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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-07

Princess Alice and Her Father.
New York Letter to Boston Journal
The Princess Alice was greatly en-
deared to her father. She had more
of his traits than any other child. She
inherited much Of the artistic taste Of
her father. She knew what would
minister TO his private comfort and
studied to please him. When he took
his morning horseback ride she at
tended him 10 the saddle. When he
returned she met him at the porch.
His slippers and dressing-sown we're
always in their place in the library,
through the thoughtful care of his
daughter Alice. As a young lady she
Was very sympathetic and religious.
She formed a very strong attachment
for Mr.. Corboul6, VINO was her in
struetor in painting. He was very
patient and kind towards the princess
As he gave her lessons. His daughter
Julia often attended him to the castle,
and sat in the room while the i~nstruc-
tons were given. While Princess
Alice's heart was bleeding over the
bereavement Of her father the prince
consort, Julia, the painters daughter,
died. The princess addressed to the
sorrowing father tho following touch
ing letter, copied from the original, be-
lieyed to be the only copy extant:
DEAR Mr.. CoRBoULD- Having
just heard from Miss Hildyard of your
sad bereavement, l cannot refrain
from sending you afew lines to tell you
how truly | sympathize with you and
mourn over your loss. Having for the
first time seen death and felt the grief
and anguish of being left by one, loved
so deeply and truly, l know what a
trial you have. and how little words
from others can bring comfort to the
bleeding heart. At such a moment
there is but D who can give consOla-
ton, and We have that blessed hope
left Of meeting again to part.no more.
She has really left you for a little
while, aud her gentle spirit watches
over you. If the heart of n who
sympathizes, and that most warmly,
in your grief, can bring a slight conso-
l%ation, | do with all my heart pray
that God may support, strengthen and
comfort you, your wife and children,
under the heavy affection. This is the
fervent prayer Of Aloe"
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FOR THE R o L
Arrival Of the Yacht "Ieannette" at
San Francisco.

San Francisco Chronicle, December 26th.l
James Gordon Bennett s steam yacht
Jaannette arrived in the harbor yester-
day afternoon, and proceeded immedi-
ately to Mare Island for the purpose
Of ftting-out for her Polar expedition.
The Jeanette sailed from Havre on
the 10Th of last July. She crossed
the equator in the Atlantic, August
oath, longitude 20 2O west, and en-
tered the Straits of Magellan October
4th clearing them October 9th. She
anchored on three occasions, and
crossed the equator, in the Pacific,
November 18th, longitude 1010 west.
Fresh trade winds and fair weather
prevailed in the Atlantic, and good
weather was experienced in the
Straits. Very light trade winds were
experienced in the Pacific. Latterly
strong northwest gales prevailed. On
November 18th, latitude 4057' south,
longitude 990 Ia west, the vessel expe-
rienced the shock Of an earthquake.
The Jeanette was formerly the Brit
ish dispatch-b boat Pandora, and was
built in 1872. She was sent north
on special service under the com
mand of Allan Young. On her
return she was purchased by James
Gordon Bennett, and the American
flag substituted for the English. She
is three masted, with topsail and
schooner rugged. Her dimensions are
l42 feet in length, % feet beam, y
feet 6 inches hold and 425 tons regis
ter. Her engines are SO,horse power.
She is constructed entirely of wood,
and well protected about the hull. As
soon as her outfit is completed, she
will proceed to Alaska, touching at st.
Michels for the purpose of securing a
supply of Esquimau dogs, which the
Alaska Commercial Company have
rendered to the commander of the
yacht, to facilitate his land explora-
tions, The immediate object Of the
expedition is the exploration of Wran-
gle Land, which was located some
years ago by Admiral Wrangle, of the
Russian navy, and has been sighted
several times since, but no landing has
ever been made, and IL ia not
even known whether it is an island,
or the mainland. The famous
Norwegian explorer, Professor Nor
d~enskjold, fitted out a vessel and
started last year for the purpose Of
making a northeast passage from the
Atlantic to the Pacific by way Of the
Polar sea. It is known that no passed
the mouth Of the river Lena about
the FIRST Of last September, and was
proceeding eastward. A captain of a
whaler, recently arrived in this port,
reports that the Esquimaux north Of
Behring Straits claim to have seen a
Russian man-ofwa raj in the ice between
WraAgal Land and the coast Of Sibe-
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A BLOW al Ponteritx.

