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A Temple in Venice.

Charles Warren Stoddard writes as
follows Of the cathedral OF San Marco:
There is temple in Venice so stored
with oriental treasures that to see it is
like breathing cassia and musk. The
facade OF this queen of churches is
burdened with ornamentation there is a
barbaric splendor in its outward decora-
ton that is not in keeping with the
exceeding solemnity of the interior.
Within everything is so rich that it can
well afford to make no display. 1t is
the most harmonious, the most Worship
tnl, the sweetest, most soIemn retreat for
the world-weary that can be conceived
Of You may select your own chapel
and it shall be rich or plain, abla2e with
flaming tapara or W by "a -eingle lamp
that swings like great jewel hung by u
golden chain to the summit of deep
golden dome; you may, II you choose,
mediate before an antique byzantine
cruciiix, or % lot Of stained sculpture,
almost as old as Christianity; or, if you
will, sit for time under one OF the sad
faced Madonnas at whose feetthe votive
offerings are heaped in strange conlu-
sion. But come in, away from the gilt
ter and the glare of the interior, where
the four bronze horses prance and the
eyes grow weary with seeking some
point to rest on in all that tropical rare
garden.
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lprIze Ring qOasip.

Tom Allen, of St. Louis, is matched
to fight George Rookie, of New York, for
$2500 early in the spring The latter is
as yet unknown to fame The ex'
pugilist, who is at present doing some
Intellectual work on the St. Louis Re-
publican, takes occasion to make the
following pertinent observations there
on: let us look at Allen. He has
done nothing in this country but beat a
lot of good novices like the Gallaghers,
end that slouchiest Of oil chopping'
blocks, Mike McCoole. Jem Mace
handled MIN with ease in New Orleans,
although he did tell Arthur Chambers
that he gave Mace his head because he
foun d the old man getting slow. But
Mace is an exceptional man. and fight
ing on the dead square to win. No man
in the world has had chance with him
barrins. accidents, such, for instance, ga
befell A lien in that knock-down under
the iugu lar with Gallagher. Allen has
always been a good man. His fights
with Joe Goss, the best Of the second
class men in England, we're rough affairs,
ana hOOhH w woo hhoh
any man we can think OF. Rookie has
got more rough dash than old Joe had
INT they are of the same stamp. Since
Allen fought Goss, some years have
passed. and Allen is older; still, on that
score. perhaps, with the exception oI
wrestling skill, the advantagsin physique
is in favor of Allen, who has taken his
whack out of fast life a little more
serenely. AS for the mill, if the mer
ever do meet in the ring, the chances arC
/. that il will never be fought out to salts
| factory result. Five hundred miles from
New York m cans in the vicinity of Pitts
| burg, and what with the Houston stree
crowd and the Hogan crowd, who hav'
no love for Allen, there will be SOM
lovely work before Barney Aaron an'
Joe Coburn suffer the sponge to b
thrown up to scoop down their ducats.
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A New Invention Of the Enemy.
Hon. W. Cumback, in the Greensburg qnd.)
Standard
This brings me to speak OF this new
style of promenading with the gentle
man hanging on the lady's arm. This
is a contemplate thing, and should be
cast out of all good society as evil. One
may say, | can't see any difference
which has hold of the others arm"
Possession in law is considered halt, and
why not so in other thinks2 A woman S
safeguard is to keep mans hands off
Of her. IL you need his assistance in
walking, take his arm instead Of him
taking yours. Just tell him in plain
English, Hands Of" lie may not like
it at the time, but he will like you ten
fold more. Men will be and do just what
the women allow them to. Men will not
do to trust.
Give man your arm and you will find
him very confidential and he will take
great many privileges ne would not take,
it he was not permitted TO do So He
will give your arm many aiectionate
squeezes and sly twists that he could
have no opportunity OF doing, and the
opportunity is just what lie is after. A
few words more of advice, aud | close.
Keep your girls off the square only when
they have business. Teach them that it
is unnecessary to go TO the postollice
every lime they 80 out. Your girls can
walk alone just as well AZ your boys.
Don't allow your girls, il they must have
q beau, to go with boys much older than
themselves. lfpossible, instill into their
very natures that they are safer in their
own hands than they are IN the hands
ofany man-preachers not excepted
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There are many accounts Of Cole
ridges gigantic powers of monologue.
The story perhaps least known is one to
the effect that he was dining with some
friends near London, when a broken
soldier, in old, tattered uniform, came
to the window begging, on which Cole
ridge launched into a hstory-causas,
effects, everything-of the Peninsular
war. What a pity" said one of the
party afterwards, that that old soldier
came up to the window" 1t would
have been all the same, said the other,
=" if magpie had hopped across the
path" 1t seldom happens that those
who are famous in monologue are
equally clever at retort, But Coleridge
uttered one of the finest things, on
sudden proyoeahon, over said in any
language. He Was addressing Bristol
mob, when some Of his hearers, not lik-
ing his sentiments, hisssd. He paused,
looked calmly around at them and then
enunciating very slowly, said; "When
on the burning embers of democracy
you throw the cold water Of reason, no
wonder that they hiss 1t was of course
better suited to an Athenian assembly
than to a Bristol mob, but it was a glori.
ons outburst all the same.
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A Hirth-Dny Dinner ExtraOrdinary.

