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CROOKS CAMPAIGN.
a Tough Story Told on the General,
Who is Charged With Being
the Vanquished
Instead Of the Victer-..HOw He
Captured" the ApaOhes,

CHICAGO, July ia special from
Dallas, Texas, states that General
Barnett Gibbs, of Dallas, returned
last night from trip to Mexico, In
an interview he says he was surprised
at what he sa@ and heard concerning
the late indian campaign in the South.
west. de went into the valleys and
country lately overrun by the Apaches
and visited the scenes of General
Crooks exploits. He says the resi-.
dents of these valleys laugh at the
newspaper accounts of the CAPTURES
made by General Crook. They saw
that instead of Crooks capturing the
lighting Indians they captured him.
lie did take a few old indians and
squaws. When he started out Of the
mountains the bucks, about eighty in
number, followed and overlook him and
sent In messenger, who asked for a
pow-wow. This was granted, and the
warriors came in, and in the boldest
manner told General Crook that he
would be allowed to leave on condi-
ton that he would get the government
to permit them to return to the reser-
walton without punishment. This he
promised because be could not helm
himself. The residents of the valleys
say that the White Mountain Apacbes
who we're guides with Crook during
the pow>WOw, divided ammunition
With the hostiles. The latter told
General Crook that some of their men
were, without horses, and as soon as
they could go into Mexico and get
horses they would follow
hum n, into the reservation.
They did this, killing Mexicans
on the way. The valley folks say the
White Mountain Apaches are openly
in communication with the hostiles
and would never fight them. As an
Illustration Of the friendship. one Of
the White Mountain Apaches an.
peared among the soldiers with the
watch Of Judge McComas, who had
been killed by the hostiles. BEING
Intercepted as to where he obtained
the watch, be said he got it from a
squaw. He made the son Of the
Judge pay $50 for the watch, Crook
not daring to disturb the friendly re-
lations with the White Mountain
Apaches by making him give it up.
General Gibbs says this is only a sam.
pie of volumes Of unwyitteR history
that coul ID be fprnished, and the pub.
lie have been imposed upon.
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Cotton.

Sales here yesterday we're so bales
all to spinners, the market closing
quiet and unchanged, as fol.
lows: Ordinary, 78c; good ordinary
$50; low middling, Sc; middling, 91ci
good middling, 9iC; middliug fair,
1880. Stains-good ordinary, 7ic; low
middling, 8tG middling,s1c. Tinges--
middling Sic; good middling, SO.
The New York cotton market closed
easy and unchanged from the evening
previous. Middling, 10c. Sales, 455
bales, Stock on hand, l92,975 bales.
Futures firm at to { points below the
evening previous. The New Orleans
cotton market closed dull and easy at
l>l6c lower. Middling, 8 8 16c, Sales,
600 bales. Stockton hand, "a ,296 bales.
The Liverpool market was easier but
not quotably lower.
The total receipts of cotton at all
United States ports for the past 4 days
sum up 4345 bales. and 664 bales
ia excess Of last year for the same
time. Total at all ports for the present
season, 5,9O2,9lS bales; an increase
over last year of l,3O2,O77 bales and
over the year before of 25O,556 bales.
Total exports to date this season
sum up 4,57I Ill bales; an excess over
last year of 126,23O bales and over
the year before of 2l3,707 bales.
Total present stocks at all ports are
1863, l79 bales; being 23O,l76 bales
more than the year before at this date
and 299,2l0 bales more than the year
before.
The total visible supply of cotton
2,329, 4O7 balea; excess Of Az, 4l3 and
l22864 bales over last year and the
year before at the same time.
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Northeastern notice.

No. 495O-In the Chanoery Court of shaI.
by county, nn.-Imogene Shapard ct al
VS. Mary Sehmuck OF al.
appearing from biz which is sworn 70
4 in this cause that the defendant. Mary
Schmuek, is a resident Of the Empire Of
Germany aud nonresident of the State of
tennessee. and that the names and resi-
dences Of the heirs Of Louis Scbmuck ara
unknown and cannot be ascertained after
inquiry. 0A
II is therefore ordered that they mako kAefy
appearance heIsin, at the courthouse OF Shel-
~ county, IN Memphis. Tenn. on on sefoYa
the tIst Monday in August, 1858. and plead,
answer or demur to complainant hin or
the same will be taken for Confessed ~
TO them and for hearing ex-Psrte; and that
COPY of this order be published once a week
This 2Sth day of 1RAe, 1883.
A oopy-Attesks
r. ]. BLACK, Clerk and Mass.,,
By ID Bradley, D, @. & M,
Taylor d Carroll, soils for comppt.
l02 1O9 115 f91
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General Trade.

