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DENTISTRY.

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Lady lane franklin.

The recent announcement Of the death
Of lady Franklin recalls to mind the
following incidents Of her life and his
tory: jlnEa 1sA3l
Lady Jane franklin was the second
daughter of John Griffin, Esq, London
gentleman of French Huguenot extrac-
ton. She was born in the year 1905,
and married to Sir john Franklin, the
Arctic Explorer, in 1928 She was his
second vile. the first Lady Franklin be-
ing Miss Eleanor Porden, daughter Of
well known English architect. In
1886 she accompanied Sir John to Van
Dieman's Land, on his appointment. to
the Governorship of that colony. Nine
years later, when he was on his third ex-
pedition to the Polar seas, her name be-
came familiar to the public through the
efforts she made to save him or ascer-
tain definitely his fate. In l848 she Of
iered heavy rewards for trustworthy
tidingS concerning himself and party,
and in the following year addressed a
strong appeal to the people Of the
United States, through the President, for
active cooperation in the search. This
was nobly responded to by Mr.. Henry
Grinnell, OF New York, who purchased
the brigs Advance and Rescue, which
the British Government fitted out, and
sent under command Of Captain Hayes,
for Sir Johns relief or discovery. They
returned without success. Other expe-
ditions followed, the funds for which
were furnished by Lady Franklin and
the Government of Great Britain.
Finally, the Fox, commanded by Cap
tain MeClintock, returned in 1857, with
proof that the unfortunate Sir John and
his party had perished previous to June,
l847. They, moreover, discovered the
existence OF northwest passage from
the North Atlantic to the North Pacific.
In addition to a present of $4,000 to the
officers and crew of the Fox, the House
of Commons voted e2000 towards a
statue Of Sir John franklin, to be erected
in London, and the Royal Geographical
Society, in 1860, conferred gold medal
upon Lady franklin. aI
Lady Franklin visited this country
twice, and excited much interest and
sympathy ON both occasions, On the
second trip to the United States she Wis.
tied Alaska and California, and jour
neyed from there overland to New York,
stopping several days at Cincinnati
where she received much attention. She
there found the late Captain Hall, Fhe
had then made two voyages to the Arctic
regions, and had discovered many traces
of her husbands last expedition.
Lady Franklin was possessed of great
wealth, but expended nearly all her for.
tune in the fruitless search for her hus.
band and until the hour of her death had
not ceased for one moment in the search
for relics, tokens, or certain news of his
death. Indeed, her last act was bidding
farewell to Mr.. Allen Young, the com
mander of the Pandora, and the origi
nator of the Arctic expedition which has
just sailed from England in the hopes O.
discovering still further evidence Of Sil
John Franklin's fate, In February
1872, she bought the Franklin House, in
Lincolnshire, England, intending to col
lect there any relics that may be discov
cred Of Sir Johns expeditions.
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CIara Morris.

