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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
N-en.Resident Notice.

H"
No. 45S-In the Chancery Court of Shelby
County, Tenn State Of Tennessee for
itself and for use Of the County Of Shelby
ct al vs. Jack Montgomery et al.
TT appearing from the bill which Is sworp TO
i in this cause, that the residence # the de-
PENDANTS, Mrs Joen.P Hatch and the unknown
heirs Of John Z Hatch, decd, are unknown,
and cannot be ascertained after diligent in
9uiIy; it is therefore ordered that
they make their appearance herein,
At the courthouse Of Shelby county, in Mem,
ghis, Tenn, on or before the first Monday in
Sept. 1882, and plead, answer or demur 10
complainant bill, or the same will be taken
for confessed as to them and set for hearing
81, parte; and that a COPY of this order be puDs
iished once q week, for four successive weeks,
In the Public Ledger.
This 18th day of July, 1889.
A copy-Attest:
.R ] BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By NJ Bradley, b. @. K M.
VIM M Smith and + II HeiskelI, soI's for
c0mpIt. l29 l5 141 147
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

On the farm there Was sIx acres Of a.
fine corn as you ever saw. | he'd
thirteen hogs and about fifty bushels
Of peaches as big as my fist. There
was a good pillow and some other traps.
| went to town, about FIVE miles, and
got a crowd. l told them | vas gwine
back to Kaintuck, and wanted to sell
out"
How much did you get for your
possessions?"
That's what l was gwine to tell
you, stranger. There was the hogs
and the corn-no better corn in
Arkansaw-the bedstids and cheers,
and that bureau with a lookin'glass
in it, two by three, and the peaches;
and gol darned if 1 could get $50.
Then l found out how much it would
cost for tickets to Uynthiany, and a
storekeeper bought the tickets for me,
and tux what | he'd on the farm. And
tomorrow wen be in Cynthiany, thank
Godl"
us your brother coming back, tooc:''
"No, John is bull headed and SEE
he'll make it pay, but he'll lose two
or three of his family before he does,
in my opinyun; but John allus was
that way; you couldn't never argue
with him"
The baby awakened crying. 1t was
worn out. Travelling second class since
the morning of the day before was
telling on the ague stricken family,
The woman's nervous system was shat
tered. She had no patience with the
children, and as the Express man left
he heard her threatening to slap the
baby's laws" if it didn't hush +
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
A cOLORKD PATRIARCH.
william BasSett, a camden Ne.
gro, Who HAS Lived One Hum
dred and Twenty-Six
Years.
Philadelphia Record.


William Bsssett is an aged negro,
living in Camden, N. j. Last May he
celebrated his 10th birthday, and is
without doubt the oldest inhabi-
tant" of the New World. Bassett
was born in the State of Delaware,
near Smyrna, in 1855, where his
parents were slaves, for many years
being owned by the Bayard family.
His childhood was spent in the Gus
tomary way of young darkies living on
large estates, milking the cows, driving
the horses and making himself gener-
ally useful about the place. During
the war of the Revolution Bassett,
then a young man Of twenty-one or
twenty-five, was working for a farmer
named Wilson, long since forgotten in
that locality, some twenty miles from
Dover, where he had moved shortly
before the war commenced. While
there he married, and became the
father of a large family, each mem
Der Of whom he has outived. Upon
the death of his wife Bassett married
again. When the war broke out In
1872 he left his home and became a
body servant to Colonel Morris, Of
Jackson's army, whom ne accompa-
MED to the front at New Orleans.
While South he suffered from an
attack of typhoid fever, consequent
upon the change of climate, and his
life was despaired of. After recovery
he returned to the North, and was
forty years in Colonel Morris house.
hold. He married a third wife upon
his return from the South. and had by
her quite a numerous family, all but
ono Of whom died prior to the civil
war.
For the last eighteen years be has
been taken care Of by his children and
grandchildren, spending the time
between Camden and Moorestown, to
and from which place be has travelled
on foot many a time. The last trip
was made early in the fall Of 1881, and
as q walk for a nan of lbs years the
record cannot be excelled. Of late he
has been failing very much, for the
past two weeks being unable to take
any n%ourishment.
The old man at present is with his
niece, Hannah Fisher, at the corner Of
Newton and Ann streets, Kaighn's
Point, Camden. His decease is looked
for daily.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
improvement Of the mississippi
River.

