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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-23

Mr.. Champion has introduced a
bill in the Senate at Nashville requir
ing railroad companies to fence their
tracks or be liable for all damages to
property resulting from accidents.
This sort of a law is bound to come
sooner or later, and the sooner the
better for the companies, for the Sc.
curity Of passengers and for the people
living along the lice. Many of the
great railroad lines in this country
and nearly all, we believe, in Europe
are fenced in or protected by
hedges. The Illinois Central, own
ed mostly By Englishmen, adopted
this system years ago, and it has given
entire satisfaction, This protection is
due, as matter Of humanity, to pas.
seugers and employees. Wire fences
are cheap, aud when once placed on
each side Of a railway, trains can be
run at a much greater speed without a
proportiouate increase OF danger. We
have no factious war to make upon
railroad companies, but would insist,
however, that as public carriers
granted rights of way and specia
privileges, they should be held to a
rigid accountability for life and prop
erty entrusted to their care. Railways
once fenced in, will be greatly en-
hanced in value, and the interests Of
the public will at the same time be
much better protected.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-23

THERE is not necessarily any con.
tiict bstwsen the church and the legit
innate drama. The Presbyterian, which
is perhaps the most conservative Of
ell evangelical denominations, is pos
sessed of a broad, liberal spirit, which
recognizes whatever is good and i'm
proving in the theater. This was
never better illustrated than in the
Invitation extended to Mrs. Liugtry
to take dinner to-day with the ladies
of the First Presbyterian church who
are making a laudable effort to re
build the edi6ce burned down last
Sunday night a week ago. Possibly
the lady cannot accept, but she must
feel personally complimented and the
ladies will be commended for extend
ing such courtesy to stranger who
for the first time has set foot on South
ern soil. There is no reason in mod
ern times for any collision between
church and theater. The lat.
ter as well as the former
may be made an agency to develop
that which is good and capable of
being improved in the human heart.
To approve all that appears on the
stage would be as great a stretch OF
charity as to approve all books; and to
condemn all is to betray spirit of
bigotry, ignorance and intolerance,
This is a discriminating age in which
the people can judge for themselves,
and know the difference between wheat
and chaff. The stage has its uses and
abuses, yet the same may be said OF
printing, Of marriage, of government,
and even of the church itself. So VIC
take it, all intelligent people under
stand, whether they admit it or not.
There 10 evidence of it on every hand,
in the press, in the pulpit, on the
stage, in legislatures : everywhere
There is a better understanding be-
tween all mankind aud more especially
| the English speaking people, than evel
before, and it requires no deep look
into the history Of church and Stat,
to prove this.
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ROBBERS AND RAID.
Seven Men Killed and Several
Wounded.

CARSON, NEVADA. January 23.-
Intelligence was received here last
night that on Friday last a most hor.
rible murder was committed at Gold
Mountain, Esmeralda county, place
about thirty miles from Candellaria.
1t is said that Eve men rode into camp
aud entering the store of a silverman
named Clideyich, without a word
OF warning, began firing at the propri
etor and his assistants. The firing
lasted for two or three minutes, result
ing in the death Of Clidevich and his
clerk, and the severe wounding of
another assistant, and the death Of
Two o. the robbers, the latter having
the appearance Of cowboys. The store
was ransacked by the surviving
robbers, the booty amounting
to considerable. The wounded
man crawled distance
OF about eight miles and gave the
alarm. A posse of men started for
the scene Of the atrocity, but before
they arrived there the three surviving
scoundrels had been at Silver Peak
camp, thirty miles from Gold Noun.
tain, where they entered another store
killing the proprietor and his two
clerks, the names of whom are yet
unknown. There they also got oifI
with large sum of money and other
valuables. The robbers are well
mounted and armed. Further details
are notyet to be obtained. That sec.
tion OF country is being secured for
them by determined men, who will |
make short work Of the robbers i'll
caught.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-23
THE KANSAS BLIzz
Ohe Ofihe Worst in Years, but
Has Subsided.

