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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-04
saturday, june Is, 1878,

A 80 L..
at the Clubhouse on the plantation oomposed
Of the lands described below, between the
scribed lands lying in Lee county. Stale of
Arkansas, tOsWit; -
The west half Of the southwest quarter of
section tWenty-seven, containing so acres: the
east PAN OF me southeast quarter of section
tWenty-elght' containing So acres; the east
hall and the southwest quarter, and the east
half Of the northwest quarter of ~seetion
th~irty-three, containing $50 acres; the west
half Of the northwest quarter of section
thirty-iour, containE so acres; the southwest
quarter Of section thirty-four. containing l6j
acres; all in township three north, range five
east. Also the northwest quarter Of section
three, in township two north, range five east,
containing us acres; with all the machinery.
etc., boilers, engines, gins. mills, press. belt
ings, ETC., and all the rights, privileges and
appurtenances and improvements thereto be.
longing.
And also the following described personal
property. to-wit: All the wagons, stock
tools, implements of h~usbandry, harness and
gear and all the cattle and hogs that were on
said plantation on the 10th of May, 1876.
Also the following described mules and horses,
to.wit: Liz, a bay mare mule, about 5 wears
old; LaSy.a light bay mare mule. about5 years
oldi Jule,a sorrel mare mule about 9 years old;
Jlm. a dark bay horse mule, about s years
oid Eiic, n black horse mule, about S years
old; Minder, a black mare mule, about9 years
old Stella. an iron gray mare mule, about 4
years old; Charlie. a dun horse mule, about s
years old Fannie. q bay mare mule, about 8
years old Jennie, a eorrel mare mule, about
years old; Nellie, a black mare mule, about
years old King, 2 black horse mule, about
o years old; Black Jennie, a black mare mule,
about 6 years old; Sam, a black horse mule,
about 8 years old; Crockett. a black horse
mule, about 10 years old, John, a mouse-col.
ored horse mule, about 6 years old; Joe, q dun
colored horse mule, about 6 years old {; Mary,
a dun colored mare mule, about 5 years old;
Red Peter, a light bay horse mule, about
years old Balum, a sorrel horse mule about
3 years old; Bette. a bay horse mule, about {
years old; Kate, q dark mare mule. about
years old; one sorrel horse, about 5 years old,
and six mules bought in Memphis, Tennessee,
about February rs, 1876. Ali of which were
4 years old at time of said purchase, and
about l4h hands high. viz: One, a bay mare
mule; one. an iron-gray mare mule; one, a
black horse mule; two black mare mules and
one a dun colored horie mule, very heavy set,
Equity Of redemption waived. Title believed
to be good, but ! sell only as trustee. Terms
Of sale cash. ID. Il. MCKAY, Trustee.
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Trustees Sale.

RY virtue OF a trust deed executed and de-
by Mrs, Sarah H.. Norton ct al. to secure tho
party therein mentioned, recorded in ROOk
rs, page l0t, Of the Registers ofic e Of Shelby
county, and by the request of tho said bone
fciary, default according to the terms Of said
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LNEEpooL, June 4. $3.50 ?. ~ Cotton is
firm. Middling uplRnds sd; middling
Orleans, 6 7-'6d. Sales. 1000 bnles, Of whirh
1000 we're exnOrt and speculation. Receipts,
1920. l6, 100 being American,
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OoTroa.
Oorror IxouANeE ouorArIoNa.

The market is quiet and steady this
morning. offeriags being moderate and
the demand fair. Sales yesterday we're
300 bales.
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Saturday. June s. 1873.
Trustees Sale.

DY virtue eff a trust deed executed To me on
- the I'D day of October, 1870, BY W j.
Webb, and recorded in the Registers office OF
Shelby county, Tenn, in Book rs, page 1888,
to which reference is here made for greater
certainty, | will, as said Trustee.
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Oommissioner,n sale.

