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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-03-26

Before John 7. Elliott, ]. P. for Shelby conn.
Y, Tenn.-J.J. Lovin VS.. j. A. Powers.
N this cause an attachment having been
4 sued out under section 1856 Of the Code ~
tennessee, and returned "leyied upon the
having been made that the defendant IL in
debted to the plaintiff in the sum of s32, due
by account, and that the claim is lust, and
mat the defendant is a nonresident Of the
state Of Tennessee; II is therefore ordered that
SAD defendant make his personal appearance
before me on the 18th day of April, 1879.
a. my office, No. 313 Second street, Mempbis
Tennessee, and defend said attachment suit
within the time prescribed by law, or the same
will be proceeded with ex-parte: and that a
copy Of this order be published once a week
Tor four weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 10th day Of March, 1879.
9-l5-2l-N JOHN 7, ELLIOTT. I p
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A WOMAN JOCKEY.
Sent for to Ride Horses that Men Would
not Dare to Mount.

Chicago Times.l
Ina certain London boarding house,
not far from Regents Park, the guest
who comes in late at night will some
times see a side saddle lying on the
floor in the lower hall. Usually it has
disappeared before he is down in the
morning. If not, a finely formed,
healthy young English woman will be
one Of the Anglo American company
that gathers at the breakfast table.
She is its owner.
The clearinghouse is her home.
Riding horses at races and sales is her
occupation. An orphan of respectable
parentage, obliged to support herself.
the avenues to a livelihood that opened
before such a young girl as she, in the
crowded, elbowing life Of England,
where few and unprOmising. She had
an English wOman's love Of animals
and outdoor occupations. And she
had dauntless, magnificent physical
courage. So she drifted into this
strange life.
She finds employment from one end
of England to the other. One morn
ing she is off by cab, her saddle beside
her, for a horse market in the east of
London. The next, perhaps, she is
hurrying from her early breakfast to
take the train at Kings Cross for
D~oncaster. There is no horse so
vicious hat she hesitates to mount
him, He may fall with her; he cannot
throw her.
She is sent for to ride horses that
men dare not or will not horses that
have killed their riders more than
once, and hal will do their best ia
kill her. But she has a reputation
that, for breads sake and shelter
sake, she cannot afford to lose, and she
never declines to mount a horse be-
cause it is dangerous to do so. One
night she comes home bruised and
weak-her horse fell on her to-day.
Another, her face Pushes with salts
faction as she tells her kind friend,
the landlady, that her horse won the
race.
Often she does not eat a mouthful
from her early breakfast, before the
rest of the house are up, until her
days work is done. Success depends
on her being able to command every
particle of nervous force she pos
sesses; she can spare none of it for
the process of digestion. She is intel
ligent and womanly-just as womanly
as if her work kept her in an office OF
behind a counter, instead of among
stable keepers, jockeys and sporting
men.
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roads for al points East aud West.
Captain Garrett Hulse, a genial and
clever gentleman, is her purser.
The City Of Helena, Captain Nc
kee, Of the Anchor Line, will leave
the company's w~harfboat, foot of
Monroe street, tomorrow morning at
10 o'clock for Vicksburg, doing all way
business and making direct connec
ton at Vioksburg with the New Or
leans packets and the Parisott Line of
packets for all points on Yazoo river.
George Walton presides at the desk.
The Commonwealth, Of the Anchor
Line, passed down at noon to-day for
New Orleans with a splendid trip.
She discharged here at the Anchor
Line wharfboat 1400 bbls -four, 200
bbls meal, 100 SKIS bran, 90 SKIS oats,
Alb bales hay and a few pkgs sundries,
and added $50 tons of oil cake, $50
bales cotton, 100 bbls oil and 1000
bdls of cotton ties.
The upper coast mail packet 0sceola
Belle, came in on time with 142 bales
and ID bags cotton, GEO SKIS seed and
sundries, and also had a good list of
people. She leaves this evening with
a return trip for 0sceola and all way
landings on the upper coast. B. O..
Michel, a clever gentleman, controls
the office, assisted by Cyrus Fay and
Al Speeres, two Of the best fellows in
the world.
The Hard Cash, the reliable and
Independent White river packet, of
the solid species, leaves this evening
for White river, attending to all way
business, and making direct eonnec-
ton at JacksOnport with light draught
steamers for upper White and Black
rivers. Captain Ed Postal, who has
resumed, goes out in command, with
Charley Postal and j. G. Wyckoff.
two of the most accommodating clerks
and clever gentlemen, in charge Of the
office.
The "red tiger Lee Mail Line
packet Coahoma, Capt. Henry Cooper,
brought in this morning 104 bales
Of cotton, 23l sacks Of seed, 1880
shingles and p packages sundries, and
had also a good list Of people. She
returns this evening promptly at 6
o'clock to Friar's Point, carrying the
mail, making all way landings on
schedule time and connecting at Glen
dale with the Mobile and Northwest
ern railroad. Billy Smither, Frank
Ellison and Plat Rhodes, a trio of
clever gentlemen, do the honors of the
office.
Captain Thomas Mehan, who is we'll
known in river circles, fell from the
NOW Of his barn at Kent, Indiana
county, Penn, a few days since and
Fractured his leg. The captain is over
20 years of age, and fears we're enter
tanned of his recovery. But, thanks
to the surgeons skill and the captain S
pluck, he is now considered safe, and
in a short time will be about again.
Captain Mehan was well and favor
ably known on the Southern and
Western rivers in connection with
Captain Thomas Berry. The last
boat they built was the Mary, a cot
ton boat. The following shows the
modesty of both Berry and Mehan
Neither wanted to go captain. A
copper tossed in the air decided which
should not go captain. Here the
trouble commenced. Berry refused
to act. At last a compromise was
made. The bills were made with
Mehan as captain, while Berry agreed
to act in that capacity. That kind o
modesty doesn't prevail to any exten.
at the present day.
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COMMERCIAL.
PpBLIo LEDGER 0FFIOE,
MEMPHIs. March %, 1879.

