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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19
ON SATURDAY, JnIy 1s, ISIS.

the several lots or tracts Of land mentioned in
said decree, to-wit;
First--Part Of lot s, block 80, on Oausey
street, in the city Of Memphis, Shelby county.
Tennessee, and bounded and described as fell
lows: Commencing at the northeast corner Of
l9t 3, block 80, map of the city Of Memphis,
thence running south along the west line of
Causey street 40 feet; thence westwardly par
allel with the north line Of said lot 10 the
bayou; thence along the east side or waters
edge OF said bayou to the northern side of
SAID lot; thence east with the western line of
said lot to the beginning.
Second-One other lot lying on the west side
Of Csusey street, in the city of Memphis,
Shelby county, Tenn, and being the part OF
n lot decreed to W. Q. Causey by the County
Ourt Of Shelby county. November term. 1851.
and by him conveyed to Samuel Toole. Febru-
airy /, 1861, by deed registered il Book SO, part
], page 555, Registers Office of Shelby county.
TO which reference is made, which lot Is
bounded on the east by Causey street, and
commences at Mrs. Jane d. Crooks south
east corner; running thence along Causey
street % feet to M. j. Wright's northeast cor.
ner; thence westward with Wrighps north
line to Bayou GsyOso thence with the bayou
TO- Mrs. rocks corner; thence eastwardly
with her line to the beginning.
Ihird-Ahother lot. the east half OF lot 62
Of the John ID. Armour subdivision, fronting
30 feet on the north side Of Madison street exs
tended, in tho city Of Memphis, Tennessee.
and running back between parallel lines l6O
feet to an alley. being the same lOt conveved
BY j. B. Beiskell and others 10 Mrs. Jane ID.
Crook by deed recorded in Book N. mage 16I.
Registers office of SAelby county, to which
reference is made.
Terms of sale-cash,
June II. 1873.
JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
. II. Is. MCFARLAND, Sol, 80 1i6
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ability, "they've been cheated SO
Often AT the close of The Two
Orphans act there is call. "Eyery-
bodyp cries Miss Claxton before
the curtain rises again. The "Fro-
chard" has, meanwhile, wandered
around, and tries to get through
the crowd al the entrance, but can't
succeed. "Well, never mind" says
she, with a sigh. But Miss Clax-
ton breaks away impetuously from
the circle of which she is the center
and cries, "Miss Cliftenp mean
time running toward the entrance.
ola Frochard" advances, and has
pressed upon her by the generous
hands of "Louise" a basket of
flowers that has been handed up
from the orchestra. All this is a
pretty comedy to contemplate from
the wing. While Montague is
speaking the farewell address, writ
ten by John Brougham for this occa.
sion, the people group close to
the curtain and nearer the entraces
and the applause sweeps up, muffled
by the canvas barriers. Harry
Beckett, "made up" for "Trotter
Southdown ;" Effie Germon and
Others of Wallack's company are
waiting to play To Oblige Benson.
But it is already long past five
o'clock and the atmosphere of the
playhouse grows irksome. The
banquet waits-we fly to the COM
forts of a home.
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WEDNESDAY EVENING. JUNE IS, 1854

estate, whatever the luck it might
promise. One fatal day, however,
in following the flight Of game he
mounted 3 fence dividing the Ma
son property from anothel's. At
tempting to load in this position
his attention diverted, no Doubt by
the movements of the birds or the
dogS-ha let slip his gun, which ex-
ploded and sent the ramrod through
his head. He fell on the Mason
side, which he had avoided all his
life--upon the ground which he
was to press only in death. And,
to make the dramatic situation
complete, Stevens Mason at that
moment came riding by, and the
dying youth was carried to Rasp-
berry Plain, the blighte1 home
stead of the Masons, the birthplace
Of the fathers victim, and laid dead
in the hall.
This was almost a death blow to
the parents of young McCarty, His
bereaved father, the slayer of Sena-
tor Mason, became erratic, and for
much of the time a wanderer. He
would leave his home without a
word and be gone for years, his own
wife not knowing where, and then
would as suddenly reappear, un-
kempt and haggard, with hair long
on his shoulders, and beard de-
scending to his waist.
After all this the old Mason
hause at Raspberry Plain stood shut
up and empty for years. In due
time, Of course, it became " "haunt-
ed, " and as might have been expect
ed, a pistol shot was sometimes
heard there at night by veracious
passers-by. But atlength it passed
into careful though stranger hands,
and is now-with Selma also-once
more the scene of prosperity and
happiness.
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On Saturday, July 1S, 1873,