No: S72 r. DIN sthe Chaneery Court of
Shelby county. Tennegsee-B. P. Anderson,
Commissioner OF Revenue, VS.. 7. 3. Ayres
and Q. M. Ayres.
by virtue of an order of sale made in this
- cause June %, 1876, Minute Book Is, page
10. l will sell at public auction to the highest
bidder, for cash, in front of the courthouse
door, in the city Of Memphis, Tenn. within
legal hours, on
Saturday, June s, 1873,
the following described real estate, or SO much
thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the
taxes. costs and charges due thereon, and as
divided in said order of sale, to wit:
Lots Nos. Sl and S52 on the plan of the city
Of Memphis, said lots lying on the east side OF
Second street, upon which the Ayres block is
situated, said lots fronting together "A feet 8
inches on the east side of Second street, and
running back l48 feet 6 inches to the alley be.
tween Second and Third streets.
Also lot No. 1852 upon tho plan Of that part
Of the city of Memphis commonly called Chel.
sea, said lots fronting ~ feet 3 inches on the
east side Of Fourth street by 3 depth Of 14S
feet 8 inches on the south side Of SRffarans
street.
This 10th day of May, 1873.
B. p. ANDERSON,
.Comm'r of Revenue, Shelby County.
WV. MCDOWELL, Sol. for complainant.
66. S6
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TuesdaY. juno IS. 1S7S.

sell at public cutlery, in front of the court
house door Of eheiby county, Tens, within
legal hours, for cash, to the highest bidder, 10
satisfy the indebtedness named in said trust
deed, the following described real estate Sita-
aLted In the city Of Memphis, shelby oeanty,
Tenn, to-wit; ~
Part of lot2, block 81, commencing al steNo
on the east side Of peSoto erect, three INV
dred and thirty seven tS37( feet soui1 Of PaaI
street, then IHnnine south With SeSoto stleet
n~tnety-fopf (Q feet 70 a sake; thence easi.
waTdaE parallel with Peal street one hundred
and Atty !ual fee. TO a stake; thence north
WaIdly nlnessy -four (9D feet to a stake; thence
ysSiyardly parallel with Aeal ,treet one hun
ared n hity $50 feet to the b ginning, te.
deed, May, 81, 1851. to Sledge l. Jones, and
recorded in the Registers office Of Shelby
COUNTY, Tenn in Book No. 20, pages 1871 and
1888. n all the hereditaments and appurto-
nancQs thereunto belonging or in any way
thereto appertaininR.
Equity Of redemption is waived, and title
Trustee only.
May II, 1873 67-9i
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Trustees Sale,

RY, virtue Of the serfas of a certain trust
- deed to me executed April 10, 1877. by
James gleary and his wife, Ellen Cleary, and
I'd +. Dummy, and duly recorded in the Reg
isteTa,s otice Of Shelby county, Tenn, April
III. lSl7' IN Record Book No. III, page go, to
secure the payment Of certain Indebtedness
NADIA. I will
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1885,
ChanCery Sale of Real Estate.

N
Cbancery Court OF Shelby County-Samuel A.
KnoK Of al. vs.. w. j. Knox ct al.
RY VIRTUE OF AN INTERLOCUToRY
ID decree for sale. entered in the above cause
on the I'd day Of May, 1878. | will sell,
at public auction. to the highest bidder, in
front OF the Clerk and Master 3 office, Court
house building. Main street, Memphis, TEAM,
On Saturday, June 4, 1873,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn.
ta-Wft
The south q feet Of lot No. 40. of block S5l.
Of the subdivision of Chelsea by w. B. GFeSa.
law ct al. which lot begins at the nartheast
intersection Of Second and GFeenlaw as, and
runs east with the north line Of 9reenlaW st.;
thence north 2 fleet; thence west l4s% feet Ia
the east line Of Second street thence south
with tho east line Of Second street az feet TO
the beginning, 1t being the same upon which
NJ II. kne1's drug store is situated.
Iermso OF sale. cash. wa H
This May IA, 1878,
y, A. COLE, G.. and NJ.
BY n: !, BLACK. D., O. and NJ,
W, W. Mcdowell, Attorney. l6l.T0-76- 92-S
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Trustees Sale.

IINDRR and by virtue of q trust deed exc
cuted to me by j. II. Hodges and his wife,
/. Jane Hodges, and G.. G. Wells, on the 10th
say q May, lS76. and recorded in the Office Of
ine Vierk Of the Circuit Court Of the eounty OF
BOOK q pages los. 1t6, 107 and l0a. on the 18th
q July, 1876, to secure certain Indebtedness
snerein set forth, to Sledge, Mckay h Co.. OF
Memphis. Tennessee, l will, as such Trustee,
az tne request OF the benefieiaries. proceed 10
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PUBLIC LEDGER.
TIME B

MEMPHIS ANDL0UIsvILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON R. h.
Arrives. Leaves.
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at the Clubhouse on the plantation oomposed
Of the lands described below, between Inc
hours Of 10 am. and 4 p M, the following de-
scrioed wing in Lee county, Stale of
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AccOmmod MEX .6undhyl a.4
Depot at head Of Main street.
Ticket office. 2S7 Main street, corner Of
Madison.
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STEAMBOAT.
FOR ClncImnau.

