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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

R, No. I144-Chancery Court of Shelby conn
ty--CaLherine Ryan by next friend, etc.. vs
Charles Mcdonald and al. bill and cross bill
DY virtue Of an intorlocutory decree for
- sale, entered in the above cause ON the
oath day of April, 1873, NJ b "a. p. S76, / will
sell, at public auction, 10 the highest bidder,
in front Of the clerk and masters Office
courthouse of the Taxing District Of Shelby
county, (late Memphis,) Tennessee, on
Saturday, December Is. 1879.
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county. Tenn
to-wit; certain tract of land, situate in
Shelby county, Tennessee, in the Seventeenth
district Of said county, being the lSS acres
tract Of the Hopefeld lands, living on ne
west side. Of Hatchie riyor and bounded on
the west by the Bettis or 0verton tract. on
tho north by the A. Il. Douglass tract, on tho
east and south by Hatchie river; said tract Of
land being about ten miles from the city of
Memphis and on which said Mcdonald for
merly lived. vi
Terms of sale-On credit of seven montbs
purchaser executing note with approved 81
ourity, lien retained, redemption barred.
This 18th day of November, 1873, 4.
r. j, RLAOK, Clerk and Master.
Wilson Beard, attys for cross compl'ts,
81 7S79S59l '''
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InsOIvent Notice,
STATE oF TENNESSEE, sHELRY %

STATE or TENNESSEE, SHELBY Co.,0
OFFICE COUNTY Court CLERK,
Memphis. Tenn, November q, 1879.
To j. A. Anderson. public administrator of
ii. Il. P0cai, deceased.
HAVING suggested the insolvency of the
IL estate Of II. E. P6cai, deceased. you are
hereby ordered to give notice, by adver-
tsement in some newspaper published within
the said State, and also at the Courthouse
door Of Shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear and fle
the same, with the clerk Of the County Court
authenticated in the manner prescribed by
law, on or before the I'd day of March, 1880.
and any claim not filed on or before said day'
or before an appropriation of the funds Of
said estate is made, shall be forever barred
both in law and equity.
~ Witness my hand, at ofhce. this 2lst day of
November, 1879.
OWEN DWYER, ClerK.
By HUGH B. CULLEN, D. G. ~
727g 81 Q0
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
NONRESIDENT Notice.

No. lin the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn.-Ada Ewing vs.. George W.
Ewing.
RI appearing from affidavit in this cause that
resident of the State of Tennessee; IL Is
therefore ordered that he make his ap-
pearance herein, at the courthouse of Shelby
county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or before the
first Mondayin January, 1880, and plead, IN
swer or demur to complainant's bill, or the
same will be taken for confessed as to him
and set for hearing. ex-parte, and that copy OF
successive weeks in the Public Ledger.
This lst day Of December, 1879.
A cOpy-Attest:
r. j.. BLACK, Clerk and Master,
BY Il. B. McHENRY, b. G. and M.
+. l: Edmondson, sol. for compPt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

SENATOR BAYARD offered reso-
luton, yesterday, providing that treas
ury notes Of the United States shall be
receivable for all dues to the United
States, excepting duties on imports,
and shall not otherwise be legal-tender
and any of said notes hereafter re-
issued shall bear this superscription.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
NEW YORK.
False RepOrt-The Continental Life In
suranCe Company.
Complaints Against the Methodist
Church.

New YORK, December 4.-C. G.
Waite, of Brevoort and Windsor ho-
tells, is sick, but his sou says he is not
in immediate danger. A false report
of his death gained some circulation
yesterday.
John P. 0'Neil, receiver of the
Continental Life Insurance company,
says the policy. holders ought not to
sacrifice their claims, as they will all
be paid their dividends of Is per cent.
within a short time.
Complaints are published against
the policy of the Methodist Episcopal
church, with regard to missionary
work among the Indians. 1t is shown
that Of 100000 annually appropri-
ated by the Methodist missionary
society, only about $500, taking the
present year as an example, goes
toward missionary work among Amer
lean Indians, and that of this small
amount, only the pitiful sum of 500
is set apart for use among the Indians
Of the far West Methodists are COM
plainants, and they consider apparent
neglect the more remarkable because,
under the plan adopted during Presi-
dent Grants administration, the
Methodist church controls the nomi-
nation Of agents to II out of the 6s
agencies, or more than one-fith Of the
whole number.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
InsOIvept Notice.
STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY 90. =
0pEfCp NOuNrv rntrr- ~, - 'f

