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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-07

within legal hours one new 2s-ton Iocomo-
tive to fit a 4-feet S1a-inch gauge. Sale to take
place at the outside door OF the First Chan
cery Courtroom, on second street, city of Men,
pills, Tennessee.
mill NJ WHITE Racpfvor
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Trustees Sale Of Cigars and Tobacco,

Comprising Parlor Sets new and sec
0nd-hand), in Damask, Broekatelle and
Hair Cloth; Chamber Sets, in Oil, Wal
nut, Rosewood, Oak and Mahogany,
fnll marble; Carpets-Velyet, Brussels,
Ingram, Tapestry new and second
hand1; Mirrors-Pier and Mantle very
elegant; Chandeliers. Also, one Rose
wood Octave Piano Forte; Sideboards,
Extension Tables, DiningrOom Chairs,
Mattresses, Bed and Table Linens, Cur
tains, Shades, Glass, Queens and Silver
ware, etc., all frst-class goods-family
declining housekeeping.
19 TERMS CASH. .Da
A. 4. FRAEKLAED, AuctfOneer
SO SOods open for inspection on Mon.
day 41ornfng=6
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THE SHELBY COMMITTEE.
Meeting Yesterday, and Appointment of
an Executive Committee.

MEMPHIS, Tenn, April 6, 1874.
Pursuant to notice a meeting of the
members of the Shelby county execu-
tive committee was held at twelve
O'Clock this day at the Office of Hon.
Hosea Townsend. The following mem
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
New Bridal Dresses.

CREAMY white and pearl white failles
are both shown for wedding dresses, but
the preference is for the former The
prices range from "a to $40 yard. The
first quality is handsome enough for any
lady, and the finest is of remarkable
beauty-thick, heavily repped, yet plia-
BILE and soft; indeed, it is no longer a
commentator that silk is stiff enough
to stand alone. White satins are shown
in various qualities, costing from 50 so to
$40 yard.
Trains of new wedding dresses measure
from sixty to seventy inches in length,
which is longer than those of ordinary
evening dresses. The new and appro-
pirate fashion is to adjust this train in q
wide quadruple pleat from the belt down,
as this smooth-flowing fold is far prettier
under a veil than any bunched-up over
skirt or pouf train. Three breadths of
silk form this train, and the pleat IS held
in position by tapes underneath, until
near the bottom, where it spreads out
like fan. There is no hounce, of
course, on these back breadths. A deep
side pleating is across the foot of the
front and side cores, and above this is a
square tablier, formed by three bias
bands of silk piped on each side, and
edged below by tulle pleating. These
cross the front breadths and extend up
the side cores to the belt, producing a
very pretty effect. Clusters of orange
flowers are down the middle of this
tablier, and also down the tulle jabot that
trims the box-pleat behind. The basque
is a long, smooth cuirass with pointed
neck and antique sleeves, trimmed with
abundant ruches of tulle around neck
and elbows, with merely piped band on
the edge of the basque. Little shell
bows of silk fasten the front, and one is
placed on the back of the waist and or
each elbow.
Another stately wedding dress is part
ly of white gros grain and partly satin
The front or petticoat is of white satin
trimmed with two five-inch pleatings
tapping, a puff, and a standing ruffie two
and a half inches wide. Over this is 9
train of white corded silk seventy inche.
long behind, with the sides cut three diff
ferent lengths, forming a square from
and deeper square corners on the sides
Two large bows are down the front. The
basque has position back with a smooth
cuirass front. The bridesmaids dresse.
accompanying this are of checked Cham
berry gauZe over white silk.-Ha1per',
RI-1,.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
Another Mind-Keader.

