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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14
A STATE OUTRAGE,

The constitution OF Tennessee with
holds from her legislature any power
to perpetuate such an outrage; the
constitution of the United States for
bids such action by any state. 1t
must, therefore, be concluded that all
the legislation Of Tennessee designed
to sanction the transfer of the lien
declared by the internal improvement
laws or to apply it in payment of her
common debt is repugnant to both
constitutions and void as against the
holders OF the bonds in question. 1t
only remains to consider what effect,
if any, has been produced by the pro-
ceediugs in chancery. The only in
terests which the state of Tennessee
possessed was as trustee, holding the
lien for the benefit of the bondhold-
ers. Neither the acts of July and
December, 1870, nor the decree of
Chancellor East, purported to author
ize a sale Of anything except this very
interest. 1t has not been needful to
speak at length of the provisions in
Chancellor Easts decree concerning
sales Of the roads by consent of the
companies concerned. A decree by
consent is not more efiectual against
strangers to the consent than any pri-
vate agreement; it binds only the
conserving parties. A suit in the cir
cult court Of the United States against
each OF the companies is the appro-
pirate remedy. This may be prose-
cuted by any one bondholder for the
benefit Of himself and all others hav-
ing like claims who may come in and
adopt the suit. The theory put forth
by the operations of 1869 is destitute
Of any foundation in reason, sound
logic, legal science or common hon
esty. Many other considerations that
might be adduced against it are omit
ted, from a belief that they will read
lily suggest themselves to impartial
investigators, The railroad property
which the foregoing opinion holds to
be liable for the payment Of the fifteen
million do lars in bond is estimated at
over one hundred million dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14
Trustees Sale.


RI virtue Of a trust deed executed by Sarah
- Neal to W I Baggett, August llth, 1880.
recorded in the Registers Office OF Shelby
county in book l08, page 9S, ard having been
appointed by the Probate C0art as trustee in
the, place and stead Of the said Baggett, I
will, on
Thursday, September 18TH, 1850,
on the premises, in theclty 81 Memphis, with
IN legal hourE, sell at public auction 10 The
highest bidder for cash, a certain lot or parcel
OF land lying snd situate ia the city Of Mem.
phis, county Of Shelby, and state Of Tenbes-
see, and described rs follows: Beginning al.
tne southeast corner OF bullivan's ct on Pom :.
lar street; and on the north side thereof RIM.
ming eastwardly with Poplar street one hun
dfed. and twenty feet to tho southwest corner.
Of. y IA Jones residence lot; thence north.
with, the west line Of Jones residence lot one,
hundred and sixty feet-m0re or less-to n
point where The North line Of an alley on The.
north side Of N M Jones lot would init rseet.
thence westwurdly with tho north line of said
alley VI the same wore extended to Sulliynvis
east line, eighty-four feet-more or less.
thence ~southwardly with Sullivan's line one
hundred and sixty f%eet-mOro or less-to IN
beginning. Equity of redemption waived
1i014 In EATON T-rsto
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Saturday, the 9Th Of October, IaaO.

in the city Of Memphis, at the Northwest cor
nor OF Main and Madison streets, within the
hours prescribed by law Tor public sales, sell
at public auction to the highest bidder for
cash, the real estate conveyed TO me and de-
iorihed " said trust deed as follows, to-wit :
lot numbers four az and seven "a on the plan
Of su' division made by Commissioners j Hal
stead &c Clarke and Q b Church. under the
decree of the Chancery Court Of Memphis. in
ne case Of j II Banks VS.. 5 i Walker ct al,
NO. Il& on new RUE docket Of said eourt, as
the same is shown by the decree Of sale. Chan
Gerry Court, pssiitered in the office Of fas Reg
lstoF Of Shelby county in book Nc. "a, pages
$40 and bI0i the same being a subdivision and
partition among those entitled OF the lot con-
yeyed by W Il Butler 10 jeremiah Il Hem
bricks, trustee for Elizabeth 4 Banks and her
children, reeistored in said Office Of said Reg.
lister IN book y, page $50. which two lots have
each a front Of 500 feet on shelby street and n
depth westward of82 feet. This property will
be sold without the equity Of redemption, the
same beiAs waived in said trust deed. little
believed to be good, but will convey only as
trustee. II HOWELL. Trustee.
Graft & Cooper, Att'ys. 8i2 1924
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Ron SLEEPING Cars
The shOriesta na QuieAesl Route


