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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25

The Part He Played in the Davis
Nelson Tragedy.

- VI DumfOn III ENhnsNllle Journal
The Davis Nelson tragedy. enacted
at the Gait house in Louisville, KY,
is again brought before the public. In
your issue Of to-day you publish from
the chicago Inter ocean a statement
from General Sherman to the effect
that Governor Morton handed to
General Davis the pistol with which
the latter shot and killed General
Nelson at the Gait house in Louisville.
In view of tie lateness of this YER
sion respecting the parties to this un.
fortunate affair, and for the profound
respectand long personal acquaintance
with Governor Morton and General
Davis, and being an eyewitness to
the sad affair, | may be excused for
adding my testimony-not caring to
go behind the sceneat the Gait house,
Of which | know perhaps more than
any n now liying-as all the parties
are now dead but myself. l saw the
parties, Generals Davis and Nelson,
wien they met in the hall of the
Gait house. Nelson entered
from the side entrance on Second
street, and had assembled some four or
five steps up the broad and easy stair
way, when General Davis, who had
for some time been walking backward
and forward in the front hall, turned
and saw Nelson ascending the stair
way and said something that l did not
understand, but | saw Nelson wave
Davis off with the hand in an insult
ing and provoking manner Davis
stepped back a pace or two, and
said General Nelson, defend your
self" aud fed. They were twelve OF
fifteen feet apart, and | can not be-
lieve hat Nelson slapped him, as has
often been stated. lie (Nelson) may
have done this at the beginning of the
difficulty, which %transpired a few days
before the shooting occurred. Gov.
ernOr Morton did not give Davis the
pistol, and had no more to do with the
affair than l.. On the contrary, | was
one Of four persons, Governor Morton
General Davis, Captain T. w. Gibson
and myself, three or four evening.
prior to this affair, who were together
in Captain Gibson's Office, on Fiftl
street, in Louisville, KY, consulting
together as TO the insult offered By
General Nelson. General Davis fel
the disgrace keenly, and expressed hi
determination to have satisfaction, AM
Captain Gibson, a lifelong friend o
General Davis, was terribly incenseda
the insult,and advised General Davis t
shoot Nelson on sight, and the
offered him one ofhis d~erringers, tell
B ing him to shoot the did scoundreI
/ Governor Morton, rising from hi
chair, said: mo, Captain Gibson, tina
won't do; let's have this matter set
tied in another way Governor Nor
{ ton, in all this matter, counselel
| peace and a settlement Of the affai
0 without the shedding of blood. Gen
a eral Davis, in this interview, whic'
lasted at least one hour, manifested i
all he said and did a GOODNESS seldor
] witnessed under similar circumstance
but all the time said he would ca
+, ! General Nelson to account, and dc
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
Long Sore TI,roat.

Philadelphia Press
GIVE me three feet of mustard
plaster; and give it to me right away
The apothecary, with ovcrwhelm.
ing brows," looked up from amidst his
green oarthen pots, bladders. and
musty seeds" and said in a dazed sort
Of way:
Sir"
In this single word was represented
both interrogation and surprise.
u say" replied DR.. Chapman, 81
want three yards of mustard plaster,
and | want it just as quick as YOU can
make it. Patient is in imminent
danger. Delay may mean death"
Three feet of mustard plaster.
Good heavens, doctor, what arc
said three yards, not three feet
at least, when | said three feet !
meant to say three yards, and | imme.
diately corrected myself. And l thinl
that | mentined the fact that this wal
a case in which there was no time t
be lost. The doctor was growing
testy.
But three yards Of mustard plas
ter; why, bless my soul You wouldn'
want that much if your patient was
hippopOtamus with the stomach ache
Surely, doctor, you don't mean to sa.
yards; you must mean inches"
DIR. Chapman assumed an air O
severity becoming his professions
dignity and municipal Office. H
seemed on the verge Of expressing
forcible opinion forcibly. There wa
a significant pause. Then his severit
faded away. his dignity relaxed, an.
no chuckled
THE fact Of the matter u.s. he sale
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WASHINGTON LETTER.


