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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21
River TeIegrams.

LOUISVILLE, July 2l.-River ris-
ing, 6 feet in canal and 4 feet in chute
on the falls.
EVANSVILLE, July 2l.-Riyer y feet
and falling. No arrivals or departures.
PITTsBURG, July 2l.-River Is
inches and falling. Weather clear
and pleasant.
CINCINNATI, July 2l.-River 8 feet
4 inches and falling. Fair and pleas
ant.
CAIRO, July 21.-Arrived: Andy
Baum, Cincinnati, 3 a. M; St. Gene
We've, Memphis, 4. Departed: Gil
more, New Orleans, 8 p m; st. Gene
We've, st. Louis, 5 a. m; Baum
Memphis. 6. Clear and cool.
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Heavy Failure.

HALIFAX, July 2l,-At a meeting
Of the creditors of Robert Boak &
Son, West India merchants, lately
failed, held yesterday, statement
was submitted showing the liabilities
of the firm at about $244,OOO, assets,
$4,000. Robert Boak is secured to
the amount of $4,000. Probability
is that the unsecured creditors will
not realize more than five cents on the
dollar. The business has been losing
year after year for four years.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

COLONEL Eaton says Shaw is a good
man and that he will vote for him.
The colonel is on earnest man and
10 doubt means this. His partisanship
is so strong, and his feeling so intense
that he no doubt thinks that Shaw is
a good man-at least for political
purposes. And yet it seems strange
that mere fanaticism, for that is what
it is when analyized, should carry a
man so far, and especially a man Of
fine education and common sense
about ordinary affairs. If Colonel
Eaton were in i'll health, and going to
Europe, to be absent two years, we
doubt whether he would place his
property and his business in the hands
Of Ed. Shaw to manage during his alb
sence. Yet he is perfectly willing to
place Shaw in charge Of the affairs Of
the people of Shelby county. Shaw is
not only illiterate and ignorant, but
incompetent and vicious. Last year
he was one OF the leading agitators
who gave so much trouble during the
absence of a majority of the white peo
ple and taxpayers, including Colone
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

THE New York Herald of Monday
gives the names of fifty three children
who succombed to the heat in that
city during the twenty-four ending
Sunday at noon. The temperature Of
this country seems to have been turn
ed around about ninety degrees.
Whilst it is delightfully."- cool in the
south, the northern people are swell
tering under oppressive heat.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

IT has been decided by the house OF
commons that no monument to the
Prince Imperial shall be erected in
Westminster Abbey. In early times
only members of royal families we're
inferred there; afterward distinguished
army and navy officers were buried in
that famous pile, and finally authors,
poets, philosophers, discoverers, and
various others found resting place
beneath that honored floor. Men who
arose from the humble walks of life
have been buried there. Chas. Dick
ems, and Livingston, the missionary
and African traveller, are instances.
But the place has become crowded.
The honor is not SO exceptional as it
once was, and there had to be a stop
ping place somewhere. They have
excluded the Prince Imperial on the
ground that it would impair the
good feeling between England and
France to place a monument to his
name in Westminster Abbey.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

NEW ORLEANS, July q, 2 pm.
Cotton quiet and easy. MiddiiDg,
ll9c; sales to-day, 500 bales; re-
ceipts 554 bales stock, 56,626 bales.
LIVERPOOL, July 81, 1:3O pm
Cotton easier. Uplands 65d; Orleans,
I'd; Sales to-day, 5000 bales. Re
ceipts, 2,3OO. American, 1,05O. Flu
lures opened weak. Deliveries for
July. 625 32d; July and August,
IS % 32d; August and September,
.6 2l.32d; September and October,
IS 15-32d; October and November.
6 7-32d; November and December,
.6ld
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

The population Of Pennsylvania in
1870 was 3,52l,95l. This year it is
given by the census returns 4,237, ,3l2,
'an increase of 7l5,36l, or about 21 per
Acent. The increase is greatest in the
'coal, oil and iron regions. The growth
agricultural counties is about 10
per cent, and the gain in some of the
richest counties only about Z per cent,
showing merely a steady, natural gain.
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SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.
R. w. Thompson Fires On'at Ham
cock.

