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COTTON.

Our last review of the official week of the
cotton market quoted middling cotton in
New York at 10 lI-16c, advanced to lie;
New Orleans quoted l04c, advanced to
l02ic; Liverpool quoted 51sd, advanced to
6 Lied; Memphis quoted l0lIIc, advanced to
IO5sc. This statement is IN such marked
contrast for a long time preceding that it is
of interest to show the difference. January
opened with middlln0 cotton at III 5-l6c In
New York, closed at ii l-l6c; February
opened at III Lice, closed at l0Hc; March
opened at l0Bc, closed at 1880; April
opened at 1880, closed at l05sc; May opened
at I0s{c, and at the end of the last Official
week closed at lie. The change is princi-
pally due to the better prospects OF peace;
some expectation that the operatives In Eng
land will submit TO a reduction of 10 per cent.
In their wages, and so full work be resumed
In the factories, has aided the advance. Should
the latter be the case 1t may cause more ac-
tivity in foreign sales; here the last two weeks
the takings of exporters have been very light,
$50 bales out of 1900 week before
last, 4O5 out of $3.50 st week.
Our stock in Memphis Is King down
very low-16, 600 bales, again 5000 at the
same time last year-alths our receipts
were 81 600 bales larger, t that shows
that our market will ''holC own" The
New York Bulletin in its weekly review
reported the weeks mar s being prlnci-
|pally In favor OF the }, and adds:
Foreign advices have q buted largely to
This result, appearances n a comparatively
pacific nature first making themselves felt,
and being followed by more active and i'm
proving Liverpool market, there was an lm-
mediate response here. On the growing crop
he adyices have proven somewhat conflict
ing, but scarcely of an alarming character
rom any section, and several points report
very favorable condition Of the plant. This,
however, is not taken into consideration az
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FINANCIAL.

During the last week the financial situation
remained unchanged, except that more cot
ton selling at the latter end of the week
caused the small supply of exchange TO in
crease little; the rate remained at par buy
ing, and II premium selling on New York;
New Orleans buying at Il discount and sell
ing at par. The New York Herald, of Fri
day, reported: The following were the rates
of exchange on New York at the undermen-
toned cities to-day: Savannah-buyinR, Lie
premium; selling u premium. Charleston
scarce; selling 4 premium. st. Louis, lilo
premium. New Orleans - commercial, II !;
bank, u. Chicago, go premium; and Boston
1211 discount" Money Is plenty with our
banks and hard to place, little being called
Tor at or 10 per cent.-generally the latter,
sometimes still lower-and such is the con-
dition elsewhere. The Chicago Tribune says:
The tendency Of discount lines is now down
ward, while deposits are increasing. Country
rediscounts are net asked for to any extent.
The movement of currency is not active,
but the receipts from the interior are
larger than orders, and there have
been some shipments of currency 10
New York" The New York World
stated on Friday: "Gold declined day
from 100 l3 I6 and two days interest to
100 ll-16 and two days, and closed lie low
er than yesterday, at 1908 paid and bid. A
few resolute offers Of gold this morning
caused the depression, showing that the
strength of the market was fictitious; and the
hrmness of government bonds prevented re-
coVery." Silver IN London Is unchanged.
AT the New 1OIk price the bullion value of
the new silver dollar is $0.9049. A good
many silver dollars of the new coinage has
been received and are now paying out in
limited amounts. The local stock market
has been without interest all the week; there
Is demand for city securities which have an
upward tendency at unchanged rates; on
Friday some city bonds sold at 3S1%.
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| against the operations now in progress Ton
the supply IN hand, and as the visible amount
appears 10 have been brought under fair con-
troll, the longs continue to express faith in
cotton" Smith. Edwards & Co.'S
last Liverpool cotton circular, revis-
the American crop at four and three-quarter
| millions, with large deficit in the crop Of
western India, 10000 bales, and further
decrease expected, so that if there Is more
than expected from America it is covered by
decrease elsewhere. The strike will make
the English stock go higher than had been
looked for, but will probably not reach
million bales, while last year it touched l.,
1900 bales. Here prospects of war over
Swallowed everything. THE state of Man
chester has been deplorable during the past
month. The accounts from the great east
ern markets have been worse and worse, and
the absolute inability to move off stocks has
forced upon producers the reduction OF wages
which Is exciting such commotion at present.
Stocks in Calcutta are enormous, and the
weakness of Manchester is not so much from
stocks held at home Sas from those abroad,
and more particularly from the poverty OF
most Of our customers"
Receipts in Memphis during the official
week aggregated 2744 bales, against 2503
bales the previous week, and 795 bales the
corresponding week last season, and 2l92
bales the season before. The total receipts
since September !, 1877, were 1896, 8l7 bales,
against 81, 7S6 bales at the corresponding
time last season, showing an increase of 81
OBJ bales. Total receipts same time In 1876
was AIS, 127 bales.
Shipments during the official week aggre-
gated 5072 bales against 1851 bales the
previous week, and 1886 bales the correspond
ing week last season. Total shipments since
September LIST are 3S7, 1853 bales, against $685.
1896 bales the same time last year; an increase |
of "a ,627 bales.
The total stock on hand was 1853 bales, |
against 19, ia bales last week, and 30,223 |
bales at this time last year.
Sales during the week were $3.50 bales, |
400 to exporters, 1850 to spinners, and 100 /
10 Spectators. During the previous week |
the total sales were 1900 bales. During the |
week last year the total sales |
we're $500 bales, of which exporters took
500 bales, spinners $500, Spectators 100.
Pnce of mlddling cotton 101Sc, against l0Hc
1t the same time last year.
The following table shows the course of the
Memphis market and the price of middling
,otton from the openinO of the season:
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CHANCERY SALES.
Chancery Sale of Real Estate,

