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W.ilnfwlnr Krnln. Nov. 1K71.
Amusements thii Evening.
MkhphibThbatrr Hankin Comedy Company
B toon's Oprra Ilocss Variety performance.
THE ABUSED SOUTH.
The World soys the Southern people
never failed to pay their dehti in the
prosperous days before the war. The
burdens and losses of the war pressed
heavily upon them, but the reckless ex
travagance of the State governments im
posed upon them since the dsfeatf the
Southern armies has now saddled them
with a burden heavier than they can
bear. The State taxes in all the South
ern States are from five to ten times
greater than they were before the war,
and the ten Southern States, with less
than a third of the aggregate population
of the other States, owe more than the
entire debt of all the other States of the
Union. Besides all this, they annually
pay to the Federal Treasury a tribute
which is euorraous, in proportion to their
real wealth. This state of things is ouly
what was to be expected from a system
which placed the taxpayers at the
mercy of a penniless negro majority.
Its result will probably be the virtual
bankruptcy of the people, who will refuse
to pay taxes which they can pay only
by ruining themselves. The Radical
party has had the South at its mercy
since the war, and the result of Radical
reconstruction is now seen in the finan
cial ruin of ten once prosperous com
monwealths. AH ERIC AH BOYALTY.
The New Vork Sun has, at last, the
merit of singularity. In reference to
the expense to the people of sending
young Grant on a pleasure tour to Eu
rope, attended by Sherman and Porter,
it suggests that the cheapest, best, and
altogether the mont sensible way to man
age the affair would be for Congress to
give Grant, jr., a liberal allowance for
expenses, such as Parliament gives to
the English princes, and let him go his
way, choosing his own course and his
own companions. This, doubtless, would
suit the young gentleman far better than
the plan now proposed; while if he is
half as smart at deadheading as his sire,
he would be able to make a big thing,
financially from his expense account
As matters are going now, the patient
public would probably be satisfied with
this arrangement: but President Grant
may rest assured that the project of
sending so many high officials abroad to
attend his son or of sending them
abroad at the public expense at all will
never command the approbation of the
people."
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THE DEW SECRETARY.
A Washington special says: Grant
has held on to Fish until his successor
could be found, aud now that he has
been determined upon, Fish will be al
lowed to retire as soon as the votes are
counted at the New York election to
morrow. For a long time Grant wanted
Professor Andrew D. White, of Cornell
University, for a Cabinet Minister. The
latter had rendered some service as a
San Domingo Commissioner, and had
demonstrated his capacity for doing
dirty work at the Syracuse State Repub
lican Convention; hut in this desire the
President has been overruled, and it is
now beyond the possibility of a doubt
that George William Curtis, the editor
of thai Radical paper, par excellence,
Harrier's Weekly, will be rewarded with
the portfolio now held by Fish. The
latter will not retire before next week.
PHILLIPS.
The organs of the Boston capitalists
don't begin to like Wendell Phillips
present agitation for the white laborer as
well as they did his crusade for the black
one. They are especially alarmed and
indignant at the following extract from
his Springfeld speech, in which he said,
after speaking of the evils the working
classes are sustaining:
Well, there are a set mei with every
thing comfortable about them, with two
suits a year, as DnuWry says--enough
to spend and a good credit at the bank
and they say, "Hollo, what is vour
remedy? Tell us nnw, right o(T." "'hy,"
we say, "we are not prepared to tell,
and you have no right to ask. All we
know is that there are uncounted mil
lions of men that have not a fair hance
in the world, and somehow or other we
mean to right it, and if you want to help
us, come on, and if you do not we will
trample you under our fi-et,"
SOUTH CAROLINA FRAUDS.
A New Vork special of the ith snys:
The statements in religion to frauds
in the treasury department of the State
of Sonth Carolina have caused much ex
citement in financial circles generally,
and especially among the members of
the South Carolina Government at pres
ent in this city. General John B. I)en
nie, the chairman of the investigating
committee, appointed at the last session
oi the Legislature, in an interview to-day
attempted to deny the statement, but
did it so lamely that Ins denial amounted
to a complete atiirmalinn of all that has
been published. In (hi t, his name is
signed to a card pulilirlied in the morn
ing pspers, with that of the Governor
aud Treasurer of the State, admitting
that r-'Ct.OIO.IKHI in L,nd have been
printed, but claiminr "hhhi of them
have never been signed. There is little
doubt but that the statements relntive to
the frauds are substantially true.
GEORGIA AND BCLLOCE.
