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TN pursuance OF the terms Of a trust deed
Il executed 70 me BY J. Il. Burlington and y.
A. Burlington, on tie 18th day OF March, lsst-
which deed is Of record in the Recorders once
OF Mississippi county, Arkansas 10 secure the
payment OF certain notes in said deed men
TONED, will. on Thursday, January a.
1870, between the hours CT ID o'clock
am and O'Clock pm, in front q
the Clerks ONCE Of the Circuit Court
OF Mississippi county, Arkansas, in tbs
town OF OsceOla, sell Tor cash, the following
real estate, situated and lying In Mississi PA
county, Arkansas: Being the southwest quar-
ter OF section thirty 1901, in township Thrice
tl3l, range eleven Llll east; the south hal1 q
section twenty Ave 70, and the south half q
section twenty-six l15l and the southwest
quarter Of section thirty-fOur "a !, all in town.
snip tl1Itsen ll5ls range ten ~ east, cOntalh-
ing in all nine hundred and two acres, az j
known as the WhitulOre place. About -
acres cleared and under cultivation, with
Also, the following real estate: The north
ship thirteen IlSl, range ten LlOl east; AMI
northeast Quarter Of section thirtv-six I5G1. 4
township thirteen Il3l, range ten ll0i east;
also the southwest quarter Of section three
[Sl, in township twelve tl2l, range ten tl0i east
also, the northwest fractional quarter Of sec
ton thirty-One 1911, township thirteen ll3Ll
range eleven ~ east-said last described land
known as the Fain plantation containing
about 500 acres OF land and about 80 acres
under cultivation
The title to said property believed 70 oe pef-
feet, bat 7 sell aud convey as trustee only
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zee LENGTH 0F sERMONs.

After the reforms ton, long sermons
came into fashion. The MEDIEVAL ana
pre-reformation divines contented them
selves with a homily varying from ten
to thirty minutes in length; but the
Hugenauts, Wilderness, Puritans, Cove
nanters, Independents and other pro-
testing bodies, cOnceiving 1t their duty
to assert and maintain those relating TO
doctrine aud discipline, made their ser
mons argumentative, and sometimes
spun out the argument TO an inordinate
length. The hour glass literally CORE
sponded with its name, for 1t ran one
hour before the sand had all passed
through, and the preacher claimed his
full sixty minutes. Sometimes he
was provided with half-hour
glass, when a shorter sermon was
to be preached. It was about the mid
die OF the seventeenth century, when
the Puritan sermon occasionally reached
the enormous length OF two hours that
the hour-glass limit was applied. Many
pulpits were furnished with iron stands
Tor the reception Of the hOur-glass. One
such is still existing at Compton Bassett
church, Willis, with feOT-de-Iis handle
for turning the glass when the sand bad
run out. Another at Aurst, IN Berk-
shire, has a faneiful wrought iron frame,
with foliage OF oak and ivy, and an
inscription, "As this glass runneth,
SO mans life passeth." At Gift, in
Kent, is stand for an hour-giass Oh
a bracket affixed to the pulpit. The
parish accounts of st. Catharine Aid
gate contain an old entry; "Paid for an
hour-glass that hsngeth by the pulpit
where the preacher doth make Il sermon,
that lac may know how the hour pssseth,
one shilling and another relates To y
bequest Of Can hour-glass, with frame
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John Hay an Loios Leaves
Liberty.


whitman IS there so hol5 that he should say,
HThus and thus only would ] have the sea-
For whether ~ ing calm and beautiful
ClRsping the earth IN love ard throwing BACK
The smile OF heaven from waves OF ametbysti
or whether, freshened by the busy winds,
It bears the trade and nHvies OF the world
To ends OF use and stern activity;
Orwhether, dashed by tempests, u gives way
To elemental fury, hOwls and roArs
At all the rocky barriers, In wild lust
or ruin drinks The blood OF living things
And strews its wrecks DER leagues OF desOlate
shore;
Always 10 is the sea, and all bow down
Before its vast and varied majesty.
And so in vain viii timorous men essay
To set the metes and bounds of Liberty.
For freedom is its own eternal law;
IL makes its own conditions, and III Storm
or calm alike fulfils its unerriBg VIII.
Let us not then despise IL when IL lies
still as a sleeping lion, while a swarm
OF gnat-li ke evils hover round It's head;
Nor doubt when in mad, disJointed times
10 shakes the torch OF terror, and It's cry
Shrills DER the quaking earth, and in tho
fame
Of,rioi and war we see its awful form
Rise by the scafiold, where the crimson ak
Rings down its grooves the knell Of shudder-
ing kings;
For always IN thine eye, o Liberty
Shines that high light whereby the world is
saved;
And, though thou slay US, we wiz trust in
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INDUSTRIOUS ITALY.