The whole sum at the disposal Of
the Mississippi River Commission is
%, 900. The commissioners have
been in session in New York since
Monday and have determined to
recommend an approximate allotment
Of s4125, 900, which is for the i'm
provement Of the river below Cairo, in
the following manner;
For the continuation Of work at
Plum Point, sixty miles above Mem
phis, 100000; for the continuation
Of the work in progress sixty miles
above V~icksburg at Lake Providence,
500, 900; for work at New Madrid,
seventy miles below Cairo, $8OO, 00Oi
for work near Memphis, aud the
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
The Epidemic Fund.

Special to the Cincinnati Commercial.
WASHINGTON, August 16.-Judge
Lawrence, First Comptroller Of the
Treasury, devoted the best part of the
day to atussle with thequestiOn astothe
control Of $4,000 appropriated in the
Sundry Civil Bill Immediately follow
ing the special Epidemic Fund appro
priation, which the President has
given to Secretary Folger. The
National Board of Health raised the
question of control as to the $50, 900,
in a letter to the First Comptroller.
signed by its disbursing agent, in
which it asked whether it could apply
the money to further the general pur-
poses of its creation. 1t wanted
to know, for instance, whether
it could maintain its inspection
stations out of this fund. Of
course it cannot if these funds are to
be used only to aid State Boards on
State applications; and if the Marine
Hospital Service is to control the
Special Epidemic Fund with a proba
bic right to use it prior to application
of the $4,000, then the National
Board of Health is left without funds,
and its work must cease. 1t will be
seen that the question submitted is a
knotty one and involves many consider
atoms. Judge Lawrence said to night
that he had not reached a decision 10
the matter. 1t is believed, however,
he will probably give the National
Board of Health the $4,000, with a
limitation preventing its use, except
upon the application of State Boards
Of Health In aid of their work, and
postponing such use to employment Of
the Marine Hospital Service to the
special epidemic fund of 100000.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

only thrive here, but does well.
One small county sends its 100000
pounds Of cotton to market, while an.
other harvests its $4,000 tons Of hops.
One county, besides making = good
showing in all other products. has
l ,25O,O 900 gallons of wines to sell or
store in her wineries, and the other
end of the State greets her with cheese
aud butter BY the hundreds Of tons.
Honey and milk almost flow side by
side, and he who has not his own wine
and fig tree is a poor, shiftless wretch.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
Yellow Fever Excitement Re.
ported at Pensacola,

WASHINGTON, August II. - The
National Board Of Health has received
q report from Surgeon Owen. of the
United States navy, at Pensacola,
stating hat on the 10Th instant the
mate Of the Spanish bark Siletia, at
Sullivan's wharf, died Of yellow fever,
and that three men were sick on
board; also, that the bark was lowed
out to sea a few hours after the death
occurred. he states that great ex.
element prevails Of Pensacola, as
there are rumors of other cases o.
fever among the shipping.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

In chronic disorders resulting from
fixed bad habits of mind and body, th,
removal of the evil, to be permanent
must necessarily be gradual. Although
in some instances ID is slow, Browns
Iron Bitters are always sure and never
fail 10 restore perfect health to the
physical organization. 1t is a complete
strengthened.
S. Mansfield & Co, W. N. Wilker.
son & Co., and G. W. Jones Il Co..
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
Happy Mother! Happy ChiIdren

Nursing mothers should keep their
infants quiet while teething. Both
mother and child should enjoy sweet
repose. The best thing to assist nature
in bringing about this happy state Of
good health, is Browns Iron Bitters,
1t is very soothing and refreshing in
its effect. A trial proves this to be
true. Mother and child should use il
freely. II you want your children to
be healthy and strong, give them
Browns Iron Bitters.
S. Mansfield & Co, W. N. Wilker-
son & Co., and G. W. Jones & Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
AN IMPoRTANT PRECEDENT.

Mr., Ernest Silyerton, a rich Wall
street broker living in Hoboken N. j.,
opposite New York city, writes: 1.-THE
excessive strain of nervous excitement
resulting from stock speculation and
too high living made quite an invalid
of me. Browns Iron Bitters restored
me to perfect health and strength"
S. Mansfield & Co, W. N. Wilker-
son & Co., aud G. w. Jones 4 Co.,
wholesale agents.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
Established in 1e4e.
ExCuRSInM..
ls4l59d&w

I asst Grand Excursion This Year
II TO ARKANSAS AND TEXAS.
ing, August 2SIh, via Memphis and Little
Rock Railroad. This is the last opportunity
this season to examine the bountiful and
magnificent crops of Arkansas and Texas.
Everybody should go.
Look at these extraordinarily Low
Hates from Memphis to the following places
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

Business men will find it to their
interest to have their job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER job print
Office, ID Madison street.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
NOn-Resident Not,ee.

