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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
A Sixty Year Old Estimate of the
Passenger Business.

Colonel Forney, in the Progress, in
INDUCING in some "reminiscences about
the internal improvement or canal
rage of sixty years ago says:
About 1923 the legislature Of Penn
sylvania began to rouse to a sense Of
her rare facilities. Always slow, it
needed the activity Of Maryland and
New York to rouse her. At last Phil
adelphia began to move, and after
much discussion and many doubts q
small appropriation was secured from
the legislature to defray tho expenses
Of a preliminary survey, and to organ
ize a board of commissioners of inter
nal Improvement. The three gentle
men appointed to begin this work, in
1923, made a report next year, | be-
lieve, and among other things stated,
so runs the recollection of my inform
ant, that they had selected compe-
tent agents to count the number of
persons passing from Philadelphia to
Pittsburg, west and east, and east
and west, and also the number of
wagons and teams hauling freight
over the same turnpike between the
same points, and that these agents had
now performed their duty at certain
prominent places, and the commits
%sioners felt sure that a canal between
Philadelphia and Pittsburg would be
a success, if it was only pushed. The
time would come, they predicted,
from the data they had gathered,
when sixty persons a day would pass
to and from Philadelphia and Pitts
burg, and when sixty thousand tons
of merchandise a year would be car
ried between the cities, one on the
Delaware and the other on the Ohio.
Reports of those early days show
moro amusing prophecies and details,
and the historian or novelist would
be startled at the ridiculous contrast
between the hope and the fruition.
and between the seed and the harvest.
We have lived, not only to see sixty
passengers a day passing east and
west. but by all the routes at least as
many hundreds, while the tonnage is
simply beyond calculation.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

Washington special to Gin. Enquirer.l
AS an orator Malone is a fraud. He
is ungraceful and pedantic. He is not
at all gifted with eloquence. His ges-
t~iculation is wild and misapplied, con
sisting of the swinging of the arms,
madly and spasmodically. While his
voice fills a hall, it falls heavily. He
cant turn a well-rounded period. His
declamatory powers might make an
impression at the crossroads in Vir.
ginia, but in the senate they were
wasted. 1t didn't take the senate or
the galleries five minutes, either, to
find it out. The speech was read from
printed slips, prepared kindly by the
public printer, and at the expense Of
the public. 1t was read, too, with a
labored effort, after the manner one
would read a speech with which he
was not familiar-tc be plain, a speech
prepared by somebody else. The ora.
tor stood erect, approaching that he
had a good opportunity, but aunked
before he had got well wei its prefao-
tory sentences. The meat of the
speech was just this:
You charge me with being a repu-
diator. Well, in a measure | confess
judgment. But if | am a repudiator,
my southern colleagues are the greater
offenders. | only proposed to repudi-
ate a portion Of Virginia's debt,
whereas many Of the southern states
have r~epudiated all their debts"
This was Gods truth. The speech,
however, lost all its force, because ii
failed to tersely just state this as its
position. 1t took the senator two
hours by a circuitious and torturous
route to state this simple proposition.
As a review of the position Of the So
called readjusters' party in Virginia it
might be called able, but it developed
no logical sense tor that party. liz a
nutshell, it was an attempt to readjust
public opinion toward the readjusters'
party. Primarily, the senator sought
first 10 defend his republican allies;
and, secondly, 70 review at length the
speech Of his Virginia colleague, de-
liyered in the senate a day or two ago.
This latter he did with some adroit.
ness. Then he launched into a history
Of Virginia's debt, and furnished the
Congressional Record with about as
dry reading as usually gets into that
stale and Improbable congressional
mouth piece. When the senator got
through everybody was glad, and all
we're disappointed. Mr., Malone will
hencefoyward degenerate to hat level
for which nature has 50 emineDtly fit
ted him.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

SENATOR VIM. NJ. Smith made
rather merry over a petition addressed
to him by two or three hundred citi-
zen Of Shelby county. He said the
other fourteen or fifteen thousand
voters had not been heard from, and
therefore the presumption was that
they were opposed to the petition. The
petition, as we understand, was signed
by representative citizens, both whit.
and colered, aud Of all parties. Ten
thousand could have been obtained
easily by a lew days canvassing, but it
was not thought necessary. The well
known character Of many Of the
signers of the petition might
secure it was supposed at
least a respectful consideration il
not have some bearing. The gentle.
man rose to a question Of privilege to
say that he would not resign, thus
verifying the old saying as to office.
holders that few die and none resign.
The time may come when he will con
clude that he is not above
and superior to his constituents, and
the time has come already when
many ofthem regard him ina different
light from what they once did. Some
days age he took occasion to say that
while he'yegretted to vote against the
wishes Of his constituents, be should
do what he saw proper. Like others, he
can say things now that he would moi
have said 10 the canvass, and may not
have the opportunity to say again in
che same position. 1t requires no pc
siieh to inform him that nine tenths
Of the voters Of Shelby county are
bitterly opposed to the 100 bill for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Morning Telegrams in Brief.

