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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-19
New York W0fid.l

Now lOfA WOfiusI
A proposition has been made to the
Louisville and Nashville railroad to
lend its aid in building from FIVE to
sever iron furnaces and to open sever
al new coal mines in the district
traversed by the South and North
Alabama railroad, one of the links in
the Louisville and Nashville system.
A verbal contract has already been
made on behalf OF the Louisville and
Nashville to lend lis credit to further
this enterprise, and the agreement will
be contaminated on Vice President
%Newcomb's return to the west. A
mortgage will be given on the whole
property to secure any money ad-
vaneed. The proposition, nj. New.
.omb said, comes from MIR. De Bar.
1elabah, a rich iron-master. The
furnaces at Oxmore, Ala, are now
running to their full capacity and are
selling all the iron as rapidly as it is
produced. From two thousand 10 two
thousand five hundred tons a day l.
the product, audtwo other furnaces will
soon be under the control OF the largest
furnace owner there. Mr.. Newcomb
says that this iron traffic is very profit.
able to toe railroad. Mr.. Albert
Fink, the pool commissioner, has es.
timated each furnace is worth $50.
900 annually 10 traffic. Iron can be-
made in Alabama as cheaply as apy.
where. The agents in this city Of til,
several furnaces said yesterday that al
the furnaces are now turning out No
| iron at a cost of 50 to Sill a ton. tn,
ore, coal, limestone and water are All
handy to the furnaces, 80 that there h
little expense for hauling. Should thC
price Of iron decline the agents ca,
that the furnaces can always be oper
ated at a satisfactory profit. At til,
present momentthe profit is unusuall,
large.
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The K statute.

Knoxville ~Chronicls.l
There is a movement on foot now
to purchase a bronze statute of the
hero General jackson, to be placed in
the capitol grounds at Nashville. The
statue is the work of the renowned
artist Mills, and is acknowledged BY
all connolsseurs to be the work Of
great merit. Mr.. Mills has offered it
for the sum of 5000. Already $1,000
have been subscribed, but the sub
scriptiOns are beginning to fall off, and
If something does not happen to put
new life into the movement it is prob
able that it will fail.
Almost all the money has been
raised in Nashville, the rest of the
state giving very little to it. Just now
the demands on the purse Of that city
are heavy, on account Of the approach
ing centennial celebration, and very
little more can be raised there. Nor
is it right that it should be, This is a
matter in which the whole state is, or
should be, interested. The name of
jackson is reverenced by Tennesseans
wherever found and the people should
be willing to contribute to perpetual
ing more strongly in the minds
of our posterity his great name.
While the statue will be placed
in Nashville, it will be placed
on the property of the state. and will
itself be the property of the state.
Thanks to the great genius of our
governing class it is impossible for
the state to donate any money to this
object, and it is left to the generosity
of the citizens to purchase it. This
being so, the people of East Tennessee
should add their quota to the fund
Only $1,000 is required now to bring
it up to the desired amount, and West
Tennessee and East Tennessee have
neither subscribed anything as yet. A
little from those so desiring would BE-
sufficient to place in enduring bronze
one of Tennessee's greatest men in a
commanding place 10 the capitol.
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Moral for Young Men Who Get
Shaved.

No barber knoweth whom he may
shave, says the Detroit Free Press
man, and the man who rushes into a
shop and drops into a barber-chair
without seeing who occupies the next
chair to the right or left may get
badly left, as the case proved the
other day. A solid old citizen in the
Wholesale trade was taking it easy, his
face covered with lather, when in
came a young man, who flung off his
coat, bounced into a chair, and called
out
Hurry up, now, for l must get
back to the store before old Blank
does, or he'll raise thunder! Hang
him, he won't even give a man time to
die"
The solid citizen turned his face to
glance at the other, and the barber
noticed a %reddening of his face.
Going on a vacation this summer"
asked the barber, who was preparing
to shave the young man.
Vacation ! How in Tophet can |
get away from old Blank? Aud if l
could, he pays such a stingy, con-
temptible salary that | couldn't afford
even a ride on a ferry-boat."
Why don't you ask him for a
raise2' queried the barber.
why don't [ ask for the hand of
his freckle-nosed daughter2 He'd dis.
charge me 10 a minute, though hes
making money, and can afford it. II
the old hyena would have a stroke of
apOplexy, the junior partner might do
something; but such chaps always live
to be five hundred years old"
Conversation ceased here, the solid
man got out Of his chair, took abrush
ing and sat down; and when the clerk
arose from his chair and turned
around, a snow ball would have looked
black beside his face. He tried to
bow andspeak, but something wouldn't
let him; and when he started to pull
on his coat, he held it tails up and
collar down. He was still struggling
with it wheh the solid man rose up,
looked around and walked out, saying
never a word. The barber wet the
young mans head, and held cologne
70 his nose, but he walked sideways
when he went out, and there was an
uncertain wobble to his knee. In APP
plying for the vacant position state
what shop you shave at.
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here interfered 10 earnest. pulling
Hawkins Of of Watkins.

