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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13


An alarming interview has Just
taken place with Gen. John Melon
aid, of the old St. Louis whisky ring:
People have got a wrong idea of
me-" said Mcdonald, "and Of what /
have done and can do, l don't sup
pose any man in the history of this
nation ever had a greater lever under
his hand than | have got to-day if |
want to move it. | am a peculiar
kind OF man, and one of my peculiar
tiles is that [ never destroy or lose a
letter or a scrap of writing that l get
from anybody. Now, then, I've got
what would make a very close and
clear history of Grants administration
from the beginning to the end"
What doyou propose to do with it?'
THAT depends on what other peo-
pie do-entirely."
What do you mean?'
III mean to say this: That I've sac
rifced everything to an idea. I've
been imprisoned and lost a fortune of
a quarter of q million. and been os-
tracised and abused as no man ever
was before. Now, why have | suf-
fered it all in silence? There are men
will tell you l did it because l
couldn't help myself. That shows all
they know about it. l went to prison
on an understanding and an idea, and
by going to prison | saved this coun-
try the most frightful shame and dis.
grace that ever could have covered
any country under the sun. Do you.
understand me2 | walked into court,
as you might say, with the atm6s-
phere of the presidents blue foom
still in my clothing. | needn't have
gone any farther than the court alone.
| might have had company
DO you imply that you went to
prison by agreement, and to save
Grant,"
II mean just that, in effect. | don't
think I'm giving anything away when
| say so, because there are plenty of
men light here in st. Louis that know
it-not as well as [ do, because they
don't know the facts except in a gen
eral way; but it is pretty commonly
understood in this neighborhood, |
guess"
Then your intention is to let out
what you known"
Only under certain circumstances.
l don't want to see myself and my
sacrifices wasted, and the same feel
ing of duty that sent me to prison will
compel me tell what l carried there in
case these men appear to be in a fair
way to get control Of the government
again. That's all I'm not so sure
the Chicago convention will nominate
Grant; but if it does look out for me.
I'm up and dressed for a fight, and /
can sink that crowd under a load that
would kill them SO dead that a grave
robber wouldn't waste his time on
them"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13
Trustees Sale.

Under and by virtue Of a certain deed of
y trust made to me as trustee by James
Alexander and his wife, CLARA Alexander,
duly recorded in the Registers Office ofShelby
county, Tenn, in book No. lis, page 64l, 70
secure a certain indebtedness and interest
therein mentioned, default having been made
in the payment thereof, l shall, in pursuance
of said trust deed, on
Saturday, June 9Th, 1850,
in front of $50 Front street, at IL o'clock, in
the Taxing District Of Shelby county, Tenn,
proceed to sell, at public auction, for cash, a
certain lot Of land on Aliens avenue, being
part Of lot No. 8, in the Subdivision of 10th 70.
II in block AZ. South Memphis, said lot being
No. 3, being Bledsoe's sub. division of lot No.
IL in said block AZ, and the part thereby con-
yeyed being the part which fronts on the west
side of Aliens avenue, having a front of "a
feet and a depth of ITO feet, said lot being "a
feet front by ITO deep.
The right of equity Of redemption is ex-
pressly waived, but l sell only as trustee.
IA 50 +. l.. WARNER,
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Death of the Editor OF the To-
rOnfO Globe.
orrespondenoe NashvilIe American.

TORONTO, ONT, May Sat 2
O'Clock this morning Hon George
Brown, managing editor Of the Globe,
died from the pistol wound inflicted
by Dickinson, alias Bennett. his
drunken night engineer, six weeks
ago. The quarrel was about a recon-
mendation which Brown refused
Dickinson when he discharged him.
The latter visited Brown in his edi.
torial room, and said he would shoot
him ii the certificate of character was
refused. Brown grappled with him,
shouting murder. In the scufie the
revolver was discharged, and Brown
was wounded in the thigh. At first
the injury was thought slight, but
modification set in with fatal result.
His murderer, who is in custody, is a
southern %octoroon Of vicious habits.
In 1874 George Brown who was then
"A years Of age, founded the Globe.
and by his ability and industry made
y many years ago the best paper IN
the dominion, a position il still main
tains., lie was made a member Of the
canadian senate, and leader Of the
Brown Darian ministry Of 1858; was
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13
cAPTAIN HENRY &. WEST.
tribute 20 "a Gallant Gentleman
Who Died in Memphis.
Little Rock Gazette, 18th inst. !

