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NOVELTIES IN PAPER.-A corresp ,ndent
wheels are made Of paper I'VE can assure
MN that 1t is. The paper is subjected to
thin plates of IRON Such wheels are found to
have extraordinary elasticity and endurance,
and are coming TO be much used not only in
city in use Of paper appears to be for CHM hE
ney pots: They are made in Breslau, and are
light and durable. Before the paper pulp is
moulded and compressed into the required
der it non-infammable. Specimens of paper
and cloth made from the California cactus
were recently exhibited before the Maryland
Academy of Sciences. The cactus grows
abundantly in many of the Western states and
territories, and it Is found On arid soil where
nothing can I've cultivated. The success that
plant is so marked that the business will
probably be attempted On a large scale
journal of ChemiStrv
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A FINE ENGLIsH MELTON SUIT, THE
"A best In the city, at
apso A. STRAUSS. lou Penn. eve.
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FIJI The as,, PLEA s, OF MED1oCR1rr-T
Frenchman who said of the English girls sing
ing that it was "magnifique, Splendid, SUB
lime, pretty good, had no idea that the last
part of the compliment was a bathos. Per
haps ne was right, though the opinion of the
We Morid mas I certainly gone against him. Per
maps a work OF any sort of art which "pretty
good gives no less pleasure, or more (and to
give pleasure Is. after all, it's end.) than any
tremendous composition in the grand style. If
you don't care for the grand style, or Know
W VIVA II u.s. then, says poet in the most devout
to asS*, the grand style only to neglect what is
mornings, the INDECENT, easy pleasures of liter
ature: II think in my heart" said Thacke-
ray before he was famous, before he was the
author of Vanity Fair, II am fonder of pref
~ third rate pictures than of your great, thun-
derlng first rates. Confess how many times
you have read Beranger, and how many Mil,
ton. II you 60 to the Star and Garter, don't
you grow sick of the vast luscious landscape.
and long for the sight of a couple of cows, or a
donkey, and few yards of common" One
suspects people who do not enjoy the common
nature, and the art which is not uncommon, of
caring very little for either one or the other
The Saturday ReCieD.
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WHAT A VAST BOON to the slang singers of
the country this whole Beecher business has
Deen! Look at the contributions to the yocab-
glary. Ragged edge, true inwardness, step
down and out, parOxysmal kisses, quickened
conscience, and host of other phrases i'm
use. And some OF them adopted into good
sober use tool Boston Post - ~"
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18There are even those who vote national
expOsitiOns bore, and who would rather be
in Paris any year than this.
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SPECIAL NOTICE.

LADIES FINE BOOTS for snrtns vss, q,
own make for sale At very reasonable
prices. U3
JAS. H. yERMILYA.
go pfk street.
Opposite Patent Once
notice. mean -,
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THE CATHOLICS AND THE SAVINGS Banks
"A circular t.H signed by Archbishop Williams
Sf WAS read in the Roman
sislns thelr people to refrain from attempting
to withdraw their deposits from the savings
they sasRed a be They
comes not from any change that has taken
place in the workings OF the savings bank sys.
lem, not from any falling off in the character
or aDlllty OF the men who conduct it, but chief.
~ from weakening of confidence, which.
While not without causes that may be traced
Is nevertheless for the most part unreasonable,
appeal to you in The interest of the cOmmunitv
at large, in behalf of the continued Industrial
deVe!oPment OF our resources, and for your
less withdrawal of your savings from these in
ST.. utlOns expressly organized for your use and
9eneht by the wisdom of the state, and con
iaucied. as we beIeve, solely with these objects
IN view, and that, too, gratuitOuSly, by men of
honesty, prudence and ability. We also think
1t well to caution you against self seeking spec
9 uaaG who, by playing On your fears, may
DOCKS at much less than their actual value"
A PErR1F1ED WoMAN.-A singular die.
eOvery has been made on board the Irving. a
full-rigged vessel recently arrived in En- yfand
from Peru. The body of a woman was found
Oh the be5gS which consisted Of
preservation, and it is supposed to be that of
a victim OF an earthquake which occurred
nan mafy years ago IN Peru. The body is at pre-
sent lying IN the captains bathroom in a
c0uchlng position: Rings are inserted in the
ears.-E Chitidn Times. 'A'o
NINA RICHARDSON, Richmond belle. at
tended temperance meeting, and pinned the
emD!emat1c blue ribbon on her breast She
was led to this conspicuous action by the ar
gument that the example would do a great
deal OF good. That night she did not Sleep
well, owing TO the excitement caused by her
puollc performance. She got out of bed i'm
freak OF somnambulism, fell down stairs, and
was seriously injured.
WHAT A VAST BOON to the slang singers of
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NEW STOCK OF
u Az n OES
WIN fancy H ~ u 90, III IS, $50, yiB
IVORY HANDL ES '0'' ''0'
PEARL 1NLAID HANDLER
r. FRENCH HORN HANDLES
lI Plain and Twilled Silk. Is inches 20 inrhss
22 inches, "a inches, at o'
C. NJ. wSoN a cos
CSC Pennsylvania aren1.,
"!fH South Side
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NINE. l.. p. yEANNERET Is SELL
ANL ING OPERA HATS anu BONSFTs -
a. el2 and us, former prices so aud S25 ~
$3.50 wishes 10 inform her Gus omers and H~
the ladies' In general that all orders for ele- ~
CANT Partisan Dressmakins sent 10 Is Nora
Charles ST.. Baltimore and aSg Peonsyly AHA ave-
A perfect At guaranteed msyetr
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LADIES GOODS.
lust RECEIVED

