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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-30
Elgin creamery butter 4Oc.
l6t CACEY & Co.
AMUsEmENTs.
h spARTAcus.

The tragedian Mccullough attracted
an immense audience last night. Every
seat was full, and the card, Standing
room only down stairs" hung in front
Of the box office some time before the
curtain rose. The attraction was the
grand tragedy of THE Gladiator" a
play written for the late Mr.. Forrest.
Mr.. Mccullough acted the leading
role, Spartacus, with that tragic power
and digni6ed manliness for which he
is so noted, and that he duly affected
the appreciatiye spectators was evil
denced By the repeated applause he
received. The frequent calls before
the curtain also gave proof Of the
hearty enjoyment of the audience.
The support, especially that Of Mr..
Warde as Phasarius, Miss Kate
Forsyth as SonOna, and Miss Willet,
as Julia, was very superior, This
afternoon BulWer's celebrated Lady
Of Lyons" is the programme, with
Miss Forsyth as the naughty Pauline
and Mr.. Mccullough as the clever
Claude. Tonight "Richard Ill"
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Police Points.

Nearly two dozen arrests were made
by the police in the last t~wenty-sour
hours.
A boot black was sent to the SsB,nd
for twenty days for stealing an annie
and drawing a brick on DE- annie
stand man who captured him.
An escaped convict. oon,urod he
Detective Pryde and Capt. O'Haver
Yesterday, was sent b, ok to his island
home de has SO ,eral months to
serve yet,
a eomplicate case of violating the
sewer ordinaD ce was tried this morn
nlng' SOM. half dozen plumbers,
cubs and citizens contributed their
snare y a very mixed case which re-
So''eo in a plumbers "cub" or ap-
P'e' cice boing fined Ave dollars.
A strange anomaly was presented
this forenoon in the court in the per.
son Ola horse trader, who is also a
strict member Of the church. He is a
sharp dealer in horse flesh, and yet it
| was worn thdth had never used an
oath in his life not even in a horse
swap. Yet he was fined ten dollars for
assault and abusive language.
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Pereonnr.

Dir. A. i. Kimbro, 1914 Main.
Office hours | to 3 pm. daily. Pure
vaccine matter on hand. 20
Another lot Of those fine deviled
crabs, With toe shells accompanying
them, can be had of Victor D. Fuchs,
30 End II Jefferson.
Il. Urquhart, formerly Of this city,
now a prominent manufacturer of
Little Rock, arrived in this city lass
night on a brief visit.
Mr.. Rufus Ballentine, injured some
time since by being run over by the
cars at SardiS, Miss, died yesterday
morning from the effects Of poison alb
scrbed by his system from the wound.
ed limbs. His physicians had strong
hopes of his recovery until within a
few days of his death. Mr.. Ballen,
tine was only p years Of age, yet he
was at the head of a large and success,
full mercantile house, aud occupied :,
high position in the esteem of the IL.
liens o. Sardis and vicinity,
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HEALTH GUARDIANS.
Fixing SOn Berths tor the sum
meR.

Alta special meeting Of our local
board Of health held Yesterday after
noon resolutions were adopted request
ing the national board Of health to APP
point a corps Of inspectors at the New
Orleans quarantine station to the end
that reliable information may be OBJ
tanned of the state Of health Of pas
sengers from foreign ports, The ma
tiohal board was also rendered the use
of the quarantine station at President
island, to be used as an inspection
station, The quarantine ordinance of
the taxing district goes into effect May
6rst.
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GONE SOUTHWEST.
A Faded AristOcrat's Departure.

Major +. NJ. Hanks, once an attor-
ney at law, and a man of education,
but with his intellect muddled by the
long and free use Of liquor, left for
Texas yesterday. lie went under es-
cort of Mr.. James Il. Lucas, a mem.
Der of the Texas mounted police, or
Texas Rangers." When found at
the hospital on Monday, Hanks had
neither coat, hat or shoes. The ar
%ticlos were found by the police at va
rious places, whore he had pawned
them for trivial SUNS. Hanks was
sent to Presidents island workhouse
for forty days, some time ago, as a
common vagrant. When before the
police court, he made a statement, and
said he had amassed a fortune in
Texas, but BY adver-
sity, had returned to his native soil.
His lands in Texas, he said, though
now worthless, would one day be
worth a fortune.
This part Of his defense has since
been explained away. The major i'm
agined that the whole state Of Texas
belonged to him, and has been engag-
ed in deciding away portions of it to
any emigrant who wished to locate.
This was discovered after he left the
Lone Star state, and a requisition was
sent here for his arrest.
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4 Wan Uhder the Rea

