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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Jeans Senators.
Buy Well Pipe Of Browne, 40 Madison
PERSONAL.

The wife of Captain Gus Fogleman
Of the Mound City ferryboat, died
yesterday at Bartlett.
There was an owl killed in Court
Square yesterday with one of Mr.. W.
F.Maender's fine breech- loading shot
guns.
Little Rock Gazette of yesterday
Captain j. r. Miller, who has been in
the city for several days, returned to
Memphis yesterday. He has purchased
residence in this city and will move
his family over in the fall.
Rev. N. NJ. Long, after preaching at
the Union street Congregational
church Sunday night, to one of the
fullest churches of the season, left
Monday night on a trip to the noun
tains of East Tennessee, to be absent
about three weeks.
General Sherman, General Hazen,
Colonel Bacon, of General sherman's
staff, and CAPTAIN Marshall, of the U.
$. A., were the guests of Mr.. and Mrs,
John V. Moran at Detroit, last Sun
day, says a paragraph in ore of the
local papers, and a private letter from
The same city says the General Of the
army us pleasant and social in peace,
but in war the less said the better"
Mr.. Adolph Loewenberg, who has
been long and popularity connected
with the house Of Menken Brothers,
was married several weeks ago To- .
bright, beautiful and accomplished
young lady who was Oh visit to this
city from Milwaukee. The worthy
and happy couple left last Sunday on
their FIRST bridal tour for Centralia, ILL
nois, to visit Mr.. Loewenberg's rela-
sives, aud from thence they will 60 to
Milwaukee. Many friends wish them
delightful trim.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
PUBLIC LEDGER
cmss, Is Madison Street.
TEN CENTS Pc n WE Elk.
THE CITY.
wednesday Evening, August 5. 1881.
LEDGER LINES.

LEDGER Bindery, ID Madison.
Cooking oil. Lyle & Shields.
J.W. Alley, ash wood, foot Beal st.
See advertisement, lost, gold locket.
A full line Of cheap teas at Lyle &
Shields.
LEDGER job printing Office, IL Mad
son street.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers, 282
Main street.
Best and cheapest bananas Of the
season. d. Canale & Co.
Cheapest thing in the market, ba-
nanas at D. Canale & Co.
All kinds Of job printing executed
at the LEDGER office, ID Madison.
Marbleized iron mantels very cheaI
at A. Kohlbry & Co.'s, No. "a Main.
The finest carload of bananas of thu
season just received by D. Canale 4
Co.
739,100 of Sol Coleman's No. II
cigars have been sold up to date. TIT
desired million will soon be realized
by Sol, as the No. los are more popu
lar than ever.
A citizen Of Somerville, Tenn.
drew $4,000 last month in the Louis
lana Lottery. A citizen Of Memphi
may draw $50, 900 next Tuesday. Cal
at the usual place for tickets.
The local supply of potatoes ha
run out, the prices are advancing an
dealers have begun to draw iror
Northern cities. A few weeks ago "
we're sending Irish lemons" north
ward at the rate of nearly thOusan
barrels day.
The leaves of deciduous trees hav
begun to fall, and long before the tim
they usually do. The foliage of tn
! poplar and others has turned brow
and dried up as if withered by heav
frost. In Court Square the earth
covered with fallen leaves.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

forum. The people called him great,
but no man truly great was ever guilty
of such little acts as has marked Mr..
Uonkling's career for the past ten
years. Disenthralled, his old friends
will gradually regain their manhood
and begin TO think for themselves.
Then il will not be long before they
become useful members Of society.
IL matters little what becomes Of Mr..
Conkling. TO ordinary men the past
would be a useful though bitter lss-'
sou. To him it is merely another
mistake on the part of Providence.
Mr.. Conkling by his late acts has sunk
so low that he will never rise again. d
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
The Next Congress.
New York Tribune.l

