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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-11-12
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EDIToR LEDGER-It is idle to talk
Of a 4 per cent. tax for sewerage; the
people cannot pay it. One per cent.
is all they can raise with any ease for
purposes Of Improvement, and while
sewerage should be looked to, there
are other matters of more present i'm
portance requiring attention, aud cost
ing but little money, comparatively
speaking. All will agree that the
rotten Nicolson payements should be
taken up at once and burned. This is
the time. II must be done now in one
OF the winter months. 1t can be re-
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r%ations are remarkable for their rarity
as we'll as for their freshness. In fact,
the state of pictorial art in the first
century would be almost unknown to
US but for the frescoes from the
House of the Tragic Poet and the
beautiful wall-paintings now in the
Naples Museum.
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Sixty Sixth Annual Communication o.
the GRAND Masonic Lodge
Of Tennessee.

NASHVILLE, November lO.-EDI-
TOR LEDGER-We were under the
impression that railroad officials were
posted in railroad affairs, and relied
on making connections on time but
10! on arriving at Mckenzie, abOnt
forty delegates from the Northwestern
train were taken off, and we had to
wait until FIVE o'clock in the morning,
a delay of fifteen hours. However. at
ten o'clock we arrived at Nashville,
and were present at the opening ofthe
Grand Lodge in ample form by the NJ.
w. G. NJ, Geo. c. Corma; w. f. Eos
ter D. G.. NJ; Bun f. Price, S. G.
Warden; Bro. Clark, Jun. G. w. pro
tenn; N. S. Woodland, S. G. Deacon.
Angel s. Myers, J. G. Deacon; John
Frizzell, Grand Secretary. The
Grand Lodge was opened with prayer
BY B. Ison, grand chaplain. at eleven
o'clock. A very large and fne-looking
delegation is present, many of them
for the first time. The grand master
read a portion Of his address, which is
very yoluminous, and a printed copy is
forwarded, from which may be ex-
tracted many items. The committee
on dispensations and reforms made
their report, and on motion it was
adopted. Four new lodges we're
granted charters. Among them is
that at Brownsville, named after the
lamented Il. r. T. Voorsham. The
committee on appeals made their
report. 1t is very large, and was 10
the most concurred in. At four
o'clock some fifteen delegates, repre-
s%entatiyes from sister Grand Lodges,
we're introduced and received with the
private grand honors. BY a motion
the election Of grand officers was fixed
fCr ten o'clock tomorrow Tuesday
morning.
The Grand Lodge called off until
Z o'clock precisely. At Z o'clock the
Grand Lodge opened and the officers
and members of Phoenix Lodge, as
sisted by the members of Cumberland
Edgefeld, Germania and CoriDthian
Lodges, Brother w. +. Foster. u. 6,
NJ, in the chair proceeded to confei
the master Mason's degree upon
Brother Roger Eastman. The work
was done in the Grand Lodge Hall in
presence Of the Grand Lodge, and wa.
done in smooth and excellent manner
The Masonic student might fnd much
to criticise as to its consistency, many
as to innovations upon the old work.
Upon the close of the work the Crane
Lodge called on, and upon motion tn,
thanks Of the Grand Lodge was givel
to Phoenix Lodge by a standing an,
unanimous vote. Brother Morgoys
grand treasurer, then presented tn
Grand Lodge in behalf Of Brotbe
Tool a large and beautiful album
containing a copy Of the portraits o
all the grand masters Of this Gran,
Lodge. A vote Of thanks was giyer
to Brother Tool for the present. Upo.
motion Brother Morrow vas instruct
cd to devise some means Of seeurin
the oil portraits from the danger q
loss by fire, the present value of thel
being about $1,000. The grand maste
announced hat a Lodge of Sorro,
would be held in the FIRST Presby
terrain Church tomorrow night at
o'clock. The Grand Lodge was the.
called of until tomorrow TUESDAY
morning at 8 o'clock.
WHISTTMOTT
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Wefeestar spy.l

hbfceet4F bpyJ
It is related Of William Pitt Fessen-
den that when he became secretary Of
the treasury he telegraphed 20 lead
ing bankers in the Fast and West to
meet him in New York, to confer up
on the financial situation. 1t APP
peared, however, that there were
about as many views as there Eere
bankers. After tn %seecretarys return
to Washington he received a dispatch
from the bankers who represented St.
Louis. saying that upon considering
the whole matter they had decided
that the views Of the New York bank.
ers were nearer correct than theirs.
The day following the secretary re-
eeiyed a dispatch from the bankers
who represented New York, saying
that upon consideration they had de.
cided that the St. Lonis bankers
| views upon finance were the sound
opes. and they cordially gave way to
them. Ia this condition Of affairs the
secretary concluded that his advisers
knew about as little as he did, where
upon he decided to go it alone"
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A Specimen Of HIr. Hayes, Militia
ry Service Reform.