Clara Morris has passion for dogs
and birds The day before she sailed
for Europe dropped in upon her at her
handsome home on Fourteenth street.
A friend who has seen her in the ago
nies of the Sphinx and clutching and
clawing through Jane Shore was wild
to meet her in private life, and thinking
to enjoy her complete surprise, | took
her to see Clara Merris at home. In the
large parlors below are some gorgeous
pictures, collected by the Havemeyer
family. There were the magnificent life
size portrait of Humboldt, from which
the engravings are taken and some per-
feet gems Of pictures by foreign artists;
so all very proper and stiff below stairs.
My friend evidently considered this
style befttng the emotional character
of the lady Of the house, and expected
to see her glide in with green calcium
light on her countensnce; but a ringing
voice cried out from the head of the
stairs, Come up; we've got winds and
breezes and cool things up here. And
so entering the suite of rooms on the
second floor there was Jolly, unaffected
Jack Morris, in dressing sack, q
short skirt aud her husbands slippers.
The windows were full of birds-bull-
6nches, love birds and canaries. Dogs
we're under the sofa and on the sofa, an
invalid canine in box and ball of
pup rolling around the floor. We began
talking OF stage affairs, and her trip to
Europe and the fashions. Well said
Morris, 1" | will be glad to be at sea-
where can lounge about anyway. I've
been dressed up too much lately. I've
had an awful struggle with clothes, and
I'm to-day a happy woman. I've got
gown in two pieces, skirt aud jacket
and no overdress, aud no woman knows
true pesce and complete bliss with an
overskirt on. The loopngs up and tyings
back cast gloom on the face of ma
ture."' 5.g
And here she showed her blessed
dress, which was grenadine hOunced
silk skirt and a basque. ..,. r
"It's got one fault" said Morris;
there's strings to tie it back. | sitAnd
dream Of the days when my untram-
meled neither limbs dwelt like free
things within the mighty enclosures of a
big hoop, That was summer style. If
my country wishes to receive my bless
ing, let it abolish these awful candle
mold skirts before come back.
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thundered at the door, but the sound
was unnoticed. Then, with faint yell
and FIVE or six convulsiye shudders, the
beautiful woman advanced slowly into
the costly room. The baron sat absorbed
at his table, his hand clenched, his lovely
mouth wearing an anguished and diabol-
ical grin. What had not that lordly
brow, that noble mustache suffered be-
fore they could be twisted into such a
pucker2 A great pity filed Sidonie's s
heart. She sneezed. The magnificent
man started up. T" Me wifel'' . Menus
bandp' And now the beauteous head
was pillowed upon the tenderly stern
shoulder. At the same moment they
blew their aristocratic noses The
walls Of pride had fallen. The pine
trees giggled in the whirlwind, and the
thingumbobs sang on the mountain
tops. This isn't so much of a csrica-
ture as could be desired. The French
novels are nearly all patterned after Fey
deau's Fanny" but the cloth is flimsier
The American novel-well, with Mr.
James and Mr.. Howells and our Norwe-
gian Boyesen, we are doing better, prom
ising more, and we have but little trash,
which is where we differ from England.
Judging by the columns which the Eng
lish critical journals feel compelled to
waste on them, the English novels of the
day are mostly unmitigated outrages on
literature. OF course we know that the
exceptions are better than our best, but
we never have to chronicle such a desert
of nonsense as the Atheneum and Acad-
emy and Times and News "give their
daily dreadful line to- In our judg-
ment, these journals do too much honor
to such productions; we should dismiss
them witha literal line" *
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The Novel Of the Period.
r;ngfaId RanuhIicap


The novel Of the period is troubling
the critics all over--in England Amer
lea, France and Germany, the cry is the
same, that there is next to nothing worth
having written or worth reading after it. 8
written. The complaint may be summed
upin two words of street slang--"Too
thin" German novels are getting pain
fully weak and washy--there's a tedious
sameness about them. A literary con-
tributor to the New York Tribune hits
them very neatly in the remarks that
" German story-writers appear to be
always the birds in the last years nests.
They have but two plots, on which they
harp with cheerful and gushing per
sistency. The fayorite one occupies
itself with a proud and beautiful girl
married for money or rank perhaps to a
proud and magnificent man whom she
does not love. She remains naughty and
he stern until they come at the end of
the book to a scene something like THE.
Sidonie, her perfect lips curved in an
ambient smile, her pink satin dress trail
ing on the marble steps, tottered rather
than walked to the baron's study, She
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better than She shouId BE.

A lady who had good reason for be-
heving that her servant girl made rather
munching work Of her pies, cakes, etc.,
when she was out Of sight, began to up
braid Betsy, at which she, of course,
snapped like a kitchen ERE.
" Betsy | fear you are no better than
you should be." fen
Whatl-myl--you say that again
" Why, really, Betsy, | must repeat it
that you are no better than you should
be-" la
" No better than ] should bel" says
Betsy, angrily, not taking the import of
the words, and as red as beefsteak, and
as tender to be sure. "No better than
| should bel guess 1 Il make you prove
your words. | guess how that | am bet
ter than | should be. h.
Betsy was of. iiNHH
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SPECIAL N0TICR.
Don't Make war on the stomach.

DOn't Make War on the stomach.
If you are bilious, dyspeptic and constipa-
ted, don't make war on the stomach by sue
cessiyely swallowing blue pills. strong purga-
tives and powerful astrinsents. Such pro-
cedure damages digestion and weakens the
bowels, leaving stomach, liver and intestines,
after the immediate effect, in condition of
greater disorder than before. That complete
relief which remedies ofthe above description
signally fail to afford is obtained By using
Hostetter'S Stomach Bitters, And for the best
Of reasons. Biliousness is the result of mae
tivity Of the liver, dyspepsia Of weakness Of
the digestive organs. and constipation is pro-
duced by the above causes operating together.
The Bitters, being powerful stomachic, over
come indigestion BY stim ulating the secretion
Of gastric Juice. relieve biliousness by promo
ting greater activity Of the liver. and thus
enable the bowels to act with renewed regu-
larity. 125.l30eod&w
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InSupreme Court at jackson.

