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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
wednesday, Ilth nay Of June, 1879,
the real estate mentioned and described ii

the real estate mentioned and described in
said decree as follows:
Lying and being in the county Of Shelby.
and State of Tennessee, in range Z, section .
of the Eleventh surveyors district. heinz
part Of entry S93 in the name Of Edwin Hicke
man, for 5000 acres, and bounded as follows.
Beginning at an elm on the east side Of \ IA.
foot alley in the west boundary Of a 9O-sere
tract Of land purchased by George l.. Holmes
OF John b.. Rogers and Jesse Isler. thence
south chains and IS links TO a stake. thenee
south II westl 5 chains and 81 links 10 a stake
in the center Of the Memphis and Germao-
town turnpike road; thence with the center
Of said road south 671so east Is chains and SO
links; thence ia east 81 chains and IS links
TO a stake with black and red oak painters,
thence west u chains and so links 10 the be-
ginningi excepting and excluding therefrom
the az acres conveyed by j. Q johnson and
wife, Lizzie +. johnson. 10 George w. Fisher
by deed dated August Is, 1866, and registered
IN the registers Office Of Shelby county, Ten
nessee, in Book 81, part let, pages 500 and 303.
Terms Of Sale-Said property will be sold On
a credit Of seven (l months with interest,
purchaser 10 execute note, with approved
security, for the purchase money, md n lien
retained on the land TO secure the payment ~
the purchase money. Equity Of redemption
barred.
Jackson, Tenno May q, 1879,
JOHN II, FREEMAN. CLERK.
ERrEs n JACKSON, Solicitor. U-QQ
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
On Saturday, June IS, 1879.

at 10 o'clock am, in front of the Planters
Insurance Building, No. 80 Madison street, In
Memphis, Shelby county, sell at public auc-
ton to the highest bidder, for cash, the fol-
late city Of Memphis, in said county to-wit:
Lot number five in Mrs. Martha Alston's
subdivision of lots near the southeast corner
Of Lauderdale and jackson streets, said iot
No. 3 fronting 50 e0-l00 feet on the east side of
feet on the north line and ISL 95.lN feet on
the south line to the east boundary line OF
said lot, which is 20 feet in length. All right
Of redemption, etc., expressly waived. Titls
believed to be good, but l sell and convey
only as trustee.
AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
j. W. HAMPTON, Attorney. Ts10i
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
JAWS H. MALONE, Attorney. 59-S

DY virtue Of the powers conferred upon
d Egbert Woodbridge and his successors in
j. T. Castles and Louisa A Castles, dated
March 10, 1874, and recorded in Deed Book,
No. 100, page 800, in the Registers Office Of
Shelby county, TO secure the payment Of a
certain Indebtedness fully described therein,
default having been made in the terms and
conditions thereof, the undersigned successor
in Office to the said f.. Woodbridge, as Trus-
tee, will sell al 10 o'clock an, ON
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
Monday, July z, 1879,

at the southwest corner Of Main and Madi.
son streets, in Memphis, Tennessee, at public
auction, to the highest bidder, for cash, the
following described real estate, situated in
the city of Memphis Tor Taxing District, in
shelby county, Tennessee, tO-wit:
Beginning at the southwest corner of Trez-
eyant and Shelby streets; running thence
south with Shelby street Is feet; thence west
wardly, at right angles with Shelby street, 100
feet; thence northwardly, parallel with
Shelby street, 2 feet to TrezeYant street; and
thence with Trezeyant street eastwardly 100
feet to the beginnipg-being the north half Of
a lot purchased by said j. T.. Castles from W.
II. Pearne.
All right of redemption, etc, expressly
waived in said trust deed. Title believed to
be perfect, but | sell andconvey only as Trus-
tee. AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
j. W. Hampton, Attorney. so l09
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
Trustes,,s NnIe-

by virtue Of the powers conferred upon Ee-
II bert Woodbridge and his successor in
office as treasurer and trustee, by a deed Of
trust made by Frank ). VanHorn and Eliza
1873, and recorded in Book No, IS, page 1sS''
OF the Registers office Of Shelby county, to
SECURE the payment Of a certain i~ndebtedneae
fully set forth in said deed, default HAVING
been made in the terms and conditions
tnereof, the undersigned successor TO the said
r.. W ooldridge as treasurer and trustee, will.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-06-05
In the Supreme Court OF Tennes-
see, at Jackson.

