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70 ges nice Sale Bills, have them Printed
= at THg Apy0cATr Office.
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Only q Blush.

What is there more mysterious than a
blush, that a single word, or look, or
thought should send that inimitable carna-
ton over the cheek, like the soft tints Of
the summer sunset2 Strange ID is, also,
that the face only, and that the human
face, is capable Of blushing that the hand
or foot docs not turn red with nodesty or
shame any more than does the glove or
sock that covers them. It isthe face that
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that side upon which the mysterious
writing was not
II will do anything you ask" replied
the passenger "but what shall / write ?"
"A few words are all want. Suppose
you write "Steer to the north west"
"The passenger, evidently puzzled to
make out the motive for such request
complied, however, with a smile. The
captain took up the slate and examined It
closely; then stepped aside so as to conceal
the slate from the passenger, he turned it
over, and gave il to him again with the
other side up.
"You say that is your handwriting"
said he.
81 need not say so, rejoined the other,
looking at it, "for you saw me write it"
"And this ?" said the captain, turning
the slate over.
The man looked first at one writing,
then at the other, quite confounded.
"What is the meaning Of this?" said
he. 81 only wrote one Of them. Who
wrote the other?"
"That's more than | can tell you sir; ;
my mate here says you wrote it, sitting at
this desk at noon to-day"
The captain Of the wreck and passenger
looked at each other, exchanging glances
of intelligence and surprise, and the former
asked the latter. "Did you dream that
you wrote on this slate ?"
"No, sir, not that l remember"
"You speak Of dreaming" said the
captain of the bark. "What was this
gentleman about at noon to-day ?"
captain" rejoined the other, "the
whole thing is most mysterious and ex-
traordinary ;and have intented to speak
to you about it as soon as we got little
quiet. This gentleman, pointing to the
passenger, "being much exhausted, fell
into heavy sleep, or what seemed such,
some time before noon. After an hour or
more he awoke and said to me. Captain
we shall be relieved this very day" When
asked him what reason he had for saying
so, he replied that he had dreamed that he
was on board a bark, and that she was
coming to our rescue. He described her
appearance and rig; and to our uttei
astonishment, when your vessel hove in
sight, she corresponded exactly to his
description of her We had not put much
faith in what he said, yet still we hoped
there might be something in it, for drown.
ing men, you know, will catch at straws
As it has turned out, | cannot doubt that
it was all arranged in some Incompetent,
sible way, by an overruling Providence, so
that we might be saved. To Him be all
thanks for His goodness to us.
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Select poetrp.
From the AIdime.
THE FOREST SPRING.

Tall, arching birches toward the sky
Their leafy branches rear on high;
They roof me DER with living green,
With riffs of azure in between,
Where heecy clouds in quiet lie.
Upon the MOSES velvet seat
pause to rest my weary feet,
And STOPPING downward to the rill,
My followed hands with water Gil,
And quaff the liquid pure and sweet
Low bending DER the sparkling spring,
hear the water.spirits sing;
Their merry games | see, perchance,
Or watch them in their fairy dance,
Unseen of all the sportive ring.
see them hide among the weeds,
Or pelt each other with the seeds;
Or launching in an acorn boat,
Upon the mimic ocean iloat
And climb the rigging of the reeds.
! hear the thrush's tenor deep:
Its music almost makes me weep,
Recalling as il does to me
Full many a pleasant memory,
That passing years had lulled to sleep.
Poor, troubled singer, seek thy nest,
| cannot aid thy lonely quest,
For thee and me, perhaps, is grief,
But lapsing years may bring relief,
And may be what we have is best.
Once more to aid my noon-tide dream
1pause beside the murmuring stream,
Where rippling shadows interlace
Upon its bright and dimpled face,
And pebbles from the bottom CLEAN.
The water-sprites no longer play
On lily.pads their quaint croquet,
For gazing down into the deep
find them lying there asleep,
With weeds tucked round each little iay.
But wakeful faces still see
Upturned TO take peep at me,
Surprised to note so strange thing
Reflected in their quiet spring,
And wondering what the form can be.
Sleep, fays, in peace! o do not fear
That will harm your streamlet dear;
Pour out, o thrush, your glorious strair
! love thee, and I'll come again
The spring to see--thy song to hearl
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DIsAPPEARED.-When a friend dies
and is buried there's an end Of him. We
miss him for space out Of our daily exis-
tence; we mourn for him by degrees that
become mercifully less; we cling to the
blessed hope that we shall be reunited in
some more perfect sphere; but, SO far as
this earth is concerned, there's an end Of
him. However near and dear he was, the
time arrives when he does not form part
Of our daily thought; he ceases to be even
an abstraction. We 60 no more with
flowers and tears into the quiet cemetery
only the rain and the snow fakes fall there;
we leave Ii for the fingers of spring to deck
the neglected mound. But when our
friend yanishes unaccountably in the midst
of crowded city, or goes of on a sea
voyage, and is never heard of again, his
memory has singular tenacity. He may
be to all intents and purposes dead to US,
but we have not lost him. The ring Of
the door-bell, at midnight may be his ring;
the approaching footsiep may be his foot
step; the unexpected letter with foreign
postmarks may be from HIS hand. He
haunts us as the dead never can. The
woman whose husband died last night may
marry again within lustre of months.
Do you suppose week passes by when the
woman whose husband disappeared myste.
riously ten years ago does not think oi
him2 There are moments when the open
ing Of q door must stsrtle her.
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Shut--y0ur---mouth.