MOA8 ACAc8 -
Princess Caroline is dead.
Smallpox still RACES at Hawaii.
Porte's offer regarded with suspicion
in Greece.
Heavy white frost at Magnolia, Mis-
sissippi.
Coinage at Philadelphia mint during
March was 49, 93,401.
j. p. Reynolds was confirmed chief
grain inspector of Chicago.
Lee Tucker suicided with strychnia
at Detroit.
Philadelphia gas works company is
getting into a middle.
Extreme measures are to be adopted
against Russian nihilists.
Gen. Wood marches in front of an
English army against the Beers.
Tyler & Boggs' foundry, Cleveland,
has shut down in anticipation Of a
strike.
A.. H. Brown, a New York produce
exchange broker, has been discovered
to be short.
The body of Col. j. N. Ross vas
crematod at Washington, Pa. Nocer-
emony.
Miss Hattie Denell, of Iowa City, is
undergoing a voluntary fast, ald even
refuses to use her tongue for long pc.
RODS. The opinion is that she intends
to commit suicide by starvation.
The secretary of treasury's plaN of
operations, respecting refunding, will
be made this week.
Amendment prohibiting sale of in
~toxicating liquors in New Hampshire,
defeated.
Sheriff Barnard Kearns was shot
and killed in Nebraska by a COW boy
whom be endeavered to arrest; deputy
also wounded.
Mrs. Albright, a widow, hanged
herself in barn near Youngstown, o ,
aud her uncle fell dead when the news
reached him.
Mrs. Captain Flagstaff threw vitriol
in face of Emma Drake at Montague,
Mich; cause, jealousy.
Statement that negotiations are
pending for the sale of Danish West
Indies to United States is pronounced
false.
Jasper Jolly, editor of Roscommon
Herald, Ireland, and a land Lacquer,
has been arrested upon a charge Of
intimidation.
H. f. Peitenhouse, for sixteen years
employee ofthe Hall safe company at
Cleveland, was arrested on an old
charge offorgery against him in New
York.
Names of several prominent men
were forged by members of the ex-
posed Pioneer relief association, of In
dianapolis.
A duel is to come off between
Treckchke and Lowe, members of
German convocation.
The brother of Roussakoff, the
czar's murderer, has several times at
tempted suicide.
The royal family Of Russia are quar-
reling and Grand Duke Constantine is
strongly suspected of nihilism.
A Nebraska desperate brutality beat
a lawyer who had procured his SEN
tence for biting a mans ear of.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

which he becomes the over Jealous
champion. The Colorod people
had already held a large mass
meeting, at which a strong protest
was adopted against the bill. The
petition in question was signed by
many of them, and also by the leading
business men of the city and county.
A representative who cannot carry
out the wishes Of his immediate con
stituents upon a great and vital ques-
ton, owes it to them and to his own
sense of propriety and self respect to
resign. The man who gets suddenly
above the people to whom he owes his
election, is sure to be judged differ
thereafter, and will occupy a
different status in the community.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

LOUISVILLE is Boosting consider
ably over an old lady named Elizabeth
Ovens, who died there a few years
ago at the age of ninety four. She is
said to have been the first female child
born in Louisville, or, rather, on the
site where the city now stands. Sin
gularly enough nothing was ever said
about her until after she died.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
NOn-R Resident Il

