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MEHPIII81
Monday Cvrnlnr, Vrt 93. 171.
Amusements thii Evening.
MmrHis TaxATSE Mrs. J. A. Oaten Comic
Optra Troup.
Bsooa's Omni Horss Verlotp performance.
ANOIHEB DEFAETUEE.
Under the shadow of the Ku-Klux law,
standing by the bordors of South Carolina
we look over upon counties overrun
with troops, and spies, and informers;
casting our eyes to the West, we see the
party of principle stricken down and
trampled, with its glorious colors, into
the dirt. Looking to Washington, we
nee a man sitting in the chair of Chief
Magistracy, fortified with an army, and
covered all over with gifts the price of
official favor. Living in the South, we
see oar people governed by hordes of
enemies whom the war left among them,
or the crippled condition of the South
and the passion of gain brought down
to rule and to rob. We see our great
men excluded from privileges the lowest
negro possesses. We see our population
run down with the instruments of the
Eu-Klux law, captured, dragged hun
dreds of miles from home and thrown
into dirty dungeons, and upon the testi
mony of blacks, who know not the
sanctity of an oath, but recognize only
the commands of their masters. We see
the powers of the States gone, and a
great centralized despotism erected at
Washington. We grieve over the relicts
of the old Government as they lie
strewn about the feet of imperial power.
We would gather them together if we
could, and of them construct a raft upon
which to Boat back to the good, old har
bor. In whatever direction the eye turns
it discovers nothing but wreck and ruin
of the past, and we still fight over old
issues, when the question, as Trumbull
says, is narrowed down to this: Shall
we have a Government of republican
principles, or shall we have a centralized
despotism a't Washington?" This is true.
It is the only question, the only issue be
tween the national parties. Congress,
and the President have made the issue.
It is not to be mistaken. The despotism
is not to be, but is an existing fact. It
is over South Carolina, and it may soon
be over all the Southern States. The
President has the power to extend it at
pleasure. It is absolute. It is not to
be questioned, except by the great body
of the good men of all parties of ajl
sections of the country, laying aside,
for the time, their old differences, and
coming together for one single, grand
purpose the overthrow of despotism
aud the reclamation of the republic.
And we fight over the old issues that
look like hills beside the mountain of
this Administration's crimes. It is be
lieved that there is only one mode
of escape for the country. The
opponents of Grant's Administra
tion, Democratic and Republican, must
ome together. Gratz Brown, Chase,
Fenton, Cox, Clay, Trumbull, Noyes,
Schurz and other anti-Grant Republicans,
could, acting with the Democracy, de
feat Grant next year. But it is certain
that they would not supporf the nomi
nee of a Democratic convention. They
would not, if they did, be able to carry
their people with them. And now comes
the great trial for the Ttemocracy.
There is no use in attempting to conceal
the fact: therein a sentiment springing
up in the country to the effect that the
only chance to defeat Grant is for the
Democrats to make no nomination, but
throw their whole strength for some Con
servative Republican. Of (course they
would retain their organizations, State
and national, elect Democratic members
of Congress and Legislature) as hereto
fore. This would not amount to a dis
bandment of the party. For one, we
should not consent to that, nor do we
mean to be understood to advise the
policy we have alluded to. But we do
say this: It would be better to run the
risk of a -disruption of our party than
have Grant President four years more.
At the end of that time t is not prob
able that there would be a Democratic,
or any other part' nothing but a mili
tary despotism.
AUD GEORGIA.
The Ku-Klux war is to be, according
to the Macon Telegraph, extended into
Georgia. That paper says that "the
Cabinet, enraged at the bad luck attend
ing the elections in the Reconstructed
States,' is about to turn over a new leaf
in Georgia, and the South generally.
They are about to k:ck front and rear.
Martial law is to be tried on the leading
Democrats under the Ku-Klux bill, on
the one hand, and on the other all the
leading Radicals who have compromised
the party- by their thefts are to be
pitched neck and heels out of the party
windows. This is a lively programme if
true, and there is collateral evidence to
ebow tli at something of the kind is on
foot. DiEpatches to Forney's Press hint
at it, aud the Savannah News has Wish
im'tou news to the same purpose. That
paper sets forth at length how the Caro
linas have been secured to the Radicals
forever under the Ku-Klux policy, and
how tbe Cabinet confidently anticipates
that the Georgia Democracy will soon
be brought to grief under this heroic
treatment." This is all very heroic,
very fair, and very like Grant.
Ir is said that Dawes, of Massachu
setts, is to be tbe Chairman of the Com
mittee os Ways and Means in the House
of Representatives which meeu in De
cember. General Butler, in conse
quence of bis late career, is to Lave no
prominent position assigned him. This
is the revenge of Speaker Elaine, a
whom Butler is opposed.
