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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-21
Friday. the s4th day of May. 1875,
Trustees Sale.


Under the provisions and By virtue OF deed
December 20, 1870, and OF due record In the Reg
isters once OF Shelby county in book No. 115, pages
231 and 232, Will, on
Tuesday, May FL, ISIS,
during legal hours proceed to sell, the premises
to the highest bidder, for cash, the following de-
scrtbed real and personal property, VIZ: The house
and lot (house No. 174), on the north side of Car
roll avenue fronting AZ feet said avenue and
running back 1872 feet. Also all the household and
conveyed by said deed Of trust The title Is believed
to be clear and unQuesti0nable, but sell and con-
vey as trustee only. T. n. JOHNSTON. Trustee.
1HlRUsTEE,s SALE.-Under and by virtue OF
- the powers conferred upon me by certain deed
In trust executed by s. +. Caruthers and j. 3 Car
rthers and recorded In the Office OF the Register OF
Shelby county, Tennessee, In book NO lOS page ~,
ct sea- for the purpose of securing the Indebtedness
therein set forth, / will, on Monday, June H,
ISIS at the hour OF II O'Clock m, al the south
west of Main and Madison streets In the city
OF Memphis, sell TO the highest bidder for cash, the
following described real estate, situated In the city
OF Memphis, Shelby county, Tennessee, and de-
scribed as part Of lot No. IL, In block No. 80, In
South Memphis, and more particularly bounded and
described as follows: Beginning at the northeast
corner of St. Martin and Pontotoc Streets and run
ming thence northwardy with the line OF ST. Martin
street SO feet to Stake thence eastwardly ana par
alel with Pontotoc street $50 feet; thence SOUTH
wardly and parallel with ST. Martin street % feet 70
westwardly $50 feet to the begtnning-belng the
same property described In deed from Il. &. whit
field, Jr.. to s. Fannie Carruthers, and recorded IN
book lob, page lob, OF records OF ShelDy county:
the title is good, but sell and Will convey only as
trustee. This 18th day of April, 1878;
AMOS WOODRUFF, Trustee.
B. P. Anderson, AttorneJ.
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Cotton Exchange Quotations.
Cotton Statement

Clean STAINS, 6A@94c; fancy stains, 81
@l0c. Market quiet. Sales, 600 bales; in
GLIDING 200 Saturday evening, all to SPIN
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Reader, are you afflicted

And wish to regain your health strength and energy
of former years? Do any of the following symptoms
meet your diseased condition? Do you feel nervous
debilitated fretful timid and lack the power of will
and action? Are your kidneys, stomach or blood In
disordered condition? Do you suffer from rheuma-
tism, neuralgia or aches and painsP Have you been
indscreet In early years and find yourself harassed
with multitude OF gloomy symptoms? Are you sub
ject to loss of memory have spells of fanting full
ness of blood In the head feel listless mopng, unfit
choly? Are you subject to any of the following
symptoms: restless nights nightmare palpitation Of
in the head dimness of sight, etc.? Thousands of
young men, the middleaged. and even the old suffer
from nervous debility. Thousands of females, too
broken down in health and spirits from disorders
peculiar to their sex: and who from false modesty or
neglect, prolong their sufferngs Why then further
neglect subject of such vital importance when the
remedy can be so easily procured?
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Trustees Sale,

DY virtue of the powers conferred on me by the
d terms of a deed of trust executed and delivered
to me, John W. Allen, trustee, by c. M. Williams,
recorded In book 3d. page 222, of the Registers
Office of Shelby county Tennessee to to j. T.
Allen the Indebtedness therein mentioned and By
virtue of an order entered In the cause of j. II.
Mangum VS.. C. NJ. Williams ct al, No 1900, R. D.,
I'm the Chancery Court of Shelby county Tennessee,
directing me to sell the property mentioned In said
trust deed said debt secured thereby not having been
paid, l WILL on
Friday, the gath day OF May, 1878,
at ~ O'Clock m on the premises offer for sale and
sell to the highest and best bidder, for cash. the fol-
lowing described real estate, to-wit: Being tract
of land situated the ninth civil district OF Shelby
county, Tennessee; Bounded the east by the
lands of Jim Houston colored; on the south by Mrs.
NJ O. Williams, and on the west by NJ. L. Williamss
land; on the north by W. NJ. Williams, with all the
improvements and appurtenances thereon and TO
the same belonging; said tract of land Is estimated
to contain los acres, more or less The equity or
redemption is barred the title Is believed TO be good
but 1 shall sell and convey only as trustee.
JOHN W. ALLEN, Trustee.
Belcher N Jordan Attorneys
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"btIOW ulgH Wdt6r Mdrk OF 1871.
z5 7. 9 7s w vi; y s .;:;s::
200 p.m.I 29.96 80 S.W. % Fair.
900 pm 5000 lac g. % Fair.
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ELECTRIC BELTS.
ELECTRIC BELTS.
HELP!
For the Weak,
Nervous and
Debi1itated.
DIR. HASBROUCK'S
ELECTRIC BELTS.

