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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-01-12
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Waterfalls for Watchmake r and Jew
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Tax Sales.

nELINQUENTg TAKE NoTICE-On the
IL Fist Onoay t. January, 1852. at
the courthouse door in the Taxing District of
Shelby county, Tennessee, / will offer for
Public Sale the Real Estate belonging to de-
linquent lax Payers. for State and County
Tax of 1880. which real estate can be seen
upon my booksi in my Office.
= L MCGOWAN.
County Trustee.
This LIST day of December, 1881. 81 1893 I9 lis
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State Lottery COMPANY

Incorporated in 1865 for Is years by the Leg
stature for Educational and Charitable pur-
poses-with a capital Of 81 200, 000-to whichL
added.
By an overwhelming popular vote its fran
ehise was made a part of the present State
Constitution adopted December I'd, AID, 1879.
Its Grand Single Number Draw
scales or p%ostpones. Look ct the following
distribution:
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MISCELLANEOUS.

Cold rains.
Business dull.
The river will be rising by to.mor.
row.
Jas. D. Parker for Cincinnati Sat-
urday.
The City of Baton Rouge arrived at
St. Louis yesterday.
The local packets which left last
evening had fair trips out.
The james W. Gaff, bound for Gin
cinnati, passed Louisville yesterday.
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LOTTERY.
Particular Notice.

All the drawings will hereafter be under the
exclusive supervision and control Of GENE
RAILS g. 7. BEAUREGARD and JUDAL A.
EARLY.
A SPLENDID OPPORTUNITY TO
n WIN A FORTUNEi
SECOND GRAND DISTRIBUTION, Glass b,
# New Orleans, Tuesday, February IA,
1882 -l41st Menthly Drawing
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.
BOATS LEAVING Toby.

BOATS LEAVING today.
For Arkansaw City, Dean Adams..5 p m
St. Louis, Ste Genevieve.........5 D m
Hatchie river, Fulton. ..... ......5 D IN
ARRIVED.
Steamer Dean Adams, Arkansaw City.
Ste G%eneyieve, st. Louis.
James D. Parker, Cincinnati.
DEPARTED.
Steamer James Lee, Friars Point.
Coahoma, Osceola.
Hard Cash, White river.
IN PORT.
Dean Adams, Ste Geneyieve, James D.
Parker, Fulton.
CONDITIONS OF THE RIVER.
At noon to-day the reading of the
gauge was % feet 6 inches, or 80 feet )
inches above low water mark, being a
decline of | inch during the past "a
hours. The Ohio at Pittsburg rose II
inches, with II feet 3 inches on the
gauge. At Cincinnati it rose 81 inches,
with Al feet 5 inches on the gauge. At
Louisville it rose % inches, with 16
feet 10 inches in the canal. At
Evansville it rose IA inches, with
81 feet9 inches on the gauge. At Cairo
it rose II inch, with 80 feet Z inches
on the gauge. The Mississippi at St.
Louis fell 5inches, with - feet 7inches
on the gauge, AT Vicksburg it rose 2
inches, with 3S feet 7 inches on the
gauge. The Cumberland at Nashville
rose 5 feet, with Al feet 6 inches
or the gauge. The Tennessee at Chatta-
nooga reese 4 inches, with 90 feet 10
inches on the gauge. Red river at
Shreveport rose l inch. with 13 feet
8 inches IN the gauge. Arkansaw river
is stationary at Little Rock, with 3 feet
4 inches IN the gauge. White and St.
Francis rivers continues at a good stage.
RECEIPTS PER STEAMERS.
Per Dean Adams, from Arkansaw
City-66 bales cotton, 4 bags seed cot,
ton, l28 SKIS cotton seed.
Per Ste. G%enevieve, from St. Louis
328 bbls flour. 10 bbls meal, 50 SKIS
oats. 325 SKIS bran, 1lO3 SKIS corn, 81
head hogs, 10 bales cotton, 8 bags seed
cotton, 1864 pkgs sundries.
Per James D. Parker, from Cincin-
nati-967 bbls potatoes and apples,
544 boxes canned goods 30 bbls
whisky, 10 bbls vinegar, 22l bales
straw, 80 bales hay, $50 empty oil bar.
reis, l76 bars bdls iron, 62O pkgs sun
dries.
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n. WHITMUkaE,
Publisher and Proprietor

Entered ut the Postofice in Memphis, TeKn.,
as s%ecnnd-class matter. Y
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CONSUMPTION.