TOPEKA, Ks, January 23.-The
blizzard which passed over Kansas on
the 18th aud 10th has entirely sub.
sided, the weather having greatly
moderated throughout the entire
State. News from the stock districts
reports little injury to cattle or sheep.
The freezing of numerous small
streams threatened water famine,
but the melting of the snow is pre-.
venting it. Trains we're not seriously
delayed by the storm, nor was stock
injured 10 transit. 1t was one of the
worst storms we have had for years,
being particularly severe in the west.
ern part of the State. Wheat went
into winter quarters in very fair shape,
and it will be impossible to form an
opinion as to its condition until the
spring opens. The snow completely
covers the ground, which is beneficial
to the plant.
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The Postal bill, which has passed
the House, organizes number of
new routes in Tennessee, as follows.
Madisonville to Thomson and Nc.
Donald's Store; Big Greek depot via
Lillard's Crossroads; Grass Waiting
Grounds, Broi's and Bowers Store
to Cedar Greek; Graysville via Pills
Crossroads to Sequatchie College;
Taylor's via England Cave; Robson 5
Gap and Johnson's Stand to Genesis;
Mutt to Hoenwald; Benton to Chest
eva and Scarborough's Mills Trun.
dies Crossroads via Hugh Cox's to
Ousick's Crossroads; lockwood via
Post Oak Springs to Built Branch,
lockwood to Kingston; Sunbright via
Lavender, Bledsoe Stand and Standing
Stone to Cookville; Sweetwater via
Gudger to BANGING Branch; Butler to
Duggee's Ferry; Columbia to Bipby
yillei Gales via DryHill toAbernathy;
Henderson to Montezuma; Island
Mills to Union depot; Mulberry Gap
via Muncy, ShelbOrne and Larmer to
Stickleyyille; Rankin's depot via By
bee, Giyen's, Woneurburg, Help and
Driskill to Rankin's depot; Pulaski
via Young and Gar 10 Duana; Rogers.
vile to Hale's Shingo; Speedwell via
Long Hollow and Blow Springs to
Lost Greek; Spring City via Carp aud
breedin to Decatur.
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FLOWERS FOR THE LILY.
A speech From Mrs. Langfry
Alter fOnr Recalls in Sue.
cessiOn.
St. Loui, { hropicle. 20.


A bouquet" of house greeted
Mrs. Langtry as Rosalind in the
Olympic Theater last evening, though
at the outset they were coldly unsym.
pathetic. AS You Like 1t" was
played in direct contradiction Of its
name, until in the second act the Lily
won approval by making a good ap-
pearanoe in doublet and hose, and
minor faults were thereafter ignored.
She showed appreciation Of the re.
calls BY letting loose one Of her com
.prehensive smiles, which took in the
entire lower auditorium, the balcony.
and even stretched out occasionally to
Olympus. Immediately after the
fainting scene, which was very pret.
tily done, the Lily was called out four
times in succession before the curtain,
and floral brig, under full sail, ia.
scribed with the date and name OF the
donor, "The Modoc Rowing Club"
and bearing on its topmast the word
Lilly" was presented. The officers
of the club-namely, j. A. St
John, President, 4. W. Humphrey.
Vice President, and D. B. Gould,
Commodore-made this presentation.
AT the last recall. wave Of her
hand calmed the audience, and with
Q charming manner Mrs. Langtry
said: Il can't think you mean this for
me. You must mean it for some one
else. But | thank you. assure you
| feel very grateful for this"
Freddie was again conapicuous by
his absence from the Olympic. Opera
glasses we're sighted at every box in
turn; but all search for Gebbardt was
fruitless. That the ladies were dis.
appointed is saying too little. They
fairly boiled with rage. "Why didn't
we go to the Peoples" a little vixen
in one Of the parQUette circle seats
exclaimed. Wed have mashed him
dead certain. " And in the Peoples
Freddie really was. Upon entering
he took a seat in the circle for a few
minutes, then changed to She par
quette, finally dropped into the bal.
eony, y,and at last found his way through
the stage door, During the perform.
ance the blonde was encored four
times, and floral schooner bearing
on its ensign the word "Blopdy," and
on its rigging the Inscription, NFrom
Freddie Gerhard, with love unbound.
ed, was presented to her.
kreddie's friends in the East arc
solicitous about hisI!critical relations
with the st. Louis reporter who car
ries knife. A dispatch received tbis
afternoon says: w
New YoRK, January 9Q-Yhe gen
eral impression anoRg club men is
that Freddie has tried the game of
bluff and has been called"
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AFFAIRS ABROAD.