Gath is sensational or nothing. He
has commenced aforay upon lager beer
and attempts to deprive equity people
of the pleasure Of |colohicum, and
other doses supposed to knock the
spots out of govt
1t has been discovered amongst the
other chemical abuses, that lager beer
is made to keep sweet by the copious
addition of salicylic acid, an appar-
emily harmless composition, but really
a strong aphrodisiac, very prejudicial
to virile health. Salicylic acid is
also prescribed as a govt preventative
and its unhymeneal action is well
known to all such patients. | believe
this combination is derived from sail
ciae, bichromate of potash and sui
phuric acid. Saliciae is a febrifuge.
or overwhelming substance, which
peels in small scales off certain barkl
Of willow trees.
For many years equity patients have
been relying on colchicum as the ONLY
specific for that painful disease. 1t il
a root of the meadow saffron, and it,
name indicates poison, being obtained
from the place Colchis, whence Medea
the poison-bearer came. For years
equity people have had their stomach,
torn up with this only alternative Of
their pains, except certain French pre-
parations more poisonous still. Nearly
all the equity people in this country
have been taking a Colchian pill made
in England by old Blair. Salicylic
acid was welcomed by them. at
knocks the govt !" they cried happily.
1T knocks everything answered
Echo. Now it is discovered that New
York lager is preserved with it, bur
woe to the family hopes of them who
drink the beer. Lager assists to bring
the govt, being one Of the contest Of
American drinks, and salicylic lager
makes havoc with both the belly and
the members. Should there not be,
in these modern days, such officers as
inspectors of chemicalized food and
beverages
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one hand and starvation on the other,
and yet the sacrifice Of the husband
and father Of the one was no greater
than the other, nor the one entitled to
any greater distinction than the other.
But this does not change the fact-a
distinction has really been made and
the widow of one is amply, richly pro-
Vided for, while her sister companion
in distress is expectantly and patiently
awaiting the fate Of q bale Of cotton
in this city, the sale Of which is to
temporarily relieve the wants Of her
self and children. Cruel, cruel, world
that values true nobility in man ac-
cording to his station in life.
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
CONDITION OF TIE RIVERS.

NONbAA AON VI lnE hlN EhN
The river here is steadily declining
and is full of heavy, running ice, with
navigation suspended. AT Cairo nav
igation remains suspended. The Ark
ansaS, White and st. Francis rivers
remain closed with ice. Vicksburg is
now virtually the head of navigation.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The Polar wave has not diminished.
Business on the river is entirely sus-
pended.
No arrivals or departures at New
Orleans yesterday.
The ice in the river at Little Rock
is five inches thick.
None but the wealthy can enjoy
such weather as this.
Cloudy and cold, with indications Of
another snow storm.
The ice in the river is getting thick
er and extends from shore to shore.
The south wind yesterday ~softened
the ice in the Ohio river as far up as
Evansville.
Wharfmaster Kallaher reports
wharfage receipts of 1915 10 for the
month of December-a good return.
Contractor Larkin has a force Of
men at work repaving the leves in
front Of Glenn's wharfboat.
Memphis is no longer the head Of
navigation the honor has been.trans-
ferred to V~icksburg,
The Polar wave has extended to
Jacksonville, Florida, ice having
made its appearance there yesterday
which is unprecedented.
The wharfboats at the landing are
still secure, and as yet are in no dan
ger from the ice.
The weather at all points along the
Ohio yesterday was milder than the
day previous, and ~moderstiug last
night.
~,
The transfer boat General Pierson,
Captain William Maingault in com
mand, continues to make her regular
trips.
Commodore Milt Harry and a num-
Der Of Observation-Disclosures at the Fort
Pickering feet, give a grand soiree
Friday night next,
The broadhorns laying between
Union street and the old elevator are
%discharging their oargoes, fearing a
smash up by the ice. So far there
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Attachment Nouce.

-
Nc; nlo-Bsfors J. 6. Galloway, j. P. for
Samuel Duncan. w.
n this cause an attachment having been
lued out under section 1856 of the Code 81
IennSsses, and returned, "leyied upon tbs
property Of the defendant, ; and afidavitbs v
the plaintiff in the sum Of t6S-S0 dsc
BY account, and that the claim is
Just and that the defendant is a non
resident of the State Of Tennessee; il is there
lore ordered that said defendant make her
Psr5ohsI appearance before me on the Sth day
81 9ebruary' dsIs, a. M, at my office, No, q
Madison st., Memphis, Tenn, and defend aid
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
law or the same will be proceeded with az
Parte; and that a copy Of this order be pnb-
iishfd 9nce a week for four weeks ia the Pub
This the Sd day Of January, 1878.
lVo-ll4-l1O-l26 J.B GALtOWAY.J p
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Il~nsOIvant Notice.

