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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

TIE sensational rumor telegraphed
ont from Nashville that a low tax
combination Of some sort has an in
.arest in Tennessee bonds, is too ab-
aurd Il catch even the unwary. Who
is meant, we cannot imagine; GER
tsinly not ny member Of the legisla-
ture, for no ones personal integrity has
as vet been assaiIed from any respon'
sible source. AS to outside apecula-
tor, there is no law against them
nor indeed any way to reach or control
them. Ii is just as legitimate to specu-
late in bonds IS in cotton, gold
stocks. wheat, or any other article OF
trade but it is the duty of represen-
ts,;ves to see that they are not uuduly
influenced by the specious reasoning,
Aattery. or social atmosphere Of
those who may be spoculating in state
bonds. Taey should keep faith with
their constituents as yell as with the
creditors of the state.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
THE NashviIIe Herald, state

y y "oH IIIV IAS1"4~f |" D6"VO
credit paper, says:
This legislature has been one Of
surprises. No doubt many Of its
members we're much surprised them
selves that they were elected to it.
That surprise was shared with them
by great many people. Then they
have astonished the country by their
votes. But we are told the greatest
surprises are yet to come in the votes
OF certain members on the state debt
bill 1t would be the greatest surprise
of all if the people did not conclude
there was some crOokedness in it,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

In the house, yesterday, a senate
bill passed, on its third reading, pro-
viding that the question of calling a
constitutional convention shall be sub
mitted to the people at the August
election in 1882.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

New ORLEANS, March 30, 1l:30 a,
m.-Uotton quiet and easy. Middling,
l0ic. Sales to-day, 800 bales. Re
cnipts, 23l9 bales. Stock, 309,745
bales
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

II was decided in the senate yester-
day TO take no amendments to the
100 3 biz into consideration until just
before the final vote next Thursday
afternoon. This means that no amend
mepts arc to be made at all. 1t means
that the bill, as prepared and agreed
upon in secret, is to be forced through
without the dotting Of an 81 or the
crossing Of a It in the shape Of an
amendment. The bondholders have
made millions by waiting for this
legislature to come along.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

matter Of surprise and regret
hare that Senator VIM. M. Smith, a
man who enjoys the respect of men OF
ali parties, should set himself up
above his constituents in a matter Of
supreme importance Perhaps if he
had announced this in the canvass the
vote would have been different We
rs,ard him as a man of the highest
integrity yet sentiment and mis-
taken conception Of duty may lead him
a. cast a vote that be and his warmest
friends will have cause to deeply re-
pret. We have always regarded the
settlement of the state debt as very
s,r;ous matter, and now expect such a
mau as sWm. NJ. Smith to act upoa
Il from conviction, and not for any
party or personal purpose. Should
he misrepresent the better thought
audthe wishes of his constituents at
this grave crisis, it will greatly i'm
pair his future psefdluess. The man
who defes the people and sets up
his own sentimental views against the
deliberately expressed popular wish
will discover moro than a temporary
murkiness ia tho political atmosphere
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
Linnor DenIers, NOTICE |!

A very important meeting will be
held at the Mmnnerchor club hall
corner Of Second and j Jefferson streets,
tonight at 8 o'clock, to take action
against the obnoxious temperance bills
now pending in the state legislature.
All the wholesale and retail liquor
dealers of Memphis are requested to
attend.
BY order Of committee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30


