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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-10-16

Dc YiFo who was here with Di
Murska is now managing Rose Hersee
10 Australia.
The Child of the State" com
biuation play at Austin. Texas, next
after leaving here,
Robson and Crane play at Pittsburg
next week, succeeding Rice's Sur
prise Party" with their funny piece,
"Revels."
mo happier couple ever lived than
my sweet vito and l-when | am
sober" says Joe Emmett, the actor, iD
a recent letter.
Lolita is in her second week at Phil
adelphia and has been doing Little
Nelf' since Monday last. She has
been very successful.
Tagliapiatra's Italian opera party OF
sixty artists are announced to be al
Nashville a week IRON Monday next
Tor two highs engagement.
The Salisbury troubadours including
the piquante ana tunefull Nenie Nc
denry, are doing splendidly at the
Alexandria palace, LOudon.
The Alice Oates party are to be al
Lit lie Rock on ruesla w dnesdsy
an Thursday next aud wi ! be 70,
owd by Miles Ju Guile 0pera
Troupe,
sprightly antics and fine singing are
said to be the leading attractions Of
'PhotOs, q musical sketch to be rem
drred here by tho Hsrrisons next
Monday night.
The Academy Of Music, on West
Halstead street, Chicago, was totally
destroyed by FIRE last Tuesday. Loss
$4,000 to $4,000. The building had
just been reftted.
The floating opera house, Cham
pion No. 2" under the management Of
Colonel Dan Rice, has started on its
voyage for exhibitions and will soon
be down this way.
The Huntly dramatic party played
The Two Orphans at Trenton,
Tenn. last Tuesday. Miss Kennedy,
Of the troupe, is spoken Of as an ac-
complished artistic.
The volatile Sara Bernhardt is re-
ported to be under a three years en-
gagement for the Paris Vaudeville
theater Immediately upon the ter
minatiOn Of her American engage
ment.
Mr.. WalIack's beautiful revival OF
"As You Like IT, has greatly pleased
the New York public, and it is al
most the only thing now on the stage
Of that city that really and entirely is
worth seeing.
The opera season opens iu London
next Monday at Her Majesty theater
and " Norma" Semiramide," Lu-
crezia Borgia and La Favorita" are
among the futures on the programmes
shortly 10 be rendered.
The Gus William party to be here
the latter part ofnext week, perform
"Our German Senator at Nashville
on Monday and Tuesday next. The
Ada Gray party close there tonight,
having presented "Frou Frou' and
East Lynne
"The Corsican Brothers" a legen-
Diary drama, claimed as one Of Bou,
cicault's, was dramatized bythat clev.
or adaptcr from Dumas novel lies
Freres Corses." The play has recent
" been revived in London, with
Irving as Del Franchi.'
Carl Rosa's provincial tours 10
England continue very valuable, and
his troupe are fully engaged at outside
places until after Christmas. when he
expects TO fix a date for a London
engagement. He has no idea Of com
ing to America for two years or more.
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The first performance Of "Deseret"
vas a perfect success on Monday night
last when it was presented in New
York city. At the close Of the first
act, Dudley Buck aud w. A. Croffut,
composer, and authors, with the solo
singers, were all called before the cur
tain. Mrs. Julia Polk, vito Of j. B.
Polk, who was here with "a Gentle
man from Nevada, was prima donna,
and she is described as an actress
possessing a pleasant, w%ell-trained
voice. perfectly true. The opera is
full of bright and catching airs, and it
contains several bits Of charming,
graceful melody. The work, which is
wholly American, both in authorship
and story, seems sure to gain a perma-
nent popularity. The opera deals
with the Mormon and Indian question
and the curtain rises on a camp Of sol
diers neal Salt Lake City, who open
with a chorus in praise OF army life.
Then there is a love story and a very
pretty musical picture is unmasked as
the opera progresses to its terminal
point.
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The Possibilities OF the Photo.
phone.

