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RECEIPTS BY RAIL.

MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE RAILROAD.
Newton Ford & co, y bales of cotton,
Black, E& co, Is do; W. B. Galbreath,
y do; Clarke, + & co, 5 do; Tresdwell &
Bros, s do; Day q P, 9 DO; Fsrgason &
Clay, 4 do; Stewart Bros & Fizer, 4 do,
and 1 pkg sundries; J + Frank, 4 bales
cotton; J d Rumn & co, 3 do; Busby, J &
co, 2 do; Boyd, W & D, 2 do; Taylor & K,
5 do; Stith & Williamson, 2 do; Martin q
Hillsmsn, / do, and 2 pkgs sundries /;
Stanton & Moore, 2 bales cotton; K b
Shepherd. 2 do; Rootes, Vance q co, 10
do; Captain Rogers, 10 pkgs sundries;
Memphis Oil Company, % do; AshbroOk
& w, IA do: VsceRro q co, I6 do; Thomas
q Gross, 4 do; Buchanan, ii & co, 3 do;
W S Bruce & co, 1 do; Sadler, + q co, 6
do; s M Webb, 4 do; J A Hunt, do; VIII
lis Evans, / lot do; A Forrest, l head cat
tie; Feucht q l., 2 pkgs sundries; K
Wood, 4 do; Cubbins, Gum q COOYer, /
car lumber; NJ Burke (Memphis and
Charleston r~silroad), 1 car iron.
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SKATINC RINK,
1863 Main Street

H5- SATURDAY forenoon and afternoon act
Ual atu ndants of day schools, free; their
parents and tsachsrs and elergymen, reei
Oth'r persons lWhO are not permitted 10
sKatel. ST. Other fOF6uOOns, ladies practice;
other afternoons, public assemblies, IS cents;
every night public assemblies, so cents: chill
dren under a, - cents. Full dress assembly,
Thursday night, March 18TH. Fancy Dress
Carnival, Thursday night, March 35th. No
masking permitted. No skaters except In
proper fancy dress. milo
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LOOK TO YOUR
rHE eREAT sOorHIaa REMEgY.

Cures Collie and Gripping d.
$3.50 in the Bowels. and facili- *
He-. t&teg the process Of Teeth -.
oVNs ling.
BubdueB Commissions and n
$500 oYercOmes all diseases IN
"es Cldent TO infants and -
NSi"R' Children.
Cures Diarrh8a, DyBen- ~
u,M terry and Summer COM
He plant IN children OF al -
@@'N ages.
It is the Great Infants and children
Soothing Reuledyin all disorders brought
by Teethtng or any other cause.
Prepared by the GRAFTON MEDICINE
Co, st. Louis, No.
Sold BY druggists and dealers in medieln,
va ave nnwEdAW
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Period.
APPARENr III a 4 y
MECHANICS INSTITUTE.

HEEFFS ODD FELLOWS HALL, haIfpast 7.
M Regular BUSINESS MEETING, FIRST
WEDNESDAY NIGHT of each month.
Regular C~OILoQUIAL MEETING, every FRI
DAY NIGHT.
N, BURKE. President.
T. RrrTH. Secretary. fe3
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THEY EXCEL ALL OTHERS.

OF 10000 pairs sold last year by two IeadiHR
Boston manufacturers and warranted against
ripping, NOT ONE WAS Patent
Stamp on every one. Sold by all Leading
Dealers. mis-
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srocKs AND BONDS IN NEW YORK

NEW YORK, March ID, I0:25 s.m-The
market for government securities is dull,
with a slight decline throughout the list.
Sterling is steady at 90. Gold carrying
at 81 psr cent.
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SOUTHERN SECURITIES.

The following were the closing quota
tiOns for Southern securities in New York
/ on Friday last:
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IN PORT
RIVERS, WEATHER AND BUSINESS.

Minneola. Geo. W. Cheek.
st. Francis. Legal Tender.
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NOTICE.
oEE1cr OF MEnPurs Arn

