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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-01-13
IdOn-R Resident Notice.

10. sl@-In the Chapcery court of sbslbv
TTTgnty, Iennessee-City Of Memphis Va.
appearing from affidavit in this cause that
Brady and Alfred Matthias. are non msissret
o. me state Of Tennessee; it is tberefoTs ore
aereai mat they make their appearanoe bsps-
II, az the courthouse in the city OF MemnbIS
tennessee, on or before the frst Monday L,
February, iols, and plead, answer or demur
tSkSD glsins9t phi, or the same will be
bearing ex-parte; and that a copy of this nrt
uer % published once a week for fonr sUo-
cVgsiie weeks In the Public Ledger.
This nth day Of January, 1879.
A eOpy-Attest:
Bv r. R n Il BLACK Clerk and Master.
T. A. HaneoH, Solicitor for eomnIoiDon.
1l2ll8-124-l3O " complainant.
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Northeastern Notice.

No. 3l2S-In tho Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tennessee-City Of Mempbis W.
John S. Williams OF al. ~
~. appearing from tho sherifs return In
u this cause that the defendants, John n.
Williams and his wife, $50 Williams, are nat
70 be found in his county; Il Is therefore on
dered that they make their appearance here.
Tennessee, on or before the frat Mondav m
February, 1879, and plead, answer or deo,,i,
"a. coulplainant's bill, or tho same will Ia
takon for confessed as to them and set ty
bearing ex-parte, and that o copy OF this erde,
be published once a week for four suocessf, 4
weeksip the Public Ledger. r7
This 9Th day Of January, is79.
A oopy-Attpst. ~
n: BLACK, Clerk and Master.
BY =. u. McHENRY, D. q. andM
ll2-llssl2l-l30
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Attachment Notice,

No. 2llG-Before j. S. GALLOWAY. 7 p 70,
Shelby, county, Tenn. Joseph Mulcahy Va.
Samuel Duncan. ''
n this cause an attachment having been
4 sued out under section 1856 Of the Code al
Tennessee. and returned, "levied upon Inc
ing been made that defendant IL indebtaI 10
the plaintiff in the sum of s66.SO, dns
by account, and that the claim h
Just, md that the defendant Is a non.
resident of the State of Tennessee; il ia there.
lore ordered that said defendant make her
Q February, 1879, atl2 M, atmy office M 4,
MADISON st. Memphis, Tenn, aud defend saiS
attachment suit within the time prescribed nv
law, or the same will be proceeded with az,
parte; and that a copy Of this order he mn.
lie Ledger. - uO'
This the Sd day of January, le7e.
lo-ll4-l2O-l26 j. S. GALLOWAY.
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Local


-
A T the request Of the beneacisrv, and bv
n virtue OF the terms Of a deed In trust
made TO me by s. Freshman 4 Co. and
duly recorded in the Registers Office q ssslhy
county, Tenn, in Book Ia, page l0s. Of chat.
tel mortgages, the indebtedness therein men.
toned not having been paid, / will sell 70 tEa
highest and best bidder, for cash In front ~
my Office, No. III Main street, Mempbis.
Tennessee, on
Thursday, January -, Is7s,
at u o'clock m, the following described per.
s0nal property to-Wit
One boiler and fixtures, one steam engine
aud fixtures, two wooden tanks, two IRON
tanks, all the pipes for steam and water SUD-
ply attached to and in any way belonging 10
the tiroase Factory In Fort Pickering on DO
naes land, formerly known as the Grease
Factory Of j. d. Upton 4 Co. Also one spring
wagon, one common dray, one scavengcr dray
ana all the harness and attachments belong
ing 70 the same. Also one brown horse mule,
nity, t0O) sows and shOats, more or less. Also
the houses sheds, etc., belonging to or in any
Way, connected with said Grease Factory, in
cluding all articles in and about said factory
ana belonging to the same. Also the contract
with J. u. Upton a Go. with the city of Mem
phIs as ~scavengers, etc.
The title to this property is warranted to me,
but sell and will convey only as trustee,
Memphis, Tenn. this January II. 1879.
llo-IA W. B. Gibson, Trustee.
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changed prices. Ordinary, 7xc good
ordinary, s 5-l6S low middling, SIC
middling, &c good middling, exc
middlipg fair, 10 1l-l6S fair, llkc.
Futures closed on Saturday firm and s Ito
IS points over the evening before; opens
ibis forenoon steadier, now quiet and2 to
8 points above Saturdays closing prices
a. follows
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Administrafor,s Notioe-

HAVING duly qualified as administrator
IL Of John o. Leary, deceased, ali persons
nayihs Claims against his, estate are hereby
within the time prescribed by law and mar,
sons indebted to said ostnto are requested Ia
come forward and mako payment or prompt
steps will be taken to enforce collections.
January 6, 1879. Ii0liisIsaEI9a
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Trustees Sale.

n pursuance of the terms Of a trust deed
1 executed 70 me BY @. II. and N. II. Glow
eps; on me 18th day Of March, 1878, and duly
the northeast corner Of Front and Union
streets, in the city of Memphis, proceed h sell
Al public auction 10 the highest bidder, for
cash, four mules, described 10 said trust deed,
sale between the hours Of II m. and nm.
llO-l2f L. A. LAMB, Trustee.
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Attachment Notice.