No. 1913 R. D.-Chancery Court OF Shelby county
Martha A. Sumpter VS.. George II. Want ct al.
BY virtue OF an interlocutory decree for sale,
Iered In the above cause on the 10th day OF April,
1878, Will sell, at public auction to the highest
bidder. I'm front of the clerk and masters Office court
mouse building, Main street, Memphis, Tenn, on
Saturday, June ., IS7S.
within legal hours, the following described property
situated In Shelby county, Tennessee, to-wft: Com
mencng at the intersection of the north line of the
2O-foot alley with the west line of the fernando
read; running thence In a nOrthwesterly direction
with the west side of the fernando road 253I5 feet
to an acute angle the north corner OF the property
thence south TO the point where the north line Of
said 2OfOot alley interSects the west line of the two
NTH Interest as shown on the plat file herein, TO
which reference is made for particulars.
Terms of Sale-One fourth QA) cash; balance on
credit of o and II months; purchaser giving bond
with approved security; lien retained, bearing inter
est from date, etc This May l5, 1873.
E. A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
By r. j. BLACK. ID. C. and NJ.
u. W, Miller, Solicitor. myI wed
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Trustees Sale.

DY virtue of a deed of trust executed to the I'M
ID dersigned trustee, on the 18th day Of March,
1879, by Patrick Twohig, and duly recorded In the
Registers Office of Shelby county, Tennessee on the
same day. in book No. ILL., page 5; and default hav-
ing been made In the payment Of the Indebtedness
therein mentioned, will, on
Thursday, the 18th day OF June, 1875.
sell at auction, the highest bidder, for cash, In
front OF the Courthouse, In the city of Memphis,
Tennessee the following property, towit: Situated
In Shelby county, State OF Tennessee, on the north
side of Vance street, In the city of Memphis: Be-
ginning hundred feet east from the Intersection
of north line of Vance street with the east line OF
DeSOtO street; thence east with Vance street sixty
feet thence north, at right angles with Vance street.
one hundred and twenty feet thence west and paral
lei with Vance street sixty feet; and thence south
and parallel with DeSoto street one hundred and
twenty feet to the beginning together with all and
singular the buildings and appurtenances thereon
and thereto belonging. Equity of redemption
waived title believed to be good, but Will sell and
convey as trustee only.
s. r. Walker Att'G p. NJ. WINTERS, Trustee
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Trustees Sale.