The management confidently invite at.
tention to its Superior Equipment
Through Car service, and qu'ck time
The Scenery en- route is justly celebrated
Tor It's variety and surprising beauty,
Dining Stations at Cincinnati, Indianapo.
us, Columbus, Pittsburg, Altoona md
Harrisburg are in charge Of well known
caterers, VINO have contributed in No
small degree to the popularity of the
Pan-Handleand Pennsy lyania Line. with
the travelling public.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14

now a clean city, and it will be almost
impossible to be again seourged by
yellow fever.
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A SuggestlOn to Summer Tourists

A change of climate is at all times
more or less dangerous. There are
elements in a new atmosphere which
are injurious, especially when the
system is exhausted by care and over
work, and which should be guarded
against. After careful observation
we have come to the conclusion that
Warmers safe kidney and liver cure is
tho best preventive for atmospheric
evils and that it viii restore health
and yigor sooner than any remedy
which has ever been discovered.
Sold Wholesale by S. Mansfield &
Co., and w. N. Wilkerson & Co.
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FOX GOV EhhOhy
s. 7. WILSON,
VI 0NNNEHi
The Peoples Candidate.

Fourth, We dem md that no settlement Of
the State debt shall be made which is not sub
United to and ratified by the people at the bal
lot box. at a special election to be held for
that purpose,
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Saturday, the l8th day Of Snntamhar
Trustees Sale OF Real Estale.

~ virtue Of the power vested in me as trus.
ID tee in a certain trust deed executed No
yember 10, 1873, by Il 0 Banks, Martha W
Banks and J II Banks, to secure the indebt-
e,dness set forth and described in said trust
deed, | will, as trustee, on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14

The LEDGER office book bindery,
ID Madison street, is in the same
building as the newspaper and job
printing establishment is owned by
the same proprietor, embraces all
machines and material used in a first
class book bindery, and is conducted
by competent workmen capable Of
executing work in as good and sub
stantial a style as can be done any
where.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14

National Democratic Ticket.
FoR President:
W. S. HANCOCK, OF PENNSYLVANIA.
FOR VICE-PREsIDENT:
W. II. ENGLISH. OF INDIANA.
ELEcroRs FOR THE SrATE-AT-LAReE;
JOHN L. T. SNEED, of Shelby.
JOHN N. FLEMING, of Knox.
DISTRICT ELECT0Rs;
First District -CHARLEs X. VANCE,.
Second Distriet-W. L. LE%DGERwooD.
Third District-JoHS R. NAL, of Rhea
county.
Fourth District-JosEPH +. WARRINGTON, Of
Robertson.
Fifth District-J. H. BURSAN, of Lincoln.
Sixth District-W. A. THoMA.
Seventh District-E. A. TALLrAFERRo, Of
Giles.
Eighth Distriet-A. @. HAWKINS, Of Carroll.
Ninth District-T. Z. RICHARDSON, Of Dyer.
Tenth District-R. j. MORGAN. of Shelby.
FoR CONGRESS-:
CASEY YOUNG.
FOR GOVERNOR,
=. Z. WILSON,
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Tuesday Evening Sept. IA, 1850
entered at the PostOfice at Memphis, Tenn,
as second-class matter
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-09-14

FOR VICE-PREsIDENT:
Y. IL. ENGLISH. OF INDIANA.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Mithout God.

UNLovELY, nay, frightful, is the soli-
tude of the soul which is without God
in the world. To wander all day in the
sunlight among the tribes of animals,
unrelated to anything better; to behold
the horse, COW and bird, and to foresee
an equal and speedy end to him and
them; no, the bird, as it hurried by
with its bold and perfect fight, would
disclaim his sympathy, and declare him
an outcast. To see men pursuing in
faith their varied action, warm-hearted,
providing for their children, loving
their friends, performing their prom
ises-what are they to this chill, house,
less, fatherless, aimless Cain, the man
who hears only the sound of his own
footsteps in God resplendent creation?
To him, it is no creation; to him, these
fair creatures are hapless specters; he
knows not what to make of it. To him,
heaven and earth have lost their beauty.
How gloomy is the day, and upon yon-
der shining pond what melancholy
light! l cannot keep the sun in heaY-
en-, if you take away the purpose that
animates him. The ball, indeed, is
there, bat his power to cheer to illu-
inmate the heart as well as the atmos-
phere, is gone forever. 1t is lamp
wick for meanest uses. The words,
great, venerable, have lost their mean
ing: every thought loses all its depth,
and has become mere suTface.-RaLph
Waldo Emerson
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
The Telephone Abroad.