One Case LEGH0RN FLATS
One ase FAYkL SHADE HATS A
"A no the largest aud cheapest assortment S~
In the city.
Ms NJ l. HINT
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Piodoou nc MAJOR remarkably well at nrSt
glance. Not that 1t was exactly elegant, but
1t reminded him of his old Lise: it had almost
ihe same ngure and Color only that OF course
it was much younger and more spirited. Lise
had had white streak on the forehead, three
white fetlOcks and white foot; while this
horse was without mark, excepting a faint
mixture OF white on the left hind foot. The
and wayy tail. The Major mounted the
suited him admirably. His wife was also
The tradesman for thirty three gold pieces, and
the new bay went into the stable in the Linden
Strasse, into the same stall where LiSe had
stood SO many years.
The stable boy who led the new horse home
stared with establishment.
old hiS ias Looks almost exactly like our
nma looks ss q, e gds Herr ASx strangely the
..iNonsense, Friedrich" replied his master,
y Inis horse comes from a very fine stock.
wen wen, ;, and nd. 50 did Lise, that is ---oh,
And the Major went up to his room very
much pleased at the bargain. At last he had a
fSs sised Se The morning
to the RomndnGetur. Strange to saw. as the
Major came out of the door the animal turned
his head and watched him. 1t startled the
head as though amused at his own foiiy.
Nonsense" he murmured, giving the bay
some sugar: He mOunted-the horse made no
movement like Lise to facilitate that under
taking, so there was some little Difficulty in
getting into the saddle. Well, he would soon
learn that. They started, the spaniel ran to
the door and barked, the boy stool below,
the wife at the window above, and looked
after him. 'Heighday!' cried the neighbDrs,
the Major has a new horse" 1t was quite
an event. The bay went as straight as an ar
row; the Major sitting proudly in the saddle
did not notice how well he knew the way. At
the garrison he received the congratulations
of the Adjuncts.
my soul, Herr. Majorr cried one of the
cavalry; THAT is your old Lise again"
How? What? You are mistaken my dear
Boursdorf-where are your eyes?" cried the
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! MEMPHIS TENN. SATURDAY EVENING. MARCH 2. 1878

bouquets and diamond fi6gson her,
when he was not annoying her with
his suspicious and his sometimes
vehement abuse. She actually dis
liked him, but it did not surprise
those who know her strange, erratic
temperament, when she suddenly
threw up her engagement without
a word Of notice, and went South
with him, pawning her few remain
ing diamonds to pay his debts,
among which was included the
florists bill for the very flowers the
bogus general" " used ostentatious-
ly to present her.
A better hearted, more generous,
more unsel6sh creature never lived.
Unhappy, bitterly and cruelty dis
appointed years ago, careless and
reckless in the extreme, she would
give weeks salary to a beggar and
90 without-if she should be ap-
pealed to at the right moment. She
has seen more of the emptiness and
vanity Of human life than most of
her contemporaries in the profess
sion, and has every reason for the
cynicism which is her chief charac-
teriStic NOWADAYS. She is now
travelling about in thyt monstrosity
of Sula, which was recently damned
at Booths Theater in this city.
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PAULINE MAEKHAx's CAREER