TINE afflicted can now be restored to perfect health
L and bodily energy without the use of medicine
OF any kind and without the slightest Inconvenience
to the patients habits or daily occupation.
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Increase of receipts at United States ports
this week, 2l9, 822 bales, against ZIG, 961 bales
last week. Worlds visible supply, May
10th, 2, 451 ,066 bales, against 1920, $40 bales
the same time last year.
The following shows the weeks movement
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Maximum thermometer, 81 deg.
Minimum Thermometer, 70 deg.
WIN. MELROY. Sgt. Sig. Ser. u. 8. A.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
More Marine Monsters.

Whatever may be ultimately decided
as to the existence or non-exlstence OF
the sea serpent, it seems plain that there
exist at the bottom of the sea monsters
quite equally worthy of the name OF le-
viathan. The most hideous and gigantic
of these deniaens of the deep sea OF
which tradition speaks belong to the
starfish or octopus species, and it was
the bodies, or rather fragments of bodies,
of creatures of this sort which were col
lected and placed in the museums at
Utrecht and Amsterdam afler the storms
of 1889 and 1879. Professor Steenstreep,
who is an authority i'll these matters,
describes sea monster which was
thrown ashore in 1853, the head Of which
was as fat as that of robust child.
Eight years later, the captain OF a small
French vessel claimed to have seen of
the coast Of Teneriffe another OF these
creatures, more than fifteen feet long,
without counting its huge arms. This
last was swimming or floating at the
time on the top of the water, and chase
ensued, but without any further success
than that of tearing off and securing
some morsels OF the fins and skin. Last
year. however, during the tremendous
1
storm of September, it seems that a
complete specimen of similar prodigy
was cast ashore in Newfoundland. A
description of it is given by the Jou'nat
Niustfe, whereby it appears that it was
no less than nine feet long and six feet
in circumference, and had the arms OF
feelers covered with some 1000 suckers
Of an inch each in diameter, two of the
arms being as much as twenty eight feet
long. When the brute was first found
it was still alive, and was glariDg saw
agely with eyes which were literally
like those Of the fabulous dogs, as big
as saucers, measuring five or six inches
across. II was at this time of dark re
color, but in a very few minutes after
being left high and dry it died, and the
color both of its body and OF its limbs at
once faded away to dull white. Only
one thing is wanting to the account in
the Journal Hustre, and that is state
ment what became Of the fish wher
captured, and where so valuable a Curl
osity is now to be seen on exhibition.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
The Electric Light.

The first experiment. with the electric
light in Berlin, was made recently, in
the new synagogue in Oranienburg
street, before large crowd of people.
In the courtyard of the building sta
tionary apparatus furnished the light,
which was conducted over the roof into
two of the five round windows, whence
the light streamed down on the syne-
gogue below. The effect was astonish-
ing. The light was SO brilliant that it
Illuminated the gallery and the remotest
corners of the edifce. The splendor Of
the light was vivid, but not offensive to
the sight. In comparison with gas, the
result is as follows Gas, per hour, S15
the electric light, 81 for the same time.
The apparatus costs several thousand
marks. The synagogue was also Lit up
outside by the electric light, bringing Il
out as bright as day, aud producing a
most magical effect. Gas burned along
side Of the electric light looked pale, and
was, as it We're, thrown into the shadow
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
A Man Consumed in a Blast Furnace.