v
A Paris correspondent writes that the
theaters are not the only amusements in
which Parisiaus now indulge. 1t used
to be said, immediately after the restora.
ton of peace, that the theaters were so
filled because the Parisians found in
them the cheapest way of spending the
evenings, which the national religion
forbids them passing at home But
such, the correspondent goes on to say,
is no longer the case; for, apart from
official dinners and receptions, the num-
ber Of nightly entertainments is still on
the increase. To recapitulate them
would be to give every day long lists OF
the same names. One, however, which
recently took place was so emipently
characteristic as to deserve a passing
word of uotice. Invitations we're sent
ont by Mile Isabella Roma Rattazi to a
dinner intended to celebrate her fourth
birthday, and each guest was requested
to bring with him or her sonnet or q
piece of poetry applicable to the occa'
sion. Some seventy ladies and gentle
men, representing the elite OF the artis'
tic society of Paris, sat down to table
laid out with an art to which none OF
the conventional dinners OF France aud
England could present a parallel. The
table was spread in the conservatory OF
the Hotel d'Aquila, and the scene re.
called one of the gorgeous paintings OF
Paolo Veronese, rather than an apart
ment in the nineteenth century in Paris.
a hidden orchestra played during din
ner. in the course of which the Spanish
custom OF letting birds escape about the
apartment was adopted. At desert heaps
Of coneratulatory kilograms from all
parts of Italy, especially from friends OF
the late statesman, we're opened, and
then came the public reading of all the
versified coaceits with which the guests
brought tribute to the little queen of the
day.
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MEMPHIS TENN. MONDAY EVENING. FEBRUARY 92 1875

Of people fairly in the face, and mashed
it beyond recognition. Under his stroke
the floor of the American Senate was
spattered with the remnants Of once
proud vocabulary, andlmessengers, door
keepers and pages werb covered with the
spray. In the fearful two hours which
followed the first roar II his oration, all
the parts of speech were routed and put
to fight. There were orphaned adjec-
tives and widowed nouts, bachelor verbs
driven to polygamy, aud polygamous
verbs left lonely, eonjunctions discovered,
propositions scattered. adverbs dishev-
eled and distorted, and dsyntax flung into
wild disorder. It was a great day for
Logan.
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Too HaOny 90 live.

The Paris journals tell of young
couple who were too happy to live, at
least the accounts seem to be colored
with that idea, NJ. Bastein was young
architect of promise. He had married
a young lady of beauty and accomplish
ments, the daughter of rich merchant,
M Channard.. The couple had been
married nine months on last New Years
day, and appeared to be sincerely devo-
ted to each other. Nine Bastein expec-
ted soon to become mother On New
Year day the couple went to dine with
NJ. Channard, and returned home at
midnight. NJ. Channard was engaged
to dine with them next day. In the
morning the lady went out to make some
purchases, and returned at noon. In
the course of the afternoon there were
several rings of their door.bell, but no
answer was returned. According to ap-
pointment M. Channard came and rang
no response. He was told that several
other persons had been equally unsec-
cessful. A locksmith was called and the
door was opened. The young people
were found dead in their bed, Nine.
Bastein, clad in her dressing gown and
her husband in his trousers and waist
coat. The remains of the breakfast of
which both had evidently partaken we're
on the table. A bottle Of ammonia and
one of sedative water were on the man
telpiece. These we're the only answers
to blank inquiry and searching grief.
Nothing was disarranged in the room,
and there the young man and the wife
lay locked in each ether arm, and death
had caught and clutched the last smiles
on their faces. 1t was a photograph Of
love and peace, They were perfectly
happy and they locked themselves in
with their happiness and called death to
turn the key. The world could not rob
them now, and they lay and smiled the
smile of victory. A medical man said
they had poisoned themselves, and gave
it as his opinion that the wife died first.
Was there just a moment of regret at the
separation in the husbands hearth Did
he look in her face and smile when he
thought that he was about to rejoin her
and meet that sweet face on the other
side2
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Logan ON HiS Feet.
From the New York Tribune,l