New York Dramatic NeWs.l
The Sun last week introduced
Miss Pauline Markham to the pub
lie in a new character, viz, as a
member Of the Chamberlain Scott
Cardoza-Kempton ring of South
Carolina. Our humorous cotem-
porary alleges that Miss Markham
was induced, for a considerable in.
terdst in the result, to join hands
with the daring arpet-baggers, who
wheedled Governor Scott into sign
ing the immense illegal issue of
State bonds which has emitted from
well-known hotel in New York.
The fair Pauline, it is ayerred, en-.
tered heartily into the arrangement,
and with her own shapely hands
made up the packages Of bonds as
fast as the infatuated governor
signed them.
If the story be true, it is only an
rother incident in a very varied and
adventurous life. Pauline Mark
ham, or Margaret Hall (the latter
being her English name), is the
daughter of English people of the
middle class, and was born in Lon
don about thirty years ago. When
she was quite young the elegance of
her form and the beauty of her
voice gave her quitea a reputation in
her immediate neighborhood. Her
vocal talent had been generously
cultivated, and she was at one time
destined for the operate stage.
When she came to America in
1868, as a member OF the Thomp.
son troupe, she impressed herself
on the susceptibility of youthful
New York to a degree unparalleled
before or since, The list of young
men who literally = ruined themselves
to present her with diamonds and
other jewelry is a very long one
Two well known members Of upper
tendon had to leave the country,
and one Of them, since happily
married to leader of society, com
mitted forgeries which his father
made good with extreme difficulty.
Nor were the simpleteHs eff the
country her only oaptives. One of
the best known and most prosper
ous literary men in America, despite
domeatiO warfare, advertised his In
fatuation in a leading magazine,
When she left Lydia Thompson's
party she for u time sank into a
privacy we do not care to invade,
and after several minor experiences
she waS engaged TO play "Stalaeta"
in the Black Crook. During her
engagement she was introduced to
o Texan geperal--a fellow who pro-
iessed immensely, but amounted to
very little in fact lie offered mar.
riage, and was always shoWeFlpg
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THE BATTLE OF THE SECOND.
One of tho Mistakes OF the GeGtys
burg Campaign.
General James Longstreet in Philadelphia
Weekly Times

One Of tho Mistake en- OF the GeGtys
burg Campaign.
General James Longstreet in Philadelphia
Weekly Times.
My opinion Of the cause of the
failure of the battle of the 2d, as
given at the time, is very Succinctly
stated by Colonel Freemantle on
page 1873 of his "Three Months in
the South" He says, quoting me
she said the mistake they made
was in not concentrating the army
more and making the attack on the
Sd with 10000 men instead of 15,-
000."* ! doubt now if 10000 men
could have made a successful at
tack, if Colonel Taylor is correct in
his idea as to the manner in which
General Lee would have fought
them. lie says that General Lee
ordered that the column should 90
to the attack with its right flank
exposed to the enveloping forces on
the Federal left. Under this dispo.
sition | do not think 10000 men
could have successfully made the
attack. The battle should not have
been made under the circumstances,
We should have drawn every thing
up on the night of the 1st and
made a quick move by our right
flank on the morning of the I'd SO
as to seize the Emmettsburg road.
Had we done this we should either
have been attacked--the very thing
we had been hoping and mourning
for-or we should have dislodged
Meade from his position without
striking a blow. If we had been
attacked we should have ceFtaInly
repHlsed it. Had Meade deserted
disposition without striking a blow
in its defense the moral effect IN our
favor would have been tremendous.
10 show that one Of these results
would certainly have followed, |
quote Q dispatch sent in cipher
from General Meade to General
Halleck ipat before my battle on
the I'd. The dispatch reads; eff
not attacked and | can getany posi-.
tive information Of the enemy which
will justify me in doing so, will
attack. If l find it hagspdous to
do so and am satisfied that the enc
my is endeavoring to move to my
rear and interpose between mo and
Washington, shall fall back on
my supplies at Westminster If.
however, no decisive result had fol-
lowed Immediately upon the flank
movement that shoNid have been
made an the night of the LIST or the
morning of the Cd, the thirteen
days that elapsed between our first
rencoatre and our recrosaing Of the
Potomac would have surely given
time and opportunity for different
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TIE TWO GLASSES.


