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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-10
SOn-ResIden Il

No. a75-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tennessee-The Union Cotton Com
press Company vs.J. J. Powers.
appearing from affidavit in this cause that
dent of the State Of Tennessee; that he is in
debted to the complainant in the sum Of $40,
due on open account, and attachment having
been issued and levied on the property of said
defendant, as appears by the return Of the
Sheriff. 1t is therefore ordered that he make
his appearance herein, at the courthouse of
Shelby county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or be-
fore the isrt Monday in April, 1880, and plead,
answer or demur to complainant bill, or the
SAINT will be taken for confessed as TO him and
set for hearing exparte, and that q copy Of this
order DO published once Ryeek, for four sue
cessiye weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 2Sth day Of January, 1880.
A copy-Attest:
RID. BLACK, Clerk and master.
BY y. B. MCHENRY, DC. and NJ.
Clapp y Beard, Sol. for complainant.
l29 l35 l4l 147
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= e~epl4g-Car Companies aud
Sleeping Passengers.
IBdiaHa Supreme Court

lHdiaHa sapFsmg Court
Sleeping ear Companies ars neither
common carriers nor inn keepers, but
they are bound, like other bailees, to
use ordinary care, which must be ia
proportion to the danger and, conse-
Qucntly greater in the night, while the
passenger is asleep, than in the day
time. The fact that articles or money,
ost Or stolsn flom the passenger,
when carried by him about his person
or under lispefsOhal supervision does
not exoneFatB the aleepIpg car COM
pany from the duty TO use ordinapy
care in respect to them but the right
Of recovery is limited to such articles
~ ! is usual aud proper for a traveller
TO carry abeut bis person, and to such
2 reasonable amount Of money a. IL
may be proper for him to carry for
tgaFs}ing expenses.
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Trustoe.s NnIc.

UNDER and by virtue of three certain
deeds ia trust, TO me executed by Matilda
R, Gay, and VIM. Cav, one Of date Sth oi
April, 1876, recorded in she Registers o..
hce of Shelby county, in book No. l2G
p. 400, ct. seq. n dated 18th Aug dst.
1876, recorded in same Registers ohi,.e. In,
book No. llS, p. Az ct. seq; the Other
dated 23d March, 1877, and recorled in,
same Registers Office, in book No III. n
l44, ct. seq. The debt thGrein secured,
being past due, | will at the Que o lthe
beneficiary therein, on
Saturday 2S. FEBRUARY. 1850.
at the southwest corner of Main and Mad
ison stree,s, in the Taxing District an
Shelby county, (alias city of MemnhiA
soil for cash, to The highest bidder the foL
lowing described real estate. situaie lvinp
and being in The late city of Memnbis
NOW linking District Of Shelby comtylip
Shelby, State of Tennessee. to-wit. Re.
gtnnihg at a point on south hneof Vance
street LllO) one hundred and ten feet west
Of It's Intersection with the west line OF
NAM slSeet thence south at right angles
With Vance street $50 one hundred and
nity feet thence west ut right ANGLES i5M
ttty feet thence north tl56l one Hundred
and fifty feet 20. south lSneofVance strec,.
thence cast with soath line Of Vancestreee
ltVl 4ttty ieett0 beginning.
Equity of redemption waived. purchoa
crs title to be absolute.
w. q. MCCLURE, Vnt.Srrr
Wright Folkes " Virgin. sttys.
l3ll5C
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aOne af tl.em Ere Kipgr.r

Chambers Journal
When Naples was ruled by King
Bomba, His Majesty one doy paid a
visit to the ship OF an English Com
@9fore lying in the bay. While the
Commodore YES receiving his Royal
visitor on the quarter deck, a member
q t6e Neapolitan suit cruising about
amldships mistook a wind.sail for a
pillar and leaning against il suddenly
&eft below headforemost. The only
witness Of the accident, an I'D thr.
theregpoa made for the quarter deck,
and having saluted. said II beg
pardon, Commodore, but one of them
ere hipgs has fell down tho hatch
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InsoIrent Notice.
STArE oF TESXEssEa, saELRY {

tI STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELBY C0.,1
OFFICE COUNTY COURT CLERK,
Memphis, Tenn, January rs. 1850.
To Thomas Moffat, administrator Of William
Moifat, deceased.
III AVING suggested the insolvency Of the
IL. estate Of William Moffat, deceased. you
are hereby ordered to give notice, by adyer-
the said State, and also at the courthouse
door of Shelby county, fol 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 26th day of June, 1850;
and any claim not filed 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.
By HUGH B. CULLEN, d. O..
Beleher & Jordan, Atty's. 1919 l35 al l47
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Non-RosIaont Notice.

