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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
NOn-ResIasnt Noilen.

No SI0S-In the Chancery Court Of SheIbv
county, Tenn. Lucinda @ Sigler, by newt
friend, ETC., ct al. VS.. r NJ Vaughan ct al.
appearing from atfidayit. in this cause
y Liddon, James A Anderson, adnninistrator
de bonis non Of Francis " Cash, deceased, and
az administrator dc benis non, ETC., of Isaac i
ministrator Of Josephine Morgan, deceased.
are nor residents Oft State ofTennessee;
tits therefore ordered that they make their an,
pearance herein, at the courthouse Of Shelby
county In Memphis, Tenn, on or before the
hrst Monday in October, 1880, and plead, an
swer or demur 70 complainant's bill, or the
same VIII he takon for confessed as to them
of this order be published once week for four
successive weeks in the PUBLIC LEDGER.
This 10th day of August, 1880.
A copy-Attost:
RI. BLACK, Clerk and Masler
VIM M Randolph, sol. for compl't.
l40 l46 1521b9
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10


A young lady residing near Belfast,
in Ireland, was visiting some relatives
in New Jeysey a few winters ago
She pretended to bevery much puzzled
over the democratic state of affairs in
our republic. The village baker was
a justice of the peace, and a shoe
maker had been an assemblyman,
while the state senator from that dis
trict was a coarce, illiterate man
none Of them by any means gentlemen,
as she understood the word. She went
skating with the children one alter
noon, and after her return told a
friend that on the pond the butchers
boy had greeted her, and offered to
assist her in putting on her skates.
"You didn't allow him to do so, did
you?" demanded her friend, little
Indignantly.
"Oh yes, she said, "and l skated
with him too, Ididn't know but he'd
be president of the United States
some day, and 1 didn't want to offend
him"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

The children at Long Branch, ac-
cOrding to a correspondent Of the
Louisville Courier Journal, occasion
ally pick up startling word from the
profane hackmen and use it innocent
ly. The following is an illustration:
"a diminutive girl of five years drop
ped into dinner. She was taken aback
by piece Of blackberry pie, an un-
known dish until that moment.
Taking up some of the juice in a tea
spoon, she exclaimed: What boo
ful color. l don't know what he is;
looks ike beats; 'tisn't; | don't know
what he is; it's id good 7"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

"No, Seth, said Mrs. Spicer, as she
settled herself back in the rocking
chair on the hotel piazza you needn't
lie to me about going down stairs after
match, for the windows are open
and | can easily pick your bald head
out from the other wretches in the
pool room. Last night you went down
at eight o'clock TO get your boots
blacked, and, although your feet are
large enough, heaven knows, don't
believe it took you till eleven to get
your boots polished, for that was the
time you put them outside the cham
ber door and then fell against it and
woke up the children" Here some
callers, who had driven over from
Auburndale, came up the steps, and
Spicer slid out under the fire of
greetings and was heard shortly after
to con6de to friend that he wished
the blamed billiard marker wouldn't t
leave the blinds open and give the
boys away to the whole house"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Ravages Of the Cotton Worm.

MONTGOMERY, Aug 9.-The recent
rains have done much damage to the
cotton crop. The worms have com
menced to eat the cotton, and the
rain has prevented poisoning as much
as desired. 1t is thought that in the
prairies and bottom lands not more
than half the cotton will be made that
was expected four weeks ago. The
rust is iniuring cotton also.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Louisville Exposition.

LOUISVILLE, August l0.-Exten-
sive preparations are in progress for
the Louisvilleannua exposition, which
commences September 7th and con-
tinues until October 23d. 1t is the
intention of the management to make
the exhibit this year the most attrac.
tive of any yet given. The space in
the permanent building is nearly all
taken by home products, pictures,
machinery, statuary, etc. Transpor-
tation lines have agreed to half-rate
fare during the exposition.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Trustees Gale.