Charles Warren StOddard writes to the
Gan Francisco Chronicle. cit has be-
come custom TO speak Of Italians as
lazy or 'shiftless, and to apply 10 them
several other unpleasant epithets; am
afraid l have INDUCED in this perniC ious
habit myself, and here, before it is too
late, wish TO do what l can to rectify
the error. Probably in nocOuntry in the
world are the people more universally
industrious. Begging, the most disa-
greeable feature of their civilization, is
also the most obtTusiVe, yet there may
be some excuse for this. Begging is a
kind OF industry; the vast multitude OF
lame, halt, and blind in italy cannot
work; the people are FOX the most part
miseTably poor; where nearly every
able-bodied man, woman and Child Is
employed in some sort Of industry, there
Is nothing LEFT for some OF the willing
hands 20 do in Naples, the city Of the
lu--0TOHi, vino are the embodiment OF
all that is provOkingly amiable and
hOpelessly indolent, nearly every wo-
man one meets OF the poorer class is
either spinning with an antique, primi-
tive distaf, OF knitting, or busying her
self about something; the men are of at
work; even the children are occupied in
some way. have seen a yOungster Of
six years running at the heels Of a dom
key nearly as small as his driver, and
beating the beast with an enthusiasm
worthy OF q better cause, while his
little brother, three or four years his
senior, shrieked at the top OF his lungs q
catalogue OF the wares these little itin-
Grant merchants had to sell. There was
lately a work of excavation going on in
the neighbOrhO0d OF my hotel al Naples,
and the whole work was done by COM
pany of ten or dozen boys, the eldest
of whom could not have been more
than sixteen years of age. All along
the road TO Castellamare women are in
the field doing mems work; women hoe
the potatoes and reap the grain with
sickles; women draw water from the
shallow wells with their buckets hooked
to Old-fashioned cranes. / have seen
them at work by the hour dipping water
and pouring it into the trenches that
feed the cutters in their gardens. This
seems to be the only method Of irriga-
ton known to them, and it is very slow
and fatiguing work. In all the facto-
ries you find a large proportion of young
boys. The little girls knit, string beads,
sell flowers and bundles of grass for
fodder; and one might almost say with
truth that the Italians are the most in
dustrious people in the world. II the
children have been denied a school
ing in books, they have all learned how
to make themselves useful, and are,
therefore, comparatively Independent at
the age OF twelve.
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to stand on.p One preacher had ex-
hRusted his sand-glass, turned It, and
gone through three-fourths of another
running. The congregation had nearly
all retired, and the clerk, tired out, aud.
IDLY asked his reverend superior to lock
up the church and put the key under the
door when the sermon was done, as he
(the clerk and the few remaining audi
tors were going away. Hugh Peters,
after preaching an hour, turned his
hour-glass and said: 81 know you are
good fellows; 50 let's have another
glass; Daniel Burgess, an eloquent
NonconfOrmist divine ia the early part
of the last century, let his hour-glsss run
out while preaching vehemently against
the sin OF drunkenness. He reversed It,
snd exclaimed, Brethren, Ihsvesonae-
thing more to say on the nature and
consequence of drunkenness, so let's
have another glass, and thenn-which
was a regular toper's phrase. A rector
OF Billbury used to preach two hours
with two turns Of the glass; after the
giving out Of the text the squire of the
parish withdrew, smoked his pipe and
returned to the blessing.-AH ne Year
Found
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JIM BARNDOIIAR's SHIRTS.