No. 41S sin the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tennesseo-B. Lowenstein 4 Bros.
vs.. 5. j. Echols ct al. ID
IT appearing from the sheritfs return in
i in this cause that the defendants. Samuel
j. Echols and Maggie c. Echols, are not to
be found in his county, 10 is ~theFofore
ordered, that they make their appearance
herein, at the courthouse Of shelby county,
day in March, 1880, and plead, answer or demur
to compliments amended bill, OF the same
will be taken for confessed as to them and set
for hearing ex-parte, and that a copy Of this
order be published once a week. for four sue
cessive weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 9th day Of February, 1880.
"A copy; Attest. uIg!LL 5.t.
r. J. BLACK. c.. & Nj.
BY K. B. MoHENRY, Deputy @. & m. >
4. p. Chambers, solicitor for complainant.
log 40 lIQ Iki
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I%nsoIYenl Notice,
bfAyR br TFeNgssg6, bHgiHg CopSTH1
0gpfcg COUEfY COORr CLERk,

WTTTTT WITT |TTTT WTTTTT
Memphis, Tenn. January 20, 1880.
To james A. Anderson, Administrator Of 7.
Il, Egiet, deceased.
HAVING mggested tho insolvency Of the
IL estate Oft. l. Estes, deceased, you are
hereby ordered 10 give notice, by adyertile'
mont In some newspaper published within the
said State, and also NJ tho Court-h0ugc door
Of Shelby county, for all persons having
cinimg against said estate, 20 appear and Ole
the same, with tho Clork Of tho County pogrt
authenticated w the manor preleflbgd W
law. on or before tho oGth ihg Of April. 1906
and Any cjniih not lied on OF before said day,
Or before hn appropriation Of the iupda Of
said ESTATE II made, fhnll DO forever barred,
both in law and equity.
Witness Wy hand q oaico, this ooh day Of
OWEN pwYRR, cietk
pY Il. 3. CpLlfs, y. g. ~ l2 iS iAi
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The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER Is eb per Anuum and
500 per month fOrlssS than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.
Tuesday Evening. February 10, 1850.
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Trust Snle.

rurDn -, 1-It--rT - -
w Q. i. Berlin ana her husband. W. I.
berllni conveyed to THOMAS Fisher, treasurer
VI vne t,isn amvrlcan Dullulhg Loan AS
so ~ lily hls successors IN once as trus1s
W. n s9G ! aeat esErte IN tne CITY Oh
A IN pnei9S countyi tehneSsee' to-ww66l
- !; dgomn ~ w nylln I'll OF lol F0; ovo'
~ 81 iS.u dV WI qn .he pan Oh tae elty OF wen;
in, nss u vi toa On tne east sIue Of oecohu
ss N o,ls i n ahu eHtehdihg eastwaLdly
ranaord syron i iuS y Wy nast lily soutn 81
SGonNoNotL sLees tsol{ wv " ahpIngr ailey'
gehIs me AIM iot Jo Dsi =, SIaynro9K sol9 y.
Soan ,. nlIt H. ~ .no ON u NoNelhDer, 1903;
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Aarninirtralofln Netiee.

TfAvrEd qualified a. a~dministrlior Of 3as
III estate OF Mira, Mare Auer, formerly kse
henstsin, all rafties having claims against
said estate are notified 70 present the same,
legally authenticated; and all those indebted
are requested to come f0rward and make pay
ment. JOSEPH SPECHT, Admir-.
Memphis, Shelby County, Ienn.5 February
9Th fRo0 1Aft
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In North Carolina there are six pa
pers edited by negroes; in louisiana,
three; in Tennessee and Texas, two
each, and in Virginia, Alabama and
Mississippi, n each.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-10

I Battered At the PostOface at Memphis, Tenn,
as second-elass matter.l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-10

There are more cures made with Hop
Bitters than all other medicines.
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Es admitted that b wtt not al %.
Ger, and had not been dsputiRsd BY
any one.
The circuit Judge allowed the wit.
nesses thus summoned one days at
tendance.
Witnesses who attended without
being lawfully summoned cannot be
taxed to the opposite party. Watson
VS.. Weatherham, 2 Yerger, $50. tits
clear these witnesses were not law
fully summoned, and we do not find
any statute giving the circuit judge
any discretion.
The point was also made that part
of the States witnesses were not ex-
amined, and the defendant had no
witnesses summoned, although he
examined witnesses as to character,
but, as upon the first point the at
tendance of all the witnesses is for the
present stricken out and it is unneces-
sary to decide the last point. The
Judgment of the circuit court will be
reversed upon the points indicated.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-10
A Returned " ExOduster.r