here interfered 10 earnest pulling
Hawkins of of Watkins.
By this time the noise had attracted
a crowd Of Enquirer employees and
Jack and Watkins were driven out Of
the Office. Watkins attempted to
draw his revolver as he retreated,
Hawkins observing his design told
him to take his hand out ofhis pocket
or he would get his head blown off in
less time than he could say Jack
Robinson" whish name, by the way,
reminds the writer that the air was so
filed with profanity during the scrim-
mage that even the old veteran Of the
saWdust arena would have been shock
ed had he been present.
Watkins, about this time, pleaded
for mercy, and asked for his hat,
which was found in the editorial room
and tossed down stairs to him, where
upon he and Jack walked out together
SO chagrined over the result OF their
attack that both failed to show up at
the opera house last night. After
their departure a gold bar, evidently
broken of a watch chain, was found
upon the floor of the local room, and
is supposed to be Improperly ofWat-
kins.
There may be some little inaccura-
cies in the above statement of the
battle. but as the points we're fur
nished by an eyewitness, and no state
ment of the difficulty could be obtained
from either Watkins or Mccormick,
it must be presumed to be correct un-
til proven otherwise.
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chancery Sale of Real Estate.

No. 1851, R.-Chaneery Court ofshelby county
Il. B. Mcfarland VS.. M. M. Schultz ct, al.
DY virtue Of an i~ntorloeutory decree for
ID sale, entered in the above cause on the
Sd day Of February, 1880, NJ B A, D. I32, /
will sell, at public auction, to tho highest
bidder, n front of tho clerk and master :
Office, courthouse ofShelby county, Memphis,
Tennossees now known as the Taxing Dis.
tFict OF Shelby county, on
Saturday, April 10th, 1850,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated In Shelby county, Tenn,
to-Wit; The west l0h acres oflot IS, WillouFh-
BY williams subdivision, southeast Of the
city Of Memphis, Shelby county, Tenn, said
l0T acres beginning at the northeast corner Of
lot 81. on the south side Of the Fort Pickering
railroad, and running thence east with the
railroad Z chains and So links to a stake (now
the corner Of Elmwood cemetery; thence
south Is chains and 90 links 10 q stake; thenoe
west I chains So links 10 lot 81; thence north
with east line of lot 81, Is chains and 20 links
TO the beginning.
Terms Of sale; On q credit ofssven months,
purchaser 10 execute note with approved So
ourity; lien yetained, etc.
This March 10, 1880.
r. j. BLACK, ciork and Master.
L. B. MCFARLAND, Solicitor. N2O26S 81 IS
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London Telegraph
Berlin papers announce that Prince
Bismarck intends to introduce during
the current session Of the reichstag,
4 me TO be called the Defense
Tax" with the product of which,
should parliament think fit to sanction
It's enforcement, he proposes to meet
the extra expenses about to be in
Cured by the German nation for the
increase Gifts army. The tax in ques
ton is to be imposed upon all male
adults exempted from military service
on account of physical infrmities
and other disabilities recognized as
valid by the competent authori
ties. Upon each such person, many
thousands OF whom are annually re
iected by the militay district commits
siOns, it is proposed TO levy a special
rate of four marks per annum on
every thousand marks ofhis income
tor the twelve years actual service in
the standing army, reserve aud land
wehr, TO which every German youth
becomes liable en- his tWcnty-6rst
birthday. The cynical turn Of the
great chancellor's humor was never
more strikingly exemplifed than in
the conception of this project. which
is devised to infiict a pecuniary penal.
ty upon the cripples OF Germany for
the prejudice their bodily shortening
its live stock Of able bodied
soldiers. 1t is obviously Prince Bis.
marck's view of German humanity
that no loyal subject of the Kaiser has
any business to be born lame, blind or
halt, or TO acquire any of those in
frmities f%ortuitously until he has
served his time under the German
%colors. The purpose of his being is to
become at a certain age a properly
trained and efficient soldier. If he
fail, through a freak of nature Oh
through evil chance, to fulfill that
purpose, his country's dissatisfaction
will be expressed in an annual ine of
so much per cent upon his income.
The rising generation Of Germans is
about to be taught that it may not
with impunity be bunch. backed, color
blind, deaf or otherwise inirm.
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The ZoIIlcoTer Annuilr.

