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ITALY.
Insecurity Of Life and Property Coed
System Of Police Wanted.

From the Boston POST
Bad as our great American cities are;
crowded as the stories come Of startling
rObberies and h~ood-curdling assaults
and murders, there il yet cause for on
qratuIation when comparing our own
situation at its worst with the pictures
painted by travellers Of the state Of
things in the Commune of Naples, EN-
bracing a population of nearly four nun
dred and fifty thousand, and It's imme-
date vicinity. As soon as a traveller
sets his foot upon the soil Of that sunny
land, he must be sworn to eternal
vigilance in his own profession
or pay the penalty in a loss
Of goods, perhaps Of life. To
drive from the station to a hotel is like
running the gauntlet; thieves run right
and left, mount behind the carriage,
hobnob with the ragged eoachman, and
take the vacant seatin the box, and in the
police system Of the city there is no one
to modest or make afraid. Only a short
time since Baron Nolii was driving
from the railway to his house. He kept
his hand on his carpetbag, but seeing a
friend pass he saluted him, not
with the hand that was free but with
the one that guarded his baggage. In
that instant his bag disappeared contain
ing three hundred lire, his clothing, and
other articles. As he was a Town Coun-
cillor every body was glad, hoping that
his own mishap would lead him to
some measure toward an improvement
in the police system. At Monte Aperto,
in the province of Girgente, a congre-
CATION Of men and women bad recently
gone to hear mass, when six men,
well-armed, committed a most au-
dacious theft. Two of them entered
the church and took from the people
the keys of their houses; two stood
guard at the door of the church, and
two at the extremity of the road which
led to the church. This operation lasted
six hours. The women in the church
were also robbed of their finger and ear
rinUu
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Nonresident Notice.


No7S2-In the First Chancery Court OF Shel.
by county, Tennessee-Henry Buck, Annie
4. Buck ct al. vs.. Francis f. Pratt ct al.
IL appearing from Affidavit in his cause tina
II the defendants, Franci +. Pratt, a citizen
Of Alabama; Mary r. Hawkins, Ludolphus
d. Hawkins, W. c. II. Suck and Mildred NJ,
Buck, OF Mississippi; Henry Buck, OF Louis
VIM, ]. ID. Carter, sarah G.. Carter, OF Texas,
Casper Neal, Agnes ". Neal, Robert Blair
Mary z. Blair, of Alabama; Christina Mas.
singale. ThOma Massinga e, Edward Massin-
gale, Charlotte Massingale, William MaSsin-
gale, Virginia Z. Wethered, James Wethered,
ofMtSSissippi also, BledsOe Wethered, Marcus
Wethered. William Wethered, Abram Weth.
King and N. ]. King, minors without regular
guardian; Charles +. smith, Mildred smith
also, Anna Ray, William Ray, Arthur RAY
and Geo Ray, miners without regular guard
lap; Sarah E. Buck, william c. II. Buck and
Kate Buck, minors without guardian, of Ala
bama; Henrietta e. Buck, and three minol
children whose names are and
without guardian, of Texas, and all OF whom
are n9n-residenis of the State Of Tennessee;
said defendants may be interested
IN certain property involved herein.
IL Is Therefore ordered, that they make Their
appearance herein, at the Courthouse, IN the
city OF Memphis, Tennessee, on or before the
answer or demnr to Complainants' bin or the
same Will be taken for confessed as 70 them
and set for hearing exparte n that q copy OF
this order be published once a week, fer four
successive weeks, in the Memphis Appeal.
This October -, 1877.
A copy.-Attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
r. ]. BLACK, Deputy Clerk and Master.
Hefskell a Wetherford and Smith. scott 4
jefferson. Sols. fOf compln'fg. ncB wed
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winter a-pproaches. aud the helpless, the
innrm, the poVerty-sircken are seen on every
hand Those blest with abundance should
not forget the unfortunate. There Is no such
unmixad happiness as that derived from ths
CONSCIOUSNESS Of good deeds giving happiness
to others. OF all men that walk hi streets
the pinehed faces OF the selfish, however bles'
By fortune, betray least OF that sunshine eve
beaming from the eyes Of the generous ane
goOd-Read he simple story that povert,
teIls-"The Cradle songof the Poor"
HushiI cannot bear to see thee
stretch thy hands in vainT
1 have got no bread 70 give tnee
Nothing, child, % ease my PAM
When God sent thee mrs. 70 pies me-
Proud. and thankful, TOO, NAsAi
Now, my darling, I. thy motherf
Almost long 70 see the de
SleeD. my darling, thou art weary;
Godis good. but ufets dreary.
have watched thy beauty fading,
And tiny strength sink day BY day.
soon. 1 know, VIII want and fever,
Take thy little life away.
fFamiRe makes thy father reckless,
Hope has left 18th him and me;
We could suffer an, my baby,
Had vi but a crust for thee.
sleep, my darling, thou art weary;
Gods good, but lie Is dreary.
Better that thou shouldst perish early,
Starvc SO soon, my darling one,
Than live 10 want, TO sin, to struggle
Nainly, still, a. I have done.
Better hat thy angel spirit
With my joy, my peace were Flown,
Than thy heart EroW cold and careless,
Rockies hopeless, like my own.
sleep, my darling, thou art weary
God 3 good, bat life Is dreary.
am wasted, dear, with hunger.
Andmy brain is all oppressed,
j have scarcely strength TO press thee,
Wan and feeble to my breast.
Patience, baby. God viii help US,
Death viii come to thee n ne,
He viii take US 70 his beaver,
Where no want or pain can be.
Sleep, my darling, thou art weary;
God Is good, bat life isdreary-
such the plant, that late and early,
Did we listen, we might hear
Close beside us-but the
Of a city duils our ear.
Every heart, like Gods bright angel,
Can bid one such sorrow ease;
God has glory when his children
Bring his poor ones Joy and peacei
Listen, nearer while she sings,
sounds the hutteriug Of wings.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY MORNING, nov. 6, 1879
THE RFTURNs.

