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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-14
VaIentlnesl Valentinea!

The largest and best assorted stock
in the city, at Reinhardt's news depot,
357t Main street l43
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-14
AssIGNEEs SALE


AT the store Of William Miller & Co, ~
Main street. These goods must be sold
within thirty days.
TERMS OAsH. A. h. SLOAN,
l2St Assignee.
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o0TT0N uKoHINaA QUOTATIONS.
International Ulassiaoal
Stains - Good ordinary, 90; low
middliDg, 9}c; middling, I0tc.
II I aHIpMENTe

The distribution of shipments Of
cotton from this market this and last
season, to the 10th inst, is shown in
the following table:
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1000 dozen Fresh Standard PIE Fruits
t$L00 TO si.50 per DOZEN.
200 dozen Preserves and IVllies,
In 2 ID tins, very cheap.
500 Boxes Fine Layer Figs.
rs Kegs Best White Cracked Wheat
100 Coarse Oatmeal.
rs Graham Flour, extra good
100 Trhs Select Creamery Butter.
100 Boxes Fine Cream Cheese.
100 imported aaOarOnl, iIb papers
Lys HOmIny, RlOs Flour, sc Rice
BrOums, Mups, Tubs, Washboards
Scrub Brushes hoe Brushes, etc.
OLIVER, F'lNNIE g. co.
fst4
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-14
SPECIAL NOTICES.

DIANOs AND ORGANS sold on easy
y monthly payment al
H0LLENBER5' Music Hou,e,
1865 ~ Main itreet.
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7 7 RECEIPTS.

COTTON RECEIPTS.
The following are the receipts Of
cotton to the 10th inst, by the several
sources tributary to this market.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-14

ODD BRICK.
~ by 8. GABAY.
Agent, Shelby Street Rag Warehouse
Rags auj CD Metal wanted. N1i
ATtt7a f1ll. 10 DO b cans, finest article.
~ sile Gao Gard and job Inks, Of all coiors
80 saHHael, atLedser once. o.
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nnnEEasInnAI
CUE CHEAP COLUMN.

4 lL edYeftiEsmonts under the head Of For
y N.at. fof sale, Wanted, Lost, Etrayeo,
toicc, ete. riil be hereafter charged 5 cents
por Zoe lUr tsel insertion, aud Is cents per
iVe lQr one week. III
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RAFF CHASE & &C

21g AND 22s SECOND STREET,
Manuflctdra and repair carriages, buggies,
lyons, dr. Sc, cart etc. Horshoeing prompt
yaltatded 90 l25 u
The National tribune., 1881-12-17
NOT FOR PENSIONERS.

In January next interest falls due on the out
standing continued six per cent bonds amount
ing in the aggregate to about S2,78O,OOO; on the
outstanding four per cent. bonds, amounting to
about 81 1897 900, and on the currency skies out
standing to about S1938,OOO. To pay the in
terest ON the loans requires the filling out OF
about seventy-fve thousand checks. This work
has not yet been begun, but will be within the
next few days. Treasurer Gilillan says he ex-
poets to have the checks ready for mailing by
the 24th 25th instants. 1t has not been
customary to anticipate the interest due on these
loans beyond period of several days. Whether
it will be done this year has not yet been de-
termined.
The National tribune., 1881-12-17
TRAILING

