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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-01-26

NEW York, January 26, 1920 pm.
Cotton quiet. Ordinary, 8 1916;
good ordinary 10 7-16c; low middling
l1sc; middling II 13-16c; good mid
ding II 5-16c; middling fair 10 Lice;
fair 10 l1-16c. Futures opened steady
now barely steady at 2 to 3 points
above last evenings closing prices, as
follows: Deliveries for
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Sales to-day. $500 bales.

New York, January 26.--Ex.
change firm. Bankers 3 days, 4S39@
484; 60 days, 48Ol @4803; commercial
60 days, 478}@479l.
NEW ORLEANS, January 26,' 11:3O
a.m.-Cotton quiet. Middling, lie.
Sales to-day, 1000 bales; receipts,
2935 bales. Stock 273,2l9 bales.
LIVERPOOL, January 26, 4p.m.-
Gotten easier; uplands 6 9.16d; Or
leans, SD. Sales to-day 5000 bales.
Receipts 1900 bales American
1900 bales. Futures opened fat,
now the same, as follows: Deliveries
for January and February 6 1920;
February and March, 6 9-16d; March
md April, 68d; April and May,
6 2l-32@6sd; May and June, 62l-32d;
June and July, 6 23-32d; July and
August, 63d.
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COTTON RECEIPTS,

The receipts Of cotton for the pres
ent season have dropped to within
1928 bales Of last years receipts at
the present time. The routes by
which it came, and a comparison with
the quantity received last year, is ex-
hibited in the following table:
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ADJUSTMENTS.
BEYELs.

BEYELs.
The play.of "Reyelso at Leubrie's
theater last night failed to draw a
large audience. The play, however,
was quite successful in a scenic sense,
while the acting proved good, the tab
leaux graceful and the singing pleas
ant. The piece TO be performed by
the Rice Surprise company this even
ing is Horrors" reported to be full
Of novelties and sprightly features.
UNDER THE GAsLIGHr.
AT the Zoo Zoo theater, on Wash.
ington street, the thrilling fye-act
dramaof Under the Gasligbt, Is now
in course Of representation. I, has
been put on the stage in fine style By
Manager Holly. and the accessories.
including scenic effects, arc wildly
pictured, and this portion Of the work
reflects credit on the skill, industry
and artistic ability Of Mr.. VIM. b.
Langford. The characters incidental
10 the play are all excellently we'll
rendered by the splendid dramatic
company now engaged at the 100 Zoo,
and they seyerally win well deserved
applause from the large audiences
nightly gathered 10 witness the per.
formannce. After the exciting drama
the usual novelty features are pre-
sented, many Of them sensational and
unriyaled, and oil bright, s~pngbily
and pleasing.
SKATING RISK.
Professor Levy Il fitting upa skating
rink in the eoffoo shaI a. H..
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OUR CHEAP COLUMN.

A LII advertisements under tne head Of PoT
"A Rent, For sale, Wanted, Lost, Strayed,
ft0ien, etc, viii be hereafter charged 5 cents
Dor line for each insertion, aud % cent? par
line Tor one week. Bf
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Special inducements to purchasers
"Knabe," "Steinway" and "Cbieker.
ing, the best in the world, at
1901 HoLLENBERG's, 22g Main A.
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The Louisville and Nashville rail
road will place on sale round trip
tickets from Memphis to Washington,
D. c., for the sun of $38. Those who
may desire to be present at the
Inaugural Ceremonies" 4th March,
can secure their tickets by applying to
JAMES SPEED,
1877 Ticket agent L. & n. R. r.
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srRAYEp.

DITCH-A black-and-tan Gordon bitch.
- slightly under average size, and With dim
tan, marks over the eyes. A reward Of ten
dollars will be paid for her delivery at Gas
con- hotel, or for information loft atthe hotel
leading 70 her recovery. sf
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PROFESSIONAL.

PnEsT CUBE GUAK1YIgR0T
No painful instruments used.
DR. D. WHITE, A3 Main street. 50i
d. COLEMAN, Justice Of the Poaco,
- . Notary Public and Commissioner ol
Deeds. Special attention given 10 collections
IN the county. Once I4 Front ct. ISL
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REMOVAL.

