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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-04
Gen SAM HOUSTON.
The History Of His Removal IA
the Lone Star State,

Fort Smith Ark. Elevator,
During Sam Houston's residence in
the Cherokee nation, west of Arkau-
sas, he lived with a daughter of old
Captain John Rogers, an Indian, be-
tween Grand or Neosho river and
Verdigris river, about two and a half
miles west of Fort Gibson. He was
merchandising, but tried to conform
to the ways and habits of the Indians,
and, in dress, wore the hunting shirt,
buckskin leggings and the breech-
clout of the Indians. For the greater
part of his stay here he was under the
influence of liquor, when it could be
had, and he was seldom without it.
He seemed, after a residence Of about
two years, TO tire of the part he was
acting, and, during short periods OF
soberness, became morose and sullen.
He was evidently comparing, in his
mind, his present mode of life with
the past, or a worthless drunken white
Indian with the proud governor OF
Tennessee.
1t was directly after one of his long
drunken spells that some of the Texas
Cherokees brought news of the war
between Texas and Mexico. Hous-
ton, although not yet sober, walked
out on the banks Of the Grand river
with John Henry, q merchant
Throwing himself down on the ground
he was silent for some time. Al
length, starting up quickly, he said
Henry, let us go to Texas. l am
tired of this country aud this life.
Go with me, aud | will make a for
tune for us both. You a bis
merchant Me a big merchant
We are no more fit for merchants
than hell is for a powder house. |
am going. In that new State l will
make q man OF myself again" He al
once began making preparations for
the, at that time, long journey. Cast.
ing at once aside all his Indian attire.
he came out dressed as a white man
and at once refusing the liquor offered
him frequently, as if by the stroke Of
the magician's wand, he looked the
man and hero he very soon became
after his arrival in Texas.
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in upon the continent aud drawn into
the Mississippi valley, must exert a
powerful influence in tempering the
winter weather cast Of the great
river.
But the abnormal heat Of the seas
washing our southeastern coasts is
but one factor in the solution of our
mild winter problem. An old seaman
has said, he that watches his baro,
meter watches his ship" aud doubt
less to the barometric conditions pre-
vailing over the country we must look
for the fuller explanation of the phen-
omenon in question. CHANGING at the
most recent summary of the govern
ment weather reports, it is at once
seen that over the entire interior OF
the country to the base of the Rocky
mountains a low pressure" condition
has prevailed, inducing a general
movement of the atmosphere from
the high pressure zones extending
along the gulf and south Atlantic
coasts. This low barometer range
was the marked feature Of the au-
tumnal weather, and there has been
no rush Of heavy aerial currents from
the far north or northwest, still
less from the Pacific coast, suf-
6cient to fill up or efface the
vast interior depression, which, with
few intermissions, has prevailed since
October set in. The northwestward
flow of the warm humid air currents
from the overheated ocean to the south
east of the United States, set up and
maintained by the ~indraught of the
low pressure in the interior, is appa-
rently the true solution of the remark
able winter of 1880. This conclu
sion is now borne out by the latest
official data, as the present result was
foreshadowed by the Herald when dis
cussing these data in November. But
the cause of science and the immense
interests involved in the full practical
solution of the great problem Of sea-
sOnal irregularities demand a more
minute and extensive investigation OF
the equatorial and polar areas, the
the varying physical conditions Of
which determine each year the eli
matte and meteorological changes
which obtain in the temperate lati-
tudes.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-04
Army Reorganization.

Special to the Courier Journall
WASHINGTON, January 31.--The
house committee on military affairs is
evidently striving to obtain some in
formation as to the extent and cost OF
the military funkey system in vogue
at the headquarters here. To-day Mr..
Sparks reported a resolution from the
committee, asking the Secretary Of
Var to furnish the house with the
names and rank of the officers of the
army not on duty with their respect
i've corps, but serving elsewhere the
time they have been absent from their
corps, the pay and emoluments re.
ceiyed above the pay of their lineal
rank, etc. The resolution was adopt,
ed.
Mr.. Sparks committee is now en-
gagged in the preparation Of a bill fol
the reorganization Of the army. The
army can never be properly reorga-
nized until the information called fol
in the resolution above mentioned i,
forthcoming.
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The Beautiful SNOW.

