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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

CINCINNATI, August 29.-A Cat
lettsburg, KY, special of yesterday
evening says Jake Meek shot G. H.
Lawhorn at the Meek Hotel. The
ball entering just below the left eye
producing a wound thought to be
mortal. The shooting was the result
of an old quarrel.
A Youngstown (Ohio) speacial says
the Harstling House and a number of
cars of the LeadWlle Coal Company's
shaft were burned Saturday. Loss,
$4,000; fully insured.
NELsoNvILLE, Ono, August 29.-
At Lick Run, three miles from this
place, on Saturday night Dick Will
Hanson, in a quarrel, shot two broth
eTs, Scott and James Upton. Scott
Upton will die. Williams was ar
rested yesterday at Zaleski.
CLEVELAND, o, August 20. -
Hempy & Co., whose planning mill and
lumber yard burned last night, was
insured as follows: Germania, $475O;
Hartford, $3.50; London and Lanca-
shire, $25OO; Phoenix and London,
$500; London Fire Insurance Asso-
citation aud Connecticut and Hartford
each $l259, Manufacturers Of Boston,
and Hartford, London Assurance,
Springfield Fire and Marine, London
and Liverpool and Globe Fire Insur.
ance Association, Standard of New
York, Westchester, Commonwealth,
Cooper, Of Dayton, and Boyleston, Of
Boston, making a total of $4,000,
which is more than the firm supposed.
The loss on the cars destroyed
and damaged is not ascertainable at
present, but will be heavy, possibly
$4,000 or $4,000. 1t will be some
time, if ever, before the railway COM
panies can definitely determine. The
through freight train from New York
for Cincinnati suffered most. Ten
cars were consumed all but the
wheels, fifteen badly damaged and
contents ruined and eleven more or
less scratched. The cars mostly be-
longed to the Lake Shore, New York
Central, Hoosac Tunnel, Baltimore
and Ohio, indianapolis and st. Louis,
Boston Dispatch, Hamilton and Mer.
chants roads. They were loaded
chiefly with groceries, leather, phos-
phoric furnaces, machinery, granite,
coal, grain and woodenware. The
ruins were still burning at noon to
day.
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He Had His Choice.
Cincinnati COmmOreial,l


Walter" said one of our pork
merchants to his sixteen year old
hope, II don't mind how short you
have your coat cut, SO long as they
strike you somewhere below the
shoulder blades; neither does it trouble
me to see you choking yourself to
death in pair of tight pants; nor am
| much concerned in how many scarf
pins you sport each day, or how large
a bundle you carry to the laundry
every twenty-four hours; though the
sight of your moustache, in its feeble
efforts for life, makes me faint, yet |
can bear up under that; but let me
ever catch you wearing your watch
chain on the outside of your coat, and
you'll go to work in the store putting
up groceries before you can say quite
too utter Do you hear me?"
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CHINA
DINNER SETS,
1875 plscss, for $2O.
SPEcIALTIEs:
Bar Fixtures. Mirrors, etc.
ouadruple-plAted Knives. CAstoEs ssc.
Hotel and Steamboat Ware.
Q. N. ERICH,
sSI MAIN STREET, Memphis, Tenn.
GOvERNOR hawkins IN r1Mr.

The Governor of Tennessee has
conceived another great public meas
ure in addition to the 1908. Deter
mined that no earlier bird should
catch this worm, he has, with remark.
able good taste and delicacy, fore
stalled all the other Governors by
forecasting his arrangements for the
Presidents funeral before he is dead.
ON Saturday, just before our afflicted
chief began to partake of his collation.
of milk toast, our precocious Governor
dispatched to- the other thirty-seven
Governors to get ready for the obse-
quies, and make the occasion a grand
affair. How pleasant this advanced
preparation for posthumous honors
will be to the afflicted family of the
President-and then, what a plume
it will be in Hawkins cap to have
gotten the thing up. If the President
dies, our anxious Governor need have
no fears as to the nations humiliation
and sorrow. But then it was so con-
siderate in the executive of Tennessee, /,
to get things ready in time. 1t is said
that in some parts of the Emerald
Isle there is no more enjoyable occa-
sion than wake" 1t happened
once that the boys all assembled for a
wake" while the man whose memory
was to be honOred, was supposed to be
in articulo mortis; but to the aston
ishment Of all, the sick man rallied,
sat up in the bed, and begun to nibble
a potato. "Be iabers," explained one
of the disappointed, he has come to
life, but dead or alive, boys, we'll
have the wake anyhow" Hold on
with your funeral, Governor. On
yesterday the whole nation was on its
knees, and to-day the people are ex-
liberated with ray of hope that their
afflicted chief will yet triumph over
his vile assassin.
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time to dwell at length on the subject,
and beg you to excuse me. The
worst has passed"
"Is there any indication that an abb
scess has formed on the Presidents
lungs and that pus has been discov-
cred in one Of the joints of his limbs,
as is indicated in the morning
papers?"
Neither report is true, replied the
doctor and furthermore, there is not
the slightest indication of either"
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Cotton.