No. t554-ln the Chancery Court Of sbelbv
D county, reDn.-The State OF Tennessee' 70,
its own, use, and for use Of Shelby cor w
", etal, vs.. Kate G.. Bell, ct al.
4 appearing from the bill which is sw,orr "a
i IN this cause that the defendants. X 81 ~ ~
Bell, Lizzie Il, Payne and husband, ii sntv ~
Payne, VIM. Garyin Bell, Mary ,Jer 81 Iyy0ii'
sarah Frances Belle. Stewart BeU RaobiD.nn
Bell Ellen X. Bell, GarVin Bell. II hrnia
Z. Oooliings and husband, CTitisrdan ~
0oollings, Allison CoollinRs, Rata G' poii'
Henry Bell, Regina Murfreo and bnsb1n5P -
Murfree, and Mrs. Elsie stein. are iii Nm
residents Of the State Of Tennessee. Il e. tb uv
fore ordered that they make their annsaroncs
nereln, &C the courthouse o fShelbv county in
memphis, Tenn. ION or before the first MoSiay
in September, 1852, and plead, answer SiS ON sss
muE. TO complainant bill and peti,ion NJ tbo
Ie1ing District ofShelby county. or lie same
wan be taken Tor confessed as 10 then, and set.
iof nesrlng OK parte, and that a COPY Of this
order be published once a week, for fonr suo-
eeSsiye weeks, in the Public Ledger.s.
ms 18th day ofJuly, 1882.
A ~oopy-Attest:
r.. ], BLACK, Clerk and Mast0r.
~ - M. Bradley, DC. 4 M.
VIM, M, Smith and +. II. Heiskell. solSrs
w e0alpNalAaht. l29 l5 1llF
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19


No. 452i-In the Chanoery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenacious Hanauer VS.. JamesA
Anderson ct al.
1T appearing from the bill which Is sworn 10
i in this cause, that the defendant, James
A Anderson, Is a nonresident Of the State Of
Tennessee, and that no is justly indebted 10
complainant By judgment FOR $3.50, besides
interest and costs; that attachment herein
has been duly issued and returned levied by
the Sheriff upon the property Of defend
ant, James A Anderson; II is therefore
ordered that he make his appearance
herein, at the courthouse Of Shelby county,
in Memphis. Tenn, on or before the
FIRST Monday In October, 1882, and plead, an
swer OF demur 10 complainant bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as 10 him
and set for hearing ex-psyto; and that a
copy Of this order DO published onoe q week,
for four successive weeks, IN the Public Led
ger.
This 18th day Of August, 1882.
A oopy-Attest:
RI BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By ] M Bradley, d. O. I'M.
POstnn Il Poston, and Humes 4 Postou,
soPre for eomplt. l46 1852
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
Tickets Good for Thirty Days.

TICKET GOOu IOF Inirty DAYS
Limited to Continuous Passagei in Both Direc-
lions.
HBTbe Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
r. X. will sell Round Trip Tickets from Gov
ington, Ripley, NeWbern and Rives, Tenn,
Fulton, Mayheld ard Paducah, KY; also
the Louisville and Nashville r. K. from Sta
tions be ween Memphis and Bowling Green,
KY, and Stations on the Henderson branch
between Guthrie and Henderson to Memphis
at 4 cents per mile, round trip, and only for
this occasion.
Trains leave Memphis August 2Sth at am
and 4;3) pm.
Tickets on sale August s7th.
Remember, this Is the Last Opportunity
this Year.
For further information call on or write 10
| the following named Agents:
K. A. WILLIAMS, Passenger Agent,
MemT his, Tenn.
BARNEY HUGHES. Ticket Agent,
28 Main St., memphis, Tenn.
s. L. FINLEY, Ticket Agent,
2Y7 Main st Memphis, Temp,
and Louisville and Nashville Depot, head Of
D. G ROBERTS. General Passenger and
Ticket Agent. Little Rock. Ark. l45d&wl5t
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

Hostetter's Stomach Bitters ~exti,pates dys-
pepsia with greater cert inty and prempti-
tude than any known remedy, and is a most
genial inyigOrant, appetizer and AID to score
ton. These are not empty assertions, as
thousands Of our countrymen and women who
have experienced its effects are aware, but are
backed up by irrefragable proofs. The Bitters
al o give ! healthful stimulus to the urinary
organs: For sale by druggists and dealers
generally. d&W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19

1867 Prizes, amounting ................,.s 265, 800
Application fer rates TO clubs should be
made only TO the Office ofthe Company In New
Orleans. r0 m"
For further information, write clearly, Civ
ing full address, Send orders By express.
kegtstered Letter, or Money order, Addressed
roi2olf n, a. DARPWTN.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
GENERAL wASHINGTONNEwS
The Census Bureau out Of Funds
"A Decision FOreshadOWed
Wllieh, If Rendered. Will be
Bad0n the N. Ii. Han ImPOr-
tant Precedent.
Special to the Courier. Journal.