This poem has been pronounced
by the London Spectator to be
the finest American poem ever
written. 1t has gone the rounds Of
the press time and again, and is to be
found in William Cullen Bryant's
library Of poetry, and 10 every choice
collection of poetry. 1t has been at
tributed to Miss Dora Shaw, but this
is doubtless a mistake. The follow
ing is believed to be the true history
of these beautiful lines
In the early part of the war, one
dark Saturday morning in the dead
of winter there died at the Conner
cial Hospital in Cincinnati a Young
womaIfover whose head only two and
twenty summers had passed. She
had once been possessed of an envia
bic share vt beauty. had been, a she
herself says, FILTERED and sought ior
the charms of her face but alas
upon her fair brow had long beer
written that terrible word-prosti.
tute ! Once the pride of respectful,
parentage, her first wrong step wa,
the small beginning of the same ole
story over, aud over again, which ha.
been only the life history of thou
sands, Highly educated and &C
complished in manners, she nigh
have shone in the beet of society. Bu
the evil hour that proved her ruiz
was but the door from childhood, an,
having spent a young life in dIsgrac
aud shame, the poor ftiendless on
died the death of a broken heartel
Outcast.
Among the personal effects wa
found in manuscript, the Beautiful
Snow" which wasimmediately carries
to Enos b Reed, a gentleman Of cul
ture and literary tastes, who was a
hat time editor Of the Cincinnati
Enquirer. la the columns of tina
paper, on the morning Of the day fol
lowing the girls death, the poem an
peared in print for the first time
When the paper containing the poem
came out on Sunday morning, tn
body Of the poor victim had not We
received burial. The attention q
Thomas BuchaDan Reed. one Of tn
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-04
..OIdProbs..'

WASHINGTON, January 3l.-The
weather bureau has invented an in
strument which will show the proba-
bilities as well as they are given by
the bureau. The instrument has dials
which on certain indications of wind
and atmosphere will predict a certain
kind Of weather, the prediction being
based on a thousand observations. In
other words, a thousand observations
heretofore made showed that certain
conditions of the wind and atmos-
phere brought about within a day OF
two or three days certain weather. Ii
is intended to have one of these in
struments placed in the postofices Of
all cities, so that every one can be hi:
own "0ld Probabilities.
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TiIden Already Org sniEing. His
Forces in New York.
" York special to the Chicago Times.

New York special to the Chicago Times.l
The Democratic State committee
meets tomorrow at Albany, aud will
issue the call for the State coDven-
tion. Every body thinks that John
Kelly has perpetrated a stupid blum
der by announcing his programme
thus early in the day. La the Kelly
conference at Albany last week Tilden
was fatty defed, and, having now seen
the hand his enemies propose to play,
the SAGE Of Creamery park has set to
work promptly to organize the State in
his interest. There was no inten-
ton of calling the State committee
together so carly until Kelly pro-
claimed war. But now Tilden has
ample justification for an immediate
opening of his campaign in this State.
1t is everywhere belle Ied that if Kelly
had worked with some discretion and
secresy he might have headed in the
State convention an anti-Tilden ele-
ment of considerable influence. The
party at large were still in hopes Of a
reconciliation between the factions.
and Tilden would never have COM
mitted the blunder Kelly has made in
thus early rendering reconciliation
impossible. Tilden has now nothing
else to do but assume himself at once
the control of the State convention,
and no one here doubts that this king
of wire -pullers will do this easily, any
more than they doubt that he is a can-
didate for the Presidency. and that
his name will be presented at the ma
tional convention unless he sees be-
forehand that he has no chance. Til
den controls the State committee. He
has in his service more regiments of
influential Democrats than Kelly
has corporal guards, and there is no
doubt that he will win a more deci-
sive victory in the State convention,
over his opponents, than he did last
fall at Syracuse. Kelly has lost ground
by issuing the premature proclamation
that he will not abide by the decision
Of the majority, and he has now given
such an opportunity to Tilden to exert
himself to make the whole Kelly
movement ridiculous that it is doubt
ed, even by the friends of the latter,
that the forlorn hope he leads will be
able to take a contesting delegation to
the national convention which will
receive the faintest shadow of coun-
tenance of favor. The b%eligerent
manifesto Of the Kelly crowd has pre-
cipitated the commencement Of polit-
icll activity in this State, and from
this time until November, the politi-
clans expect a lively time.
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No state for TramDs.