Helena lArk.) world IT'LL
John Holt, an intelligent colored
man of this county, became enamored
with the exodus" and about the 7th
day of December last left for Indiana,
the Mecca of the colored pilgrims.
John returned about the 4th ofJanu-
airy, and called at the World office
and gave his experience as follows:
He says that he went to Richmond,
Indiana, where he found a large num-
Der of negroes from North Carolina,
who had been induced to 60 North by
the promise Of plenty Of work and
large wages, but they were sadly dis
appointed. The white peo-
pie, especially the laboring
class, are bitterly opposed to
the %sojourn Of the colored people in
their midst. and refuse to give them
employment on the farms or in the
factories. Many OF the barns and
buildings where the negroes were
domiciled have been burned by the
white laborsrs, who take every oppOr.
tunity to show their enmity. John
says the colored people who have gone
to Indiana would gladly return to their
old homes if they had the means so to
do, and he further says that Arkansas
is the place for him.
This is but a faint portrayal Of the
situation as furnished us by John
Holt, and is the evidence of one who
has been on the ground and speaks
from personal experience.
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Trustees Sale.


NDER and by virtue Of two certain deeds
- IN trust to me exscate6 by Mary b. Speed,
one, OF date End of April, 1876. recorded
IN tne hegisters Office Of Shelby county. in,
9oQA no. Ilh page 537, ct. sea; the other.
JARED 5ist November, 1877, recorded in Regis
ter's otGee GfShelby county, in book No. i2i.
page NA ct: seq; the debt therein secured
pelng past due, | will, at the request of the
beneficiary therein, on
Saturday, 2Ist February, 1850.
at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets, IN the Taxing District ofShelby conn
ty lailas Memphsl, sell for cash, to the high
est Dldder, te@ following described real estate.
SITUATE. lysng and being in the late city oil
MSraphis, county of Shelby, State of Tennes-
see, the east half and the west half of the fol-
lowing property: Beginning at a stake ON tbe
aoIth hne Of Linden street (75) seventy Eve
ieet east OF the intersection of TIE east line ~
Iurley street, with the north line of Linden
street, cunning thence east with the nortlr
line Of Linden (75) seveaty-fye feel 10 n stake.
thence north at right angles with Lindep
street Q5U one hundred and Fifty feet 10 d
stakes. thenee west on q line parallel with
hindep street C75l seventy-Gve feet to a stake,
10 the beginning.
The east bsf and the west half will be sold
Esaiy o., redemption waived. Purchasers
vile 70 be absolute.
W. O. MCCLURE, Trustee.
WRIGHT, FOLKES X WRIGHT, Atty's. l2I I51.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
The First Sleeping.Car.

A writer in the Davenport Democrat
thus tells the story of the first sleeping
car and its first public appearance 81
remember the date of its very first APP
pearance-Sept. Is, 1856. L was on my
way West, and had arrived Mt Toledo
early i'll the evening, behind time, and
had two hours to pass before the depart
ure of the train for Chicago, in the
waiting-room. L had noticed rather
queer-looking countryman, and, some
what to my surprise, he accosted me
with the inquiry
Wouldn't you like to see something
new?'
"Of course [ would, and 1 accom-
panied him out through the depot,
among innumerable cars, one of which
he opened and, after lighting several
lamps, invited me to enter. Well, 1t
was something new-a large car filled
with double tier of beds-bunks, more
properly speaking. The man was Wood
ruff, the well-known sleeping-car pat
entee, and this was the first sleeping
car and its first appearance in public.
Mr.. Woodruff had, during several years
past, been obliged to accompany his
wife, chronic invalid, from Ohio to
Philadelphia, for medical treatment,
and her sufferings on the journey had
constantly suggested the possibility of a
more comfortable conveyance, so that at
last he conceived the idea of portable
and adjustable berths and, buying an
old car, he worked out his idea and had,
only an hour previous, brought it in for
trial trip which was to be made that
same NIGHT ("
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
The Pulse.

