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DIAMOND sPECTACLES

These spectscles are manufactured from
MINUTE CRYSTAL PEBBLES melted to-
gether, and are called DIAMOND on account
OF their hardness and briliancy.
Having been tested with the poIariscOps, the
diamond lenses have been found to admit r.
teen per cent. less heated rays than any other
pebble. They are ground with great scientific
accuracy, are free rom chr0matic alterations.
and produce brightness and dtstinctuess OF
vision not before attained in spectacies. Man
ufactured By the Spencer Optical Manu-
featuring Company, n. =. Tor sale by re-
spODSlble agents II every city in the Union.
W. G. BYRD, Jeweler and Optician, Is Sole
Agent for Memphis, Tenn, from whom they
can only be obtained. No peddIers employed
Do not buy pair unless you see the trade
marx - apl0
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE.

Boats Leaving This Day.
FOR WHITE RIVER.
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The market was firm with a good de-
msnd: ,aies 5000 bales, Of which export
ers took l,2Oo bales.
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RAILROAD TINE TABLE.

aEMPHIs ANp noUIsYILnE

ARRIVES.
Mail, daily Except Sunday, at 2ss0 am
l., press, daily, al l:15 pm. Brownsville Ac-
commOdstion, daily Except Sunday, at 8 20
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MeMPHIs AND LITTLs ROCK.



IA. mail and trel ght train leaves COvington
o Memphis a. am. and returns 70 COving-
co.. sf 5l5 pm.
Eralls leaving Memphis win start from
LJutErUrifers' y Grehouse.
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MEMPHIS AND CHARLESTON.

.au every day., at lOSO am. Express
fFtt Except Saturday at pm. Someryille
accom- mediation. daily except sunday al
nm. Grand Junction accommodation at
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FINANCE AND TRADE.

THE FINANCIAL CIRCLE is q very re-
stricted one, and there is no movement
within tive can only report former
figures. Exchange on the east dis
count; sight 3; New Orleans /; selling
Oh all points at par. Gold advanced to
1IOs in New York, here brokers paid
IO9461O93 and sold at lIO911Oi. Moth
ing doing in scrips or bonds; an attempt
il making 10 get Charleston railroad
stock at a very low figure, but it cannot
be done. The following quotations are
as near as can be given, but so little
BUSINESS is doing that certainty in
auaLa-ions Is hardly attainabIe.
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4IssIssIPrl AND TENNESSEE

New Orleans Nal every day., at 2:l0 PIN.
express, daily Sundays excepted, al s % am.
Freight snd accommodation, daily Sundays
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City currency bonds, undisputed-.........4l5S6H
city tainted" bonds, circular basis a
CITY -cEl P selling 4
shelby county scriD..-.......-...-.--: selling, s
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Express, daily al 500 am. Mail, daily at
1850 pm. Brownsville Accommodation, daily
except Sunday at 4 . PM
DEPOT al head OF MsIE street
Tic Ect-o1lce, No. ~ Main street, corner OF
ssdLsou.
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CHRISTIAN BROTHERS, COLLEGE
asa ADAMS STREET.
Trust Sale.


Board, Tuition, Music, etc, apply to
BRO. MAURELIAN, President.
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alaI. every day at 10 ain Express, sally
.sresnI sunday 81 l:l5 am. SonerYille &C.
caumodstion, daily except Sunday al S; 40
an Grand Junction accommodation, every
DAY at 80 pm.
7 .E-. once, No. 20 Main street, corner
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

iing. not mastication: His horrid jaws agaps with double fang as Eschylus de- zcrlbes 1t. But that huge. tongueless, hpiess maw,- l 7Zs,
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

