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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-17
Trustees sale.


Under and by virtue Of n oertain trrst
wife, Ellen s. Holt and and w. A. WoIt JnISe
u, 1873, recorded in book J2s. mage 5ss' in NJ
Registers Office of Shelby county male ~
secure a certain Indebtedness therein SCI
I9rth, which Is now past duo, at the request Of
the benefciaries therein. | wNI, on
saturday, March 9Th. at IL m.
next, IN front Of the courthouse door, on Main
street, IN the Taxing District OF Shelby ec,p-
W, sell for cash to the highest bidley, tbe
following described real estate, lying and
scribed as follows; ""u uo-
Part of cQpntry Lot 500, beginning on the
s9.pih Tine Of Poplar street, one hundred and
sky seven feet east Of tho east line ofOrleans
stleeIi men west with the south line ofPoplar
street Vlly'siK ieet, thence south paraiIel
Win Vfieans street one hundred and ninety
ieetl t.hen east, parallel with Poplar street
hity-six feet; thence north one HUNDRED and
ninety feet, more or less, To sAe beqinninc
ceased. NFs y HVi'' uo-
Also lotE Ne. 81 and Is, of country LOT No
81, earB hsyipG q front Of 50 feet on Psyton
aNepRe, by a depth Of 1& feet.
Also part Of lot No. 9, of country lot No.
olt' having a front Of % feet On north side AZ
Alabama street, and running back hetweer
parallel lines aboat 49, feet.
Equity OF Redemption waived,
Iit'e believed to be perfect, lint I convey
only gs trustee. l have abstracts of said
property, which 1 will Nrnisb M nsrsons
wishing to examine same,
lStxXxu L, II. ESTES. Jr.
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HAyING suggested the Insolvency OF the
persons having claims against said estate ars.
notified 70 appear and file the same witG NV
clerk Of the County Court, auth0ntgeafed IN
the manner prescribed by law SS or Sssinst
the 18th day Of May An, YsA and Rartber
give notice thai SeSSSaih6 to law any claim
not me- IN " Rsillere the above named date or
before appropriation fthe funds Of said
estate Is made shah DO forever barred. both in
law and equity. Ia
HERBERT RHETT,
lS2 1873 ia $50 nv NNSNatAA
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Probate Court Sale orR4.Ips,.,o


No. 26, r, DIN the Probate Court ofshelby
county, Tennessee-John johnson, exeeu.
Ior q .. Y. Mount, deceased, vs., Margaret
by, virtue Of a decree for sale, entered in
~ this cause in minute book &c. pages aeQ.
etc., will sell at public auction, To- theb iSb,
est bidder, in front Of the courthouse door.
on Main street, Memphis, Tenn, on Saturdav'
February 18th, 1880, within legal hours. fbe
following described real estate, to-wit. An
undivided One-half or mOiety Of that lot. or
piece Of land, situated in Memphis. Shelbv
county, tennessee, On the west side OF Lam
derdale street, between Beale ana Union
streets, bounded as follows, to-wit;
Beginning on the west line of Iauderdala
street, whore the same is interseetod Nv he
dividing line between the Rice and Ramsey
GRANTS; running thence northwardly on the
west line OF Lauderdale street eiehtv-two
feet, more or less, to the southeast corner ~ n
OF heretofore conveyed By N. S. Bruce and &
Y. Mount; thence westWardly parallel with
the dividing line between the Rice and Ram
sey grants one hundred feet TO a stake. t6ence
southwardly. parallel with Lauierdaie street,
eiighty-two feet, moro or less, to the diyidine
line between the Rice and Ramsey erSntg.
thenee eastwardly on said dividing line ono
hundred feet, to the place of beginning.
Terms Of sale: On a credit Of 6 ana u
monthsi purchaser executing notes with an
proved security. A lien will be retained, etc.
This February G, 1850:
OWEN DWYER, Clerk.
). NJ. GREGORY, sol. for compPt.
1877 1l2 l4s 1854
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.

BOATS LEAVING THIS DAY.
Arkansas river, Hattie Rowland ..........5 p IN
81. Francis river, Batesville. ............... .5 p m
st. Louis, City of Greenyille. .........,,5 p IN
Commerce, Shields "".,,". ............5 p IN
ARRIVED.
Steamer City Of Greeuville. Yicksburg.
st. Genevievc, st. Louis.
4" Robert Mitchell, New Orleans.
" Hattie Rowland, Arkansas rive
g" Golden City. Cincinnati.
Coahoma, Vicksburg.
Shields, Commerce.
4" Grand Tower, st. Louis.
DEPARTED.
Steamer James Lee, Friar's Point.
Golden City, New Orleans.
Andy Baum, Cincinnati.
Silverthorn, 0sceola.
0uachita Belle. Arkansas City.
Robert Mitchell, Cincinnati,
Z" Ste. Genevieve, st. Louis.
Grand Tower, Vicksburg.
IN PORT.
Coahoma, Shields, Hattie Nowland.
Batesville, City of Greehville.
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STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY CoUNrf,l
lOTNICE CnrNrY CnnRr CLFRx.