by virtue Of trust decd executed by satah
~ Neal 70 W Basgett, August llth, 1880,
recorded IN the Registers office Of Shelby
county In hooh iOS, page 9s, and haying been
appointed by the Probate court as trustee I'M
me theI, place and stOad Of the said Baggett, l
viii, on ~
Thursday, September 10th, 1850,
on the premises, in the city Of Memphis, with
IN legal hours sell at public auction 10 the
highest bidder for cash, certain lot or p,rfo
Of land, lying and situate in the city 81 aem-
phis, county of Shelby, and state Of Tonnes
see, and described as follows Be1inninr NJ
the southeast corner Of sullivan's OF on POP
lar streets and on the north side thereof run
ming eastwardly with Poplar street one hun
dred and twenty feet 10 the southwest corner
Of n M Jones residence lot; thonoe narth
with the west line Of Jones residence lot one
hundred and sixty feet-more or lesr-to a
point whore the north line Of an alley onlth
north side Of N NJ Jones' lot would int rseet,
hence westwardly with the north line Of said
alley " the slmo were extondrdD TO Sullivanis
east liue. righiy-ionr fcnt n0ru or ies..
thence southw rdly with Sull as limo t,,c
hundred and Ss feet--morc ies-4 't5o.
oegiuning. Llqity ofredsmn' Otbed
1VN - EA2 \. ho4qs,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

A liberal subscription has been
started and $50, 900 raised already to.
wards the construction at Wilton.
Conn, (where a good sized farm has
already been setapart for the purDose)
of an iuebriate asylum for women.
Melancholy as the fact seems it never
theless is q fact that there Is a largely
increasing class of women In this
country who not only intoxicate them
selves hahitually on opium, but a por-
ton Of indulge to excess
in spirituous liquors also. There
have been recently a number of dis
tressing cases Of exposure of ladies
guilty Of these humiliating vices, and
it is probable that good many fami-
lies of well-to-do people have skele-
tons OF this sort in their closets. The
proposed asylum is to meet Just such
cases as this to furnish a respectable,
secluded retreat where woman
Of good conncations and other
wise may have a ohant {
to break off from the
habit which most demoralizes her sex
and is most unworthy Of it. Among
the subscribers to the proposed new
asylum are the president, vice presi.
dent and all the cabinet, together with
the chief officers of all the depart
ments, thirty-ive governors of states
and no end of judges, professors, lead
| ing lawyers and eminent physicians
The enterprise seems to be conducted
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MDME. A. LONGET.
DreSS-Making Rooms,
NO.. SO COURT STREET.


No. S725-In the Chaneery Court of SbpIhv
county, Tennessee-Swaney B Drury. ad-
ministrAtOr, of W c Drury, deceased. VS..
John A Laf9rgs, for self and as administra-
tQR OF Mrs. Susan Il Drury, deceased Ell al
l happening from affidavit in this cause that
L the defendants, John LaForge, Wiliar,
LsForge, Mrs: Frances I Lent and - Lent
are citizens OF New York and non-residents
Of the State of Tennessee; IL IL thsrea
fore ordered that they make their appear
ance h9rein,9t heeOurt-house Of Shelby conn
ey' In Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first
Monday IN October, 1880; and plead. an
swer or demur to complainantis biII ~
the same, will be taken for confessed as to
them and set for hearing ex-parte;l ana
that a COPY Of this order be Published once 4
Ledger. ~'''O
This 10th day of August, 1850.
A eopy-Attest:
ROBERT j.. BLACK, clerk and master.
W NJ Randolph, sol. for com.
lao 1lg 1sO IEQ
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

THERE will be a grand democratic
barbecue at Braden's Station, in Fay
cite county, on the 18th inst, and
two thousand people are expected to
be present. Hon. Casey Young and
others have been invited to speak on
the occasion.
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IaIes 10. day, hi, IN balos

MANCHESTER, Eng, Aug, 10, pm.
Yarns and fabrics are dull and tend
ing down.
New ORLEANS, August 10, 11:3O
am.-Cotton dull. Middling, 11gc.
Sales to-day 100 bales; receipts %
bale; stock, 1929 bales.
LIVERPOOL, August 10, 3 p.m.-
Cotton dull and easier. Uplands 6 49,
l6d; Orleans 6 15-16d. Sales 5000
bales. Receipts, 7,400. American.
$500 Futures opened fiat, now
as follows : Deliveries for August, 6
% 32d; August and September, 6 IL
lGd; Sept. and Oct, Gf-16d; Oct, and
Nov, 6 Z 32d.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

scenes in "Colonel Sellers" are dis
tinct or individual, it is owing to the
actors. AS in English performances
in general, the entire interest in the
representation is histrionic rather
than dramatic
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Jacks Wages.