Coneeville tkansas) Courier.I
The boys tell good one on Jim Barn.
dollar, of the Usage agency. 1t seems
he had sent his washing to a full-blood
Usage squRw, who was 10 have it done
and bring it home on Saturday night.
The squaw failed to fulfil the contract,
however, and on Sunday Jim had to go
to church with the same shirt he had on
during the week. In the meantime he
had sent word to'his washerWoman to
"bring them shirts.n He had Just got
comfortably seated in the church, and
the grave minister had opened up in
thunder tones on sinners generally,
when in stepped q big Usage Indian
with package under his blanket, who
began making all kinds of uninteIligi-
bic signs to our friend. Jim appeared
to take no notice of his presence, how
ever, until by his audible whispers and
frantic gesticulations the Indian had
attracted the attention OF the entire
congregation, and fairly Mortified our
hero by drawing forth a shirt with a
stunniDgly clean front, several pairs of
socks, and other things that go 10 COM
plete fashionable young mans ward
robe. This was too much for him, and
he Immediately arose, and reckoning
the persistent laundry clerk out, he
then and there exhausted both the
English and Usage vocabulary. of
epithets, after which he took charge of
the clothes, and told the dusky warrior
to 90 his way. Profaue language is
prohibited at the agency, but it is said
that Jim made good use Of all the en-
phatic religious adjectives that came
within his 0rasp
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worth and future standing, aud with
such a training as will make them TIE
happy and useful heads of pleassnf
households. Woman Is the natural Gem
Ter oil All sot'iA virtues, aud ia her 81.
mlospaere they grow best. AS woman
MS nsf plsce and performs her duty,
ere WIN be the good or the evil genius
(, ~ society The good work which might
oe accomplished by The wealthy ip pro-
Nolng Innocent and elevatinR anuse-
I "a Tor the poorer classes was spoken
VI ana the province o. education in art
ano music eI9quentlv exnlained.
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Employees of the Panhandle railroad
company have been digging a well at
the edge Of Alum creek for water sup
ply at the new Toundhouse. Twenty
feet below the surface of the water the
workmen found the skeleton of an
animal the like Of which is not to be
found. Not knowing the value of this
remnant of antiquity, the laborers beat
the main body OF this skeleton to pieces
but an apereciative gentleman came
along in time to save the bones Of the
head, which are in an excellent state of
preservation, and not torn apart. Many
Of the teeth are still in their places,
though loose. The skeleton was found
after digging through six feet of yellow
clay and two feet of blue clay. The blue
clay was deposited in the glacial and
iceberg periods, and scientific gentlemen
mode5tly estimate the age of the skeleton
at fifty thousand years or more. The
head is now in Secretary Klippart's
office. The bones Of the nose indicate
that il belonged to roofing family, and
it is assigned to the hog family, although
it is different from the heads Of the
porkers of this age Of the world. Colltna-
bus Ohio Dispatch.
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ClAancery sale
OF
3 EAL z STATE.

No. Il2l, R.-First Chancery Court Of Shelby
countys-W. &. Mcclure, receiver, ETC., vs..
Mary A. SehoOnoyer, ct al.
DY virtue Of an interioCutory decree Tor
ID sale, entered in the above cause On the
25th day Of October, 1874, will sell, at public
auction, TO The highest bidder, in 'front.' Of
the new courthouse building, Main street,
Memphis, Tennessee, on
saturday, December -, 1874,
within legal hours, the following desert bed
property, Situated in Memphis, Shelby eoun-
Fisk lot Of land on the north side of
Beale street, and east Of Pesoto street, begin
ming at a stake on the east line Of q lot con-
veyed 20 Joseph SehoonOver by one Jacob
SpiVey, and running thence north with said
Schoonovers east line l6O feet to a Stake;
thence west and parallel with Beale street 80
feet to stake; thence south and parallel
with east line before mentioned 100 feet 70 a
stake on Beale street; thence east on north
line Of Beale street 50 feet to the beginning.
Second-A lot Of land on the north side Of
Beale street, bounded as follows: Beginning
at a stake On the north side of Beale street lO5
feet east of its intersection with the east side
Of Desoto street, running thence east with
Beale street 4ll{ feet to a stake; thence north
wardIy 2i4 feet; thence west parallel with
Beale street IS feet; thence south parallel with
Desoto streets ~ feel; thence west parallel with
Beale street ls15 feet to a stake; thence south
parallel With Desoto street l9 feet TO the be-
ginning.
the west side of Chester street, between HUI
ling ana Irrelevant streets, and running back
TO the river.
FOurth--A part of lot 35j being . feet on
south side OF Madison street, by IS feet deep,
bounded on the north by Madison street, on
the east by lot of DIT. A. p. Merrill, and on the
west and south by lots of q. W. Lincoln. On
this lot there is three-stOry house.
Terms Of Sale-Ou g credit Of and y
months; notes with approved security re-
quired; lien retained 70 further secure same.
Equity OF redemption barred.
This November II, 1874.
e. A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
BY r. J. BLACK, ID. Q. and 81.
Mcdowell Il Johnston and Collier & Hous-
ton. attorneys nOylS
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The coachmen in Bordeaux, France,
have for some time past been in the hab-
it Of giving horses in their charge chlO-
rails so as to make them easier to ride or
drive. The drug acted like a charm, for
horses which had previously been so
spirited as to give much trouble to their
drivers became as quiet as lambs after q
few days of this treatment. This great
change naturally attracted the attention
of the owners of the animals, and they
sent for the veterinary surgeon to ascer-
tain the cause Of this sudden gentleness.
That functionary noticed sudden ten
dency to sleep in the animals, but
scarcely knew to what to refer this I'M
natural condition, when in one Of his
visits he CHANGED to And a bottle half
full of chloral. When he questioned the
delinquent coachmAn as to the use he
made Of the drug, the latter, after much
hesitation, owned that, following the
advice of brother whip, he gave his
horses dose of chloral every morning
to make them go quietly, and further,
that many of the fraternity in Bordeaux
followed the same plan.
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Trustees Sale
Valuable Property s. ". Corner Of Main
and Exchange Streets.

