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1S1sHrs OF

TKxxxssEE Lopez No. Sheets ~
every " ednesday night at $50 Second
street, Vincent Block. opposite Court Square.
e.. W. L. Crook, q. c.; Chas. Leighton, ".
G.; W. r. Lucas. P; W. II. Rhea, N. Of b.;
Il. II. Coleman, ~. of F. W. Il. Moystsn,
K. Of r. and s.
Com DE- LIox LoDes Ne. Is-Meets every
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MISCELLANEOUS.


The City Of vicksburg for Vieksburg
and John F. Tolle for New Orleans lett
St. Louis last night.
The Robert Mitchell for New Orleans
left Evansville last night.
The Vint Shinkle for Memphis and
Mary Houston for New Orleans left Gin.
%cinnati last evening.
The Louisville for the Ohio river,
Glencoe and Future City and barges for
St. Louis left New Orleans last evening.
The Julia left Vicksburg yesterday for
st. Louis.
The City Of Alton passed down last
evening fer New Orleans loaded fat in
the water. She added here a few people.
The Thomas Sherlock will be down to-
day.
The Minneola cleared last evening for
Cincinnati with 40 bales Of cotton, Ill
kegs, 20 tons old iron and a fair list Of
people.
The City Of Helena passed up this
morning for 81. Louis with a moderate
trip.
The A. j. White for Napoleon and
Belle Of Texas for Arkansas river went
out last night with good trips Of freight
and people.
Captain Frank Hicks goes down on
the Phil Allin to-day to interview his
friends.
The Maumelle for Arkansas river
passed Louisville yesterday.
The river at Omaha and Sioux City il
falling.
The Phil Allin, Capt Lee, brought il
10 bales Of cotton and a lot Of sundries
/ She leaves this evening for Friar'
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Trustees Sale.

by, VIRTUE OF THETERMS OF A TRUST
~ deed made BY, ms. AlVina ST, bert and
ner husband + siebert on the Goth OF Novem-
ment Of q certain note therein, desci ibed, as
will be seen by eferens 80 to said deed IF record
In the oficeo of the Register Of Shelby county,
Tennessee, in, Book No; l04, page 2t and at
the request of the holder Of said . ote, the
same being due and unpaid, Twill, on
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RIVER INTELLIGENCE

MAAInhh AMI bOolNboos
Weather clear and pleasant. The
river here is still falling at the rate of a
foot in every tweutyfour hours. At St.
Louis the river has risen one foot and is
still rising. At Cairo the river is falling,
with twenty-four feet six inches in the
channel. The Ohio at Pittsburg is re-
ceding, with five feet five inches in the
channel. At Louisville the river is fall
ing, with eight feet three inches in the
canal. Cumberland river is still rising,
with thirteen feet ten inches on the
shoals. Arkansas river is rising at Lit
tie Rock, with eight feet four inches in
the channel. White river is falling rap
idly. Business on the landing exceed
ingly dull, with light shipments to all
nointa
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soC1ETY.

NAreHA TEMPLE OF Il. n 7. No. 1-meets
every Wednesday night at u o'clock at new
Masonic hall, Gayoso Block. Main street.
2. NJ. Haley, W. IT; J. +; Conrad, w Y.
p. R. ; John W. Graham, W IT.; G, =: Tate,
w. o.; Z. +. Risk, W. g.; A. Hum. W. S.
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African Exploration.

The explorations of Stanley in the
heart of Africa are of the utmost geo
graphical interest and importance. He
is a plucky, clear-headed man, who push
es his way through difficulties like a
steam engine through a snow drift; and,
considering the delays and slowness of
former expeditions, the rapidity of his
movements and the prOmptness of his
communications are quite remarkable.
He has too much business on hand to be
sick, and is too active and energetic and
vigilant to be %entrapped by the treacher-
Gus natives or captured by the malaria.
Ii is quite evident that the natives stand
in awe of this man, who seems to be a
sort of locomotive in boots, though they
shoot his men when out of his sight with
out hesitation or remorse, and his two
letters came stained with the life-blood OF
one of the Khedive's officers. Stanley
has now demonstrated by actual observ-
alton and surveys that Livingstone,
whose health and mind failed in the last
years of his long African %sojourn, was
mistaken in %supposing the Victoria Ny
anZa was a chain of five lakes connected
with each other. He finds that Spoke,
whose explorations were made in 1862,
was right in his opinion that the Victoria
Nyanza is one body of water; but what
Spoke took for two islands Stanley finds
are peninsulas in this great inland sea.
This is undoubtedly the upper reservoir
of the Nile, and should future explor-
ations confirm the Importance of the
River Shimeeyou we shall have the key
to the whole Nile system, and the mys-
terry of Africa will be henceforth an open
secret. 1t is a matter of national pride
that these final explorations are made by
an American. who, though he follows
the trail of distinguished explorers,
seems to have a capacity of gathering up
the results Of their diselrsive discoveries
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OAe of Horace Greeley's Old Letters.
NEW York, July "a. 1857:

