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25S Second Strust

to-day, 1000 bales. Receipts, 1926 bales;
Charleston, 678; Mobile, l906; Savannah.
500; Norfolk, 1887; Galveston, 800 Tots
at six ports, %, 466. bales. Expected, 500
bales.
NKw YoRK, December 20, 1877 nm
Cotton dull. Ordinary, SIC; good or
binary, 99Eci low middling, l0c middlinT,
lOxci good middling, i0sSc; mid3linx
fair Ike; fair, l2c. Futures dnll but
steady ut 10 10 points below Mondays
closing figures, as follows Deliveries fsr
December, l086a-.-; January, l0S7a
1923 February, l0b7al068; March, 10. IA
1913 April, l0e7al0s IS; May, l1.0lailoe;
june, ll.liall.l6; July, II. 25al1.2I: Az
gust ll.Siall.S6 Sales to-day. l00W
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-12-26

Gas Fixtures and Globes
in the latest designs,
J. A. BAILEY a. CO.,
Corner Union and Second SIS.
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Holiday Good


Heating and Cooking stoves,
cheapeat On the city. A.k0hIbry
a 90, 10 Main street. 87t
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Weather Notes

The lowest temperature here thi
morning AT sunrise was $50. Up at Bis
marck i was l4' below zero, and al 81
Paul % above
The polar wave is approaching straigh
from the north and was over the nortberr
lakes at noon. Il will pass over the lower
lake region tonight, and reach the Ohio
valley tomorrow and snow and rain will
fall IN the Missouri valley this afternoon
while II will clear of'and grow colder tber,
tomorrow morning.
The entire country north of the Ohio
river 70 the lakes, and from the Mississin.
pi valley 10 central Virginia was visitad
by great snow storm last Saturday NM
Sunday. II Is reported 10 have range
from TO 8 inches In thickness, and VA
heaviest in Virginia and Pennsylvania
The Ohio river and tributaries are nov
getting the tene6t Of II In melted form
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ADDITIOEAL COrToE.

NEwORLEANs, December 20, 1880 = m.
Cotton quiet Middling TO-, Sales
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STOLEN

OKIPF-slO reward for Il. or Sa5 for Il and
- thief delivered at Peters Landing, one
cypress skih, about q feet long, painted led
inside and out; whaling blue; bears the ramo
Of "Lillie,' One side sun checked.
Sit W NJ PETERS.
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TAKEN lip
WANTED

ONE mule and dray. owner can get sane
" BY applying at Ill Main street ana pay.
ing charger. esp6
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Fine Furniture at Reduced Prices.
FOR CHRIsTMAs.
Cheval Glass Bedroom Suites,
Desks, Secretaries,
Revolving Book Cases,
Rockers, BED Lounges, etc. etc
Ames, Beattie & Co.,
500 Main street. 36s

Memphis, like all other cities, has few
croakers among themerchanis who always
complain, no matter how much trade q
holiday may bring thom. Other merchants,
however, rejoice when they DC. well and
never indulge in croaKing. =. A: Wright
& Co., the hattera. under the Peabody
enjoyed Christmas trade Tar beyond
their expectations and are correspond
ingly happy. This Il tho result OF carry
ing full lines OF eeasonaple Booaa OF ~
grades At low prices and Of advertising II
the LEDoKn.
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sTRAYED or sTOLEN.

e. RBWARD-strayed or stolen. one dark
o. bay horse, about Il hands high, year
old; saddle marks and rough shOd. e5 FOL
bis return 10 rs Nance street. N 10l
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boa sAIE 0R HENI
LOST.
AMusEMENIS

NgG. 2lth, liver colored pointer dog, an,
u sEers 10 name Of ''Kene;" when lost hae
collar with nams on. Return to = Bal
strest and Be rewarded; I w clsmsnt;. 10y
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FoR sALE

MO. l65 Union. story brick.
~ POntotoc, near Causey, 5000.
Webb place. near Mc6ebee station. good
house, rooms and acres ground. e2l09.
white place, on Boulevard. house rooms
nice grounds. acres.
No. a6 Union street, two story brick, ele-
CANT neighborhood; very cheap.
Desirable building lot on Boulevard, q
acres fronting on Boulevard next west and
adjoining Craig's RAINING through 10 Union
avenue. win sell part or all
Two nice cottages on Linden street,
Nos. N3 Z5 Poplar street; on long time.
Three lots in Stephens sub div. near Curve
Store Oh Main street, bet. Union 4 Monroe,
ttOrehOuse on Madison. bet. Front 4 Main
Dwelling on Madison. near Fourth street
Tenement 7g Main street, on lot b6xl5.
Desirable building lot,cor Adams DUNLAP
Beautiful lots IN Preston subdivision. Coufi
extended.
stock farm Of 100 acres. all In 6ne grasses
place divided into lots, good improvements
near town.
$50 acres, miles out on Pigeon Roost road
81 Marshall avenue, cottage. for Sl009.
Cottage near COZ Forth and Looney, for 500
Nos. lB rs Causey. near Vance, sll00,
A al
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CHEW
KO-KO Tu1u
Chewing Gum,;;-