New York He5aldl
American scientists viii be graft
fed BY the hearty appreciation given
by their fellow lSborcrs ahroad TO the
photophoue recently invented BY Prof
Bell. In late issue Of the British
science journal Nature not only ad-
mits that he has successfully attacked
the problem Of transmitting speech
without wines. electricity or any mo.
chanicsl medium, and by the sole
agency Of light but expresses its be-
lief that the distances through which
sound has been actually transmitted
by the phOtophone will be greatly in.
creased Light is thus made 20
produce sound, aud the ancient fable
Of Memmon 5 statute" says the Lon.
don Times, lis realized by modern
science The colossal statue near
Thebes, according to StrabO, uttered
a melodious sound every morning
when greeted BY the rising sun, and a
lueubriOus note al sunset. But the
photophOno will speak at all hours,
day and night, when the raves OF light,
solar or artificial, are made to play
upon its delicate diaphragm,
By a method OF heating selenium to
a certain point aud then cooling it,and
by certain improvements in the meth
cd Of attaching the connecting wires,
Professor Bell constructed plates 80
sensitive as to render audible the blow
struck BY a ray of light. Speaking to
a transmitting instrument, which
flashes the vibrations along a beam of
light to q distant station, the sounds
Of the voice are reproduced. The
rransmitter is simply a plain and aex
ible mirror of thin glass or mica,
aeain,tthe back Of which tho speak
er'syoice i directed, whilea powerful
beam oflight is thrown upon the mir
rur. so as to be reflected direct to the
receiver, the intermittent rays concen-
trated on its sensitive disk causing it
to repeat the very words of the
SPEAKER,
Nothing could be simpler than this
device. which experiment has shown
can be worked with the electric OF
other artificial light, and is not de.
pendent upon an unclouded sun. The
chief question yet to be settled before
the photophone can be made a great
practical success is how for it will
transmit speech. Hitherto, owing to
the optical difficulties in managing q
beam Of light, sounds have not been
audibly reproduced for more than two
hundred and fifty yards; but Professor
SylvaDus Thompson thinks the new
method can be applied from one sta
ton to another whenever a beam OF
light Fan be flashed. That this
is practicable is yet to be experiment.
ally demonstrated, and, doubtless, the
phOtOphone cannot, for a considerable
time, be expected to rival the tele-
phone as q means Of correspondence in
the large cities, But that it will have
its own distinct and wide sphere Of
usefulness at an early day IS beyond
question. Perhaps one Of the best
uses it can be put TO, as soon as the
experiments are completed, may be
for establishing in~terlocutory commu
nication between lighthouses and
signal and life saving service stations
along our Atlantic coast. which wogld
immensely increase their efficiency at
times when marine disasters are com
mon
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small Farms in The south.

Scribner for October.
1t is impossible to end without ad-
We ting to a new south which exists in
a far more literal sense than that Of.
small farming. How much of this
gracious land is yet new to all real
cultivation, how much of il lies groan-
ing for the muscle of man, and how
doubly mourntul is this newness, in
view of the fair and fruitful conditions
which here hold perpetual session, and
press perpetual invitation upon all
men to come and have plenty Surely,
along that ample stretch Of generous
soil, where the Appalachian rugged
nesses calm themselves into pleasant
hills before dying quite away into the
>eaboard levels, a man a find such
temperances of heaven and earth
enough Of struggle with nature to draw
iut manhood, with enough of bounty
to sanction the struggle that a more
sxquisite co-adaptation OF all blessed
circumstances for mans life need not
nc SOUGHT Ii is with a part Of that
region that this writer is most fami-
lar; ami Que cannot but remember
that, as one stands at a certain spot
thereof and looks off and across the
0emulgee river, the whole prospect
seems distinctly to yearn for men.
Everywhere the huge and gentle
slopes kneel aud pray for vineyards,
for corn fields, for cottages, for spires
to rise up from beyond the oak-groves,
II isl land where there is never a day
Of summer nor Of winter when a man
cannot do q full days work in the
open field; all the products meet
there, as at natures own agricultural
fair; rice grows alongside Of wheat,
corn alongside Of sugar-cane,
cotton alongside of GLOW r,
apples alongside of peaches,
so that a small firm may often NINA
ture the whole United States 10
growth the little valleys everywhere
run with living waters, asking grasses
and cattle and quiet grist-mills; all
manner OF timbers tor economic uses,
and trees for finer arts, cover the
earth in short, here is such a neigh
borly congregation Of climates, soils,
minerals and vegetables, that within
the compass Of many a hu~ndred-aere
farm a mar may find wherewithsl to
build his house of stone, of brick, OF
oak, or Of pine, to furnish it in woods
that would delight the most curious
eye, and to supply his family with all
the ~necessaries, most of the comforts,
and many of the luxuries of the whole
world. 1t is the country Of homes.
Aud, as said, it is because these
blissiul ranges are still clamorous for
human friendship it is because many
of them ere actually virgin to pillow,
pillar, axe or mill. wheel, while Others
have known only the insulting and
mean cultivation Of the earlier immi.
grants, who scratched the surface ioI
cotton a year or tBo, then carelessly
abandoned all TO sedge and sassafras
and sauntered on toward Texas-it is
thus that these lands are, with sadder
significance than that Of small farm.
iOg, also a new south.
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cast and when convenient slightly
narrowed. in order to mix Il more
thoroughly With the soil, which in
this way is all enriched instead Of that
only about the seed, the roots then
spread aud have a larger area on (which
70 feed, as the soil is in a proper con
dition 10 nourish them. The roots as
they extend absorb the manure which
by this time has been dissolved and
Incorporated with the soil in form aud
quantity that can be taken up by the
plant in all the stages Of its growth TO
maturity as it lis distributed to meet
their wants and they fail for the want
of it when most in need oft to perfect
their growth If it is applied only in
the hill or drill.
ANDREW II. WARD.
Plymoth county. Mass.
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Reeis G15 Edge ionic allays irritation.
ppH "a ion of SIanures.