New York Tribune.l
Will you kindly give the nol;t;coT
status of the next OonOressMbo5s
many Democrats, Greenbackers. Re-
adJusters, Independents and Republi-
cans are Cow elected and how many
vacancies are to be filled. and the
probable results to the elections in
the vacant districts-my desire being.
i possible, to receive trustworthy in l.
formation as to which party will cog
troll the next house, and how Clve
members-elect and to be elected are
elassed. J. n T
Brooklyn, E. d., July %, 1881.
when the XLVIIth Congress
meets next December there will be
81 Republicans, 80 Democrats (inclu.
ding David Davis, of Illinois) and /
Readjuster Democrat General
Mahsne) in the Senate. There were
elected to the House 148 Republicans.
l35 Democrats, 8 Greenback men and
2 Readjuster Democrats. This would
have given the Republicans a majority
of three over all Democrats and g reen-
back men. At present there ere four
Republican and two Democratic seats
TO be filed, including tie one the
South Carolina Democrats recently
voted to fill. The South Carolina seat
may be given to Republican. but in
the other districts there will probably
be no change. If all Che vacancies
are filled without loss to either party.
the size Of the Republican majority
will depend upon the action Of the
members elected by coalition of
Republican and Greenback voters.
Ut the eight Greenback men, four and
possibly five may be reasonably count
ed upon to vote with the Republicans
in organizing the House. Should the
Republicans secure four Gresnback
votes their majority viii be eleven in
full House. If the vacancies are
not filed before Congress meets. the
Republicans will still have 144 mem
bers, q majority of.one over all others
in a House of 287 members. With
four Greenback votes they would have
majority of nine, and with five Green
back votes and two Readiuster votes
their majority would be fifteen in a
House Of 287 members. With all the
vacancies filed and five Greenback
men and two Readjusters voting with
the Republicans, their majority would
be seventeen. In other words. the
Republican majority in full House
may range from three to seventeen.
and from one to fifteen in House Of
287 members. - Ed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
POLICE POINTS.

Lee Byrd has been arrested on a
charge ofstealing three shirts and a
pipe from Robert Craft.
The spouse of the gentle Babe
Watkins has sworn out a warrant
charging him with beating her over
the head with stick.
Mickey Dalton made an unprovoked
attack upon another boy yesterday
and was soundly thrashed for his
pains, besides being sent to the Island
for forty days.
A pot colored female with a tooth
brush thrust in her mouth, was tried
to-day for bowling like maniac and
rousing the neighborhood. She will
raise the echos on Presidents Island
for month or so.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
ROAD TO HOLLY SPRINGS
The ErIanger syndIcate's Pro-
jects.

An even hundred millions Of dol.
lars have been invested by foreign and
Eastern capitalists in the South with
IN the past few months, so it is stated
by various financial newspapers. The
bulk OF it has been laid in railway
projects, in the country lying between
the Atlantic and the Mississippi river.
1t is difficult to realize that this vast
sum has been placed as stated, but
the assertion is out, and it is proba-
bly, true. A part Of this fnancia
boom has plunged its way in this d.
rection, and it has fallen among our
citizens in such a way that dozen
or more IF them are now in cheerful
temper. 1t was profitable invest
ment, and lucky day when Mem
phis syndicate purchased the Memphis
Il Selma railway franchises at public
cutlery, by order of the United States
Court, some time ago.
The new owners of the unfinished
railway hence to Holly Springs and
Selma, at whose head is Mr.. Frederick
Wolfe, have installed the latter gem
tleman as President of the Memphis,
Selma aud Brunswick railway. The
parties interested met at the Peabody
Hotel yesterday. The transfers were
all regular-the old officials resigned
and the new took charge. They are.
Fred Wolfe, of Alabama, Presiden t;
J. j. Busby, of Memphis, Vice Pres
ident; NJ. Calm, of New York, Secre-
tary and Treasurer; j. @. GriHing, Of
Memphis, Assistant Secretary and
Treasurer. The Directors are: J. M.
Billups, Columbus, Miss; L. O..
Sykes, Aberdeen; W. S. Feathers.one,
Holly Springs; jesse Seligman, New
York; Otto Plock, New York; G. +.
Lewis, New York; E. R. Bacon, New
York.
Mr.. N. Meriwether is chief con-
struction engineer; NJ. Meriwether,
attorney; and VIM. NJ. Forrest, gen.
eral agent.
Mr.. Wolfe announces that the work
oabuilding the road will be Commenc-
ed in a few days. The first labor per-
formed will be at this end leading out
to Holly Springs, and this part of the
job will be under way by the middle
OF September, to be completed at the
earliest possible moment, perhaps by
November next and in time to trans
port the present cotton crop to our
market. The work Of construction
will not stop at Holly Springs, how
ever. It's to be pushed on vigorously
to Columbus, Miss. and while this goes
on, the work of building will be com
menced at the other end from Green's
boro to Eutaw, Ala. The company
have plenty of means and no obstacle
will arise, if laborers can be procured
in sufficient force.
Inside of three years, perhaps in
less than two, we can take train here
and ride without change of cars d.
rect to Brunswickck, Georgia, on the
south Atlantic coast, close to Florida,
and within a days sail of the West
Indies, also within a neat ocean ride
Of New York or Europe.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Masn,s Altered.