OFfICE COuNrY COURT CLERK.
MEMPHls, TENg., January 26, 1850.
To Geo. g. Dent, administrator de bonis non
of John III. Mitchell, deceased.
HAVING suggested the insolvency OF the
Ii estate Of John H. Mitchell, deceased,
you are hereby ordered TO give notice, by adver-
tlsement IN some newspaper published within
the said State, and also at the courthouse
doer 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 18th day Of July, 1880;
and any claim not fled on or before said day,
or before an appropriation of the funds of said
estate is made, shall be forever barred, both
in law and equity.
Witness my hand, at Office, this 18th day Of
January, 1880.
OWEN DWYER, Clerk.
1873 Ia $50 l58
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Raw.
Cloudy.
Good bend business doing.
The river is still booming.
Considerable drift vunRing,
Fair movement in freights.
Fair business doing on the levee.
Several RATS Of logs passed down to-
day.
The James Lee had out another big
trip last night,
The Ed. Richardson extends her
trips 10 Arkpaolis.
The drift is very heavy. Much Of
it is sut Of the Cumberland.
The Bedford, en- route from New
Orleans to Cincinnati, Is dAe.
The freshet in Cumberland river
has done considerable damage.
We again warn the planters in the
bends to prepare for an overflow.
james Carroll and John Meekes
are star.gazcrs on the Vint Shinkle.
The 0uachita Belle, for Arkansas
.@t bad asplendid trip offreight and
people.
Major John D. Adams was enter
tanned yesterday by 2 npmber Of biz
friends. az
The GOldap Crown, eproute to New
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Sherifls Sale of Real Estate.


DUBLIC nqtioe il hereby given, that nv vir-
tue Of a writ of yenaiti6ni eSponas TO me
directed from the Hon. Circuit Court of
Shelby county Tenq., in the case of S. l..
Moore versus Thos. 4. Stratton, judament
rendered on the Sth day Of February, 1879.
for the sum OF $40. with interest and costs OF
suit, to satisfy said Judgment, etc., | will on
Thursday, the 4th day OfMarch, 1850,
IN legal hours, in front o fthe courthouse, in
the Taxing District of Shelby county, Tenn,
proceed TO sell, to the bigAss. tiddeF, for
cash, the .felleViNg described property, to-wit:
A gtptaia tflS tor parcel Of land located in
the 18th Civil District Of Shelby county,
Tennessee, bounded on the east BY the lands
Of the estate Of j. A. Jones, on the west bv
the lands of Douglass, on the north " he
lands of J. I. Stratton, contsiaihe about
seyenty-fve acres; the came e6nveyedby deed
from T. j, StFatIop, bptnot ret6tded.
Levied on as the property Of defendant.
ThSs; T. s{tatton, 70 satisfy SAID jIasaent,
Memphis, 9Th day of lapuapy, 1880.
u. L. MCGOWAN,
Sheriff Of Shelby county, Tenn.
BY DAN q. SHELBY, d. s. 1888 IA $50
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CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.

The river here rose 26 inches inthe
past "a hours ending at noon, and is
now q feet 6 inches above low water
mark. At Cairo the rise was
81 inches, with 81 feet on the gauge.
At Pittsburg it declined 5 feet, with
ii feet 6 inches on the gauge. At
st. Louis it rose 2 inches, with feet 8
inches on the gauge. At Cincinnati it
rose A inches, with 81 feet 6 inches
on the gauge. At louisville it rose 8
feet 4 inches, with 26 feet 10 inches on
the gauge. At Evansville it is rising,
with q feet on the gauge. Cumber-
land river is falling at Nash
Vile, with Al feet on the shoals.
Tennessee river is also declining.
Arkansas river is still rising
at Little Rock with ID feet on the
gauge. White river Is on the decline,
with a good stage of water from Jack
sOnport to the mouth.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-17

