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Cheyenne transporter. [volume] (Darlington, Indian Terr.) 1879-1886, 1881-07-11

Indian Journal John Boston, OF
the Indian police, is said to be ono
of the best men on the force. He re-
turned from Fort Smith Friday and
says every case he took but one was
convicted.
Ft. Smith Independent The ar.
rival and departure of our little
steamers keeps things lively at the
wharf. The Jennie May landed g
load of lumber and left for the up.
per port. The Fort Smith got II
from Wcbber Falls with a lot o.
freight and passengers, and will &C
back soon.
The comet, which is creating SC
much comment, is said by astrono.
mers to be moving away from the
earth at the rate of 100000 miles
per day. 1t reached its maximum
of brightness on the night of June
23d, and will be visible for several
months. The tail is guessed off al
100000 miles in length.
Medicine Lodge Cresset 1t IS 8
remarkable fact the number of fine
scribes among the people of Barbour
county and the cattle country ada
cent thereto. 1t indicates that on
country is settled by a class of PEG
pie who have enjoyed all the advan
tages of schools and good society
and not the rough, unlettered class
that by common repute is always
found on the frontier. a great many
OF our citizens are young men O.
wealthy %parentage, who have engag
eel in the stock business here on &C.
count of the immense profits which
it promised. No town in any of the
Eastern States affords any better OF
more refined society than can be
found in Medicine Lodge. We car
assure our Eastern readers that they
need not fear that they would be 90.
ing out into a bowling wilderness i
they should think of coming to Bar
bour county to locate.
n Battle Creek, Mich. special re.
ports that Mrs. Nellie Ingraham has
been unable to eat since October
last. She is thirty-siX years old
twice married and has an unusually
robust constitution. She weighed
nearly $50 pounds, but having suf
fered from an aching double tooth
she had it extracted, and during the
operation became very nervous and
excited and was taken home in q
state of p%rostration. From that time
on she has loathed food and it was
a torment to her to attempt to eat.
She has taken nourishment several
times, but always with the result OF
intense pain and deathly sickness,
followed by spasms. Her life has
been sustained by injections and
baths in a nourishing liquid. She
now weighs less than eighty pounds
She has Of late lost her voice. Med
ical men are greatly interested in
the case.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
A TsxAs PHENOMENON.
A Strange Rambling Sound Not
f.. Explained.

San Antonio Express, 3d.
In a recent trip to the northwest Of
Dallas Major John Henry Browns at.
tention was called when some twenty
miles northwest of the city, to a pecu.
liar rumbling sound, similar to that Of
a railroad train far away. Reflection
told him it was twelve to fifteen miles
north to the line of the railroad be-
tween Dallas and Fort Worth, while
the sound came from the opposite d.
rection in the northwest, where there
was no railroad for hundreds of miles.
Night found him a guest Of Mr.. Ro
land Witcher, two and one-half miles
north of Smithfeld, in the western
edge Of the cross timbers, and about
fourteen miles north of Fort Worth
Sitting by his Preside, the noise was
so distinct that he spoke of it, as did
his daughter, who was his companion
on the voyage. From that hour about
6:30 pm till they went to sleep at II
p. m, the noise continued, always
from the north to the northwest. Mr.,
Witcher, who is a very intelligent
farmer and a gentleman by nature,
then told Major Brown that he had
been hearing this sound since about
the first Of October, but one Of his
neighbors had discovered il as early as
August last. By request the neigh
bors began to compare notes. All had
heard the souno, but each one, not
noticing the course, had supposed it
to be the trains between Fort Worth
and Dallas. Yet, as attention was
drawn to the subject, all realized that
the sound came from the north or
northwest. Mr.. Witcher had con-
versed with an intelligent gentleman
from Henrietta, in Clay county, who
reported tie same phenomenon in that
distant county. The next day, when
some twelve miles farther west and
two miles northwest of the Blue
noun, in Tarrant county, Major
Brown distinctly heard the roaring,
rumbling sound, and stopped the
buggy till his daughter fully realized
it. 1t resembles several familiar
such as a distant waterfall;
secondly, a distant railway train in
the night time; thirdly, the dolorous
sound of wind in a pine forest. Its
sound has universally been from north
to northwest. 1t resembles somewhat
the ominous noise described by Hum
boldt as preceding the great earth
quake of 1853 in Mexico. in which a
was destroyed, and the volcanic
mountain of Jorullo beaved up in a
night. thereto stand and vomit
its lava till the present time.
had almost dismissed the subject
his mind till a day or two since,
when he received a call from Mr.. Jos.
McElhany. of Carrots creek, Wise
county. His home is at least thirty
five miles west of Mr.. Witcher's. lie
verifes Mljor Browns own OBJ
seFgation and the statements of Mr.
Witcher, and has been hearing the
sound, at frequent intervals, for about
three months. This Is all Major
Brown knew about it. The sound,
strange and peculiar, is a reality. The
cause is RELOCATED to men Of science.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
NEWS AND GOSSIP.