No; 2lO9-Before J. S. Galloway, J.. P. for
Duncan. ""u
n this cause an attachment having been
Il sued out under section &55 of the Code az
tennessee, and returned, "levied upon the
property Of the defendant, " and affidavit hsv-
ing been made that defendant is Indebted to
tne plaintlt in the sum Of slO.SO, due By
that the defendant lisa nonresident Of the
state Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered
that SAID defendant make his personal appear
anee before me on the sth day of Febrpsrv.
isis' at II m, at my efice, No. 81 Madison st ;
memphis, Tenn and defend said attachment
same Will be proceeded with ex-parte and
that a copy Of this order be published once a
week for four weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the ID day Of January, 1879.
IS ll4-l2O-lA j. s. GAlLOWAY. L
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Cotton.

The market opened this forenoon with a
good demand for ali bright cotton. Offer
ings poor and holders stiff.
Sales yesterday 1900 bales; to export
ers $50; spinnors, 400 for speculation,
so. Market closed steady, as follows:
co--ov Dsru.Nnv ouOrArrovs
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
poArs LEAY1Na rH1s %.

BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
yieksburg, Ouaehita Belle. ......... s pm
fuars Point, Voahoma ...,.... ... ......,..b n q
IN PORT.
II. Q. Yaeger, CoAhoma, Ouachits Belle
Katie Hooper, CITY Of Vcksburg.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-07-03
COUNCIL
BOARD OF EDUCATION.


Services in the Presbyterian Churcl
every Sabbath at II o'clock. \. NJ, and al
7 o'clock, L. NJ. Prayer meeting aud
shoE lecture "Wednesday evening at
O'Clock.
Sabbath School--Judge Macinrlane. Su-
perintcn! ent. A bible class conducted by
the pastor, Rev. John 5. Grasty, ID. ID.
Services = the NJ. f. Church, south,
every SUNDAY % 1880 A. NJ. and 7.3O 2. M,
by Rev. r. !. Gooch, Pastor.
Prayer meeting Wednesday evening at
80. Sunday school ut A. N. j. NJ.
Marmaduke, Superintendent.
Services at Baptist Church every Sun
day morning and evening. Prayer heet-
ing every Wednesday evening, Rev J. G.
Maple, Pastor. Sunday school at 8 A. NJ.
James Carroll, Superintendent.
Services at the Christian Church every
Lords day ut 1890 A. M. and $50 p. NJ,
by Elder John A Brooks. Prayer meet
ng "Wednesday evening at T. Sunday
school at $50 A. NJ. b, l.. Locke, Supt.
Q. S. Baptist Church. Pastor, Elder
+. Lee, Services every 4Lh Saturday i'll
each month, and Sunday following, at
at half-past ten O'Clock, A. NJ. All ale
cordially invited.
Services at st. Paul's Episcopal Church,
on second and fourth Sundays at / L. NJ.
and $50 p. m. Rev. J. X. Gray, Rector.
Sunday School at 2 p, NJ. N. Lakeland,
Supt.
Services at Methodist Episcopal Church
every Sunday morning and evening. Rev.
T. j. Wheat, Pastor. Prayer meeting
every Thursday evening. sabbath School
at 3 o'clock A. NJ, }. Wright, Superin-
tendent. Teachers meeting every Thurs
day evening.
Services at tho Catholic Church every
Sunday. Rev. e. F. O'Leary and Fathe
Russell, Pastors.
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Smoke in amy Room You
pEeaSe,"

y lady writes thus very sensibly to
Western paper:
Make home home, and make it
one in every sense of the word. My
husband is a great smoker; he loves
to play cards, dominoes and chess !;
he is at liberty to smoke in any room
in the house, and am always ready
and willing to join MIN in the differ
ent games. L endeavor in every way
to be not only a helpmate, but COM
panion to him, and the result has been
that have and enjoy his society; he
preftrs spending his evenings at home
with me TO seeking other society. l
can not understand why women will
run the risk of losing their husbands
society and love, merely for the sake
of gratifying an over fastidious taste.
If they do not like tobacco, did they
object to his using it during the days
of courtship? And if they objected
then and failed, why did they marry !?
If men will not give up such habits
at the solicitations of their sweet
hearts, it is not likely they will be
pursuaded out of them by their
wives therefore think it unwise for
a woman to risk her happiness by
quarreling with her husband over Il
venial fault, the existence and extent
of which she knew and perfectly un-
dcrstood before she took upon her.
self the duties of wife.
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COlsMONPLACES.
How 10 Give Uttcrance to Them
BY GEORGE ELIOT g..
From the New York World,

