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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-03
Trustees Sale.


INDER and by virtue Of a certain trust
~ deed, duly recorded in book No. I22, page
lO9 OF the Registers Office Of Shelby county,
Tennessee, default having been made thereto !,
J., as tho successor. ms trustee, Of OfSimonbturm
the trustee therein named (he having ceased
TO be the secretary of the Bluff City Building
and Loan Association, and have become the
secretary Of said association, in consequence
Qt which under the provisions Of said trust
deed, am such trusted. will, on
Tuesday, March Sth, 1881,
during legal hours, at the southwest corner Of
Main and Madison streets, In the Taxing Dis
trict of Shelby county (late city Of Memphis),
Tennessee, sell at public auction, to the high
est bidder for cash, the following real estate:
a certain lot Of land situate in the city of
Memphis (nOw Taxing District, Shelby coun-
" tennessee, beginning az the intersection
OF the north side eff Jackson street with the
east side Of Sixth street, and running thence
northwardly, with the east Iine Of Sixth street
l5J feet; thence eastwardly parallel with Jack
son street ~ feet; thence southWardly parallel
With Sixth street $50 feet TO the north line of
JACKSON street; thence westwardly with the
north line of jackson street 50 feet TO the be-
ginning, being parts Of lots Nos. II, 10 and Il
N block Ne. "a, in that part Of said city of
Memphis formerly called Fort Pickering.
hqui ofredemption waived. Title believed
TO be good, but will convey only ns trustee
SAM'L HIRSCH, Trustee.
February Sd, 1881. is4B
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-03
Special---FOr Arkansas CITY

THE steamer JOSIE HARRY s,-=qp..
l. being detained by fog, will ss5sll.gys.,SAsyt- =
leave FRIDAY, 4th, at l2 m., -.ii--sss-ss
for Arkansas City and the bends.
X. w. LIGHpBURNE Z Monroe street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-02-03
TREMENDOUS REDUCTION!
GOODS SOLD ON

Monthly and Weekly payments.
CARPETS!
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
Literary Gossip.

THE Baltimore Gazette has passed
into new hands and is soon to be i'm
proved in several ways.
The Baltimore Telegram issued a
splendid Easter number with an appro-
priately illuminated cover.
THE name Of Scribner's Monthly is
to be changed by its purchaser, J. Ros-
well Smith. How would Smiths Monthly
do?
SwEELY AND STERNER are making
the Williamsport Breakfast Table just
about the most entertaining weekly in
Pennsylvania.
ARTEMUs Wards PRANKs.-The
May Scribner has an anecdotal paper on
" Artemus Ward his Home and
Family" with drawing of the home
stead, portrait of his mother, and
new drawing of Ward as lecturer,
based on the obsolete sketch in the old
London Illustrated Times, and which is
said to be the only satisfactory portrait
Of the humorist. The following is
vouched for by the writer as new:
among his youthful diversions was
the writing of letters to prominent
persons i'll all parts of the country
whose names he happened to see in
print-entire strangers to him. These
usually referred to some prospective
business arrangement. Thus he would
write to some gentleman in New Y Ork !:
Dear Sir-I'm sorry to say | shan't be
able to get that harness done on the
day promised or, I will not be able
to call at your house. as you requested,
etc. In this myStification of unsus-
pecting people he was not unlike the
German Owlglass, who, while always
playing the fool, never lacked fools up
on whom he might try experiments.
Nothing seemed to please him more
than to get the better of his brother
Cyrus. One very cold night in the
winter, when he had come home at a
late hour from an entertainment, in
stead of going quietly to his room, for
which his mother had provided by leav-
ing the doors unfastened, he stationed
himself in the street and called to his
brother as if in deep distress about
something. Cyrus was slow to wake
and appear. Charles continued calling,
and with more agony, 'Cy! Cy! Ho!
Cy!' When Cyrus at last came to the
window, he sole1nnly asked, Do you
really think. Cyrus, that it is wrong to
keep slaves !? >
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

