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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-05-21

The above Sale rs hereby postponed until SATURDAY
THE NINETEENTH DAY OF MAY, A d. 1877, at s.ne
hour and place, by request OF Plaintiffs ami Defendants
5. T. SWIFT, Sheriff.
Carson CITY, April 80, 1877. myI
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
Severe Weather NOrth.

New YORK, January 3.-At noon
to-day the thermometer marked 70
above zero.
Two brakemen on freight trains on
the Central New Jersey and North
Pennsylvania roads were frozen to
death this morning at Buffalo. A
heavy snow storm again blocks the
railroads. The wind is blowing forty
miles an hour and the thermometer s.
above zero.
The signal service bureau at Wash
lngton reports an area of high pres
sure, with very cold northwest winds
has continued, extending southwark
over the entire country, between the
the Rocky Mountains and the Ale
ghenies, cnd is now apparently in cen
trail or lower Missouri valley Clouds
and snow are reported from a por-
tion of the lower lake region and
Northern New England, but elsewhere
clear weather prevails. An area of
unusually low pressure has moved
slowly northward, and is now central,
near Eastport, where the pressure is
lower than has ever been recorded at
the signal service stations. Westerly
gales have prevailed throughout the
middle and east Atlantic coast and
the lake region.
The water in locomotives of the ele-
waited road was frozen last night, and
the starting of trains was delayed an
hour this morning.
EVANSVILLE, January 3.-Ice is
making rapidly; mercury at zero; wind
vest gauge ten and half.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
ST. LOUIS.
Baptist Church and Mary Institute De-
strOyed by Fire.

ST. Louis, January3.-The Second
Baptist church, Rev. w. w. Boyd,
pastor, corner of Beaumont and Lo-
Gust streets, took fire between 10 and
IL o'clock this morning, and is now
burning furiously, with good prospects
of being wholly destroyed.
The Mary Institute, branch of the
Washington University, situated on
the opposite corner, is now said to be
on fire in the roof and upper story.
All the scholars got out of the build
ing safely.
Both buildings are entirely new,
and among the finest in the city. The
church has not yet been dedicated.
The weather is intensely cold, the
mercury 19' below zero, and the fire.
men labor under great disadvantages.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

Cincinnati Enquirer, 1st.l
Last Sunday the undersigned felt it
to be his duty to make a manifesto or
certain explanations to the Cathe dral
congregation and to all who take the
trouble to read them. 1t has been his
fate or good luck, to work hard for his
living since his early years. Since the
age Of a little more than eighteen
years, he supported himself, and helped
his hard-working parents to pay for
his education. At twenty he entered
a seminary in Fredrick county, Md,
where he afterwards became a professor.
There hewas made president, and after
six or seven years was consecrated
bishop of Cincinnati. He had official
ly to contract debts. As professor and
bishop he had no salary to carry on
the work of God. When he left the
college he was so poor as to be obliged
to borrow $500 to pay his way and the
expenses of two or three young stu
dents to Cincinnati, and for grocery
bill for provisions consumed here be-
fore his arrival. Such were his begin
nings here. At that time there was
but one small church in Cincinnati.
For so many others since erected he
had to beg or borrow. He cannot ac-
cuse himself before God of having
expended anything in waste or extrav-
agance. A carriage and a pair of
horses kindly presented to him by the
congregation he found too costly to
retain, so he quickly disposed of them.
So it happens that for building lots,
churches and asylums, in which there
were three hundred orphans, for semi
nary and its support to a great extent,
and for various necessities he is now
pretty heavily in debt, but with Gods
merciful aid he hopes in no long time
to pay all the diocesan debts, and if
he will not be relieved from the heavy
burden of the Episcopate which he
has earnestly entreated the Holy
Father to relieve him from, he trusts
in the charity and goodness of the
clergy and laity to pay all.
j, B. PURCELL.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

CINCINNATI, January 3.-The river
is falling. Ice very heavy but still in
motion. Clear and very cold.
Gorges are reported at Stewards
Landing, above the city, and at North
Bend.
CAIRO, January 3.-Departed-An-
ME P. Silver, New Orleans, midnight.
Navigation is practically suspended.
The ice reaches from shore to shore in
the Ohio, and is moving slowly. No
trains crossed the Ohio this morning
the ice being too heavy for the transfer
steamers to clear Thermometer re-
cords 81 below Zero.
PITTsBURG, January 3.-The river
is about three feet four inches. The
marks are covered by snow and ice.
Weather clear and very cold.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
CRIMINAL COSTS.
The Appropriation for Their Payment
Exhausted.

