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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-12-21


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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
THE ST. LOUIS STRIKE.
A Severe Criticism on the
Strikers.

ST. Louis, April 27.-Thc Globe
Democrat, which has heretofore been
on the side of the striking street car
conductors and drivers, expresses itself
editorially this morning as follows:
"The hope which we expressed yes
terday for an honorable and peacea-
BILE settlement Of the street car
troubles, has been, we regret to say,
disappointed. Mr. Wells yesterday
conceded substantially all that had
been asked of him, but his offer
was rejected. The truth is that
the object of the strike has been per-
verted. Originally an honest effort to
secure reduction of the hours of
labor, it became yesterday an impu-
dent demand for control of the bus
inesS of the different street railroads.
The So called trades union has enter
ed into dispute with which it can
legally have no concern, and now the
question is not how many hours
the men shall work or how much
wages they shall receive, but whether
the companies are to be governed by
rules laid down by an utterly ire
sponsible organization of utterly ire
sponsible men, controlled by journey
men jaw-movers in the pretended
name Of labor. To this demand hon
orable men can make but one reply
and that in the negative
A Gattling gun, with ammunition
and everything necessary to work it,
also ammunition for rifles, was brought
to this city in very quiet way this
morning from the United States
arsenal twelve miles down the river,
and is now in the armOry of the Ma.
tional Guards under the control
of Colonel Chapman, commanding
the First regiment, and ready for any
emergency that may arrive. No cars
are running this morning, and no ef-
fort to run will be made o.day. The
police authorities have not yet sue.
ceeded in obtaining all the special
men they want. The police commits
sioners are now in session.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
ON TO MEXICO.
Rapid Extension Of the Mexican Ma
tiOnal Railway.
Large Force at Work at Each
End.

GALVESTON, April N.-The steam
er Aransas has arrived from Corpus
Christi bringing General Palmer and
other members of the Mexican Ma
tional railway company from northern
Mexico. The captain of the Aransas
reports twelve vessels between Corpus
Christi wharf and Galveston loaded
with railroad material for this compa-
ny, General Palmer says he now sees
no reason why the company should
not have its track completed to Laredo
in June, to Monterey-336 miles from
Corpus Christi-in December, and to
San Luis Potosi by the close of next
year, meeting the line being built by
the same company from the City of
Mexico northward. There is a very
heavy force on the latter section and
the heaviest work, including two diff
cult tunnels, will be completed and
the road opened to Toluca early in
July. he says the existing business
awaiting the Toluca division is heavy,
and he believes from the day the line
is opened the traffic per mile will ex-
ceed that of the Denver and Rio
Grande railway, Of which he is also
president.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
The Coming Contest.


The Nashville American of yester-
day has this to say abeut the rumored
move to unsettle the so-called settle
ment Of the state debt:
Messrs. Il. I. Talialerro. ex-Gov-
ernor A. s. Marks, S. A. Champion,
J. j. Vertrees and Colonel N. N. Cox
have been retained to investigate the
legal points involved in making appli-
cation for a writ of injunction against
the issuance Of the state funding bonds.
A representative of the American at
tempted to learn by whom the above
gentlemen had been retained, but
tailed to gain any very definite infor-
nation on the subject from those ap-
preached. One of the lawyers said
that he supposed it to be a matter Of
speculation that he had a retainer
fee in this as he would do in any other
lawsuit, and that as yet no definite
action relative to the matter had been
taken.
1t was reported, ION the outside, -
that the gentlemen had been retained
by or through S. f. Wilson, low tax
candidate for governor.
Some of the attorneys were busily
engaged in the law department of the
state library yesterday looking up any
precedent that might have a bearing
on the matter.
Thomas Il. Malone, Esq, refused to
receive a retainer fee on that side of
the question, because he had urged
the acceptance of the compromise.
Beside this, it was not consistent with
good citizenship to enter into suit
against the state when it was endeav.
oring to do what was right and just in
the settlement of its debt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
IngersOII's Rot.