On the th. Loth branches of the Geor
gia Legislature adopted this resolution:
Resolved. That llufus B. Bullock, late
Governor of the State, who has resigneij
his left the .Stat under circum
stances leadirtc to a grave suspicion that
he is guiliy of high crimes n1 mid-1
nnniira. and has, in charging in a letter I
t-eantif date of October L'.t, lpTl. art-'
dressed to his po'',iC' friends and the
people of Georgia, that a msjority of
me 11 ouae of Representatives had pledged
themselves and their votes for articlos of
impeachment against him without inves
tigation, and had determined to unseat
a sufficient number of Representatives
and Senators to secure his conviction,
without regard to truth and validity, de
famed this Genernl Assembly by charges
which are untrue, and that the statement
in the same letter, to the eA'ect that the
people of Georgia have recently de
nounced or ignored the Constitution of
the United States, is false and defama
tory of the people of this State. On the
contrary, we assert that the people of
this State do now, as they did six months
ago, when, according to the letter of said
Rufus B. Bullock, tliev were neaceably
disposed, and acquiesced in the result of
the war; neither do they entertain any
hostility toward the United States, nor
deny any person within the limits of the
State the equal protection of its laws.
HIS DEFENSE.
A snecial from Snriuulield, Illinois,
says the defense of General Sheridan's
military occupation of Chicago seems to
rest on the plea ol necessity. It ia not
generally known yet, but it is true, that
the Adjutant General of this State, an
able and experience soldier, reached
Chicago the day after the fire with four
hundred and fifty picked men, well
armed, under orders fiom Governor Pol
mer, to enforce the laws and preserve
order, and that, under the advice and di
rection of General Sheridan and Mayor
MuBon, he returned home with his men
because there was no necessity for
either. After this the regiment of which
Governor Palmer complains was organ
ized and called into service.
This statement of the case places
Sheridan in an interesting attitude be
foro the country. Great men as well as
smnll ones should learn to go slow ovor
rough places.
THE ELECTIONS.
The Democracy have carried the city
of New York, but have lost the Stato by
a large majority for the Radicals. Tam
many has ruined the New York Democ
racy by tnrning its former victories into
defeats. Parker, Democrat, is proba
bly elected Governor of New Jersey.
Other States in the North have voted, as
usual, for the Radicals. Not enough is
known of the election in Mississippi to
justify the formation of an opinion
Strong hopes of carrying Virginia are
indulged by the Conservatives.
Tiik Louisville Ledger has this;. That
is a sensible compromise proposed by
Brigham Young one in fact, whioh set
tles the whole business speedily and per
manently. He offers to concede the
only point at issue to abolish polygamy
Brigham is getting old, any how, and as
he finds it easier to rule a kingdom than
a woman, he wisely surrenders the latter
and holds on to the former. It was my
Lord Byron who named avarice that
good, old-gentlemanly vice," and Brig
ham exemplifies the truth of trje propo
sition. The jncrince wus not so naru
after all; and if all poor devils could be
quit of their troubles on the same terms
well, there might be found several who
would "accept the situation, though
tearfully, prayerfully. "My kingdom
for a wife?" Neverl
It is said that tho destruction of the
entire records of Cook county, in th
lute fire at Chicaeo. destroyed all the
proofs of title to real estate, not only in
the burnt district of the city, but all
over the county; and the subject of sub
stituting some other means of identify
ing titles is creating a good deal of dis
cussion. Three abstracts of titles were,
fortunately, saved from the lire, and
though these cannot, perhaps, be made a
final authority,; they will be of great
value as evidence. Some method will
need to be devised and adopted by the
Legislature of the Stale for taking tlif
fire as the starting point and tracing
titles back to it.
Tus World, in reference to the rumor
that there had been an over-issue of
$16,000,000 bonds in South Carolina,
remarks: Can it be that the martial-law
business in that State is connected with
this condition of affairs? To oust the
present State government by the bayo
net, and to take unto itself the manipu
lation of the finances, certain under such
developments to offer a rich margin of
speculation, would be a lucrative opera
tion for the White House "military
ring." Martial law carries with it, of
course, the administration of the finances
as well as any other power of stBte.
All the Government officials favor the
erection of a public building in Chicago
for Government uses which will be
equally as large as any similar edifice In
the country. The estimated cost of such
a building is fixed at about $1,000,000.
The Secretary of the Treasury will make
this suggestion in his annual report to
Congress, and it ii understood that the
President, as heretofore stated, will, in
his next message, recommend Congress
to make a liberal appropriation for thii
purpose. j
It is reported that Governor Palmer is
preparing a message to lay before the
Legislature, which meeU on the l.th, in
which the controversy between himself
and the United States authorities, to
gether with all the correspondence be
tween him and Mayor Mason and others
relutive to tho military occupancy of
Chicago during the fire, will occupy a
conspicuous place.