We exhausted the resources Of the
telegraph system in gathering news
yesterday and last night. 1t is so CON-
piled that the reader, at a glance, can
learn all that was known last night and
up to four o clock this morning Of results
in each Of the States. The task was
tOilsome, few having any adequate APP
prehension Of the toll and money in
VOWED in the collection and preparation
ofsuch matter for the public eye. What
evert the results to artiesa and politicians,
and whether our own candidates be de-
feated or triumphant, we are not the less
well pleased that the contest is deter
mined, aud that we may now address
ourselves to other tasks than those in
volving the political fortunes Of the
1ouu4~r-
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OF WEstERN CITIES.
Iftrue, as believed, that the Erie cana
is now navigated successfully and with.
out detrition from its walls by Mahan'.
and Emerson's boat great changes in
the course Of trade may be anticipated,
Recently it was stated that the Erie
canal was almost valueIess. Closed BY
Ice through the winter, when cold
weather had revoked its interdict upon
commerce, horses could not be supplied
20 transfer the wheat crop from Buffalo
10 Albany. Then came the cunningly-
constructed waveless steamer Of Mahan
and Emerson. Meanwhile, Chicago.
Milwaukee and st. Louis, impatient Of
restrictions upon trade imposed by the
canal, began the discussion OF ways and
means Of relief through q ~ship-eanal
from Lake Michigan TO the Illinois
and Mississippi rivers. The necessity
for such a canal viii not be lessened
by the success of Mahanis and Emerson's
steam eanal-boat. Canals, as channels
Of commerce, are thus made only the
more valuable. Preferred even now,
because OF the cheapness with which
heavy foeights are moved, these chan
nels Of commerce, when navigsble by
steamers, must become indispensable
70 the trade Of great western cities. A
water route 20 the ocean, from the gra-
naries Of the West, viii be demanded by
every city and State touched by rivers
ofthe valley of the Mississippi. Vessels
freirhtei on Lake Michigan should not
''break bulk'i until they lie alongside
sea-g0ing steamers at New Orleans. In
view Of these facts the proposition was
made Monday afternoon in the Mem
pins Chamber Of Commerce to inaugu-
ate a movement designed TO secure
Congressional intervention in behalf Of
the construction Of a ship-canal from
Chicago 90 the Illinois river, and from
New Orleans TO the Gulf. It is pro-
posed by Captain Cowdon to have each
Chamber Of Commerce memorable
Congress in behalf Of the Improvements
contemplated, and if each city Of the
Wes. concur in the demand made, there
VIII be a thorough revolution wrought
in the course OF trade and fortunes Of
Western States audcities.
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VIRGINIA
The Statue to be Erected 10 the Memory
OF the Dead Of Virginia.

