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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
MISCELLANEOUS


Pleasant to day.
River rose z inches.
Quiet at the landing,
Joe Peters for ArkansAw river.
The upper Ohio river continues to
decline.
Josie Harry for White river to-
morrow morning.
Lew Briggs is freight clerk Of the
steamer Belle Shreveport.
The Piasa is due to day with tow
OF rocks for paving purposes.
The cotton carrier Helena passed
Vicksburg yesterday with big trip.
The Will Kyle was expected to
pass up this forenoon for the Ohio
river.
The D. r. Powell will DO due up
tomorrow evening bound for st.
Louis.
At Yicksburg the stage Of the river
is sufficient to admit all boats reaching
the city landing,
The Ste Genevieve left st. Louis
last evening for this port, and will
arrive Monday morning.
The Ohas. Morgan is the next 20"
Line boat due down. She passed
Evansville yesterday afternoon.
The funeral Of the late Captain
Daniel Howard will take place at jet
fersonville tomorrow afternoon,
The Golden Grown for Cincinnati,
and the City OF st Louis for st Louis,
will leave New Orleans this evening.
The Vint Shinkle arrived at Cincin-
natl yesterday, and leaves there this
evening on her return trip to this
port.
The big Henry Frank will be due
here on Monday and is announced Ia
leave on Tuesday evening for New
Orleans.
The government steamer Mississip
ri, with the River Commission, passed
here yesterday on one OF their excur-
sion trips,
Henry Fogle, formerly a clerk on
the river, died Thursday morning al
the Riverside Hotel, Louisville, o.
consumption.
Captain Darraghs new towboat r
i A. Speed will como out from The
| Ana.- I'll. 4
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17

IN front Of tho courthouse door, between Il
o'clock m. and clock y M, 10 the hiEhost
bidder, for cash, the following lot OF ground
lying and being In tho city OF Memphis,
Tennessee, tO-Wit; The southeast corner and
part ollot No sl,as laid Of on the map OF said
city,.at the northeast iniertection Of ChlekA.
ono. story frame cottage. Bald lot ls bounded
a. followsi Beginning at the intersection on
Ohickasaw aud Auction ttroat'; thence north
with the east side Of ChlekasaW street 81 feet
~ inches; thenoo east and parallel with
Auction street 30 feet, thence southwardly
Auction street and thence 10 the BEGINNING,
Equity Of redemption walyol, and the
title believed 70 be good, but will sell and
convey ~ trustee only.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
Trustees sale.
Monday, December Is. Issa.

DY virtue Of trust deed made 10 me Feb
ID ruAry 20, 1880 Of record In the Registers
ofice Of Shelby county, In Book 1871, page 70,
l will sell On
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
NOn-ResIdenI Notice.
NOnsKesiienI nOlee.

No. 6020-In the chaneery Court Of Shelly
county, Tenn. IS NJ Lewis, by next friend.
etS. vs Mason Hines ct al.
| 4 appearing from sfidavlt and Sheriff.
| return IN this otuse tfat the defendant
August Hines Is a 7, ident OF the State Of
Mississippi and non resident Of the State OF
Tennessee.
II Is therefore ordered that be make bis
appearance herein, at the courthouse of Shell.
b. county. In Memphis, Tenn, on or before
the hrst Monday in December, 1888, and plead,
answer or demur TO compliments bill or the
same will be taken for confessed as TO him
and set for hearing ex-partei and that copy
Of this order DO published once a weeE, for
This the lst day Of November, 1883.
oopy-Attest;
r. ], BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By NJ Bradley, d o. AN.
NJ Heath. sol. for compPE So 80 65 n
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17

Commonwealth
For Nc. Louis

ST, Louis and New Orleans Anchor Line
For Cairo and 81, Louis-Tho steamer
City of Cairo, So
VIII leave sne Elevator Building AZ anove,
SUNDAY. November 18th. at 10 AM
rosorvinE the right 70 pass all Landings the
Captain may deem unsafe.
For freight or passage apply 70
OLHALL, Pass. Agent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
hlvEH INTELLIGENCE,
noArs LKAvINa TO-DAY.

BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
For Paducah, H A Tyler............12 m
4" ST Francis river, Maeready..6 p m
" Arkansaw river Joe Peters......6 p m
" New Orleans, City Baton Rouge.6 p m
BOATS LEAVING TOMORROW.
For Vicksburg, Commonwealth. 10 a m
Cairo. City Of Cairo. .. .,.......l0 a IN
" White river, josie Harry .........l0 a IN
ARRIVED.
Steamer Macready, st Francis river
" Thomas Sherlock, Cincinnati
DEPARTED.
Steamer James Lee, FriarsPoint
Coahoma Osceola
Thos. Sherlock. New Orleans
IN PORT.
Macready, II A Tyler, Joe Peters
STAGES OF TIE RIVERS
Memphis-l4 feet 2 inches on the
gauge, or Is feet inch Lbove low water
mark, rise of G inches during the past
"a hours.
Pittsburgh feet 8 inches, decline
Of inches.
Cincinnati-l6 feet 10 inches, decline Of
4 inches.
Louisville-7 feet inches, decline
of inches.
Evansville-l5 feet inches, a decline
of 8 inches.
Cairo % feet 6 inches, a rise Of Il
Inches.
St. Louis-l7 feet inehes,a decline Of 0
inches,
YicEsburg-2O feet 2 inches, rise OF
4 inches.
Nashvine-l2 feet inches, decline Of
II inches.
Chattanooga feet 10 inches, and sta
tionary.
shreveport-ll feet Q inches, a decline
inch.
Fort Smith, foot inches, and ris-
ing,
little Rocks feet 10 inches. decline
Of 10 inches.
st Francis river is rising slowly,
White liver continues at good boat
ing stage.
ID MISCELLANEOUS
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
Texas and 81. LOHis Railroad
aro-.o,, ppt1 pnrfTv -

BLFTNLEY. Ticket Agent.
STEVENS, Pass. Agent.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17

DUNIU LHA 1Nu AV-UNE'
For Paducah, H A Tyler.........",l2 m
" st Francis river, Maeready..6 p m
" Arkansaw river Joe Peterso,..,6 p m
" New Orleans, City Baton Rouge.6 p m
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-11-17
RAILROAD 9IMET1NELKs

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Nov Orleans nen dAhy h.tbp.p " e.m
Sardis accommodation. ! % pm ~ An
Freight train ,oar'g o'Ts 70 an S-lOp'm
loxoopt undayk-,..,.s-- I
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
Chickens in Cold Weather.

When the fowls are compelled to
roost in their own house. and have not
warmth of cattle or other stock to fall
back on at night their homes must be
built warm enough so that their combs
and feet will not freeze. Fowls that
are not comfortable and warm, can
not lay eggs for their owners. Stove
heat is not needed to get eggs in winter
but warm, sunshiny quarters, with a
varied diet of warm mush and buck
wheat, with chopped up meat scraps,
are, A feed OF wheat screenings once
day, makes an agreeable change and
wheat is a good food to produce eggs.
Five cents worth of cheap meat day
will supply thirty laying hens with all
the meat they want. The fowls should
be sorted and ali the hens that are to
be Kept through the next summer, put
with q good active, stroug constitution
ed cock, and the other cockerels and
pullets and old fowls that are to be
sattened or sold, put by themselves
and fed literally all they will eat, and
got rid OF as soon as possible. 1t will
be found profitable to put new cock,
a thor oughbrCd, with the flock every
Breeders Livestock journal.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11

"Have you got the money!" asked
Chloe, breathcssly.
every dollar Of it" said Pat
promptly.
"What made you stay so long ?"
Pat explained that he had met Cap
tain Jones and his men, who had made
him black all their boots, and thus de-
tanned him an hour.
For this service they gave him 81
Confederate note, which was far from
being an extrayagant remuneration for
his labor, deprecated as il was.
Gle didn't think / had such pile OF
money in my pocket" cAuckled Pat.
II could have paid him better for
backing my boots"
"Did you come here directly after
you left him? p
mo, Miss, didn't dare for fear he
would suspect something. | came as
soon as | could. Here's the money,
and I'll bid you goodbye"
Jennie said few words to her
mother, then she turned to Pat.
How would you like to live with
us?" she asked
llp-lop answered TSiy promptly.
"Then you shall do 20. You shall
not be wholly servant, but we will see
thet you are educated and prepared
for a good position hereafter. You
have shown yourself worthy of conf
dence, and will find us not ungrateful."
So Pat found home and friends.
He had sought his fortune and found
it. He is now . prosperous and thriv-
ing man, and has been able to provide
for his parents and help along his
younger brothers and sisters. Had he
abused the confidence reposed in him
and carried off the $4,000, it is hardly
likely that his future would have been
as bright.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
Trouble for the Western Union.
Philadelphia Times.