DURING the past year the cost of
living has greatly increased in this
country. Nearly everything we eat or
wear has jumped up in value, and peo-
pie Of limited income have to cut things
Just about as close as when we were in
the midst of the late lamented panic.
We are having ''good times" now,
everybody says, and perhaps we are, if
" wen are manufacturers of something
that has advanced from fifty to one
hundred per cent within the last year
or two. But the farmer is not feeling
the good times to any great extent. He
is about the last man that does feel
them. Grain has advanced little, to
be sure. but the rate Of advance is but
small in comparison to that on nearly
everything he must purchase. Wages
have made rapid strides upward, but
wOrkmen in factories are striking daily
for more. They allege that the advance
in rents and prices of manufactured
goods has been much greater than in
wages. Perhaps this is true, in some
cases, and doubtless a few factory hands
are squeezed pretty closely by manufac-
turers who make comfortable fortune
annually. Yet we believe this is not
usually the case. American working
men. as rule. if they are industrious
and economical, can live well and save
something, even in this time of high
prices. If there are any who are tired
of the upward tendency Of things, and
think they could do better where living
is cheaper, they ought to 60 to China,
where ten cents day for food is con-
sidered extravagant living. There the
man who gets three dollars a week is
looked on as a man of great income,
and only master mechanics receive so
much,
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
sAelu advertisements,
NOTICE TO PERSONS
Interested in LIFE INSURANCE

THE Maryland Life Insurance Company OF
Baltimore. has complied with the laws of the
State of Delaware and appointed Mr.. Nm. y.
Wilson, of Middletown. General Agent.
Persons desiring to insure their lives Will
consult their interests by communicating
with Mr.. Wilson. who will furnish the books
and documents of this company for their in
Spection.
The company has assets of 81. .IS3, ,594 49, and
a surplus as regards policy-holders of SSl2,-
The company invites examination of the
following special features of its business:
LIST, Its strictly economical management
%. The prompt payment oi eref1 ctdtnl
which has been matured against IT, TITS dis'
bursements to policy holders have already
amounted to nearly Il million dollars, and
during the fifteen years of its business it has
never delayed or resisted the payment of any
claim.)
8d. The iudicious investment of its funds.
(As an evidence Of the care In the selection of
its Investments, Notwithstanding the diff,
Guilty of investing money at once safely and
protitably during the last fifteen years, the
securities of this company Will now sell In the
open market for more than they originally
cost the company.
4th. The liberal form of policy which this
company has issued for years, containing no
technical or unnecessary restrictions.
This Company numbers among its patrons
many Of the leading and prominent Bank
officers Bankers Merchants and Profes-
sional men in the city of Baltimore and State
Of Maryland az well as IN 9ther parts II oil oi me ne
y
its policy holders for information as to the
care rigid economy, and honorable dealings
which have characterized the management of
its affairs since its organization.
The rate of premium charged by this Com
pany is as low as the experience of American
sev4nty-five years has demonstrated to be
safe and proper charge to meet the contin-
gencies which may occur by excessive NOR
tality and to provide proper reserve to pay
each claim as it falls due,
This rate, however, Is reduced by the dis.
tribution among its members at the end of
each year, OF any surplus acquired by favor
able mortality or from any other surplus
earnings of the Company.
Long experience has clearly demonstrated
that this is the only method of granting cheap
insurance and at the same time securing abb
solute sOlyency over period of years.
The location of the home Office of this Conn
pany renders it an easy matter to transact
business with it.
GEORGE P. THOMAS. Pres't.
VIM II. BLACKBOARD,
aprs4t Manager of Agencies.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
tn Mennrian,.

Died; On the morning OF the 7th inst,
LOUISE C. VAN DYKE, aged %. The cold
hand of Death has again been laid on the
forehead of humanity; dust has returned
to dust, and the spirit to Him who gave IT,
The dissolution is complete. The contenl-
platiOn of suffering and death IS terrible
in the abstract, but doubly so when It's ap-
preach is pictured on the features Oh one
both near and dear to us; when aside from
the innate dead, with which we regard It
at at any time, there is superadded, when
with fear unspeakable, in the wasted form
and shrunken cheek of our homes de-
light and ioy. we feel its icy breath at our
own fireside. Then iudeed is the anguish
of our hearts made to feel that there is one
aching void the world is powerless to MT.
Such are the feelings that to-day bow
down, as with a heavy load, the hearts OF
those near and dear to the esteemed young
lady, whose early decease we feel called
upon to commemorate, as an evidence OF
regard for her many virtues, and slight
return for many acts of kindness of which
the writer was during her lifetime the
grateful recipient. The flower just bloom
ing into its fullest beauty has been pluck
ed from the stem, but its fragrance still
fingers though its petals are closed Tor
ever; and while in sorrow and mourning
we have followed the remains of this dear
one to their final resting place beneath the
sward, our thoughts should naturally DIS
tinguish between the mortal and immor-
tai, between the tenement of clay and the
soul that has burst its bondage and scared
upward to receive its reward from its
Maker. In the present instance we have
no dark forebodings as to the future. Call
ed away in the flush of her youth and
beauty, the pure Christian graces of her
character leaves us not in doubt but her
soul sped swiftly on angels wings to
realms of endless day. Her life. passed
mainly near the scene Of her childhood,
was marked by those who knew her best,
as exemplifying a beautiful childhood, a
kind and attentive girlhood, a fond and
devoted motherhood; surely she has full
filled her mission here below, and we can
only wait, trusting the Unseen, and dwell
on in the hope and faith of a blissful meet
ing beyond the shadows. Here, indeed,
has the silver cord been lOosed, here has
the golden bowl been broken, but gently
whispered were the words, "Come to Me. y
She was not called unprepared to pass
through the dark valley, and cross from
the shores of time to those of eternity,
but trustingly supported by Him who
through life was her guide. From among
us has gone a wife, mother, sister, a
friend; but one more is added to that in
Vulnerable throng, who freed from the
| cares and trials of this world, are singing
praises before the Throne. And one more
spirit awaits her loved ones here below to
| iOin her where there shall be no more
nartinp w. z. Nj.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
Cips.

