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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

FINDER and by virtue Of tho trust deed
u made by l., Podests. bearing date the
18Th day of April, 1874. and recCrdered in Book
No. i0l, page lS2, of the Registers Office of
Shelby county. Tennessee, TO secure a certain
IND Indebtedness therein specified. which is past
due aud unpaid, Mt the request Of the benef-
ciary in said deed named, / will, on Thurs
day, the 10tn dRy of inlay, 1878,
at the southwest corner of Main and Madison
streets, In the city of Memphis, Tennessee,
proceed to sell at public auction, TO the highest
bidder, for cash, the following property stu
ated in the city of Memphis. Shelby county.
State of Tennessee, and described as follows:
Beginning at the alley on the west side Of
DeSoto street, whereon A.. M. Ferguson re-
sided; running thence south with DeSoto
street forty. seven and one-half feet; thence
westwardly and parallel with Zeal street one
hundred and ninety feet TO q stake on an
alley; thence northwardly with said alley
forty-seven and a half feet to a stake on said
alley; thence oastWardly with the alley one
hundred and ninety-nine feet to the begin
ming. being the same conveyed by j r. SOsen-
berry to l.. POdesta, by deed registered in the
Registers Office Of Shelby county in Book No.
50, page 497. TO which reference is made for a
full description.
Equity Of redemption waived. Title be-
lieved to be perfect, but | will sell only as
Trustee. A. RAaGI0, Trustee.
Memphis, April Is. 1878. 1857
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I~nsOIVent Notice.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY CoUNTY.0
OFFICE COUNTY COURT CLERK, !
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 29. 1878.

STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY COUNTY,
OFFICE COUNTY COURT CLERK,
MEMPHIS, TENN, April 29. 1878.
To John S. Sullivan, administrator of Corne-
Illus Griffin, deceased
HAVING SUGGESTED TaE INSOL-
Ii vency Of the estate Of Cornelius Griffin.
deceased, you are hereby ordered to give mo-
tics. By advertisement in some Newspaper
published within the said State, and also at
tho courthouse door Of Shelby county, for ali
persons having claims against said estate, to
appear and file the same With the Clerk of the
County Court, authenticated in the manper
prescribed by law, on or before the 18th day
of August, 1878; and any claim not filed On.
or before said day, or before an appropriation
Of the funds Of said estate is made, shall be-
forever barred, both in law and equity.
Witness my hand, at Office, this 29th day Of
April, 1878.
JAMES REILLY, Clerk.
By HUGH B. CULLEN, D. G.
Creditors are hereby notified as required un-
der the above order May 3. 1878.
JOHN s.. SULLIVAN, Admir-,
II. G. WARMER, Atty. h5.6i.6LTs
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17
FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.
HONEY
PVRLIc LEDGER OFFICE.
MEpPHIs. TKEN.. May II. 1878.

MEMPHIS. TENN. May II. lSIo.J
Bankers kBow nothing of interest to
report this morning in financial affairs,
and neither do we, only hat business is
growing duller every dsy. Currency is
abundant, aud can be had at cheap rates
Of interest for acceptable paper or suit
able collateral. The discount rates are
quoted at 6 to s per cent. on 30 or
6O.day notes, and from 8 to lG per cent.
on longer time. Exchange offers in
light sums at discount buying on New
York and the East, and selling at /
premium. New Orleans rates are t of
buying, and par selling. Gold opened
in New York to-day at 1908 and closed
at 1909 Local stocks, bonds and secu.
rites ARE in better inquiry, attracting
more attention than usual, but trsnsac
49,. 80 Eu;fod
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17
LEGAL,
Trustee's Sale.

FINDER and by virtue of q trust deed exc
" cuted TO me BY ]. Il. Hodges and his wife,
Jane Hodges, and G. G. Wells, on the 10th
day Of May, 1876, and recorded in the Office Of
the Clerk of the Circuit Court Of the county Of
Lee. ia the State Of Arkansas, in Record
Book g. pages los. lt6, 107 and los. on the 18th
of July, 1876, to secure certain Indebtedness
set forth, to Sledge, Mckay & Co., Of
Memphis. Tennessee, | will, as such Trustee,
the request of the b~eneisiaries, proceed to
sell Mt public a~uetion. on
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merchants wholesale cash Prices.

