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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27
SPECIAL NOTICE.
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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

This is the way one Of the ladies who
belong to the Atlautic's Contributors
Club remembers things: General For.
rest was buried the day my new hat came
home. Hayes was insugurated the
spring l made wei my old silk. Dick
ems died when Jennis was a baby. Lin.
coin was killed when Mary was creeping.
The civil war broke out when Ssllie was
cutting her teeth. The king of Spain
was born the year was married"
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BREADsTUFFs.

One Of the greatest pedestrian feats on
record was accomplished in this city yes
terday. An old topper passed a saloon
without walking in. -CPhilsdelphia
Chronicle. Not so great after all, when
it is explained that the old topper walked
around and sneaked in the back way.
The front door was locked. -[Norristown
Hernld.
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For chancellor.

GEO W. WINCHESTER is a candid ate for
Chancellor, Of the Chancery Court of Shelby
the action Of the Democratic and C0nserva-
tive Convention.
r. VANCE as a candidate for Chancellor of
Shelby county at toe August election.
T. B. MICOU is a candidate for Chancellor
of Shelby county at the ensuing August cleo
tion, subjeott 60 nomination by the Demscratic-
Conservative convention.
l HEREBY announce myself a candidate
for Chancellor of the Chancery Court Of Shell
BY county, at the next August election.
2lte W. p. WILSON.
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Indication.

WASHINGTON, April 27.-For Tennes.
see and Ohio valley, the upper lakes and
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, rising, followed by falling baron.
eter, northwest, followed By warmer
southwest winds, partly cloudy weather
and numerous light rains.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

The Bolivar Bulletin, of this week,
says:
This able jurist will be warmly sup.
ported by bis numerous Hardeman coun,
~ friends for reelection to the Supreme
Judiciary of the State. This distin.
guished son of HardemSn is one Of the
ablest and purest lawyers in the State
aud withal a close and patient student.
He has been on the bench for years, and
his uniform urbauity and legal attain.
ments have won for him a high distinc
ton among men.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27
Aus,ra,tan Criskot Team

SAN FRAYCIsCo. April 27.-By steamer
City of Sydney arrived the Australian
Cricket Team, en- route to England. The
following are the members: I. Hsran,
W. c. Gibbs, II. Boyle, G. BAnnerman,
A. Babnerman. w. 7. Murdoch, F, Spot
ford, I. Allen, G. Bailey, j. Blackham,
L. CARAT, A. Condale and D. Gregory.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

Intelligent Patriotism-Pas's Friend:
SO you mean to sell the old horse after
all, Pat2' Pat: well, We see, wan owes
a dOoty to vans country and as they're
buyin' up all spirited animals for the
war, it's Lot for the loikes o me to hold
out. Besoides. it's a little money | want
to buy him fodther. "-[Funuy Folks.
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bankruptcy.

BosToy, April 27.-The creditors Of
Nathan Matthews who, in 1870, was
worth from six to seven millions, have
petitioned him into bankruptcy. Mat.
thews was an extensive operator in real
estate, aud his failure is due principally
to the enormous shrinkage in that class
Of property.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

THOMAS H. LOCKWOOD is a candidate (for
re-electicn) for Judge of the Criminal Court
Of Shelby county, at the ensuing August cleo
ton, 1878; subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic conservative Convention.
J. NJ. GREER announces himself a candi-
date for the office Of Criminal Court Judge Of
Shelby county, subject to the action of the
Democratic conservative Convention. 27te
I am a candidate for Judge of the Criminal
Court of Shelby county.
19te p. 7. SCRUGGS.
LELAND LEATHERAAN is a candidate
for Judge Of the Criminal Court of Shelby
cyunty. Election next August. l54te
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

The recent and successive rains have
damaged the strawberry crop to a large
amount. 1t is estimated that the dam.
age to the strawberry crop in the Bartlett
neighborhood amounts to $4,000. Yes.
terday only seventy-seven crates, equal
to 49, quarts, we're shipped from Bartlett.
AT this season, compared with the trade
Of last year, the shipments should have
been 600 crates, equal to 24OO quarts Of
strawberries.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27
Friday, May 81, 1878,

