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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-05-10

The river here is still z inches below
the highest point reached this season.
Since last report, the Ohio at Pitts.
burg fell 10 inches, but became sta
tionary last night, with 7 feet 6inchei
on the equge. At Cincinnati it rose
3 feet 6 inches, with "a feet on the
gauge. At Louisville it rose 5 inches
but was stationary this morning. witt
s feet 2 inches in the canal. AT Ey.
ansyille it is falling with IL fact
inches on the gauge. At Cairo it rose
| inch, with AZ feet s inches on the
gauge. The Mississippi at st. Louis
fell 2 feet 6 inches, with 20 feet
inches on the gauge. The Cumberland
at Nashville fell 6 inches with IA feet
II inches on the shoals. The Tenn.
essee at Chattanooga fell 4 inches,
with 6 feet Z inches on the gauge.
Red river ct Shreveport is on a stand
with 10 feet II inches on the gauge.
Arkansaw river rose 10 inches at
Little Rock, with 6 feet 10 inches on
the gauge. White river is rising at
headwaters with a good st &c from
J%acksonport to the mouth.
RECEIPTS PER STEAMERS.
Per City of Providence from Vicks-
burg-5 bales cotton.
Per Parie c. Brown, from Cincin.
nati-2C0 bbls meal, 70 bbIs potatses.
Per City of Greenville, from St.
Louis-1O casks bacon, 40 bbls mo.
%lasses, so bales hay.
Per Marlin Speed, from Arkansaw
river-123 bales cotton, "a bags seed
cotton, 485 SKIS cotton seed.
Per Hard Cash, from White river
$50 bales cotton, 129 sacks cotton
seed.
Captain 0. K. Joplin's fine side.
wheel packet Rene Macready is on
berth to leave at 5 pm. to-day for
Mariana, the Cut Off and all way
landings on LAnguille and st. Fran
els rivers, through to Wittsburg,
where she makes direct connection
with the light draught steamer AID
vance for the sunk lands. A. L. Ban
ming presides at the desk, and is as
by Ed Banning and Ed Role
son.
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Public Sale Latting Soap Manufacturing
and Oil Refining Company.

UNHR fve-story brick building, formerly
i known as the Bradley block, situated at
the foot Of Adams ltreet, with the ground oc-
cupied thereby, and extending to Mississippi
river, With all the machinery for making soap
and refining oil, t.gsther with soap ana Foap
material on hand at time Of sale, and Office
public sale, on TUESDAY, May 18th, for
cash By order of the Board of Directors.
2066 JOHN CHIDESTER. Pres,L.
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n,n SR IHTELLIGEECE.

'IvING THIS DAY
BOATS LII 'ene Macready, 8 p m
For St. Francis ~; Bapm."."..6 p m
I" Now Orleans, Centen
ARRIVED. .
Steamer Paris G. Brown, Cincl. ou;s.
F." City of Greenville, ST. l. Sburg.
CITY of Providence, Wick var.
Marlin Speed. Arkansaw +,
Hard Cash. White river.
Golden City, New Orleans.
DEPARTED.
Steamer James Lee, Friars Point.
" Osceola Belle, Csceola.
4" Idlewild, Arka nsaw City.
" Ste. GenevievN, ST. Louis.
q" City of Providence, st. Louis
" City of Green willie, Nicksburg.
Paris G. Broy IN. New Orleans.
" Golden City, Cincinnati
IN Pc 1T.
Andy Baum, Ma Rim Speed, Hard
Ca sh, st. Jacobs Oil, Macready.
CONDITION OF THE RIVERS.
A tnoon to-day the re, ding ofthe gauge
at this point was % fe ct 8 inches being
a rise Of a /! inch du ring the past q
lie ,urs. The river is now 50
ie ct s inches above low water mark
ID 5 inches below I he danger line.
A Il the upper srcan IS are declln-
in g, and in a few days a rapid
ID cline will set in at this point
At d no more dam age will b
nc than has been already done
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STATE or TESsEssEE, SHELBY COUNTY,
OFFfCE COUNTY COURT CLERK,