Many erroneous impressions prevail
about the pulse as indicative of health
or disease common notion being that
its beatings are much more uniform than
they really are. Frequency varies with
age. In the newborn infant the beat
ings are from 100 to 40 per minute in
the second year, from 100 to 115; from
the seventh to the fourteenth year, so to
90; from the fourteenth to the twenty
first year, from 70 to IS from the twen-
ty-first to the sixtieth year, from 70 to
rs. After that period, the pulse is gen.
orally thought to decline, but medical
authorities differ radically on this point,
having expressed the most contradictory
opinions. Young persons are often
found whose pulses are below 60, and
there have been many instances OF pulses
habitually reaching 100, or not exceed
ing 80, without apparent disease. Sex,
especially in adults, influences the pulse,
and in women it beats more rapidly than
in men. Muscular exertion, even posi-
ton, materially affects the pulse It's
average frequency in healthy men is,
when standing, 81 when sitting, II /;
when lying, 66 per minute; in women
of the same age and III the same posi-
tons, 81, "a and 70. In sleep the pulse
is considerably slower than in wakeful-
ness. In certain diseases, such as acute
dropsy, for instance, there may be no
more than 20 or 30 per minute. Thus
one of the commonest diagnostic signs
is liable to deceive the most experienced
practitioner.-Dr. Foote's Heath
MOnthLu.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
"She Retaliated Immeiitly.3

1t was a suit for divorce. The hus.
banda surly, mean-faced, ferret-eyed,
beetle-browed man-wanted a divorce
from his wife. They were both in court.
The woman was sickly-looking, and,
very likely, had been driven into hys-
terics by the brute who called himself
her husband The principal witness for
the plaintiff was another beetle-browed,
ferret-eyed, mean-visaged fellow, who
was shop-keeper for the latter and board
ed in his family.
And this witness had been "cooked
had been "done up brown"-by both
his employer and his employers lawyer.
1t was plainly to be seen that he an
swered by rote-that the words he spoke
had been put into his mouth by another.
When the counsel for the wife came to
question this witness, after his own law
yer had done with him, he said to him,
with smile, the whole meant for the
jury, of course:
You've got your lesson pretty well,
haven't you, sir ?"
haven't got no lesson"
"All right. But let us see. You
say, if 1 understand you, that Mrs.
B has very retaliating DISPOSE
ton ?"
Yes, sir that's what 1 said
"Well, and how did she retaliate {?
Give us an instance"
Why" grunted the witness, with
stupid look, "Tve told lots of EN-"
Eyes, and now L want you to tell me
one. Tell me and the jury, if you
please, marked case of her retaliat-
ng."
"Myl I've told you once she was
always retaliating."
Exactly; but we want a particular
instance, so that we can Judge of its real
merits. Now, look. Did you ever see
the plaintiff in this case-your employer
kiss his wife ?"
Eyes, sir r. the man answered, quick
ly.
"And what did the wife do ON that
occasion?"
"She retaliated immejitly."
"That will do. You may stapd
down."
The counsel for the plaintiff would
have called the witness back, but the
Judge whispered to him something
which nobody else heard, but which
caused him to let the witness go.
The divorce was not decreed.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS.

STRYCHNINE, when administered in
heavy doses to mammals, acts, accord
ing to M. Richet, acts partly like chloral
and partly like curare.
IT is estimated from observations on
the shadows of Jupiter's moons that the
atmosphere of that planet is from three
to nine miles deep.
The presence of iodine in Curacao
guano has been proved by III. Steffers.
When mass of guano was subjected to
heat from 10 degrees to 100 degrees
G, the soluble vapors of iodine were given
off.
TRICHINE are by no means confined to
pork. Two French soldiers died lately
OF trichinosis contracted by eating the
flesh of geese. DIR. Glendenning has de-
tected the dangerous parasites in a pike
caught near Ostend.
WHEN bars of magnetic nature are
compressed, twisted or stretched, they
have a tendency, says M. Adler, to re-
sumo their primitive molecular DISPOSE
ton when they are subjected to the ac-
ton of magnetizing current.
The German African Society has at
present six different expeditions travel
ing through Central Africa. The money
for these expeditions is obtained from
the German Government, or through
private subscriptions. DIR. Nachtigatt is
the President of the Society.
A. w. STERANs, son of the late Presi-
dent Stearns of Amherst College, has
gone to Labrador, where he will pass the
winter in scientific research, and in col
Letting geological, botanical and geologi-
cal specimens for Amherst College and for
several museums.
ADOLF MAYER has discovered that oxy-
gen has no direct influence upon fermen-
tation. When potassium-hydrogen tar
trate was added to strong syrup con-
aiming yeast, the cells of the yeast grew
tapidly and the fermentation was easily
accomplished.
The committee appointed by the
French Government has recommended
that the prize of $4,000 be awarded to
Professor Graham Bell for his invention
of the telephone, and that prize of 49,
600 be given to Mr.. Gramme for his mag
neto electric machine.
PROF. O. n. RooD, of Columbia Col
lege, contends that theories of Brucke
phenomena observed when while light
is mixed with colored light And Pro-
fessor Rood himself is as yet unable to
advance a plausible explanation of the
observed facts.
A FRENCH scientist states that on
one occasion, Mt the beginning of vio-
lent snow-storm he saw small tufts of
light at the ends of the steel ribs of his
umbrella, and heard at the same time
sort humming sound When he brought
his hand near one of the luminous points
he received slight shock, and the lights
then disappeared. This electrical dis
play is rather exceptional.
PREcIPrrATED silica attracts and fixes
aniline colors, turkey red much better on
fabrics than silcious infusorial earth, but
argues writer in Riemann's Farber
Zietuag in opposition to Engel, these
properties of silica cannot be due to
capillarity because, of the Inconsistencies,
the influsorial earth can only be said to
possess capillarity.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
Science i'm COurt.

