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Sui Lovengo0d's Shirt.


You know | boards with Bill
Carr at his cabin OIL the mountain
aud pays for such as | gifts when
have the money !; and for such as
gifts when | hav'nt any,why he takes
one third Of me cussins, and she
that's his wife Bets takes out tht
'tothcr two-thirds with her battlir
stick, and the interests more than
the prineipal--a heap more. She
is the cussedcst woman ever seed
anyhow, for jaw and pride. ShS
can seald q blister into a bulls face
right on the curl in two minutes
and pattern after every fashion she
hears tell of, from busscls to britchr
es. Oh she's one of 'em, aud some
times two or three. IA oa
HWell, you see | got some
cotton truck to make shirt outen,
aud coaxod Bets to make it, and
about the time it was done here
comes lawyer Jonson along and
axed for breakfast, / wish it had
piscned him, durn his hide, and |
wunder it didn't for she cooks awful
mixens when she tries. I'm pizen
proof myself or I'd bin ded long ago
Well, while we were eatin' she
spied out that his shirt was stiff an
mighty slick, 50 she never rested
till sho worried it out Of him that a
preparation Of flour did it, and, she
got few particulars about the pro-
cecdings outcn Lin, and st in aud
boiled blg pot Of paste-nigh onto
ID
a peck Of itr--and soused in my shirt
and LET it soak awhile; then she took
It and irpned 1t out flat and dry, and
sot it up again the caoin in the sun.
Tharsit stood as stiff as q dried hoss
hide, and it ratified like sheet ron.
it did. At was pasted altogether All
over. When I come to- dinner moth
ing would do but I must put it on. i =,
Well Bets and me got the thing
open after some hard work, she q
pullln' at one end Of the tail and me
at the 'tother, and | got into it,
Darn that ncw'fangled shirt, | say.
4 islt like 4 had crswled iuto i bce-
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Consumption conquered
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isfias fnilt aiiff e mfHH 90 iho positive
2 fs "a nlla diseases hafd lasa ff.v tested
The NfmHIs ffHm tbieh n j. ptrpsfsa #ftfaf.
a 70 ~ he Lad n mtiifFl IaHnsia af bfiHf
e4Ieti ioaa1 psss ripiI1h hta- ssa he mHAe HH
fT sHIh diseases t7 fha meiifsi ficuiil fHe
uststH is raagsquri 'if, fsasmmtntsA ht
ptysigiaai wha hage lteane asqualaisd wei,
iis grsa' tlcaesa
ALIENS III NG BiISiN.
Is wafmtisdto break up tHs ulust iraahle ai6
cough N ~ incredibly short time Thsreis no
remedy that can sHoV more evidence 1T reai
merit thar this naam. eurlfF eonsnmrtan
coughs. colds ssthp'a cfoap. se.
Read the Following
Letter nom prominent Druggists
Asriar city. Nirh jnly ~. 1870
IN. liaRHis \ Co poaf sirs Tho Arens
Lung llalsum has arrived would not IKE
10 hc without II, iir IL hls saved my lle
toak bud culd and q cough sad finally con-
sumption Naascatud upnu me. ! waa ma very
bad state, ! tried every thing that Was recon.
mendcd, and spent great deal Of money and
got no help had the Allel's Lung Busam
tor sale. bni knew nothing Of ils merits did
not like TO take IL wiihoutknowng moro about
Il. | had not sold bottle. When your agent
called onmo, told him could not cell med
cine knew nothing about lie urged mo to
try Il myself Ibid so, and to my grateful sur.
prise, the first bottle slonped my cough, and
before the third bottle Was taken, my lungs
were healed and well, and | con now speak
knowingly to my friends and customers Of the
quality OF Aleas Lung Balsam,
lrcmain respectfully
L. G. COTTNEL
Two'very important things in the compound
parts Of this Baisam is, one of the ingredients
acts directly on the Liver, another on theKid-
noys, which mai this Balsam more used than
any cough or liver remedy. Every family
should have il.
1t is harmless to the most delicate child
II contains no Opium in any f0fm
Do not be deceive by unprineiplcd dealers
who may ofor you other remedies Offered for
sale on the great merih Of Aliens Lung Balsam
J. N. HARRIS& Co.,
CINCINNATI, ONO.
PRoPRIEToRs
SOLD BY ALL MEDICINE DEALERS.
