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TOWN OR COUNTRY 7.

The query has frequently been pro-
nounded to us why so many young men
leave comfortable homes in the country
to seek a precarious existence in cities.
Our city is full Of young men, many oil
whom are during these dull times, out
of employment, and our merchants have
frequent applications from country
vouths in search of situations. There is
a nervous restlessness in the character
of our American youths which the steady
and plodding pursuits of rural life fail
TO appease. Even when secure in cheer
full and pleasant homes, surrounded by
all the comforts of life, yet our young
men become disconnected. Nothing but
change can satisfy them. In most cases
country boys are teverishly eager to see
the sights, enjoy the excitement and
share the struggles of city life. Hence it
is our cities and towns are filled with
young men seeking employment. The
majority are disappointed and obliged
to return to their homes. The restless
ness so common to our yong men seems
one Of the outcrowths of our institutions
and form of government. All are taught
from the beginning that the world is
omen to them and they must be archi-
tects of their own fortunes. They there
fore become easily dissatisfied with the
dull monotony of the old homesteadand
all its surroundings and rush to the city,
and too frequently with boon compan-
ions begin life of dissipation, which,
if it does nothing worse, ruins vigor-
GUS constitution and causes premature
death. The learned professions are all
crowded, and men of moderate abilities
are compelled to yield to talents of a
higher order, while many are forced to
fall by the roadside. Daniel Webster
once said to an ambitious disciple OF
Blackstone who wanted to know whether
there was not already too many lawyers,
and whether there was yet any room for
him, replied, There was always room
for great talents and great learning at the
top of the profession, but no room for
ordinary minds who could never leave
the bottom" We advise our young
men in the country to stick to the old
homestead and the plow it is the surest
way to independence IT'S not all gold
that glitters; and the merchant princes,
with their fine stores and palatlal resi-
dences, are not always the happiest OF
men. They pass many sleepless nights,
too frequently overburdened with care
to enjoy sweet repose; and, with poor
health and an over-worked brain, they
do not enjoy life as they seem to do.
Stay at home, young men, and make an
honest living out of the soil You will
live longer be happier and more indie
pendent.
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A cure for leprosy has been discov-
cred in India. According to the Pho
neer, medical science has at last tri-
umphed over this terrible disease. The
civil surgeon of Khundwa reports the
case of an old Jew who came to him
from Bombay in great grief saying that
his friends had excluded him from their
society, and obliged him to live in a hut
by himself. He was at this time pleas
ingly mottled with rose-color. The doc
tor had him at once washed with soap
and warm water, and the old Jew showed
signs of improvement. He was then
anointed with carbolie acid and oil with
such good effects that next day he wrote
to his wife to expect him home in a
week. In short, what with washing
with soap and water, and what with
amounting with carbolic acid and oil, the
old Jew was completely cured. The ex-
pertinent had, moreover, an interest
apart from the fact that an ancient
scourge was being conquered in the cha
meleon variations of the corpus nile
under experiment. The Jew came to
Khundwa rose-colored and brown; in
week or two he was glossy black and
brown; a little later he became speckled
and gray; then his skin-possibly un-
easy at what might happen next-lost
all patience with its owner, and peeled
away from him, leaving him just the
color a jew ought to be. He lives in
the hut no longer, and has been received
into the society of his family and
friends.
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European N e:w s.
FRANCE.

LoNpoN. June THE London Times
dispatches from Paris contain the fol-
lowing;
The postponement Of Rochefort's trial
is due to apprehensions of disclosures
compromising the Government OF Ma
tional Defenses.
The Steele advocates the extension OF
NJ. Theirs term Of office.
Felix Pyat is in Switzerland.
A proposal to leave untouched the
ruins of the Hotel de Vile is seriously
discussed.
There is a report that Favre is pre-
pairing reply to the manifesto of Prince
Napoleon. Theirs insists on giving the
Republic fair trial.
PARIS, June THE Patre says that
France possessed in July last 100000
breech-loaders and 1000 soldiers. 1T
demands the rigorous suppression oil
Vaccinations of a Communist tendency
in the provinces.
The Minister of the Marine has writ
ten to managers of arsenals and navy
yards, directing them to employ French
and not foreign mechanics.
The funeral of Monseigneur Durboy,
late Archbishop of Paris, took place this
forenoon. The occasion was one of great
ecclesiastical grandeur. The burial SER
vice was conducted in the Cathedral
Notre Dame, and was assisted in by a
number of ecclesiastical magnates.
Masses we're said in all the churches OF
Al = o,4,- Jrr;ne tho dav
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Amusenlents.