COTTON PROSPECT. -The
Agricnltural Bureau has sent out
its cotton report for October. Kll kays
the cotton returns for the month art: no
more favorable than those of the pre
ceding jiionth. In no State is the aver
age of September fully sustained. The
general average of the condition in the
first week of the present month is .'7G
per cent, against HO per cent, in Sep
tember. In some sections in the Missis
sippi valley and in Texas, improved
prospects are reported, while the pre-
ponderance of testimony in the South
West, as well as on tbe Atlantic coast,
favors a further reduction of the ex
pected yield, The percentage of the
condition in the several States is as fol
low North Carolina, 89 j South Caro
lina, 15 Georgia, 72; Florida, 73? Ala
bama, 75; Mississippi, 76;' Louisiana,
73 Texas, 72 Arkansas, 82 Tennea
see, 94. The report proceeds The
injuries reported are from rust,
shedding of bolls prematurely,
sufficiently low temperature to
check the development of boll.
in more northern latitudes, floods
and inundations in Florida and Georgia,
sprouting or rotting of bolls from rains,
drought in the section of Georgia, and
the boll and army worms in portions of
Mississippi and more western States. It
does not appear that the losses from
insects are general or very serious, with
a few isolated exceptions. Drought
should be credited with a larger propor
tion of the depreciation than any other
assigned cause, notwithstanding the fact
that cotton endures lack of moisture
better than other crops." It does riot
think the indications point to a yield pf
over three million bales. Others, per
haps as competent as the Government is
to make an estimate, place the yield
much higher. One point is settled on all
hands the production will fall below
that of last year by very great odds.
BE ON THE WATCH.
There is not, observes one of the New
York dailies, the least doubt that the
excitement produced throughout all the
country by the Chicago calamity has
prepared the minds of excitable and
reckless people to receive the idea of
repeating elsewhere the wild horrors of
the acene. The perpetual mention by
the press of the alleged incendiary at
tempts at Chicago has suggested to these
people the commission of a crime from
which in other circumstances they wonld
have shrunk affrighted, and there now
seems to be an epidemic of incendiarism
spreading among weak-minded persons
who have temporarily become monoma
niac upon the subject of Era. Tbas we
hear of four attempts to burn the town
of London, in Canada, and six efforts in
one night to set fire to Syracuse, while
from other quarters reports and rumors
of incendiary attempts are rife.. It
would be wisdom on the part of firemen
and private citizens everywhere to take
special precautions againstinCendiarism
for the next few days.
ENQLAND'S CRISIS.
The London correspondent of the New
York World writes some startling things
concerning attairs in cngiana. ine
Republio is openly talked of, the Queen
is declared to be crazy, and the Prince
of Wales is not respected. As to par
ties, the writer says
If I were not sworn to solemn secrecy
I could now unfold a startling tale. The
obligations of secrecy will soon be re
moved, and then you shall have the par
ticulars concerning the formation of a
new holy alliance in England, the con
sequences of which may be most mo
mentous. Extremes meet. There ex
ists on earth no meaner, more despica
ble, more tyrannical and more danger
ous a creature than the man who wishes
to setup for himself the golden calf,
money, and who demands that rank, in
tellect, scholarship and. culture, as well
as labor, shall bow down in adoration
hefore this idol. Well, would it surprise
you to learn that rank, intellect, scholar
ship and culture naveiormea an alliance
against mere capital, and that a new
nartv has been tormed, in wnicn tne
real aristocracy of England not the
mock aristocracy is united with the
men of the workshop?
IN HIS PO VIE.
This pretty tough story is told:' It is
said that the daring Prussian minister
holds at present the mercantile exist
ence of England in his hands, the result
of having humbled France in the dust
No less a sum than twenty-five millions
sterling is now in his possesion, in the
shape of bills drawn by Trench on Eng
lish capitalists, and should he think of
presenting them and converting them
into gold, all the specie in the Bank of
England would not suffice,' as if pos
sesses little more than twenty-one mil
lions in all. The directors of that instl
tution have endeavored to avert a crisis
by raising the rate of discount to five
per cent., but this will not prevent the
calamity, if he chooses to insist on pay
ment of his bills, for they are bound to
give gold for their notes on presanta-
tion, and be could thus render the estab
lishment bankrupt in a day, or reduce
to a similar condition all those whose
paper he holds.
MmiPHis. Tkss., October, ZS, 1ST1.
To tlit Editor of ibt Ledper:
Some one has advanced tbe, idea that
the Democratic party should not have a
candidate for the Presidency in H72.
It is the best suggestion yet made. We
cannot by any possible chance elect a
candidate; then let ns adopt the Douglas
motto, I bide my time' and leave the
field free to the Radical party. Then
will there be two Radical candidates in
the field, and we can vote for the one
who will concede most to ns.
t Ksao.
Ax exchange says the death of Gen
eral Justin Dimick, late of the United
States army,' which occurred one day
last week, is regretted by many ex Con
federate officers, who were imprisoned
in Fort Warren, near Boston, while he
was in command there, and who were
treated as kindly by him as the nature
of bis duties wonld allow. Among these
officers were General S. B. Buckner, and
the present Governor of Tennessee,
General John C. Browa. General Dim
ick, who was a grad uat of West Point,
and was seventy years old at the time of
his death, had been in tbe army more
than fifty years. II served with dis
tinction in the Seminole war, in Florida,
and in the Mexican war, as well as ip
the late war between the sections.
Mas. Liiar, who owns the cow that
kicked over the lamp that baroed Chi
cago, denies tbe kicking over business.