A New York special to the Cincin-
natl Commercial says: The entrance
to Booths theater tonight was crowd
ed as early as seven o'clock with per-
soDs anxious to hear Robert G.. Inger-
soils new lecture, Some Reasons
Why" The line extended from the
box Sfiice to the sidewalk, and ten or
fifteen spectators were Offering re-
served seats for sale on all sides. Many
seats sold for three or four dollars,
aud spectators reaped rich harvest.
By a qulrter past eight the theater
was crowded from gallery to orchestra,
aud every available inch Outstanding
room was occupied. Mr.. Ingersoll, in
dress suit, came upon the stage
through a door in the back fat, and
placing his manuscript on the stand,
plunged into his lecture without any
introduction. Most of the audience
we're men, very we'll dressed. Here
and there might be seen a woman.
The speech was received with greatest
applause, and the speaker was several
times obliged to wait a few minutes,
until the expressions Of approval had
subsided.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
River TeIegramS.

Louisville, April 27.-River falling;
8 feet 5 inches in canal, Z feet 5 inches
in chute on the falls. Warm and part
ly cloudy. Arrived and departed
Cons Millar, Memphis to Cincinnati
Will Kyle from Cincinnati; Onward
and tow, Pittsburg to Pittsburg; Andy
Fulton to Hainesville.
Pittsburg, April 27.-River 8 feet
and falling. Clear and pleasant.
WHEELING, April 27-River 10
feet and falling, Departed Scotia
for Pittsburg, l a. M; Montana for
st. Louis, 10a.m.
Cairo, April q: Arrived--Paris c.
Brown, New Orleans, 8 pm; Raven,
New Orleans, 8 pm; Ste. Genevieve,
Memphis, SAM Golden City, Cincin-
natl, II am. Departed Guiding Star,
New Orleans, 8 pm; Paris G. Brown,
Cincinnati, 10 pm; Bigloy, st. Louis,
10 pm; Raven, St. Louis, 2 am; Ste.
Genevieve, St, Louis, II am. Clear
aud pleasant,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

Nashville Herald
The 1908 bill to settle the state
debt does clearly infringe the consti-
tuition. That instrument provides
that the interest on the school fund
shall be inviolably appropriated to the
support Of common schools, and that
all poll taxes levied by the state shall
be applied the same way. The 1908
bill undertakes to divert these
funds to the payment Of interest on
the bonded indebtedness by providing
that tax collectors shall receive cou-
pons for them. AS to low this fact
shall be taken advantage of is another
question. The bonds issued under an
unconstitutional act will be void and
will constitute no valid contract.
BOndhelders will probably not be in a
hurry to fund their bonds under an
invalid law. An injunction may not
be needed.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
HIGH WATER.

The water in the river opposite this
city attained its highest level this
morning, and, from news to be found
elsewhere to-day, it will crafty the
planting and commercial community
to learn that theprospecti is lessthreat-
ening than many were led to antici-
pate. While vast damage has occurred
from the sweeping foods to the peo-
pie Of the submerged valleys in the
upper Mississippi and Missouri coun-
try, the Ohio and its aff1uents are only
in moderate stage, and no prospects
are apparent Of their becoming flooded
until after. the next season of heavy
rainfall. Our great river is full to the
very brim, and is slightly over in some
places, but tho indications point fa-
vorably to its getting down inside of
its banks in ample time for crop
planting.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
OCEAN TO OCEAN.
The Probable Result OF the Rail.
, road Contract signed
Yesterday.