The best and most fragrant on the
market. Nothing but the very finest
materials are used in its manufacture.
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The Owl Invites bis Frlends

To free dinner tomorrow, from II
to o'clock ,. N. lO5
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" Nm EHs
k00 C0L0RED laborers 10 70 70 Califor.
OOO mia. Call at 81 Madison. 100
GITUATI0N as travelling salesman, by A
~ gentleman who has had many years ex-
perienee and can show best Of letters from
former employers and give best city refer
ences, Prefers whisky or tobacco, 10 the
loW'r river trade. Address p, care LEDGER
ONCE, orsee Mt. 3. Whitmore. IS IS
INTELLIGENCE OFFICE, an MAIN ST,
j eeryants Of every description white or
coloredl furnished at said olhce on applioa-
l0n or AZ short notice. Laborers for rail-
roads, leyees and public works Plantation
and farm hands, mechanics, etc. Orders for
house servants out Of city must Be accompa-
MED BY cash and transportation arranged Tor
businesi chances, information solicited aud
impaired. llA W G0aHAN.
I'O A. old frames with our IMPERIAL PEB-
BLks, Size per pair. MuLToRD 4 90.
GAtP, FLBISOHMANN 4 co.'s Com
~ pressed Yeast makes the llzhtest bread
FOR sale BY all hrst-class grOeers. Try H. De.
llyered fresh daily 70 all parts Of the city. I
CRATE SITTING.
VI W B. Jockey. 30 Second. 30 lis
you wsnt good shoes can on Hirses.
sehWab q Co, t6 Beal. l6t
To exchange % acres good land near CITY
20 Front street, III
IL you want cheap shots call on BITsch,
4 sehWab 4 60. &c Beal. ld
old Eold watch cases, silver. eto-. oaSh /.
" N. @ULfOkD 4 CO., SSs Main. 2sl
1000 TONS east cas-: A.. nd ESI Is.s. ~ ron
al, feathers and hides. old maohinery bonSbi
and sold; Send for price list, address
SAMUEL GABAY, Agt and Com. Merchant
w 70 l8 Shelby street, Memphis, Tenn. sSI
| GkCQND-HAND CLOTHING. Good pTieo,
~ paid. Call on or address ''SN'
at kLIAs eHAUL. lO6 Main 1t.
IGENTs' Felt, Straw and Manila hat
VI cleaned dyed and roahaped In NE latesi
,syles a. D: STA lNBACK, iss Second. 81
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Surname OF the Royal Family.
[Whltelaw Review.l

lWnlIelaW review.
AT dinner, the other night, the con-
versation lapsed, as it sometimes will
lapse with the best, into questions
hardly distinguished from conun-
drums. A celebrated historian was
present, and l put the question to
MIN which know has puzzled a great
many people at differ ent times, What
is the surname of the royal family 7"
Guelph, of course" That is the
usual answer, and it was the histo-
rian's. L ventured to suggest that,
although the royal family are Guelphs
by descent, her majesty's marriage
with Prince Albert, of Saxe-Coburg,
must have the effect which the
marriage of a lady has in all
other cases, and that the sur
name of the present house must
he the prince consort's. But what
is the surname of the prince consort's
family? Simple but staggering. No
one knew. All guessed, and all were
wrong. happened to have looked up
the subject a few months ago, so /
knew the name was Victim" OF
course no one had heard it before.
Every one smiled at the horrible idea
of the Guelphs being reduced to Wet
tins. The point was referred to Theo-
dore Martin. You are quite right"
said the graceful .biographer of the
prince consort; Victim is the family
name of the house of Saxony, to whom
the dominion OF Saxony came in the
year 1430. The king of Saxony and
the minor princes of the house of Sax
Ony are therefore all Victims, or Ger
man, Wettiner."
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Especial to The Statesman

