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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
DR.. STRONG'S PILLS!
Asslanes's Sale Of Reai Estate.

No. 4Sgl, R~-Chancery Court Of Shelby County
~ black, Assignee, etc., We. j S Menken
pY virtue of an interlocutory decrss for
~ sale, entered IL the above cause on tho
I'd day of August, 1882, we will sell. NJ nnSlic
auction, TO the highest bidder, In front ef
the courthouse of Shelby county, Memphis,
Tennessee, on
Saturday, September g, 1852,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby cOuntyi Tennes-
Being the undivided one-oighth ca interest
for life Of Joseph S Andrews in the estate III
Joseph Andrews, decd, subject, however, TO
the dover interest Of the widow of Joseph I
Andrews, and an eneumbrance on the whole
property OF about 10000, said property being
described as follows, to-Wit: Lying and being
IN Shelby county, Tennessee, and in the Tax.
ing District Of shelby county to-wit: Lot 80,
comprising storehouses Nos. 23S, $50. 250% and
212 Front street, said lot being "a BY 80 feet:
also lot No rs, being Is by 81 feet, corner az
Front and Jefferson streets; also parts Of lots
~ AMI w fronting on Jefferson street, COM
pfising the Commercial Hotel.
Also part Of lot ia, being So by ia feet.
comprising houses Nos. Is, IS, 15E, II and ID
Jefferson street.
Also ono-hslf % undivided interest in
house and lot corner Third and Adams street,
hronting on Adams street 40 feat by 90 feet on
ihlrd street, sptject to a claim of about $1,000
fer gnpaid purchase money.
Also the one.sixth - undivided interest in
Iots l, 2 and 3 in block 9 on the plan OF Fort
Pick erina.
Also Z undivided interest in lot on Third
street, near Adams. being So by 40 feet, en-
cum bered for the entire purchase money.
Also tho following property belonging 10
WIN Morgan, said property being Described
as follows. to-wit: 0ne-half ca ondiyided
interest in lots l, 2 and 3, block 8, Fort Pick
erlng. Shelby. county, Tennessee.
Terms Of sale-Cash.
RJBLACK,
HFURSrENHEIM,
13s IA $50 l55 1
The above sale is POSTPONED until Satur-
day, September rs, 1882.
This September g., 1882.
X. j. BLACK,
H. FURSTENHEIM.
3M Asairuaaa
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Is Court Street. y,
NOn.Resident Notice.

No. 1900, r Din the Chaneery Court O
Shelby county, Tom. John 0yertOn jr, O
al vs.. W II Butts ct al.
TT appearing from the bill, which is sworn
to In this cause, that the defendants, II {
Of the State Of Tennessee; II is there
fore ordered that they mako their appear.
anco herein, at the courthouse Of Shelbl
county, In Memphis, Tennessee, on Of
before the irst Monday In October, 1882
and plead, answer or demur 10 complain,
ant bill. or the same will DO taker
for confessed as 10 them and not III
hearing ex-parte, and that q copy Of thil
order DO published once . week, for foul
successive weeks, ~ tho PublicLedgor.
Tits 18th day Of August, 1882.
A Oopy-Attesti
r ] BLACK, Clerk and Martsr.
By NJ Bradley, d. O. a NJ.
hetcalf 4 Walker, selrs for compl't.
N5 ISL 1915
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Mondays Matinee.

