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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-07-19
NEW YORK COTTON STATEMENT
For the week ending July 18th
General Trade.

Several leading grocery, boot and
shoe and dry goods houses are remoy-
ing the bulk of their stocks to st,
Louis in view of the quarantine block
AIDES at various points, and the uncer-
tainty of the future. Business of all
kinds is in a very unsettled state in
consequence. Stocks have run down
TO a low point, though liberal orders
have beea coming in quite steadily,
and merchants lose no time in filling
and getting the orders under way, to
get it through before a freight block
ade may be announced. No receipts of
feed or produce yesterday. A boat is
due from st. Louis to-day, and will
bring additions of flour, meal aud
staple articles,
FL0UR-Quiet and steady ~ % 25@6
%, according to quality, for lots, sRd 25c
higher for small orders.
C0RNMEAL-Nery scarce, with none
in first hands. Prices are 81 75@2 IS
from store to dealers, and IS on ORDERS.
HAY-None ia FIRST hands; from store,
soc per cwt for mixed, and for choice
prairie S6.50@7 per ton.
OATS--No lots on the market; from
sto.~e, 43c.
BEAN-From store SIS per ton and
SOC pN cwt.
C0RN-Last sales on landing Ale for
mixed; white, 55c; demand good. None
i'm first hands; small orders, SOC for mixed
and 5Sc for whine.
POTATOES-Gniet, with few coming
in; loose from wagons, Sl.75 per Dbl.
Onions dull at $50 per Dbl, loose, and 81
per Dbl from store. Stock peas Sl.25@
i.85 per hushel. White besgg Sl.5O@l.7j
per bushel.
BUTTER-Strictly choice Western,
l2lf@l5c; creamery, 1S@22c; fresh prqiFie
sells at l2l9@lbc; country, Sole. MAJ
lSet quiet and sales siOW.
EGGS-Dull, with market ovorstocked
and sales from 5GCc per dozen.
CHICKENS-Young chickens sell N
81 20. / J0@2 % per dozen as in size; oie
81 O062 SO per dozen. Demand fair.
PROYISlONS-Bacon shoulders, 45sc
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CoMMERCIAL
PVBLIo LEDGER OFFICE, I
MEMPHIS, July 10, 1879.

MEAPHis. July ~, 1879.
The disturbed state of the public
mind Oh the question Of health has
absorbed all other topics, and but few
features of interest are current in
business or banking circles. Two
banks, the Manhattan and the En-
NETT Savings, closed yesterday, turn
ing over the collection accounts and
deposits to their neighbors. No others
are expected to close, though the
prospect indicates little to do before
the first of November. The money
market is easy, with currency in ample
supply, though money owners are shy
at borrowers, unless they are able to
offer strictly choice security. The
ruling discount rates are 6 and s per
cent.
But little is going on in exchange.
The demand for Eastern checks is
Stacking up. Rates are ic premium
for drafts on New York, Cotton bills,
when offered, are taken at par for
sight on New York and demand on
New England, and &c discount for
sight bills at points beyond New
York. New Orleans rates are at
par selling, and &c discount buying.
The last of the United States 1910
government bonds, to the amount of
500, 566, 300, will mature on Monday
next, and cease to draw interest from
that date. On yesterday $l6O, 900
matured, and on the 10Th $4,000
ceased to draw interest. Those bonds
were called on the 9th, 18th and Dist
of April last, and they closed out all
6 per cent. bonds subject to call.
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last evening for this port. She will
arrive Monday morning and leave in
the evening with a return trip for St.
Louis, taking freight at 10 cents per
hundred.
The Andy Baum is off the docks.
having been thoroughly repaired, aud
IS nov ready to re-enter the Cincin-
natl and Memphis trade as soon as
there is water enough and the excite
ment at an end.
Quite a number Of steamboatmen
have been standing around the cor
ners for a couple Of months, they be-
ing out of employment. Now in order
to leave the city they are compelled to
walk.
Captain Jim Durff, river editor of
the LEDGER, left last evening on the
Vint Shinkle for Cincinnati where he
will spend the heated term. AS per-
sonal baggage he carried with him a
jug Of "smelser," a couple of boxes
cigars and a certificate Of health. We
hope u friends, Lallance and Ward
Robinson will keep a watchful eye on
him during his sojourn in Pig Town"
The st. Ge%nevieve, Captain Ed
Gray in command, came in this morn
ing with about 500 tons of freight.
comprising 1912 pkgs, which included
100 bbls -four, 900 bbls meal, 50 casks
bacon, 62t SKIS corn, $50 SKIS oats, 100.
SKIS bran, 40 bales hay, 306 rolls bag
ging and 800 pkgs sundries. She will
leave the Anchor Line wharfboat at 5
pm, for Cairo, st, Louis and all way
landings. 1t is needless to say that
she will be crowded with people.
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ChanCery Sale of Real Estate,

