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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-16
Saturday, October 9th, 1881,

within legal hours, the following described
ated in the Taxing District Of Shelby
County, City of Memphis, Tenn, o.
the south side Of Linden street, being lot.
six and eight l6 and 81 in block forty -four ga
as shown on the map of said city Of Memphis
Terms Of ssle-on a credit Of seven months
Notes with security required; lien retained
redemption barred.
This September 18th 1881.
CIV. Frazer, N. Williams, Sol'rs for com
p'ainants.
r; J; BLACK, Clerk and Master.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-09-16
LIYERpOoL oorToN sTATENiENT

For the week ending Septembc. l6, rs cabled
10 the Memphis Cotton Exchange.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
A Lady LAWYERS Retort.

Judge TYLER, of San Francisco. is
well known to the bar of that city as a
most formidable opponent, both fcren-
sically and physically, as many
sslearned COUNSEL upon the other side
has found out to his sorrow.
The Judge, who is so used to domi-
mating his brethren of the bar, recently
met his match in the lady lawyer of San
Francisco, Clara S. Foltz, who clipped
his wind in manner that well-nigh
suffocated him. The story is too good
to be lost.
The case of Tyler vs.. The Hibernia
Savings Bank was pending before one
of the city courts, involving the right
to certain deposit of funds in said
bank. Tyler was his own attorney, and
Mrs. Foltz was attorney for the bank
1t seems that Tyler, by a little bit of
sharp practice, was trying to ring in a
"cofd deck in the shape of a default
that had been enormously dated. the ad-
mission of which by the Judge upon
the bench would have sent the defend
ant out of Court. Mrs. Foltz showed
up the matter satisfactorily to the Court
and the default was promptly set aside.
This nettled Judge Tyler considerably,
and turning to the lady counsel he said
sharply, in manner intended to be in
tensely impressive, that counsel had
better be engaged in other business
that "a woman's place was at home
raising her children"
The words were scarcely uttered be-
fore Mrs. Foltz rose in her queenly way,
and, flashing her blue eyes straight into
the Judges fiorid face, she quietly re-
marked: "A woman had better be en-
gagged in almost any business than in
raising such men as you are, sir.
The Court commanded order, but in
tone that seemed to appreciate the
Justice of the retort, while number of
lawyers in court, some of whose heads
Judge Tyler has held in "ehancery'' {" on
former occasions, came near exploding
with suppressed laughter.
The counsel turned white with anger
and groaned in spirit. but concluded
that 1t was better to drop the subject
then and there Sds Jose Mezcsay..6
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
Fashion Items.

Biscuit" or almond colored foulards
are very popular.
Elegant Jet embroidered hoods adorn
some of the new spring wraps of black
Surah.
Pretty neck scarfs are shown, with
the ends worked in Irish point embroid-
cry. 1855
Red or blue sword sashes of stock
met are worn over dark flannel sui Is
made for both little boys and little
girls.
The porcupine straw hats do not
meet with very great favor, but the
rough-and-ready braids are in great de-
mand.
White snowdrops and white clover
blossoms will, the coming season, be the
favorite floral garnitures for bridemaids
and s'sweet girl graduates"
Almond and pale gray cheese cloths
will again be fashionable for morning
dresses. They are trimmed with many
rows of nife-plaited ruffies around the
foot of the skirt, and the long Greek
overdress is draped in tiowery folds and
adorned with Polanza lace and bows
and ends of bright satin ribbon.
Roman sandals and delicately en-
broidered silk stockings in all the new
pale shades of color will be the fashion
able foot dressing with summer toilets.
There are also some lately imported
novelties in hosiery, showing handsome
colors in the new ombre or shaded ef-
fects-for instance delicate rose pink
toe. changing gradually up the length
of the stocking, through several grades
of color, to rich crimson, too. Silk
elastic garters to correspond are added,
fastened with buckles of cut steel.
Notwithstanding the fact that the
decree has gone forth that black gros
grain silks have had their day for the
present, the merchants in the leading
houses of the city declare that the sale
of these goods was never greater than
now, and that they are purchased and
worn not alone by elderly people, or
ladies who do not care to be quite ''in
STYLE" but by the leaders of fashion
themselves. The fact is, handsome
black silk toilet is one which can never
really lose caste. 1t is too elegant and
becoming a costume to be relinquished,
and for many purposes and occasions no
other dress can satisfactorily take its
place.-N. y Post.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
THE CEDAR TREE.