Now, Mrs. Leary, yon should know bet
ter. Yon should know that your cow
did kick over that lamp.
r HIADIIO OREILET. -Huller
hna been beard from. A Wash
ington Bpeciul to 'the Louisville Ledger
iajri:,' During bis recent iaiA here,
among othor things, Butler developed a
elan to Grant, which the latter' thinks
will head off Greeley's Presidential"
movemennt and bring harmony generally
to the Republican party in New York.
Butler is of opinion that Fenton should
be nominated for Vice President, which
position he thinks the latter could be
induced to accept. He asserts that
Conkling could End no fault with this
proceeding, as the Yice Presidency is a
mere' hojiorary position, without in
fluence nd is generally fatal to the
man who occupies it
i Tuft i negro rule, pure and unmixed.
The Columbus (Mississippi) Index says:
'I It is an actual fact that, although the
Republican party in the county has three
times' tbe v numerical strength of the
whites, tbe registration standing 4877
blacks to 1494 whites, there are not
enough men in it who can read and
write to fill the public offices and clerk
ships I Of course, therefore, any expec
tation of splitting that party is liope-leBsj-thcre
is no one to be benefited by
making the attempt" we snouiu like
to see this state of things in a county in
Ohio, Illinois or Indiana.
I A mourn so to the Cincinnati En-'
quirer, that city has not been swift to
extend relief to the rural sufferers. It
says: It is by no means .creditable to
Cincinnati that she has done so little for
of the unfortunate victims of
tlie fires of Michigan and Wisconsin.
The Chicago calamity, great as it was,
was nothing in comparison with them.
The loss of life by the rural fires was
tenfold greater, and the destitution and
suffering among the survivors incon
ceivably more appalling than at Chi
engo.
Tits Nicolson pavement has been es
pecially a Chicago institution. In the
late conflagration an eye-witness says
they burned like tinder like petro
leum would1 have been a more accu
rate phrase. The New York Journal of
Commorce says: In the crowded parts
of New York this pavement should be
ripped up at once, leaving us the secu
rity pf solid, uninflamable ground until
a first-class stone pavement can be
laid."
Is Noble county, Ohio, there was a tie
for the Legislature. In Vinton county
tbe Republican candidate received a
majority of but four votes. In Highland
the majority waa thirty-six. In Hardin
and Knox counties it waa very small
probably leas, than fifty. In Scioto
county it was only one hundred and ten.
These show how purely, accidental it is
that tbe Republicans have any majority
in the General Assembly of Ohio.
i
HtitRT Wabd Beither, whose sympa
thies are with the Radicals, is reported
to have said, in the course of recent re
marka upon the New York municipal
corruptions, that No political capital
can be made out of these disclosures,
as they were simply an evidence of the
financial dishonesty of the times, which
is aa manifest in Washington as in New
York."
..i i o
Ciiiai.ig O'Coskob, who has been ap-.
pointed by Governor Hoffman to 'assist
in the prosecution of the New lork
swindlers, announces that he will at once
beein the work in earnest, and that
the prosecution thereof he will hold
himself entirely aloof from all political
cliques. This is rigM and commenda
ble.
Or the Ohio election the Cincinnati
Enquirer says: In sixty counties Noyes
has but 11,107 majority. The 28 counties
to be heard from gave Sherwood 4900
last year. The Republican majority
will be little larger than it was last year.
Tbe whole gain is in Cuyahoga county,
where the liquor interest coalesced with
the Republicans.
Mr. Alexander, the well-known stock-
raiser of Kentucky, is about to marry.
His tenants and friends in Airdrie, Scot
land, where his ancestral estate is situ
ated," intend to celebrate the event by
sending to their laird and lady a con
gratulatory address.
,It is said that the Radicals have given
up the impending Virginia election as
hopeless. Their dirty politics have no
business on the clean soil of v irgima,
and their dirty feet neither.
Gsaxt is making a circuit of the
North. What is the fellow after? Our
generation has math to boast of. Among
other things it can boast the smallest
President that ever lived.
Tna fellow who suggested the policy
of fighting the devil with fire did not
suppose that tulphurous individual was
avaricious, else he would have suggested
gifts.
Butler wants a cod-fish war with
Great Britain, and comes into court
with a cod by the gills.
('oloxf.l Crews has our thanks
important State documents.
for
A doctor's motto ia eupposeJ to be
patients and long suffering."
Why is a woman always making a
noise? Because shea generally in a
bustle.
A writer on school discipline says:
Without a liberal use of the rod, it is
impossible to niake boys smart."
An Indiana groom kissed the bride so
loudly 'as to extort a round of applause
from the assembled audience at the wed
ding. A Boston paper says that as a rule,
ladies who do not wear their hair in the
French 41 roll are considered ill-" bred."
One of the coats sent to the Boston
Young Men s Christian Union to be for
warded to Chicago, was labeled My
wedding coat"
Josh Billings says: I am violently
opposed to ardent tpeerit as a beve
ridge, but for manufacturin' numosea 1
think that a little of it tastes good."
Old Mr. A., at aboat eighty years of
are. was m bold as to marry a rounir
wife, and in due course of time Was pre
sented with a son. On the day of chris
tening, the nurse handed young mauler
about with the nsual exclamation that
he was the very image of his puna.
Very like indeed," said a lady, no
hair, bo teeih."