TilK Montgomery (AlaJ Advertiser
regards the action of Judge Trigg, in
the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad
case, as favorable to A la bars a. The
Advertiser learns that the Governor of
Georgia will recognize the aution of bis
State Courts, aud cause the road in that
State to be turned over to the Receiver
for Alabama.

Cut. Gtoiu.i A. MAuurnga died in
Paris on the liith ult. He was formerly
an officer of the navy of the United
States, but resigned from it at the begin
ning of the war. He did not, however,
join the Southern Confederacy. He was
a native of Virginia, and brother to the
late General J. Bankhead Magruder.
Thk arrest of Col. Stokes on a charge
of alleged complicity in the Tinker Have
Beatty bounty frauds, leads the Boston
Advertiser I Radical) to say that "Ten
nessee has been cursed by a race of Re
publicans who care more for the spoils
than for principle, and if the list has
been reduced by the exposure of one of
tbem, we shall certainly not moorn."
Nss from Georgia indicates tb,t the
Legislature of that State will reran to
recognize about :o,0OQ,0Ou of the bill
assuming liability for railroad corpora
tions, which Bulloch's Wislatnre foisted
upon the State.
The Odd Fellows of Iowa, it ii esti
mated, donated 1 10,000 to the Chicago
relief fund, aside from what was given
by members in their individual capacity.
f 1 AND TILTON.
pit Golden Age, of New York, is
edited ty Mr, Theodore Tilton, a Radi
cal of the roost pronounced stripe, but
that paper justly appreciates Grant'i
labors. It says:
He is bent on securing his renomina
tion. Day and night he toils to this end.
The chief' energy of his administration,
so far ns it has energy, is directed to
ward the accomplishment of this high
ambition. Local officers are appointed
or removed according as they favor or
disfavor the President I plan of perpetu
ating himself in power. The Federal
Government is run like a monstrous ma
chine whose fires are fed and whose
wheels are turned mainly for the take of
keeping its clnet-engineer in place.
What other policy is the President pur
suing save the policy of a renomination?
He is fighting it out on this line.
NEWS OF THE WAV.
The yellow fever at Natchez is nearly
all gone.
The Giles county, Tennessee, woods
are on fire.
The Atlanta True Georgian has sus
pended. Ail 111,000 fire occurred in East St.
Louis a day or two ago.
There has been thirty-six deaths from
yellow fever in Vicksburg up to October
31.
Savannah shipped 2210 bales of cot
ton, valued at $188,224 47, to Liverpool
on Wednesday, t
A New Yorker has sued the city of
Des Moines, Iowa, on floating warrants
to the tune of $120,000.
Henry Smith, living near Traintown,
Iowa, became discouraged because he
was sick, and blew the top of his head
off with a loaded musket last Friday.
Mr. James Peace, of Shenandoah
county, Vs., was seriously shot by his
father-in-law, last Friday, while endeav
oring to recover-his child from his
wife, from whom for some time he had
been separated.
At a meeting of the Virginia division
of the Army of Northern Virginia, held
atthecapitol in Richmond laat Thurs
day night, General Fitz Lee was elected
President fur the ensuing year.
Louisa C. II., Virginia, is said to have
300 inhabitants and Gordonsville 000.
An attempt will be made to form a new
county tbia winter out of parts of Lou
isa. Fluvana, Albemarle, with Gordons
ville as the county seat.
Mrs. Diana Vick, aged llo years,
died recently in Williamson county.
Tennessee. She was twice a widow; both
husbands were revolutionary soldiers
and up to the time of her death she was
drawing two pensions from the govern
aieiit.
A Culpepper county (Va.) farmer
says that from three quarts of the Ton
zelle wheat sown on one-tenth of an
acre he harvested five bushels, weighing
sixty-six pounds to the bushel. It ripen
ed June 1st. about eight days earlier than
other varieties.
The manufacture of sassafras oil in
Virginia is attracting a good deal of at
tention. There is a large manufactory
at Frederick Hall, in Louisa; one
Spottsylvania, and one in Richmond
One will, it is said, soon commence at
Tappahannock.
Messrs. Bennett, Campbell and Jack
son, the Virginia debt commissioners on
the part of the State of West Virginia,
propose to visit Richmond about the
tenth instant, to arrange the prelimina
ries and mode of procedure for the con
templated" settlement between tha two
States.
