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The First Equestrian statue.

New York Times.l
Comparatively few persons remem
Der that the equestrian statue Of
Washington, in Union square, which
has been so severely criticised, was the
hrst bronze statue executed in this
country. 1t was unveiled July 4, 1856,
with appropriate ceremonies, and was
for some time regarded by the general
public as a very creditable specimen
OF American art but it has OF late
grown the fashion to ridicUle it un-
sparingly. The statue is often sup
posed, for reasons needless to mention,
to be the work of Clark Mills. whose
equestrian statue of Jackson at the ma
tiOnal capital the duplicate is in New
Orleans) has failed to secure the APP
probation naturally considered by the
sculptor to be its due, Henry Kirke
Brown is responsible for the Wash
ington,' which was not put up until
three years after Mills had put up his
Jackson" at the capital, unveiled
January s, 1853. although, as has been
said, the Washington antedated the
-" jackson in execution. Browns
other well known productions are the
Indian and Panther" the statue o.
De Witt Clinton, in Greenwood Gem
etery General Greene. in the capito.
at Washington, aud General Scott, il
bronze-his latest effort for the sam,
city. His ideal works" Adonis,
David, Ruth F" and "Rebecca" -
have little fame.
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RELIEF FOR IRELAND.
Ten Thousand Dollars Contrib
uted AnOnJ mOusIy.

The New York Herald's fund for
the relief of the Irish sufferers had
been swelled Friday evening to the
splendid aggregate of $228, 600. One
Of Thursdays contributions wa a
check for $4,000 from one of the best
known and most public-spirited citi-
zens of New York, who, with rare
modesty, imposed on the Herald the
condition that his name should not be
printed, desiring that it should simply
be announced as coming from "A
Friend of Ireland The generous
donor further desired that this sum
should be placed at the disposal Of the
Rev. George Ii. Hepworth, one of the
Herald committee, to aid families ia
e~migrating to this country, "believ-
ing that to be the surest way of afford
ing the Irish peasantry permanent
relief" !
The Herald has declined to let Mr..
Parnell name a substitute to act in
his stead on its relief committee, and
announces that it has therefore . dis
missed Mr.. Parnell from further CON
Sideration." The committee, as at
present organized, consists of Colonel
King Hartman, Mr.. Shaw, Professor
Baldwin, Cardinal McCloskey and
Rev. George Ii. HepWorth.
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COLONEL HENRY r. GIBSON. the
rejected nominee for supervisor in the
First census district, has on hand a
fine lot of applications for the DO
sition OF enumerator which, if not
c lled for by the writer's, he would nc
doubt dispose Of on reasonable terms
to the man who gets the place. He
says now, cOnsolingly, that there was
scarcely an applicant who was moi
well qualified for the place.
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Special Notices.


To all who arc suffering fromthe errors and
iHdiserotionS Of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood. etc.. l will
send a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discoV-
cred BY = missionary in South America. Send
3 self-addresssd envelope to REV. JosErH T.
IMAM. Station D, New York City.
eod-2-rHr-1kW
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Saturday, March 20, 1880.

in front Of my office, No. % Madison street,
der for cash, a lot Of ground situated in Mems
phis, Tennessee, being part of lot 469, and
thus described: Beginning on the north side
OF Market street 1856 feet east Of the first alley
east Of Third street; thence eastwardly so feet
with Market street, thence northwardly to
westwardly with said line 50 feet; thence
southwardly TO- the beginning. The iot IL
well improved, having a large and Handsome
residence upon. The western 3S feet viii he
first sold, and the remaining IL feet sold NEXT
II the first does not pay the debt. Tho i'm,
provements are all on the 80 feet,
Sale TO begin ut IL o'clock. Equity of ro-
demption and homestead waived. Titie be.
lieyed to be good, but / will sell and conway
as trustee only. '
Smith & Collier, Atty'S. 1SSIs
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Let Us Make an Exchange with
Russia.