Arkansaw State Gazette.l
The first piano taken to that part Of
Randolph county, thisState. surround.
ing Ravenden Springs, created a pro-
found sensation, Old men would
come to the hotel and grayely shake
their gray heads at the musical inter
loper, which, in varnish and audacity,
had set itself up against the fiddle,
and whose hoarse chorus could drown
the banjo's twang.
Several days ago, while q party OF
guests were In the parlor of the hotel,
singing and playing, the door opened
and ten men, unsuspendered and
tanned, filed into the room and ranged
along the wall. A young lady, whose
fingers fell in graceful showers ON the
keys, was rafting off tho Carnival Of
Venice" The aunbYown stalwarts
we're doaplY impressed, and for time
nothing was said. But it was not nat
ural for human beings to view won
der without some attempt at express
sion.
What do you think of her |" asked
one of the party to his neighboT.
THE peartest thing | ever seed on
four legs"
I'D rather have it than mule, "
said some one else.
Il reckon you would" rejoined the
first speaker, for they tell me she cost
mor'n a farm"
Just listen at her cluck like a new
wagin."
Here the manager of the hotel en-
tered and requested the guests, who
evidently did not have on wedding
garments, to retire. They refused
but finally consented, the leader 70.
marking as his forces withdrew, IN
20, but / want you to understand that
| | am not Altered, and | don't want to
be made fun Of either"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Solid Argument.

Night before last Officer Hedrick
had a desperate struggle with Dan
Lee, a burly darby, who was beating
his wife with his doubled fist. Lee
wrenched the nippers in two and sue
ceeded in making his escape, but was
recaptured and this morning fined
$25. His plea was that he and his
wife were only having a little private
discussion and he did not care about
being interfered with.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
The Inperious Rorcoe.
Washington City Republic, Rep.l

WAshlngton CITY Republic, Rep.l
The absence of Roscoe CoRklinl
from the Senate of the United States
will be the most noticeable feature
when that body assemblies next De.
cember. Inperious, tyrannical, over
hearing, selfimportant, cruel, brutal,
unforgiving, exscting, ungrateful, ar
rogant, he never had an intimate
friend who was not his dog, and the
only price of his friendship was the
surrender of manhood. Yet he was
the most conspicuous character in the
Senate. The public who knew him
not judged him by his princely bear
ing and his studied efforts in the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Buy Hose of Browne, 40 Madison.
Careless AbOutM.