8AAN @NN JIG ,
The financial situation is quiet here.
Money is in good supply with but lit
lie demand, and rates Of discount
rule easy at 6 to 10per cent, according
to the security offered. Exchange is
steady, checks on New York and
New Orleans selling at par. The
banks are buying bills on New York
and Boston, without grace, at &c, or
$3.50 per $1,000; for sight on Bos-
ton and vicinity 1915 per thousand.
Local securities are looking upward.
Gas bonds are now firm at 92, ex-April
coupons and stock has sold at sc,
with holders firm at 90; county war
rants, 82@8S; fernando Insurance
stock, III; Union and Planters Bank
stock, l05; Bluff City Insurance
stock, III Bank of Tennessee notes,
new issue, 35@4l Mississippi and
Tennessee first mortgage eight per
cents, l16, and second ditto, 80; Pho
nix Insurance stock, 80; Memphis
General Fire and Marine Insurance
stock, s..
The total sales of stocks in New
York last week amounted to S34,937
shares, against 1886 shares for the
preceding week, and l,183, 16S for the
week before that. Tennessee State
bonds sprung into life, and somewhat
higher prices were recorded. Circu-
lars have recently been sent out among
bankers in various parts of the coun-
try in relation to the new United
States refunding per cent. certificates
of the denomination of $40. These
are convertible in sums of $50 with
accrued Interest into 1 per cent. bonds
of the United States. They will be
ready for delivery on and after April /,
at the s%ub-treasury, national banks,
and private bankers who deal in Uni
ted States bonds. On the back of
each note the following, showing how
the interest accrues, will appear For
each nine days, or one-tenth of a
quarter, l cent for each quarter year
10 cents for entire year 40 cents.
Last week was a feverish one in
New York financial circles. Money
exhibited a hardening tendency, and
discount rates were as high as Z per
cent. on mixed co~llaterals, and govern
ment bonds at 3@4 per cent. time
loans we're in urgent demand at 5 to Z
per cent. The stiffness was .aggraya-
ted by the bank suspensions at New
Orleans, and the low state of the
bank reserve, the surplus of the pre-
viOus week being reduced to $3,8H,975
against SIG, ,S25 at the same date
the year before.
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Attachment Notice.