Our market rules quiet, with few
buyers here at present, and therefore
a light demand. Sales on Saturday
were l25 bales, all to spinneres, closing
quiet as follows: Low ordinary &c;
ordinary, 7sc; good ordinary, Sc; low
middling, l0ic; middling, 1llc; good
middling, lllc. Sales for the week
sum up 1875 bales, all to spinners,
prices being &c lower on ordinary, and
J to 20 lower on the higher grades
than quotations of week ago. The
total receipts ofnew cotton since the
9th inst. nov sums up 7l9 bales.
COTTON STATEMENT.
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River Telegrans.

Louisville, August 20. = River
falling, with 2 feet7 inches in canal
and 7 inches in chute on the falls.
Weather cloudy and warm.
Pittsburg, August 29.-Riyer Z
inches below zero and falling. Wealth
or clear and very hot.
CAIRO, August 29.-Arrived: John
B. Maude, Memphis, s am; City of
Greenville, st. Louis, 8 a.m.; W. ?.
Halliday, New Orleans. 8 am, De-.
parted: Oakland, New Orleans, 5 am.
Maude, st. Louis, 8 am; Halliday,
81. Louis, II am. Raining and warm.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

We have received programme Of
the thirteenth reunion of the Society
of the Army of the Cumberland at
Chattanooga on the 2lst and 22d Of
September. The substance of this
has been anticipated by the daily press
and appeared in the LEDGER. The
ex-Confederates have made arrange
ments TO give the "boys in blue" a
formal aud generous welcome, and it
is expected that both sides will be
represented by hundreds of ex-soldiers
as we'll as their friends.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29
Investment Securities

Savings Banks. Insurance Companies ,Trus-
tees and Investors generally, are invited to
correspond with US regarding bonds they may
desire to BUY. SELL OR EXCHANGE.
Municipal BOnOs, Water Works
Company Loans, and desirable Rail.
road Securities always O "a hand.
j. Il. LEWIS a. CO., Rank ers.
156 22d&w "a Cedar st., New York,
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Thufsday, Septemher 29Lh, IssI.

at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
street, in the Taxing District of Shelby eOun
ty, late city Of Memphis, Tennessee, duril z
legal hours, proceed to sell at public auction
to the highest bidder for cash, certain lots Of
land situate, lying and being in the county Of
Shelby and State of Tennessee near the said
city Of Memphis, being in lot number thirty
two Of y 5 TOd's plan for WillOughby viii
liams. which is described in the quit claim
deed from Willoughby Williams t0 James N
Provino, duly recorded in book No. 76, page
49, of the Registers office of Shelby county,
Tennessee, the said lots being lots numbers
sixteen and seventeen Of Provinces sub divis-
ion of said lot thirty. two, lying on the tOuth
side of the Lagrange or Memphis and Selma
ra lroad broadway if extended and between
this HeroandO road and Frank avenue, and
running thence south 6S5 100 feet; thence west
l5O feet; thence north to the Lagrange road 25l
3-lt0 feetthence with said road 2il 5-l00 feet TO
the beginning, and being part ofland vested in
SAID Sarah Provine by decree in the Chan
oefy suit Of J 1 Ammonett versus Sarah A
Proviue and others.
Equity Of redemption waived.
SIMON STURM, Trustee.
Memphis, August 29 1881 1856 "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

