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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31
Second Edition.
. O'CLOCK, p. NJ.
JACKSON.
Important Decisions by the Su-
preme Court Affecting
Memphis.
And a Batch Almost as Interesting
by the Commission.

Special to the Ledger.l
JACKSON, TENN, May 3l.-The
Supreme Court has de,ided cases as
follows The State VS.. Biggs, the
State VS.. Cheshire, Williams VS.. Trip
Duffy VS.. Belts, Black vs.. Shelby
county, Luehrmann VS.. Taxing Dis
trict, Biggs VS.. Taxing District, Good.
win vs.. Fleece-afirmed.
The State VS.. Butler ct al, appeal
dismissed Winfield VS., Currie, Nun
ford VS.. Memphis and Charleston rail
road, petition to rehear refused.
Farrabee VS.. Justice, reversed and
decree here for complainant
Edgington, administrator, VS.. Jane
son, Moore & Miller, VS.. Stovall, re.
versed and remanded.
Shoemaker Piano Company VS.. Nc
Clure, surety on appeal bond, not
liable. Interest to be counted on
decree from the date of the sale oI
pianos.
Myers VS.. james, motion to remand
refused, and final account and decree
in this court.
Gardner VS.. Stanfeld motion for an
alias writ of possession refused.
The commission decided the follow.
ing cases Sturdivant VS.. Mitchell
Morgan vs.. Dickens. Jones VS.
Jumper, Holloway vs.. Hencht, Harris
vs. Hendricks, Cash VS.. Warren, Rhea
VS.. Tucker, Hook VS.. Donaldson
Moncrief VS.. Alsabrook, Williams VS..
EchOls, Seasons VS.. Bynums, Parker
VS.. Observation-Disclosures
Nerench vs.. Williford, stricken from
the docket.
Anderson VS.. Montana, modified
and affirmed.
McClanahan VS.. DuPre, reversed
and injunction made perpetual.
Only seven cases on the easy dockeI
Monday, and the Court will proceed
with the call Of the Shelby CHANGER,
docket.
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all of whose communities fall at once
within the provisions of the act.
The act creating taxing districts
confers the legislative powers of the
new municipal government upon a
legislative council, consisting of three
commissioners and FIVE supervisors,
three of which officials are to be
appointed by the governor, with the
consent of the senate, one by the
Quarterly Court and four to be elected
by the qualified voters Of the district,
all to hold Office for two years, and
after the expiration of the first term,
to be elected by the qualified voters Of
the district.
Held, that the first appointments
were provisional and within the com.
potency of the legislature, and that
the permanent organization was en-
tirely free from constitutional objec-
ton. In this State the legislature
may reserve to itself the right to
directly impose the necessary taxes
for the support of municipal corpora
tions. The effect of what has been
done in this case on the rights of cred.
itors is not before the court and nc
opinion is expressed.
A majority of the court merely
holds that the previous charter of the
city Of Memphis has been validly
repealed, and that the same people
and same territory have been consti-
tutiOnally reincorporated under a gen.
eral law providing for the organization
Of municipal corporations.
Judges Freeman and Turney, in
dissenting opinions, hold that the re.
pealing act is valid, but that the act
creating the Taxing District is un.
constitutional and void.
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River TeIegrnns.

CAIRO, May 3l.-Arrived - Bed
ford, Cincinnati, Z pm; City of Hell
ena, Vicksburg, 10 James D. Parker,
Memphis, am; Arrow, Ohio river,
4; A. j. Baker, New Orleans, 6; Ra-
ven, st. Louis, Z. Departed-James
Howard, New Orleans. 9 pm; Bed
ford, st. Louis, TO- City of Helena
st. Louis, 10; James d. Parker, Gin.
cinnati, 2 am; Arrow, St. Louis, 5
Baker, st, Louis. 7 Raven, Evans,
vile, 8. Very warm; heavy rain thi,
forenoon.
CINCINNATI, May 31.-No arrival,
and no departures,
WHEELING, May 3l.-River 4 feet
z inches and falling.
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SWEDENBORG.
The New Jerusalemites in COnven-
tion in New York.