A scientific paper describes the mode
Of ofproducing the spirit photographs which
pass current among credulous spiritualists
for genuine ghosts of the departed 1.-The
plain background screen, before which the
sitter Is placed in order to have his por-
trait taken, is to be painted beforehand
with the form Of the desired spirit" the
paint being composed of some solution Of
sulphate Of quinine. When this painting
dries on the screen, 1t is invisible TO the
eye but II sends out rays that have power
to impress the photo plate aud thus the
image Of the person, together with the
quininc ghosts, are simultaneously deyel.
oped upon the negative"
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Select STORY.
THE MYSTERIOUS WRITING.
A REMARKABLE NARRATIVE.

Mr.. Robert Bruce originally descended
from some branch Of the Scottish family
Of that name, was born in humble circum
stances, about the close of the last century,
in the south of England, and there bred
up to seafaring life.
When about thirty years of age, and in
the year 1928, he was first mate of bark
trading between Liverpool and ST. Johns
New Brunswick.
On one of her voyages, bound westward
being then some five or six weeks out, and
having neared the eastern portion Of the
Banks of Newfoundland, the captain and
mate had been on deck at noon, taking an
observation of the sun after which they
both descended to calculate their days
work. The cabin--a small one--was i'm.
mcdiately at the stern Of the vessel, and
the short stairway descending to it athwart-
ships Immediately opposite to this
stairway, just beyond small square land
ing, was the mates state room, and from
that landing there were two doors, close to
each other, the one opening aft into the
cabin, the other fronting the stairway in
to the state room. The desk in the state
room was in the forward part of it, close
to the door, so that any one sitting at it,
and looking over his shoulder, could see
into the cabin.
The mate, absorbed in his calculations,
which did not result as he expected,
varying considerably from the dead reck-
oning, had not noticed the captains
motions. When he had completed his
calculations, he called out, without looking
round;
81 make our latitude and longitude 50
and so. Can that be right? How ID
yours?"
Receiving no reply, he repeated his
question glancing over his shoulder, and
perceived, as he thought, the captain busy
writing on his slate. Still no answer.
Thereupon he arose, and, as he fronted
the cabin door, the figure he had mistaken
for the captain raised his head and dis
closed to the astonished mate the features
of an entire stranger.
Bruce was no coward, but as he met
that fixed gaze looking directly at him in
grave silence, and became assured that it
was none whom he had ever seen before,
it was too much for him, and instead Of
stopping to question the seeming intruder,
he rushed upon the deck in such evident
alarm that ii instantly attracted the cap
tains attention.
"Why, Mr.. Bruce said he, "what in
the world is the matter with you?"
'"The matter, sir? Who is that at your
desk ?"
"No one that / know Of"
"But there is, sir. There's stranger
there
"a stnngerl Why, man, you must be
dreaming. You must have seen the
steward there, or the second mate. Who
else would venture down without ordersl''
But sir, he was sitting in your arm
chair, fronting the door, writing on your
slate. Then he looked up full in my face,
and If ever | saw man plainly and dis
tinctly in this world, | saw him."
"Him! Whom ?"
'sGod knows, sir;---I don't. | saw 4
man, and man | had never seen in my
life before"
"You must be crazy, Mr.. Bruce. A
stranger, aud we nearly six weeks out p
~ know, sir; but then saw him.
''Go down and see who II is.n
Bruce hesitated.
II never was believer in ghosts he
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remember, says correspondent of the
Medical and .Saryical journal, that, when
] was very young, they used to raise blis-
tes with boiled hammers. Old DR.. Twitch.
ell, Of Kcene, peace to his ashes, es,--once
wanted TO blister some one in a farmhouse,
far from home. He had nothing with him
to do il with. He asked the wife to 6nd
him q hammer. The article was brought
out, put in a tea kettle over ere, and, after
the water steamed and bubbled well. he
lifted il out and gently touched il to his
patient in half dozen spots, over the seat
Of pain, with very positive effect. Boiled
hammers, were, for many yesls, used in
that neighborhood for pleuriizy; aud every
old lady knew nothing was equal to .
hammer; and there was long dispute
whether i should BE- I aclaw-hammer o. not.
Think the yeas finally conquered.
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The Nose.