Ii all reports are true, J. X. Brown,
the mind-reader, has formidable rival
in the field Frank l.. Cory, of Gales
burg, Kalamazoo County, gave public
exhibition of his skill in that art at Ypsi-
lanti the other evening, and a gentleman
who was present gives us the following
account of the strange things he saw
there: He says that Profs. Estabrook
and Bellows, of the Normal School, and
DIR. Owen acted as the examining com
mittee, and that every precaution was
taken to guard against deception or col
fusion, while the tests were as difficult
as il was possible 70 make them. Hav-
ing blindfoIded Mr.. Cory, Il well-known
merchant in the audience passed down
two flights of stairs, passed halfway
round the building, rctraced his steps
and, passing around in the opposite di-
rection, vert to his store, square or
more distant, placed his false teeth in
the safe, replaced them in his mouth and,
returning to the hall, reported that he
had secretcd an article unobserved by
ANYBODY, and asked the mind reader to
lead the way to il. Without hesitation
Mr. Cory grasped the merchants wrist
and started on rapid trot out of the
hall, down the stairway, followed by the
committee, first round the building in
one direction, then in the other, and then
to The store, anu gong dlfectiy 10 the
drawer of the safe where the teeth had
been few minutes before and finding
il empty. passed his hand slowly up the
merchants arm to his face, with the re-
mark, "The article is in your mouth,
sir"
A different and even more difficult test
was this: A gentleman stated that, be-
fore leaving his home that evening, he
had written four words upon "A piece of
paper, and then hidden the paper, with a
view to having Mr.. Cory first tell what
the words were, and then find the paper.
The blindfolded revealer of secrets, TAX
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
ing the questions in one hand, and with

ing the questions in one hand, and with
the other pointing 10 a large cardboard
containing an alphabet, deliberately
spelled out four words, then, stepping
across the room, took from an inside
pocket of an ovcrcoat which hung across
a chair n glove, from one of the fingers
of which he drew out small slip of pa
per. This he handed to the committee,
and, to their astonishment, they found
written upon it the four words just
spelled out from the cardboard. The
| uuestioner said those were the words he
| had written. and he had concealed the
paper in that place, and he was as much
mystified as anybody at the result of
his experiment.
| Several tests similar to those applied
to Mr.. Brown were made, and, as our
| informant AYERS, without single failure
| in the course of the evening. Being re-
quested to tell Prof. Estabrooks age, he
did SO, though there was probably not
another person in the audience, except
the professor himself, who knew what
his age was. Prof. Bellows, fixing his
attention upon certain pupil OF the
Normal School, asked the mind-reader'o
spell out the name, which our infor.iant
thinks was f. A. Reade. Mr. CORY
spelled the name, and, some Or op St
ing that it was spelled inco,iectly, Irui.
Bellows explained that he nau nehiaiiy
added final Sc" wit n u1d not peionS
there in order to Sc, whether the mlnu-
reader would syeh IL !ne saint way
! Again one of ne committee went out
into tho StrcSt with Mr.. Cory, and dur
;nsr ,bo;r .Dsence another member OF the
coIn,.tee collected a number of ladies
| 1lo-es and laid them in row along the
2ont of the stage When Mr.. Cory re-
turned he first led Prof. Bellows to the
gentleman who collected the gloves, then
l l,<,1 nI thn loft off I,p lad and
| ended the round by leading the lady to
| the stage and placing his hand upon the
| only glove in the whole row which be-
longing to her.
Such is the substance of the almost
| incredible story, which we give as we
got it, without addition, alteration, or
comment. Mr.. Cory is, we believe, a
mechanic, about twenty-five years of
| age, having only a commOn-schoOl edu-
cation and fair fund of general infor-
nation. He has dark hair and eyes, and
inclines to the nervous temperament,
but is not specially remarkable in his
personal appearance. He has for several
years or SO been aware of a peculiar
power in reading the thoughts of those
| with whom he came in contact, but he
had not given the matter serious thought
or even a name until the exploits of Mr..
Brown stirred him up to try the same ex-
periments, and it seems with even better
success. He offers no explanation OF
this sixth sense, or whatever it may be
| called, but leaves that for the scientists
to investigate. He is content to remain,
for the present at least, psychological
phenomenon, or unguessed riddle. He
is now visiting relatives in Detroit, and
it is to be hoped that an opportunity may
soon be offered for further testing his
wonderful powers.-DetrOH Post.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
Phenomena of Vegetation.
A RECENT number of the Calaveras
(CalD Chronicle saws:

A RECENT number of the Calaveras
(Cal.) Chronicle says:
An instance of the effect of neat upon fruit
trees, exemplificd by the recent great fire here.
has been brought to our notice. The orchard OF
Judge Leayitt, situated in the suburbs of Moke-
lumne Hill. subjected to n considerable de
gree of heat during the progress of the conflagra
ton. Some of the trees were killed while others
were scorched just enough to partly wiiher the
leaves. Shortly after the fire the trees but slight
ly burned put the emerald livery Of spring,
blossomcd. and bearing = thrifty a
growth of young apples we ever
For this and similar phenomena of
trees blossoming and fruiting out of their
season the botanist has very simple ex-
PLANTATION. Most perennial plants finish
their annual growth early in the summer,
and then direct their forces to the pro-
duction of buds for the growth of the
ensuing season. These buds contain all
the leaves and blossoms and lengths of
stem which are to form the new shoots
of the next year; while the branches
upon which they rest are filled with
nourishment for their supply during their
rapid expansion Through the winter
these buds remain dormant; but when
the warm breath of spring calls them to
life they have nothing to do but unfold
and expand their leaves and blossoms
and extend their joints of stem-feed-
ing meanwhile upon the ample store of
nutriment lying at their base. Thus it
happens that with magical quickness the
naked bOughs of shrubs and trees are
| covered with foliage and flowers in the
first warm days of spring. Like Il thrifty
housewife, Nature has everything pre-
| pared beforehand and she has only to
kindle her fires and warm the sap in the
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
Ou sick Leave.

TIE le,nng tragedian at our little
tbeater "a New Castle is named Ham,
NOR pad he has gone away now on sick
lesre. They produced week or two
go IA play entitled 1.-THE Demon of the
Hartz," and Mr. Hammer assumed the
character of the Demon. The young
man upon whom devolved the duty of
opening and shutting the traps was also
instructed to flash crimson flames up
through the hole at intervals for the
purpose of creating the impression that
the internal regions were located imme-
diately beneath the stage and were in a
condition of terrific and perpetual COM
bustion. He was somewhat ineXperi-
enced, but he seemed to plunge along
well enough for awhile. In the third
act Mr. Hammer, the Demon aforesaid,
had to go down the trap, and his purpose
was to descend to eternal August with a
sardonic laugh and fiendish smile upon
his forbidding countenance. The young
man below concluded that if there ever
was a time when a display of diabolical
fireworks would be appropriate it was
when the head-demon was coming home
after hard days work; SO when Mr.
Hammer was about halfway down and
was laughing his very sardonickest the
pyrotechnical person let off half a bar
relful of red fire, in which the homeward
bound spirit of evil was entirely envel
oped. The rest of the way he went
down suddenly and then they laid hin
under the fire-plug while the water
played upon him. As soon as he was ex
tinguished he rose up and sought the
firefiend and at the conclusion of the
encounter the latter was carried arount
to DIR. Jones Office on o stretcher by tht
carpenter and tine low comedian. Mr.
Hammer then went home to see what hi:
wife would think of him without eye
brows or hair, and then he returned t.
the country for few weeks until they
grew in again. "The Demon of thu
Hartz" has been permanently withdrawn
| -Wnr 1defer in DdnlJuTu Mems.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
FARM AND HOUSEHOLD.

Castor Oil for Corns.-Thc Southern
Medical Journal says that castor oil APP
piled to the corn, after pairing closely
each night before going to bed sOftens
the corn and it becomes AS the other
flesh.
Hair Dressing-A nice dressing fOI
the hair is said, by a correspondent OF
the Christian Monitor, to be cold tea
She uses it twice a day, and insures a
fine growth of beautiful, luxuriant ana
healthy hair, with less trouble, no
danger of injury to scalp or b.r, no eX,
pense, and in less time tho any OF all
of the quack mixtures which are SO
loudly and persistentI recommended
TO remove flyspecks from paintings
without ,niurinc dip soft rag in finely
noydered and we'll Spanish white
and rub tho surface of the canvas gently
with If cnis will remove the smoke, dust
and ease. Then wash the surface with
hariiy tepid, clean water by means of a
oft sponge, and rub the surface dry by
means of piece of soft chamois leather
The colors appear as fresh as when the
painting was new.
Care of Canaries.-Occasion place
in the water a small piece of the extract
of licorice and put between the. wires al
one end of the center perch piece of
white sugar. The seed boxes should
contain sufficient seed for the day. A
mixture of canary, rape and henpsesG
is usually given, but hemp seed is toe
fattening. We have always found canary
and rape the best food, with occasionally
little German millet added.-Westerh
Rural.
administration Cake.-Five cups OF
flour, six eggs, two cups of butter, two
cups of sugar, one cup of molasses, one
pound of raisins, two and one-halt
pounds of currants, onc-half pound OF
citron, one and one-half teaspoOnfuls OF
soda, Glove, nutmeg, one glass of milk
Beat the eggs very light. Dissolve tho
soda in the milk. Stone the raisiAs ant
rub them and the currants in little OF
the flour before adding them to the cake
Cut the citron In small pieces. Crate
the nutmeg. Rub the butter and sugar
to cream. Add the eggs, milk will
soda, molasses, -four, spices, and, lastly
the fruit
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