A frightful accident occurred at the
works of Messrs. William Whitwell &
Co., pig iron manufacturers, South
Stockton, England. About eight o'clock
the hopper of No. furnace was charged
with ironstOne, ETC., by man named
James Higgins and other woikmen, aud
in order to allow the material to fall into
the furnace an attempt was made to
apparatus, which fits int the ring OF
bottom of the hopper-about two feet
into broader space. In consequence
OF having been raised too rapidly Gu the
/ previous occasion the bell had become
tightly iammed in the upper part OF
the ring, and could not he moved. Two
or three expedients were tried without
effect, and ultimately Higgins procured
large hammer, tleaped on to the hell,
and struck it blow. The apparatus
Immediately sank into the broader space,
and Higgins unfortunately went with it.
A groan was heard, but nothing could
be seen of the poor fellow, he having
passed with the material beneath the
bell into the furnace. The blast was at
once thrown off, and a powerful current
Of air forced in, but the horrible smell
which rose proved that the poor fellows
body was being rapidly consumed, and
not the slightest portion, OF course, was
recovered. The burial service of the
Roman Catholic Church, to which the
deceased belonged, was read by the
Rev. Mr.. Shanahan on the top OF the
furnace shortly after the accident. The
deceased was married man, and leaves
widow and several children.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
Comparative Value of Woods.

1t is a great convenience to know the
comparative value of different kinds of
wood for fuel. Shellbark hickory is re-
garded as the highest standard of our
forest trees, and calling that 100, other
trees will compare with it for real value
as fuel for house purposes as follows (:
Shellbark hickory, 100; pignut hickory,
So; white oak, "a white ash, II dog
wood. 70; scrub oak, IS; white hazel,
72; apple tree, 70 red oak, 67 I; white
beech, 65 black birch, 62 yellow oak,
60; hard maple, So; white elm, 58 red
cedar, Sc ; wild cherry, So yellow pine,
"a chestut, 50; yellow poplar, 81
butternut and white birch, 43 white
pine, 80. 1t is worth bearing in mind
that in woods Of the same species there
is great difference, according TO the
soil on which they grow. A tree that
grows on q wet, low, rich ground will
be less solid and less durable for fuel
and therefore Of less value than tire,
of the same kind that grows on a dr.,
and poor soil. To the ordinary pur
chaser oak is oak and pine is pine, bu
for home use, the tree grown on dry up
land and standing apart from others Il
worth great deal more.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
"CHINA town."



A Chinese eating house, writes San
Francisco correspondent, is usually
three-stories. The first floor is for cook
ing, and the apparatus Is very extensive.
The second floor has tables for common
folks. The third story is for grandees
and distinguished people. The princi-
pal living is pork and chickens. The
food is prepared in small saucers, and
sells "two bits" (three shillings) for
three dishes. A grand dinner was in
preparation. The table was set for fif-
teen persons. Around each plate was a
cluster Of toy dishes, cups and glasses.
The tea is steamed and then put into
these tiny cups, and is said to be deli.
cious. Amid the jargon of rude music
the company, chattering like a cotton
mill, sat playing cards and dominoes.
Lodging-houses swarm with Chinese
of the lower order, like bees. From ten
to fifteen persons occupy each room.
They sleep on shelves, and are crowded
into every imaginable place. The room
All sorts of labor are carried on in the
room, where all people crowd. Chairs
are mended, shoes soled, and the buzz
of the sewing machine blends with other
noises.
joss houses are numerous. The prin-
cipal temples are very costly. A carved,
wooden image of Joss holds the place OF
honor over the altar. He squats--a
regular Mongolian, with a huge black
bead covering his breast. He would not
make bad likeness of Bacchus. The
ikenesses of Joss are similar everywhere.
The ornaments are gold, and the paint
ings-red and yellow-would adorn a
circus. The names of prominent donors
are conspicuously posted up.
All Cinnamon can read and write in
their own language. They claim 80, 900
words, and these are used as signs. An
ordinary accountant can easily keep the
books Of the heaviest merchant. They
count by means OF a frame filled with
buttons. 1t is something like school
frame for adding and multiplying. They
use no pen and no figures. They can
add up the hen West sum with the veloc-
ity OF thought on the machine. They
run an account from 81 TO 915, 900 with
surprising accuracy. Some of the local
tiles of Chinatown are positively danger
Gus, even with an officer. Among these
is High Binders Lane. where murders
are often committed. 1t is the abode of
the desperate and daring. Their mum.
bers are countless. They have trap
doors for the unwary and refugees in
which they hide from the officers of the
law. They come upon their victim in
droves, rob him, maltreat him, some
times scar him with knives. They are
out of sight in moment. They look so
much alike that no one can identify them.
No Chinese was ever know to betray
another or testify against him in court.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
Items of Interest.

