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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23
BARBAROUS MISSISSIPPI.

/ \ few weeks ago there was q general cN
preston of indignation and disgust among al
parties at the north over the fact that ont
Henry VI. Dixon, who had announced himsel
as an independent candidate for sheriff of VA
100 county, Mississippi, had been waited upon
! by a mob and at the muzzle of shotguns anC
revolvcrs, compelled to withdraw from The
canvass The trouble IN Yazoo seems to b.
! that large majority Of the voters are negroes
but the whites by sticking together, and doubt
less rcsorting to the process too well under
stood by both parties at the south known as
bulldozing, had been able for several years
past to elect the county officers. Dixon had
been ring leader among these bulldo2crs and
was altogether scaly, worthless character "a
murderer, gambler, bully thief and liar" as
the dispatches describe him; yet he wanted
the white or "demOCratic' nomination for
sheriff and failing to get 1t came out as an in
dependent candidate, taking measures TO thor
oughly organize and arm the negroes in his
support His election thus would have been
inevitable but for the determination of the
whites to crowd him off the track, which they
did in way which appears to be regarded as
entirely Legitimate in Mississippi, though cx-
citing general disapproyal and disgust among
southern papers Of all parties outside of Mis-.
slssppi as well as all parties at the North,
But Dixon, though conserving to the bull
dozers to withdraw, as soon as he cot out Of
their hands published hand.blI,, saying his
withdrawal had been made under durc,S amt
that he was still candidate in
spite of it. This seems to have so euraged the
party, that the candidate on their
ticket for chancery clerk, one James II. Banks
dale, whose defeat as well as that Of the rest of
the ticket he was on was made certain if Dix
on persisted in his candidacy, undertook to
get him off the track by the shotgun argu-
ment, IN which he thoroughly succeeded on
Wednesday, having met Dixon IN the street
and shot him dead.
OF course, though the murder Of this man
Dixon arose out of a dispute nominally be-
tween the democratic party on one side and the
republicans on the other, there is 10 attempt
outside of Iazoo county by any party even
at the South to justify the murder, while at
the North such acts only excite universal con-
iemnation and adherence. We see the Chi
cago Tribune rejoices in the outrage and says
It will be of more help to Foster in Ohio than
he speeches on Wednesday Of Sherman,
Schurz and Taft. Probably it will. There
are men heartless and reprobate enough to re-
oice in and even to become parties to the
leath of their own fathers to inherit their es.
ates, and doubtless stalwartism would be
mean and devilish enough to rejoice in and
become party to las it indeed often did through
he outrage mill under the Grant regimeJ the
leath of thousands of poor negroes at the South
# thereby stalwart votes can be made at the
n orth but among democrats with little ex-
,eption North and South, as indeed among all
good men, such acts only excite poignant re-
gret and adherence.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23

\ grand encampment of the Illinois militia
is to take place at South Park, Chicago, early
in September, under command of Gen. j. 7.
Terrence of the first brigade. The number OF
troops expected to participate on this notable
occasion Is varously estimated at from three
TO FIVE thousand
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23

VIM. OXnard Mcsely, ir. Boston physi-
clan, travelling IN Switzerland, was killed on
the 18th inst by falling over aprecipice while
climbing the Materhorn, one of the highest
peaks of the Alps DR. Mosely was a young
physician of great promise and connected
with some of the oldest and wealthlcst families
of New England
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23

The fair Of the Sandwich Agricultural So
clety will open this year Sept 9th and continue
four days. The society held very successful
fair last year, and promises this year to beat it,
The lrrepressible julie Ilummel Is secretary Of
the society, and is bending all his energies to-
wards making it a success, and what Julie"
undertakes never fails
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23

YELLOW FEvER-There Is so little change
in the yellow fever reports from Memphis OF
the week from those of the week before that
one might stand for both weeks The new ca.
ses per day range from IA to 30 and the deaths
from to 7. About two-thirds of the cases are
negroes, but most of the deaths are whites.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23
OUR CLUBBING.