- Many man has been sadly de-
ceiyed by looking an unloaded gun in
the mouth.
A joke and boil are much alike
in one respect We all think they are
very funny things when they are on
somebody else.
- Seaside hotel proprietOrs will soon
half-sOle lot of old bathing suits, put
a new button on bath-house door, and
then announce "great improvements for
the coming season.
- This is the season when the new
broom begins to sweeps clean, and the
man who don't wipe his feet well before
he comes into the house will think six
teen or twenty planets are in perihelia.
= Almost nightly the homes of the
rich are entered by thieves and the oc-
cupants frequently robbed and muir
dered in their beds. This is frightful.
And perhaps we may be the next
victim
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

RESCUED FROM DEATH.-The following state
ment of William j. Coughlin, of Somerville,
Mass. is so remarkable that we beg to ask for
it the attention of our readers. He says: In
the fall of 1876 l was taken with violent
bleeding of the lungs followed by a severe
cough. 1 soon began to lose my appetite and
flesh / was so weak at one time that could
not leave my bed. In the summer 1877 | was
admitted to the City Hospital. While there
the doctor said had hole in my left lung as
big as half dollar. expended over a hun
dred dollars in doctors and medicines. l was
so far gone at one time report went around
that was dead. l gave up hope, but friend
told me of DIR. WIN. HALLS BALsAM FOR THE
LUNGS. l laughed at my friend, thinking that
my case was incurable, but got bottle to
satisfy them, when to my surprise and graft
tication, l commenced to feel better. My
hope. once dead, began to revive, and to-day
! feel in better spirits than l have the past
three years.
Il write this hoping you will publish it, 50
that every one afflicted with Diseased Lungs
will be induced to take DR.. WIN. HALT's BALsAN
FOR THE LUNGS, and be convinced that con
SUMPTION CAN BE CURED. l have taken two
bottles and can positively say that it has done
more good than all the other medicines
have taken since my sickness. My cough has
almost entirely disappeared and shall soon
be able to go TO work. Sold by druggists.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
,lDRESsLIIGOODS,ll

We can offer you. iii Cotton Dress
Goods, new designs at 3, 10, and 129
cents 3-4 Poplin LuStrcs, Cashmeres.
Beiges, Alpaca Lustres, BrOcatel and
Australian Crepe, at 129, Is, Is, %,
and 25 cents; Plaid Dress Ginghams at
II and Is cents; Spring styles Cam
brics. Cretonnes, Cheviots, Percales and
Monte Cloths, 10 to 20 cents White
and Figured Piques at 81 to 25 cents !;
full line of Prints at from 5 cents up
ward also Striped Skirtings at 125 and
upwards. Serges, desirable shades, at
25 cents Gilbert Check Suitings, in all
new styles, 25 to 2S cents; Beautiful
Fancy French Plaids, for dresses and
trimmings, at 35 cents all-woOl French
DeBeiges, AZ inches wide, at As cents :;
extra importations Black Cashmeres,
silk finish, Spring weights, As, 80, so
cents and upwards /; Ladies' fine GA
Suitings, in Spring Shades of gray, light
gray. drabs, browns, blues, etc., at
81. Il. 81. Is and SIPS.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
From our rowing Correspondent.