NEWPORT. r. l., January 29.-In
view Of frequent outrages by tFamps
in this State a bill was introduced in
the legislature to-day which provides
that any person going about from
place to place begging and asking OF
subsisting upon charity, shall be taken
and deemed 70 be a tramp, and shall
be punished by Imprisonment in the
State prison or house of correction for
not more than n year nor less than
six months; that any tramp who shall
enter a dwelling house, or kindIe a fire
in any highway, or on the land Of an.
other, without the consent of the
owner or occupant, OF shall be found
carrying any firearms or other danger.
GUS weapons, or shall Threaten TO dc
any injury to any person or to the real
or personal estate of another. shall be
punished by Imprisonment at hard
labor in the State prison for not more
than two years; that any tramp who
shall wiltully or maliciously do any in.
jury to any person or to the real OF
personal estate Of another, shall be
punished by Imprisonment at hare
labor in the State prison for not more
than five years; that any act Of mendi.
cancy or vagrancy by any person not a
resident Of this State, shall be prime
faele evidence that the person com.
hitting the same is a tramp. Tbi,
act does not apply to any female OF
minor under the ago of fifteen years
nor to any blind person.
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beautiful shat from it | constructed a
poem. | was surprised atths timo that
the tradition had not reached the 0e-
cident. On my return to Europe. on
reading Lamartine's Voyage en-
Syrie, / found hat he touched upon
it, but as he tells it it varied some7
what from the tradition as told me by
my dragoman, Mustapha, one beauti
full moonlight night as we sat by our
watchire in front Of our tent. This
tradition specifies the time when Ma
sonry was first practiced, long before
the building Of S0lomon's Temple.
In fact, it tells what led to the cree
tion ofthe temple, as well as the orr
gin of Masonry, which was long before
the Jews entered Palestine, when the
"Jebusites were in possession of the
holy mountain lwrite this merely
in corroboration of DR.. Fanton aver
ments regarding the antiquity of Ma
sonry. as proved by the emblems dis
covered beneath the Obelisk at Alex
andria by Commander Gorringe. |
have always believed the agathedemon
found invariably on every Egyptian
temple had something to do with Ma
sonry. JOHN BANvARD.
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LEGAL,
UNITED STATES Of AMERICA,

- ANAA1ccNEg
Circuit Court for said district.
In equity, No. 2l6-Luke P. Blackbnrn
TIT Selma, Marion and Memphis Railroad
10. and al.
DY virture Of the final decree of the C;rcr;t
IL Court of the United States, for the West
ern District OF Tennessee, made in the above
entitled cause, on the Sd day of June. An
10y, the undersigned clerk Of the said court
duly authorized and appointed by the said
Iecree' VIII sell at public sale, at the court
mouse IN Memphis, county of Shelby and
state Of Tennessee, on Monday, the ga dav
OF March, AID. 1880, between the hours of il
m. and z pm, of said day, to the highest
bidder, all the following described property
tO;;iwit; All the Selma, Marion and Memphis
railroad, lying between the city of Memphis,
in the State Of Tennessee, and the eitv ~
Selma, in the State Of Alabama, constructeS
or 70 be constructed, together with ali and
angular the railways, rails, bridges, fences
warehouses, engines, cars, fixtures, privileges.
tisnn's, rsai estate oil every and all descrip-
tlon, and al other property owned or which
since the 18th day Of March, 1871, the dats
or the mortgage mentioned in the bilI
in this cause has been acquired by said
company by subscription, donation or
P,urncchase and including 81 bonds Of
siUV0 each, issued by the city Of Aberdeen. III
the state of Mississippi, now in the hand. of
inc receiver in this cause. The said line az
railroad with its equipment and -appoTtep-
ances, being an entirety, will be sold alto
setneI' WIN the Deneht Of the franchises
owned 81 ana possessed by said company. The
wit; One thousand dollars Of tie nnTebees
money Of said railroad, with its apnnTts-
names, equipment and rolling stock, Shall be
paid in cash at the time of the sole, and tbe
remainder shall be paid in six months after
the date OF sale, the purchaser giving his note
with approved security, payable TO comnlsi'.S
amt and g lien reserved on the property. me
said bonds and other property will be soI1
for cash to be paid down at the time &c tba
sale. BELL w ~ tns
Dec. 10, 1879. Clerk and com yuh,
EsTEs i ELLETr, soils. mssloher'
81 xxx 10
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An Explanation Of the Remark.
able Winter.
N. Y. Herald January 2s.l