Wilhelm Von Hnroboldl's eldest son
died recently ia Berlin, at the age of
seventv-hve years. He was all his days
what the Uersuns call Bonderling
Among other eccentricities, he spent his
last twenty years exclusively :n bed
although in vigorous health, which
siowly yielded to his prolonged freak,
ke was buried at Necal the sepulchre
of bis lather.
LATEST TELEGRAMS.
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lutrrnatlttual TsviltlBK.
Nkw'Yokic, October 23. The dedica-
tinn of the Madison .avenue Reformed
Church, corner Fifty-Seventh street and
Madison avenue, took place yesterday
Rev. Dr. Gauz. pastor, and Rev. Drs.
DeWittand Ferris' delivered, addresses,
and a collection waa aubsequently taken
up for the benefit of the congregationa
nf rliiirelies burnt in ChicRgo, and a
handsome sum realized.
Mr. A, A. Low, trenaurer of Chamber
of Commerce committee on Chicago re
lief rnnrl havini received on Sntur-
day $S,090 04, maki ng a total of contribu
tioua sent by the Chamber of Commerce
of $oS5,frS2 22. The employee of the
nnnraiser's department in the custom
house gave $5507 and the attaches of the
sheriff's oflice gave $t-20, of which $500
is to bo Bent to Chicago and the balance
to the Mlchignn and Wisconsin sufferers.
Other subscriptions Were .received. Sat
urday and yesterday, making the total
subscription from New York $2,529,091.
At the 'present' time there are some
eight or ten of the finest billiard players
of tbe United States and Canada in this
citv. including the two Dions and Mons;
G ameer. Severnl of these professionals
have announced their intention of giv-
inir a erand exhibition of their skill at
Chris O'Connor's rooniB, the proceeds of
which are to be donated to Chicago hi!
liardists who have been ruined by the
fire. The exhibition will take place to
morrow evening.
To-day the fifth rare for the Queen's
nn. with the vatch Livonia, will be
sailed over the club course. The excite
ment in the matter of interest involved
in the retention of the American enp
on this side of the water is increasing,
and there will undoubtedly be a large
number of spectators on the lower bay
to witness tho contest. The contesting
vnchts will not be numbered by the
committee until just previous to starting,
According to the American record tbe
race of Saturday gives three victories
for America and one for the English
man. Sir Ashbury thinks differently,
however, as the following note to the
sub-committee of the New Yo-k Yacht
Club, Saturday morning, indicates:
Niw York. October 21
Gents: T continue the series of races
without prejudice to my confirmet
claim, the subject of your oommunict.
tion of the 20th.
Yours truly, Jas. Ashbury.
This is likely to give rise to new com
plications, as the New York yachtmen,
if they win tlio race to-day, will consider
thp unrips ended, while Ashbury will
claim another race. i
PESXSVLVASIA.
Leetnrer on Anti-Popery
incked by a Mob.
Al-
Scrakton, Pa., October 23. Intense
excitement here yesterday, which waa
not entirely unexpected. Last week
Rev. A. P. Devlin, well known as an
Anti-Popery lecturer, arrived and suc
ceeded in renting Kirfer a Hall for Sat
urday night, but the proprietor becoming
alarmed at the many threats, refused to
open the hall. Devlin then made an
effort to lecture on the streets, but was
repeatedly hooted down, and the crowd
becoming so noisy and disorderly, he
was compelled to retire for the night.
Yesterday he mode another attempt to
deliver his lecture. At precisely two
o'clock be mounted a box on the corner
of Lackawana and Pennsylvania Ave
nues, opened a Bible and commenced
his discourse, which was an attack on
the Catholics. In a few minutes after
he opened, a largo body of men,
armed with clubs and stones, came down
Pennsylvania avenue. They listened
to him a few moments, but when he re
ferred to the Catholics as being thieves,
murderers and cut-throats the box on
which he stood was kicked from under
him and he fell to the pavement He
regained his feetandonce more mounted
the box, but was again thrown down.
Police officers appeared on the scene
and attempted to protect him. The
crowd became infuriated and cried loudly
to kill him. An officer .took him along
the avenue, when some one in the crowd
threw a stone which struck him on the
head, splitting it open. Tbe crowd
fjllowed him, hooting and yelling furi
ously, until he managed to enter the
Wyoming House. From there he was
taken out by a side door to the Forrest
House, where he now lies apparently in
t dangerous condition. He is still de
termined to lecture, and avows his inten
tion to again speak to-day. On the
other band, the mob swear he shall not
speak. The greatest excitement pre
vailed all day yesterday, and it wits
generally the theme of conversation.
WASHINGTON.
Imparlaat llwl 1m la
Ib Ha.
preme loart,
'Vashix;tok, October 23. An impor
tant decision will be delivered at the
present adjourned term of the Supreme
Court. The opinion of tlie Court is to
be announced in a case in which is in
volved the question of the coustitutioo
alitv of what is known aa the Drake
amendment. It wilt be remembered
that Senator D.-ake, of Missouri, be
fore taking bis seat as Chief Justice
of the Court of Claims, drew up a bill
providing that the pardon of the Presi
dent does not entitle disloyal persons to
bring suits against the L'nited States
and prosecute them in the Court of
Claims. This provision was inserted in
the Miscellaneous Appropriation Bill,
approved July l.'ith, lt-70. Several cases
coming under this are now pending in
the l'nited States Supreme Court on an
appeal front the fnitod States Court of
Claims, and the forthcoming opinion is
looked for with great interest.