the tract OF land described in the plsadings
and decree in this cause, lying in the Eighth
civil district OF Shelby county. Tennessee, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at the north
2ast corner Of a tract Of 200 acres sold by John
thence west ia chains; thence south chains;
themes west % chains so links to the south
west corner; thence north Al chains; thonce
east % chains 70 links; thence north Is chains
50 links to the northwest corner; thence east
III chains 50 links to the northeast corner;
thence south so chains 50 links TO the point oil
beginning eOntaing 662 acres more or less.
Terms Of sale cash.
June II, 1873.
JOHN H. FREEMAN, Clerk.
GEo w. WINCHESTER, Sol. for comp mpainapt.
8Q.116 M
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nentn Of Qussr El,unha,n.

Grnen's History Of England.l
If ministers aud courtiers were
counting on her death, Elizabeth
had no mind to die. She had en-,
ioyed life as the men of her day
had enjoyed it, and now that they
were gone, she clung to it with a
fierce tenacity. She hunted, she
danced, she iested with her young
fayorites, she coquetted and Scolded
and frolicked at sixty-seven as she
had done at thirty. "The queen, y
wrote a courtier a few months be-
fore her death, "was never SO gall
liant these many years, nor so set
upon jollity." She persisted, in
spite OF opposition, in her gorgeous
progresses from country house to
country house. Sh. clung to busi-
ness as Of old, and rated in her
usual fashion, "one who minded
not to giving up some matter Of
accomtP But death crept on. Hel
face became haggard, and her frame
shrank almost to a skeleton. al
last her taste for fnery disappeared
and she refused to change her
dresses for a week together. A
strange melancholy settled down on
~ - . -
her, " She held in her hand" says
one who saw her in her last days, "a
golden cup, which she often put to
her lips; but in truth her heart
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NO 95

seemed too full to need more fill
ing.D Gradually her mind gave
way. She lost her memory, the
violence Of her temper became un-
bearable, her very courage seemed
to forsake her. She called for a
sword to lie constantly beside her,
and thrust it from time to time
through the arras, as if she heard
murderers stirring there. Food
and rest became alike distasteful.
She sat, day and night, propped up
with pillows en- a stool, her finger
on her lip, her eyes fixed on the
floor without a word. If she ever
broke the silence, it was a flash of
her own queenliness. When Robert
Cecil declared that she "must" 90
to bed, the word reused her like a
trumpet. "Mustp she exclaimed;
sis must q word to be addressed to
princes? Little man, little man!
thy father, if he had been alive,
burst not have used that word"
Then, as her anger spent itself, she
sank into her old detection. "Thou
art so presumptuous," she said.
'because thou knowest shall die"
She rallied once more when the
ministers beside her bed named
Lord Beauchamp, the heir to the
Suffolk claim, as possible success
or. 81 will have no rogue's son"
she cried hoarSely, "in my seat"
But she gave no sign, save motion
Of the head, at the mention of the
king of Scots. She was, In fact,
fast becoming insensible, and early
the next morning, on the gath Of
March, 1903, the life of Elizabeth,
life so great, SO strange and lonely
in its greatness, ebbed quietly away.
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On Saturday, July 20, 1878,