STATE or TENNESSEE. SHrtnv corv.u
OFFIoR COUNTY CoURr CLRRK.
mhAPRis' IENN., December IS, ISIS.
To J !. Sykes, Administrator, etc, Of Mar
Godaey, deceAsed. u "AII
HAVING snggested the insolvene, of ,Lo
- estate OF Mary GodIey, deceased. vo1
sre hereby ordered to give notice, by Sdyer-
ths "a .one newspaper published within
uGor OF ehelby county, for all persons bsyinS
tims asalnst said estate, to appear and lie
me same with tine Clerk OF The COUNTY Conrt
Susnentioated IN the manner prescribed By
srd' IN o. before Tho 18th day Of March, 1879;
y oelore an appropriation Of the funds OF said
IN law and equity. 'O'"
OF December, 1878. U"'
By JOIN SHEA, D. G. ei-IOSl ia no
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Attachment Notice.

Nc; m0o-Before ]. s. Galloway, J. p. for
shelby county, Tenn.-M. Resin vs.. Samuel
\ this cause an attachment having b.au
sued out under section e455 of the Code Of
tennessee, and returned, LEVIED upon me
property OF tho defendant" and affidavit hay
ins been made that defendant il indebted ts
tne plalntln ia the sum Of &c. 80, due By
that the defendant is a nop-feSidspt Of The
Stete 81 Tennessee; 1t iS therefore ordered
that safd defendant make his personal appear
nase before me on the 9Th day Of February.
wv, at IL "A. at my Office, No. "a Madison 81,
MemPnia Tenn and defend said attachment
sane will bO proceeded With sr-parte and
that a copy Of this order be published once =
wax for feur weeks in the Public Ledger.
ms The I'd day Of January, 1879.
lO5tll4-ln0-lB j. s. GALLOMAY. LIP
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Administrators Notice.

HAVING duly qualified as administrator
Ill Of Martin Eyko, deceased, ali persons
haying. claims against bis estate are hereby
Notified % 1resent them duly authenticated,
q me at fl9H Bel street, or 10 my attorney,
George g. Dent, n South court stfost' wiibm
The time prescribed by law; and persons In
dShted 70 said estate are requested 10 core
foIyYd agd make. payment or prompt stsps
VIII be takente kEfoxes collections.
-Oth ~ SMITH, AdpinisttatA.
December oSisB. @lR-iN.fil
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AdminIstraior's NoIIce-

HAVIEG duly qualified "a administrator
IL OF John o.. Leary, deceased, ali persons
having claims against his estate arc hereby
netined 70 present themt duly authenticated,
within the time prescribed by law and per.
sons indebted TO said estate are requested to
come Forward and mako payment or prompt
steps Will DO taken to enforce collections.
r. j. BLACK, Administrator.
January q. 1870 1fO1I6I9o i5a
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AdmInIstratOr's Notice.

HAVING duly qualified as administrators
IL Of W. @. Woodruff, deceased, ali persons
having claims against his estate arc hereby
to mo within the time prescribed by law and
persons indebted TO said estate are reouesteS
10 come forward and make paymento or aromnt
steps will be taken 10 enforce collections
HERBEI.r RHETT, Adm
January Z, 1879. I6.li6.iS5n i5s
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General Trade.

No receipts of produce for a full
week, except a few small items by
rail, continues to exercise a hardening
eject upOa prices. Stocks Of several
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quoted steady as follows:
Chiffon.

The market opened this forenoon quiet,
with little doing. The feeling appears
slightly easier.
Sales yesterday 200 bales; to exporters
1905 spinners, 1885, for speculation, so.
Market closed steady as follows;
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Trustees sale.

N pursuance Of the terms Of a trust 5sed
i executed 70 me by q. Il. .nd N. +. Glow
ersi on tne iIth DAY Of March, 1873, aud duly
the northeast corner Of Front and ijnion
streets, in the city Of Memphis, proceed h sell
st public auction to the highest bidder. for
cash four mules, described in said trust deed,
sale between the hours Of ls m, and l pm.
ll0-l27 r. A"LIWP Trnnsfoo
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Administrators Notice.