X; S2te-Chaneery Court Of Shelby comfy
ID. NJ James VS.. A. o. Atkeson ct al.
RY virtue Of an interlOcutory decree for sale
~ entered in the above cause on lie s0th
day OF June, 1870, Nj. b g, page /. / will
sell AT public auction to the highest bidder.
IN 'front.' OF ne Clerk and Masters Office,
eourt-house building, Main street, Taying
n.islriSt, Of Shelby county, late the CITY of
Memphis, Tenn,
On Saturday, July 26, 1879.
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in the city of Momnbis
Shelby county, Tenn, tO-wit:
beginning at the southwest corner of pevton
avenue and Satfarans street; running thence
South with Peyton avenue fftv i5Oi fest.
thence west and parallel with Saffarnns street
one hundred and twenty-five l25l feet A. an
alley; thence north with said avenue p~araliei
with Peyton avenue fifty Is feet t5 sans
rams street; thence east with Snifarans street
one hundred and twonty FIVE a25l feet 10 the
Terms Of Sale--0n a credit Of seven month.
redemption barred.
This July 1, 1879.
r. j. BLACK. Clerk and Master.
- "; Irezeyant, Sol. fos complainant.
LOO Ill III l3 lS
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The First Sewing Machine in
India.

Chambers Journal
In the days when the sewing ma
chine was in its earliest infancy, a lady
residing in India imported one, and
for a long time kept its mysterious
working from the Ken of her native
tailor. This functiouary was the veiy
.slOwest Of his proverbially slow
caste" and wasted no cad of time
drawing over hem and stitch. One
day his mistress comes to him arm
laden with yards upon yards Of dress
fabric.
Dirzee,' says she, how long will
it take you to run these breadths TO-
gether?" Tree day. Missis," replied
Dirzee. Missis, please, plenty too
much work" Three daysP Non
sense Three hours, you mean. You
are a very lazy man. and I'll cut your
pay. Give me the stuff; I'll do it
myself" Then the lady %retires to her
boudoir, from the inmost penetralia OF
which a sharp aud continuous click
and whirr reach the tailor's ears. He
cannot make out what the sound is,
and he is much too lazy to speculate it.
He continues to chew betel," aud
y%awningly to ply needle aud thread.
After an hour or two, Missis comes
back, and throwing at Mr.. Dirzee's
feet the raw material now fashioned
into a completed skirt, says: There
See You wanted three days, yod
sleepy fellow, to finish this, and | have
done it already Astouisbed, Dirzee
turns over the drapery. examines the
seams, scrutinizes the stitch, and sat
isles himself hat all is proper and
according to %tailor's rule. He is con-
founded. 1t passes his understanding.
There lies the work done and no mis-
take. But how? He springs up from
the mat on which he has been squat
ting; he kicks over the little brasss
vessel which holds his drinking Water
he scatters right and left thread, need
les and thimble he stops not to put
on his sandals, or to adjust loosened
turban and waist-cloth. Scared and
bewildered, he runs for very life into
the bazaar, shouting as he goes along :
''Shiran shiranl' (The evil one the
evil oneD He do tailor business that
Mems house. | listen | hear He
cry, 'Cleek, cleek, cleek : Two hour
time he neber stop cry. Den Plenty
too much true dis word ! tell. Ebery
bit true. All work done finish | not
90 back dat bungalow And he never
did.
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Rome Cor. Detroit grNO Press,l
The Roman church has a singer who,
IL he we're on the stage, would be
called the FIRST tenaF in Europe, Fra
Giovanni, a franciscan monk, Who
goes about the streets, in a heavy
brown dress Of the Capuchin, with q
fat, lazy, good -natured face, Il is only
necessary to announce that Fra Clio
yanpi will sing TO draw o crowd.
Especially is he pnt forth as an qttr9c.
ton to tho forestieri. There is a sin.
gglaF charm In his wonderful voice,
which owes nothing to culture, as he is
too indolept to study. 1t seems like a
Natural and irresistible outgush of
melody Some Of his infatuated qd-
mirers cali It religious foFyoF,
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Rl virtue Of a deed of trust made to me on
- the Sd Cay of February, 1875, and record
cd IN Book ., page ll6, Record Book of Shelby
county Tenn, for the purpose of paying the
balance OF the Indebtedness secured therein,
Will offer for sale at public auction, 10 the
highest bidder, for cash, at the southwest
corner of Main and Monroe streets, in the
Taxing District Of Shelby county, State of
Tennessee, on
Friday, Sth Day of August, 1879,
at u o'clock M, the following described real
estate, lying and being in the county of
Shelby, state OF Tennessee (: Beginning al a
stake in the Mac,n and Memphis road.
Neely's northwest corner; thence west alonr
said road 20 chains and 40 links 10 a point i'm
Hurricane creek, about 10 links north Of Cole.
mans bridge over said creek, thence with me
meanderings of said creek south as east I'd
links thence south 60 eastlS3 links, thence
south so east 1913 links, thence south s0iS6
east 81 links; thence north 500 east l43 links,
thence south so east l40 links, sonth az
east 100 linksi thence south l6o west 220 links,
thence south lO1ao west $40 links: thence sontb
~, west 20 links TO n point in said creek
WIN three willow pointersi thence east 81
chains andS links to a stake In A lane In
Neelys west line, south 81 east AZ links Grom
a red OAK marked $; theree north "A chains
and % links to the beginning, contains so
acres.
All right Of equity of~redemption Is waived
The title is believed 10 DO good, but l convey
: lOO-lSs IN, PAINE, Trustee,
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Tuesday, July ~, 1879.