cyAFk OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY Co.
OffioE COUNTY CoURT CLERK,
Memphis, Tenn, November 81, 1879.
To j.. A. Anderson, public administrator of
+. Layagna, deceased.
IL AVlNG suggested the insolvency Of the
IL estate Of I. Layagna, deceased, you are
hereby ordered to give notice, by advertise
ment IN some newspaper published within the
s9id state, and also at the courthouse door
oi shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear and fle
the same, with the clerk Of the County Court
authenticated in the manner prescribed by
law, on or before the I'd day Of March, 1880;
and any claim not fled on or before said day,
or before an appropriation Of the funds of
both In law and equity.
=, Witness my hand, at office, this 2lst day of
OWEN DWYER, Clork.
By HuGu B, CULLEN, D, G, 7a7s 81 80
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

THE Chicago Times, one of the
thre newspapers that published Sher
mans report and the Presidents
message, before these documents were
read to con, ,gress, boasts of the achiev-
ment and calls it enterprise" Such
enterprise cannot be repeated next
year, for such documents will be sent
to congress in manuscript, and will
only get out in full two or three days
later. The press Of the whole coun-
try will be put to Inconvenience and
suffer injury by such questionable
enterprise What these three papers
gained this time, they will more than
lose hereafter, and the worst of it is,
that all the papers and their readers
will have to bear the penalty. Legit
innate enterprise is one thing, but
stealing a document or violating a
confidence is quite another
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

SENATOR DAVIS, of West Virginia,
got in his work yesterday. The Senate
adopted his resolution calling on the
Secretary of the Treasury for de-
tailed statement of expenditures since
1868, under permanent annual appro-
priatiOns.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

GENERAL BUTLER gives new con-
struction to portion of the Presi
dents message. He says that that
part of it which relates to the retire
ment OF legal tenders was meant to in
timidate the Supreme Court of the
United States, which is soon to decide
the constitutionality ofthe legal tender
act upon a case which was brought be-
fore it by Butler and Congressman
Chittenden.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

THE people Of Louisville are making
extensive preparations for the recep-
ton of General Grant, who is expect
ed in that city on Wednesday, the 10th
proximo. He will be escorted to the
courthouse by a large procession,
reaching there about three o'clock in
the afternoon. A platform beauti-
fully decorated will have been erected.
Mayor Baxter, on behalf of the city,
and Governor Blackburn, on behalf of
the state. will deliver addresses of
welcome, to which General Grant will
respond. This ceremony will be brief
Afterward General Grant will review
the military. General Grant will
proceed to Philadelphia and other
Eastern cities. In the latter part of
this month he and Mrs. Grant will
sail for Havana, where they will re-
main part of the winter, thence go to
Mexico, and after visiting the princi-
pal cities of that country will return
via Galveston. In April they will go
direct to Denver, and thence visit the
mining districts, including Leadville.
BY that time-well, the National Re-
publicon Convention will be called,
Such Is part of the latest and most
reliable programme, got out like the
Presidents message, regardless ofcost.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

London Truth thinks that English
girls are too gushing and talkative, or
else have nothing to say for them
selves, while American girls unite the
tact and savoir vivre Of French women
with the solid qualities of the Anglo.
Saxon race. They know how to set
off their natural advantages with
dress, are philosophieally good tenn
pCred and are favoritcs with wife
seeking Englishmen, says the same
paper.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

An effort was made to got Mrs
Thomas, wife of the late Gen. Thomas.
TO visit Washington aud witness the
ceremonies attending the unveiling of
her late husbands statue. She re.
fused, saying that the sight would
overcome her. She said she intended
to come quietly this winter and look
upon her late husbands statue, but
did not want to witness the ceremonies
Of u ulyeillng Mrs. Thomas lives in
Alblny, N. Y.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
Attachment Notice.