Now York Letter to Phila Ledser.l
The boarding house keepers who
act as shipping agents in supplying
vessels with crews have just advanced
the wages of sailors in British bot
toms to $50 month. with $50 paid in
advance. This is said to result from
a scarcity of good soamen, and also
from the rapacity of the boarding
house keepers themselves, who are
represented as taking hold of poor
Jack" as soon as he tou shes shore,
boarding him at hotel rates
till his money is all gone and he is in
debt, and then shipping him lOr an
other voyage, to repeat the operation
when he returns. Under the circum.
stances, the higher Jacks wages, the
more moneythe clearinghouse keep
er makes. Complaints are also made
as to the inferiority of American
crews, which as they can only be made
up in the shipping commissioner S
office, compose only such material as
that institution has to offer. 1t is
further alleged that if the American
captain could obtain his crew in the
open market he could obtain seamen
in every way as good as those engaged
by their British competitors who are
not hampered by our shipping law.
Charges are also made that the com
missioner allows the boarding house
people facilities in his office, thus en-
abliDg them to dispose OF their better
class seamen to the British vessels,
and the poorer stuff to our own bot
toms.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

New YORK, Aug. 10, 1920 pm
Cotton dull and easier Ordinary,
8316c; good ordinary, 91l-l6e; low
middling, II Lice; middling, liz 16c;
good middling, Il 1-l6c; middling
fair, Y l3-l6c; fair, 1916. Futures
opened steady, now barely steady at
very slight change from last evening S
closing prices, as follows; Deliveries
for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

THE attendance at the present gu
bernatorial convention in Nashville, is
unusually large, and exceeds in num-
bers any held during the past twenty
Years. ~
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Direct Positive Photographs.

Engineering.
Mr.. Jansen, the eminent solar
physicist, has made an interesting dis
covery that positive" plates, ready
for developing into photographs, can
be obtained directly by the long-eon-
tinucd action Of sunlight. With bro
mlde sensitized plates negative" is
usually given by an exposure of l 90
900 of a second, but NJ. Jansen finds
that if the exposure be prolonged
to half a second, or whereabouts,
the negative is changed into
a positive" which may be devel-
Oped so as to give a solar picture of
the ordinary kind. Between these two
states there is a neutral phase which
yields nothing but blackness if the
plate be developed; and beyond the
positive state there is another neutral
phase giving only lightness when de-
velOped Whether second negative
state follows this latter phase or not,
Mr.. Janssen has not yet determined.
The method applies, it is believed, to
oil kinds of sensitive plates, and Mr..
Jansen has taken several photographs
of the suns corona by its aid.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

Sulphur has been found 10 cure
cronn in fowls when applied as fol-
lows. Open the affected fowls beak,
and with 1 tube which may BE- formed
of naper, blow half a teaspoonful Of
snlphur down toe throat. Three ap-
pIieations have been known to cure,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

An old lady visiting the antiquarian
museum in Edinburg the other day,
on inspecting the old weapons very
earnestly, and failing to find what she
was apparently looking for, asked a
visitor if he could tell her wherea-
bouts they kept the ak of the apos-
fles-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
under excellent auspices, and it ought
to succeed.
ADDITIONAL COMMERCIAL.
Cotton.

The market here is quiet and dull
to-day. Sales yesterday $50 bales, all
to spinners, prices closing unchanged,
as follows:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

The Galveston tramp continues to
attract admiration from the Oldest in
habitants. He loafed about the gate
until the proprietor asked him what
he would take to leave. "All [ want
is money enough to got me cigar"
The gentleman handed him a nickel.
There, I'm robbed again. I'll have
to advance whole dime to get my
favorite fifteen cent Partags.o
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
Clerks Building and Saylnn ASSN.