We are prepared to club the FREE !RADEK
with Observation-Disclosures, furnishing pola
at the prices named postage prepaid Inc Oh,
fer-open to old subscribers or new al any
post office IN the county-ls the CHEAPEST
EVER MADE IN this county:
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Times az %
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Tribune. 100
FREE TRADER and Chicago Weekly Inter ..
ocean .......,,....'. 49,. ...'' ''''''''''' M
FREE TRADER and Prairie Farmer. ...,...' o'o
ntians ........4 40
FREE TRADER and Scribner. ...........''.. 80
FREE TRADER and Goiey's Ladies BOOK 3u
FREE TRADER and Phrenologral Journdt.... 90
FREE TRADER and 81. Nici.olds. ........ 3W
FREE TRADER and DtntorestS Nonhly....,. 90
FREE TRADER and Lttelrs Licinq AE..... 80
FREE TRADER and Western Rara. .......:'. 5'D
FREE TRADER and Moore Rural New Yorker 3'oo
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-08-23

If the republicans don't carry OHIO in 0cto
Der il won't be for want of all the might of the
government at Washington being brought to
bear in their favor. The campaign was for.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
CHEEK
How A Democratic Editor Was Served
for Leaving His Paper to the
Mercy Of a Republican
Friend.


I'm order fully to appreciate the fol-
ing article the reader will bear in
mind that the Union is an old fash
Toned Democratic weekly, and that
every editorial and political paragraph
in the last issue, from which the arti-
Gle in question is taken, are intensely
Republican.
Fayette County Iowa Union.l
TO THE PUBLIC.
We were requested by the editor of
the Union to take charge of the paper
during his absence on the editorial
excursion to Manitoba and to conduct
its columns in a proper manner, and
as we thought BEST We have con-
s%cientiously endeavored to do so.
Feeling that a change of heart as we'll
as politics would purify it, even if it
were only for a week, we have %striyen
to make a good Republican sheet out
Of it. We appreciate the wrath to
come, as well as the terror that the
black cane that We editor always car
rles, will inspire, to say nothing of his
No. 8 boot. Still, we feel secure, for
a time at least; for like the war-horse
of General Mcclellan, we will snuff
the smoke of battle afar of. We are
quite positive that about the time Nc
Chntoek comes back, we will have
business in the Eastern States that
will detaiu us some weeks. We know
what became of John Phoenix. of
California, who transferred a Wing to
a Democratic sheet, but, unlike him.
We have no extra ears or noses to lose.
We have simply done our duty from
a literal Interpretation of the
editors parting instruction to
conduct the paper as we thought
best w further say that we are
not responsible for the previous polit.
ical complexion or utterances of this
paper, and, it is unnecessary to add.
for its future position. We only think
it superfluous to say that the editor is
not responsible for its political sayings
this week. 1t may be a case of mis-
placed confidence" yet we emphati-
cally believe in the old saying, with a
single addition, that all is fair in love.
war and politics. We would like to
place at the head of these columns
tie Republican State ticket and plat
form, but McClintock, who never does
anything by halves, has ~electrotyped
his own platform and ticket, nailed.
soldered and weighted it to the form.
so the readers win have to take the
will for the deed. If there is any.
thing in this issue but what is good
Republican doctrine, the reader must
know that there is something wrong
in Denmark" and that the devil Q
has surreptitiopsly inserted it, or that
the editor had returned and we are
Knocked into pie" Ed. Pho TEN,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Ewing Interviewed.

Washington Post.l
AT the Baltimore and Potomac de-
pot last night the Post espied General
Ewing just as he was starting for
the New York train. He was lust
from Ohio, and the Post asked: How
do matters look for you out there,
General?"
The outlook is good. excellent
he replied, 'and they can't beat us
unless they flood the State with
money. Indeed, | don't believe they
can do it with their money"
How does the Greenback vote
stand?"
Piatt will get one-third of it: he
may get half, but | will get the other
half
Will Piatt run the race through?p
oh, yes; he'll run through. Our
party is united and are ready for hard
work. We are determined, aud | can
say confident, for we feel that the tide
is in our favor.
When will the campaign open?"
About the middle Of August but
| am to make a speech at lancaster
on the 9th inst, and from that date |
shall speak wherever | am wanted. "
The gong rang out its three strokes.
and as the train moved out slowly the
Post shook hands with the next gov.
ernor OF Ohio and left.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Sheriff's Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIC notice is hereby given that by viz
l. tue of a writ of yenditiOni exponas to me
directed from the Honorable Circuit Courl Of
Shelby county, Tenn, in the case of Geo.
w. Anderson VS.. Geo. Il. Morrison, Judgment
rendered on the LIST day of July, 1879, for the
sum Of two hundred and forty four dollars
and twenty-f0ur cents, with interest and
costs of suit, to satisfy said Judgment, etc,
| will, on 49,
wednesday, August 20, 1879,
in legal hours, in front Of the court-house.
Memphis Tenn. u, proceed to sell, to the high.
est bidder, for cash, the following described
property, tO-wit:
All the undivided interest Of the defendant
10 the following described real estate, il helm
his interest in the undivided estate Of III
father, John Morrison, deceased, to-vit.
Situate, lying and being hi the county oi
Shelby, Srate Of Tennessee, and described ne
lots q, p and 20, block 2. east side of Front
street, city Of Memphis, 25 by 100 feet eaeh.
Also block A, containing one and three
quarter l4l acres, north side of Broad street.
Fort Pickering.
Levied OIL as the property of defendant.
interest and costs.
Memphis, July s, 1879,
II, l.. MCGOWAN,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
by DAN q, SHELBY, d. S,
DnBose, Atty for plaintiff.
. Ill III l23
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
PLON-PLON's WIFE.
How Prince Napoleon Happened to Mar
ry Victor Emanuel's Daughter.
London Wnrld.l