Before P. M. Winters, j. p, for Shelby conn
y, Tenn.-R. D. Goodwin vs.. l.. Kraft.
this cause an attachment having been
! sued out under section 1855, of the code of
Tennessee, and returned executed by at
taehing the property of L: Kraft, the defend
ant, and affidavit having been made that the
defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the
sum of $3.50, due in part by note and in part
by open account, and that the claim is lust
and that the defendant is a nonresident of
the State Of Tennessee. Il is therefore order
ed that said defendant make personal an
pearanee before me on the 26th day of Becem-
Der, 1879, at Il o'clock, M, at my Office, No.
ls4 Main street. in the Taxing District, Shell
BY county, Tennessee, formerly the city ef
Memphis, Tenn, and defend said attachment
suit within the time prescribed BY law. ar
the, same will be proceeded with ex-parte.
and that copy of this order be published
once week for four successive weeks in the
said Taxing District.
This the 26th day Of November, A.D., 1879
~ =. N. WINTERS, j. P.
I. II. AQGwooD, Atty for plaintiff.
5 80 S6 %
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
Indications.

WASHINGTON, December 4.-For
Tennessee and Ohio valley, rising
followed by falling barometer, north
easterly winds and erring to southeas.
terly generally, warmer and cloudy
weather, with local rains, except lower
temperature in eastern portions.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
LIvERpooL, December 4, 3:l5 pm.

LIVERPOOL, December 4, Bio pm.
Cotton opened hrmer now and 3-l6
higher. Uplands, 6 l5-l6d; Orleans
Z l-16d, Sales to-day $4,000 bales.
Receipts 9,45O, American $3.50 bales.
Futures opened steady, nOw5-l6 higher,
as follows: Deliveries for Dec. and
Jan. 6 3l-32d; Jan. and Feb. 71-32;
February and March, Z 3-32d; March
and April Z 5-32d; April and May
Z 3-l6d; May and June I'D; June and
July 7f@7 9-32d; July and Aug. I H.
32d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

Atlanta has a temperance boom
Governor Colquit, who is a minister,
is at the head Of the movement. Three
thousand persons have joined total
abstinence organization.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
NOn-Resldeni NoiIco.

No. 1856 r, DIN the CLancery Court oi sboi-
ey county, Tenneseeo-Loui selby vs.. a.
Street et al. a.
4 appearing from the return of the shorig
4 IN the seire iaeias in. this cause that The
defendants, Elizabeth NJ. B,inkley iwidowS
and Bette Brinkley, K, q. Br.nkley' InciIe
Brinkley and William Brinkloy are NOT Al be
found IN the county. IL Is therefore orders5
that they make thoir appearance herein Al
the eompfthouso OF Shelby county In Mem
phis,. Tennessee, on or before the Grst Mon
DAY IN January, 1850, and show couse. ie
any they haye, why the cause should mot be
revivod IN their name and be proceeded wib
as the law directs, and that copy OF tbiS order
% published onoo a week fol four successive
weeks IN tho Melnphis Public Ledger.
This 81 day Of December, 1879.
a copy Attest.
Humes a postOn, sol, for complainant.
Sl7e3a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

Gov. MARKS, it is understood, will
call the extra session to meet in a few
days, perhaps on Monday week,
the 18th inst. This would give ample
time to get through and for the mem
bers to return home before Christmas.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

A BILL was introduced in the house
Of representatives yesterday authoriz-
ing the Washington, Cincinnati and
st. Louis railroad to construct mar
row gauge railroad from tide water'to
st. Louis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
DISSOLUTION.

THE partnership heretofore existing be-
! tween the undersigned in the mercantile
and landing business at MhOon's Landing,
Miss, is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent, d. W. Fly having sold out his entire
interest to J ID, Vivrett. Said Viyrett as.
sumes all liabilities and is alone authorized
to collect the debts due said firm. J. d. Wv
rett will continue said business under the
name and style of j. d. Viyrett & Co.
d. W. Fly invites a continuation of the
patronage to the new firm hereto fore so lib
orally bestowed upon the old.
DOC W. FLY,
S2S j, D. NIVRETT
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
NOn-Resideni Notice.