@-C@s1 4ASO~AN -
The Commissioners of the detunct
city debt are ready to refund
three for one, but the claim.
holders appear less anxious to
rush forward and turn in their sus-
pended and nOn-productive bonds
than the adjusters hoped. Owners Of
old city bonds have received no inter
est for about eight years, yet they APP
pear to be inclined to wait and watch
rather than accept terms now offered.
A fresh shipment of the Cuban
Just received.
Also Opera Puff Cigarettes and
Brown jug Cigarettes.
III. ESCH,
292 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
River Quarantine,

1t is now all serene among the river
quarantine people, The inspection
business at Vicksburg has been re-
suscitated with DIR. Dunlap, late Of
Presidents Island, in charge, and the
latter point will be run by DR.. H.
Ashe, who was lately in charge at
Vicksburg. The steamer Hard Cash
from White river to this port was
hailed as she came up yesterday, and
DR.. Ashe boarded and went through
her in search Of miasmatic sporads
suspected Of having strayed on board
from along the White river valley.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

O'Neil & Co., No. s Howard's Row, lake
ice at wholesale and retail. Steamboat and
railroad shipments receive special atten-
ton. Orders for city delivery left at @. ,.
Bryan & Co., No. 20 Madison street,
promptly filed. ut
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
To Hang.

BUFFALO, N, Y, August IA
stay of proceedings was granted in the
case Of Martin Flanagan, condemned
to be hung on the 18th instant,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Buy sewer Connection Of Browne

Train on the Louisville & Nash.
vile Railway, by leaving here at 1876
at night, will hereafter run through
to Louisville daily, making connec.
ton for all points North and East
Heretofore train leaving Saturday
night ran only to Mckenzie. Thii
arrangement gives the L. & N. R'y
two through trains each day. 1877
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Buy Gas Fixtures Of Browne.

1t warmed up to ninety-seven de-
grees yesterday afternoon and never
dropped lower than seventy-four dur.
ing the cooler part Of the morning.
We enjoyed a pleaant northeasterly
breeze part Of the day, but at sun
rise and late last night it was calm,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
FOR SALE

0S0 BDLS TIES CHEAP-We buy all kinds
HOU. Of old iron, rags, cotton or m achinery;
second hand bricks bought and seld. We buy
and sell anything from the Eize Of needle to
an anchor. The attention Of the public gen
orally, and. country Libraries especially is
ealltd 70 the fact that have a great variety
Of Secondhand Books. s. GABAY, Ag't,
lSt Nos. al, 4lS and 4l5 Shelby street
Al EWS INK, in 10 b cans, finest art lcle.
IN Also hne Gard and Job Inks, Of all llors
and nualities At ledger office 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

One Of the physicians il attendance
on the late Gar says in Q Russian
medical paper that the immediate.
cause Of death was cerebral concus-
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

UnIaundrtesI shirts and Gents
Furnishing Goods, full stock and
special prices this week, at
GERBER q METTE's
ll4i e67 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
Avery Gin Go.
The FemaIe PIckpocket.

Have the best and cheapest Gins in tn,
market, 1913 Front street. 1874
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

II you want a HuIIer Gin,
or Gin repairing done,
Telephone the Avery Gin Co,
S7s Front street. 1874
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

The LEDGER ofIicesbOok bindery, 10
Madison street, has good workmen,
uses coed material and charges mod.
crate prices,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

BEEF TENDERLOINS
Received daily per Express.
III. SEESsEI, SIR, q SON.,
Cor. Jefferson ana Second.
l1Rf
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03

TNHE greenhouses, all the plants. appurte-
j nancss and lot on Second street near Beai,
being the Goebel stand. G W FRAZER,
1877 No. Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
WANTED.

A GOOD WasherWoman. Wages good. APP
n ply at Commercial Hotel. 1874 lo9
GLERPING Room, where there are no ladies
- on same floor. Price no special object il
uited. Must be central. Address
: 1881 VENTILATION, this office,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
LOST

OOLD L0CKET-GOld Locket, belonging to
VI watchchain circular, with blood ST. ne
Ssonogram H. s.. Jr.. cut on same; lady's
picture on inside. reward will be paid to
hinder Of same at
Office Of Gaston's Hotel.
+ OST Description Dark brown or black
IL mare mule, white spot in forehead, l51a
hands high. and In pretty fair order. A libe.
raj reward will be paid for her. Address
JOHN QUENfCHET,
l2 ld Germantown, Tenn.
A BOUT two months ago. a pair old Gold
n Specs, square eye. A liberal reward for
their delivery at this office. l28 1888
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-03
BOARDING.
EnRLEASE oR SALE.