London World.l
The history of her marriage is so
we'll known to all the little world of
French society that there can be no
harm in communicating it to the great
one outside. Here it is in its pure
and simple truth. This alliance with
Prince Napoleon was supremely dis
tasteful to her, because of the known
Voltairanism of his views, for she had
been very devoutly brought up. 1t
was Cavour's dOing-part of the price
paid by Italy for the French alliance.
Savoy and Nice and the hand of an
Italian princess we're the emperor's
terms. At the first the king stood
out obstinately against the latter
half Of the bargain, and to the
last only gave a conditional as
sent. lie would try TO persuade
the princess, but he would not force
her inclinations. With characteristic
courage, he himself undertook to an
nounce to her his wishes, or rather
the needs of Italy. There was a great
scene. The princess was fearfully in.
traGtabloi and said she would rather
die than marry a notorious unholiever,
aud begged her father to ask for her
life and he should have it. for any,
thing but this dreadful sacrifice of all
her %inclinatiOns, or at least of all her
antipathies. 1t was no more than
many another girl has said in like
case, but it shook the kings resolu.
ton all to pieces. He trembled a
little when he left her, swore a GOOD
deal, and one Of his oaths was to the
effect that the subject should never
again be mentioned between them.
Then UaVQqT cape-eold, quiet, saga.
cious-and threw him into fresh tor
mentof mind representing all his fair
schemes Of an Italian kingdom fading
away into unsubstantial vision. The
emperor insisted on the alliance as the
one c,Ggse of a secret treaty, and with
out it he would qqt stir a soldier to
put the finishing stroke to the work
on which the house of Savoy had been
iabQfiDg for years. The king wavered
for q moment, bus his better nature
prevailed will never name it 10
her again Cayoqr was by no means
AZ tgO end of his resources: y Let
ne do it instead of Your majesty" HI
was closeted with the pEiBeess for more
than two hours, and when he left het
he went straight to the king: "Sire,
have the princess consent" The
details Of the interview were never
known, even to thes9 mast in tho con
hdence of the Italian court.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12

or BALI victories, or successes by sccis
dent, They must remember that AZ
every crisis in It's history, from the
first shot In Bleeding Kansas TO
the latest struggle 10 the public faith,
the Republican party has conquered
only by appealing to the intelligence
and reason of men. If Ohio is to
lead, it must make the great campaign
this year a powerful educator of pub
lie opinion throughout the country.
Success in Ohio will sway many votes
elsewhere, it is true. But an IVA
.lanche Of irresistible argument. a sus-
talned and earnest appeal TO the pat
riotism and good sense Of the people.
will have an incalculable effect in
other States as well as among the
voters of Ohio. Educate the people
let that be the watchword. The same
patient and faithful teaching which
will lift Ohio far above the grasp of
copperheads and repudiators will ele-
vate public opinion elsewhere. and en-
able the whole nation to see its danger
and its path of safety.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12

Of yellow fever scare During his
absence, Mr.. Eugene Sutelihe, his
eficient deputy, viii attend to the
collection OF Wharfage dues and run
the machine.
The James d. Parker, Captain
Charley Russell, will arrive Monday
morning from the Ohio river with a
full cargo of Western products, and
leaves Tuesday evening next with a
return trip for Cincinnati. Captain
r. w. Lightburne will make engage.
ments for her.
The Josie Harry, Captain Milt
Harry in command, came in this
morning from White river with 500
SKIS seed, l0bales cotton, and sundries.
She leaves this evening at 5 o'clock
for st. Louis, going there to repaint
and fix up for the fall business in
White river.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Engiish and American Farming.