pY virtue Of deed Of trust executed 10 INC
ID by Wir. Brent and his wife, Guila d Brent,
en- the 23d day OF Juno, lsSO and re corded 10
the Register Oiiico % Shelby county, Icnn.,
in record book no. l33, page rs. will, OF the
request Of the beneficiary therein named, On
Wednesday, the s0th day Of March, 1881.
between the hours Of II o'clock am. and
p. % in front Ofthe courthouse door Of shelby
county, Tenn, In Memphis, uOE called tho
axing District, sell % public auction 70 tho
highest bidder for cash the foil owing described
property, io-wit; 4 certain undivided one
third interest IN o certain lot. parcel or tract
OF land with the Improvements thereon, stu
ate, lying and being on the northeast corner
Of Jefferson and Fourth streets, IN the Taxing
District OF said Shelby county, Tenn tlate
city OF Memphial, aud being the east part Of
lot nve hundred and fifty three (55sj and the
west part Of lot i've hundred and fifty. four
V6D ofcourty lot four hundred aud seventy
eight l4ISl. having front On Jefferson street
OF one hundred and sixty-nine Q69l By one
hundred and forty eight and One-half ll4S1S)
feet deep on Fourth street, on which Is situ-.
ated large cotton warehouse, known hs n M
Apperson u Co.'S warehouse, and being part
OF same property Whi h was set apart and con-
Timed t0the heirs at law ofClsiborneDeLOaeh,
deceased, the said 6uila d Brent being one
Of slid heirs by decree Of Chaneery Court sf
Shelby county, Tenn. IN the cause Of imoeene
Beaumont vs.. Z NJ ApDetson, as the same
appea5s Of record in book ll5, page 900 Of the
deed records Of Shelby county, Tenn. Also
lots one ID and two ~ IN block ffty-fve (55l
| on Vance street, 10 said Taxing District date
city Of Momphisl. each lot fronting On said
Vance street fOrty-seven az feet and extend
ing back one hundred and forty-eight and
one-half (l4s1l feet 70 al alley.
Equity OF redemption waived. Title believ-
ed to be good but sell aud convey "a trustee
only. E f ADAMS, Trustee.
Greer L Adams, Att'ys. 625
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

Woman Suffrage Damned Up
BosToN, March 80 The house de-
feated yesterday by vote Of 10 to &c
the bill to give municipal suffrage tO
women.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
BANK OF COMMERcAl

Wfmphlfl Ief n., MareE : Ifai, J
fINHE Fesullr annual Y sstmg Z tho Ftook-
! holdsfs ofthis Dlnk for the election Of
Directors. 81 IN be held AZ the Banking houso
~ % ! sacond Tuesday In April uexf bbi.
beiw-5n the hours Of 70 am. and 9 p e.
rs j. a. QMREsg, eaAiar,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
Cotton.

Tho..market.to-d wore a droopy as
pecl, news from abroad quoting l-l6d
lower and below any figures at any
time for the past two years. This day
year ago, Middling Orleans in Liver
paol was 7sd and lid above present
figures. The close of the month and
necessary settlements among dealers in
futures caused March deliveries in
New York to day to droop 30 points,
and on other months from Ito 7poiHts.
Sales yesterday here we're 1900 bales,
to exporters 700, to spinners 800; the
tone being easy at below on the
cleaner, and | lower on the poorer clas-
ses as follows:
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

N. B. AT the request Of the grantors in the
above described deed in trust. the sale therein
advertised is POSTPONED until
Saturday, the 9Th day Of April, 1891,
At same place and hour named.
1855 z F ADAMS, Trustee.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

FIGHTMASTER-At l O'Clock NJ, this
March 50, 1881, Mrs. HARRIEr c. FIGHrMAs1ER
relet Of the late William Fiabtma ter, aged
rs years.
Funeral will take , ace at 10 o'clock 10
morrow (THURSDAYl morning, ffom the
residence Of her nephew, wm. Bridges. No.
1855 fernando street. Friends invited
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30

LORD Beaconsfeld hasimproved to-
day, but is not out of danger.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
nIELl.

WASS0N--At his residenco, No IS Ex.
change street, " edpesday morning, March
~. 1881, GARRI oS WAss x, aged IS years.
Due notice of funeral will be given.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
"Those Garfield Bows,
Washington Star.1