DHE regular monthly meeting of th;q
l. association will be held WEDNESD NY.
august II, 1880, at the office Of the seeret7ry,
NO. Madison street. at "a O'clock, n. m.
fines will be rigidly enforced if dues and in
terest are not punctually paid.
by erder of the Board.
lS9 l4 P. B. JONES. sec'y..
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and shoes walked off he thinks is a
doubtful question.
DIED.
SECURITY
Building and Loan Association.

building and Loan Association.
INHE regular meeting of this association
j will be held Tuesday evening, August
10th, 1880, at o'clock, at their Office, No.
Madison street. Dues and interest can be
BY order Of the Board
A. 5. LIYERM0RE, President
p. B. JOYRs. See'y. lS9Iin
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DESOTO

building and Loan AsSOciaiioD.
OFFICE 2S3 MAIN STREET.
'HE If, august a dues and interest are payable on
charged T. all delinquents. Directors meet al
pm. Meeting for loans will be helt ot7
pm. JAMES ELDER, President.
MISTER Parker. Secretary. l39Ii6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
MECHANICS

Building and Loan Association.
Office Room No %, Planters Ins. BUILDING.
III evening, August 1lth, 1880. Members ave
urgently requested to attend. Payments NAV
be made to the Secretary during bnsiness
hours. G. V. RAMBAUT, President
CHAs. I. PATERSON, Secretary. I9gIdi
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10

rub up the pruning knife and cut
off the excrescences. Abolish figure
head positions, including chief fpo-
lice. The city taxpayers are at present
in no condition to support Improbable
offices" Thus writes correspond
ent, and while the views expressed
are good, the recommendation about
the chief is not. 1t might be an ex-
cellent idea to do away with police
captains, because the sergeants could
do the work as well, but a chief is
necessary to good order and dis
cipline. Every organization needs a
head, and none more 50 than the po-
lice and fire departments. There are
other places, however, about as use
less as the fifth wheel to a wagon, that
might very properly be abolished, and
the tax-eaters filing the berths
would necessarily seek other browsing
pastures.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-08-10
he occasio

SEVERAL of the colOred policemen
IN this city voted against Captain
Athy and for Ed Shaw. They were
appointed at a time when there was
no election pending, and for no politi-
cal purpose. The fact that they now
vote against their benefactor and for
an ignorant, incompetent, mean man
on account Of his color shows
that Captain Atby was mistaken when
he selected such men to guard the
people and property Of the city. No
man, white or black, who voted for
Ed Shaw is fit to be trusted in public
or private affairs, all such are either
fools, knaves or dangerous fanatics.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06
AT a meeting of the Republican Cen.

At meeting of the Republican Cen
trial Committee of Virginia, the other day, a
majority of tho members expressed decided
preference for John Sherman as Presidential
candidate.
1t is asserted that the delegations
from the Carolinas and Florida to the National
Republican Convention will be solid for sher-
man.
A dispatch from Augusta, Me-. says
that p. A. Sawyer, Fusionist Secretary of State,
has yielded, and, under protest, given mp all
the State property in his possession, including
the State seal, Council records, election re-
turns, etc.
A meeting of the National Democratic
Committee, to select the time and place for the
next National Convention, has been called for
Feb. %, at Washington
New York Republicans will hold their
State Convention at Utica, on the 25th inst.
A canvass of the Wisconsin state
officers and members of the General Assembly
shows that AZ are for Blaine for President, 70
for Grant, 10 for Seymour, 10 for Sherman,
s for Washburne, 3 for Garfield, for Tilden
and for Bayard; for ~the nominee" and
scattering, IA.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06
WASHINGTON NOTES.

Z. A. Hayt, Commissioner of Indian
Affairs, has been suddenly and summarily dis
missed from Office. Crookedness in the man
agement OF Indian affairs is assigned by Secre-
tary Schurz as the reason for his removal.
E. P. Brooks, editor of the National
Republican, has been appointed Consul to
Cork
The House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures have agreed to report
favorably the Warner bill, which provides for
free coinage of gold and silver, and for the
Issue of certificates on deposits of gold and
silver bullion, and making such certificates
legal tenders for all purposes The bill also
prohibits any further issue of national-bank
notes
H. V. Boynton, the Washington cor
respondent who was recently denounced by
Gen. Sherman as a man without character,
who could be hired for 81 900 to Islander his
own mother, has prepared a series OF charges
against Sherman, alleging conduct unbecoming
an officer and gentleman, and lodged them
with Secretary Ramsey. Boynton claims that
the General has violated the laws OF the Dis
trict of Columbia defining and publishing SLAM
der, and asks that he be tried by military
court.
The Senate Sub Committee on Rail
roads has agreed to recommend the passage of
bill granting the Northern Pacific Railroad
Company six years more time in which to COM
pete its main line and branches, provided the
company will open its lands to settlers for so 80
per acre
Washington telegram to the Chicago
Tribune: Senators and others interested in
the Monroe doctriAe have expressed great sur
prise that the United States, in defense of the
Monroe doctrine, has not protested against the
interference of European Governments in tie
Isthmus of Panama 1t is now claimed that
the Clayton Bulwer treaty absolutely ties the
hands of the United States. That is the opin-
ion which it il said the State Department
has entertained, and it is the reason why no
action has been taken"
A Senate committee has gone to New
York. to investigate Chief Supervisor of Elec-
tons John Davenport
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06
The fusion Legislature, after prolonged
The Case OF Fitz John Porter.