OFFICE OF MEMPHIS AND
ARKANSAS RIYER PACEET COMPANYk
Memphis, Tenn, March y, 1871.
NOTICE is hereby given that the Board Of
IN Directors OF this company have this dsy
passed the following resolutions:
Resolved, That The Memphis and Arkansas
River Packet Company discontinue car-
ryiug OF .. o. ID. freight from and after the
Nth Inst JsD, DARDEN, Secretary.
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The receipts Of cotton last year (l67O
from this date to the close OF the sea-
son were 56.449 bales. Should the
same amount be received between
this date and the close Of this season
our total receipts will amount to 49,
an bales. which will be an Increase
on the total receipts of the year as
comnared with those Of 1870 Of lS9, 263
baIes. The receipts at ali the ports OF
fbe limited States for the week ending
On Friday evening last 9th instant)
were I35, 4i3 bales compared with
I2s.OO0 bales last week, 1885 the
week before, and only b2,oyV loF cor
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NEW KORK, March Is, 10 a.m.-CottcH
quiet. Sales SATURDAY, 1914 bales. Re
csipts at all United States ports Saturday.
20,8ss bales; the receipts here were sa9i
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Without any material change in figures
trade in this line is good and stock arr
fully mp TO acquisitions Of dealers buying
In this market. We annex quotations.:
MrfDeq and CheeER.
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FarnaIs Lecturers.

Miss Anna Dickinson testifieS that
since 1860, when she first began to
give public lectures, her income from
that source has averaged $1,000 a year,
and that last season it amounted to
the high figure Of $4,000. Miss Olive
Logan ayers that her income from
lectures since she began the business,
three years ago, hiss averaged $4,000
a year. If this latter statement be
true, it affords a strong argument
against the popular lecture BUSH
ness. While Miss Dickinson some
times uses her own unsupported asser-
ton in place of argument, she is an
eloquent, forcible and profoundly
thoughtful speaker, and evidently
possesses an intellect of very high or
der. But Miss Logan, although
claiming double the profits from her
lectures that Miss Dickinson receives,
is a woman Of far inferior ability. IN
this city her first appearance was
greeted with a very large audience,
attracted to hear her by the reports of
her success they had read in the pa
pers. But one evening Of the lady
was apparently enough, for her subse-
Qucut pcAfOAAudLCS WOtO gwen " III
most empty benches. And it Is ex-
ceedingly curious ifshe is able TO COM
mand so much larger audiences than
Anna Dickinson, who, whatever peo-
pie may think Of her peculiar notions
on the subjects about which she dis
courses, is certainly one of the most
brilliant and pungent female orators
that have ever addressed the Ameri-
can public. There I several other
lady lecturers whose incomes amount
to from $4,000 to 5000 yearly.
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Interesting Relics Of CslonlaI Timss.

Mr.. William H. Pars, Of the pub
fishing house of Messrs. d. Appleton
& Co., who has just returned from
Europe, where he has been engaged
during the past summer searching
among the bOOk-stails Of thu various
cities of Great Britain for rare and
valuable illustrated books relating to
Josiah Martin, the last British Gov
eFnOr of North Carolina.
Among the engrOs5ed parchment
papers, which are in perfect preserva-
lion and authenticated by a fOrmida-
BILE waxen seal Zone seal apparently
serving for all the dOcumentsG are a
commission appointing him Governor
in-Chiei Of the province Of North
Carolina and q deed giving him ad-
miralty Jurisdiction over al the rivers
and waters Of the province. These
documents bear the date Of III.
Other papers OF minor importance
are plans Of General Martins estatgin
Augusta, and coat Of arms Of the
family painted in Wa~ter-colOrs, and as
brilliant as if just sent from the easel
of the illumination. Another relic is
a blaek-enamelled gold mourning
ring, inscribed: elizabeth Martin,
OBJ. 4 October, IT'S, f. A." the wife
Of Governor Josiah Martin. Two
miniatures painted in water eOlOrs on
ivory, and said to be the work Of Gil
bert Stuart, are objects Of more than
ordinary interest in the collection.
They are portraits of Governor Mar
tin in military Uniform, and Of his son
Samuel Martin. The miniatures are
exquisiteiy painted, and are preserved
in gold settings. In the back Of the
setting which surrounds the Govern
Or's portrait is an ornamental design
made from his hair, and held in place
by a small gold cross set with seed
pearls.
"A bronze seal, bearing the coat Of
arms Of the Governor, and used for
official documents, accompanies this
interesting collection.
These documents and other relics
have been preserved in the Martin
family in England until early in the
past summer, and within a few days
after leaving their possession they
were purchased by Mr.. Pars. The
portraits and documents bear the IN
questionable stamp of suthentiey
upon their face, and il this evidence is
not enough, papers attending their
genuineness are at hand to certify to
the fact.
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Beauty at Her TolInf

