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Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-11-11
VALUABLE FARM

OF the said deceased, lying in Back Geek
Valley, three miles southwest of Toma-
hawk Springs and one mile east ofJone5
Spring adjoining the laa1s Of Michael
>tuckey, Teter Riner and Others This
Farm contains
Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1882-11-11
NEW ADVERT SEMENTS.
Executors Sale
or A.
CHOICE r FARM

A 5 Executor of the lac Samuel Stuck
"A ey, deceased, ! VIII offer at public
sale, in front Of the Court bobse in Mar
tius0urg, w. Va. on
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Tennessee BOnds.

We have not reported the current
rumors Of the street in regard to these
bonds, because they bave been manip.
ulated as speculative stock by parties
who should not be connected with
such operations, if the officials. and
judiciary of State are to be REGARDED
as honest therefore we have nothing
to say Of late negotiations, especially
as they are exactly like preceeaine
ones.-N. Y. Banker and Broker
April 18th, 1882.
1t will be seen from the toreeoinO
extract, that the so-ealled proposition
is not regarded as genuine, and in NO
sense based upon foundation upon
which a settlement could be built
The Banker and Broker sees throngh
the whole system of Butler, the Fund-
ing Board and others, and places the
negotiation upon speculative manipu-
lations. 1t knows that the people
will never submit to the 60 AS and 6
absurdity, and that it will only enable
the Funding Board to obtain large
fees, the spectators chance to make
a little upon the rise and fall of bonds
and that will be the end of it. DEM
ocrats take warning ; do not be be-
gulled in supporting such a measure.
Nashville World.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

THE Legislature assemblies to day.
This is the third extra session, if we
have not lost the count. The Cover
nor delights in extra sessions and the
members of the Legislature take to
the new system very kindly. There
are eleven subjects named in the call
which may be considered, and no
more until the Governor calls another
extra session. He was in such hurry
to call this one that he actually sent
in his message before the last extra
session adjourned. Seeing his mistake,
however, he recalled it. The first
subject mentioned is the settlement Of
the State debt, and that question is
really the cause Of this session.
The people, however, are becoming
disgusted and outraged at the repeated
attempts 10 make political capital
out Of this issue, and are expressing
themselves vigorously in various parts
of the State. 1t is the prevailing
feeling that this Legislature has no
business tinkering at so-called set
Element any longer. The people have
been misrepresented and outraged
until they are impatient and out of
temper. Meetings have been held in
different counties, giving expression
to public sentiment, and but one sen
timent has been heard: that is that
the Legislature should adjourn and
go home. Every county should speak
out and give the speculative bond
holders, manipulators and lobbyists,
as we'll as the Legislature, fair notice
that any settlement likely to be made
by the present General Assembly will
be upset by some means and utterly
repudiated. No settlement not based
on the voluntary consent and the good
faith of the people is worth the un-
signed and useless bonds now lying
idle at Nashville. Let the people
assert themselves and speak out in
tones that will be understood even at
Nashville.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
WIN. DEAN & CO., l8e POPLAR ST.

usages in the Senate, one of which is
that in the city or place where Sen
ator gets his mail no postmaster shall
be confirmed without the consent OF
the Senator. Moore, HOuk and Pet
tibope had done all they could to
break Mrs. Thompson Of her office.
Senator Harris eventually believing
that forbearance ceased to be virtue,
went to President Arthur, with whom
he is said TO be on quite iatimate
terms, and gave him bit Of his mind
in terms expressive of very supreme
contempt for the action Of these gem
tlemen from Tennessee, and having
fully explained the situation, assured
the President he would have to insist
on defeating the confirmation of
Moore's brother-in. law, if nominated.
The consequence was that Mrs.
Thompson was returned, much to
Moore's chagrin.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