Washington Letter.l
u will be remembered that when
young Finley, Of South Carolina. was
up for examination for a second lieu
tenancy in the army, some stalwarts
we're outraged, and tried to discover
all the evidences of a new civil war in
the g0Agg man, BY a personal call on
the President, he dispelled all such
foolish nonsense, and on examination
stood first on the list Of his section.
As this entitled him TO p%referment. he
chose the cavalry arm Of the service.
and 10 due time received his appoint.
melt TO the Ninth Cavalry. This or
der has just been rescinded, aud the
young man ordered to the Fifteenth
Infantry. In his stead the cavalry is
! to be enpiched with the accomplished
Mr.. Parker, Of Massachusetts,. Mr..
Parker is a nephew Of Attorney Gen
eral Deyens. lie was designated, along
with the others, for examination, and
lamentably failed. Again receiving a
nance for his spurs, he again failed.
Ibis is usually thought sufficient to
place an applicant on the cooling
beard, but through the INFLUENCE Of hIs
cabinet uncle, Parker received an ar
%pointment direct from the hands Of
the President. aud is ordered TO sue
ceed a man who won his place on his
merit. This is an example Of military
service reform.
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Trustees Sale.

A 5, trustee, 1 will sell to the highest and
IA best bidder, for cash, on Saturday. M
yember Y. at Gleneo, on Memphis and Padu-
cab railroad. within legal hours, twelve
mules. two mares and one horse. Said deed
Is registered in registers office, Memphis, in
book No. IA, on page 44I "
November 9Th, 1878. 5o 70
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Administrator

HAVING qualified as administrators If m,
IL estate of John ?. Hoffman, deceased. ali
parties having claims against said decedent,
are notified to file the same with me or my
attorneys within legal time, and that are in.
debted to call and settle.
D.. MAKf =. HOFFMAN, Admistratrix.
81 63 SO 70
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The Marquis of Sligo.

New York Ilmes.i
The Marquis of Sligo, whose agents
have lately been assailed, is about the
largest proprietor in point of acreage
in northwestern Ireland, but a large
proportion Of his receipts are bog and
merass, and his net receipts so far are
probably not over $4,000 a year. His
seat, Westport House, is close beside
a pretty town of the same name, and
his charming grounds are free to all
corners. The pleasant marquis is an
easy tempered, kindly mar of about
ffty-fye, who has been si%ngularly un-
lucky in marriage, having lost two
charming wives within a year or two
of marriage. lie last year married a
third. In politics he is a liberal. His
father was DeQuincey's friend, to
whom the latter refers in his interest
ing account of a visit to Ireland his
youth, when he spent several weeks at
Westport. In the event Of the pres
ent Marquis of Clanricarde having no
heir, Lord Sligo succeeds the ancient
earldom of that ilk in right of his
mother. The Sligo family have never
been absentees.
Hop Bitters purifes the blood, and
removes all pimples and eruptions.
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The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is IS per annum and
SOC per month fOrlsss than n year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per snnum-
postage free.
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ChanCery Sale of Real Estate