washington otar.I
"Those Garfield boys are as full of pluck as
an egg is of meat" said an attache of the
White House who has served there for over
twenty years to Star reporter. "They are
Just like their father-and their mother, too
when it comes to show of pluck. Why, that
little Abe Garield-he isn't moren seven
years old-will jump on his bicycle and ride
Alright down those front steps of the White
House portico. Don't he get falls? Well, 1
should say he did; but he don't mind them
no more'n nothing He'll jump right up, get
on that bicycle again, and go tearing down
the yard like forty, right over stones, curbing,
or anything else, and maybe therell be lump
on his head as big as hens egg from the fall.
too. One day he rode right down the steps
and got the hardest kind of fall His head
struck that hard stone tagging. Before l
could get to him he was up and getting on his
bicycle again. l asked him. Aren't you hurt
Abe? BY that time there was knot formed
on the side of his head half as big as nv fist,
He said yes, it hurt little, but that he didn't
mind that and away he went.
Then there's Irvine; he's 10 or II years old
One day he undertook to climb over that iron
railing around the Treasury, over there by the
fountain. He got an awful fall and one leg
of his pants caught on the spikes, and he hung
head downward. He didn't holer like any
other boy would have done-not bit of it. He
just called to some boys there to come and get
him loose. He got his ankle sprained, but he
wouldn't have any help. He crawled all the
way back to the White House, and nobody
ever heard whimper out of him. One night
1 was standing at the front door Of the house.
Irvine came along, and he just lowered his
head and ran at me to butt me. jumped out
of the way, and he ran his head against one of
\ I IL
him down. picked him up and he was hurt
too: no doubt about that. l said, Yes, some |;
but didn't cry, did ~ Then he asked me,
Would Scott Hayes have cried for that?'
His great ambition is to be more of man than
Scott Hayes, who was about his age, He
didn't cry, neither. You can't make one of
those Garfield boys cry. They've got too much
pluck for that"
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

The Directors of the ''Co-operatiye Dress
Association, Limited Of New York, have
been fortunate in securing the services, as
general manager, of Mr.. John Wales, long
known in Boston as a leading spirit in the
well-known firm of Spalding, Wales & Co.
Mr.. Wales's energy, enthusiasm and devo-
ton to his business are guarantee of sue
cess. He will open the store in September
That Mr.. Wales should take command of
the first cooperative dry goods enterprise
ever started in this country, shows his faith
in its future. The judgment of the Directors
in selecting a live Yankee to fill this ardu-
Gus position is to be commended. Miss Kate
Field, President of the Association, has just
signed her name to ten thousand certificates
of stock, which will be issued at once. Her
duties are so arduous that she has entirely
given up her voyage to Europe, and, in fact,
has not spent one hour out of New York
since her election to office. 1t should be re-
membered by the stockholders of the "Co-
operative Dress Association, Limited" that
neither the President nor Directors receive
compensation for efforts of the magnitude
of which the majority of persons have little
conception.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
Careless Writing.


Careless writing, with imperfectly formed
letters, and general appearance of dash and
haste, is as frequently the cause of blunders as
the stupidity of the printer. 1t may have been
due to some such cause that a person who ad-
vertised for gardener, adding the informa-
ton that there was "no glass"-that is, no
greenhouse-had the worry OF seeing this ap-
pear as zone glass;" naturally attended with
inquiries from interested applicants wishing to
know ''if it was in the forenoon" and whether
it was "hot" Again, lady who was desirous
of securing housemaid, sent an advertise
ment to that effect to the local newspaper; but
the notice when it appeared, mortified the la
dy bv representing her as advertising for a
"horseman." There is a rollicking song by
certain Scottish Professor, in which he says:
81 can like a hundred women,
can love score.'
But compositor who put this in type changed
the last word into ''scone," thus dividing the
learned poets loves and ikings between the
Court of Venus and the baker.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

SINCE the President was wounded there
has been tremendous increase in the mum.
Der of distinguished surgeons in the coun-
try. Every well regulated newspaper now
has one attached to its staff who tells its
readers every morning precisely the proper
treatment to pursue in the Presidents case.
Luckily their directions have not been fol-
lowed
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