SPEAKING Of the action taken at a
meeting held at Columbia last Mon
day in regard to the State debt ques-
ton, the Nashville American of yes
terday says.
The proceedings may be regarded as
significant of the prevailing popular
sentiment over the State. In the last
election. and in any previous election,
no county than Maury was more pro-
nounced on the subject of State credit.
It's vote for Hon. John V. Wright for
Governor, in the last State election,
was the last emphatis attestation Of
this. In the personnel Of the meeting
at Columbia yesterday this shade Of
Democratic opinion was especially
represented. It is very manifest that
the practical debt paying view in
Maury county favors permanent. dis
posal OF this State debt question, aud
looks to this consummstion through
the effort to unite the Democrats OF
Tennessee in the coming State cleo
ton. At all events, the Democrats OF
Maufy, irrespective Of past views,
seem TO have little faith 10 a settle.
ment by The present General Assem-.
bly,. that promises to be a permanent
settlement, and thate mere temporary
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
COL. E. ". COLE
Resigns the Presidency Of the
{. T., Va. G. Ga. R. R.
General Samuel Thomas His
Successor.
Special to NashYills World.


New YORK, May 1.-Colonel E.
w. Cole. President Of the East Ten
nessee, Virginia & Georgia railroad
system, resigned to-day. He thinks
that the property ought to be handled
from the central Office at Knoxville,
and does not wish to change his home
from Nashville. His resignation was
only accepted at his earnest solicita-
ton. He remains a Director, and
holds his interest in property. The
best Of feeling exists between him and
the other Directors. The Directors,
in expressing their regrets that the
health and inclinations of Colonel
Cole should induce him to take
this step, expressed by yresoIution their
pleasure in assuring him that if his
circumstances could so change after
rest, that he would again feel willing
to assume the head Of their affairs,
that so long as they held their present
positions they will welcome him back
to their leadership. Geneal Samuel
Thomas was elected by the Board his
successor, and Major Henry Fink
Vice President and General Manager,
with headquarters at Knoxville. Gen
eral Thomasis an able and experienced
man, well qualified for the position,
and with Major Fink makes strong
management.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Father and Son.
Vicksburg Herald.


The kindness of Robert I. Lincoln
the present Stalwart Secretary Of
War, to the people of the Mississippi
valley in their great distress causes the
memory to revert to the day when his
father fell. When President Lincoln
died the South lost intellectually. He
was killed in the zenith Of his power,
and, as President Garfield said, I'm
the fullness of his fame" There are
few in the South who do not believe
he would have been, bad he lived, the
true friend of the Southern people;
few who do not believe the South lost
more than the North by his death.
We believe be would have made
It his chief object to build up the
States that suffered so much from
war; We believe be would have
he, | ID the wounds with kindness, and
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Good OnfIOOk.

CHICAGO, May 3. = The Tribune
says: Our crop dispatches this morn
ing contain reports from all points in
Nebraska, Minnesota, Dakota, Wis
cousin, Illinois, Kansas and other
States. Generally speaking, the out
look, in all these is very promising, in
spite Of the cold and backward spring,
which has retarded farming operations
in many localities.
A story having gained considerable
circulation that unemployed lobbyists
and newspaper correspondents had
raided the distillers who recently
wenC to Washington and levied black
mail, A. H. Shuleldt, the President Of
the National Distillers' Association,
who is the head and front Of the move
meDt to urge the passage Of
the pending whisky bill, makes
a most complete and fat footed denial
thereof.
The Inter-0cean Of this city
makes the mysterious but
prominent announcement that
an advanced step in railroad.
ing has been discovered which
will revolutionize that science and put
itthirty years ahead Of the age. 1t
says that the officials Of six of the
largest aud most enterprising roads
in the Mississippi valley have
been for two days discussing the
new improvement, the nature Of which
will be announced in a few days.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Cable.

LONDON, May 3.-The Times saws
if Parnell will makeuse of his liberty
to restore order, there may be an i'm
mediate improvement in the condi-
ton of Ireland.
The Standard asks if amnesty is
to be real, on what ground can
Davitt be excluded from it.
The Post says the government il in
despair, and like desperate men it is
playing desperate game to retrieve
her fortunes.
ST. PETERSBURG, May 3.-Lieu.
tenant Danenhower was received by
the Emperor and Empress yesterday.
and to-day he will visit the Grand
Duke Alexis, the Minister Marine and
General Ignatieff.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
The Red Man.