This prominent organ, although lead
ing feature, yet few Of US care to be led by
it, except in the direction of good dinner
This need not prevent US from pursuing it
as 4 subject, showing wherein the import
ance of the organ is not duly estimated.
As feature Of the face, it more than
any other, changes its character, although
not 50 capable Of expression as the eyes and
mouth. It's ideal beauty varies with DIFF
ferent races. The Africans of Sierra
Leone prize the fat nose, and the Egyp-
tian dotes on the veritable, pure and
unadulterated pug. The Tartar races,
having very small noses, consider them
the very highest type of beauty. The
most beautiful woman in all Tartary was
considered so because she had only two
holes where the nose ought to have been.
There seems to be no universal standard
Of nasal beauty. The Romans adored the
acquiline, the Greek the straight line the
latter, coming nearest our idea Of the
beautiful, is accepted as the standard in
this latitude.
But there are other uses for the nose
beyond its element of beauty or the re.
verse. The sense of smell is popularity
supposed to be the only service it is called
upon to perform-at least, we should
judge so from the number Of open mouths
We meet, sailing along the streets. One
of the main objects Of the nostrils is for
respiratory purposes. There is very little
doubt that air passing through the nostrils
is refined, purified and eliminated Of all
injurious gases, infection and dust, before
being permitted access to the lungs. 1t is
very easy to see how habitual respiration
through the mouth is not only unnatural
but productive of disease, More especially
at night we should accustom ourselves to
sleep with the mouth closed. All the
energies of the system are then at rest,
and its power Of resistance at the lowest
ebb. If the mouth be open, the enemy is
allowed to enter, and we may be sure he
fastens upon the most delicate part of our
organization.
In recent lecture by Prof. Tyndall, he
demonstrates fully the danger of sleeping
with the moRih open, practice unknown
to the lower animals. He says :-"If /
were to endeavor to bequeath the most
important motto which human language
can convey, it should be these words
-your--mouth.
''In the social transactions of life this
might have its beneficial results, as the
most friendly cautionary advice, or be
received as the grosscst of insults; but,
where would print and cngrave it--ia
every nursery and on every bed post in the
universe--its meaning would not be mis-
taken; and, If obcyed, its Importance
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Be not stingy Of kind words aud pleas.
ing acts for such are fiagran. gifts, whose
perfume viii gladden. the heart and sweet,
en- the life Of all who receive them.
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DE WITT, ARK.
The Crops Burnt Up-NOt HalE Crop
Of Cotton Expected ReGiee-
tIOns, Etc.
From an Occasional Correspopdent.1