A correspondent of the Chicago
Times, iOurneying on the Pacific rail-
road from San Francisco to Chicago,
writes: son that Wednesday morn
ing / had Intercepted the plains at
first dawn, but, repelled by their sad
monotOny, / fell back in my berth
with disappointment. Sunrise came,
and / still lay there dreaming and
waiting, when my attention was
attracted toward a staterOOm which
was Just beyond me On the opposite
side. The door was slightly open,
and accident or the wind had so dis
placed a curtain that l could not but
see the whole of the interior.
1t was she-the slender, spirituelie
bride. The fond husband was lather-
ing himself before the mirror in the
wash-rOOm-and she ayailed herself
Of his absence to resume the proper
garniture Of day.
She Eat so that I had at hree-quarter
view Of her back. She sat on her
berth, with her eyes fixed on the
mirror In the wall. Her aiabaster
shoulders were bare; and a naked foot
with rosy toes peeped out from the
mass Of white upon which she was
seated. Her arms were bare to the
shoulders, save a narrow bridge Of
white; and these white and slender
arms went wilderingly around in all
kinds Of may tWinings and inter
winnings, as their fair owner arranged
her b~eauteOus locks.
Many of those curly nests Of at
traction which l noticed upon her head
the day before, we're taken from a
box, where all the night they had had
the supreme pleasure of resting by the
feet Of their charming mistress. How
those locks grew from thin nothing
ness into a may couture that was as
artistic a il was enticingl
And now the happy corset enclapsed
the slender waist, and long fingers
came around behind and daily we've
up the raveled wool, whose compile
| ton was q close and euVied embrace.
Then a critical glance into the mirror,
as the head turned from side to side,
and the slender fingers moved here a
curl and there a friZ, whose change
made the tout ensemble the more CO
quettish and charming.
And then the long and shapeIy
hands went down into the box and
n5he0 10rtn q tW1D combination OF an
unknown character. They were gay
ish in color, and looked like an i'm
mense pair Of goggles, ave that their
| converse surfaces were accurately
rounded like the exterior Of a hemis-
phere. The twin combinations she
/ placed carefully within her cOrsets, at
the upper edge, in front, and then she
| glanced into the mirror and regarded
the blissful twin cOncavO-cOnvexities
with approval.
Just here I blushed at discovering
what [ wa doing, and l at once with
drew my eyes. What! gaze thus
upon an innocent, beautiful creature
as she puts on the armOr OF her
charmsI Never will I be guilty Of a
| ~clsndestine operation Of such q ma
ture. And / persistently looked out
Of the window upon the sad wastes Of
the plains.
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Nan Of Humble OrIQin,

ApropOs to a letter in which the
writer seems disposed to cOntrOvert
the poetic maxim asserting that
sshouOr and fame from all conditions
rise" we may say that almost any
collection of distinguished names may
set him to further reflection on the
subject. The history Of our own
country is full of illustrations, from
John Adams, who was the,son OF an
humble farmer, and Franklin, who
was the son a tallOW-chandler, down
to the men Of our own time. 1t finds
brilliant examples even under aristo-
cratic institutions. Pope, one OF the
greatest of English poets, was the son
of a linen-draper. Bloomfield wrote
his best poem, 1.-THE Farmers Boy"
while working in a garnet, as a shoe
maker. Clifford, the first editor of the
Quarterly ReUie10, began life az a
sailor boy, and afterward served an
apprenticeship to a shoemaker. Ben
Johnson, the dramatic poet, worked
for some time as a brick-layeT.
Shakespeare was the son of q poor man
who could not write his name. Burns
was the son Of small farmer; Allan
Cunningham of a gardener; HOgg was
a shepherd; EbeneZer Elliott worked
in an iron foundry; FalcOner was q
sailor bow; Thomas Moore was the
son of a ,grocer, who, however, con-
trived to give him q classical educa-
tiOn: Gerald Massey is the son of a
canal bOatman, aud began life as an
errand-boy, and was next an opera
tive in q silk mill. Daniel DefOe, the
author Of Robinson Crusoe," began
life as a hOsier, and was almost wholly
self-taught. COrbett was In early life
a farmers boy, and afterWard
a private soldier. Isaac Walton, the
1Gomplete Angler was a linen
draper. DIR. Isaac Miller, Dean of
Carlisle, and his brother, Joseph, au-
thor of a History of the Church, be-
0an life IS Weavers. DIR. John Pri-
deaux, Bishop Of Worcester, got his
education at Oxford, by entering the
University as a kitchen boy. John
Bunyan, author of the "Pilgrim's
P~roeress,n was a tinker, and entirely
seIf-taught. Joseph Ames, the anti
quarry, was an ironmOnger. Hugh
Mailer, the geOl0gist and journalist,
aquarryman. Camden, the great
historian, was the son Of a house paint
er. CaxtOn, who was the first to set
I'D a printing press In England, was
apprenticed to a weaver. The drama
tist, HolCroft, WIS a groom. Tom
Paine was the son Of q staymakers
Sam. Pepys was the son OF o tailor.
Richardson, the novelist, was the son
of q joiner. Among sclentlne men,
Simpson, the mathematician, was q
weaver. Captain COCK was the son OF
q peasant, who az seventy years OF age
t0t read that ne might peruse '
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NEWSPAPERS and ssIIes.