TRALEE, January 23.-Poff anC
Barrett we're hanged, this morning
for the murder of Thomas Brown, neal
Castle Island. They protested theil
innocence until the last.
LONDON, January 23.-LOrd Castle.
town is dead.
Reports have reached Sligo Of a
death by starvation in the Island Of
Innismurry.
Proofs of Hamburg papers received
here show that the Cimbria was struck
forty feet from the bow. After making
the breach, the Sultan seraped along
the Cimbria and completely rolled up
her iron plates. 1t is evident that the
blow must have been a tremendous
one. The papers also print a brief
report OF what has transpired of the
statement made by the Captain of the
Sultan before the British Consul
giving the part laying the blame on
the Cimbria in large type with notes of
exclamation. One OF the boats rescued
by the Theta contained thirty persons.
che other, only nine. The latter had
been tossing about nine hours and
was waterlogged. All the OCCUPANTS
could do was to keep themselves from
being washed away by grasping the
halyards. The statement, concerning
the deaths of Captain Hansen. who
was seen on the bridge to the last. and
he fest officer, who was seen swimming
'tter the Cimbria had sunk, concludes
With the words "Treu bis zum Tod
Faithful until death"
HAMBURG, January 23.-AccOrd.
ing to a statement Of another survivor
Of the disaster to the steamship Gin.
brla, as late as two O'Clock FRIDAY
morning Captain Hansen received !,
report that the Cimbria's lights were
all burning properly. The breach
made by the collision was so great that
the Oimbria Immediately lay right
over, with portion of her deck under
water. The thirty-nine persons brought
into Cuxhaven had been occupants of
the two boats. The other thirteen
persons saved were brought in by the
Theta. No more persons have been
landed from the Cimbria, but sailing
vessels, passing westward, may have
clicked up some. The four steamers
have not yet returned.
PARIS, January 23.-There was a
KIND Of panic on the Bourse yester.
day. The events following the Prince
Napoleon's manifesto, the restlessness
III tue Ohamoer OF Deputies, the un-
certainty of the fate of the govern.
ment bills aud the newspaper denup.
Citations disturbed the public mind
aud created disquietudc among pron.
erty holders. The holders of rentes
aud other securities have thrown them
on the market, fearing revolutionary
measures may depreciate their value !
PRESIDENT GreVy seems to have been
affected by the recent scare, as a
guard armed with muskets loaded with
ball cartridges has been stationed at
the garden entrance of the Elysese. A
subscription has been opened in behalf
of the families of the condemned an
archists.
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NOn.Resident Notice.

No. l77-In the Chan eory Court Of SbeIbv
County, Tenu.-Annis @ Dors'y et al Va.
Francis Higgins OF al
II appearing from affidavit in this CAME
that the residence OF deienant, Francis Hie-
sins, Is unknown and cannot be ascertained
after diligent inquiry. that defendants Annie
J Palmer, AAyello Palmer and Mary X Pal-
mer, Rre reslden OF the State OF illinois
and non n-residents Of the State Of Tennessee.
and that Arthur MurBAy, Frank W MuTphy'
Clara Murphy and 4 Birchett, suordian,
are residents Of ihe State of Mississippi, and
non residents Of the State Of Tennessee,
II Is therefore ordered that they mako
theiE appearance herein, at the Courthouse Of
ShelbycouRty In Memphis, Tennessee. on or
before the first Monday in March. iBsS.
aud, plead, answer or deEef TO eomplaiu-
ant bill, or the same will be taken for
confessed as 70 theA AID set for hearing OK
parte, and thu, copy Of this order be
published anoe q week, for four successive
weeks, Ia the Putlio Ledger.
fhis 23d day Of January. 1888.
A copy Attest:
h. j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
~ j N. Bradley, d. @. &M.
6eo Gtlham, sol for complaina /.
l2i Ig7 l3.1q
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River reIegrams.

WHEELING, W. Va, January 23.-
River l6 feet and falling. Boats
passed down: Dick Fulton and Little
Fred with tow of coal, also the Wm.
Stone with tow. Cloudy and snow,
ing. The river is full Ofice.
EVANSVILLE, January 23.-RiveT
Il feet scant aud rising Thermometer
290. Arrived AdIiane, II am;
Charles Morgan, 4 am. No depart.
ures.
CAIRO, January 23.-No arrivals or
departures. The weather is clear and
cold.
PITTsBuRG, January 23.-River 8
feet 8 inches and falling. Clear and
cold.
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CHICAGO.
Death of DR.. Knight-Rellef Tor
the Flood Sufferers.

CHICAGO, January 23.-Dr Edward
Il. Knight, author of knights Ameri-
oan Mechanical Dictionary and other
literary works, died last night at
Bellefontaine, Ohio.
In aid Of the relief work being car
ried on here for the sufferers by food
in Germany ]. P, Stoddart yolun,
teored to deliver an extra lecture, the
entire proceeds OF which to be devoted
to this purpose.
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NOTICE.