The stockholders of the Savannah,
Griffin and North Alabama railroad
have elected A. J. White President, and
W. A. Huff, of Macon, and Messrs.
Boynton, Chapman and Stewart, of Grif.
fin; Whittaker, of Fayette; Wilkinson
and Smith, of Newnan; and Camp and
Long, of Carrolton, directors. The work
will be pushed ahead.
An old colored man named Peter
Snapp, living in the second civil district
of Washington connty, Tenn., was acci
dentally killed on Wednesday night. He
was out hunting 'possums, and, having
treed one, climbed up after it, but a limb
broke, and the old man fell to the ground,
a distance of thirty feet, and was killed
nBtantly.
A Mr. J. Moody has made the discov
ery of a rich silver mine in Grainger
county, Tenn., near the foot of Clinch
mountain, on the north side. The ore
was found on the land of Mr. ftouert
Wolfenbarger. Mr. Moody has presented
the Knoxville Chronicle a small bar
melted from the ore, and thinks that, if
worked, the mine would prove very rich.
The Haw Radical PjraDild of Crime.
From tli. St. Louis Republican.
Hodge, Ualloch, Forbes, Stoltes, Evans
and Bullock all Radicals, and all first-
lass rascals, are the leading names ad
ded to the criminal calendar of the conn
try within the past month. Going back
a little further we encaunter Honest
Tom Murphy, the New York collector,
lion. II IL Butler, of Tennessee, Hon.
Mr. Whitteinnrc, of Month Carolina, and
many others whose names came and
went so thick and fast that we cannot
remember them. All these patriots
wi re members of the Radical party, and
some of them were high and mighty
makers of the laws they were so fond of
violating. We suggest that the Admin
istration organs go back through their
lilt-s for a year, collect all the names and
construct them into a Radical pyramid.
It would be an interesting and instruct
ive edifice; there would be members of
Congress, Governors of States, custom
collectors, internal revenue collectors,
State1 claim agents, pension agents,!
Paymasters, special treasury agents,
reedraen's Bureau agents, each contrib
uting a block to the common structure,
reared as a monument to the loyal party
of the country.
A raatatrle' Toilettes.
Nilsaon's toilettes are announced by
Boston critics to be remarkably beauti
ful. Her I.ucia dress is of the most
delicate peach-blossom colored silk. In
the shade it waa decided pink, and in the
full blaze of the footlights it paled to
almost white. The front breadth was
literally covered with flounces of point
lace, and a deep flounce went around
the train. 1 he corsage was heart-shaped,
and tilled to the throat with a white tulle
tucker. Her ornaments were diamonds,
and they sparkled from the dainty ears
and Hashed from the throat.
But the loveliest toilette she has worn
was the one she appeared in in the last
act of Martha." A petticoat of sky
blue silk waa trimmed with silver fringe
and rows of silver braid, between which
were brilliant buttons. The train of
black velvet waa looped at the side by
silver cord tassels. 1 be tight-fitting vel
vet bodice waa fastened with diamond
buttons, and the wrists wer finished
with deep cuffi of point lace. A co
quettish gray hat, with a long blue
plane, was set jauntily oa the trizsled
mas of golden hair. It was the very
perfection of a toilette.
LATEST TELE(i.ttAMS.
pMlala f lk Lad.
anion rasas issoeiiTios, via a. r.' A A.
Tai.icilira ooarasT,
THE ELECTIONS.
LI 7 1
The Day passesoif Quietly
in New York city.
NEW YORK STATE REPUBLICAN
The Tammany Ring Defeated
Except Tweed. '-i
Parker, Democrat, Elected Gov
ernor of New Jersey.
Washburn?, Radical, Governor
MasRitchnsetls,
of
Wisconsin Radical State
Ticket Carried.
Medill Elected Mayor of Chicago.
CONSERVATIVE GAINS IN VIRGINIA.
New York, November 8. New York
cilv has seldom experienced a more
quiet election day than that of yesterday.
Nearly all the wholesale stores were
closed, and the occasion was almost
universally observed as a holiday. AH
the courts and the stock and gold boards
were closed, and no business waa trans
acted at the hanks with the exception of
that which could not, be puf aside. .The
police Ticadquarters in Mulberry street
presented a busy scene all day long.
Governor Hoffman and staff, and Gen
eral Shaller and staff were on hand at
au early hour in the day, and detach
ments of police were present throughout
the day to be ready in case of an emer
gency.' From the opening of the polll
in the morning till the close at night
the military were in their armories, no
disturbances of a serious character re
quiring their services.