N. l. Herald January 29.l
The winter, which is now far spent,
seems destined to take a memorable
place in the annals of meteorology.
Although its extraordinary thermom-
etric ranges have yet to be fully made
up, it bids fair to exhibit the most
marked record of~sunshine and warmth
east Of the Mississippi aud south of
the forty-6fth parallel. The histor-
ian has been at pains to chronicle re-
markably cold winters, asthat Of 1872.
which was early as November Is. com
PEELED the famousretreatof Napoleon's
army from Moscow and turned the
tide of European affairs. But little
notice has been taken of the remark
ably warn winters, which probably
exert no less decisive an influence on
national health and wealth, and no
scientific work could yield a more
practical and magnificent service 10
the world than an investigation show
ing the causes Of such seasons,
In looking for the explanation Of
the present mild weather it is import
ant to note that the highest tempera-
ture in December were reported by
thu signal service from the South Al.
lantic States. This fact furnishes one
clew to the solution of the mystery
Atlantic observations taken a YEA,
ago revealed the fact that the tenn.
perature Of hat ocean in high lati,
tudes was unusually high, and 4
would seem from recent examination
that its equatorial surface is now ex.
ceptionally warm. The average tenn
perature of the water throuchou.
December last, as reported by III,
signal service last week from six of n
South Atlantic stations, show that tb,
; mean temperature Of the ocean from
Key West to Norfolk was then &c do
grees higher than in the same period
of 1873. With such or even less in
crease Of its heat tie evaporation from
} It's tepid extratTopicRl bosom must b.
very great, II is obYioGs ouopgb TIA.
the stores Of heat cootaiacd IN ~
excessive evaporation, when waite,
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Trnstee,s NnIe.

-
Under and by virtue Of two certain deeds
" in trust 70 me executed By John N. Ware,
and Mary A. Ware, bis wife, one Of date Ooto.
ber l3ta lSTr, and recorded Ia the Rogister'
olico of Shelby county, In hook No. liz, page
2l2, OF. seq.; and one dated 18th of December,
1876, and recorded in Register Office Of Shelby
county, in book No, lis, page S2S, ct. SEQ, thu
debts therein secured being past due, i will,
at the request Of the beneficiary therein, or
Saturday, 2Ist February, 1850.
az the southwest corner OF Main and Madison
streets, in tho Taxing District ofShelbY coun-
ty Qate The city Of Memphisl, soil for cash, 10
tho highe@ bidder, the following described
real estate, situate, lying and being In the
late city Of Memphis NOV the TAXING District
Of Shelby county,, to-wit Part Of lot t2) two,
block l60) sixty, south Memphis, beginning N
a point on the 0ast line Of Orleans street. 500
five hundred and two foot south of It's inter.
section with the south line Of Vance street;
being 800 fifty fo0t from the southweet corneI
of. II. Kraft lott; therce e~outhwapdly with
the east line. Of Orleans street tS) Gfy-hve
feet-thus giving o front of nifty five feet on
east side o Orltans street, and running back
eabtwafaiy between parallel lines (and paral.
lei With south line Of Vance greet, (2lG two
hundred and fourteen feet In the lot ~belonRinR
to, and occupied by, 81. Agnes Academy.
Equity ot redemptiou waived. Purchasers
W. c. MCCLURE, Trustee.
NhiuH1, fsLKE' a WniGsr, Atly's. l2I 100
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4 Juryman More ScrupuIOus
Than Wise.
| Pail Mall Gazette.l

Pail Mall Gazette.l
At the Worcestershire sessions yes
terday, when the common jury were
being impaneled, one of the number
objected to the usual oath, and when
asked what his religion was he replied,
am a sinner saved by Christ" The
form Of affirmation was then admins,
tered to him, but he objected to re
peating the words, ''and returned a
verdict according to the evidence
substituting the words, according to
The word Of God The chairman
said if he could not decide upon a
case in accordance with the evidence
and dictates of common sense he was
not fit to be intrusted with the inter
ssts and liberties of his fellow-citizens
and he had better retire. The jury
man then left the box.
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Mon-R esIdenf Mnflcn

No. A75-In the CAaDeerx Court Of Shelby
county, Tenpessee-fhe Union Cotton Com
press COMPANY vs.. J, ]. Powers.
ta9peaFipg from aiidayitin this cause that
1 the defendant, ]. ]. Powers, is a o resi-
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 saia
defendant, as appears by the retnrn al the
Sheriff. 1t is therefore ordered that he make
MS appearance herein, AZ tbe courthouse n
Shelby county, in MsmpBis, Tenn, On or be-
fore the srtM9n9ayin April, 1850, andplead,
answer OK demur to Complainant bill, or tbe
same vi be taken for confessed as to him and
set for hearing oxparte, and that copy Of this
order be published once a week, for four sue
cessiye weeks, in the Public Ledger.
This 2Sth day Of January, 1880,
A cOpy-Attest:
m 4; j AhAV&, Clerk and master.
Ky b. Z M9AEHRY, DC. andM.
Warn y heard, Sol. for complainant.
100 Tor fNN Nv
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MASONRY I'm Arnhln.