my floating pine down and keepit steady on an even keel. It would inevitable roll, and in the flood and the storm roll rapidly. It was theory, but I had to be guided by theory, and turned to my other raft.
 '"This was huge, bare ive-oak with the trunk divided into two large limbs. If there had ever been any others, they were broken of. It was in the form of Q great Y. At the stump was root or two that might hold on by, but it looked precarious. It would not roll, certainly, and that was the main consideration. As mounted 1t pack-a-back, and girded my self to 1t with my cottonades and suspen- ders, the pine launched of, dragging my raft loose in the effort, and swam splen- didly into the gap. thought l had missed my calculation, but, as it got free it shot in, spinning like wh1rligig. My barge followed, plunging somewhat, but comparatively steady. Every wave dash ed over me-. was frequently strangled and blinded, and had no time to think of anything but clinging to the log It turned slowly round as 1t went, for which was not sorry. How anxious I grew as it neared the cape! slipped loose my fastenings for D plunge, but it swung round and lay snug. and close right against the bank. had looked forward with some unnecessary apprehension, as it proved, to the passage of the second slne. Fortunately great heap of logs had drifted in and was lodged. To climb over these to the shallow water on the farther side cost only few scratches and bruises. In less than twenty minutes after my raft got afoat, I was safe and sound on the mainland, and half an hour later I was slipping Senorita Fanchon's hot brandy toddy; and that is the whole story of my peril and escape
 WILL WALLACE HARVEY.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

The Florida land terrarin, said 70 furniah an celent antsecrbutic the chelona will keep a Hesh Ter without food In seaspoFts, theEefare, ft has1h reRuiate price acccxding to aixe from te- cent etemb, up to douaks g Ts1 tSx eEzszscsss
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

THE undersigned will sell his farm. situated in ths North part cfthe Town of Litchheld, ahoue 2A miles from 0 House. containing about l50 acres of good Mia. suitably divided in- e eoeds paow, pasture and meadow, well water e4 Ths bnildinEs are all in good repair. Also fhs right b the peaqf saw mill will be sold with
 CHAs. L. TRAIL.
 EiszEEsI1. 1sb. 1z.h. ls7s. 45-tf.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

A strolling minstrel was recently arrest-S ed out in Missouri for a small theft and fined g. As he had no money, the judge adjourned the court for half an hour and the minstrel gave ''show,' the court taking the fine out in trade.
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

The W1nQ8
 As in revenge have sucked up from the sea Contagious fogs, which, falling on the land,
 Have every peltng river made 50 proud
 That they have overborne their continents:
 The ox hath therefore stretched his yoke in vain, The ploWman lost his sweat, and the green cane Hath rotted ere his youth attained beard.
 The fold stands empty.in the drowned field,
 And crows are fatted with the murrain flock.
 The human mortals want their winter here:
 No night is now with hymn or carrol blest;
 Therefore the moon, the governess of floods,
 Pale in her anger washes all the air,
 That rheumatic diseases do abound,
 And thorough the distempersture we see The seasons alter.'-
 It was admirably recited by the profes sor, but perhaps 1t derived its effect from the accurate and literal picture it drew oi the devastations of the then recent hurri. cane. Up to that time the promise oi harvest iG South Florida had been of un. parailelsd fruitfulness. The cane and cot ton fields Were nnriyaled; the orangehar-
Litchfield enquirer., 1874-05-07

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The Republican journal., 1874-09-17
Farm, Garden and Household,


Farmers that imagine that New England
farming is far behind other sections OF the
country. NAV derive some crumbs of
comfort" from "A perusal of the following
description of New England farming and
farm lie, 10y Hon John Forsyth, the
,crteran editor OF the Mobile, Ala, Regis
ter. who recently paid us a visit, and on
his return published his impressions and
views for the benefit of his patrons:
On having made flying trip through
the New England States, comes back
hiled with aStonishment at what he has
seen, and perfectly discouraged with his
UWu section of country. There he saw
little villages sticking in the midst OF bar
ran and unlnhabltable mountains, with no
surroundings to support them. evincing u
spirit OF life and prosperity unknown to
even our large townsville recognized
trtde-centres OF our best agricultural
leglons Aud il the country he saw little
iarms producing ike tirst-cass English
gardens, though on soil originally too
Door ID have grown bare grass, and in
situations that Il Southern man never
would nave thought ot being converted
lnto goat pasture.
ne people, as general thing seemed
inquired INTO their circumstances he would
have touud strange as it may appear,
Everybody in these little villages we'll off
uud making money, and the little farms,
81 itt their stoue piles here and there, and
t1eir Stone constantly working to the sur
H.,.. co. be carried of into other piles and
,aetr annual calls for fertilizers to the ex-
frut Ol one hundred and liIty dollars per
..i.. ,F,y.s,.
Hue J1 ,hree hundred dollars on every acre
enclosed No wonder that he is discour-
tged when he looks from this picture upon
.Hr tayorabll located towns, and notes
HEN Inactivity their poverty and general
tLapidauon and upon our broad and fer
ullItd arrtS, and reflects that they are
.rally, IN very many instances, not paying
me expense ~ culture
Passing through the country with his
rFte open, tne close observer would at
the proper season soon have his attention
crested by gn improY ed mower sweeping
Yer the meadow under the exclusive man
4gemeut Of i Youth, ct, say sixteen, and
ompiIshing more in a day than could
Nh thai time De wormed out OF a dozen
freedmen wllA their scrthes. A little later
nd he would see the Younger brother OF
lh- youth turning the hay and then in
..ue time would come a still smaller boy
with rake followed 10y trio of little fell
|.vS having Ala sorts of fun as they, with
l Aal fork stored away the crop in the hay
lily
La everything done on the farm in New
tuglanG tins same plan is resorted to. II
rAe -oll must be prepared, instead OF set
.l4s dozen freedmen at it with their
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