in front of the Planters Insurance BuiIding
the following described real estate conyeyed
in said trust deed, to-wit:
Situate, lying and being in the county of
Shelby and State of Tennessee, and Thir-
teenth civil district, one tract being in see
ton one o.. range eight 10, of the Eleventh
surveyor districts: Beginning ut a stake on
the west boundary line of grant No. 1884, the
sOutheast corner OF d. IL TOwnsend's 6i6-acre
tract; thence north with the west line Of
said grant No. 1854, ~ chains 25 links fo
the center of NOncOnnah creek. with elm
pointer marked d, on the south bank of said
creek: thence up said creek, with the center
thereof, north "a O., east 4 chains 70 links,
east o chains s. links, south So, east Z chains
90 links, south CO., east 4 chains 10 links.
south AZ east 8 chains 8 links, south a. IN,
west chain, south % west 3 chains rs links,
west chain Thinks, sOuth52o 90. vest chain
IS links, south 81, west 2 Chains 8 links, south
" west 3 chains "A links, south s., west 3
chains, south 2, east | chair, 55 links, snntb.
~, east chains IS links, south ~ east >
chains 10 links, sOuit So 9O, east r cbofns 70
links TO a stake in tle center of said nreeI u
with black gum on the south bank Of said
creek links west o. line marked II. I bIaekN
gum, 2 links east OF line marked NJ: theneo
south a. west Z! chains rs links to a
mail Alaokgpm;, thence west 3 chains
10 links TO the beginning, containing 10O
Mitchell to d.. II. Townsend on he 25t6 doyee "
January, 1870. and duly recorded n the resis,
Ier's oilgs OF Shelby county, Tenn, in book
Also one other tract beginning at The same
point with The trace frs described: tbenee
westwardly l06 chains Pud 1 linz to n sstsIec.
thence nOrtIwardly 60 chains nd 81 links IN
the northern boundary line o. the William
Lyttle 29O acre trP,, o land, thence eost.
wardly With the said northern boundary fino.
5I CHAINS and. OF links TO u Stake: thence north
~ east, . hains and 80 links to N stake.
thence eastwardly with said northern bound,
ary line IS chain and 90 links to The west
boundary line of grant No. 1854.
thence sOutkwardly with said west bounJ'
any 81 chains 81 links to the beeippine.
II being the 646 rere subdivision of the Wm
Lyttle tract of 22j0 pcres, The same formerlv
owned by William Jones. ana on the eester1
part Of which the dover Of Annie D. Jones
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 soul 81 feet front on Main
sttees.to LeWnsend's llue thence east with
Fald Inc lIa feet, %, Mulberry street: thence
norl. Wrrdly with The west line of Mniberrv
street Jig feet TO Deal street: thenee ,ynst
wardly with the south line Of Beal streft tx
feet to the beginning. 80
The equity of redemption is expressly
waived and The title believed 10 be roed ~
l shall sell and convey only as Trustee Wv
June2 q. 1879. uIToSS'gg &c;
This sale is postponed until further notice
July II, 1879.
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N0n-ResIdent NOTICE..