Lay her beneath the Cedar Tree
Whose dark and dainty tracery
Shall cast its shadow on her bed.
While solemn choirs. far overhead,
OF cawing rocks shall to its boughs repair,
And mourn for her that was so young and fair.
Lay her beneath the Cedar Tree
Where soft winds rustic fitfully:
Where oft the timid deer shall stray
To shelter from the noontide ray,
low, p
Sleeps one who lived and suffered long ago.
Nor mark the place with craven stone,
Where now she Heth all alone:
But raise where she doth sleep, a mound,
And scatter lilies on the ground:
Enough to show that one doth here abide
Who, like the flowers fading, drooped and
died.
There fitting bats shall court the gloom,
And speed in circles round her tomb:
And Oft the glow-worm. chaste and bright,
Shall for her honor trim his light
For her whose life did, like his spark. appear
In darkness, dying when the day drew near.
Ahl lay her in the cool deep shade
BY those o'erhanging branches mades
And when the summer heat is fierce,
No baiefui shaft to her shall pierce.
Thus can she slumber on with tranquil breast,
Who wearied of her life. and longed for rest.
When winters icy hand shall tear
The leaves and strip the forest bare,
The Cedar, clothed In verdure warm,
Alone can shield her from the STORM
So lay her gently down with tender love.
Where the sad Cedar spreads its boughs
above.
Chambers Journal.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
The Renewed Exodus.

The exodus, which was stopped in
great measure by the long and cold
winter, has started again. A Memphis
paper says: "Five hundred blacks left
Huntington, Tenn, few days since
intending to settle in Kansas. Smaller
parties are made up for emigration to
other places" The charge that these
colored laborers of the South have been
persuaded 10 their course by Northern
emissaries will hardly be believed. That
there is something radically wrong in
the South, which makes the colored
population willing to leave the homes
to which they are attached. and endure
the sufferings of the cold North, re-
quires no argument. The movement is
of their own choosing, and is like the
emigration from the dynasties of the
old world. The colored laborers of
the South are seeking homes
where they hope for personal hber-
ty, and the right to live in peace
under the law. 1t IS a subject that
may well claim the serious attention of
the South. These people are the accli-
mated laborers of the South. No other
people upon the earth can fill their
places upon the sugar plantations or in
the cotton fields. The South is in
pressing need of their labor and the
North is not. But under the new order
the colored man is free to go and come,
and Just so sure as the sun rises and
sets the South will have to change en-
tire her treatment of the black race or
sit down in desolation and see her great
plantations growing up with weeds and
underbrush for want of hands 20 till
them. Such would be calamity 10 the
North as well as the South, and to the
South it means ruin. The time has
fully come when the enlightened senti-
ment of the South should give voice
and command the whole ar ny of
regulators and tissue ballot vend-
ers to the rear. The black men
of the South are free, and
If they are not permitted to enjoy free
dom they will emigrate. The best men
in the South know this, but find the
prejudices of slavery handicapping
them in every movement. That the
obstacles to overcome are great, no one
doubts; they are necessity from the
making of citizens out of men who have
for generations been only chattels. 1t
is not strange that some of them mis-
take license for liberty; the fact re-
mains that the great majority of them
understand their rights, and a multitude
will emigrate if these rights are not re-
spected, and they are not in person and
property protected. The men who
have advocated equal and exact Justice
TO the blacks. aside from any sentiment
of philanthropy, are the best and truest
friends of the South, and sooner or
later this fact will be recognized
Chicago Inter- Ocean.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02