A Remarkable feature OF many history
scandals is the unsatisfactory snd dubious
result of them. Does the world Vet know
whether Mary, Queen of Scots, was good
woman OF Wanton And has not Mr..
Froude's last volume once more cast seri-
Gus suspicion on Englands Virgin
Queen" Willany body ever know whether
Nepoleon Ill. was really a Bonaparte ?
Victor Hugo hurled at him the memorable
apothegm. "lle is neither the son of his
father nor the father OF his son - but some
allowance must be made for the writer's
fierce democratic warmth. 1t is some
thousands of years since the association
of Pericles and Aspasia, and we believe
that Notwithstanding the introduction OF
the critical method in history, scholars
have not yet decided whether their rela-
tions we've platonic or otherwise. The
belief that General jackson loyed not wise
ly but too well the wife Of General Eaton,
his Secretary of War. was once very prey
alent, but is could show no very satisfac
tory grounds for its existence. The trial
of Queen Caroline by the House of Lords
was as fierce an inquisition as was ever
made into the character of human being,
yet it is not known to this day whether
that pure and upright man, her husband,
had reason to find fault with her or not
The horrible Byron scandal, so recently
revived by Mrs. Stowe, will probably
never be settled beyond dispute.
Why is the gayest letter in in the alphabet .
Because it's the centre OF fun.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

June, dear, doesn't your head ache
Your face is flushed"
The brown eyes opened with merry
laugh shining through them.
"Don't be worried, mamma. The DR.
said there was no danger now. He viii
tell you all about it this afternoon Nam
ma, I'm glad swallowed that PIN
Mrs. Marston shuddered,
June how dare you ? Itwas horrible
If the Doctor had not been here YOU woull
have strangled"
~ les-but-mamma and the eye,
danced again-''The Doctor was here
that's Just it. | never was so glad in al
my llte-but it hurts me to talk
For once, true love ran smoothly. The
Doctor ''asked mamma in his own frank
way. The assent was given, but CON
Vlction of duty required Mrs. Marston to
give him at length a catalogue of June
peccadilloes and faults; to all OF which
the Doctor listened with polite Impotence
Fred nearly crushed his hand with a
Wrnging grasp of congr ,tulation
'Ah, Reg! old fellow so you propose to
have June all the year round? Well she
is darling. Anyhow one proverb is dis
proved, in spite of its age One swallow
did make a summer this time ~
That "swallown did make a lifelong
summer for Dr. Deane, who loves his
sweet wife more than ever while now an
other June" fits with all her mother
graces, among the flowers or sends the
echo of her mothers laugh ringing anC
hoatlng through every nook of the nlc
homestead
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17
The Great Danger of Ministers.