1 have a positive remedy for the above disease: BY
rs use THOUSANDS of cases Of the worstkind and Of long
Standing have been cured. Indeed, so strong Il nv
faith in It's efficacy, that l will send TWO BOTTIFS
kkkBi together with a VALUABLE TREATISE on
5ns dlsehse 70 any sufferer. Give Express md Pc ad.
Pess. OR. i. A. SLOCUM, ISL Pearl st., New York.
mAAA A YEAR and expenses to agents.
NH Outfit free. Address II. d.
81 1l9 div
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.

'niRvflIe and Nashville Railroad
tCity Time.) LEAVE. lRRrys.
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CAPITAL PRIZE, esO,OoO.

1851 Prizes, amounting 10 ....................S1lO,4O 400
hesponsible corresponding agents wanted
at All points, to whom liberal compensation
will be.paid.
Fer further information, write clearly, Civ
Ing full address. Send orders by express or
Registered Letter, or Money order By mail,
addressed emily to
n. A. DAUPHIN,
or NJ. A. Dauphin, at
No. 2I2 Broadway, New York,
Or No. 6 West Court street, Memphis. Tenn,
N. B.-Orders addressed to New Orleans
will receive prompt attention.
The particular attention Of the public is
called to the fact that the entire number Of
the Tickets for each Monthly Drawing is sold,
and consequently all the prizes in each draw
ing are sold and drawn and paid. W&sI41
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LEAVH. ARRlVn.
City time) - -
Nail and Express, daily ~ Is pm. 349 Am
Fast Mail d Exp'ss,d'ly 6 81 am. 8 10 pm
Somerville Accom'dat'E
daily Except Sundsy),.l 4.25 PM $40 Am
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JAS. SPEED. Ticket Agent.
A. Y. STEVENS, Pass. Agent.
287 Main Street.
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LEAVE. ARRIVE.
Nail 4 passenger, daily ---
Except Sunday.--....l 400 pm 800 am
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LRAvE. .RRIvH.
Now Orleans Mail, daily 1876 pm. $50 am
3ardis Accommodation,
daily Except Sunday $50 pm. $40 Ann
Freight train daily (ox-
cent Sundayl.....m..m..l 6.3 en-, $50 Pm
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
CONDENSED KILOGRAMS.

In the United States Senate on the
Goth resolution for the repeal of the pre-
emption law was offered. Asubstitute for the
| tobacco rebate resolution was reported. The
House resolution for recess for the holt
| days was voted down. The Civil-Seryice
| bill was laid aside and amendments to the
| Agricultural bill were adopted. In the
| House, a resolution providing for a rebate
on tobacco stocks from the date OF reduction
of the tax was reported. A minority reso-
luton opposing reduction OF the tax was
reported. The army bill, which appro-
PIRATES S24, 200, 600, was considered in Com
mittee. Twenty five more leaves of absence
were granted.
A BAND Of forty brigands made sud-
den attack upon the town OF Ahuacatlan
Pueblo, Mex, the other day, and by dis
play of firearms overaWed the inhabitants,
who fled terror-stricken to their homes.
The brigands siezed and bound the Mayor,
Justice and Aldermen, and carried them
away captives, intending to hold them for
large ransom.
AT Hartwell, Ca, few days ago,
two friends, Joe Davis and Bill Henley, got
very drunk, when Davis drew his pistol and
shot Henley, killing him instantly. Davis
was Jailed. Both we're men OF families.
PETER EPPENDoRF and NJ. Stager,
two farmers in good circumstances, went
to Dyersville, Iowa, the other day with
load OF hogs. Meeting in a saloon, they be-
gan drinking together on a. wager, and re-
NAMED at it several hours, when they start
ed for home, after taking in an enormous
amount OF liquor. Both were too drunk to
know what they were about, but the horses,
with better sense, went straigt home, on
reaching which Eppendorf was found in the
bottom OF his sleigh. stone dead.
+ BoNToUx, the President, and FEEDER,
the Manager Of the collapsed Union Gener-
ale, at Paris, France, were sentenced to
five years imprisonment and fine of 1900
francs few days ago.
The ex-Empress Eugene wrote to
Romher the other day requesting him to
convey to Marseilles the; park and castle
which the court decreed belonged to her.
The ex-Empress says she believes she is
carrying out the wishes Of the Emperor.
FIFTEEN persons injured by the re-
cent explosion in ast,car4 ridge factory at
Mont yalerian, France, have since died.
The trouble at Singers Steel-mill at
Pittsburgh, Pa, was settled a few days
since by the meters accepting reduction
Of 81 per.ton, and their helpers agreeing to
submit to reduction Of per cent.
HENRY JAMES, SR., the philosopher
and metaphysical, an associate of Greeley,
Emerson and Thoieau on this side of the
Atlantic, and OF Carlyle, Mill and Tennyson
on the other, died few days since.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
A Boiler Explosion.