ON THURSDAY, BECEMBER 10. 1874,
at IL O'Clock am, on the s. W. corner OF
Madison and Main streets, Memphis, VIII
sell, TO the highest bidder for cash, the follow
inches front on west line Of Main street, and
extending westward along the line Of aud
parallel with Exchange street at right-angles
from the front IaS1S feet to Exchange alley,
and being the same property sold to Thomas
Dugan BY 5. NJ. Nelson, L. Y. Frazer, and the
executors OF Z. Titus deceased, by deed bear
ing date 18th May, Is72, and conveyed to me.
as trustee, by deed from Thomas Dugan. to Sc
cure certain Indebtedness therein specified
this sale being made TO carry out the pro-
visions Of said deed IN trust, whichis recorded
in the Registers Office OF Shelby county, on
the 10th day of May, IS72, in book 81, page SUI
etc. Right OF redemption waived, ana title
believed 10 be good, but I sell and convey
only as trustee.
novIO JOHN P. IRRELEVANT, Trustee.
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Thursaar, sIst par Of pee,mber. -.

between the hours Of 6 am. and 8 oclocE
pm, the following desert bed real and per
sonal property mentioned in the said deed Or
80 much thereof as may be Necessary 20 sat-
isfy said trust, to-wit; The said real estate
being known ~ the civilians Old Town
Island plantation" and being described on
the plats Of the public sIirv6 5 as ali OF section
tWenty-seVen 70, containing SIX hundred and
forty (640i acres; the east hall OF section TWEEN
ty-eight (Zs), containing three hundred and
twenty-three Ci2{} acres; the east half OF sec
ton thtrty-three 81, containing three hun
dred and twenty GID acres; the fractional
part Of section twenty-one (Zll, containing
thirty facresi the fractional part Of section
twenty-five (2Z1, containing twenty-five ~
acres; the northwest quarter Of section thirty -
four 49,. containing one hundred and Sky
tl6D) acres and the northeast quarter o. tbs
southeast quarter OF section thirty-fOur o.
containing forty (i0) acres-al IL township
three 81, south Of range three fll, east OF tbs
fifth principal meridian, in said county o.
Phillips, State Of Arkansas, and c0utaiutn--,
together, one thousand five hundred and
thirty-five (l5j5) acres; together with all tls
i'm proVements thereon, and all the rights,
privileges and franchises thereto belonging
Also, the following personal property: Twelve
head Of mules on said plantation, on said st1
day Of April, 1873; and all OF the equal hale
interest OF said Williams in the crop Of
cotton, core, ETC., cultivated on said plauta-
ton during the year 1873.
The right OF redemption Is waived a. TO said
property, and the title supposed 20 be peTfec-s
but I sell and convey only as trustee.
uoB NAPOLEON HILL. Trustee.
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HISS BRADDON's PREDICAmENT

