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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01
COMMERCIAL,
PUBLIC LEDaER OFFICE,
MKnPHIs, Tenn, March /. 1880.

.IJhIlO hEHNNh OFEAynf !
MKMPHIs, Tenn, March /. 1880
The closing days of the past week
found a number of our factors anx-
ious to sell cotton, funds to meet first
of the month bills being their object,
and though the market has been easy
and in fact fat for several days, sales
were quite liberal at prices in some
cases from bc to as much as 4c below
previous figures, and also below OIL
ciaI quotations. There is, however,
no cramp in the financial market.
The published bank statements oflast
week show a fair supply of currency
on deposit, with good strength indi-
Gated, and all prime mercantile paper
offering finds takers ready at s per
cent. Open market rates Auctuate
between 6andlO per cent.
Exchange has moved less freely
during the first andmiddle Of the week
but prospects indicate better offerings
to-day and forward. Rates maintain
a steady position at $3.50 per thou
sandSfor bills on New Orleans, and all
points east where grace is not asked,
aud 1915 per thousand for sight on
places in New England. Drafts on
New York and New Orleans sell al
par,
Credit and confidence prevails
in all business circles at present, and
lesS trouble is now experienced in
making collections than has been ex'
perienced at any previous time for two
dozen years. The railway stock boon
in the east continues, and values have
climbed considerably during the pas
week. Here Memphis and Charleston
railway stock has advanced and is in
very unsettled condition, quotation
being somewhere about SOC. In New
York Satuld day Louisville aud Nash
| vile stock closed at 139 anC
st. Louis, Iron Mountain ant
Southern at Git. with sales Of 6OOt
shares. Less than two years ago thi
stock sold at less than 6. Nashvillean ant
Chattanooga sold Saturday upto l2C
and closed at III, with sales o 2S,OO
shares. Chicago, St. Louis and NeV
Orleans sold up to 46i, closing at 44l
with sales of 1000 shares. Othe
stocks exhibited equal wildnes:
The following are current quo
tations here for uncurrent securi
ties:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01
Tho Astor SpIurgo.

Washington Letter to the Chicago Times.l
The sensation Of the evening was
made, however, by Mrs. John Jacob
Astor, Of New York, who entered the
ballroom on the arm of Mr.. Ban
croft Davis, the nephew of the histo.
rian Bancroft. / begin the descrip-
tion Of Mrs. AstOr's toilet, with the
articles which first attracted notice,
and those we're her diamonds-S80O,-
900 she wore on Monday evening. She
came 70 The party and returned from
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01
Trustees Sale ofRaaI Esiaie.

-
~ virtue Of the terms of two certain deeds
Doftrust,the one dated the 18th day Of Jam.
ls,b, otrecord in Book 40 at page 33, and the
other dated the 10Th day Of August. 1877. ot
record IN Book ll9at page 3ls, in the County
Register Otice, to John A. Holt truste and
MS successors in Office, to secure the payment
OF certain Indebtedness therein mentioned
default having been made by the Rrantor
IN his undertakings in said trust deeds
and the deots being past due
and unpaid, | James w, Croeker. a.
legal successor Of the said John A. Holt
who Is now deceased, will at the request Of ill.,
benehciaries on Il
Wednesday, the Sd day OF Isso
between the hours Of II am. and l pm. m
'front.' OF the Bank Of Commerce. No. l2. Mad
lson street, in Memphis, Taxing District N
shelby county, Tennessee, sell Ia the hiSbest
bidder for cash the following real estate in
shelby county Tennessee, t0-wit; Reinv IN
Lhat part of the late city Of Memphis, now The
Taxing District Of Shelby county, known ~
Fort Pickering, and being a mart Of BloeE an
,rOnting forty feet on Carolina street. with q
d;!epth Of ono hundred and fifty feet in p~arailai
lines with Ninth street, and adjoining, and
east Of the Grieshaber lot, together with ~
improvements, which consist Of a trans cot
tage and outhouses. wv
Title believed to be good. butt shall sell
ard convey only a. trustee. NNN
Redemption waived and purebason
the absolute title. TO gel
an JAMES W. CR0Cg--p r-u.
N. b, 1eAzsyANT, Attor-, Nv -1sSes
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01
are as follows
COTTON ExCHAEeE QUOTATIONS.
OF 235. 237 bales OF cotton shipped

OF 235,28 bales OF cotton shipped
from here this season, up to Friday
last, the M. L T. R. R. has carried
south 1918 bales; steamers south
$3.50 bales; L. & N. R. r., north, 3d.
642 bales, and M. & G. R. r., east, 49,
693 bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01

With one hand be held her beauti-
full golden head above the chilling
wave, and with the other called loudly
for assistance.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-03-01
RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
noArs LEAVING THIS pay.
ARRIVED.