veins of vegetation to set it circulating,
and the machinery of growth into active
operation.
But all these buds, these embryo
branches, do not start into life. AS, in
the animal world, there is provision
made bv every species for more off
spring than can find means of subsistence,
so there are more buds created every
season than the plants bearing them
! could possibly sustain. Many of them,
therefore, remain dormant, and often
survive in a latent state for years. On
the principle of the " survival of the fit
test the strongest buds push ahead and
get their growth the first season. The
weaker ones may enter into struggle
for active existence and get worsted in
the strife-perish for lack of the light
| and nourishment monopolized by their
more sturdy fellows. But the greater
portion do not even make start but
continue for an indefinite time in a la
| tent condition.
Now if, by any calamity, such as a
| frost or fire, the shoots that obtained
| the advantage in the spring, and Sc
cured their growth, are cut off, these
| latent buds quicken into life and swiftly
| supply with leaves and stems the place
of the branches that were killed. They
have been ready, no one knows how
| long, 10 come iortn at the requisite mo-
\ ment; and this occurs when, by any ac-
cident, the parent plant has, in the grow
/ ing season. been despoiled of its foliage
and needs a renewal of the crop in order
to carry on its operations. This cxpla-
nation accounts for the appearance of a
second growth of leaves and flowers on
a plant in single season. We often
read of fruit trees putting forth blossoms
in late autumn, after their Old leaves
have been dropped. 1t is no marvel
| The unusual heat of the season has slim
| ulated the tree to renewed action, and
some of the buds which were provided
for the growth of the ensuing spring
have prematurely cNpanded.-Chicogc
| Tribune
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
When the train reached Columbia the

When the train reached Columbia the
boys, nearly suffocated, waited lmpa-
tiently for the car to be opened. They
could feel that it was being uncoupled
from the train and switched off on a
side-track; but they listened in vain for
the sound of IA key in the lock. No
body came near They kicked at the
no one seemed to hear them. Henry
tainted, and his brother, fearing that he
might die, with all his remaining strength
kicked at the door and cried for help.
Fortunately about this time IA Waterman
at the depot, hearing the boys voice, sum-
moned the station agent, and he opened
the door and look the boys out
Henry recovered on being brought into
the open air. n crowd of little raga-
mullins had collested around the Living
stones ms soon as their story was told
Indians and the buffalo and the plains
piled them with questions and rewarded
them with a plentiful supply of food.
The youthful travellers were the guests
of the little Arabs for three days and
then went to Philadelphia. They reached
| New York last Monday night, and an
officer finding them wandering homeless:
in the streets took them to the Franklin
Street Police Station. There they were
kept until morning. On leaving the sta
ton they got separated in a crowd and
| lost each other.
/ Fred. wandered about the city all day
in search of his "little brother" as he
calls him, and was inconsolable. At the
Grand Central Depot he told his story tc
| Policeman John II. Kershaw, kind
hearted man, who not only went to the
Central Police Office to help him find his
brother, but at his own expense had tn
d i - 4 I'll
and took him under his protection ne
clerks in the Central Police Ofce also
took much interest in the l;:'Ie leiio"
and not a few dimes found .heir way INTO
his pockets. Fred. thiB,,s that ms Droth-
| er has gone to White'ail--N. I. sun.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
THE LATEST TRIUMPH OF TEMPERANCE

HE LATEST TRIUMPH OF TEMPERANCE.
We congratulate the temperance
world ON the success everywhere attend
ing the use OF VINEGAR BTTTERs. Ger
lainly no preparation containing alcohol
has accomplished such cures of mala-
rIous fever, bIliousness, dyspepsia, rheu-
matlsm, lung complaints, constipation,
and general debility as VIC hear of from all
quarters as the results of this famous
vegetable specific. No true philanthro-
pIst will regret to see spirituous liquors
expelled from medical use if they can
be safely dispensed with; and that they
are not necessary in any case of sickness,
whatever ITS character, appears at last to
have been demonstrated. If public
opinion Is capable of making any inn
PRECISION upon the minds of the Faculty
they Will cIc long introduce the most
popular of modern medicines into the
hospitals, and prescribe it in their prac-
nee The millions have given the article
4 fair trial, it has more than answered
their expectations, and no theoretical OPP
position can shake their faith in it. Ii
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