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 is
know as Howard's Row, and being lot No, 13.
Of block No. 10. said lot fronting twenty. Eve
feet, more or less, on the south line of How
ards Row, and running back southwardly
between parallel lines one hundred feet to an
alley, and being the same lot conveyed by q.
dated September %, 1874, and recorded in
the Register office Of Shelby county, Tenn,
in Book No. g, page 2s8.
The equity Of redemption is waived, and the
title Is, believed to BIO good, but l sell and con-
yey only as Trustee.
1919 Z. r. FARNSWARTH Trn,inn
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For Att6rney-GeneFaI at CTI1;16a,
OOnRH

EDWARD L. BELCBER announces himself
as q candidate for the Office Of Attorney Gen.
eral Of the Criminal Court of Shelby county
at Memphis, but subject 10 the action Of the
Demooratio-O Conservative Convention.
g, W. GORDON is a candidate for tho Office
% attorney General Of tho Criminal Court of
shelby county at Memphis. subject to the
nomination Of the Democratic and Consorv-
ative convention. l5to
J, A. ANDERSON announces himself a can
didato FOR Atterney-0onora Of the Criminal
Court, subject to the Democratic and Consery-
atlye convention. l48te
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FOR CircuIt Court CIerE.

DABNEY NJ. SCALES announces himself a
candidate for Clerk of the Circuit Court of
Shelby county at the August election. subject
to the action of the Democratic CO. servative
convention. Este
j.. s. GALLOWAY is q candidate for Clerk
Of the Circuit Court at the ensuing August
election, subject 10 The action Of the Demo-
cratic and Conservative Convention. lite
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

DANIEL G.. SHELBY present Deputy
Clerkl, is a candidate for Clerk of the Bartlett
Circuit Court, at the ensuing August election,
subject to the action Of the Democratic-C Con-
sentative Convention.
FELIX NJ. JONES is a candidate for Clerk
OF the Bartlett Circuit Court. subject to the
nomination Of the Democratic Convention.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27
A Confenned Murderor.

New YoRK, April ia dispatch
from Norfolk, Va, say that ]. B. Weeks,
keeper Of q drinking saloon, just before
his death a few days ago confessed TO the
murder and robbery Of five persons.
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T"ELEGRAPHIC MARKETS.
STOCKS n BONDS.

LONDON, April u, 2 pm. - Consola
for money, 81 1916; on account, -;
United States 6ve.twenties of 1867, 1888;
United States ten-forties, 1914; United
States new four-and-a-halfs, l044; United
States new 6ves, 1865
NEw York, April q, 1850 M
United States skies of 1881, registered,
lo7s@lO7s;iUnited States skies Of 1881,
coupons, - @l073; fve-twenties of '65,
registered, new issue, lO4@lO4l; five
twenties of 1867, lO7@lO75; fve.twen.
ties of SO, CLIO; t%en.forties, lO52@
1917; coupons, = @lO52; fves Of 1881,
= @lO3si coupons, lO5B@lO53; cur.
rency skies, llS4@ll94; new tours, 1909
@lOOs; coupons, - @l9Of; new four
and-a-halfs. lO3t@lO3f.
BREADsTUFFs.
LIVERPOOL, April q -Wheat win.
ter, lis 3d@lls Cd; Milwaukee red, lOsOd
@lOs lOd; California white, lis ADO
lis Sd; California club, lis 6d@l2s 4d.
Corn, new, 26sOd@26s Sd; old, 27s 3d@
27s 90. Pork, AIS Cd. Beef, sOs Cd.
Bacon, long clear, 26s Cd; short clear,
27s Cd. Lard, 36s Sd. Tallow, 99s Cd.
Flour, 26s 0d@26s Sd.
CHICAGO, April q, u:OO am. =
Wheat, forMAy, ll3s bid; June, 1921 bid.
Corn, for May, All; June, AT. Receipts
Flour, 1890; wheat, 52,365; cora, l46,.
622. Shipments-Flour, 772s; wheat,
Sc, III; corn, 237, 508.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

The Chattanooga Times reports COL
Colyar as saying. when interviewed the
other day, that he had made up bis
mind thet so far as he was concerned
tue action Of the Democratic State con
vsntion," as to the question of the State
debt and the nomination OF a guberna
torial candidate, would be conclusive. 4"
This is rather a surprise, coming from q
man who has generally acted iudepeud.
emily OF conventions.
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Administrators Notice.