WASHINGTON, August 16.-The
Census Bureau is strapped and
much delayed in sending out blanks
containing questions which ought to be
answered and returned before Congress
meets again. There is some danger
that the value by the census will be
impaired by delays like this, and men
who ought to know say that, instead Of
half a million, the Bureau ought to
have had from the late Congress a
million and a half. 1t is now certain
that the next session Of Congress will
have to appropriate certainly another
million to complete the work.
BAD ON THE BOARD OF HEALTH.
Judge Lawrence, First Controller
Of the Treasury, has not given his de-
cision in regard to the purposes for
which the $4,000 epidemic fund may
be expended, but it is understood that
he will decide that it can be expended
only on application from State and
municipal boards. A few more decis.
ions will leave the officers Of the board
10 a mood for thinking they might as
well not have any money as to be sc
restricted. Should the decision be al
foreshadowed, it would discontinue
the Board Of Health quarantine sta.
tons.
AN IMPORTANT PRECEDENT.
The Marine Hospital surgeon a
Pensacola was to-day informed, in re
ply to an inquiry, that he may holC
the Office Of City Physicians without
interfering with his United State
government place. This is Of impOr
tonoa a a praoadant
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-08-19
NOm-Restdent notice.

pBrorders for every size and quality Of
newspaper promptly filled. 1901
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-25
SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. S

Two philadelphia mechanics claim
to have discovered a device for running
street cars by series of powerful steel
springs. At the end of each trip the
car is to be wound up like clock.
"A new society founded in Japan
for the investigation of volcanic and
earthquake phenomena, and called the
Seismological Society of Japan, has re-
Gently issued the first volume of its
transactions.
So microscopically perfect is the
matchmaking machinery now in use,
that screws are cut with nearly GOO
threads to the inch-though the finest
used in the watch has 250. These
threads are invisible to the naked eye,
and it takes 144, 900 of the screws TO
weigh pound, their value being six
pounds Of pure gold.
les M012les reports that M. Dufour-
Get has in the exposed court of his
house two bars of iron planted in the
earth, to each of which is fixed con-
dqctor of coated wire terminating in
telephone receiver. He consults the
apparatus twice or thrice every day,
ard it never fails, through its indica-
ti0ns OF earth-currents, to give notice OF
the approach of storm twelve or fif-
teen hours before it actually arrives.
The Science says: "Of all the nu-
merous topics which are the common
field of the physician and the biologist,
none is of as great interest, both in its
practical bearings and intrinsically, as
a fascinating theme, as that of the loca-
ton of mental faculties in the brain.
Year by year scientific inquiry is mar
rowing down the question of the exist
ence of the mind into the functional
realm of those great masses of nerve
tissue, which, filing out the cavity of
the skull, had already found an empir-
ical and unconscious recognition from
the ancients when they endowed the
goddess Minerva with higher brow
than Venus and Apollo with greater
facial angle than Bacchus.h
Investigation of the velocities of va
rious wood-cutting tools shows the fol-
lowing results: Circular saw teeth, 5000
to 5000 feet per minute; band saw
teeth, hand feed, 5000 feet; band saw
teeth, power feed, 1000 feet; gang saws,
20-inch stroke, 120 strokes per minute;
scroll or jig saws, 800 to l,50O strokes;
planning and molding cutters, 5000 feet
per minute; shaping and carving cut
ters, 5000 revolutions per minute; Dan
iel's planer cutters, 5000 feet per min
ute; machine augers, l-2inch dame
ter, 900 finch diameter,
1920 revolutions-1-2- Pinch diameter,
1900 revolutions; rod and dowel ma
chimes, 1 inch and under, 5000 revolu-
tions-2 inches and over, 1000 revolu-
tions ! mortising machines, heavy work,
$50 strokes per minute-hght work, 700
strokes; tenoning cutters, $500 revolu-
tions; emery wheels, 6-inch diameter,
5000 revolutions ns-12-inch diameter,
1000, and other sizes in proportion;
main shaft for wood shops, $50 revolu-
tions per minute. Estimates of work
are made OH the data afforded by these
figures.
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-25
LATE NEWS ITEMS