"At any rate you'll trust me with
your name," he pleaded.
"Oh, yes-it's Elfina Gawley.n
Mr.. Fluke would have still insisted
on setting her down at her own door,
but Elfina was infiexible.
It'll never. 1seUer dor' she reiter-
ated.
Mr.. Fluke had nothing for it but to
let her go. First, however, he placed
card containing his address in her
hand. with a warm injunction, if she
ever required his service, that she should
not hesitate to let him know.
Mr.. Fluke resumed his place, and
was driven to his own door in a deep
reverie. He was about stepping out
when he saw something in the bottom
of the carriage which glittered in the
light of n neighboring lamp. Picking
it up, he found it was a gold watch
handsomely studded with diamonds.
noticed in Elfina's belt while entering
the carnage.
"Ahar' he thought, "I shall have a
good excuse for call on her to-mor
row in spite of her persistent 'fH rser-
er dor"
Mr.. Fluke, after many wakeful hours,
fell into an uneasy sleep, from which
loud knocking awoke him.
"Come inn he growled.
Two not pleasant looking men en-
tered.
lis your name Fluke?" one of them
asked.
at is"
"Endicott Fluke?"
"Yes; WHY do you ask?"
"Cause we've got business with you. :"
Hello! Spiles," cried the other,
taking from a table the watch which
Mr.. Fluke had found, and, examining
it closely; d" here's the stolen goodsr'
Stolen goodsr calculated Mr.. Fluke,
utterly dumbfonded.
"Just So" Mr.. Spiles replied. "In
course you don't deny takin' this ere
from the young oman last night. But
twas rather queer of you to give her
your card. P'r'aps. though. you thought
the bold game was the best, and she d
think the watch was lost afore you met
her."
Mr.. Fluke tried to explain; but his
confusion was so great that Mr.. Spiles
told him he was only making matters
worse, and kindly admonished that the
least said was soonest mended.
Seeing no help for it, Mr.. Fluke
dressed and accompanied his captors.
Before the Police Justice he was con-
fronted by respectable-looking lady
and the fair Ellina, the latter as pretty
as ever in spite of the absence of her
last nights finery.
MRS. Tresham." said the Justice,
twill you please make your state
mentP''
The lady's statement was, in brief,
that her lately-hired maid-servant, El-
fina Cawley, had taken it into her
giddy head to go to the theater as fine
lady in company with her beau, John
Cope; and to carry out the plan, had
taken the liberty of borrot0iag her mis-
tress' finest clothes and ornaments,
even to her watch. Finding the latter
missing on reaching home. she had be-
come frightened and confessed all The
natural conclusion was that the watch
had been stolen by the civil gentleman
who had SO good an opportunity.
| Poor Mr.. tluke, at the cost of being
well laughed at, had to call in friends
to vouch for his respectability; where
upon the Magistrate accepted his ex-
PLANTATION and let him go.-N Y. Ledger.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02

right timer" asked the reporter of q
man who tends the horse.
"Oh, no." was the reply. "It is
very rare that there is any delay such
as you Just now saw. He stands up
here by himself, and as soon as the rope
is pulled and he feels the weight he
starts off, and when the hoist is stopped
and he feels the slack he stops."s 2 ~
1t is very general practice among
leather houses in the swamp to make
use of horse power for hoisting in this
manner. When horse goes up into q
garret he lives eats, sleeps and dies
there. When he needs shoeing a smith
comes up to him. He never treads the
earth save such as is put on his track.
In one place on Gold Street there are
four stores, and another store in the
rear, all supplied with hosting power
by two horses up in the garrett of one
of the stores. One of these horses, a
black fellow with a white nose, was
taken up there in 1868, and he was nine
years old then. In that house a bell
rope is used to start and stop the hoist.
When the bell rings the old horse
starts, and when itrings again he stops.
Old Charley, as he is called, has been a
faithful horse, and although when first
put in the garret he did the work of
only one store, and has the other stores
gradually put on to him in addition, he
never fails to obey the bel[call to duty.
He has become blind, his teeth have
grown out till they look like black
board chalks, and he has to endure an
oven-like heat in summer, but he seems
to enjoy good health and spirits, al
though his sole pleasure in life is an
occasional piece of tobacco given to
him by one of his many friends.
About two years ago strong, young
horse was bought to relieve the veteran,
and has become known as Young Char
ley. Steady walks around the ring
have so stimulated Young Charley s
growth that he has become a colossus
of horses, standing nineteen hands and
three inches high according to the re-
port of his groom, who is the only per-
SON Young Charley allows to como near
him. ~
1--WE have used horses for hoisting
for many years in the swamp said a
leather merchant, al have heard that
ex-Mayor Gideon Lee had the first one,
but he used to work his horse in his
cellar. Schultz, Southwick q Co. were,
| believe, the first house to put horse
in the garret. The nearer the power to
the machine the more force, you know. "
M Y. Sun.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
The Boston Gir,s Woe.