DENVER, May 3.-The Republi-
cans Santa Fe special of the I'd says:
The following dispatch was received
here at midnight: "A column of
Mexican troops to-day, under COM
mand Of Colonel Garcia, met the In
dians'that Colonel Forsythe is in pur-
suit Of, and killed seventy eight of
them; also taking thirty-three pris-
ouers. The courier bringing this
information from Deming arrived
on foot, being pushed so hard
by the Indians that ne had
to abandon his horse, barely escap-
ing with bis life. He reports about
one hundred Indians between Doming
and TresjOuinas."
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

won the mass of the people by stand.
ing like stone wall between them
and revengeful oppression.
His son lis chip off the old block"
He has let no opportunity pass to
show the Southern people Kindness.
He has worked side by side with the
Southern Governors for the relief Of
the overflow sufferers, and we are sure
Robert 7. Lincoln has been praised
Oftener since he has been at the head
Of the War Department, by Southern
ers than by Northerners. His thought
full kindness. and his attention to the
details, are proof that his heart was in
the work. The Southern people are
impulsive, warm hearted and ex-
tremely grateful, and we are correctly
expressing their sentiment for the
Secretary of War,
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Wall Street,

New YoRK, May 3, lla.m.-Stocks
are active and irregular, but in the
main are firm with the exception Of
Norfolk x Western preferred, which
is | per cent lower. Operations are
about equally divided as to whether
the market is for purchase or sale.
Wheat-lasc higher, but steady and
fairly active.
Money, 2 and 3 per cent, Prime
mercantile paper, 5 to 81 per cent;
bar silver, ll43 per cent.
Exchange--Steady, 81 for long and
89i per cent for sight.
Government bonds-Generally high
er States nominal.
Railroads-Irregular.
Bonds Irregular; skies extended,
l0li, fves 1Il2, AIS 1159. fours 1903.
Pacific skies, of '95, 1874.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Captain Jack Killed.

CHICAGO, May l.-Some time ago
the Indian Department requested the
military to arrest Captain Jack, of the
White River Utes, who was iu the vi.
cinity OF Fort Washakie, Wyoming.
The arrest was made April 20. Shortly
after he made his escape, and fed to a
tepee near by, whore he secured a car.
bine, and killed Sergeant Richard
Casey, of the Third Cavalry. A noun
tain howitzer was then fred into the
tepee, killing Jack Instantly. Captain
Jack was a notorious leader in the
Thornburg and Meeker massacre, and
was a very dangerous and very bad
Indian.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

special Oor, nashville American.
WASHINGTON, April 25-If any
Tennessee Democrats remain in the
departments or retain a postmaster
ship it will be because Moore, Houk
aud Pettibone have been unable to get
them out or they have escaped notice.
Moore is said to be a specialist in
that line, nothing affording him so
great 4 pleasure as to strike off the
official head Of a Democrat, however
competent he or she may be to dis
charge the duties of the Office. He
is not always successful, however, and
got very badly sat down on in the
Memphis postmastership. He was
very anxious to have bis brother-in-
law appointed in Mrs. Thompson s
place, and with the help Of
Houk and Pettibone a tremendous
effort was made to have Mrs.
Thompson removed for that purpose.
Itwould doubtless have been success.
fu but for the vigorous and deter
N ned opposition Of Senator Harris.
There are a great many conventional
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

adjustment through this medium, for
merely personal ends, will result in
no satisfaction to the people or tend
to the final settlement Of the question.
They are opposed to action on the
question BY the present Legislature,
and In this we are inclined to believe
they echo the prevailing sentiment of
the people all over Tennessee. They
instruct their representatives in the
Legislature to oppose the measure,
and we very much mistake the temper
and sentiment of the Democracy if
other counties do not similarly in
struct their representatives.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
DEATHOF HORACE MAYNARD