Nancy N. Scott VS.. J.. Cummings johnson
ct al.
IN pursuance Of tho decree pronounced in
4 this cause by the Supreme Court of Ten
nessee, Mt Jackson, on the 2lst day of April.
1879, | will offer for sale to the highest bidder
in front of the courthouse of Shelly eountv'
in the city of Memphis, on
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
REPUTATION IN LYON COUN-
TV

The nest of uneasy politicians" in
this city, in their desperate efforts to
beat the Republican ticket, are Matching
up all sorts Of schemes. The latest one
was put forth yesterday i'll the cores
pondence between certain voters in the
second commissioner district, composed
of Americas, Agnes City, Waterloo,
Fremont and Reading townships, and II.
F. Holmes, the Republican candidate for
commissioner in that district. The letter
to him signed by the citizens was gotten
up in this city, but not signed by its au-
thor because it was feared the public
would see through the trick. The
clique in Emporia who are at
the bottom of the electioneering
schemes against the Republican tick
ct in Lyon county, are known as, the
most corrupt and dishonest political
hacks in the state. In their scheming
they are working for their own pockets
and their own political aggrandizement.
We need but mention two of these
tricksters, Sam Wood and c.. v. Eskridge.
They are pair of beautiful twins to en-
gage in these attempts to trail the proud
name of Lyon county IN the dust
The question presented in this cores
pondence is purely, shall Lyon county
repudiate her honest debts, and the can
didate brought out by these gentlemen
squarely takes ground for reputation.
The manly and straightforward an
swer the letter receives from H. +.
Holmes ought to secure him the vote of
every man in the district having the best
interests of the county at heart. Some OF
the signatures, we understand, were pro-
cured to that letter through the impress
sion that only the so-called narrow gauge
bonds were included in the question. 1t
is well known that no one in the county
is in favor of delivering those bonds to
the company who built the road, and
The News long ago nipped that propo-
sition in the bud. Do the voters of the
second district really mean reputation !
Let them stop to think of the consequent
ces before going too far. Let them not
/ DO AO0 AAbO NOAhS a ihAAS lhue VIII ApiCN-
er cast stigma on the county at the in.
stigation of "A clique of desperate poll.
ticians who hate the Republican party
Douglas and Leavenworth counties are
cited as instances worthy for Lyon coun.
ty to follow. Those counties have done
themselves an injury which they will not
recover from in the next fifty years
What is thought of the individual who
deliberately repudiates his honest obi.
cations? He is without credit or re-
spect. So it is with county. The eyes
of the people of surrounding counties
will watch with interest the result of this
open and inexcusable attempt to repudi.
ate our honest debts. These debts were
voted by clear and large majority OF
the people, and the courts have over and
over declared that they must be paid
Now that we have gone through the
worst times there does not seem to be
any excuse for such an attempt
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
THE OPPOSITION.