W. MARTIN B. Co, Batesvilie
N. r SLEDGE h Co, Como.
{ CHAPMAN, WRionr & Co., Long Creek
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SPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE


DEAR STAR; Thinking, perhaps,
the readers of the STAR might be in
terested 10 a brief communication
from the Bluff City, | have conclu-
ded to amuse myself for a few min
utes by writing this letter.
The weather here, for the past
few days, has been bright, beautiful
and glorious; without a single cloud
Ito obscure the rcernlean blue of
heaven, which has caused the prin-
ciple thoroughfares of the city to be
.thronged with the fair and beautiful
daughters of Memphis, and this
place is proverbial for its beautiful
women.
Memphis-has net grown withthat
magic rapidity that a great many be-
lieve it has, within the last ten.
ycars--yet from the census returns
it has very near doubled its popula-
ton, since 1860. II then contained
some 10000 inhabitants lit now has
about 10000. When, the many
lines Of railroad are completed that
are now in projection, and especial
ly the Southern Pacific, Memphis
will begin with renewed energy on
her career of prosperity and wealth,
and will undoubtedly become one Of
the largest cities in the Southwest /;
and that at no far distant future.
The business Of the city has been
unusually dull this season, owing to
the low price of cotton, but has
been rather brisk for the last ten
days. 1T is to be hoped that the
farming community will not repeat
the same error this year that they
were guilty Of last year-tbat Of
planting cotton to the exclusion Of
corn. Itdocs seem that bitter ex-
|perience would teach them this.
The number Of bales Of cot
ton received so far in Memphis this
season amounts to 100000 bales,
against 10000 last season.
! meet livery frequently many Pa
nolaens, who are living in the city
all seem to be highly pleased with
their new home. The sudden de-
paiture Of Dr. j., D. Russell, the
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fHm sai u fal 4sus ~ u vs.
: 81 ilsysf itHesHi sssl ! sssplit
hkssma, sa.l ! vsst 10 eofk b.
lHiid Iisi' - t'h bowar. Wsrks
81 Fafssfhh bafd ana swssssl hka
ha.s. ~ shss llls stlri Rat wsts
uaii hafus
After rotdgp ss,k slHui fms
fingers ~ fei eye ssa erawIe,l ~
.H lhs cabin - take a snoazs. We'll
when I wnked ap thought was
dead nv bad the cholcp. fr Ill the
iInls ! conl,l movp wsr my ancIes.
wrists mnd tuees--cOuhl not move
my head or scearecly wink my eye.
lho cussel sldrt was PASTED iast on.
10 mo all over, from the ends of the
tail to the pints Of tl'e broad ax col.
lar over my eap. II GOT as close b.
me o. the hide on q peer COW In
March. ! strained and sqn r.ned tilI
! sorler got It broke at tho should.
crs and elbows. aud then dun The
durndest loolishcs thing over | dan
IN the mountains. i shailled my
brotches oi and tore loose from nyf
hide about two inches of the tail all
around in much pain and tribula-
tion. Oh. but Vt did hurt. Then L
tack up a plank inter the loft anil
hung my legs down through the hole
and ualcd the edge OF tho front tail
TO tho iloor IN frontioi me, aud tho
hind tail nailed to the plank | sot
OH, then uubuttoued the collar and
wristbands, raised my eyes, said
grace agn then jumped TO tho
ground floor. lah tf nd tsra
Here Sut remarked sadly "Gee.
I'm n darnder fool than ever dad
was, hoss, hornet nests aud all. I'LL
drown myself one of those days., see
If don't" le- nya sae.4ef
We'll, 90 on Sut did the shirt
come oil It-i-n-k 1T d-idi I
heard noise sorter like tearing a
a shinglo roof Of NV house all at
wonst,and felt that my bones was
all that reached tho h,or. / stagger- i
ed to my feet and took a look At =
my shirt. The nails had hilt their
hold, and thar it was hanging arms
down, inside out, stiffas ever, Just
like tho army of Mexico after one
Of their battles--a patch Of hide just
about the size Of a dollar bill, a
bunch Of hair just about the size of j.
bird thar; then some har ; then skin
and then so on all over the durned /
new tangled, cverlating, enfcrnal
cussei shirt. 1t was, o .pieter to d
look at---and 50 was i, The hide, Il
har and paste about'caually sdi-7q
vided between me and It. Wonder
what Bets, darn her, thought when i
she came homo and found me mis-
sin. Spects she thinks | .crawled |
into tbickct and died Of my H
wounds. 1t must have scared her
good, for ltlooked like the skin ofa /
beast torn OFT alivc. Darn lawyer 4
Jonson and his slick shirt.