ct. Louis Times.l
Shortly after the wal of the revo-
luton the second son of the Zollicoffer
family fell out with the Baron, his
father, and left Elton Clingen castle,
in Switzerland, coming to America
and settling in North Carolina. In
his latter days the old gentleman re-
Tented and settled an annuity upon the
emigrant son and his heirs. entailing
the estates for that purpose. The
family afterwards removed to Tenues-
see, settling inthen eighborhood ofCo-
lumbia. At the time of the breaking
out of the last war, +. X. Zollicoffer
was the oldest representative of the
American branch of the family, and
to him the annuity, a handsome com
potency, was paid regularly. On his
death, after a short and brilliant ca
reer as general in the Confederate
service, the annuity fell to his next
Oldest male representative, Colonel h.
@. Zollicoffer, Of Hill county, Texas.
From some cause or other the remit
ance was not forthcoming for period
of nearly eighteen years Dir. j. B.
Bond, an attorney Of this city and
son in law of General Zollicoffer, yes
terday, for the first time, received
notice from the attorney in Switzer-
land that on the second day Of last
month the first installment had been
sent.
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AIabnma I'm the Senate.

Washington Cor. Nashville American.l
The late Senator George s. Hous
ton, from Alabama, was born in VIII
hanson county, in Tennessee. Hon
John 7. Morgan, his colleague, wat
born in McMinn county, at Athens
in Tennessee. Mr.. Morgan took high
rank from the first as a senator. In
deed, it is said that but few men grew
so rapidly as he. Mr.. Houston was a
public servant, in many capacities and
in many positions, for many years.
His successor is the Hon. Luke Pryor.
The appearance of this distinguished
son Of Alabama in the senate is re-
markable. Never before had he held
any political position. For many
years he has been known throughout
the south as a very able and successful
lawyer. Especially as an advocate
did he shine. He had been but
a few days in the senate, when,
like his colleague, Mr.. MOI
gan, and Voorhees, and Garland, he
OVERRIDE the rule that a new senator
must remain silent the first session,
and made one Of the ablest and one Of
the best speeches ever made by a new
member. In it he crossed the views
OF Logan and that distinguished son
Of Belial and Illinois found out that
he had struck a snag, and more than
match. His Grafton, in memory of
his predecessor, George S. Houston,
was listened to by a full house, a CON-
pliment rarely ever accorded to sen
ators on such an occasion. Mr.. Nor
CANS speech on the same occasion was
a gem. Both senators did high honor
to the dead and to their state. In the
house Atkins and House spoke for
Tennessee about the dead son of their
state and the adopted son ofAlabama.
AT one time he belonged to the appro-
priation committee of the. house,
the refore it was meet and proper that
the present able chairman should say
something about the dead. Mr.. House
was born in a few miles of him. in the
county Of Williamson, and his tribute
to the memory Of Houston was one of
the best ever delivered in congress on
such an occasion. 1t is thought by
many here that the people Of Ala
bama will do a very good thing for
herself and the country if she will
make Luke Pryor his own successor.
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attorney, he was convicted. Amotion
for a new trial was made, and the
Judge seeing that no error of law was
made, and believing che evidence suf-
hcient, promptly ovcrruled the mo-
ton. When the prisoners were brought
IN to be sentenced, this negro was
among them. When asked If he had
anything to say why sentence should
not be passed upon him, he said he
knew anything he might say would
have no weight with the court, as all
the forms of law had been COM
piled with. and he know he must 20
to the penitentiary, but that he had
something to say for the benefit of his
colored friends, and with the permis-
sion of the court he would make a
few remarks. The court told him
that he would listen. The negro
started off slowly and deliberately, re.
viewing the testimony, showing the
conslstencies of witnesses statements,
and then, carried away with the idea
OF the wrong done him, he burst forth
IN a strain of eloquence seldom heard.
When he sat down the Judge said.
Sam, l thought you guilty; | don't
believe so now, and will set aside the
Judgment o~yerruling your motion for
a new trial, and give yoa another
chance SO eloquently had the negro
presented his Ease that the county at
torney dismissed the case, and the
prisoner walked out of the court room
q free man. This is the first case in
Texas, at least. where a nan brought
up to be sentenced was ever turned
loose, Every person present says that
the effort was the 6nesto one ever heard.
The negro is uneducated and a COM
mon field hand.
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vanderbmt,s Needle.