If ever an homogeneous ticket, repre-
senting no principle but the very poor
one of "ofIice.seeking," was ever gotten
up we have it in the Democratic Ga cen
back ticket in this county. The Demo
Gratis who honor the dogma OF state
rights-the right of secession-the right
to bulldoze Republicans-the right TO
carry New York city by sufficient num-
Der of illegal votes to control that state
who are against laws to protect the
purity of the ballot-boX--Vho are in ia
vor of wiping every vestige or war legis-
lation from the statue books, will be found
voting this mongrel ticket. Those who
are in favor of breaking up the Republi-
can party will vote for it. That part of
the ticket which has been Republican
represents bitter opposition to the above
leading tenets of the Democratic party
OF to-day, and yet some who have been
Republicans will be found voting this
Democratic-G reenback ticket These
latter have always gloried in the party
which proclaimed this nation, not q
league; which found in the con-
stitution the power to preserve
itself by coercing a state; which
founded itself upon the equal rights of
all men TO speak and practice those pol
ilical principles which seemed good to
them; which passed laws to ensure a
pure election whether in the slums of
New York or in the rebel precincts of
the south. These men are antipodes
politically in every respect, yet they join
hands and ask men who have some pol
itical principles to support them. If by
any carelessness upon the part of the
Republican majority in the county, any
Of them should be elected, whom would
they representa- What political party
could be accountable for them? AS a
rule that man succeeds best in gaining
the confidence of others who has his own
opinion and the courage 20 maintain it.
These men appeal for votes for their Own
personal advantage, not that any princi-
pie shall be asserted, or any act of polit
ical significance be done. They do
not say, vote for me rs the ex-
ponant of Democratic or Green
back doctrines, bot vote for me so
that may be elected to an office. The
people, however, have become accustom-
ed to using the ballot to indicate their
political preferences. They vote for
principles!as we'll as men. The voice of
the people this fall will settle whether
the barefaced attempts of the Democrat
ic party in congress to tear away the last
shield and hope OF free elections in the
south meets approval. Do the Repub-
lican voters of Lyon county approve of
the shotgun and the rope as political
arguments? Do they endorse a politi-
cal party which finds assassination of
rival Candidates necessary to preserve its
integrity 90 There is but one party
which has consistently opposed and de-
nounced these things, and that is the Re
publican. 1t has record upon all these
questions of which no good citizen need
be other than proud.
Let us record our votes, even in this
local struggle, in favor of the men who
represent this organization.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
RAILROAD ROBBERS AT VEL
LINGTON.
The Station Robbed of $sOO by Three
Men at Night.

The Station Robbed of $7OO by Three
Men at Night.
A startling robbery occurred at Wei
lingtOn Friday night, and from Mai. II.
A. Louis, who has just returned from
that place, we learn the following par
ticulars:
About half past eleven O'Clock, a man
applied to the night operator, saying he
wanted to send dispatch. The opera
tor, Mr.. Brown, turned to look at the
tariff, when he was struck over the head
and felled. At that moment two men
jumped in at the window and one point
ed pistol at his breast, demanded the
key to the money drawer, there being no
safe, giving him three minutes in which
to comply. His own statement is that
he was so mad that he cried-at any rate,
he was compelled to open the drawer,
when his visitors took about 800. They
then compelled him to accompany them
about a mile to where horses were tied
and, mounting, told him he might go
home, which he did. The robbers had
destroyed the telegraph instrument and
he could not notify any one by that
means, but on returning to the station
he found the passenger train there in
charge of ]. E. Miller, conductor, who,
with commendable presence of mind, al
once detached the engine from the train
and ran back to Mulvane and telegraph
ed to other points, in the hope of leading
to the capture of the thieves.
Brown describes one man as being
about six feet high, wears black nous
tache, has sharp eye, and was well
dressed in black suit.
Another is short and heavy-set, wore a
light moustache, wore a blue flannel
shirt, and had coarse voice.
OF the bills taken, one is of the de.
nomination of 800, No. A, 14S4S, anoth-
er $50, A, 14,204, another $50, E, 104, 600
and the balance is IN twenties, tens and
fives.-Commonwealth, 2Sth.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
A WARNING.

1t Is not many days since a dispatch
from London said: While it is evident
that there has recently been a lifting of
the terrible pressure of hard times IN
America, the ablest financiers in Lon
don predict that the revival will be but
temporary, and that the inevitable reac-
ton will soon set in. These "ablest fran
ciers" have proved more than once that
they do not know quite all that is known
about this country nevertheless it is to be
feared that they are fully quarter right
in this prediction. We need not fail In
this improvement, for the very elements
seem for two years to have been fighting
in our favor. Providence never favored
people so in their effort to escape from
the slough. Witness our magnificent
crops for successive seasons, and at the
same time the failure of European har
vests. But we are now going too fast
The speculative whip has been laid on al
such rate that we can hardly avoid
breaking down in this wild canter. Per
haps it will not be a bad break; time
| only can tell. But many even of ouI
most sanguine men are beginning now
to say, "Hold." THE speculative ma
nia," says one, (which seems to have
seized upon many people has caused an
advance in prices of articles for which
there Is no substantial basis, and which
may result diSastrously. Oyer-confidencC
and Over-speculatioR lead to over-pro
ductIon and unsafe expansion of credits
These are results to be feared and avoid
ed. We are on the high road to prosper
ity, but we must not force the pace toe
faSt.-N. Y. Mercantile Journal.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
THAT "REPUBLICAN RING. >