DENVER, July 21.-Hon. r. w.
Thompson, secretary of the navy, de-
livered speech here last night. He
read a letter of General Hancock,
written to Hon. S. T. Glover, St.
Louis, July II, 1868, endorsing the
platform and candidates of the dem
ocTatic party that year, which plat
form declared all constitutional
amendments, enfranchisement of ne
groes, and the entire work of recon
struction null and void. The letter
also endorsed Frank Blair's letter to
Broadhead, advocating the sending of
an army south to undo the work of re-
construction. Thompson said Han
cock was sent south by Andy John
son to nullify the acts of congress, and
his order, No. 49, was intended to put
rebels on top and loyal men at the
bottom. Grant refused to permit that
order to be executed, and Hancock
left New Orleans in milf. Since
the war these are the only prominent
points in Hancock's history. He paid
high compliment to Hancock as a SOL
dier, but declared he is no states
man.
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THE strength Of the national party
has frittered away to very few hun
dred votes in Shelby county. The
colored nationals who had no ticket Of
their own in 1878 and were instructed
how to vote by their leaders thatyear,
have gone back en- masse into the re-
publican ranks. Fred Hunt, Glen
Harris and other colored orators tell
them, now that they owe the national
party nothing, aud that they can take
care of themselves. Harry Hill
will carry some colored votes,
but Powell and Fleece will not receive
one hundred colored votes in the
county. When the time comes to
vote they will 60 for Shaw and Eaton,
almost to a man. Every white vote
cast for Powell is in effect a vote for
Shaw. Powell cannot possibly carry
three hundred white votes in the
county, yet even this number might
cause the defeat of Athy.
We hope the personal friends
of Mr.. Powell, who still stand by
him will think of this. Powell stands
just the same chance to be elected
sheriff, that Neal Dow, the prohibition
candidate does to be elected president
of the United States. The great food
of 1878 has gone down, leaving him
and his squad of friends on sandy
island, on one side is dark
current and in it floats rakish
looking craft marked "spoils
of Office" and it is manned by Ed
Shaw e. Co. On the other is seen a
clear, bold stream, and on it floats the
old democratic ship Constitution. y
The law abiding elements, the tax
payers, the men who toll for living
and peaceful, happy homes are .on
board. Mr.. Powell and his friends
can take their choice or stay on their
little island. Weneed their help and
expect it. Neutrality now means oppo-
sition. Every man is responsible to
the community for his vote. All who
aid in the election Of Ed Shaw direct
ly or indirectly, will bc as responsible
as the man who would introduce the
germs Of an epidemic.
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A Printer OF Ye oIden Tin,es.

The Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Times
has the following to say of veteran
printer
We had the pleasure Tuesday morn
ing of a visit with Mr.. William j. Bet
tbs, uncle Of j. H. Belts, of the West
Side, who is, perhaps, the Oldest per-
son living in Linn county, and is Ger
tainly the Oldest printer in the United
States.
Mr.. Belts was born in Wilton,
New Hampshire, in 1856, and is, con-
sequently ninety-four years old. He
entered his apprenticeship to the
printing business at Rutland, Yer
mont, in 1900, and was editor and
proprietor of the Middlesex Gazette in
I19l2.13. Among the relics of ye olden
times in his possession, which we were
shown, are letters bearing date as far
back as l739 and 1740, They are in a
good state Of preservation, every word
| Ilegible. He has also a sugar bowl
one hundred and forty years, two pin
cushions made of silk, round as ball
and embroidered, one Of which is two
hundred years old and the other one
hundred and forty. He has also a
certificate Of membership OF the Bos-
ton Typographical union, bearing date
of 1909, and copy Of the New Testa-
ment, on which he did the entire type
setting, press work and binding. This
bears date oflSl3. He worked at his
trade in Boston a number of years,
and has preserved several manuscripts
Of the proceedings Of the Boston Ty-
posraphical society at an early day.
lie was quite musician in his day,
playing the bass viol in the Episcopal
church of Boston for a number OF
years. He also sang in the choir in
which the first tune was played on the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