One of the most remarkable features of uncivil-
lied life is the power savages show of tracking
men and beasts over immense distances. Many
travellers have spoken of this as something almost
MIRACULOUS, yet it is only the result of careful
observation of certain well-known signs and we
have here before US a collection of very common
sense hints on the subject. In countries like ours
every trace of footprint or wheeltrack ON roads
paths is soon Obliterated or hopelessly confused;
but it is otherwise in the wilderness where
neither man nor beast can conceal his track. In
Caffreand, when cattle are stolen, if their foot
prints are traced to a village, the head man is
responsible for them unless he can show the
same track going out. A wagon track in a new
country is practically indelible More especially"
say the authors of Shifts and Expedients of Camp
Life" is this the case if fire sweeps over the
plain Immediately after, or if the wagon passes
during or after a prairie fire. We have known
fellow-traveler recognize in this manner the
tracks his wagon had made seven years before,
the lines of charred stumps crushed short down
remaining to indicate the passage of the wheels,
though all other impressions had been Obliterated
by the rank annual growth of grass fully twelve
feet high. Sometimes, the original soil being
disturbed, new vegetation will spring up along
the wagon track, and thus mark out the road for
miles.
Even ON hard rock mans bare foot will leave
the dust caked together by perspiration, so that
practiced eye will see it; and even if there is
no track stone will be disturbed here and there,
the side of the pebble which has long lain next
to the ground being turned up. Ifit is still damp,
the man or beast that turned it has passed very
recently. If shower of rain has fallen, the
track will tell whether it made before, during,
or after the shower; similar indications can be
obtained from the dew; and other indications of
the time that has elapsed since man passed by
is furnished by the state of the crushed grass,
which will be more or less withered, as the time
is longer or shorter. Other indications are drawn
from the direction in which the grass lies; this
tells how the wind was blowing at the time the
grass was crushed; and by noting previous of the
wind, one learns the time at which each part of
the track was made.
The National tribune., 1881-12-17
INCIDENTS OF THE LATE WAR

|
| Among the men who recently appeared in the
office of Colonel Harrison Adreon, of Baltimore.
as an applicant for pension, was one who attracted
unusual attention. He was a slender individual.
under medium height, and having no distinguish
ing feature except large sandy moustache. "We
have been speaking of the heroes of the war"
Colonel Adreon remarked. Now hear this
mans story, and if you can find in truth or
fiction anything surprising it, let me know of it
| immediately"
The applicant for pension, who had applied
to Colonel Adreon to send his papers to Wash
lngton, was James A. Sterling, who resides at No.
Alb North Carey street Sterling was an ordinary
seaman on board the sloop-of-war Brooklyn liz
the fight at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. The
Brooklyn had the left of the line, and was i'm
mediateIy in the rear of the monitor Tecumseh
as the fleet, with Farragut, in the Hartford COM
manding, swept through that rain of fire and
death. The Tccumseh struck a torpedo and was
blown up, not soul on board escaping. Captain
(now Admiral) Alden was then the commander
of the Brooklyn, and he ordered that the helm
should be starbOarded, the result of which was
that the Brooklyn went aground under the guns
of Fort Morgan. Captain Alden fought the ship
service of his guns very largely contributed to
the disabling of the confederate irOnclad Ten
nessee, which bore down on the Brooklyn and
the Hartford. At the critical juncture, when the
Brooklyn was aground under the guns of Fort
Morgan, Sterling and another sailor by the name
of Gates were in the magazine, and were passing
cartridges through the manhole to a man on the
berth deck, who served them to the gunners.
A shell from Fort Morgan went through the side
of the ship, and, exploding on the berth deck,
blew to pieces the sailor who was serving the
cartridges His mutilated body, with his clothes
all ablaze, fell through the manhole from the
berth deck to the magazine. Sterling at once
recognized the danger and sat upon the open keg
of powder, and called to Gates to open the step
cocks and flood the magazine Gates did what
he was asked to do, and the ship was saved.
Sterling continued in the service and seems to
have been utterly unconscious that he had made
a hero of himself. The facts were reported to
the Navy Department by Captain Alden, and in
1864 it was ordered by a resolution of Congress
that Sterling should be presented with medal
of honor. The medal was coined under the direc-
tion of Secretary Gideon Welles, and was started
on its discovery to catch up with Sterling. 1t
travelled the world round and finally met him
ON board the United States man-Of-war Lancas-
ter in the barber of Rio JaneirO in the year 1870,
six years after the passage of the act of Congress
Sterling carries six wounds on his body He
has been shot in the arm, breast, head, back, and
ankle and until he has not asked a cents
worth of support from the Government that he
has so valiantly served He was as sensitive
about having his name in print as if he had
committed crime instead Of having done a
heroic action.
The National tribune., 1881-12-17
SAVED BY A CORPSE.