To the Western Union Telegraph
Company so long been accustomed to
quietly swallowing all smaller and less
pretentious enterprises of its kind with
out let or hindrance, it must be an I'M
welcome surprise to find that individu-
ais and courts have the temerity to
question its acts and to demand that
it shall be amenabie to legal restrict
ions and shall transact its business with
some regard for the public interests.
The late decisions OF the New York
courts that the issue of fifteen millions
in stock dividends was illegal has been
followed in that state by suits by indi-
vidual stockholders and by the Mutual
Union Company for the purpose of re-
straiuing the payment of dividends
and vacating the charter of the com.
pany on the ground of violation of its
franchises. To this has succeeded a
suit instituted by the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania for violation of the
Constitution of this state in regard to
consolidation with and purchase of RI
val lines and asking for the appoint
ment of a receiver to take possession
of all the property of the company
within the Commonwealth. The mu-
tual Union now brings suit in Chicago
asking for the abrogation of all the
rights and privileges which the Yves
tern Union enjoys under the laws of
Illinois because of its refusal to accept
and transmit messages for rival lines
and private individuals.
If all the parties to these various
suits really mean business Jay Gould
and his lieutenants are likely to find
themselves in very hot water. The
suits already brought attack the policy
and practice of the great corporation
at so many different points that it will
be very strange if some OF them be not
found to have struck vital point.
The chances to buy of and comprom-
ise the suits will be very much lessen
ed by the wide publicity which have
been given them by the press and the
growing public sentiment of opposi-
ton to the exclusive privileges which
the company has hitherto enjoyed.
If the result of all this litigation shall
be to compel the restoration of sue
cessful competition and the transmits
sion of news at reasonable rates the
public will have abundant reason tC
rejoice, even if Mr., Gould's profits
should shrink a good deal in conse
quence.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11

duce sorghum IS a forage plant. Ac-
cording to report it was found to be
well adapted for this purpose, being
fit for soiling in August and September,
and greedily eaten at this time by
mich COWS.
In this country attention has been
chiefly directed TO the plant for syrup
and sugar making, and little thought
given to it by dairymen. In some re-
spect 1t is, however, worthy OF notice:
l.. 1t is claimed that on land where
corr does not pay expenses sorghum
yields well, its roots finding food in the
sub-soil.
2. The fact that it is deep-rooting
plant enables it 20 stand quite q severe
draught without serious injury.
3. Some OF the late maturing varie-
ties, as the Orange furnish abundant
green fodder until killed by heavy frost.
4. The yield of amber seed and stalk
is about the same as that of Indian
corn; but after the seeds are ripe and
hard the stalks are still green, and APP
parently suitable for ensilage. This
point is especially important. Should
sorghum prove suitable for this pur-
pose the same field might be made to
yield from ten to fifteen tons of green
fodder per acre, with from twenty to
thirty bushels Of clean seed, equal in
weight to shelled corn, which it APP
proaches closely in feeding value, as
will be seen below. An experiment with
twenty tons of cut and crushed sor-
ghum, now packed in a silo on the Col
lege Farm, will be reported as soon as
completed.
Attention has been almost entirely
directed to producing heavy crops OF
cane for sugar making, with little or
no regard to seed development. Yields
of fifty bushels are indeed on record,
but such yields must be considered ex-
ceptional, from twenty to thirty bush
els being nearer an average.
Prof. Cook publishes a table giving
the result, first feeding with brewers
grains, cornmeal, corn stalks and bran,
for 20 days. then substituting sorghum
meal for cornl1eal, feeding for 20 days,
finds but small reduction in the
amount of proteine, fat and carbhy.
drate. The conclusions reached are:
!. Sorghum meal, from amber seed,
freed from hulls and fed as above stat
ed, had no injurious effect on the
health of the mich cows.
2. 1t exerted no noticeable influence
on either the taste, color or chemical
of the milk.
8 In digestibility it probably stands
slightly below corn meal, when fed
pound for pound.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
Buffalo Hunters Hunted in Turn.
Moptana Independent.