'ppH - ion of Manures.
L-lmins Norldl
nor are frequently applied
it 50 II tie judgment by the inexpe
ie C d hat we feel sure the following
es3ions from a veteran expert
.te t.r Of B%idgewater, Mass. will be
: ,slue 10 our readers.
The best mode Of application is n
spread the manure as early as possible
on the surface Of the GROUND, at a
me when it is not saturated with
nc sture or bound up with post; but
IN a season Of frequent showers. The
soluble, organic and mineral ingredi
ents will improve ten 70 fifteen days.
according 10 the amount Of rain, be
washed into and retained by the soil,
and the insoluble matter can then be
covered by the pillow.
The method Of 9epositing the ma
nure on the field in heaps, and leaving
it 50 for o length Of time is E bad
practice; the soluble matters are
washed into the ground under and i'm
mediately adjoining the heaps, and
cannot afterwards be evenly distrib
uted by rain through the soil, hence
the result is inequality in the crops
OF such fields. On light soils, mineral
manuses, which contain their phos.
plates and alkalies in the most solu
bic state, should be applied 10 the
spring on heavy soils It will answer
TO apply them in the fall, but before
the ground freezes. Light soils re-
quire mauuring oitener and in less
quantities at a tine than heavy ones.
On which more can be applied at once
and consequently do not require il 30
frequently, as it retains it more com
pletely.
Mineral manures should not be ap-
piled in the hill or drill, as they are
too concentrated for the rOOtlets OF
the young plant in the first stages Of
its growth and are liable to injure or
destroy them, thus causing a Door
stand and failure, or partial one, Of
.
the crop.
Nature has provided in the seed for
the s~ustenance of the plant in its in.
fancy and If all the soil in which its
roots spread is fertilized, il will pro.
duce a larger crop than when the fer
t%ilizers are placed Immediately about
the seed, which in zach case receive
more food than they can digest, or is
beneficial for them at the start, and in
many cases applied TO their injury
aud in their later growth the extended
roots have only the natural strength Of
the soil, aud thus when IL Is poor, lack
the necessary nourishment and have
an imperfect growth. or fail to carry
the crop out to maturity.
1t is otherwise when spread broad.
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G-nhernnlorinI Canrn...

The chairmen Of the various executive
committees, at a meeting held in Nash
vile on the 18th Of August, 1880, agreed
and arranged the following list Of appoints
ments for joint discussion between Hon.
j. V. Wright, Hon. S. =. Wilson and
Hon. r. Nj. Edwards, candidates for gov
ernor; and the committees Join in the re-
quest that the citizens In the respective
localities assemble al an early hour, say
10 o'clock, on the days mentioned.
JNo. W. CHILDREss, in,
Chairman democratic state executive com.
DANIEL +. WALLACE,
Cam'n. low tax dem. state executive com.
ANDREW j. kELLAR,
Chm'n state x com. nat. gr'bk lab. party.
Friday. October Is, Sparta.
Saturday, October Is, Cookeyillo.
Monday, October lS, Gainesboro.
Tuesday, October 10, Livingston.
Wednesday. October 20, jamestown.
Thursday, October q, Wartburg.
Friday, October ~, Kingston.
Saturday, October %, Loudon.
Monday, October, 25, Bristol.
Tuesday, October 26, Jonesboro.
Wednesday, October q, Rogersville.
Thursday, October %, Morristown.
Friday, October 20. Athens.
Saturday, October 80, Cleveland.
Saturday night, October 80, Chatta-
nooga.
Monday, November l, TuIlahoma.
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N~on-ReaLasnt Notice.