Returns from both the State and city
were very backward last night. The in
dications are that the Republicans have
carried the State, electing all their can
didates on the State ticket, and a ma
jority of both branches of the Legisla
ture. Returns have been received which
insure 'a Republican majority in the
State of over ten thousand. In this
city Ledwith, Tammany candidate far
Supreme Court, is defeated by an over
whelming mnjority. General Siegle (Re
form for Register, is elected. .Tweed
(Tammany) and O'Brien (Reform) are
elected to the Senate by a large majority.
Genet and Norton (both Tammany), for
the Senate, are defeated. Returns are
still very imperfect, but it is estimated
that the Democratic majority in this city
on the State ticket is thirty thousand.
All the Tammany candidates fur the
Senate except Tweed have been defeated
and his majority will not reach 15,000.
Several attempts were made by the
champions of women's suffrage to oast
their votes yesterday, among whom were
Woodhull and Clallin, the female bro
kers. The votes of both were refused
but Mrs. Margaret Miller, in the First
Ward, was more successful, the inspec
tors deciding to receive her vote.
In Brooklyn the Democratic State and
city ticket has from 8000 to 10,000 ma
jority. .Powell (Democrat) was elected
Mayor,, over the Republican and inde
pendent candidates.
Returns from flew Jersey are very
meagre. Ihe JJemocrats nave electee,
Parker Governor by about 5000 majority,
and the Republicans have carried the
Legislature.
In Massachusetts, Washburne (Re
publican) is elected Governor by about
20,000 plurality,
In Wisconsin the Republican State
ticket has been elected by an equal
majority.
In Virginia the Conservatives have
made considerable gains.
The returns from Mississippi are too
meager to show anything of a positive
character.! ti
Maryland elects White (Democrat)
Governor by a reduced majority.
Chicago, November 8. The business
men of Chicago came to the polls yes
terday and elected tho 6re-proof ticket
by from ten to fifteen thousand majority.
There oan be no doubt that the entire
ticket for city and 1 connty officers,
headed by Mr. Medill and Judge Jame
son, and the Aldermen, on the same
ticket, are elected. The city of Chicago
and county of Cook are safe for the next
two years. General Berridge ia elected
Congressman at large for the State of
Illinois. The returns are hot yet suffi
cient to furnish the figures of this mai
jorily, but wa jiMge tnai it win e
greater than that of the state treasurer
last year, and probably near three
thousand.
General Washburne is elected Gov
ernor of Wisconsin by aa increased Re
publican majority, probably ten thoos-
nd. 1
LOUISVILLE.
The Nallawal Nleaaabs-at
SIOB.
Lorisvit-i.K, November 8. There was
a slight fire ia Walkers Exchange, on
Third street, this morning about seven
o'clock. Most of the damage done was
by water.
Richard Sim, a hotel-keeper near the
stock yard here, in an altercation with
a man named Cook, last night, was shot
and seriously wounded.
The National Steamboat Convention
has been called, and commences its de
liberations to-day at the Gait House in
this city. It is composed of representa
tive raf-a, who understand thoroughly
every required improvement in the con
struction of steamboats, whether of hull
or .machinery, and who art entirely cav I
pable of pointing to the Government I
where it has erred in making the law.
aud to the Board of Supervising InspedV
tors in what regards its rules are oppress
ive and extreme. It is stated that the
Convention will represent $160,000,000
invested in steamboats and other water
crafts navigating the Western waters.
The immediate cause for the call of the
Convention grows out of the injustice of
the law enacted at the last session of
Congress, the Provisions of which wi
be the chief topics of discussion during
the session.
A Femalo
Nhylork Aelrvnaes
II.b'i Pari,
From the New York Tribune. 1
Mrs. Maoready, who is known to our
public as au elocutionist, will appear at
Providence, rthoue isianu, on me i.un
of November, in the character of "Shy
lock." Mrs. Mneroady is, we believe,
the only lady who has ever attempted to
clnv this Dart. Female Hamlets, Ro-
meos and Ingos have frequently emerged;
but a female Shylock will be a novelty.
It is, of course, totally impossible for a
woman to impersonate a man, ns a man
to impersonate a woman. Differences
in nature are attended with correspond
inir differences in art. But the simulta-
tion, oan, in both cases, be made very
close and very effective. Peg Wofling
ton, we are told, played Sir Harry Wil-
dair exceedingly well so wen mat, ac
cording to her own view of the subjeot,
half the audience believed her to be a
man although, as Quia thereupon sug
gested, the other half knew to the coil'
trary. Miss Charlotte Cushman's Ro
moe was sullicicntly mannish. Miss
Crampton used to act almost all the grout
-i ul..l.....u
mnseiiiinB ciinracieni m ounnsvni.ro.
