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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-06

family ofseven to win bread for, and I
need not sayit is all can possibly do
to DO 1t: During tho asst wear nv
wife and have kept careful account
OF all expenditures and | COMPARED
thOm with the tariff tables. / have ex.
eluded eyeryitem where the cost was not
enhanced by the tariff, and find that
during the year 1872 have paid 1854
more tor what has come into my house
than 1t was worth if bought in Oman
market where could buy il cheapest
| have not estimated the value of an
article as having been enhanced by
the i1ll tariff. Sugar is protected BY
hity-five to seventy. Eve PEI cent.
have put the enhanced price at 6fty
Salt is protected by sixty. four per
cent. | estimate it at fifty. Rice is
protected by one hundred and five Der
cent. | put it at one hundred I
bought two carpets protected at sixty.
eight per cent, and estimate their extra
cost at sixty per cent, Clothing Of all
kinds is protected by from fifty.six TO
seventy elght per cent. | took sixty Der
cent tor enhanced price | have tried To
be fair and just. My income from ali
sources has amounted to S225O. The
tariff has taken over twenty eight per
cent OF it and has not added one cent
to my Income. How much of this
twenty eight per cent has gone into
the Federal treasury, and how much
TO the tariff lordsI With the exception
ola little beer, two bottles Of brandy
lemons, spices, nutmegs, ard few
little items Ofwemen's apparel bought
by my wife, nothing purchased Eas
been imported, except, perhaps, soear:
and that doubt. Coffee, tea, and
tree list articles are Of course excluS-
ed. To be exact, $22 have been paid
into the Federal treasury as tax and
$632 have been paid as blackmail 10
these tariff robbers. My wife saws
thar our purchases we're Of the regular
kind, and there is not an item that
would not be down in my family
account book,
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OWING to the severe conditions OF
the weather, affecting the wires
throughout the country, we are short
on telegraphic dispatches to-day. We
presume that all business is greatly
restricted, that there is not much news
going, outside Of the weather, and that
the great majority Of people are doing
their best to keep comfortable and
avoid accidents,
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Practical Jokes.
New York Herald.

NeW l0fk lloiails
Probably not until new fool killer
is appointed who will attend to his
business will practical joking cease. 1t
may be, however, that some persons
who occasionally indulge in the
alleged pleasantly of wiliully hurting
some other person do it from Thought
lessness and ignorance rather than
total depravity. This is a very ehari-
table supposition. but it may be true.
If. then, there are such persons, they
may be open to the conviction that
their sport is not only vapid, but it ID
almost always punishable under a
sensible law against the perpetratiou
Of any malicious mischief Ii
every one who suffers by the antic Of q
fool would take the same course that
was taken by the Italian barber who
was nearly blinded the other day, the
number Of such jokes would be les
sened 1t is too much to expect that
practical joking will cease 30 long az
Carlyle's classification of the EpRlist
nation is measurably true Of all ne
tions.
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River Telegranna.

WHEELING, February 6.--River 3G
feet, and about stationary. Cloudy
and cold.
CAIRO, February G. - Arrived
Piasa, Ohio river, ram. Departed
Will S. Hays, New Orleans, 2a.m
Pia1a, below, Tam, Sleeting, raining
and cold
CINCINNATI, February 6.--River q
feet 5 inches, aud stationary. Arrived
Sidney, Wheeling. Raining and
slecting.
PITTsBURG, February 6.-River q
feet 4 inches, and falling. Cloudy aud
cool.
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Ess.E.ssG
She Thinks OF Making Her Per-
naBent Home In Americ