James G. Prewitt, Admir-, etc.. VS.. Naomi
Jones ct al. ... -,,ari III
DY VIRTUE OF THE DECREE PRO
ID nounced by the Supreme Court Of len
nessee at jackson on the Sth Of June. 1875, in
this cause, will, on
Saturday, 3lst day Of July, 1875,
offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
in front Of the Office Of the Sheriff Of Shelby
county, in the city Of Memphis, the real
estate mentioned and described in said de.
cree as follows: Situated, lying and being in
the city Of Memphis. county OF Shelby, and
State of Tennessee, on the north side Of
Adams street, between Third and Fourth
streets, Immediately west Of and adjoining
the lot on which Wm. Park now resides, be-
ginning at a stake on the north side OF Adams
street, at the southwest corner of the let on
which said Park now resides; running thence
with the north side Of Adams street $50 feet,
feet east Of the east line of Mrs. NJ. A. Will
lett. wife Of DR.. &. Miles Willett; thence
northwardly on a line parallel with and feet
distant from the east line Of NJ. A. Willett,
l4S19 feet to stake to an alley; thence east
wardly with the south line of said alley s51S
feet to stake on the line of said VIM. Park I;
thence. southwardly with said Wm. Parks
west line to a stake on Adams street. the
JOHN H. FREEMAN, Clerk.
KoRTREcHT & CRAFT, Soils.
June 20, 1875. 104-l23
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An oysters Heart.

Near the hinge of an oyster is cavi-
ty which leads to its stomach. 1t may
be called, with little license, its mouth;
not that it has teeth, or that in any
way it masticstes food, or that it indi.
Gates the place Of the head, for the
oyster belongs to a division of mollusks
known as the acephalateS, or headless
ones. But it is functionally a mouth,
and it is like mouths in two important
particulars. 1t is the entrance Of the
food to the alimentary canal, and it has
certain lip.like organs with which to cen
troll the entering Of food II, then, the
oysters mouth is thus situated near the
hinge that part of the creature should
be known as its anterior or forward end.
The opening end, that which the oyster
men call the nib" is therefore really
the posterior extremity. Everyone knows
that in opening an oyster the knife has
to be passed through a stout organ,
wrongly called by many the eye; for the
oyster is eyeless Some call it the heart.
This, also, is incorrect. 1t is the great
abduetor muscle, with which the animal
draws together its valves. But the oyster
has true heart. 1t is situated near to
and forward Of the abductor muscle, that
is, between it and the mouth. If a finger
Of glove were cut off and inflated with
air, being closed up at the end and then
thread we're tied round so as to con-
strict it at the middle, we should have
something resembling the shape pretty
nearly of the oysters heart, The small
organ is divided by the construction into
two lesser organs, an auricle and ven
tricle; receiving and distributing reser-
voir Of the pale, opalescent blood-its
true life current, which animates every
part Of this complex little being II an
oyster be opened with sufficient tact and
care, the heart can be seen at work, beat
ing much as our hearts beat--a true
rhythmical pulsation. Indeed, with
watch in hand, the beats can be counted,
as when a physician makes a diagnosis
Of ones pulse. As death nears, so slow
the throbs Of the oysters heart,
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In supreme Court at jackson.

John McQuillan OF al. VS.. John Markey ct al.
TN PURSUANCE OF THE DECREE PRO-
4 nounced in this cause on the 8th day Of
June. 1875, by the Supreme Court Of Tennes-
see. at Jackson, will, on
Saturday, the S1st Day Of July, 1876,
offer for sale to the highest bidder, for cash,
on the premises. the leasehold interest Of de-
fendant, John Markey, in and to the follow.
ing property A certain house and lot in the
city Of Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee,
beginning 25 feet south Of the southwest cor
ner Of Mosby street and Winchester avenue;
thence south fronting Is feet on said Winches-
ter avenue, and running back between par
allel lines 14S1s feet, being the south half Of
the so feet leased from defendant. Sallie e.
Satfarans, to defendant, John Markey, which
lease runs from the LIST day Of January, 1859,
TO the LIST day Of January. 1879 1
JN0. H. FREEMAN, Clerk.
}. B. BARNES, Sol. for complainants.
July s, 1875. sll2-l32
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PROFESSIONAL.
MANHOOD.