No. S7t9 In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenu.-George Gillian ct al vs.. NJ.
X. Spragu0 ct al.
II appearing from affidavit in this cause that
i the defendants, NJ r. Spraguo and Nellie
Srrague are non residents Of the state OF
Ten nessee; il Is therefore ordered that they
make their appearance herein, at the
courthouse Of Shelby county, IN Mem
phis. Tennessee. on or before the first
Monday IL yslnber, 1880, end plead, answer
rr deuuI to 60 tpl tinant bill, or the same
vii ue taken Tor confessed as to them and set
for hearing ex parlo; aud hat a copy Of this
order be published once a week, for four sue
cessiye weeks. IN the public Ledger.
This 10th day OfSeptember, 1850.
A copy-Attest;
R. j. BLACK. Clerk and master.
BV r. b. MoIIESRY, b. c. AN.
Townsend x GillhAm, sol. for compl't.
06 90 % A
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THE DAILY LEDGER will be mailed
one month, to any address, postage
paid, for fifty cents. This will
cover the period Of the fall cam
paiyn and full election returns. The
WEEKLY LEDGER, a mammoth sheet,
is only one dollar q year, or sixty cents
for six months, invariably in advance.
all who desiie TO keep thoroughly
posted in regard to national and state
politics aud general news, and to read
a live democratic paper, that is max
ing q straight eight for the people,
should take the LEDGER during this
campaign.
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pl.ATFnRM.

The right Of trial by jury, the ha-
beas corpus, the liberty of the press,
the freedom of speech, the natural
rights of persons, and the rights Of
properly must be preserved.-E1-
tract from General Hancock's order
November 18th, 1867.
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Grand ReputafIon.

Warmers Safe Kidney and Liver
Cure has reached a reputation that is
not limited by the confines Of section
or country. There are 20 injurious
substances nor false and temporary
~stimulants in the preparation, IL is
purely vegetable and compounded I'M
der a formula that has passed severe
tests and won endorsements from some
of the highest medical talent in the
country.-[New York World.
Sold Wholesale by S. Mansfield &
Co. and w. n. Wilkerson & Co.
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Hon. D. L. Snodgrass, the gifted
and eloquent young speaker, has gone
10 East Tennessee to make a canvass
in behalf Of Hon. s. +. Wilson. A
high tax orator has been promptly
sent after him, but there can be only
one result. Snodgrass will get the
hest nf IL
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N~on.resident Notice.

No. 3sI0-In the Probate Court e Shelby coun-
y, Tenn. In the m itter Of the removal of
james A. Anderson, public administrator of
the c tate Of Patrick and Mary Jane DAILY,
deceIsod.
Ntais cause I appearing o tho couit from
i The 10 iti0n q ed herein, by leave Of court
Arst had and obt aimed, that James A. Ander-
on, administrator Of Patrick and Mary Jane
DAILY, deceased, has failed, refused and neg
lected 70 hlo his inventory within tho time pre-
Acrihod by law or 10 make his sottl-ment Of
said estate, and that he has made default az
said admin traitor, and has left the State OF
Tennessee and is now residing in tho State Of
Texas; II Is therefore ordered that publication
be made as the law directs, requiring him 10
appear on Monday, LIST day Of November, 1880,
a d file his inventory or make settlement o.
histaid admin %trtti0n, nd ALSO to thow cause
why he should not be removed as ADMINISTERS
tor Of sid Q tate.
This October 9TH, 1880.
A copy-Attest:
OWEN DwYER, Clerk.
By HuGH b, OuLLgS, D O..
I. A. RYAN, Sol'r. 30 IS 24S
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Ths subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is Is per annuz and
SOC per month forlsss than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER Is 81 PSr mum
postage free.
Persons leaving the city for the summer
can order the DAILY LEDGER at 500 per
month in advance, with the privilege Of
changing postofice.
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No. 37l-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county Tennessee-Caroline V. Bethel vs..
Chas. II. Bethel.
1T appearing from affidavit in this cause that
i the defendant, Charles II. Bethel, is a nom
resident Of the State of Tennessee; it IS there
fore ordered that he make his appearance
hereint at tho courthouse of. Shelby coun-
y, In Memphis, Tenn, On or before the first
Monday in November, 1850; and plead, an
swe or demur TO complainant s bill, or
the SAINT will be taken for confessed as 10
him and set for hearing ex-parte; and
that a copy Of this order be published once a
week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
This S'th day of September, 1880.
A c~opy-Attest:
ROBERT }. BLACK, clerk and master.
By H.. B. McHENRY, d. @. and NJ.
john I. Moss, col. for compile.
2R q e a
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rae ,.eoples Candidate.