A recent number of the London
Economist gives an interesting, and, as
It would seem, very careful comparison
between farming in England and farm
ing in America. In England one acre
yields on an average thirty bushels
of wheat, while in America it Yields
on an average only thirteen. The
American farmer must, consequently.
cultivate two and a halt acres TO pro-
duca the same quantity of wheat as the
EngllGh farmer raises on one acre.
How is it, then, the paper asks. that
the American farmer can. neverthe-
less, not only compete with the Eng.
llsh farmer, but ever beat him in his
own market? The answer which first
presents itself to this question is the
enormous difference of rent in Eng
land and America; but this difference
is, as the paper shows, nearly, if not
altogether, obliterated by the cost of
transportation from the Western fields
to the English market. The real ad-
vantage which the American farmer
has over the English lies in the cheap
ness of cultivation. In the settlements
along the Red river, in Northern Min
nesota, a pillow may be run through the
alluvial soil for more than fifty miles
In a straight line without encountering
a stone, a tree or a hill, a feature to
which England does not offer the
faintest approach.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Tuesday. July 20, 1879,

IN front of the Planters Insurance Building.
the following described real estate conveyed
in said trust deed, to-wit:
situate, lying and being in the county of
oneloy ana state of Tennessee, and Thir-
teenth civil district, one tract being In sec
ton one u range eight (S). of the Eleventh
surveyor district: beginning at a stake on
the west boundary line of grant No. 1884, the
southeast corner of D. II. Townsend's 64S-acre
tract; thence north with the west line Of
shlu grant No. 1854, ~ chains 25 links to
the center OF NoneOunaL creek, with elm
pointer marked d, on the south bank Of said
creek: thence up said creek, with the cenier
thereof, north 81 S0, east 4 chains 70 links.
north : east 2 chains 65 links, north, So SO'
east . chains - links, south S3o, east 2 chains
% INKS, south CO. east 4 chains ID links.
south 49,, east 3 chains 3 links, south a. s0i
west l chain, south 33o west 8 chains rs links.
south D., east 4 chains 70 links, south lao 30I'
West chain n links, south52' 3U. west / chain
70 INKS, south ~, west 2 chains 8 links, south
~ i, west 5 chains "a links, south s., west 3
chains, south y, east | chain, IS links, south
~ east 3 chains S. links, south ~, east 2
chains 10 links, south So 0, east 3 chains So
links to a stake in the center Of said creek.
with black gum on the south bank of said
creek links west of line marked T, l black
gum y Inks east Of line. marked M: thence
sOuth 70 west "a chains IS links to a
small blaokgum; thence west 3 chains
10 links to the beginning, containing ion
acres, being the same eonyeyed bv pater
Mitchell to D. II. Townsend on the 25th day Of
January, l5lO, and duly recorded I'M the regis
ter's Office of Shelby county, Tenn, in book
"a, page lS9. VIVA
Also one other tract beginning at the same
point with the tract first described, thence
westwardly lO6 chains and / link to n stake.
thenee ~northwardly 90 chains and 81 links Ia
the northern boundary line of the William
Lyttle ZzoO acre truet Of land; thence east.
wardly with the said northern boundary line
1l chains and 81 links to n stake; thence north
rs east, y chains and so links to a stake,
thence eastwardly with said northern hound,
airy line 80 chain and 90 links TO the west
boundary line of grant No. 1884;
vi oil chains 81 links to the beginning;
u oeing the btb acre subdivision Of the VIM.
Lyttle tract Of ESQ acres, the SANE formerly
owned ny, William Jones, and on the eastern
part OF which the dover of Annie d. Jones
was laid off.
Also an undivided one-fourth interest of
the lot of ground situated on the southeast
corner OF Main and Beal streets, in the city Of
Memphis thence south 81 feet front on Main
street to .Townsend's line thence east with
SAID line 10 feet TO Mulberry street; thence
n%orthwardly with the west line Of Mulberry
street ll5 feet to Beal street; thence west
wardly with the south line of Beal street ia
feet to the beginning.
The equity of redemption Is expressly
waived and the title believed to be good. Int
L shall sell and convey only as trustee.
]. p. WINCHESTER, trustee
June ~, loB. l02-l28
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
New York City Taking Steps To-
ward Preserving Good Health.
Special to the Courier. Journnl.l