The whole amount Of the appropri-
tion for costs in criminal prosecutions
having been exhausted, Comptroller
Gaines has issued the following letter
to clerks, sherifs, jailers, and others
interested:
"Sir-YOur claim for costs in Grim
inal prosecutions has been received,
and [ regret that the same cannot be
audited and warrants issued for the
amount promptly. But you are doubt
less aware that the last legislature
limited the issuance Of warrants by
appropriating a special amount for
each account, and beyond or in excess
of this amount the comptroller cannot
issue his warrant. In the case of
criminal prosecutions, the amount ap-
propriated has been exhausted, and no
further warrant can issue on that ac
count until further provision shall
have been made by the approaching
session of the legislature. As soon as
this has been done warrants will be
issued covering amount of your claim
and sent to your address. "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
A Great Pigeon ROost.

Joplin MO- NeWs.l
Such scene as is presented at the
great wild pigeon roost In the Indian
Territory, some fifty miles southwest
of this city, is very uncommon and
has no equal anywhere in America.
The 'roost" includes spac eof about
forty acres in the timber, and when
they return to the roost in the evening
the trees are perfectly black with
them. The Indians who own the land
will not permit other parties to take
advantage of the game, but hire men
who sit at the roots of the trees and
shoot and throw clubs all night, and
the nextmorning the ground is literally
covered with pigeons, and they are
gathered up, loaded into wagons and
hauled to this city, where the Indians
realize from ten TO twenty-five cents
per dozen for them. During the day
only now and then a pigeon can be
seen in the vicinity Of the rOost, but
they invariably return at night Those
who own the land say they have killed
dozens of wagon loads this fall, and
still the number does not seem to
diminish in the least, nor does the
nightly slaughter seem to intimidate
them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
CRHuaIfiea.

CINCINNATI, January 3.-Mrs Mag
gle Hagely, living on Ward street, near
Urbana, left her house for a short
walk yesterday, leaving her infant on
the bed in the care of four year old
daughter. The baby began crying and
the little daughter attempted to take
it up to soothe it, when the babe fell
upon the floor, breaking its neck.
Matte Cary, nine years old, living
near Vincennes, started for school a
mile distant, yesterday morning, and
some time afterwards was found lying
on the ground insensible and badly
frozen.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

to sick headache, that infallibls symptom Of
disordered stomach, liver and bowels.
Many suffer from it as many as three or fsur
times week. They do SO needlcssly, for
Hostetter's Stomach BitterI, BY toning the
digestive organs and regulating the bowels
and liver, removes the cause, and dispels the
painful symptom. Tho intimate sympathy
between the brain and the abdominal region
causes the slightest disorder affecting the lat
ter TO be reflected, as 1t were, in the organ Of
thought. The reform instituted by the Bitters
when the digestive, seeretive and eyaeuative
functions are Ia a state Of chaos, has other
and more beneficial results, viz the complete
nutrition Of the whole physical economy, the
restoration Of appetite and repose, and an
increase in the power Of the system TO resist
diseases Of a malarial tyne
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
A Vicious Husband.

YORK, PA, January 3.-George
Einsig, of Bullfrog alley, owing to
drink has been separated from his
wife. He called upon her last evening
at the house of her father Andrew
Gehring, and, upon her refusing to
live with him, he cut her throat and
she died soon afterwards. Einsig was
seized by Gehring, who carried an in
fant child fthe former in his arms,
but the murderer cut him both in the
face and head and fed. He was sub
scqently arrested.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
Attachment Notice.