New York SUM-
They have a strong government in
RUSSIA very strong government.
There are many people in Russia
who do not like a strong government.
1t is evidently much too strong to suit
their tastes. Hence the frequent at
tempts to assassinate the car and to
destroy the royal family.
Now, we have a few people in this
country who desire a strong govern
ment. They declare their dissatisfac-
ton with the uncertainties of
frequent, popular elections, and their
preference for a stronger government
than VIC have ever had.
Something more like the Russian
government would suit them. General
Grant stands at the head of this party
of m%alcOntents and is their candidate
for president.
Now, what we propose is an ex-
change Of all these m~onarchies of
America for the liberty.loving sub
jeets of the car. Let Grant and bis
third .termers and imperialists take up
their abode amid the congenial society
Of st. Petersburg, while we find room
in the United States for an equal num-
Der OF Russian republicans.
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ADMINISTRATORS No1joo

ANlNG qualified as administro
b 49, estate OF Mrs. Marie Auer. fnS,nn Vi INC
oenStein, all parties having cla ,iSrMerly Ra-
IIS My lSss1te are notified to present. ~ ssalnst
are rega %SteSI 10 snSi and all those indebtesd
mani '''ou 10 come Toward and maIo ooeou
Memphis. sho,SS1o ScEPH spECHT, Adm pay
9Th, 1880, y' rem, February
1lAt
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HE Germans of Cleveland, Ohio.
are opposed to the third term, and say
that as between Grant and JEFF. Davis
they would have no choice, and would
prefer Tilden a thousand times to
either.
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Chemists have found that the smoke
OF a cigar contains acetic, formic,
butyrlc, valerie, and p%ropionic acids,
prussic acids, creosote and carbonic
acid ammonia, sulphuretted hydrogen,
pyrldine, verodine, picolins, lutidine,
collodine, narvoline, corodine, and
rubidene. And the boy who has just
tried 1t for the first time will tell you
that he believes it does.
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Trustees Sale.

N pursuance of the terms of a deed of trust
1 executed to me by o. B. Parker and wife,
marina NJ NJ Parker, on the 22nd, day Of Sep
office of Shelby county, Tenn, in book No.
W. page 625, to secure a note for sllO0 and in
terest, and default having been made in the
theraOf I will on
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Trustees Sale.

NDER a deed of trust made to me on the
~ 9Th of October, 1874, and registered in
Shelby county in book l0S, page 5S5, and at
by said trust deed, l will, on
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Trustees Sale.

PURSUANT to a trust deed executed To mo
i by II. S; Ledbetter and John w. Ledbet.
ter, her husband, dated 18th day April ISIS.
and recorded in Registers Office OF Shelby
county, Tennessee, in hook No. Ill, page 4l9,
of trust, i will on NVNu
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The German government, it is in
tlmated, intends to levy a tax on news
paper advertisements.
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Truslee,s Snle of Renl Estnte.

PY virtue Of the terms of n deed Of trust ex.
- ecuted by N. Maria Stewart and j. 3.
Stewart, to John A. Holt, trustee, and 10 his
successors in office, dated May 10, 1877, record
ed IN book llS. at page 1873 of the Shelby coun-
" Registers office, the g~rantors therein hav-
ing tailed in their. undertakings, and the debt
Inreoy secured being, past due and unpaid, 1,
james ". Crocker, the legal successor Of the
said John A. Holt, who is now deceased. will.
at the request of the beneficiary.
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Monday, the 18th day of March. I8sN

between the hours oil and 2 pm, in front
Oh the courthouse door Of said county, sell for.
real estate, situated in Shelby county. STATE.
OF Tennessee, and described as follows,
Lot No. q, so feet by 14S; No. %, so by Ias,
ieet, pointing on J%ennet street; lot No. III
"a S3- 20 lay by by o5 25V ! 10 feet and lot No. SOs
leans street. All of which lets are in The 4
=; Brown subdivision of lots rs and 81 of
Mlioough williams original sub-diyision
little to same believed to be good hut I mi
and convey as trusted only. IA
l43 Is GEO READ Trr,
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NOilce Of FINAL NettlemrnI-