All the best fashions in cloaks and
dresses are originated in this country.
Cincinnati claims to have originated
the first baby show, and the youngster
who took the first prize is still living.
New Mexico has discovered an iron
mountain 10, 500 feet high, but it is 30
far from market that she will trade it TO,
an old shotgun and dog.
The fishermen of Venice have Gcenss
to fish in any citizens cellar after 1o
o'clock at night. See what too much
water would do for this country.
Here is problem for scientists: Why
is it that in winter overshoes are called
Arctic, while they keep us warm; and III
summer soda water is called Arctic, and
keeps lis cool?
Kate Field writes: "T'he best friends
l have in the world are American men,
and if I have not married one it is be.
cause love too many of them"
The customs returns Mt New York
show large increase in the imports OF
Japanese goods, the trade between the
United States and Japan having grown
nearly three hundred per cent. since the
Centennial exhibition.
A man may elude a disagreeable
creditor for q long while sometimes, but
there's one thing in this uncertain vale
of tears he can't dodge. When sneeze
has business with a fellow, it always
finds him at home. Cincinnati Break
fast Table.
Workmen employed in digging for the
foundations of the arches of the Brook
| 1r,, I,,.J raaa,t11,
upon an old English bayonet, fourteen
feet under ground, which was much
eaten by rust, but in which the crown OF
England was still traceable.
The organization formed in New York
fourteen years ago to protect working
women from unscrupulous and rascally
employers has done an immense amount
OF good 1t has brought six thousand
defrauders Of helpless women to justice,
aud has Gent many Of them 10 prison.
/ The aynpashes.c HAN o. the Burling-
/ ton H0ckegs aays. " One aG sa4 most
/ pitii1l sp@.SaG..s IN stIs Gr7Isi winter
weather II sts sieti5 at u s1rT=Ting
7 Way. who f0olea fr9InG II 6te BfzsGLan
I sCln.saIne rrntul hlR hGute wpss' Gt0ars'1 !or
4 hG. ae,iss,lo, M,S hls lcGits,f @vi vIii&out a
hight key u hls pncaar.
/ A View York biI-lI,i sLl.t- Vas en-
5trs,i by thieves c,r Ing ago. Their
Z c1sfsiz7is wEsrs t,r-.1rBts,i oy Inc appear
I1cs 0t iv3 heEr.- VIZ we're supposed
tc hs ch.E-sfi- by-i Ek.o -alked into the
saIcCu ah,1Ci The szE-s time as the burg
Llrz- The mise made by the bruins
Irovz.ssti every body in the house, and the
burglars escaped into the street at once.
A STORY OF CHINESE LOVE.
The festive All Goo
And Too Hay, the fair
/ They met, and the two
/ Concluded to pair.
They "spooned in the way
That most lovers do,
And Ah Goo kissed Too Hay,
And Too Hay kissed All Goo.
Said the festive All Goo,
As his heart swelled with pride,
Me heap likee YOU
You heap be my blide."
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
Break Of Day.

Cruel white waves in sad under-tone
Break at my feet with desolate moan.
Far in the distance as eye can reach,
Only long strip of sandy beach.
Backward and forward, to left, to right,
Blacker the darkness upon the night.
Rugged and silent the mountains loom,
Pitiless shadow of coming DOOM
Is there no herald of dawning day
Over the ocean 80 cold and gray?
Waiting, l watch on the shore in vain:
Fast throbs my heart with its bitterest pain.
Turn from the desolate moaning sea
1t hath no part in thy life or thee.
Dreary the path where no flowers bloom
By rugged shore through the mountains gloom.
Thine is the burden with weary feet,
Brave not despairing, thy Fate go meet
From pain no longer a coward shrink
Though the cup is bitter, thy lips must drink.
Earthward no more turn thy fearful gaze:
Who works in earnest, in earnest prays.
The rough dark road thou wouldst fain forget ?
Upward and onward The end is not yet.
Lo the mountains crown, on the ebony night
CLOVIS with glory Of rosy light!
Dark in the valley the sea is gray;
But the hilltop burns, the beacon OF day.
A frey shaft from the golden East
Enkindles the alter where God is Priest
Rosy lights creep down the mountain-side,
Flushing the slow heaving, swelling tide.
Rainbow Of promise high overhead
Tells the Day coming with silent thread.
Slowly the curtain of night is furled;
Slowly the light Of God blesses the world.
Through the shimmering gold Of breaking day
white-winged sail is speeding its way.
Ah blessed Day. full Of hope newborn,
That brings my love in its happy dawn!
Shine out in the sky o glorious sun
The end is not yet. Life has Just begun.
Ellis Gray in Harpe's Magazine for Jds,-
uar
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
A Forgotten Festival.