Philadelphia Bulletin
Mr.. William H. Vanderbilt. of New
York, having thirty or forty millions
OF dollars in registered United States
bonds, and twice or thrice as much
in other property, is somewhat poor
in what is called spending money. =
So he has little or nothing to give to
the Irish, the suffering negroes of the
southern exodus, or even to the poor
of New York. Besides he has thought
it a sacred duty to provide New York
with a OleOpatra's needle, for he is
said to be the great benefactor WIN
has gone to the expense of buying the
old obelisk that has been lying in the
Egyptian sands and having it trans
ported to America. The moral, phys
zeal, intellectual. artistic and sanitary
advsn' ages an ancient Egyp-
tan monument planted in a modern
city are so obvious and so great, that
it is a pity there are not enough old
obelisks to 60 around among all the
big cities of American. But it is
fortunate for New York that the rich
est of her millionaires has thought of
securing this great obelisk for the
city in which his father and be made
their enormous fortune. 1t will be a
monument to William H. Vanderbilt
as impressive as the monumental
bronzes which the late Cornelius
nut up in honor Of himself on the
Hudson River freight depot, some
years before his death. The blessings
it will radiate among the poor of New
York will be equally rich. But the
hundred thousand dollars that Mr..
James Gordon Bennett has given for
the relief of the starving Irish will
probably be of more practical benefit
to humanity than the statue of the
Cornelius and the alleged needle
of the late Cleopatra.
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Food for Ireland.

WASHINGTON, March 16.-Con-
gresham Levi P. Morton, of New
York has offered to furnish me
fourth of a cargo of provisions to be
carried to Ireland, provided other
parties will make up the balance. The
New York Herald is understood to
have received an anonymous gift Of
another quarter of a cargo from a
wealthy resident Of New York. The
navy department gives notice that the
steamer Constellation is ready to re-
ceive contributions at the New York
navy yard. Flour, meal, pork, bacon,
hams, potatoes, turnips ard non-per-
ishable articles of food will be re-
eeiycd
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TROUBLE AMONG MINERS.
MOIlIe Mcguire RiOters-One Man
Shot In His Mouse.

CHICAGO, March IS. For some
weeks there has been trouble among
the coal miners at Rapids City on ac'
count of some wishing to return.
Mystic warnings, with skull and cross
bones and signed MOllie Mcguire.
we're distributed among those who
we're presumed to be weakening.
Wednesday night Taylor Williams
was shot through the heart in his own
house. Two suspected men have been
arrested aud are held for inquest,
More trouble is threatened.
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The Connferfeiler,s Late,t Game


virsinis Ney.l ~chroniclel
An interesting little story hoated up
from Reno ON this mornings train.
Last evening. shortly after s O'clock, a
stylishly-dresssd young man, with a
young woman of good appearance
hanging on his arm, called at the resi-
dence of one of the ministers of the
place, and said he wanted the services
of a clergyman to unite him in mar
riage to the young lady, He did not
volunteer any information az to where
himself or his companion came from.
He produced his license and
requested the clergyman to pei:
form the ceremony as simply
and as quickly as possible. Both
were evidently of legal age, and the
parson at once tied the Knot, calling
in the members Of his own family as
witnesses. When the pair were made
husband and wife the groom drew a
$50 breenback from a hat-looking
pocket-bc5k and directed the minister
to take $40 from that His revei-
ence, with many thanks, took the bill,
and after dilligent search, hunted up
$40 in coin, which he gave to the
bridegroom, who politely wished the
minister and his family good evening,
aud walked off with his blushing and
timid bride.
This morning the parson was making
a tour of the 'hotels and using some
what worldly language. He could
find the happy pair nowhere, and is
convinced that the marriage was a
mere trick to pass a $50 greenback on
him. The bill was bogus, and as both
the bridegroom and bride have gone
none know whittier, it does look as il
some genius has discovered this
method of Showing the queer" The
awful sinfulness Of the device does
not forbid the reflection that an enter
prising young man and woman could
soon grow rich by travelling and mar
rying every hundred miles or so.
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New York Herald