An upward tendency has ruled for
the past three days in ail kinds Of pro
visions. After an pnbrokeA and
gradual deoliae extending Through
more than two months, and averaging
on the several classes about $50 peg 10
total, the change is quito gratifying TO
those who hold large stocks Of meats.
But little confidence is, however, felt
in the maintainaBce Of even present
values. Our traders heFe are gener
ally Of the opinion that meats are Zoo
high, and therefore continue to pur
chase in a scant way. Only to satisfy
immediate requirements. Sipee the
close of last week values haye a&
yauced so per Dbl on mess pork, 3GO
per eEt on lard, and to per ID on
smoked shoulders and clear ribs Dry
salts are not GTsh higher, but are
quoted strong. Wheat is the
North ard Wess is rather bigilsE
aud Hour is strong with better
feeling especially for the higher
grades. Cora, oats, and other grains
exhibit but litde variation Here
corn has been scarce for sevesal weeks
but s.ir arrivals yesterday and 10 DAY
with lres shipments under way, give
promise Of Ia better supply ia The near
future. The OornmeAl mills are ex-
pected to resume operations toward
the close of the present week, Fbe
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VICTORIA AND WALES.
UnpOpulaFity of the One and
Popularity of the Other.

oOnway's London Letter to Cincinnati Com.
mercial Gazette.
The Queen is certainly not liked
by the English people. 1 have formed
pretty large acquaintance in the
course OF twenty years residence
here, and do not know one English
man or woman who personally likes
or admires the Queen. She is vari-
ously objected to as morose, morbid,
stingy, grasping, ugly, sullen, i'll
humored, and torpid if not stupid.
| do not say that these opinions Of
her are correct, but they are gener-
ally held, though, of course, not pub
licly expressed. There are a mum.
Der OF English radicals of the Bright
school who set a high value on the
Queen, really because she has brought
a large degree of unpopularity on
the throne, They would like her to
live long time, because every year
the people can learn more and more
how unimportant the throne is to
them, and are gradually forgetting the
traditions OF court splendor and gay
ETY.: Their appreciation Of the Vic
torlan reign is as little complimentary
to the Queen personally as the dislike
OF the average people. The Queen
has offended the most influential
women in England by her hostility to
all movements for enlarging the
sphere of occupation aud influence OF
her sex, The thinking and literary
people are ashamed that her only eff.
fuslve patronage should be accorded
to military men whose glories have
been won by attacks on small tribes.
The great conservative middle classes
upper and lower) sneer at her heap
ing up idle millions of money and
giving none to the Prince of Wales,
while he performs most of her public
ceremonial duties for her.
The Queens growing unpOpularity
measures the growth OF the Prince Of
Wales popularity. This has been
steadily increasing until it is fast
amounting up to ENTHUSIASM, The
Prince has endless good humor and
marvellous tact, an instance of the lat
ter being his prompt consent to go off
to Eastbourne and open q small asylum
there because it was named after bis
deceased sister Alice.
He is clever too. Not long ago the
Savage Club invited him to attend a
banquet at their rooms; the whole
thing was slightly snobbish, and
there was a good deal of satisfaction
when the Prince, after dinner, sug
gested that so large and fine a club
lit consists chiefly of actors and must.
cians) should found q scholarship
in the new Royal College of music.
The affluance of the club was chiefly
on the table, but they could not ex.
cuse themselves to the prince, and are
now learning that dancers who in
dulge in a royal piper must expect to
pay him royalty. The prince always
makes faultless speeches now (he has
lived long time since he spoke of
Queen Elizabeth as his ancestor) and
never puts on any airs. He has out.
lived good deal OF gossip, arising
from his liking for pretty girls (in
which he was always more OF the merry
German than the dangerous English
"firtatiousness'), and his love for the
princess is shown not only in his con
slant attention to her, but in the
bloom and beaming happiness oil her
face. 1t is probable that there is not
a happier pair in Europe.
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A GHOST ON LONG ISLAND.
A Hpadless Man Who Wanders
about ON The shore Of
Long Island Sound.
New York Mail and Ernress