The minority Of the House Committee on
Military Affairs, consisting Of A. G. McCook,
of New York; b. f. Marsh, of Illinois, and
Thomas M Browne of Indiana, in their report
to Congress on the Fitz John Porter case, OPP
pose the proposition OF the majority of the
committee that Porter be restor cd to his rank
and pay. They say: Ellis trial was held
within month Of the battle of Manassas,
and when witnesses who were present
on the side OF the national forces were
easily obtained The movements of the armies
were fresh in the minds Of thosa interested.
The court was composed OF men eminent in
their profession, six OF them graduates OF
West Point, some intimate personal friends of
accused, and some have become equally emf
nent in civil life, aud nothing has been shown
to convince US that they were not honestly
anxious to do justice in accordance with their
oaths, without Partially, favor, or affection.
They conclude that Porter was without excuse
for having remained so long inactive in the
presence Of the enemy with two fine divisions
while great battle was being fought in his
vicinity, and that had he acted as he should
have done, by freeing the rest of the Union
line, he would probably have prevented the re-
verse which the latter sustained at the close Of
the day The committee say they have soon
Guided to recommend the passage Of a Joint
resolution removing 80 much OF Fitz John Por-
ter's sentence as prohibits him from holding
any Office Of profit or trust under the Govern
mantn
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06
MISCELLANEOUS aLEANINas.

War has been declared between the
Pacific Mail Steamship Company and the
Union Pacific railroad. Until few months
ago the ocean line was given a subsidy by the
railway for refraining from reducing its rates
to competitive basis, and the approaching
combat grows out of the refusal of the over
land management to renew tho contract
The Court of Inquiry which ex-
amined the last charges against Maj. Reno is
said to have decided upon recommending his
dismissal from the army. Gen. Sherman, how
ever, inclines toward greater leniency, and
favors Renos suspension for one year.
De Lesseps has $50 surveyors at
work at the isthmus on the route of the pro-
posed inter oceanic canal
The natives of Alaska are fighting
among themselves and slaughtering each other
like Kilkenny cats.
The Anglo-American Gable Company
is now sending kilograms across the ocean at
the rate of 121f cents per word. This is the
result of competition.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-02-06
IT, Tn,,,rtro,Ier ~ the Cnrrencv reoorts the
Causes OF Deformity in Females.

The Chinese of rank cripple and de-
form the feet of their female children,
but these feet are not more deformed
than the chest of fashionable lady in
any of our own cities. The lungs are
compressed like piece OF sponge. the
heart is crowded to one side, out OF the
way, the loose ribs are drawn in SO that
the body presents the shape of an hour
glass. 1t is no wonder that the spine is
curved and drawn out of shape, and the
abdominal viscera are squeezed some
times beyond the limit of endurance;
that cases of rupture are so common
that about one in every dozen persons
you meet wears truss; that establish
ments for the manufacture and sale of
instruments for the relief and cure of
all kinds of deformities. both public and
private, for the treatment of such dis
eases, are constantly increasing in num-
Der in every part of the country, but
particularly in our large cities.
There are few young ladies in any OF
our schools that do not complain of
their backs. Their lungs are incapable
of breathing even the impure air by
which they are surrounded; if they
stand the limbs become weak from de-
bility; if they sit, they lean with the
elbows on the knees and the head on
the palm of the hand. to ease the ach-
ing back. From II to Is years of age
they are subject, more or less, to head
ache unnatural pressure on the differ
ent organs obstructs circulation, and
fever is often the result. Just at this
period, when the system is undergoing
rapid and radical changes, and is apt to
feel exhausted. and the mind is more or
less depressed, sometimes almost to the
point of melancholy, they are crammed
with lessons, stimulated TO keep their
grade in their classes, just when they
need fresh air, moderate exercise and
freedom from worry and anxiety.