Before j.. NJ. Coleman, J. p. for Shelby
county, Tenn,-Porter, Taylor & Co., a firm
composed of d. I. Porter, VIZ. Taylor and
y. W. Macrea, VS.. Remhort Trezeyant'
N this cause an attachment having been
4 sued out under section S455 of The 1odeof
tennessee, and returned, "leyied mon M
property Of the defendant " and afidaviabay-
ing been made that defendant Is iafsbisd
to the plaintiff IN the sum Of 81 Sue
by, note, and that the claim Is iDst.
aHd nat the defendant is. a nonresident
Of the State Of Tennessee; ii Is Therefore or
dered that said defendant make bis nersonaI
appearance before me on the 18th dSy Of Aprii.
ISls, at 10 o'clock a, ma at my office, No. M
adont street, memphis, Tenn, and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed nv
law or the same will DO proceeded with ok,
Partei and that a copy of this order be- n1h-
lie Ledger. 'no uo
This the 18th day Of March, 1879.
}. NJ. COLEMAN, j.. P.
u1723g F'"i"'ins'
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Before j.. NJ. Coleman, j.. P. s,r 81 ~
count Tenn. benjamin Babb VS.. RS,nbsryy
n this cause an attachment b.vino boou
feS snsS out under section Sl55 ri the Code V or
property of the defendant" s{iea upon the
, M Ieen made that the dsfendant Is indebtsd
y Ine plaintiff in me sum of $50 d9e
that the d iaS ltSSt Che claim is just, and
state Of Te9}Eessoe; ii is Therefore or 0dI . ras
S sncs sbiJ defendant make his personal appear.
1sS hsSTe me on the nth day Of Aprii.
Fran . cI9ek am, at my Office, No. 2ei
fsron' sHeet Memphis, Tennessee, and de-
isna ssl9 attachment suit within the time
pIesclleeg oy law, or the same will be pro-
tSSHea WIN exjharte and that a COPY of
snls order be published once a week Tor fonr
weeks In the Public Ledger. iour
ms the 18th day Of March, 1879.
s,,-u I'M. COLEMAN, j. P.
IL AVA P4ainVln'
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General Trade.

Business both in a wholesale and
iobbing way continues active. During
the past three days upwards of 5000
barrels -four, 5000 barrels of meal,
1000 sacks of corn, 1000 sacks oats,
100 bales of hay and other articles of
the same character have arrived and
found ready sale,
FLOUR Demand active, running
largely on low and medium grades Vest
ern Is quoted as follows; X, So Is; Xxx,
81 2; xxx, 81 1905 fancy, S. 500
g q.
CORNMEAL-SteOdy at 50 02N@2 10
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dismembered without the faintest
sound reaching me There may have
been cries aud screams aud tho sob,
blngs of ~unuttersble physical anguish.
Ii there were, my senses were too
gross to perceive them. / could see
limb torn from limb. l could watch
the body Of some miserable prisoner
lengthening under the awful strain, as
two hands Of its captors tugged it in
two. Then it snapped asunder, and
Its blood-thirsty assailants captured
another foe
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAT.

BOATS LEAVING THIS DAT.
Friar's Point, Coahoma.-................ ...5 pm
y. %ceoala, 0sceola Belle. ......................6 pm
White river, Hard Cash ....................5 p.m
Cincinnati, Yint Shinkle .........-.......5 pm
Cincinnati, Thomas Sherlock a.... ....--A pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer Hard Cash, White river.
Coahoma, Friar's Point.
Osceola Belle, Osceola.
4" Commonwealth, st. Louis.
Golden Rule, Cincinnati.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Commonwealth, Now Orleans.
Golden Rulo, New Orleans.
!" Batesville, st. Francis river.
" Geo. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
Dyersburg, Dyersburg.
Ouachita Belle, Vicksburg.
Golden City, Cincinnati.
Marlin Speed, Arkansas river.
IN PORT.
0soOola Belle, Coahoma, Hard Cash,
Vint ShiRkle,
CONDITION or THE RIVERS.
The river here rose 8 inches in the
past "a hours, ending at noon, and
now stands % feet II inches above low
water mark. AT Cairo it rose II
inches, with 30 feet | inch on the
gauge: at st. Louis it declined 2
inches. with IL feet 4 inches on the
gauge: at PittsbuFg it declined l inch,
with Q feet Z inches On.tbe gauge at
Cincinnati it rose 81 inches, with SO
feet 10 inches on the gauge at Louis
vile it is stationary, with IL feet 8
inches in the canal; at Evansville it
is rising, with 30 feet on the gauge.
Cumberland river rose 10 inches at
Nashville, with 20 feet 10 inches on
the gauge. Tennessee river is also
rising. Arkansas river is rising at
Little Rock, with 4 feet 3 inches on
the gauge. White river Is falling
slowly, with a good steamboat stage Of
water from J%acksonport to the mouth.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Hail this morning.
Weather quite unsettled.
Fair business doing % the landing.
a food is reported in Big Sandy
river.
The Maumelle has laid up at Little
Rock.
Ben MaginIoy made his debut on
the levee yesterday.
The bend business is slightly i'm
proving.
Commodore Scudder has returned
to st. Louis from New Orleans,
The Golden Grown left Cincinnati
last evening for Now Orleans.
The Red Cloud left St. Louis yes
to-day for Fort Benton.
The j. w. Gaff leaves Cincinnati
this evening for Memphis.
The Charles Morgan left New Or
leans last evening for Cincinnati.
The D~yersburg for tho Fprked
Deer river had a forked trip.
The Marlin Speed cleared for the
Arkansas river with an excellent trip.
The Belle Of Shreveport arrived at
New Orleans yesterday from 81. Louis.
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Cold Dinner.