THE clever Americans who have been
introducing the telephone into practical
use on the Continent of Europe, have
been led to believe that the curious in
strument is in some respects a test of
the height of civilization at which a ma
ton has arrived. The manner in which
governments which pass for represent
ing civilized and brilliant peoples object
to the introduction of the telephone
leads one to believe that there is some
thing deficient in their character. So
soon as a power like Germany is APP
preached on this subject, hundred
minute investigations are at once start
ed by Governmental authority, dozens of
puerile objections to the Introduction of
the free means of communication be-
tween citizen and citizen are raised, and
in short it is evident that the authorities
are afraid of it. The same thing may
be said of Italy, perhaps even in a great
er degree is the spirit of suspicion and
the fear of danger manifest. Even in
France, where the telephone is now an
accepted institution in the large cities,
no two persons are allowed to COM
municate directly with each other, but
must send their messages through a
central Office, into which Government
inspector has access during the day and
night. So grievous and annoying are
the regulations imposed by the charmed
circle of authority that it is cause for
astonishment that the people suffer
them. That they are utterly helpless
there can be no doubt, and perhaps the
cool and resolute manner in which the
Americans who are introducing the tele-
phone express their opinions of these
regulations to European authorities may
do some good. Without absolute free
dom the highest civilization can not be
obtained, and perhaps when Germany
and France discover this they will be
ready to accord it. AS for Paris being
a cosmopolitan capital, where all influ-
ences are brought to bear, it follows
feebly in the march of progress, pro-
testing as long as it can with any sense
of decency against new inventions, but
always finishing by accepting them. A
leading evening paper OF Paris recently
remarked: Z" 1t is to be observed that
Paris never decides upon an ameliora-
ton until after it has been well tried
elsewhere. Paris had gas only after
London, tramways after Brussels, steam
boat omnibuses after Lyons, steam fire
engines after New York, subterranean
telegraphs after Berlin and a practical
telephone after Japan. 1t is because Of
this that Paris calls itself the city of
progress, and that we are all proud of
being Parisians." The paper might
have added that no sooner do the
Parisians adopt an invention which has
been in use elsewhere than the majority
of them fancy that they are the only
possessors of it, and congratulate them
selves on their superiority over the rest
of the world.-BOSton Journal.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

months. A vast region Is brought into
contact with Christian civilization. The
academy says: "This route is destined
to become a great highway. 10 snoia-
bic how admirably the missionaries have
managed the once dreaded Mazltu, the
outlying tribes Of the Zulu race, who
were reputed 80 warlike and so savage"
Nor is this all-the stations have at
tracted the natives and become the
centers of settlements steadily advanc-
ing in knowledge and In the habits Of
civilized life. The first and most diff
cult step has also been taken toward
the formation Of a literature. The Lam
guage has been reduced 10 writing, and
the Nyassa subcommittee is about to
publish the Grammar Of the Chin
yanja language, as spoken at Lake
Nyassa, with Chinyanja-English and
English-Chinyania vocabularies, by AL
exander Riddel, Of the LivingstOnia
Mission Of the Free Church Of Scot
land" This is the first reduction 10
writing and grammatical order Of any
Of the Kafiir tongues Of East and Cen
tral Africa.
The Christian men and women who
have achieved these results have la
bored with splendid devotion and heroic
self-denial 10 would be pleasure to
notice a number Of them, but we must
be content 20 speak at present Of only
one. Mr.. James Stewart, already mem
toned, a Christian civil-engineer Of the
Public Works Department Of India, OBJ
tained leave Of absence from the Indian
Government that he might assist the
Free Church Mission in its tentative
movements in this region. When his
leave expired, animated by a noble
philanthropy, he resigned his position
in India and entered the service Of the
Scotch Mission. His work has been in
valuable
In preparing this notice Of a grand
Christian triumph we have made free
use Of the narrative published in the
RecOTd of the Free Church. Christian
IntelhgeHcer.
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Religious.
. ~ ETERTTnN0 eIVE THANKsn