Special to the Courier Journall
New YORK, July 9.-Steps were
taken to-day by the board of health
to combat diseases of all kinds
that are apt to visit the city and swell
the death-rate in the summer. The
city was divided into fifty districts
below One Hundred and Tenth
street, to each one of which one
of fifty physicians already APP
pointed for sanitary purposes was
assigned. Each doctor is required
TO visit all the apartments eff
each tenement house in his district as
often as possible, and, where there
are sick children found without
medical attendance, to supply them
with medicines furnished by the
health department, if the families
cannot afford to buy them, and to give
free medical advice. The death rate
in this city has alarmingly increased
IN the last few weeks, and the plan
to-day adopted, will, it is believed.
check 1t. Numerous druggists have
volunteered to put up prescriptions
gwen by visiting physicians at the cost
price of drugs. The sanitary corps
will distribute to the parents of sick
children tickets for the floating hos.
pital of st. Johns Guild.
Additional fruit and meat inspec-
tors have also been appointed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12

c~hoicgopen heslld 9Aui prime Do, 6ka
eMcl mlly lhif, e%@8kci tiiefi9f, bA
HORSES AND MULES-Mulos honi
IA to Is hands range from $40 to $50;
large heavy, $50; Horses $50 70 Sl75 for
good to extra saddle and harness stock,
good to common plugs and work horses,
$40 70 $50. Business fair, with demand
chiefly for saddle and harness animals.
LIVE STOCK-Grass-fed beeves from
good to medium, 3@3kc gross; common
and fat cows and heiiers. 2a3c scalawags
and grazing cattle, lL@2Kc. Receipts
light; demand limited, and market
weak. Sheep and lambs are in fair de-
mand and good supply at 81 25@2 25 per
head for lambs; Sl@3 for common sheep,
and 2A@3ke gross for medium to choice
butcher sheep. Hogs, no demand and
market held nominally 2A@4o for rough
70 choice light weights. Cows and calves
Sl0g25 according to grade. Young calves
Sac per head.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Attachment Notice.

Before G.. d. Crockett, j. P. for Shelby coun-
~, Tenn.-I. Lippe VS.. Gus Jones.
IN this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under Section Sl55 of Thompson
a Stegers' code of Tennessee, and returned
4" levied by garnishment on c. p. Hunt Il Co..
who answered that they are indebted To thee
defendant, Gus Jones, in the sum of S65 ei.jf
and affidavit having, been mado that said
sum Of 500, due by open account, and that
the. claim is Just; and that said defendant and
plaintit are both non-residents of this State
and residents of the same State, to-wit, the
state Of Arkansas, and said defendant has
r%audulently, removed his property 10 this
State to eyade the process Of law in the State
OF his domicil; tits therefore ordered that the
said defendant make his personal appearance
before me on the 10Th day Of July, iSi9' al nv
office, No. 2S5 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
at 10 o'clock am, and defend snid attach
ment suit, oil, the same will be proceeded With
ex;perte; and that a copy Of this order be
published once q week for four snccessive
weeks u the Public Ledger.
THIS the 23i day of June, 1875.
@lM-Nl-ll1-l2i CD. CROCKETT, Up.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
Trustees Sale.

~ virtue Of the power vested in George w.
IL Winchester, deceased, as trustee, in a
certain deed Of trust made by D. H. Town
send, on the 18th day of June, 1875, to secHre
certain Indebtedness therein set out, and
wnleh deed Is recorded in the Registers office
of Shelby county, Tenn, in Book No. I0T,
page al, which power has been conferred
upon me by decree Of the Chancery Court In
the case Of Ben May OF al. VS.. I. P. Winches-
ter ct al, No. 1914 II. D., entered ON the 2lst
day OF April, 1879, | will proceed to sell, al
she request Of the benefeiaries in said deed,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-12
COMMERCIAL
PUBLIC LEDGKR 0FPIoE, !
MKMPHIs. Julv 10. 1870 I

MENPHTs, July II, 1879.
Selling exchange on New York to
departing citizens was about the only
business that occupied banks yester-
day. Nearly a hundred thousand
dollars in this class of paper went
oyer the counter Of a single bank and
it is safe to calculate that at lesat half
a million has been issued here within
the past two days. The rates arc
premium, while buying figures are.
nominally par for bills without grace,
and &c discount for sight on points
beyond New York. Mercantile paper
at present is unsettled, with discount
rates nominal at 6 per cent. There is
no movement in local securities.
stocks or bonds.