CANTON, ILL.,, December Is.
At about ten minutes past seven o'clock this
morning a deafening sound was heard and
buildings throughout the city shakenfrom the
foundations up. causing the people to rush to.
their doors to learn the cause of the unusual
occurrence In a very short time afterward
the tire-bell sounded an alarm, aud denee
volume of smoke and steam was observed
over the extensive agricultural-implement
works of the Parin s. Orendorf Company,
located on Elm street, in the east parl of the
city. 1t was at once inferred that the shops
catastrophe that had just occuired.
Three large boilers, which supplied the
mandatory with motive and heating power,
had explode f.scs ttering death and destruction
and completely demolishing the brick engine
and boiler room. The extent of the calamity
could not be seen from the street, the boiler
house being located on the south side of the
north wing of the building. which is three
stories high. The force Of the explosion tore
out about forty feet of the brick wall of the
three. story section the brick and debris fall
Ing directly upon the wreck of the engine and
boiler room, and breaking all the windows in
the north side of the building.
3 In the ruins could be seen the bodies OF some
Of the workmen, and it soon transpred that
which WIS promptly on hand, soon extin-
guished the flames that had burst forth IN the
ruins, end, with the assistance of hundreds of
citizens, commenced the mournfu task of re-
moving the dead and wounded as rapidly as
they could be got at. Six lifeless bodies were
removed. and three more were taken out be-
fore life was entirely extinct. Two of the lat
ter did not regain Consciousness. one of them
dying while he was being carried home,
another living but short time after his re-
moval to the Office of the company, and the
third, who was conscious for several hours,
expired at four O. clock hisafternoon, making
the total number of deaths from the explosion
nine.
The stopping of the works throws between
200 and 800 plen out of employment, most Of
whom have families dependent upon them for
support
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
MISCELLANEOUS.

TIE Legislative bribery cases at Co.
lumbus, O., were finally disposed of few
days since. Representative Wright was &C.
quilted and nolle entered in in the case Of
Representative Block.
On the report Of Special Agent Burke
the Commissioner of the General Land Office
at Washington the other day cancelled loo
timber culture entries and 100 pre- -emption
filings made in Douglass County, Dakota,
by F. Lecoca, as attorney, the same being
fraudulent.
The officers of Bellevue Medical Col
lege, in Boston, were arraigned for using
the mails for fraudulent purposes recently.
was decided that the institution had
issued diplomas in accordance with the laws
Of Massachusetts,, and the defendants were
discharged.
The heaviest wind and snow-storm
for fifty wears prevailed at Twillingate, N.
F.. for forty eight hours on the 10Th. TWEEN
ty-two vessels were wrecked in Green Bay,
Loss OF life was feared.
AT q meeting 11of the Western Distill-
ers' Association held in Cincinnati, o., the
other day. 1T was decided to assess q tax on
every busheI OF corn mashed up to forty per
cent. Of the capacity to pay for the export
ing surplus, and allow rebate of twenty
cents per bushel for every bushel under for
ty per cent OF capacity.
Al, Loughrea, Ireland, a few days
since. number of laborers paraded the
streets demanding work or blood, declar-
ing they were starving. They surrounded
the residence OF Bishop Duggan, who dis
tributed money to them. Great distress
preyailedin the town.
The other day the United States SUI
preme Court, in denying writ of habeas
corpus to General n. NJ. Curtis; held that
the law prohibiting the assessment of Gov
eminent employees by Federal officers, for
political purposes, is clearly constitutional.
THE Northern Pacific Road sold q
tract of land adjoining Bismarck for $50, 900
q few weeks ago. The purchaser plated 1t,
and sold $75, 900 worth of lots from it the
other day in less than two hours.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
ON the evening of the 10Th one of the