MARKETS.
Kiw Yoaa, October J3. Flour dull.
Wheat in fair demand at lower rates.
Corn and oats dull. Whiskj stadj.
Mess pork quiet Lard dull. Groceries
onthanged. Keoeipte flour, 2,000
barrels-, wheal, 410.000 bushels; corn,
,0 bu.Wls; oats, 117,000 bushels.
A coiemporary atifgesta that there
should be added to the faculty of some
of our American colleges a professor
ship of common sense."
or I.ady of the Lamp.
This histoncul personage, name unr
known, aided by a kicking cow, also
name unknown, that by colliding with a
kerosene lamp destroyed Chicago, has
been found at. Vst hy John Hay, the
author of Little Breeches," etc. The
historical cow although resembling the
one worshipped Jy nU 'trne Brahmins,
has been earnestly cussed by all true
Cbicagoans, The cow has been spirited
away by some industrious Yaiik, who ia
preparing a side-show and a lecture for
the purpose of traveling throughout the
country. John Hay relates his experi
ence as follows: 1 n
But of all the miserable plain stretch
ing out before me to the burning coal
heaps in the northern distance, I was
only interested in the narrow block be
tween Dekoven and Taylor streets, now
quite flat and cool, with small gutter
boys marching through the lots, some
kicking with bare feet in the Hght ashes
for suspected and sporadic coals,-' and
others prudently mounted onetilts, which
sunk often in the- spongy aoil and
caused the young acrobats to descend
ignominiously and pull them out. This
was the Mecca of my pilgrimage, for
here the lire began. 1 One squalid little
hovel alone remained intact In' all that
vast expanse. A warped atrd wcather
benten shanty of two rooms, perched on
thin piles, with tin plates nailed hallway
down them like dirty pantalets. 'J'hcre
was no shabbier hut in Chieiigo nor in
Tipperary. But it stood there safe,
while a city had perished before and
around it. It was preserved by its own
destructive significance. It was made
sacred by tbe curse that rested on it
a curse more deadly than that which
darkened tbe lintels of the house-of
Thyestes. For out of that house, last
Sunday night,' came a' woman with a
lump to the barn behind the house; to
milk the cow with the crumpled temper,'
that kicked the lamp, that spilled the
kerosene, that fired the straw, that burn
ed Chicago. Anil there to this hour
stands tho craven little house, holding
on tightly to its miserable existence.
I stood on the sidewalk opposite, as in
duty bound, calling up the appropriate
emotions. A strange, wrinkled face on
a dwarfish body, came up and said,
"That's a dhreadful sight." I assented,
and he continued in a melancholy croon:
"Forty year I've lived here, and, there
wasn't a briuk house but win and that
was the Lakeside Home; ami it's gone
now; an' av ye'll belaVc me, Sour, I
niver see a fire loike tliiit.1' I believed
him thoroughly, and he went away. My
emotions not being Satisfactory from a
front view of the shanty, 1 went around
to the rear, and there found tho Man of
the House sitting with two ol his friends,
His wife, Our Lady of thfe Lamn
freighted with heavier disaster than that
which Psyc. 3 earned to the bedside
of Eros-sat at the window, knitting. I
approached the Man of the House and
gave him good-day. He glanced up with
sleepy, furtive eyes. I asked him what he
knew about the origin of the fire. He
glanced at his friends nud said, civilly,
he knew very little he was waked up
abont 9 o'clock by the alarm, and fought
from that time to save his bouse; at every
Sentence ho turned to his friends and
iaid, "I csn prove it by tbem," to which
they nodded assent. He seemed fearful
that all Chicago was coming down npon
him for prompt and integral payment of
that f'JH0,O00,UOO bis cow bad kicked
over. Tliere was something unutterably
grotesque in this ultimate atom feeling a
sense ot responsibility tor a catastropne
so stupendous, and striving, by a fiction,
which must have heavily taxed hi
highest powers of imagination, to escape
a reckoning he was already tree from
USEMENT8.
MEMPHIS THEATER.
Spalding it Pope...
P. Shot
.......Proprietors.
..i Treasurer,
MONDAY EVENING. OCT. ZiD. FIRST
night of tho brief en"ageubnt f the fa
mous youns oougstrtus anu tumeuieuue,
JYIrs. .T. A.. Oates
ANO HKB ViaV
Celebrated Comio Opera,' Company,
Who wiU appear In the Orana1 Corulo Operntic
xtruvsgania ol mo
FAIR ONE WITH THE BLONDE WIG.
FRIDAY Benefit of Mrs. J. A.' Oatssi" 'i
UryiU Alatiaea on Saturday.-. m -t
Tn nrewarntloo. Little Faust. Flower Girls,
Prima ifonua, anil the great extravarania
rortiinlo r
NOTICE.
CHAMBER OF COMMKUCE.
mim B.1WHTLAR MONTHLY MKKTINU OF
X tne i.nemner oi uomintTre win ne neia
this iMOAibA') ftfbernooii at three oVIoek.
xv. A. ri.vuii, rrcemeiii-.