Says a Siberian traveller Our din
ner party was extremely merry. Each
one laid his stores under contribution.
Some brought out frozen bread, others
frozen caviare, others frozen preserves,
others again sausages which could not
be bent even if put across the knee
and pulled with the strength Of both
arms. Can you imagine, without
laughing, the appearance presented of
seven half-famished people sitting at
a table with thirty different dishes be-
fore them, and unable to touch one,
except at the risk of breaking their
teeth? Nothing could be done, ex-
cept to wait patiently for the various
dishes to be thawed by sitting on
them. At the close of the dinner we
ate excellent fruit, which had been
kept frozen. Throughout Siberia, as
soon as very cold weather sets in, all
fruits are placed out of doors, with a
northern exposure, that the. sun may
never touch them. They are frozen
through and through, and retain their
flavor as completely as if they had
just been plucked from the tree.
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Administrator Notice.

HAVING qualified as administrator of the
II estate OF Mrs. Jane A, Burleson, de-
estate are hereby notified to present the same
properly authenticated, within the time pre-
scrtbed BY law, or they will be barred. All
persons indebted to said estate will make paw
ment to ne; Claims may be fled at the Office
OF can't 4 Patterson, attorneys.
A.A. BURLESON,
ADM Of estate of Mrs. Jane a.. Burleson
Memphis, Tenn, March l6, 1879.
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I~nsOIvenI Notice.
srArE OF TEsSEssrr. SHELBY Cor.

STATE OF ~TESHEssER, SHELBY CorSTY.O
.OFFIcE COUNTY CORR CLERK.
~ MEMPHIS, Tenn, March II, 1879.
10 MISS Georgia Bayliss, Administratrix Of
Lizzie Zach, deceased, -
HANlNG suggested the insolvency Of Tho
II estate Of Lizzie Lach, deceased. Won
are hereby ordered TO give notice, by adyer-
tlsement In some newspaper published within
the sara state, and also at the conditioned
door OF shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear and 6le
the same with tao Clerk Of the County Court
authenticated in the manner prescribed by
law on or before the llth day OF june, 1879.
ana any claim not filed on or before said day'
or before an appropriation Of the funds Of laid
estate is made, shall be forever barred both
In law and equity, ~ 'V'n
Of Mines mes I my hand Al o@ce, this nth day
~ OWEN DwYRR, Clerk.
ny liveH B. CUtLEN, DC.
In obedience 10 the above order all creditors
OF said estate are hereby notified To fle their
claims as above objected.
MISS GEORGIA RAYIISS, Adm'x.
=; !, b y. BAY, JR., Sol. for Adm'x.
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within the hours Of judicial sales. In front NJ
the Mclaughlin store in Mound City, Ark.
proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for cash
the property in said deed Of trust named and
described, consisting Of 1--WE mules, one gray
horse and one wagon and harness, for the pur-
pose 9I satisfying the indebtedness Of the
sall mclaughlin a Co., secured by the said
deed Of trust, and the costs Of executing The
same. K. +. CRITTENDEN, Trustee.
Marion, Ark, March IS, 1879 1900
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Attachment Notice.