-
No. l2SO-In the Probate Court If sbo,h,,,
county, Tennessee. p. c.. Bnrford IGvvnsy
dian of John s. Heron. Nuar-
IlhlS is to notify all persons Interested :,
j. tue estate, of said John S. Herr@n. that I
W.T. at my Office in the city of Memphis on
Monday, March IG, 1850,
at 10 o'clock am. take and stnte tho snoy
settlement Of the accounts of L. p. q, Snrin-d
IS Guardian Of the estate Of said .Toba Z
Heron, same being made by America a RpTp--
io Tbis eT FobItnaiAS 81 !, p ,oS C, Burf6rd, deceased,
.unan OWEN DWYRR, Clerk.
By HUGH B. CULLEN, D. C.
Gantt x Patterson. Attorneys. 4 o
NDER, and by virtue of three 90, -
~ trust deeds, recorded s~everally in huoa ah
NO, 100, page u, book No. 1O4, macs 90 poos
e99k No. JOY, page l54 Of the Register t. o anu
Of Shelby county, Tennessee, defauIt once
been made therein, | will, an Mo, ,havlng
oth uay, Of March, 1880, at the soutf auay' tno
ner Of Main and Madison strests west cor
ing Dlstriot,or city OF Memphis. , onae edV Aa1I
10y casnf a certain tract Of lird in sSolbv
e. Of +, snbGViS;g, Oelhg y TT OF lot number
purchased by i. i. u areo. 4OclOO acres,
Eienore Perkins. June y ~ Is79 lIon MIS-"
eide9 sy >. Il; McCiW d. ciyiI ensinaers 4TUu a
WilIonsbbyu NWiD11I;eesP art of lot number rs. Of
of LOT nn1n6er & e"",rr S subdivision. Said part
north side Of WoJ imehceS at a point IN the
feet1 ei0 Get a." lier avenue, widened (ten
nnmbeT rs. IL n the southeast corner of lot
WIZ 80, ~ snoe west on tho north side ~
tsn Feet 1Ver .uG, avenue widened ten feet1
ten foot W stake; thence north 80 feet to Z.
o e sa l?9' ~ ley; thence east on the south side
he bbt es, lley ten feet; thence south $40 feet to
said ; ming; also lot number S Of the afore-
m NV qbdlvlsiOn, bounded as follows. Com
a nne clngat . point on the north side ofWeiker
%s. nue, widened item feet go feet from the
Suu.Aeast corner Of lot number rs: tbence
wdsn on me north side OF Walker avenue,
north 80 feet to n ten foot alley; thence east
On the south side of said aliey5e feet To- a
saake; thence south 80 feet to the beTinning'
Eq9ity of redemption waived. Title be.
tee. oii oHly us tus-
February 4th, 1880.
12s SIMON sTURM, Trustee.
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Use Hop Bitters and you will use no
other medicine. Test it.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1880-02-26

The subscription price Of the DAILY
PUBLIC LEDGER is s5 per annum and
500 per month fOrlvSp than one year. The
WEEKLY LEDGER is 81 per Anuum-
postage free.
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Trustees Sale.

PURSUANT to a trust deed executed 10 ma.
4 by +. G.. Obenchain and Annie H. 0ben'
chain, his wife, dated January 18th, 1879. and
recorded in the Registers office of Shelly
county, Tennessee, in book No. 9, page los, At.
of trust, | will 9"N "eoW
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Entered at the PostOfice at Memphis, Tenn,
as secOnd-class NATTER
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EDUCATIONAL.
HigbGGS School
354 POPLAR STREET.

TNHE Sisters Of st. Mary having discontinued
their school in Memphis, | have leased
their large and commodious school building r,
ana VIII open therein my school for girls on
MONDAY. NOVEMBER IL, 1873.
The retired situation and refined surround
lngs make the location q desirable one for ed
ucauOnal purposes, while its accessibility by
the street railway and boulevard overcome in
q measure the obstacle of distance from val
ued, patrons. The rooms are large, light,
well-yentilated and perfectly appointed, be-
ing, refurnlshed throughout with new desks,
maps ana school apparatus, and for adapta-
bilitty to- their purpose are not to be purpassed
in the city.
During the fifteen years ofmy work in Mem-
phis l have been enabled by yearly visits n
other cities to keep up with the progress Of
educational science, and, assisted by trained
teachers, ! am prepared to oGer 10 the neonie
OF Memphis as liberal a course for Their
daughters as can be obtained in any birb
school in the United States.
The course of study will be the same, with
some notifications, as that devised BY me i,r
use in the Presbyterian School.
A class of boys under eight years of age w;Il
DC received IN the primary department.
misunderstanding TO age and class, S21
Oh, $50, 81 so for the school Year Thirty weeks
payable in advance in three equal payments.
No extra charge for Latin OF drawing. Fer
circulars, with course of study, etc, address
MISS JENNIE M. HIGBEE,
1861 8A Poplar street. Memphis.
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THE MEMPHIS EXPERIMENT.