Special Correspondence Of the Lodser.l
WASHINGTON, February 2O.-The
recent death ofthe friendless, yetOnce
wealthy, beautiful and popular niece
of ex-P President Tyler, awakens more
than a momentary feeling. Possibly
there is nothing to impress upon us a
realistic commentary upon the vicis-
situdes of life and the tickle smiles Of
society than the miserable end of one
who had been a Washington belle.
Miss Jennie Tyler was born in Rich
mond, Virginia, in 1913, being the
daughter of W. w. Tyler, a wealthy
planter, who was a colonel on the staff
of General Robert E. Lee. After the
war Miss Tyler inherited a fortune
from a relative and went to New
York, where she married a man who
soon squandered her money. 1t was
subsequently ascertained that her
husband had another wife living in
Buffalo. This misfortune, with the
loss of her money, caused her relatives
to ignore her and the already wretch
ed lady subsequently married Viii
liam Collins, a laboring man employed
in the Brooklyn gas company. Her
father, Colonel Tyler, who now lives
at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, belngin-
formed of his daughters death,
paid no attention to the telegram,
Her wealthy sister, who occupies
a handsome stone residence on west
Thirty-eighth street, New York,
treated the matter in the same way.
The papers, however, do not give the
name Of the sister and her husband.
They merely mention the fact that
Nj. Collins sister lives in the hand
some brown stone front, that she was
a cousin OF ex-senator John w. Ste
venson, and Of prominent New York
politician, and has a brother at col
lego in Baltimore. Miss Jennie Tyler,
as late as ten years AGO, was one
of the reigning bellies in Washington
Her society was sought by the elite,
and she held her own in every fash
ionable coterie of the capital. AS soon
as she was deceived and had lost her
money, society denied her Abundance
to the portals of its temple. This,
however, is not to be wondered at
when we recognize the fact that so
ciety here is based on extravaganza,
vulgar show and a feticism of title,
official rankand politicalinAuence. 1t
is not to be wondered at when
by the very organization of society
vice is conceded 10 every fashion and
Immediately pervades every depart
ment. 1t is not Strange that poverty
becomes a disgrace in the opinion OF
society, when pretended wealth is a
par excellence 60 its ea,ree. Human
ity with its sacrilege Of religion and
its PROCLAMATION Of all that Is sweet,
beautiful and good, is more to blame
than society. Ministers who preach
to reform the press, and follow up
their sermons with afat dinner at some
sainted hypocrits house, would do well
to explore the regions Of society, and
examine into the amen corners and
rented pews for the elements that too
often murder the hopes and the aspira-
tiOns of honest yet common people.
And yet the romance of Jennie Tyler's
life, her wretched death, the cruelty
of her rich but heartless relatives, is
a story almost too commonplace to be
believed, as something inhuman and
unlike what society teaches, and what
any of its unfortunate votaries may
cOme to.
SALTUs MOHEGAN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
THE HOOD
What "A Bale of Cotton Produced
for Their Benefit.
St. Louis Republican,

st. Louis Republican,
The bale of cotton sent to the St.
Louis cotton exchange to be disposed
of for the benefit of the children of
the late General j. B. Hood. was YES.
terday rafied, and Immediately after
sold by auction, netting S267. ~ by the
two processes of disposal. The his.
tory Of the bale is as follows: The
cotton was grown on the plantation of
General Joseph Wheeler. near Court.
land Alabama, and picked by his little
children, for the purpose for which it
was sold. The bale first went to Lou
i%syille, KY, and there sold for the
Hood fund, the buyer donating it
again for the same object, and shippinp
1t to the It. Louis cotton exchange
to be resold. 1t arrived here
some time ago, but no &C.
tive measures were taken for it,
disposal until within a few days. when
Mr.. r. H. Nichol, a member Of the
exchange, started the subscription
with s~eyenty-fve chances, with 81
each as the limit. which chances were
promptly taken. Some of these
chances had been generously presented
to the Hood children, aud it was their
good fortune to win the bale. The
affair came off yesterday on the cot
ton exchange, and succeeding it was
proposed to put the bale up at auction
sale, which was done. and starting
off with twelve seven eighth cents as
the first bid, and advancing handsome.
ly therefrom, it was finally knocked
down to Mr.. William l.. Black at
twenty-seyen cents a pound. The
bale was afterward weighed. and
turned 436 pounds. The total netted
S267.72, or sixty-one and one-fourth
cents per pound. The purchaser will
redonate it to some market for sale for
further benefit of the Hood children,
but it is at present uncertain whether
1t will be sent to the New York or
Liverpool cotton exchange.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
NOn-Resident Notice.