RSIES 4 ELLETr have removed their law
Il Office to No. 65 Madison street, next TO
Clarendon Hotel. 13 l2S
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Trusses, Shoulder Braces, Gal
vanic Batteries a. Electric Belts,
at Dental d Surgical Depot, cor.
Second and Monroe streets. 1l2t
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COTTON SHIPMENTS.

The distribution of shipments Of
cotton from this market this and last
season, to the Dist inst, is shown in
the following table:
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Coal and wood delivered on sbert M.
tee. A. 4. srRArMAsE, 1855 Dssoto. lso
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OYSTERS and CELERY
Received Daily per Express by
VICTOR ID. FUCHS,
30 and Al Jefferson. #
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AIADAM LOUIS sRLECT DANCING
M ACADEMY, now open at Ne nsrchor
Hall, corner Of Jefferson and Second streets.
introducing all new Quadrilles, Waiting and
Fancy Dances. Terms per quarter, p Lessons,
$40, payable in advance. Evening class for
young ladies and gents now open Tuesday and
Saturday nights, : O'Clock pm, az II Madi-
Son street.
Private Lessons given ct residence and
boarding school.
For further particulars call at the academy
on school days, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
ardsys, 3 pm. or address postofioe, city. Pm
Vats residence, ~ Madison rect. il6 al
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A .sITUATI0N in a frst-elass business
"A house by a single gentleman who has had
experience and can influence trade. Good
reference. Address JOHN. this office. 11if
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Cheroots, 35c a package
40 Choroots in a package.)
Solitairos, 10c straight
Elegantes, 3 for 25c
Elite, 3 for 25c
Rosa's, loo straight
And over 30 different styles of Key
West Cigars at Rock Bottom figures.
at Sol Coleman's Cigar Palaces l6 Main ST.
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JOHN WALSH UNDERTAKES,
3iI Second Street. 1881,
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WANTED.

A GOOD BUTCHER. 1ddfo1s q. y
n l5 IL Ledger eaiee
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COTTAGE at Looney's sW tch, G rooms
" Apply to B. +. SMITH, 25S Front street.
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key West CInars Al less Dam Cost

From the great Havana Sale in New
York of S~eidenbe'g & Co.'S
Kew West Cigars
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FOR SALE

E00 PlPUL4K SONGS OTOIdT Smi11
JOU Bible. 4Oc. h g Hollenberr. i9ii5s
II Little Rock. Ark. Hotel doing a y,o5
J. business; full Of boarders. Address
HOTEL, Ledger Of -.
News INK, in 10 n cans, fnest aTticIe
~, Also hne Gard and Job Inks, OF AN color
and qualities, at Ledger Office. al
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LOST.

A LARGE black Ball PUP, answerrio 5ome
n Of NsToi had on collar and sbort cbain
when lest. The finder will be rewarded bvrel
turning to IS Union street. IA
A PAIR Of Gold Hpectaclos. between n
"A Lnwensiein's and Gerber & Yilsonis. a
llefral reNard ~ gJ Main street. IjSf
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zoe fsf -'iAAhi 80 AIunL street.
100 aud l42 Exchange; neat cottage. Ia
1OO Poplar, good store. Apply 10 s. Adams.
up-stsiri. A. COR'OES f95 "a
ElhE ground floor Offices, and fieepipo
rooms, At 9 Madison street. I3f
ViHh Mckinney place, in Walnut Bend
4 ARK. apply to Hadden a harrington. lot
'TtHE brick dwelling NO. 49, N. Martin
street. Apply 10 J. R. GREHAN, ~
81
Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1881-06-20

The attendance on Saturday was larger
than at any time since the opening of the
fair and the sales were cOrrcspOndingly
brisk. 1t being Sun night the mem-
bers Of that company attended in body.
Among the articles disposed of by chance
were fine pair Of vases, won by Mrs.
George Anne, an aquarium and gold fish,
by Charles Evans.
E To night will be American night and
the company, escorted by the keystone
band, will attend in body. a large pop
corn ball will be voted of.
On Wednesday evening gold necklace,
gold ring. machinist's tools and boxing
gloves, will be voted off. On Thursday
night tho Jr. o. U. A. NJ. gold pin,
two silver watches and the wax cross
ON the Union table will be similarly dis
posed of. On Friday evening the lady's
gold watch, BARRIERS chair, large doll and
the wax cross ON American table. On
Saturday evening the Wood & Co. organ,
Davis and Singer sewing machines, equip
ments and the large cake ON tho Shifiler
table. The polls open at Q and close 10
p. M, each evening. No checks will be
received, 80 that persons desiring to vote
for their friends should como supplied with
their cash." Tomorrow night will be
Humane night. The Empire will attend
in q body on Wednesday evening and tho
on Thursday evening.
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A Vicious Horse.