New York Herald.l
The tone OLA large number of the
southern newspapers upon the recent
decision OF the supreme court affirm.
ing the constitutionality OF the ma
tlonal laws is by no means what could
be desired. With one or two excep.
tions our contemporaries in that sec
ton ire very much dissatisfied with the
decision and talk in a vague sort ofway
about making the mandate of the
court an issue in the next national
campaign. Exactly what they pro.
pose to do they do not say. They
cannot certainly be insane enough to
contemplate the calling of a conven
ton, the construction, Of a platform
and the nomination of a caLdi.
date pledged to a reversal in some
way or another of the decision in
question. A programme or a policy
of this kind would be the most
certain way to secure what the major
ity of sensible men in the south are.
we are confident, so anxious to avoid
"a solid north against a solid south.
To make such an issue would be upon
the part Of the south the extreme Of
folly. It's duty is to obey, as it is the
part Of all parts of the country to
obey, what has been declared to be
the supreme law of the land. The
opposite course would be simply sui.
eide, and the placing in the hands Of
the ''strong man party the most
effective weapon in their armory.
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A New Arknnnnn nniIx.

One Of our exchanges says. Since
the Gazette and Democrat Offices, in
Little Rock, having discharged their
union printers and RATED" their
othces, a new move appears on the
CD. cker board. The printers thrown
out OF employment have organized
themselves into a printing and pub
fishing company, and fled articles Of
association in the Office Of the secre-
taTTy OF state, Capital stock, $25, 900,
subscribed, $4,000. We understand
they have bought the presses and type
OF the old Republican,, and propose
to issue a new morning paper at the
capitol Dr.. Q. V. Meador is to be
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in New York was most scsthingly
handled. Tbs condemnation Of Cornell
as unfit for governor, we're shown up
by Mr.. House in amannerthat Messrs.
Hayes, Evarts and Sherman viii not
soon forget. The subject is rich in
opportunities for telling hits, and Mr..
House madethe most Of them. II is
unfortunate for the republican party
that the hypocrisy of its pure ad-
ministration in the reform business is
so palpable that no decent journal
attempts to defend, and no honest man
ventures to deny it.
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STATE OF TEyyEssEE, sHELnr Co.. -,
NOn-Resident Notice.

No. 8552-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee - Alexander Rose VS..
Catherine Rose.
1T appearing from a1idaviti in this cause that
i the defendant, Catherine Rose, is a nom
resident Of the State of Tennessee; IL
is Therefore ordered that she make
her appearance herein, at the courthouse
Of Shelby county, In Memphis, Tenn,
on OF before the first Monday in April. 1880,
bill, or the same will DO taken for con.
tossed as to her and set for hearing ex-
parte; and that O copy Of this order be pub
lished once a week for four successive weeks In
the Public Iedger,
This LIST day Of March, 1880.
ROBERT ]. BLACK, clerk and master.
A COPY: Attest.
By 3. B. MoHEERY, D.. c. 4 NJ.
CAN'T * Patterson, sol. for oompl't.
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A scaIhing speech.
Washington POst.l

WHsuInBton PoFt,I
The speech Of Mr.. House on civil
service, yesterday, was one of the most
telling efforts heard in congress during
the present session. II was a iayine
satire on the reform policy Of Mr.
Hayes and his administration showing
their afiuence in promises and their
poverty in iul6llment. Mr.. House
briefly reviewed the corruptions Of
Grants administration, the demand
uttered in 1876 for a radical change,
and showed how Mr.. Hayes and e.
associates 10 the government had
triied With this great question. The
course pursued BY the administration