ARRIVED.
Steamer james Lee, FTiar's Point.
" Coahoma, Osceola,
" Silverthorn, Council Bend.
" Shields, Council BendA
q Andy Baum, Cincinnati.
" Ouaekita Belle, Arkansas City.
" Batesyillc, 81, Francis river.
Fannie Lewis, st. Louis.
q Jehn b. Maude, st. Louis.
% Belle Of Shreveport, New 0rpns.
Liberty No. 8. Ohio river.
" Gold Dust, Vicksburg.
Belle Of Memphis, st. Louis.
. Guiding Star, Cincinnati.
Golden City, New Orleans.
g Hattie NSwlapd, Arkansas river.
" Colorado, st. Logts
Il. W, Cole, st. Louis.
DEPARTED.
Steamer Josie Harry, White river.
Katie Hooper, Arkansas river.
" Colorado, st. Louis,
" Mark Twain, D%yersburg.
q Commonwealth, New Orleans.
y. ", Cole, 0uachita river.
John b. MRude, V~icksburg.
/" Gold Dust, ST. Louis,
> Guiding Star, New Orleans.
Golden City, Cincinnati.
Belle Of Shreveport, New Orpns.
Fannie Lewis, Ouachita river.
IN PORT.
James Lee, Batesville, Coshoma, Sill
verthorn, Shields, Andy Baum, Hattie
Nowland, 0naehita Belle,
CONDITION or THE RIVERS.
The river here declined | inch
since our last report, aud is now 81
feet Z inChes above low water mark,
At Cairo the fall was II inches, with 40
feet 10 inches on the egsuge. At
Pittsburg it is falling, with
g feet on the gauge. At
Cincinnati it is rising, with %
feet 4 inches on the gauge. At
Louisville it is rising, with 10 feet
3 inches in the canal. AT Evansville
1t is rising, with % feet 6inches on
the gauge. Cumberland and Tennessee
rivers arc rising again. Arkansas
river is declining, with 1 feet on
tho gauge at Little Rock. White
river is on a stand, with q good stage
Of water from J~aeksonpOrt to the
mouth,
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fFeMaary lSg0.
trustees Sale.

Rf virtue Of a deed Of trust to mo exesntod
~ " L Hall and 4 R r Hall, to secure
II, book %, pages l0l and IO2, ofthe Registsr'
once Of Shelby county, Tennessee, / will. on
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
CFrom The =. Y. sun.I
EE=CEszR AND GARFIELD.


II ask, through you, Theodsre
Tilton's forgiveness, and / humble
myself befor him as I do before my
Cod"
So spoke Henry Ward Beecher,
out of the anguish Of his reinOrse and
ter,er, en- New Years Day, 1871.
James a. Garfield did not tell the
laie Oakes Ames, 50 far as appears,
that he humbled himself before him
as he did before his God, but ne
humbled himself to the extent OF ask
ing Ames to prop up perjury with
another perjury.
Here is part of the account given
under cath by Ames:
sHe wanted to have il as a loan. I"
Q.-ssDid he claim that it was in
fact loan?'
A.-''No, sir. 1 do net think he
did. 10, he did not"
estate all you know in reference
to it.n
Al told him he knew it was a
dividend. I made out a statement
and showed it to him at the time
In one conversation he admitted it.''
That is, having lied uuder oath,
Garfield asked Ames to lie under oath
also, and, so get him out Of the
scrape. Ames, however, being a
truthful Witness decided TO tell the
truth, regardless Of the other hearts
that would ache. And lie told il.
The resultant ache at the time was
nothing to the ache that is now hurt
ing the Republican managers and
editors, who find the party handi.
capped, in a close and doubtful race,
with tainted candidate.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23

seminal Weakness, night losses by tlruams pini-
Piles the face and loss Of manhood can positively be
cured. The sick and afflicted should not fail 10 cali
upon him. The Doctor has travelled extensively IN
Europe and inspected thoroughly the various hospi
tails there, obtaining great dead of valuable iniorns
tion which he iscopetent TO ipart those in need
OF his services. DIR. GIBBoN will make no charge
unless he effect Persons at distance MANS
NE CURED AT HONE. All communication
strictly confidential. You no one bat the Doctor.
Send ten dollars for package Of medicine. Persons
writing 70 the Doctor will please state theane Of the
paper they this advertisement in. Charges rea-
sonahle Call or write. Address DR.. J. T. GIBBoN,
Box 1867, San Francisco. yl5n4S
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
NEWS BRIEFs.