SUNDRIES.
"SUN I It I K H.
250 fooxw CliceM'.
no bblHnnd lili'ttblMlMcklea
25 lilf llU Mlilte 1'iMli.
3HO kit drill! IdtN Miukvrel.
AO blilKHiul liirbklM HrotiL
no lblM Hominy ami Urltx.
20O rw Imp. Itraiidy lirrrte
50 tnbH of Frt'Mh II II CUT.
95 boson ItreakfitNt JUuoon.
3.1 trunewsnigaroiircil haiiiM
lOO kCICN Sl)l l I'lir'H Fe't.
1SOO cuhi's i-anucil I ruitM and
J41IU-H.
50 diKON .NnrdlnoM.
20O hbU AlrH A Potatoes
JlINt MHlTOd 'at
t' A. ECKEKLVS,
'.UIH I'roiiCcor. of Union ttlreet
LECAL.
Mierjir Wale.
1Y VIRTtlB OF AN ORDER FROM TUB
J J Firnt Chanrerr Court Shelby eounty. in
the esni of 11. Cloth vs. Famll. 1111 sell for
euli, to the bmho.t bidder, at tbe aaotion
tire oi A.M. iswdderd A Co., lis. 37 Uniea
street, in the city of Memphis.
Or Sal urdu j, October SS, l(fl,
a lerse lot of family irroceries, ronai.tiot of
eunnt-d Fruit, Liguori, bupar, Molaaaee and
many olher article, of family sro'-f riea bale
in lesal hoari. MAKCI K J. Whll.llT.
Abrriff of Shelby eoenty.
ARTIFICIAL LIMBS.
SELPHO'S PATENT.
rnilKSB OK1.KHRATKD SUBKTITt'TBfl
A. for loil litnot are now worn by upward
ten tnousund perioue, and lor
EASE, OS FOKT, SIMPLICITY
AKD
I U ItVX I LITY
-THKY-AHK
i:EUlIALLEi),
(eitaiulng the Latest Improvements.
F full particulars
Uttit out le
ea4 for ami'blet
HKLI'IIO
51 Braaeloaj,
SON.
R. T.
CLOTHS.
CLOTHS AND CASSIMERESI
II,
WOULD
-(Mm
CALL ATTENTION TO
i, 'I It
OUR IMMENSE STOCK
Or Plain, Striped, Silk-mind, and Diafonal
striped
CASSIMERES
P1AIX, FANCY' A5I) DIAGONAL
cpA.Tiivas,
Of Frwoh, English and German manufacture
BLACK CLOTHS AND DOESKINS
Of the !;bratod HILtl Kits, WAUNERB, SI
AMOKSandLAKUEaE umkei also
Blue, Brown, Olive Brown, Olive
Green, Dahlia and Mulberry
g o or ir w
t v h
losethsr with an immense stock of
i I, i
I
CASSIMEIIES AND TWEEDS
i FOR
13 O YS',, SUITS,
B. L0 WENSTEIN BROS.,
242 aud 244 Main, cor. Jefferson St,
DRY COODS.
THE ATTENTION
-OF-
VISITORS TO THE FAIR
18 DIRECTED
To the Attractive Stock
OF
n I
MENKEN BROTHERS
Elegant Striped Silks, $1 50
Japanese Silks 65c
Black Gros Grain Silks, $1 50
Alpaca Walking' Suits, 9 00
Poplin Snit3,0versk't, $10 to 15
We afaln
ffer the beat
She 'lljr t
value
Children's Sets, Cape Ma AT, $1 70
Ladies' Sets $2 70
HANDSOME ALPACAS
At 80c, 85ii and fiOc.
IIIVK QUALITY
AlMVool Delaines at 40c
i i 1
MENKEN BROTHERS,
Cor. Mala Mid Court SU.
INSURANCE.
M KM PHIS. "CITY
FIRE A,?I UEKERAL
INSURANCE COMPANY.
(Miff, 1!) MatiiKon St, Memphis.
CAPITAL (250,000.
B. BATI.ISS,
A. VACAKO,
Vice President.
HEXRY J. LYSS,
Secretary.
resident.
F. YJ. SMITH,
Caahier.
DIItKCTOllBi
JACOB THOSIPMN. NAPOL80N HIM..
W. C. Kl'TLASlU. W. R. UALBKKAlH.
WM. JuYftKR, J. T. FAhUAbOK.
K. D. GOOULETT.
DO US FLKK,MAJtINE,lXLA'D
AKD
General
41 W
Insurance Uusint'ss.
CEMENT.
CEMENT, PLASTLR AND LIME.
IrIoes ltluMMl I
Foavadule Omfut I
I'laatrr l'arls t
Alr.bama Lime t I
i'la.terlnr Hair. !5 t
Ire Brick, per iOtf t
S 50
n ro
I
i l r.o
t a to
I0E CASH OS DELIYERT.
He,, Cora,
saariH rates.
Omle aa 1t- tte !weet
J)H A. DhMfc.