Prom the Cincinnati EnquIrer.l
At Wiswell's Is TO be seer q photo
graph from the plaster model Of an idea
statue, entitled "Nirginia," designed fol
q memorial monument to the dead OF
Virginia by the eminent young artist
n. Eel y, late of Cincinnati, now re-
siding Berlin. The photograph T.
takenf what is termed in sculpture.
ii -help model three-quarter life-size.
which. TO speak in the words Of the art
isl lis roughly handled, and not So
thoroughly worked out Is il will be in
the colossal when executed in marble.
TIE design is that Of female figure IN
ancient dress and armOr, seated in q
mourning attitude, with her right fool
resting upon a broken cannon, which i
partly buried in the earth. In her left
hand Is held a spear, reversed, and over
the cannOn creeps a vine Of ivy.
To n. Ezekiel belongs the honor of
pUrtraying in lifeless clay the history OF
a peoples vicissitudes. Marked IN the
FIXTURES Of :'Nirginia" Is "a woe that
claws deep, a grief that's hard to bear. %
The spear Of war is reversed, as the lives
and fortunes of her sons were, and, like
the cannon, their hopes lie buried; while
the ivy, though crushed by the ravages
IF war, rears its noble head, giving sigus
Of renewed life and hope.
The anatomy Of the figure, draperv
and detail, are executed in a mastery
manner, so far as can be judged from q
photograph. Ii is designed 10 be exc
cuted in marble, and viii, in all prob
ability, be ready for exhibition at the
next annual Industrial Exposition, when
our citizens can have an opportunity Of
viewing it.
Il is about three years since Mr..
Ezekiel left our city for Berlin. where
he entered the Royal Art Academy, Of
Prussia, graduating with high h0nors
in two years. Upon his arrival in Ber-
lin he was received into the Qtelier Of
Professor Rudolphe Siemering pupil
and successor OF Rauch), under whom
he studied two years, when ne was ad-
mitted into the Uteier Of Professor
Wolf Of the ROYAL Academy, and the
most celebrated Of any living German
sculptor.
The works OF NJ. Ezekiel are quite nu-
merOus, among which are the ideal
statues Of ''Cain; or, the Offering Re
jected,n Industry Virgins" etc,
has reliefs OF Schiller, Gothic, General
r. T. Lee, etc, and busts Of Washing
ton, ''Ssiior Boy, " etc.
There can be no doubt as TO the talent
Of an artist who can produce such q
mastery work Of art as +" Virginia y
The grandeur Of this conception is Of no
ordinary merit, every feature is well
brought out, and shows the ability as a
sculptor which viii yet make N. Ezekiel
famous.
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No. 5S-In the First Chancery Com Of Shelby
county. TeDnessee.-Lucius L. Lanier et al
vs.. NJ. l. Bell, Eidrfdge Duvali et al.
1T appearing from anidavi in this cause
II taat the defendants, N. L. Ben, Elbridge
DuvalL v. II. Kelgbler, VIM. J. Boyd fDuvall,
keigbler a Coz; Richard q. Dale, John Ross,
Hanson l. WtIher, Gerald T. Dale, s. T..
Egleston dale. Ross 4 Withers3; Geo. Schaf-
fer and 6. II. Roberts lSchaffer a Roberts, +;
Ben Field. 7. II. LangstrOth. W. p. Masen
tField, LRngstroth q Coli &. Jerks smith,
William Howell tSmith, Howell q Jo9, Ed
win K. TroWbridge, Amos 7. dwight, Amos H.
Trowbridge e~frow6ridge. Dwight q Co..; Pc
ter $. Duryee, Henry HJaques and Henry W.
Duryee Duryee, Jaques a Col. Tnomos "A.
Boyd and n. r. Stroud boyd 4 Stroud) are
u0n-residents Of the state o Tennessee
II Il therefore ordered, That they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse IN the
city OF Memphis, Tennessee, on or before The
first Monday In December, 1872, and plead, an
swsr or demRr to eOmpialnantS' original and
amended bills or the same will be taken for
confessed as to them and set for hearing ex-
parte; and that a copT OF this order be pub
bsoed ohcea week, Tor four successive weeks,
vember, lS2
A ~cOpF-attest:
EDMUND A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
BY X. J. BLACK, b. g. and NJ.
O. ". Nlnchester, sol. for cOmpln'tE- M sat
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MEMPHIS
NOn-R Resident Notice.