T. T1iess. 6JS.
KEEP not thy thanks alone Tor hours
When the blue sky "a bright,
And the air rodOlent with flowers
That laugh In sunny light;
But offer thanks amid dark storms.
When winds blow keen and high,
And beat upon tFe fragile forms
That charm thy loving eye.
Give thanks when some fresh bounty calls
Thy heart tO leap for Joy;
Give thanks when some strange sOrrOw falls,
Thy day-dreams 10 destroy.
For friendships love and trust give thanks;
And yet, withhold them not,
lf time should thin iOve's blessed ranks,
And lonely be thy lot
When health i7 glowing in thy veins,
And benming from thine eye,
Sing forth thy gratitude in strains
OF unchecked liberty.
But should thy outer freedom be
EcttcrCd awhile by pain.
stu search thy mind and soul and see
What merCiea yet remain.
"In everytbin give thanks Ny heart,
should Joy or grief, to-day,
Bid songs arise or salt tears start
Remember and obey.
-Carolins Nay, IN N. y. OJseruer.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Another ChrlstIan Triumph.

IT was sunrise on the morning of the
18th of October, 1875, singing the One
Hundredth Psalm, that the first mis-
sionary expedition of the Fee Church
of Scotland steamed out of the Shire
upon the blue waters of Lake Nyassa,
in Southern Africa. In the few years
which have passed away since that
memorable morning, the Central Africa
Company, consisting of the Chairman
of the Nyassa subcommittee of the
Free Church, Mr.. James Stevenson,
and other large-minded elders of the
Free Churches in Glasgow and Edin-
burgh, has placed the Lady Nyassa
steamer on the lower Zambesi and its
Shiri feeder from the lake, while the
Mission has iloated the Ilala on the Up
per Shiri above the cataracts, and on
the lake itself, and Mr.. Stewart, of the
Mission, has made a good road sixty
miles long around the Shiri cataracts.
BY these achievements, accomplished
by the power of a Christian impulse,
the head of Lake Nyassa, by the Suez
Canal route, is brought within sixty
days of Great Britain.
Besides this, Mr.. James Stewart, of
the Mission, has explored the country
between Nyassa and Tanganika, the
next great lake to the north, and made
the first survey for an easy wagon road
of about two hundred and ten miles be-
tween the two great inland seas. The
London Missionary Society has formed
stations within a few years on Lake
Tanganika, and this road when coR-
pleted will give its representatives a
comfortable route to the coast. Soon
the traveller will be able to go with ease
from Great Britain into the very heart
Of Africa in a little more than two
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
4 FLOWER IN 4 BOOK.

DEEP I'm the inmost recess Of n room,
Whore books OF ancient lore are stored
where cheerful rays Of Light ne'cr break the
At mellow morn or at the close Of day,
A book in curious language, quaint and
wrltten, / trow, in some forgotten year..
BY some strange hand, now lying stin and
cold.
I brush the dust from Oft It's lenthern sides,
And scan the leaves with careless, needless
Little / know what in the book abidcs,
What thought within the ancient volume
lies
MY eye rests on yellow page at last,
Musty and colored by the lapse OF time;
Here lies flower that bloomed In days long
Pmdkod by hand in some far distant
cline.
even breathe a faint yet rare perfume
Uprising from It's petals crisp and serei
What hand, / wonder, plucked II in its bloom
And pressed it in this volume lying here?
Perhaps some maiden wandering mid the
where through the forest sylvan footpaths
Shedding its sweetness on the summer breeze
Pound this fair Hover upon its mossy Ded.
Perhaps she placed It In her golden hair
A radiant Jewel, which no pearls excel
And some young lover sought the blossom
rare,
To hint n love he did not dare to tell
Perhaps some thoughtful scholar dropped it
here,
To mark the passage till he read again,
And bound within its prison close and drear,
Through long-forgotten years the iower mas
lain.
perhnps-but could wonder TIL the day
Has turned to dusk, and then not guess
Alright;
The future and the unknown past must stay
Wrapped in a darkness keeper than the
night.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Gems or Thought.