A unpremeditated insincerity must
be indulged under the stress of social
intercourse. The task even of an
honest man must often represent
merely his wish to be inoffensive or
agreeable rather than his genuine
opinion or feeling on the matter in
hand. His thought if uttered might
be wounding, or he has not the ability
to utter it with exactness and snatches
at loose paraphrase or he has
really no genuine thought on the
question and is driven to fill. up the
vacancy by borrowing the remarks in
vogue. These are the winds and
current we have all to steer among,
and they are often too strong for our
truthfulness or wit. Let us not bear
too hardly on each other for this in
cidental frailty and think that we
rise superior to it by dropping all
considerateness and Difference.
But there are deliberate forms of
inslncerity which it is fair to be i'm
patient with. Hinze's for example.
From his name you might suppose
him to be German; in fact his fam
ily is Alsatian, but has been settled
in England for more than genera
ton. He is the superlatively defer
entail man, and walks about with
murmured wonder at the wisdom and
discernment of everybody who talks
to him. He cultivated the low-tone
tete-a-tete, keeping his hat carefully
on his hand and often stroking it
while he smiles with down-cast eyes.
as if to relieve his feelings under the
pressure of the remarkable converse
ton, which it is his honor to enjoy at
the present moment. l confess to
some rage on hearing him yesterday
talking to Feliciana, who is certainly
o clever woman and without any un-
usual desire to show her cleverness,
occasionally saying something of her
own or making an illusion which is
not quite common. Still, it must
happen to her as 70 every one else
that speaks Of many subjects Of
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UNITY, MISSOURI, THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1879.
The BewiIdered Daddy.


The following from an ecstatic IA
ther, refers to an event not uncom-
mon in matrimonial life. By abrupt
changes Of the the theme, the writer
succeeds IN unwlttingly attributing
the most remarkable qualities to the
innocent darling of which he is SC
proud to be called the parent:
DEAR SIsLER--I nov take my seat
ana SIT down to take this opportunity
10 inform you that | am a daddy at
last; that is, l suppose | am for Abbe
mas nice fat baby, and We hope
these few lines may find you enjoy
ing the same great blessing. Now,
this Is to be strictly a business letter.
Firstly, as [ said before, Able has
got as nice baby as ever made up
Ia 'es. Nextly, l have snapped away
Old Buckskin, and | think [ have q
pretty nice horse; it is girl and
weighs nine pounds. { l mean the
babY) and it is rs fat as butter and
has got Il good strong pair OF lungs.
She is red and has u bob-tail, (the
horse L mean) and is 4 good driver.
She has got blue eyes, and dimple
in the chin. 1 mean the baby now
and just the prcttiest mouth that ever
opened To receive pap; and Judging
from her teeth should think size IS
about six years old, Il mean the
LOise now.) She is sound, smooth
and kind, mean the horse or DaN'y
either now and the doctor SAYS she
is the fairest he ever saw without eX-
ceptiun. Gle means the baby.) L
got twenty-five dollars to boot (not
on the baby though, for in its case
the boot was on the other foot, and
two Or three sizes larger rs near as l
can find OUT L am going to har-
ness the horse now and 90 after an,
other; she was born last night at
twenty minutes past nine. Il hope
you don't think | mean another
horsc-i mean the baby.) She is as
hearty as pig, ate al egg, a biscuit,
and drank three cups Of tea for din
ner. Il mean Abbe.) She is get
ting along nicely, and if she don't
have any bad luck sac will get along
first-ratc. She is troubled with dis
orders of the stomach, and they say
this Is :, sign of the collc. Il mean
the baby.) / hope it is, for the
nurse says colicy babies never die.
She talks out OF her nose as she takes
snuff. Il mean the nurse now.)
There, I've been reading this over,
and see plainly that | amt fit to
write. The amount Of it is | am
frustrated ! am Il happy daddy,
ana HAT accounts forit; SO you must
cXcuae me this time. SAM.
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bring men off the wrong road to the
right roads" We should snatch all
the musical instruments from the
service OF the devil and with organ
and cornet and base viol and piano
and orchestra praise the Lord.
Many a man under the power of
Christian music has had change
take place in his soul and in his life
equal to that which took place IN the
life OF man in Scotland, who for fif-
teen years had been drunl1ard.
Coming home late one night as he
touched the doorsilI, his wife trem-
bIed at his coming. Telling the sto-
ry afterward she said, 81 did not care
to go to bed lest he should violently
drag me fourth. When he came
home there was only about the half
inch of the eaadle left in the socket.
When l1e-entered, he said: Where
are the children? and replied, they
are in bed upstairs. He said, go
and fetch them, and l went up and
L knelt down and 1 prayed to God to
defend me and my children from their
cruel father. And then, / brought
them down. He took up the eldest
III his arm and kissed her and said,
my dear lass, the Lord hath sent
thee father home tonight. And
so he did with the second, and then
he took up the third of our children,
and said: My dear boy, the Lord
hath sent thee father home tonight.
Why, sir, L had ma heard anything
like that for fourteen years. And I
prayed, and he was comforted, and
my soul was restored, for 1 had not
lived as ought to have lived, near
to God. My trouble had broken me
down." Oh, for such transforma-
ton III some homes tonight. BY
holy conspiracy in the last song of
our service, let us sweep every prodi-
gal into the Kingdom of God. Oh,
ye chanters above Bethlehem, come
and hover over us, and give US q
snatch of the old tune about good
will to men.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-07-03