STATE or TENNESSEE, SHELBY CoUNrT,1
0FFICE COUNTY CoURT CLERE,
MEMPHIS, TEEN., April 2lst, 1881.
No, S2SS-rO John Pitman, administrator OF
Fannie II Hunt, deceased.
LAYING suggested TIE insolvency OF the
IL estate Of Fannie T Hunt, deceased, you
are hereby ordered TO give notice, by adyer,
tisement in some newspaper published within
the said State, and also at the courthouse
door Of Shelby county, for all persons having
claims against said estate, to appear and file
the same with the Clerk OF the County Court
authenticated ia the manner prescribed By law
on or before the 2ist day Of October, 1881
and any claim not filed on or before said day
or before an appropriation OF the funds Of said
estate is made, shall be forever barred, both
Witness my hand, at Office, this 2lst day Of
April, 1881.
By HuGH B. CULLEN, d. @.
Notice is hereby given creditors as required
under foregoing order.
April2l 1881. bdGS
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-
10. 1896, r. DIN the Probate Court ofShelby
&county, Tennessee-R Dudley Frayser, ad'
=ministrator of II 6 Wehrum, deceased, VS.,
The Memphis Brewing Co and others.
DY virtue Of a decree for sale, entered in this
ID cause on 18th April, 1881, IN minute book
No. SO, PIP. 26k 1854, | will sell at public auc-
ton, to the highest bidder, in front of tho
courthouse door on Main street, Memphis
Tenn, On
q; saturday, May 2Sth, 1881,
within legal hours, the following described
real estate, tO-Bit:
Living, being and situated in the Taxing
District Of Shelby county, Tenn. Memphisl,
and on the nOrthwe.t corner Of Do~Oto and
Elliott street, fronting 100 feet ON the west
side of De OtO sweet aud running back west
wardly one hundred and three (ln3l feet bo.
tween parallel Iines, he'ng the same lot allot-
ted to the estate Of Herman Z Wehrum, de-
ceasei, ny report of commissioners flied IN
this c use March Is 1881.
The said sale being made subject to the
homestead and dover rights Of the widow of
said Herman Y Wehrum, deceased.
Terms Of sale-Cash.
This May 7, 1871.
OWEN DWYER, Clerk,
Jarnagin X Frayser, soils for complt,
SO Is n
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CiEGuit Court Of Shelby county. Tennessee

Circuit Court Of Shelby county. Tennessee
Matilda Becker W. Fred Becker.
TT appearing from allegation in tho bill fled
| in this cause, which is sworn To-, that the
defendant, Fred Becker, is q non resident of
the state Of Tennesses; it is Therefore ordered
that he make his appearance herein, at the
courthouse, in The Taxing District Of Shelby
county, Tenn, on OF before the third'Monday
in May next, 1881, and plead, answer or
demur to plaintiffs bill for divorce, or the
same will be taken for confessed as to him
aud the cause set for hearing ex-parte; and
that a copy Of this order DO published once q
week for four successive weeks in the Public
Ledger.
A cOpy-Attest. JOSEPH UHL, Clerk.
By GEORGE j. CAMPBELL, Deputy Clerk.
p II Thnrne, Atty for Plaintiff. al IS %
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Saturday, May I4th, ISs1,

within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Tenn,
t0-wit:
l. A certain lot Of land in Memphis, TAXING
District of Shelby county, known as lot No.
nineteen Q9, of block No. one % of A..
Wrights subdivision, fronting 81 feet on the
east side OF Davie avenue by $50 feet.
2. Also a part Oflot No. 3s8 in said Taxing
District, fronting So feet on Commerce street
by 6I1s feet in depth as described 10 deed from
Morris Doyle to John GeOghegan. recorded in
book SO, page $50 Of Registers Office of Shelby
county, and more fully described in deed from
Sarah and John NOOnan, heirs Of John Geo
ghegan to I'D John Leary, recorded in book
III, page al of said Registers office, as fol-
lows: Beginning on the north side of Com
merce street 371s feet east ofThird street, run
ming thence east with Commerce street 81
feet; thence north at right angles with Com
merce street So feet; thence west parallel
with Commerce street SIS feet; thence south
TO the beginning $50 feet.
Terms of sale-On a credit of six months;
note with approved security, lien retained etc.
This April Il. 1891.
il. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Flippin & Flippin, ] W Hampton, Atty's.
IL "a 70 6Q "a
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Chancery Sale of Real Estate,

No. 3747, R-Chancery Court 81 Shelby county
ri Black, administrator Of John Leary,
deceased, VS.. l. l. Miyslar ct al.
by virtue of an interlocutoIy decreefor sale,
ID entered in the above cause on tbs sth
day Of April 1881, N. B. 81, page IN. | will
SOL, at public auction, 10 the highest bidder,
in front ofthe Clerk and Masters office, court
house Of Shelby county, Memphis, Tennessee,
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Thursday. NAV I9lh. ISsI.