The contract with the Memphis,
Paducah and Newport new line of
railroad was signed BY the city council
yesterday.
Several leading citizens interviewed
to-day were enthusiastic on the sub
ject.
Judge G. w. Heipkell said be had
always opposed the cessiOn of public
lands to railroads upon general prin-
ciples; and had taken little interest in
any former railroad enterprise, but ho
was most heartily in favor of this
scheme and considered it an era in the
history Of Memphis.
DR.. D. T. Porter remarked that it
might be the means of making
Memphis a grand railroad cen
ter, and that the privileges
granted were insignificant when
compared with the result to be OBJ
tanned.
The contract provides that Memphis
and Newport News, on the Chesa-
peake, shall be continuously connect.
ed. The route is from Memphis to
Paducah, thence to EliEabethtown,
thence to Huntingdon, and thence to
Newport News. The first stage of
the rodte is to be completed in two
years, the entire route in four years.
1t is stated that two thousand men
are now employed closing the gap be-
tween Huntingdon and Newport News,
which is said to be the finest harbor
on the bay, the depth at low tide be-
ing twenty two feet. Though the con.
tract is four years, the probability is
it will be completed in eighteen
months.
Huntingdon has a route from Hous-
ton to the Pacific ocean, leaving a
gap Of only FIVE hundred miles, the
distance from Memphis to Houston,
to be closed in order that we may
have a direct line from ocean to ocean.
The prevailing opinion is that when
the route is completed from the At.
lantic to Memphis this gap will be
closed shortly after.
Memphis then having direct lines to
both oceans, other lines will be built,
and she will become a grand central
depot for freight and people.
Jefferson, Texas, is only about one
hundred miles out Of the air line from
this city to Houston, and can be easily
reached.
The Holly Springs road will be
pushed and brought to completion.
The laying down of tracks will not
interfere seriously with local traffic
and as all work is to be done under
the supervision of the city engineer,
the grades of the streets will remain
the Same or will not suffer. Besides
the ground already leased, the COM
pany are negotiating to a site for a
depot and machine shops.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

THE Little Rock Gazette, which, in
the language Of its new and enterpris-
ing editor, "covers Arkansaw like a
blanket" contained in the issue Of
yesterday six solid columns of paid
matter written up about the leading
merchants and enterprises Of Mem
phis. This pays the Gazette hand
somely, and will no doubt pay the bus
inesS men who are.so freely and favor
ably mentioned. The Gazette reaches
every postofhce, landing, cross-road,
and very nearly every cabin and pig
path in the growing state of Arkan-
saw, and we are glad to testify
to its prosperity and influence as
the result of we'll directed journalistic
effort. Its success is nothing remark
able, for it is only the legitimate out
growth of the application of business
principles and square, hard work. This
is what tells, and without it no paper
can succeed nowadays. The fttest
survive, as Darwin would say, and
happily for the rising generation the
days of slack twisted journalism are
about numbered with the dead issues
of the past. With all due respect for
the many excellent and horored men
who have been connected with the
Gazette in the last fifty or sixty years,
it is cool business fact that it has
never been as prosperous or as widely
read as under the proprietorship of
Dean Adams, (who, by the way, is a
Gne chip from the old block,") and
the editorship of D. A. Brewer, 'whe
graduated at or near the head of his
class on the Memphis press.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
Ruried Alive.

A special from Youngtown, o., says:
Miss Hattie Moaley, domestic, EN-.
ployed in a family in Middlesex,
Pennsylvania, sickeDed and died two
weeks ago, and was buried Aext day.
Yesterday her family, who had short
time ago moved west, came to remove
the body. On opening the coffin they
we're Mortified to find the woman had
been buried alive, while in a trance,
and had turned over on her face, and
her features terribly distorted. The
discovery caused intense excitement
in the village.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
TEXAS.
Rapid Extension of Various I'm
pOrtant Railroads.

GALVESTON, April ga Dallas
special says; Chief Engineer Marvin,
of the Missouri Pacific, said in an in
terview that it is an established fact
that the Missouri Pacific will be built
to Galveston. The line is now being
located from Virginia Point to Ran
don on the Galveston, Harrisburg and
San Antouio road. The survey from
Waco of the Intel national and Great
Northern road is completed. From
the international lines will be run to
the mouth of the Brazos and Aransas
Pass, the latter survey to be made in
six weeks. If the road goes to
Aransas Pass it will connect the Pal.
mer and Sullivan system at Corpus
Christi via the main land around
Aronsas, Nensas and Corpus Christi
bays. Track laying on the Missouri
Pacific from Fort Worth begins Mon
day.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

The fact that there is in Shelby
county 100000 due in poll taxes, which
cannot be collected does not speak
very we'll for the community. This
money, if collected, would 90 into the
school fund, and greatly promote the
cause of education. 1t would seem
that those who as a class derive the
greatest beaeft from public schools in
proportion TO what they contribute to
sustain them, are the last to pay this
light and reasonable tax. The colored
people, and some white people who own
no land or personal taxable property,
asa general rule refuse to pay this tax.
Yet they never send their children to
any but the free schools. The consti-
tuition requires the legislature to enact
a law making payment Of poll tax a
condition to qualify any one to vote,
but no legislature has had the moral
courage to vote for such a law.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
A Floral Offering 10 Miss Mildred
Lee.