No. 340i-In the Chancery Court of Shelbs
county, Tennessee-Allen Avery VS.. Irene
Avery.
IT appearing from AFFIDAVIT In this cause
i that the defendant, Irene Avery, is a nom
resident Of the State of Tennessee; it is
therefore ordered that she make her ap-
pearance herein, at the courthouse OF Shelby
county, in Memphis, Tennessee, on or before
the first Monday in January, 1880, and
plead, answer OF demur to complalnant's $
bill, or the same will be taken for confessed as
to her and set FOR hearing ex-partei And
that copy Of this order be publisha1 once \
week for four successive weeks In the Public
Ledger. ~
This 25th day Of November, 1879.
A copy-Attest:
R. J. BLACK. Clerk and Master.
By E. B. MCHENRY, D. G. and NJ.
Smith d Collier, Sol. for complainant
IA 81 S6 O.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
l6dence is quite another.

THE governor and council at Au.
gusta, Maine, still refuse to permit
any onoato examine the returns of the
election Of senators and representa-
tives. The Republicans claiming to
be elected assert that the returns have
been altered against them, and offer a
strong protest. Doubtless they know
how it has been done in times past. II
makes a slight difference whose OK is
gored. They propose now to resort tc
Judicial proceedings
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
CRUTE'S CASE.
TribuIatlOns OF BlOoded Youths Ca
reer.

The case of Ed. Crute, the couf-
dence genius of fine North Alabama
connections, comes up for examination
on Saturday next. Crute has been in
jail since July last, chnrged with max
ing way with lot Of Mrs. G. D. Bon
nard's furniture. He caused it to he
taken from a house, No. 1876 Court
street, and sold it to Mr.. Devries, on
Beal street.. Devries died of fever,
and the proper owner of the
lost articles has identified. her
property among the effects left by him.
Crute, it will be remembered, gained
notoriety last summer through the
successful efforts of his counsel to
arouse sympathy in his behalf, on ac-
count of the devotion of noble
mother, whose good name he failed in
toto to protect from being smirched
by the misdeeds of his former and sub
sequent career. The young man and
another of the same sort were mixed
up in passing a bogus order on the
Oak Hall clothing store, and Of
swindling that house out Of clothing.
From all accounts he is bad fellow
generally.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
The Ohio SenaIorshIn.

A prominent Republican journalist
of Ohio, now in Washington, says that
Gen. Garfield has already the votes Of
enough Republican members of the
Ohio legislature for the United States
Senatorship, to give him one majority
in the Republican caucus.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
WANTED!
White oak StaVe Bolts

soc Cords white oak stavo Bolts.
For particulars address
MEMPHIS C0OPERAGE & MFG co.
SOS IS Madison st., Memphis. Tenn.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
nlos today, NJ. I'm hnles MIL.

New ORLEANS, December 4, 11:3O
a.m.-Cotton strong. Salesto-day 5000
bales. Middling, 115c. Receipts
to-day, $3.50 bales; Stock, 23S, ,306
lales. Sales yesterday, $1,000 bales,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

THERE is a heavy reduction of tele-
graph rates going on in some parts Of
the country. So much for competi-
tion.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

NEW YORK, December 4, l2:52 nm.
Cotton opened quiet and firm; be-
came strong, with holders asking &c
to 4c higher, now nominal as follows.
Ordinary, II 9-16c; good ordinary,
1876; low middling, 1911 Ice; mid
ding, l3c; good middling, 13lc; mid
ding, fair, l4c; fair, l43c. Futures
opened irregular, now firm at 22 to 81
points above last evenings, total ad.
vance yesterday and to-day Of about 20
points. Deliveries for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

HENRY P. BALDWIN, the successor
to zack Chandler's position, was sworn
into the United States Senate yester-
day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04

More health, sunshine and joy in
Hop Bitters, than in all other remedies
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
MASONIC NOTICE

A NGER0NA LODGE. No. 1853, Will Q
( a ! confer +. e. degree this IHURs %
and visitors invited By order of
W. R. KENDALL, W. NJ.
D. O. TRADvR Sec'v
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
aatnrdIay. December Ia. Isza.