In the Chancery Court of Shelby county.
Iennessee-W. B. Williamson VS.. A. II,
Smith. ."
RY virtue ofan in~terlocutory decree for sale
~ entered in the above cause on the 3d
day Of July, 1879, NJ. b.. %, page So. / will
sell at public auction to the highest bidder,
IN front of the Clerk and Masters office,
courthouse of Shelby county, Memphis,
On Saturday, December 8, 1879,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
Two certain parcels, or tracts of land. situ-
a,ted and being in the Seventh Civil District.
Tract MOL beginning at a stake the'northwest
corner OF Dock Carter's home tract; thence
west 10 poles to a stake near a white oak.
thence south " poles and 20 links to the mid,
dle OF Fletcher creek, under the east side of n
bridge; thence in an e~asterly direction with
The channel Of said creek to a stake, said
DOCK Carriers southwest corners of said home
tract; thence north with his west BOUNDARY
me ~ poles TO the beginning, containing by
estimation, 3A acres. Also tract No. q. being
tne west corner OF :. A.. Mqnson's, all on the
north SIDE OF Fletcher creek, beginning in s.
A. Munson's vest Tine, in the confer of In
main bed VT said creek with sweet,gum mint
ersl Ihenee west 10 chains 70 the northwest
corner OF SAID Munsan>s tract, with mRnie
pointers THENCE east 8 chains 70 a stake. WITH
sweet-gum aRdyhite oak pointers, the north
east corner of the part north Of said crock
thepee south 5 chains to a stake; thence cast
TO me center Of Fletcher's creek; thence down
said creek to the beginning; containinS Dfne
C9l acres, more OF less. ~
Terms Oh sale-Un Q credit Of SIX months.
purchaser to execute note wish good seenrir
hiSh IelalneSi redemption barred, >
This NSgembeyT, 1918.
o II HARTpAu. Snlinilnr Hu NlNotoI.
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ChanCery Sale Of Real Estate.


r, 32i6 -Chancory Court Of Shelby county-II.
NJ. james Va. A. o. Atkeson Ell al.
DY virtue Of an interlocutory decree for
- sale entered IN tho above cause on the goth
day of luno. i'79, NJ. B. IS, page |, / will cell
AT public auction 10 the highest bidder, IN
tfaat 81 tbo NlQrk aAd MaFler.s office, court
house building, Main street, Taxing District Of
Shelby county, late the city Of Memphis, Ten
nofsoe, on
Saturday, December @, 1879,
within legal hours. the following described
properly, situated In the city OF Mvhphis,
shelby county, VeuRs ". viz
beginning a. the southwest corner Of Peyton
avenue md snfarans street; running thence
south with PcytOn avenue City 500 feet;
thence west and parallel with Saiiarnns street
ono hundred and twenty-Gye Cl25l feet "a te
dllcyi thence north With said avenue parallel
with Poyton avenue fifty (50l feet 70 SafIarans
street. thence cast With Snharans street one
hundred and twenty FIVE Ops feet to the be-
ginning.
rermgp nj Sale On q arsdit ef seven months;
note with security required; lion retained;
redemption barred.
This N0gemher 1lth, 1879.
X j. BLACK, Cicik and Master
y; n. Trczeyant, Sol. for complainant.
t26SN 81 80
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and rersimmon pointers; thence south II
chains 80 links 70 the river: thence down the
main channel of tho river to the beginning,
containing le IS 300 acres moro or less. and
being same tracts Of land conveyed by
Thomas b., Crenshaw to Lucy II. Caldwell by
deed dated August 10, 1866, and recorded n
book 81, part 2, pages 4l6, All and AIS, REGIS
tor's Office Of Shelby county.
Terms Of sale-Said property will be sold IN
separate tracts, on q credit of six, twelve,
eighteen and twenty-four months, purchasers
TO execute notes, bearing interest from date
until paid. with approved personal security
ana liens retained on the lands until the SAM
are paid. Equity Of redemption barred.
jackson, Tenn, November s, 1879.
JOHN II. FREEMAN, Clerk.
60 81
In Supreme Court at Jackson-Annie Loften,
ct al. vs.. Thomas Ryan ct al.
by virtue otthe decree pronounced by the
II supreme Court of Tennessee, at Jackson
on the oth day OF June 1879 in this cause /
wlll oiler for sale to the highest bidder, in
'front.' Of the Court House Of Shelby county, in
Memphis, on
saturday, December g.. 1879.
The real estate mentioned and described. in
SAID decree, as follows; Situated in Shelby
county Tennessee, in the city of Mempbis,
being LOT. No. 6, on Fuckers man Of the civ
VI Memphis, on Alabama street, f%ronting IA
ieet ON the north side Of Alabama street, and
running back between parallel lines, l@SL
feet to an alley, being the same lot conveyed
b6y X: a. Moon to said Thomas Ryan, on The
10th sday Of September, 1860.
Terms OF sale' Said prOprty will be sold on
a credit Of six months; purchaser to exeeute
note with approved personal security, and 4
lien retained on the land until the purchase
money is paid. Equity of redemption barred.
jackson Tenn. November Sth, 1879.
JNO. ii. FREEMAN, Clerk,
SMITH & COLLIER, Solicitors. 6O&
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Ryr virtue of a trust deed made by VIM. E.
in the registers office of Shelby county. Ten
nessee, in record book No. 103, page 27S, the
note secured therein being impaired, L will
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MOndny, Ist nay o. Deeember, lszp