MICE furnished rooms with board at No. 81
IN Court street. lA ~
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24
The Wyoming Method.
San Francisco Chronicle.

They have learned how to live in Hill
lard, Wyoming territory, and are pleased
with their lesson. AS often as they
get out of meat they rcplcnish this way:
A band of wickcd-lOOking citizens go
down to the Union Pacific track ways,
to where the trains run slowly and
await the passage Of the through express
y :.iil us paIace : "rs and tender passena
gers. AS it is heal>r in the distance they
take their places. A tuff man made of
straw is laid out beside two deal c0ffins,
bit of baggage keeping lis face from
being seen, while the gang gather around
living victim, whom they are about to
hang to telegraph pole. 1t is a slim
chance for the poor fellow, but the pas.
sengers run wild at the sight. The train
is stopped. Volunteers run back to the
the scene. Explanation: Two noted
hOrse-thieves are the scourge of the dis
trict, survivor pcnitent now, but the
best time to hang him is when we have
him. He's done thousands of dollars of
damage. This suggests ransom. The
passengers take up a contribution and
buy the poor devils life for him. Then
they canied him on to Hilliard and
leave him. ''Citizcns III carriages"
come riding home later with the ransom,
which they divide without Il quarrel, ana
there is peace and pleasantly in Hllllard.
AD1rooERE is an oily, waxy substance,
formed from the soft parts of animal
bodies buried in damp soils or under
water. It is the substance that human
bodies sometimes change into, giving
rise to the idea that they petrify.
THE king-becoming graoes--devotion,
patience, courage. fortitude.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24

MIR. PARNEbb, the Land League chief
owns some house property in Dublin, on
winch the tenants complain of very high
rents, but he states that the tenants oro
OF the landlord class, and that such
property is not to be regarded in the
same category with agricultural. His
agricultural property consists of 4679
acres in the County of Wicklow, estimated
ny Gnfhth's valuation at a1,2l5 per
annum: The farms are let at the poor
,aw valuation, which in some parts Of
ireland is higher, in others less, than
Grlthth's. Rents are regularly paid
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24

ARABS are very lively in talk, quick
lo'! OF gestlculatlons and arguments, in
qnlsltlVe, great chatterers, shouters, and
screamers. They surpass the Jews il
1anclful names. From the swaYms of
girls in the seminary at Beirut, con-
Quoted by American ladies, the follow.
ing names have been set down in Eng
lish translation Miss Fascinating Flv,
Miss Sociable Slider, Miss Safe Chatter
er, Miss Victor Camel Driver, Miss
Benevolent Old Shoe, Miss Pink Thick
Lip, Miss Enough, Miss Diamond Mo-
lasses Maker, Miss Blessed Butter
Maker, and so CD.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24

ACCORDING to the extra census bulle-
tin Just issued, the great wheat States
are Illinois, which raised $1,000, 600
bushels; Indiana, $4,000, 900; Ohio, 49,
OOo,OoO; Michigan, 35,OOO,OOO Iowa,
8l'OOO,OOQ; California. 100000 Mis-
souri,, 25oOO,OOO, and Wisconsin, a.
100000. In three States were produced
nearly three-fourths of the whole wheat
crop of the country.
The Pickens sentinel. [volume] (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, 1881-11-24

THE King of Ashantee is very good
sort OF " being. The State buildings
needed repairing, and he desired to show
how sacrificing parsonage he was. and
30 ne had 200 young girls, or maidens,
Killed for the purpose of using their
blood to mix the mortar. He neolectad
to tap his own fiendish heart, however.
These massacres, it is said, are custom
ary with the king.