wednesday, the Sd day OF March, 1850

between the hours Of II am. and / PM, IN
'front.' Of the Bank Of Commerce, No. IL, Mad
lSon street, IN Memphis, Taxing District of
Shelby county, Tennessee, sell 10 the hiSheSt
bidder for cash the following real estate In
shelby county, Tennessee, to-wit: Being in
that part OF the late city Of Memphis, now the
Taxing District Of Shelby county, known as
Fort Pickering, and being a part Of Block 90,
.rontlng forty feet on Carolina street, with a
lines with Ninth street, and adjoining. and
east Of the G%rieshaber lot, together with the
Improvements, which consist Of a frame cot
tage and outhOuses. WV
Title believed to be good but / shall sell
and convey only as trustee,
the absolute title, =" s''
JAMES W. CROCKER, Trustee.
NJ. b.. TREzEvAET, Attorney. lsSS
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Headache, Pain in the Shoulders, Cough.
Dizziness, Sour Stomach, Eruptions. Bad
Taste IN the Mouth, Palpitation t. the
Heart, Pain in the region of the Kidneys.
and athousand other painful symptoms,are
the otisprings of Dyspepsia.
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22
Putting John In.

The trials of an artist who under
takes to paint a picture to order" are
many and vexations.. 1t is related ola
we'll known portrait painter that he
received an order to paint a family
group. The family was large and the
happy head of it wanted them all in
cluded. After many consultations and
weary interviews as to the sittings, the
order was finally given, and the artist
breathed freer, but hardly had he Or
dered the canvas before the paterfami-
las arrived breathless at the studio,
and announced that he had " forgot all
about John"
"Well," said the weary artist, and
who is John?"
MY son john" said the patron,
a went to the war. I want him put
in the picture"
The artist proposed that John be
sent to the studio for a sitting, to which
the patron of arts responded:
well, I forgot to tell you Johns
dead" Despite the gravity of the in
formation, the painter smiled and
asked the father to bring a photograph
or anything that would give him an
idea of the lost sons personal appear
ance. Johns" parent scratched his
head and said he would go home and
tell Mother"
Before the artist had lighted his af-
ter-breakfast cigar the next morning,
the fond father made his appearance
accompanied by a big bundle, which,
being unrolled, displayed to the aston
ished eye of the artist and old pair of
blue trousers.
Mother said she couldn't find no
photograph or nothin' of John" said
the perplexed parent, ''but she run
agin his old army pants, and thought
they might give you an idea, and you
could put John in uniform"
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22
Quassia for Mosquitoes.

. A few years ago I had some peach
trees which, being on a wall exposed
to draught, were annually blighted.
One died, and the new wood of the
others was not more than a hands
length. A scientific friend advised me
to try a weak solution of quassia to
water them with, and the ucces was
complete. Blight was prevented. The
first year the trees bore well and the
new wood was elbow length or more.
I next tried quassia in the winery. In
stead of lime-washing the walls to get
rid of the green fly, M watering with
quassia dismissed them in a day. My
head gardener, who had previously
much experience in nursery grounds,
wondered that he mad never heard of
it before. He now uses it in all cases
as a protection from flies and blight.
The cilution goes a long way one
pound of chips of quassia wood, boiled
and re5oiled in other water, until he
has eight gallons of the extract for his
garden engine. He finds it unadvisa-
BILE to use it stronger for some plants.
This boiling makes the quassia adhes-
i've, and being principally applied to
the underleaf, because most blight set
ties there, it is not readily washed off
by rain. Quassia is used in medicine
as a powerful tonic, and the chips are
sold by chemists at from sixpence to a
shilling a pound. The tree is indigen-
Gus to the West Indies and to South
America. And now as to gnats and
mosquitoes. A young friend of mine,
severely bitten by mosquitoes and I'M
willing to be seen so disfigured, sent
for some quassia chips and had boiling
water poured upon them. At night
after washing she dipped her hands
into the quassia water and left tito dry
on her face. This was a perfect pro-
lection, and continued to be so when
ever applied. The pastilles sold in
Florence and elsewhere, which are
vaunGed to be safeguards against mos
quitoes, are, from my own experience,
of no use. AT the approath of winter,
when flies and gnats get into houses,
and sometimes bite ~venomously, a
grandchild of mine, Is months old,
was thus attacked. I gave the nurse
some of my weak solution Of quassia to
be left to dry on his face, and he was not
The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, 1880-09-22

ALL rivers, small OF large, agree in
one character, they liketo lean a little
on one side. They cannot bear to have
their channels deepest in the middle,
but will always, if they can, have one
bank to sun themselves upon and
another to get cool under; one sbingly
shore to play over, where they may be
shallow and foolish and childlike, and
another steep shore under which they
can pause and purify themselves and
get their strength of wave fully to-
gether for due occasions. Rivers in
this way are just like wise men who
keep one side oftheir lives for play and
another for work, and car be brilliant
and chattering and transparent when
they are at ease and yet take deep coun-
sci on the other side when they set
themselves to the main purpose.
RUsKIN.
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The Oldest Monument in the
World.