In the Argentine Congress the OF her day
when Congressman Corvalan called Con-
gresham Castro an adulator the latter de-
fed Corvalan to prove it, and threatened to
cut out his tongue and carry it to the police.
The belligerent American congressman
ought to study the Argentine method. A
little judicious tearing out of tongues in
Washington during the winter wouldn't do
the country any harm.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
Railway Travelling in England.
London Cont Circular.l ]

ll-OuuOn
The first impulse of the average Englishman
when going on railway journey is to try and
secure a carriage all to himself. With that OBJ
ject in view he spreads his rugs and travelling
bags over several seats, bribes the guard to
lock the carriage doors, and considers himself
fortunate if he succeeds in travelling in solita-
ry grandeur. One fellow traveller he may gra-
ciously permit to enter the carriage, but any
more passengers are regarded as intruders, and
as guards and porters are quite willing, for the
usual consideration to connive at this state of
things, 1t is not unusual to see several carriages
in a train with only one or two persons in
them, while others are inconveniently crowd
ed. Such are the customs of the country, and
as one compartment of railway carriage is
shut off from another. entire privacy can be
secured during the whole of journey
This privacy, however, has its disadvantages
A person travelling by himself may be taken
ill, and if he has travelling companion worse
dangers may await him. The harmless looking
individual in the corner, whom your friend,
the guard, has allowed to enter after hurried
consultation with you, may be an escaped lu-
natic or gentleman who has noted your SOL
vent appearance, and determined to possess
himself of your valuables and then throw you
out OF the carriage window as being of no fur
ther use to him. He can do this, as recent
occurrence has proved, with perfect impunity,
even if he gets out at the next station with his
face covered with blood and your watch chain
hanging out of his boot. He has only to tell
the active and intelligent policeman ON duty
that some one has hit him and that he always
carries his watch in his boot, and he will be al
lowed to go home in peace while you are lying
dead by the side of the line.
1t is plain that, if railway travelling is to be
Safe, some easier means must be invented for
Communicating with the guard or, what
would be better still, the carriages should open
one into the other, so that passengers, hearing
commotion in the next compartment, could
enter it, and go to the assistance of any one
who was being attacked Saloon carriages,
too, should be more used, for we may be sure
that this recent murder on the Brighton Rail-
way will not be the last outrage of the kind ;
though happily, such cases are pot so frequent
as we might expect, from the conditions under
which nine people out of ten make railway
journ Us. There is a sort of horrible fashion
in crime as in everything else; criminals are
initiative; and, unless extra precautions are
taken, poor Mr.. Gold will not DO the last vic
tim to the mania for travelling with as few
companions as possible.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
The Presidents Condition.

The latest bulletins from the attending
physicians show that no material change
has taken place in the Presidents condition
during the last twenty-four hours. He is
much better than on Saturday, but not so
well as before the relapse which occurred
on that day. The surgeons are hopeful,
but they recognize the fact that he is still
far from out of danger.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

NEVER before has such demonstration
been seen so unaffected, so deep, so world
wide as the sympathy for President Gar
field" the Manchester (England) Examiner
says. Itattributes it to the fact that the mass
of the worlds people think that he is one of
them, and because his family life brings
him close to the popular heart. In the re-
spect of coming from palace and workshop,
the Examiner thinks it is the greatest tri-
butte yet paid to any man since the begin
ming of history.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

THERE have been discovered in Washing
ton some queer letters written in May, 1865,
by Secretary Stanton to Edwards Pierrepont
requesting the latter to arrest and prosecute
Horace Greeley for endeavors to incite
assassins to murder Stanton. The letters
are queer exhibit of the morbid condition
of Stanton's mind at the time.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

THE New York Board of Health is much
stirred up over adulterated beer We are
not informed what the nature of the adul-
teration is, but from the extent of the ex-
citement it is fair to infer that too much
water has been put in.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
THE PRESS.
WEDNESDAY MORNING, JULY s7.

EVERY regular attache of the PRESS is furnished
with Card certificate signed by Stanley Pullen,
Editor, All railway, steamboat and hotel managers
Will confer favor upon by demanding credentials
Oh every person claiming to represent our Journal
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

We do not read anonymous letters and communi
cations The name and address of the writer are in
all cases Indispensable not necessarily for publica
ton but as guaranty of good faith
We cannot undertake to return or preserve com
munications that are not used,
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
Internal Machine.