AT this writing, which is in the
forenoon, the news continues to be
favorable from the President. A
wonderful change took place for the
|Nbetter, Just when he was expected to
lie. While there is life there is hope,
and after this the public will not give
way to utter despair while there is
breath in the body or the light Of the
soul in the eye. A sense of eager
surprise and renewed hope animates
the great body of the people, the pres
ent opinion seeming to be that this is
something more than the last spas
modic effort of nature to assert itself
on the eve of dissolution. In the
struggle with death all the vital and
mental forces Of the stricken Presi
dent seem to be Getting in accord,
Added to this fact is the presence and
encouragement of devoted wife,
loving friends aud the best medical
skill that the country affords. There
may be room for criticism, yet this
may have been INDUCED in thought
lessIy, aud from misdirected, over
jealous sympathy. God grant that the
sufferer, who had entered upon a ca
reer of such usefulness and RESPONSE
bility, may be spared and re-
stored to perfect health. Should
this be realized, it will
not be a more remarkable recovery
than many that are on record. Dur
ING the war many Of the wounded
who were given up to die, recovered
and went back to their regiments.
They we're generally, however, men
who we're in splendid physical condi-
ton. They had been doing hard
service on meagre ratioDs and we Q
capable of greater endurance than
those under ordinary conditions. Let
us hone for the best until the crisis
is passed and be prepared for
whatever may be stored in the near
future, and bear in mind that "sufi
cient unto the day is the evil thereof.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

wETTER-Monday morning. August 10Th,
at 9 o'clock. NEPPIE MoGHEE WETrER, aged !
months, infant daughter Of William j. and
Lille Wetter
Funeral will take place from residence, No.
2l9 DeSoto street, tomorrow (rUESDAY)
morning at 10 o'clock. Friends and acquaint-
anees are respectfully invited to attend.
Madison qnd.l papeas please eopy.l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

THANKS are due the Southern Ex-
press Company for latest New York
papers received daily ON the shortest
possible time.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

Senator Hill thinks that "koumiss, ("
with which the President is fed, is a
good thing. when | was under
treatment in Philadelphia, he says,
II was kept In very good condition
with koumiss as my only food for
some time. 1t is palata5le and tastes
very much like buttermilk. / would
have left it with regret, had it not
been for an excellent buttermilk ration
which good Philadelphia Democrat
took pleasure in supplying"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29
The Weather.

WASHINGTON, August 29.-For
Iowa, lake region, fair weather, light
variable winds, mostly southeasterly,
stationary temperature and pressure.
tennessee aid Ohio valley, partly
nloudv weathe.r, local rains, winds
mestly easterly, stationary tempera'
ure, and in west portion higher
pressure. Upper lake region, partly
cloudy weather, local rains, variable
winds, mostly easterly, stationary or
lower temperature, higher pressure.
Upper Mississippi and lower Missouri
valleys, partly cloudy weather, local
rains, easterly backing to northerly
winds, stationary or lower temperature
in south portion, lower in north por
tion, higher pressure.
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Trustees Sale.

FINDER and by virtue of two certain deeds
u of trust. recorded in book No. 4, page
17S, and book No. | 7, page S62. of the Regis
ter's office Of Shelby county, Tennessee, de-
fault having been made therein. will, as
tfugtea on
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Raptist Church Rnrned.

OGBENsRURe, August 29.-The
State Street Baptist church burned
this morning. Loss, $4,000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

NOV is the time to insure your Gin Houses.
IN THIS A VERY DRY SEASON. A little
spark kindeth A BIG FIRE. Also country
stores. For insurance go to
MURPHY d. MURPHY,
l557i No. Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

$40 A. M.-The Presidents symp-
toms this morning are as favorable as
yesterday at the same hour. He awoke
at intervals during the greater part of
the night, At these intervals he took
and retained liquid nourishment ad-
ministered. His mind continues per-
fectly clear. Pulse, 100 temperature
98.5, respiration II.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-29

W IV-7 u = IN IN 7
August %, 1891
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05
srATs sProiALs
0nIveatcG

Special 70 the Herald
Galveston, April 30 Tho mort airy rgport
this week shows fifteen deaths, seven over
w-nly years 9sd eight under three years.
Inc real estate transfers number fweblv md
cover many tlOuHanu dDIlars.
Az meetingOf merchan and cotton men re-
garding the International cotton exchange
meeting nj Atlanta. Georgia, resolutlOna
wer" adopted endorsing The meeting and
change.
Az inc boa: d Of health meeting to-day i'm
pnrtant measures were introduced and the
pre- % enceof yellow fever at Vera Cruz ola
cussed and action deferred TO future meeting,
me value OF real .stat q In this city has in-
cressed - per can't. in sixty days, and
transactions re treble that OF any other week
. An interesting case came before Judge
campbell 20 day An officer was arrested Tor
refusing to arrest person who owed a debt to
y mack driver, but which had run some tirne
Jurge Campbell decided he had no Jurisdiction
In case for debt.
Olncer Rany resigned tonight. A better
conin 10 manage city prisoners
,nree roses man wnose place cannot easily
De supplied lie takes ilaoe on the city
railroad. N wy
inere is company formed TO + the purpose
or building dry docks On relican isl and :.
which VIII be push d into execution of once.
ch1l enge OF the Galveston rowing club.
Tor six-oared bar race to tage ulncr tw,,
weeks from date, has been accented h, the
protection rowing Cub A lively race ia
expected, the Protection having wen rive, We
out OF fourteen races.
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San Antonio.