A Popular Creek dispatch says that
the Yanktons. under the leadership OF
their chief, Black Catfish, have seized
and confscated the property of seven
white hunters whom they found hunt
ing on their reservation. The hunters
were left on foot on the prairie. over
1000 white hunters are following the
buffalo in the territory lying between
Dry Fork and the Musselshell Creek,
south of the Missouri, and in conse-
quence buffalo are becoming scarce IN
the vicinity. Unless the buffalo should
soon cross to the south side many OF
the hunters will crowd on this reserve
which Chief Catfish has sworn to pro
fept
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
The Old Front Door.

remember the time when used TO sit
A happy and thoughtless boy,
When iather came home from his work at last,
And was tired of my toy
] remember the time, and none more sweet
Shall know forever more,
When sat at eve by my mother sldo
On the sill OF the old front door.
j remember ia sit till fell asleep,
And list to their loving talk,
While the crickets chirpcd, and the hrenes
bright
Flew over the garden walk.
And often would father tell the tale
OF the time long years before,
When he led his bride to happy home
Ger the sill of the old front door.
/ remember when grandfather failed and died.
And eighty years old wRs he,
And well know that never again
He would ride me upon his knee;
And though but gay and thoughtless boy,
Iwept and my heart was sore,
When ] saw them bearing him slowly out
Der the sill Of the old front door.
IL is many weary day since then,
And too am old and gray;
But the tears come croWdng into my eyes
When / think of that long-past day.
And only hope that whatever end
Fate may have for me in store,
shall pass once more, ere pass away,
DER the sill of the old front door.
Il. r. Munkittrick.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
A STORY OF A SWORD.
After Bloody Duel it is Hiddev. i'm n
Florida House for many Years.
St Augustine Press.

On Thursday, while engaged in tear
ing down portion of the residence of
the residence Of Mrs. Faustina Pacetti
preparatory to making repairs on the
same, LIT. Canova found sword hid.
den away between the rafters of the
roof. Upon making inquiries in rela
ton to the same he learned that the
sword had been concealed in the place
where he found it for perhaps seventy
five or eighty years. The,story attach
ed to it is interesting, and we give it as
we learned it from the lips of Mr.. G.
1t would appear that one evening,
while Florida was yet in the possession
of Spain, grand ball was given, at
which was gathered the elite CT the
city. One of the ladies present was
noted for her beauty, and her hand was
eagerly sought after by the officers of
the garrison for the many pleasant
dances. Owing to some misun-
Outstanding, she became engaged to
two OF the cabaleros for the same
dance. The equence was a quar-
rel, which resulted IN the cessation of
the music through the cutting OF the
strings of the instrument. Hot words
and insulting language passed between
the officers and the two repaired to the
open streets and engaged in a duel, in
which one of them fell. The survivor,
dropping his sword, fed precipitately
from the spot.
One of the Pacetti family, a boy of
some four or five years, witnessed the
encounter, and running out sicked up
the sword and carried it into the house.
Not wishing to be called upon as wit
nesses, the parents of the child con-
cealed the sword and kept all knowl-
edge ofthe same from their neighbors.
Thus the old blade has been in its
place for upwards of three generations.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
A West yirginian's Fight with a Hog.
SUIT II Mountaineer.

Robert Doddrell wass badly hurt a
few days ago by wild hog. 1t seems
Mr.. Doddrell, with some two or three
men, we're out hunting wild hogs, and
succeeded in catching very large enc
with their dogs, which they tied, and
Mr.. Doddgeu undertook to drive home.
They had gone some distance when
the hog turned and attacked him. In
trying to get out of its reach he fell,
and the hog pitched upon him, cutting
him badly in the leg above the knee.
and it is thought he ran q very marrow
escape, as it was all the men with him
could do to get the hog off him with
the dogs. They had not their guns
with them at the time of the attack.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11

Three Hundred Prisoners Released
from Jail Owing to the Breaking
Out OF the Disease in Thst tustf-
tuition.