NEW YORK, july "a, 1881
My DEAR Sir: Seeing iii the Tribune
the death of your sweet child, whom | so
well remember, impells me to write you
a word. | offer no consolation, and ]
need not assure you of my sympathy.
But you and your wife are still young
and hopeful, other children will doubt
less be lent you and though you vii
never forget this f~irstling Of the flock
nor fail to remember her with a pensivt
and chastened sadness, yet you will live
to realize even in this state of being, how
wisely president and merciful in the
chastisement which "smites but to heal"
Let me give you in this connection a
leaf from my experience.
have had seven children of whom
five are gone. Of three sens none sur
vive, and two of them were respectfully
five and a half and six years of age when
they were reclaimed. | need not say
how beautiful and good they were-the
early called are always thus. When the
first of them died ny youth ended. I
thought | could never be so sorely bitten
thenceforth. Yet in due time there
came another, not so delicate, so beauti-
ful, so poetic yet 50 loving, so tender,
so devoted to me, that | thought |
had never been understood before. |
cannot remember that during his six
years abode with me he ever wished to
c%ontravene my will.
I left, January Il, for that hard
western tour in brave spirits and good
general health. At Galesburg after
leaving .rou, l had a letter dictated by
him, leaving him in excellent health. /
heard no more until | reached Scranton,
Pa, on my way home, when a telegram
reached me during my lecture, stating
that he was dangerously i'll of Group. |
fastened home mex evening at eight
o'clock only to find him dead an hour
before, after enduring a severe operation
and extreme suffering. With him l
buried my last earthly aspiration. Lhave
two little daughters, one eight years old,
and another but four months, having
been born since his death, but they are
very different from and do not replace
him.
Did you not mean TO see me this sea.
son? Kind regards to Mrs. -. Yours
HORACE GREELEY.
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- Gabriel COnrOY,''

Bret Harte's first novel begins as a
serial in S~cribner's for November, and
opens with the following description of
the Sierras in winter:
Snow. Everywhere. As far as the
eye could reach-fifty miles, looking
southwark from the highest white peak.
Filling ravihes and gulches, and drop
ping from the walls of canons iii white
shrOud-like drifts. Fashioning the divid-
ing ridge into a likeness of a monstrous
grave, hiding the bases of giant pines
and completely covering young trees and
larches, trimming with porcelain and bowl
like edges Of still, cold lakes, and I'M
d~ulating in motionless white pillows to
the edge of the distant horizon, Snow
lying everywhere over the California
Sierras on the 10th day of March, lS4S,
and still falling.
IL had been showing for ten days;
showing in finely granulated powder, in
damp, spOngy fakes, in thin, feathery
plumes showing from a leaden sky stead
lily, showing fercely, shaken out of purple
black clouds in white h~occulent masses,
or dropping in long level lines like white
laces from the tumbled and broken heav-
ems, but always silently. The woods
were SO chOked with it, the branches were
50 laden with it; it had so permeated,
filed and possessed earth and sky it had
so cushioned and muhIed the ringing
rocks and echoing hills, that all sound
was deadened. The strongest gust, the
~iercest blast awoke no sigh or complaint
from the snow packed, rigid files of
forest. There was no cracking of bough
nor crackle of underbrush the over
laden branches of pine and fir yielded
and gave way without a sound. The
silence was vast, ~measureleSs, complete.
Nor could it be said that any out
ward sign of life or motion changed
the fixed outlines of this stricken land
scape. Above there was no play of
light and shadow, only the occasional
deepening of storm and night. Below,
no. bird winged its fight across the white
CXpanse, no beast haunted the confines of
the black woods; whatever of the brute
nature might have once inhabited these
solitudes had long since flown to the low
Lands. There was nc track or imprint ;
whatever foot might have left its mark
upon this waste, each succeeding snow
fall obliterated all traces or record
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The date of mans appearance on our
globe Ito say nothing of the beginning of
organic life) will probably neverb be ascer-
tainable beyond a rude approximation !;
but this much at any rate is certain, that
if " creation" Is to be spoken of at all,
it must be taken, not as a single isolated
act, but rather as an unbroken series of
productions, extending from the dimmest
past to our time, and destined doubtless
to extend beyond us. Everybody knows,
says the Westminster Review, what the
nature of the record is, everybody knows
that the crust of our planet, so far as we
have sounded it, is composed entirely of
mud, deposited in gradual successive
LAYERS under water; that these layers
through the slow but constant undula-
tions of the crust, have been upheaved
again, Undated to the enormous thickness
of sixty or seventy thousand feet and
finally, that each deposited as it harden
ed, preserved imbedded in the mud the
shells and bones of creatures which died
at the time of its formation. Similar
formations are continuing at present
the soundings made in the AtlanticO ocean
preparatory to the laying of the tele-
graphic cable, prove that over the whole
VI lIlC llIIlICllSC d1Cd SAplO4Co AAtOOO
miles from east to west, and about 700
miles from north to south) an exclusively
fine chalky mud is being deposited, con-
sisting solely of the hard parts of animals
which have lived and persisted in these
regions. The chalky mud will gradually
harden into limestone rocks; possibly
some day these rocks will be gradually
upheaved, just as the Himalayas were,
end the new continent thus formed, sub
iected to the wearing influence of air and
rain, will furnish the mud which is to
bury new creations. Let us not smile
incredulously, far greater changes have
been wrought than those, and as far as
we can judge, by the same influences.
When Scotland stood higher than it
stands at present, it was covered with ice
descending from the Grampians later,
it became an archipelago, and marine
sand with shells was spread over the
former glacial drift later still, the land
emerged again, glaciers were reformed.
though probably to less extent, and
Britain was connected with the CONT
nent lastly, minor changes separated
England from the continent, and Ireland
from England.
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The Woes Of Herzegovina.