Thursday Evening, Feb. 90 1850,
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Attaohment Notice.

before }. y. Galloway, j. P. for Shelby eour-
y, Tenn-G A Eckerly 4 Bros VS.. BocIcr /
N this cause an attachment having been
\ sued out under section Bass OF ne Code Of
Iennessee, and returned levied upon the
property OF the defendant, and affidavit hav-
ing been made chat defendants are indebted
70 the plaintihs in the sum of S30O. 80, due nv
9Sses, and that the claim is just, and Tia. the
I~efendants are nonresidents of tks State of
Iennesseei or are about 70 remove, or have
semoVed themselves Or property from the
state; or hays removed, or are removing
themselyea out Of the county privately, or
qGneealing. themselves so that the ordinary
process OF law cannot be served upon them:
or have a~6sconded; or are ASCENDING or con
ceallng themselves OK property; or have
nsqaulently diSposssd6f y, or are about fraudu-
entity TO Oppose Of their property, Il Is there.
lore ordered that said defendants make their
PERSONAL appearance before me on the 9th
Jay ofEebrNary, 1880, at IL O'clock M, at nv
ohiqe, No " Madison street, Memphis, Tenn.
ana defend said attachment suit within ne
time prescribed by law, or the same viii be
proceeded with ex parte, and that a copy Of
this order be published once a week for fopr
consecutive weeks In the Public Ledger
This I'D day Of January, 1880
125 lS1 1S7 1S
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DUBLIN, February G.-The Empress
Of Austria arrived to-day, on her an
nual hunting tour in Ireland. She
was received with the heartiest de
monstrations of welcome, and many
compliments were heard upon her
friendly and social disposition, SO diff
ferent from the conduct of Queen Vic
toria In seoluding herself 30 complete
ly from the people Of Ireland.
In the parish Of Athlone, sixty
seven miles from this city. Father Nc
Philin to-day assembled the peasantry
to resist a bailiff who had come to
serve a writ Of ejectment. After an
address by the father the bailif de-
parted, making no attempt TO serve
the writ. He was hooted and ieered
by the crowd, Who we're fully prepared
to resort to more forcible arguments il
necessary.
All the clergy approve Of the plan
OF tho Americans iu selecting the
bishops Of all denominations here as
to tbs persons through whom to dis.
pense their magnificent eharities for
the relief Of this famine stricken
people.
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Trustees Sale.