Little Rock Gazette, 18th inst.l
Captain Henry G. West, late of this
city, died at Memphis yesterday Of
paralysis. Captain West was a native
Of Georgetown, Kentucky, and aged
about forty-seyen years. He came to
Arkansas as a civil engineer, about
1884, under Lloyd Tilghman, and as
such was engaged on the Mississippi
Ouachita and Red river, and Ma
poleon and Little Rock surveys,
before the war; and after the war
on the Little Rock and Fort Smith
and Cairo and Fulton railroads. He
was a first lieutenant in Churchills
Arkansas cavalry, and afterwards
first lieutenant and captain in Wood
rufPs (atterward Blocher's) battalion
of artillery, and did distinguished
service on many hard fought fields.
From 1873 to 1877, he was in the
counting-room of the Gazette Office.
For several years before his death he
was much afflicted, and finally was
stricken with paralysis, of which he
died, after lingering many months. He
was modest and retiring in demeanor
and manners, but acquired and held
the confidence and affections of all
with whom he became intimately as
ISOLATED. He was a man Of the
strictest integrity, and of high cour-
age, and his death is a sad blow to a
large circle of friends and relatives
and a heavy loss to the state of his
adoption.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13
A Cut by the Nan-NToITar..

P%TTTsBURG, May 12.-At a regular
meeting of the Western Nail Makers
Association, this morning, it was de-
cided to reduce card-rates to 1925.
A resolution wa also presented, which
was adopted unanimously, that nail
mills suspend operations two weeks
out Of the next three, commencing
Monday, May II.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

Joint plenipotentiary with Sir Edward
Thornton at Washington, to negotiate
a commercial treaty in 1874; declined
the lieutenant governorship of 0nta-
rio in 1875; was elected to parliament
for many constituencies; declined to
be knighted by the queen two years
ago, and was the real leader, backbone
and spirit of the reform party in
Canada. 1t has often been truthfully
said that he could make or unmake
any public man on his side Of politics.
He was the chief man in the Bow
Park farm and the Canada West
farm stock association, we'll known
by Kentucky fine stock breeders. He
made a great deal Of money ii Cana
dian oil lands and out of the Globe,
and had his life insured for SEC, GOO.
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Some Philadelphia Saints.

FlttsDurg Post.I
There is something tremendously
funny in the talk of a bolt from Grant
by a section Of the Philadelphia dele.
CATION, and still it may be true. Moth
ing is impossible or can be safely pre-.
dicted in regard to the action Of these
men. The delegation is the creation
and representative of the PHILADELPHIA
machine. Suppose Salter, PETROL and
kemble we're the delegates, would any
sane republicans take stock in what
might be said Of their purposes in the
light of recent developments. We
think not. Well the body of the
Philadelphia delegates are precisely Of
this material with the usual excep-
tions, There are among them
individuals who were connect
ed with Petroff in his briberies
in the Herdic boom steal II
1877, and for which the guileless En-.
lie was kicked out Of tho house
There are among them notorious me1
who have been the designers and nro.
motors of great election frauds, and
If we mistake not, one Of the promi.
nent city delegates is at this momen,
under indictment for entering a w.
ting room at the February election. Al
the head of a gang of %conpenia
roughs, driving away the election OFF.
GERS, destroying the ballot and maxim,
up a forged return. If justice wa.
blind and vigorous, and the board q
pardons an honest board. this enter
prising delegate would be in the east
ern penltentary, making shoes for tn
sSase, instead Of helping Don Cameron
third Of June.
1t Is therefore very amusing. thes
speculations hal the Philadeinbi
delegates are inclined to rebel arains
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13
An Extraordinaly Fact.
cial to the cOurier-JOurnai.l

Special to the Courier-JOurnal.l
WASHINGTON, May lit is an
extraordinary fact that the legisla-
tive, executive and judicial appropri-
alton bill, upon the consideration of
which the house entered to-day, was
reported from the appropriations com.
mittee with the approval of all the
democratic and republican members
Of the committee. 1t is an event prob
ably unparalleled in the annals of the
house. The bill appropriates over
sixteen millions for the legislative,
executive and judicial expenses of the
government. Hitherto this bill has
given rise to a long and bitter debate,
but the fact that the members of the
committee are unanimous in their
support of it will insure an unusually
prompt passage.
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Illinois Republicans.
Special to Courier ournal.l