THE huge, drastic, gripping, sickening pills,
constructed of crude, coarse and bulky in
gradients, are fast being superseded by DIR.
Pierce's Pleasant Purgative Pellets, or Sugar
Coated Concentrated Root and Herbal Juice
Anti-Bilous Granules-,he Little Giant
Cathartic or .Mul;um n Pnyo Physic. Mod
ern Chemical Science enables DIR. Pierce to
extract from the juices of the most valuable
roots and herbs their active medicinal prin-
ciples, which, when worked into little Pellets
or Granules, scarcely larger than mustard seed,
render each little Pellet as active and power
full as large pill, while they are much more
palatable and pleasant in effect.
DIR. IRA A. THAYER, of Baconsburg, Ohio,
writes: :" l regard your Pellets the best
remedy for the conditions for which YOU pre-
scribe them of anything l have ever used, so
mild and certain in effect, and leaving the
bowels in an excellent condition. 1t seems to
me they must take the place of all other Gu
thartc pills and medicines"
LYON Il MACoMBER, druggists, Fcrmillion,
ID. r., say: 1--WE think they are going to sell
like hot cakes as soon as people get ac-
quainted with them, and will spoil the pill
trade, as those that have used them like them
much better than large pills"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

THIS notice is addressed to ladies only. If
you want to make your husband, father or
brother "A handsome Christmas present, give
him carton of Elmwood Collars. You can
get them at any gents furnishing store. Be
sure to get the Elmwood, because 1t looks ana
hts better than any other.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26
Newspapers, Silver and China Given
Away for Christmas.

The Excelsior Magazine is giving away
newspapers free for one year to their sub
scribers, and in some instances papers with
their chromos framed. Every subscriber who
orders through said magazine a sewing ma
chine will receive gifts Of gold or best triple
plate silver tea service, etc, or china dinner
set of IGl pieces. Send twenty-five cents for
sample copy of magazine, or inclose stamp
FOR circular. Agents can make enough on
this before Christmas to keep them for one
wear. Office 50, No. 151 La Sale street, Chi
caro-. Ill.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

SAFE, PERMANENT AND CoMPLETE.-Wil-
hoft's Tonic cures Chills and Fever, Dumb
Chills and Bilious Fevers-those Titans that
kill their thousands where this remedy is un-
known 1t cures Enlargement of the Spleen.
1t cures Hypertrophy Of the Liver. 1t hurts
no one 1t cures all types of Malarial Fevers
and is perfectly protective in all its effects.
Try Wilhoft's Tonic, the great infallible Chill
Cure. WHEELoCK, FINLAY " Co, Proprie-
tors, New Orleans.
EnR SALE BY ALL DRUGGISTS.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

ANNA s. GETsINGER, Of Honcsdale, Pa,
writes the following: after suffering for
nearly two years from neuralgia in the breast,
passing up into the throat, face and head, l
was entirely cured and restored to health by
using DIR. l.. Q. c. Wisharts Pine Tree Tar
Cordial"
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

A pRoTRuDING toe is not a slightly thing,
saw nothing about health and comfort. Sill
YER TIPPED Shoes never wear ont a the
toe. For sale by all dealers
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

A DULUTH woman broke her arm the
other day while washing dishes, and we.
there are women who will turn up their
noses ut this awful warning
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

WE yesterday met Capt. Bob, who was
in fearful state of excitement. Great
rings of white were visible around his
coal-black eyes and his pomatum- stiff
ened scalp-lock was agitated as is the
aspen in the breeze. He said there had
been a terrible fight between two young
Piute braves at Il camp in the eastern
suburbs of the city. According to Capt.
Bob, as we understood his story, the two
braves got down on all-fours on two lit
tie hillOcks about twenty yards apart and
then ran at each other, meeting and but
ting heads in the hollow between the
two ridges. AT the third round they tel
escoped, and in order to separate them
it was found necessary to cut off the
heads of both men. We may not have
caught the exact meaning Of all that Boil
said about the fight, but in substance il
was about as related above. -Nerddd
Paper.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

INCENDIARIsM prevails to an unusual
extent in the country just now. Our in
surance companies are moving for the
protection of their interests.
American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1874-12-26

DYBAII's finest candies mailed free To all
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