No. 7l5-In the First Chancery our Of Shelby
county, TenDessee.-M.- N. Buck & Co. vs.
The Memphis and Little Rock Railroad
Company ct ST.
IT appearing from affidavit in this cause
Il that the defendant, The Memphis and
Little Rock Railroad Company, a resident OF
Arkansas, and Henry r. Vail, a citizen OF
New York, are both nOn-residents Of the State
of Tennessee, that the bill was filed October
II, lS72. alleging that defendant, said Railroad
Company, wastndebted 70 complainants in the
sum Of Sgl 81, as evidenced by a promisS0ry
note Of said Company to the complainant and
exhibited with the bill that a writ Of attach
ment has been issued and returned, levied,
on the property Of said Company;
II Is therefore ordered, That they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse in the
city Of Memphis, Tennessee, on or before the
first Monday IN December, 1872, and plead, an
swer or demur to compliments bfl, or the
same viii be taken for confessed as TO them
and set for hearing ex parte; and that a copy
OF this order be published once a week, for
four successive weeks, in the Memphis APP
peal.
A copy-attest:
EDMUND A. COLE. Clerk and Master.
By r. J. BLACK, Deputy c. and NJ.
II. Clay King, Sol. for complainant. lOcA fr
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Administrative Notiee.

THE undersigned having suggested IL ne
Il County Court Clerk Of shelby county The
insolvency Of the estate OF 4. N. Woodward,
deceased, ! hereby notify an persons having
claims against the estate TO appear before the
said County Court CleEk and hie the same.
authenticated In the manner nreserfbee
BY law, GA on before the 18th day OF Oc-
1917. otherwise fney shall Be forever
barred, oh IN law and equity.
JULIA ~. WOODWARD, Admx.
J. n. Ford, Attorney.
Memphi4 Tenn, July l&,ls7e. lslyff
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Nj. Charles Fishers transition from
LIGHT comedy parts inthe " old men " o.
the stage was so natural and easy IN
suite Of certain little deficiencies Incl
dent 10 q new line Of acting that a fresh
career Is evidently opening before him-
A finished ~pers0nati0n Of Falstaf'
would round his artistic life with a com
nieteness unequalled by any actor now
~ The stage, ard parts like Old Dorm
-. is The Road 10 Ruin viii be ex-
r.i,ent preparation for q character that
c[aafnfs the yivaeity Of light comedy
uiaa de hesYiest tread q years.
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way, which disfgures, as a general rule,
clerical orat0rs. Mr.. Froude is a lay
man, and, we imagine, trained as a law
yer. On this occasion, as far as may be,
let Father Burke be layman tool
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MEMPHIS & CHARLESTON R. R.
CHANGE OF TIME
COMMENCING
Tuesday. Qctnhar %. 1872.

TRAINS WILL RUN AS FOLLOWS:
Mall Train leaves Memphis----u 80 an
Nail Train arrives at Memphis.----l020 an
Express Train leaves Memphis. 800 an
Express Train arrives at Memphis.---u4 As pm
Junction Acc leaves Memphis. oDO pm
Junction Acc. arrives at Memphis $50 pm
Somervllle Acc. leaves Memphis 445 pm
SomerviIle Acc. arrives al Memphis $50 an
Making close connection at Grand Juno
ton, Corinth. Decatur and Chattanooga for al
points South, North and East.
"a miles shorter to Chattanooga, East Ten
nessee, Georgia and the seaoOard cities thar
via Nashville. Quick time and close connec
lions to NaNhville.
Ticket Office, 2zS Main ST., and at Depot.
oc30 WI. ROSS, Supt West Division
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Colonel Higgins says that ons peeu-
harity Of Hawthorne was that ~ never
SPOKE Of 3 literary work Of his own rm-
I'll it was finished. Authors ARE verv
apt TO talk about their literary chndnen
before they are bom.
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RAILROADS.

RAILWAY SECURITY CogfPAST,O
Lessee Memphis and Charleston r. RI 7
Memphis, Tenn, October p, lo12.l
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NOTICE.

A IL persons are hereby notified that PAUL
n A. CICAILA Is moi the agent Of PAUL
CICABIA, and has no power 70 collect mone6
or transact business for me As my agent.
PAUL ClGAILA.
Memphis, october s72. ocs
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MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE
RAILROAD COMPANY.
ANNUAL STOCKHOIDFRSs MEETING,

THE Annual Meeting Of the Stockholders Of
i the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad
Company win be held at the Peabody Hotel,
Memphis, Tenn, on
Wednesday, November 90, 1872,
at II o'clock am, at which time Directors viii
be chosen for the ensuing year.
Stockholders and their families will be
passed free by exhibiting to Conductors their
Certificates Of Stock. s. H. LAMB,
ocE Secretary and Treasurer.
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METZ UNDER PRUSSI.
Sketches Of the Exodus Of the People
from the Conquered Provinces.
Deeay-Kindness-Revelr and FeastIng
Bad Faith-German Firmness.
New Ynrk Herald Iettnrl

