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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-02-16
IN FOR PERJURY.
Two Persons who Did Nos Long
for the Jury Box.

In the Criminal Court this morning
Henry Brown and j. Foppiano who
we're summoned as jurors in the case
Of j. f. Davis, we're put upon the
stand to qualify. The usual question,
Have you formed or expressed an
opinion in this caseP" was asked and
answered in the Affirmative Brown
was examined first and followed by
Foppiano, both swearing positively
that they had formed and expressed
opinions.
Judge Horrigan was not satisfied
and examined them separately as to
the case on trial and its nature.
Neither one Of them knew the
name Of the person before
the court or the crime with which he
was charged, making it plain that both
had wilfully made false statements
probably in the hope that they would
at once be dismissed from the tedious
task Of serving on a jury.
Judge Horrigan at once ordered
them under arrest for perjury, fixing
bond for each at $4,000, though it was
finally concluded to take their own
recognizance.
The affair created quite sensation
about the courthouse and elsewhere
when it was known. Brown and Fop-
piano are both well known and have
excellent regulations. Indeed, there
are people ready to excuse
them for a little white lie, told
for the purpose Of getting rid Of so
thanklesS and unpleasant situation
as seat in a modern American jury
box, where none but blockheads, I'M
der the law, strictly speaking, can
serve. On the other hand, the officials
claim that there is entirely too much
loose swearing on the part Of persons
summoned as jurors, and declare that
it is high time something were done
to check it.
Brown is employed as a clerk at a
clothing store on the corner OF the
alley between Jefferson and Adams.
Foppiano has a saloon on the corner
Of Washington aud Front.
j. E. Davis the party on trial, is
charged with assault to murder Bios
som Howard. He has grocery on
Front street.
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JOHN WALSH, UNDERTAKING.
31I Second street. lott
ReIiabIe Garden Seed.

Our readers who want good supply of
vegetables, will find they can be grown
from seeds supplied by r. G. Craig & Co.,
Memphis, Tenn. Ask the merchant you
trade with for Craig's seed. Take no
other. Ifthey cannot be had, send direct
to r. G. Craig & Co., Memphis, Tenn,
with the cash, and they will send you
onion sets at 25c quart; beans, peas or
corn, in half-pint packages, at l0c eachi
small seeds, in fat papers at &c each. 1fby
mail, add l6c per ID for postage. Remem-
Der, good garden, for which seeds cost
$3.50, will produce vegetables enough to
save spending $4,000 for hog and hominy.
Moral. Patronize and build up home
enterprise. l47-d&w.
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Receipts To-day &C the Mer-
chants Exchange.

Per Louisville and Nashville rail-
road: 2i5 SKIS corn $50 SKIS cotton seed,
l cars do, 3 pkgs butter, IA do eggs,
l69 bbls -four, so bbls syrup, So bbls
potatoes, 127 pkgs liquors, 5 do lard,
4 cars meat, 81 hogs, : cattle.
Per Memphis and Charleston rail-
road: 10 bbls beans, IL do peas, 2 pkgs
butter, lido eggs, 8 do bacon, 116 SKIS
coffee, Z bbls -four, $50 pkgs lard, 100
SKIS oats, ~ pkga tobacco, l car cotton
seed, ! car meat, so bxs cheese, q
horses and mules.
Per Memphis and Tennessee rail-
road: COL SKIS coffee, 30 bbls meal, 28C
do sugar, 3 hhds sugar, 2 cars cotton
seed, l5Osks do.
Per Memphis and Little Rock rail-
road: 4O7 bales hay, 25 bbls peas, ID
pkgs lard.
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Parties wanting watches, diamonds,
iewelry or silverwaro will DO well:to
attend the auction sale at 9O2 Main
street." Sales 2iSO and 1880 pm. l43
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MAxIAs b. BUSINESS.
(o0NrfNuED.)

NVUNIIHuEU,J
FUNDAMENTAL LHeAL Principles:
looETINtKp.)
When contrary laws come in ques-
ton the inferior law must yield to the
superior; the law general to the law
special; an old law to a new law; mans
laws to Gods laws.
Sol Coleman's cigar and tobacco
business continues steadily to increase
as be supplies superior goods at a liv,
ing price,
(To N coNTNuRD.)
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THE PUBLIC LEDGER

Jon PRINTING OFFICE &:BooK Brvnrvr
is prepared to
Execute Work with Neatness and Di.
patch, and at as
LOW RATES
as any competitor.
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ADJUSTMENTS.