which the best things were said long
ago, and in conversation with per-
son who has been newly introduced,
these well-known themes naturally
recur, as further development of
salutatlons and preliminary media of
understanding, such as pipes, choco-
late or mastic chewing, which serve
to confirm the impression that our
new acquaintance is on a civilized
footing, and has enough regard for
formulas to save us from shocking
outbursts Of individualism, to which
we are always exposed with the
tamest bear or baboon. Considered
purely as a matter of information, it
cannot any longer be important for
us to learn that British subject, in
cluded IN the last census, holds
Shakespeare to be supreme in the pre-
scntation of character; still 1t is as
admissible for anyone to make this
statement about himself, rs to rub
His hands and tell you that the air is
brisk, if ouly be will let it fall as q
ilItLSCi VI NN't9Fs hlG'i - t'>ti CHthtIAC
Ii@hlncSs, and not announce his ad-
hcsion to a commonplacc with an cn-
phatlc lnsietence. rs il it were proof
Of singular insight. We mortal5
should chiefly like to talk to each
other out Of good will and fellowship,
not for the sake Of hearing reyela-
tons Or being stimulated by witt
ci5ms, and | have usually found that
is rather the dull person, who APP
pears to be disgustcd with his cotem-
porarics because they are not always
strikingly original, and to satisfy
whom the party ut a country house
shoald have included the prophet
Isaiah. Plato, Francis Bacon, and
Voltaire. 1t Is always your heaviest
bore who is astonished at the tame
ness of modern celebrities naturally;
for little of his company has re-
duced them to a flaccid fatigue. It
is right and meet that there should
be an abundant utterance Of good
common places. Part of an agreea-
bic takers charm is that he let's them
fall continually with no more than
then due emphasis, giving pleasant
voice to what we are well assured of,
makes Il sort of wholesome air for
more special and dubious remark to
move in.
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Societies.

SOcl6L16S'
y. G. r. U. meets ut the Opera House
every Monday night at 7.3U. John A
Brooks. Pres't; James Carroll Sec'y.
Z. NJ. &. A.-Devotional meeting every
Sunday 2:30 p. IN. Devotional meeting
every Tuesday, $50 p. m. Business
meeting lst. Thursday In each month al
I p. m.
A. o. U. w. meets every Tuesday eve
nlng At 80. John A. Brooks, p. NJ. w. !;
y: Coatsworth, Secretary +. B. Cake, w.
NJ >. A. Spence, K.
Father Matthew r. G. T. A. s. 3. Soci-
ETY. meets on the third Sunday in each
month.
Acting Grand Branch No. 9, ,E.B. "A,
meets on the first Sunday In each month. i.
Crusade Commandery-S. NJ. Edwards,
Eminent Commander; meets the third
Tuesday evening of each month, at 80
O'Clock.
Mexico Lodge No. 26. A. f. and A. NJ,
meets on the trst Tuesday in each month
at P. NJ, and also OH the first Friday in
each month at Z p. NJ. JAS. Carroll, w. M.
Mexico Chapter No. 27. Royal Arch,
meets on the second Friday in each
month. 5. nj. Edwards, q. Z.
Hebron Lodge No. 254, A. F. and A.
M. Regular communications en- the first
Monday in each month, at Pm. j. M
Riley, w. NJ.
l. o. o. F.-Mexicsn Lodge No. SO,
meets every Wednesday evening at their
hall in T M. Morris building. r. Schar-
ZACH, N. G..
Mamre Encampment No. 81, m eets on
the second and fourth Fridays in each
month. Louis Phillips, G. P.
Audrain county Medical Soc ETY. meets
on the last Friday in each month, at 7P.
N. Dr. W. w. Mcfarlans, President :;
pr, Thso A. ksetoa, Secretary.
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Wr. Sss.bheIl Lets the Cat Out
of the Hsag.