HAvING duly qualified as administrator
t1lof Or, B. W. AVent, deceased, all pertons
osAns otslms against his estate are hereby
70 me within the time prescribed By law; and
persons indebted to said estate are requested
70 come forward and make payment or prompt
stepi Will be taken to enforce collections.
December q, 1878. I05- I6s-lIi-1to
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Admidistrator's Sale,

A administrator Of the estate Of
n Ford, deceased, 1 will sell at RSpTsSn
prices fer cash the stock of Stoves. Tin,
MAre ana House Furnishing Goods
oohtalneq IN the storehouses No. l23 PonIap
street ana ~ Main street, Or j will sell the
house, No. Nl Main street 10 Mal OF the
to deal in the goods. Terms Of sale cosilin y
satlsfastory notes. '@' o"sA' o.
81 MARY A. FORD, Administratr,
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has been very little damage done to
the broadhorn feet by the ice.
Coosa river, Georgia, is full of
floating ice which is something un-
precedented
The ice in the Ohio river at Cairo
is thinning out which is Ocoasioned by
the gorge above Paducah.
The Adams mail line packet Ouachi-
ia Belle, which is in a safe harbor at
Fort Pickering, paid off yesterday,
and will not venture out until the ice
thaws.
The coal feet here has suffered so
far very little damage from the Ice,
and we hope, for the sake of the own
ers and consumers, that it will escape
damage.
A telegram from Newport, Ark.
reports the ice there as being three
inches thick and the steamers Hard
Cash and Milt Harry frozen in at that
point.
We made diligent inquiries this
morning and could learn nothing def
mite of an ice gorge at Randolph,
although several steamboatmen pre-
dicted the same.
Will Hays says since the suspension
of navigation by ice the railroads have
advanced the rates Of freights south
to double what they were previous to
the ice blockade.
Allie Hancock, the Arctic explorer
and celebrated diScharging clerk Of
the Osceola Belle, aoated into port
yesterday on an ice foe, having left
his steamer the 0sceola Belle in Old
river IN a safe ice harbor.
The Coahoma left the landing yes
terday and succeeded in getting into a
safe harbor in Wolf river in front Of
the government surveying grounds,
which location was kindly granted
Captain Ice by Major Benyard.
Charley Postal, tho popular CHIEF
clerk of the Hard Cash, came over
from Newport by rail yesterday, hav-
ing left his steamer ice-bound at that
point. He will remain in the city
with his family until navigation is re.
sumed.
Two steamboatmen this morninl
who were overloaded" with liquid
damnation, owing to a misunderstood
ing, either of signals or the proper
channel, collided, and both were dam
aged, n having his bow stove in and
the other his bridge tree broken and
his guards badly smashed.
Mr., A. K. Spears, the efficient bill
clerk of the OSceola Belle, which
boat is laid up in Old river in a safe
ice harbor, came down yesterday from
Dean Island on horseback with the
mail and returned to-day with the
mail for all points on the Arkansai
shore, as high up as Oseeola.
Captain j. Floyd johnson, of No
bile, closed the trade to-day witt
Captain Milt Harry for the steAme.
Ruth, paying him $4,000 for her, anC
as 0 o as the ice permits and tht
Ruth arrives here to be delivered t.
her new owner. Captain johnson vii
leave with her for New Orleans anC
the TOmbigbee river, in which trade
he will run her.
The San Francisco board of local
inspectors have revoked Captain How.
ards certificate as master for a tern
of two years in the Georgia case. The
report of the inspectors states tina
they find Captain Howard did not use
proper care and skill in navigating The
(Naorpio IN tho niobt 800. | -.
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LEGAL
Attachment Notice.