I RUBRIER TMEATER.
IL Joseph Brooks ........Lsssee and Manager
Monday. Tuefday and Wednesday and Matt.
nee. Feb. 18th. Doth, 2lst,
MR.. GUS WILLIAMS!
Under the management Of Mr.. John Riekaby,
will appear in his great New York success
JOHN MISHLkk. the herman Policeman, in
ONE OF THE FINEST.
A drama depicting Life in New York, in Pro-
losue and Three Acts, by Joseph Bradford,
Esq, Author Of ur Bachelors.
rOTE-0NE OF THE FINEST Is the title
given each member Of the New York police
force, as they are called the Finest Police in
the world.
Seats on sale Friday, February 10Th.
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pleasant place OF resort is
COnyerse's new billiard room, AZ
the Clarendon Hotel. 10 enjoy
a game, call at COnVeFse's. l48
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clearinghouse Report,
JUDICIOUS ADVERTISING

Creates many new business,
Enlarges many an old business,
Revives many dull business,
Rescues many lost business,
Saves many falling business,
Preserves many a large business
SECURES success in any business.
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Business wep viii End Il TO their
iptere5t TO have their Job printing
done at the PUBLIC LEDGER lob prints
Office, ID Madison street.
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THERE WILL BE A
| GRAND BALL GIVEN AT
Z0UAVE GUARDS ARM0 Y next Monday
night, February 10, 1888. By the
C0L0RED BUTCHERS

The different committees have spared no
pains to make this the grandest affair Of the
season. The best Of order will be maintintd,
there being a committee appointed for that
purpose. Yourself and friends are most re.
speetfully soli,sd to attend. A fine time u ay
be expected By all. The finest of fresh meats
will be barbecued in frst-class style and
served.
Conn ittee Of Auangemsnt-Jss Kirk, Buck
Tqlbert, John BectOn, William Thomas.
Committee on 0rder-John Ford, Edward
Wright, Sherman Sledge, Nelson Shears.
Committee on Finance-Frank Martin, VIM
Baker, Jas Kirs. Henderson. Martin 3 Wright
Don't forget the time and place Music by
Prof. A Balls band. Admission, % cent
l40 IA
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FOB SALE Or RENT.

DIAN0S and organs, new and secondhand,
L on easy monthly installments, at
WITzMANN x CO.'S, 233 Second street.
r ARGs lot secondhand pianos and organs
IL at H0LLENBERG,s. 20 Main 81. ut
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sths Asssl.S felaInE sols MA
hssl n ihS world,
InIerseeted Rubber D6OF aafss
AMEs, BHATTrr & Co.,
12sf 1853 Main street.
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-
For once the citizens of Memphis
nave a chance to buy watches, dia-
mouds, jewelry and silverware at their
own prices" The stock is a whole
sale stock. Sales every day at 2.30
and 1880 PM, rain or shine.
l43 MAJOR BELL, Salesman.
Oysters, Fish and Game received
daily.
sEEssEL'S MARKET,
I2a a. a8I Main, near Union. 1927
FINE IIEsSINA LEMONS,
ISc per dozen, az
specht a Walter, IA
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PRoFEasIoHAL.

DR. j. ID. WHITE,
~ 243 MAIN STREET. corner Jefferson.
Memphis, Tenn,
Pays special attention to the treatment Of
Piles. FiStuln, Structure, and other
rectal diseases. Refers to 1000 cases treated
successfully. 81
+ n. COLEMAN, Justice Of the Peace,
y Notary Public and Commissioner Of
Deeds. Special attention given 10 collections
In thu nonntv 0fiee y Madison st list
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-05-19
LABOR AGITATION
workmen i'm Various Industries De-
manding More Pay or Resisting
Reduction.