Special to Courier-J ~ournal.l
WASHINGTON, May 1.-THE news
from the Cook county (Illinois) con-
vention ofyesterday seems to be taken
by those republicans who are in favor
OF neither Blaine nor Grant as indi-
eating that neither will be nominated
AS to the effect on the friends of the
two candidates, it has embittered each
side against the other. The Blaine
men are attacking the Grant people
as the Kelly's Of the republican party,
and the Grant men are saying chat the
Blaine men evidently captured the
convention both by force and fraud.
A leading republican Of the
state and an ex-cOngressman
says that there is really no Blaine
strength in Illinois, huttbat the Maine
senator has simply been taken up to
beat Grant. Blaine will not have the
Illinois delegation should Grant not
be the choice. From now on it may
be expected that each OF these fac
tons will do all in its power to kill off
the leader Of the other, IN that Pos-
pect, perhaps the action Of
the Cook county convention was
good for the republican party. Grant
leaders here say that they do not give
no the struggle; that they have a ma
Iority IN the Illinois convention out
side Of Cook county, and that they
will reject tho Blaine delegates and
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admit their own. If they stand by
this determination, it is Of course Ger.
tain that the Illinois delegation will
be for Grant, but the mud throwing
will be immense between now and the
End of June. The opportunities are
enormous on both sides.
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A Mean Yankee TrioL.

In the early part of the war, when,
General Grant was acting under the
state authorities Of Illinois in raising
and organizing troops for the union
army, he had occasion to hire a horse
from a livery stable man of Spring
field, Ill. After a short service, the
horse was returned to its owner, who
was informed that charges would be
paid on presentation of the bill, prop
erly authenticated, to the proper state
authorities. 1t appears that the bill,
for some reason or other, was never
paid, Of which fact General Grant
knew nothing until his visit to Spring
field a few days ago, when a Justices
warrant was served on him for the
said bill of SIS principal and S3Ointer-
est, making a total of S45, which
the general promptly paid on being in
formed of the facts. The livery
stable man had allowed this claim to
slumber for nineteen years, during
which period he could at any time
have collected it by presentation to
Gen. Grant, and was only resurrected
on the occasion of General Grants
recent ceremonial visit to Springfield,
and then presented it in the shape of
a Justices warrant, without previous
n%oticel 1t is hardly necessary to add
that this little piece of petty radical
meannessw was practiced by a republi-
can, and one of that baser sort known
as o IBlaine republican.n
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Genuine Imported HOH's Malt
Extract.

The true health beverage. Highly
recommended for nursing mothers,
thin, cold and aged people, GONZALES
cents, etc. Owing to its wonderfully
nutritious qualities it is especially
recommended in epidemics and in
%fevers; where bodily p%rostratiou is
great, and life depends upon a nour
ishing stimulant. None genuine with
out the label Of Tarrant & Co., sole
agents, New York. For sale by all
druggists and grocers. N.102
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

The pronounced opinion Of the
ablest physicians all over the country
indicates that DIR. Bulls Baby syrup
is the best remedy for all the suffer
ings Of little children caused by wind
collie, dysentery, diarrhea or summer
complaint. Price % cents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

joaquin Miller has been to Califor-
MIA and is shocked by the social de-
cadence and business dry-rot in San
Francisco, and remarks that nothing
ever happened halt so disastrous to
the Pacific states as the building of
the Pacific railroad. 1t became at
once a sort of siphon, which let in a
stream ofweak and worthless people,
and gave the brave young states there
all the vanities and vices of the east,
with none ofthe virtues.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

The free cities of Germany which
are now threatened with a deprivation
Of the special immunities which they
have enjoyed for 80 many centuries are
Hamburg Bremen and Lubec. With
Frankfort-on-the Main, they were
sovereign states and members of the
German confederation When the
empire was recognized, Frankfort was
annexed to Prussia, but the three
retained their privileges. Hamburg is
the Oldest of these free towns, having
been founded by Charlemagne in sol.
Its commercial history began in the
thirteenth century. In connection.
with Lubec it was the nucleus of the
Hanseatic league, which at one period
numbered eighty five distinct towns,
and was the first regular trades union
known in European history. The
~exigencies of Prussian policy now de-
mand the extinction Of the peculiar
rights of these cities in the interest of
imperial consolidation, which implies
a uniformity in the German CONNER
cial system.
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ThursdaY, JUNO IOIIn. Issn.

within legal hours. before the courthouse door
NJ 1ne citK OF Mtm,phls now Taxing Distfiet),
following described property, to-wit:
Alot or parcel Of hand, together with All the
improvements thereon and appurtenances
thereto hglonging, situated in MemphiS
L eGH S9 DsSoto street, and more particular,
stake on the east side of DeSoto stTeot e" foet
south OF heal street, running south with De-
soto street VA feet to y stake; thence eastward-
y parallel with Beal street one hundred and
my ieet to a stake thence nOrthwardiy nine
parallel with Beal street l5O feet to NE beginy
ming. NV DeBlh-
Inc equity NIredomption is waived and the,
IltIe Is 1elleyed to be good, but l sell and con
Msmnhis, Tenn, May 5th, 1880.
NIto j. w. EULMER. TrnsInn
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81 s7faas
orATE OF TENNESSEE, SHELAy Couvrv
0FFIoE County 00UEf CGTHT

