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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
Buy Pitcher Pumps of Browne.
New Departure,

Several Shelby street residents are
seriously considering tho feasibility Of
erecting wind mill to pump water
into an elevated tank large enough to
supply the upper stories of their man.
sions. They have to pay for water
whether they get it or not, hence may
continue to use the Wolf river pro-
duct in their lower stories, unless the
powers in authority will permit them
to cut loose from the water company,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
excursion to CovingtOn.

On Monday, the 18th inst, arail-
way excursion to COvington, Tenn,
will come off, the round trip tickets
being 81 from here, Zoe from Kerr
vile and Upton, and 800 from Atoka
or Brighton. The excursion is under
the auspices Of the Independent Relief
Society Of North Memphis, Mr.. Will
Carr and NJ. Robinson being the
committee in charge. Train will leave
the depot at 10 am. and return at 8
pm, and there will be refreshment
car as a part Of the features. The
society will turn out in regalia, accom-
panied by the Sons and Daughters Of
Sardis, and members Of Canaan. all Of
whom will participate in fine barbe-
cue, to come of near COvington.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
A Notable Phix.

A first-class picture of tenth-class
man adorns the rogues' collection of
the Chief Of Police in the counterfeit
presentment Of Guiteau. 1t was sent
out from Washington, garnished with
brass facings in token of the quantity
Of that metal supposed to enter
largely into the composition of the
assassins face. The likeness bears no
resemblance toVice- PresidentArthur,
as one or two did which we're exhibit
ed in several Main street windows, but
it looks like Guiteau. Were that wor-
thy an inmate of our Jail, and should
stroll down Main street some fine
morning for exercise, merely to worry
our jailerS little, every policeman in
town who has seen the picture would
recognize him on the spot. The face
of such a man once seen, could not be
forgotten.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04

The Rev. w. w. Colley, recently a
missionary in Africa, has distinguish
ed himself at Norwich, Conn, by de-
claring in lecture that there was no
barren Sahara, and the whole country
known ON the maps as sterile and un-
inhabitable was fertile and densely
populated. The willy Arab started the
lie, he explained, in order to keep out
competition in the ivory trafhc.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
sitting Bull i'm clover.

The Indian Office has killed the
fatted calf for Sitting Bull, and the
returned repentant rebel is having an
infinitely better time than the prodi-
gal son ever had, according to the
unrevised and revised report of his
festal entertainment in the version of
King james. He is stopping at first
class hotel at an expense, we may be
certain, running from five to ten dollars
a day. The markets of the East and
thew est, the North and the South, are
laid under contribution to provide
luxuries for his table, while the
time which might otherwise hang
heavily on his hands is thoughtfully
filed up for him by popular recep-
tions which are attended in numbers
sufficient to make Cabinet officer
pale with envy. Sitting Bull must by
this time realize what an idiot he was
not to surrender long ago instead Of
remaining up in the Canadian SHOWS,
subsisting on the soant allowance OF
cold victuals allowed him by Her Ma
iesty's government The fallen war
rior is, it seems, not only havinga good
time at the expense ofthe government,
but he is doing thriving business
on his own account. discovering
that his autograph possesses a COM
mercial value he has gone into the
thing in true Yankee style, and re-
fuses to part with one of the coveted
pastel oarde unless he cheap consider
alton OF two OR three dollars is
pIanked down by the curiosity hunter.
There are immense possibilities before
Sitting Bull in the speculative line
this fall and winter. There are the
circus, the lecture field, the role of a
star on the Bowery boards, or, if moth
ing better turns up, he might go down
into Wall street and turn bear.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
FoR RENr.

COTTAGE HOUsE-Davy avenue. 5 rooms
~ and kitchen, large lot; rent, 5 o per
Main and Madison streets. lS5 l37
CiTOeEHOUsES Nos. IS and Union st.,
~ now occupied by Langstaf. Graham a
PTond6t. L MCFARLAND,
s71 q Madison street.
u ARGE three. story brick house. s. End It,,
4 we'll yuifed. Tor u boardinghOuse. Appls
q JOHN DUFFY, Cor. End and HreenlaW. S6l
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04

Funeral OF the Late DR.. BIathes-
Proposition 10 Fund Haywood
County Railroad BOnds-Dry
Weather and Parched Crops
Personal.
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THE LETTER.
MApIsoN, ARK., Aegust 3, rs