Thomas +. Ryan, New York broker,
bought handsome sorrel gelding, about
six years Of ago. M. Ryan rode the horse
daily and found him gentle yet quite
spirited. Saturday tho animal was re-
moved from one stable to another. In the
evening, during the absence of James MUIR
ray, the groom, employed by Mr.. Ryan,
Richard johnson, a colored groom, went
into the stable occupied by the animal. A
few moments later the other groom heard
a cry for help, and found johnson lying
on the floor with his skull crushed in Oy
the horses hOofs. He died soon after.
Next morning Murray went to feed the
horse, which did not stir till Murray had
nearly reached his head, when he kicked
the groom Oh the leg, knocking him down.
Before Murray could raise himself the
horse jumped on him with his fore feet.
striking him Oh the head, and would have
killed him but for the other groom. who
rushed into the stall and dragged the man
out. Murray received a compound frac-
ture of the skull and will probable die.
The horse was removed to the care of a
veterinary surgeon, who was told to dis.
patch him if he thought best.
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PERSONAL.


LEWIS WALN SMITH, member of the
Philadelphia bar, and for some time a
journalist, died at franklin Falls, N T.,
on Friday, in his 36th year.
At the wedding breakfast of WH1rELAw
REID the bride found a certified check for
$500, 600 under her plate. JAMES GORDON
BENEFITS new yacht will cost 420O, ,O00-
"BoB' INGERsoLL has brought suit in
the United States circuit court against
Peter alias Thomas Williams, of Chicago,
for unlawfully publishing in pamphlet
form his lectures, oratiOns, etc.
Ex-Gov. HENRY S. LANE died in Craw-
louisville, Ind, on Saturday. He was a
lawyer q colonel in the Mexican war, con
tested for Brig0t's seat in the Senate, was
elected governor AND resigned to take the
senatorship. He was nominated to all the
many positions he held by acclamation, no
one competing with him of his own party.
In the intervals of public service he was =
practicing lawyer, and as an advocate he
had few equals in the West. As q stump
speaker he made reputation which will
endure with the history Of Indiana. His
oratory was Of that fervid and stirring
character which invariably carried his
audience away. Many anecdotes are
related of its wonderful effect. He had an
inexaustible fund of anecdote, and his sar-
casm was withering.
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A Conference to bs hsl.; Relative to It,
Erection.
On the 1st prOximO q meeting of the
Philadelphia representatives of military
and civil organizations will be held for the
purpose of efecting an organization, the
object of which is to be the erection of
an equestrian statue to the memory Of
Major-General John F. Reynolds in Fair
mount park. Tho various organizations
will be represented as follows The state
commissioners, consisting Of the governor,
lieutenant governor, president Of tho Sem
ate pro tem., the speaker Of tho House,
and the adiutant general ON behalf of
the Society Of the Army of the Potomac,
Generals Franklin, SlOcum and White
Of the Potomac, Gen. Robinson on be-
Michael, Major Fassitt and DIR. Yelling
on behalf OF the Tamaqua brigade, Col.
Benedict on behalf of the Third Artil-
lcry, Gen. Getty, with whom Gen. Rey-
nOlds served after graduating at West
Point until he received an independent
command on behalf of the Fourteenth
New York infantry, whose men were near
General Reynolds when he fell and carried
him from the field, Colonel Schuyler ON
behalf of the Fifth Pennsylvania regiment,
of which the deceased was colonel, Colonel
Lugenbecl on behalf of the Pennsylvania
Reserve association, Generals Curtin and
Crawford on behalf of the Association
Of West point graduates, General Russell
Thayer on behalf Of tho FairmOunt
Park Art association, Messrs. Charles J.
Harrah, Joseph Moore, jr., and Joel J.
Baily, and on behalf of the commissioners
of FairmOunt park, the committee ON
plans and improvements.
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Tho I,avascs of Fire.