STATE OF TENNESSEE, SHEL1y Corvrv
ozo- Memphis, Tenn, May ii. 1S0O
o'yJ \. 80 A. Hatchett, AdministpStor &c
v z: 2; Foster, deceased. ia'or Oh
II A ssao suggested the insolvency of the
are hereby ordered to give notice s ,by Advert y you
s %ghE s IN some asd newspaper published within the
OF Shelby county, for all persons %ov SSVr
claims u against said estate, to appear and Sle
sns SANG, WIN me Clerk Of the County Court
on Or before the 18th day Of Noyombe11'O y Isso.
snd any claim not fled on or before said dav'
OF peiore an appropriation Of tho funds ~
both in law and equity, 'alreu'
May, 1880. 'Hi' ii'n Jay OIL
By II. D, CULLEN, b. @. OierA>
Notice is hereby given to creditors
Vuireu oy the foregoing order, May II, lSSa.
A. HATCHETE' N
60 IS "a so foSter' decd.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

0fthe 237 new members returned
to parliament since its recent dissolu-
ton; no less than $50 may be classed
generally as merchants, manufactur-
ers, or connected with commercial
Pursuits, 50 are lawyers, A belonging
to the bar and s practicing or having
practiced as solicitors; 30 belonged TO
to the army; 2 to the navy; 3 have be-
longed to the diplomatic profession:
6 journalists, 7 engineers, 5 bankers:
etc. This includes 172 members.
The rest are country squires, magis
t%rates, deputy-lieutenants, chairmen
Of quarter sessions. ex-high sherifs.
baronets, or sons of peers. The oldest
ofthe new members" is Sir Harry
Werner, aged seventy-eight. The
youngest appears to be Mr. Richard
Fort, NJ. 2, for Clitheroe, who was
born in 1856.
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Trustees Sale.


Under and by virtue OF two eerAain ds.0s
Y oftrust, duly reeordeain record S1 MAJ Se Nai
l06, page 2ls, and record book M 1904 iSS mo-.
SS of the Registers once of Shelbv co,nprSs 49,
Tennessee, deflNlt having been made t6eyeiy'
l will, on 'n'rsln'
hOAday, the oath day Of May, 1880.
at the southwest corner Of Main and Mod;.o,
streets, in the Taxing District, late eitV ~
memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee. 81 10
o'clock, noon, sell for cash at public auction
70 the highest bidder, the fOllowing describsi
land to-wit; A certain lot of lama. s;tTats ~
me Taxing District, late city Of Mempbis
ohelby county, Tennessee, and desiopatsS
upon a plan of subdivision OF properfv No.
or formerly belonging to- J. IA. ~StepbensoR.T
y. driiin, A. Beatty and others, made ~ w
Srane, surveyor, March 1857, a lot No. IA IN
block NO. d, aAd bounded rs follows. to-Iis.
Beglnnlng 81. a point on the south side ~
ho9esen street, ITO feet west ofJones' ayenues
az She horthWest corner of lot Ne. II, in ,JonSs
anu P9pres addiion, and the northeast cor
neI on lot re- 10; thence southwardly parallat,
MIN JoaeS avenue 1850 feet to the southeast
SganYL ot lot No. IL; thence westward on Az.
= smmluins ZINES between lots numbers is and ISi
nisg,uWo tSet ana SIX inches to the southUest,
~ m VI 10Y no; ~; thence n0rthwardlv on
hundred and forty-threb feet III Is one
street. thence eastwardlyIwith tia snnss ihoos9n
Oh sald street fifty feet 20 The hezin5fnAn slVeN
Equity or redemption waived
Inc title believed 10 he hood h,t T. .au
as trustee. SIMON S1yIibSRqql u sell only
Memphis April 2sd, 1850, i'us vs.
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The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s. per annum and
500 per month for less than one yeSr. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 per annum-
postage free.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13