MIYsTRELs.- Memphis Theater
was largely attended by ladies and gem
tlemen last evening who we're anxious
to see and hear Hooley's celebrated
minstrel and burlesque opera troupe.
Twenty-four frst-class performers COM
pose this sterling company Rice and
Unsworth, the end men, kept the audi
ence in roars Of laughter during the
evening. The solos, duets and quar-
tettes we're excellent. The voices of the
singers gave evidence of cultivation and
careful training. In the comic opera of
Trovatore, Eugene scared as the fair
Leonora. His voice is wonderful, and
this, with the make up, almost con-
WINGED the audience that some fair
prima donna stood before the footlights
instead of the versatile Eugene. The
Anvil Chorus" with anvil accompani-
ment, and the Misere were rendered
with fine and startling effect The troupe
is the best that has ever appeared in this
city, and no one can afford to remain
away from the theater during the present
week. Tonight a complete change Of
programme will take place, and the per
Torrance will conclude with the comic
opera of Lucretia Borgia, Reserved
seats can be secured this afternoon at
the box Office from Treasurer Short.
BRooN' s.-A frst-class variety troupe
appears every evening at the Jefferson
street Opera House to large audiences.
Broom has the only variety show open
in the city, and he caters to the public
taste in the most successful manner.
The corps de ballet, vocalists and gen.
eral performers cannot be excelled any
where in the South. Tonight fine
programme will be presented by the
stage manager by special request of the
patrons of the establishment. Go ant
witness the performance.
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railroad Matters.

ST. LOUIS, June THE annual meet
ing of the bond and stockholders of the
st. Louis, Alton and Terre Haute Rail
road Company was held here yesterday.
The following Directors, whose term of
office had expired, we're reelected: Davis
Alton, Anthony Thornton, Shelby, Ill. i;
Geo. Parker, Charleston, Ill Thomas
Bowling, Terre Haute, Ind. The new
directory organized and elected Charles
Butler, of New York, President; G. W..
Parker, Vice President; W. G. Broad,
General Superintendent; W. ". Thomas,
Secretary and Auditor; W. s. Depree,
General Freight Agent. The main line
of the road is to be leased by the Indian
apolis and st. Louis railroad, but the
company is still to operate to Belleville,
and the Southern Illinois line to Du
buque. 1t is contemplated to extend il
to Paducah, KY. The Superintendent 1
report shows the earnings of the Belle
Vile and Southern road to be 1882, SIG
rent of the main line and Alton branch
S492, 1853.
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The latest advices from England give
an account Of the disagreement between
the spinners of Lancashire and the
manufacturers, in reference to the Satur-
day halfholiday, the working people de-
string that the mills on that day should
be closed at noon instead of two o clock.
This halfholiday movement has been
going on for some time, and, finally, the
mill owners at Oldham notified their
employees that if they continued to stop
work on Saturday at twelve o clock, they
would be locked out. On Monday, May
I'd. when the work people presented
themselves as usual at the gates of the
mills, they could not obtain admittance.
The executive committee of the working
people next held conference with a
committee Of the Masters Association
and it was agreed to refer the dispute to
arbitration; the operatives in the mean
time to work until one o'clock. The
operatives claim to be paid full wages
for their short time on Saturday.
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The Spiritual DesOIatiOn OF the
south.