New YoRK, January q, 1880.
Editor New York Herald: In the
very interesting article attached to
your dispatch from Alexandria in to-
days Herald, touching the antiquity
o. Freemasonry, you speak of the
Semitic traditions on which ETY.
mologists have built magnificent
theories. | am not a Freemason. but
while | was among the Arabs some
years ago ! found Masonry existing
llmlcgg them, and one Of these sem.
ltic or Hamitic" traditions regard
Ing ne origin Of Masonry was told me.
aud ii wax so exceedingly poetic and
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Attachment Notice.

Before G. D. Crockett, j. p, for Shelby cour
~, Tenn.-M. Ia, Meacham & Co. va ".
w. Mayield. '"
n this caess. an attachment having been
4 sued out under section 1856 of the Code of
Tennessee, and returned levied upon the
ing been made that defendant is indebted 10
the plaintiff in the sum Of eighty dollars dine
BY account, and that the claim is lust. and
that the defendant is . nonresident of he
state Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered
that said defendant make his personal APP
ary' l5$s az my Office, No. 2S5 Main street
Memphls, Tennessee, and defend said
attachment sait within the time yreseribeS
by law, OF the same will be proaeedsd with
exip9Etss, and that a copy Of SAis order be
the Public Ledger. ~
This the 18th day Of January, 1850.
llS l2i 100 1856 q. d. CROGV ETT { 70
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Prematnre Reading.
Franois Adams. Jr.l

Charles Francis Adams, Jr.l
When | was young, | remember my
father, from a conscientious feeling. |
suppose, that he ought to do
something positive for my mental and
moral good and general asthetic cult
walton, made me learn Pope's MES
siah' by heart, and a number of other
masterpieces of the same character.
He might just as well have tried to
feed a sucking baby on roast beef and
scotch ale. Without understanding a
word of it, | learned the Messiah
by rote, and | have hated it and its
author too, from hat day to this, and
| hate them now. SO also I remem-
Der well when | was a boy of from ten
to f~ourteen-for | was a considerable
devourer of oooks-being incited to
read Hume's History Of England
Robertson's Charles W and Glib
bon's Rome even, and | am not
sure | might not add Mitford's
Greece" / can't now say it was
time thrown away, but it was almost
that. The first thing in trying to
stimulate a love for reading is to be
careful not to create disgust by trying
to do too much. The great master
pieces of human research and elo-
quence and fancy are to boys pure
nuisances. They can't understand
them; they don't appreciate them il
they do. When they have grown VI
to them, and are ready for them, they
will come them Of tn If own accord.
Meanwhile, you cant we'll begin toe
low down. The intellectual, like the
physical food of children, can't vel
be too simple, provided it is healthy
and nourishing.
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LEGAL.
Trustee Sale.

On Saturday, the 7th day Of February, 1890,
~ within legal hours, in front Of my office,
No; "a Madison street. Memphis, Tenn, |
will sell the following described real estate,
situated in Shelby county, Tennessee, and n
Chelsea, being lot 24 aud 205, and beginning
at a point the northeast intersection Of Green-
law and Fifth street; thence north with east
line of Fifth street 14Sh feet to an alley;
thence east 1857 feet to an alley; thence south
l48s feet to Greenlaw street; thence west with
Greenlaw street l4S1a feet to the beginning,
excepting from above lot and sale that portion
Of above described lots conveyed by deed reg
istered in book los, page %. Registers Office
Shelby county, Tenn, to which reference il
made, said portion so excepted being d5x75
leet off the east end of lot 204-the As feet
fronting on Greenlaw street.
sell this property as trustee. under a trust
deed executed TO me on the 18th Of April, 1876
by J. W. and Ellen Heath, by deed registered
In book No. Ill, page 5i4, Registers Office Of
shelby county, Tenn, TO which reference is
made, Terms cash. TITLE believed to be good,
lie 1Ss D. II. P0sTON, Trustee.