No. 37i2-In the ChaDcery Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee-J G Grifing OF al VS.. L
N Barlow ct al.
i appearing from affidavit In this cause that
i the defendants, s NJ BeTloW and James
Hepenstall, are o residents OF the state
of Tennessee, and it appearing from the re-
turn Of the Sheriff that J A Anderson is not to
be found in this county; it is therefore ordered
that they make their appearance herein, at the
Tenn, on or betoFe the hrst Monday in Nay,
1881, and plead, answer or demur TO COM
%plainant. bill, or the same will DO taken for
confessed as to them and SGT for hearing
ex7partet and that a copy Of this order be
published once q week for feur So ~,cessive
weeks in the PUBLIC LEDsKR.
This 18th day of March, INS1.
r. J. RLACK, Clerk and Master.
A copy-Attest;
BY B.B. MOHEERY, D. @. IN.
TW Brown, solicitor for complainant.
2026 80 80
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ment Of a school OF finance and econo-
my as a department Of the uniHaesity.
The aim Of the school is to be, accord
ing to the terms of the endowment, to
teach and train young men in the arts
of modern finance and economy, pub
lie and private, so that in offices Of
trust or in private life they may pru-
IDENTIFY manage their affairs and aid in
maintaining sound financial morality.
The course of instruction is to be
three years in extent, and a strict ex-
animation for admission will be re-
quired.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

Depression of spirits, which, in one
member of a family, casts gloom over
the entire household, is often caused
by some one Of the diseases arising
from a disordered liver, which can be
cured by POrtaline, or Tabler's vege-
table liver powder. Price 80 cents.
For sale by w. N. Wilkerson & Co.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Bnrnetl's Cocaine Has Received
Universal Endorsement.

No other preparation possesses
such remarkable properties for EN-
bellishing and strengthening the haiI
and rendering it dark and glossy. II
cures badness and eradicates dan.
druf.
Burnett's Flavoring Extracts are
the best.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

No. S967-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
county, Tenn.-Annie Gfblon VS., William
Gibson.
4 appearing from affidavit in this cause
L that the defendant, Willism Gibson, is a
1t is therefore ordered that he make his an.
poarance herein, at the courthouse Of Shelby
county, in Memphis. Tenn, on or be-
fore the first Monday in May, 1881, and
plead, answer or demar to complainant Bill,
as 70 him and set for hearing ex-parkS:
and thot a copy of this order be pubIishedonc
2 week for four successive weeks In the Pub 10
| edger. a."
This 18th day Of March. 1881.
A ~eopy-Attest, Ss'o''
By E. B. MCHEERy, D. @, &M.
John I Moss. sol. for compile * o. 81 %
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
PROF. GUILsIETTE's
French Pad

WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION.
Ask your drugg. st for Prot. Guilmette'si
French Kidney Pad and take no other. II he,
has not got 1t, send 81 and you will receive the
TESTIMONIALS FROM THE PEOPLE
Judge Buchanan, Lawyer, Toledo, o., says:
One OF Prof. Guilmette's French Kidney Padsi
cured me of Lumbago in three weeks time,
My case had been given up by the best doctors
as ineurable. During all this lime [ sufhareH
untold agony and paid cut large SUES Oft
money.
George Vettor, J. p, Toledo. q. says: L
suffered for three Years with SCI Stita and Kid
ney Disease, ssd often had TO 20 assNt on
orutehes. ! was entirely and permanently
cured gt.sr, wearing Prof. 6uilmette's Freue a
kidsey Pads four weeks.
Squire N. Q. Scott. s~yIyanie, o., writ o,.
have been a great sufferer for Is yeo "a Tith
Brights pisaase Of the kidp sys. Fer v eeks
At q time 4 was unable 10 q out Of Ied; took
oailee Oh me9iein& but they gave nv Only
pette's kidney PES six weeks, and 1 now.
ApwGs SO en{uF y cured.
mis-; heleA 1srome, Toledo, D., says: For
SsesA hANP Deen confined, a great part Of the,
Nmeto y bed, with Lucorrhma ard female
BeaHDr. IS. wore one Of Guilmette' s Kidney
E@p and was cured ia one month
=. B.. Green, wholesale grocer, Findlay. o.,
writes: / suffered for D years with lame back
and In three weeks was permanently cured by
wearing one Of Guilmette's KidnoyPads..
b. 4. Keesliog, NJ. D., druggisN LOgans-
port. Ind, when seeding IN an order for Kid.
ney Pads, writes; / wore one Of the first onesi
we had and / received more benefit from ii,
than anything | ever used, in fact the Pads.
give better general satisfaction than any Kid.
ney remedy we ever sold.
hay X shoemaker, druggist Hannibal.
MO-; We are working up a lively trade In your
Pads, and arc hearing Of good results from,
them every day.
For sale by s. Mansfield & Co., Mem
phIs,
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their senses and appear to enjoy per-
feet health. Both are temperate, using
no liquor. 1t is worth while to visit
Santa Rita to see these old patriarchs,
and although it is difficult to converse
directly with Gabrielle, Lorriano, who
speaks Spanish well, will act as inter
preter."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