The part of Pauline, in the Lady of
Lyons, has been quite successfully
Dlnved by a man. And all local votaries
of ministrelsy mnst have observed the
astonishing cleverness of Eugene and
Leon in imitating the manner, voice and
snme other Dhvsical and mental attri
butes of woman. There must be de
fects, however, in all these unnatural un
dertakings. Mrs. Mosea Jones' Leclar.
The Norwich Advertiser lays that Mr.
Hosea Jones having gone to Chicago
and got home again in a rather worn-out
condition, Mrs. Hosea Jones lectures
him nocturnally as follows:
Yes. von went, didn't Je: went unbe
known to us, didn't ye; suenked otf with
your baggage in a pill box? It's a
mighty wonder that yon wnn't struck
down in your dreudful awfulness. Did
n't you feel our hand on your shoulder
like the clutch of a skeptic? But you
will get your comeuppence belore you
Set through? They swashed you out,
id n't they? ha, ha, ha! If yer had a
had any hair on yer old pnte, it would
have singed it off. But yer so mean that
hair wont grow on ye nnyliow. Your soil
is too poor to rnise pulsey."
Mrs. Jones," broke in Hosea.
"Don't yer speak, yer beast. If yer
spenk I'll smother yer with the baby.
Pretty hot, was it, hey? It will be better
by and by for sich as youl'ns runs away
from their wives. Trying to get up a
sympathy because you lost yer liBggage.
I II tell the publio what it was. One re
versible shirt, four paper collars, one
toothbrush taken on trial. Flames
chased ye, did they? They were aveng
ing my wrongs. Went hungry, did ye?
Good! wish it had trimmed you ton
skeleton. Went thirsty, hey? Better
still. You suffered more from thirst
than hunger, I'll warrant. ('You are
arc right in your head, old girl,' Hosea
whispered to himself.) Got your blamed
old eyes full of dirt, did ye? That's
what you got for throwing the dirt into
mine. Like to have got kicked over by
a mule, didn't ye? Needn't been afenrd.
Mules never hurt one another, you"
At this point Keno's voice was heard.
Uluarutar Use of a Ualvanlc Battery.
Many years ago Major Stone, of tho
Fifteenth British Hussars, then sta
tioned in India, had a gold watch and
chain stolen from his drawing-room
table. Collecting all the native servants
of whom ho had any suspicion, aud
making thein nil join hands, he told
thein that preseutly his God would give
them a shock, which would, however, be
harmless to all. but the culprit; but
that, if he were among them, ho would,
in about nn hour, turn green and silent
ly die.' The black fellows grinned Jn-
crednlonsly, when the wires of a very
powerful battery, prepared and con
cealed below the table, were brought in
contact with the two end men. So severe
was the shock that three of them fell to
the ground, The Major then remarked
that if the guilty one came to him within
half an hour he would apply an antidote
which would save his life. The effect of
the shock upon the imagination of tin
suDerstitious thief was so great as to in
duce belief in the prospect of turning
green and dying, aud he shortly came,
watch and chain in band, to beg for
meri'V and the antidote
AMUSEMENTS
MEMPHIS THEATER.
(palding A Fops -.......Propriators.
r baoar ...........Treaiurtr,
SECOND NIGHT
-1KD
I'nprereden tod Nucce
or THS HKIH'8
RANKIN COMEDY COMPANY
THIS
WEDNESDAY EVENING, NOV. Hth,
viia as riuuTiD
Tli LI fo of an ActroHH.
AUCTION.
rereinpforjr 8ule of Two
and Lots.
Homes
rH SATURDAY. NOVKMDKR 11.
171. AT
f twelve o'clock, iiharp, in front
f niv
ollio. No. .'ft Maiiiion .traet (Planters' lofliir
anrs Buililins), I will aell two bou.e. and
lut. Ns. IS and WOrloan. .treet, Ju.t south
of Poplar, owned b I'elrr llieiland. Term.:
one-lourtb eaib balance in one, two aud
three yean. Jntert-.t at en per cent.
B. M( KAKI.ANO, Admin'r, etc.
TRUNK8.
MKUCII A.INXH I
TRUNKS, VALISES ANO SATCHELS
RE OFFERED TO TOd AT ItOMR AS
j low a can be bonaht in anv eitr. Exam
ine stock and prieea at the tactorr. Mo.
Hmn !n-t. -V
TAXES.
IIW'OKTANT TAX NOTICE.