mime. Nilsson, said reporter, "it
has been stated in the papers that you
thought Of making this country your
future home. Is this true?"
Yes, have seriously contemplated
making my home in America, and may
do so. have no ties to bind me to
Europe, but | despiSe the ocean. |
never think Of it or a ship but that |
get deathly sick, If come to Amer
lea to live, nc money can get me to
cross the ocean again. ] have every
evidence Of friendship from Ameri-
cans and my own people, the Swedes,
and think | should be very happy
here
"Have you no iamily-nothinG 10
take your heart back to Europe, Nme.
NllSsOng
Mo; | have really nothing to bind
me to the other side of the water. /,
as you know come from a peasant
family. My father and mother who
were Swedish peasants are both dead.
am the youngest Of family Of seven
children. Seven years elapsed be.
tween the birth Of the child older
than mySelfand |. When was born,
after this lapse of seven years, the
good peasants all around my fathers
humble home said, That Rhl will do
something remarkeble--tOod or bad.
Has the prediction come true? Well,
my brothers and sisters are still alive.
They are YET peasants, fond Of
their .ree lie, and never will change.
! car understand them, but with the
change that has taken place in me by
education, musically and otherwise,
aud by my association 10 the world,
they cannot understand me. Ny Ia
home, the eo(sske in which | was
born, revere and love. have par-
chased It and placed a wall Of stone
around the old grounds and the dear
old rome that | can now zee a. il was
to me " wAen | was poor little peasant
sirl. Net a shiDele or a board shsll
BE- disturbed except By the soft toucnts
Of time. Il is my monumep. % my
dear father and mother. TnsY we're
poor, but they loved ms "a their
children, and tlipk asd sDel K a
them even now With sears ia Iny eyes
and heart. A TO Amerios, 1 thiak
Now York L. the most deiighiial ai,v
II tho world. and | wors1 ~ WY
happy it could liys lAsse
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but the great expansion Of manufac.
turing in that city during the past
year has largely retired New Bedford
buyers from the Fall River stock
market. Still, the feeling is genera
that Fall River stocks are selling very
low, and much below the value Of
similar stocks in other cities. Manu-.
facturers are hopeful OF the future
and even now think there are signs Of
improvement, while the splendid fuan
cial condition Of nearly every corpor
alton iu the city precludes the fear oi
the stocks shrinking as feariully as
they did during the latter years Of the
depression"
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Non-Raslaent Rloileo.


No. 47S0-In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn.-E 4 Meacham OF al vs.. Wm
Harvey ct al.
IT appearing from bill, which is sworn to-
i In this cause that the defendants, Wn
p Harvey and -, partners in trade, CON,
posing the firm of William P Harvey K Co.
are residents OF the State Of Illinois, and
non-resi tents of the State of Tennessee, and
II appearing from the bill that they are in,
debted TO complainants in about the sum o
$500. and attachment having b en- issued and
returned by the sheriff, levied by garnish'
ment served on 0mberg, cashier of Bank
of Commerce. II is therefore ordered thai
they make Their appearance herein, at th,
courthouse Of shelby county, in Memphis
Tenn. on or before the first Menday II
April, 1853. and plead, answer or demur Il
complainant bill or the same will be taken fol
confessed as 10 them and set for hearing
eX.parte; andthat q cory Of this order be pub
lished once . week for four successive weeks IN
the Public Ledger.
This 9Th dsy o. February. 1883.
A copy--Attest.
RI BLACK. Clerk and Master
By ] N Bradley, and NJ.
Taylor 4 Carroll, soils for compliments.
l33 lS9 145 ISL
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Let the LabOrer Read.

The proteotiouists aya seeking Ia
hoOdwiuk the wOrkingmen Of the
South inte support Of a high pro.
tectiye tariff, on the plea that his
wages are increased By such a tariff,
We give some facts which a working
pa7 ksys the New York World 70
Gently. A perusal Of them will dis.
pei any delVsian chat our people may
have fallen into on this subject.
II am workingman living on the
fifth floor of a ten family tenement Of
the far east side Of the city, wish z
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Our GrandmOthers

