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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Dressed TuEhsgn and ChlcksnE,
fresh Oysters
n, HkksHNEa hls., a 60A,
cerusF isissFsoia and Beees6
kslly's Bcuquuss,
ftesh and dark,
at H. Escb 5, 2p2 Main.
Conrlhnnna Clnmhn.

Emanuel Stoval was fined $500 and
sentenced to three months this fore
noon for carrying a bowie knife. 1t is
a higher offense than carrying a pistol.
Judge Horrigan issued an order
yesterday requiring the workhouse
authorities to render a strict account
of all escapes. Ed. Mcclure, the
guard, who assisted in the escape Of
Jim Hickey, was sentenced to three
months. Dugan was discharged.
james Titus received a sentence Of
three years this forenoon for assaulting
Monroe Alexander with a pistol, on
the 2lst Of last month, with intent to
murder him.
Some days since, Officer Mullouney
had a lively chase down alleys and
through cellars after an old darby
named Jordan Sanders, who had
snatched five hats from H. Rosenthal.
Sanders was sentenced to one year in
the penitentiary this morning.
Deeds were recorded to-day from
John Notebooks to H. L. Priddy; P.
NJ. Winters to I. Boyle; w. H.. Pos
ton to Mrs. A. Smith; H. NJ. James
to r. Mackel.
The stately brow Of Brother Gardi-
ner, of the United States marshal's
Office, was corrugated with thought
this morning as he bent wei his desk
and followed his pen with a cautious
eye. After waiting in suspense for
half an hour the deputy drew a sigh
of balloon-like proportions, and rails
ing his head disclosed a stately figure.
1t was a gorgeous clothes prop, but
Brother Gardiner firmly believed it to
be a IS" and that with the three let
ters which followed, ale spelled
Jail.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

The French opera troupe closes at
New Orleans tonight, after a season
of four months, not very profitable to
the management, despite the fact hat
$4,000 was subscribed in advance.
The opera of"Aida" cost $4,000 to
prepare it for the New Orleans stage,
and others also cost heavily. A rental
of $4,000 was paid on the o~perahouse.
The French company go to Cincinna-
ii for a week, thence to Chicago two
weeks; after that to Philadelphia, Bal
timore, Washington and New York,
where it appears April 18th. 1t cost
Manager Beauplan $4,000 to bring his
company over from France, and he
expects to keep it in this country if he
can pay expenses, during the summer
months.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
LEDGER
rER CEHTs pan NE E K.
THE CITY
LEDGER LINES.

Brswn & Jones, coal dealers, 2S2
Main street.
Singing birds chirped cheerily among
suburban shrubbery early this morn
ing.
Family washing done at low prices
at Chiekasaw steam laundry, 27SThird
street.
Cough lozengers, hoarhOund candy,
and such, are at present in liberal de-
mand and use.
Thermometer at sun rise 80 de-
grees, with a brisk south west breeze
blowing II miles an hour.
The LEDGER book bindery, 10 Mad
ison, manufactures blank books Of
every description in first class style.
Several elderly folks about the city
have the measles, and the youthful
end of our population are numerously
afflicted.
The best breakfast for Sunday
morning is a Potomac river shad. Get
one from Victor D. Fuchs, 30 and Al
Jefferson.
The medical fraternity just nov
have a heavy u on vaccination. AL
CLASSES and stations in society inclin,
towardsit.
Our meat aud vegetable market
will be run in the fore instead of tn,
afternoon from this to the end of tn,
ensuing summer.
The Weekly PUBLIC LEDGER il
only one dollar per year. 1t is tn,
equal Of any weekly newspaper pub
lished in the south.
In all the splendOr Of its maiesti,
brilliancy, the sun rose clear anC
undimmed by haze or other obscura
ton, this morning.
A northwest breeze in the earl,
hours caused wayiarers to feel a littl,
numb about the finger ends. It be
came more genial as the day advanced
Several governors and ex-governor
were in this city yesterday. Amopl
them we're Governor Holiday, of Vir
ginia. and Ex-Governor Alcorn. o
Mississippi.
Influenza, or bad colds is an epi
demic at present. -Four out Of ever,
FIVE persons one meets has the sneezes
the back ache, or some other evidenc.
Of the malady alluded to.
The Memphis Zouayes, McOlellal
Guard and Hannibal Guards will at
tend service; at the Central Baptis
church tomorrow afternoon at tire
o'clock. A memorial sermon will b
preached by the Rev. D. J. Hodges.
"A bucket shop Failing under tn
name Of the Tennessee Brokerage As
ISOLATION went down in the mudd
! streets Of Memphis yesterday" Ths
2 Is the way THE Herald at Nashyiu
puts our financial sensation Of sever
al days ago.
The rain fall hore yesterday after
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Personal.