Omm Crrv TirCoiLvrroa, 1
Mam-Hia. November e, IsTi. J
A FTER THE 1st OF DECEMBER TIIEKB
will be in Diaroi t allowed oa on von
rsa 1171. The act irivlni ran ni nrr. dis
reriT beins asriii.an at the reenter Conncil
meetlns, November lrt., tat-peren are re
quested to come np aaroaa vn 1r o? Da.
riaata. FELIX W. ROBERTSON,
2J)ltnt
OOTS. SHOES AND MATS.
1N71. 173.
FALL AM) WIN T Kit TItADE
AT WHOLESALE EXCLUSIVELY
-Ol.'R t-TOCK OP-
Itoots, Shoos and Hats
THE
LARGEST IX 3IE3IPJILS
IS SOW COMPLETE.
Merchante will and M to their advaatasw to
examine oar coede and price.
II ILL, TERRY XITCHELL,
Mt
FURNISHING OOOOS.
Attention, j
Gentlemen!
CLOTHS,
CASSIMERES,
i i
YESTJNQS, ETC.,
AT A SACRIFICE AT
BiOlViSTII&BM
CENTS' FURNISHING GOODS
AT A
SACRIFICE
At B. LoYVciisteln Bros.
Cassfmercs,
For Boys' Wear
AT A
Sacrifice at
B. Lowenstein Bros.,
213 and 244 Main,
Comer of Jefferson Street, Memphis.
PERSONAL.
J. I. WBAY,
WITH
MENKEN BROTHERS.
Call and See liltu If yon rvaut Good
auu t neap uuoua.
HOSIERY.
MENKEN BROTHERS
HOSIERY SALE!
Ladies' White Cotton Hose,
X OO pr tlosrii.
,adies' White Cotton Hose,
Fall lonR-m, l CO per dosew.
ladies' Real British Hose,
S OO per deseai.
Men's Real British Half-hose,
(Warranted) OO per doaen.
Children's Fancy Wool Hose
He per pair.
UNDERWEAR!
Gents' Merino Vesta, 75c Each.
Ladies' Merino Drawers, 75c
Ladies' Merino Vests, 75c to tl
Ladies' Merino Underwear.
Ladies' Silk Wool Underw'r
Gentlemen's Silk Underwear
SCARLET AND WHITE
SHAKER FLANNEL UNDERWEAR
Good YYbite Flannels, 30c pr yd.
Opera Flannels, 60c per yard.
FRENCH PLAID FLANNELS
Special Sale of Black Alpacas
MENKEN BROTHERS,
Cor. Main aid Court SU.
INSURANCE.
II I i 11 1 A. IN 1) o
Insurance Company
O' MKMP11IM,
OFFICE NO. 7 MADISON STREET,
8. H. DUNSCOMR. President.
W. B. UAL11RKATU, Vte Preildeat.
r. M. fiKLMlN. Secretary.
W. H. HALLOHY. Ais'i fiesistaty.
Itrters t
8. H. DTTNSC1MB, D. H. T0WrTBK5D.
W. B. UALilKKAIH. A. VACCAKO,
L. HANAIKH. N. P'tNTAIfc.
E. P. KISK. JOKliHI cK
K. 8. JoN KB, 1. 1. DISC.
J0D5 O. P1ZKH.
laiirM avalaet T fir, Ma
rlweemel KleerKleke.
arRlikf aa Prirate Dwellings eie-ll!
ae.ired.
Biurr CITY
INSURANCE C03IPANY,
r iiarms, tnnm.
Tio. tiUl Main Htreet.
CAPITAL, f 300,000!
W. at. MtteSK, tewrwaory.
Irsilerii
MLMIACHAM, DAVID P BADDKH.
NAPOLEON HILL. JCKKKLY,
W JUNK. MH1UUBSX.
CIPISKKB.
arPlre. Marine e4 Kirwr risk take at
tae leweet rales. at
FALL AND WINTER CLOTHING
VALKER BROS. CO.,
S31 MAIN STREET,
IV o.
H
AVS RECEIVED AND ARE DAILY
1 I
Men's and Boys' Clothing and Furnishing Goods
OF THEIR OWN MANUFACTURE, WHICH THET OFFER
PRICES AS LOW AS THE LOWEST.
1 1
AT
New Goods. Choice Patterns gotten up in Latest Style.
Give them a call before purchasing elsewhere. Remember the Place, i
No. 231 Main Street, Clay Building.
10,000 pes BaggingT 15,000 Vdls Tics!
FOB SALE IN STOKE AND BECEIYING DAILY BEST II It A MIS
CO m i. u.
