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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
Sheriff. Sale of Real Estate

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pUBL1C notice is hereby given that By viz
4 tue or . Venditioni expOnas to me direotsd
from the Honorable Circuit Court Of Sbeibv
county, Tenn, in the case Of j. N. Ford ",
3. A. f~ToYine, Judgment rendered on the 1st
day OF June, 1873, for the sum of ono bundraJ
and ninety-two dollars and seventy oents
with interest and costs of suit, to satisfy said
Judgment, ETC., l will, on
Wednesday, February sc, 1879.
II legal hours, in front Of tho oourt-bors.
memphls, Tenn, proceed to sell to the hiShest
oIauer, ior cash the following described prop.
Lots 81, IS, 80 and 40, block q. OF Prov;,.
SUBDIVISION, Fourteenth civil district. Sbsibv
county, as shown by plat reRistered In M
REGISTERS Office Of Shelby county. plat RooP
/ page, lOl. Lot 81 begins on Orleans stSest
~ southwest corner Of lot SO; thence east 16S 4
Ieet 70 an alley thence south so feet; thence
~ ITO iset 70 orleans street; thence north
to the beginning. Lot 80 begins al sontb-aatt
corner OF lot 81; thence east l7l.5 feat IN an
alley; thence south so feet: thence Wsst ia (
Ieet 70 orleans street; thence north IL tba ~
SHINING. Lot 81 begins at southwest cornsr ~
lot 81; thence east l74.5 feet toan aIleyS tbenoa
soutn ~ teet; thence west III feet; thencs
noItn ~ Ieet 10 the beginning. Lot 40 begins
az southwest corner Of lot 81; thenoe oSsf w
feet; thence south so feet; thence vast 10 !
the beginning. "Vi'n oo ieet 10
Levied on as the property of defendant
terest and costs. n'' IN
Memphis, January %, 1879.
O, j, L. MCGOWAN,
nm a 6sharlf Of Shelby County, Tenn.
II. b. Martin, Attorney for nIairt;E
lS-l4l-l7 Pi"Nn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
MISCELLANEOUS.

Inclement.
Valentine day.
Cloudy and cool.
Snow-storm last evening.
Rather quiet on the levee.
Little movement in freights.
The Andy Baum, for Memphis
passed Louisville yesterday.
The Hannibal ferryboat was cut
down last Saturday by the ice.
The Joe Kinney from New Orleans
passed up last night for st. Louis.
The Paris G. Brown is due up Sun.
day morning, bound for Cincinnati.
The Hattie Rowland left Littl,
Rock yesterday for Memphis.
The Future City and barges left
Cairo last evening for New Orleans.
The Robert Mitchell left Cincinnati.
last evening for New Orleans.
The Golden Crown left New Or.
leans last evening for Cincinnati.
The Cons Millar will leave Cincin
natl to-morrog evening for Memphis
The Orceola Bell is tho regular Sat
urday mail packet for the upper coast
The Guiding Star from New Or
leans arrived at Cincinnati this morn.
ing.
The Sam Roberts and barges and U
P. Schenck from the Ohio river ar
rived at New Orleans yesterday.
The Mary Houston, en- route from
Cincinnati to New Orleans, passed
Vicksburg yesterday noon,
Local Inspectors Ralston and Gron
auer left Little Rock yesterday 70
Fort Smith on an inspecting tour.
The H. NJ. Norton and barges, el
route from the Ohio to New Orleans
passed down yesterday.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
NffOn.

The market opened this morning
quiet with a moderate inquiry at yes
terday's prices.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.

~
The river here declined 4 inches il
the past a hours ending at noon, and
now stands 26 feet 6 inches above low
water mark; at st. Louis it rose Z
inches, with 8 feet 2 inches on the
gauge at Pittsburg 80 inches, with
II feet 3 inches on the gauge; at Gin
cinnati it declined Z inches, with q
feet l inch on the gauge; ut Louis
vile 2 inches, with 8 feet 9 inches il
the canal at Evansville it is falling
with y feet on the gauge. Cumber,
land river declined 33 inches at Nash.
vile, with II feet ON the gauge. Ar.
kansas river is receding at Littll
Rock, with 8 feet on tho gauge. Whit
river is falling steadily, with a goot
boating stage from Jacksonport to thl
mouth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14
RIVER INTELLIGENCE
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.

BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
Friar's Point, Coahoma........ ............5 IN
Island 81, Jay Hardy-..m....................5 p. N
Nicksburg, Red Wing~.""......".........5 pm
ARRIVED.
Steamer Belle Memphis, st. Louis.
Joe Kinney, New Orleans.
" Belle of Shreveport, N. Orleans.
Josie Harry, White river.
Coahoma, Friar's Point.
=" Vint Shinkle, Cincinnati.
d" Jay Hardy, Island 81.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Illinois, Arkansas City.
Geo. w. Cheek, Friar's Point.
" City Of Helena, st. Louis.
" Belle Memphis, Vicksburg.
Osceola Belle, Osceola.
w. H. Harrison, Ohio river.
3" Belle of Shreveport, st. Louis.
" Joe Kinney, st. Louis.
IN PORT.
Thompson Dean, Coahoma, Red Wing
Mark Twain, jay Hardy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-02-14

RY virtue Of a deed Of trust executed In ma
ID BY II. L. Douglass, on the 25th Of Feb
rgary, 1876, and recorded IN the r~eeisteT
page 81 | will,
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
SOMEBODY'S CHILD.

Somebody's child is dying with the
flush of hope on his young face and an
indescribable yearning to live and take
an honored place in the world beside
the companions of his youth. And
somebody's mother is thinking of the
time when that dear face will be hidden
where no ray of hope can brighten it
when her heart and home will be left
desOlate-because there was no cure for
consumption. Reader, if the child be
your neighbours. take this comforting
word to the mothers heart before it Is
too late. Tell her that consumption is
curable, that men are living to-day,
aged, robust men, women the physicians
pronounced incurable at the age of
twenty five, because one lang had been
almost destroyed by the disease. DR..
Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is
most efficient alternative for separating
the scr0fulous mater from the blood
and lungs, and imparting strength to the
system. 1t has cured hundreds of con-
sumptives.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
For the SPECTATOR.
MOllfe Replies to "Yiolet."

DEAR SPECTATOR Il was astonished
to see defence, or rather cold blooded
and unprovoked enconium, on the au-
thor of "Songs of the SHENANDOAH in
late number of your valuable paper
l wonder at the peculiar taste of oul
sister, who writes over the tender sigma
ture of "Violet.". She certainly must
have written in vein Of the coolest
irony, but, if irony was intended, it was
positively obscure and hardly traceable.
1t may be that "Vioiet" occupies q
tender relationship to this budding ge-
MUS, and was sincere in her gushing
admiration of his grotesque antics. A
great many distinguished fellows had
their feminine inspirations and their
lady patronesses, and possibly our i'm
pressible sister may be to him what
Tullia was to Cicero, Ninon to Voltaire,
Blessington to Byron, and the ideal
Lenore to poor Edgar Poe. I don't
think that she docs right then to lavish
so much admiration on him, and at the
same time deDounce us all as unappre-
ciative people, and call us all "old TO-
gies" because we are not charmed to
death by his stale imagination and dis
jointed syntax.
The fact that he has been writing all
the "B0 peep" rigamarole, and crowdine
out better selections from the poetry
columns of your well-conducted pa.
per, ought to amply satisfy her, for I
think it shows conclusively that we
are the most patient and long. suffering
people on the face of the earth.
l don't pretend to know anything
about poetry. am rustic, and my
range of reading is limited; but 1 do
declare that the man of the rhyming
proclivity does not know anything more
about scanning than the unregenerated
Afghanistan does of Moody and San
keys revival hymns. Take this for
example:
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
ass STAUNTON, VA, TUESDAY, MARCH 25, 1879