BALTIMORE, Md, January 9.-Quite
a sensation was occasioned here to-day
when it was announced that 302 pris-
oners in the City Jail had been released,
owing to the breaking out Of small-pox
among the inmates Of that institution.
Upon visit being made to the Clerk
Office 1t WAS sscertained that the first
case was discovered on Saturday
last, and, several other cases develop
ing yesterday and to-day, the authori-
ties deemed the above step necessary
owing to the crowded condition of the
building. The disease is increasing
rapidly, and it is estimated that there
are fully 1900 cases in the city. Health
Commissioner Benson's report shows
there WAS seventy -four deaths from
smallpox last week. The Pepitentiary
and other public institutions refuse ad-
mitance to all outsiders, and at the
Poor house there are said to be num-
Der of cases. Mayor Whyte held a
CONSULTATION to-day with DR.. Benson
and Assistant DR.. McShane, relative TO
taking other active and stringent meas
ures in checking the disease. Seventy
additional vaccine physicians have been
appointed, and will enter upon their
duties tomorrow, visiting every house
and vaccinating all the inmates. To
accommodate the increased number
of patients removed to the quarantine
hospital the city officers have ordered
that two additional buildings be erect
ed. The disease is not confined to any
locality, but is everywhere. Yesterday
in three tenement houses twenty-five
cases were discovered there, 200 per
SONS living in three buildings. A case
was sent to the quarantine hospital to-
day from St. Joseph's Hospital, and
four students of the College OF Physi-
clans ald Surgeons have the disease,
and are now at quarantine. The Jail
birds are roaming the streets tonight.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
4 Bear Story.

A man in New Brunswick, having no
weapon and being attacked by a bear,
struck him With bottle of kerosene,
and the contents ran down the animal
like the oil on Aaron's beard. The
bear not minding this at all, sprang at
him and began hugging him, when the
man taking a match from his pocket,
set fire to the bear. All but the head
and shoulders were consumed, when
in order to save the snout and get the
bounty, the man carried water in his
hat and put out the flames.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
A Den OF Wild Cats.
Zoo n. sehuvIer ADJ Snn.

4 wild cat weighing thirty-three
pounds was exhibited in town on Sat
drday. If was killed by young Lus-
chen in South Greek precinct, where,
ii is stated there is a den OF thirteen
three having been captured. These
animals would come in by daylight to
the premises of the farmers IN the vi
cility and attack the chickens; and, in
the absence OF man and gun, could not
be frightened away. The young men
who 20 sparkling" in that neighborhood
now stay till broad daylight, not caring
to brave their apprehensions OF meet
ing one of these wild animals,
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
4 LARGE Hawk
Henry County GA Weekly.

'F"7J
Hugh Mcdonald killed bear the
other day that measured eleven feet
from tip to tip, and weighed twenty
pounds net. We have on file the aft
davit Of the young man himself, which
is open to the inspection OF those who
may be disinclined to receive our I'M
supported statement.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
A Horse calls on a Doctor,
FROM the Saginaw Courier.

A reliable friend tells us about a
horse that felt sick in the night, and
breaking out of its stable, made its way
to the stable of a veterinary surgeon
who had before treated the animal for
sickness. 1t stood there several hours
awaiting the opening of the stable 10
the morning, and when admitted soon
fell dead.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
Genius Temporarily Eelipsed in Bliss
Times Dsmsorat.

Henry 7. White, whose stories in the
Chicago Tribune concerning Miss Eq-
lalie McGirlygirt, MSS Gwendoen Ma
hafey, and Mr.. George w. Simpson
have interested many readers, was
married to Miss Fanny Driscoll, of po-
etic fame at Milwaukee a few weeks
ago, since which time no funny ro-
mances have appeared in the Tribune.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11
4 yirginian Kills 40 Bears.

Arch Toley. the celebrated bear
hunter, killed bear near Big Island
one day last week weighing $3.50 pounds
net, Tolley is about 60 years of age,
and is said to have killed more than
40 bears during his life.
Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-01-11

The you . American prima donna,
Miss Emma Nevada, has engaged her
self to the Opera Comique at Paris 10
three years.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-04-22
Notice Of Administrators Sale.

pURsUANTTO ORDER OF SALE
1 made by the Probate of Salt Lake
County, Utah Territory, directing The
ssle OF certain real estate belonging TO the
estate Of T. w. Ireland, late Of said
county, deceased, the undersigned. adj
mlnlstrstor Of said estate, will receive
bids for the following described mining
property: An undivided two-fftbs in
terest in the Williams Lode. and an m
divided one-half interest in the Ireland
and Watson Placer Mining Claim, botb
situated in West Mountain N lining Dis
trict, Salt Lake County, Utah Territory
up to and including the sd day of
April, 1888. Bids can be left with the
undersigned administrator, at Bingham,
Utah, or at Woods s. Hofman's Office
No. 30 Second South street, Salt Lske
City. Sale subject to confirmation by
Probate Court.
Salt Lake, April 18th, 1888.
Q. w. WATSON,
Administrator Of the Estate of 7. W
ireland. an12