GEAR Alexander III, 10 ascending
the throne, wisely takes the plecau
ton to provide a regent for the heir
apparent, his twelve year old son
Nicholas, in case the empire should
suddenly find itself without a head.
The regent is the Grand Duke Vladi-
mir, eldest brother of the car, who is
forty-four years old and whose wife is
the Princess Marie MeOklenberg-
Schwerin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

Friends Of education who believe
that the colleges should train young
men for commercial as we'll as purely
literary pursuits will watch with inter
est an experiment which is to be tried
by the University OF Pennsylvania.
That institution has accepted from
Mr.. Joseph Wharton, Of Philadel-
phia, an endowment of $4,000 IN
stocks and bonds yielding m annuity
Of more han $1,000 for the establish
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no EMMAL.
BY JULIAN B.
~ am thinking of thee"

81 am thinking of thee"
Emma, | am thinking Of thee,
I'm seeing thy smiles, so Joyous and free.
Thy azure blue eyes, are entWining me yet,
Thy voice with its music / ne'er can forget.
When far from the land of thy wv native
home,
Alone in the wide world with sorrow IIlroam;
In the halls of the gay, or wherever it be-,
Sill, Emma, III be thinking, yes. thinking
Of thee.
Emma. art thou thinking Of me?
Has absence not banished my mem'fy from
theel
Remember our meetings, their pleasures to
keep,
While thy presence lulled gently all troubles
to sleep.
And yet ! would not have a shade On thy brow,
As bright as thou vert, let it shine on thee
For It's mem'ry that brings all thy bsautytO
still, kmm4, I'm thinking, yes, thinkina of
thee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

In the house Of representatives Of
the forty-se ,ond general assembly Of
Tennessee there are thirty-three law
yers, twenty-oue farmers, seven mer-
chants, one miller and machinist, one
printer and editor, nine physicians,
one distiller and two teachers. The
oldest representative is r. T. Brooks,
of Gainesborough, being seventy-fve
The youngest is Il. Clay Jarvis, Of
Sneedville, being twenty-five.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
ANCIENT LIVING RELICS.
Two PGtFiaFchs Who Are Wards
Of Monterey County, Cal.
San Jose Cali Mercury.l

San Jose Cali Mercury.l
A short time ago the Mercury p1b-
lished an account, taken from the Sa.
linas Index, Of an old California In
dian named Jose Lorriano, an inmate
Of the Monterey hospital, who is said
to be l07 years old, and who proves
his age by relating occurrences that
are known to have taken place a cen
fury ago. and Of which he saws he
was an eye witness. His statement Of
his age Is generally credited, and he
was an old man when many who are
now considered old men were in their
youth. The Index now brings for.
ward another, who antedates Lorriano
by nearly a quarter OF a century.
The Index says: "Dr. Archer now
tells us that he can see our lO7 and
90 us % better, for he has an old In.
dian in Santi Rita who is beyond n
doubt 100 years old. The name If
this one is Gabrielle. He has been far
some time taken care OF by w. s..
Johnson, the cashier of the Salinas
city bank, but Jose Lorriano coming
to town renewed his acquaintance Of
over one hundred years standing
with Gabrielle, and the two cid men
expressing a desire to live out their
natural lives together, DR.. Archer and
Mr.. johnson made the requisite ar.
rangements to this end. These two
relies Of bygone days have now a room
nicely fitted up in the county hospital
aud are provided with every comfort.
Lorriano says Gabrielle was a man
grown WHEN he was a boy. They are
both Carmel Indians, Gabrielle being
unable to speak little If any other
language. Both the old men have all
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Friday evening. April. l. 1851.

A LUNATIC has turned up in Chi
cago who claims to be the successor Of
the savior. 1t is evident that he is
looking after the lost and not the
righteous.
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Saturday, ADrII Z. ISSI,

within loyal hours. the following described
property. situated in the city Of Memphis,
Shelby county, Tenn, to-wit:
Situated in the Taxing District Of Shelby
county, Tenn, on the northeast cOrner of
Union and wellington streets, fronting so
feet on north sine Of Union street and $50 feet
on east side Of Wellington street,
Terms OF sale-0n a credit of seven months,
purchaser executing note with good security;
lien retained, redemption barred.
This March 10th, 1881.
r. j. BLACK, Clerk and Master. !.
JH Malone, John w Curtin, j WHampton,
Solicitors. oil IT % q
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