THE Mexican question has been
settled. The marriage of Miss Ord
and General Trevino will settle all
trouble on the border. The happy
couple will live at San Louis Potosi.
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0AHD-

To all who are suffering from the errors an a
indlscretions Of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc., will send
a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
by a missionary in South America. Send a
'elf-addressed envelope to the Rev. Joseph T.
Inman, Station D, New York City.
lis XXI ia eod&w
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MDME. A. LONGET,
DreS8-Making Rooms
NO. SO COURT STREET.
ln- 10
InsOIvent Notice.
Stair OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY Co.,
Arntrn nnr...u.. -. N. -. wv

NAFiNN NNlNIh NOlkI LLEhhs
Memphis, Tenn, July IL. lsS0.
500, X. D. TOR Dudley Frayser, administra-
tor leeob S Roberts, deceased.
HANING suggested the insolvency Of the
IL estate Of Jacob Roberts, deceased, You
are hereby ordered TO give notice, by adver-
tisement in some newspaper published within
the said State, and also at the courthouse
door Of Shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear and file
the same, with the clerk Of the County Court
authenticated in the manner prescribed by
law, on or before the 2lth day Of December,
1850; and any claim not filed on or before said
day,or before an appropriation Of the funds oil
said estate is made, shall be forever barred
both in law and equity.
Witness my hand, at Office, this 10Th day OIL
July, 1880.
OWEN DWYER, Clerk.
By HUGH B. CULLEN, d. q.
Notice is hereby givon 10 creditors in com.
plianoe with above order.
This July 10th, 1880
i2212s lSlllO "S1-
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SELF CONGRATULATORY.
The National Board Of Health
In a Good HumOr with Itself

WASHINGTON, July 18.-The mem
bers Of the national board Of health
begin now to feel more confident than
ever that the dreaded scourge. yellow
fever, which brought death and misery
to the people of Memphis and other
southern cities last year and the year
before, will delay his visit this year,
and possibly stay away altogether.
The fever appeared in Memphis last
year, July 8, but up to this date no
signs of its return have appeared. 1t
has been as warm there this year as
last, but the absence of any signs of
the fever has given great comfort to
the people, and the national board re.
joices because it demonstrates that
the sewerage of the city and general
cleansing has been of good service. it
is the same with other cities where
the fever existed last summer, and ex,
cept an imported case or two at quar-.
antine in New York and one isolated
case from Havana in quarantine at
New Orleans, the country, so far as
known at this time, is free from the
frightful pestilence.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21
DR.. Tanners Twenty.Fourth Day.

New YORK, July 2l.-Dr. Tanner
is quite bright and lively to-day, the
24th day of his fast. From midnight
to noon, he drank little over pint
Of water.
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An Answer Solicited.

Petroleum WOrId.I
Dr. Tanner may succeed in his
present feat, and doubtless will, but
did he ever undertake to live forty
days in boarding house?
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Lottery.
TAKE NOTICEi

This is the only Lottery ever voted on bv the
people of State, and under r late decision of
the U. s. Supreme Court at Washington Is The
only Legal Lottery ROW in the United States,
all other charters having been repealed or
HAVING NO existence
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY tn
n WIN A FORTUNEi
EIGHTH GRAND DISTRIBUTION. CLASS
III, at New Orleans, Tuesday. August
10th, 1880, l2Sd Monthly Drawing.
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New YORK, July q, 1888 pm
Cotton dull. Ordinary 8'7-16c;
good ordinary 8 15-16c; low middling
II 5-l6c; middling IL 13-16c; good
middling II Bloc. middling fair
l3 l-16c; fair 13 11-16c. Futures
opened steady, now weak and 4 to u
points below last evenings prices, as
fnllnms. Dnlirnrine for
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DIED.