MADISON, ARK, August 3, 1881
Mr. O'Haver;
SrR--I saw piece in one of the Mem
phis papers headed IAN Arkansas Elope-
men" and it stated where my child was
that Daniel Wolf stole from me when L
was making my escape from him to keep
him from beating me because | told him
that could not take my sick child in the
woods TO help him saw stave timber
Daniel Wolf is in st. Francis county,
Arkansaw, and is threatening my life
He says that he is going to Memphis the
4th Of this month, and. Oh, sir, if he
comes and wants my child. for Gods
sake do not let him have it if it is in your
power to keep it, for he took my child by
force and then told that l run away and
left it. l have plenty of friends all over
the State that will inform you of my con-
duct and of his mean treatment Of me
LOUISA WOLF.
Mrs. Wolf concludes by protesting
willingness to come and get the child,
and give a short sketch of VOLTS life
about saloons.
The child is now in the Mission
Home and will be held until the
claims Of one parent at least are estab-
lished.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04

0E0 BDLs TIES CHEAP-Web1 buy ali kinds
EON q old L iron, rag, cotton OF machinery;
and sell anything from the size Of needle 10
an anchor. The attention Of the public gen.
orally, and country libraries especially, h
called TO the fact that have great variety
OF secono-nana P 20 80 ~, yABAh, Ag't,
MEMS INK, in 10 10 cans, dnost ari iclo.
IN Also fne card and Job Inks, Of all ,lorl
and nnalities. 81 LedRer ohloe. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
{. Si'EnhNr AMI Abduction,
An ArkRnsaw Mother Beaten Be
cause She Couldn't Saw Stave
Timber and Her child stolen
Away by Its Father.

A short time since an article in
this journal noticed the arrival Of one
Daniel Wolf from Arkansaw with a
little child, which, with the aid of
Captain O'Haver, was placed in the
Mission Home. Wolf stated that his
wife had deserted him and the child
for another man and he could not care
for it properly. This forenoon Capt.
O'Haver received letter from the
mother of the child, which is given
below;
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
PERSONAL.

Buy Gas Fixtures of Browne.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-08-04
BOARDING.
FOR LEASE OR SALE

THE greenhouses, all the plants, appurte-
nanees and lot on Second street near BeaI
being the Goebel stand. c W FRAZER,
ISlf No. Madison street.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21

anv man who saws there was . bargain on
this side of the chamber says what IL false.
Mr.. Butler--Another case of GOODNESS, lai-
luding to the emphasis which Mr.. Burnside
placed upon the word ''false-
shall not be betrayed on this floor into
anv language which is unparliamentary, 10
begin with. But want to say to the sena-
tor, and the other senators on that side, when
they adopt the tactics he has adopted, and
that if he supposes, by the use of such IAN
guage as that, he can deter me from iuii.
complete, and unqualified discussion OF
public act.
After further discussion Mr.. Butler turned
his attention to Mr.. Frye's speech. which he
said had arraigned every senator from the
South. He denied the charges of reputation
that were made against the South. but
inquired whether admitting their truth that
was any excuse for the great republi-
can party throwing its powerful weight on
the side of reputation in Virginia. lie
warned that in tampering with repudiation
in that State il was dealing with dynamite.
These tactics were not going to dissolve
the solid South. just such speeches as that
of the senator from Maine riveted the South
more than ever and drove the people OF that
section together. The South would not be dis
solved 5y Federal patronage. by abuse or
misrepresentation. 1t would not be bullied
into dissolution.
Mr.. FRYE disclaimed any intention OF referr-
ing to any senator personally in his speech,
During his service in the House. his best
friends had been on the democratic side, and
he trusted that if he remained in the Senate
few years he would count among his
warm personal friends. the senator from
South Carolina.
Adjourned.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
STATE OF MAINE.