OFFICE Board FlRE & P0LIcE COMMISSIONERS |
Taxing District, January Is, 1883. I
CBALRD proposals. will be received BY us
- until THURSDAY, JANUARY, 25, 1898,
at II o'clock noon, ior the following work to
be done, teryice TO be rendered and materials
TO be furnished 10 the Taxing DAt lot Of Shell.
by county, Tennessee, for the year ending
December 81, 1888. The Board reierves thC
right TO reject any or all bids. Ang infOfma.
tion furnished on application.
For feeding prisoners ut statiOnhcuse.
For furnishing fuel TO various deDartments.
For shoelng horles for various departments.
For furnishing fresh meat iOr hospital.
For furnishing fresh bread for hospital.
For Publishing all ordinances, orders, no.
GeeE, etc., as they ihsi be passed or ordered
For lighting the city with gas or electricity,
All bids must be labeled bid for -"
(wh Atever You may bid for).
By order Of the Board
D, P. HADDEN President.
Attest-c. L. PVtLRN, Secretary, lie l22
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AAobS9s AAio law Aac NEVER Dceu Gu
forced in many counties, and ha
always been extremely unpopula
with the people. To-day bill wa
introduced by Mr.. Erwin pro7idinJ
for its repeal, which will no doub
pass.-[ Banner, 22.
There is no good reason why ther,
should be any prejudice AGAINST the
law, and as the people learn IFS utility
and the benefits that will gradually
accrue, they will favor its continuance
and enforcement. In older States, and
in Europe, such records are kept, and
across the water some Of them can be
traced back for centuries. They are
not only Of great value in
settling questions Of property and the
rights Of persons, but as showing the
growth or decsdence of families and
communities aud furnishing vital
statistics that are of importance to
mankind as adding to the sum total Of
collected facts. There may be some
counties in which the law is disre.
garded, but we desire to make an ex-
ceptiOn in behalf OF Shelby county at
least. The records kept here,
although imperfect as yet, increase
in value and public in
ttrest year by year. There may b
some old fogies who desire to go back
ward and may for aught VIC know,
have personal reasons for a sensitive.
ness IN regard to the records of mar.
Iiages aud birhts, but the
great majority of people in
in this State are animated by pro.
gressive spirit and desire to keep pace
with the progress and the best thought
of the age. 1t is a matter Of history
that a mob once destroyed the early
town records in one of the principal
cities OF Australia. There was a good
reason for this. The people were the
descendants of a penal colony. They
were respectable, thrifty, moral, aud
the older citizens had bright young
families growing up around them, from
whom they wished to keep some
facts in early family history. Bu
in Tennessee there is no excuse for
any such prejudice as to old or new
records, There may be indifference
to the law in many localities, where it
is misunderstood or looked upon ss
simply because there
was nothing Of the kiud
required when General jackson was
born, but this is the lrst time we
have heard Of any real opposition.
This State cannot afford to 90 back
ward in anything required by the
enterprise and civilization of the times.
This proposed repeal smacks too much
of the patriotic lervor which pervaded
the bosoms of thirty or forty solons
who, 10 1877, introduced bills stimuli
taneously to repeal the dog law,
whereby mans best friend had been
repressed and taxed for the benefit o
mans aggressive foe, the ierocious
and uutamable sheep. ltis a singular
and unfortunate fas! that Sc many
new members of each Legislature
seem to think that the road to Con-
gress leads over the repeal Of some
act, passed by q former Legislature,
that did not please everybody,whether
its results had been tested or not
Give this law trial, say for twenty
years, and then if it proves prtjudicial
to public interests we will agree to
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The Bridge at Niagara Fail.


The formation Of an ice bridge
across the Niagara river il reported
The ice breaking up above the Falls
and erowding over them into the Gorge
below often produces this eileSt, which
IS just now unusually Sne. The freez
ing spray from the cataract has GOV.
cred the trees and shrubbory and
rocks, while high ice mounds have
been formed, rising FROM the foot of
the Horseshoe aud the American
Falls. This Wintry dress not only is
beautiful in itself but helps 10 hide
partly the disigurement Of the neigh.
borhood which "private ownership"
and individual enterprise" have
wrought. Niagara combines in a verY
remarkable degree the ATTRACTIONS ola
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DIED.