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king for the beautiful realm called home,
And a man the Maker God,
Shall look upon as he did upon the first
And say ''ltlsvery good
am fair and young, but the rose will fade
From my soft young check one day
win you love me then mid the falling
leaves,
AS you did mid The blooms of May
- Is your heart on ocean so srtong so deep,
may launch my all upon its tide 2
Aud loving woman linds heaven orhell
On the aayshc becon,esab bride. i
l equire all things that are grand and true
All things that man should be,
Ify you would gvie,thp all, would. stake my
life s8f{E@hf %ttskll1B
SO call you demand Of me-
If you cannot be tbis--a laudress and cook
You eau hire, little topaz
But awoman's heart and n woman's life,
Are not be won in that way.
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WARMERS DYSPEPSIA Tone is prepa red ex-
presslyfor Dispepties and those suffering with
habitual Costiyeness. It's slightly stimulant
tonic and u splended apetzer; it strengthen
the stomach and restores The digestme organs
to uer healthy state Weak, nervous aud
dyspeptic persons shou use MARINERS DYsPEP
TIC ToSIo. For sale by all druggist,--Price
One Dollar.
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There is the following curious
story connected with the origin of
the word "qnizv: Very few words
ever took such q run, on were era
died with SO many meanings, as this
monosyllable; and, however strange
the word, 1t Is still more strange,
says the writer, TINT not one of onr
photographers, from Bailey to John
son, ever attempted an explanation,
or gave derivation Of it. The
reason is obvious, it is because it
hes no meaning, nor Is II derived
from any language in the world ever
known, from the Babylonish confu-
sion to the present day. When
Richard DAILY was patcptee of ,thp
Irish theatres, he spent the evening
on Saturday in company with ma I
ny of the wits and sssea sf fashinr
OF the day, betting was introduced,
when the manager ,stakcQ large
sum that he would hear spoken al
through the streets III Dublin, ~ Il
certain hour next day, sunday, -
word having 10 meaning and de-
rived from, 10 known language.sVs
lWagers were laid and stakes Dc 4
posted. DAILY repaired to tie thea
ire and {lcspatched an the servaflts
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ur. Lorshso Dsy, 'Sf ChIsk4Axx /
county, Miss, having ihsliidd lli1f
Martha Week ldc1I e6m
ments; 'Ra.'a q IN
by j Isds.s WI isissll
lS. But ino sAepA - e(pp e',s<I
Thers seon " 1flfls Day. e1e13t
ts TO make ths Week agnin. "a Il .A X
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A WOMAS'S ANsWE ER.

DO y.u know you have a.hrd fot thc e'ni-
liett thing
Ever madcby the hand above
A woman's hcarl, ond a womans lI'c-
Aud a wompns wonderful love-
Dc yon know you haveasked for this price
less thing,
Asa child might ask for o toy
Demanding what others have died to win,
with the reckless dash Of boy
Yon have written my lesson Of duty out
Man-like you have questioned me;
Now stand at the bar Of my womcns soul,
Until shall question thee
You require your mutton shall always be
hot
Your socks aud your shirts bo whole
irequire your heart to be as ruc as God
stars,
And as pure as Heaven your soul.
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Kenosha County Circuit Court.
sherifr's Sale ON Foreclosure.

| '""'st E}@J4lh4ias) i&3 Fl 10 NJ b8 t3
Edwin w. Jones against Lewis Watkins, ST..
and Levia Watkins, Defendants PIN
In pursuance of Judgment of foreclos-
ure and sale rendered at the regular term OF
said court on the 18th day of April, a. D..