Personal.
DR.. Buddeke, eye and ear diseases,
No. 56 east Court street. Ct
DR.. A. L. Kimbro, 1874 Main.
Office hours l to 3 pm. daily. Pure
vaccine matter on hand. 30
Harper's, Cooley, and also Peterson's
Monthly Magazine for April, just re.
ceived at Billy Liebsn's news stand,
1851 Main street. A full line Of late
illustrated papers can also be found on
the counters, Billy receives copies Of
the Seaside Library as soon as pub.
lished and also takes orders for back
numbers.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
4 OlIcePOints.

EOAAce EOAutSs
Ten arrests.
One dusky prowler.
Fist fights are unusual.
A bOOk-keeper and a bar-keepei
had a spat yesterday. The latter de-
Tended a young lady whom the form
er insulted.
The sidewalk inspectors are on the
war path. They are serving notices
upon delinquent property owners,
broadcast.
Any one having information Of the
whereabouts of John o. Greever,
lately ofCedar Chapel, West Tenn
essee, will please notify the chief Of
police.
A great many letters are still re-
cei3ed by the chief of police from all
parts of America and Europe, enquir-
ing for persons supposed ia have fall
len victims to the late epidemic.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Roadside Sketches" by W. NJ.
1hackeray, contains the following
m%orceaux; IF | we're a great prince
and rode outside of coaches Gas |
should if l were a great prince, l
would, whether | smoked or not, have
a case Of the best Hayauas in my
pocket, not for my own smoking, but
to give them to the snobs on the
coach, who smoke the vilest cherOots.
They poison the air with the odor Of
their filthy weeds. A man at all easy
in his circumstances would spare him
self much annoyance by taking the
above simple precaution." If Sol
Colemau's No. 10 cigars had been
manufactured in Thackeray's day
they would have pleased the taste of
the old philosopher and enabled him
to pass many a pleasant hour weaving
those genial fancies which always
lowered about his pen.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
CAPITAL GOSSIP.
Points About ihe Cabinet and
Probable Official Changes.

Only two out of the seven are college
graduates.
Secretary Of the Navy Hunt is liv,
ing With his fourth wife.
There is. only one Ohio born man j..
the cabinet, Secretary Window,
Simon Cameron said of his son.;n.
law, a few years ago, that the, best h,
could say Of him was tbst he was q
"snob."
If Senator Allisoa had taken the
treasury portfolio, Judge Gresham III
Indiana, woul2 have been secretary Of
the interior.
Secretary Lincoln is married to the
eldest daughter Of ex-senator Harlan
OF Iowa. Secretary Window married
a niece Of John S. Gilman, esquire, Of
Baltimore.
Blaine, James and Hunt were orig
lnally wings, KirkwOOd was a demo
crat, and Window and Lincoln have
always been republicans. Mac eagh
was always a kicker.
Blaine was a. school teacher aud
editor. James was a printer. Lin
coin, Window and Hunt were lawyers.
Kirkwood was a farmer and miller,
and Mac eagh was and is a d%illetanti.
Secretary Blaine is ilty-one; Sec
Window. ffty-four; PostmasterJam es,
fifty; Attorney General MACY EACH
forty-eight; Secretary Kirkwood'
sixty-eight; Secretary Robert n.
Lincoln, thirty-seven; Secretary Hunt.
fifty two.
Hon. Edward Mcpherson is to be
first assistant postmaster general.
Among the officers whose official
heads rest more easily upon their
shoulders than they did before the
announcement ofthe cabinet may De
mentioned Commissioner of Pensions
Bentley. Secretary Kirkw5od was
Mr., Bentley's stauncnest de-
fender in the senate during the re-
cent pension debGte, and this, it is
argued, will be apt to favor his reten-
t%ention IN toe place he has so long if
not so successfully occupied.
General Harry White has been Of
fered the mission to Madrid and de-
clined it.
General Judson Fitzpatrick wants
to 50 back to Chill as minister resi-
aent.
w. w. Dudley, Of Indiana, is proro-
inently mentioned for the Australian
mission
Rev. Mr.. Van Note. Of New JERSEY.
has filed his claim for the Brazilian
mission.
Its stated that Hon. Johr G. New.
Of Indiana would accept the English
mission.
Pennsylvania has already fled her
claims for the English mission.
Hon. Emery Golf is strongly urged
by the northwest for commissioner Of
agriculture.
THE complaint Is not so much that
people work on Sunday. says the cir.
cular OF tho Chicago Sabbath a~ssocia-
ton, but that they play. 1t is against
sinful recreations that we are NOV
ing" The Puritans," said Macau.
lay, hated bear batting. not because
IL - "
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