The alleged ghost of headless man,
which nightly wanders along the shore
Of Long island sound at Bayville, is
the sensation which now agitates the
people of that usually sleepy little
village, and which strikes terror to the
hearts OF the superstitious portion Of
its population. According to the story
told in Bayville, the visits of the ghost
have been continued, at regular inter
walls, for nearly quarter of a century.
The strange and CHASTITY apparition
has been known to visit the shores for
weeks, and then disappear and not be
seen again for years. ut Is nearly
four years since the headless peddler
was last seen on our Shore" said Mr.
John 2. Ellison, who lives near the
tramping ground of his ghostship, to
reporter for the Mail aud Express
until last Sunday night, when, as |
was driving along the shore road on
my way home from church, my horse
suddenly SHE'D and backed off to the
side Of the road 1t did not take long
to find out the cause OF nv horsa}s
fright, for upon looking along the road
ahe31 of me | saw about 100 yards
from where we stood the white and
headless figure Of man approaching
at rapid gait. | knew that figure
as | had seen it many times before
On it came until, reaching spoto in
the road few feet ahead of us. It
suddenly threw up its hands and van.
ished."
The visits Of the headless p;dd'er
have been of nightly occurrence siuoe
aud the ghost has been seen by hun.
dreds Of persons, who are now salts
fed that the headless peddleT L /
thing of reality. The scene Of The
supposed ghOst'g nightly wanderings
10 G lonely part OF the shore road about
half way between the village of Bav-
vile and Centre Island. On one side
oftheroadi is heavy growth Of aadaar:Ss
and on the other IS tie FOaky shore Of
Long Island Sound. The nearest
residence Is that of John P. Ellison
nearly mile distant. On the morn.
ing Of June IL, 1861, the dead
and mutilated body of Self He'll.
mann, peddler, was foups
among the rocks on this sAoTa. 'T6e
mans skull had been mashed into 4
sAapeless mass, and, after having been
murdered, and robbed, his body had
been dragged from the side Of the
road and had been hidden among tho
rocks, where it was subseaueutlS
found partly eoVsged with said and
ssaWeed, The contents Of the mur.
dered peddler's pack were strewn
along the shore. Heillmann had
visited Central Island the dsy pre.
vious, where he collected consid.
: cradle money, and while on his way
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OhiO's Liquor Law.
Chicago Tribune.


For over thirty years the munieinal
government Of Cleveland, Ohio. re
oelved not cent from liquor license
tax. The retOrmers had been employ.
ing their time trying to enforce pro-
hlbltory statutes, which never prohib-
tied selling or drinking liquor excent
on paper,as is the case in ali cities from
Portland, in Maine, to Portland in
Oregon, including Topeka, in Kansas.
where st, John resides. The Repub.
Ilcaps, having control of the Ohio
Legislature, concluded to try the ex.
pertinent of taxation, and passed the
50 called Scott bill, taxing doggeries
500, to see how it would work as
compared with the prohibitory law
which bred and iostered in the State
l4,OOO "drunkard making shops II az
Judge Hoadly calls them. TheOleye.
land Leader thus testifes to the prao,
teal operation of the Scott law in
Cleveland.
A better or wiser measure than
the Scott law has not been passed by
the Ohio Legislature within the lat
thirty years. The practical results
have been such as TO justify the ques-
ton, now CO frequently asked, why
was not statute of this character
enacted long ago. The amount maid
over by the saloon keepers in this civ
and county is slightly in excess If
S2l5, 900. Of which not less than $50.
0uO will go into Cleveland's treasury.
The benefit Of this levy upon the
liquor business will extend to every
person paying taxes upon real and
personal property, whether it be the
mechanic and laborer, whose hard toll
has won a shelter for themselves and
families, or the man whose possessions
may be reckoned by the thousands
The general levy for county
purposes will be reduced from three
and three-teBth aills to two and nine.
tentA Mills, the share derived from the
Scott law being sufficient to make this
change in favor of the general tax.
payer. The operation OF the law here
illustrates the workings throughout
the State. Ibe ope-fogrth derived b,
the soantiea from the liquor tax will
be found sufficient for the care OF
their poor, TO which purpose The law
very properly consigns it. Cities.
towns and villages will obtain three
: urths Of the liquor tax collected in
their respective limits to Be used for
police and genera! purposes. By this
wise epSctDent 100000 or more is
Deducted from the burden of genera
taxpayers throughout the State and
bear it. W.
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A Romantic Nobleman.
London Life,