A short time since DR.. s. G. SNYDER
employed a meek looking mulatto how
to sweep out his Office, audero long he
began to form a liking for him. A
few days since, however, when he re.
turned to hjs Office after some bours
absence b. noticed something peculiar
about the appearance of a bed
which stood in one orner Of his
ante room, and looking closely saw a
man S foot projecting from under The
bed. Following the leg up by slow
degrees he discovered the body of his
othoe boy lying flat upon his face. A
vigorous pull at the leg brought out a
very sheepish looking individual, who
seemed unable to speak until shaken
vigorously for a quarter OF an hour.
tie finally said he was in the Office
cleaning up, and when he heard the
doctor coming hid under the bed for
fear no would think he was up to some
deyiitry. Nothing was missed at the
time, and the boy was allowed to 20
after having been thoroughly scared.
A short time after, however, a couple
Of fye.dollar gold pieces, some clO'
ing and other articles Of value
discovered to be missing, but tho bo,
could not be found and hs rot .;Do'
been seen. The doctor eo.l. sl;nhtI,
ohagrined over. the natter. and de-.
clares that the ng bn b. r.eI,
easily.
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wsane.day evening, nareh. 90. lfAl.
LEDGER LIEEs.


Malaga grapes. D.. Canale & Co.
Roll corned beef. Lytle & Shields.
Tomorrow blustery March will quit
US for a year.
Brown & Jones, coal dealers. I82
Main street.
Damp places we're crusted oyer by
a slight freeze last night.
Rose lodge, No. 405, Knights and
Ladies Of Honor, installed fge new
members On Monday night last.
Easter and birthday cards, the only
complete assortment in the city, to be
had at Manslord's, 298 Main street.
Excursion trains arrived over the
several railways to-day with visitors to
witness Richard III" aud the Lady
Of Lyons"
The cold Of yesterday and the frost
last night were not severe enough t.
%iniure the fruit crop. 1t continues to
promise a fine yield.
A fresh shipment Of that superb
fish, the Potomac river shad, was re-
ceived this morning by Victor d
Fuchs, 80 and 81 Jefferson.
To-day closes the sale Of tickets in
the Commonwealth lottery, as the
drawing takes place tomorrow. Gei
a ticket at the usual place.
1t has been moro than two year
since the avorite and great southern
queen of tragedy, Mary Anderson. ap.
peared in this city. She opens Mon
day night next for an entire week.
Mr.. McOullough's engagement II
London is for four weeks only. and h,
opens with "Yirginius," which viii
perhaps be repeated from night /,
|: night during the entire period Of hi
: stay. He returns to this countr.
early in the fall.
i. The eminent actor John McCul
Tough was serenaded at Gaston's lss
night after the play by Arnolds bras
and string band under the auspices d
: the Chiekasaw Guards tn III;
we're called in and entertained by III
~tragedian.
3 Two crowded audiences have com
pLlmented the favorite actor McCul
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Tough, and three more are promised
With Mccullough this week and Mary
Anderson next we are in the midst OF
a feast Of the classical, sentimental
and Legitimate drama.
A man named Jack Rush was badly
beaten over the head last Monday on
Second street, and another named
Fennell was fined $50 by the police
court yesterday for not allowing by
ISLANDERS to stop therow. Fennell was
also indicted by the grand jury.
Mary Anderson's palace a is
named "Isaak Walton" after the
great fisherman Of a former genera
ton. This name, Step-father Griffin
would have it understood, has no sig
~ni6cance in an encouraging sense to-
ward young men to go fishing tor
Mary.
This mornings signal service bulle-
tin, t~elegraphedf from Washington says;
During Saturday an ice gorge eight
miles long formed on the upper Mis-
souri,, south of Yankton, OVERLOOKING
the country three feet for many miles,
and submerging railways. The river
is now falling
Captain AID WATSON, a well known
river pilot and master, died Of pneu-
monia this morning between ten and
eleven o'clock at bis residence on Ex-
change street, between Main and
Front. The deceased leaves a wife
and an interesting child to mourn his
sudden and unexpected demise.
For two nights past the orchestra at
the theater has favored the audience
between acts with the "0belisk
Waltz" a popular musical production
of easy and sweet flowing rythm. in-
terspersed with several passages Of the
heroic character, a feature in which
the fair composer appears TO excel.
The waltz is by Mrs. G. H. Fits, Of
this city, and was arranged for the
theat,r orchestra by its leader, Mr..
Handwerker.
The local item. architects of the
morning journals, while strutting care
lsssly arm in arm, were suddenly con
fronted yesterday in the county court
Gle ks Office by a feminine laundress,
with a claim for arrearages, and on her
way after a marriage license. The
sight of her caused one to back up
against and smash a window, and rip
off his coat tail, while the other in
jured the door fastenings by force Of
collision. Deputy Shea smiled at the
confusion and the uproar.
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a 6-quart coffee boiler for aOc,
at Ozanne a. Mays. 25t
Westher News.