Senator Elect Hale, of Maine, pre-
diets an extra session Of congress.
Senator Blaine is mentioned as own
ing $4,000 in bonds of the state Of
Maine.
There is talk Of Robert Lincoln as
one Of the men down on President
Garield's cabinet slate.
Colonel Jerome Bonaparte and his
wife are now living in Washington,
and entertaining a great deal.
General Simon Cameron, it is ru-
mored, will accompany General Grant
upon his proposed journey to Mexico.
A proposition is before the legisla-
ture of Wisconsin to tax telegraph
companies four per centum on their
gross receipts.
A bill is before the senate Of Min
nesota declaring railroads public high
ways, and prohibiting them from car
rying on business other than that Of
transportation.
The mother of Mr.. Charles Stewart
ParRell, the Irish agitator, will adj
dress a land league meeting at the
operahouse in Newport, Rhode Island,
next Saturday night.
Representative De La Matyr in
tends to remove to Florida at the end
OF his term, and has issued a sort Of
farewell address to the g~reenbackers
OF Indiana, reiterating his customary
warning to the people to beware Of
the money power.
In Nebraska at the last election a
Winnebago Indian was refused the
| tight to vote. The Indian has put in
d claim for $1,000 damages. and the
state courts will now have to deter
mine whether under the fourteenth
amendment indians have the right To-
vote.
Leavitts opera company, the largest
%burlesque party ever brought over
from England, has been disbanded at
Milwaukee The manager lost 100000
in the enterprise. The .roupe seems
to have arisen fromthe use Of London
made burlesques, which had no point
to American audiences.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
ARKANSAW FILINGS.

The peach crop in CLARK county is
uninjured.
Only four prisoners in the Drew
county Jail.
Postmaster Palmer, of Chicago, is
visiting hot Springs.
Colonel Hunter, of Gainesville. has
purchased 1900 coon skins this season.
j. r. johnson, Of Texarkana. is
building a boat to run Red river from
Fulton to Laynesport.
The roads are in such frlghtlul con-
dition that the people of Oraighead
county cannot get their cotton to
market.
A mammoth warehouse is soon TO
be built at Judsonia, on Little Red
river, by the Iron Mountain railroad
company.
Little Rock Democrat Colonel
bob" Newell has been appointed in
spector general Of the Arkansas state
militia. A good appointment.
Colonel Zeb Ward contemplates Of.
fering as a donation seventy five acres
of land neal the city Of Little Rock
as site for the proposed insane asy.
lum.
w. D. Watson. Of Jefferson county.
has induced quite a number Of colored
people to emigrate from Alabama,
giving them work on his large planta-
tiOn.
Campbell Cypert and S. S. Prater.
of Marion county, have a contract Ia
furnish 5000 cedar telegraph poles Ia
the Southern Pacific railroad com
pany.
The Batesville Guard, always a good
paper, is blooming out considerable
more than usual this winter. The cd.
itOr is a member of the legislature and
away from home.
Arkansas Mining journal, 10Th: Mr..
James ]. Walsh is opening up q fine
prospect on the Tecumseh lode, carry
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
Fronch TxIdneY Pas