The Ashmolean Museum, at Oxford,
contains of the oldest monuments
of civilization in the world, if, indeed,
it is not the very oldest. This is the
Intel stone of a tomb which :ormed
the last resting place OF an officer who
lived in the time of King Sent, of the
second dynasty, whose date is placed
by NJ. Marietta more than six thousand
years ago. The stone is covered with
that delicate and finished sculpture
which distinguished the early periods
of Egyptian history, and was i'm
measurably superior to the stiff and
conventional art of the latter ages of
Egypt which we are accustomed to see
in Dull European museums. But it is
also covered with something more pre-
cious still than sculpture-with hero
glyphics which show that even at that
remote time Egyptian writing was a
complete and finished art, with long
ages of previous development lying be-
hind it. The hieroglyphic characters
are already used, not only pictorially
and geographically, but alsoto express
syllables and alphabetic letters, the
name of the King, for instance, being
spelled alphabetically. In the hands
of the Egyptian scribes, however,
Egyptian writing e made any
further progress. With the fall of
what is called the Old Empire (about
B. c. 350O) the freshness and expansive
force of the people passed away. Egyp-
tian life and thought became fossilized,
and through the long series of centuries
that followed Egypt resembled one of
its own mummies, faithfully preserving
the form and features of a past age, and
of a life which had ceased to beat in
its veins. Until the introduction of
rhristIanNy TIE on,y cna1ge under
gone by Egyptian writing was the in
vention of a running hand, which il
its earlier and simple form is called
hieratic, and in its later form, domotic
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window, opens it, and calls to her. To
no purpose, however. All the clerks
cluster around the window to catch
sight of her.
1.-THE woman is mad" says one.
"She's going to drown herself"
Tawman says quietly to the telegraph
operator: "Is it the Mary?"
The schooner is beino Owed up the
river by a tug. She making prepare
tons to anchor in the stream, opposite
the wharf. All this time Mrs. Shelter
is standing in the midst of a crowd of
excited people waving handkerchiefs,
and the little girl is waving hers.
"Look-look there! There's a man
overheard !" cried of the clerks.
A cry of alarm goes up from the wharf.
"Heavens!" exclaims Mr.. Tawman,
thoroughly aroused. "What does that
mean?"
HE is swimming like a fish," says
a clerk.
He has landed. Listen to the
cheers"
"Look, look" shouts the operator.
'sShe is hugging him; so is the little
girl. It's Capt. Shelter"
"Thank God!" exclaims Mr.. Taw-
man, ''and pray heaven she may not
sink under the shock. Poor woman!
how she clings to the drenched man!
Dear, dear!"
Then he puts on his hat and runs
down the steps like a boy, and darts
owe to where husband ana wife and
child are united and happy.
"Ah" he exclaims, shaking the cap
tain by the hand, and not caring for
the gaping, wondering crowd allaround
him; "this is good luck, isn't it, eh?
Did you get my telegram
When the man can speak he answers
"Yes.n
II planned it ALI" chatters old Taw-
man. "You see 1 got a dispatch yes
terday from Brakewater, saying that
Capt. Shelter had been picked up on a
raft by the schooner Mary. I told her
in the car yesterday that the brig
would come in, and come it did. Over
to the Office, every one of you, and af-
ter dinner and dry clothes, captain,
Well have a talk about business.
Come on"
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Mauris:
One night the snow was falling heav-
lily, and De Musset passed without no.
ticing an old organ grinder playing in
the bitter night, and it was not until
he reached his door that he fully real
lied the old mans misery. lie hurried
back and gave him a silver piece, and
said to his brother who tried to detain
him, unless 1 60 back and give him
something, his mnsic will haunt
me all night like a demon of remorse."
He was fond of pictures, and once,
having no money, bought a beautiful
copy which he was to pay for in install
ments. The painting was hung in his
dining-room opposite his seat at the
table, and he said to his housekeeper;
For four months you will economize
by one dish. By gazing at that picture
the dinner will taste just as good to
me-"
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sons in the East a necessity to the ma.
tive. In Siam and Burmah, China,
AMMAN and Cochin China it is not
only the necessary protection against
the destructive rays of a vertical sun,
but it has functions Gifts own to dis
charge which are quite foreign to it
even in those countries where it is, as
it was, intended to be a Little shade"
II is a distinctive feature in the lives
and characters of the natives of those
parts, and their Kings and Emperors,