The Newport correspondent of the
Boston Transcript says: "Sitting on
the hotel piazza the other morning,
watching q group Of young ladies, 1
overheard a curly-headed little maid
en-, who was friZzled and panniered
and pulled in the hight of the style,
exclaim, 'Oh, 1 like the HudeDeRdent
bestP A moment before IeOUld have
sworn that Ia petite never looked at a
newspaper, and, somewhat surprised,
1 took the liberty of listening further.
The Tribune suits me- said her
black-eyed companion. i take the
EUenin0 POST chimed in a stylish,
saucy-lOoking girl, who was pelting
somebody over the railing with pond
liIies-a beautiful bunch, by the way,
which five minutes before I had seen
a gentleman carefully selecting for her
from a little urchin's basket. And
when, 1 wondered, do you girls get
time to read the newspapers? Fold
them four double, of course was the
next sentence l caught, and, more
puzzled than before, I very impOlitely
walked near the group, when every
thing vas made clear to me by the
blonde little one saying, 4 had
rather have newspaper any day than
the best pannier that was ever made
in Paris fell back into my seat,
uncertain whether TO laugh or to feel
provoked with the chatterbOxes, who
had strolled of to lay siege to a party
of gentlemen Just from the beach.
Think of it, Mr.. TiltOnl think Of it,
Mr.. Greeley did it ever occur to you
what a hustle you make in fashiona-
BILE girls?"
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ExsIOratiens in Palestine

The Palestine Exploration Society
have recently issued a pamphlet con-
tanning a detailed history of the ex-
pIOratiOns already made in that eOun-
try, together with the prospects Of adj
ding to the information already gained
by q prompt and judiciOus expendi-
ture Of money at the present time. It
appears from this document that the
honor for beginning this work be
longs to an American, DR.. Edward
Robinson, who, in 1898, male henrst
systematic exploration Of the Holy
Land, Others followed In his foot
steps, notably the English. About a
wear AGO an organization composed OF
men OF various beliefs was formed in
This city. of which the Rev. Jos. p.
Thomnsou, DID,, LID, is Chairman.
This society now makes a public APP
neal for money. From the discOv-
cries that have already been made,
throwing light upon Bible history, it
.iscertain that intelligent efforts among
the ruins of Palestine viii be reward
ed with the fullest success. Especial
Iv Is this true Of the country on the
east side of the Jordan, where the an
cient cities are still standing, many
portions of which are in good cOndi-
ton. and where the American society
proposes to begin operations. This is
= work which Is Of importance to
ezarv believer In the Bible, and We
trust that the society viii receive
ample contributions at an early day,
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the narrative Of his sons voyages.
Sir Richard AFkwFight, the inventor
Of the cotton-spinning machine, COM
menced life as q barber. Brindley,
the engineer, began life a. a mechanic.
Sir William Herschel, the illustriOus
astronomer, was a musician in the
band Of a regiment. Farraday, the
chemist and natural philosopher, was
the son OF a blacksmith. Ferguson,
the astronomer, was q shepherd.
John Hunter, the celebrated surgeon,
and his brother, William, the eminent
physician, were sons Of a farmer.
ChaHtrey, the sculptor, was a milk
boy; and FlaXman, another great
sculptor, was the son Of a pl~aster-cast
maker. Sir Thomas Lawrence, the
painter, was the son Of an inn-keeper.
Opie, the painter, worked in a saw
pit, and HOgarth, the satirist, began
life as a working engraver Of coats OF
arms. Golden, the statesman was the
son Of a farmer. Sir John Hawkins,
the famous general, began life as q
householder. These names may serve
to set our correspondent thinking
PHILADELPHIA LEDGER,
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Sirasge Exhibitions On ihs English
COasf