WHICH CURES BY ABSORPTION.
Ash. your druggist for Pro. Guilmotte's
French Kidney Pad, and take no other. II he
has rot got It, send 81 and you viii receive the
TESTIMONIALS From THE PEOPLE.
Judge Buchanan, Lawyer, Toledo, D. ,sa, 81:
On Of Prof. Guiimette'4 Krohch Kidney Pads
cured me of, Lumoago in three weeks time.
NY case Dea been given up by the beat doctors
% in qrable. During all this time [ suffered
cnt0ld agony and paid out large sums OF
money,
George Vetter, j. P, Toledo. o.. says: l
suffered for three years With Sciatica and Kid
ney Disease, ana often had to go eb0ut on
crutches. l was entirely and permanently
cured after wearing Prof. Guilmetto's French
Kidney Pads four weeks.
Squire N. q. Scott, sylvania, o., writes.
i have been a great sufferer for 10 years with
Bright's Disease Of the Kidneys. For weeks
OF o time l was unable to got out Of bed; took
barrels Of medicine, but they gave me only
temporary relief. / wore two Of Pfof. Gull
metIe's Kidney Pads SIX weeks, and / now
know / am entirely cured.
Mrs Helen Jerome, Toledo, o., SAYS. For
years | have been confined, a great part Of the
time 10 my bed, with Lucorrhioa aid female
weakness. wore one Of G~uilaette's Kidrey
Pads and was cured in one mOuth
II. Is. Green, wholesale grocer, Findlay. o..
writes; ] suffered for D years with lame back
and IN three weeks was permanently cured ty
wearing one 81 fIot htuneyPads.
b. 4. Keesling, NJ. D., druggist, Logans-
port, Ind, when seading IN an order for Kid
ney Pads, writes: / wore one Of the hrst one1
we had and / received more benefit fron II
than anything / ever used, in fact the Pads
give better general satisfaction than any Kid
nov remedy We ever fold.
Kay x shoemaker, druggists, Hannibal,
Mos We are working ups lively trade IN your
Pads, and are hearing Of good results from
them every gay,
For sale by s, Mansfield & Co., Mem.
phis.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09

THE population of the United
States, as announced by Gen. Walker,
is as follows Total of states, $780,
595; District of Columbia, 177,63S;
territories, 6O5,633; grand total, So
1886. The republicans, for some
political reasons, areln favor of post
poning the reapportionment of states
until another congress meets, which
would probably take it out of the
hands of the democrats entirely. The
New York Herald urges them to unite
upon the bill introduced by Hon. s. S.
Cox, and push it through at the pres
emit session. For some reason utterly
inexplicable the democrats are divided
upon this question, and may remit the
whole business to the republicans.
This voald be about in accordance
with the laundering, disunited policy
of the democratic party.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09

SIX counties in Texas--viz An
drews, Dawson, Gaines, Martin, Terry
and Yoakum-bave a total population
of forty-four, OF whom thirty-seven
are males. One of these counties,
Dawson, contains about 1000 square
miles, and the others do not differ ma
terially from it IN size. A little ci-
phering will show the meaning of
these figures. The people of Dawson
county, if the land was equally divi-
ded, would hold about twenty three
square miles, each, or a farm nearly
five miles square. AS the land is
nearly all tillable, produce enough
ought to be raised on such a farm to
support its single occupant in good
style and leave something over. Six
other Texas counties, viz: Bailey,
Cochran, Hale, Hockey, Lamb and
LubbOck-have a total population of
twenty-five souls, and not a woman
among them. This is at the rate Of q
county to every four persons and a
quarter. This must be the new coun-
try from which a settler wrote back to
an old friend in the states that she
rAthersliked the situation, and that all
it lacked was society and water" The
old friend wrote back Eyes, and that
is all they want down in that other
hot country.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
FOUR SONS IN PRISON.
A Mothers Grief at Finding Her
Beloved Boys Wearing the
Striped Suits of COnVicis.