Flour -saperfne, 81 1904 Is; double
extra, $5@5 %; treble extra, S. 1906;
choice family, $6@6 %; fancy, Sc 506
6 rs per barrel.
CoRNMEAL-Firm and scarce; kiln
dried, 80 5000 60 per barrel.
CoRN-ScArce and firm; mixed, 52G
53e; white, 5l955c; ear, 4Sc per bushel
-i3c higher from store.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17
Commissioners Sale.

No. 372 r. DIN sthe Chaucery Court Of
Shelby county. Tennessee-B. P. Anderson,
Computation OF Revenue, VS.. i. 5. Ayres
and G. M. Ayres.
DY virtue Of pn order of sale made in this
u cause June 26, 1876, Minute Beck Is, page
l75. | 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, o
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

The Cincinnati Enquirer says that if
the morals and whisky Of Boston are as
crooked as her ancient streets, Satan
holds a bill Of lading for her inhabitants,
and the goods are shipped through by q
fast line, Take more settler, old boy,
next time YOU GOMEZ Boston Post.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

me. 1851
~NOn-Resident and CreditOrs'
Notice.

In the Chancery. Court Of Shelby county.
Tennossee-J. A. Anderson, administrator
Of Caroline Hedges, deceased. VS.. j. nj.
Hedges ct al.
TT APPEARING FROM. AFFIDAVIT IN
y this cause hat the 6~efendants. j. m,
Hedges. Of Missouri; Leila @. Perkins, John
3. Hedges and James ". Person, surviving
partner OF ). =; Person 4 Co.. Of Mississippi,
are all non. residents Of the State Of Tonnes.
see; il is therefore ordered that they make
their appearance herein at the courthouse
the first Monday in July, 1878. and plead an
swer or demur to complainant's bill, and
that all creditors and parties interested an
pear within the time prescribed BY law, ale
and establish their claims against the estate
Of said decedont. or the cause will be taken
for confessed and the same proceeded with OK
narte; and that 3 copy of this order be pub
ished once a week, for four successive weeks,
in the Public Ledger.
This 10th day of May, 1878.
A copy-Attest;
EDMUND A. COLE, @. and N.
by X. j. BLACK, d. G. and NJ.
Vance a Anderson, Solicitors for complain
ant. 6i.b7.79-7Q
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

GALyEsTOE. May IT, Cotton Is firm. Mid
ding, l0%. Receipts. net and gross, 1l3 bales.
Sales, 222 bales. Stock on hand, l3,4l5 bales.
Rev ORLEANS, May l7,-Cotton firm. Mid
ding. 1919. Receipts 10 bales; sales. 500.
EEw YORK, May II, 1885 p.m.-Cotton i,
firm and asking higher, with futures quiet
and steady.
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

BOATS LIE. ING TO-DAY.
Cincinnati, J. W. Gaf-..-~-........-..5 pm
Friar's Point, Geo W. heek.....~.....-- 5 pm
St. Louis, City Of Helena~"~.........--.5 pm
ARRIVALS
Steamer Geo. W. Cheek, Friar's Point.
City of Helena, Yicksburg.
Grand Tower, St. Louis.
John Porter, Ohio river.
Belle Of Texas, Arkansas riv.
Golden City, Cincinnati.
DEPARTURES.
Steamer West Wind, 0seeols.
Grand Tower, V~icksburg.
Golden City, New Orleans.
John Porter, New 0rleaus.
BOATS II PORT
J. W. Gsf, Geo. W. Cheek, City of
Helena, Katie Hooper, Belle of Texas.
Condition OF the Kivsrs.
The river here declined S inches
in the "a hours ending at noon,
and now stands 23 feet above low
water mark. At Cairo the decline
was 8 inches, with ~ feet 10 inches
on the gauge; at st. Louise inches,
with Is feet 6 inches on the gauge;
at Pittsburg 2 inches, with 3 feet
on the gauge; at Cincinnati it rose
IL inches, with q feet on the
gauge; at Louisville it declined 2
inches, with 9 feet 6 inches in the
canal at Evansville it is falling,
with II feet Z inches on the gauge.
Cumberland river fell 10 inches
at Nashville, with z feet Z inches
on the gauge. Arkansas river is re-
ceding at Little Rock, with 6 feet
on the gauge. White river is fall
ing, with a good steamboat stage
Of water from Jacksonport to the
mouth.
Clear and warm.
Very little business doing on the
levee.
Freights for the bends continue
dull.
The Cons Millar left Cincinnati
last evening for Memphis.
The West Wind returned to the
upper coast with a fair trip.
The Hattie Rowland leaves Lit.
tie Rock to-day for Memphis
The Vint Shinkle leaves Cincin.
natl tomorrow for Memphis.
The Maumelle gives another pic
mic excursion at Little Rock to-day
!. The Charles Morgan leaves Gin.
cinnati tomorrow for New Orleans
|, The Vint Shinkle, from Mem.
phis, arrived at Cincinnati to-day
Cincinnati is crowded with visi
tors to the grand musical fes
tival.
The James Howard, from st
Louis, arrived at New Orleans ves
. terday.
| The Mary Houston, bound 70.
. New Orleans, passed Louisville yes
. terday.
. The Robert Mitchell, bound fo-
: Cincinnati, passed Vicksburg las
evening at Z o'clock.
i. Captain W. S. Jones, formerly o
this city, is now chief clerk of tn,
Yazoo river packet Yazoo.
} Mr.. Ed R. Thomas, chief clerI
of the Coahoma, is in Cincinnati
attending the musical festival.
The Illinois arrived last evenin.
at Vicksburg and leaves there to
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17
Trustees Sale.