Entered at the PostOfice at Memphis, Tenn,
as second-class matter.
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Friday, NAV nam. Issn

between the hours of 10 O'Clock n m .,d 4
Q CLOCK pm, on the premises, in the ipa y
District, city Of Memphis, sell to the h;ahast
nlu1er tne following lots of land in SAID ToY
ing District city of Memphis, Shelby eonntv-
L Lots I22 and 1913 in block No. 30 of a..
baltare addition TO the city of Memnbis aenS
10y lr9ntlng y feet on Water street and vrnA
nlng back 1851 feet to Promenade sfrea, run sn5
comprising also the last part of lot No 19I
supposed TO be 65% feet in the same biock q,
sara batture addition to SAID civ. thu saw Un
pelng at the corner of Jefferson and pronaao
naqe streets with a front of Is feet on proms-
naqe street, on the west side of said stpaei
ana running back with the north line o SSi .ggsf,,
lerson street about $50 feet, more or Lass
III OF SAID property being covered by what Il
known as the Elliott block Of buiIdinos,
q one lot or piece of land f~rontinS * foa,
on me north side Of Beal street, in said TsSS
ing District, city of Memphis. and rnrn;SHAr
PACK lou feet, and upon which LOT or rieca ~
"a sSn Is are situated the two stores Nos so and
Terms of sale-Cash,
Inc sale Of this property D-OstnoUo,v
10 FRIDAY, May 18th, 1850.
JAMES L. GAINES.
TON HOLMAN, Jr., Ann'
onalrman County Court Shelby County. Al Az
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ThursdaY, NAV 1Le Ialh

dgring legal hours, on tho southwest CO, ma,
q MAIN and Madison streets, in the c?fy ~
Memphis, offer for sale, and sell to the h ,sygoott
bidder Tor cash, the following described neS'
S %atar property to-wit: Being the printing
materlais and. apparatus at No. 2g8 Msin
treet, memphis, Tenn. The title is peTfect
put only sell and convey as trHttee' '''
20 Of JOHN LlNKHAUnR, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-05-13
Trustees Sale.

Rf virtue ofthe terms of a trust deed mazda.
IA M. e e @ 6S6 by James SS c,'ssary; Ellen Cieary and
corded IN T" thn ARIh lCth, 1877. and duly re-
ty, tennessee, in book No. III, page % 10.
secure certain notes therein mentioned AZ
lalis having been made in the aymen Of
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EDUCATIONAL.
MEMPHIS INSTITUTE.
|. G. TYLER, N. A., Principal.
100 UNION STREET.
Sale OF Valuable Real Es1a1e,

NDER authority vested in us by Sonata
~ Joint resolution No. II, adopted nv tbe
Legislature OF State Of Tennessee. Mach
3D. lsf1' approved March Gath, 1917, we will,
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Chancery Sale of Real Estate

Ohaneery Court of Shelby county-R. No g7n
GSe2 Gillham W: A. M. 2. DeLo sutpeS S'Vi
Is saiea ' en+e vi az lnterl9cutory decree for
I n.y. day OF February, 1880, M B 26, n. IqSrn 7
VIII sell, at public auction, 10 tbe ago,t
oIduer, in front of the clerk md m u'shes
ounce, courthouse Of Shelby county Ma,nnSiS
~tgnhessee, now known as the Taxing D;s'
trict OF Shelby county, on DIS
Saturday, May goth, 1850.
within legal hours, the following devo,;hoa
to-Wit: 'ounty' Ienn',
beginning at the southwest corner NJ a t,.o+
OF otO acres, being grant No. q, Sl5 in ranssE
sectlqn 1, snelby county, State of TennesseS
NNnahhls tnenee east to the west side or line Of
Nashoea avenue; thence north with the waSt
Ine OF Nashoba avenue to the garden fsnne
now enclosing the residence Of Chas. pattoDo
thence west to the southwest corner ~ soI5
garden fence; thence northwardly along III
west line OF the garden fence and orcbspS
sgnce, ana parallel with the west line Of Inc.
ofg acres tract to the north boundary lima Of
said Nash0ba tract in section 2. tbe1oa. VI
70 lhe northwest corner of an 1850 acres tracI
ana the northwest corner Of the Nosh%nIlst
tract; thence south 6040 chains Ia he a,,tI
west corner OF said $50 acres tract. heinz yrant
10. Sool; thence east 1905 chains to a sfa%e.
oaSHcS soutn ol-O chains to the beginning.
Inc above may be sold according 10 n ro4-
by the Clerk and Master. which
VIII De made known on day of sale. ""N"
Terms Oh sale: On q credit ofseyen months
putcnaSer executing note with approved se.
ourltyi nen retained, redemption barred.
N d y .. DLAChL CLERK and Master.
i; y Edgington, sol. for complt.
This May 3, 1880.
55 Al AZ 20 No
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SEVEN REASONS.

Thursday Evening May Is, Iss'