Little more than couple of genera
tions ago, the 25th of November was a
holiday in many parts of the Midland
agricultural districts in England. No
matter what might be the state OF the
weather, no interruption OF the festivi-
ties was allowed, however great might
be the discomfort Of those taking part III
the Catherine Procession" In the
towns, those taking part in the process
sions We're principally female children
belonging to the work-houses, who dis
carded for the nonce their customary
workhouse attire, aud appeared neatly
dressed in white, decorated with various
colored ribbons, chiefly scarlet, the tall.
est girl being selected to represent the
queen, or rather saint, for which purpose
she was provided with tinseled crown
or sceptre. The procession invariably
made a stop at the dwellings, of the prin,
cipal townsmen, when the children sang
a ballad beginning thus:
"Here comes Queen Catherine, as fine as an,
queen.
With coach and Elk horses a-coming to b,
seen
Add a-spinning we will 80, will go, will 20
And a-spnning we will go!'
While this was being sung, several o
the children would beg for money at the
neighboring houses, the proceeds being
devoted to defraying the cost of the pro
cession and providing the little ones Will
the unwonted luxury of good dinner.
One of the most famous of these pro
cessions was that at Peterborough, whicl
was continued until the introduction O.
the new poor law, when the Catherine
Professions " became things of the past
Previous to this, spinning constituted
the principal occupation of the female
inmates of the work houses, hence the
origin of the festival, st. Catherine being
popularly regarded as the patron saint
of this particular industry. She was
also regarded in similar light by the
Midland lace makers, many Of whom
sigualize the arrival OF " Kattern's Day
with rump steak and onion dinner al
example largely emulated by the North
amptonshire shoemakers, who evidently
think more OF Kattern Supper thar
of "Crispin Dinner" But these
festival meals furnish a poor substitut,
for the picturesque features whicl
formerly marked the celebration of St
Catherine's Day, which already display
indications of speedily becoming addet
to the lengthy list of forgotten festivals
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10

ing the price, where the volume does not exceed
one hundred and fifty pages, at forty cents wnere
it exceeds hundred and fifty pages and does not
exceed three hundred pages, at sixty cents and for
all volumes containing over three hundred pages,
one dollar. ... ma
In conclusion, beg leave to renew my recon-.
mendaions of last year, concerning forests, exemp-
ton laws, poll taxes and board of health-to pre-
serve the frsi prevent the waiver OF the second to
equalize the third and establish the last.
CONCLUSION.
Assembling after the grave events of the year and
confronted by the great questions to which they
have given prominence, 1t is scarcely possible to
exaggerate the importance OF your labors have
endeavoredto lay before you an authentic statement
of facts, and point out wherein, in my judgment,
the machinery of goveI eInment can be improved.
Whether or not these views meet your approval, l
heartily pledge, in advance, my cordial cooperation
I'm any legislation that will give PENNSYLVANIA a
strong and just government, which can protect the
good citizen in all his rights and open to the igno-
rant, the prejudced and even the criminal the way
to refinement and self-supporting industry. The
Divine government that designs the salvation Of the
meanest of men should be our model, and we should
earnestly strive to enlarge the circle of Intelligence
and prosperity until it embraces all classes Of the
people. y. J. +. HABTRASFT.
HARRISBURG, January 2, 1873.
The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-10
Horse-Sh0eIng.

In the United States, England and
France, the horse-shoer simply takes the
horses foot on his knee to shoe it. This
depends to some extent on the nature of
the breed OF horses, which in some coun.
tries are, on the average, more shy, and
most of them could not we'll be treated
in this way. Thus, in the Netherlands,
and in parts of Germany, the horse is
placed in narrow stall, where short
chains are attached to the uprights; then
one of these chains is placed around the
horses ankle and the foot lifted and tied
up to convenient height for the smith
to do his work. In Turkey and Servia
the horses head is held by one man, an
other holds the leg on his arm, while the
third operates on the foot. In Russia
the horse is placed in square cage,
made of rough wooden planks, and is
strapped around the belly with wide
leather straps attached to cross bars of
framework; his head is also safely tied,
the foot is fixed to stake in the ground
and is held by an assistant, while the
smith nails on the shoe.