PY virtue of the powers conferred on us by deed
ID of trust executed to u.s. trustees, on the Goth
day of December, 1875 by 81. Koehler and wife, A.
NJ Koehler which trust deed is of record In Record
book, volume Z, pages 377 and 37S Of the Regis
ter's office of Mississippi county and State of Ar
kansas to to VIM. A. Collier the Indebtedness
therein mentioned, said debt being past due and
unpaid, we will, on
Saturday, the 18th day of June, 1878
at II o'clock m, at the southwest corner of Main
and Madison streets, in the city of Memphis, Ten
nessee offer for sale and SELL for cash, the following
real estate situated In Mississippi county and State
of Arkansas, and described as follows: Fractional
section IA, township IA, range east. Sc u Of sec
ton IA, township IA, range 9 east. Also, Sc y
section Is, township IA, range eaSt-being $40
acres, more or less and known as the Hector
Place" The equity of redemption is expressly
waived and the title believed to be good but we sell
as trustees only Memphis, May H. 1878.
W. Z. TAYLOR,
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ORDINANCES.
AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to borrow
$4,000 to pay Police and Fire Departments for

AN ORDINANCE authorizing the Mayor to borrow
$4,000 to pay Police and Fire Departments for
current year.
Section 1. BE IL ordained 6y the General Council
Of the city Of Memphis, That in order TO defray the
current expenses of the Police and Fire Departments
for the year 1878, the Mayor is authorized TO
tract with any person or persons to advance the
amount of and pay of the Indebtedness of said de-
partments as the same may from time to time &C
crue or have accrued and to repay to such persons
as may pay of said Indebtedness the amounts ad-
vanced by them respectively by issuing to them the
warrants Of the city in sums not less than S100;
said warrants to bear interest at rate not to exceed
per cent per annum until paid, and payment Sc
cured In the manner hereinafter provided; provided
that the sum to be advanced shall not exceed the
sum of $4,000.
Section 2. The warrants Issued to repay said
sums shall show that they issued for the purpose
aforesaid, and under this ordinance, by having on
their face the words: Issued under ordinance 6p-
proved day Of, 1873" And in order to secure
the prompt payment of said warrants, the tax on
chants capital for the year 1873, and all the priv
llege tax due January 1879, are hereby set apart
and pledged for the payment of said sums 50 to be
advanced for the Police and Fire Departments
Section 3. That no part Of the fund arising from
tax on capital for 1873 and privileges due January
1879, snail be used for any other purpose whatever
but shall be paid into the treasury and held and
piled for the purposes Aforesaid, until all Of said
sums so advanced be paid In full.
Passed second and final reading by Council, May
z, 1878, and by Aldermen, May 10, 1873. APP
proved May 10, 1873 j. R. FLIPPIN, Mayor.
Attest: CRABTREE BELCHER, City Register.
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Minimum Thermometer. 70 deg.
BY TELEGRAPH.
PITTsBURG, May 20-Noon.-River feet Z
inches, and stationary. Weather clear and
warm.
V1cKsBuRa, May 2O.-Up: Capitol City
and Pargoud, Saturday. Down: Golden City;
up: Golden Crown, Sunday.
LITTLE Rock, May 2O.-River rising,
| with 6 feet 2-l0 inches by the gauge. No
| arrivals or departures. Weather cloudy and
warm.
NEW ORLEANS, May 2O-Arrived: R. E.
Lee, last night, Vicksburg; Future City and
barges, st. Louis. Weather warm; raining
all day.
ST. LOUIS, May 20.-River risen % inches,
and is now 10 feet 10 inches above low-water
mark Weather clear and warm. Arrived:
City of Helena, Vicksburg.
CINCINNATI, May 90 Noon - Weather
warm and clear. .Night-River Is feet
inches, and falling. Weather clear and warm.
Arrived: James D. Parker and Ben Franklin,
Memphis.
CAIRO, May 20-Noon.-Weather clear;
mercury 80. Arrived: Alice Brown, Mem
phis, 2 pm; Port Eads, st. Louis, pm;
Cons Millar, Cincinnati. Departed: Gold
Dust, New Orleans, pm; Alice Brown,
Ohio river, pm; Cons Millar, Memphis, 5
pm.
EVANSVILLE, May -Weather-rained
several hours during the night; clear to-day,
with brisk wind from the southwest, and
hazy. Thermometer sc to 80 deg. Business
dull River Is 6-10 feet ON the gauge.
Down: Vint Shinkle, 10 am; Charles Nor
gan, noon. Up: Idlewild and Maggie Smith,
8 am; Grey Eagle, II am; Jas. Gilmore
and tow, pm.
Movements at the Levee.
ARRIVALS.
John B. Maude, Vicksburg; Colorado st.
Louis; Florence Meyer, Arkansas river;
Belle of Shreveport, New Orleans; George
w. Cheek, Friars Point; Illinois, Vicksburg;
West Wind, johnson Landing; Mark Twain,
St. Francis river; Hattie Rowland, Arkansas
river; New Mary Houston, Cincinnati.
DEPARTURES.
City of Alton, New Orleans; Colorado,
Vlcksburg; John B. Maude, st. Louis; Belle
of Shreveport, St. Louis; Flew Mary Hous-
ton, New Orleans; West Wind, johnson
Landing; George w. Cheek, Friars Point;
Andy Baum, Cincinnati.
IN PORT.
Illinois, Hattie Rowland, Mark Twain.
BOATS DUE.
Doton-City of Vicksburg, Golddust, Cons
Millar
Up-Golden Crown, Hard Cash, A. J.
White.
BOATS LEAVING TO-DAY.
VIcKsBURe-City of Vicksburg, Robert
K. Riley, master, ten am.
Observation-Disclosures ]. J. Darragh, mas
ter, five pm.
ARKANSAS RIvER-Hattie Rowland, Jas.
Reese, master, five pm.
ST. LoUIs-Capitol City, John G. Crane,
master, FIVE pm.
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Tone of the market at lO:O5, shade
easier; 1850, quiet and steady; ii rs. easy;
1911, quiet and easy; lilo, easy; PCS, firm.
Sales, $1,000 bales.
New Orleans closed firm, asking higher,
at 1870 for middling. Sales, HOO bales;
receipts, net, I771 bales; gross, $3.50 bales;
no exports; stock, 104, 652 bales.
Yesterdays Liverpool kilograms reported
the market strong; middling uplands, 61sd;
Orleans, 635d. Sales, $1,000 bales, of which
10000 were American. Receipts, q, 500
bales, q, 400 of which were American.
Liverpool arrivals opened 1-32d better;
May and May-June, 6 Lied; June-July,
tember, 1920; September-O October, 9-32
@614d; October November, GID. At 2
o'clock arrivals were dull and at the close
weak, July and August, 3-32d.
The movement at the ports was reported
az follows.
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Chancery Sale of Real Estate.