There sat two glasses illed to the brim,
On rich mans table, rim TO rims
One was rudy and red as blood,
And one as clear as the crystal food.
Said the glass Of wine to the paler brother:
Let us tell the tales of the past to each other;
can tell OF banquet and revel and mirth,
And tho ptoudest and erandest souls on earth
Fell under my touch. as though struck by
blight.
When | was king, for ruled in might.
From the head Of kings ] have torn the crown,
From The nights Of fame have hurled men
down;
have blasted many an honest name,
have taken virtue and given shame;
have tempted the youth with a sip tastq,
That has made his future barren waste.
Far greater than king am /,
Or than any army beneath the sky.
have made the arm of tbs driver fail,
And sent the train from the iron rail;
have made good ships 60 down at sea,
And the shrieks of the lost we're sweet % me;
For they said, - Behold how great you be
Fame, strength, wealth, genius before you
fall,
For your might and power are over all.
Il :, no pale brother" laughed the wine.
Can you boast OF deeds as great as miner"
Said the water glass: "I cannot boast
Ot KING dethroned, or a murdered host,
But can tell Of heart once sad,
by my crystal drops made light and glad
Ut thirsls I've quenched. or brows I've laved,
Of hands | have cooled and souls L have
saved
have leaped thr ugh the valley and dash ed
down the mountain,
Flowed in the river and played in the foun-
tain.
Sept in the sunshine and dropped from the
sky,
And everywhere gladdeued the landscape and
eyei
1 have easod the hot forehead of fever and
paia,
have made the parched meadows grow fer
tile WITH grain,
can tell of the pOwe' full wheel at the mill,
That ground out tho flour and turned at my
will;
can oil Of manhood debased by you,
That lifted and crowned anew.
l cheer, help, strengthen and aid.
gladden. the heart Of man and maid
| So the chined wine captive free,
And all are better from knowing me,
There are the tales they told each other,
The glass Of wine and paler brother,
As they sat together, filed to the brim,
On The rich mans table, rim to rim.
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AGAIN, Wnen ne was asked Tor his
benediction, he gave it, and said:
vi salute addio. His breath grew
more and more heavy-it could be
heard in the outer rooms-and so
it continued on through the bright,
clear February afternoon. The
Vatican court princes and princes
ses, Guardia Mobile, young children,
heirs of old historical papal titles,
crowded the halls, all kneeling,
reciting rosaries and weeping. |
stood in the Loggie of Raffaelle and
looked over at the snow-coyered
Apprentices, the beautiful hill slopes
and villages with famous ancient
names; on the noble outline of
Rome; down on the crowded Court
of st. Damaso, where stood the
rows and rows Of great heavy black
cardinal coaches with horses that
might have stepped out of an old
Greek bas relief. | heard the birds
singing, the fountain waters plash-
ing, crowds of people coming and
going, each and all occupied with
the same thought-Pius * is dy-
ing 1t was very solemn and affect
ing. | almost iapcied / could hear
the heavy death-rattle of the dying
pope.
GIT is OVER"
AT five o'clock | went to the
P-di--. found her in tears,
praying, walking up and down her
salon. She said: at was not over
when / left the Vatican. Let us
pray that he may be saved. The
Cardinal -- has promised to
send word as soon as it is ended. "
While we were talking servant
entered with the cardinals note
"It is over. AS the Ave Maria
bell rang his holiness ceased to
breathe" We talked over the sad
event with great emotion then
drove over to the Vatican alone.
The streets were very crowded; the
bridge of st. Angelo was thronged;
in the piazza of st. Peter there were
rows of carriages and groups oI
people; the Vatican was full ol
light. | could readily imagine the
cardinal camerlengo going with bis
silver hammer to the dead body
and touching the icy forehead three
times, crying Pho Mono at each
blow. Then the tramp Of the Guar.
dfa Mobile entering the room Of
death, and the kneeling Cappellani
Segreti and the Oameriere SECRET
reciting prayers for the repose Of
the dead pope; the clankiug oI
swords in that room where weapon;
never enter with a living pope, fol
DO person can come into the private
room of any but a dead pope with
his arms. The greatest generals
must take off their swords and
leave them outside the papal au-
dience chamber; but when the
pope is dead, then the Guardia No.
bile guard the body with drawn
swords ANNIE RREWsTER
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GOOD ADVICE % the BOYS.


Probably not one in a hundred
caA do any one thing thoroughly.
They can all dig away at anything
that comes handy" but, as for ex-
ceiling in any trade, business, art
or profession, that is utterly out Of
the question. One of these young
men calls upon us; perhaps he is a
graduate Of some college, has his
diploma and plenty of recommen-
dationS from clergymen aud men,
bers of congress. We ask him what
he can do? He is not particular
can turn his hand to most anything.
We give him trial, and find he
cannot write a decent hand, nor
spell or punctuate correctly, nor
write with any degree of rapidity,
nor read a strange manuscript, nor
do anything whatever with prompt
ness and judgment, which is requi-
site in business. He has no knOwl-
edge of any subject; has simply a
iumbled mass of information, which
may be sound or otherwise, and
which he cannot turn to any prac-
teal account. He has been all his
life reading about how things are
done instead of learning to do
them.
This is wrong. Young men
should reduce their education to
practice as they go long. They
should learn to do. They should
study less-practice, or work more !;
read less and think more; that in
stead of being useless, superficial,
imbecile, autoniata, they may be-
come thorough, practical, executive
men, capable of doing what they
undertake, to the last degree Of
perfection, and with vigor aud
rapidity in keeping with the char
acteristics of the age,
IA stitch in time saves nine" 4 Dot.
| tl,, Of Dr pnllis nonrL Cr.,- ..lI r..
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RAiLR0ADe.
MEMPHIS And CHARLESTON
RAILROAD.