associate, is found appended to an ad.
dress couched in the most elegant Ian
guage, and breathing the most exalted
patriotism, directed to the Convention,
and responded to by Washington, Hen.
ry, Harrison, Lee, Bland and others
He was member also of the second
Convention, which met in Williamsburg
in 1776, the year that tried mems souls.
His name does not appear among those
of the of1ioSfs in the Revolution, but it
is certain that such man did well the
part which fell to him in the struggle. In
1888 he was appointed, in conjunction
with Col. Thomas Marshall, surveyor of
the public lands in Fayette County, then
constituting more than one-third of
Kentucky. Heopened an office in Ken
lucky that year, and was one of the
presiding Judges of the first Court ever
held in Kentucky, in 1888. He remov-
ed his family to what is now known as
Mercer County in 1884, and was one of
the presiding Justices for the first Coun-
ty Court held in Kentucky in Harrods-
burg in 1856. Henceforth he seems to
have won the title of "Jatdge." He
presided over all Of the ten Conventions
held in Kentucky from 1854 to 1890, and
in the latter year was President of the
Convention that framed the first State
Constitution. In 1887 he received from
his friend, President Washington, the
appointment as first u. s.. Marshal for
Kentucky. and held the Office for years
with honor. He lived to the age of 80,
respected for his strong sense, intelli-
gence, honesty and high character, and
died hOnored of all, at the residence of
his son, Colonel Joseph Mcdowell, near
Danville, September 25, 1877.
The marriage of Judge Samuel Nc
Dowell with Mary McClung grated an
other strain of silent fighting blood on
the tough Mcdowell stock, developing
in their descendants in the line of duty
and not in personal rencounters. John,
their Oldest son, was born in Virginia,
in December, 1857, and married his cous-
in Elizabeth, daughter of James Nc
Dowell and Elizabeth Cloyd (or Nc |
Clung.) He held the rank of Captain in |
the Revolution, in which he fought from |
the beginning to the close. Collins gives
his name as one of the first lot-holders
in Lexington, in 1881, but I apprehend
this is a mistake. Certainly, he bought |
a lot in 1888, and brought his family to
Kentucky in 1884, when he. settled in
Fayetts County. near Lexington. He
was one of the first three Majors COM
missioned by Shelby, Immediately after
the State was formed. in 1892, the other
two being his brother James, and John
Morrison. He represented Fayette
County in the first Legislature held in
Kentucky, and was reelected for six
successive terms. In the war Of 1912 he
was Major. His son James married
Susan, daughter of General Shelby, and
was a soldier in the same conflict His !
daughter Mary married Major James
Shelby, who also fought in the war of
1912. His son Nashe, by second wife,
was the celebrated SURGEON and lecturer,
and founder of the medical college of st.
Louis, and married sister of the we'll
known DIR. Daniel Drake.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
From the Cincinnati Commercial.1
The McD0WeIIs and their Connexions.
SKETCH OF AN HISTORICAL FAMILY.
IContinued from, last ,veek.1

Continued. from last aUeek.
LOSING gives the name of the Nc
Dowell who commanded one of the
North Carolina regiments at Kings
Mountain as Charles, but letter writ
ten mere than fifty years since by the
wife of Colonel Abraham Buford, who
was living at the time the battle
was fought, and personally knew the
parties, states that this Colonel Joss ph
Mcdowell was also in the engagement
where Ferguson with his regulars and
tories was cut to pieces by the Virginians
under Campbell, and the North Caro-
linans under Shelby, Sewer, Mcdowell,
Cleveland and Winston. He seems to
have been a worthy chip from the gnarl-
ed Scotch-Irish tree which has given to
this country a race SO prolific of soldiers
Colonel Joe Mcdowell, with his family,
moved to Woodford county, Kentucky.
in 1854. One of their daughters, Sarah,
married Mr.. Matthews, and was the
mother of the Rev. Jos. Mcdowell
Matthews, the celebrated teacher, of
Hillsboro, Ohio. Another daughter,
Margaret, married General Allen Trim.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
DAWN.
By WILLIAM rENNYSON HEATON, AUTHOR
SONGS OF THE SHENANDOAH.

By WILLIAM rENNYsoN HEAToN, AUTHOR OF
SONGS OF THE SHENANDOAH.
Above the tower the bright new moon
Hung like crescent of gold,
And the bells sweet anthem from turrets
gloom
Out upon the silence rolled.
One star beside the western gate
Heralded the coming of the night,
While the hills in calmness seemed to wait
Heavens benediction of light.
Now where on the circumference of
creation is there people but this that
der weekly infections like the above.
It may be that we are not well read like
our sister, and that our taste is not re-
true, for if we had been educated up to
nice appreciation of regularity in
rhythm alone, these fugitive pieces from
the "sweet siNger" of the Shenandoah
would have killed us all long ago. His
old pegasus goes on three legs, and it
does appear that he employs the re-
manning one in kicking every vestige of
grammar into infinite space. And then
he is such tireless and enduring old
hack. II VIM. Tennyson had gone to
the livery stable of Helicon, and asked
the "Tuneful Three" to supply him
with steed that was "bound to run all
night and bound to run all day,u and
indeed to run on forever, they could not
have supplied him better. And yet this
poetry" is to be collected into "cas-
ket" to become the pride of this and
succeeding generations. Oh. now, "Vi-
olet," do come down a little. Moderate
your transports somewhat, and bring
your critical judgment to bear for a
moment. We again assert that we are
not versed in poetry, and only recall
dactyls and spondees as unknown jar
gon which our teacher talked to us,
when, maybe, "Violet" and ourselves
sat under the same academic roof; but
if well instructed child could not write
better rhymes at twelve years than these
we are talking about. we will consent to
read every line he has written, and
take our bed hopelesssly invalided for
the rest of life. Making butter and
pound cake is much more in my line
Mr.. Editor, than writing for newspa.
pers, but think it is too hard for all us
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