No. 2llt Before J. s. Galloway, ]. P. for
Shelby county, Tenn. Joseph MulcAhy VS..
Samuel Duncan.
/ n this cause an attachment having been
1 sued out under section 1856 Of the Code Of
Tennessee, and returned, levied upon the
property Of the defendant" and affidavit hay-
ing been made that defendant is indebted to
the plaintiff in the sum Of $3.50, due
by account, and that the claim is
just, and that the defendant is non
resident Of the State Of Tennessee; it is there
fore ordered that said defendant make her
personal appearance before me on the Sth day
Of February, 1879, at u m. at my office, No. 81
Madison st., Memphis, Tenn. and defend said
attachment suit within the time prescribed by
law or the same will be proceeded with ex-
partei and that copy Of this order be pub
lished once week for four weeks in the Pub
lie Ledger.
This the Sd day of January, 1879.
J. S. GALLOWAY, Up,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
LEGAL.
Attachment Notice.

No. 2l09-Before ]. S. Galloway, ]. P. fo-
Shelby county, Tenn.-M. Rosin vs.. Samuel
Duncan.
IN this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under section 1856 Of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned "leVied upon the
property Of the defendant, and affidavit haV-
ing been made that defendant is indebted to
the plaintiff in the sum Of SlO.S0, due by
account, and that the claim is just, and
that the defendant is . nonresident of tho
State Of Tennessee; il is therefore ordered
that said defendant make his personal appear
anee before me on the Sth day of February,
1879, at u m, at my olioe, No. "a Madison st. +,
Memphis, Tenn, and defend said attachment
suit within the time prescribed by law, or the
same will be. proceeded with ex-parte and
week for four weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the Sd day Of January, 1879.
l0S ia -l20-l26 j. s. GALLOWAY, P,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
FOREIGN.

DUBLIN, January 3.-General Grant
arrived this morning, accompanied by
General NOyes, United States minister
to France. The ex- President was met
by the lord mayor. There was no
public demonstration.
PARIS, January 3.-Twenty-four
communists in New Caledonia have
been pardoned because of services
against the insurgents.
LONDON, January 3.-There is an
other heavy snowstorm in Scotland
and it is piercingly cold here. Outdoor
labor is again interrupted and rail
way blockade is feared. In France,
owing to the rapid thaw, the rivers are
overHowing their banks and much
damage has been done.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

PEOPLE living in the South and West
are exposed to the dangers of fever and
ague, bilious and malarlal fevers. They
are equally liable to be attacked by dysen
terry, cholera and similar diseases. They
should take especial precautions against
these dangers, and in no way can they do
SO more surely than by purifying the blood
and strengthening and toning up the sys-
tenn with Reeds Gilt Edge Tonic. It is
an unfsiling remedy for all malsrial dis
eases and cholera disorders.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
Indications.

WASHINGTON, January 3.-For
Tennessee and the Ohio valley, and
upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, colder northwest, probably
backing to southwest winds, rising,
followed by stationary barometer, and
generally clear weather.
For the lake region northwest to
southwest winds, stationary or lower
temperature, rising barometer, partly
cloudy weather and numerous SHOWS.
The rivers will generally fall.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The Hartford Post advises each of
the candidates for governor in Maine
to prepare message for the legisla-
ture, and so not let the successful one
run the risk of keeping that body
waiting while he writes it, as hap
pened in Connecticut in 1850. Mr..
Thomas H. Seymour was elected by
the legislature, as the result of a trade
between the Democrats and Free
Sellers, the State offices being divided
between the two parties. A committee
sent to notify Colonel Seymour of his
election found him in the back yard
in the act of repairing a dilapidated
barrel, and the military escort had to
waste an hour or more while he pre-
pared the short message which he de-
livered to the assembly on taking the
oath
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

LIKE many Western men of prom
inence, Governor-elect St. John, of
Kansas, has had a life of vicissitude.
AT the age of nineteen he was mar
ried, but found himself widower at
twenty. He made an adventurous
journey across the plains to California.
Once he was chased by Indians for
two days, running over plains of ice.
Starting for South America he was
wrecked among the Sandwich Islands
without money. When next heard of
he was practicing law in Charleston,
ILL.,, and afterward he fought through
the war, gaining the rank of colonel.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