The Senate passed the Apportionment
bill on the 21st, and the House further
amended the Post office bill. Adjourned
until 23d.
A LOCOMOTIVE boiler exploded in the
Wabash roundhouse at La Fayette, Ind,
on the Goth. The concussion blew out the
walls and the roof crashed down on the
shapeless ruins. The roundhouse and ex-
ploded engine were totally demolished. Fiji
teen locomotives were buried in the ruins.
The disaster created intense excitement.
Had it occurred ten minutes later twenty
men would have been caught. AS it was
seven men were buried under the wreck, of
whom three were unhurt, three slightly and
Michael Kunnuff dangerously wounded.
THE Coroner's jury investigating the
death Of Mrs. Nelson, at Pittsburgh, Pa,
have rendered verdict that she died in con-
sequence of fall while intoxicated, and not
from a beating by her husband, as prev-
ously reported.
THE residence of George Cunning
ham, Ameliasburg, Can, was DESTROYED by
fire on the Goth, and his three children were
burned to death.
SOPHIE TURNER, of st. Adams, VT,
has been arrested for burning to death on a
hot stove a child of 8 years, a son of Peter
Gerry.
THERE was desperate shooting
match in Louisville, KY, on the Goth, in
which John Wyatt, the famous eX-Govern-
ment Marshal, who has bagged more moon
sinners than any man in the country, was
lad NV Crtu-
ningham and Thomas J. Connell, two dep
uties Of the City Court, who had warrants
for his arrest on charge Of selling liquor to
minors. Fourteen shots were exchanged,
Wyatt receiving three wounds and Connell
a scratch on the temple.
The court-martial to try Sergeant
Mason, who shot at Guiteau, adjourned to
procure diagram Of the Jail and surround
ings. A plea of "not guilty" was entered.
A YARDMAN named Moses Quigley
was killed in Rock Island the other night,
his neck being broken by the collision OF
two freight cars.
"A WRECK occurred on the Lake Shore
& Michigan Southern Road, near Warren's
Station, Ind, on the Goth, caused by train
running into another section ahead of it.
The caboose was telescoped, the engine dis
mantled, and d. G. johnson, brakeman,
seriously injured.
THE Sprague divorce suit is to be set
tied. Mrs. Sprague's petition for separation
and custody of the children will be granted
without alimony.
DURING the gale of the 20th the har-
Dor tug Uncle Buck was swamped and sunk
and two men, two women and one child
were droWnad
Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-25
PITH AND POINT.

SO Please pass the butter" as the
man remarked when he sent his goat by
rail-
DIR. Holland wrote, = There's song
in the air." Investigation would have
shown him that the air was in the song.
-C0Wier-J0mnal
Under the head Of @ Short Stops"
Chicago paper tells how a man
stopped in jail for three months. They
haven't much idea of time in Chicago.
Detroit Free Press.
-"Very odd," said the compositor,
as he stood mournfully gazing on mass
Of pi; "very odd, indeed. Stewed
tripe for breakfast and strewed type for
dinner. -Philadelphta Bulletin.
We are sometimes so impressed by
fellow-man's estimate of his import
ance that we tremble at the mere sug-
gestion of what might have been if the
Lord had forgotten to make him.-R0D1e
Sentinel.
1T was the wife of President Madi-
son who gave the young woman the ex-
cellent advice: "Give your appearance
careful and serious thought in your
dressing-room and forget it elsewhere. "
A-three-year-old" discovered the
neighbours hens in her yard scratching.
In q most indignant tone she reported
to her mother that Mrs. Smiths hens
were "wiping their feet on our grass"
-tDoes it pay to steal?" asks the
Philadelphia Times. 1t does, esteemed
contemporary, it does. 1t doesn't al
WAYS pay the thief, but just think Of the
lar1e number of criminal lawyers to
whom it furnishes fat living g.-PhilG-
deIplia Chronicle -Herald
-"Yes, dear, Of course we're going
to Washington this winter; the Presi-
dents a widower, you know" elbow
awfully too utterly sweet!n "Yes, and
the new British Minister'S bachelor
SHOW too preciously consummately
lovelvin "I cawnt marry them both,
YOU know, dear" "No, dear, leave me
Just one"
-"How are you and your wife COM
ing on?'' asked a Galveston man OF a
colored man. "She has run me Oil,
boss" "What's the matter?" 81 IS 70
blame, boss. l gave her splendid
white dress, and den she got so proud
she had no use for me. She lowed | was
too dark to match de dress. !"
1t was evening. Three of them
were killing a cat. One Of Them held a
lantern, another held the cat, and a
third iammed a pistol into the cats ear
and fired, shooting the man in the hand
who held the cat and the one with the
lantern was wounded in the arm. The
cat left when it saw how matters stood
and that ill-feeling was being engeGs
cered-