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. 5.-Augustus
Schwartz, grocer, had $50 stolen by
a thief from his cash drawer last night,
while in the rear of his store.
L. Franks pawn shop was also rob-
bed from the till last night, while
Franks was at supper. No arrests.
The receipts of the recorders court
for the past seven years, ending Janu-
airy l, were $51, 493.65.
Rev. Stanislaus Woyciechowsk, pas
tor of st. Michaels Catholic church,
died from consumption last might. The
bishop and clergy of the church here
were at his bedside at his death.
He was much beloved by his flock, and
will have large funeral tomorrow,
at which the clergy of the city and the
neighboring towns will be present.
Mrs. j. Weber, for attempted MUIR
der of Mrs. NJ. Il. Field, last Wednes-
day, by shooting at her with revolt
yer, came up this afternoon before d
justice, and was dismissed for want of
sufficient evidence.
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quences of this state of affairs. the
pope said, there is but one means
the counterbalancing influence of real
religion and the union of all persons
who believe in the divinity of Christ"
King Humbert, of Italy. being
proud OF his Craftsmanship, was ex-
ceedingly mortified at Vienna to find
that his animal would not let him get
into the saddle, but had to be sent
away, and the king rode in a carriage.
A discharged groom now confesses
that he logged the horse terribly, at
the same time showing him some
white plumes like those worn by the
king. This had caused the difficulty.
Abdul Hamid. Sultan of Turkey,
says he isn't afraid of anything on
earth; but he nevertheless constantly
fears assassination, and makes his at
PENDANTS nervous by carrying two re-
volvers wherever he goes. The sui
tan has grown so suspicious that when
servant knelt at his feet the other
day, and thrust his hand into his
breast to draw out a petition for leave
OF absence, he shot him dead. Only a
crumpled piece of paper was found
in the clenched hand where the
brave monarch expected to dis
cover a deadly weapon; so the
affair was for a time kept secret.
And this unterrifed person, too.
rides closely guarded in a bomb-proof
carriage to his devotions in the
mosque. The Turkish army murmurs
with discomfort which frequent dis
mission and changes fail to allay. The
people are disquieted, and everywhere
In Constantinople, it is reported, there
are signs of violent outbreak. The
sultan never ventures from his palace
except on Fridays, and looks with sus-
picion upon his most intimate asso-
ciates. The death of Abdul Aziz has
left its impressions upon Hamid.
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PALESTINE, Jan. A desperate at
tempt was made last night to burglar
ize the safe in the Texas Express of
flee at Jacksonville, containing about
$500. The robbers must have been
frightened from their work, as this
morning the safe door was found
bored ready for blasting, and burglars
tools scattered around.
Kitchens u Son, OF Troupe, have
been closed by attachment of Dodd &
Co., st. Louis. Other creditors are
Half, Weis s. Co., Galveston, and Ull-
man & Lewis, Houston. Liabilities
5000, assets $1,000.
Leslie, assistant superintendent OF
the International, goes to Galveston
to take charge of that road under the
new management.
The first direct changes in the man.
agement of the Galveston, Houston
and Henderson railroad took place to
day, by virtue of circular order is
sued from st. Louis, signed A. A. Tai
mage, general transportation manager
The duties of j. Herrin, superintend-
ent International, D. A. Haynes, SUI
perintendent motive power and ma
chinery, and II. H. Sessions, master
car builder of the Gould system, and
their assistants, were extended over
that property. There is no doubt but
very numerous changes will be made
in the personel of the employees of the
Galveston road, as its consolidation
with the International will render the
services of many of them unnecessa-
ry, the accounts, ETC., having hereafter
to be kept in st. Louis.
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lSpecial to The Statesman.l

WACO, Jan. ga novel case was
argued before the county court to-day.
Some time ago young man was ar
rested, tried and fined in the city re-
corder's court, and an appeal was
taken on the plea that under the city
charter no such officer as a recorder
had any existence. 1t seems that I'M
der the legislative charter of Waco
the duties and powers of justice of
the peace are conferred on the
mayor, no provision being made
for any other office having judi
cial powers. Subsequently, the
city council created the office
of recorder, withdrawing judicial
functions from the mayor and trans
ferring them to the new officer. The
county court decided the case against
defendent on the grounds of the tech
nicality not touching its merits, and
the matter will probably go before a
higher court.
G. E. OVERLY, the young man who
attended suicide yesterday, is all
right again, and says he has concluded
rather to bear the ills of an unrequited
love than fly to others he knows
not of.
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Especial to The Statesman.