DY virtue OF a trust deed executed and de-
ID liyered to me, r. ID. Jordan, as trustee,
by Mrs. Sarah u. Norton ct al. to secure the
party therein mentioned, recorded in Book
lis, page l0l, of tho Registers office of Shelby
county, and by the request Of the said bene-
fciary, default according to the terms of said
trust having bean made. ] will, as said trustee,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17

duplicate of the coroner's certif-
cate:
"This is to certify that G.. Rud-
man and j. G. Cover are the per-
sons who found the body Of a man
supposed to be Captain Dawson, of
the steamer Warner that blowed up
opposite Memphis, Mayi1s 1878. Q
"W. Z. BAYNB d /
"Coroner of Tunica CO., Miss"
If any of the friends of Captain
Dawson wish any further iniorma-
ton on the subject, address a letter
to me at Mhoon's landing, Miss.
Yours truly, G. RUDMAN.
We received the following this
morning, and gladly publish it
in the hope that it may lead Tue
recovery and Identification Of the
body Of Captain Dick Kenneth:
Mourn OF ST, francis RIVER, |
May Is, 1878.
To the River Editor Of the Ledger:
One of my men caught the body
of a white man who was in a very
bad condition. / ordered an in
quest held, and the verdict was
that che came to his death by the
explosion of the steamer Warner"
viii you be so kind as to mention
in the river column Of your valua-
BILE paper that the body was buried
here, awaiting for some one to call
for it? Respectfully, yours,
GEO. A. CARvILL.
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LIVERPOOL. May u. $50 pm - Cotton is
hardening. Middling ublauos Cd; middling
Orleans. SD. balos, 10000 bales, OF whicn
1000 we're for export and speculation.
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OOTTON.

The market continues active and
strong at the following quotations. Sales
yesterday we're 1900 bales.
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Trustees Sale.


RY VIRTUE of a deed in trust executed To
~ me- on the oath day Of February, 1874, By
John 1. and Mary d, Hillsman. and recorded
10 the Registers Office Of Shelby county,
Ienh.' in Book No. 100, page 298, 1 will on
Friday, May 81, 1873,
at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets, sell for cash to the highest bidder, the
Following described real estate in Shelby
county, Tenn, to-wit: A parcel or lot Of
land in the city OF Memphis, on what ia
know as Towards Row, and being lot No. Isl.
Of block NO. -. said lot fronting twenty-fye
ieet, more or less. on the south line Of How
ARDS Row, and running back %southwardly
between parallel lines one hundred teet 10 an
alley, and being the same lot conveyed BY II.
z. Alexander to Joseph II. Talbot By desd
dated September 49,, 1874, and recorded in
the Registers office Of Shelby county. Tenn
in Book No. &, page 1888.
The equity If redemption is waived, and the
title Is ,oelieyed to be good. but l sell and con-
yey only as Trustee.
1879 Z. X. FARNSW0RTH Trpsta.
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MHooE's LANDING. Miss !
May 10th, 1878.
To The River Editor Of the Ledger:

Az NV ~ 1NAfNA -
DEAR SIR-Noticing a commu-
nication in your issue Of Tuesday,
from Captain Wiley, stating that
he was the party who found the
body of Captain Dawson, Of the
steamer Warner, which is mistake.
If there be any honor or reward let
it be given to whom it is due. The
facts Of the case are as follows : On
Saturday last Mr.. j. @. Cover and
II pulled up to a driGt-pile above
here for the purpose Of finding
some lumber, and while on the
drift discovered the body. After
finding the body we returned to
Mhoon's Landing and there met
Captain Wiley in search Of Captain
Kennett's body, pilot of the War
ner. We informed him about the
body in the drift above here, and
took him to it.
After he examined the body, and
becoming convinced hat it was not
the body Of Captain Kenneth, he
lett without doing anything further.
We found a lady's gold watch and
81. 30 on his person had an inquest
held on the body, and buried there
at Mhoon's landing. Below is a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-05-17
LEDGER.
TINE TABLE.

IEMPHIs AND RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
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MRMPHIs AND CHARLESTON R. R.
Arrives. Leaves.
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D E-~ -
AN. Pm. AN. P.M.
Express daily Except
Saturday. ................. 100 n.S0
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Miss Euphemia's Policy.

Miss EUPHEMIA MILLIKEN, of Forty
first street, was, four years ago. teach
er of music in FOrty-first street. She
was most excellent young lady. but
was sorely put to it to support, by her
unaided exertions, an invalid mother
and three younger sisters, who had
also to be educated. But she managed
it by living very closely, and denying
herself everything but the barest neces-
sites of life.
Miss Euphemia was beloved by two
men. One was Mr.. John Henry Potter
son, a young man of about her own age,
and the other Mr.. Thomas McNice, an
elderly gentleman of seventy-four. Mr..
Peterson was a bank clerk, burdencd
with the care of his aged parents and
a paralytic sister, and his small salary
just sutficed to keep the pot boiling in
his humble home. Possibly the SINH
larity of the situation was what made
Miss Euphemia love him so; but true II
is that she was devOtedly attached 10
him, and after the usual form the two
had plighted their troth:
But when one morning the ancient
McNice, who was rich old bachelor, a
very rich one, proposed to marry her,
she ponderea. After bordering she
went for poor John Henry.
"John Henry, Mr.. McNicc has Of
fered to marry me; what shall do?'
MARRY him, I suppose" John Hen
~ replied, bitterly. "He is rich and I
am poor. don't know of any girl that
would hesitate. Your sending for me
before accepting him is more than | had
any reason to expect"
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Why Women Should Read.

LAYING aside the thought of our own
rest and comfort, let us look a little
higher. For the children sake me mast
make the most of ourselves. Many an
unselfish mother has said, "Oh, can
not take all this time, there are. so many
things to do for the children" She
does not realize that she may do more
for them in the end by cultivating her.
self than if she spends all her time on
clothes and cooking. A generosity
which makes the recipient weak or sell
fish is not a blessing buta curse. Have
you not seen groHn-up sons who snub-
bed their mother opinions in the same
breath with which they called her to
bring their slippers? The meek little
woman has "trotted around to wait
on them so long that they have come to
think that that is all she is good for.
Their sisters keep "ma" in the back
ground because she "hasn't bit of
STYLE" and is $50 uncultivated," for.
getting that she has always worn shah
by clothes that they might wear fine
ones; that her hands have become
horny with hard work that theirs might
be kept soft and white for the piano,
and that she has denied herself books
and leisure that they might have both.
And there are other children, too noble
for such base ingratitude, who feel q
keen though secret sense of loss as they
kiss the dear withered check and think
how much more of a woman "mother''
might have been if she had not shut
herself away from the culture and
sweet companionship of books.-Scrib.
ner for Ap1fk.
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Danger from Overtaxing Children's
Brains.

CASES of cerebral hyper@mia, from
excessive intellectual exertion are fire.
quently met with in the young, whose
mental powers are Overtaxed before
their brains are sufficiently developed.
A growing brain needs to husband
its powers for the normal formative
processes of the cerebral organization.
The blood which circulates in its SUBJ
stance is charged with no more pabu-
lum than is sufficient for this growth,
and for such mental labor as will aid in
strengthening the various faculties of
the mind and if it be consumed in the
production of force beyond these re-
quirements, disease is the necessary
consequence. Cases of the kind, in
young men and women who are striv-
ing to cram their minds with numerous
studies, are of almost daily observation.
The doctor takes occasion, from his
professional experience, to press this
point, especially against close applica-
ton to mathematical studies by grow
ing girls. But the worst case he reports
from his own practice is that of youth
of the harder sex. The same general
lesson is enforced by DR.. Richardson.
of London, who says the crowding of
artificial information upon children
either gives rise to direct disease of the
brain itself, or induces weakness and
exhaustion of the mental organs, with
irrcgularity of power. The child may
grow up with memory taxed with
technicals and impressed so forcibly
that it is hard to make way for other
knowledge; and added to these mis-
chiefs there may be, and often is, the
farther evil that the brain, owing to the
labor put on it, becomes too fully
The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1878-04-11
Ha. bA! ha!
Hear him yell
Bijah lays the spanks
I'm wellV'
Diphtheria an Old Disease.