The general public will be startled
to learn that Hon. Horace Maynard,
distinguished politician and public
man, fell dead at his home in Knox
vile this morning. he was about
sixty-four years of age and was
up to the last in the enjoy
ment Of his usual health. Mr..
Maynard was born in Massachu-
sets, and received fine classical ed
ucatien. He came to Knoxville when
still young man, and engaged first in
school teaching and then in the prac-
tice !of law. When he started out
he walked the judicial circuit
from one county to another.
He was an old line Whig, and elected
to Congress as such. When the war
came on he passed through the lines
with Andrew johnson, and remained
North until it was over. After the
war he served in Congress several
terms, making in all about sixteen
years. He was appointed Minister to
Constantinople by President Grant,
and filed that position for six years.
He returned two or three years ago,
and was candidate for the United
States Senate when Howell E. Jack
son was elected by the present Legis-
lature, a little over year ago. His
last public appearance was at the
State Republican Convention at
Nashville last week, at which
he was not conspicuous. Mr..
Maynard was Presbyterian and
before the war was an Elder in that
church, fact often made prominent
in BrOwnloW's Knoxville Wing. His
moral character was never assailed.
He was a man of scholarly tastes and
and was intellectually the ablest man
Of his party in the South.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Shot for HurrobiDy.

INDIANAPOLIS, May g. Edgar Chit.
tenden, son of DR.. Chittenden, Of An
derson, Ind, was shot last night and
probably fatally wounded, by man
named Ryan, defeated candidate for
town marshal. The cause of the
shooting was Chittenden hurrahins
for the successful candidate in the
presence of Ryan. Three shots were
fred. Ryan has been arrested and is
in jail.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
The Sale of Ashland.
Lexington Press


The home of Henry Clay was sold
on yesterday by the Executive Com
mittee of Kentucky University to
Mai. Henry Clay Mcdowell, of Frank.
lin. The property contains 324 acres,
and the price is $4,000. Of course
the transaction is subject to the ap-
prOval of the Board Of Curators, but
where it is SO manifest)y to the best
interests Of all concerned to sell the
property there is no doubt that the
curators will confirm the action of the
Executive Committee. By this sale
the property passes back to the Clay
family, where it should be. Mrs.
Mcdowell is the grand daughter of
the Sage of Ashland" and the only
surviving child of Col. Henry Clay,
who fell at the battle OF Buena Vista,
leading the Kentucky troops in that
gallant charge in which SO many
brave men fell, turning the tide Of
battle and changing defeat into vic.
tory.
Ashland was purchased some fif
teen years since by the citizens of
Lexington at a cost of 500, 900 and do.
mated as a site for the Agricultural
and Mechanical College, but owing
to failure to properly secure the
title and long era of bad manage
ment, the property has been diverted
from the object for which it was pur-
chased, and the proceeds of the sale
will 60 to pay debts contracted under
the Bowman regency.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
CHATTANOOGA.
A Personal Encounter Between
Major g. G. CODnOr and Col.
j. N. Walker.
Special to The American.


CHATTANOOGA, May LIN Mani
tou's letter from this city, published
in to-day's American, was a paragraph
referring to Colonel j. N. Walker.
formerly Of Columbia, Tenn, and at
present clerk at the Read House.
This afternoon, shortly after reading
the paragraph, Colonel Walker at
tackled Major ConnOr, striking him in
the face with his cleuched fist, and
then picking up brick, struck him on
the head with it. inhicting a slight
flesh wound, The two then closed
and fell together, and after a short
struggle were separated. Major Con-
nor is not seriously injured. Colonel
Walker escaped without any bruises.
There is considerable excitement over
the affair.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

The Dresden Vidette and the Jack
son Dispatch do not seem to be in IA
vor of Constitutional Convention,
and regard the whole thing as trick,
the result Of an alliance between
1908 Democrats and Republicans.
The Vidette says; Hawkins, the
so-cslled Governor Of Tennessee, has
again called the Legislature in extra
session to settle the State debt, and
the Legislators will make a pack of
fools of themselves if they attempt it. "
Verify, the people do not set much
store by the present body of law.
makers, and the best thing that they
can do when they assemble, will be to
adjourn and go home.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

PROFESSOR Frank NJ. Smith, of
Knox county, whose headquarters, as
General Agent Of E. H. Butler & Co, s
school book publications, have been in
Memphis some time, has been elected
by the State Board Of Education of
North Carolina to conduct the State
Normal School, at franklin, this sum-
mer. The session will open Monday,
june 26, and close July IS. Professor
Smith conducted the State Normal
School at the same place last year He
also founded the State Normal School
at Knoxville, in this State, and pre-
sided over it three years before any
aid was obtained from the Peabody
fund. After that it was placed under
the auspices of the University Of Ten
nessee, and continued with great
success. The selection Of Professor
Smith as Principal of the North Caro-
lima State Normal School at Franklin
is a high and we'll deserved compli-
ment. He is an earnest and effective
worker in the cause Of education, and
few men in any profession arc doing
more good for the South than he by
his quiet and we'll directed energy.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