within legal hours, an the southwest corner
q Main and Madison streets, in the city Of
memphis offer at public sale, to the highest
bidder, for cash, and free from the equity of
redemption, the following real estate, lying
IN said city, county and State, and beginning
N tho south side Of Court street, east Of
Third street, at the northeast corner of a lot
solo by Thomas P. Aydlett to c. S. Fenner
and running thence with the south side of
Court street eastwardly 80 feet, more or less;
thence southwardly and at the right angle to
court street liSl& feet; thence ~westwardly to
the southeast corner of said lot of c.. S. Fen
nor, 4 nd thence northwardly, parallel with
Third street, ltSM feet to Court street.
JAS, II. G00DLETT, Trustee.
CLAPP x RRARD. ATTORNEYS. hq-7g
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wednesday evening. Nov. II, 1879
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Hop Bitters purifes the blood, and
all pimples and eruptious.
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Q1Ia month and eIpenses guaranteed TO
D agents. Outfit free. Shaw 3 Co., Az
ggsta, Maine. "
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
A Good Paymaster.

Mr.. Wesley once, wheE he was
making a collection, urged the PEG
pie to give and in this way lend
their money to the Lord, adding,
"The Lord is a good paymaster. -
These words made sue h an impress
sion upon the mind of liCtle boy
who was present that he put a shill-
ing into the plate. This was the
only coin that he possessed. He
fully expected that his shilling
would soon come back to him, and
as time passed on and it did not re-
turn he was much disappointed. So
at last he told his mother what he
had lent to the Lord, and that il had
not been paid him again. "Never
mind" replied his mother, 1.-The
Lord is a good paymaster."
Twenty years have rolled away,
and the boy had grown to be very
rich man, and, what is infinitely
better, a real christian. One day
he met Mr.. Wesley and reminded
him of the WORDS, telling him also
how he had acted upon them. "And
So" he added, "the Lord is a good
paymaster, for l am this day worth
thirty thousand pounds, and have
the grace Of God in my heart"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
For the Boys.

"Sir," said boy, stopping before
a man on his cart, edo you want a
boy to work for your"
NO." answered the man, 81 have
no such want"
The boy looked disappointed; at
least the man thought so, and said 4:
"Don't you succeed in getting IA
placer"
Il have asked at a good many
Places" said the boy. "a woman
told me you had been after boy,
but it is mo- so | find"
Don't be discouraged" said the
man, in a friendly tone.
Oh, no, sir,' said the boy, cheer
fully, "because this is very big
world, and l feel certain God has
something for me to do in it,
"Just so, just so,'' said a gentle
man who overheard the talk. Come
with me, my boy; l am in want OF
somebody like you"
1t was the doctor, and the doctor
thought any boy so anxious to find
work would be likely to do it faith
fully when he found it.
If everybody had the spirit OF
this little lad there would be no
idlers in the world, standing on the
corners, sitting in the shops, wait
ing for the work to come to them
Work does not often come so. AL
most everything worth having, like
ore in the mine, must be sought for.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
Learning a Trade.

Learning a trade" we are sorry
to say, is little in disfavor in this
country. Fond mothers, who we
are bound to say in this respect are
foolish, shrink from the thought OF
seeing their darling sons working
at the bench or sweating over the
anvil. By some mysterious and ut
terly false standard of judgment
they have come to the conclusion
If it can be called a conclusion
which is not reached by any sound
process of reasoning-that if sons
adopt a business which involves
spoiled clothes they will as an inev
liable consequence become less re-
spectacle than they otherwise would
be. What effect a callous hand has
on character it would be difficult to
show, and yet it is too often thought
that soft handed young man who
sells silks and tape over a counter
Is of more social importance than
the broad chested, hard handed fell
low who holds a pillow or shoves q
plane. There is no use disputing
about tastes, and if parents pre-
fer for their children the slavish
and narrowing career which for the
attends life in trade. to
the freedom and chances of self i'm
provement which a skilled mechanic
possesses, all that can be said is
that they must do as they please
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
Influence Of Marriage.