1t happened at Port Hudson in June, 1868
Our army had been investing that formidable
stronghold, hardly second in strength to Vicks-
burg above, and three weeks of sharpshooting
and bombarding passed, and found us still out
side the citadel, suffering from intense heat and
disease. Then followed the disastrous Sunday
assaults Of the 14th, in which, from daylight to
dark, half the army in two columns struggled
to penetrate the defenses, and were hurled back
with loss of ! 200 in killed and wounded. After
that, almost whole month of mining, cannon
aiding, sharpshooting and starving was required
to bring the gallant defenders to capitulation ;
and surely there was not soldier in our own
sadly thinned army left to witness the surrender
who did not experience what Sir Walter Scott
calls
The National tribune., 1881-12-17
THE THREE.U
LENAU.

Three warriors that softly ride
From lost field at eventide;
From their deep wounds the warm streams break
Courser and saddle glow and reek
Slow move the steeds weary and spent
Else were the gush too violent;
And close they ride, and closely each
Holds by his fellow i'm his reach,
And sadly look they on the death
In either's visage and one saith:-
- Woe for the maiden and the home
Where these cold feet shall never comeIn
Woe for my meadow lands and trees
Castles and vassal villages"
The light of heaven is all have:
There are no windows in the grave"
Three vultures dissonant and black
Fly gloating on the bloody track;
shrleklng among themselves they cry
Thou eatest him, hin thou, him L."
The National tribune., 1881-12-17

The devotion which inspired us to the cause we
had espoused was in no degree lessened ever, nor
did one single regret for the step we had taken
ever have birth in the heart of any Southern
soldier, but we found out that sleeping in the
mud, marching half shod and thinly clad through
the frosts of winter, living half the time on
parched corn, charging batteries, and facing the
blaze of muskets and hail Of mimic bullets, was
not the grand and glorious thing our dreams had
pictured
The National tribune., 1881-12-17

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things, both great and small ll-Coleridge
There's not a string attuned to mirth,
But has its chord in melancholy Hood
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10