1t was showing early this morning
at Louisville and other points along
the Ohio river, also at Chattanooga.
1t was our storm of yesterday moving
on.
Fair and warmer weather is the
promise for to-day, tonight, and per.
haps tomorrow.
The storm which started In Kansas
and passed over here at ten o'clock
night before last, was central, with ir-
creased severity, before daylight this
morning on the North Carolina coast
High winds prevail to-day along the
Atlantic coast from New Jersey to
Florida, and the signal service re-
ports announce heavy rains in tho
south Atlantic states.
The coolest part of yesterday was
the middle of the day, and the mer-
curry dropped within a degree or two
of the freezing point. A considerable
quantity Of snow fell, but the fakes
we're only visible in the air. They
disappeared as fast as they touched
the earth, which was much warmer
than the atmosphere above it. A
bowling wind blew all day straight
from the northwest.
The temperature here at Sunrise
this morning was th~irty-six degrees,
eight or nine lower than yesterday at
the same time. The change or fall of
the mercury between yesterday aud
this morning was "a degrees at Chat
tanooga, p at Nashville, Is at Little
Reck, 10 at Yicksburg, IA at New Or
leans, and several degrees at all points
in the south. 1t was below the lreez-
ing point at louisville, Chattanooga
and Nashville. The winds are from
the northwest at nearly all POINTS
south of the Ohio river. The tote!
fall of the temperature at Nashville
was thirty.two degrees within lhe past
two days.
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A new f%ea1ure in police court pro-
ceedings was songht to be introduced
by IN attorney this morning in the
case OF VIM, HaIgus, charged with
assault and abusive language.
1t is the practice OF the court, M YER
deviated from, to bear the wit, ,esses
first and then allow the defend ant the
privilege Of making a staten, mt in his
own behalf. This staten ent Is mot
made under oath, aud is taken for
what it is worth. 1t is made accord.
ing to the disposition Of the prisoner,
who sometimes pie ads guilty aud
throws himself CD The mercy Of the
eourt and sometT aes makes a tiresonle
narang0e aao F" peal Of half an hour.
IN TINS case Mr.. Hargus' attorney
asked that mis- client be sworn and
'n'G his testimony be given due
Seight, ar guing hat il a case we're APP
pealed from the police court it would
go to the circuit court, and in that
court defendants were allowed to swear
and we re subjected to all the forms Of
a cross examination. His motion was
overruled. In this connection it may
be stated that a bill was recently in
troduced in the legislature to allow
defendants in criminal cases TO testify
in their own behalf was killed on first
reading.
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In the United States court yesterday
Judge Hammond declined to modify
an injunction issued some time since
by Judge Baxter in the case of the
Southern Express company against the
Little Rock railway. An effort made
to fix rates on packages was the aim Of
the express company. Judge Ham
mond permits the road to continue its
charges, but it will be compelled to re-
fund any excess provided at the trial
before Judge Baxter a few weeks
hence the case is decided in favor of
the express company.
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IOHN WALSH, UNDERTAKEN,
34I second Street. 1887,


The first pompano Of the season ar
rived from Pensacola, Fla, to day,
only thirty-six hours from salt water.
1t was a small shipment and the lot
went quick, the largest selling forsl 80
each. A small shipment Of trout and
perch from Reelfoot lake and other
points werea also inlhe market. Stormy
weather in the gulf Of Mexico and
along the south Atlantic coast, from
whence our supplies chiefly come, con-
tinue to affect the catch, and our ro-
ceipts have for some time past been
much reduced from this cause.
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Liberty or Death.