DWYER-0w. DWyer. in the 4sth year of
MS age ats O'Clock p m, January %. 1888.
Funeral from hiSrGsidence. 12S S xth street
chelsea. Service at S.. Bridget's ehuroh,
WEDNESDAY, January cath, at 10 o'clock
m. His friends and s-quaiatances are in
vited to attend
% WHAPLEs-Iu Rochester, N. Y, January
~ at l0;SO am, Calvin Whaples, aged IS
pies and Mrs. John r. Miles 80 " -"
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JUDGE Quarlts has fixed NJ. T.
Folks bond at 100000, and it is
claimed by his friends that he will be
able to give it 10 few days. Perhaps
so; but if he had made way with a
horse or ham Of meat, it might be
more difficult to give bond. Circum.
stances alter cases.
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A BILL has been introduced in the
Senate toallow Polk securities to pay
the amount of his deficit in State
debt proper bonds at par value. This
would relieve the State debt nearly
halfa million and would perhaps, be as
much as the State could ever make out
of Polk and all his securities.
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ADDITIONAL COTTON.

New York, January "a, 1894 p.m.-
Cotton quiet and firm. Ordinary, 7 T.
l6c; good ordinary, ll-l6c; low mid
ding, 99sc middling, l0sc; good mid
ding, 10 7-l6c; middling fair, ll3-l6c; fair,
ii l5-l6c. Futures are unchanged from
last evening closing prices
LIVERPOOL, january %, 6p.m,-Ootton
opened active and hrmer, now l-i6d
higher. Uplands, b%d; orleans, 5lS-l6d'
Sales to-day, 1900 bales. Receipts, $500
bales. American, $500 bales. Futures
opened barely steady. and closed weak.
NEw ORLEANS, January %, ll:30 am.
cotton quiet Middling, 9 ll-l6c. Sales
to-day, 800 bales. Receipts. 1851 bales.
AT Galveston, 1881 balesi at Charleston,
1907 bales.
MANCHESTER, Eng, January %. $3.50
pm. Yarns and fab les are generally
easier especially yarns.
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A MEMBER of the Legislature has
introduced a bill to detect poison in
the StOmachs Of persons supposed to
have been murdered. That must be a
bill ofa magpie pattern A stomach
pump might do as well.
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COLONEL Bob Crockett, editor Of
the Dewitt, Ark, Cleaner, has been
seriously i'll with an attack Of gout,
accompanied by rheumatic fever, for
several weeks, but at last accounts was
improving.
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summer and winter place Of resort.
but the day is not far distant when it
Will cease to be valuable for either
purpose unless some plan is adopted
to arrest the work Of destruction
slowly.
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Ntennl .hfn Row..

LONDON, January % The steam
ships Denmark and City of Richmond,
from New York, arrived ogi.
LAeNE, January 23.-The steamer
State of Pennsylvania, from New
York, has arrived,
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Held for Completely in a Misap-
preparation OF Funds.

BosToN, January 23.-TOwle, charL-
ed with completely in the misappro.
priation Of funds Of the Pacific Bank,
has been arrested, aud, together with
EaGan, arraigned in the United States
Court. TOwle was held in $4,000 and
Eagan in $4,000 bail.
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NOTICE.

THE undersigned committee will receive
J sealed bids till January q, 1888, at Il
o. clock m for burying the paupers Of Shelby
county. The committee reserve the right to
reject any or all bids
January 49, 1888.
JIM COLEMAN.
yOuN SpELMAN,
TH0S FLEMING,
III 125 Committee.
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Twenty,Six Bodies Found 80 Far

Tweniy-Six Bodies Found 80 Far.
SAN FRANCISCO, January % The
latest news from the scene Of the
guupowder explosion near Bcrkely is
to the effect that the total number of
bodies recovered from the ruins is
twenty six. So far as is known. this
number includes all that were killed.
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a partial reaction Of per cent took
place.
Government 5s extended. 1O3i; 4Is,
ll3t; As, 1871; 3s, lO4; Pacific Is Of
'Y5, l28.
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A Costly villa Burned.

NEWPORT, R. L, January "a
John G. Weaver's villa burned this
morning. Loss, $4,000, exclusive of
silverware, diamonds and jewelry.
Insurance, $4,000.
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The weather Around New York,

hHo Wehther ArOuhu New hOrAs
New YORK, January 23.-The
weather is bright but very cold, and
the thermometer at sero. Reports
from various places in Long Island
say the mercury is two to four degrees
below zero, The bays are frozen over
and trains are crossing them.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-01-23

THERE stsuds on the statute books
Of Tennessee a law providing Tor and
affxing uen llties for the failure to
record all births, deaths and mar
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Tustee's Sale.

ON Saturday, February 8, 1888, At l2 o'cIock
~ IN; In front Of the Courthouse, eity Of
Memphis, We will sell for cash, one Sray
horse, A6ou. years old and one sorrol mule.
Aoelt years Old, by virtue of chattel
recorded. $50 o. S. WINSTON 4 O..