taught their daughters that "a stitch
in time saves nine. A pill in time
saves not only nine, but ofttimes an
incalculable amount of suffering as
we'll. An occasional dose of DR..
Pierce's Pellets (Little Sugar. coated
Pills., to cleanse the stomach aad
bowels, not only prevents diseases but
often brea IS up sudden attacks, when
taken in time. BY druggists.
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THE reduction of Polk's bond from
800, 600 to $4,000 seems to be an act
of mercy as well as oljustice, Moth
ing is to be gained by requiring such
an excessive bond that he cannot get
cut Of jail, His property has all been
attached, at least all that he has In
this country, and his bondsmen are
liable for just so much whether
he is in or out of Jail. That he is in
bad health there can be no doubt. 1t
was remarked by friends who saw him
in New York last October, that he was
somewhat debilitated. and wore look
Of care and depression. Mental
troubles had something 10 do with
this, of course; perhaps everything. He
knew that his re election was doubt
LAND that the disclosure Of Ibis deficit
would come whenever there was a
real investigation. His only hope lay
in the election of Hawkins and Leg
islature that would take it for granted
everything was right. 1t seems, how
ever, that even after the election he
iniulged in some sort of hope that
something might turn up in his favor
If he had been reelected and could
have had the same aid as on former
occasions, he might possibly have
patched up his accounts 80 as to pass
muster. At the very last moment
when exposure was inevitable he fed
from the State. When brought back
he had very little. money, and it is
doubtful whether he has any available
means except as contributed by sym.
pathetic friends. Confinement within
the walls of prison has no doubt
Affected the stump Of his
leg with neuralgia, a pc
culisrly distressing condition
felt more or less by all who have LOST
limbs or been seriously wounded. il
is not likely that Colonel Polk would
try to get out of the country again
even if given the opportunity. He is
a broken-dOwn man in every sense
and, while the majesty of the law
should be vipdicated in his case. as
we'll as that of a petty offender, il
should be done in pity aud sorrow
rather than with vindictiveness. His
punishment would indeed be as great
as any man could bear if he were
acquitted and discharged to day.
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Now RngIand cotton MlII StoeI.s

A Fall River writer says; The
auction sale Of mill stocks on Satur-
day exhibits how seriously the de-
preston in the cotton business has
deprecated the value of well known
and established corporate stocks, and
how bare the market is of purchasers.
Fall River mill stocks are actually
selling to day for less than the cost Of
duplicating similar mills II say nothing
OF their dividend prouucing capacity.
Certain Of the stocks brought as good
prices as was expected, but most 6i
thom sold. unexceptioually low. This
was the first auction sale Of the
season, but no great disposition to pur.
chase was unaffected. One ereat
markAt for Fall River stocks until
q few months has been New Bedford,
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WAL Street.

NEW YORK, February 6. .-Stpck
After II o'clock the market was
quiet, Union Pacific declined pei
cent.
Money, 81 per cent prime mer'
camille paper, 5la6 per cent; bar sill
yer, ll0l. Exchange is steady at
82i for long, and 85i for sight. Gov
ernments irregular. States dull and
without feature. Railroads dull and
firm.
Government 5s extended, 1898; As,
ll3l; As, 1871; 3s, lOi; Pacific 6s Of
W. l28
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NOTICE.

EROM and aitor thla datl Esqu'rs George
i r. Powell will occupy oiIi,e No. Madison
ksqal-e. Dockeis Of b. C. Slaughter and p /,
N. Winters are In the same ohice with I. D.
Mallory. All claims nra nply attended TO By
I =. Mallory and e, X. Weatherfofd, Depu
" Sheriff, aud Il. + Colbv, Constable, also
Poll, and Tax lit Of Sixth and Ninth
wards for 1882 l23 lH
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THE Legislature reassembles to-day,
after a recess Of some ten days, and
will no doubt settle down TO buiness
and hard work. Oae Of the FIRST
things to be done is to settle the State
debt. When we say settle we mean
not to send a committee on to New
York at public expense to confer or
negotiate with lot Of Wall street
brokers' and lawyers, but to pass
an act in accordance with
the terms Of the June platform, aud
then pass another act to raise a spe
ci6c revenue sufficient to meet the
interest on the debt semi annually.
We would suggest to the Legislature,
now that the time has come for prac
tieal work, that it would be as well to
take it for granted that all except the
State debt proper will be funded at
5O-3, and the surest way to cause the
bondholders to come in promptly is to
raise the money by direct taxation and
then say to the world that we propose
to keep on raising it. Then they will
fund under the 50-3 act. Put up the
mOney aud they will come and take it.
Otherwise nobody could blame them
for holding out and taking the chances
while longer. We have promised in
advance to pay all of the State de bt,
proper. Let us provide for that at
once. We have also pledged ourselves
to pay 80 3 on tho rest and elected a
Governor and a Legislature to carry
the pledge into effect. Now,do it.gen-
tlemen Of the Legislature, without
any more wOrls or discussion. After
the necessary bills are drawn if they
are not already, pass them with
out any loss of time OF
spread eagle speeches. This is purely
a matter Of business in fact, it is only
q formal way Of giving effect and legal
force to the expressed will Of the poo
pie There are some other matters Of
Importance. An act should BE- epassed
to relieve tho dockets Of the Supreme
Courts and to facilitate the litigation
q cases generally. The legal
fraternity will look after this. The
road law, as it exists, is farce. II
j. cumberso oe, complicated aud ir-
operative, We do not know Of q
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1T HELD MOLAsSES.
The sticky Game Two Crooks
Played for n GrOper's
Filthy Luore.