AAOhAOoy , Ah0tAuCCs
Five fighters who objected to exhib-
iting their illuminated countenanceS
in court let their forfeits go by the
board.
A man found riding in a hack at
night with a female companion Of
doubtful character is charged with
committing a Miss-D emeanor,
The Courts latest command is
you've got to work like blazes six
days and pray for all you are worth on
the seventh"
A witness whose clothes were COW
cred with sub-soil said to-day he was a
well and system digger"
A loa6ng darby, named Yves Har-
ris, was sent to the Island for two
hundred days as a measure looking to
quiet heneries.
Talking about bad men Billy Kill
gore is way above par. Taking his
cue from his name be proceeded Sat
urday night TO dessicate a boOtblack
with his number fourteen brogans,
following up the attack by destroying
the ebon merchants stock in trade, ell
in the most methodical manner. He
was immured.
Caesar Jones appeared in court to-
day with somebody else's shirt on.
His Mark Antony attorney, deprived
of the paints he could have made if the
shirt had been full of holes, lost his
balance and was completely over
thrown when it was also discovered
that Caesar also wore a shoe not his
own, but the property Of Charles
Bridges.
After Jim Bryan had poured all the
beer down his throat that his skin
would hold he washed his face in part
Of the contents of a quart pot and
poured the balance down Frank Col
Inns back. Frank snatched a bottle
and broke it over Bryan's brass cheek
leaving about twenty marks. Both
were fined and paid s..
1t is a matter Of impossibility for
Pleas Small to keep away from the
Police Court. He has a y%earning for
the excitement of prison life that is
impossible to satisfy. He is most like
his name when being tried for being
drunk.
"Mr. Craft" said the Judge to a
man who came in just after his for
felt had been declared, we DELHI
Grated for some time whether we
should simply take your five dollars
or re-arrest you and get FIVE more
but finally concluded to take the
money in hand. You can go if you
please" Crafts mouth fell gradually
open while the Judge was speaking,
and when he had ceased slowly closed
it, smiled and walked out without a
word. He was paralyzed by Judicial
assurance.
A file Of boys each having a paper
box in his hand filed past George
Midnight, who was on a curbstone in
North Memphis, Saturday night, and
each saluted him with a blow on top
Of the head as he went by. The darky's
patience held out until number seven
banged him oyer the Uranium when he
arose and r~eciprOcated, then skipped.
The crowd gave chase and John
Lsmey stabbed him with a knife, for
which be paid thirty dollars.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05

The newspaper is a business
barometer; it is sensitive to every
commercial fuctuation. Judged by
this test, Memphis is on a considerable
boom. The LEDGER has done a
satisfactory business all summer, and
the business charged up on and for
the first Of September issue was 26 per
cant greater than for the corresponding
day last year. We take it for granted
our contemporaries likewise have aus
to be satisfied. After the great
drought and general depression Of last
year, followed by the great floods Of
last spring and summer, there was
good reason to apprehond a trying
season. Such, however, has not been
our experience. The LEDGER's sum
mer business was the best ever known
in all its history, and promises to be
better from this. en- than any previous
season. We have been enabled to
enlarge the daily to a very handsome
size and form without increasing the
price Of subscription, to buy new type,
which is a decided improvement,
and to buy at the North
a large and valuable press.
The circulation Of the paper, daily
and weekly, is larger than ever before,
and it directly or indirectly reaches
all classes Of Memphis, and of people
that trade with Memphis. This is no
sudden squirt of enterprise, but the
steady Outgrowth of hard work, fair
dealing with readers and patrons, and
a general improvement in business
here and elsewhere. We speak Of
these things in our own line as some
thing that we know, to illustrate the
fact that Memphis is growing up and
reaching out and taking a high stand
as an enterprising, wide awake place.
Where there is one factory now we
may expect to see dozens in the
future, giving profitable returns to
investors and remunerative wages to
thousands of intelligent people.
Our manufacturing interests are as
yet in their infancy, but enough has
been accomplished already to prove
that manufacturing will pay here as
well as at any point in the South, and
to attract the attention of those who
have the money to build factories.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05

No one doubts that the editor of
the LEDGER was agood soldier twenty
years ago, but does that make him a
man Of good judgment on a financial
or political question to-day? Shall
men who believe it to be honest and
wise to pay public debts accept ye
editors advice to repudiate them
because he was a good soldier twenty
years ago? That is the wal record
issue Of the LEDGER in its depth,
length and breadth. Avalanche.
He has said nothing about his wal
record, and the public has no concern
as to that matter. If he did his duty
it was nothing more than thousand
Of others did on both sides, who had
nothing to do with bringing on the
war, but bore the brunt Of the strife
unmurmuringly to the end. 1t may
be said. that the good soldier generally
is Of the material that under
favorable conditions is found in
the law abiding, reputable citizen.
And, on the other hand, he
who deserted, or after enlisting, shirked
the hardships OF camp life, the long
weary marches and hard fighting,
and who was lurking around the
wagon trains or hospitals pretending
to be sick, or who merely followed the
armies Of the Union or Confederate
sideas ahuman jackal to pick the pOck-
cts o the dead, nibble at offal and delye
in heaps Of rubbish-this kind of a
character in war can be nothing but
an unworthy man and dangerous
or worthless citizen. he is bad at
heart, and will bear watching as long
as he lives. Taking these statements
as indisputable moral axioms, we
hold that the wal records of men who
seek positions Of honor and trust, are
legitimate subjects of discussion, the
same as any other record or feature Of
a mans life which enters into the
composition Of his character.
The war itself is over, and no brave
man on either side has a spark Of
animosity left. The issues involved
then are dead, but the records made
by individuals are not. That is a
difference which we would commend
to our able contemporary.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
New IsOthermaI Charts.