Kenosha, State of Wisconsin, shall offer for
sale and sell at public auction to the
highest bidder therefor, at tie front door of
the court house in the City of Kenosha, in
said county at one o'clock in the afternoon of
Friday, June %, A. D., 1871, the following
described real estate or SO much thereof as
shall be sufficient to satisfy said Judgment
and costs together with costs and expenses of
such sale, to wit: The east half of the south.
town two (2) north of range No.twenty- one(G
east containing eighty (S0) acres be the same
more or less, also the west half of the south
west quarter of Section No. sixteen (16) in
township and range aforesaid, containing
eighty and eighty two hundredths (82-100l
acres be the same more or less; also part
of the north. east quarter of Section No. thirty
one (3f in township and range aforesaid dis,
cribed as follows to wit: Commencing at q
point on the west line of said quarter section
forty-five (45) rods south of the northwest
corner thereof, thence east parallel with the
north line of said quarter section eighty (8Ol
rods thence south thirty-one (31) rods thence
west parallel with the aforesaid north line
eighty (S0) rods thence north on the west line
of said quarter section to the place of begin
ming, containing fifteen and One.half $50
acres of land be the same more or less, situated
In the Town of Paris, County Of Kenosha,
and State of Wisconsin. Dated Sherif's office,
Kenosha, Wisconsin. JOHN LUCAS.
Sheriff of Kenosha County, Wis.
MAY 10th, 1871. 1.ad bga Gase
Head &c Quarles Pl'ffs Att'ys. 6W50
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Having recently received an addition
to our already large stock Of material, we
are better than ever prepared to execute
orders for every description of
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HUMANE ACT.-The Liberal Christian
has the following anecdote from a gen
.tleman who was an eyewitness Of the
circumstances narrated
"The thermometer often stands for
days at from 100 to III degrees in the
Red Sea. and when the vessel is with the
wind, and travelling at about the speed
of the air, the lack of any breeze or
ventilation makes life on the steamer
almost insupportable. On this occasion
four men and two passengers were so
overcome with the heat that the ships
doctor reported that they must die if the
ships course was not changed and a
breeze created by travelling against the
wind. The captain very reluctantly, and
in dire fear Of his company's orders,
yielded to the cry Of humanity and
steamed one hundred miles back on his
course. He thus reduced the oppressive
temperature twenty degrees, ventilated
his ship, and saved the lives (probably)
of six passengers. The Government fined
the company {who excused the captain,
although not without warning not to
do so AGAIN. thousand pounds for going
out of the prescribed route with her
majesty's mails.
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COMBUSTION IN A CAIssoN-In the
caisson of the eastern extremity of the
great St. Louis bridge, now in process of
construction, if you blow out the flame of
a candle, it Immediately returns to the
wick. At the depth of one hundred feet
candles are consumed in about three
ffths the time required in the open air,
very large quantities of smoke are given
off and the air is filled with particles of
carbon, which can only be removed by q
discharge of spray fromSa rose at the end
of q hose. There is great difficulty in
extinguishing flames in an atmosphere OF
such density, and the clathing of one of
the workmen, although made of wooden
stuff, having on one occasion taken fire, it
was found very hard to quench the fame
At a depth of one hundred and eight
feet, if two candle wicks, on which there
remain sparks, are brought together,
flames Immediately appear.
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FLOWERS AT FUNERALS.
From the Christian Union


One of those customs which, beautiful
in their conception, run into extravaganza
and are abused by bad taste and mis-
application, has reached its elimination
of absurdity, and is about ready to die a
natural death. We allude to the use of
flowers at funerals. Itswas Q delicate
fancy which first suggested the idea of
putting between the Waxen fingers Of
The dead babe the simple honey flower,
scarcely more fresh and lovely than the
human blossom it seemed to symbolic.