No. 1872, RID, Diyorce-In the Bartlett Circuit
Court Of Shelby county, Tennessee Bob
Keck VS.. Ellen Keek ct al.
TT appearing from affidavit in this cause that
i the defendant, Ellen Keck, is a %non-resi-
dent Of the State Of Tennessee; it is there
ordered that she make personal appear
Bartlett. Shelby county, Tenn, on the second
Monday in March, 1880, and plead, answer or
demur to complainant bill, or the same will
be taken for confessed as to her and set for
hearing ex-parte; and that a copy Of this
order be published once a week for four sue
ceessive weeks in the Public Ledger Of Mem
phis. Tenn.
A c~opy-Attest:
.TH0S. B. CRENSHAW, Clerk.
B., j .Kimbrough, Atty for compl't.
ISL l57xxxHl2
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Nnrnh Gmith Ntnnord.
Marlboro Md.) Gazette

Marlboro CMd.) Gazette.l
There died in the city of Trenton.
N. j. on the 9th Of January last, in
the seventy-eighth year of her age,
Miss Sarah Smith Stafford, only sister
of Mr. Samuel b. Stafford, a resident
of Bladensburg district, in this coun-
ty. This remarkable lady was known
as the patriot and philanthropist."
Her father was a lieutenant under
Captain Paul Jones, and in the naval
fight of the 23d of September, l779,
between the Scraps and the Bon
Homme Richard, leaped into the sea,
seized the flag that had been shot
away and planted it once more at the
masthead. The flag was in the pos
session of this lady at the time of her
death and was byher bequeathed to her
brother. 1t was her chief pride-it
being the first star-spangled banner
ever made in this country. She had
many old relics, among them the saber
with which Pull Jones hewed his way
to victory on the deck of the famous
cruiser. During the late war she gave
her fortune $4,000 in goldl for the
defense of the union. AS her remains
lay in state at her home in Trenton,
her coffin was draped in the folds Of
the old flag, and on the flag rested a
wreath OF flowers, the gift of Mrs.
Hayes. MI. Stafford was in our office
on Monday, and showed us several
relics belonging to his late sister,
among them a breastpin, which is a
fac simile of the key of the bastiIe of
of Paris. This pin was given her by
Michael Latta, a Frenchman who,
during the revolution that brought
Louis XVI, to the block, led the at
tack upon the prison and fortress, and
this pin was awarded to him for his
daring and ~gallantry by a secret order
then existing in France. He came to
this country and married a friend of
Miss Stafford, to whom she gave this
pin many years ago.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
on saturdnx. HTarch 9, 1850.

between the hours Of IL o'clock am. and /
pm. in front of the Bank of Com
merce, No. IL Madison street, in Memphis,
now the Taxing District of Shelby county,
Tenn, offer and sell, at public cutlery. to the
highest bidder, for cash, for the satisfaction
of the said indebtedness, the following land,
and improvements thereon, in said Taxing
District of Shelby county. Tenn, lately the
city Of Memphis, to-wit: The west half of lot
No. 2, ofHills subdivision Of lot No. 51l, be-
ginning at a point on the north line of Ala
bama street, Il feet east of the east line of Hill
street; thence northwardly parallel with Hill
street, 1857 feet to an alley; thonce east with
the south line of said alley 26 feet and ~
inches; thence south l4SH feet to Alabama
street; thence west with the north line of Ala
bama street, 26 feet ~ inches to the begin
ming, being the same property conveyed to
said N. Maria Stewart by 3. B. Lewis and j.
@ p. Hammond, July 81, 1867, by deed re-
corded in book 81, page 40.
Equity Of redemption is barred. The title
is believed to be good, but I sell as trustee
only. The purchaser gets the absolute title.
JAMES W, CROKER. Trustee.
NJ. B. IRRELEVANT, Attorney. l4l 6
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
KOn-R Resident Koaco.

No. AlS--In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee-B. Lowenstein 4 Bros.
vs.. 5. j. Echols ct al.
TT appearing from the sherifTs return in
i in this cause that the defendants, Samuel
J. EchOls and Maggie c.. Echols, are not to
be found in his county; it is therefore
ordered, that they make their appearance
herein, NJ the courthouse Of Shelby county,
in Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first Mon
dayin March, 1880. and plead, answer or demur
to compliments amended bill. or 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
cessiye weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 9th day of February, 1880.
A copy: Attest,
r. ]. BLACK. c, x NJ.
BY Z. B. MCHENRY, Deputy G. & NJ.
L. P. Chambers. solicitor for complainant.
1856 l42 l4S lA
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
The Black Letter.