New York Herald.
The Signal Service has recently
published several interesting "profes -.
sional papers calculating the china.
tology Of the United States. One Of
the papers, prepared by Lieutenant
Greedy shortly before his departure
to the Arctic regions, contains twelve
charts. showing by isothermal line:
for each five degrees the mean temper.
ature Of the United States from lsTl-
1880 for each month Of the year
These charts present for the irst time
the graphic delineations of tempera.
ture over tive United States for each
month in the year, based upon reliable
and intercomparable observations
The period of the time which tn,
observations used to cover is, perhaps.
too short to admit of final re.
suits, and with another decade
Of observations the valves obtained
may vary somewhat from those deter
mined by Lieutenant Greedy. Blu
this work meets a need often felt b,
other than scientific inQuirers, espe
cially by that large GLASS who go wesI
and southwest to know the y%lcissi.
tudes Of an untried climate While
the compiler simply charts the NEAR
thermal data without discussing then
or drawing any practical deductions
frem them they throw light on a mum.
Der Of practical problems. Thus, ID
noting the isothermals which cross the
States south Of the Ohio, it appear
that the area within which cotton
cultivation can be proGtably carried
on is larger Than has hitherto been
supposed. The time required to
produce a rcmuneratiye growth oil
the cotton plant must extend, as
Mr.. Blodget points out Through the
month OF September without FROST
But this condition is practically real
lied beyond the September isotherm
Of seventy degrees, and probably
almost as fac north as that Of Of sixty.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05

The PUBLIC LEDGER book bindery
l3 Madison street, is in the same build.
ing as the newspaper and Job PRINTING
establishment; is owned by the same
proprietor; embraces all machines and
material used in a frst-class book
bindery, and is conducted by compe,
tent workmen, capable Of executing
work 10 as gOod and substantial q
style as can be zone anywhere.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
now BATE is WELCOME.
The CONDUCTORS Talking TO Slim
Cold Crowds.
Special to tho World.

KNOXVILLE, September 1,-Gen
William Bate arrived in this city at )
o'clock this evening. He was met at
the train by a committee Of 100 citi-
zens with carriages and a brass band.
Fully 5000 citizens we're on Gay street
as the procession passed up to the
Lamar House, and cheered him
Justify When they arrived at the
hotel General Bate came out on the
balcony in response to loud calls from
the crowd and made a short address
thanking them for their welcome.
The people are already coming in to
hear him speak to morrow. Hawkins,
Beasley and Russell are meeting with
poor success in East Tennessee. The
crowds who go out to hear them are
meager and totally devoid of enthu-
siasm. They met to-day at Norris
town and were greeted by a slim
crowd. Russell was interrupted by
loud cheers for Bate and had to ask
the crowd to desist. He said it was
the only time be had been interrupted
since he started on his canvass.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
COLUMBIA.
All About the Convention at that
Place.
Nashrills World.

COLUMBIA, September las |
dispatched you last night, tie Congress
sional Convention broke up yesterday
evening quite in a row, but without
making a nomination for Congress.
The friends Of the two candidates,
General Whitthorne, of Maury, and
Colonel Cox, Of Williamson, were
unyielding.
At this stage OF the proceedings
Colonel Taliaferro, the tall poplar Of
Giles county, offered a preamble set.
ting forth the fruitless efforts that the
convention had made to effect a nomi.
nation, and the conviction that a large
majority entertained that this conven,
ton would not be able to make a
nomination, and concluded with some
resolutions thanking the people q
Columbia for their courtesy and hos.
pitality, the proprietor, ColoneI
Bethel, for the free use Of the Opera.
house, that the Congressional Com.
mittee Of this district be requested t
issue the proper notices or call fol
delegates to be appointed BY the pri
mary assemblies on the 23d Of Septem.
Der, to convene in convention Al
Pulaski, Giles county, 9th September
and concluded with one that thi
convention do now adjourn sine die.
These resolutions, after some unim
portant amendments 10 relation to tn,
modus operandi Of holding the mex
convention at Pulaski, we're adopted
by a large majority, and thus ende,
the futile attempt to nominate a Con
gresham for this district.
1t is now to be hoped that the mex.
convention will meet with more sue
cess at Pulaski on the 9th instant.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
Preventive Of MaIsriaI diseases.