No. 2715.-Chancery Court of Shelby county,.
Christian ct al VS.. The Tennessee State Mutua
Fire Insurance Company ct al.
By virtue Of nterlocutory decree for sale, enter
ed In the above cause the oath day of December,
1877, and renewed, etc, April 8, 1873, will SELL at
public aution to the highest bidder IN front Of the
Clerk and Masters Office, Courthouse Building Main
street, Memphis, Tennessee. on
On Saturday, May rs, 1875.
within legal hours, the following described property
situated in Shelby county, Tennessee, to-wit: Lot
number nine 90, and the west half of lot number
eight 90, of block number five, the plan of Fort
Pickering, fronting on the south side of Alabama
street thirtyseyen and Onehalf (37IS feet and
ming back south 1875 feet
The terms of the sale are cash. This May 1 , 1873,
Z. A. COLE. Clerk and Master.
BY R. ]. Black, d. C. and NJ.
T. B. Edgington, solicitor. wed
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COTTON-TIE.
THE DRAKE BUTTON
COttOn-Tie Co.
JOHN K. SPEED & CO., AGENTS.

THE suit between the above Company and the
l. American Cotton-Tie Company, affecting Patent
Rights, has been satisfactorily arranged. Owing TO
ceiyed last season, the Company were unable to
meet the demand, but they now, and will hereafter,
be prepared TO furnish them I'm any desired quantity
The merits OF the DRAKE BUTTON TIE, the
Company think, surpass those of any now offered to
the planter. For simplicity OF construction, dura-
billy and strength, Il has no superior Either side
OF the band being equally available for buttoning
II has an ease and rapidity OF adjustment that can
be claimed for no other Button Tie.
The DRAKE BUTTON COTTON-TIE co. are also
prepared 70 furnish the BEARD, or LIGHTNING
TIE, so long and favorably known to the public,
upon the same terms and at the same prices as the
DRAKE TIE s. N DRAKR President
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NON-RESDENTS.
NOn.Resident Notice.