The establishment of such relations be
tween a pastor and his flock as shall secure
tor him that intimacy which ought TO exist
only in the domestic circle is an evil of
fearful tendency and unspeak&ble danger
Ministers are censurabe in high degree
who encourage their people, men or
women. to come to them with family mat
ters or secret sores. Some men are
themselves gossips, and delight to get and
give all they can of social news. and the
more secret the richer the prize They
encourage revelations when their ears
should be deaf to everything approaching
to scandal. All .iudicious pastors disc0ur-
age familiarity on the part of theirpeople,
especially Of the female denomination
For this way lies the danger a silly
woman, pious perhaps, but very soft and
shallow, hears the stirring words Of her
eloquent pastor, is foused, warmed,
soothed, exalted-she thinks edtied-and
straightway she believes him to be the
man sent to do her good She goes to his
study to tell him so ; how much enjoyment
she finds in his words; OF She writes him
a letter and pours out her little soul tull Of
twaddle about her gratitude for what her
dear pastor has done for her how She
is lifted up" by his Instructions how She
| loves him as a friend given to be her guide
| and comfort and 50 ON, and 50 on, more
and worse, running into maWkish senti-
mentality, a sickening man worshiper,
disgusting to every sensible person, but
! very nectar to a vain, worldly preacher
who seeks only to make his hearers 'leel
good" Such people never so to THEN
pastor to ask what they must dc to be
saved" 1t is to tell him how good they
feel how he is .'eXalting' them '>tillin2
them with joy, peace, and love" We can
not go into particulars without offending
the tastes Of every reader We make ouI
meaning plain. We wish to be understood
as saying that what worldly preachers ant
sentimental women call communion O
soul" and 'holy sympathy" and words il
the same strain is not religion-t is no
even religious 1t is Of the earth earthly
1t is "carnal conceived in sin" # i
simply the lower nature, The human pas
sion OF one creature toward another 90,
is not in it. From the New York Observ
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17
A Darkened Life.

In Nashua, n IL resides a Young girl
whose pititul lot eNcites the deepest sym
pathy, yet tor whom sympathy can do but
little in alleviation Of the sad misfortune
which has dark her life When a child
she was terribly scalded about the head
and tace, and although she survived her
injuries, she was thencetorth distigured tor
lite and the rosy face of childhood was
changed to a mask-a travesty on the
human cOuntenanCe-absol trighttui
in its hideousness. In Lowell, Mass
where She once lived, So great was the
horror excited by her appearance that she
was forbidden by the authorities to show
herself on the streets. AT Nashua she ven
tlred out the other day, and several ladies
tainted at sight Of her, and call is now
made upon the authorities of that place tc
forbid her appearance on the streets
What a mOurntul tate is hers! To live
through the terrible physical suffering
only to endure hencetorWard Il kccner an
glish in the knowledge that she is u thing
OF horror, to be abhorred and stunned bl
human kind, with no hope in the future
except the grave, which shall hide her de.
tormities from the gaze of her fellow be
ings Boston Transcript
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

SINGULAR FOUNDATION OF 4 FREE
GOVERNMENT. In a letter, still to be seen
dated London, Aug "a, 1921, and directed
to a wealthy colonist of that settlement
the writer begins by saying; we send
a shipment, one widow and eleven maids
for wives of the people Of Virginia. There
hath been special care IN the choice OF
them, for there hath not one of them been
received but upon good commentators,
In case they cannot be presently married
we desire that they may be put with
several householders that have wives un-
til they can be provided with husbands -
But the writer OF this epistle had little
reason to fear that any of the 'maidens
faire" would be left over The archives
contain evidence to prove that these first
cargoes of young ladies We're put up at
auction. and sold for one hundred and
twenty pounds of tobacco each. and it was
ordered that this debt should have pre-
cedencc OF all others. The solitary '.one
widow" went along with the others, for
they could not be particular in those days.
The good minister Of the colony no doubt
had a busy time that day. He did not
mention any fees, nor did the bridegroom
think Of rendering any. From some Of
these couples the first families of Virginia
are descended
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

SAVING FERTILIZERS. The Chinese,
more than any other people, have reduced
fne saving OF fertilizers to a science. 1t
s well known that they scrupulously save,
,iisinfect, and put to valuable use every
particle OF otfa In no other way could
Iheir iand be so enriched as to support its
teeming inhabitants Liebig traced the
primal TALL of Rome to the building of her
great sewers, which conducted to the
Tiber fertilizing material which should
nave been applied To her soil 1t was the
lack OF breadstutis, consequent upon the
poverty of the arabic lands, which drove
he Romans to fereign conquest, and
ended in the overthrow Of their own
licerty. our people are wasting every
day substances, which, if properly util-
lxed, would save them many dollar and
.nurh tribulation
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17
After the Burial.