ON the evening of the 10Th one of the
seyerest earthquake shocks ever felt at Con-
cord, N. H., occurred. The shock was like
| heavy explosion or of some heavy object
falling. In one building the shock was suf-
ficient to extinguish the gas. 1t was also
felt at Pittsfield, Great Falls, Manchester
and other places. The shock lasted eight or
ten seconds.
PRELIMINARY preparations for rend-
ering the Weser navigabIe for sea.going
vessels from Bremerhaven to Bremen, Ger
many, were recently finished. The work
was estimated to cost 100000 marks, and
would probably occupy six years. When
completed it will give an immense impetus
to trade between Bremen and New York.
In the Australian colonies statistics of
viticulture for 1880 and 1881, recently COM
piled from the Government records, show
that in South Australia there were 4, 337
acres of vines, producing 50O,95 gallons of
| wine; in Victoria there were 1924 acres OF
vines, producing 574, 143 gallons of wine. In
New South Wales there were A, 724 1-2 acres
OF vines, producing 5S4 ,2s2 gallons Of wine;
and it is predicted that these figures will be
more than doubled in few years.
A FEW days ago the North Chicago
Rolling Mills at South Chicago, one of the
largest in the country, which has been par
TALLY closed for some time, shut up all de-
partments. The reason given is inability to.
get coke for use in The furnaces. The pro-
prietors state the mills will probably resume
work early in January.
In New York City recently S. M.
Pike & Co., extensive tea merchants, made
an assignment without preferences. The
liabilities are upwards Of 500, 900; assets
unknown. j. Mckinney, of the firm OF
Baker & Mckinney, made an assignment.
Liabilities, S97 600; nominal assets, $4,000;
actual assets, $4,000.
AT Chicago the case of Mrs. Scoville,
adjudged insane recently and then granted
a new trial, was the other day stricken
from the docket by agreement. It was
reported the unhappy couple were reunited.
AT Rochester, N. Y, the City Bank.
which was rated the third strongest in the
city, closed its doors a few mornings ago.
There was said to be deficiency amounting
to $500, 200. Specnlations in stock and oil by
the President, Charles e.. Upton, it was re.
ported caused the suspension.
SUITS in ejeetment have recently been
brought by J. E. Mcconnell, assignee in
bankruptcy OF ex-Mayor Blackmore, OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, to recover all that ground
upon which stand the United States Capitol
building, the White House, Treasury build
ing, Navy and other Government buildings,
and hundreds of fine dwellings and business
houses, as well as thousands OF acres in
Georgetown, ID. ca and Washington Coun-
ty, Pa. Ex- Mayor Blackmore was said to be
a descendant Of the original owner of the
property.
A LAWYER named Sutphan, of New
York, recently took into his employ young
man named Walter 7. Shelley, who repre-
sented himself unmarried. Suphan gave
Shelley deeds to property valued at $4,000
intending it to be reconyeyed, and then it
turned out that Shelley was married, and
his wife claimed dover in the properly.
Shelley disappeared. ,,
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
GRIMES AND CASUALTIES.

ENGINEER PETERS, Postal Clerks
Wharton, Hollingsworth and Goebel were
killed by 9 collision on the Pittsburgh, Gin
cinnati & st. Louis Road near Kings Sta
! tion, thirty miles from Cincinnati, O., q few
days ago. An elephant belonging to q
theatrical troupe was also killed.
BIZ 3 great fire in Canton, China, re-
Gently, eight hundred houses were de-
stroyed and many lives were lost. including
fremen burned to death. The Viceroy Wis
tied the scene with a body OF soldiers to
prevent robberies, and fierce fight ensued
between thieves and citizens. Two fires Id
Foo Chow consumed ABOUT 200 houses each.
Five lives were lost. s W
Al Minneapolis, Mimi, q fire in the
Barton block few days ago destroyed
property valued at $50, 900; Insurance, $7o,-
600. Ne 5
A YOUNG son of j. w. Usellon met
With serious accident while skating on the
river at Wellesville, o., few days ago. He
picked up q piecesof phosphorus and put it
In his pocket. The terrible stuff soon
burned his hand, leg and side in q horrible
manner, and was slowly but steadily eating
into his side. Physicians feared the case
HVonld prove fatal.
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
News from Everywhere.
CONGRESSIONAL PRocEED1NGs.