NATioNAL.-Dr. o. j. Hood, Mobiloi ]. Kiraify,
New York; DIR, II. w Yomans, Detroit; J. 4. Kin
ney, Nebraskai q. u. Brifg', New York; w. A,
Gavett Michigan; II. Il. Sanford, Leadville, Col. :
II. w. Elder, Syracuse. N. "; II. J. schloss, Now
York; n. $. WEIGH, Philadelphia; n S. Towle, Chi
cago s. q. Grln1n, Keone, N. H.. w, NJ. Buriee'
syracuse; DIR. l.. Williams, Chicago NJ. V. Foster
New Bedford.
EBDrrr.-R. NJ corson, Michlgan Hon. Stanton
J. Peele, indianapolis; Hon ]. s. Harris, New Or
leans; W. c Hendricks California; Hon. Godlove s,
Orth, George w. Steele, Indiana; Ada Inglehsrt, ],
s. buchanan, Alexander Gllchrlst, Evansville, Ind.
r. o. Bitter, u s. N; Mark H. De Mott Indlanni r,
II. f. Pier o, Charlottesville Ind. II. G. wisner De-
trolt, Mich.
w1LIARD's.-G. W. Bird, G. p. sholaber, Massa.
chuselts; H. f. Que N, Kentuckyi w. q. PoindeSter
Cincinnati; J. "A. Cheney, New York II. g. Joyce
Ireland Captain W. G. Hte, Kentucky; s. Chees
brough, W. H. Cheesbrough, II. w. Wilson, New
Yorki Harry Jones, Pisburg; l.. Smith, Pennsyl
vania.
METRoroLiTAN.-E. IT. Stewart, Virginia; S, A.
Rankin. Pittsburg, Pa; George NJ Taylor, Virginia
]. Baker, lllinois E. II. Barry, Indianapolis; w j.
Audsley Liverpool Eng; w. IT. IT, WATSON, Elan
dreau, Oak; John A. Meredith, Virginia.
| ST. JAMEs.-B. York. Illinois: a.. Berg; New York
r. H. Stewart West Virginia Thomas Hunter Phil
a1clphln, Pa; c. H. Pockham, Boston, Mass.i r. H.
Jenkins, Engl md; William II. Barbour, Pitsburg.
ARLINoToS.-Jamcs Wood, George w Parker, DIR
| /. NJ Suris, New York; +. NJ. Warren, Wisconsin
/ John McCabe, Herbert Jansen, Long Island, New
| York S. p. Horton, Ohio.
| RI00s.-A. b. Wentworth, Boston; T.. C. Hancock
| New York; John I. Waterman, Ithaca, N. Y; j
Klein, st. Louis George Penrance, J. f. Wilcox
| Pitisburg, Pa.
| ST.. MARCH,. u. Minor, d. c. Talcott, New York
II. H. Moore, Leonardtown, Nd; f.. Jungerman, Arr
zona Territory; Willis Wright, Chicago.
| wonNLEY's.-T X. Pondleon, 4. I. Edmondston
New York; @. Coward, Chicogoi Mr. McLane, Bal
| timore.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10
LIEUTENANT oREENE,s REPORT.
what improvements Have Been Made
During the Past Year.


The annual report of Lieutenant roone,
assistant to the Engineer Cornsd issicner, shows
that during the year thciv ives expended on streets
and roads .o,ai Of s64900i. For the year 1SSl's2
iiie s. Of s5s77 25 has been appropriated and for
1928 the estimates are s739,250. The total NUM-
Der ofmiles ofimproved streets are 1920; unim-
proved, %. The most important work done on
the street since the establishment of the pres
cnt government is the replacement OF
the old wooden pavcments. The granite pave
ments cost at present about 1923 per yard, and
the asphalt, by existing contracts, about SlS5 per
square yard. During the year total Of 1921 80
square yards Of wood pavements have been re-
placed with asphalt granite, and asphalt block,
at n cost of s2i9.g7056. Repairs and patchings on
concrete pavements, which make up length OF
some thirty miles have cost the District s23s6l .27
tinue in fair condition, ns there Is not much
travel on them. During the year 11,2il feet OF
various streets in front of private property were
improved under the permit SYSTEM" the District
furnishing the material at cost Of ST., 23GG3 The
filling up Of the old canal continues. By tho
progfes ofthe work from South Capitol street to l.
been reclaimed to the United States. OF sewers
incidental TO the work 1862 feet have
remaining feet the work will be completed. OF
the 2G0 miles Of brick sidewalks one-tenth is In
very bad condition. The report suggests the re-
paving Of both sides Of Pennsylvania avenue from
The Capitol TO the Treasury with bue-stono flag
ging or Portland cement, at an estimated cost OF
$4,000, The total cost Of street cleaning during
the year was S3, Si4.ll, aud of the alleys 1929
Street lighting cost Sll7,23l.69. Next year there
will be 4,250 lamps, at u cost of s25 each
The report states that there are on file
72G petitions Of various character, praying fol
street improvements, and that an estimate has
been made Of the cost at present prices of putting
all the streets, city as well as suburban, in proper
in lis grand total, to s25s2 5O2G5. But with only
100000 appropriated annually for paving and Inn
proving the streets 1t will be more than eight year
therefore, suggests Tie passage of n law by whici
| abutting properly could be made TO bear som,
portion ofthe cost OF street improvements.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10
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SENATORS IN THE CITY.