Opinion Of eminent DR.. II. r. Walton,
Of Annapolis, Md.-"COIden's Liquid
Rect Tonic is PAR EXCELLENCE. supe-
rior 10 oQd-liver oil or anything ! have
ever used IN wasted or impaired oonglitu-
tons, and extremely beneficial a. q pre-
ventiyo Of malarial Diseases Take no
other,) OF druggist.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
NOTICE.

HAVING qualified as executor of the last
IL will and testament ofMrs.K itturah Hays.
deceased, all parties indebted TO her estate
are requested to pay the same to my attor-
ney's, Poston q Poston, Memphis, Tenn, and
having claim against il 70 file the same with
in the time required by law.
b. II. DEBUTTS.
~l4Oxxxyl2 Executor OF Mrs. x, HAYS,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05

Envelopes, Xxx, high cut, cheapest
in the city, at LEDGER job pyintir (
Office.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05

Bad complexion restored with GIenn's
sulphur Soap.
hill's Hair Dye, black or brown.
fifty cents.
Pixies ToOthache Drops cure in
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-05
EDUCATIONAL.
INSTITUTE.
All Madison Street,

MRS. E. B. ARMOUR will reopen her
vi school September 18th. Drawing taught
twice a week without extra charge. Music, IS
per month. Latin, 81 per month. English
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-14
HUMOROUS.

Young man, don't marry 'sgilded
butterfly" Marry good-loolSing girl.
The butter will fly fast enough when
you get TO housekeeping Stcuben Re-
publican.
81 wish was worth $1,000, 000,"
said gentleman. what good would
it do you, for YOU don't spend your
present incomcp' inquired friend.
''Oh! ! could be economical on a larger
scalc.''
--"Alraid?' exclaimed Madame Patti,
with charming humility. when asked If
she did not fear assassination in Russia,
"not bit OF it. The Russians can al
ways get another Car, but never an
other Patti. ~
1t is quite common for boy to
misbchave when people are looking at
him, for the mere fun of shocking them.
But man is not boy. He knows bet
ter, and acts badly only when people
are not looking. -Boston Transcript.
Mr.. Robert Browning completed his
SEVENTEEN year few days ago, and TO
commemorate the event some friends
of the poet presented to him set of his
works. handsomely bound, and en-
closed in an oak case Fundamentally
carved.
Translated from the Omnibus:
Buyer-"Of the wreaths with inscrip-
tions will / one take" Selleress--
swish you the one with Rest Softly
or Upon Again-seeingP' Buyer. some
what embarrassed Oh, rather the
first-it is for my deceased mother-in-
law"
Our little Caddie. four years old,
was accused by her mother Of having
lost her memory, and the child looked
bewildered for moment, and then
light seemed to dawn upon. her, for she
exclaimed: II dess know what men,
DRY is. It's the ting fordet wiv."-
Philadelphia Progress.
IS. A. W., Parkersburg. w. Va:
s'Where will get the following books:
The Book of Common Prayer, the Lite
of Napoleon, and the Science of Geom-
etry?" In bookstore, Of course. You
wouldn't expect to get them in an In
dian mound or in cranberry pie. would
you?" Teas Sifli,ags
A cruel but aesthetic father was in
the habit Of beating his children "black
and blue' before the arrival of Oscar
Wilde in this country. Now he ham
mers them until they are "greencry-
gallery" Oscar has succeeded in incul-
eating lore for the Beautiful cen in
the savage breast. -Norristotca Herald.
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-14