Special to the Herald.
San Antonio, April 30--The first cnsch ives
of San Antonio, 90 the International, left yes
ter1ay with smell excursion party, to Medi-
ma river
The down stoge grom Eagle Pass Ia IS II An
tonic, Was stopped Iaa' night NJ Sabinal can
yH@ y th two pss msI w1 and msi
They detained the sta = eight hours ,
await the arrival OF the MP stage, which th V
also robbed. 1he amount lost by tho yassen.
sengers and the m"i'is not yet known; but IL
Is thouHht to he very slight in both mail (.
Agent Eos or of Austia, has been NJ fled NJ d
VIII work the matter up.
Yesterday evening man named
ienro had re- owed from his blad-
der three stones, weighing I3h ounces. The
hrst weighed ~ Ounces and measured 91s
Inches in circumference. The second weighed
ounces, measuring inches The third
weighed l-3 onnces and WAS shaped like q
knee-cap, with depression filing the other
stones The patient Is doing we'll DR.. il ohm
Or. King We're the attending physicians The
men suffered for thrtt en- years.
day.
Oyer hundred pcni"k ersfron Seguin came
up To-Day aud feastei at san Pedro springs
burglars are ger ing numerous here, Ed.
Whitecomb was rObo, 4 of $40 at his bosrdin &
house last nigh'
Parties ON Ell Paso state that the !, Pacific
and Atchison railroad will be in that city in
twenty days, The Mexican Central has FUR
veytd a line to Chihuahua, and will break
ground at once.
1t Is rumore that Jaw Gould will build
road from this city to Rockport. 1he line
Will be run in few days,
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RAILROAD LEGISLATION

II Is intimsted in several papers in the
state that when the governor calls the extra
session Of the legislature to attend to the
mater of congressional spporiioument, that
he will also call upon that body TO enact some
kind If legislation for the government and
control of railroads in this state. The HkR-
AID has been frequently s,ked oflate for an
EXPRESSION Of opinion on the subject. II may
be hat the go,ernor coniemplAtes making
such call. but We DO not know thst he does.
As congress meets not until Dec mber rext
and as Il msy th,n be some moHtbs before
tie basis of congressional representation IL
fixed. Il would seem pretty sure that the ex-
ira session TO attend TO spportionment viii not
he convened short Of year hence. This
feet onsidered, It does not appear that the
governor thinks legislation for the control
ard government Of railroads very urgent
Il ia possible that tb. governor reasons, That
a. IN q year hence The system OF railroads
prw IN course OF construction in Texas will
b. folly developed, II not quite completed,
hi II NAV be well TO have some more def
mite f,rm Of legislation for their government
than is at present On our statute books
Wbea the sevenieebth Legislature esssyed
leris .iion Of hi, nature. 50 iosnisesIly IN
iust 20, only 10 the rsilrosas but 70 The STATE
=. well. the HERALD was very pronounced n
II. OPPOSITION, and The positions u Then
4, are 20 well known tbsi we need not
r.-..t them here. As We csnros vel tns
n. tire Of The railroad lseislsiion thst may
cone up IN the extra session Of ibe legisls-
,.r-. 4 any 81 al be stisnptso, Ne cOrss
~. q, csnpos sag ubst position We shall
s.s... Thst h 70 say, NE csnDot nov
d. -.,iine Whist position We vii take. fnrine'
s..a sb.s Il uil be one Of absolute impartial
i,v ana Of sbsoluts justice 70 tbs rsilrosoi
ard 70 DE people. B5ih parties hsvs right
.rs vhsisvsr ssgislsiiob = prcposso should
:. m positive bsrrnony viii he righis =
bon. Nsiibsr the one ror ne ttbs
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05