--LATEST specials from Washington
indicate that the Senate bill:for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi will find
its way to the House table, and be
left there while the Thomas Bill will
become law by incorporation with
the River and HarbOr Bill. This will
give the great river but about $4,000
900 to be expended below Cairo, and
only $5,9OO,OOO in all.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03

THE Nashville American says; Hon.
John M. Fleming, of Knoxville, has
formed an editorial connection with
the Louisville Courier journal.
Headquarters for the present at Nash
vile. Our Louisville contemporary
could not have con6ded its Tennessee
bureau to abler hands.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Horace Maynard Dead

KNOXVILLE, May 3.-Hon. Horace
Maynard died suddenly this morning
Of heart disease, He got out of bed,
telling his wife he felt unwell, and
dropped dead on the floor.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Heard at Columbia in OPpOsi-
ton TO 6O-4-5-6.
speoial 10 tbe world.

opeolal 70 Jne W ofld'
COLUMBIA, TENN, May / TO. day
being the first Monday, our little city
was crowded with citizens from all
over the county. County Court met,
and at II o'clock, the hour set for the
meeting of the County Democratic
Executive Committee, mass meeting
was called, the committee seeing that
every district in the county was repre-
sented. The courtroom was filed to
overfowing and much enthusiasm was
manifested. The meeting was ad-
dressed by Colonel A. s. Oolyar, Major
j. 7. Williamson, G. w. Stockard and
others. No figures were set on the
State debt, but the voice ofthe meet
ing was unanimously, without a dis,
senting voice, in favor of harmony and
opposition to any settlement by the
present Legislature. The day passed
off quietly.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
HUNTSVILLE.
Severe Injury TO the Wheat Crop
by Army Worm.
Cor. Chattanooga Times.

Cor. Chattanooga Times.
HUNTSVILLE, May There il
nothing more true than the Scriptural
saying that, mo man knoweth
what day will bring forth" Only
Saturday | was telling your many
readers of the splendid crop prospects
in Madison county, especially in the
matter of wheat and oats. Presto
There is change, a startling discov-
cry, and our farmers stand face to face
with the utter loss of their progressing
wheat crops. Something like the army
worm has made its appearance in Ger.
tain fields, and is causing great dam
age and uneasiness. Mai j. r. Ste
vens, the popular president of the
National bank, has a field of wheat in
the suburbs of the city. for which he
would not have taken $500 last week.
Yesterday there we're countless thou
sands of the worms upon it, and he
regards his crop as almost an absolute
loss. Mr.. james B. Whites, a we'll
known official connected with the
Memphis & Charleston railroad, has
a field of wheat and also one of oats,
almost adjacent to that of Major Ste
veDs. His wheat, which was remark
ably fine, is being destroyed as rapidly
as his neighbor's, but strange to say,
the oats have so far escaped. An of
these fields lie southeast Of town. |
have no complaint SO far from any
other quarter, except from Captain
Humes, who has | am told, discov-
cred the worm in some wheat north
of town. II is sincerely to be hoped
that the evil is local.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
NIinnesota.s Rishon Retter.

MINNEAPoLIs, May g. Bishop CD.
Foss, who has been seriously i'll for
some days with malarial fever, is much
improved and, though still confined to
his bed, is considered out Of danger.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Supreme Court,

pptcIaI 70 Tue Ledger'
JACKSON, TENN, May 3.-Farrew
VS.. Shaw, Davis & Co., affirmed.
Isaacs VS., Taxing District and Sam.
olson VS.. Taxing District, ,remsnded for
trial
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-05-03
Election Of Directors.

VHE stockholders Of the Security Building
ana Loan Association are notified that an
from II N. to pm. for Seven Directors, 70
serve for the ensuing 12 months, at the Office
OF the Secretary, No. f6l Second street.
655s JONES. sec'y.