-
Under and by virtue of two certain deeds
" In trust TO me executed by John N, Ware,
and Mary A. Ware, his wife, one of date Oeto.
Der 18th, 1876, and recorded in the Register 8
ot1ce Of Shelby county, in book No. ia, page
~, ct. seq; and one dated 18th of Deeember.
1876, and recorded in Registers Office Of Shelly
county, In book No. lis, page 325, ct. sea, tbe
debts therein secured being past due, / win,
at the request of the beneficiary therein, on
Saturday, 2lst February, 1850.
Mt the southwest corner OF Main and Madison
streets, in the Taxing District OfShelby coun-
~ date the city. Of Memphis), sell for cash, to
the highest bidder, the following described
real estate, situate, lying and being in the
late city of Memphis (nOW the Taxing District
Of Shelby county, to-Wit: Part Of lot ~ two,
block (6O) sixty, south Memphis, beginning al
a point on the east line of Orleans street, l50l
hYe hundred and two feet south of its inter
section with the south line of Vance street:
being .l5N fifty feet from the southwest corner
OF j. d.. kraft's loD; therce southwardIy with
the east line Of Orleans street t55l ffty- 1--WE
teet-thus giving a front of fifty five feet on
east side Of Orleans street. and running back
eastwardly between parallel lines land paral
lel with south line Of Vance street,, (2l4 two
hundred and fourteen feet to the lot belonging
to. and occupied by, st. Agnes Academy.
EQUITY of redemption waived. Purchasers
title to be absolute.
W. C. MCCLURE, Trustee.
WRIGHT. FoLKHs a WRIGHT, Atty's. 1N 1850
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It that a selection be made Of a leadV
who will carry the peoples banner I,
victory over those who have been rul
ing and running the country so long
Put the ball in motion at once; rim
forth the alarm; light the Leacof
fires; let the cry of alarm souF.d upof
every breeze, and arouse the countr,
to its danger and its duty Let ths
good word be begun at euce. and
with the help of God and valor Of
freemeu, the result will be glorious,
The Irish anti-rent uloyement in
Chicago is fast reaching very large
proportions, and many thousands 81
dollars have been sent to the relief
OF those suffering from oppression in
cipiently caused by British tyranny.
But the grand demonstration is re-
served for Parpell, Dillon, ct al, when
they arriys here on the 23d inst.
These i.lustrious disciples Of liberty
vii. receive an ovation Of which the
grandest enemy of tyranny that ever
raised a voice for freedom would be
proud. Chicago's 100000 citizens
will welcome them in heart, ifnot in
person, and in every way cheer them
on in their good work. Atleast l00.-
900 persons will throng the exposition
building to listen to their tale Of poor
lreland's woes, and to give full ex-
preston TO their condemnation of the
tyrannical course pursued BY Eng
land toward the rightful possessors Of
that fair green isle that has
been turned into a land Of mourn
ing by her -illainous atrocities;
iendIsh acts that have aroused the
entire world to make a universal pro-
test against the wrongs under which
Irishmen writhe. That England's
attitude against Ireland is inhuman
and v~illainous no other proof is needed
than the want of any seinblance OF
sympathy expressed by the queen in
her late address to parliament. Her
course in the premises is simply dia>
bolical, and it is to be hopad she will
live to regret having followed the ad
vice of Beaconsfsld and Northcarte
in the matter. Unless badgered
with it, no woman with q throb of
humanity in her heart would ignore
her duty To her so-called subjects
when the outer world is so aroused to
their suferings. But her vindietive
eoldness Of soul will have the effect
to arouse a deeper sympathy for the
oppressed in the hearts Of millions
who are ever ready to relieve suffer
ing and to draw the sword against
tyrants. In this grand work Chicago
will do her full duty. And | believe
Memphis and other Southern cities
will do likewise.
Murders, burglaries, robberies, thug
ging, and all sorts of crimes. still con-
tinue to agitate Chicago; still there
are many lamp-posts that would look
well if upon each was hung one of the
numerous villains. Yesterday morn
ing a most atrocious crime was at
tempted upon the persons Of two young
ladies, in the southwest division Of the
city, by a fsnd in human form. Two
gentlemen passing by prevented the
outrage and the scoundrel was lodged
in the stationhouse. What splendid
subject for Judge Lynch.
Weather fine, and business looking
up. More anon. NAYR.
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ten. The woman had plenty Of help
L, search for it aud the force was
suddenly increased by a mar who left
his seat in the rear ef the car, came
forward and got down on hands aud
knees and said:
II always have good luck in finding
lost things. Are you sure it was
money!"
"Oh, yes" replied the woman.
The man poked around in the straw
and suddenly held up a big jack-knife
with a broken blade and asked
Couldn't have been this, could it9
Or did you drop this afterward ?"
II never had that-never saw 1t
before" she tartly answered, as her
face grew red.
Didn't, eh2 Well, bub, you can
have it. Well look a little further
and see what we can see. Here are
two pants buttons, but l don't suppose
you dropped them, and I'll put them
into nay pocket"
Never mind looking any more
l don't care for the lossl" she re-
marked, as her position grew uncom-
| Portable.
"Oh, it's no trouble to me. and it
belongs to you, whatever it is. 1t
always vexes me to =. Ha! maybe
twas thisl"
He held up the corkscrew, with
one end bored deep into a cork,
and the woman fairly rose up as she
said: .
II never had that-never saw it be-
fore-neverl'
Didn't, eh2 Well, III pocket it,
for such things come awfuly handy
around the house. I'll look a little
further"
mo, you needn't. | guess l didn't
drop anythinR-I'm sure | didn't"
Il kinder think you did, forI heard
something chink," he observed, as he
paved around. Given if it's only q
cent it will be a cent ahead if we find
it, Now, what's this?"
The woman almost climbed over
him to get to the door and drop off,
but she wasn't ten feet away when he
reached the door, held up a vest
buckle between his thumb and finger
and called:
Hold ou-I've found there it
is y"
She started on a run down a side
street, and when the car started up
the man trampled the straw down aud
hung the buckle on the front door
with the remark:
Its little reward any one gets even
for doing a stranger a favor, but seeing
I've got the corkscrew I'll leave this
here, and she IAN git it or letis go
into the treasury of the s~treet-car
company"