DIPHTHERIA even SO wise man as
the Hartford C0urant's agricultural
editor pronounces modern disease,
but it isn't. In letter to the Portland
advertiser, DIR. C. p. Ilsley, of CAM
bridge, shows that it is an old disease
with modern name. AS far back as
1877, Falmouth, now Portland, suffered
severely by it, and it was spoken of as
the most fatal scourge that ever
visited New England, and rapidly
hurried its subjects to the grave; the
throat swelled, became covered with
ash-colored specks, great debility and
prostration ensued, With putrefaction.
1t broke out in Kingston, N. H., in
May, 1875, and 1000 persons fell
victims to it in New Hampshire. In
the following August it reached Exeter,
and Boston in September. Four thou
sand took the disease in Boston-one-
quarter of the population, as Boston
then contained but 5000 inhabitants.
The mortality was small here in COM
parison with other places, the deaths
numbering only ia. This was prob
ably owing TO having prompt and more
effectual remedial agents at command
In Haverhill, Mass, the victims num-
bered 1919. So much was it dreaded
that two fast days were observed at
Falm outh on account of it--one in 1886
and another the next year.-BostOn
Herald.
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FACTS AND FIGURES.

Put not too great trust in spring.
March is blower.-Graphic.
THERE is no harbor for 800 miles
north and 500 miles south of San Fran
cisco.
The Governor of California receives
the highest salary among Governors,
viz, $1,000.
1T has cost the country nearly $780,
SOC, 600 not to conquer the Sioux.-St.
Louis Times.
WITHIN the last three months 2O0,-
600 American clocks have been shipped
TO Australia.
MIR. JOHN BOGGs is said to own 1OO,-
600 acres of land in California and JO,-
GOO in Oregon.
THE new Mormon Temple, in Salt
Lake, now being built of granite, will
cost $5,OOO,OOO.
The number of Cinnamon who ar
rived at San Francisco in January was
only 228, while 1872 returned to their
| native land.
The number of books in the Congress.
sional Library Washington is 331, l13
| volumes, and there are about 10000
pamphlets.
CHICAGO has $500 liquor saloons for
her 100000 inhabitants. giving one
saloon to every 178 people, or one to
every 35 adult males.
THERE were 1851 miles of railroad
built in this country last year, for which
Texas has over one-third. She has
now more in process of construction
than all the rest of the United States.
| A WHISKY tax of $1,j53,516 collect
ed from six distilleries in St. Louis in
1874 increased to 81 1888. 4S1 from three
of the same distillcries in 1877, owing
to the breaking up of the whisky ring.
The export trade of France for the
past year showed a decline of 49,, OOO,-
600 from the previous year, while the
decrease of imports amounted to $780,
100000. The United States is the only
country that shows an increase of both
exports and imports.
TEXAS issues a curious public dc GU
ment entitled "a list Of fugitives from
Justice 1t contains 225 pages, and
puts the number of fugitives at 4, i02
with forty counties yet to hear from
which cover some of the most populo,,s
portions of the State. Of these gentle
men and ladies who have wandered
away from home and given the colo
shoulder to the guardians of the peace
whenever the latter made advances
$50 are charged with murder. Reward.
ranging from $50 to 81, O0O-the asgrc
gate being S9O,OOO-are offered for 3Ot
Of the fugitivcs, and detectives out of (:
job, as well as agriculturalists, Nigh
find this State a good one to immigrat,
to. Apropos of which, it is estimated
that over 100000 horses have beer
stolen within the last three years. Som,
$50 indicted horse-thieves are fugitive
from justice in the State, and the mum
Der that have escaped arrest is incalcu
liable. An organized gang of severa
hundred is operating in Middle Texas
and the loss of farm stock in some 10
calities is immense. 1t is little wonde
that, when one is caught, he is likely t.
be hung to the nearest tree.