REPENTANCE without amendment is
like continual pumping in a ship with
out stopping the leaks.-Pdlmer.
SAY. hast thou ever sought
Gods help in vain,
Zen when His hand IL WIS
That gave thee painY
Ask thy poor trembling heart.
Trembling from conscience smart
If with this truth 'twOuld part
He lOveth meT'
EVERY natural longing has its natural
satisfaction. II we thirst, God has
created liquids to crafty thirst. If we
are susceptible of attachment, there are
beings to crafty that love. If we thirst
for life and love eternal, it is likely that
there are an eternal life and an eternal
love to satisfy that craving.-F. w. Rob-
ertsOB.
DoN'T let us be afraid Of enthusiasm.
There is more lack Of heart than of
brain. The world is not starving for
need of education half as much as for
warm, earnest interest of soul for soul.
We agree with the Indian who, when
talked to about having too much zeal,
said: o. think it is better for the pot
to boil over than not to boil at ALL
Congregati0nalist.
WORK Is essential to the maintenance
of the Christian life. There can be no
growth in grace without work. The
effort to cultivate the Christian graces
by life Of seclusion and introspection
has never been successful. As well
might one hope to grow strong by sit
ting down and feeling Of his muscles,
as to expect to gain spiritual strength by
watching his spiritual pulse. Christian
perfection can only be attained by con-
slant activity in every good work. He
who does the will of God not only learns
the truth but acquires spiritual wealth.
And his attainments are in proportion
to his works of faith. Other things
being equal, that is, with equal capacity
and opportunity, the man will gain the
richest Heaven who does the most
work for it.-N. 7. Christian AdUocate.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
The Money Worth of Immigrants.

IT is found quite impracticable to ar
rive at any positive knowledge of the
amount of money brought into the
country by immigrants; but an ap-
proximate idea may be derived from
the fact that the money changers in
Castle Garden frequently exchange as
much as S15O,0O0 per diem for them.
Then to this must be added, in the gen.
eral estimate, great deal OF money
brought here in the form OF drafts on
bankers and commercial houses, con-
cerning which the emigration authori-
ties can know nothing, and no incon-
siderable amount, it is but fair to sup
pose, of American money bought on the
other side of the ocean. The average
sum supposed to be brought by each
immigrant in late years has been about
$50, but that is probably an under esti-
mate for those who have arrived this
year. TO the amount brought into thu
country by them in cash should also be
added the price of tickets for inland
transportation, purchased in Europe
from agents of American railroad and
steamboat companies. The largest
sums of money are brought by men
over fifty years old, and represent the
savings of lifetime. carried here for
investment. The people who can best
be relied upon to reduce the general
average of capital introduced by immi-
grants are the Slavonians and Poland
ers. A great many of them have to be
helped with small sums 10 get them
away to places in the West where they
wish to settle-a more economical mode
of dealing with them than sending
them to Wards Island 20 await remit
tances would BEN Y. San.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

AN insidious worm called the fluke is
causing losses among the sheep in Great
Britain actually exceeding, in the ag-
gregate, the cost of any of the wars
which have figured in the indictment
upon which the Tory Ministry is said to
have been found guilty. In some parts
of England, chiefly in the southwestern
provinces, whole tlocks have persisted,
and not sheep is sound.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

SALLY LUNN.-One pint flour, butter
half the size of an egg, one teacup milk,
one egg, two tablespoons sugar, one
teaspoon cream-tartar, one-haf tea
spoon soda, one teaspoon salt. Bake
twenty minutes.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28
Sunday.seboOl Lessons.
SECOND ouARrER.

sECOSD QUAETER.
Nay 3a--Gcthse name ............. Matt. 2g.30-j1
June G-The CrucinNiOn ........ Matt. "a $3.50
Junel3-After the Resurrection. Matt. 25: SD
June-D-keyiew Of the Lessons.
JunG<-Le53On selected by the school.
Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

SOME steamboat hands at Milwaukee
invited hungry tramp to eat a square
meal' with them. He so overfed him>
self that he died the same night,