Memphis and Cincinnati Packet Co. For
Louisville and Cincinnaii-The~ swift and
elegant passenger steamer
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-04

A newspaper in the fullest sense of the word,
at once adapted to the Merchant. the Me-
ObaRic. the Farmer, and everybody
DESTROYS. Of keeping up with the
stirring news of this live and
progressive age.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
American Exports to Germauy.

Some interesting facts and suggestions
respecting American expectations to
Germany are communicated to the De-
partment of State at Washington, in a
report by the United States Consul at
Mannheim. Large quantities Of Amer
lean meat are imported into Germany By
one firm at Mannheim-10,0 900 hams in
single order, and an enormous amount
of beef and sausages, sent in thirty days
from st. Louis, equal to German sau-
sage. The fear of trichina is the only
obstacle to large purchases Of American
pork. A single ham infected condemns
the whole cargo. Rigid and trustwor.
thy inspection is recommended before
shipment. Fresh beef twenty one days
from st. Louis finds ready market in
Baden. American stoves begin to be
seen in Germany, and glass from Pitts
burgh meets with approval owing to it's
strength and clearness. American cot
ton cloths are bought carefully by the
German housewife. Sole-leather from
the United States is preferred to the En-
glish article. American preserved veg
etables, fruits, oysters, Holsters, etc.,
are sold in large quantities in Germany.
Sewing and knitting machines are every
where accepted with change of name.
There cannot be doubt that the United
States are year by year taking away from
us some of our best customers. -P0W
Mall London Gazette.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
A NOmadic Town.

Garland, COL, is a town on wheels;
whenever the Denver and Rio Grande
railroad finishes section of road the
town moves to the end of the line. The
people of Garland are determined to live
at the end of the narrow-g gauge, no mat
ter where it takes them. AS the line
will be extended to Alamosa next week,
the festive Garlanders are now preparing
to pack up and move it. The houses are
being taken down in sections, and in a
week or ten days the present site Of
Garland will be deserted both by friend
and foe. Garland was built in week,
and at one time had about 1000 inhab-
itants. 1t is healthy place; it was
located about one year ago, and there
have been but seven deaths. There are
few that die, but when they do die they
die suddenly. The cemetery on the hill
contains seven graves, and we climbed
the steep declivity in the early morning
to inspect it. One is the grave of wee
babe, whose little lamp Of life went out
after an existence Of two months. The
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
~as THE OLD HOME

have gone-I cannot always on xo,, 1-,,
Best it's So
Home across the distant ridges of the vaars
With my tears
And the old house, standing still on the old ground
There found.
In the parlor, in my fancy, could trace
Fathers face:
And my mother, with her old accustomed air,
Sitting there:
While beside them brothers, sisters true and goo5
Silent stood.
bird, '-'-'--0'
And there stirred
on 'he wall the ieat-hecked sunshine, and its glow
Eadel slow;
But from all the loving lips watched around
Not asound
Then I went up stairs. slow enterinc mid thar
glooms
All the rooms:
ana trod, with softened step, along the floors:
Opened doors:
But never heard voice or met soul
In the whole
VI the breaths that stirred the Graperes to and fro
Long ago;
VI the eyes that through the easement used to naen
Out of sleep;
OF the feet that in these chambers used to run
Now are none.
VI the sunshine pouring downward from the sky
Blue and high;
VI the LEAKAGE and the ancient garden plot
o Brown and hot:
VI the streamlet, and the shingle, and the tide
These abide.
But beyond its azure vaulting overhead
49, Are my dead:
Though their graves were dug apart in MANY lands
Joining hands,
1hey nave gathered and are waiting till 1 come
Presbyterian.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

Does Miss Sophie Litchfield live
here p he asked Of pretty girl who
was just coming out the front door of
the house pointed out to him as Litch-
fields.
Yes, sir; please walk in; she's here
in the parlor.''
Instead Of a slipshod blowsy girl. Mr..
Cameron found Sophie to be a very at
tractive young lady; quite as well-man-
nered and pleasant as Lottie FELTON,.
His visit was far longer than he intend
ed, for he ended by going all over the
farm with the father while the daughter
was making few changes in her dress
preparatory to spending the day with
her future mother in-law. Mrs. Cam
eron had smiles instead of tears that
day, for she not only had her boy at
home again, but discovered that Sophie
was just exactly the sort of a girl she
had always pictured as Maurice's wife.
"I could not have chosen better my
self" was her verdict. s 1850
Maurice stuck to his determination to
go into business instead Of playing the
fine gentleman all his life, but readily
agreed to his fathers proposition to buy
him an interest in the only wholesale
dry goods house in the town, saying thai
he certainly preferred that to his former
occupation, "but then I was poor, anc
beggars must not be choosers, you know.
Practical Farmer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
Pierced bV a Needle.