From an Occasional Correspondent.I
DE WITT, ARK, August 1S.-Suppos-
ing that a crop report might be accept
able to your readers, write this: Our
crops are simply burned up. On the
south side of the river there are no crops
except from q few miles below South
Bend to the Arkansas county line. In the
neighborhoOd of South Bend they have
had pretty fair seasons till about the first
of July, since which time the crops have
suffered very much. On the north side
there is a very poor crop from the
mouth of Bayou Meto to New Gascony.
There are few good crops around New
GascODy, but they are very bad from
there to Wildcat. / know OF one place
that planted six thousand acres of cot.
ton, and the man on it says he will take
fifty bales for the crop. And there are
hundreds more just as bad. Even on
the best crop 1 know of, the cotton to-
day August lSth) is not as good as it
was on the first day of July, from the
fact that it has shed so badly. On the
uplands in Arkansas the only answer
about crops, is, "all burned up" The
grass on the prairie is SO dry that it will
burn if fire is put to it. From all parts
of the country this whole summer have
read such articles as "Gardens all burnt
up;" "Crops of corn and cotton looking
WELL" Now this is all nonsense. II
gardens burn up, so will corn and cot
ton. The Arkansas river will not ship
one-half the cotton that it did last year.
suppose there is no harm now in tell
ing the truth about the crops, as every
one has supplies enough to go through
on, and then black-eyed peas are up and
there are plenty of roasting ears.
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THE MISSOURI TRAGEDY.
Particulars Of tire Murder OF the John
son Family near LexinEiOn-A
Cousin or the aurGered
Nan she Supposed
Murderer.

ST. LOUIS, August 1S.-The Lexing-
ton Register extra, received late to-
night, gives long, rambling, ambigu-
Gus account of the murder of B. b.
johnson and wife at North Lexington,
Sunday night, brief mention of which
was made last night. 1t appears that
johnson had not lived happily with his
wife, aud left for Kentucky some months
ago. He returned suddenly Sunday eve
ming, accompanied by Lorenzo johnson,
a cousin, one riding "a fine horse, aud the
other mule, and stopped at the house
OF Mrs. Lindsay, mother of JOhnson's
wife. About two O'Clock Monday morn
ing, pistol-shot was be ard in the room
occupied by johnson and wife, and on
the family entering, johnson was found
with bullet-hOle in his head and his
skull broken, and his wife's head smash
ed to Jelly with an AK. a letter was
found ON the table, signed by B. H.
Johnson, addressed to Lorenzo johnson,
in which he says that he committed the
deed, and had determined to do so be-
fore leaving Lexington, on account Of
his wife's infidelity. The statement in
the letter is not believed, however, for
the reason that Johnson could not write,
and Lorenzo is thought to be the MUIR
dereT, although there is no proof Of it.
About ten O'Clock Monday morning, a
train from the west came down, and
just as Lorenzo WAS getting aboard. he
was arrested for hOlsG- ,tea ealing. The
horse and mule ridden 10y him and his
cousin proved TO have been stolen at
pFallan, Missouri, and these two men
answered the description of the thieves.
Johnson was taken to Richmond, and
at last accounts, f ars were entertained
that he would be lynched. The verdict
Of the coroner's jury was that Johnson
and his wife were killed by blows of an
ak and pistol-shots, after being chloro-
formed; but Lorenzo Johnson is not
charged with the murder. The affair is
involved in great mystery.
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THE OTHER CASE.
The Villain GlendenniBg -Ante-H0rtem
Statement OF the Unfortunate
Victim Of His Lust.
Another Warning for COnilding and
Trusting WomeR-A Confidence
Game by Reverend
Rascal.

JERSEY CITY, n. J., August 20.-The
excitement in reference to the death of
Miss Mary PomeToy is increasing. Her
04te-nnOF tenn statement that Rev. Mr..
Glendenning is the father Of her child
gains almost universal credence, and he
is bitterly denounced on all sides. Mrs.
Miller, the girls aunt, with whom she
lived, says thai shortly before her death
Miss Pomeroy confided to her and her
husband the following statement:
"One night after found was in trou-
BILE, and after the matter had all been
talked over between Mr.. GlendenniDg
and myself, and he had assured me that
everything would be made right-mean-
ing, as | supposed, that he would marry
me-Mr. GlendenDing came into the
parlOr. / was seated by the door. After
q few pleasant words had passed be-
tween us, he said to me, Mary have you
q pen and INK? l want you to write
something for me. You know what a
scrape l am in, and want you to shield
me, for if this thing goes out | am
ruined man. Then he began to die
tate something for me to write, and |
refused to do it because it was false. He
then drew a revolver from his pocket
and told me must write it. | was very
much frishtened, and all seemed dark
and blank to me. l wrote what he told
me, but what it was | cannot tell, eX-
cept that it was something TO shield him
and set him right before the public and
church. l signed my name to the pa
per, and it is now in his possession.
suppose the paper alluded to is sup
posed to be the evidence upon which
Glendenning mainly relied for his de-
fapEa
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And now comes the New York Graph
IL or Bsecheris seif-sacrificing devotion
=, Reecher's innocence: "Ihe innocent,
cbiI8Iike uucOusciOusness Of Beecher on
Inc subject Of blsekmaI is simply and
Altogether lovely. In his defense he
gvers that he contributed 10 Mr. Til
10, : wants first IN the sum Of two thou
and dollars. ana afterwsrd, five thou
saod dollars; but IL was not until after
~ had disbursed the former sum that
he idea occurred b him Of the opera
ion .savoring Of blackmaiL' II may
seem quite nstursl to the committee that
q nan should pay seven thousand dol
IsTs-mort gAgiDg his house to enable
-, to 40 soto hide the awful secret Of
Lis inbocence, and conceal from the
World 10 his purity and virtue, bur that
is scarcely he way in which the public
viii look upon It. A very weak and
fimid man may submit 10 be black
rnajled even wnen he is innocent, but
that fine old platitudinarlan,' as Cath
sfvles Brother Beecher, Is not weak
md timid man, and no confession oy
MIN. snort OF one avOwing actual gnilti
Gould have q more dRmning effect on
the popular mind"
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bartlett Place
IOFFICIAL.l
CITY COUPONS.
OFFICE, CITY HALL,