And the interpreter is prepared 10 ex-
pand these hints TO the satisfaction of
the visitor whenever called upon to do
so. In short, the ledger of the tramp
house. with the series of ledgers to
which it belongs, contains quite his
tory of the district and its leading in
habitants for several generations.
Having ransackcd the tramp ledger
and pumped its interpreter dry on the
matters which interest him, our putter-
up pays his fee. and is then referred to
one or more of class whom we shall
term discreet tradesmcn for further in
formation. lie socks them in turn, and
the interview with one Is type Of the
interview with all. lie finds the trades
man behind his counter, walks up ia
miliarly, and requests half an hours
private conversation. The request is
accompanied by some peculiar little
gesture which warns the man addressed
of the nature OF the business, and it is
granted on the instant. The pair are
soon in the grocer's little parlor, busy
negotiating. The conversation is ex-
ceedingly guarded on both sides, The
grocer knows perfectly well the sort of
man he has before him, and the uses
to which he will put whatever informa-
ton he may get; nevertheless, il the
putter-up were to say single word in
his real character, the discreet trades
man would flame up in virtuous indig-
nation, and show him TO the door.
The visitor accordingly wells his pur-
pose under plausible excuso--as, for
instance. he is scientist whose special
hobby compels him to acquaint himself
with the domestic arrangements OF the
aristocracy, these things having so much
to do with the moral and intellectual
development of the class. The grocer
acquiesces, explaining that he has been
visited more than once by such gentle
men, the last, seven or eight months be-
fore, being sarda who held that there
was an intimate connection between the
turn of mans ideas on Indian finance
and the way he fastened his back door,
and who was collecting materials in
support of the theory. He adds that he
is always happy to further the interests
of science to the best of his ability. Then
the pair come to the point. There are
three or four houses here-aways. states
the visitor, whose architecture ia
very peculiar, and whose domestic ar
rangements are equally peculiar, as he
has heard. He has no doubt in tho
world that details would confirm his
scientific views; but how is he to ascer-
tain themp He cannot go to the heads
of families and ask for what he wants;
that were an act which no amount of
scientific ardor would excuse. Still, he
would dearly like TO obtain the infor-
nation. Tho grocer quite appreciates
the prcdicament, hints that he could
supply the want, and opines that under
the circumstances the act would be per
fect'y honorablc--nay, ever praise
worthy. However, to do thu in suita-
BILE style would take tine, and with a
tradesman time is money. Quite SO,
agrees the putter-up. and the terms are
arranged in the same hypocritical fash
ion. - Harpc,'s Weekly.
Il Al
The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1882-10-14
-, uon't the train go quickerf
We shall never get there!'

..y uon't the train go QUICKER
We shall never get therer'
Can they be bound on a picnic? think
/; but they look far too grave and
troubled for that. Are they going home
from school? but who would think of
living in desolate place like thisP /
am still puzzling over the riddle, when
my little rosy-cheeked friend. after look
ing doubtfully at me once or twice, as
if uncertain whether to speak or not,
startles me with very unexpected ques-
ton:
:. Please. when anybody grows blind,
not from blow or anything like that,
but with something growing over their
eyes, can they be made well again?"
Very often they can, when they
have good doctor; but why do you
askp''
And then the whole story comes out.
Their father. a retired Austrian officer,
has become blind from cataract; and a
famous German oculist, an old friend of
his, has taken him away to country
house among the hills between st.
Peters and Adelsberg. in the hope of
restoring his sight by an operation.
"And it was to be done last night, !"
says Theresa, the elder girl, land papa
was to start home this morning. But
we couldn't wait until he came, and he
wouldn't be able to send US message;
so we got leave from aunt to come and
meet him ourselves, rs she WASH I well
enough to go with us. He's sure to be
at ST. Peters station when we get
there"
"And his eyes viii be quite well
again--rm sure they willr' cries little
Katrina, eagerly. "Dr. Ulrich is SO
cleaver and he's cured SO many peo-
pie. and papa's such friend of his,
I'm sure he II cure him too"
II hope he will, indeed says her
brother, earnestly. Poor papa! it's
SO horrid to see great strong man like
him led about just like baby, and not
able to read any stories, or watch his
flowers coming up so nicely, after TAX
ing all that trouble with them! l a0ill
give shout if he's really cured"
There's the station!" cried Theresa,
almost throwing herself through the
window in her eagerness. land there
a man standing on the platform all by
himself Can that be papap'
A whistle, clank, a long creaking
groan, and the train comes to stand
still. But almost before it has stopped,
the door flies open, and the next mo-
ment see the children hanging in a
cluster upon a tall. fine-looking man
with thick gray mustache. while three
voices shout joyfully.
Papa! papa! you sce?''
Yes, dears, see, thank Godr' says
the old soldier, fcrvently; land when
the doctor was going to begin, | laid
your portraits beside my chair, that they
might be the first thing | saw"
There were not four happier people. |
will answer for it. in all Austria that
day; and the remembrance of that meet
ing is still among the brightest of my
travelling recollections. David Eer.