No. Ssl2-In the Chaucery Court Of Shelby.
johnson.
1T appearing from sheriff's return in tbi.
i cause that the defendant, Squire John
son, is not TO be found in his county; il ia
therefore ordered that he make his appear
ance herein, at the courthouse of Shelby
county, Memphis, Tennessee, on or before
the trst Monday in August, 1879, and plead,
answer or demur TO complainant's bill. or fhe
same will be taken for confessed as to him
and set for hearing ex-parte; and that a copy
OF this order be published once a week for
four successive weeks in the Public Ledger.
This 18th day of June, 1879.
A copy-Attest:
X. j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Humes \ Poston, Soils. for complainant.
l0l- 107-ll3-ll9
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Upon the adjournment Of congress,
Aleck Stephens, it is said, crawled
into an envelope and franked himself
home, = Philadelphia Chronicle Her.
aid,
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wednesday, August 20, 1879,

in legal hours, in front of the courthouse.
Memphis, Tenn, proceed to sell, to the high.
est bidder, for cash, the following described
property, t0-wit:
All the undivided interest Of the defendant
in the following described real estate, il heinz
his interest in the undivided estate of Ms
iather, John Morrison, deceased, to-wit;
Situate, lying and being in the county OF
Shelby, Srate Of Tennessee, and described rs
street, city Of Memphis, 25 By 100 feet each
Also block A, containing one and three.
quarter ga acres, north side Of Broad street,
Fort Pickering.
Levied OIL as the property of defendant.
interest and costs.
Memphis, July s, 1879.
E.. l.. MCGOWAN,
Sheriff of Shelby county, Tenn.
j DuBose, Atty for plaintiff.
Ill III 1913
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Cotton.

The market opened to-day dull
and nominal, with little demand and
scant offerings. Sales yesterday, un-
important.
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COTTON EXCHANGE QUOTATIONS..
Net receipts af limited State nort

Net receipts at United States ports
for the week ending last Friday, 1888
bales; same day last week, 1919; same
day last year, 1920 bales.
The total stock on hand at all the
United States ports is l45, 341 bales,
against 1851 bales same time last
year and POS, 123 the year before.
The total receipts at all United
STATES ports since September LIST, as
per cotton exchange kilograms, is
4,418,1n bales, against 4,216,327 bales
last year, and 3,969,78 8 bales the same
time the year before, Increase this
year, 2O1,844 bales, as compared with
last year. and 4i8,3s4 bales with the
year before.
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FOR CAIRO AND ST. LOUTs-

Memphis and st. Louis Packet Company-U.
S. Mail-Anchor Line.
COLORADO .MePbeeters. master
Monday, July II, at 10 am.
BELLE MEMPHIS John 9. Crane, master
Tuesday, July Is, ats pm.
CITY OF ALTON. Bixbv. master
Wednesday, July l6, ut IL m.
GRAND TOWER....C orvelL. master
Thursday. July II, at 10 AIN.
CITY OF VICKSBURG.. Rilcy. master
Saturday, July 10, at 10 am.
For all information apply at Memphis and
st. Louis Packet ~Company's Wharfboat, foot
Of Monroe street.
AID STORM. Superintendent,
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LEGAL,
SheriF's Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIC notice is hereby given that by viz
tue Of a writ of yenditioni exponas to me
directed from the Honorable Circuit Courl OF
Shelby county, Tenn, in tho case of Geo.
W. Anderson VS.. Geo. L. Morrison, Judgment
rendered on the LIST day of July, 1875, for the
sum Of two hundred and forty-four dollars
and twenty-four cents, with interest and
costs of suit, to satisfy said judgment, ETC.,
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DR., Parker, a rather eccentric
preacher, has been Invited to preach
in Mr.. Boecher's church for three
months this summer,
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Two naked cherubs over the portal
OF a new court house at Rockford,
ILL.,, so offended the moral sense Of the
city that they were chiseled off.
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Hinder and BY virtue OF the poaef con-
~ fefred on me BY two certain deeds Of
trust executed II me BY J.. n. Ware and wife
to secure certain indebtedness therein de-
scribed, the first Of which is recorded 10 the
Registers Office Of shelby county, Tennessee,
n Book ls, az page 2J2, and the other in Book
ilo, at page 50, said Indebtedness remaining
due and unpaid, | will, at the request Of the
beneficiary, on the
18th Day OF July. A. n. 1879,
at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets, in the Taxing District lately known
as the city Of Memphis), between the hours
OF ii o'clock am. and u o'clock noon Of said
day, proceed to sell to the highest bidder, for
cash, the following property, t0-wit: Part Of
lot z, block 90, South Memphis, beginning at
q point on the east line OF Orleans street 502
feet south OF its intersection with the south
line of Vance street, being 80 feet from the
southwest corner of j.. H. Crafts lot: thence
southwardly with the east line of Orleans
street 50 feet, thus giving a front of So feet ON
The east side of Orl ans street, and running
back eastwardly between parallel lines and
parallel with the south line of Vance street
ia feet to the lot belonging to and occupied
by st. Agnes Academy. All right Of redemp-
ton Is waived. The title has been examined,
and l believe it good, but / will sell as Trus-
tee only. W. @. MCCLURE, Trustee.
Wright, Fowlkes 4 Wright, Att'ys. 99-i2l
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Attachment Notice.