w. W. Hutchinson's wooden factory and
J. F. Atkinson's chair factory, at Apple.
ton, Wis.,, were burned ON Friday. Loss
on the former. $50, 600; on the latter,
$50, 600. An old man named Norton fell
from a building and was killed. August
BOethe, an employer, perisbed in the
flames. Three hundred men are thrown
out of employment.
Dillinger & Sons distillery and ware
house at Bethany, Pa, were destroyed by
fire on Friday. Loss, $15O,OOO.
Two thirds of the business part of the
town Of Warrenton, N. c., burned ON Fri
day. The following are among the losers:
J. NJ. Waddcll, John r. johnson s. Sons,
G. Katzcntinc & Co., WarrentOwn hotel,
Mcdowell s. Co., bank of Warrentown,
John r. White & Sons, Parker & Watson,
NJ. c. Crow & Co. Tho total loss will
reach $4,000.
About o'clock yesterday afternoon the
suspension bridge over the Allegheny
river at Pittsburgh, caught fire from some
unknown cause and was partially de-
strOyed. The loss will reach $4O, 900, on
which there is no insurance, as the bridge
was considered fireproof. 1t was an i'm
posing structure and cost $500, 900 when
built in 1859. AS tue largest portion of the
travel between Allegheny City and Pitts
bnrgh was over this bridge, tho public will
experience great Inconvenience until re-
pairs arc made.
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trees were uprooted. bridges swept away,
houses or barns demoliahed or unrooIed.
and horses and cattle killed and injured.
The storm lasted an hour but its pat b
averaged only half . mile in width.
Charles. Allison, Lewis Perkins, and
Henry Walls, notorious highway robbers,
for whose arrest rewards aggregating
81 400 were offered. were captured at Al
buquerque, New Mexico. on Friday, by
being enticed into livery stable, where
they were Immediately covered by the re-
volvers of twenty men, concealed therein.
General Weaver, the recent candi-
date of tho Greenhackers for presi-
state of Massachusetts, in the interest Of
his party. 1t is said that the Republican
leaders in Massachusetts, have decided
that Governor Long shall be a candidate
for reelection.
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lie Dreams o Dream.

Some goose favOrs the Ne,c Era with
a statement that the INTELLIGENCER
and Examiner unite in considering
Brother FOwler's Reading & Chesa-
peake railroad to he very airy scheme,
pursuant to q conspiracy entered into in
the interest of the Pennsylvania railroad
by a. J. Steinman and j. A. IIiestand,
esqs., at a dinner which they attended
at Mr.. James Duffy's at Marietta. The
correspondent is as visionary us his rail-
road. He needs to he more regardful of
Davy Crockett's recommendation and
make sure of his facts before he goes
ahead. Mr.. Steinman was not at
Col. Duffy's dinner, which We believe
was substantial fact, as our local re-
ports mentioned its occurrence and no
doubt, it was very good one, for the
Colonel has a reputation as dinner
giver. We hope Commodore Hiestand
enjoyed it, and will be able to clear
himself of the accusation that he there
and then conspired with any one to de-
strOy the Reading Il Chesapeake. Per-
haps the NeW Err correspondent has
only seized the wrong pig by the ear and
the really guilty co-cOnspiratOr was Edi-
tor Geist, who gave Mr.. Fowler's bant-
ling 4 kick simultaneously with his con-
temporaries. There was certainly very
remarkable chorus of editorial sentiment,
and if there wasn't a dinner at the bot
tom of it what was there ? Perhaps the
reported potency of dinners with Ian
caster editors may induce the New
York capitalists, who have those two
and a half millions of dollars burning
hole in their pockets, to spend q few of
them in giving a dinner themselves.
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aancastcr f,,tellsenrtr.
MONDAY EvENnso. JUNE 40, 1881.
I've Of 4 Kind.