The Republicans have another in
. .eresting newspaper publication on
! their hands in tho shape of the Ma
tional View, the Greenback paper of
! this city. This was revealed IN an
unfortunate conversation which Con
gresham Hubbell, of Michigan, had
with Congressman Oscar Turner, Of
kentucky, the other day. Mr.. Hub
| bell is chairman Of the Republican
Turner is a Democrat. The latter on
Saturday was mistaken by Mr.. Hub
| hell tor NJ. Robinson, Chairman of
! the Republican State Committee of
/ Ohio. and TIE successor OF Eugene
Hale. He drew him with great Sc
crccy into the cloak-room and asked
him il he knew the editor OF t.Ie
View. Mr.. Turner sand No"
W ercupon Hubtell procee"ed to en-
tighten hlm in this wise: Ills name
is Lee Crandall. He publishes
Creenback paper and it is rendering
valuable service to our party. Mi.
Crandall went out TO Ohio no the Co
| lumbus convention and he prevented
coalition between the Greenb2ck
and Democratic parties. That's the
kind of work he is engaged in. He
is preventing the two parties from
uniting. and in that he is doing us
mOrc good than ANY Of on" own pa
pcrs. Now his paQer s@Hst 90 down
unless We keep ii up and it's clearly
our interest to do SO. l an raising a
subscription to keep the View alive
and I'll our Republican members have
contributed generously. We expect
YOU to do SO as we'll as others. Mr.
Crandail Is going to the Toledo Con-
vcntion, and us the editor OF the Ma
tional organ of his party he will keep
the GrecnhaclCrs and Democrats
from uniting. He is dong us an i'm
mense amount of good and we must
keep his paper going" After a time
Mr., Hubbell discovered his mistake
and begged for secrecy, but the joke
leaked out and Ilubbell and the
View will probably go to join Frye
and the Okoloua States. The Re
puhlicans are chagrincd over the mat
ter and kr. Turner expects to-mOr-
row to add to their SORROW by making
a personal explanation, giving all the
facts, under the pretense OF exposing
the manner in which his confidence
has been betrayed by Il local reporter
who interviewed him.
Mexico weekly ledger. (Mexico, Mo.) 1855-1956, 1879-07-03

The slave trade on the east coast
of Africa is no longer fourishing.
News reached Zanzibar the other day
that three separate gangs of slaves
were on their way to the coast, but
before the intelligence came the Sui
tan had caught one of them, and DR..
Kirk had dropped upon another. The
Kilwa road, formerly the most fire.
quented for slave DEALING, is almost
entirely closed. The trade now is
barely enough to keep the coast plan
tations going. The export trade has
been at an end for several years, and
it is years since man slave has been
taken by the cruisers on the station.
Dhows are still taken and condemn
ed, but it is for the illegal transport
of old slaves, not new.
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Ehe ElOpenent.


A gentleman who has the reputation
of being hard nav was waited m the
other day by man who began:
"Mr. Blank, hold your note for
SIS. 1t is long past due, and want
ed to see what you would do about
it,
"My note? All. yes, yes, this is my
note. For value received I promise
to pay, and so forth. Have you
been to the note-shavers with this ?''
Il have, but none of them would
have it,
Wouldn't Ell? And you tried the
banks?"
Eyes, sir, but they wouldn't look
at it,
"Wouldn't eh? And suppose you
went to q justice to see about suing
it?'
II did, but he said Judgement
wouldn't be worth dollar
Did, Ell? And now what PROPOSE
ton do you wish to maker"
This is your note for SIS. Give
me s. and you can have it."
"Five dollars! No, sir! No, sir! I
have no money to throw away, sir!"
"Rut it is your OWL note.''
True, sir, very true, but I'm not
such an idiot as to throw away money
on worthless securities, no matter
who signs them. / deal only in first
class paper, sir, and when that note
has q negotiable value l will be
pleased to discount it. Good day,
sir-looks like settled weather
again!''