No. Il, l23-Before Il. W. Caldwell 7 n
Shelby county, Tenn.-B. j. Wyi;.a' tor
the use, II. g.. Trader VS.. Thomas RoIs lot
N TINS cause an attachment haviS %ao
1 sued out under section 1855 of ~ 4 3eeh
Tennessee, and returned %"leyie vr o0ue oi
%RsnVyfiSHtT'{ been o1 made aitiEs a. and affidavit
debted to the plaintiff in Zoe u snm ne s,k y M
que by account, and thGt the claim IL ,n 30, "a
s S1ste 'o az defendant q a nonresident Of The
Ssag TSla Sessndant make his personal ap-
fs7s. a. INV S0l omsd me on she 18th day Of April,
pass ~tennessee, and defend said attaebment
s sSd within APE, time prescribed By law. or
tne same will be proceeded with exsparte.
ana mat a copy Of this order be ppblisbed
InSes week tor four weeks in the Public
This the Sth day Of March, 1879.
n-ll-tI-& II. w. Caldwell. u
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within legal hours. the following descr;hs1
real estate, belonging 10 the estate Of Brnt,s
alexander, deceased, t0-wit.
Lying and being in Shelby county. Tenn.s-
see, Oelhg q cert Ain lot or parcel az land
SITUATED on the north side Of Linden sfreet
Memphls, adjoining the lot set asid a. dower
70 the widow Of said Alexander by the com
mlsSloners IN this cause. Beginning NJ The
southeast corner Of said dover lot and run
hlhg thence along the north line Of Linden
stleet east toeti thence north parallel with
sns loWeT lot l00 feet 10 an alley; thsnce west
4 leettO the northeast corner Ofthe dover LOT.
thence south along the east line OF said dover
10Y To- leet to the beginning,
Also the following lot or parcel Of land.
LSlhg anu being in said county Of Shelby,
aDeut three miles from tho city Of Memphis,
and bounded and described as follows; on
the east aide Of the Pigeon Roosi road Ard
being lot No Q fthe subdivision ofH acres 2
roods and Is poles, belonging to the eslate oil
tho late II; Rev. !. II. 0tey, which said lot /
rs bounded as follows; Commencinr All a
stake on the east side ofthe Pigeon Roost road.
where tho southwest corner ofthe r. DeadricL
0O-acre tract corners with the soulheast cor
ner OF tho Otoy tract; runs thence south ID
ehhins 70 Q stake on the southeast corner III
lot No. 8 Of eaid Otey subdivision; nuns thence
northwettorly 4l&-l0O chains 10 a sfake.
rune thence eouthwardly ten chains ID tke
Iigvon kooet road; thonco with tho pireon
koost road l3.lo0. cbatns % The boeinnlne.
CONTAINING > 9crosi rood aud z poles.
Ierms Of ala, cash.
This March q, 1879.
III CAssIts, Sol. for complainant.
p%-q-N
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Administrator,s Sale,

ONTHURSDAY, MARCH q, 1879, at3p.m.
- atthe law office of, H. Malone, So Madi-
son street, room 81, ! will sell al public auc-
Lon 10y caah, 70 the highest bidder, all Of THE
aN toTarS and Office furniture Of tho late
John d.. Robinson, deceased. The library
consists Of the latest text books and Tepnes.
see Reports, and the Acts of Tennessee.
lO-G3 JOHN b. ROBINSON, Admir-.
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Local,
Trustees Sale,

NOTICE is hereby given that under and bv
~ virtue Of a deed Of trust executed to d.
eember, 1876, BY Mclaughlin eco 10 secDre
TO Sledge, Mckay 4 Co., of Memphis, Tenn.
a certain Indebtedness therein mentioned
which said deed of trust is duly recorded in
BOOK X, page 1853. in the Recorders Office At
Marisn, grittenden county, Ark, /, the un-
uerslghed, having been appointed trustee in
me place and stead Of the said D. i. Mckay,
who failed TO- act, and who, By death, Ia now
lneapaeltated from serving as trustee In the
premises, Will, according 10 the terms of said
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SheriR,s Sale Of Real Estate.

DUBLIC notice is hereby given that bv vir-
4 tue Of q venditioni expOnas to me directed
rom the Honorable Circuit Court of Sbeibv
county Tenn, in the case of Isaiah Stepbens
rs. e. Welsh and J. B. Hester, judgment rem
dered on the Sth day of April, 1878, for the
sum Of two hundred and ffty-four dollars
and nine cents, with interest and costs Of
SUIT, to satisfy said Judgment, etc., l will, on
Thursday, April 10, 1879,
n legal hours, in front Of the c~ourt-bopse
memphis, Tenn, proceed to sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following described prop
erty, tO-wit: f'"f
Lot Z, block 80, 60 by $50 feet; lot 10, block
50, % ~ lsO feet on the north side of Linden
street, between Causey and st. Martin streets.
Leyied on as the property Of defendant,
,. Hester, to satisfy said judgment, in,
tereet and costs.
Memphis, March IL, 1879.
Il, l.. MCGOWAN,
Sheriff Of Shelby County, Tenn.
By c. Il. STEWART, DIS H
Minor H6 Meriwether, Attorney for plaintiff.
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Cotton.

The market opened this morning
with an improved feeling, influenced
by frmer markets abroad and in the
East. Prices are the anne as last
evening, the following being the
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A young mar says the first time he
saw Soldene open her mouth it re-
minded him Of somebody's lifting a
pearl bordered, pink lined trunk lid.