"The snow has drifted around my
heart" sighed a fair young Boston
girl, as she and her Brooklyn hostess
sat on the floor, lacing their boots, the
other morning. "No longer do the
spring violets bloom in my life."
MAY inquire what has chagrined
you?" asked the Brooklyn girl, SYM
pathetically.
"I will tell You all, from cosmos to
Omega. You shall know why existence
is henceforth burnt prairie to me. All.
the dream has flown. The grasses are
bending over the grave of that bright
hope"
"Did he leave you?' invoked the
Brooklyn damsel, in tears.
Not voluntarily. We were segre-
gated. but through no fault of ours. Ii
was the dispelling of vision"
"But won't he come back?"
81 fear me nay. Such a differentia-
tion is not to be overcome. 1 will tell
you. We loved. The moon couldn' {
beam but he'd hitch up a team and
drive into my outstretched arms"
"Mym calculated the Brooklyn girl.
always. He came until / looked
for him as for the stars. Every night
until one. Then he came no more, to
our brown-stone mansion door no more.
And my heart is sad and weary. List
en-. have father. Pitiless, cold, re-
lentless, but still he is my father,
though he has frozen up my young
blood. assure you it is really all ice
bergs."
ibid he say the young man mustn't
come any moreP" asked the breathless
listener.
"He did not. He welcomed him,
like the whirlpoors rings that swallow
up all sorts of things. Gave him cigars
and talked with him. Pa was too aw-
fully sweet at first, and that's what
makes me sit sad and signing, and feel
as though am surely dying. Pm just
perfectly, terribly cut up about it"
"Then how did he come to go awayP
Pm crazy to know"
"You shall hear how the disintegra-
ton originated. All the time pa was
treating him so nicely he didn't like
him. He was making up his mind to
have him leave. Obi the saddest word
of tongue or pen is the terribleness OF
these bad men. Pa separated us. Like
the pouring of the vengeful sea he sep
arated my own and me-"
"How did he do itP What steps did
he takeP"
"Give me your attention. You shall
know the facts from the protoplasm to
the finish. / will tell YOU of my awful
doom. right here in your cheerful little
bedroom. / wanted an Easter hat,
said to pa Must have it. Was COM
ing to see you, you know. Says pa,
Give up the lover or the hat. Can't
have both
"And you?"
"Gave him up, of course! How could
l help itP The hat is lovely, but my
heart is stone. 1 move alone without
any comfort 1t was hard to wreck
him, but there was no alternative. Pa
made me choose. Don't you think il
prettyP"
And the two girls went down to
breakfast, the forlorn girl singing, in a
low sweet voice, 1.-The good sword is
rusted, the good knight is busted. y
Brooklyn Eagle.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
Promptly Suppressed.

More than a year ago those who
travel by the Woodward Avenue car
line entered into solemn agreement
not to mention the weather to each
other when they met on the car. No
matter how hot or cold it was no one
was to speak of it, and each one was to
infer that all the others had brains
enough to expect ten degrees below in
January and eighty-five above in Au-
gust. As a result of this agreement a
nuisance was abolished and thousands
of citizens put in way to enjoy them
selves as well as one can in a street car.
Two weeks ago the organization was
revived, and scores of new names added
to the list, and up to yesterday noon
the word Z" weather. had not been even
limited at on any car on that line. At
that hour a stranger entered car at
Adelaide Street, and had scarcely taken
seat when he said to man across the
aisle:
mice little shower we've had?"
He was given freezing look in reply,
but he continued:
"Curious that we don't have more
thunder storms this spring."
One of the organization here present
ed him with an engraving of coffin,
but after brief glance he continued:
"Wonder if we are going to have q
very dry summer?"
Once more effort was made to save
him, but he recklessly observed:
I'm buying a place up here and
shall use this line four times per day.
Did any of you gentlemen notice how
the thermometer stood?n
The car was stopped, and he was
taken off and impaled on the tops of
some iron pickets, no one even troub-
ling himself to take down his dying
words to his wife. The Coroner has re-
fused to hold any inquest, and the Chief
of Police saws he shall take no official
notification of the incident. That's the
sort of men they are up Woodward Av-
enue, and that's the sort of end weather
takers may expect to reach, This say
ing it's hot or cold or balmy or breezy
or close or bracing has got to be put a
stop to if the cross-bar on every lamp
post becomes a gallows. 1t means
nothing, annoys everybody, and is de-
serving of violent death. Let the work
of execution go on.- Detroit Free Press.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
FACTS AND FIGURES.