EIIERS Of administra ion were granted
II TO me upon the estate of &. W, ViRus, de-
ceased, on the 18th Of March, 1878 Creditors
ana debtors will take notice and act accord
lngly This 2Sd of April, 1873.
4.53 SO 65 WILLIE Lon VIGIIS.
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For Criminal Court Clerk.

N. @. PERKINS is a candidate for Criminal
Court Clerk of Shelby county at the election in
August, subject to the action of the Demo-
cratic and Conservative Convention.
A. @. HARRIS is a candidate for Criminal
Court Clerk at the ensuing August election.
IA-fa
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LIVER TONIC.
oLUT
NOTICE,

THE FIRM OF LANE Il CLARK, ROOF
i Painters, is this day dissolved by mutual
consent. The new firm of CHAS. II. LANE
d co. will continue the business, to whom all
debts must be paid; April q. 1878: 5Ot
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

E0R POSTERS, SHOW BILLS, CARDS
8 Circulars, etc., soften up with the latest
desired color. 60 to the Ledger ofico.and or.
emine ntook.snd prices,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

The Upton Record of this week de.
votes q column or more for the purpose
Of dsmolishing Colonel John h, Savage.
II is time for the bigh.tax orgsns TO
commence the old familiar chorus Of
Ieppdiation,
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ANNoUHoE
Fnr C0nn1x Trnnfen.

We are authorized tn announce j.. j. RAW
LINGS as a candidate for reelection to the
Office Of County Trustee at the August cleo
ton. subject to the Democratic and ConserVa-
tive Convention.
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LEGAL.
Trustees sale.

PY VIRTUE Of a deed in trust executed to
~ me on the oath day Of February, 1874, By
John 7. and Mary q. Hillsman, and recorded
10 the Registers otice of Shelby county,
Tenn, in Book No. 100, page 298, / will ON
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For Sheriff.

G. L. ANDERSON is a candidate for re-
election to the Office Of Sheriff, subject to tho
aetisn Of the Convention of the Democratic
and Conservative party Of Shelby county.
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REMOVAL.


GTURM & HIRSH have removed TO
d NO. 29l MAIN STREET,
50-55 Southwest corner of Madison 81
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The subscription price Of the PUB
LIC LEDGER is IS per Onnum for
he Daily, and 50 per Snnam for the
Reekly-Postdge free.
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Ror Olerk or Coun,r Conr1

r. j. BLACK is a candidate for Clerk oftbs
County Court at the ensuing August election
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

FINDER and by virtue of the trust deed
~ made by l., Podesta, bearing date the
10 b day Of April, 1874. and reccrderedi in Book
no. lOl, page 1872, of the Registers Office of
Shelby county, Tennessee. TO secure a certain
indebtedness therein specified, which is past
due aud unpaid, at the request Of the bened-
clary in said deed named, l will, on Thurs.
day, the l6tD Iay of May, 1873,
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, wherein A.. M. Ferguson re-
sided; running thence south with DeSoto
sttcet forty. seven and one-half feet; thence
westwardly and parallel with Beal street one
hundred and ninety feet TO 8 stake on an
alley; thence northwardly with said alley
forty-seven and a half feet TO a stake on said
alley; thence eastwardly with the alley one
hundred and ninety-nino feet to the begin
ping, being the same conveyed by j. r. Sesen-
berry to a.. Podesta, by deed registered in the
Registers office Of Shelby county in Book No.
y, page 4g7. to which reference is made for a
full description.
Equity OF redemption waived. Title be-
lieved to be perfect, but l will sell only as
Trustee. A. RAGGIO. Trustea
Memphis, April %. 1873. 1857
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Trustee Sale.

IN pursuance Of a trust deed made to me
i October 6, 1876. and duly recorded, | will.
on May ii, 1873, between 10 and IL o'clock.
in front Of my office. No. IS Maiison street
Memphis, for the purposes in said trust deed
expressed. sell to the highest bidder for cash,
Tennessee. fronting on the north side Of the
Momphis and Raleigh Plank Road, 5 chains
~ links, running back northward Is chains
65 links bounded west by lot now or lately
claimed by Hugh Mott, and east by lot belong
Wm, f. Hardin, and south by said Plank
Road. r.. s. HAMMOND. Trustee'
CHARLES k0RTRECHT, Atty. 81 60
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For COuntv RenIster.
FOr clerk OF Baruett CIrcoit Cour,.