A VICTIM OF YOUTHFUL IMPRU-
IN dence. causing premature decay, ner-
vous debility, etc., having tried in vain every
known remedy, has found simple self-oure,
which he will send free TO his fellow-sufferers,
Address J. lH.EREEVES, Is Nassau street,
New York; SQeod-107
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Wednesday, 4th day Of August. 1875,

in legal hours. in front Of the Court House,
Memphis, Tennessee, proceed to sell. to the
highest bidder, for cash, the following de-
seribed property to.Yit:, One hundred and
trict Of Shelby county, and bounded on the
north BY W. 7. Donalson's land, on the east
BY w. 7. Donalson's land, on the south by
Hatchie river. and on the west by Mrs. and
John Harrison's land.
Levied on as the property Of defendant, ].
y, Holaway. to satisfy said Judgment. inter
est and costs. ,.- ~
, Memphis, 9th day of July. 1876. 74
-, G. L. ANDERSON,
Sheriff Of Shelby County, Tenn.
By TH0s. 7. TAYLOR, D. S. T..
MYERS x SNEED, Attorneys for Plaintiff.
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RAILROAD THE TABLES.

RAA4AhNAO ~ AA AA0AAlIe
MEMPHIS AND LOUIEvILLE RAILROAD.
Arrives. Leaves.
AN. Pm. An. Pm.
Express daily Except
sunday ......... MINIMUM. S.dQ
Aeon except Sunday. rs 500
Depot at head Of Main st.SsS
Ticket Once, 2S Main street, corner Of
HAdisen. ,,,e,. $.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNEssRHR.R.
Arrives. Leaves.
ANN. An. Pm.
q. O. Nail daily ...-.,.., l.S0 200
Express daily ex Sunday s.b As
Freight (oally OK. Sunday 4'SOl 6.l5
JepOt at foot Of Main street.
Ticket once. 2oI Main street, corner Of
v NJ. BURKE. Gsn'I sup't.
( MEMpHIs AND LIrrLEROcK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves:
An: An. P.I;
Mail Train da.iily.ff: f.:.: 200 $40
Louisville DepOt......... $50
Freight and Aocommoda-
tien daiy..."...~.."-...... 800 500 s.
Sleeping cars on mail train. Depot Center
LAuuluks lOOt Ol washington street.. 1lckot
Offices, 2S7 loor. Madsonl and 278 Main street.
tt w. 3. SMITH, Act'g Gen'l Sup't.
PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Nail and Freight Train leaves......,.. 4:15 pm
'' arrives-...... 900 an
The mail and freight train leaves CovilgtOn
for Memphis at 6:l5 am. and returns to Gov
ington at pm. Trains leaving Memphis will
start from the Underwriters' Warehouse.
~ M. BURKE, Sup't.
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RAILROADS.
MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK
RAILWAY.
RAILROADS.

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Mail train leaves depot, foot Wash
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u. 4 n. r. R. depot 8: Is IN
Arrives dally..,,y', ,..,,.-....."..-... z;lo am
New Pullman Palace Cars on Mail trains
from this date, June 6, 1875,
For further Information and Tickets. apply
atDepot, Center Landing. foot Of Washington
street, No 27S Main street, corner Madison,
and 27S Main street.
u r..y W. E. SMITH, Acting Gen'l Sup't.
JN0. ii. PERRY GenrT'kt Agt.
R. A. WILLIAMS, Passenger Ag't.
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LEGAL.
Sheriff's Sale of Real Estate.

DUBLIc NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN,
IL that BY, virtue Of a yenditioni exponas to
me directed from the Honorable First Circuit
court OF shelby county, Tenn, in tie case of
n. Yates ys. j. 4. Hollaway and V. w. VIII
liams. judgment rendered on the 10Th day OF
February. 1875, for the sum Of two hundred
and nine dollars and eighty-eight cents, with
interest and costs Of suit, to satisfy said judg-
ment. etc. / viii. on u - = -
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Miscellaneous Journal

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Local departments will bs kept up to thehigh-
est standard Of approved journalism. endsaV-
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IS Madison street.