The Vienna Tagblatt relates that
for some days mast the czar has daily
receiveda sealed letter containing a
few words OF menace, and saying that
if he did not change his system of OPP
preston he wouldnot live to celebrate
the twenty.ffth anniversary Of his
accession. The sheet was always
bordered with black. In court circles
it was known as the black letter. All
efforts to discover the person who
conveyed it to the %emperor's room
were unsuccessful. A Berlin dispatch
says: Intelligence from st. Peters
burg states that Simultaneously with
the explosion in the Winter palace
on the 18th inst. bombs
were thrown in the adjoining
streets. A person was arrested who
was e e leaving the palace just after
the explosion" The olos states that
the cellar under the Winter palace
was occupied by four %joiners, three of
whom have been arrested. 1t is esti-
mated that the weight Of the dynam-
tie used was about four pounds. The
Winter palace and the other palaces
are being carefully searched by a
company of specially charged sappers.
The total number Of persons killed by
the explosion is ten. A Russian sub
ject named Hartmann has been ar
rested at Paris upon a charge in con
n%ectiOn with the Moscow explosion.
Russia has made a formal demand
for his extradition, andth documents
in support ofthe demand are expected
shortly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
Saturday, March 20, 1880.

in front of my office, No. % Madison street,
Memphis, Tennessee, sell to the highest bid
der for cash, a lot Of ground situated in Mems
phis, Tennessee, being part Of lot 469. and
thus described: Beginning on the north side
Of Market street 1856 feet east Of the first alley
east Of Third street; thence %eastwardly so feet
with Market street; thence northwardly to
westwardly with said line 50 feet; thence
southwardly to the beginning. The lot is
we'll improved. having a large and handsome
residence upon. The western 50 feet will be
FIRST sold, and the remaining II feet sold next,
if the first docs not pay the debt. The i'm
provements are all on tho 80 feet.
Sale to begin at u O'clock. Equity of re-
demption and homestead waived. Tito be-
lieved to DO good, but l will soil and convey
as trustee only.
Smith & Collier, Atty'S. 14SB
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
Pope Leo's Commemoratiou

By cable to the New York Horald.l
ROME, February 20.-The pope has
to-day been receiving congratulations
on the anniversary of his accession.
Letters have been coming from all
parts of the world. Presents have
poured into the vatican all day. For
some time rumors have been circula
ting that the pope was forced sudden.
ly to suspend an audience, and that
he was carried fainting to his private
apartments. | am in a position to
say that his holiness has been simply
afflicted with a severe cold which mas
confined him to the inner rooms of
the palace. He has never ceased to
receive such persons as had close
business with him. He will
not Oficiate publicly during holy
week, but he is anxious to disprove
the reports Of his i'll health by riding
in a carriage through the streets. His
physicians have dissuaded him. He
says that he is highly gratifed with
the offerings that nave reached him
to-day. He is expecting the visits of
many learned ecclesiastics from Spain
on March z, the feast of St. Thomas
Aquinas. Outside OF the vatican
there is little to chronicle. The car
nival is over and society is dull.
Deputy Morelli hopes to throw a little
animation into the parliamentary de-
bates by introducing a divorce bill.
1t provisions will not be very radical,
but any modification of the existing
marriage law will be welcome. As in
the grist tax, so in all Italian legisla-
ton. The principle is to make very
gradual changes. Chi va piano, va
sanO.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
Trustees sale.

UNDER and by virtue Of three certain
deeds in trust, to me executed by Matilda
Il. Gay, and VIM. Gay, one of date Stb nj
April, 1876, recorded in the Register's oi.
Zee OF Shelby county, in book No. 1870
?. 400, ct. seq; n dated 18th August
1876, recorded in same Registers Office in
book No. ll3, p. 442 ct. SEQ. the other
dated 23d March, 1877, and recorded in
same Registers office, in book No. III. n
l44, ct. seq. The debt therein secured
being past due, l will at the request ofthe
beneficiary therein, on
Saturday rs, February, 1850.
at the southwest corner of Main and Mad
ison streets, in the Taxing District Of
Shelby county, (alias city of Mempbisl
sell for cash, to the highest bidder, the fol-
lowing described real estate. situate wing
and being In the late city of Memnhiss
NOW Taxing District of Shelbvcountvlin
Shelby, State of Tennessee. to-wit. Re-
ginning at a point on south line Of Vance
street ll0) one hundred and ten feet west
Of its intersection with the west limo ar
Main street thence south at right angles
with Vance street (l50) one hundred AMI
nifty feet thence west at right angles f5OS
nifty feet; thence north Q50l ono bnndrad
and fifty foet to south lineofVance street'
thence east with south line Of Vancostreet
800 fifty feet TO beginning.
Equity Of redemption waived. Purebas.
ors title TO be absolute.
w. G. MCCLURE, TRusrEy
Wright Folkes u Wright, att vs..
l34-l50l
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The SNORING Nuslnnce.