CHAs. A. BEEHN is a candidate for County
Register at the ensuing August election, 1873.
Sta
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1878-04-27

Mr.. F S.. Davis and wife have returned
from a pleasant "trip to New Orleans.
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LEDGER
orEICK-No. Is MADrDoS sTlHuT.

Mz~MP MISS
saturday Evening, April ~, ISIS.
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J. A. SIMMONS,
No. 20 Madison St.,
MEMPHIS : TENNESSEE

Represents Following Insurance
COmpantess
Atna. of Hartford. ssets-........S .OS7. 9W 90
Phoenix, of Hartford, assets......... 2,4O7. 5yl 90
Insurance Company Of North
America, Phila Ielphia. assets. s,sOl, 8Ss IS
Royal Insurance Company, Liv-
erpool, asseti."..... .......,........ Il, 900, 900 90
Mercantile Mutual (Marine) Insu-
rance Company, Of New York,
asSetS...... .................. ................. l,OO0.0 600 90
36
National Republican., 1878-04-13

efficacy of the silver measure in bringing
the country back 10 the paths Of business
health and prosperity. This consummation,
30 long desired, must teach those who
placed themselves in the way Of silver re-
monetization how mistaken and unwise
they were in their hostility, and how they
have shorn themselves df a share in the
honor of resumption under these influences,
that they otherwise would have enjoyed.
The administration of the Government
has been in the hands Of the Republican
party since 1861. In the meantime it has
saved the Union from overthrow by armed
rebellion. This necessarily involved q
heavy debt That debt has been funded in
our bonds-frst at 9 per cent, then 8, then
~, and now at 4 per cent Under Repub.
lican policy this debt has been gradually
reduced, both in principal and interest, un-
til 1t has ceased to be burdensome; and
now, after q suspension Of specie pay
ments for some sixteen years, the same
party which saved the nation from over
throw has brought 1t back to specie pay
ments by steady adherence to the princi-
pies Of loyalty and justice. No party ever
had a prouder record, and the loyal people
of the nation will delight to honor it with
future confidence for its sterling fidelity to
its welfare in the midst of the most serious
peril and embarrassment
National Republican., 1878-04-13
coNFEpERArE SYMPATHY.

On the 1st instant Mr.. CUMMINGS, Of
Iowa, offered motion in the House that
the rules be suspended in order to take up
and pass the arrears bill for pensions, which
measure passed the last House without
especial opposition. II has never been
openly contested, but on the contrary, has
been universally admitted as an act Of JUS
ticc toward the pensioners of the country
who are the victims of an unwise and un-
constitutional enactment. To suspend the
rules requires two-thirds vote, and II
would have carried had not the sectional
feeling of our Southern brethren prevented.
By reference to the vote we find that the
opposition. to Yankee pensioners is con-
denscd in the late Confederacy and resulted
as follows: Ten Confederate brigadier-
generals eight Confederate colonels, one
Confederate lieutenant-colonel, three Con.
federate majors, five Confederate captains
five Confederates in service, rank not stated
one Confederate Postmaster-G General, five
Confederate Congressman, several Confeder.
ates of seeding State conventions, one
chairman of National Democratic Commit.
tee, and few Northern Confederate sym.
pathizers.
We have no doubt of the intention Of
the House to pass the bill, and, though il
should be done rs a matter Of justice, yet il
will be the endeavor to make 1t availabl,
for party capital to the Democracy as here.
tofore but this exposition of the vote will
serve to show Yankee pensioners what they
can expect when these Confederates secur,
the power, II, unfortunately for the country
they should succeed in obtaining it. The,
are now making their love for the old Con
federacy and hatred for the Union mor'
manifest, and we trust the passage OF
the soldiers bills by the House at the las
end of the session will not further blind tn,
soldiers or pensioners as to the party il
which they can only place reliance.
National Republican., 1878-04-13
RESUMPTION APPROACHING.