4IEAPHIs, Tenn Is unusually
healthy this Skinner.
TIE eensuggives the city Of wash
ington population Of 10000.
NEW YORK cIrY's population is a
million an,I a half;-more people
than there are west Of the Rocky
Mountains.
TuE returns Of the census enumer-
ators for Wheeling, ". Va, places
the population at 81, ,G7l, a growth Of
1862 in the past ten years.
Gen. Hatch, III command of the
troops operating against Victoria, has
asked permission TO follow that saw
age across the Mexican border.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
NEW for AGENTS!

MKO LOW PRICED snd- FAST SELL
.AOO ING BOOKS of all kinds arefnlly.
represented in eur new GRAND C0MB1-
NATION PROSPECTUS BOOK, by sam
pie pages, binding, illustrations, etc. A
great variety and sure success for Can
vassers. All actually wishing employ
ment. address for terms, STANDARD Pun.
Co., st. Louis, Mo. 27m6
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
Tie Thoroughbred Stallion
Tam O'Shanter.
nsscRIrrIoN 80 -.

DESCRIPTION AND PEpfQaEEs
TAM o'SHASTER, in, IS six years old
this Spring; is OF mahogany bay. stands
sixteen and one-haif hands high, and
weighs 1850 pounds. The sire of Tam
0'Shanter, Jr., was an imported Ciyies-
dale: tho dam Messenger.
TAM o'SHANTER has fine action and
Is OF good disposition.
TERMS:
To insure. $50. payable when the mare
proves to be with foal; Season, Si5, pay
able on or before July lst.
Care will be taken TO prevent accidents.
but will be responsible for none. ANY
person parting with an insured mare, bee
fore the is known te be with fcal, forfeits
the insurance.
TAM O,SEANTExs Will stand the
ensuing season at Marshal's Stable, Al
bany, Oregon. Season begins April !, and
ends July 10, 1880.
36tf ANS. MARSHALL.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23

BETTER THAN GOLD IS perfect
health, and yet many are suffering the tor
lures of the damned with Dyspepsia when
single bottle OF DIR. MINTIEiS ENG.
LISH DANDELION LIVER AND DYs-
PEPSIA PILLS = Ill give relief, and. If
persisted IN, viii cure tie worst case Of
this distressing trouble. This pill cures
Torpid Liver and Biliousness, Regulates
the Bowels, removes PiTnples from the
Face, cures Sallow Complexion, Foul
Breath, Sick Headache, Heartburn, Pain
IN the Sides and Back; IS Sugar coated and
GUARANTEED to be PURELY VJGE-
TABLE. It acts directly on the coating of
the Stomach and on the Liver. Can be
taken in any elime-wet or dry weather.
Beware of limitations. The genuine has
an engraving of lion on the outside
wrapper. Price, 50 cents. For sale By all
druggists.
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
BRICK !

Cee A WEEK in your own town and tio capitol
sDDU risked YoH give the business trii
without expense The best opportunity ever offered
for those willing To work. Y0n should try nothing
else until you for yourself what you do at the
business We offer No room to explain here. You
devote all your time only your spare time
the business and make great pay for every hour you
work. Women make as much Send for spe-
cal private terms and particulars which mail free.
s. Outfit free. Don't complain Of hard times while
you have such chance. Address II. HALLETT q
CO., Portland. Maine syI
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
PATE Mt s.

F. A. Lehmann, Solicitor Of American and Foreign
Patents, Washington, D. G. An business connected
with Patents whether before the Patent 9ce OF the
1ourts promptly attended to. No charge made
unlesa patent q secured. Send for circular. IA
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23

YHyIIs ELEGANT NEW HOTEL JUST NOW
completed, viii be opened about July 18th, 1879
II constructed the most modern and CONVENIENT
plan, has fine sample room especially arranged for
commercial Travellers and the table VIII be supplied
at al times with good meals 70
The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1880-07-23
To the Unfortunate I!
DE-. GIBBONS
Dispensary.