The famous French danseuse Mile
Rosita Mauri, had occasion, a short
time ago, to dismiss her valet de- pied
on account of numerous embezzle,
ments, and on looking out for a sub.
stitute, was interviewed by a hand
some and elegant young man giving
the name of Leon, who possessed the
requisite number Of inches, and, on
producing the most undeniable refer.
ences, was at once accepted. Leon
was pronounced on all sides to be a
treasure, and everything went we'll
until one morning, when he brought
Mile. Msuri's chocolate into her
boudoir, he apparently forgot
himself, and, falling on mis-
knees made the most violent protesta-
tons of his love for her. Highly in
dignant, the lady rang her bell, and
ordered him to be turned out Of the
house, when the pseudo valet disclosed
himself, and proved to be the MARQUIS
CASTOR de Brincourt, a wealthy noble
man, whose letters Mile Mauri had
always left unanswered, and who had
adopted this means of getting near
the object of his devotion. He was
naturally obliged to give up his place,
but as the bouquet and bracelet, which
he forwarded the same evening, were
not sent back to him, there is yet a
chance that the dancer will consent to
become Madame Ia Marquise, and that
the stage will be deprived of one of its
brightest ornaments.
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time. The Hays is undoubtedly very
last boat; her run from ArkansaW
City to this port was made in IL hours
and 50 minutes, a distance of 240
miles. She left New Orleans two hours
behind the City of st. Louis and
passed her 10 the chute just below
Ooncordia, arriving here one hour and
10 minutes ahead, or a gain of three
hours and a quarter, since leaving
New Orleans. The Hays made 45
landings aud stopped at Bayou Sara
TO put II, 600 feet feet Of lumber.
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COMMERCIAL.
PUBLIC LEDGER OYFIcE,

MEMPHIS. TESS,, July IS, 1888.
The action of the Cotton Exchange
here yesterday regarding the trade
dollar was influenced bys circular
from the East asking that support be
given to a movement which was in
augurated to influence Congress to
pass a measure looking to q with,
drAwal Of the trade dollar from circu-
lation, or Of redeeming it at its face
value. These dollars were coined for
the convenience of traders on the
Pacific coast doing business with the
silver circulating countries of China
and japan. The coinage began in
1872 and continued until some $685.
100000 were turned out. It was
never expected that they would be
current in this country, and they
have never been recognized as . legal
tender, The object Of their issuance
was mainly to afford the silver pro-
ducing districts a market for their
productions in competition with the
Mexicans, whose silver dollars circus
lated largely in the Monaghan coun-
tries. At the time their coinage
commenced bullion silver was worth
little over SOD in the Lon
don market, and the trade dollar
with its APO grains of silver 800 fne
was worth in London fraction over
1920. Since 1872 bullion silver has
declined steadily, until now it is worth
but fraction over sod per OF, or about
l6c less than eleven years ago. The
trade dollar, which can only be esti
mated by its weight value, has there.
fore deprecated about Ice, as its real
worth at present is but little more
than 86c. The Eastern dealers in
uncurrent money are paying from 81
to 800 for them. Until very recently
they passed at their full face value in
the open market, but a general move
ment having been inaugurated against
them, they are no longer pop.
ular. In this vicinity very
few are to be seen, and leading
banker remarked yesterday that not
fifty had been offered to him in a
month. They have gradually disapA
peared from this section and given
place to the Bland or the standard
silver dollar, which contains "A grains
less OF actual silver than the trade.
The standards are, however, official
and legal dollars, therefore pass cur
rent here as dollars, though in foreign
countries they would be discounted at
least l5c each.
The local financial market is quiet.
Commercial discounts are quoted at 6
per cent, ond exchange is UNMARRIED al
par to &c discount buying and to pre-
MUM selling on the East also ic off
buying and par selling on New Or
leans.
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Mrs. I.ang,ry's Fatal Disease