Marriage has a great refining and
moralizing tendency. Where a man
marries early, and uses prudence in
selecting a suitable companion he is
likely to load virtuous, happy life.
But in an unmarried state al allur-
ing vices have a tendency to draw
him away. The penitentiary re
ports show a large share of drunk
ards are bachelors. The more mar
ried men we have the fewer crimes
there will be. An unmarried man
is but half a perfect being, and it
cannot be expected that in this i'm
perfect state he can keep straight In
the path Of re1titude any more than
a boat with one oar can keep a
straight course. In nine cases out
of ten where married men become
drunkards, or where they commit
crimes against the peace of the
community, the foundation of these
was laid while in single state, or
where the wife is, as Is sometimes
the case, an unsuitable match.
Marriage changes the current of
the mans feelings and gives him a
center for his thoughts, his afiec-
tions and his acts.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
Schooling that Does not Educate.

The whole tendency of modern
education is to lift boys and girls
to places they are not fitted to fill,
to disgust them with work that they
are fitted to do, which must be
done and which can be easily OBJ.
tanned. Our theory of education is
continually losing sight of a fact
which never permits itself to be ig-
nored, and teaching the young TO
lose sight of it, that the mass of
people in every generation and I'M
der whatever form of government
must he laborers. The old heresy
that every boy has chance to be
President of the United States has
done more mischief in the small
bl aims of boys who, when they at
tain manhood's strength, are fitted
to dig trenches and do nothing else,
than it has even in the largest
brains of public men who, once bit
ten with the personal application of
the idea are good for nothing after
ward. The boy should have an ed
ucation which, when completed, will
make the subject better fitted to
pursue well the work for which he
is fitted, which makes him not
ashamed to do it. and which thus
diguifies labor.
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
An Honest Confession.

OF Gen. Albert Sydney johnson
is related that one day in Utah
when his command was two days
distant from a mailing station, he
found that a captain had returned
to the camp forgetting to post a
letter which the General had in
trusted to HIM. But all the com
mander said was: Il can imagine
no excuse for such carelessness,
Captain" Not long after that the
General himself discovered in a
winter coat, which had been packed
away, letter which loDg time be
fore he had received from the sur
geor with the request that he post
it. He had taken it to the station,
forgotten to post it, and it had re-
manned in the pocket for six months.
The conscientious general first
apologized to the surgeon and then
sent for the captain and said: al
beg pardon for reproving you for
an offence in which ! myself set the
example"
The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1879-10-09
Our Young People
MADE UP FROM THE BEST CLIPPINGS
Doesn't Want to Become a Bad Boy.

A bright-looking boy, II years
old, who said his name was Tommy
McEvoy, went alone into the Jeffer-
son Market Police Court the other
evening and said to Justice Nor
gan: Judge, your Honor, want to
give myself up" "Why, my boyr'
asked the court. Because" re
piled the lad, 81 hain't got no home,
and l don't want to live in the
street and become a bad boy"
why don't you stay at homer 81
amt got no home. Fathers been
dead nine years, and mother died
before that" "But where have you
been living since?' with my
aunt. She lives in Forty first street;
but she gets drunk, and she won't
let me stay indoors. To day she
chased me out and said if l ever
came back she would do something
awful TO me. Pm afraid of her, and
so Eve got no home. Nobody will
take me in because | amt got good
clothes and don't look nice. CAM
get any work, and l can't get any
thing to eat unless l beg or steal it.
Then the cops III take me in. ]
don't want to get arrested. l don't
want to steal, nor to be bad boy.
Won't you please send me some
where where l can leal n something
snd get to be a man? There's
places like that, amt therer' The
justice told the boy there were such
places for good boys, and, taking
the little fellow under his protec
ton, promis ed to find him home
in some good i1stitution.- New
York paper.