McLEAN-0n the morning of tho Nst inst,
at the residence of her so s, Fayette Uonaty,
Mrs. JANE e. MCLEAN, wife Of Colonel Chas
d: Mclean, ofShol,y county, in the 7Sd year
of her age.
Remains will arrive at Memphis OF 1l:2O
am. train, Memphis & Charleston railroad,
22d inst, thence to Elmwood Cemetery.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-07-21

COLONEL John W. Forney is writing
life of General Hancock.
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MASONIC NOTICE.

DEM Royal Arch Chapter No. ~ @
4 VIII hold special convocation To- w
NIGHT, at 8 o'clock, for work in the/N\
Mark Masters Degree. Visiting companions
iraternally invited. By order OF
JOHN W. GRAHAM, NJ. E.H.P.
D. c. TRADER, Sec'y.
july q, 1890.
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ChanCerY Sale Of Real Estate.

CIidllC6TY opl6 OF heal Estate,
Chancery Court Of Shelby county-R. No. 117e
Ann j Adams ct al, vs.. j Mitchell ct al.
Dl virtue of an interlocutory decree for
~ sale, entered in the above cause on Tho
18th day of June, 1880, win sell, at public
auction, to the highest bidder, in front of
the clerk and masters office, courthouse of
the Taxing District of Shelby county, MEM
phis) Tennessee, on
Saturday, August 18th, 1880.
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
tO-wit:
Lot No. ! Of tho subdivision of lot No. / of
Memphis, fronting so feet on the west side Of
wellington street, and running bdck between
parallel lines to LaB0so street, the north line
inches. NV ~
Lot No. 3 Of sub division of lot No. l in eity
Of Memphis, fronting 30 feet on west side Of
Wellington, .treet with depth Of - feet be.
tween parallel lines.
Terms Of sale-Cash,
This July q. 1870. 1913 100 1s5 1A1
R. ]. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
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SUMMER RESORTS.

CHALYBEATE MINERAL SPRINGS.
N0MM0DIuUS Summer Hotel. Board nor
Nweek 4. Rooms Zoe, 75c, 81. German and
French spoken, Address Proprietor Fort
Edward House, Warsaw, Ills. 1903 l29
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Louisiana State Lottery COnIaIV

This institution was regularly Incorporated
by the Legislature Of the State for Educational
and Charitable purposes in 1868, for The
term OF 0ftWenty-hve years, to which com
tract the inviolable faith of the State il
pledged, which pledge has been renewed BY
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ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.
COTTON STATEMENT.

COTTON STATEMENT.
July q, 1880.
stock, September l, lS79...-... 3S6
Received since last statement. 30
Received previously 406 9i6 4O6 97t
Shipnsd since last statement, g23 407, ,36G
Shipped previously.. 39l ut 3922(
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Halt Ilekets, Une Dollar,
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1857 Prizes. amounting 81 10 am
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New Orleans, La,
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The National tribune., 1880-10-01
Household Receipts.

ToMAro BuTTER.-Sixteen pounds nice tomatoes quart
ofyinegar, eight pounds sugar Boil all together until
thick When half done add large spoonuls OF CHINA
one of ground mace and teasponful of cloves or
allspice.
WAFFLEs.-Beat together until very light three eggs
and one teacup white sugar add teacup cream little
nutmeg, little cinnamon little salt, and flour enough
make moderately stiff batter Bake in waffle irons and
roll them up like jelly rolls while hot send to table Gov
cred with napkin.
MEAT BGEAD.-A beefsteak chopped up fine and baked
with -four and yeast in the form of meat bread loaf
the dietetc sensation 1t is asserted that meat thus
treated entirely disappears during the process of pca
ton, the nuttye principles becoming Incorporated with
the bread
FRIzzlED BEEF.-Shave off very thin slices Of dried
beef put them in pan and pour little water over
them stir up and turn the water off, add piece OF but
the size of egg TO pound of beef beat up two
eggs with three ablespoonfus Of milk, dredge the beef
with little flour, add the eggs and milk let all come TO
boil, then
RIcE-Rice properly cooked, makes a very nice addi-
ton to certain kinds of meats The grains should be pre-
served whole and not is nearly always done cooked
until they become an unsghtly slass. After washing
and picking the grains put them into large tin
dish shallow pap where they will not lie too closely,
and, pouring little water, cover and place ON the
in the oven where they will cook very slowly
the steam being kept in the dsh the grains to
swell, and cooks them without destroying the shape
The National tribune., 1880-10-01
Ibr Cnoics' page.
sixteen and sixty.