Before G. D. Crockett, j. P. for Shelby coun-
ty, Tenn.-L. Lippe VS.. Gus Jones.
this cause an attachment having been
L sued out under Section 3455 of Thompson
y Stegers' code of Tennessee, and returned
levied by punishment on c.. P. Hunt h Co,
who answered that they are indebted 10 Inc
defendant, Gus Jones, in the sun of S65. 9i,5
and affidavit having. been made that said
defendant is indebted to the plaintiff in the
sum of 500, due by open account, and that
the claim is just, and that said defendant and
plaintiff, are both non-residents of this State
and residents of the same State, to-wit; the
State Of Arkansas, and said defendant has
~traudulently removed his property TO this
state TO evade the process of Jaw in the State
OF his domicil; his therefore ordered that me
said defendant make his personal appearance
before me on the 18th day Of July, 1879, at nv
office, No. l5 Main street, Memphis, Tenn.
at 10 o'clock am, end defend said attach
ment suit, or the same will be proceeded with
ex,parte; and that a copy Of this order be
published once, 2 week for four successive
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 2d day of June, 1879.
S-luo-lll-lI1-lH q. ID. CROCKETT, i. p.
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The most treacherops memory in
the world belongs to q young man with
a new watch.
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AIILT HARRY,s

JOSIE HARRY
NJ. R. Harry, captain; Walker Outlaw, clerk,
Leaves Memphis on and after November I'd,
EVERY SATURDAY, at Bpm, Connecting
direct with the new Black river United States
Mail Packet MILF HARRY for Powhattan
and POcahontas, and with the daily pa .kets
to Batesville and Upper White riT1i Through
rates 10 all points.
Freight consigned 20 Milt Harry Line. Mem
phis or Terrene, will Ue promptly forwarded.
J.T. WASHINGTON. Agent.
go Freight received at all hours on the r.
T.. Lee wharfboat. iI6f
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Trustees Sale.

RI virtue of the power vested in George w.
u Winchester, deceased, as trustee, in a
certain deed Of trust made by d. II. Town
send, on the 18th day of June, 1875, to secare
certain Indebtedness therein set out, and
of Shelby county, Tenn, in Book No, i0T.
page al, which power has been conferred
me by decree of the Chaucery Uourt i'm
the case Of Ben May ct al. vs.. T. p. Winches-
ter ct a., No. 1914 il. D., entered on the Dist
day oil april 1873, l will proceed to sell, ut
the request p the benefciaries in said deed.
for cash. To lha hiehnsL hillnr on ,
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18th Day Of July, A. d. Is7o.

nc The southwest corner Of Main and Madisnn
streets, in the Taxing District iatelv knnwn
as the city of MGmphiO, between the hours
Of Il o'clock noon and / O'Clock pm. of said
day, proceed to sell to lie highest bidder. for
cash, the following property, to-wit; Begin
nlng at a stake on the north line Of Linden
street, seyenty-iye l75l feet east Of the inter-
section Of the east line of Turley street with
the north line of Linden street; runnAe
thence east with the north line of Linden
street, seventy-fve (75) feet to a stake: thence
north, at right angles with Linden street, one
west, on a line parallel with Linden street
seventy five, (75) feet to a stake; thence south
one hundred and fifty $50 feet to the begin
ming. All right of redemption is waived
The title lss been ,xamined, and | believe II
W. q. MCCLURE, Trustee.
Wright, Fowlkes l. Wright, Att'ys. qg-i2l