-4adroseoggin ss.
Court of County Commissioners, October Term,
held by successive adjournments April ith. A, d.
1851.
having been received that the petitioners are re
sponsbe ard that an inquiry into the merits is en-
pedient.
Ii Is ORDERED that the County Commissioners of
FranklinCoHnty be requested to meet the County
Commissioners of AndroScOggin unity at the unlon
SCHOOL, house, called, at North Livermore in the
town of LivermOre in said County of Andrnscoggin.
on Tuesday, the seventh day of June, \. D. lSSl AT
ten O'Clock in the forenoon, and that the petitioners
give notice TO all persons interested by causing al
tested copies of aid petition and this order of court
thereon TO be served upon the chairman OF the
County Commissioners for tn" County of Franklin
and upon the Town Clerks Of the towns oflverlnore
In Anlroscoggin County, and Jay in the County of
Franklin, and by posting up copies of The same in
three public places in each of said towns of Lvernore
and Jay, and by publishing the same three weeks sue
cessivey in the kennebec Journal tbc Sta'e paper
news paper put lished in Augusta, in the County Of
kenne ebec, and the Lewiston Weekly journal, Il
news spaper published in Lewiston in said County OF
Andro-cog. in. and the Pennington Chronicle. a
new paper published in Pennington, in said County
of Fra Kiln, the first Of publica ions and each
of the other notices to be a least thirty days before
the time of said meeting, at which time and place.
(af er IL has been shown that the above notice has
been duly gven) the Commissioners will p-"ceed to
view the roue set forth in said petition, and other
routes and road. connected Herewith, and after
such view they will give hearing to the parties and
their " nesses at said place appointed, 1t place
in the vicinity, when and where ali persons and
corporations interests may appear and show cause
If anv they have why the prayer of said petitioners
should not be granted
true copy of petition and order of court thereon.
Attest: I.W. HANSON, CT. rk.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21

NEW YORK. April ~
FLoUR-receipts 1..175; exports. 's, l0i with'ui
meas for export in largely low grades sales ~
3lO0 CITY mills extra 55a as Is for the West ndies
and 5 S0S5 90 for South America; 5000 bols 40 =,
ct ) OOa3 IS; 800 bbls superhne at @a4 30; w
extra at 4 55ae rs: 500 bbls Minnesota extra al
4 5Oa4 SIS. Southern flour unchanged and quiet
Rye flour firm
CoRN.MEAL-Quiet and unchanged.
WHEAT-receipfs 10000 bush, exports, oe. j.
aa1i better, fairly active exports and speculative
trading, and closing with a weak advance parity
lost sales 3Oc0bush, including 359 600 bush on
the spot; rngraded red at 05al 2ss, No do al
al 2is: steamer do at li9l Is: No2 red at 20 g
i 70: No do at 29! mixed winter at 2Sgl "a
ungraded white at Isl al 81: No do al 2liS x
No do 90 600 bush at 22iai 2t; No red for Aprl
2a4,0O bush AT 2Ia6 25 for May $50 coo oush ~
= 2ilal 2ei for June; 44i bush at 2lal .is iei
July.
BARLEY-dull and weak.
CoRN-.aI better, less doing for export; fair anc
speculatiye business: receipts 1900 bush exports
lii 600 bush; sales 45 900 bush, including eooo OIL
the spot; ungraded at $500
OATs-heavy: mi lower receipts $500
sales I9S 600; No Fat 44l a4is; do white at 46946i
No2 at 45ai5i; do white at 4.a4s; No at 10; &c
aie,. including 5000 No for April at ioafoi
$4,000 do for May at 4fi644s 80,
SUGAR-stroug; 225 hhds Martinique at 81; 5000
bags lilo al Cd.
PETHOLEUM-dull.
PORK-firm fairly active; $50 mess on the spo
at l6 Psi l6 so.
BEEF-steady; Beef hams firm. Terce beef quiet
cut meats stronger.
LARD about Iecl higher. and active, closing veal
GALES GOO prime steam on the spot at lSg s1a 15
April at s0aS7l; 450O May at 1894: $3.50 June q
sOa95 65OO July at S5aI 300 august at II 909 l2g2l
1890 September at ii 05al2 C5.
BUTTER-dull, weak; western 1925.
CH EsE-fr u, freight easier.
Wheat-steam 4.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
LATEST BY MAIL.

Counterfeit ten-dollar gold pieces have been
circulated iu San Francisco.
There are twenty cases of smallpox in the
town Of Adams, Mass.
Horses in Chicago are suffering from pecu-
liar and serious foot disease.
verdict Of S2500 was found in New York
Tuesday. against the American News Com
pany for circulating libelous copies of Truth.
syndicate, including Kidder, Peabody &
Co, has purchased the Buffalo. New York and
Philadelphia hallway, with 10000 acres of
coal lands, paying therefor 1850, 900. Sher.
man 5. Jewett, of Boston. is to be president,
We learn that Mr.. Whitelaw Reid retires
from the editorship of the New York Tribune
on the lst Of May, and will be succeeded by
Mr. John Hay, with whom the proprjetors
nave made an engagement for five years. 1t
Is presumed that the mission to Germany
VIII be again rendered to Mr.. Reid, if it has
not already, though his acceptance is more
doubtful The Tribune is very fortunate in
securing in his place the services of so YER
satile and accomplished a man as Mr.. Hay.
who unites with uncommon literary gifts an
experience in public affairs which must be of
great value Boston Advertiser.
At Mr.. Stetsons request Manager Good
win of Philadelphia, through Thomas J.
Diehl, attorney, has brought suit against
Anna Dickerson for breach of contract, Law
ing damages at $1,000, and the LAWYER is to
have one-third of what he may recover
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
WASHINGTON.