1t is now intimated that the Secretary OF
the Treasury has decided to enter upon
practical resumption on the first of October
next by receiving greenbacks at par for Gus
toms dues. The effecting of sale ol
S5O,OOO,0OO of 4! per cents. for gold puts the
Treasury in a fortified condition against the
event of resumption, and renders itas nearly
an accomplished fact as is possible before
the day named in the law. This is good
news for the country, and will DO hailed
with delight in all business circles.
Pending the consideration Of the measure
of remonetizing silver, The NATIONAL RE-
PUBLICAN predicted this as the inevitable
result of the success of that measure The
back of gold speculation was broken when
the remonetizing Of silver was authorized
by law Silver has been but meagerly
coined, and yet gold has gradually recedea
in value until there is but . shadow Of pre-
MUM left and that shadow will soon dis
appear.
This bare fact shows the wisdom and the
National Republican., 1878-04-13

Boss TWEED is dead. There are few men
who have filed public positions in this
country whose death would attract so much
comment as will follow frOm this simple
announcement. The best that can be said
of him is that he was warm and devoted
friend-a characteristic that compensates
for many bad qualities. Any other eulogy
is out of place. His misdemeanors were so
colossal and bold rs to command an aston
ishment akin to admiration; but justice
and due regard for the preservation Of
public virtue demands, even now that he
has passed from mortal censure, that his
crimes should not he forgotten. To praise
him would be to incite emulation Of them.
To make hero of him, would be to
oyershadow the warning example of
certain punishment which follows a
career of corruption. A prince in
politics, in extravaganza. in charity, and
in official misdemeanor, he became fugi-
tive from his country, an execration in the
minds Of his countrymen, poor, broken
down, old man in prison, and died in a
felon's cell. This is the lesson, and the
only lesson, that his life should be allowed
| IN taarh
National Republican., 1878-04-13
BOGUS INFRINGEMENT,

The economical fever of the House of
Representatives reminds one Of the fable Of
the farmer asking advice of his neighbor on
the ox-goring law, which had its reply
changed rs to liability when it was found
whose bovine had done the horning. Here
are few figures which do not lie, for our
friends to make note of for the coming
campaign, so that they can truthfully pre-
sent to their constituents "the ways that
"are dark and tricks that are vain" for which
the Democratic party, like BRET HARTE's
heather Chinee," is peculiar. We take at
random few nuts to crack from the legis-
lative, executive, and judicial appropriation
bill as reported by the House. In the ex-
penses of the Senate every item is cut down
when compared with the appropriations of
last year. The salary of the secretary, now
81, 500, is reduced to $4,000. The hire of
horses and wagons for the secretary's Office
for the current year is 81 200 but is reduced
to 5000 The salaries of the principal execu-
tive and minute clerks, now 81 ,592 each, il
WAS proposed by the Democratic House to
reduce to $2,500. There are other radical
sweeping reductions in the way Of abolish
ing necessary clerkships of committees OF
the Senate. The number of Senate pages
proposed to be permitted hereafter is ten
fourteen constitutes the present force. The
appropriation for hire of horses and mail
wagons is scaled down $4,000; folding doc
uments, 81, 900; and so we could go on with
| -, to III
penses When the appropriations for the
House are looked into, almost invariably an
increase is found in every item. For exam.
ple, the salaries of all the officers, clerks
messengers, including, of course, that of ths
immaculate Doorkeeper, remain untouched.
In two instances salaries Of clerks are in.
creased assistant clerks for the Ways and
Means and Committee on Appropriations
are provided for. The contingent expenses
unlike those of the Senate, are enlarged, OF
which the following are some instances
Packing boxes, $4,000 to S2,7ls; miscclla
neous items-and we all know thi,
means little leeway for Polkisn
or Fitzhughism, hereafter to be known
as Fieldism-from $50, 900 to $4,000; post
age stamps for each officer, from $500 Il
$6OO-a very convenient source of increase
pages for the floor of the House, from So ,5O(
to 4,7OO-anOthcr nice little plum tC
pluck, The same method is followed il
cutting down the expenses of the Executiv,
Mansion, the State Department, &c. Whel
the grand total is summed up reduction
of the aggregate expenditures is shown, but
an examination of the details in the direc
tion we have suggested shows that the cut
ting down has been solely in the Depart,
ments where the Republicans have control
and that in the House, where tho patron
age is in the hands of the Democrats, thu
emoluments and perquisites are enlarged
This is a very pretty record In the interes
of retrenclrnent and reform. tall depends
on whose OK does the goring Let Oul
friends who are to do the active campaign
ing this season put this in their pipe fo
smoking Like Captain CurTLE, they shoulf
make note oft