NEW YORK, May 3l.-The general
convention of the New Jeruslean in
the United States of America was
continued to-day by religious services,
which were led by Rev DR.. Hilbert,
Of Chicago. The trustees of the
jungvitch reported that 500 volumes
of Swedenborgs works had been
distributed by them within the past
year, and the New Church Tract Society
had distributed 1900 volumes. Total
number of volumes distributed with
in the last seven years, $4,000. The
sums of money required from each
State association to pay the expenses of
the convention were then announced,
and it was resolved to take up a col
lection for the same purpose to-mor
rovv
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Supreme Court, which delivered an
opinion to-day sustaining the constitu-
tionality theact. Wehaye always be-
lieyed in paying a fair compensation to
public servants, so as to secure com
potency, integrity and efficiency. Two
thousand dollars net, per annum, may
seem small pay to those who have
made three or five times as much BY
holding Office, yet we believe that the
very best talent can be secured at this
price. Money is worth more than it
was formerly, and all the necessaries
of life are cheaper, Very few bust
ness houses pay fancy prices
these times; very few men
who work for "a living and
employ no capital, but their brain and
skill can command over two thousand
dollars a year. If any of our excellent
county officers choose to resign on ac,
count of this decision, it will be seen
whether we have any frst-rate capable
men, able to give the bond, who will
serve the public for this paltry sum.
DR.. Porter, a wealthy, frst-class bust
ness man, accepted the most trying
Office ever held in Memphis on this
salary, and we believe that there are a
few patriots left, 1t would be an an.
OmalOus thing to see an office go a
begging in Memphis.
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Searching for Treasure in a
Sunken Hull.
Bismarck's Threatening Invita-
tlOn to Hamburg and
Bremen.
A Failure for 100000 Pounds
Sterling.
Lord Chelmsford Probably Coming
Home.
Resignation Of the Portuguese Cabinet.
Russian Restrictions on the Pur-
chase Of Poison.
The Ameer's Escort Back to Afghan.
istan.
Resignation of the Portuguese Cnblns
Russian Restrictions on the Pu
chase Of Poison.
The Ameer's Escort Back to Afghan
istan.

ANTWERP, May 31.-Bismarck 5
note inviting the cities of Hamburg
and Bremen to surrender their privi-
lege as free ports and to associate
themselves with the imperial fiscal
system is couched in such terms as to
leave no chance between submission
and the certainty of compulsion.
LONDON, May 81. - VIM. Henry
PunChard, a partner in the engineer
ing firm of Clark & Punchard, who
has been connected with Baron Grant
in floating the disastrous Lisbon
Tramways Company, has failed, liabil-
tiles 100000.
Edward Clark, another member of
the firm, failed in the early part of
last month for G76O,OOO.
1t is probable that Lord Chelmsford
will ask for leave of absence and will
return home when General Sir Garnet
Wolscley arrives at the seat of war in
South Africa.
Amount of bullion gone into the
Bank of England on balance to-day
G5OO,0O0.
The Portuguese cabinet has resign
ed, in consequence of dissension, and
Annesal j. Broamcauys, councillor of
ministry.
The salvors working on the hull Of
the steamer Pameran will blow open
the doors Of the mail to-day, with the
hope of recovering the treasure.
PARIS, May 81. DIR. Pierre Adolphe
Piorry, an eminent medical writer, is
dead.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 3l.-General
GourkO, governor general of st. Pc
tersburg, has issued an order placing
restrictions on the purchase and sale
Of strong poisons.
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rre $1,000 ACT cONsrrrur1onA1.

One of the most radical and sweep
ing reform measures of the Forty-frst
general assembly was an act limiting
the fees and emoluments of County
Court clerks, trustees and various
other officers to two thousand dollars
per annum. 1t was thought to be too
sweeping by the representatives OF
the larger counties, though all OF
our representatives, except Mr.. League
aud perhaps one other voted for the
bill rather than pass nothing
at all. The most Of them pre-
ferred to allow $4,000 or more as some
thing like commensurate with the
duties and responsibilities of these
offices in such places as Nashville,
Memphis and Chattanooga, Knoxville,
etc. Captain Black, Chancery Court
clerk of this county, determined Ia
test the constitutionality of the act
and carried the question up to the
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Glory EnOugh---Law, Justice and
Order.
+" Best Government the World Ever
rf Saw"
Nine Cheers and a Hundred Guns for
the Day of Our 0ellVeraHce,
Special to the Ledger.