A New York correspondent writes
Unfortunately Mrs. Lsngtry is, am
told, suffering from a maIady known
to physicians as elephaptiasis and to
the professional humorists as "big
head 1t is usually fatal malady-
one, in the language OF Dante, "Ohe
non lascio gismmsi persona viva.
Mr.. Booth is one Of the few persons
who has survived its attacks. You
remember that he turned manager
and for the time being went to rack
and ruin. Mrs. Laagtry has the big
head" She knows all about acting
and all about management. The
public, the press and the critics
must wait har pleasure. While Mr..
Irving and Nine. Modjeska bear with
the hGrdships of the West, Mrs
LangtTy viii bs borRe in cushioned
brougham from Delmopieo's to New
York theater, where seats will bring g
pgemium ranging from one to ten
do!.arp. Naturally, Mrs. Langtry has
a right to 60 her avn gait, but if the
gait is not profitable, will she finish
her tour2 lfreports are we'll founded,
she has begun to show a much more
dangerous symptom than love of COM
tort. Mrs. Langtry has become quite
indiEessat to the duties of an artist
toward TIC ppb.js, During the last
few weeks of Tie season lgsp ep4es 10
one knew when the curtain would rih2
for the evening. Sometimes 1t went
up at s, sometimes at $50 and some,
times at 8.45,
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to Bayville was waylaid and brutally
murdered. The mystery surrounding
the murder has never been cleared
away. Two men who were arrested
at the time we're discharged, there
being 40 evidence to warrant their de
tention. On the morning after the
murder the footprints of two men
were discovered in the sand on the
shere % the waters edge, which led to
the belief that the mmderers had es-
capped in boat.
The strange figure which wanders
along the shore is believed by many
to be the ghost of the murdered ped
der.
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NOn-ReaIdent Notice.

No, AO59,-In the Chancory Cont NJ sbaIbv
eoYpO, Tenn.-Mary Chase ct al Va i
) Joiner ct al. We
appearing from cross bin which Is sworn
4 Il 70 IN tsis cause that the defendants. Ada r
Nhevot, Mary Wright and husband =
wright, are residents Of the State of Missouri
and non-reaidents Of the State of TenneSSss'
~ is therefore ordered that thoy mSSe
sRsetI appearances herein, at the courthouse
Of shelby county, in Memphia. Tenn nn
or before the frat Monday In August IssS.
ana plead, answer or deInar to cross biii AZ
W vernen or the saIso will be taken FCr
confessed as to them and set for hearing eS-
patte; ana that copy of this order Ia NM
hshed once week, for four suooe ssi,s vydaks
In the RSSlJe ledger. "O'AS'
Yhh fth day of July, 1883.
A copy-Attest:
pu1MpK BLACK. Clerk and Master.
w Vernon and J G Bigolow, soils for corr
Plalhhut. Ill III l23 100
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Creditors Notice.

No. 1928 - In the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, TeaAsssee-Adolph Herbs al All "
W LanStag OF al.
1t appearing from an order Of Court entered
in this cause June 18th, 1888, And from the
Gross bill Of 3 Engelke filed herein that II
is proceeding Instituted V wind up and
settle the affairs of Lansing Haynes & Go. as
an insolVent Fl m uRleF the insoIyent laws
Of Tennetsee. II y therefore ordered that ali
parties claimiPS to be. interested tIeroin
make thQN appearance herein at the court
house o. Shelby county. in Memphis, Ter.
nesseP, on @ before the first Monday
10 October 1883, and have themselves made
parties hereto and present and estah-
lish. their, demands or the snme viii
30 %, forever 2 barred, and thai copy Of this
oraer DC pueushed onse 2 week. for four sue
This I'd dey OF July, 1888,
A oopy-4Att9atS
h ], BLACK, Clerk and Nasas,.
by ]. NJ. Bradley, D. d. am. @'''''
Mstoalf 4 Walker. soils. for cross eemnl't.
los l12 l22 128
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Letter heads, bill heads, bills o
lading, envelopes, hand bills and every
other kind ofjob printing executed Ia
the best style and at the lowest pa SIS
at the PUBLIC LEDGER job printing
office and blank book manufaCtOry IL
Madison street, !
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Tho PpRLIa LEpeER job printing
vn1 blank book misunderstanding estab
lishment, l3 Mad isou street. Memphis,
Tenn, is prepared to execute every
kind Of work in their line in the latest
stylo and ALLOW prices.
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Music books, magazines, illustrated
Papera, etS., bound at the PUBLIC
LEDGER biDdo~v. II Madison street
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], sss qriIsu. amounting in U 5 gold to 81 ~
Tickets, %. Halves, Al.

ALL PRIZES PAID ON PRESENTATION
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