within legal hours, at the southwest corner of
Main and Madison streets, Memphis, Tenn.
sell at public sale to the highest bidder for
cash, lots four. Ave. six and seven, fronting
on Pigeon Roost road and Monroe street ex-
tended and also lots ten, eleven, twelve and
thirteen, all in Memphis, Tenn, for more
OF information as to title, reference may be-
made to proceedings in tie First Chancery
Court in the causes of Robert L. Brown VS.. l..
q. Galloway ct al, No. 933, r. d Isaac L.
iIilliard ct a.; ys. i. g. Galloway ct al, 9S4 +,
X. d. and w. II. Turley VS.. l.. &. Galloway
ct al, 1894. r. D. The title is presumed to be
good, but will sell and convey as Trustee
only. s. p. READ. Trustee
,lunn III. 1873
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Truslee,s Sale.

RY virtue of deed Of trust executed TO me
- by W. II. Turley in January, 1871. and
fled for registration June IL, 1873, and pursu-
ant to demand from the executor of II. d.
named, for the purpose Of liquidating the de-
faulted note for $3.50. due December, q, 1875,
with 10 per cent. interest from December %,
1873, intended to be slcured by said convey
ance, | will,
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The Foreign MiuisIeF'a Opinion o
NeWaDaDerR.

The Foreign GIuIster's Opinion of
Newspapers.
Lord Salisbury at the Newspaper Dinner in
LOndon.l
1t is impossible to speak of the
achievements of the race of special
correspondents without marVeling
ut the characteristics, the genius,
and the power which they display.
We have one in this room-and we
have heard him to-night-on whose
pen Europe has hung for months
cheers and when we consider the
difficulties under which those splen-
did productions were made, it is
marvellous that such a combination
OF endurance, of brilliancy, and of
accuracy should have obtained by
conductors of our English press.
On the labors Of the special CORE
spondent it is not necessary for me
to dwell. He seems to be forced to
combine in himself the powers of a
frst-rate steeple chaser with those
Of the most brilliant writer the
most wonderful physical endurance
with the utmost remarkable men
tai vigor. But these qualities are
attained and maintained with great
strain. They can only be sustained
by natures of the strongest fiber
and with intellectual powers in the
highest state of efficiency. The
fascinations of the newspaper press
are very great. 1t requires no capi-
tai; it requires little training; it has
but one requirement, and that it
requires in large degree-it only
requires brains. But there are no
vested interests to sustain it; there
is no organized profession to reward
it. The work must be done in the
highest state Of efficiency, and at
the greatest cost Of physical and
mental power, and the moment
these qualities decline, the power
of earning money is gone.
1t is, therefore, above all profess
sions, the one which stands in need
of such an institution as this, and
it deserves that you should respond
heartily to the appeal which from
time to time is made to you from
this chair. The rewards Of the pro-
fession are great, the power which
it exercises is wonderful, but it has
a dark side to it. The calamities
to which it is liable are, indeed, ex-
ceptional. l know nothing more
distressing than to read, as one
sometimes does, that a man whose
genius, originality, wit aud humor
have fascinated the world, and who
has carried on the battle of life by
the exercise Of these qualities in the
face of increasing disease, and amid
fears that destitution will overtake
his family, has succumbed under
his labors at last. Therefore, my
lords and gentlemen, not only as a
politician, but as a member of a
civilized community, as one who
feels that to the action Of the news
paper press and its efficiency, civil
lizatiOn owes more than TO any
other profession which men pursue,
| ask you to join with me in drink
ing, and to contribute toward Sc
curing " Prosperity to the newspa-
per fund"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19
THE GOLDEN WHEEL
Fortune Teller and Dream Book

Itlearns any one how to tell fortunes, and
gives you true interpretations Of dreams. con-
tains a great many secrets important to every
one, and Is the most complete work Of the
kind ever published. All complete for only
81 (greenbacks). Send your full address
plainly written. with price. TO CHRISTIAN
MILLER, 60 East Sixth ST., Cincinnati, 0.
S2-dkw 1861
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19
On Saturday. July 1s. 1873.