A few days ago some of the citizens
Of Vidalia, La, waited on Miss Mil
dred Lee, at the residence of Mr.. Viii.
mer Fl. Shields, where General z.
York, on behalf of the citizens Of Vi
dalia and Concordia parish, PRESENTED
the fair lady with a most beautiful
floral offering. The following was Gen
eral York's address on the occasion:
This offering of flowers is presented
by the citizens of Concordia parish,
La. as a token of respect to the
daughter of the illustrious Robert Z.
Lee, whose name and fame will ever
live in the hearts of his countrymen."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
DisraeII,s Fortune.

A Gazette special says; Beacons-
field leaves fair fortune, although
the exact amount will not appear in
the will. His wife brought him good
property, and he made something out
Of his books. Then that romantic
old lady, Mrs. Williams, left him e4O,-
coo, on condition that she should be
buried in the same vault as his wife.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
a NEiaafnU RniIf1er.

HALLIsToN, MASS, April 27.-W.
L. Payson, a builder and contractor,
lately of the firm of Payson & Lindly,
has been missing since Saturday, and
is alleged to be forger to the amount
of $4,000. Besides this, his liabili-
ties are large.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

THE Little Rock Gazette Of ycster-
day says: Hon. 7. A. Hamilton, who,
last fall, was an independent republi-
can candidate for congress in the tenth
Tennessee district, is in Washington,
reported an applicant for the collector
ship of the port Of Memphis, a place
now held by Gen. w. j. Smith.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
Enterprise.

The Memphis Post, printed in the
German language, is out with an extra
to-day, and it contains a full descrip-
tion Of the opera of der Freischutz;" !"
also synopsis of the plot and incl
dents thereto.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
Steamer Ashore.

New YORK, May N.-The steamer
Chesapeake, of the New York and
Portland line, is ashore on Fishers
Island, off New London, Connecticut,
and is likely to go to pieces. No lives
lnst.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
The Everlasting Reading Rail-
WAY Case.

PHILADELPHIA, April q, - The
circuit court has made a decree re-
straining the Reading railway COM
pany from issuing the d50,000,OOO
blanket mortgage bonds.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
Death Of a Boston Literary
(yharncfar.

Boston, April 27.-JOhn G. Pal
frey, at one time editor Of the North
American Review, died yesterday,
aged eighty-fve.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
CIearInghOuse Report.
RumOred killing.

DENIsoN, TEXAS, April 27.-It is
rumored here that Governor B. N.
Overtou, of the Indian territory, was
killed Sunday. 70
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
Trustees Sale.

pY virtue Of a trust deed executed to me by
ID Charles o. Abston and his wife, Fannie
Abston. executed 18th October, 1877, regis
tered in the office of tho Register of Shelby
county, Tenn, book No. l2O, page s62, l will
On Saturday, May 2S, 1851,
at IL M. on the southwest corner of Madison
and Main streets, in the Taxing District of
shelby county (hempAis, sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following property, on
which stands a two story brick residence:
Lot beginning at point Oh the east side Of
Causey street, in the city Of Memphis, Shelby
county, Tenn, in the exact eoter of lot No.
Of block No. ~, on the plan Of South Mem
phis; thence east parallel with the north and
south boundaries Of said lot No. seventy-two
feet and two inches to a post; thence south
seven feet inches TO a stake; thence east on a
line parallel with the north and south bound
aries of said lot to Avery street; theaoe north
along Avery street forty two feet five inches to
the north boundary Of lot No. 8; thence west
along the boundary Of said lot to Causey street
thirty seven and one-hslf feet to the begin
ming. Redemption waived. Title believed TO
be perfect, but only sell and cQnvey Rs trus-
tee. 4. r. BOYLE, Trustee,
April 27, 1881. So
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

baIos to-day, 44iIUV bhIuS.
New ORLEANS, April q, 11:30 a.
m.-Cotton steady. Middling, l0lc.
Sales to-day, 700 bales; receipts,
sos bales; stock, 226, bales.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

NEW YORK, April u, 1913 pm
Cotton dull. Ordinary, z; good
ordinary, 813-16c; low middling 1Oc;
mid.lOs; good middling, IL 7-16c; mid
ding fair, y 5-16; fair, 13 l-16. Flu
lures opened quiet now steady,
at 3 to 5 points above last even
irg's closing prices, as follows Deliv-
eries for
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27
LiYerpOOI Markets.