PITTsBURG, April 30.-A number of the
striking tanners in Allegheny City re-
turned to work to-day, and it is thought
that others will sooa follow. Tomorrow
is the day set for several strikes, among
them the coal miners, plasterers, and
cigarmakers'. The miners claim that
their strike will be general, and that about
5000 men will come out, as ordered by
the Convention. The peculiarity in this
strike is that for over week the majority
Of the miners concerned have been work
ing for the rate against which they will
strike tomorrow. The strike of the cigar
makers will, it is thought, be small af-
fair 1t is said that out of ninety cigar
factories in this city only five will refuse
10 grant the increase demanded, and that
only forty men will be obliged to strike.
ALBANY, April 3O.-The cigar manufac-
turers met on Saturday and agreed to dis
charge all their men. The Cigarmakers'
Union demanded 81 perl 900 advance, but
the manufacturers were willing to give 81
only. To-day all the shops are closed
save where girls are employed, and oae
shop where half dozen union men who
received the advance asked for are at work.
The manufacturers say. they will not &C
cede to the edemand. 81 NsS n
LYNcHBURa, Va, Arpil 3o.-The stem
mers in all tobacco factories here struck
to-day, in consequence Of the refusal of
their employers to comply fully with their
demands for increased wages. They de-
manded an increase from so cents to rs
cents per 100, but an advance of only go
cents was conceded. v~ze q
g.. SING SING, April 5o.-The earnings of
Sing Sing State Prison. for April were
$1s,7l3.44, and the expenditures $l4,66l.-
81, leaving net profit Of 81, ,051.s0 i 4
AUBURN, April 30.-The profits of Au-
burn prison for April are $1,1lS.
WILKEsBARRE, Pa, April 3O.-The cigar
manufacturers have refused to pay the
advance in wages demanded by the union,
and a genehal strike was ordered by the
Executive Committee tonight. -a
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John T.. Sullivan to Become {
Business Man.

BosToN, April 2s.-John I. Sullivan
said to-day in an interview: II am done
with ring fighting. NV mother and father
and wife are at me all the time about it,
and have concluded to obey their wish
es. lam champion of America now, and
if was to beat a dozen more fighters in. the
ring that's all / could be, anyhow. have
taken place on Washington street here,
and | am going into business, and am 60
ing to behave myself. fany of the fight
ers think they can do me with the gloves
I will Al ways be ready to make d match
with them, and to convince them of their
error. Then / am well liked here, and |
can take benefit year that, with proper
attractions, can be made to yield me all
the way from So 900 to $4,000. There is
no money in the ring after you have made
your reputation, and I had to COUP against
all the best men in the country to make
mine." s.a5. sss 81 ssss.s i 15g
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Professional Lassitude.

8 & E NEl&S#
There are certain characteristics con-
nected with lazy man which are admir-
able. They excite In the tWanging, jing-
ling breasts of the nervously fidgety
feeling which borders on respect and Is
akin to awe. Your double-geared, fldgety
man will spin all day like top and run
down in the cool of the evening on the
identical spot on which he started off after
breakfast. The man suffering from chronic
lassitude will keep still, keep cool, keep in
the shade, put in full day work resting
himself, and arrive on time at sundown
cool, calm, and collected, without having
once sweated under the collar or laid a
hair.
The professional lazy man seems to eat,
drink, and sleep with as much gusto and
sang froid at his fidgety brother with the
high-pressure anatomy and patent double
-eylinder, fast, perfecting, hygienie ap-
paratus who gets hot in the box and wears
and grinds and cuts his life away like q
piece OF misfit machinery. The fact of the
The Benton weekly record. [volume] (Benton, Mont.) 1880-1885, 1883-05-19
The Family Of One Of the Dublin
AssaSSins.

Joseph Brady, the condemned assassin.
is a member of a somewhat remarkable
family. His father and mother are not yet
60 years old, and their children number
twenty-fve-twenty sons and five daugh-
ters, most of whom are living and in fair
ly respectable situations. Brady's father
has been for forty years in one employ,
and bears high character. He says he
was entirely ignorant of his sons connec-
ton with secret societies, and his arrest
came on him as a shock. Brady's family
were well aware of his intimacy with the
informer Carey, who shortly before sthe
assassination asked Brady to become god
father to one of his children.
Brady was apparently a Roman
Catholic, and he was SO highly esteemed
by the clergy of that church that he was
appointed an office bearer in Ann street
Chapel, Dublin. At the door of this chap
Ell for nine years he was intrusted with the
responsible duty of making the collection,
ane he discharged his office throughout to
the satisfaction Of his clergy. Brady, up
to the day of his arrest. was employed by
Dublin Corporation, of which the inform
er Carey was member, and since the trials
it has been discovered that the convict
frequently gave himself a holiday, without
reproof, presumably to confer with Carey
and others belonging to the sO-calleJ In.
vinci bles. London Times. ##
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ANO OTHER VICTORY SCORED
BY BUTLER.
ln Which he Points Moral and Sets
Forth an Important Fact in An.
cient History.