Officer Dallas Lee heard a fearful
row going on at the foot Of Beal street
yesterday evening, and running to the
spot beheld a woman with bleeding
face halloaing murder at the top Of
her voice and a aeeting form making
tracks for the river. Lee followed the
fugitive, who sprang into the river
from whence be was Gshed by some
one on the wharfboat. lie started up
the levee full tilt, but finding the
officer Was about 70 Oycrtsko him ran
aboard a boat at the landing and
jumped OF into tho stream. Lee was
close behind him, and a. be rose to
the surface clutched him by the hair
and drew him out. lie wss laid in
the sun 10 dfy,
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Fire Last Night.

The old frame colored Baptist
church on Alabama street, near
Thornton avenue, was destroyed by
fire near ten o'clock last night; cause
Of the 6re%not stated. The fire de.
partment saved a shanty zeal by, &C.
cupied by colored people, 20 which
the flames had been communicated.
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KAHN d
Corner Main and Poplar.

DAMAGED BY WATER ONLY
SIC, best Waehussett Domestic, $40,
Sc for Merrimac Prints, &c per yd.
These goods are slightly wet only.
Kahn s. Freiberg, cor. Main and Poplar,
also offer Drill Drawers, S5e; 85c apiece,
Gents Nainsook Undershirts, 35c.
KAHN Il FREIBERG, Main and Poplar.
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OrYfcE o. CAIRO 4 YrEcESEEs RAILWAY Co., |
Cairo. H., March 18th, 1881. !
JosEPH NASH, Ao'r.;
Your export cotton for Star Union
Line, Merchants Despatch and Great
Western Despatch is making FIVE days
to Now York and Philadelphia, and
all our cotton is moving With equal
celebrity. Notify Anchor Line people,
N. $. PENNINGTON,
Gen'l Freight Ag't.
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Mrs. Ed. Saxon will give an address
at Casino hall, corner Union and Sec.
Ond streets, on Friday evening, April
lst. Subject: Women in all Re-
forms Doors open at 7 O'Clock.
Admission, 50 cts. q
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PLUMBING.
A WarkN,s Iden of Hndes.

A DarkN's Idea OF Hades.
DO you know the meaning Of an
oatb?' asked Attorney Winters of a
small darby this morning in the city
court.
Yes, sir, was the answer.
Where will you go to when you
die?'
ITO torment.
Where is torment in your estima-
ton? Is it HI, or is it Forests
island?7
ITS Forests island, said the dan.
ky, who evidently knew what he Was
talking about, and was allowed to 70
on with bis testimony.
billiards reduced 10 soc Der
hour az 4. COnVerse's, Is N Oni'oO.
1T
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Spring Has Come

So has Cohen's spring stock of hats,
young mems nobby Derbys in low
crowns in all colorS. Children spring
hats in all new shapes, colors and
kinds, the largest variety ever brought
10 this market. Ladies invited to
examine the same, Fresh goods ar
irving daily and will be sold as low as
any hat house in the states.
% Martin Cohen, the Halter.
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a cigar Of choice and selected
tobacco, free from ali Injurious
ingredients, nayOriVg extracts or
coIOFing matter, sold as whole
sale and retail, by II. ESCH,
202 Main, CIarl6's Marble Block.
QAA
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A Respected COlOred Citizen Co
ing West.

n HeSDecleu NltlLeu 80"
ing West.
Rev. VIM. IL. Philips, a resident of
Memphis for sixteen years, and PAS
tor of the Causey Street Baptist
church for twelve years past, has &C.
cepted a call from the colored Bap.
list church at Fort Smith, Ark. His
daughter, a we'll educated young lady,
who will graduate shortly at the lie
Moyne colored normal institute in
this city, will also go to Fort Smith
with the rest'of the family to become
a teacher. Mr.. Philips is a. quiet,
u%nobtrusive, intelligent, hard work
ing. man. who has done much to
promote harmony between the races
and to better the condition Of his own
people. He has been the steady friend
Of education, and has at least carried
out his ideas in his own family. Some
years ago he held the position Of mar
ket-master in the south Memphis
market to the entire satisfaction Of
the public. BY his upright course he
has secured the respect Of all good
citizens here who know him, irrespec
tive of politics, church or color. We
commend him to the people of Fort
Smith as a man worthy to be trusted
and capable Of great usefulness among
the cOlored population.
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Courthouse Notes.