the tract Of land mentioned in the pIeadines
and decree, lying in Shelby county, Tennes-
see, containg. 50 acres more or less, and known
and described as the east half of lot No. Of
section l. township /, range 9 west, and being
the same lot conveyed in the mortgage exc
euted TO complainant, D. v. Bynum, BY de =
1871. ~
Terms Of Sale-Said land will be sold upon
credit Of seven "a and twelve Q9 months,
purchaser executing notes with approved per.
sonal security for the purchase money, and a
hen retained on the land until said notes are
paid Equity Of redemption barred,
June IL, 1878
JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
VANCE K ANDERSON, Soils. 40 1l6
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JUHN IT. IhEEMAN, UIerk.
VANCE q ANDERSON. Soils eQ 1lf
In Supreme Court at Jackson.

L. i. Lanier ct al. VS.. NJ. l.. Bell ct al.
pY virtue Of the decree pronounced in this
- cause By the Supreme Court of Tennessee
at Jackson, April 3. 1878, / will offer lor sale
to the highest bidder, in front of the court
house OF Shelby county, in the city Of Mem
phia
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19
On Tuesday, July 2, 1873,

in legal hours, in front Of tho Court-houss.
Memphis, Tennessee. proceed TO sell, 10 the
highest bidder, ior cash, tho following do
scribed property, to-wit;
Situate In the county Of Shelby, State Of
Tennessee, and known as lot No. S, block 56.
Of POlk's subdivision. on the south side OK
Georgia street 5Cxl70 iCet.
Levied on as the property Of defoudants a
interest and costs.
Memphis, 5th day Of June, 1873.
=, -, Q, \. ANDERSON.
Sheriff Of Shelby coanty, Tenn.
ByR. ID. CANNON, ID. s.
wilson X Beard, Attorneys for plainufe.
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Attachment NOtIca.

Before Thos. Fleming, Justice OF the Peoee
for Shelby County, 1enn.-ApBless Ford VS..
John Smith.
IN his CAUSE AN ATTACHMENT HAV-
1 inV Teen sued out under section 3455 of the
Qodo Of tennessee, and returned levied upon
the property Of the defendant by garnish-
ment on N. i. Ingram, who answers that he
has In his possession one COW belonging to
John Smith. defendant. and affidavit having
been mado that the defendant is indebted to
the plaintiff in the sum of S25, duo
by account, and that the claim is lust, and
that defendant is a nonresident Of the State
of Tennessee it is therefore ordered that
said defendant make his porsonal sppear-
ance before me on the Sth day OF July,
1878, al my office, No. 80 Madison street.
Memphis. Tennessee. and defend said
attachment suit within the time pre-
scribed by law, or the same will be proceeded
with OK parte; and that a copy Of this order bo
published once a week for four consecutive
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 81 day of June. 1878.
81. .SS-9i-l00 THOS. FLEMING, ,J.P.
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Sheriif's Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIC NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
J. that by virtue of three writs Of yenditioni
expenas to me directed from the Honorable
Circuit Court Of Shelby county Tennessee.
the first in case No. S'02 Ames, Beattio a Co.
VS.. jesse NJ. Tate and b. G.. Tate. stayor,
judgement 18th of January, 1877, for sS5. .6i
debt and ell. so costs; the second Ia case No.
1904, Venahle \ Rawlings VS.. Jesse M. Tate
and B. Tate, stayor. Judgment 18th Of jan
uary, 1878, for sS2.2O debt and sll.13 cests /;
and the third in case No, 1906, Jos. Tagg vs.
ment Sth OF January, 1877, for S3l 65 debt an d
sll rs costs, together with interest and further
costs, to satisfy said judgments, etc., l will
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19

Invested judiciously in Stocks (Options or
Privilegesj, is a sure road TO rapid fortune.
Full details and Official Stock Exchange Re-
CO.. Bankers. S6 Wal street, Now York.
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LEGAL.
In Supreme Court Of Tennes.
see at Jackson.