MAYORS OFFICE, CITY HALL,
Ul MEMPHIS, Tenn, July, 1874.
Notice is hereby given, in accordance with
the recommendation of the Finance Commit
tee, which has been adopted by the Genera
Council, that sealed proposals for the sale O.
Coupons OF Bonds which have been legally
issued will be received at this office week
instead Of monthly, as heretofore. The pro
posals received viii be opened on Monday D.
each week, at o'clock pm. In purchasinS
preference will be given, for sixty (60) days 20
coupons which have become due prior l.
Jnly, 1914. After the expiration Of sixty days
all VIII be received alike.
The intention. in receiving proposals, Is thai
the Interest Fund, as 1t is collected may De
equitably distributed among all the holder
of city bonds.
No question is raised as to the validity OF
the hoods which were issued prior 10 1865, ana
signed by Mayors Banks, Hickman. Locke
Taylor, Douglass, Carroll, Baugh, and Park
nor is any question raised regarding the
bonds issued direct 10 contractors in pay meng
for paving; nor the bonds known as the Co
Bonds, except those numbered from 2SS to a.
inclusive; nor the first fifty bonds, OF one
thousand dollars each, issued to the Board
Education.
Any party who proposes to sell, whose bldts
not the lowest, may, IL desired, allow the bii
TO remaiu open untilit becomes the lowest.
The city reserves the right to reject anyot
augl JOHN LoAGUE, Mayor.
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THE South Kensington museum Of
London cost the British government
nearly six million dollars, and could be
sold piecemeal for twenty millions. So
saith the London Times. A museum
that would cost the Memphis library as
sociatiou a very trifing sum, and Illus
trating geological, mineral and archeo-
logical facts, should be instituted even
here. IT would soon become invaluable.
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The attorney-general OF Arkansas has
decided that it is the duty of the State
treasurer to obey the convention Ordi-
nanee-the sinking and school funds
with which to run the State govern
meut for the present. The treasurer re-
fuses to obey the ordinance until man.
ddnuSed by the courts, aud a suit is now
pending in Little Rock to that effect.
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forward demonstrate fiat it perishes,
especially where there are no cotton
plants. But there are analogous eases
OF moths and butterflies in the temper
ate zone where they hibern ate and their
ldrUe do not appear until June or July.
Prof. Mann also made fe W remarks,
reciting parallel case in the west.
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rENHE stated communication of DeSoto o
Lodge, No. 29J, will be held thisNAE
FRIDAY evening, August 2lst, at 81"
O'Clock, for dispatch of business.
All NJ. NJ. are fraternally invited.
BY order. BUN. +. PRICE, W. NJ.
4. w, SHELTON, Secretary. auA
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The S.OisS lines Publishes Father Hy-
acinthe's letter rtsigning the cure of
Geneva 1t is as follows: Attached
from the very depths of my heart to
the church in which 1 was bap-
tized, whose reform l wish for, but not
its overthrow; convinced, besides, by
experience now sufficiently heightened,
that the liberal catholicism Of Geneva is
neither liberal in politics nor catholic in
religion, have the honor to tender the
resignation of my functions as cure of
this city,"
A light rain fell at Little Rock yester-