Death comes at last, and with little pin,
Bores through his castle-wan-and farewell, King
What Shakespeare said of the vanity oil
Kings lives describes equally we'll the
frailty of human life everywhere. The
following singular story comes from
Toronto, Canada:
A young man named Henry Hubbard,
aged 3S years, fell dead while walking
the streets. Of course, the usual in
quiry was instituted and examination
made. It was at first supposed he was
the victim CT heart disease, but the most
vigorous search failed to detect any
signs of disease in that organ.
The doctors were puzzled; the man
was healthy, and in the full posses
sion of his powers; what could have
caused his sudden departure from this
world?
It was at last traced: in one section of
the heart, while under the microscope,
was discovered the minute point of a
needle. Death had been brought about
by this broken point of a needle. But
how did the needle get to the heart ?
The doctors renewed their researches,
and we're at last able to follow the course
of the needles point, which had first
entered the mans foot, and from there
had slowly worked it's way through the
body TO the heart, when death resulted.
This is one of the most remarkable cases
on record, and shows from what slight
accidents death may result. All the
time the deceased man had no knowl-
edge of his impending doom; slowly and
surely the fatal piece of steel pursued
it's serpentine route until it came in con-
tact with the vital organ.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
A Battle i'm South Carolina.

About 1000 men assembled in the
village of Edgeville, S. c.. yesterday,
the occasion being the opening of the
Democratic campaign by Gov. Hampton,
Judge Mackey, Gen. Garry, and other
leaders. Several companies of State
troops were present for review. The
speaking took place in a grove half a
mile from the village. Among tine au-
dlence were James Booth, Thomas
Booth, Benjamin Booth and S. Booth.
and BROKER Toney and Mark Toney.
A bitter family feud has long existed be-
tween the Booths and Toneys. Several
years ago several men named Booth went
to the house of Abram Jones for the
purpose of attacking him. They were
accompanied by Luther Toney. Jones
was prepared, and the assault was aban-
doned, but young Toney was killed by
one OF the Booths, accidentally, it is
claimed by the latter. Toney's relations
regarded it as Intentional. On yester-
day BROKER Toney, a brother of Luther,
demonstrated with man who was abus-
ing a Democratic negro. James Booth
walked up, took the part of the man and
drew pistol. Toney drew his also, but
the parties were separated. About
o'clock Toney left the ground where the
speaking was going on and rode to the
village. He was followed by the Booths,
and meeting took place in the public
square. A terrible fight ensued, partici-
pated in by friends of both parties.
Toney killed James and Thomas Booth,
and was himself shot in the back and
killed. Benz. Booth was MORALLY, Mark
Toney and ". L. Coleman seriously, and
S. Booth, s. B. Ryan, J. w. Lott, DR..
Sanders and Clarence Seigler slightly
wounded. The seriously wounded were
spectators, not in the fight. About
thirty shots were fred. Gov. Hampton
ordered the company of State troops,
under Adjt. Gen. Noise, to quen the
disturbance. Noise ordered the crowd
to dispense, but they refused, and then
instructed the company to procure am
munition and fire upon the crowd if it
did not leave, whereupon they dispersed.
BROKER Toney killed colored Deputy
United States Marshal about three weeks
ago.-Ch0rlestOn Is. CT NeaUs.
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BROUGHT TO TERMS.