"Do you plead guilty, or not guilty ?"
asked the Judge, addressing Simms.
II doesn't plead at all. isn't no
lawyer. Yer can't ketch me wild yer
pints.
"Look out, you impudent rascal
Are you guilty or not guilty."
"Now yer's getting at de Jacks. 1
has de honor ter state dat L is not
guilty"
90 Yis he is, Jedge," exclaimed Cobb.
He hit me in de mouf wild his fist.
neber tech de man"
Didn't you hit him in the mouth ?"
asked the Judge.
No, sar; didn't put my ham on
him. In fack, neber tech him."
Judge. swar on de bigges' Bible
dat he hit me-"
Now, look heah, said Simms, "de
courts of dis lam amt technicum enuf.
When yer jerks man up on acharge yer's
got to stantiate de charge. Eff dar wuz
noah eddycation 'mong de niggers an
white folks dar wouldn't be half de
trouble in de courts. Is my ham techin'
dis table, Jedge?" And he placed his
hand on the desk.
Yes, sir.
Oars whar yer's off. Case why :?
'Cordin' ter fosophy what I've been
studyin' you can't tech nothin'. Dat is
air tween my han an de table. Eff
my ham tech de table hit would
stick dar. Now, look aheah, Ant'ny, !"
and the prisoner turned to Cobb, "is
yergwine to put yerself in such ignerent
light? Yer's been stugent too long
not to know better den dis. Is yer
gwine to add yer weight to holm the
cullud people of Little Rock to the
groun'? Now, ez stugent, an man
what understan's fosofy, did 1 tech yer?"
"Come to think oh hit" answered
Cobb, 81 don't believe yer did"
"Now, Ant'ny, ez a stugent, an
man OBJ science, didn't yer run agin a
post an knock dem teef out ?"
"Viewing this subjeck in scientific
light, L believe 1 did"
can now, Ant'ny, as a stugent an
larned man, won't yer withdraw dis case
pendin' agin me, i'll which yersef is de
scientific plaintor, an in what L is de
scientific PENDENT 2"
eyes, L will. Jedge, dis man neber
hit me, an L hereby widdraws de mis-
take"
"Dat was 'zackly right" says Simms,
as the two men went down together.
"Ef all the men of science would hang
tergedder dis way, dar wouldn't be half
de trouble an oneasiness in de worl. y.
Little Rock gazette.
The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1880-10-15
A Curious Addiction.

A physician writes to the Syracuse
Standard. II notice in this mornings
issue of your paper the report of the
cases of two young men, afflicted by a
peculiar rash or eruption recently, sup
posed to have been induced by bathing
in Onondaga Creek. This reminds me
of two cases in my own practice, occur
ring within the last few weeks, of two
young men whose entire cutaneous
surface, including the scalp, was studded
with an eruption, first popular and at
tended with intense Inflammation, burn
ing, and itching, then versicular, then
pestular, and finally disappearing by
desquamation. These young men had
recently bathed in the creek, habitually.
The disease was unique to me, having
never observed or read of any eruption
exactly like this. 1t had the semblance
of chicken-pox, although it lacked the
penly, circular characteristics of that
disease. Although 1 have not conferred
with other physicians on this subject, to
learn whether they have encountered
like cases, still l am inclined to believe
that these cases are not mere CO.
medicines, but were caused by some
poison in the water or in the deposits
along the borders or the bottom of the
stream, and therefore it would be adj
visable to avoid bathing in the creek
anywhere between Kinks woods and the
lake