AN item OF New York news is, that the
officers of the railroads in which Jay Gould
is interested all moved to tho second story OF
the Western Union telegraph building on
the 1st inst, and that they will occupy the
entire floor. As it will doubtless be interest,"
ing to our readers to know all these roads we
will name them. The list includes the UGion
Pacific, the Kansas Pacific, the Missouri
Pacific, the Texas s. Pacific, the Wabash, St.
Louis g. Pacific, the Hannibal & ST. Joseph
and the International 81 Great Northern
quite an stray, indeed, and when we consider
the fact that he is the moving and directing
spirit in each one of them, we can have at
least faint appreciation of the activity and
labor of his brain.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05

can reasonably or juny sk
moro or les than this Tho
1lERALD's highest aim ID 10 serve faithfully
and oGoctually the best interests Of Dallas
our homo ard all OF this section, and Of
Texas. We do not know how we can better
serve and advance the material prosperity,
the growth and thu development of these
than to do all in our power TO foster, en-
courage and support railroad enterprises and
all manner Of Internal Improvements and
industries They bring us population, bring
money into the country, open up now re-
sources of every nature, increase our COM
merce. build us more school houses and
churches, sweep away wildernesses and give
us farms and villages and towns and
cities instead. They are annil ilating GU
frontier, so long the abiding place of tn
savage and of lawless men, and establishing
there the temples and the affairs of civilizs.
lion and of enlightenment. Why then, low
ing Dallas and Texas as we do, and having
their good so nearly at heart, should we no
feel deep and abiding interest in railroads
and as pleasurable duty, do all in our power
for their advancement? They are the potent
factors to mike us all great and powerful
I'd to aid our state in achieving that grand
estiny nature has mapped out for her
therefore,, we never have en-
dorsed, and never will endorse
any narrow contracted or preudiced
policy on the part Of the state toward them,
but as it is right and eminently proper that
the people should always have the power to
keep trsnchsed corporations in due check,
and prevent encroschments upon their
rights, or unjust discrimination
should they ever be attempted
it may or may not be one OF the pr oper
things in the future to have legislation.
Just go long IS railroads or any other corpor.
atoms treat the people of the state, and OF,
the respective sections, counties and cities
the state, with the strictest frmness, Justice
and impsrtiality, we should prefer to see no
Interference. But if any other course should
be pursued, efforts toward remedyng abuses
would quite naturally follow. What would
constitute an abu'e, an injustice or unfair.
ness, is question that may very properly be
relegated to some time when some case may
be presented by any section, city or iDdivid-
ual feeling aggrieved.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05
Palestine.
Special to the Herald

CpeCidl W Iue heraIu
Palestine, April 30.-A large crowd of pleas
ure seekers attended the fremen'S picnic at
longs lske to-day, given for the benefit of
the hook and ladder company here. A basket
dinner was spread, and dancing and fishing
We're parts of the amusenents or the day a
special train was tandered free by Colonel
bOXe Some of the assengers contributed
a handsome sum TO he fIe company
Maj Penn returned from San Antonio to-day
and celebrated the twenty fifth year of his
marriage, by silver we0 dir & toni mt He
has received numerous silver presents by eX-
prose- from distinguished friends over the state,
aud many will be presented from friends
here.
The ".tts' have been indicted by the grard
jury for the murder of their brother, Jen, here
a few months aso.
The fying-jenLy man hiss invaded our
town and attracted quite a crowd here to-day
by eeudipg out wo,d that he would raise
balloon. Eager eyes waited until the sun went
down, and the flyiDg-jesny man wRs made
happy from their numerous picKels per ride.
District court Ia III session. Five murder
cases are Oh the docket. All are set for the
sixth and seventh weeks of the court.
Receut railroad changes and combinations
have advanced real estate 25 per cent. il,
Palestine.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05
mnxar Gond Resigns.

Judge Good yesterday announced bis IN
tsn,ion Of immediately resigning his position
AZ mayor. winch be only held unit biz success
sor qualities. This oevolves the Chief magl'
tracy Of the city upon Judge Hunt, Mayor
pro tenn. -.
The Judge In very appropriate term
thanked the city officers for their hdellty sne e
courtesy during bis official connecnon VIII
hem. and wss repliei 10 by Captain MortoI
in feeling manner, and expressing tne nigi
opinion Of al the department over .Wnicn d
presided, Of the outgoing msyor.
The Dallas weekly herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1885, 1881-05-05

Some time since Deputy Sheriff Smiti
ssut a warrant 70 Sheriff shsnnsn. Of East
land county. for n. ,rrest of B. Hendricks
charged with the then Of hOussbold good
from NJ. A Rogers in this city. Ssiurds
the foIlouiDg telegram was received BY M
smith from Sheriff ShsuDon;
eve have your msn IN isil. COm' and
gat him. q. w. SHANNON,
Shsrf Easflsn %
M. smith let On Ss'urcsy mornrg'l
trsin for the prisoner, who nov lsngusne'
hs.-a In iail