K. 41 f -n'ri ill :--t.
T.CAI."TRArK.',l"JANKf, ALL KINDS
i L at tae Lenser oi tc. U JlMisoa. sueeb
FALL AND WES
WALKER CR0si! CO I
IV o. ,,31. MAIN STREET,
HAVTS KECKIVED AND ARE DAILY ADDINO;T01TIIKIR IMMENSE BT0CK 0
it' I i V J
Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishing Goods
i i i r
)1 THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE, WHICH TUEY WICK j f
AT PRICES AS 1 LOW AS THE LOWEST.
New Goods. Choice Patterns
Give them a call before purchasing elsewhere. Remember the Place,
No. 231 Main Street, Clay Building.'
10,000 pes Bagging!
FOB SALE IN STORE AJil) KKCEIYING DAILY BEST BRANDS
2 :ittff,'T W lint t S-fe"
ff?rrl 1 SHB- B op
as CZf i-r-- flg
ijifJ'"'"1'.':;. 'ifi
3 if 1 -3 L i S
AT MANUFACTUUKKS' A'AtAe-.Ji.l! J
Terms i Cnsli or City Acceptance. Interest, O per cent.
13CV12H WAHKKX A CO.. Ag'ntw.a0 mill Front StreM'i.
JET PALACE. 328 Main St. JET PALACE.
,,':V TO THE LADIES!
The nndprsteiir! lieff lfW to Inform tlift Ladles of Meniilil and mrronnd
Ine country that they have rccelred from Kw York Importer the very atejt,
atyles of Jet and fu.iry Jewelry. YVe would tall your particular ttntloii to
our most elesant and select stock of real French gilt jewelry, of which we
have the only complete assortment In the city, and which we sellat wy mod
erate prleea. We keep none but tlnd-class article., and repair free of eharg-e
all Jet and Shell goods that have been bought In onr establishment.
114.xlii39 7" v I. BOESCnEK at CO.
''....vFAlLti J FXSHIOWS
PARIS MILLINERY, r:.;-W' I? :'A V.
LONDON BONNETS AND
BERLIN TRIMMED HATS.
A. COMPLETE! ASSORTMENT 1
V 11 0 if E SALE AN D RETAIL.
y'uVi lines of Gros Oraln and Cord-edge Blbbong.
Superb colorings lu Velvet, Silk and Satins,
i Real Thread-lace aud Embroideries. 1
ADAPTED' FOU SELECT. T11ADE.
riOUNTRY' MKRCnANTS WILL PLKA8B OBHKRVE THAT OUR .STOCK OF TH81
j above U uneciualed. belnu purohmod excluivel)r with resard to the requirement of
Soathera trade anil at uch prioes a, will admit of ao oompetitioa.
ji i
C. D0HERTY, No. 33S Main Street, corner Union.
INSURANCE.
QUEEN INSURANCE CQMP'Y
of i
LIVERPOOL AND LONDON,
(CONTINUES TO AFFORD PROTECTION
J SKainut loll by fire at an equitable ad
vance in rnien.
CAPITAL 2,000 000
OKPtCR OF OtTEEH INSURANCE
U.
ti. UKAM'H. Ill DKHADw A T
JJkw Yokk. Octobers. Sil
Any hiixineoif folly tTftred to Ix nnprofltft
bl, houltl l6 atndnned.
Artiug uix.D that priuoiplu. this Com puny
IflllllirtlW tllUII JTK"-7 liui viui.ov
tuary. IsTO. and a a result
HAVE NO LOSSES
In the terrible conflagration that swept over
that oily yttHtenlay, BlTectinir ihe iiqhiioiilI.
commercial and insurance intwrecU of the
whole country, eripplinr and impairing many
of th otiluit and anumtfwt iniiurance cin
naniei. and utterly ruininr o many, that
property-boldern with Uitlioulty decide where
to look for protection.
We trust thia calamity will of neceatity end
the reekleis and in many instances iandal
oui competition that ha sprung up within
the laot two yearF, almost driving prudent
underwriters from the Held, ana giving un
miatfistflilBi urainonition that a day of wreck
and retribution wm certain in the not very
distant future, and which is only precipitated
by this terrible visitation of Providence.
Insurance is one of the main pillars sus
taining the credit of the mercantile interest,
and should be so managed ns to make sure its
safety aad soundness under all i-irrumi'tanoM
in fact lis si Din ly iuuuiu oe aouve an sus
picion. j
Thi.T can never be unless underwriters ad
here to such rates of premium m experience
hM proved to be adequate and necenpary to
meet ordinary losses and provide a Reserve
'und for such contingencies as are sure to
arise, ho prudence or loreMgni can loreien
tbe time or place that the blow will fall, yet
It is sure to come, as the records "howl Troy,
Portland and Chicngo succeeding eaoil other
in increased magnitude-, more than outstrip
ping the gigntio growth of the country.
The Mercantile and Insurance interests are
so Intimately blended that it is reasonable to
.Mer.aa th&t tii format wi II readily aud cor-
diaily respond to any reMonable demand of
HUCn COmpaiUBIt iluafBii.rtm.ir;r-.a,.u
the general wreck, or have stockholders able
and Willing tO mill goou meir iiuimirruoni,
for an equitable advance of rates, suthoient
Ui bring their business to a paying point and
give assurance oi a luiure sounu couuuiou
BATES MI ST BE ADVANCED
to a pay!" point or buein.M declined; the
futere leweiy oi iii.unn-e bcfiiu, .rw
derwriier. a'in.riii. w mm ir....