The following Senators are in the city:
Messrs Johnston, of Virginia, COG Thirteenth street
northwest; Harris of Tennessee, 5l5 Eleventh
street northwest Morgan, Of Alabama, 4Ol street
northwest; Ingalls,, of Kansas Glib Thirteenth street
northwest; Pugh, of Alabama, 2l7 East Capitol
street, Jones' Of Florida lll6 street northwest /;
Mcmillan, of Minnesota, Ebbit House; Saunders,
Of Nebraska, Riggs House Miller of California,
1915 Connecticut avenue Blair 0fNew Hampshire,
POS East Capitol street, Teller, OF Colo
RADIO, l0u Nj street northwest Garland,
of Arkansas, $40 Second street northwest;
Plumb Of Kansas, National Hotel; Call, ofFlOr.da,
National Hotel; Jones, OF Nevada, corner of New
Jersey avenue and j street southeast; Vest, Of
Missouri, 2Oj East Capitol street; German, Of
Maryland, So Fifteenth Street northwest I'LL, Of
Georgia, u Grant Place; Lamar, 81 Mississippi,
Metropolitan Hotel Mcpherson, Of New Jersey,
| % LAFAYETTE Place Walker Of Arkansas. $40
Second street northwest; Dnvis AMI Camden, Of
| West Virginia, Arlington Hotel; fcndIcton, Of
Ohio, MoImleys Hotel Jonas, Of Louisiana, Port
mont avenue; Allison, of Iowa, Woimleys Hotel !
| Morrill, OF Vermont, Wormleys Hotel; Cam
eron, OF Pennsylvania, at the Attorney Genernlsi
| Mitchell, OF Pennsylvania, 799 Thirteenth street
northwest; Batter, Of South Carolina Metropolis,
tan Hotel; Logan, o! Illinois, $40 Twelfth street
Kellogg, Of Louisiana, Wizards Hotel BayNrd, OF
| Delaware, Wolnley's Hotel; Anthony and AL
dtch successor to SS BurnSidel2i Rhode
lngtOn Hotel; Sawyer Of Wisconsin, Arlington
| Hotel; Hil, of Colorado. WoTmleys Hotel; Will
Jams, Of Kentucky, Riggs House Frye, OF Maine,
Cockrcll, of Missouri. National Hotel Groome, Of
| Maryland, Wizards Hotel: salisbury, Of Della
ware Wizards Hotel; McDIll, Of Iowa, Willari,s
Hotel; sewrll OF New jersey, WillQrds Hotel
Farley, of California Arlington Hotel LaphNm
OF New York, Arlington Hotel Ransom and Vance
| of North Carolina, Metropolitan Hotel; Plat, 81
! Conn ciiuut, Arlington Hotel. Hampton, OF south
Carolina, Metropolitan Hotel; Davis Of Illinois
Mai ma! Holcl Grover aud slater, of Oregon, Ma
| fIouul ITntpl Gamer and Ferry of MlpliEnu. M,
tonal Hotel Edgerton, Of Minnesota Nationa
| Hotel,
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10
nnshn,ynn Reform a.Inh.

Notwithstanding the threatening,
stormy weather large audience assembled in
Lincoln Hall at the regular Sunday evening meet
ing of this well-known temperance club Aner
the opening exercises the president introduced
Mr.. Edward Humphrey, who for years has been
an active worker in this club. He made an inter-
esting address The next speaker was Professor
w. ]. Boyd who verified the fact that not only was
he singer, but an orator, lie was followed by
Mr.. Christancy and Judge j. J. Weed, who made
q very interesting address, which was attentively
listened TO. Rev. c. w. Dennison offered series
of resolutions the same which were adopted re-
Gently at maSs-meeting held In Winchester, Va
on the llauOr question.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10
OUR FRENCH AND GERMAN GUESTS.
Elaborate Preparations for Their Enter
tninment-Thr Display Mt Might.