within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in the city of Memphis,
shelby county, Tenn, tO-wit: Lot No. A.,
fronting on Vance street fifty feet and on its
eastern line runs irregula,ly l20 feet and lies
Of n. W. Speers, ir.
Terms Of sale-0n q credit of seven months,
purchaser executing note with approved Sc
curity, lien retained, redemption barred.
This November l9, 1879.
r. }. BLACK, Clerk and Master
+. NJ. Hearn, Flippin 4 Flippin, attorneys
for cOmplaingnt- 50 Tk 81 sc on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-12-04
REMOVAL.
ChanCery Sale of Real Estate

r -3S5l--Chancery Court of Shelby county
N. W: Speers, jr., VS.. Elizabeth Moore Of al
Rl virtue Of an in.erlocutOry decree for
- sale, entered in the above cause on the
10Th day Of November, 1879, n. b. 25, p 1859,
WI sell, at public auction. to the highest
bidder, in front of the clerk and master's
office, courthouse of shelby county, Memphis,
Tenn, on
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-16

t,rS & "a or the man az Meridian pays ]
reaction over one cent per mile while the mar
M Edwards pays 10 cents per mile
A carload of meat may be shipped from =
Louis 10 Mobile Tor 400, While 10 "eiiui"" -
Last wear bale of cotton was shipped from
Newton Station to Meridian, distance Of
about 30 miles. That same bale OF cotton was
shipped via New Orleans to Liverpool, England
and the difference in the freight of the two snip
ments was less than one dollar and my cet5's
II never was contemplated or intended by the
Legislature that granted the charters under
which these railroads are operated that they
should be SO now and operated as not 70 OPP
press or injure the people of any portion OF
them, and it is the duty of the Legislature 10 see
that il is not done.
In advocating the right and duty Of the Legis-
lature L. supervise the railroads OF the state, /
do not wish 10 he understood as making war
upon them. On the contrary no man has q
higher appreciation of the value To the country
Of a well regulated system Of railroads, and l
would do nothing to iujure them or impede their
prosperity.
geous To them Tie condition of the business
OF a railroad depends upon the condition OF the
country: and a. | have thought, with all que
Difference 10 the management OF some OF our
roads, that they have been guilty OF the folly of
the man who Killed the goose that laid the
golden egg. | could mention an instance IN
which 4 railroad company has diverted from
its line over twenty five thousand bales OF cot
ton. aud from its principal city ali the trade and
travel incident thereto, by its eNhorbitant
charges
conclude therefore, that the Legislature
has the constitutional power to supervise rail
roads in their tariff OF charger, and that il is the
duty of the Legislature t. do 50, and that such
supervision viii not only he beneficial To the
country bat TO the railroads also.
am gentlemen, your OBJ DIT servant, &c.,
W. IL. HARDY.
The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1879-07-16
Election Overseers.

The Republican, organs are making
loud complaint, that the Democratic
majority in Congress refused to appro-
pirate money to pay United States Mar
shais and their deputies to surround the
ballot boxes and control elections bv
Overawing and imprisoning persons for
political otienses upon charges trumped
up for the occasion. Congress never
contemplated such thing as withhold
ing OF monies required to compensate
those officials in the performance of
their legitimate duties. During the
progress of the debates, Senator Wal
lace of Pennsylvania, showed from Off
cial documents that in 1876 there were
1868 supervisors and 11,610 deputy
Marshais employed to look after the CON
gressionai elections IL tveGty,six States
and Territories. This is a total of 49,
473 federal officers employed in that du-
ty. The money paid them for their
services was 1885, 1921. At the next
Congressional election, in 1873, there
were 1891 Supervisors and 3, All Dep
uty Narshais ep4plqyed. at a cost of
500, ia. In Philadelphia there were
113 deputy Marshals employed in. 1876,
although Marshal Kerns, who was made
to employ them, testified that he did
not think there was any necessity for
them in New York city there were
800.
So it will be seen that the struggle 10
arrest this abuse, does not concern the
South alone; but the people of every
section AID state, The Democratic
majority in Congress piaRtsd themgelves
firmly against the continuation against it. |
They saved quarter Of million of dol
iaFs 70 taxpayers and what is more i'm
pOrtapt have eomoyed one of the OBJ
structiOns to free elections aeEjsed by
the Republican party.