.ElOUl luo ANNW ANAh @a'~NNNfl
Pranced there in upon the arena OF
the great debate, like trick mule in a
circus, or spawned nightmare upon the
track Of beautiful dream Logan, OF
Illinois. There was vision of mus
.taches, eyebrows and hair, piled on each
other in arches; large brandishing Of
arms, pose and stridulous war.
: whoop; and much as though picture Of
the DeerfieId massacre had stepped out
from the pages of our early history, Lo-
ran took the American Senate by its
arge, capacious ear. And then he went
{ or his mother tongue. He smote it
ight and left, hip and thigh, and
a bowed no mercy. Swinging the great
b road AK Of his logic high in the air, he
Il ,rned ere il fell, aud with the hammer
81 de struck the language Of sixty millions
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SPECIAL NOTICE.


CONSERVATIVES, TAKE NoTIoE.-Every mo-
ment of delay makes your cure more hope
less, and much depends on the judioious
choice of remedy. The amount of testi-
mony in favor of DR.. Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup, as a cure for consumption, far exceeds
oil that can be brought to support the preten-
sions Of any other medicine. See DR..
Schenck's Almanac. containing the corliG-
Gates of many persons Of the highest resneeta--
bility. who have been restored to health, after
being pronounced incurable by physicians Of
acknowledged ability. Schenck's Pulmonic
Syrup alone has cured many, as these evil
dence1 will show; but the cure is often pro.
NOTED by the employment of two other rene
dies which Dr, Schenok provides for the pur.
pose. These additiOnalremedies are Schenek'
Sea Weed Tonic and Mandrake Pills. Blythe
timely use Of these medicines, according tC
directions, DR.. Schenck eertfes that mos
any case Of consumption may be cured.
DR.. Sohenck is professionally at his prinoi
pal office, corner Sixth and Arch streets
Philadelphia, every Monday, where all letter.
for advice must be addressed,
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Directors!

JAMES D. PORTER. JR.. Gov. Of Tennessee.
LOUIS HANAUEP.. of SchoolGeld, Hanauer
AGO.
+. M. WHITE, of F. M. White 4 Co.
M. =. PEARCE, of Pearce. Suggs Il Co.
3. URoUHART. of E. Urquhart & Co.
I. D. HAYNES. Of T. B. Haynes Il Co.
HENRY WETTER. Of H. Wetter Il Co.
lnsures at Board rates. Private dwellings
especially desired; policies issued for three
years Tor two annual premiums. AIT
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MANHOOD RESTORED--A VICTIM OF
lu youthful imprudenee,. causing prema-
turo decay, nervous debility, ETC., having
tried in vain every known remedy, has .ound
his fe oW sufferers. Address u. REEVES,
7sNa au street, New York. EOod,s2xx-Si
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Justice has trotted out her scales again,
and Law clutches the ruiiian with firm
er hand. The Cincinnati Times has
come out in favor of capital punishment.
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PUBLIC LIBRARY or KENTUCKY
JOHN S. CAIN, Secretary.

Hereafter all communications relating to
the fifth concert should be addressed to the
drawing shall come of February 9th or that
every dollar paid for tickets shall be returned.
Q. M. BRIGGS, Agent and Manager,
Room 4, Public Library Building, Louisville,
Kentucky. dhw-l22-I45
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1875-02-22

PADUCAH AND MEMPHIS RAILROAD.
Mail and Freight Train leayes....-., 800 pm
arriveS...-.10:0O am
The mail and freight train leaves Covington
for Memphis at 7 am. and returns to CoYing-
ton at 1905 pm. Trains leaving Memphis will
start from the Underwriters' Warehouse.
j. W. WILBUR denl Sup't
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RAILROADS..

sE No change Of cars by this line for Lo lis
vile, st. Louis or Nashville. Pullman pa lace
sleeping-cars on all night trains.
For Tickets or information apply at
Ticket Office, 2S7 MaiD, cor. Madison.
JOHN T. FLYNN, sup't Memphis Div.
JAMES SPEED, Ticket Agent. M A-t
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Drawing Certain or Money Refunded

Whole Tickets, $50; Halves. S25: Tenth, or
each Coupon. IS; Eleven Whole Tickets, $500.
For Tickets. or information, address
THOs. 4. BkAMLETTE.
Agent and Manager. Public Library Building
Louisville Ky,
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RAILROAD TIME TABLES.
MISSISSIPPI AND TENNESSEE r. Il.
Arrives. Loayes.

MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK RAILROAD
Arrives. Leaves.
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A.M.p.M. An. pm.
Mail Train daily..........~ 100 $3.50
Freight and Accounmoda-
tiOn daily................... TAO 600
Sleeping cars on mail train. Depot Center
Landing, foot Of Washington street. Ticket
Offices, 2S7 (cOr. Madisonl and 278 Main street.
L. s. TATE, Asst. Sup't.
Passengers get q GOOD SUPPER or Break
fast at Brinkley's 70 miles from Memphis.
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1t was jolly fight She punched
away at the ivory keys like mad. and the
piano forte nobly.
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FACTS AND FANCIES.

The Chicago models are on a strike
for dollar a pose.
Saturday night thoughts (foi, a young
woman)-What shall wear to morrow
Stop of at WiIliamsporl, Penn, If you
want to see a woman with hair FIVE feet
lon0
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19

The above list OF entries will doubtless AFFORD
magnificent regatta, as many OF the fastest yachts
anoat are among the starters. The Madeleine,
Tidal Wave and Comet Will have hard struggle
for the schooner prize, and possibly the Gypsie
Clio or Vision might show sufficient speed to
carry away some OF the hOnors. The GypSle has
undergone extensive alterations recently ana
her owner expects increased speed. The Sadie,
Undlne aud White Wing are each sloops oil con-
siderable reputation and Will make good race.
Inc Sadie Is very last in rough water, and the
Undlne showed great speed on the day OF the At
lantlc opening. In the second class there are so
many fast boats that 1t would be hard 10 PICK a
winner, out the Schemer or Maggie ). ought TO be
are both new boats that have their laurels 10 win
In the third class the william r. Lee Victoria and
Florence VIII make pretty race.
The judges are Messrs. ID. :. Hines, NJ. M. Van
Dyke ana J. +. Ames. The yachts Will start from
an anchorage IN the following order First gum
to prepare 10 start second gun, for schooners ana
nrst class sloops TO start; third gun, for second
class sloops 10 START aud fourth gun, Tor third
class sloops (open boats 10 start The allowance
OF time Tor schooners and first class sloops will be
based upon the length and breadth OF yacht on
thru class sloops (open boats TO be based upon
length only, one-hali OF overnang included IN
measurements. The yachts Will sail over the fol-
lowing
For schooners and first class sloops from an
choraRe of Bay Ridge 10 stakepoat at South
west Spit passing il from westw ara to southwark
thence 70 lightsnip turning same on the starDoarc
hand, and return 10 home stakeuoat, which VIII
be or Bay Ridge dock. For second class sloops.
rom anchorage TO stakeboat at Southwest Spit,
passing II from the westward to southwark,
thence around stake0OaL at outer bar buoy In
Gedney's Channel, rounding same from sou n
ward TO east1ard thence 10 home stakebOaL
For third class Shops, open boats, from anchor
same from westward TO southwark, thence TO
home stakeboat
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
CREEDMOOR.
TIE NATIONAL GUARD AT BALL PRAcTIcE--rHE
TROOPS WHO WERE OUT YESTERDAY

THE NATIONAL GUARD AT BALL PRAcTIcE--THE
TROOPS WHO WERE OUT YESTERDAY.
Notwithstanding the bad weather yesterday
morning detachments from three regiments OF
the National Guard were out at Creedmoor Tor
ball practice. The First battalion had out twenty
i've non commissioned officers and rank and file
from companies and b, under the i'm
mediate orders or Major Mix. The Eighth
regiment sent out forty-three non-com-
missloned or1cers aud rank and file De-
longing 10 and companies, Captain r. v.
Young being in charge. The Fitty-nith regiment
had Ihrty-four non-commissloned officers ana
rank and file from and l companies on the
ground, under the orders or Captain j. Hay.
Owing, doubtless, TO the incemency OF the
weather, three companies OF the Third Cavalry,
who were to have been before the butts yester-
day, did not reach the pracuce ground. After the
rain began to clear on ABOUT eleven O'CLOCK the
detachments were placed In position on the
ranges and commenced practice at 100 yards dis
lance. This distance, the $50 and 200 Yards
ranges were fired over by hall-past two O'Clock,
at which time the troops fell out OF line and went
TO rations. The clouds now began 10 clear away.
tue SKY TO reveal itself; The occasionally snot
mis- warm beams along the field, and Tor the rest
of the afternoon the drenched mllltiamen mad
splendid weather
AFTER shooting over the Toe ana $50 yard ranges
and 500 yards butts, the Eighth regment sent
nineteen men back aud the Fifty fifth had tour
who qualified for the longer distances A num-
Der oil neld and san officers also shor.
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
THE FOURTH OF JULY.