The full text of the pfonitnciamento
issued to the European Enjoys by the
HeraegeViah chiefs contains ali eloquent
statement of the grievances which led
them to revolt against their Turkish op-
pressors. 1t is brief and concise, but
full of dignity and energy, and forms al
indictment against the cruelty, injustice
and oppression of their Turkish tyfahts
which will command for them the SYM
pathy of the whole civilized. world, and
the decision that they are right in taking
up arms I'd. free themselves from their
miseries. The catal6aiie bf these ihis-
cries is a fearful one. Under pain Of
being scourged and sent to prison, every
c~ulti1atot Of the ground mtst give half
his produce to the Aga, or official who
allows him to cultivate, and four times a
year he must entertain the Aga, his
followers and horse. The owner of a
farm in Herzegovina has an agreement
with the state officials by which he ex-
acts ten times the amount of rent fixed
by the law. The Turkish census emu
meratOrs let free their own co-religiOnists,
but treble the amount of imposts upon
Christians, thus making them pay not
only their own but also the Turkish
share of taxes. In litigation, as Chris
tan proceeding against a Turk must
have two Turkish witnesses, and if he
looses his case he is thrown into prison.
The wives and daughters of Christians
are carried off by Turks and compelled
by force to adopt the creed of Islam. If
a Christian bears witness against a Turk,
he can only live three days. The Chris
tan churches are publicly defiled by the
Turks. The Christians pay an educational
tribute to the Sdltan, but are not allowed
to have any schools. Repairs upon the
roads must be made by the Christians,
but the Turks are freed from this duty.
If Turkish troops need horses, they are
taken from the Christians without re-
compense. If a Turk complains before
a tribunal, he can get immediate justice.
IF a Christian makes a complaint, he can
not 81 a decision without bribing the
Judge zen times the amount of the claim.
There is no integrity or justice and no
security under Turkish rule. Such is a
brief summary Of their grounds of com
plant.
Hopeless as the case Of Herzegovina
may APPEAR, fighting single-handed
against her powerful tyrants, and de-
barred from the active sympathy of Eu-
ropean nations by their own prejudices
and schemes for national ACKNOWLEDGEMENT,
ii is impossible not to admire the manly
spirit of their statement. They may not
win freedom, but they deserve it.
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Every morning the solitude was virgin
and unbroken; a million tiny feet had
stepped into the track and filled it up.
And yet, in the center of this desolation,
in the very stronghold of this grim for
tress, there was the mark of human toll,
A few trees had been felled at the en-
trance of the canon, and the freshly cut
chips were but lightly covered with snow.
They served perhaps to indicate another
tree " blazed" with an ak, and bearing q
rudely shaped efigy of a human hand.
pointing to the canon. Below the hand
was a equare strip of canvas, securely
nailed against the bark and bearing the
following inscription;
NOTICE.
Capt. Conrey's party OF emigrants are lost
III the snow and camped up this canon. ou'
of provisions and starving!
Left St. Joe October Sth, 1917.
Left Salt Lake January LIST, 1913.
Arrived here March list, 1S4S.
Left half our stock on the Platte.
Abandoned our wagons February Goth.
HELP
Our names are:
joel Mccormick, Jane Bracket,
Peter Dumphv, Gabriel Conroy,
Paul Devarges, John Walker,
Grace COnrOy, Henry March,
Olympia COnroy, Philip Ashley,
Mary Dnmphy.
Then ii smaller letters, in peiicil):
Mamie died November s. Sweetwater,
Minnie died December /, Echo Canon.
Jane died January 2, Salt Lake.
James Bracket, lost February 2.
HELP!
The language of suffering is not apt tc
be artistic or studied, but | think that
rhetoric could not improve this actual
record. So l let it stand, even as it stood
this 10th day Of March, 1S48, half hidden
by a thin film of damp snow, the snow.
whitened hand stiffened and pointing
rigidly to the fatal anon like the finger
of death.
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and observations, and combining and
correcting them, and supplementing them
with original explorations of his own,
which are quite as important as any that
have been fiiade.
These African explorations are of vast
ly more consequence and practical utility
than anything that has been or is likely
to be discovered in the Arctic regions,
where SO much treasure has been spent
and SO many lives have been thrown
away. Africa is not only a puzzle to
~geographers it is now q problem for
civilization to solve, and throws dOWh its
challenge to tbs craftsmanship and hui
manity Of the globe. It lies in the high
way of commerce, INVITING the inter
course of all nations Its fertile soils and
salubrious climates valuable preduc-
lions give it a vas ~)ortance, which is
increased by it's a, bility on all sides.
The cradle of civi ion and the seat of
commerce for cen it is now sparse
ly peopled, and to tactical intents is
a virgin continent ting immigration
and furnishing alme Unlimited scope to
the enterprise Of civilized man. What
shall be done with it and for it are ques-
tiOns which will ask themselves with
increasing frequency and force IN coming
years. Nj. Dalton has suggested that an
attempt lie tia9e TO COLOMBO it with
Chinese. The plan has plausibility. It
has been found that the Chinese who
have settled in the Oceanic Islands have
developed quite remarkable faculties of
thrift and enterprise and government
and have improved considerable on the
home type. But with Europe over
crowded with population and all her
great cities suffering from an excess of
poor and perishing classes, it certainly
seems that the key Of African civilization
need not be sought in eastern Asia among
the Mongolian races. 1t only wants the
ability to organize colonization on a
grand scale and carry it out with the
appliances. of modern science and art and
the modern spirit of humanity to make
africa a power in the civilized world and
a means of %renovating Europe.-Daly
Graphic.
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SchilIer's Sister.