ALBANY, N L :, APRIL 10, 'ol.
DEAR TRANSCRIPT Your rowing
correspondent of Middletown is now
member of COup's Monster United
Circus and Shows. We left Philadel-
phia on Saturday, April 9th, for Har-
risburg, with two trains of seventy
eight cars loaded with baggage wagons,
cages, etc., also nine sleeping cars, filled
with members Of this great show. We
travel by railroad entirely, and do not
stop at any small towns. Well, from
Harrisburg we went to Reading, dis
tance of fifty-four miles. Reading is
nice city, almost all Of it in the valley
amongst the mountains and the coal
and iron regions. On Wednesday, the
18th inst, we showed in Allentown, a
distance of thirty-six miles from Read
ing, and another mining town. The
weather being bad the attendance was
small. We skipped over the rail to
Wilkesbarre and showed there on the
14th, a distance of ninety-four miles /;
and from thence to Scranton, a distance
Of eighteen miles, for Friday, 18th inst.
We were all glad to get out of the coal
regions, as mining shaft had sunk and
lowered the railroad track some two
hundred feet, soon after our baggage
and passenger coaches had passed over
The town of Scranton is one vast coal
mine and all undermined coal there is
worth from Is cents to S1.50 per ton.
From Scranton we proceeded to Bing-
hampton. n. Y, distance of seventy
five miles, which we reached on Satur-
day morning. We had a nice day, only
rather cool. The mountains are all COW
cred with ice and snow. We left Bing-
hampton for Albany on Saturday morn
ing, which place we reached at $3.50 p.
M, and showed here to-day. This is
the finest and best laid out city we have
stopped at since we left Philadelphia.
1t numbers 100000 inhabitants, or up
wards. The new Capitol Buildings, in
course of erection since 1865, are to
cost twenty million dollars, and will
not be finished before five years to come.
The buildings are magnificent, and add
greatly to the improvements of this
vast Empire State. We leave Albany
tonight for Pittsfeld, Mass, from
thence to Springfield, thence to Provi-
dence, RI, thence to Fall River and
thence to Boston. After we get to
Boston | will write you again. We
shall he there about two weeks.
WANDFRFR
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

A REMARKABLE BOOK.-One of the
most remarkable issues of the day is a
book on .'FdISe Gods; or, the Idol W0r-
ship Of the World" from the pen of
Frank S. Dobbins, late of Japan and
published by HUBBARD BROS. Of
Philadelphia. This is a beautiful vol
ume of nearly eight hundred pages, and
it contains two hundred and seventy
five illustrations which throw light
upon every phase Of the subject. The
rise and growth Of Idolatry is traced.
with its many changes and transforma-
tions. peculiarities and resemblances.
beauties and horrors. One is amazed as
he reads this book and discovers what
men do believe. and how they conduct
their so-called worship. The style of the
author is popular and instructive. One
reads on in the work as in a romance.
Indeed full treatment of this subject
is 50 new thing, that the book is 4
nOreI, in the best sense of the term.
Strange beliefs, startling rites. wierd
ceremonies, shocking barbarities, charm
ing myths, from Europe, Asia, Africa.
Oceanica, North and South America.
from early days and from later DAYS. ali
these blend in the attractive pages of
Z False Gods. Y Such book must sell.
4 view of it is all that will I've needed
to carry it with purchasers.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

Moses America, colored, has been drawn
as one of the Jurors for the Superior Court
of New Castle county. Who would have
thought that the first colored man drawn
for Juror i'll this State would have been
drawn under a Democratic Levy Court, a
Democratic Clerk of the Peace and DEM
ocratic Governor. This is the highest bid
they have ever made yet for the colOred
brothers vote in lSS2.-DoUer State Hen-
hnel.
THIS may be good. fresh reading for
those who do not know how juries are
drawn in this State. but we hope the
majority of the Sentinel's readers are
more intelligent than the writer of the
above paragraph thinks they are. Any
body who does know how jurieS are
drawn in Delaware, knows who is re-
sponsible for the calling Of Moses
America to the jury box There are
two boxes for each hundred, one for
names from which to draw grand jury
men. and the other for names from
which to draw petit jurymen. The
Levy CouFtman from each hundred
selects the names Of citizens Of his own
hundred and puts them in his own
boxes, from which they are drawn by
the Clerk of the Peace. Moses
America was drawn from the Brandy
wine hundred box. Mr.. Mahaffy is the
Levy Courtman from Brandywine hun
dred. Mr., Mahaffy is a Republican.
It seems very plain that Mr.. Mahaffy
put the name of Moses America in his
petit jury box, or the name of Moses
America wouldn't have come out of
there, The foolish attempt of the
Sentinel to make Democrats responsible
for the first successful effort to get a
negro on Delaware jury is very, very
thin. Democrats are not bidding for
negro votes in Delaware. The party
Of which the Sentinel is the alleged
organ in this State put the ballot into
the hands of the negroes, have now,
after repeated efforts, gotten one Of
them into the jury box, and some of
the most fanatical, among which we
class the Sentinel, would advocate put
ting them into the public schools of the
State. il they only dared promulgate
such policy,
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
The Churches.