Special to the Ledger!
JACKSON, Tenn, May 31.-Henry
Luehrmann VS.. Taxing District alb
stract Of opinion of the majority of the
court by Cooper, judge, in which
judges Deadrick and Mcfarland con-
cur. Under provision Of the consti-
tuition Ofthe State that no bill shall
become law which embraces more
than one subject, that subject to be
expressed in the title, -" An act enti-
tied an act to repeal the charter of
certai municipal corporations to re-
mand the territory and inhabitants
thereof to the government of the
State" is not rendered unconstitu.
tional by provision that the property
used by such corporations for munici.
pal purposes is transferred to the Gus
tody and control of the State, to
remain public property for the uses to
which it has been hitherto applied.
Under the same constitutional pro-
vision, an act entitled, "a bill to
establish Taxing Districts in this
State, and to provide the means of a
local government for the same" which
grants municipal franchises to the
communities within the territorial
limits Of the Taxing Districts, and
gives to the corporations thus created
all the necessary legislative, judicial
and police powers of an incorporated
city, and contains specifications of
offences against the corporations or
committed by its officials, with penal
ties and punishments, and contains
only one subject within the meaning
Of the constitution. Municipal
corporations are within the absolute
control of the legislature, and may be
abolished at any time in its discretion,
and an act which repeals the charter
of single municipal corporation is
constitutional.
An act which grants municipal
franchises to the communities within
the territorial limits Of certain dis
tricts in order to provide the means of
local government and creates the
agencies and governing instrumental
ties Of a municipal corporation, with
the usual legislative, executive and
judicial powers, although it may style
the creations taxing districts, it in
reality organizes the people and terri
tory Of the districts into municipal
corporations.
An act which provides, that the
several communities embraced in the
territorial limits of all such municipal
corporations in this State as have had
or may have their charters abolished.
or as may surrender the same, under
the provisions Of the act, are hereby
created Taxing Districts in order to
provide the means of local government
for the peace, safety and general vel
fare of such districts, and further pro-
vides for the surrender Of all charters
of municipal corporations in the State
to enable the communities within
their limits to be governed by the new
act Is in form a gem al law and can
mol be held to be intended as a special
law, even if the courts can inquire into
the intention of the legislature, al
though mainly framed or designed for
a particular locality where the acts of
the same session of the Legislature
shows a repeal Of the charters Of
thirty-seven municipal corporations,
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Bank Statement.

NEw YoRK, May 3l.-Loans
decrease, $363,7OO; specie decrease
$4,000; legal tenders decrease, SAG,
$50; deposits decrease, s1,59l 600
circulation increase, $l2,8OO; reserve
decrease, 81, ,2l26OO; banks now hold
&,O38,3OO in excess of legal require.
meDts.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

For nearly year the Glen's Falls
Messenger has been printing! series
of papers by Mr.. Edison Forbes, enti
tied Lights and Shadows of Wash
ington." The last issue contains a
brief one, dictated by him, and begin
ming; 1t seems to be the will of
Providence that my days on earth are
soon to be ended and unless | recover
from the malady which now afilicts
me, my series of letters with the above
heading must terminate with this
closing announcement The same
number of the paper records his death.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

Count Schouvaloff has been advised,
on account of i'll health, to remain
here free from the cares of State
business.
SIMLA, May 31.-Major Cavagnari
will accompany the Ameer of Afghan
istan to Cabul, escorted by detach-
ment of guides. Cabul is tranquil.
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Senator David Davis on the
tr trf Army. ~ f'ITlIt

Senator David Davis, of Illinois, 10
acknowledging the receipt of the
resolutions of joint caucus Of the
Democratic members Of the general
assembly of thai State indorsing his
votes on the army bill, wYitgs, fro
" Iii is hardly necessary for ne "a
say that am in favor Of perfect free
dom of elections from the interference
or the presence Of any part of the
army at the polls. because that opinion
was emphatioally expressed on The
floor of the senate, This is a govern
ment of legal authority, founded on
the constitution and the laws made in
pursuance thereof. One Of the griey
ances of which our iorefathers com
pklined was that the king had quar-
tered troops on them, and sought by
military power TO coerce them into
submission. IL is little less than a
public scandal, aftera century Of ma
tionai existence, that any party could
venture to ask the peoples approval of
species of tyranny that is forbidden
in England aud wherever else the
parliamentary principle is respected. y
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THE INSANE TENOR
Receivers His Reason Much Opium
His Trouble.