London Correspondence Chicago Journal
l sometime ago mentioned q difficulty
into which Miss Brsddon had fallen,
and as there is no secret about it here, /
may as well give you the facts. She
has been living for several years with q
sort of publisher named Marshall, as his
wife, and has had several children by
him. Marshall is one Of the vestrymen
Of his parish, Richmond, and probably
most Of their neighbOrs never dreamed
that their establishment was not legit-
innate one. Everything had gone on
swimmingly with them for several
years, when suddenly, about three
months ago, among the deaths in the
Times, repeated three days, was seen
that Of the wife Of Marshall, who, it ap-
pears, died in Dublin. That there
might be no doubt Of his identity, the
place Of his residence and the particular
name Of his house were in the notice.
or course the good people of Richmond
were terribly shocked by this exposure,
and the popular authoress was given the
cold-shoulder at once. To make the
matter wOrse, Miss BraddOn had cir
eulRr printed and sent 20 her acquaint-
ances, declaring her innocence, and af-
firming tust she really believed herself
Marshall's wife, thus intimating that
the marriage ceremony had been per-
formed, and virtually accusing Marshall
Of bigsmy. But, OF conTse, everybody
knows the real facts.
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The instances of strong attachment of
the dog to his master are numerous.
The following, from the Augusta Me-
Journal is one of them: "This brief story
of the faithfulness Of a dog will serve as
a counterpart to the affecting exhibition
OF canine fidelity and intelligence shown
by Willie Chase's dog, who so closely
attended the dead body Of his master
after the recent fatal accident in this
city. At the time Of the funeral of the
late Captain B. F. Willard, in North
Berwick, quite recently, his faithful dog
howled so mournfully that he had to be
chained in the barn TO lessen the sound.
When he was let loose he serched the
premises to find his master, and, not
finding him, he tracked the removal Of
the body to the graveyard, where he dis
covered his masters grave half-mile
or more from the mouse. And now he
daily goes to the grave and mOruns and
howls for his lost owner"
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Administrators Netice.

NOTICES hereby given Of my appointment
II as administrator OF Ms. Jennie e Ward,
deceased. All persons indebted TO said estate
will settle at once. All persons having claims
against same viii present them at once duly
probated, either at Judge Jarnigan's, Nol3
Madison street, or 70 me at Kerrville, Tenn.
moi THO&. n. HOBBS. Administrator.
A DMTSEsTRATOR's KOTICE.-Having
IA qualified as administrator OF the estate OF
Louis LaCroix, decd, this is TO notify all per.
sons having claims again st said estate TO pre-
sent them, duly probated as required by law
or they will be barred ;and all persons indebted
10 said estate are requested 10 come forwsru
and make payment OF the same
JACOB LACROlX,
Administrator with VIII annexed.
u w, KILLER, Attorney. now
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FRANCE, since the departure OF the
assembly, enjoys perfect calm, business
is fast reviving, Paris becomes more and
more animated, foreigners are swarming
on the boulevRrds, all the hotels are full
no TO the fifth stories, the theaters are
nightly obliged to refuse money, and by
this splendid sun the few grGBde danes
and the numerous cOcOtteS who have re-
turned are exhibiting in the Bots de Bout
Iogne their splendid toilettes, without
it, occurring 70 any one to rebuke the
national assembly for lis idleness and
the ministers for their silence. Ii will,
perhaps, be discovered some day That
The best government which France can
have is to have no government at aIl.
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Administrators Sale.

IN pursuance OF an order OF the Ch1eot Or
/ cult Court ia Probate, made at its Septeua-
TENDER term, 1874. L will sell at public auotioni
at the front door OF the courthouse IN Lake
Village, in Chicot county, Arkansas On
Saturday, 18Th daY Of December, 1874,
So Holly Ridge Plantation situated on Lake
f,1fcof in said county OF Chicot, and belong
mo IL estate OF Walter Sessions, deceased
TERMS OF SAI.E-One-fourth cash ana re,-
mainder in equal insLallmsnts, payable IN
rlsr cent. per auuum IRON day Of sale un5it
paid, and deferred payments 10 be secured by
MORTGAGE lien on the lands purchased.
said plantation contains about 90 acres OF
cleared and $50 OF wood land.
ALEX, DEVAICOURT.
IS im'r Est. Of Walter Sessions, deeeass a.
Lake Village, Ark, Nov. -, lss8. nt25
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It appears that all officers Of the regg-
lar Spanish army who joined the rebel
lion of Don Carlos are restored to their
former ground upon deserving the pre-
tender. The Spaniards have the repu-
tation of treating rebels with more cru
city than any people in Europe, which
may be true; but in view Of the fact
that such clemency as the above is eXer-
cised within year or two Of the otense,
and that in this country no officers Of the
army or navy who engaged on the Con-
federate side have been restored to their
former positions, though nine years have
elapsed since the close OF the war, and
a mere suggestion to restore them would
be considered treason, it may be doubted
whether this continent does not furnish
a more fragrant example of political IN
tolerance than Spain.
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RMAL mGTATH.


d. virtue OF q deed OF trust executed 70 nna
O-as trustee, on the 9Th day OF April. ISIS br
John X " lLianIs, which deed has been duly
recorded IN Phillips cOunty, state o. ArlEan-
sasY default having been made by said " ID
i will, under the provisions Of tine same. se..
az public outcry, % the highest bidde-, To-
cash, On the premises, on