In the breaking CULTS of sorrow.
When the helpless feet stretch out,
And ind in the deeps of darkness
No footing so solid rs doubt.
Then better one spar of Memory,
One broken plank Of the past,
That our human heart NAV cling to,
Though hopeless of shore at last.
To the spirit its splendid conjectures
To the flesh its sweet despair;
Its tears DER the thin, worn locket,
With its anguish Of deathless hair.
Console, if you will l can bear it;
'Tis a well-meant aim of breath;
But not all the preaching since Adam
Has made Death other than Death.
ames Russell Lowell
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

Hay cakes, composed of hay and straw
very finely cut, we'll mixed with crushed
oats or rye and moistened with d solution
of rape seed OF linseed oil-cake, and then
well worked and formed into tablets un-
der pressure, have been tor some time
employed in France, as Il convenient and
portable food for horses
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

The far,tlora e tho po"if.o ~l.Da are
turning their attention to a branch OF
stock raising which bids fair to result in
adding an important staple to the pro
ductions of the United States This is
the naturalization and breeding Of the
Angora goat, commonly but incorrectly
called the cashmere, the fleece OF which
supplies the mohair Of commerce.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

Mr.. Thomas Motley has recently visited
the Island OF Guernsey and selected some
of its best cows to import to this country,
with a view of DEMONSTRATING them here.
They are much larger animals than the
Jerseys, also less handsome, of black
brindle color, but do give a very great
quantity of very rich yellow milk.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

A citizen OF New Haven planted in April
last an early Rose potato, weighing l.
ounces, cutting out the eyes and planting
them in a drill The product was "a po-
tatoes, so OF them being OF good size and
The whole weighing nine pounds.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

| Massachusetts, by the white over the black
neither shall there by the black over the white
n n down.trodden and oppressed South Carolina.
lCrles of Good, goodn' and applause.l While
we declare for equal rights for the whites which
we would give them with the same unstinted
generosity that the Democracy never failed to
accord to the poor, dependent, black as well ~,
the white, at the same time if it be true thai
the whites OF the South anywhere are banded
together to wrong the black man, God knows
the Massachusetts Democracy don't 60 with
them. Great applause. 1 say that here
and put it, mark you, with an ''if," for have
great distrust OF the reports manufactured by
that Oregon fellow in the Attoney-G General,
office, and carried IA out i'll his side pocket, III
his stolen $1,000 landaulet. Loud laughter. /
want a little better authority than that. And
now, gentlemen, having cast back our eyes and
lifted up the curtain that wells Us from the illus
.trlous past, we can look forward with visions
undlmmed and bright with hope TO the prOmul-
galion again of those doctrines, shaped upon
tne unwaverinS basis of Il strict observance Of
tne provisions Of the law. Then, certainly, will
uou save the Commonwealth Of Massachusetts.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

The outlook for wool is reported good.
The market is drained almost, and the
new clip is already brought up to a large
extent There is no reason that the price
should decline, but rather 90 up.
The Republican journal., 1874-09-17

The Tennessee correspondence OF the
New York Herald gives some interesting
details of the origin of the recent conflict
between the whites and blacks there, from
which it appears that the trouble had It's
origin in dispute over roast pig. About
three weeks ago the colored people OF
Pickettville had barbecue. Joe Hale, a
farmer living in the neighborhood, and
several other white men, CHANGING to pass
that way, bought pig from the negroes
tor their dinner. They ate as much as
they wanted, giving the rest of the pig to
a negro they had brought with them. This
fellow was happy for only short time,
however. for no sooner had the white men
left than the managers Of the barbecue
seized the rest of the pig, saying that it
belonged to them Hale heard OF this,
and he and his friends returned and took
the pig away from the negroes. In get
ting back the pig Hale used some violence,
which exasperated the negroes, but his
friends interfered and compelled him to
90 away with them The point in dispute
was whether he had paid for the whole
pig or only so much as he had eaten. The
negroes took the latter view of the trans
action, but Hale enforced the former, and
out OF this insignificant affair grew the
war of races in Tennessee The negroes
house. and arming and organizing follow
ed on both sides Six of the negroes who
had entered into the conspiracy We're over
taken by a mob and shot, and general
uprising followed.