CINCINNATI, May 81. = Fred C.
Packard, tenor of the Carl Rosa
troupe, who became insane while en-
route here few days since, has recov-
cred his reason 1t is now known
that the cause of his misfortune was
an overdose of opium.
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NEW YORK.

New YORK, May 31.-Money in de.
mand at3@4 Sterling strong at $50
89!. Silver at London, 81 8.16d per
ounce. Bar silver here, l13. Subsidi.
airy silver coin, }@3c discount. Gov
ernments strong Railroad securities
active. State bonds dull. Stocks ir-
regular, but in the main strong.
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Sudden Death Of Bob TngersOlrs
Brother.

WASHINGTON, May 31.-Ebon S.
Ingersoll, ex-representative in con-
gresS from Illinois, and brother of
Robert Ingersoll, died in this city
early this morning of apoplexy. He
was in his usual good health yesterday
evening.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

A walking match, by two San Fran
cisco men, without any legs, except
wooden ones, proceeded uneventfully
for three miles. Then one of the con
testants remarked, in reply to spec
tator's question, that his legs had been
cut of by cannon ball. Guess you
mean a moving machine" said the
other pedestrians Then the race
ended, for the insulted veteran at
tackled his rival, aud fierce combat
closed the contest
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

Admiral Mackillop, who died re-
Gently in Egypt, had for eleven years
held the position of comptroller gen
eral of ports and ght-houses in that
country, and stood high in favor with
the khedive and his people, as well as
with foreigners, He made Alexandria
one Of the best managed harbors in
the world. He had previously served
in the British navy thirty years with
honor.
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Indications.

WASHINGTON, May 31.-For Ten.
nessee and Ohio valley falling or sta
tionary, followed by rising barometer,
variable winds, mostly warm, south
and shifting to cooler northerly, partly
cloudy weather and local rains.
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FataI Roller FxDIosIou.

LNsDAY, ONT, May 3l.-The boi-
ler in Thurston's steam saw mill ex-
plOded this morning and instantly
killed a man named King, and prob
ably fatally injuring the engineer
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

Thelarge circulation Of the LEDGER
in Arkansas justifes us in giving SO
much space to the news and interests
of our growing sister State across the
river.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

Is is related that a young fellow in
Iowa was married under some diff
culties the other day. The parents of
the young woman refusing to allow
hin to see her, he had himself arrested
for breaking into building, and then
subpenaed the girl as a witness. BY
this means he secured access to her
long enough to accomplish his object,
by the friendly help ofa minister.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31
Latest Market Reports.
CINCINNATI

CINCINNATI, May 31.-Flour un-
changed. Wheat firm at $l.Oj@1. 100.
Corn steady at 39@40c. Oats quiet at
34@37c. Whisky lower at $l.O1. Pork
unchanged. Lard quiet at 6.O5@610.
Bulk meats firm; shoulders, $500
3.60; short ribs, in good demand and
held at AGO; short clear, Al. Bacon,
firm and unchanged.
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-Four Per Cent. SUBSCRIPTIONS.

WASHINGTON, May 3l.-Subscrip-
tions to the four per cent. refunding
certificates since Thursdays report,
81 ,42S,3O0. Total to date, $32, ,8l7 $40.
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ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.

MENPHTs, May 81.
Sales of cotton in this market to-
day unimportant. New Orleans, 2
p.m.-Cotton quiet and firm. Mid
ding l2lc. Sales % bales. Receipts
357 bales. Stock, 51,772 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

Lose not thy own for the want of
asking it Lose not your infant for
want of DIR. Bulls Baby Syrup, which
any druggist will sell You for 25c a
bottle,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-05-31

William Woodmansee, young mar
in Westerly, r.. l., has sued an Ole
employer, owner Of a wooden mill, fol
$l5, 600 damages for Injuries received
in 1872 by being caught in the ma.
chinery.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Locomotives, Sneed.