s AO0As
at u o'clock, m, at the southwest corner of
Main ard Madison streets. in Memphis, Tenn,
sell at public auction 10 the highest bidder for
cash, the undivided One-third interest in and
to the following described property, situated
in Shelby county, Tenn, on Dunlap street,
and designated on the plan of the Taylor sub
division as lot No. II, aud bounded as follows;
Beginning at the northwest corner of lot No.
10 on the east line ofDunlap street, as recent
~ widened; thence eastwardly along the line
oflOt No. II, l54 feet and 2inehes to an alley
on the east line of said subdivision; thence
u%orthwardly with said alley 30 feet to the
southeast corner Of lot No. Is of said sub
divisions thence westwardly along the south
line Of lot No. is, ISL feet and 7 inches toDun-
lao street, as recently widened; thence south
wardly with Dunlap street 30 feet TO the be-
ginning.
Also an undivided one-third interest in an
other lot, described as follow Beginning at
a point on the east line of Dunlap street A
feet south of the intersection of the east side
of Dunlap street with the south side of Adams
street extended; thence east 90 feet to the west
line Of lot No. 2S; thence south IS feet; thence
west 80 feet to Dunlap street; thence north
with Dunlap street IS feet to the beginning,
being part of lots %, 30 and 81 Of Thompson's
sub-digision, as the same appears Of record in
book 81, part first pages 635 6.
Title good, but / sell as trustee.
VIM. A. COLLIER, Trustee.
j.. M. Treg0vant, Atty. SO IS
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Adams U. 5. Mail Line Steamer-For Helena,
Friafs Point, Coneordia, Torrene, Arkansas
City 4 Pine BlufR. R.-Stsawer
IDLEWILD. Mark r.. Cheek, .v7eus
master; A. L.. Cummins, clerk, A1l3SEAk
leaves every MONDAY andF&1
THURSDAY at 5 p. NJ, connecting at Arkan-
gas CITY, with the steamer Dean Adams for
Greenylle and Yicksbnrg. 149t
1T. WASHINGTON. AIT. 81 Madison 1t.
FOR OsCEOLA.
IL1-Woekly United States Mail Packet-RoF
Fulton, Randolph, 0sceola and all way
landings-The elegant passenger steamer
0SCE0LA BELLE,
Henry Cooper, master; VIM. Smither, clerk;
Will leave Memphis every MONDAY WE'D
NESDAY and FRIDAY at 5 o'clock pm.
For Information apply on board, or at No.
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Trustees Sale.

hinder and by virtue of o certain trust
~ deed to me executed, OF date 9TH April,
1850, an | recorded in the Registers Office Of
Shelby county, Tenn, in book No. 1872, page
l5i. j will. ON
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AVN. H0TEL
Fifth Street, Near Green,
LOUISVILLE, : Ky

THIS Hotel is do irably located. The build
/ ing is Ia excellent condition, has all mod
efn improvements. including elevator, and in
furniture and appurtenances generally is worry
complete. Rates, 50 and $3.50 per day.
.. MI SCOtt,
Late Of NashY lille. Tenn.)
President Of Hotel Company.
J.. y. Duffy, DR.. n. -. Wilson,
1857 Late If Memphi0. Clerks.
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Paducah ana Memphis.
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LEAvE. ARRIVE.
New Orleans Mail, daily l12.S0 pm. 1910 Am
Eardis Accommodation,
daily Except Sunday. $40 Pm. 9.lb ann
Freight train daily lex
oept Sunday .m......... 7.lQ AN. 70 p.m
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For white River

Independent Memphis and White
River P~acket-F0r Augusta, J acksOnport,
Searcy and way points-Tho Re gular Inde.
nandent Packet
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sMonday, Wednesday and Friday.
tDaily.
MONDAY, Thursday and Saturday.
Sunday, Tuesday and Friday.
n Veedsy and Friday.
Euw. dnesday and Saturday.
OTuo. nay. Thursday and Saturday:
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HARD CASH.