No. 2985-In the Chancery Court of Shelby county,
Tennessee E. Butler VS.. ]. NJ. Walker ct al.
1t appearing from the bill in this cause, which is
sworn to- that the defendant, j. NJ. walker is a nom
resident of the state of Tennessee:
Ii Is therefore ordered, That he make bis 8p-
pearance herein, at the Courthouse In the city of
Memphis, Tenn, before the first Monday In
July, 1878, and plead, answer or demur to COM
plainant'S bill, the same will be taken for con-
fessed as to him and set for hearing exparte; and
that copy of this order be published once week,
for four successive weeks, I'm the Memphis Appeal.
This 18th day of May, 1878.
A copy attest: E A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
By E. B. McHenry, Deputy c. and NJ.
Minor MeriWefhar. Sol. for commit mY14 tn
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lie for middlnR uplands, with transactions
as reported embracing over 1000 bales for ex-
port, and it was understood that fully an
equal quantity had been taken to-dayfor the
same trade"
IBY TELEGRAPH
The following are the official kilograms OF
the condition Of the domestic markets as
raca;vad bv tho coffop axcIanOa.
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The New York World, Of Friday, reports:
The market opened at some advance for the
early months, with great activity in covering
contracts, and many parties who had COW
count for the purpose of getting even with
the market. But toward the close the de-
mand fell off, the highest figures of the day
were not supported. and the next crop was
quite neglected. The feature of the day,
however, was the advance Of nc In spots to
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The early dispatches from Liverpool were
very encouraging, sales large and prices
higher; later the market became dull for de-
hveries and closed weak at lower rates. This
destroyed all buoyancy, and New York fu-
lures fell off strongly. In our market the eff
feet was slackened demand, buyers COM
showed a stronger disposition to effect trans
actions, which, however, were but small.
Rates remained unchanped
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RIVER NEWS.

Weather and Rivers.
The table and dispatches below give Off
cial particulars concerning the weather and
rivers:
OFFICE SIGNAL SERVICE OBS, u. 8. Al
MEMPHIS, May 20, 1873.
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DRY GOODS.

MEW Y9Rk e.. May cottoI goods
Dyed ducks in good demand and firm.
Prints quiet in first hands, but white prints
are selling freely at low prices. Dress goods
quiet. Heavy worsted coatings in fair re-
quest, but fancy cassimeres and suitings are
in light and irregular demand.
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BANKERS.
STOCK EXCHANGE
THE NEW YORK CITY
STOCK EXCHANGE ASSOCIAT'N
"a Broad Street
-,1s
and f7 EXCHANGE Place.
BANKERS

HAVE made special arrangements to transact
IL business In all Stocks, U. 8. Bonds, Stock Priv
ileges, ETC., and will give particular and imme-
diate attention to all orders rom distance, either
by =. mail !" or " telegraph
We give the greatest advantages and best oppOr-
tunity ever before offered to investors giving them
the use of and profits on $4,000 Capital in
"Stocks," on margin" of from one to two hundred
dollars and less amounts of Stocks will pay In
proportion. We invest In amounts most convenient
to suit capital and wishes of investors, from ten
shares up to any amount desired on margin of from
to per cent.
Loans on all Stocks" Bonds and other securi-
ties negotiated.
Letters of Credit and Draft payable In any part of
Europe and America, issued BY us for the conve-
nience of travellers.
V"SEND FOR CIRCULAR"
The New York City stock Exchange
Association,
BANKERS AND BROKERS',
"a Broad street. 81 Exchange Place.
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NOTICES..
NOTICE.

VOUR attention is called to the stock of Furni-
l. ture, Mattresses and MOSQUITO Bars
am now receiving. Being Connected with Dickin-
sons Furniture Manufacturing Co., Louisville KY,
can oner Inducements, wholesale and retail, In all
French Dressing case Suits, at factors prices Price
lists. with photos furnished to the trade upon an
plication. Give me a call; WIN suit You In styie
and please you In prices.
JOHN A. DICKINSON, JR
211 Main street. Memphis
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Ordinary, $50; good ordinary, CSC; low
middling, 10 9-16c; middling, 111sc; good
middling, 111fc. At 1870, easy; II, dull;
Los, weak; 2:30, weak. Sales, 758 bales:
The following are the closing rates In New
York futures yesterday and Saturday:
Mo1fhs EegferrinrL IS1f,IltLnr
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Positive Notice

HUNTING, Thieying and Depredating on FRAIM
Il ISLAND Is POSITIVELY FORBIDDEN, and
parties violating this notice and stealing berries
etc, will be VIGOROUSLY PROsECUTKD
May IL, 1878. ID. D. I. STEWART.