ueus aad LEST night measured less shGa
4 quarter Of 90 lach, Nslhvllls hId
ayss hsif 40 Iueh, ctatsanocSli Aesss
h AZ Ihuh and tsailMils wM ssiuY'
Ins . shower AZ sunriss ibis mcFniHs,
Indications point 70 clear weather
here, and colder winds from the north
west. The entire region from the
Mississippi river to the Rocky noun
tains is much cooler to-day thsn it
was ~Ses.erday
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

We have the largest, finest and
most elegant line Of fine and fashion
able hats ever brought south. Weara
agents for the best makers, Our goods
are equal to the best sold by dealers in
any country or section. Fine goods
and reliable styles. Leidy & Co,
II Hatters, OPP. Court Square.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Reelf6Ot Perch and Trout, Lake
Erie Salmon, Red snapper, POtO-
mac Shad and Fresh Oysters, at
j. A. SIGNAIGO'S,
II 27S and $50 Second ~.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Some excavations commenced Al The

Some excavations commenced at the
distance of abOU a Iilomster from
Sne walls OF 10 mpeii, with a view Of
ascei,alhmg FAe names Of the sur
tGunulnss % the city, have led TO the
discovery, rSithin an area of but a few
square GGters, Of thirty skeletons, ten
OF WITCH we're huddled together in one
~Jm OF a small suburban villa, and
among and upon the bones were found
braceI cts, necklaces, earrings and
other objects.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Telephone Communication

Telephone Communication
Has been established with the Liver
more foundry and machine company
Successors to Gum & Pagan, Union
iron works., l60 to Ia Adams street.
Send your orders. 10
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

NEw YORK, March l2.-Harry &c.
net. one Of the convicted Tweed ring,
was sentenced to-day to the peniton-
tiary for eight months and pay a fine
Of S9603, TO stand convicted until the
enc is paid.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Personal AND

Mr.. ThurloW Weed is writing his
memOirs-a work undertaken at the
earnest appeal Of General Winfield
Scott. Weed says that he has a rich
mine Of material in letters COW
ering a period of more than half a CEN
tury. But age and its infrmities en-
barrass his progress. and the twelve
or thirteen hundred pages now writ
ten only bring the work down to 1898.
Hezekiah Sturges was 62 years old
when he married Miss Belknap, at
Evansville, Ohio, and she was 20. He
had S150,0OO, and she had no money at
all. Before the ceremony, be insinu-
atingly asked her TO sign a document
allowing her, he said. $500 a year for
pin money but be did not explain
that by SO doing she relinquished all
claim on his estate after his death.
She has Just discovered that fact, after
being his wife ten years and at last
bis widow.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Stoves, CRATES aud mantels, hard
ware, hollow.ware and castings at low
prices. All kinds Of tin work prompt
ly attended to and satisfaction guaran
teed, by LOUIS DUsH,
IS 1894 Main street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
seore Of the Tramps

New York, March l2-Scoro Of
the pedestrians at Gam. Vaughan,
424; 0'Leafy, 4i4.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
The Weather.