"You are surely not in earnest
father? ?"
ST assure you I am. I will not give
my consent to your marriage with thai
girl" said Mr.. Cameron, angrily but
firmly.
You are unjust to her; you admit
that you know nothing of her"
Except that she is the daughter of a
farmer, poor illiterate farmer who has
half dozen other children"
''Mr. Littlefeld is poor, I grant, but
neither he nor his children are illiterate
Sophie has as good an education as any
girl know"
bah p exclaimed the old man con-
temptuously. "Of course she is perfec.
ton Why couldn't you have had sense
enough to fancy Lottie FELTON, Or that
pretty little billiard girl? I'd welcome
either of them willingly enough, but this
girl [ will not receive
"Simply because she is a farmers
daughter?"
"Simply because I choose not to p
answered Basil Cameron, all the obsti.
macy inherited from his Scotch grand
father rising up against his sons cool in
fexibility. ST say you shall not marry
her-and you shall not"
"And say I will" replied Maurice.
angry in return. ST defy any one to
hinder me without showing better cause
than her poverty"
''You seem to forget, young man, that
you have not penny of your own! Pray
how do you propose to support wife
that [ disapprove Of?
"By my own exertions, sir, as thou
sands Of better men than I am are do
ing; I am neither an invalid nor an i'm
beetle" &bEE
cha, ha, hal roared the father.
You work That is rich Go and
tell your sweetheart that your father
will not give you another dollar during
his life or after it, and see how quick
shell repent of saying yes to you"
.'On the contrary, sir, her fathers
only objection to me is that I am an idle
young man." g S#tF
"Don't talk about the matter. Maui
rice. Come, give me your word to
break off this engagement, and p
"Never, sir p
s'Then the sooner you get out of nv
sight the better. I wash my hands Of
you, you thankless boy! Go to work,
and come to me in a year begging bread
for your wife. I'd see you starve before
I'd give it to you then"
Maurice Cameron was the only son of
Basil Cameron, one of the richest and
most influential men in the busy town
of Nelson. He had received liberal
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
Criminal Statistics.

f. B. Sanborn has been collecting
facts regarding crime and criminals in
the United States. The number of CON
victs is now twice as great as in 1871,
the relative figures being $1,000 and
$1,000. The greatest increase is in
Georgia, Tennessee and several Western
States. The number of persons in
prison as convicts, or awaiting trial, is
10000, Of whom less than one-sixth are
women. About 10000 of the whole
number are in New York and 1900 in
Massachusetts, where the proportion of
prisoners to population is greater than
in any other part of the country. In
the South the higher prisons are gener-
ally made selfsupporting by the labor
Of the convicts, who are leased to con-
tractors, who may employ them any
where in the State. In Arkansas the
contractor pays nothing, but meets all
expenses. In Tennessee, Georgia and
Mississippi stated sums in money, be-
side expenses, are paid by the contract
ors. Mr.. Sanborn figures as follows !:
"The general result of the labor of con-
victs in the State prisons of thirty-seven
States (for Delaware has no central
PRISON. falls $1,25O,OOO short of the
earnings requisite to support the $4,000
convicts in those prisons last year.
That sum, divided among an average of
$4,000 State prisoners, gives an average
cost of something more than $$ss443 year
for each convict. If we add in the sum
paid for the support of ort.sentenced
prisoners in jails, the total cost of the
60, 900 persons in prison throughout the
year 1877 would probably exceed $5,-
100000, or something more than $50 a
year for each prisoner"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22
Two Hundred and SixH-flye Thousand
Kinds of Insects.

There is now on the way to New York
what is probably the most wonderful en-
genealogical collection in the world. and.
strange to say, it has been made by an
old actor, Mr.. Henry Edwards, of Cali
fornia. He commenced the task when
he was only 10 years Of age. Since that
time, by purchase, personal efforts in
various parts Of the world, and a system
OF exchange with something like 1877
correspondents, he has secured not less
than 78, 1000 species, comprising 265, 900
specimens. To pack these for trans
portation around the Horn occupied
three weeks of hard work of several
persons. They fill 1,O36 boxes. reouir-
ing space Of $50 cubic feet, or eighteen
tons OF ship measurement. The i'm
mensity of the collection. may be in
ferred from the statement of this fact.
Mr. Edwards is member of some six
teen learned societies in various parts of
the world; and has to maintain an i'm
mense correspondence with the great
scientists of the world, including OAR
win, Lubbock, Wallace, and other prom
inent naturalists in this country. Had
Prof. Agassiz lived the collection would
undoubtedly have passed into the hands
OF Cambridge University. It's future
disposition is in allegiance, but before it
passes from view it may possibly be ex-
hibited in public for the benefit of sci
entifc admirers, in some accessible hall
in New York, which is yet to be chosen.
Those who have seen the collection de-
scribe it as wonderful. York
Herald.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

second is that of an aged man-ssThe
judge" as he was Familiarity called
who died natural death. The remain
der met violent deaths; one was hanged
by the Vigilance Committee, and four
were shot dead in the saloons.-Cor.
San Francisco Chronicle.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1878-08-22

THERE were 116 failures in Kentucky
during the year ending June 30. The
total liabilities were 81, OS8, SIT, and the
assets were 1886, 251.