WAsHINGroN, d. c.. April 20. The pres
ident sent the following nominations to the
Senate Richard A. Elmor. OF New York, to
be End Assistant Postmaster General; w. A.
Grier, of Pennsylvania, to be Sd Assistant
Postmaster General, vice A. ID. Hazen ap-
pointed Assistant Attorney General for post
Office departments also several internal rev.
enue collectors.
Grier is the gentleman who cast the first
vote in the Chicago convention for Garfield,
and persisted in thus voting to the last. He
is resident of Milwaukee, and so far as can
be learned here has never held any public
Office.
1t is said on good authority that the Post
master General, by direction of the Presi-
dent, to-day demanded the resignation of Thos.
]. Brady, second Assistant Postmaster Gen
eral, to take effect Immediately.
statement is current tonight that no other
course was open which would secure speedy
severance of Brady's connection with the
Postoffice Department, because of the Senate
deadlock which might indefinitely postpone
The confirmation of his successor.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
Chicago Produce Market.
CHICAGO. April 20

CHICAOOt
FLorR-steady and unchanged; Winter wheats
iG0a6 90; Spring double extra 5oa5 rs; Extras
4 4OOa4 so.
wHEAr-unsettled and generally higher, closed
weak; No Red Winter, lSd1 10; No Chicago
Spring. O3s 03S for -,; Ois or May; col fol-
June; 1 O6s for July; Rejected at 77ds2a.
,ORN unsettled and generally higher, closing
lower; 431 for cash, April, May and June; 44a944i
for July.
UATs-fairly active and shade higher; 81! 4!634i fol
cash; 35s for May; 3aa for June; 35a hid for July
kYE-steady and unchanged at ao9l 2os.
BARLEY-active. firm and higher at 069l 06l.
and huc;uating wildly; is 30 for cash; II 3OSl7 81!
for May; Il 52a97 As for June; is 52.61s s. fol
July.
LARp-unsettled and lower; II 124 for cash; 12 l.
IL Is for May; II 27a for June; II 571 for July.
BULK MEATS-active and lower; Shoulders, 5 60
Short rib, 60; Short clear, 90.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
CONDEMNED TELEGRAMS.

About sixty of the twenty-four hundred
carpenters who struck in New York, on Mon
day still remain out, the employers having
refused the advances demanded.
Hon. Rowland E. Trowbridge, late commits
sioner of Indian Affairs. died at his home in
Bennington, Michigan, Wednesday.
DIR. Jainet, of Danville Va, who was
acquitted Tuesday of fmurder ofhis sister in a
house of ill fame on the ground of insanity
was set at liberty Wednesday.
B. Davis Nixon, prominent lawyer, died
in Syracuse. n. T., Wednesday, of pluro-
pneumonia. He was private secretary of
Gov. seymour. and Mr.. Seymour's confden-
tial secretary during the presidential cam
paign of 1868.
General Joseph s. Lane died at Roseburg,
Oregon, Tuesday night His age was 70 years
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
BOwdOin College Notes.

The spring term opened with the full num-
ber of students present. The ground is now
bare, and the campus is being rapidly cleaned
up and put in order. Work on Memo
rial Hall has at last been COM
menced. The windows of the sec
ond story are being lowered in order that the
large hall of that floor may be better lighted
for the purposes for which it is intended.
The work will now be pushed forward to
completion, and we may hope to see the
building3 with all its advantages, finished at
an early day. 1t is undecided where the
gymnastic exercises will be held now the
above building is undergoing repairs, but
doubtless some hall will be fitted for this.
Prof. johnson, who sometime since solicited
subscriptions for purchasing plaster casts
from antique statuary, has made such prog
ress in his endeavors that already five pieces
have been purchased, and are being mounted
in the north wing of the chapel, that has
recently been occupied by the Maine Histori.
cal Society; there are three full length casts
of Apollo, Diada and Venus, and busts of
Jupiter and Juno. The former are about
seven feet in height, and show perfection in
casting. The room is being completely rem
ovated and fitted up, and with a few more
additions in this nucleus of gallery of stat
uary, we shall have another worthy feature
in our collections of art.
The base ball nine is at work daily on the
"delta." They will leave for Massachusetts
on the 29th of April and play with the Har-
wards at Cambridge on the 3Oth 1t is proba-
bly, that games will be arranged with Brown.
Amherst and possibly Williams for the first
of the following week. All the crews are on
the river taking daily spin over the
course. The interest will be on the increase
from now till the fisrt of June, about which
time the race will come off. There will be no
college exercises tomorrow, it being Fast
Day.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
FIRE RECORD.
At New Jersey.-LOss $4,000.