Chow fast do you think we are trav-
cling 7" Charley Fraser, one of the old
est engineers of the New York, Lake
Erie and Western railway, asked Sun
reporter as they we're standing together
on the foot board of Locomotive No.
300, rushing over the meadows toward
Rutherford Park.
81 should think we were going nearly
a mile a minute.n
"a mile minute ~ said Fraser. 81
doubt if you ever rode a mile minute.
Few locomotives have driving wheels
ever five feet, and l have my doubts if
a five-fOOt wheeler can be pushed a
mile a minute. People have a very
erroneous idea of the speed of railroad
trains. We are not going now more
than thirty-five miles an hour, and this
is very fast. Few trains make this
speed. The passengers in the cars
would think we were going a mile a
minute, sure, if was to pull out the
throttle so as to send her forty miles all
hour. The express trains make no such
time as the local trains. Where we
lose is with SO many stops. No man
could stand on platform car and face
the wind going mile a minute and
live. The breath would actually be
blown out of his body. You couldn't
count the telegraph poles going a mile
a minute. Talk to an old engineer of
that rate being made by passenger
train, and he would laugh. / made a
mile minute once, however. 1t was
when l was but eighteen years of age.
was an engineer then, in charge of a
fine six-fOOt-wheel locomotive. There
were lot of railroad moguls on board,
and the object was to make the best
time we could. They were to ring the
gong when the speed was mile a min
ute. | thought we were making it for
some time before the bell rang. At
length, on down grade, with a full
head of steam, when we were spinning
along as if we were all going to destruc-
ton, and the motion of the piston 60
ing over the center could no longer be
distinguished, the bell rang. We had
reached the rate of mile a minute. 1t
was the fastest | ever rode, before or
since. | tried hard to make mile
minute on subsequent miles, but lacked
it three OF four seconds every time. |
couldn't squeeze another mile inside of
the sixty seconds. When you hear a
man telling about riding in passenger
train that ran a mile a minute, don't say
anything, but mentally scratch off
good .n-New York Sun.
St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1879-09-05
Murray.

tFrom Boston Letter TO Springfield Republican,
Murray, as one of his nearest friends
puts it, one who has known him about
as intimately as one man can know an
other,--has insisted on being a law
unto himself md is now paying the
penalty. lie knew the danger he was
running III his free intercourse with
women, for il was pointed out to aim
often enough. But he has said en-
phatically tnat he would not conform
30 the worlds opinion or body else's
standard in such matters and that he
would leave public life when any wo-
man in Boston bigh 49, lev, 5s'tiili not
come 10 him, at any hour day OF night,
for advice, counsel, or assistance. He
used his amanuensis like a machine /;
and was perfectly Indifferent in lunch
ing and travelling with her. She was
devoted to him, and he appreciated her
devotion but as one would a faithful
clerk, or perhaps a devoted sister. But
she is a very pretty woman, with "wOn-
drOus dark eyes," and you we'll know
how the world can talk when it sets
out. Financially, Murray has been in
more or less hot water ever since he
left Park street church, and it has been
the one aim of his life to clear himself
from debt. He was not extravagant in
his living. His personal expenses were
slight. For three years his bed was an
old lounge in his little den of an office,
in the Golden Rule rooms, on fremont
street opposite the Common and dur
ing that time he knew nothing of what
the world calls the luxury of living
Nearly all of his salary, when editor Of
the Golden Rule and what profit there
was of that enterprise when it was
profitable, went to pay these debts. He
had great faith in the blackboard, his
friends have faith in it now,-and he
hoped to celebrate his birthday THU
year free man, free from debt. What
crushed him was his stock farm. Il
was most expensive affair, and the
parson knew as little about its financial
conduct as a child. There were rows
of stalls full of horses, splendid fellows
to be sure, of which any owner might
well be proud but they were eating
their heads off; and there seemed tC
be always large gang of help, retain
ers, and hangers-On about the place
1t is the assertion of his friends, thai
the parsOn is not nearly so deeply in,
vOlved as he was two or three years
ago, and that with his money earning
capacity unimpaired, it is confidently J
believed he will yet meet all his obli-
cations.