "His infuriated neigh
3ors never fail to take his scalp
while he is learning the trade" >
HaRkeVe.
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PHOTOGRAPHIC.
STATE GOVERNMENT.
CITY OFFICERS.

CITY OFFICERS.
Mayor-Thos. Morrison.
Treasurer Howard Dunlap.
Police Judge-Geo. n. StoweH.
City Attorney-J. Jay Buck.
City Clerk-E. NJ. Forde.
barShal-Thos. Elemming.
Chief Engineer-D. e. McMurtrie.
Councilmen-1st Ward, a. A. Baker, ]. Z
Perley. ID Ward, II. b. Lowe, j. Ii. Davis.
Sd Ward, John Henson, <. z. Bancroft. 9TH
Ward, Ed. BortOn, Z. Nichols.
Board Of EducatiOn-1st Ward, j Jay Buck,
W. 7. McCarty. ID Ward, Van Mccullough,
n. 7. Nix. 3D. Ward, IL. w. McCune, L. l..
Halieck 4th Ward, j. A.Moore, L. u. KEEL
logg. Treasurer Board Of Education, ID. w
Justice Of the Peace-C. B. Bachelor, Geo.
Ii. Stowell.
COnstabIes-T. johnson, II. w. Gilchries
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ShariR,s SaIa

DlsLfICJ court, Filth JuUIclaI DlStrICt, LyOI
County, Kansas.
NJ. PICKERELL,
CS.
8. W. FITZGERRALD, ct dL1
D1 virtue of an order of sale issued out
- of the District Court, sitting within and
for the county of Lyon in the above entitled
cause, will, on Monday, the 23d day OF
July, 1877, at eleven O'Clock a. m, at the
front door of the court house in Emporia
Lyon county, Kansas. offer for sale at public
auction. to the highest bidder for cash, the
following described real estate, to-wit: The
nineteen 1871, range eleven M in Lyon cOun.
ty, Kansas.
Said real estate will be sold as the property
order of sale.
SheriR's office, June 20, 1877.
HIRAM CONNER, Sheriff
25-bt Lyon county, Kansas.
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In Barton county man named
Craig brutality whipped his boy, seven
years old, for not fading a stray hog,
and kept him out on the prairie all
day In the hot sun without food. A
Kind rattle snake bit the boy and he
died the next day, and Craig has been
arrested. He and the rattle snake
ought to be baFreled up together for
q week.
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COUNTY OFFICERS.

Judge District Court-E. b. Peytoh.
Clerk District Court-G. w. Frederick.
SheriR-Hiram Conner.
Attorney-T. n. Sedgwick.
TreaSurer-Jos. Ernst.
Clerk. 8. Craig.
Register Of Deeds-F. 4. Page.
Supt. Pub. InstructiOn-O. u. Wharton,
Surveyor-Harry Hibben.
Probate Judge-E. w. Cunningham.
Coroner-DR. e. IL. CHIrTENDKN
I'D. s. GILMORE,
Commissioner u. A. TAYLOR,
IL. A WOOD