v G Postal, master; Charles Postal, clerk,
leaves Memphis EVERY WEDNESDAY at 5
nm. For freight or passage apply TO
Ut. WASHINGTON, Agt.,
81 Madison street.
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gave token that whoever RODE him
would have a ride as wild as MaZeppa's
ard one that might not end so well. AT
last "vaquero" famed Fritz accepted
the challenge, and the wild bull was inn
mediately lassoed and held by lariat
around horn and foot. Dismounting
from his horse, the vaquerO fastened
his long-roweled spurs securely, tied a
handkerchief around his head, ap-
preached the infuriated animal, and
grasping the tail in his hands, sprang
lightly on il, settling the spurs deeply in
the flanks as he settled securely in his
seat. The lariafs were slackened; the
bull gave a roar of rage and terror and
flung his head To the ground; but the
rider had his back to the horns and
firm grip on the tail, and kept his seat.
Another roar that shook the ground, a
wild plunge, and the now maddened
bull shot out across the sage plain with
lightning speed, his plucky rider twist
ing the tail that to him was a sheet-an
chor until the bellowings were lost in
the distance. For over a mile and a half
the race continued, amid the excited
cheers of the vaquero's comrades. Oc-
casionally the bull gave desperate
plunge through heavy clnmp OF sage
in the vain attempt TO rid himself o
his tormentor, but the long rowels only
clung more firmly to his flanks. Some
times the animal and rider were hidden
by undulations in the ground, and bets
were even made that Fritz would be |
thrown and gored; but at last the bull,
from sheer fright, fell, and |
the plucky vaquero, stepping lightly |
off, returned to claim his prize, which |
was unanimously awarded. This oc- |
hxv INN FL
tie man in Lake county, who ventures
the opinion that no scene in a Spanish
"bull ring" was ever half SO wild or ex-
citinU.
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Unnecessary Falsehooas.

Surely, clerks in some stores tell many
unnecessary falsehoods, in their ankle
ty to advance their employers interests.
Misrepresentation drop constantly
from their lips. "This is all silk,' as
serts a saleswoman who exhibits a black
cotton lace scarf; and "every thread
linen," is the description which the old
housekeeper receives of towels into
whose composition not thread of linen
enters. The lies told in second class
(and some that claim to be first-classl
dry-goods stores are so enormous that
they argue love of flying on the part of
the statesmen, AMI utter idiocy on the
part of the buyers. Why should any
one desire to make the statement that
all the goods in his establishment are
sold ut cost price, or expect customers
to believe that he entered into trade
from purely philanthropic motives? A
fair profit is the right of one who sells
1t is the motive of his selling. "Upon
my word l am giving this away" i'm
poses upon somebody. Why it is so
often uttered is mighty mystery and
must remain so. Then, too, If one de-
sires certain style of collar of scarf,
of shoe, quite in the mode, and we'll
known to be so, and inquires for the ar
ticie at store YheEe they do not hap
pen to keep it, Che negative to the ques-
ton, "Have you such an article ?" is al
ways followed by the remark, tfNobody
wears them now; they are entirely out
of fashion"-a comment both insulting
and false. DO such lies pay, in any
sense of the term?
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Literary Facility.

DIR. Johhson's tRasselas', was written
in week to defray the expenses of his
mothers funeral. Sir Walter Scott's
rapidity is one of the marvcls of litera-
ture; lie wrote. literally as fast as the
pen could move, and when lie dictated,
his amanuensis could scarcely Y keep pace
with him. The original manuscripts
of the Waverly novels may still be seen /;
they are frequently for many pages un-
deformed by single blot or erasure.
Beckford's "Vathek% was CONF osed by
the unbroken exertion of three whole
days and two whole nights, the author
supporting himself during his unnatu-
raj vigil by copious draughts of wine,
andswhat adds to the wender is that the
work was written in French. Mrs.
Browings's "Lady Geraldine's Court
ship," poem of great length in a pc
culiarly difficult metro, was con4p plete d
in twelve hours, while the printer was
waiting to put it into type. Sir Walter
tells us that Mickle--the translator of
the sLusiad," and the author of the
beautiful ballad which suggested the ro-
nance of Observation-Disclosures
dispensed with manuscript altogether,
and "set up' his poems himself, shot
from the braln.'' Most of our Eliza
bethan dramatists were remarkable for
the ease and rapidity with which they
wrote. One of them, old Hey wood, was
the author, "part or entire, of 230 plays.
1t is interesting to know, as we know 1t
on the best authority, that Shakespeare
himself welded very facile pen. "His
mind and hand," say the editors of the
first folio, ''went together, and what he
thought he uttered with that easiness
that we have scarce received from a
blot on his papers,"
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Metternich's Bible Reading.