W. L. Beat. for use of the Insurance Com
pany Of the Valley Of Virginia VS.. Geo. ~ 4.
L. Crook, Jane d. Crook ct al.
RY virtue Of the decree pronounced by the
- Supreme Court of Tennessee at Jackson,
April 3, lS7S in this cause. will offer for sale
TO the highest bidder, In front OF the COURT
house Of Shelby county, in the c ~ Of Mem
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-06-19

DIV. Bynum VS.. W. o. Searcy.
pY virtue Of the decree pronounced by the
ID Supreme Court of Tennessee at Jackson.
in this cause, April 8, 1873, l will offer for
sale TO the highest bidder, in front Of the
courthouse Of Shelby county, in the city Of
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WEEKLY
LEDGER.
S1.OO.
S1.OO.
The Cheapest and Best News
Medium in the South.

TT is ENTERPRISING. FEARLESS. RE.
liable and newsy, and the peer of any weekly
newspaper published in West Tennessee. con-
tanning all local events Of Importance in the
city of Memphis and Shelby county. No
labor or expense will be spared to maintain it
in every department at the highest possible
standard, and to commend it in al! respects
to the confidence and approval of the best
classes in the surrounding country, being
strictly
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PIAN0B'GsSS1atiif1o od!, GGSpcsTt IS 6STa9dOReAN
$40. $40. $50. S1OO,

81 A day TO agents eanvatsing for the Fire
q side Visitor. Terms and outfit free. Ad-
dress P. D. VTOKERY, Augusta. Maine.
National Republican., 1878-01-03
Personal.

GUsTAvE CoURBET, the Paris artist, is dead.
FRANZ LrsZT will spend the winter in Buda-
pest.
THE latest thing in ladies' shoes-ladies
feet
ANNA DICKINSON is sojourning in Edin-
burgh.
WHITTIER was for four years Philadelphia
editor.
LoTTA's recent tour has proven great nnan-
cal success
THE death of Judge Peck, of Portsmouth,
Ohio is announced.
PROF. CHILDs, of the Hartford Theological
Seminary, has resigned
JOSEPH MURPHY is playing Kerry Cow and
Maum Gre in Chicago.
IIENRY W. SHAW Josh Billings lcctured at
Detroit saturday night.
CHARLOTTE THOMPSON has Joined James II
WallaCk's combination as the star.
HoN. W. S. MOORE, of Washington, Pa, died
at his residence, on sunday afternoon.
SIGNoR CELADA, the tenor, failed to please a
London audience at Her Majesty's Theatre.
ALICE KINGsBURY, the actress is about to
publish book Of her theatrical experience.
THE Russian Minister to Japan, NJ. Destruve,
has gone home on short leave of absence.
JULES ARMAND DUFAURE, head of the new
GILMORE, of brass-band fame, says that
America is 100 years behind Europe in music.
Mrs. VAN BUREN, daughter-in-la of Presi-
dent Van Buren,, died in New York on Satur-
day.
UNLIKE all the rest of VictOria's married
daughters, the MarchiOncss of LOrnc is child
less.
Henry WATTERsoN stigmatizcs William +.
Chandlcr's reference to him as malicious and
false.
Mr.. WILLIAM s. STOKLEY has been iuaug-
uratcd, for the third time, Mayor Of Philadcl-
pima.
District ATTORNEY WELLS has sufficiently
recovered to enable him to resume his official
duties.
HARRY MEREDITH and Mckee Rankin, the
actors had fist fight in Philadelphia on Sat.
urday.
/ Miss WEiTIERHoG, of Kingsey Falls, Quo
bee, has just got rid of her name ia the ordi
mary way.
MARY KYLE DALLAS, the story writer, has
brcu made principal of public school at Mi
anus, Conn.
Mr. J, W IrIrF, the cattle king of Colorado
hu, been yrIy sick with fever in Denver bu
is recovering.
AulRUNDA,E MURRAY and Joseph Cool
were uw-tudunts at Yale where they stOUl
low in scholarship.
TIM Legislature met in Annapolis Januar,
2. Hon. Montgomery Blair is member Of tn,
House Of Delegates,
NJ, BARruOLDI, once French Minister a
Washington has been sent us plenipOtcntiar!
to the Netherlands.
QUEEN VICTORIA, during her. recent visit h
Dsracli, planted a tree at Hughenden ManO
to commemorate her visit.
Miss MARILLA KICKER, who is fighting +
be made n notary public in this city, is u Nev
Hampshire woman, stately and majestic, witt
National Republican., 1878-01-03
Dcmocrntic Reduction.