Boston, April 30 Gov, Butler, In a
long message to the Legislature, vetoes
the bill to extend the charter of the Ocean
Terminal Railroad Dock and Elevator
Company, because its charter has been ex-
tended since 1852, and in his eppinion
public exigency does not require it.
Citing this ease as an illustration of how
the time of the Legislature is taking up,
he inquiries whether the State ought not
to have biennial instead of annual sessions
of the Legislature The Governor refers
to his vote Of a similar bill for the exten-
sion of the charter of the Solnerville Warf
and Improvement Company, and says:
AS an example of the necessity for a
searching examination the considerations
of exigency in the case of that bill extend
ed to an investigation of the religious
characters of the Emporers of Rome in the
third century. With all the care and at
tention the Legislature had bestowed up
on that investigation however, neither
branch appears to have discovered the i'm
portant, fact bearing upon the effect of
holding. land in, mortmain that Philip, the
Arabian, was the Christian Emperor of
Rome from the year of our Lord PA to
249, which would have been discovered,
no doubt, if the demands OF the public
service would have permitted sufficient
time to have referred TO the letters of
Origen and the writings of Eusebius and
Jerome, wherein Philip is alleged to be
highly honored for his aaIerenrp to Chris
tianity and is styled rs one equs ortneus
de regibus Romanus Christians tuit."
In the necessary haste, the Senate was
probably misled by Looking after Cris-
tan empire which was established in the
fourth century, and not the Christian En-
peror who reigned in the third century.
The Governor hopes it may not be. out
ofplace to observe that~he does not con-
found Philip, who baptized the heathen
treasure Queen Candace, with Philip the
Arabian. He says this to prevent mistakes
which would be no more palpahle than for
a lawyer to oonfound the Magma Charter
of King Henry, an act of Parliament con-
cerning mortmain, with the great charter
of liberties extorted from King John by
his barons. Referring to the present bill.
Gov. Butler says:
'sThe terminal railroad and dock and
elevator companies have had now three
years in which to do something. They
have done nothing. The Mystic Corpora
.tion, to which new trims of existence are
given in this bill, have had more than
thirty years, but have simply held their
lands and waited until they could sell
at an enormous price to company which
mustincrease treightage to the people to
pay an income on the expenditure"
He fails, therefore, to see the claim of
these corporations to a further existence.
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whole business is, the man of hustle and
confusion wears his life away for the want
OF the Oil of rest. The professional lazv
man just soaks along through this vale Of
tears like handful of cotton waste in tho
oil cup of a -box-ear axle. .a-@.r-- s=-.-.a.~..-
we have notthe least doubt in the world
out that we could be professional, law
man and not half try. II we had 70 trv
very hard it would break the smell. The
charm would have flown, aud THINGS
would be sadly mixed. The motto of tba
man afflicted with chronic lasSftpde is
'GlVe us rest-or, give us DEATH The
professional lazy man gets to the grave
YARD on schedule time the same as the
nervous fidgaty gentleman who worries
along the pathway or life like Texas
mule fighting sand flies. And the moral
OF all this is to the effect that it is far bet
ter to be born lazy than crooked, deform-
ed, and, as Richard III. says, ssent into
this breathing world scarce half made
up" 4ssa.ur .rs-
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SINS AND SORROWS.

The Governor of Mississippi saved two
Natchez murderers from the gallows by
computation.
Edward Coleman was killed and James
Stilwell badly hurt by falling earth Al
Kansas City. recently. @A@ t#&sA A@ss
Olive and Bertha jackson were burned
to death in their fathers house at Bailey'l
Harbor, Wis, last week.
The blacksmith shop of Ole Hanson
hardware store of Thomas X. 4Dahle, anc
saloon of George F. Rolph, ut Brownsdale
Mimi, were entered by burglars recently
but they got small reward for their trou.
BILE.
Hattie Thornton, the Boston gill wilt
has fired a hotel there five times, has been
arrested. She labors under mania caused
by interest in q patent fire-escape exhibit.
ed recently ut the hotel. 49,
Anna Higgins, of Emmetsburg, Iowa,
who recently ran away with her father s
hired man, 1ho was already married, has
been deserted by him and returned to her
parents.
Bennett, the murderer Of Dr.. Hazel, a,
Wausau, who has been once convicted
will be tried at La Crosse soon, unless his
earnest efforts for postponement are sue
cessful.
Hon. w. w. .Searight. mayor of Vim.
cennes, Ind, committed suicide with /.
pistol, last week because he was defeated
the day previous IN his RAGE for a rs-elee-
ton. .s@. ss.s.5&ss. j. LII ) a. A.
At Troy, n. z, recently, Edward Nc
Cabe was killed and William Scott serious
ly injured by being hurled down an ele-
vator shaft into blast furnace.
The body of an unknown man was dug
from a sand pit ip the northern part OF
Brainerd, recently. Indications point to
foul play.
John O'Callahan anl Michael Ncalosl
fought q duel itllslistols in Newt Orleans.
the latter being wounded. Both were ar
rested.
Miss Anna TraveIse Of Baltimore, Md,
was assaulted and robbed by two negroes
last Monday night. She will die.
Mrs. Bcauchamp was acquitted Of the
charge Of numbering her husband at Dem
ton, Nd, last week.
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Negroes Defying the Law.