One Of the saddest scenes ever wit
messed in the Missouri penitentiary
transpired one day last week. A
mother met four of her sons wearing
the striped suits as convicts within Its
walls. Their names and crimes, as
! ecorded on the p~enitentiary rolls, are
James Greenwade, aged 30 years; aten
years for robbery; received November
30, last. Luther Greenwade, aged 20
seven years for robbery and larceny.
Breckenridge Greenwade, aged %;
seven years for robbery and larceny.
Henry Greenwade, aged 20; ten years
for robbery and larceny.
The father and mother of these men
live in Jefferson, near Mt. Sterling,
KY; keep a hotel there aud are toler-
ably well TODD in lite. Four or five
years ago the elder brother came to
Missouri and bought a farm near
Butler, in Bates county. The younger
brothers followed soon alter, and the
four lived together on the place, the
Oldest beingmarried. Neighbors looked
upon them as people of means, and
respectable. For two or three years
all sorts Of devilment was perpetrated
in and about Butler. Persons were
waylaid and robbed by masked men.
Mails we're rihed, burglaries commit.
ted and hogs stolen. At length US
picion conferred on the Greenwades,
and they were watched by officers and
citizens, and at last caught dead to
rights" Mail pouches, cut open and
rifed, were found in the cellars, and
other stolen property ON their prem
ises. Conviction was easy, aud they
we're landed in the penitentiary. At
the time stated the mother, hearing
her sons we're in trouble, posted in
haste to Bates county, only to learn
that they had all been convicted of
crimes and taken to the state prison.
With her daughter-in-law and the
latters two children she reached JEFF
ferson City and at once proceeded 20
the penitentiary. The meeting with
her sons was terribly affecting, and it
is asserted Deputy Warden Bradbury
Tor once in his life gave way to the
melting mood.
My Godl' she exclaimed, "that a
mother should live to see four Of her
beloved boys in such a place"
The officials were kind and tender
to the afflicted ones, but they had at
last to use force in separating the
mother from her sons and induced her
to leave them after a visit of three
or ioHr hours,
Mrs. Greenwade Is a woman Of not
over fifty years in appearance, well
hammered, strong minded and intelli-
gent; but that dreadful realization
was more than her mothers heart
could bear unmoyed, and she gave
vent to her shame and sorrow in a
manner more affecting than was ever
before witnessed within the prison
walls. She left for her Kentucky
home, taking her daughter in-law and
the children with her.
There is one more son who will
doubtless never disgrace his name, fol
he is a minister Of the gospel in good
standing. One Of the %convicts is in
the prison hospital
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
6AHA A YEAR and expenses to agents.
"A Outfit Free. Address P. O.VICK.-
Wv ERY, Augusta, Maine.
Attachment Notice.

BEFORE j. NJ. Coleman, Justice of the Peace,
vs.. Joseph Persons.
N this cause a attachment having been,
l. sued out under section 1856 of the ,de ei.
Tennessee and returned levied upon the prep
been made that the defendant is indebted 10,
the plaintiff in the sum Of S38, due by
account, and that the claim is just, aad That
the defendant is a nonresident OF the state Oft
Tennessee; it is therefore ordered that said
defendant make his personal appearance
before me on the 23d day Of February
1881, at 10 o'clock AM. at my office, N ~
294 Front street, Memphis, Tennessee, > nd
defend said attachment suit wshlin, tho
time prescribed by Law, or the sg2s WI he
proceeded With exparte; and th8f ,. &c nv Of
this order % published once n gw' g. }our
weeks. in the Public Lodges % ~
This the 18th day OF JNa4 aE1 1901
III ~ 1873 l39 ], NJ. COZ .GM6N, ]. p.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09

ing high grade ore. An assay from Sc.
lected carbonates indicated 1901
ounces to the ton.
G. M. Cannon & Co, OF Dardanelle,
Arkansas, have made an assignment to
Il. Il. Collier for the benefit Of their
creditors. Their assets are placed at
$4,000 and liabilities at $1,000, mostly
due in Memphis and st. Louis.
Harrison Times: Our citizens pro-
pose giving a banquet to the engineer
corps of the Fort Scott, Southeastern
and Memphis railroad-who are on
the route here-on Friday evening,
and for that purpose committees have
been selected.
Arkadelphia has forty firms doing
business; no liquor is sold in the town;
it has about 1000 inhabitants; the value
of property within the corporate linn
its is estimated at about 100000; the
number of children Of the right age
to attend school is 800.
General Rowland S. Mackenzie, the
commander Of the new military de-
partment Of Arkansas, headquarters
at Little Rock, was appointed to West
Point from New York, and graduated
high in his class. He is thirty-eight
years old and unmarried.
Little Rock Gazette, 6: By the
handsome vote of 16 to 8, yesterday,
the senate passed the bill appropriating
$4,000 for the collection, publication
and distribution Of agricultural and
mineral statistics, and any other facts
designed to advertise to the world the
material resources of Arkansas.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
A%ttachment Notice..

Before IN Coleman, j. p. for Shelby coun4y
Tenn. -Pearce, Suggs & Petit vs.. M s1dor h
Morton. NV
n this cause an attachment b.ayine been
4 sued out under section 1856 Of The Code Of
Tennessee and returned LEVIED upon the
ing been made that d~efendautis indebfed 10
the plaintiff in the sum Of $500, due 6y
note, and that the claim is Just, and
that the defendants are non-residepts Of
the State Of Tennessee; it is therefore ordered
tnat SAID defendants make their personal ap-
February 1881, at II o'clock M, at my ONCE.
No; z94 Front street, Memphis, Tennessee.
and defend said attachment suit within the
time prescribed by law, or the same will be-
Rrocee9ed with ex;;parte; and that n copy OF
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the 18th day OF January, 1881.
III III l5 l5a j M COLEMAN. J. "a
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
A Youthful JOurna list.