DICKENS AND HIS WIFE.-Rev. e.
B. Tuttle, the author of the report about
the cause of difference between Dick
ems and his wife, says that he received
his information from Cruikshank, who
said that the sole cause of the trouble
was that Mrs. Dickens persisted in crit
izising and making suggestions concern
ing his writings. Finally he insisted
on her occupying separate apartments
in the house. She declined and left the
house, with her son, and went to live
with Mrs. Cruikshank. There was no
immortality anywhere involved. Dick
ems and Cruikshank parted solely on
the temperance question, Cruikshank
being an extreme radical, while Dick
ems punished all the brandy. The al
lusion to Dickens's naughty manner
was not Mr.. Tuttle's.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
In Russia taxes are collected in tbi

In Russia taxes are collected in this
way. A peasant, representative OF q
district comprising several villages, is
charged with the duty of collecting
certain amount of money, and it is the
business of the people to distribute the
taxes among themselves as they like the
best. For the prompt collection, in the
first place, the representative is respon-
sible, and in case OF tardiness he is i'm
prisoned for week with common GRIM
inals, and furnished with food at cost
of three cents day. A district is
obliged to pay for all its members,
whether they are actual residents, or
have gone elsewhere, or are in the ar
my. In casea tax collector is unable
10 do his duty, he reports to the author
tiles; then the police appear armed with
rods, and if the rods do not secure the
desired result the property of the delin-
quent is sold at auction.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

what city in France is man about
to visit when he goes to get married?
he Is going to Havre (have her) An
old bachelor being asked the question
promptly replied. ITO Reuenn (ruin.)
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

Luv Is one ov them kind of diseases
that yu Kant git, nor git rid ov, with
ehny certainty, emmy more than yu kan
the rumatiZ.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

REGvT business you can engage in. s5
I'D / to $40 per day made by any work.
er of either sex. right in their own localities
Particulars and samples worth S5free. Improve
bTINsoN q Co., Portland Maine. apr2-ly
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

How do you make Maltese cross ?n
was the question before the Institute.
And one of the school marms answered !:
"Tread on her tail.h
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
&iaii;siola Spectator.
RATES OF ApyERr1s1xa.

ADVERTISEMENTS will be inserted at the rate
of 90 per square of eight lines or less. for the
first insertion, and so cents for each subseq uent
insertion.
Aa-A liberal discount will be made or adver.
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M Obituaries, Announcements OF Candidates
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or private character, will be charged for as ad-
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Address-.sStsunton Spectator StsuntOn- Va.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

DIR. Holmes says that crying widows
marry first. There is nothing like
weather for transplanting.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

A Tailor who was asked if the close
of the year made him melancholy, said
yes, until they were settled.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

1t has been asked, when rain falls,
does it ever get up again 7? Of course it
does, in dew time.
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25
Dress-M0zsiag Department.