During the last ten years Russia has
expended 72,000,000 rubles on ship
building. - 81.
1t is computed that freight train
enters New York every fifteen min
utes, each train averaging thirty-five
cars.
The proposition of an American
company to construct railway through
Newfoundland has been accepted by the
authorities. 5.-., 80. s..
The Chinese have contracted with
the Great Northern Company of Copen-
hagen for a line from Shanghai to Tient-
sim, 900 miles. s17ssa -
"A table in London is valued at
10000 guineas. 1t is only two feet
wide, two feet and nine inches high and
eighteen inches deep, but the top,
frieze and back are overlaid with old
Scyres plaque, and the mounts are very
highly chased and gilt s..s -, s
I'm the. year 1880 there were in the
United States 170. 103 miles of tele-
graphic line, and during that year 49,
155, 991 messages were sent. The miles
of wire were about 5000 This does
not include the lines used exclusively
for railroad business. The other coun-
tries having the greatest length of lines
are as follows: Russia, Sc, 170 miles;
Germany, Al, ,431; France, Sc. $40; Aus
tria- Hungary, 80, 403; Australia, 26, ,S42;
Great Britain, %, 156; British India,
Is, 209; Turkey, 17,0S5, and Italy,
15, 1854.
Pullman sleepers are now run on
two of the principal lines between Lon
don and Scotland, and arrangements
have been made to put on a special
Pullman train, like the one which runs
from London to Brighton, distance of
ffty-one miles. 1t is proposed to intro
duce the American system of checking
baggage into England. Now the able
bodied Briton is compelled to struggle
for his luggage and pick it out when he
arrives at his destination as best he may.
The cars and the American ways are
growing in popularity.
The Census Office has just issued a
preliminary exhibit of the statistics of
the daily press of the United States.
The total number of daily journals in
the country during the census year is
placed at 962, which includes 80 dailies
which were suspended and III. which
were established in the course of that
year. The aggregate daily circulation
is placed at 1851, 187, and the aggre-
gate annual circulation at l, 127, 337, 355.
With an aggregate daily circulation of
| 1851, 187, at an average price per an
mum of 81. 33, it appears that the peo-
pie of the United States pay out an
nually the sum of S26, 250, 100 for their
| daily newspapers.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1881-06-02
WIT AND WISDOM.

just how to make a twenty-yard
carpet fit into a twenty-four-yard room
is what is agitating the minds of the
migratory housewives of to-day.-NeaO
HdUer1 Register.
Several brothers recently got into
a quarrel over pie and the little one
felt less kindly toward the biggest. who
took his part. than he did toward any OF
the others.-Bosto1s Post.
"A naturalist has discovered that
monkeys may be taught to dance.
Taught to dance. indeed! We have
seen them dance a hundred times at
pawties in the fawncy dawnces.-N. y.
Commercial AdUerttser.
The styles in millinery this year are
very unlike last years; but the spiteful
remarks which each lady feels it her
duty to make about her neighbor's bon
nets will be pretty much the same as
usual Yonkers Gazette.
The Modern Maiden:
There was gay maiden named Fanny,
Who wouldn't darn socks for her granny;
But she'd sit all the day,
And she'd hammer away,
Like plumber upon the pianny.
The barefooted boy has made his
appearance. Tenderly he trippeth
over bu0 obOucS, OuO III d AuOnOu VI bWO
his soles will have become as hard as
Pharaoh's heart, and he will no more
mind the gravel than some men mind
the suferings of their fellows.-BoSton
Transcript.
"A Tale of Donkey:
An Arab came to the river side,
With a donkey bearing an obelisk;
But he would not try TO ford the tide,
For he had too good an ..
So he camped all night by the river side,
And remained till the tide had ceased to
swell,
subSide,
He never would find its !.
When morning dawned and the tide was out,
The pair cross'd over heath Allah's protec-
ton,
For he had the best donkey in all that s.
-SOmerUille Journal.
That donkey was seen by Yankee man,
Who raised his voice and loud did holler:
"HOw much II you take for that ere beast -
In gold or silver or paper !"
Detroit Free Press.