We therefore ailie or A-et, in wpoaa
ln. to tie incraaied demand ibat will inevit-
ablr pre.1 npoa in.m ior
riei. not to charge unreanona.le rat bot to
finolr adnere to ine ppinnri
in.ilt otxl eucn equuaow r.-
deaoe impeniiveir u.w.ii.
ArenU wben in d.mbt a. to the proper rSte
will relerio tnie onin,
en-h adeire a. eiperieeee ui"-"".
e I irui oil Air".
and eflicient eo-operatloa ia aoeoaiajodetins
the traau .line ll-b a vV-SVIuu. kv
that the r.r.n ..-.-x
raa Ihlnurh tbem remler a aerru-e to Ine
mercantile comuieu" -I,ti.fr.
w- if BOfcJi
Uanaser, I nited State.
II. T. TOMLINSON,
AG EXT,
IVo. IT Mndlaon Street
01-t".
NOTICK.
OFFifR r n. T. T0VI.rV3"! OO.,
Mi erHMi. T.. ouiber. IXTI.
The (..llo.irs Jii.aUh bae jut been M-
ralTed by whir e pebli.h fr.r the lafer-
saatioa W ear pelier-heUen ia the CarlMr
laaaraatr t anistaair. of Baa FraiWw-e.
Csliforaia:
"To H. T. Tomllnena A Co., Mempbii.Tenn?
Rrei! thl. wnminr a si.pwfh rroia
8B franneoe.au twtolr If. m l"lle:
'We ta.ke proHin fnr a.oenl of ell
Iamo ea4 mum au.u.f. iuie'.O'a''r. A.
e..iir..at will m.kr t-- all iii.i-eirm.nl of
capital. Art nh r" 1 ;"nrn""'7
"A. J. k.All." Pre-Weat.'
I?" i" aecPri.li.
"General
rml Ai.au. So. 'l Broedwaj. i. T.
TElt CLOTHING
gotten up in Latest Styles.
15,000 b'dls Ties
INSURANCE
IIBHNANDO
Insurance Company1
OF MEMMIW.
OFFICE NO. 7 MADISON STREET.
8. H. DTJN SCOMB Presideat.
W. B. OALHRKATH, Vie President.
V, M. NKLSON, HeoreUrr-
W. It. MAiiLOKY. Aii't Seoratary.
Dlrectm
S. D. DUNBCOMB, D. H. T0WNBKSD.
W.B. OALHKKATU. A. VACCAKO,
L. HANAUJiH, N. FONTAINB.
K. F. KIriK. JOBBKIICK.
K.8.JUNK&. J. J. BUHBi.
J0HH 0. FIZKH.
lata area najain" Iaa r flra, Hav
rlaeaa Klr Stielte,
aor-Illiki oa PriraU Dwellinsa sepeelallf
desired. lt-.p-t
BLUFF CITY
INSURANCE COMPANY,
OF MEMPHIS, TEM At.
No. "U3 Main Street.
CAPITA!
$200,000 1
1. N. PEKNEBt, PrealdCBl.
W. H. MOOKB, blcrtary.
nireelern
M L MKACHAK, DAVID P HADDKN.
HAP0LKON HILL, i 0 NKKLY,
QWJ0NB3. HH HIOBKI.
0BFBNNKR. i
aw Fire. Marias and Klrer rliks Uk.n at
the loweitratei. -T
HOME INSURANCE COMP Y
OP MEMPHIS, TESJT
OFFICE: No. 20 MADISON ST.
AuUiortzed Capital f 300,000
I.UI IN HAXIal-a Vrreleleat
JOHMIt. TOOP tlnrrMMeal
R. BUI.LINU srlary
J. H. OWEaT,Aa'taM.eTreeuiairr
Dlrsotorsi
LOUIS V ANNAVR, 8. H. TOBKY.
WM. WIIITAKliR. J. w. DICKINSON.
M. li. J ID Ail. PHILJ. MALLOW,
ADOLPH LOta, are,l AumU
1'--'-'p
IN8URANCI CARD.
CARD EXTRAG!.D.NARr.
Tn
ATTENTION OP THI PUBLIC 18
called to tbe aaneanceueat below, reetrired
br telesrapk to-dar i a aoble eihibit of tbe
spirit which aalatates tbe Btarkboldera aad
OBcen of tbe
Home Ins. Co., of New York,
OSRFRAL AHINfT.l
ST. Lol'ie, OckHMT In, 1071. 1
ToCarriastoa Maaoa. A cent:
Oar Board bai jert reeolred. aaaaiaioailr.
t.eil eptheoeplul toTfcreae)e) Mlf
llllBa at earlieet praetirabla aeoaieat.
which will reel ore aaeeU,
afW papias Chkaso loeeee. la aearlp
BUIIIe Ballatra.
ISinedl C. I. MORTOR.ea'l As't.
Ofle of Arrarr of Uoeie iBiarmae Cee-
paar ei n.e lore.
CARRIXGTON MASON, Atnt,
9 Madisoa StretU