RoCKDALE, Jan. 5.-The Knights of
Honor elected Enoch Breeding die
tatOr, Scion Joynes vice dictator, and
j. n. Redding, j. j. Huntington and
Scion Joynes trustees. DIR. w. Il.
Kennard was. elected representative
and ]. w. Perry alternate to thegrand
lodge. A public installation, adj
dresses and a ball will occur on the
18th inst, to which neighbOring
lodges are invited. A big time is an
ticlpated.
The masque ball by the Rockdale
Social Club was one OF the finest balls
over gotten up in this place.
The different committees deserve
much credit for the manner in which
it was conducted.
Weregret to announce the departure
of Mr.. Leo Wolfson, Late of this place,
who is at present in business at Lam
paSaS.
Owing to the continued bad weather
business has fallen off considerably
notwithstanding there has been 14,0l3
bales OF cotton shipped from this point
since September l, 1882.
Miss Tenie Thomas, daughter of
Judge Thomas, of Austin, is visiting
friends in Rockdale.
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lSnecial TO The Statesman |

PARIS, Jan. 5.-Isham Scott, who,
with several other negro accomplices,
murdered an old and decrepit butcher
named Joe Spears, about three years
ago, was hanged to-day. There was a
large crowd in attendance, and the
execution was public, as the Jail is so
constructed as to make private execu-
tions impossible. The gallows was
erected on the spot where Spears was
killed. Scott made no confession, as
sorting the only part taken by him was
to hold one of the murderers' horses.
He claimed he was ready to die, and
sure of heaven. He dropped eight
feet and was pronounced dead in
eighteen minutes. ,Scott was con-
victed by pleading guilty on several
charges of horse stealing after he was
arrested for murder, and was assessed
thirty years in the penitentiary, of
which sentence he served about one
year, when he was indicted for Spears
murder, taken back to Paris Jail, tried,
convicted, and finally executed.
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The Story OF Robin Adair.

A young Irish physician of the
name of Robin Adair, walking to Lon
don, stopped at an inn where there
was a countess whose leg had been
broken by the overturning of a stage
coach. His proffered services were
accepted, and he performed his work
so skillfully that she insisted he should
not leave her. Ultimately she took
him to London and introduced him to
the best social circles. He be-
came enamored of an earls daughter,
and taught her to sing EILEEN
Aroon." Afterward he was parted
from her by a cruel fate. She con-
nected his name with the song, using
it for the refrain, and at length the
song, as thus changed, was picked up
and carried by a celebrated tenor upon
the English stage, where it met with
the same instantaneous success as did
+" Home, Sweet Home" The tune
of Aud Lang Syne" had its origin in
a Catholic yesper hymn. yankee
Doodle" was originally a sword
dance, and "John Anderson, My 10
john" and "Cruiskeen Lawn" were
the same tune written in little differ
emit time. This tune was that OF an
older song than either, which ran,
There wa little man who loved a
little maid" and before that, in the
time of Queen Elizabeth, it was
dance
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THE COURTS.
District Court.

Judge A S. Walker, presiding; James p.
Hart. clerk.
Paddock Hawley iron company VS..
John A. Webb q Bro; Judgment for
plaintiff for Sl034.22.
John II. Pope VS.. Capital State Fair
association and LOOMS Il Christian;
judgment final by default; S59l6.59.
The following cases were set: +. e..
and l.. III. Fans VS.. city water company,
set for January %. This is suit for
$4,000, brought by the parents of the
little boy who was drowned in the
reservoir last winter.
ALTA Barker ct al VS.. Swante j..
Swenson ct al, set for March 6.
Virginia Nelson ct al VS.. T. j.
Wheeler ct al. set for February q.
w. ID. f. Pyle and wife VS.. 1nterna-
tionM and Great Northern railroad
company, set for January "a.
State VS.. Il. A. Horvin ct al (three
cases), set for January IL.
Lucy Phelps VS.. Henry Phelps (col-
oredl divorce case, set for January 10.
Martha Washington. VS.. George
Washington (colored), divorce case,
set for January 6-to-day.
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Especial to the Statesman. ]