2 ii I
Termejs Cash or City Acceptance. IntereaU. O per cent.
130-129 irAKKKNstCO.. AgontmSftO and 803 Front Mrppf.
JET PALACE. 328
TO THE
have the only complete assortment in
erate prlccn. We keep none but Brut
all Jet and Shell goous inai nave ueeu
114-ziii39
J. If. SPEED, J Late Speed,
J. P. NTRANOR, j Donobo k Strange.
SPEED, TAYLOR,
Thennderslmied beer leave to Inform the Ladles of MeiniiliU and surround.
Ins; country that they hate received from New York Importer thu very latest
styles of Jet and runcy teweiry. n h."
.r. .1 t .i Jr..t aliiik of real French filt jewelry, of which w
DEALERS ITV
Staple andFancy Dry Goods
No. 312 MAIN STREET,
OPPOSITE
tiie
WE ARE IN RECEIPT
All tho New Styles Dress Goods!
PLANTATION SUPPLIES,
Ladies' and Gents' Underwear!
VIN I LADIES' SUITS.
WE SELL GOODS
ONK IIl,IOE: CAS 1 1
SALESMEN.
ALEXANDER BOYD,
W. H. BKKRY,
VAN B. MARTIN,
JOHN WAI.STON,
W. J. HOBSON.
CEMENT.
CEMENT, PLASTER AND LIME.
la-loeai Itctluced I
Roacndale Cement l l 9
Planter Tarla t
Alabama Mine till
Plasterina- Hair, 2'. t I 1 i
l ire Brick, per ltMl t 3 00
FOR CASH OS DF.I.IYr.Ki.
Hay. Corn, Oats and Bran at the lowest
erktra.t. JlHl.n A. Ur-..NIK.
I p". .1 '.TT'n I wrr Tr,T.
NEWSPAPER ACENTS.
MESSRS. (iKIHIX HOFFMAN,
NEWSPAFKR ADVBRTISINU AHEXTS.
No. 4 f..nlh ltrt. Baltimore. Mil., are
dulrauthoriieJ teeontraot for advli.enent.
at oor l.e.l ratal. Ailverti.er in Ihnt eily
are reqaealed to leave tueir favors with this

ANNOUNCEMENT.
Ipr WkarfmaiMr,
We are aothoriiH U anofnnre TOHIA8
WOLFS a. a rndi.l for aarftnatr at
U, eaewna aioMi elertwa Jaauari
4.iST.
ADDINQITOJTIIEIR IMMENSE STOCK OF
i lifjli
S33 'B
Main St.
JET PALACE.
LADIES!
j. i
the city, and which we sell at very mod-
class articles, ana repair tree oi marge
iwngm m um
I. HOESCHEK at CO.
t, II. TATliOK, Late W. B. Miller A Co.
I.KVT JOT. Lata of Bolivar, Tenn.
STUANGE CO.,
PEA1JOI) V HOTEL
OF OUR ENTIRE STOCK'.
BOOTS, SHOES AND HATS.
ON THE SQUARE.
JNO. 1. MORROW,
K. A. SMITH,
JAMKS H7S8ELL,
JAMES HICKS,
R. B. SPILLMAN.
LEGAL,.
RECEIVER'S SALE OF LAM).
BY AUTHORITY OF TIIK CH ANCKRY
Court ef MeuphL, Tenueaiee. I will aell.
On Thnrsdar, December 7, lsjl,
commencing at ten o'clock a.m., at the Kent
K.tate Ki-haneof Kov.tor. Treievant Co.,
northeast comer of J.lieraon and Main .(reel,,
Menphi., alxiut acre, or lanl. lyinv m
the counlic ot Foinwlt, i'rftiphva'l. han
ilolfh, tireen anil Monroe, in the dale of Ar
kaa.ae. Koine portion ot ttii. land i. .aid to
beol .uperior fertility, and lyina conliauou.
to iirojectcd line, of rnilroad. in .aid Mate
valuable for b.,i H timber and .oil. lam
aulhori.ed by the dccri-e of raid court to ac
cept in pnvment for .aid land, any valid debt,
arain.t the liiyo.o hovina. Institution; and
Mid land, will ece..rdinly be oflcred for aale
either for ch or for .ucb debla a. have been
Biol or allowed by theeourt. or valid demand.
aetr..t .aid in.titulion. c-aie will be eon.
tmued from day to day till all i eold.
BY, Ke-eiver.
FORTUNE TELLER.
HADAMi; ANNE,
TBI PORTTJNI TELLER, CAN BE CON
suited at
IX Mmlm (Wabater Blark), 3d ear.
17t