200 EE&gxy ST i.
Os~ep eornev OF CONNER
eial Street. san Francisco.
Established in IS5s. for
the treatment Of Sexual
and Seminal Diseases, such
as Ssonerrlaca. esfeel.
structure, syphilis in all
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-31
:" Eo
sS.e What.itrviIl, ,iprTitheut .Dastins..e..

a
81 will sewiOvcrI egsnlapEiace'a Us iSeliEas
It will sew over soamafn any garmentSwithogt
making long or short stitches breaking ot threau,
or rpucEering the lining OF the goods at the scam,
recurring no assistance from the operator, except
TO run the machine and to guide the work. ~
point which no other machine possesses, =
Itis the only practical nlaenns ioI neli1lIns liII1Inss
goods without bastlng, and 1t is the only machine
IN the world that will turn wide hem across the
end Of sheet without ful!ing the under or upper,
It Will turn a hem and sew In aiold at one oper.
It will do telling, bias or straight, on any cotton
or woolen goods
II will bind dress goods with the same or other
material, either scallops, points, squares or
Bind folds without showing the stitches, and
ii will put on dress braid and sew in, facing
and biasfold Mt one operation, without drawing
either Dress braid or SKIRT and without showing,
Fold bias trimming and sew on at c::-.'Pera-
tion. ~
pieces of goods at oneoperaton, and sew on at the
same time. '.l.1'sr -.se,, -. :-.rS .r.. .., \
twill sew in sleeve, covering YaVcor6 hindl
stitching It into the seam at the same time -,
IT will gather without sewing on. 1T Will gather
and sew on at theBsame time. g,
stitches on the right side, at one operation.e
II will make and sew rufiie on any part pf a.
dress skirt, and sew on bias fold for heading at
one operation, showing the stitches on the right
eide "'s'''ss~
twin gather and sew on band with piping
between riiffle and band, at one operation. 4
II will sew band and rutile on dress skirt,
stitching in piping nt head Of band, Mt one oper-,
alton.
It win make plated trimming either straight
or scalioped.
Make plated trimming either scalloped or
straight and sew on band, and edge stitch the
band, at one operation.
II will, with one operation for each variety
without bastng, execute 20 practical varieties OF
ruffing, being twelve more than csH be produced
on any other machine with the S-le number OF
operations.
It 6Qes not change length OF stitch on seroll
work.
1t sews from lace TO leather without changing
stitch or tension.
Every machine Is warranted faE Ave yea,s ana
will be kept in repairs free of expense to the pur
chaser. FOR SALE By==---r-
HAIR Man,
Apr "a Agent
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-31
LUCKY FOP HIM.

Some weeks since, while a party of
Detroit surveyors were running rail-
road line down in Indiana, the sur
Yey carried them across a cemetery.
In the course Of the survey small
stake was driven into grave, and
before it was removed and carried
ahead, a lathy, long-legged Hoosier
overhauled the men, peeled off his
coat and danced around as he yelled
out:
"Show me the man who dared drive
that stake in that gravel
"We are going toremove it," quiet
ly replied one of the party.
81 don't care if you are; show me
the man I"
"Well, I'm the man, anu what are
you going to DO about it?" said the
big man of the crowd as he stepped
out.
Didn't you know that was my
wife's Graye?' asked the Hoosier with
a considerable fall of his voice.
mo, sir."
"Well it is, sir-my first wife'a
grave"
"And whit of that?'
"What q hat Why--why, sir,
if | hadr married. a second one
about me 70 and kinder forgot
my grief, RI that stake and pin
you to the I lee with it It's lucky
for you fe.-rs mighty lucky for you,
that | don't .eel as bad as I did,
Detroit I 42re88.
CUsTos why are Malt Bit
ters' so pular?"
Drugs C--"B Because, as a Food
Medicine thsy enrich the blood, hard-
en- the IN laoles, quiet the nerves and
perfect digestion"
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-31