Cloaks. Dresses, &C., made to ORDER promptly,
in superior manner, and in the latest styles, at
moderate rates. Orders solicited. Rules for
with estimate of cost, sent upon application.
~ TIE RMS CASH. ga
All orders amounting to 500 or over, will be
sent free OF freight charges by Express. Parties
having their Goods sent c. o. D., must pay for
return of money, and II strangers to US, must
remit at least Is (one-ntirdD of the amount with
the order. febZ7-1y
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

H. M. MATHEWS. ALEX. F. MATHEWS.
MATHEWS & MATHEWS,
NI ATTORNEYS-AT-LAW
LEWISBURG WEST VA,
practice regularly in the Courts of Greenbrier,
Monroe, Pocahontas and Nicholas counties, w;
Courts for the District of w. Va.
ABParticular attention paid to Collections
may lily
Staunton spectator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1849-1896, 1879-03-25

*The Rev. Jos. Med. Trimble, d. d.. now OF
Columbus, o. and DIR. Cary A. Trimble SON
in-law of Gov. Allen Macarthur and brothe m /
law of Gov Wm Allen. Dr. Cary A. Trimble
represented the Chillicothe District In Con
gress. Another son of Gov. Trimbie, Col M. m
H. Trimble, represented Highland county IN
Ohio Volunteers in the late war and was one OF
the eleuen colonels bagged by Gen. Jackson at
Harper's Ferry. Col. w. III. Trimbie, q young
er brother of Gov Trimble, distinguished him.
self in the war of 1872 and died whilst q mem
Der of the u s. Senate, l6 years after the sortie
of Fort Erie, from the effects or wound tnfo
the chest, received at that battle.
His brother, DIR. Cary A. Trimble. distin-
guished himself in the war of !Sl2, and with
James, made four brothers in that war, VINO re-
sponded to the call Of their country.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-08
That Greenback Circular.

We have examined the circular which the
Argus assumes was invented by Col. Dow
There seems to have been some occa-
sion for the panic it created among the
Greenback colonies, while in council of
war at the summons of Gen. S. r. Lyman.
The result sought by the great commander
was consummated by the chicanery exposed
by the circular in question. The represen-
tation on which the Greenback delegates
were chosen is shown to have been arbitra-
rily contrived for rthe purpose of transferring
the Greenback party against the professed
views and policy of the majority, to the
Democrats, and that too for a consideration
which is the merest bagatelle. The fol-
lowing will serve for illustration: At the
September election Portland threw 511
Greenback votes, and had go delegates in
the county convention, while Standish
which threw PAS or nearly half as many
votes as Portland was allowed only7 dele
gates Brunswick cast only 45 votes, and
had delegates, while Cape Elizabeth which
cast 22S or five times as many votes as
Brunswick was allowed only 10 delegates
This last inequality may be explained by
the fact that Mr.. Field of Brunswick was to
be Democratic nominee for Senator on the
fusion ticket.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-08
A Political Acrobat.

Mr. Caleb Chaplin, of Harrison was unan-
imousy nominated by acclamation Tor Regis
ter of Probate. .-Argas.
What an innocent smile OF satisfaction
must play upon the features of the honora-
BILE nominee of this half-breed party as he
reads in the columns of his old time enemy
this gushing report of the manner in which
favor so earnestly sought was conferred
upon him. -Four years ago this gentleman
dreamed that he might secure the Republic
can nomination for Judge Of Probate, but
when the record Of the convention was
made up it was discovered that Mr.. Chap
Inns bid had been rejected. Having failed
to accomplish his personal aims he has from
that time forth thought that the Republican
partv was failure and has cast his lot with
other disappointed political aspirants. Had
there been sufficient unanimity OF action
among the voters of the county last Septem-
Der to have elected him as County Treasurer,
which posi- ion he claimed he was entitled to
as a Grcenbacker, he would not this year
have asked the people for permission to ex-
hibit his clerical accomplishments in the ca
pacity Of Register. Did he possess the jewel,
consistency, he would have adhered TO his
last years determination to be Treasurer.
But things have changed during the last
twelvemonth. Deluded by this sop-not
thrown to him directly, but carefully
borne by trusty agents of the father of non
poljticai notions that four years training
as Register would qualify him to discharge
the duties Of Judge, and place him in the
light of earning, and thereby deserving pro-
motion, he again dreams of Judicial honors.
The argus is justified in the phraseology it
has used in recording Mr.. Chaplin's last nib
BILE at the Democratic bait He was nomin-
ated by acclamation in the Greenback Star
Chamber. The action of the Democratic
convention was expressed by the adyerb
''unanimously;' so most assuredly Mr..
Chaplin was Unanimously nominated by
acclamation.' Many long words and much
original rhetoric must be employed to plas-
ter over political sores before the people of
this county will lend their port to such
lively acrobat as Mr.. Chaplin has come to
be within the last few years.
The Portland daily press., 1879-08-08
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