A clereyman's opinion; Having had
an opportunity to test the excellent
qualities of DR.. Bulls cough syrup. |
hesitate not to say it is the best remedy
| have ever used in my family.-Rey.
VIM. Chapman, pastor NJ. e. church
Georgetown, D.. G.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

When you have an inhamed eye. a
swelled hand, or decayed and aching
tooth, you do not take and gil your
stomach with drugs to cure it, but
apply a cooling lotion or some soothing
narcotic directly to the parts. So il
you have a weak or lame back. sore
kidneys, profuse or scanty urine. or
the secretory system is clopged and
inactive. you should use Prof. Gull
mette,s French kidney pad, which is a
directly local duplication, which always
gives speedy relief and always cures
the disease. Ask your druggist for it.
Reeds Gilt Edge Toni cassists digestion
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Tnesdnr. Anil 20. ISAI.

at the southwest corner Of Madison and Main
street, in Memphis, the Taxing District Of
Shelby county, Tennessee, sell at public auc-
tion " the highest bidder for cash, those GER
tain lots Of land in said district known and
described as lots number twenty.One Oh and
twenty-five (22l in Lanes subdivision, said
lots fronting 90 feet each on the west side OF
M0nsarrat street or avenue, andrunning back
1881 ieet between parallel lines, with i'm
provements thereon.
All right Of redemption waived. Title be-
lieyed to BIO good, but l sell and CONVEY AS
trustee only.
AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
JW Hampton, Attorney, u IS
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Chancery Sale Of Real Estate

No. 1878, R-Chancery Court ofShelby county
-leorge CAN'T ct al vs.. Abner Hopton ct al.
DY yirtse OF an interlocutory decree for sale,
ID entered in the above cause on May Is,
1880, and renewed March, i 1881. | will
sell at public auction. to the highest bidder,
In front OF the clerk and masters office,
courthouse Of Shelby county. Memphis, Tenn,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Trustees Sale.

Under and by virtue of a deed in trust
~ made March 3, 1877, to me ~ trustee by
John gorman and Katie German, and record
cd 10 deed book No, ll6. page iih, in the Reg
ister's Office Of Shelby county, which said deed
was made TO secure In Indebtedness fully de-
scribed therein, and default having boon
made in the terms and conditions thereof. 1
will, rs trustee, at the request Of the beneil-
oiarY In said deed. Mt ten O'clock. IN. ON
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01
Attachment Notice.

mo. 0QlG
j S Galloway, J P, for Shelby county,
Tenn o tRbor vs.. Hannibal Scott.
N this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under section 1856 Of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned, levied upon the
property Of the defendant, and affidavit hav-
ing been made that defendant Is indebted
to the plaintiff IN the sum Of four
hun bred 800 dollars, due BY account,
for damages for breach or contract, in
rent Of land, and that the claim Is just,
and that the defendant and plaintiff afy
both residents Of Arkansas. and shat the de-
feudant has fraudUlently removed his ptOp-
eriy out OF Arkansas into Tennessee, 20 AVOID
the process Of law 10 the stats Of his domicili
II e therefore ordered that said defendant
MAKE his personal appearance before Ias on
the Srd doy Of May, 1881, IL, "a o'clock
Mempbis. TeEnessee, and defend said
attachmept suit within the time prescribed by
law, Or the same will be proceeded with ex-
parte; and that a copy Of this order be pub
ished once q week for four consecutive weeks
In tho Public Ledger.
This the 29th day Of March, 1881.
8aaB JSGALLOWAY, j. y.
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TAXES

DIARIES indebted for Taxes 10 the City Of
i memphis for 1878, and years prior thereto,
are notified TO come forward and pay The same
and save Themselves the costs of a Chancery
suit. The law requires me to Gle q bill with
out delay aCainet all delinquents.
MINOR MEhIWETHER,
is 10 RenaiVar and Rack lay Onllncfnr
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April Goth, 1881.
Public Sale latting Soap Manufacturing
and Oil Refining Company.

TNHE fve-story brick building, formerIy
l. known as the Bradley block, Situated NJ
the foot of Adams ltreut, with ire ground oc-
cupied thereby, and extending TO Mississippi
river, with all the machinery for making soap
and refining oil, I. gether with SOAP and soar
furniture, will be sold on the promises, at
pub ic sale, on the I'D day of April next, fer.
cash By order of the Board of Directors.
Of JOHN II Child ESTER, Presit.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-01

Another method Of curing diseases
without the taking of nauseOus medi.
zines is Prof. Guilmette's kidney pad,
which il guaranteed to cure all dis
eases Of the kidney, bladder and URN
arY organa.