hthnofhNf preparations TOT AHeNE hftahNA-
tainment-Tbe Display mt Might.
The reception and entertainment to be
extended by the people Of Washington to the
French and German guests Of the Nation VINO
visit the city en- route to Yorktown Friday, Octo-
Der H. promises TO be worthy Of the occasion, and
will afford rare edihcation and entertainment to
our citizens and visiting strangers. twill be gala
day that should, and no doubt will, attract thou
sands here The FIRST event OF interest in order will
DO the parade Of sodery and civic societies in the
afternoon escorting the guests from their hotel TO
the Capitol, which will be impressive and impos-
ing The reception will be held in the rotunda Of
the Capitol under the auspices of the Secretary Of
State, and will be participated in by President Ar
thur, the Cabinet, the several Senators OF the
United States, and the citizens generally. This
VIII be, an interesting. and imposing ceremony,
and will be an event Of q lifetime to many who
participate.
THE ILLUMINATION IN THE EVENING
will be one of the most novel and beautiful
ever witnessed on the continent; pennsylvania
avenue will be Illuminated by electric lights OF
ten thousand candle power suspended In mid-air
in the centre OF the street, at distance OF one
hundred and ffly feet apart from the Capiiot , 70
the effect and beauty Of which will have 70 be
seen to be appreciated The grand display ofs3OO9
worth Of fireworks under the management Of
Messrs. Warden and Mcmahon, late of the Crystal
| Palace, London, who have won famous reputa-
ton N this country by their successful manage
ment of the pyrotechnic displays at COney island,
will be exhibited nj the base and from the top of
| the Washington Monument This feature alone
Will well compensate visitors from Baltimore ana
| all the surrounding towns and country for the
| time and expense Of a. trip TO Washington. Inc
display will be made from such an elevation that
II can be conveniently and satisfactorily witnessed
| ny AN UNLIMITED MULTITUDE,
| so that none may be deferred from attending
| from any fear that they will not have good op:
portunity Of seeing this exhibition in all It's grand
detaila An additional attraction TO visitors dur
| ing the day will be the National Fair, the annual
meeting of which Is now being held, Mt which
| there will be running races by some of the most
celebrated horses In the country. II goes without
the saying, therefore that Friday will be an inter.
| esting and memorable day In Washington. Let II
| be made an old fashioned holiday, and all the
people turn out and participate. The railroads
| will run special trains and sell reduced tickets
| frnm nil nnlnia.
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10

Examiner Lovejoy heard the testimony
Saturday OF Mrs. Christiancy, who confined herself
to the relation Of certain acts Of cruelty toward her
by her husband. Her evidence covered period
of about two years, the first act having &C.
Cured at Lansing, Mich, in 1877, and the last at
the Legation in Peru in 1870, on which occasion
she was protected by gentleman stopping at the
legation. She charged that her husband had fire.
quently assaulted her, and on one occasion during
bedroom and prevented her from protecting her
self against the severity of the weather by refusing
to allow her to take any clothing out of the room.
The examination lasted nearly three hours, and
although subjected to rigid cross examination
the witness did not deviate materially from her
direct tpstimOny
National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1881-10-10

The Lutheran Church, corner Eleventh
and IL streets, was the scene of an impressive cere.
mony last evening ON the occasion of the ordina-
ton and licensing of hamber OF ministers In &C.
cordance with the report OF tho Synod, which has
been In session In this city during the past week
An instructive ordination sermon was preached
by Rev. Dr. Barclay, of Baltimore after which the
candidates for holy orders were addressed by Rev.
DR.. Domer and formally licensed to preach. Revs.
A. II. Buck of UppercOe and A. Bell, of Reister-
town, Md, were ordained as ministers. Licenses
Were granted to Messrs. 4. S. Brown, Upton Han
key, and NJ ID. Gaver, Of the Theological Semi
nary ut Gettysburg, Pa, and the license of Pro.
fessor G, V, Sonce, of the Frederick Female Semi
nary was renewed for one year.