The Washington correspondent of the
Philadelphia Times is close friend of
Blaine-a government appointee by his
favor, We believe. So it may be regarded
rs significant that in one paragraph of
his Sunday letter he accuses Sherman
of coldness and even secret hostility to
the administration and in the very next
intimates that pursuit Of the star route
thieves may be relaxed to gives oppor.
tunity to hunt down the rascals who
burrowed in the treasury under Sher-
man like mice in a cheese, who stole the
public money under pretense of trading
horses for the department, who got a
dozen Overcoats for John Sherman s men
servants and had them charged as bill.
lizard cloth for covering desks, who did
the work on Sherman's new house with
government hands and out of govern.
ment material, who furnished all his
private lunches out Of the department
contingent fund, and in many respects
plundered the government SO largely for
Sherman's personal benefit that it must
have been with his tolerance if not his
connivance. If Sherman is suspected
of hostility to Garfield and jeal-
0usy of Blaine, nothing would
suit them better than to show up his
peccadilloes and peculations, especially
if they can thereby divert public atten-
tiOn and abate the prosecution of the
star route thieves, to whom Garfield is
under obligations and for whom Blaine
is suspected of no unfriendliness.
The competition between these two
sets of thieves may result in the expos
ure of both or in an arrangement to cover
up both. The public can only look with
confidence to the department of justice,
where an honest and fearless attorney
general is aided by an expert and cour-
ageous detective in the person of Mr..
Gibson. Mr.. MacVeagh has no special
partiality for either Blaine or Sherman !;
and may be expected to hunt one set of
rascals down rs diligently us TO show
the other up. At present it looks us if
these prosecutions would employ all
OF his time. Quite naturally Mr..
Blaine and his newspaper friends are
anxious to have tho Treasury investi-
eating committee finish their work and
make their report" and quite naturally
they say with the thefts of millions
in the star. route business, there was
a great deal Of law" behind which the
thieves will shelter themselves. But the
public demands that all classes of thieves
shall be punished, and Blaine and Sher-
man will both he crushed between the
millstOnes if the water is turned on and
there is as fine grinding done rs the
situation, by Republican confession, de-
mandS.
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Of this city, arrived in town ut II o'clock
this morning from Philadelphia, having
walked the whole road. Johnny went to
the Quaker city on Tuesday; on Friday he
missed the train ON which he was to have
returned. He Immediately set out on foot
and he reached here at the time stated,
foOt-sOre tired and dusty. He came
by way Of HOneybrOOk and New Holland.
and reports that he encountered severe
storms on the way, which delayed him con-
siderably. Johnny is AN old pedestrian and
has made many long walks. He saws that
this was long walk. The distance is
6S miles, but he made many miles moro
than that.
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Governor Hoyt, in vetoing the judi
cial apportionment bill for the very con-
elusive reason of its unconstitutionality,
accompanies it with a scheme, said to
have been prepared by a justice Of the
supreme court, intended to relieve that
court Of some of its labor. Last year
there were more than 800 cases argued be.
fore it, and there is little doubt that too
many cases are appealed to enable the
supreme court to give them all proper
degree of consideration. Some project to
relieve it seems necessary and the only
one adequate is the creation of interme-
diate courts, as suggested in the scheme
sent to the Legislature through the gov
ernor. But the proposition, unless
amended, will not secure the result
desired. The suggestion is that five
contiguous districts be united together
to form a circuit to be presided over by
the five president judges Of each district.
So far the idea seems to be good but
the author of it goes on to suggest no
writ of error or appeal to lie to the su-
preme court from any county court un-
less first carried to the intermediate
court"
Would that lessen the cases appealed
to the supreme court 1t would serve
to delay their reaching it and this and
the additional expense would probably
cut off some cases, but not many. The
suitors who would 90 that far with
their appeal would nearly all 90 up to
he final court. And it is a great harm
in the administration of justice to null
tiply costs and increase delays. Justice
isquite sufficiently expensive and tedious
as it is. To make the scheme benefic-
ial the decree of the circuit court
should be made final in certain cases :;
as where the decision of tho judges is
unanimous in civil suits involving less
than a certain sum of money. There
are great many cases appealed which
involve trifling amounts and which are
taken up because of the Obstinacy of eli
ents aid because lawyers like to make
an appearance in the supreme court.
Very often, too, the judges of the
courts below do not possess the con
fidence OF the bar, and lawyers are little
inclined to submit to their decisions.
With five judges assembled together in
4 court of review the chances of cor
rect judgment would he increased, as all
of the five would hardly be numskulls :;
and even if they should he, the old adage
tells us that several heads are better than
one, though they are cabbage heads.
What our judiciary really needs is the
greater confidence of the people. If the
Judges of the lower courts were what
they ought to be, the cases appealed to
the supreme court would Ike cOmpara-
lively few. And if the supreme judges
were what they should be, the law would
be SO certain as to make the appeals still
fewer. But as we despair of getting bet
ter judges, there seems to be nothing else
to do but to violently choke off the ar
peals.