A storm center worked itself into
being yesterday in Kansas, bearing
slowly eastward, and several hours be-
fore daylight this morning the signal
service reports announced it as NOV
ing with greater energy through the
Mississippi valley. Its course is
north eastward. Another storm is
quoted by the same authorities as
having started on the Massachusetts,
coast yesterday and early this morn
ing was central in the Canadian
maritime provinces. The wind at
Father point on yesterday blew 20
miles an hour from the south east,
a gale strong enough to play havoc
with shipping. 1t was showing up in
that country, yesterday and last
night.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Lamp chimneys, warranted for II
months, at G.. N. Erich's. II
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Money saved in repairs by having
your plumbing, gas and steam work
done by j. A. Bailey, 295 md st. 81
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

RIO buy platform elsYatof. secondhand one
i win Do. Address H., this ofee. 10b
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
Dressed Turkeys and Chickens.
ALBERT SEEsSEI1S Market,
I24 Main Gt. IL

Holl. Herring, Lymburg and Cream
Cheese. CAoEY & Co. At
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Potomac Roe Herring.
At CAcEY Il Co., Main and Poplar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

Silver Drip aud Maple Sugar.
4 CAcEY & Co. Main and Poplar.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
The Shortest and Quick, sat Ronts
-1s THY
Panhandle & Pennsylvania Line.

The management confidently inyjtn AZ.
tention to its Superior Equipr nent.
Through Car service, and quick time
The Scenery en- route is justly celeb rsted
for its variety and surprising he sTtv.
Dining Stations at Cincinnati, India sspo-
hs, Columbus, Pittsburg, Altoona and
Harrisburg are in charge of well / ,ovvn
caterers, VINO have contributed N no
small degree to the popularity of the
fan-Handlea and Pennsylvania Ii ,e' with
the travelling public. nv w"
Purchase tickets by the ES~P .r.uan;
ole and Pennsylvania Lime, -uR on sale at
~ bh1llrosd Ticket Otices in Memphis,
throughout the South. ans "Hu
sIDHEYs. ZONES, asnT souF Az. p. An.
Northeast Corner 4th and Y s,,....
Cincinnati. Ohb
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12
our CHEAP COLUMN

A LII adVertisemsnta under the head of For
u Rent, For Sale, Wanted, Lost, Strayed,
line Tor q week. bt
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

The complaint Is not so much that
people work on sunday, says the cir.
cular OF tho Chicago Sabbath %associa-
ton, but that they play. 1t is against
sinful recreations that we are NOV.
ing" The Puritans," said Macau.
lay, hated bear batting, not because
il gave pain to the bear, but because
it gave pleasure TO the spectators"
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1881-03-12

The ram fall hore yesterday after
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
A sHAMEFUL SPECTACLE.

The Guiteau trial appears to become
more destitute of dignity and decorum
every day. The presiding Judge exercises
scarcely any restraint over the prisoner.
whose behavior is outrageous and intoler-
able. He is permitted to insult the Court,
to give the lie direct to all the witnesses,
to BLACKBOARD the counsel all round, to in
terrupt everybody, to say what he pleases,
to make stump speeches, to air his detest-
able vanity on all occasions. And it is
evident that indulgence emboldens him in
the performance of the part he has as
sumed. He takes upon himself the chief
authority, and issues his orders with an
assurance that does not seem so wonderful
when the meek acquiescence of the Court
in all his vagaries is taken into consider
alton. Judge Cox may think that it is
necessary to allow this persistent indecency
on the part of the prisoner, but the spec
tacle is becoming more and more disgusting
and humiliating to the public, who desire
that the trial which has been permitted
to sink into so hideous a burlesque may
soon terminate, and relieve the country
from what everyone regards as q scandal
and a disgrace,
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
FLIPPER's STATEMENT.

We fear that Lieutenant Flipper's state
ment will fail to convince the country of
his innocence, whatever effect it has upon
the court-martial. He says that he sud
denly discovered deficiency of some
81, 500 in the regimental funds which had
been intrusted to him, but he has no theory
to account for this hiatus, and he does not
seek to accuse anyone else of the theft.
In fact he merely asserts his own innocence,
while telling story which has the double
demerit of incoherence and improbability.
According to him no one who could be sus-
pected of the theft had access to the funds.
Yet they disappeared, and yet he does not
know who took them. This may be all
that he knows of the matter, for it some
times happens that the story of an innocent
man under suspicion is apparently very
crude. But unfortunately for clipper this
is an incredulous world where questions of
dishonesty are concerned, though it is
credulous enough in other respects, and it
will be more apt to believe that he knew
what became of the missing money than to
accept the theory that there is any mystery
about its disappearance. We very much
fear that Flipper's cake is dough, in fact,
and that he will have to go to join Whit.
taker.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10