1oHEDULE ON AND AFTER FEBRUARY
" o, ISIS:
Mail and Express. dsily-ll.55 pm 5.45 pm
PVSecSpiiIs s9xcSpt sundayj...... % @ 5.oOp.m 8lSa.m
Grand junction accomo-
dation daily Except
SRturd urday.................... t,Su pm o.tV " III
Time Twenty inmates Faster than
City Ttme.
The u. .55 p.u. rain makes the quick
o@t time ever made to Chattanooga, Knox
Vile, Lynchburg, Washington, and the East,
and will stop ut all Regular Stations, and at
Flag Stations when tagged, except ! lag Sta
hons between Collierville and Memphis.
SOmervtlle train wAtl st0p a. reg
nlar and flag stations.
The IL .55 p IN. train makes close connection
ut Gran / junction for all oints s0uth.0 on Chi
caeo, st. Louis and New Orleans railroad.
The 30 N. makes close connection for
jackson. Tenn, and all points north Of Grand
Junction.
Memphis and Charleston railroad.
JOHN A. GRANT,
Chief Engineer and General sup't.
I. S. DAVANT,
1A0+ Assistant General Passenger Agent.
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MEMPNls & little ROCK R.R.
ShrOt Line to Arkansas and Texas.
TINE OARDi
Mail trafn. 5,8Op,m, hi. md

Leaves. Arrives.
Mail train, daily.-:....,...5.3O 80 pm. 11.30 pm.
Freight train daily Tex.
sunday. ...........7. 90 am. $50 p. m.
Passengers going on this road will Ia ko
vile and Great Southora railroad. Mail
trains make close connection at Argents for
points on the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad and at Little Rock with the Cairo
and Fulton railroad for points in Southwest
Arkansas and Texa5.
pullman alace Sleeping Cars on all night
brains.
For tickets and information apply at Ticket
ofices 27s and 2T Main street, and at depot
foot Of Washington street, or at Louisville,
Nashville and Great Southern railroad depot,
OF to the undersigned
r. A. WILLIAMS, Pass. Ag't, Memphis.
M. s. JAY. q. P. AID T. Ag't, Little Rock.
w. i. SMITH, Sup't, Memphis Tenn.
I12-f
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cit seems from recent publications
that my column of attack on the Sd was
only about 10000. 1t was given me as
$4,000 men at the time.
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1850 pm. Eight Expression Saturday
this train runs only to Milan Connects at
Milan for st. Louis and Chicago; at Nc
Kenzie for Nashville. Chattanooga, Atlanta
and the Southeast; at Guthrie for Hopkins
Vile, Henderson and Evansville; at Louis
Vile for all points North and East.
HOO am. Day txpress-Connects for St.
Louis and Chicago. at Louisville for all
points North and East.
$40 pm. Brownsville Accommodation
Daily excspt Sunday.
arrival of Trains.
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work and greater results than we're
had at Gettysburg.
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LOTTERY.

A aPLEHDID 0PPRRTuNITY VG
"A WIN A FORTUNEi-Th Third Grano
March 18th.
LOUISIANA STATE LOTTERY 90.
This institution was regularly incorporated
by the Legislature Of the state for Educa.
Capital of 81, 100000, TO which il has since
added reserve fund of SSS0 900. ITS GRAND
SINGLE NUMBER DISTRIBUTIONS will
take place monthly on the secenl Tuesday.
IT NEVER SCALES or P0sTPoNEs. Look at the
following Distribution:
CAPITAL PRIZE, $40, 900.
100, ,OOO Tickets at 2 DoIIHrs Each.
Half Tickets One Dollar.
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MISSISSEPPF& TENNESSEE
ABROAD.
CHEDULR:

I'm aud ter Wednesday. November II,
~ 1S77,tr,i will run as follews;
leave. Arrive.
Main Train daily........... 500 pm. 1:C5 pm
Sardis Accommodation
daily lex. Sundays)...ll:50 ana. 9;l5 a. IN
Froight Train daily lex.
Sundays) ......... ......,... Cora n. 400 p. IN
64-t M. BURKE. Sup't.