Miss Wager writes in the Galaxy
| She was born in t777 and christened
! Caroline Christiane-the youngest sister
of Friedrich Schiller-but she was always
called "Nane" or Nannette," and her
short life of eighteen years was strangely
sad, brilliant, and beautiful. She was
but five years of are when Schiller left
home, bearing the burden of his fathers
reproaches, and it was not until she was
fifteen that she again saw him. But dur
ing these ten years, while Friedrich was
struggling into love and fame by the
poets power and charm, the Schwester-
lein Nannette was at home, learning, re-
citing his poems, talking of the wonder
fui, beloved brother" and unConsciously
unfolding into a poet herself, without at
al comprehending it. The Schillers were
pOOr-Nannette was a girl-and between
the circumstances of poverty and mis-
fortune of belonging to the sex at that
time of minor importance in Germany
her position was in no wise n to stimu-
late or encourage the unfolding of genius.
The father Schiller was conservative,
strongly OpiniOnated, unyielding, and
rather tyrannical; the mother was loving,
gentle, but possessing marked strength Of
character, and sacrificing herself in every
possible way to the advancement and hap
piness of her children. Neither parent
was blind to the superior endowments of
Nannette-her beauty, her quick intelli-
gence, her vivacity, her marked resem-
blance to Friedrich. But matrimony was
the chief end of a German maiden's
career, especially the one grand resource
of one untitled and without fortune.
So, with sober, practical sense, the father
and mother thought the accomplishments
of hOusewifery of more Use than book
learning" The eldest sister, Christie
phine, married one Reinwald, contrary to
her mothers advice, As he was of gloomy,
difficult humor; but, ~wOmanlike, she
thought she could transform him with the
sunshine of her nature, and then her
parents wanted $50 much to see her set
tied" The second sister, Louise, a trusty,
domestic girl, was betrothed t. a young
pastor. But the little Nannette. born as
She was for something quite different from
her humble home life, met her fate like a
gay youngphilOsopher, and washeddishes,
sewed, spun, cooked, and baked while sing
ing the songs of her fatherland and de-
claiming her brothers poems. She had a
wonderful memory, and the poems once
or twice read over were fully retained III
her mind. At first she learned them
because Friedrich wrote them, and the
rhythm pleased her; then as she repeated
them Over she gradually caught their
meaning, and in all Germany Schiller
had no other appreciation quite like his
little sister, whom he scarcely more than
remembered. So great was her passion
for declaiming that she would place
chairs to represent different characters in
the dramatic poems, and mounting one,
and then another, impersonated them.
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SCHENCKsS PULMONIC SYRUP FOR
THE CURE OF CONSUMPTION,
TnnfnHs Am C0LDS.

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The Tonic produces a healthy action Of the stom-
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These Pills are Alternative and produce a healthy
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