Messrs. b. b. Harrison and A. K.
Wooten, Of Mississippi, made applica-
ton for a'dmittance to the criminal
court bar t, his forenoon. Judge Hor-
rigan took She matter u0der advise
ment.
The insurance case which has been
going on in t be circuit court before u
special jury has been laid over until
Saturday, anu tie court is now busy
with the case ol Brown VS., Murphy,
suit on note.
). Is. Shiyeu 5 and Ann w. Brooks,
Sam Williams and Maria Grigsby. Joe
Davis and Ann Folkes, all colored,
were licensed to marry this forenoon.
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Billiards reduced 20 soc per
hour at Il. COnverse's, Is Monroe.
10t
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Apple, ounce and peach butter.
lot CACgY 4 Co.
Noticel

Detroit Free Press, Sc per copy;
Richter and Langbammer harps,
at l5c, Of Dickens curiosity shop, 2S5
Second street, opposite p%ostoaioe.
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''SmiIe On, doubt on, say life is gad,

''smiIe on, doubt on, say life is sad,
The world is false and cold,
I'll keep ny heart glad, true, and warm,
IneTer will grow Oldl"
Smile on. doubt on. ssy the people are . ntrue,
Who publish virtues Of good cigar;
I'll still smoke Sol coleman's Number Tens,
And be happy as $ Pinsfore tar.
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SPRING AND SUMNER, 1851,
An entire new line OF gentle
mems soft aud slim Hats, from
the leading makers, nFst-elass in
style and quality.
% LEIDY a. Co, Hatters.
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Leader, water white headlight
oil, I75 fire proof zoe per gall, at
Ozanne d Mays. 25t
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Fresh deyiled crabs and shells,
BCCKHAM &CAMPBELL,
49, 80 Beal.
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a FuriI Dus SNOW STORM.

CIEyELAN D, March Boa furious
snow storm il prevailing. 1t set in
yesterday. J he snow is very badly
drifted.
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TUE Msund Place. near Seanlon's. s. acre.
i open land, chap. Apply 70
JT BUhNS 3 co,
nHB brick dEslling Nv. ~ s.. Maria
4 areet. Apply % }. Z. 0hEHAE, N
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WANTED.

AIDES straw. Hair aud Cnip Hats re-
~ Oh ,ped. Ladies Leghorn Hats reshaped
aud finished OF equal 10 new. at
Isl VIM. G~OVDYEAR'S, $50 Second Il.
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FOR RENT.

NKWs INK. IN 70 D eans, finest art ,clo.
~ Also fne Gard and JOB Inks, Of all c ,lors
ssd eualities. az Ledger ohee n
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FOR SALE.

DICKLBS Ia barrels and half-barreis, Col
L Fish. homeless and others, will be sold
cAeaB at 25 and 2S Front street.
mM SU~HOOLFIELD. HANaUER 70
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1t is generally conceded in bust.
ness circles that the projected line Of
railway towards the northwest from
here 70 Kansas City, promises to be
of greater advantage in a mercantile
sense than any unfinished road talked
about.
The road passes through a country
in Southern Missouri, where POOR
facilities are enjoyed for marketing
the grain and other produce Of tue
farmers Of that arabic section. II also
reaches cut to the great grain and
meat producing region Of Western
Kansas and Nebraska, and will con-
meet this end of the country by a di.
rect line with people who will be only
too happy to find a market hero for
the result Of their labors.
IL is gratifying to announce that the
indications point 10 an early compile
ton Of the proposed railway from
Springfield, Southern Missouri, to this
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cries and these answer all
practical purposes as we'll as matho-
NAUTICAL demonstration. The phenom-
cnap of last Tuesday would have
happened all the same if the Presi-
dent had remained at Washington,
Nature does not, at least in these
times, get up such a demonstration on
account of one man. Yet, there is
such a vein of superstition running
through the human mind, the result
of education as much as natural bent
that even people of high culture
and extensive information arc
often prone to account for something
out of the way by some event that is
going on or that happens shortly after
ward. The mirage seen at Long
Branch, however interpreted, has not
been followed by any dire consequences
as to the President. Some damaging
fres have ragged since in Michigan
and other States, but as the woods
dry and as ready to burn as pow
der this would have happened any
how