New ORLEANS, April 30.-A special de-
spatch from Marshall, Texas, to the Times
Democrat says: 'sAt Gladewater,, on
Saturday, two negroes, tried for trivial Of
fence, were convicted and ordered to be
sent to Jail at Longview county seat. Of
ficer Bradshaw had them in charge at the
railroad depot, waiting for q train, when
an attempt was made to rescue the prison.
ers. Bradshaw, fearing trouble, had sum-
moned two citizens to aid him in frr-
strating the plans of the rescuers. The
attempt was made, however, and resulted
in general firing of guns and pistols, by
which Officer Bradshaw and three negroes
were killed. Inresponse to kilograms the
Sheriff and a posse from Longview hasten-
ed to the scene. The negroes are armed
and defy the officers, and it is feared that
more serious results may follow.
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The Goose Industry.

Late adyices from Texas tells of a new
departure in the live stock business. AT
Baird an Incorporated company has been
formed for the purpose of raising geese.
The capital, though not stated, is under
stood to be large, as the directors are among
the wealthy men Of the State. Ranches
are to be bought at once, and purchasing
agents started out to collect herds oi the
feathered bipeds. .
There is grave reason to believe that this
new industry will prove formidable
rival to cattle and sheep. In parts of Eu-
rope it has long been source of revenue.
Land there being valuable, the winged AMI
mails are herded in marshy districts by
buxom peasant girls and brawny lads
mounted OH stills not uneOmmouly ten
feet high. The aerial courtships carried
on in company of the sentimental goos"
imparts to him some interest a. Il symbol
Of love, which doubtless is the reason that
a lady after having undergone the process
of osculation, calls the osculator u goose.
Every autumn the superanualed birds
are driven to the market towns, where,
after slaughtering, the flesh Is dried Or
potted down, and the oil is sold to persons
of the Jewish faith, who, by Mosaic COM
mand, abhor the fat of the unclean porker.
But the greatest profit is reaped from
plucking three times yearly, the average
yield beinga pound of feathers, that sell at
rs cents to 1925 per pound.
A herd of naked geese marching in sim
gle file, uttering cries of mingled protest
and surprise in shriu feminine tones, is
highly diverting. In the vicinity oftowns
where the cheek of modesty might be
made to flush at the sight, it would be pro-
per to furnish them with linen ulsters. For
absolute protection in winter we would
suggest redingotes of blue and red flannel
cut demi-train with frilled collarettes and
cuffs. ...--.. ..,.sa. &
To those of our stoekmen who appre-
hend that their business will in the future
suffer curtailment from various causes, we
recommend the goose industry as a new
outlet for capital and energy Geese will
require scarcely more care than cattle and
far less than sheep. Properly ear-marked
they can be turned at large upon the
range, where they can subsist upon grass
hoppers and snakes, while access to stack
of hay Or nutritious oat straw will tide
them over the winter.
Three round-ups annually will be the
rule, instead of two, as with cattle; and
the regular fall drive TO the Easter stock
yards will afford many of the natives a
chanaesto see something of the world.
In the cheerful cackle Of companionable
geese the sheep herder, now turned Epluck-
er, will find happy relief from the monton-
Gus ~baainga OF simple-minded.sh sheep; and
the bold cowboy can find employment in
the exciting occupation of riding them to
water, which is said to possess such fasci-
nation that the most reckless "buckcro"
will at any time give up his pony for his
goose. t5#+ 4 BOLIvER.
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meat canning establishment, a steam tan
merry, and shoe mandatory to extract all
the gold out of the hides of the beeves that
will be slaughtered here.
1t may be eastern capital that will en-
bark in this business, or it may be an as
ISOLATION of resident stockmen, but who
ever engages at it will reapa speedy for
tune.
More facts relating to this industry, col
lected from various sources, will be given
hereafter. @