DEC. Reconsideration of the Civil
service bill was resumed in the senate.... In
the House, the Post Office bill was further de-
Dated, and the clause in relation to the re-
auction OF letter postage was adopted.
DEC. 18-In the Senate the bill to repeal
discriminating duties on goods produced east
of the Cape of Good Hope was passed. Sew
eral amendments were offered to the pending
Civil Service bill. A number of bills were in
The Indian Of t 5
made brief statement of it's provisions. The
estimates for the year, he said, were st, ,000
The bill q as It came from the House app a
200. The amount appropriated last year was
900. The Bankruptcy bill with amend
ments was reported and recOmmitted. Out
OF respect to the memory OF the late Repre-
sentrtive Orth the Senate adjourned. .....I In
the House,a resolution to allow rebates in
case the tobacco tax was repealed was re-
ferred. resolution for adjournment during
the holidays was defeated-yeas los, nays l23.
A resolution imposing fine of fifty dollars on
members for absence during the holidays was
adopted. House then adjourned out OF re-
gpect for the memory Of the late Representa-
tive Orth.
DEC. 19.-In the Senate number of new
bills were introduced. Consideration of the
Indian Appropriation bill was resumed and
several amendments were agreed to. The bill
extending the time for the Withdrawal of dis
t1llers' spirits from bonded warehouses was
taken up and number of amendments
agreed to. The House resolution for holt
day recess was referred. The Civil Service
bill was taken up. In the House a number
of bills were introduced and referred. The
Army Appropriation bill was reported. A
resolution for a holiday recess from Dec. % to
Jan. was adopted-yeas, 127; nays 10I. Bills
were introduced and referred To prevent
Federal office holders interfering with the
freedom of elections; to prevent the importa-
tons Of adulterated teas; to amend the
anti-polygamy law. The Civil-Service bill
was then considered in Committee of the
Whole. M s8sss # s54 85
Dec. 19.-seyeral bills were introduced
and referred, among them one for the admis-
sion of Utah as State. The Consular and
Diplomatic bill was passed, and consideration
OF the Civil-Service bill was resumed and a.
lengthy debate ensued.. =. In the House the
bill permitting army officers to hold Office in
the territories and the Post-otfice Appropria-
ton bill were adopted. Fifteen leaves of alb
sence were granted
- IS < - ( I -
St. Landry democrat., 1882-12-30
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL,

REPRESENTATIVE DLovE S. ORTIZ,
Of Indiana, died on the 10th, aged sixty-six
years.
The poet Whittier celebrated his
seyenty-f birthday on the 18th. He
received many tokens from friends in differ
ent parts Of the country aud from England.
In the last election the vote Of Cali
fornia, exclusive of the small County Of Mo-
doc. appears to have been: Stoneman, Dem
ocrat, 9O,554; Estee, Republican, 67,034;
Mcdonald, Prohibition, 5,479; McQuiddy,
Greenback, 996, and scattering, II. The
total vote (without Modoc) is 1854, 0S0, against
164,226 with Modoc) in the presidential
election, when Hancock had so, 426, Gar
field 80, 34s, and Weaver 1892.
The Governor of Idaho, in his mes
sage to the Legislature, calls attention to
the fact that in several counties Mormons
vote and hold office.
THREE leading Peruvians have been
sent to Chilli for refusing to pay the latest
assessment. ss
ALL the political prisoners at Dam
ietta, Egypt, have been released.
THE eminent French designer and en-
graver, Victor Florence Pollet, died few
DAYS ago.
The death Of James Lyons, an octo-
genarian OF Richmond, Va, who was mem
Der Of the Confederate Congress, was an
nounced a few days ago.
VICToR JoUANNEAULT, whose death
at GAINESVILLE, Ill, was reported, few days
since, was graduate of the University of
France, tutor in the royal household at
Brussels, Catholic priest in New Orleans,
and q teacher OF Brigham Young's children
at Nauvoo. For the past thirty years he led
the life OF merchant.
AN early settler in the lead-mine region
of Illinois, Major E. Fl. Gratiot, brother
OF Mrs. Elihu B. Washburne, died Of appo-
p!exy at Platteville, Wisconsin, the other
day.
A FEW days ago Governor Porter, of
Indiana, ordered that special election for
successor to the late Congressman Orth be
held January 9th.
The Government was everywhere sue
cessful in the elections for Consuls General
In Spain recently. 81
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couple. The proceeds to be expend-
ep in carpet for the church.
Barnet.
The grinder in the pulp mill burst,
but fortunately there was no one Sc
riously hurt. Mr.. Reyes was struck
on the shoulder by flying piece of
iron, while some distance from the
machine. 1t will be a couple of
weeks before they will get the mill to
running again.
East Hardvvick
The hay crop is very nearly, or
quite an average one.
J. R. Delano is charging and i'm
proving his barn upon the farm.
The school at the Center, Nellie
Hancock teacher, closed last Friday.
DR.. Amasa Ward, Capt. w. Davis
and A. P. Collier were delegates to
the district convention, and were Po-
land men.