WACO, Jan. A. This morning Z. G..
OVERLY, for several years mail clerk in
the Examiner Office, attempted sui
eide by shooting himself through the
head with pistol, but one of his
friends knocked his arm up and the
pistol missed the aim, lodging ball
in the ceiling of the room. A few
hours later OVERLY swallowed heavy
dose Of arsenical preparation, but his
family being on the lookout for some
act OF desperation. took the alarm and
telephoned for physicians, who came
III time to save his life. OVERLY is a
young man OF good habits and highly
esteemed, and the rash act is a great
surprise to his friends. He says he will
still end his life by suicide, anu
has no desire to live. The
cause OF his depression is said to he
love for a handsome young lady
whose parents violently oppose their
marriage, though the lady herself is
favOraDIy inclined. Elopement seems
to he the proper remedy, but lovers
modes are not always sensible, and
OVERLY preferred tragic and senSa-
tlOnal solution.
AT a meeting of the bar association
to-day, resolutions were adopted sug-
costing changes in the Judiciary
articles of the state constitution as
follows: A supreme court for
civil causes only, to consist
of nine judges, divided into
two sections, the chief justice
presiding over either section a court
of appeals of three judges, with GRIM
inal jurisdiction only; all appellate
and district judges to be appointed by
the governor, Tor term of eight
years; county judges to be elected by
the people for term OF five years, and
jurisdiction of the lower courts to be
extended. The resolutions will be
sent as memorial to the legislature.
The colored Baptist church at Har-
rison station, on the Central, was de-
strOyed by an incendiary fire this
morning.
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[Snecial to The Statesman l

SAN ANTONIO, Jan. Airs. J. H.
McLeary is reported little improved
to-day.
Several petty thefts and attempts at
burglaries have occurred in the last
twenty-four hours.
Mrs. Starr visited the residence of a
former waiter girl in her husbands
restaurant, yesterday, of whom she
was jealous, and drew a dagger and
stabbed the girl in the shoulder. She
will appear before justice about it.
The safe robbers who blew up
Franks safe here and robbed it, lately,
are evidently working Laredo, as
they drilled two holes in the door
of MIR. Demands safe, blew it
open and stole $500 in cash. AS they
escaped clerk, who was sleeping in
the store, awoke and sent a pistol ball
after them.
Edward Gabbatt, religious mono
maniac of English nationality, strayed
from Laredo recently and is roaming
around the country. A reward is Of
ferred for him by his friends.
- Chief of Police Shardein is much
improved from his recent illness, and
Will soon be out.
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PERSONAL.

United States Treasurer Gilflian
has bought 5000 acres of land in
Florida
The bishop of Manchester classes
ritualism and the salvation army I'M
der ''SensuOus religion"
President Potter, of Union college
is talked of for the presidency of
Trinity college, at Hartford.
z. HI. Fillmore and wife, of Gin
cinnati, celebrated their golden we'd
ding this week. They were each six
teen only when married.
DR.. Tanners wife is now living in
Paris, having obtained a divorce from
her husband because he compelled her
to adopt vegetarian diet.
The Rev. DIR. Crosby is said to have
declared that every trace of Evange-
list Moody's revival in New York
city was "obliterated within year
after its close"
DR.. Hamilton, referring to his allow
ance for services at Mr.. Garfield's bed
side, said on Saturday: 81 have ac-
cepted it precisely as 1 would accept
whatever is offered me by bankrupt
debtor"
In Poland, the Rev. Mr.. Alf, Bap-
fist clergyman, has so often incurred
the displeasure of the civil authorities
by the way he has conducted his re-
lgious services that he has been in
jail thirty times.
Miss Marian Gilmore, the soubrette,
has signed contract to perform for
five years at salary of one hundred
dollars week and one-tenth of the
profits each season, and she agrees not
to marry during that time.
Joseph Holt, President Buchanan's
postmaster general and afterwards
secretary of war and judge advocate
general, lives in strict retirement in
Washington. He is a childless wild
over, and is very seldom seen in
public.
General Henry r. Jackson, presi-
dent of the Savannah Sesqui-Centen-
NAL committee, has issued an address
to the people of Georgia inviting them
to join the citizens of Savannah in
celebrating the one hundred and fifth
eth anniversary of the landing of
General Oglethorpe and his English
colonists.
The home of Robert Toombs is
close by the spot of his birth, at Wash
ington, Georgia, and he has never
lived permanently elsewhere. Fifty
years ago." he said recently, Il drought
my wife to this house, a bride, and
here we have lived all these years.
We have been blessed more than the
most, and thank God for it."
The Right Rev. Edward W. Ben
son, bishop of Truro, and primate-
elect of England, is man of medium
height, robust, fair, with a strong
lined face, large chin, thin lips, and an
air of mingled firmness, endurance
and mildness. In preaching he is
forcible and earnest, but makes no at
tempt at snowy eloquence. In con-
versation he is fluent and most cor
dial
Pope Leo XIII. is said to have de
clared recently to n. de Giers, the
Russian minister of foreign affairs
that society was menac ed by the enor.
nous increase of infdelity, the spread
of agnostic literature, and by the un.
scrupulous attitudes of the chiefs OF
the revolutionary party, who had In
simulated themselves into the favor OF
the people by making mendacious
promises. To meet the terrific conse