The opposition informs us that the
Lyon county officers constitute a IRE
publican ring" for which the Republi-
can party is responsible, and therefore
the present Republican ticket ought to
be defeated
Now we take pleasure in endorsing
the official conduct of the present officers
and regard them all as honest, capable
and trustworthy, and we are satisfied that
all the talk about a ring" is pure bosh.
And the fact is that only two of the pres
ent officers were elected as Republican
candidates. These are G. w. Frederick,
clerk of court, and j. B. Moon, sheriff,
for the others were elected as independ-
ent or greenback candidates. D. W.
Eastman, county treasurer,was elected as
an independent candidate, and so was
w. F. Ewing, county clerk. w. j. Jones,
the register, was elected as a greenback
candidate. SO these officers, even if they
were ''ring," could not fairly be termed
Republican party ring" No, it is
bosh to call these gentlemen any kind OF
ring, and still more bosh to call them
Republican party ring.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
SHERMAN ON GRANT AND THE METH


Your note of yesterday, in which yoa
allude to paragraph in The Advo :ate.
the organ OF the Methodist Enisrf nal
churcn, TO the effect that a prominent
member OF the cabinet had warned the
presluent not to trust or have ANYTHING
TO do with any Of Grants friends. and ).
pecially his church-that Is the n tho.
DIST" and stating that such a remark has
been attributed 70 me, is received. Such
an lmputatlon is scarcely worth 6enyinp.
oetleve II to be untrue as to anv mem
Der OF the cabinet. | know it to be I'm.
true as to myself. The idea of warning
the President against the Methodist
church-the strongest pillar of the Re
publican par. IN this country-is utterly
preposterous, and no one who knows me
would give II credit inr a moment. And
1t Is equally preposterous that | could
warn the President against "Graut's
friends" for Gen. Grant never had q trueI
Tread than | am. Isupported him from
the beginning of his service at Fort Don
elsan to this hour; never spoke an
unkInd word of him, never beseiged him
Tor favors, being always in 4 position
where he could render me none; AWAY:
supported his policy, except in few
cases where my judgment did not con
form with his, and then always frankly
told him why; and do not mean tha
our friendship shall be disturbed by any
act or word of mine.-From . Published
| Private Letter.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
IGnEENBAck LOSSES N low

NT1.E<64N DHAOh LOO0EO IN 1ON a
There is no class of men who can
digger like the wild-eyed Greenbacker.
He can just sit down AMI "dgger' out u
hundred million proposition in short or
der. There is probably no department
of mathematics that he is so much at
home ON as election returns No mat
ter how unfavorable the returns NAV be
to his party he can just sit down and
demonsts tie in two seconds what vic
tory the Greenbackers have gained. In
this way the G. L. papers are claiming
heavy gains in all the states this year.
The general run of Greenback papers are
the most unmitigated falsifiers we ever
knew. but no difference SO long as
the Greenbaek voters gobble every
word they say as the uavarnished truth.
The following figures show exactly how
the Greenbaekers gained twenty or thir.
~ thousand votes in the late Iowa cleo.
ton. The sixth congressional distric,
which elected Greenbacker to congress
last year, goes Republican this year. The
seventh, which gave Gillett, Greenbacker
for congress, 200 majority last year
gives 3,8o3 Republican majority this
year, every county going Republican
The sixth, that elected Weaver, Green
hacker to, congress last year by s,1O0
goes Republican by 1850 this year. The
Republican state committee claim the
election of Thompson to congress in the
fifth district to fill the vacancy, by 5,0Ot
majority, a Republican gain of nearly
5000. II will be remembered that lows
only had county elections, except to fill
congressional vacancies.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
is THIS A PARTY ELECTIONS