The light. wreath that rested, virgin
coronal upon the brow of the maiden on
her bier, or the modest bunch of rose
buds and geranium leaves that pressed
her bosom, presented no incongruity to
the mind. "SWeets to the sweets we
said, with Shakspear's Danish queen; or
added, with mourning brother,
clay her in the earth
And from her fair and unpolluted flesh,
May yiolets spring
But soon, these touching tokens began
to be used without reference to approprl-
ativeness. The remains of old people
began to be adorned with these elnblems
of youth and freshness-a hideous dis
crepancy. Had Autumn leaves been
used instead, the decoration would have
had better significance. flowers as a
funeral accompaniment now became "the
fashion" and were employed without dis
elimination and without taste. What
had been the graceful tributes of friendly
sympathy were exposed for sale by the
florists, and were furnished by the under
taker, to be "put in the BILL" Great
numbering crosses, and anchors of hope,
and crowns of immortality encountered
the bier, in mockery but too often of the
character of its occupant, and served as d
yolum nous testimony to his social stand
ing-like the silver nails and handles oi
his coffin, or the number of the carriages
in the funeral cortege. BIT when, one
day, the body of the bloated ruffian who
had been sent to his account by Reddy
the Blacksmith, in a drunken braWl,
went along our street to his burial en-
veloped in exquisite white flowers,
wrought into symbols of purity and
heavenly bIessedness, and followed by
admiring thousands of the vilest creatures
on this burdened earth, the horrible alb
surdity had indeed attained its climax,
and we were justified in looking for a
reaction to prosaic common sense
We were not surprised to hear, the
other day, that judicious lady had re-
fused to allow the many floral gifts
which she had received as funeral offer
ings at the obsequi6s of her son to be
used about his bier, with the exception
of sprig or two, far down beneath the
coffin lid. For ourselves, we are ready
now t. return to the severe simplicity OF
our fathers, and to lay our dead quietly
away, accepting the stern fact of their
mortality, with no other alienation than
such as may be furnished by trust in
the power Of the cross, and the hope of a
blesser resurrection.
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A WHOLE RvER.-The river Illinois
isone of the best streams for navigation
in the world. It's navigable length is
about three hundred miles, and the
whole length is in the State of Illinois.
Another hundred miles will soon be
added to it's length by the construction of
the ship canal, and still the whole four
hundred miles will be within the limits
OF the State. We doubt if another State
in the Union can truly boast Of such an
exclusive control of so long an inland
navigable stream.
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One of the lay speakers in Methodist
conference down East, illustrated his read.
mess to fraternize with his Southern
brethren, and his feeling toward them,
by the story of the two men that would
not speak to each other but one, having
been converted at a camp.meeting, on
seeing his former enemy, held out his
hand, saying: " How dye do, Kemp I
am humble enough to shake hands with
dog"
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AN UNFEELING JoKE.-An exchange
says: "The worst joke that was ever per-
petrated on scientific men took place re-
Gently at Louisiana, Mo. A man was
sick with rheumatism or something, and
q fellow went around to the doctors and
professors and things and told them that
it was the queerest case on record. He
said the man had no feeling. You could
stick pins in his body all over and he
paid no attention to them at all. He was
perfectly numb. So the doctors got to-
gether and called OH the sick man to ex-
perimeut. All arrived with pins, needles
and bodkins. The man was asleep, and
they got around him, and each one stuck
his pin In the patient. The sick man
rolled over and looked at the crowd and
thought they had come to dissect him,
so he took chair in one hand and the
bed post in the other ard drove the crowd
thence. They are around with their
heads tied up, looking for the man who
said The sick man had no feeling"
A London merchant lately found that
rival establishment was using his
brains for its own benefit, and at the
same time forestalling him in the market
by obtaing copies of his telegraphic orders
from an operator, by bribery. He at once
wrote privately to his agents always to act
exactly contrary to orders, and then went to
work exercising his brains at once for his
own benefit and the injury Of the wrong
doer. He thus not only got the full BEN
| eft of his OVID foresight and TACT but OBJ
tanned poetical revenge upon his rival,
and in three months had him in the
court of bankruptcy, while his own con.
Germ went on prosperously.
During late performance of the
"Lady of Lyons" at the Mormon theatre
in Salt Lake city, an old elder got up and
Indignantly walked out of the house with
his twenty-four wifes muttering, Il won't
stay and see play where man makes
UGH an awful fool Of himself about one
woman -
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A rare phenomenon recently occurred
in the town of Queensbury, New York,
caused by the burning of a yellow pine
fallow of fifteen or twenty acres. Fearing
that the fire might spread into the ada
cent timber, the owners gnited the fallow
in several places on the outer edge, after
taking the precaution of cleaning off the
brush from strip surrounding it. The
flames rushing toward the center from
every direction, the air and smoke soon
assumed a rotary motion, which increased
in intensity. This whirlwind-for s'lch
it was-atter becoming fairly formed,
moved with wonderful velocity on its
axis, tearing up small trees bp the roots
and lifting them into the air, stripping
+ the branches from some that adhered too
firmly to the ground, and fairly wringing
the bark from Others It was accompa.
MED by a noise resembling thunder, and
lasted from five to ten minutes, but did
not pass the bounds of the fallow, al
though it swayed back and forth across
the field of fire several times.