MILITARY PARADE AND REVIEW by THE MAYOR.
Major General Alexander Shaler, commanding
First division n. G. 5. n. y, has ordered the
troops OF his division 10 turn out IN full dress
uniform, on the 5tn proximo, and parade In cele-
bratIon OF tue ninety-ninth anniversary Of the
Declaration CT Independence OF the united
states. the troops are to be reviewed oY Inc
Mayor. They will be formed In close columns, the
head Uf each column resting on Fllth avenue. Inc
following IS the order or )rmauon:-
separate troop cavalry, In line, on Fnh avenue, be-
tween wcnty- third and twenty second streets.
third brigade on West Twenty seconu street
Battery IS on West Twenty first street
First troop Washington Greys on last twenty first
street
first brigade on West Twentieth street
Battery n on East twentieth street.
THIRD regiment cavalry EAST Nineteenth street
second brigade on West Nineteenth street
IN tins order the division Will march down
Filth avenue ana South Fifth avenue, through
Canal street TO Broadway and up 70 the reviewing
point on the plaza at Union square. Reaching
Seventeenth street anu Fourth avenue the troops
will then be dismissed 90 their respective quarters
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
YACHTING.

PROGRAMME OF THE ANNUAL REGATTA OF THE
BROOKLYN YACHT cLUD-THE COMPETING
YACHTS AND THEIR NUMBERS.
The eighteenth annual regatta or the Brooklyn
Yacht Club will be sailed TO-DAY over the regular
club course The Regatta Committee, Messrs.
John A. Braman. Henry Hentz and B. L. Mallory,
nave been working hard during the past lew
days making all the necessary arrangements and
the entries closed Yesterday az noon. There has
been a complete change IN the officers OF the club
this year, as Commodore Jacob Voorhis, after rve
years. faithful service, resigned early In the
spring, aud at the annual meeting the following
gentlemen were elected to serve for the
season or 1875. Commodore, John s. Dickerson;
vice Commodore, +. II. Stotl; Rear Commodore, M.
T. Davidson; President, T. w. 0strander; Secre-
tary, William 7. Lee; Treasurer, Chauncey NJ. Felt;
Assistant Secretary, George G. Cunning; Measurer,
John N. sawyer; Fleet Surgeon, Samuel Hail, and
Judge Advocate. John Oakley The steamer william
Cook has been chartered by the club for the OF
the members and their guests, and VIII leave
Martins dock Fulton ferry, at half-past ten A. NJ.
The steamer William Fletcher has also been char
tered Tor the use OF the judges and members OF
the press and Will leave the Barge once at half
past eight A. NJ. The following Is a list OF the
entries, with length and sailing numbers
The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-06-19
THE PORTSMOUTH MURDER.

CONDITION OF CASEY, THE WIFE MURDERER
INCIDENTS IN mrs cAREER-HE coxFEssEs
TO THE SHOOTING or JOHN REILLY.
NEWPORT, X. H. June IS 1875.
Robert l.. casey, VINO murdered his vile aud
then shot nimsen, has far recovered as 10 ad-
init or his removal from Portsmouth to the County
JAIN in TINS place, tnis noon. The ball, which en-
tered Inc right nipple, IS lodged at the lower
end OF MA backbone. lie refuses 10 have any sur
g1cal operation performed, ana this evening, when
the HERALD correspondent called tie was suffering
intense pam. lie also refuses TO take any nourish-
meat and SINCE the tragedy. one week ago 10. day,
has eaten nothing but Cruel, and even tnat very
sparlngly. lie stated that II he took proper nour-
Isnment he might live: but nc had no desire 10
live, mad pothlnR i've for and hoped anu prayed
that death might relieve him from his sunerlngs.
He admitted that In 1872 ne was policeman IN
Tamaqua, Schuylkil county, Pa, and IN the course
OF hiH duty he shot John Reilly, leader Of a band or
"Molly MapuIresn TO save has own lie. lie gave
himself up to the autnOriries. After i've davs'
tria he was hOnOraoly acquitted After MS re-
lease nc was Obliged 10 leave the place, the
friends OF tue leader had sworn 20 Kill him.