New York Herald letter.
The city Of Metz In its brightest days
must have been an unl1cky town,
sm0thered over with forts and bitches
and all the elaborate mechanism Of en-
cheering art. The great Vauban ac-
complished these results in Louis XINls
days, when that king was doing q little
royal stealing on his own account and
was anxious to protect his acquisition.
Within q few miles Of its gates the great
battle of GravelOtte was fought, where
Prussia burst the French army asunder,
driving one fragment, under Bazaine,
into Metz, to starvation and surrender;
the other fragment, under Mcmahon,
into Sedan, to surrender with its En-
peror at its head. Graveiotte looks very
calm and fruitful this autumn morning,
and shows no trace Of the gigantic strife
Of two years agO. The fields are giving
forth orr and hops and vines, and the
merry laugh OF the harvestes Is hesrd
where the cannon sounded upon that
dreadful day. As your correspondent
passed down the road along which the
King Of Prussia advanced, looking out
over the rolling, hilly plain, thinking
his own thoughts, there Came a group
which would have been made into a pic
ture by the pencil of Teuiers. A donkey,
with a ribbon OF two around his neck
by way of announcement, vas ooggedly
pulling 3 small, rude cart This
was heaped with baskets Of ripe
grapes. In one corner, cunningty pro-
tected from self-destruction by an inge-
nious arrangement Of baskets, was a
wide-awske infant, just old enough to
stand, not knowing what the demon
STATIONS meant, and its eyes firmly
fixed on its mother, who came plOdding
behind, elapping her hands and chant
ing nursery rhymes. An oI4 nan, with
his staff, marshalle he group with
grave aspect thinking, no doubt Of
sadder things than grapes and wine.
Then came a struggling procession of
boys and girls-the boys rom twelve to
dve-witb ruddy, dirty faces, smeared
with grape juice. They were shouting,
laughing, hurrying home to evening
rest with their harvest burdens. The
young men had gone. The head Of the
family had gone. The vintage could
only be gathered by women and chill
dren. The old men and the children
only remained. This was a first glimpse
Of the new aspect Of affairs in Alsace
and Lorraine, and it seemed odd that
this trophy Of German rule should make
itself manifest on the victorious field of
GravelOtte. Now and then we met a
group Of eager, striding youths march,
ing toward the frontier or to some rail-
way station-youths and middle-aged
men, occasionally women in the train
with children in their arms, anxious for
France, and we thought Of what Byron
wrote Of those wanderers of Israel, when
they were driven out of the Holy
Land
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TO VISITORS TO THE FAIR & EXPOSITION
and FANCY DRY GOODS

. Desiring tina al Visitors to our cryrduHng the FAIR AND EXPOSITION shah
axe h0me with them the very best impression n Memphis her people ani commercial
re hsved determines. during he existence Of these two Great Attractions to
OFFER OUR UNEIFALED STOCK OF
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Age Of Men.


Prof. Farady adopts Flobrins'
physiological theory that the age of
man is one hundred years. The du-
ration of life hebeieyes to be meas
ured by the time Of growth. When
once the bones and epiphyses are
united, the body grows no more,
and it is at twenty years this union
is effected In man. In the camel, 1t
takes place at eight; in the horse at
FIVE; in the the lion a. four; in the
dog at two; in the rabbit at one.
The natural termination of life is.
five removes f. ON those several
points. Man being % years in
growing, lives five times 20 years,
that is to say one hundred years, the
camel is eight years ia growing,
lives FIVE times eight years, that is to
say forty years, the horse is i've
Years IN growing and lives twenty
five years, and so with other. ami
mails The man who doss not die
oflsickness, lives, everywhere from
eighty to a hundred years. .Provi-
sdence has given MAI a century q
life, but he does not attain it, because
he inherlts disease, eats unwhole-
some food, gives license to passions,
and permits vexation to disturb his
healthy equipose; he does not die,
be kills himself. The professor di-
Yides lie INTO two equal halves,
growth and decline, and these halves
into infancy, youth, Yirility and age.
Infancy extends to the twentieth
year; youth to the fftiesh, because 1t
is during this period that the tissues
become firm ;svifility, FROM fifty to
seventy-fve, during which tthe CT
ganism remains complete; and at
seventy-fVe old age commences, to
last a longer or shorter time, as the
! diminution of reserved forces is
1 FASTENED or retarded.