1t is announced in Democratic circles that
on the rcasscmbIng of Congress, Mr. j.
RANDoLrH TUCKER, of Virginia, will make
u strong effort to have the tax on tl& two
great Democratic institutions of the country.
whisky and tobacco, reduced Onc-third
This reduction would fix the tax on whisky
II sixty cents Tsr gallon, and at sixteen
cents per pound on tobacco. Mr. TICKER
takes the ground that producers Of tobacco
who sell TO manufacturers would get {,
higher pric, for their goods if the tan WAS
lower than il now is, because the cGn.urup-
tiOn would hr corr'-pondingly increased.
1t is said that the Treasury Department
will strongly oppos" this reduction ~ uu-
wise and unjust and cAprcss the belief that
it cannot pass. And why should it? The
people are in no dcgrrcc bcncfttrd by the
production and consumption of either, and
an inCrcNs" rather than II decrease on lI.,,
articles would be more consistent with IT,,
public interest. But the Democrats always
did cling with great tcnacity 10 their ptcu,
liar institutions, and hence this movement
10 relieve the party Of this tax, which bear
sOmcwha heavily upon its resources.
National Republican., 1878-01-03
Political Parties in virginia.

Political parties in Virgin Il this time
are in chaotic condition. Inc dishonesty
oi large majority of the Democracy, who
have ever since the war Haunted the flag of
so-called conservatism, in their efforts to
avoid the payment q State debt justly in
Cured, has had the one salutary effect of
rending the party into img Ients that are
hOpclessly iTrecOncilablc. With II numerical
strength four years ago Of 25,OOO in advance
of their opponents a majority Purchased by
the most rrprehensible methods, that are
RLPrBLICAN, a confidence was created on
their part Of their ability TO proceed TO eN-
trrmtirs in the advocacy Of schemes that
had hitherto, for the sake of policy, been
permitted to remain in allegiance Hence,
when they conceived Themselves invinCihle
by reason Of having as they va,nly hoped
Oycrw hchnngly Oyrrtmown the Rcpubli-
can Ih,y throw on the hypo"riti"al dis
/ ru,-r lh,y Lad assumed for Tie bIscsI pur-
poscs n,d ,hihit lh,ir true culors III clam
og.ng tor ID rrpUdinti"n of n debt, which
thIns. h,, a,ono had lcgitimat"ly contract
w 'hl ''li''''l ipl p''i l'''o'i lIl' ll'l
in,proycmint without which they would
have 'ccn ,phted from the markets of tho
world, amt Iuokiug TO their reprchensible
purhu,r. h.', ,h,nIa Legislature in accord
with thou ii"
In order tu .' readers may have cor
rect aVpr,c. the condition Of politi-
cal r dc ,n 4 rginia, il is necessary to
state tnat the pcr.orgatic LcgisIature-for
the Re,mhlrims hav, six members in
both Houses isdiNiU, no les than fDur
factions on thcdcbt question, now paramount
to all others in the State, and, il may be
added, each Hs bitterly hostile to the Other
as it is possible for parties to be, First
there is n small but respectfully constituted
element who are honest enough to acknowl
edge their just obligations and make hope