The New York Herald, in an article
on the spiritual desolation Of the South,
says:
Recently two important witnesses
have made a tour of the Southern
States, not to speculate in lands or
mines or manufactures, but to see for
themselves and for the Christian mis-
sionary association which they repre-
sent the actual moral condition Of the
Inhabitants of those States. The Rev.
James S. Ostrander, General Agent for
the Sunday School Union Of the Metho-
dist Episcopal Church, returned to this
city three weeks ago, after an absence
of about three months, during which he
visited nineteen States South and
West and travelled 1884 miles,
mostly in the Gulf States, preaching
to the people wherever he stopped
and conversing with the ministers
and Christian laymen wherever he
found them. The desolation was the
same everywhere, there being very little
difference between the city and country,
and the poverty of the people was terri
bly apparent. Windows which had been
broken and doors that had been torn of
churches during the war remained I'M
mended and unrestored ever since.
Affairs and pews and pulpits that have
been desecrated remain as they were
left in 1865. The people have no money
wherewith TO repair their churches nor
to support the preaching Of the gospel
among them. AS the next best thing,
whenever it was feasible TO do so, MIR.
Ostrander organized mission Sunday
schools, and his society has forwarded
grants Of books, catechisms, cards and
such other helps as are needed to main
tain such Sunday school organizations as
we're willing to go through the usual form
of application therefor.
1.-The Rev. George j. Mingins, Super
intendent of New York City Missions,
has returned from his Southern tour
later than Mr.. 0strander; but he brings
a similar account He did not travel 50
extensively as Mr. Ostrander, but bis
experience agrees with the other in
every particular. He saw enough to
satisfy him that the great want of the
South to-day is not so much school.
houses. and factories, and agricultural
prosperity. and political quiet, as the
preaching of the Gospel to the masses.
| In one village in Georgia he found a
hog in quiet possession Of Methodist
church, in which there was neither bench
nor chair, pulpit nor pew, door nor win.
dow. With the aid Of some colored
men he drummed up a congregation on
the Sabbath, to whom he expounded the
Word Of God, and where also he gath
cred a Sunday school, His illustrations
Of the ignorance OF the children anc
youth Of this and other places which h'
visited. would be very amusing were
they not quite so serious a matter.
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NEW YORK.
The Late Bishop RiOrd0n The
Mutiny on the Brig Bowen.

New York, June IA lolemn high
mass was sung at St. Andrew Church
yesterday.in memory of the late Bishop
Riordon.
The brig Bowen, about whose fate so
much apprehension was felt on account
of the mutiny, arrived in the Narrows
last night. The following is the report
of Captain Sleeper, who succeeded to
the command when Captain Ainesbury
died: While slowing the anchors on
the I'd inst, at 4 pm, one of the crew
disobeyed orders, and on being spoken
to by the first mate and Captain Aines-
bury. who went forward at that moment,
we're set upon by the crew, six in num-
Der, who were all negroes, end Captain
Ainesbury was struck on the head with
a capstan bar and fatally injured. The
mate had his shoulder dislocated, and
also received two severe wounds on
the head with capstan bar, from
the effects of which he was disabled
for three days. The second mate and
steward were also severely injured. The
captain died at six clock on the same
day. On the Sd inst she was spoken to
by the ship Europa, from Bremen, and
received from her the first mate, who
took charge of the brig at 10 pm. On
Tuesday night she anchored in the Mar
rows. Assistance was sent for to the
Staten Island police station, and the po-
lice boarded the brig at IL pm. and Sc
cured the mutineers, who we're taken to
Stepleton and locked up. Capt. Aines-
bury was buried at sea some two hun
dred and fifty miles east of Sandy Hook.
He was native of Quincy Point, Mass.
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Examination of the Graduating
Glass at West Point.