/ The Catholic Church does not encour-
age the universal reading of the Bible,
and it acts in this respect like father,
placed above The passions and conse-
quensly the storms of life. The church
not only allows but recommends the
reading of the sacred books to men who
are enlightened, calm, capable of iudg-
ing the question. She does not encour-
age the reading of mystical books, or
of passages full of crimes and obsceni-
ties, which the Book of Books contains
only toe often in histories simple like
the first ages, and like all that is true.
For myself, think the church is right,
and judge by the effect which the
reading of the Bible has on me at the
age of forty 30 different from that which
the same reading produced at the age OF
fifteen and twenty. can only compare
this difference with that of the impress
sions produced at different periods of
life by the reading of the classics, the
contemplation of the beauties of nature,
or the monuments of art. l read every
day one or two chapters of the Bible; l
discover new beauties daily, and L
PROSTATE myself before this admirable
book; while at the age of twenty |
found it difficult not to think the fam
lily of Lot unworthy to be saved; Noah
unworthy to have lived ); Saul great
criminal, and David terrible man. At
twenty, tried to understand the Apoc-
alypse; now / am sure that L never
shall understand it. At the age of
twenty deep and long-continued re-
search in the holy books made me an
atheist after the fashion of Alembert
and Lelande, or q Christian after
that of Chateabriand now l be-
lieve and do not criticise. i have read
too much and seen too much, not to
know that reading is not necessarily un-
derstanding; that it would be too bold
In me to condemn what, through igno-
rance, or insuiliciency of knowledge, l
comprehend so imperfectly. In a
word, believe, and dispute no longer.
Accustomed to occupy myself with
accomplished or allowed to be wrought
out by the simple course of nature, be-
fore arriving at the point where Pope
and my cure beg me TO accept from
them the most portable edition of the
Bible? Is it bold in me to take for GER
tain that, of thousand individuals cho-
sen from the millions Of men OF which
the people are composed there will be
found, owing to their intellectual facul-
ties, their education, or their age, very
few who have arrived. at the point
where l find myself? Now, my dear
Count, in this very simple reasoning,
which is also the Emperor's, we find the
motives of his Majesty's constant oppo-
sition to the introduction of Bible soci-
cites, and in this matter his ideas coin
eide with those of the Holy Father.
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Four Days in Her Grave.

Some days ago Mrs. Banks, of Lynch
burg, Mason county, ILL.,, was buried,
though some persons present ut the fu-
neral thought they saw signs of life in
the supposed corpse. A Charleston,
Ill. ,<lispatch to the indianapolis Journal
gives the sequel as follows: "The day
after the funeral the grave was opened
and the casket cover removed, when it
was seen that the hands, which had
been tied together and placed upon the
bosom, were lying by the side. Sup
posing her to be dead, no further signs
of life being visible, they readjusted the
hands, closed and lowered the caskct
and covered it. A few days later
friends persuaded the husband to have
the remains examined again, which he
did, and again found her hands lying by
her side, and, also. her hair dishevelled.
Still there seemed no signs of life, and
the third time The body was covered in
the grave. BY this time the excitement
began to intensity in the community
until, on the fourth day after the burial,
the body was again exhumed and again
the same evidence OF protracted life as
formerly were II ilY observed. The
body was tab home, medical aid
called, and restoI .Iive agencies applied.
The last account we have of the case is
that the patient is recovering, and win
probably soon stand before the world
living example of a person who has lain
four days in the grave.
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the "Repu bile" was turned in nine diff
ferent ways before he could satisfy him
self. If we are to believe Quintilian,
Isocrates was no less than ten years on
his ssPanegyric.'' Giannone was en-
gagged for nearly the same period over
his History of Naples" Boileau and
Pope would spend whole days over
cOuplet, Charlotte Bronte an hour over
word, and Gray month over a short
copy of verses. There is a poem of ten
lines in Waller which he has owned cost
him whole summer. Gibbon wrote
the first chapter of the "Decline and
FalF' three times before he was satisfied
with it, and nearly a quarter of century
elapsed before the entire work was COM
pleted. John Forster, the essayist,
would sometimes linger a week over a
sentence. Addison was so fastidious
that johnson tells us he would stop the
press to insert an epithet or even a
comma. Sainte-B Bcuve expended in
credible pains on every word in his fa-
nous "Causeries, and four or five oc-
tavo pages were, in his estimation, a
good weeks work. stYou will read
this treatise in few hours,' says Mon
tesvuieu in letter 20 one of his friends,
"but the labor expended on it has whit
ened my hair" Locke was no less
than eighteen years over his essay.
Tasso toiled like galley-slave at polish
ing his stanzas So morbidly anxious
was Cardinal Bembo about style that
every poem on which he was engaged !,
passed SUCCESSFULLY through forty port
forlio's, which represented its various |
stages toward perfection. Pascal's dill
gence passed into proverb. Cardinal |
Polignac's "Anti-Lucretius," one of the
finest Latin poems that modern Europe
has produced, was the fruit of twenty /
years incessant revision, and what APP
plies to Polignac applies also to the ''De
Partu Virgins" of Sannazarius. l-