THE report that Cyrus w. Field in
tended to erect monument at Tappan
over the remains of Major Andre, the
British spy, who was executed in 1880,
has evoked much bitter comment
Mr.. Field says to-day that he doesn t
intend to build monument, only to
erect simple stone to show where the
body was buried. He says the idea
was suggested during visit to the
spot with Dean Stanley They found
a man of91 years, whose mother wit
messed the execution, and by his aid
they were able to fix the exact spot of
the grave to which the body was re-
moved in 1921. Mr.. Field offered to
put up the stone if the Dean would
write an inscription. The dean has
written the inscription, and Field says
he will not be deferred from putting
up the slab by any clamor the act may
excite
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
The Texas Partition scheme.

Washington Cor. New York World
The old story of cutting Texas into
five States, after the next census, in
order to place ten new senator's form
the Southwest is revived. Senator
Maxey emphatically denies the truth
of this rumor. He says that every
nlnety-nine voters out of hundred
in Texas are opposed to a division of
the State, "The aspiration of our
people, said Mr.. Maxey, is to make
Of Texas great commonwealth, bear
ing the same relation to the South
that New York does to the East. We
will have, at the lowest estimate, fit
teen new members of congress after
the next census. There is no object
to be gained by having ten senators.
The Democratic majority in the sen.
ate is assured for a long time to come.
Fifteen or twenty new Democratic
members of the house from one State
will be of value to the party. The
motto of the people of Texas on the
subject Of. dividing the State is, that
in union there is strength. ,"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

36S,774 in excess of last year. Of
these 2lS,6@ were foreigners, of whom
64,OA were English, 23,524 German,
q, ,49 Belgians, l5,4l7 Italians, 1850
Americans, 1924 Spaniards and 9O72
AuStrianS. Thirty-six royal person
ages visited the exhibition.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

A WASHINGTON correspondent of
the Cincinnati Commercial says that
President Hayes remarked to him last
week that the Blaine committee
would not accomplish substantial re-
suits, but there were already indica-
tions that it would end where the
Potter committee ended-in nothing.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

CONSUL MosEBY on leaving Wash
ington for his post in China the other
day told his friends that "he would
return to Washington on the 4th of
March, 1881, to be present at the in
auguration Of General Grant as Presi-
dent for the third term"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The expenses of winding up the
affairs of the Freedman's Bank, in
cluding fancy salaries to commission
ers, one of whom is Creswell, Grants
postmaster general, and rich pickings
to lawyers, have amounted, thus far, to
$3l8,i53 GA, just one-half of the divi-
dends paid.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

ACCORDING to an English NJ. P,
the most horrible looking crowd in
the world is Glasgow mob. He
says: /" A Glasgow mob is the very
worst mob in the world. Swearing in
England is very bad, but in Scotland
it is awful. There was but one re-
spectacle man at this meeting; he
lived at Ruther Glen, and has since
been hanged for murder"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The common belief that the green
back movement in Maine has expired
is not shared by the Portland (Me.)
Advertiser rep which asserts that
greenbaek lecturers are travelling all
over the State, and after citing the
fact that new greenback newspaper
has been established in Portland, says +:
ut is not the q, 900 Democrats, but
the $4,000 Greenbackers that must be
beaten next summer. "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

WINTERS are SO severe in Wiscon-
sin that this year the sexton of the
village of Kewaunee has prepared, in
advance, six homes for as many per.
sons who are expected to join the ranks
Of the silent majority before spring.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

AFTER a recent division in the
house of lords, Lord Beaconsfeld was
asked "how long he thought the con-
servative government would last2"
The premier replied: GAS long as it
pleaSes providence to spare Mr.. Glad
stone to the country"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The Atlanta Constitution says of
Bob Toombs: Take him all in all,
he is comparatively harmless. He has
no voice in elections, and no aspira
tions for the future, save to die as he
has lived, an honest man; and when
his life comes to be written and his
utteranceS collated, it will be discov-
cred that America has never produced
a purer or more conservative states
man than Robert Toombs."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
Anna DiCItinsOn's Circumstances