New York BulletiD.l
The smoker who is welded to the
habit cannot readily understand why
everybody else does not like the same
odors. But the fact is patent that the
scent Of tobacco is not only disagree
able to some persons, but also abso-
lutely poisonous. 1t does not mend
the matter to say this is mere preiu-
dice, or weakness. You have no right
to make others uncomfortable for
your own satisfaction. No gentleman
will thrust himself in close proximity
to ladies with his coat saturated with
stale smoke. No gentleman will pass
through a car carrying a lighted cigar
in his hand. and leaving a trail of Of
fensive smoke behind him. No gen.
tleman will get in a stage carrying a
%smoldering stump in his hand, and
keep it there until it smoldcrs out and
emits a more hideous smell then than
before. No gentleman will puff out
his costly smoke on the platform of
the horse-car, when the passengers in
side cannot escape some portion Of
the fumes. But you can find men
doing all these things any day in the
week.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
SET OF TEETH FOR $40.
27O MAIN STREET,
DIR. HINSON AND SON,
SURGEON DENTISTS.
112xxx7&w
UNITED STATES Of AMEKIUA-I
District of Vast Tennassoa

hhlooObr
Circuit Court for said district.
In equity, No. 2l6-Luke P. Blackburn W..
The Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
Go. and nj.
DY virture of the final decree of the Circuit
- Court of the United States, for the West
ern District Of Tennessee. made in the above
entitled cause, on the Sd day Of June, AID,
loIs9, the undersigned clerk of the said court,
duly authorized and appointed by the said
Decree. Will sell at public sale, at the court
house in Memphis, county of Shelby and
state of Tennessee, on Monday, the 22d day
Of March, AID. 1880, between the hours of II
70, and 2 p.m., of said day, TO the highest
oldder, AZ the following described property
to.Wlt; All the Selma, Marion and Memphis
railroad, lying between the city of Memphis.
In the state Of Tennessee, and the CITY Of
Selma, in tho State of Alabama, constructed
or to be constructed, together with all and
singular the railways, rails, bridges, fences,
warehouses, engines, cars, fixtures, privileges,
rights, real estate of every and all descrip,
ton, and all other property owned or which
since the 18th day Of March, 1871, the date
Of the mortgage mentioned in the bill
IN thls cause has been, acquired by said
company by subscription, donation or
purchase and including 81 bonds OF
$1,000 each, issued by the city of Aberdeen, in
the state Of Mississippi, now in the hands of
the receiver in this cause. Tho said limo of
railroad with its equipment and appurten-
ances, being an entirety, will be sold alto
gether, with the benefit of the franchises
owned and possessed by said company. The
sale will be made on the following terms, to-
wit: One thousand dollars of the purchase
money of said railroad, with its appurte-
nances, equipment and rolling stock, shall bs
paid in cash at the time of the sale, and the
remainder shall be paid in six months after
the date of sale, the purchaser giving his note
with approved security, payable to complain
ant, and q lien reserved on the property. The
said bonds and other property will be sold
for cash to DO paid down at the time of the
sale. BELL W. ETHERiDGE.
Dec. 10, 1879. Clerk and commissioner.
Estes & ELLETT, soils.
81 wy 10
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-25
Monday, the 18Th day Of March, 1880,

between the hours ofl2 and Bpm, in front Of
the courthouse door Of said county, sell for
cash at public cutlery the following described
real estate, situated in Shelby county, State
Of Tennessee, and described as follows. to-
wit: Beginning at a stake At northwest corner
of u seven ID acre tract heretofore conveyed
By Sehafer and wife and NJ. G. Knapp; thence
north thirty-one chains 10 a stake at the
northeast corner Of % acre tract heretofore
conveyed to NJ. g.. Latrange; thence east hf.
teen chains and oiRhty-eight links TO a stake
at the northwest corner Of sixty acre tract
conveyed to Mrs. H. S. lodbetter and s.. 4.
Gaynor; thence south with the west line Of
said tract thirty-fve chlins, hfty-eight and
one-half links to a stake In tho Germantown
plank road, being the southwest corner ofthe
Ledbetter and Gaynor tract; thence west with
the plank road TO the beginning, containing
by estimation, ~hfty-two 69-l0n acres.
Also the following described tract Of lind
beginning in the center of the Germantown
plank road, thenco north 40 chains ~ links to
a stake; thence west 81 chains TO stake;
thence south Is chains 5SH links to q stake;
thence east with the plank road 81 chains to
the beginning, containing twenty ae-es.
Title TO same believed TO DO good, but / sell
and convey as trustee only.
1873 I, A. LAMB, Trustee,