Htth. a md hat no settlement o
no ststf HH -tlii be made which is not SUI
% ts 70 nd r,t fed by the ople at the ba
10 4 q a peeid slecti q to be he d 10
that purpU-e.
DEMOCRATIC LEGISLATIVE TICKET
For the Senate-From Shelly, Jane.
NJ. Harris, G. Y. Smith
senator from Upton, Fuyette and Shell
by-J. II Lauderdale. OF iptOn
Representative from Shelby and Fay
ette-C A. Staiahack, Of Fayette.
Representative from Shelby-M d. L
Stewart, Thomas X. Boyle. b. G. Bledsoe
T. VI. Scruggs, r. c. Williamson, w. B
Winston.
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To all who are suffering from the errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness
early decay. loss NJ manhood. etc, Will send
4 reoipe that will cure you. FREE OF
CHARGE. This grontremody was discovered
by a missionary in South America. Send a
eelf-ad lrosscd envelope 10 the Rev. Joseph I.
Inmah, station D, New Yo-k City.
l5KKxl liz oodhW
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JUDGE Sneed has been seriously in
disposed, and has had to recall his
appointments at Chattanooga, Deca-
tur, Athens and elsewhere.
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meut Of the earthquake there was
none at all, and but very little since, a
great part Of which resembles subter.
raneous thunder. The shocks stll
continue, but are growing more light
and less frequent Is. b.
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In Supreme Court Of Tenn at Jaekson-
Robertson Topp, ysF M White, executor Of
the last will and testament of Isaac N
Davis, deceased, OF al.
N pursuance Of the decree rendered hy TIE
i Supreme Court o. Tennessee, at Jackgnn
April 10th, 1880, ia this cause, 1 will ener for
sale 70 the highest bidder In front Of the
courthouse Of Shelby county, in Memphis, on
Tuesday, The 26th day of October, 1880,
the, real estate mentioned and described In
said decree as follows; Situate in Memphis.
Shelby county, Tennessee-LOt No 3 frontinS
on Beal street, los feet by las feet deep; and
lots Nos 3. 10, II and IL. fronting on Orleans
street, In, the aggregate us feet by 1853 feet
deep; and lots Nos II, IS, 10 and %, fronting
10 the aggregate 9l6 feet on Jessamine street.
BY lt2 feet dsep-all in block 81.
Also, the lots or parcels Of land situate In
Memphis aforesaid, and known as the Gayoso
house 1918, beginning at the northeast corner
Of Shelby and Mccall streets, and rur,nine
thence east vita the north line If Mccall
street about $50 feet to an alley; thanee north
with the west side Of said alley about 291 feet
70 a small alley which divides the GayosO
house lots from the lots of Fred Cossitt;
the corner Of said alley and Shelby street:
thence south with the east ;ide of Shelby
street about 40 feet to the beginning.
That portion Of faid above described prop
erty described as follows: Commencing az a
stake on Shelby street at q small alley. which
separates the Gsyos0 house lots from tho lots
OFF,; II, Cossitt; thence eastwardly, with the
south side Of said alley. 1856 feet 10 a stake
on an alley east Of the dayOso; thence south
waTdiy, with said last named alley, 100 feet
TO q stakei thence westwardly 1855 feet to a
stake on Shelby street, thence ~northwardly
100 feet. to. the beginning corner, which
boqndari es ipclpdo the original Gayoso house
and lot, before the same was extended" will
be s~Sld.tubjeet TO whatever rights Elizabeth
L, Iopp may have IN the same under and by
virtue OF en- alleged mortgage, exeeutod by
Robertson Topp to said Elizabeth l. Topp.
Terms Of sale-Cash.
JOHN IL FREEMAN, Clerk.
CT Vance, solicitor.
JackROp Tam .kantemhar 0qd 1900 Of a.
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Sealed Proposals.

CEALED Proposals. will be received by US
- until Wednesday, October goth, for the fol
lowing work to be done service 10 be rendered
and material to be furnished to tho Taxing
District Of Shelby county:
For the furnishing Of block stone, I TO 9
inches deep, we'll shaped, and the necessary
sand aud gravel; and the grading Of cutters
and crossings necessary TO lay tho pavement
on Bealo street, between Main street and the
bayou, amounting in all to 300 to 100 square
yards The work to DO completed on or before
the 9th Of November. All bids must bp for
the entire work completed, and according to
directions Of the District Engineer, IT,
cents per square yard
The Board reserves tho right to purchase
materials and do thewOrk with a District force.
By order Of the Board,
I42 u, T. PORTER, President,