AAhi'otl
On her retirement from the lecture
Dickinson had Big bank S''ac accounts %rSs
Two hundred dollars night for years
through the lecture season, il was
thought, ought to have secured a snug
sum for the rainy day It's perhaps
nobody's business how the lady man
aged to keep her name off the books
of banking institutions, or why she
was never called upon to discount
large notes. She did so manage, and
that is enough. To her credit be it
said, however, that while she was lee
turing she was generally flush, and
was not by any means stingy. But
once upon a time she lost her wits and
invested all she had in some land
speculation in the West which proved
unfortunate.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

WASHINGTON Star: General Sher-
man says he has seen all the royal
ladies at European courts, and has
never seen one who is superior to Mrs.
Hayes, or who could discharge the
duties Of her position at the White
House with more grace. He consid
ers Mrs. Hayes not only a handsome
woman, but one endowed with many
rare qualities of mind and disposition,
an opinion in which few who know her
can fail to coincide.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

TEXAS has 1900 convicts, of whom
some 500 are kept in prison, and the
rest are hired out to work on railroads
and farms. One, undergoing a life
sentence, is hired by his wife, and lives
comfortably at home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The death of Princess Alice, Of
Hesse, conveys warning which should
not be forgotten. The physicians who
have Investigated the cause of the
peculiar virulence Of the diptheria
which attacked her family with such
fatal results have agreed that the rapid
spread Of the infection was entirely
due TO imprudent kissing. A child
with a sore throat ought not to be per-
mitted to kiss any Of its companions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
GENrpAI MARorrs 7

GENERAL MARCUS j. WRIGHT,
agent of the war department, to collect
official and private documents bearing
on the war of the rebellion, has made
arrangements with Jefferson Davis to
copy such papers as the ex-Confede-
rate President has in his possession.
Mr.. Wright has secured already many
Confederate telegraphic copy books.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

A passenger on the first steamboat
that cut through the waters of the
Hudson, Dr. William Perry, lives at
Exeter, n. II. lie celebrated the
ninotieth anniversary of his birth the
other day,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The silver wedding which ex-At-
torney General Taft celebrated last
week was the twenty-ffth anniversary
of his second marriage. he was mar
ried the first time in 1841.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

A Letter from California says that
Duke Gwin is not a candidate for sec
rotary of the senate, and that he is in
receipt of an ample revenue from his
gold mine, which he looks after him
aalf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03
LOST BANK STOCK.
NOTICE.
Union and Planters Bank Stock.

Union and Planters Bank Stock.
l. given that my certificate Of stock No. 42S,
for forty shares Of stock in the Union and
Planters Bank Of Memphis, located in Mem
phiS, Tennessee, dated December q, 1876, and
issued by said bank to me SIS Mrs. A. 4. John
SON. my former name, Was destroyed by fire,
and that will make application to said bank
the room and stead Of the said certificate de-
stroyed by hre. This, 9th day Of December,
1878. llO4-123 MRS. A. E. BUCK.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

1t is very difficult to keep our little
ones free from the disorders of baby
hood, and we advise all mothers to
keep DR.. Bulls Baby Syrup handy in
case Of need.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

Mr.. w. W. CoRooRAN, of Wash
ington, who has just passed his eighty
first birthday, is exceedingly well, and
manages his business thoroughly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

Out of twenty-three jurymen at the
recent session of the United States
Court at Mobile, twenty-one were Re-
publicans.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

TENNESSEE begins the new year
with debt in bonds and interest Of
$24,274,Ol7.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

BETWEEN the lst of May and the
3lst of October 47l,792 strangers
stayed in Partisan hotels and lodging
houses, being 46,O2l in excess of the
visitors to the 1867 exhibition, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-03

The legislature which assemblies in
Albany next Tuesday will be the One
Hundred and Second legislature of
the State of New York.