New YORK, February 4.-John Ii
VOndohlcn, a German grocer at Wash
ington and West Eleventh streets,
changed $40 note for stranger on
Friday, and in doing so displayed a
large roll of money. Soon alterward
two young men entered the store, and
said they had made bet as to whose
hat would hold the most molasses.
"Dot's holdings to me, said Dolden.
81 know noddiBg abOud such pizeness
es." But the young men were not to be
put off. They said they would pay
Tor the molasses. The grocer grum-
bled about "voolishnesses" as be took
the hat they wanted him to fill, and
went to the rear of the store. As he
returned with it to the man who held
out his hands for it, he stepped be-
tween the two. The one who took
the hat said "Well, how much does
it hold2' Before the astOnished gro
Ger could answer, he was siezed from
behind, and at the same moment the
hatfull Of molasses was clapped on his
head and pulled down over his eyes
Blinded and bewildered, he could
make no resistance while his money
was taken from him; and when be goI
the hat off and ran out on the side
walk dripping molasses, his despoilor:
were gone, He lost 1914 and the mo,
lasses.
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FOR sane.

NOTT0N sHED-I will, on SATURDAY,
" the 10th of February, 1888, al III o'clock,
At the southwestcorner Of Main aud Madison
stieets, toll TO the highest bidder for cash, the
lease on the Patrick cotton phed on Shelby
street. between Deale and Linden. Lease has
~ years to rum. all taxes and ground rent
In frst-class order. Possess on iyen on day
Of sale. +. ". .R0YSTER, Auctiobeer
IQ0 iQJ
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Letter heads, bifl heads, bills a
lading, envelopes, hand bills and evert
other kind Of lob printing executed In
the beat style and 81 the lowest prices
at the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
office and blank book pannfactoyy t3
Madison street.
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EscOrIiuR Neal and Grail.

CINCINNATI, February 6. Troops
wandering about 400, with three
pieces Of artillery, left Lexington,
Ky this morning, escortiug Neal and
Graft to Grayson.
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ELECTION NOTICE.

MEMPHIS, February z, 1898.
TTHE stockholders of the PHHFIX FIRE
i 4 MARINE ms. co are hereby notified
that an election of Sine lSI &c OFs to serve
the ensuing year will he held at the Office Of
49,, 8, between the hours o. II Am. to / pm.
IL. M NEELY President,
JOHN JOHNSON, Secretary. 100 ll0
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-06

GENERAL John P. Jones is making
arrangements for the Tennessee press
to take an excursion through Texas
next june.
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ELECTION MOTICE.

MEMPHIS, February 2, 1888
UNHE stockholders of the PHH NIX INSU.
j RANCE co. are hereby notified that an
election Of seven Directors to serve the
ensuing year will be held At the Office Of the
between the hours of II am. to pm.
II. N. NEELY, President
JOHN JOHNSON, Secretary. 1870 i40
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ELECTION NOTICE.
FFHE annual meeting of the stockholders o
i the
Memphis Gas Light CO.,

will be held at the ofice Of the company. No.
6S Madison street, Memphis, Tenn, ThURS-
DAY. MARCH let, 1888, 20 eject seven "a
Directors to serve the company the ensuing
year Election from 10 am. to l pm.
Memphis, January 81, 1873,
l2Sl5S JOSEPH CRAIG, Sec'y.
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Wilde a I'd Mary AnderSOu.
The New York correspondent Of the
Washington Star says: Oscar Wilde
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GAEF, FLEISCHMANN & co.
COMPRESSED YEAST.