LIVERPOOL, April q. = Corn
Mixed, dull at 5s 3ld. Lard-Prime
western, steady at 57s3
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-04-27

T HAVE A VERY LARGE STOCK OF THE
4 finest monuments Of all kinds, also fine
figure Jobs and very hns rustic mOnu-
ments, tablets, scrolls and headstOnes
Of all sizes and designs, which 1 will sell at
actual cost OF material and labor an
them. You can save money by calling on
me and see my prices before purchasing else
Whee.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14
The Freedmen's Bank SwindIe.

The Courier,JOurndE suggests that it
would be an honorable act on the part
of the present administration to start
new hunt after the thieves who stole the
money of the negro depositors out of
the Freedmen's Bank. There are many
blots upon the Republican party, but
few are blacker than this Freedmen's
Bank robbery and the utter indifference
of the party to the act. Instead of hotlY
pursuing the thieves and making them
disgorge, the Republicans appointed three
Commissioners to wind up the affairs
of tie bank, at salaries of So, 900 each.
These salaries and other expenses were
paid out of money which should have
been given to the depositors in the bank,
to the amount of 5000 year A large
number of the 81, III depositors are now
dead, and thousands of the living deposi-
tors will get nothing. The wards of
the Republican party have indeed been
swindled villainously by their alleged
guardian. The American negro has re-
ceived his worst treatment at the hands
of the Republican party, which to day
declines to make men who are known
to have stolen the depositors money dis
gorge.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14
The South Ultra Union.

Hon. Jacob Thompson. of Mississippi,
Secretary of State to Mr.. Buchanan, has
been interviewed in Washington. He
says ''the sentiment of Union is now
very strong in the South"-so strong
that lit would now be the last section of
the country to secede" In fact, he
feared it would now run to 'the other
extreme of centralized government"
That is so. Jacob, and if the North
don't believe it, just let her attempt
to secede, and we'll show her
what virtue there is in the
Constitution. Well let her know
that this is real Union, held together
by the cohesive power of public
plumber" That her precedent begun in
1861, and, fully established by the events
of 1865, were not lost on the gallant
hosts of the South. We are for the
Union and all that is in it, but, admitting
the natural right to freedom of locomo-
ton, we shall not object to stalwartlsm
going outsideof it, and remaining outside,
provided always that they carry nothing
with them but brown Overcoat and a
blue umbrella.
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14
Extent of the Pacific Coast Fruit
Culture.

A correspondent, writing from San
Francisco, May Both, says: II passed
through the Los Angeles country last
week, and learned that the orange crop
promises to be the largest known for
years. The fruit is also of sweeter and
choicer kind, and many of the owners of
the groves, who have been weighed
down with debt, will be able to Tighten
themselves considerably, while others
can cancel their entire obligations. The.
result will be, owners of the groves will
carry on the business on a still
larger and more extensive scale, and,
since it has been found profitable to
ship oranges to the ST. Louis and Chi
cago markets, the people look for quite
boom in the raising of oranges in the flu
ture. There is no use denying the fact
that in fruit growing and wine making
lies the future greatness of California.
Already men of large means have pur-
chased heavily of lands in Los Angeles,
Solano and other counties, and are plant.
ing them with orange trees. grapes and
other fruit. Lucky Baldwin, the heavy
and successful stock broker, owns some
Sc, 600 acres of land in Los Angeles
county alone, and is making the raising
of grapes and oranges a business"
Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-14

WANTED. agents for Rubber g. - y
StO day guaranteed. Send FPS; Sto
cent stamps for catalogue JAS 'u nve THREE,
manufacturer, Savannah, Ga l. SNI1H