WEST PoNE, N. Y, June THE
terminating of the graduating class in
engineering was concluded last evening,
and the branch next in order of impor-
lance taken up. During the afternoon
the class was exercised on the plains in
cavalry tactics. There was a large num-
Der of spectators present. The President,
accompanied by his father and brother,
arrived from New York in the evening,
and was received quietly at the wharf by
Gen. Pitcher, the commandant, who had
his carriage in waiting for the party.
As soon as they reached the plains a
presidential salute was fred by detail
of cadets from battery Knox. The Presi-
dent was present at evening parade. 1t
is expected he will remain here until
next Monday.
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THE payment of assistant marshals IN
the South who took the census OF 1901
for which Congress made an approprla-
ton, has been begun by the Census
Bureau. Only loyal" men are to be
paid, and parties are held to very strict
proof. The Government owes the DIS
loyal and repudiates its honest debts
1.-THE best government the world ever
saw thus meanly refuses to pay what
it owes.
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Ina recent prosecution for murder, in
Norfolk county, Mass, the counsel TOR
the prisoner moved to change the place
of trial to Suffolk county, on the ground
of the strong local prejudice against tne
prisoner. This was denied by Cnlei
Justice Chapman, who was holding the
court. This eminent jurist in denver
ing his opinion. said that those persons
who take the daily papers are as a mat
ter of fact prejudiced by whatever they
read in them. but that these impressions
will pass away, and are replaced by
others. The opinion which should as
qualify a juror, Chief Justice Chapman
said. must be something more than a
vague impression derived from newspa-
per reports.
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1871-06-07

A LETTER received in Washington
from one of the ladies accompanying
General Spinner to Europe states that
the Generals health was much I'M
proved by the trip over the ocean. They
would Immediately start for the lakes,
travel through Ireland and Scotland
and then go to London, and thence to
Berlin, to be present at the triumphal
reception on the 18th of June.
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Reu County KuKIuxed.

The Bell county case recently decided
by Chancellor Fentress, who enjoined
the county from acting or existing, was
heard before the Supreme Court at Jack
son this forenoon, and the decree Of
Chancellor Fentress affirmed This
leaves that portion Of Bell which origin
ally belonged to Fayette county still in
the possession Of Fayette. A new vote
in the district will have to be taken in
order to settle the judicial muddle. The
point in the case was that majority Of
all the voters in the district was neces-
sary instead of a majority Of the votes
cast.
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CITY TAXES.
Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
Due the city by Deiinquents.


Due the City by Deiinquents.
City Attorney Randolph has decided
to enforce the collection of taxes against
all delinquents. For several days he
has been filing bills in the Second
Chancery Court against large property
holders who owe from two to ten years
back taxes to the city. The city has a
lien on all real estate for taxes, and
this lien the city authorities have con-
cluded to enforce. After a decree has
been obtained the property will be sold
after thirty days to the highest bidder on
seven months time. An absolute title
will be conveyed to the purchaser, and
the equity of redemption will be barred.
1t is estimated that over half million
of dollars are due the city by delin-
quents; sum sufficient to put the city
out of debt and reduce the city taxes at
present imposed to a mere nominal sum.
This is move in the right direction,
and the programme ought to be carried
out vigorously.
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INQUIRY fails to ascertain the amount
of salary paid to the American members
Of the Joint High Commission. Three
of the members were already officers OF
the Government--Fish, Schenck ana
Nelson, and also Davis, the secretary,
Twenty-Five thousand dollars was pald
for salaries and expenses, but how the
division was made, and whether the per-
SONS above named received additional
pay, are still mooted questions, as well
as the inquiry how such large sum was
spent in two months.
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TIE Cincinnati Gazette, Radical, says
of the Ohio Democratic ticket: The
convention nominated respectable can
didate for Governor in Gen. George W.
McCook. They also nominated respect
able candidate for Lieutenant Governor
in Samuel F. Hunt. In this regard,
their ticket is strong"
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AMoxG other things settled by the late
treaty of peace between France and
Germany, is an understanding that the
Germans who have been expelled from
France will be restored to the possession
of their property and to the rights of
domicile on French territory. With re-
gard to commercial relations, Germany
will be treated on the same footing as
the most favored natieus-namely, Eng
land, Belgium, etc. Thus it is that poor
France has been compelled to swallow
more indignities than one.
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PnrIInnolis MORALS.