According to the statement of Sir Vernon
Harcourt in the House of Commons two
vessels recently arrived at Liverpool from
an American port which had among their
cargo ten internal machines, each of which
contained eleven cartridges charged with
nitro-glycerine, and compound of the ma
ture OF, and similar to, gun cotton. Fortu-
nately the machines were discovered before
the parties for whom they were consigned
had an opportunity to use them and thus
the sacrifice of many innocent lives and
the destruction of much property was pre-
vented.
The authors of this diabolical scheme of
wholesale murder are at present unknown.
Until the contrary is proved by the arrest of
the guilty parties it will be impossible to
convince the public that the plot is not CON
nected with the troubles in Ireland and that
its instigators are not members of the Feni
an ORDER That the majority of Irish-Amer-
leans feel nothing but adherence for
schemes Of this kind and for their origina-
tors is undoubtedly true. But it is also true
that there is small band of so-called Feni-
ans in this country, made up largely of ex-
lies from their native land, of which O'Don-
oval Rosa is the head, to whom a plot of
this nature presents no repulsive features.
They are men imbued not so much with love
Tor Ireland as hatred for England. Their
scheme is one of vengeance for real or fan
cled personal wrongs, aud to kill any Eng
Hshman affords them intense satisfaction.
They have already done the cause of Ireland
much harm and are capable of doing it
much more.
For men of their stamp there ought to be
no room in this country outside of peni-
tentiary, and they very greatly mistake the
temper of the American people if they sup
pose they will be allowed to spend their
time here in manufacturing Internal ma
chimes to blow up Engi shmen. Americans
sympathize with the people of Ireland, but
they will not tolerate assassins and murder
ers within their borders simply because
they profess to be committing their nefar-
ious deeds in the name of liberty. Our gov
ernment will be just as anxious to discover
the men who shipped dynamite to Liver
pool as the government of Great Britain,
and if found will promptly put them where
their labor will be of benefit to the State.
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27

Making, driving and fitting above, including all
other material for same. (Pile work in Bridge
proper:
"a Oak Tenders, SO it. long, IL in Is fs. from butt
4 piles, 80 ~" Is "
16 spurshores As I" 70" 10 :"
Making, driving and fitting above, including all
other materials for same (pile work in piers)
u PINE caps, 33 ft. long-12x12.
"a Spruce girths, IL #. long-6x12.
Pier. face girders $50 ln tt, spruce-5xS.
Labor on above caps and girders, including all
other material for same.
Proposals for furnishing material may be separate
from proposals to do the work.
For further information enquire at the Office of
the City Civil Engineer.
The right is reservedto reject any or all proposals.
The successful bidder will be required to furnish
bonds with sureties satisfactory to the Committee
on Streets, Sidewalks and Bridges for the faithful
performance of the contract
Proposals to be endorsed proposals to repair
Tukey's Bridge" addressed to A. Little, Chairman.
ALBION LITTLE. Committee
EDWARD B. WINSLoW, on
WILLIAM III. PENNELI, Streets
WHITMAN SAWYER, Sidewalks &
AUGUSTUS III. PRINCE. Bridges
Jy2I d10t
The Portland daily press., 1881-07-27
Health lis Wealth

DR.. E. c. VESTS NERVE AND BRAIN IRE AT
MENr; a specific for Hysteria. Dizziness, Con vul
sions, Nervous Headache, Mental Depression, Loss
of Memory, Spermatorro9a, Impotency, Involun-
tary Emissions, Premature Old Age, caused by
over exertion, sef-abuse, over-indugence, which
leads TO misery, decay and death. One box will
cure recent cases. Each box contains one months
treatment. One dollar box, six boxes for five
dollars; sent by mail prepaid receipt of price.
We guarantee six boxes to cure any case. With
led with five dollars will send the purchaser our
written guarantee to return the money if the treat
ment does not effect cure. Guarantees issued by
all druggists in Portland and everywhere.
JOHN w. PERKINS & CO., General Agents.
sep6deow&weow1y Portland.