Before j.. NJ. Coleman, j.. P. for Shelby
county, I~enn,,-Pearce, Suggs & Co, a 6rn
ys. Samuel Duncan. '
"A this cause an attachment having beop
j sued cut under Section 1855 OF tbs code ~
Tennessee and returned levied upon tha
property Of the defendant By eSrni,bmsnt
on Hill, Fentaine 4 Co., merchants, who an
sver they have 3 sufficient amount Of defend
arts funds to satisfy plhintiTs' claim. . and
AFFIDAVIT having beon made that ths defend
ami Is indebted to the plaintiffs in the sum sf
yu:5o, dse by account, and hat the claim IL
Just and Mat tho defendant is a non-fesidsnt
Of the State Of Tennessee; 1t is Therefore
ordered that the said defendant make his
personal appearance before me On the Stb
day of February, 1879, at ny Office, No
" Front street, Memphis, tenn, and de-
Tend sAid attachment suit within the time
preseribed BY law, or the same will DO pro-
ceeded with ex-psrte; and that acopy Of This
in the Public Ledger.
This the 18th day of January, 1879.
W~-ll0-lZl-lZI j. N. COLEMAN D
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ria. This is supposed to be Professor
Nordenskjold'S vessel, as it is known
that no Russian man-of-War is in that
vicinity.
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Jane writes to ask, what is meant
by a man of one ideap" Well, a man
who has one of his optics Knocked out,
Is a man of one eye dear
Times.
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The Kountz Liner II. c. Yeager, a
Norwegian craft, dropped in at the
landing this morning and after several
hours of hard labor succeeded in get
ting close enough to shore to make fast
and tic up to await business. She is
on a voyage to New Orleans, and wants
what she will hardly get-cotton-
until the ice Trims out. She is one Of
those outside grabbing boats that al
ways go begging, and want everything
for nothing and grumble when they
have to pay out.
The Cincinnati Marine Journal ad-
vises the New Orleans and Cincinnati
packets not to land here until the
wharfage is reduced and the Journal
further claims that they receive no
business here to justify their landing.
This is a mistake, as the Cincinnati
Pool Line steamers have received
here this seaso a liberal patronage
but as far as the benefits or money left
here by these packets is concerned we
think there would not be much lost to
Memphis by giving us the go by, as
there are none of them, with the ex-
ception of the fine and popular steam
ers Charles Morgan, Golden Crown
and Guiding Star, expend any money
here beyond their wharfage andagency,
while they received more business here
during the past season than they have
heretofore.
The untimely end of United
States officer Benner and watchman
Slater of the yellow fever relief boat
j. M. Chambers, who contracted and
died of the disease at Vicksburg, is
still fresh in the memory of our read
ers, Their stations in this life were
different, it is true, but both lied
manfully in the discharge Of a duty in
behalf of their fellow-men that on
titled one to the same credit as the
other. But mark the difference Of re-
ward-the family of Lieutenant Ben
ner is provided for with over $780,,
900 in cash, placing them beyond
want into the laps of luxury, while
the poor widow of the valiant Sal
ter gathers her fatherless children,
hungering for bread, around a half
filed stove, thst barely keeps the
frost from benumbing their chilled
bodies. It is comfort and luxury on
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Wednesday, January Is. 1879.

n legal hours, in front Of the oourt-bous.
Memphis, Tenn, proceed to sell to The highest
erty, to-Wit: PiOP-
Lots l, B., 8, g. ST., 4, 70, Is and 14ofWm "A
Jones, tract Of land located in the TbirtcertI
Clyil District, Shelby county, Tenn, contsin-
ing each thirty-six acres. Also lots IL and IA
o. y a. ). Hays, subdivision, fronting each
i ~ S1iz feet on Middleton aveuue with adsptb
ot 2I91 Ieet IN shelby county Tenn, together
thereon. "P'o'emShLs
Levied on as the property Of defendant.
Dsvia meade, to satisfy said Judgment, in.
Memphis, December 10. 1875.
4, /. MCGOWAN,
ByD G. SHELBY, D.. S. ieuu'
BeIssS5 S To 4 Jordan, Attorneys for PLAINTIFF.
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Sheriff. Sale of Real Estate

DQBLIC notice is hereby given that by viz
l. tue Of a Tenditioni exponas to me diraotaJ
from the Honorable Circuit Court Of Shelly
county Tenn. in the case of B.. Lowenstein
on the 10th day Of April, ISIS, for The ann ~
three hundred and ninety-six doIlsrS and
elFhty-one cents, with interest and costs Of
suit, to satisfy said Judgment, etc, I viii on 81,
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STEAMBOATS,.
For White and Black Rivers.
MILT HARRY'S
Memphis White and Black River
U. s, Mail Packets.

For Indian Bay, St. Charles, Clarendon, De,
wallis Bluff, Des Arc, Augusta, Jaoksonport,
West Point, Searey, Batesville, PoWhattar
and Pocahontas. The new sienmAr
Shenandoah herald. [volume] (Woodstock, Va.) 1865-1974, 1879-10-01

creased Yearly year 10 the peoples
impoverished degradation and vet, Ia
no purpose, except TO enable the Bro
kers and their Virginia allies to com
plete their grand scheme Depreciation.
For the debt will become. in the future
as IN the past. more and more unman-
ageable, and the State less and less
able TO pay it. LEGISLATION. ia the last
ten years in the interest Of Bondholdcrs,
has doubled Virsinia's debt (as all
debts) by making money scarce and
high. In order to get 81 for them the
debtor must give twice the labor OF
twice the property as when the debt
was made.
The country has not reached the bot.
tom of hard times yet. Capital con.
trolls the money policy of The General
Government; and that policy is to make
labor lower and property lower, 80 that
capital will increase its power. Capital
is measured by what it can buy. All
that capital gains the People lose. 1t
gained in the United States greenback
bonds. gold bonds, The people must
sell 81 Of labor or property TO pay it 81.
1t gained exemption from taxation ;
the People must pay the taxes il ought
to pay. McCullock, as the great Mogul
Of money-rings, and capital was in the
lead of this Iniquily. The Virginia
McCullock Bill accompanies the same
sort of Iniquty ; and calamity to VIr'
ginia besides.