ST. ANNE's EPISCOPAL CHURcH.-Rev. W. G..
w, Lewis Rector. Morning services and ser
mon, 1890 am. Evening PRAYER and sermon,
7:30 pm. Evening prayer, Friday, pm. Sun
dav School, $3.50 am.
FOREST PREsBYTERIAN CHCRCH.-Rev. w. G
Alexander, Pastor. Sunday services 1890 a.
M and 1880 p. m. Sunday School, 9:l5 a. m.
METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-ReV. W. l..
S. Murray, Pastor. Sunday morning service,
1880: evening service ut ~ Sunday School,
2 pm.
TOWNSEND METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.
Rev. 7. Z. BELL. Pastor. Sunday services,
1880 am. and 1880 pm. Sunday School, 2:3O p m
ODESSA METHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.-Rev
W. II. Hutchins, Pastor. Sunday services. 10
am. and I:30 pm. Sunday School, ppm.
DRAwYER's PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH. ODESsA A.
Rev. W. V. Louderbough. Pastor. Preaching
at 1880 am. and 7:30 pm. Sunday School at
l5a.m.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
TRIMMINGS.

Black and Colored Silks, Black Silk,
Damasses Plain and Beaded Fringes,
Gimps, Laces, Spikes, Tassels, Balls,
Girdles, Loops, Passmenteries, Cords
Buttons, i'll the greatest variety of silk,
pearl, ivory, glass, jet, bone, horn, rub
Der, &c. Bernhardt Bonnet Pins, &C.,
Ribbons in all widths and colors Silk
Handkerchiefs from % cents to 81. 90.
Zephyrs, Woods, Canvass Perforated
Card-hnardS &c
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

How TO SECURE HEALTH.-It seems strange
that any one will suffer from the many de
rangements brought on by an impure condi-
ton of the blood when sCovILL's ssARsAPARILLA
AND sTILLINGIA, or BLOOD AND LIVER SYRUP will
restore perfect health to the physical organi-
Zation 1t is indeed II strengthening syrup,
pleasant to take, and has proven itself to be
the BEST BLOOD PURIFIER ever discovered, eff
fectually curing Scrofula, Syphilitio disorders
all Nervous disorders and Debility, Bilious
complaints. and all Diseases indicating an
impure Condition of the Blood Liver, Kid
Single bottle will prove to You its merits as a
health renewer for it ACTS LIKE A CHARM, es-
pecially when the complaints of an exhaus-
ted nature. having Il tendency to lessen the
natural vigor Of the brain and nervous
system.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
ARp.11z,T,oN or t,pr,r Evpv,.r r1on,

A REALIZATION OF GREAT ExPECTATIoNs.-In
the large steam sugar refinery of Messrs. Nc
Kean Newhall & Borie, on Church Alley, in
Philadelphia has worked for many day a
mlddle ageu laDorer, popular Win MS COM
J. Haw. who invested one dollar regu larly in
Il half ticket of the Louisiana State Lottery,
enclosing the money to NJ. A. Dauphin. No.
319 Broadway, New York City. n. Y. or to the
same person at New Orleans. La. He realized
last month and got half of the I'd capital prize
Of $4,000. Who will be the next to be saved
from want?
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22
GEOUes, Hosiery, Sc.

BY an arrangement with the importer
we have secured control for this town
of the CalvOt Kid Gloves. which are
the best glove for the money now offer
ed. We shall have them in Ladies two
and three-buttons, and Gents one and
twO-button, in black and cOlors. We
also have the guaranteed Kid Glove in
black and colors, at S1.00, which can't
be beat for the price. Our stock of
Ladies' Misses and Childrens' Lisle
Gloves is now complete, and at low
prices. New designs in Ladies' Gents
Misses and Childrens' Hose. from cts.
per pair upwards.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

GRANT arrived in the city Of Mexico
on the 7th inst. He is accompanied by
Senor Romero and some more dead
heads. 1t is said that the Mexicans re-
gard Grants movements with appre-
hension, more particularly because
Romero's relations with the Mexican
President are unfriendly.
Middletown transcript., 1881-04-22

A BIG MoRTGAGE.-A mortgage
deed, executed by the Pennsylvania
Company for S2O,O0O,O0O, was tempo
rarily lost in Chicago recently. 1t APP
pears that Mr.. Gilbert, a Pittsburg
lawyer, went to Chicago on business
connected with the mortgage, and while
in the wash,FoOm Of the Grand Pacific
Hotel. accidentally dropped the docu-
ment from his pocket, 1t was swept
ND with the waste paper, thrown into an
alley near the hotel, and found by 2
ragspiekeF, from whom it was recovered
on Tuesday last,