The opposition candidates and their
hackers go around the county asking
Republican voters to drop party feeling
in this county election, and vote for
men irrespective of party. When they
meet Greenbacker or a Democratic
voter, however, they at once appeal to
him on party grounds, to vote the Demo-
cratic Greenbacl< ticket, and if he sh ows
any signs of voting for any of the Re
publican candidates, they at once berate
him for deserving his party, and insist
that this is an election of state and
national importance, etc. It's a poor
rule that does not work both ways. If
this is not party election
why should Democrat or a Greenback-
er feel compelled to vote the starlight
ticket and if it is a party election, why
should not Republicans vote for their
own tickets If it is not party election
why was a Democratic-G reenback con-
vention called first, and why is a Demo-
cratic Greenback ticket in the field? If
it is an Independent election, on the mer-
its of the individual candidates, why is
there any opposition to the usual re-elec-
ton of competent and faithful county
officers? And why should they not all
be reelected by handsome majorities.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31
BUSINESS ITEMS

England has no merino sheep except
IA her colonies; Russia has 2.000, 600
merinos, France, 100000. The mer-
mos and grades in the United States ex-
coed 25,000,O00
There is shipped to foreign countries
annually over 100000 600 pounds of
raw leaf tobacco, whiIe he expectation
OF manufactured is only 10,400,O00
pounds.
Illinois is consider ID to ne a tolerablv
wei cultivated state, but with twenty
million acres under cultivation, it has
elrht million acres uncultivated, an area
as large as Massachusetts and Connect
cut put together.
The Great Eastern, which has been for
some time at Milford, Haven. Is TO be
fitted up with new boilers and machine
| ~ at cost of 100000, TO carry cattle
between Texas and London. She is ca
pablo of holding 1000 head of cattle and
$4,000 sheep.
An Alabama woman has originated a
| novel Industry, which NAV prove TO be
an important and useful one. Size
strips the down of the feathers of tur
keys and other fowls from their quills
and weaves ii into a thick, soft, cloth
which can be dyed any desired color, and
out OF which most beautiful AMI com.
Portable cloaks, sacques, etc, can be
made. Her inability to buy her a seal
skin sacque led her TO make the expert
ment.
The Scientific American says that be
fore the advent of cheap cotton the pro
duction and manufacture of flax wer,
important industries in this country. Ii
1910, when the population was llttl,
more than 100000, there we produced
IN the United States over21 100000 wards
of tiaXen cloth, made in families. At tn,
present time, when the population of th,
country is believed to be 10000, 900, Tn,
total annual production of flax and liner
fabrics is probably not over 5000, 90
yards, and not a yard of fine linen i
made in the country.
!, a San Francisco paper gives a glimps
, of the state of the mining stock marke
west of the Rocky mountains. Six O
its columns are filed with closely-print
! ed lists of shares in various mining com
, panies, on which assessments are over
due, and which are advertised TO be solt
as directed by law because their owner
refuse or are unable to make further pay
ments on them. On some of the stool
the assessments are as low as two cent
, share, and others as high as s.
: Nearly 10000 delinquent shares wer
advertised in "A recent number of tn
newspaper in question.
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31

An OLD OPINIoN.-There is in the
British Museum an old volume of bound
pamphlets presented by King George
III. in which Is the following passage
"a drunkard is the annoyance of modes,
ty; the trouble of civility; the spoil of
wealth the distraction of reason. He is
the brewers agent; the tavern and ale.
house benefactor; the beggar's compan
ion; the constable's trouble. He is his
wife's woe; his children's sorrow; his
neighbor's scott; his own shame In
summer he is a tub of swill, a spirit OF
sleep, a picture of beast, and mon.
ster of man"
The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1879-10-31

There probably was never a period be
fore when our stock of gold and silver in
the country was increasing with any.
thing like the rapidity it is at present.
Our mines, perhaps, have been mora
productive before, but the rule has been
that in other years the output has been
shipped abroad about as fast as it could
be made ready for the market. Now ii
is nearly all retained at home. In adj
dition to this, coin and bullion have
been coming hither in unprecedented
quantities. More than fifty million dol
lars worth have arrived since the 1st OF
January. This, with the seventy millions,
more or less, OF our home production
for the yeaF, will swell the stock so that
there viii be no encouragement to hide
any away in old stockings OF other out
of the way receptacles.