RouNp Brook, April go. Fire started
here on Main street, in barn, last evening,
and spread rapidly, until seventeen buildings
were destroyed. Forty families are homeless
and the entire loss is estimated at $4,000.
Among the buildings burned were the post
Office, Bound Brook Hotel and stables, Ram.
sey's Hotel and several stores and dwellings
The hotel was filled with guests, but all es.
capped, losing their effects. All telegraph
poles and wires were burned. David Brokaw
was seriously injured bv falling wall. Several
roughs from neighboring villages endeavored
to plunder property in the streets, but citizens
drove them away.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
BY TELEGRAPH.
Associated Press kilograms to the Daily
Kennebec Journal
MAINE.


DAMAErsco1rA. April 90. The house Of
Frederick Lowell at Sheepscot. was burned
Tuesday afternoon. Loss, 81 600: insured
500. Most OF the furniture was saved.
The fire was causeJ by defective chimney.
Fire in Biddeford.
BIDDEFoRp. April 90. About O'Clock
this afternoon, fire broke out in a two-tenne-
ment house near the Eastern X. X depot,
owned by Carlos Heard. Loss on the build
ing and furniture is about ell0O. Insured.
Military Reception and Ball.
LEwIsroS, April 30. A military reception
to Gov Plaisted and staff and Gen. Cham
berlain and staff was given at City Hall this
evening by the Auburn Light Infantry, Co.
c., First Regiment. There was large at
tendance of military men from different parts
of the State and it was a brilliant affair. 1t
close, with grand ball.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
Special Weather Bulletin,

Fair weather prevails east of the Missis.
sippi river, and threatening weather in the
West Gulf States with a ram fall of one
inch and twenty hundredths in eight hours.
is reported from Dodge City, and one inch
and six hundreths from Fort Sill the Mis-
souri, has risen two feet during the past "a
hours at Omaha, where it is four feet and a
half above the danger line, and seventeen
inches at Leavenworth. The Tennessee has
fallen fourteen inches at Chattanooga, the
Cumberland fifty-five inches at Nashville. the
Ohio thirtyfive inches at Cincinnati. Indi-
cations for fair weather prevail in the lower
lake region and New England during TODAY
and Tomorrow. The Missouri will probablv
continue to rise rapidly, and the Mississippi
remain nearly stationary
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
Arrest Of Mail Robbers.

CHICAGO, ILL.,. April 20. F.. r. Blakeslee,
arrested at Toledo. is mail agent on the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Rail-
road, whose bold operations caused great dis
may in the post office here since his first
robbery. He is known to have committed
robbery on the same road upon passengers
destined for Buffalo, Rochester, Utica and
Boston.
Postmaster Pomeroy, postmaster of Heb
ron. Ind, has been arrested in that place,
charged with rifling registered letters.
Daily Kennebec journal., 1881-04-21
Petition for Discharge. - lnsoIvent
Debtor.
STATE OF MAINE.


KENNEBEC, SIS Court of Insolvency.
In the case of TOBIAS b. GERALD of Albion, In
solvent Debtor.
NOTICE is hereby given that petition has, on
AN this fourteenth day of March, A. d. 1851.
been presented to said Court for said county by
Tobias b. Gerald of AlbIon. in the County Of Ken
nebec PRAYING that he may be decreed TO have full
discharge from all his debts provable under the Insol
vent Act. Of the State of Maine, approved February
2l ls1s. and upon said Petition, IT Is ORDERED by
said Court that hearing be had upon the same be-
fore said Court at Probate Court in Augusta in said
County of kennebec, On Monday the eleventh day
of April, A. 1881, at two oclock in the afternoon
and that notice thereof be published in
the kennebec Journal, once a week for
two successive weeks the last pub
lcatiOn to be ten days before the
day of hearing; and that all cred.
ors who have proved their debts, and other persons
interested, may appear at said place and time, and
show cause, ifany they have, why adischarge should
not be granted said Debtor according to the prayer
OF his petition.
Attest: HOWARD OWEN.
Register of said Court of said county of Kennebec
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