The undersigned are now delivering the
above yeast, daily, to all parts Of the city.
Our customers will confer favor upon US by
yer. OPT0 SCHWILL & CO.. ACTS 1901
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e cid,
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-03-21

Heretofore it has been custom,
more honored in the breach than in
the observance perhaps, to take up a
local charter bill, and upon the in
PRODUCERS assurance that everything
contained in the bill "is all right"
"only local matter" ETC., the charter
bills are rushed through without read
ing and become laws. The next SEES
sion of the Legislature usually has to
tinker up these machine-made charters,
and everybody wonders why the char
ter ever got through in its crude con-
dition. The fact is that one could
drive yoke of steers through the
Legislature on that plan and never
encounter a hindrance. Yesterday,
however, there was a change. A city
charter bill came up (the Alpena
charter), and member in no wise
connected with the Alpena regions
began to carve that bill most artistic
ally. He showed that it contained
provisions giving the Common Council
some very great powers; for instance,
allowing them to name $500 as the
amount of fine for violation of city
ordinances. The bill was not a bad
bill, as charter bills go, but it served
well to-day in showing the fact that
charter bills sometimes need reading
closely. A case in point just now is
the Saginaw charter amendment bill.
1t has passed both Houses and now
lies on the Governors table. 1t is
now found that the bill puts proper
ty qualification on several officers,
takes away from the people the power
of electing their Supervisors and gives
it to the council of the city Of Sagi-
nav, and does various other things
that nobody outside of Saginaw ever
dreamed it was doing, There is an
idea flying about that the Governor
will not sign the bill.-News.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-03-21
LIQUOR Business.

The records in the Auditor-Gener-
ais Office shows that there were 20
liquor dealers in Alpena county in
1881, and 80 liquor dealers in 1882
an increase of three. The taxes paid
by liquor dealers in 1881 was S5,037,
and the liquor tax in 1882 was $1,000
AN increase III tax Of $4,053.
In the State of Michigan there were
% counties which had more liquor
dealers than Alpena. There were no
liquor places in Montmorency and
Oscoda counties. Kalkaska county
reported no licenses, and no reports
were received from the counties of
Benzie, Chippewa, Isle Royal and
Macinac. Wayne heads the list with
1877 liquor places; Saginaw county
comes next with 257, and the third is
Bay county with 1911.
In the whole State of Michigan
there were in 1881 1910 liquor deal
ers, who paid tax of $3.50, $50, and in
1882 the number of dealers was 81
444, who paid tax of S913,6S4. This
report shows that in 1882 there was
decrease of 526 liquor dealers as
compared with 1881, while $685.
was the increased amount paid for tax
in 1882 over that of 1881.
When the tax law went into effect
1872, there we're, according to the in
ternal revenue reports, 6,444 saloons
in the State, which, when compared
with 1882, shows that, under the Ii
cense law, the number of liquor places
has been reduced 3,000-that is, there
were 5000 more liquor places before
the license law than there were last
year.
Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1883-03-21
The Farmers and the Tariff.

An Illinois farmer thus presents
the agricultural view of the tariff in
communication to the Chicago Tri.
bune;
1t is possible that the farmers OF
Illinois are little rusty on the tariff
question, for we fail to see where we
derive any benefit from "high pro-
lection" as advocated by the eastern
manufacturers. Here is what puzzles
us: l wish to buy a suit of clothes.
A merchant from England calls and
offers me a suit for S15, and agrees to
take in exchange wheat at 81 BUSH
ell. A merchant from Massachusetts,
calls and asks me $50 for the same
suit, and will allow me but 81 per
bushel for my wheat. | should be
thick headed not to trade with the
man from England, and use the other
fifteen bushels to purchase other nee
essaries with. We understand that
the supply and demand of the world
fix the prices of our agricultural pro-
ducts; that the farmers Of Illinois
must compete with the farmers of
Russia and India in the markets of
Europe; and, after being forced to
compete with the farm laborers of
those countries, we cannot understand
why a special tax of fifty to 100 per
cent. should be laid on us farmers to
assist the manufacturers of this coun-
try in competing with the manufact-
urers of England. The theory of
excepting our money at home" may
be all right as theory, but, after
having balanced my accounts on the
LIST of January, and finding that, after
having settled all of my manufacture
and store bills, / have hardly enough
left to carry my family through the
winter, il is no consolation to read in
New York paper that the WOODEN
manufacturers Of the east are paying
dividends of from thirty to forty per
cent; and that the ironmasters doub-
led their capital out of their protect
ed profits; and that the protected lum-
Der barons of Michigan are growing
enormously rich, while their workmen
continue poor.