M. d. Conway sends to q Cincin-
natl paper the following description
OF bathing at the popular seaside re-
sorts in England and Scotland:
"Early in the mOrning-6 O'Clock
the bathing begins. The bathing ma
chimes are small houses with large
wheels, which are drawn, or rather
jerked, by horses down to the waters
edge. II the batheT has survived the
jOlting5 Of this operation, which hurls
him or her against the side of the ma
chine, he or she descends q small lad
der into the water. The women and
men are appointed to different
parts of the beach. This is done in
the name of decency. The real result
is a maximum OF i~ndecency, so far as
that nudity and exposure, in which
the indecency is supposed to consist,
are concerned. Up TO the hour of 10
O'Clock, the men battle by hundreds
without a rag on. After that they
put on a rag; that is ala strip Of
so called drawers; just four inches
wide. DecOrum thus secured, they
battle in the morning less than q hun
dred yards from where the other sex
are bathing. The theory of the female
bathing is that the men are absent.
Really, there are always between
one and two thousand thrOng-
ing the shore near them, 70 say moth
ing of the bathing men,. No effort is
made to secure any privacy. The fe-
male bathing costumes are gowns
that reach to the knee, drawers or
trOwsers being unknown; they are
without ornament of any kind, mere
dingy, ugly gowns, in which, any at
tempt at swimming being cut Of the
question, the danes bob up and down
quite ~ludicroUsly. These gowns have
been used by successive generations
of bathers until they are almost rags,
and the waves show those hsbited In
them as little respect az the gazers
from the beach. DecOrum would SUI
fer little in eOmparisOn ifthey plunged
in without any gown at all. One al
ways hears the ladies when they first
come declare that nothing could in
duce them to go into the water 50,
and they turn hlnshingly away from
the hundreds of naked men. The
truth is, England is many years be-
hind other countries in its bathing
arrangements. There is hardly 8
stream that is not alive with naked
men bathing, even though it be las in
the Thames) close to the most public
thoroughfares. It was complained in
the council of Windsor, the other day,
that the Queens first sight on reach
ing that place was a large number Of
naked men dabbling around the rail-
way station where she alights.
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Mr.. RICHARD VAUX, and many
leading Democrats of Pennsylvania
have published a circular, addressed
to the Democratic party, in which
they assert that the Fourteenth and
Fifteenth amendments were illegally
adopted; that they cannot accept
them, and that the State Convention
Of Pennsylvania did not represent
the party In adopting the ninth reso-
luton. They conclude ss follows:
1.-THE negro race should be protected
by all lawful means in their lives,
their liberty and their property, and
by the enjoyment thereof aided to
pursue their own happiness; but we
here and now do further reafiirm that
this is a white mans government,
formed by white men for white men
and their posterity forever"
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A Perennial Stream Of Geld.

There is no country under the sun
which is so enormously enriched by
its absent SONS as Great Britain. A
perfect stream Of gold is forever flow
mo in upon that small island from all
paTts of the world. Not only are the
thousands heaped up in India, China,
America North and South and Aus
tralia brought back by those who have
been fortunate in their career abroad,
to spend and bequeath in the country
where alone they imagine they can
enjoy all the good things Of this
world, but the humber class, who are
In their degree successful abroad, are
continually remltting amounts which
make q splendid aggregate. The re-
turns Of the Emigration Commission
ers show that in the twenty-three
year from 1913 to 1870 inclusive there
has been sent home from North Amer
lea. through banks and commercial
houses. a sum upward Of s16,3S4.0 600.
OF what has been sent home through
private channels there Is no account.
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PredIctlna the WremIaa aaasacre.

A correspondent of the New York
EreninG Post, writing from the Della
ware Water Gap, gives the following
from the scenes of the Wyoming mas
sacre:
"The village of Wyoming, as you
are well aware, was the scene of the
terrible massacre in the Revolution.
A little obscure Westinghouse former
Iv marked the site of the massacre.
Attached, however, to this meeting
house was a scrap OF unwritten hlsto-
ry-true, though living only in tradi-
tion-Which Is full OF interest. A few
years before the Revolutionary war
the little hamlet Of Wyoming was IA
vored on one occasion by the presence
of one of the most gifted and eloquent
preachers of that time. The spirit
moved him to preach, and as he pro-
ceeded he seemed to rise to an IN
Wonted measure in his thoughts; an
unusual ardOr possessed him, and his
words fell with holy JUNCTION upon his
listeners, He proceeded in language
still more flowing and lofty, until his
kindling eve seemed to catch the
olimpseS of things unseen and to
penetrate the curtain of things yet to
come. At length a vision broke upon
him, and he burst forth in language
similar to that of Milton:
10, what are these9
Deaths ministers, not men; who thus deal
death
Inhumanity to men, and multiply,
Ten t~housandfold the sin of him who slew his
brother"
He then, In words of one inspired, pre-
dicted the coming conflict, with its
attendant scourges, and declared that
there, even In that quiet community,
the Angel Of Destruction should
spread its wings. Even there, the
blood would flow to their horses
brides. Even there, within the
walls of that little sanctuary, would
be piled heaps Of the dying and dead.
The fulfIIment was as exact es the
prediction was surprising.