when writing to one another, to allude
to their subjects as wearers of the UNI
brella, "in contradiction to the ignorant
and misguided people of other chimes.
Thus we find an Emperor of China
writing to a King of Burmah "From
the royal elder brother Ten-kwang,
Emperor of China, who rules over a
a multitude of umbrella-wearing chiefs
in the Great Eastern Empire" to his
royal younger brother sun-descended
King, Lord of the Golden Palace, who
rules over a multitude of umbrella
wearing chiefs in the Great Western
Empire" In Burmah, especially, the
umbrella has a deep and secret mean
ing to convey what is as double-Dutch
at first to the foreigners ear. 1t is, it
need hardly be said, the necessary fin
ish to the out-of-door toilet of Peganau
or Burmese fashionable, but it is much
more. 1t has very delicate duties to
perform, which could not so we'll be al
loted in Burmah to any other instru-
ment. Gold or gilded umbrellas, which
in the provinces may be carried by any
nobody, are reserved in the capital for
%princesses of the blood alone, and red
umbrellas are affected by the gay sparks
of Burmese society as being the next
thing gaudy in appearance. Etiquette
has also fixed the exact number of UNI
brcllas that Burmese mobiles may dis
play when they approach the "lord of
the golden palace" and it has now
been settled by the Mandelay Herald's
office beyond possibility of dispute that
no one but the Ein-She-Me or heir
apparent,i is entitled to have borne over
his litter the full complement of eight
golden umbrellas. To carry a letter
under an umbrella is to accord to its
royal honors in Burmah. Eight golden
umbrellas are properly carried owe a
Kings letter, and when the Burmese
authorities would not permit the UNI
brellas to be carried over the Governor
Generals letter, according to custom.
Mayor Phayre, U envoy to Burmah
in 1855 insi- ted upon the Union Jack
being waved over on its way from the
Residency to the palace.
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bitten again. It is innocuous to chill
dren, and it may be a protection also
against bed insects, which I have not
had the opportunity Of trying. When
the solution of quassia is strong it is
well known to be an active fly poison,
and is mixed with sugar to attract
flies, but this is not strong enough to
kill at once. If it be true that mosqui-
toes have been imported into one ofthe
great hotels in the southwest of Lon
don, it might be very useful to anoint
some of the furniture with it. Then a
strong solution with sugar set about
the rooms ought to clear them out.
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ter partakes of it, but does not think
proper to waken the child that she may
eat also.
Then Mr.. Tawman says:
"Now you had better 60. I'll see to
the child; I'll bring the little girl up
with me tonight"
"No, mo-" exclaims the mother, 81
must have my Ehe with me always,
sir. You are good, though-so very
good. And is there no news of the
Good Luck ?"
mot a word, I'm sorry to say"
cit can't be possible. The brig must
come in to day."
Pm sure I hope so with all my
heart and soul, Mrs. Shelter"
81 know you d." she responds with
a sigh.
Now 60. Pm sorry you have to
waken the child, but 1 suppose yo@
can't help it."
"Come, Efie," says the mother,
touching her lightly on the shoulder.
The child awakens with a start and
cries: "It's my papa. Dear, dear
papa!"
Then, seeing her disappointment,
she bursts into tears.
Don't cry, dear, don't cry; the brig
will come in. Don't cry"
The good old mar speaks soothingly
to the sobbing child; and the mother,
catching her hand, walks sadly away,
followed by Mr. Tawnan, who lifts the
little girl down s airs, and helps her
and her mother into a ear.
The next morning the mother is
again lettering about the wharves, with
the same agonizing inquiry. She again
puts the question to the wharfmen, and
again only receives the same answer.
Then, as before, she seeks the office of
the brig owners, still accompanied by
her little girl, and asks:
HAS the brig Good Luck come in
YETI"
mot yet, ma'am."
She signs and looks out of the win
dow at the shipping. She says she
| will wait for MI. Tawman, and sits
down.
When Mr.. Tawman comes in as
usual. he greets her very kindly, and
kisses the little girl, and says:
I'm sorry the brig isn't in yet"
"Will it be in to-day?"
AZ hope So"
And then he goes behind his desk
and looks over hie letters. He has not
long been engaged with his CORES
pondence when a scream from the wo-
man startles him. She bias risen, and
is pointing excitedly out of the win
dow.
Here is a ship coming in. Look!
Look"
"That's not it." says the clerk, 'that
is a schooner"
"Oh, no." adds Mr.. Tawman, that
is not the Good Luck"
ut is, it isl"
She darts from the Office, dragging
the child after her; runs across the
bustling wharf, out to the very edge of
| the water. MI. Tawman rushes to the