CINCINNATI, June Mayor Davis has
issued an order prohibiting driving
through the streets or buying or selling
Of horned cattle and live stock generally
on Sunday after the 18th Of June.
Warrants have been issued against the
proprietors of the Olympic, Apollo and
Pacific gardens for continued exhibitions
on Sunday in violation of the Mayor S
orders.
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A New York farmer wrote to Mr..
Greeley for his advice as to whether
plaster was good to put on potatoes
Horace said he always used gravy or
butter on potatoes, but supposed any
one could get accustomed to plaster if
they made an effort.
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"Ef / had been eatin' dried apples for
a week. an den took to drinkin' for a
mont, / couldn't feel more swell d up dan
| am dis minnit wild pride and vanity at
seem such full tendance har dis even
in, said colored preacher in Louis
...llo
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THEoDoRE TILToY, in the Golden
Age, comes out for Greeley for Presi-
dent. 1t calls him the Benjamin
Franklin of his time" Perhaps that is
why Horace thinks Franklin was a
greater man than Washington.
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ADyIcEs from Michigan state that over
one thousand families, resident. in that
and its neighboring States, are prepar-
ing to emigrate to Nebraska. 1t is said
that from five to six thousand persons
are concerned in this movement.
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Next in point Of hereism 70 the brave
Doc Simmons, who lost his life at New
Hamburg while endeavoring 10 save the
lives of those under his care, stands Mr..
James McDermott, the noble-hearted en-
gineer of the West Pittston breaker, who
stood at his post hosting his fellow
workmep from the tomb below until his
hair was burned from his head and his
clothes from his body, and not deserving
his post until his machinery was rem
dered useless by the flames.
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NOTICES..
NOTICE.

TIME MEMPHIS MECH ANICS' INSTI-
i tute meets the first Wednesday. night Of
each month Mt eight o'clock. in Odd Fellows
Hall. The members are respectfully and
specially requested to be present at the regu-
lar meeting Wednesday night. as important
business will be transacted, and it is desired
that every one will be there promptly at eight
O'Clock. Please don't fail;
NJ. BURK, President.
TII0S BACON. Secretary. 1894
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The portraits Of Mr.. Darwin represent
him as a big-browed man, with a full
beard, a healthy neck. an intelligent
eye, and very practical kind Of express
sion
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TuroRaPmc communication between
Europe and America now rests upon the
slender thread Of a single cable, and with
this there is but one American cOnnee-
ton. and that the preearious land line
through the wilderness Of Newfoundland
The risk Of telegraphic communication
being broken altogether Is great
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LATEST TELEGRAMS.


AMERICAN PRKss ASSOCIATION, VIA 8. ?. A.
TELEGRAPH COMPANY.
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The New York Times INDUCES in the
following bit Of prophecy:

following bit Of prophecy:
II New York continues for another
generation, as Paris has done, to intrust
her affairs to single adventurers who
rule by ignorant suffrage; if the intelli-
gent and well-to-do abandon politics,
and leave government to the rabble and
their leaders, we shall have here a catas-
trophe which, If not so dramatic as that
Of Paris. may yet destroy the accumu-
lated wealth Of years, and overwhelm
innocent and guilty in a common ruin.
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Worsham House.

INROM AND AFTER THE 1sr OF JUNE,
IN until further notice, our rates for day
WHITE 4 SCHLEY,
1876 PrOpriotors.
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AUCTION.
For Sale.

UNHE TRUSTEES SALE ADVERTISED
for Tuesday, June 9th, Of G. A. Choate's
cottage residence and lot at Buntyn, five
miles from the city, on the Memphis and
Charleston railroad, having failed by reason
Of the absence Of the trustee, we are author
lied, by agreement between the beneficiary
under the trust deed and Mr.. Choate. to an
nounce that. on
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Tuesday, June 10, 1871,

between the hours Of u m. and 2 pm. com
mencing at u m, in front Of the ONCE Of NJ.
b. Trezevant, attorney, No. Madison street,
we will offer for sale at auction the said pro-
perty, consisting of four acres well improved,
with fine we'll Of soft water, fruit trees. grape
vines, strawberries. raspberrles. hot-oeds,
stabling and lot for horse and COW. growing
garden-stuff Of all kinds; house of fiTe rooms
with kitchen, store-room and servants room,
we'll shaded with forest trees.
The sale Is made for the purpose Of satisfy
ing the trust deed, as well as for the benefit
Of the owner, aud viii be ABSOLUTE little
perfect Terms made known on day Of sale.
ROYSTER, TRkZEVANT a CO..
$3.50 AuctioneeTs,