the mines. A man may earn 500
during the month, but before pay
day rolls around he has been compell-
ed to deal 1t all out at the "Pluck-
mes" to support his family. Paid in
cash once a week or every two weeks,
he could have gone to a free store,
purchased the same articles, and have
had $l5 or $40 of the $50 left. This
would enable provident miners to
save. 1t would not make them i'm
provident. AS it is, all have to 60
though the hopper of monopoly and be
ground to powder.
The operators in the above named
districts, when the lockout takes
place, will introduce mining machines,
or at least that is the avowed inten-
ton. 1t is claimed for them that
they will entirely supersede skilled
miners, and that they can be success
fully operated by men without sin
gle days experience. OF course this
remains to be demonstrated.
While there can be no objection to
the operators mining by machinery,
even if practicable, there is no over
looking the fact that its introduction
would be followed by scenes that no
one would care to contemplate in ad-
vance, for 10000 men out of employ
ment in territory of so or 40 square
miles'is a serious thing to contemplate.
neither human reason nor modern
civilization can forecast or prevent
the possibilities of the future.
The problem is one that demands
prompt and serious thought, The
mining interests of Ohio were never
before on the eve Of such a crisis.
The result of the presidential can
vass may depend on the events of the
next 80 days in single mining dis
trict.
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-31
TIE BUSINESS OUTLOOK.

Business men and the newspapers,
from the Atlantic to the Pacific, seem
to have discounted the recent depres-
sion, and are generally hopeful of a
better state Of affairs. AS the great
and unnatural initiation was sudden
and short-lived, it was but natural
that the extreme depression should
be brief. There are other and sub
stantial reasons for anticipating and
Improvement in the markets, and
hence in manufactures and every
thing else.
The surplus manufactures OF the
rest of the world, drawn hither by
our high prices, have left foreign
markets without surplus to disturb
the immediate future, and with n
prospect of a gradually increasing de-
mand for American products. The
fall of prices in our own markets
brought the cotton growers and grain
producers to the cities with the large
profits from last years crops, to help
in relieving our plethoric warehouses.
Lower prices here have also greatly
stimulated expectation and checked
imports, so that in the middle of June
our exports, were greater in value
than ever before in all our history,
The feeling among merchants, at
the commencement Of July, is mani
testify more hopeful for the remainder
of the year than it was in May and
June. No part Of the country Is now
suffering from drouth and the gener-
al prospect for crops is good in all
parts, so that as usual, we shall have
an abundance to keep and TO spare
and the crop prospects are fair IN
England, France and most OF the 9TH
er continental states, Europe is sure,
as usual to offer us paying market
for much of our surplus. American
manufactures of various kinds are
steadily finding their way into new
foreign markets and are in increasing
demand, on account of their excel
lence and cheapness, IN markets where
they are already established. Our
people are better able to patronize
our own market than at any previous
period in seven years. Prices must
remain low, but not below a profit ;
hence they are likely to remain steady,
80 that while speculation may have
an all summer holiday, sound bust
ness men will see no reason to res
popJ
Frostburg mining journal., 1880-07-31
A MODEST BROTHER.

A certain gentleman requiring le-
"al assistance had been recommended
10 one of the two brothers, but had
forgotten the christian name of him
he sought, so he called at the office Of
the one found and asked for Mr..
Podger.
THAT is my name, sir.
"But there are. two of you by that
name in town.
eyes.
"Well, l wish to consult the Mr..
Podger-exouse me for the allusion-
who wears wig"
"We both wear wigs, sir"
"Woll, the man I seek was divorced
from his wife not long ago"
"There you hit us both again, sir. :"
"The man to whom | was recon-
mended has recently been accused Of
forgery, though, I trust, unjustly."
"There We are again, my dear sir.
We have both had that gentle insinu-
alton laid at our doors.
"Well, upon my word, you two fell
lows bear striking resemblance.
But | guess l have it now. The one
] am after is in the habit of occasion.
ally drinking to excess-sometimes to
intoxication.
my dear man, that little vice is
unfortunately characteristic of the
pair of us, and | doubt if our lest
friends could tell you which was the
worat."
"Well, you are a matched pair GER
tainly. But tell me, continued the
visitor, (which Of tie twain it was
that took the poor debtors cath few
months ago?'
Ha, ha, we were both in that mud
die. was on Bob's paper and he
was on mine
"In morcy's name r cried the ap-
plicant desperately, will you tell me
which Of the two is the most sensible
man ?"
"Ah, there you touch bottom, my
friend. Poor Bob, cant stretch the
truth, even to serve a brother. If
you want the more sensible one Of
the two | suppose I must acknowledge
the corn. l am the man. n."-Tery,
Miss, Enterprise.