o. gandma sits in her oaken chair
And IN flies Bessie with tangled hMr:
"Im going 20 be married, ola grandma
I'm going to be married Ha hal hal hat"
o. grandma snooths out hcr apron string:
do you know, my dear, tis a solemn thing II
"'Tis solemner not TO, grandma.
I'm going TO be mar lied. Hal ha! hal nal"
Then grandma looks through her sixty years,
And sums mp womslns hopes and fears;
ST. Of 'em living and two Of 'em dead
Grandpa helpless and tied 20 his bed
Nowhere 80 live when the house burned down;
Years of sighting with old Mother Brown
Stockings TO darn and bread TO bake;
Dishes to wash and dresses Ia make.
But then the music OF pattering feet.
Granapas kisses so fond and sweet,
Song and pratte the lIveong day,
JOY and kisses and love Away.
o. grandma smooths ont her apron string,
And gazes down her wedding ring,
Aud still she smiles rs She drops "A tear;
'"rls solemner not to. Yes, my dear
The National tribune., 1880-10-01

wart young fellow strobe up the gate, for pre-
sent to you insurmounable obiection-Ar John Hal
lam my husband, Mr. Oscar Laner."
New-York tribune., 1880-01-12
A WORD FOR TIE POLICE.
DIR. CROsBY's APPROVAL OF SUPERINTENDENT
wALLING's sTATENENTS-IGs OPINION or 1IE



wALLINGs sTATENENTS-HGs OPINION or HE
EXCISE BOARD.
TO the EditOr Of The Tribune.
SIR: desire to indOrsc everything that Supcrln-
tendent Walhng is reported in Saturdays TRIBUSE
rs saing regarding the police and the Excise
Commission. The police are prevented by the
usage of the courts from obtaining any evidence
against run-selers who break the law. No police
man can shut up an unlicensed gr0ggcry or arrest
licensed rum-sellcr who Is selling at forbidden
times without subjectiug himself to Tcbu1e.
the arrested man being readily able 10 find
several others who will swear that the po-
lceman lies. Whenever good strong outside tcsti-
mony Is offered, the police ever ready and eager
to close these grogccIcs and arrest the law-brcak
ers In an experience Of three years have invati-
ably found tins to be the case.
The Excise Board isvIrtually paid Board TO pro-
mote drunkenness and rowdyism. | have hundreds
of affidavts of their unitness, and had hoped
that Mayor Cooper would. on the basis OF
these. remove them, but he has hcsitated.
am sure from admiration of the Board.
should say that Mr.. Morton was not member Of
the Board when these afldavits were procured. The
licenses arc bestowed BY them the worst charac-
tcrs in the city when their record Is perfectly pat
ent TO all They have the power to close every un-
licensed place. and yet there orer 1000 places
Of HQaor-Selliag unlicensed today in this city. And
now this Excise Board publishes to the world that
there are only tcc hmdred unlicensed places,
aud would have the citizens believe that
IT is very busy in reducing the number.
That there are faults in the police from Commits
siouers down to patrolmcn, am painfully aware,
and that there ought to be n prompt dismissal
from the force of several captains and many dctcc-
tives and patrolmen l know too well but, with all
that ! am not willing without protest to see the
police blamed for the grOggery nuisance when the
Excise Commission IS the putrId source Of the evil,
and the usage of the courts as TO evidence IS itS
helpful promoter HOWARD CROSBY.
Nclu- York. Jan. 12 1850.