tanced by her under Mr.. Morrill's system
has been shown in our article of to-day on
the cotton goods trade. and that is only a
sample of the whole. Protection has
robbed the American producer from the
beginning, and what is more, it has utterly
failed to do for our manufacturers what its
advocates pretended it would do. It does
not "protect," in short, but it paralyzes,
it wastes, and it plumbers. 1t is patent
method of getting unnecessary things done
at extravagant cost, and that is all it ever
will amount to. Mr.. Morrill, and his
school, however, have good reason to APP
prehend that the American producers are
becoming tired OF this mischievous and
burdensome system, and therefore they
will put forth all their energy in the at
tempt to stem the adverse current which
is setting in more strongly against them
averv war;
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
confused and unsatisfactory state of affairs
in this connection.
TARIFF COMMISSION

Gariand has introduced bill providing
for 2 Tariff Commission. There are to be
nine Commissioners, viz: Three Senator's.
three Representative, and three members
from civil life. They are to inquire into
the relative effects of tariff upon the in.
dustries of the country, upon the producer,
and upon the consumer. They are to in
quire into the relativem erits of the specific
and ad calorem systems; to ascertain
what, if any, improper determinations
exist, what changes are necessary, and
whether the law can be simpliied. If
such Commission is appointed, if it is
composed of really intelligent and well.
informed men, and if it is allowed to per-
form its duties unfettered, the results will
be useful, even if they do not lead to leg
islation. But we fear that in making two
thirds of the Commission politicians and
place.holders, Mr.. Garland has fatally
handicapped his bill at the start, and that
nothing of value can be expected from it,
Such Commission, in fact, could very
easily be packed in the interest of the
Protectionists, and in that case it would be
considerably worse than useless. We do
not see why members of Congress should
be on the Commission at all. As rule
they are ignorant of political economy, and
are controlled by the narrowest partisan
ideas. A really good Commission could be
picked out in five minutes from civil
life" and it would be one in the conclu.
sions of which the country could repose
confidence.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
A BILL AGAINST pREs1DgNr KILLING

A bill has been introduced to Congress
providing that whoever makes homicidal
assault upon the President of the United
States shall be liable to imprisonment for
is in many respects peculiarly valuable to
the nation, but it is difficult to see how
such law can protect it more effectually.
In the absence of any new legislation a
homicidal assault upon the President is
punishable with life Imprisonment, or in
case of the death of his victim, with hang
ing. Murder and assault to murder, in
short, are provided for very sufficiently by
the criminal statutes already in force, but
what interferes with the operation Of all
criminal law is the uncertainty of the jury
system. If Mr.. Latham's bill provides that
the intending murderer is to be sentenced
to life imprisonment without a trial, then
it is an innovation but such a law would
be in violation of the Constitution, and
therefore invalid. The situation amounts
to this, that it is impossible to extend
more effectual protection to the President
than to any other citizen, and that the only
way to secure the President from murderous
attacks is to secure everybody from such
evils. If murder was usually punished
with death throughout the country, it
wonld become less frequent. So long as
it remains highly problematical whether
any given murderer will be hanged, the
criminal intelligence must be expected to
attach less Importance to the commission
of homicide than is agreeable to law-abid.
ing and peaceable people.
Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-12-10
A NATIONAL MARRIAGE Law.

a national marriages law is at least as
much needed as a national bankruptcy
law, and it is time it was enacted Owing
to the difference in the marriage laws of
the several States very serious deteri.
Grafton of public morals has been engen-
dered. The scandals OF our divorce pro-
ceedings in various States are not inferior
in evil to that Mormon polygamy which
we are so quick to see the wrong of.
The absence of an uniform marriage law
has encouraged kind of cohabitation
which is practical concubinage. 1t has
also been the cause of unnumbered out
RACES upon helpless women. The State
marriage laws, by their diversity, and often
by their reckless laxity, have tempted
scoundrels to all manner of crimes. They
have facilitated the most cruel and brutal
assertions. They have made marriage
lightly regarded. They have broken down
the national respect for the family rela.
tions, in many places. They have led to
extravaganza, immortality, wrongdoing of
every sort. While we are about the puri-
fcation of Utah, therefore, it is in order
for us to regulate our own domestic affairs
better, and experience has shown that the
only way to do this is by national mar
riage law which will give the whole coun-
try enc uniform rule. The women ought
to join in the agitation for this
legislation, for their interests are affected
most by the maintenance of the present