New York HeraldI
The Hurricane Is a we'll printed
little paper, published in Charleston
S. C., by its editor, Miss Eva h. Brit
ton, a girl who is only twelve years old.
There are a good many worse papers
published in this world BY a good
many older people, Indeed, we may,
without oyerburdening sentiment, say
that if this little girl will only 60 on in
her work Of proving what energy, good
taste and short articles a do in the
south, she will accomplish more than
a halt dozen long winded congressman
added TO another half dozen alleged
journalists who cannot say boo" in
less than two columns.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09

they are numerous-will be referred
to the joint committee. In these bills
nearly every phase of opposition to
the liquor traffic is represented, from
mere regulation to absolute prohibit
ton. Many members favor legisla-
ton on this question calculated to
lessen the evils Of intemperance, but
some difficulty may be found in reach
ing a common basis of agreement.
Kansas is now tar in the advance in
temperance legislation, having an or
ganic law which does not stop at pro-
hibiting their sale, but also forbids
the bringing Of intoxicating beverages
into the state. Several years since an
act was passed by the Tennes- ee legis-
lature f~orbidding the sale Of beverages
of this class within four miles OF an
incorporated educational institute, un
less the latter be located in or near an
incorporated city or town. The result
has been a rapid multiplication OF in
~corporated schools in the immediate
neighborhood of country stores and
saloons. Advocates of temperance
regard this the most effective measure
yet devised. That this view is held
also by the dealers in "the cup that
cheers is proved by their efforts 10
induce the present legislature Of that
state to repeal the -four mile" law.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
Publisher and Proprietor.
wednesday evening. Feb. ., 1891.


CONGRESSMAN Houk asserts broad
" and cmphatically that he knows
nothing about the alleged bribery of
any member of the legislature. Yet
it is reported that he is to be brought
to Nashville, if possible, to testify be-
fore the investigating committee. If
Littleton could only get his witnesses,
and they knew anything, he could
prove something. Thus far he has not
found any one who knows more than
he does, and he knows nothing, ex-
eept that he tried to bride somebody
and failed in the attempt.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
Attachment Notice.

Before ] M Coleman, j. P. for Shelby county,
Tenn Franklin VS.. Joseph Persons.
N this cause an attachment having been
Tennessee, and returned levied upon tho
property of the defendant, and affidavit hay
ing been made that defendant is indebted to
the plaintiff in the sum of s3O25, due By
account, and that the claim is just, and that
the defendant Is q nonresident Of the
State ofTennessee; tits therefore ordered that
said defendant make his personal appear
ance before me on the 23d day Of February.
1881, at 10 o'clock am, at my Office, No. 2y4
Front street, Memphis, Tennessee, and defend
scribed by law, or the anne wiz be proceeded
with ex. parte; and that n copy Of this order
be published once a week for four weeks In
the Public Ledger.
This the 18th day Of January, 1881.
12l III 133 139 JIM COLEMAN. p
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
Nc Mardl Grns Fesllvines.

In the Crescent City this year the
Mardi Gras carnival occurs at the
close Of February, and will be eele-
brated with unusual splendor. The
Old Guard, from New York, and many
other prominent military and civic
organizations participate. The many
thousand visitors will doubtless. as
souvenirs of the occasion, purchase
tickets in the grand drawing Of the
Louisiana state lottery, to take place
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-09
I~nsalVeRt .o,ice.

~'AId S gA nfSS' ssEE, sHELBY Com TT,
Memphis n .CSTY 6oURT C5LIEET,,
pasuist xO berlin, administrator Of W L
II VA aS' .eased. ~
Al estate OWL Berlin, deceased, you are
hereby o' dered to give notice, by advertise
me1t some newspaper published within tho
sald Sr ste, and also at the Courthouse door
Of Sh slby county, for all persons having
eleiV IS against said estate, to appear and My
tne same, with the Clerk Of tho County Court
a1f nenticated in the manner prescribed by LAW
OF or before the 22d day Of April, 1851
. I'D any claim not fled on or before SAID gay,
sOr before an appropriation OF the tunds OF
said estate is made, shall be forever barred
both in law and equity, o.
January, 1881.
By HUgH 3. CULLEN, DC.
Notice is hereby given to creditors as re-
quired by above order.
This January q. 1881.
MRS. g q BERLIN, Adm'x..
WeatherfOrd & Este 3. Att'ys. l2 l29 l35 ll