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ELECTRIC BELTS.
CHANCERY SALE.
ChaDcery Sale of Real Estate


No. 241s, H-Qs07, R.)-Chancery Court of Shelby
helm ct al.
1879, NJ. B. "a, page 357, will sell at public
ton to the highest bidder In front Of the Clerk and
the Taxing district of shelby county, late city Of
Memphis, Tenn, on
Saturday, July l2. 1879.
within legal hours, the following described propeTty
all situated in Memphis Shelby county, Tenn towit:
1. lot on the south side of Union street. being
paIt OF the original lot on which now stands the
building OF the Central MethodiAt Episcopal Church
South of Memphis Tennessee, described as follows:
Beginning at the northwest corner OF said original
lot on the south side of Union street, running thence
east with Union street 81 feet to a stake; thence
stake thence Weswardly parallel with linton street
"a feet to a stake the west line of said original
lot 14S1s feet TO the place of beginning.
2. lot with the i'm proVements thereon. bounded
as follows Beginning on the vest line Of the Beale
street market ground so feet north OF Beale street.
Second streets 20 feet tt the south side OF the ex
tension OF alley In bayou Gayoso; thence west
stake; thence seuhwardly 20 feet TO stake; thence
eastwardly parallel with the north line of Beale
viii be sold subject to homestead fights5 MS 'O'
3. lot with the improvements thereon, de-
scfbed as follows: Beginning at the southwest
ner OF ths Beaie street market ground at point on
the lise OF Beae street; running thence northWaIdly
on the west line OF the Beale street market ground
parallel with Second street 80 feet to stake Ia said
west line; thence westwardIy parallel with BeaIe
street and on the south line Of said homestead lot
CAST above described 80 feet to a stake; thence
north line OF Beale street; thence eastwandly with
said street 30 feet to the beginning. (Ths lot will
Terms or Sale-On a credit OF six months; puT-
enaSerS 10 execute notes with approved security; lien
retained. This June IL, 1879.
4. j. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
j NJ Gregory, George y. Peters. AttOrneyR.
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doing it even at the expense of Bayard's
humiliation. The bill will be reported on
Monday. What constrained Bayard to sing
small upon reflection was this: The majority
of the senate Democrats would have report
cd his resignation of his committee to the
senate rather than have yielded their point;
The Republican members would have voted
solidly to retain him, and with the vote of the
eastern hard-money Democrats, the majority
would have been in favor of his retention.
If Bayard was willing to submit to such
proceeding the western Democrats were will
ing to give him the opportunity. He hinched
at last, and succumbed. The moral points
clearly and uHmlstakab.y to the fact that the
time is not far off when western and south
ern Democrats viii emancipate themselves
from the thrsldom of the eastern wing. 1t
would be much better for the national De-
mocracy to-day if Senator Bayard would
move his bag and baggage into the Republi-
can party"
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offense against society always than the out
rage itself. We have abundant confirmation
from many quarters Of the truth of Mr.. Gil
keys assertion that no negroes have let the
southwest by reason of any oppression or of
any denial to them of their political and So
cial rights. The negroes who were left destl-
tute upon the wharves at st. Louis, one and
all denied, as was reported BY an honest Re-
publican newspaper of that city, that they
had left their homes for any other reason than
from their belief that Kansas was their Ca
man. Tie planter who has gone into debt
for his farming implements, and who, per-
haps, has received advances upon the crop
which he relied upon his laboEers to gather,
finds himself unable to keep his contracts
simply because his laborers have refused to
keep theirs. lie is the subject Of a great
hardship and the victim of great wrong,
and while he may be excused for feeling some
bitterness of spirit toward the ignorant men
who have deserted hun, it is his duty to feel
an intense and burning indignation against
the blind partisans and reckless demagogues
who encourage the desertion on northern
platforms, were it only on the wide patriotic
ground that they are doing their utmost to
destroy the prosperity of one of the great IN
dustrial interests which underlie the business
system of the whole country.
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1t has passed into proverb that they who
achieve distinction in the profession or ave-
cation in which they have embarked for life,
ara thu truly great. If this aphoris m be
true Miss jennie Higbee, of this city, mas
reached the acme of greatness, for she un-
questionably occupies the highest eminenca
80 an educator of her sex-the profession 10
which she has dedicated her life, and made
lustrous by the majesty of her sterling vir-
tues and the splendor of her rare accom-
plishments. Her jealous, peesevering and
efficient labors as principal of the Pres
byt7Tian grammar ard hIgh school was ful y
illustrated during the closing exercises Ca
Monday and Tuesday, and at the Memphis
Theater last, right where beautiful bevy Of
graduates received their diplomas. The exer-
cises of the past two days were certainly
sufficient to fill the hearts of parents with
joy, and to inspire 4 pride and adDlira-
ton for orr private schools equal to
that which is felt for the public schools.
The whole bearing and demeauor of the
pupils of the Institution over which
MISS Higbee has so long presided, the pIo-
ficiency they exhibited before an intellectual
audience, all testified to the enduring results
that had been wrought out by the faithful
principal and her assistants. The people of
Memphis have learned, with deep regret,
that Miss HiRbee has resigned her position as
principal of the Presbyterian grammar and
high school, and that her labors terminated
last night, at the Theater, with the delivery
of diplomas to the graduating class.
Wherever this most accomplished and
excellent lady may cast her lot, she will
be followed by the prayers and good
wishes of the Memphis community,
where she is loved with warmth
and cordially seldom lavished upon lady.
She has been benefactor to her sex. Such
a lady can never be forgotten in Memphis.
Others will in after years be as utterly lost in
oblivion as the dry leaves in autumn,
whirled away by the winter blast But to a
a woman like Miss Higbee, who has been a
teacher in the Memphis schools for so many
years imparting knowledge to the future
mothers of the country, new stores of high
and ennebling thoughts, who has helped to
make life better, more joyous, more forgiv-
ing and loving, this community, from the
fullness of grateful hearts will ever pour out
all the richest treasures of its love and graft
tude. She has ever been prominent
in leading the march of mind
onward and upward into the
realms of loftier civilization and a purer
happiness. 1t is to be hoped that Miss Hig-
bees valuable services as a public educator
are not to be permanently lost to this COM
munity. Her work in Memphis has been
great, and great have been her triumphs. If
our people are wise they will see to it that
after a short recreation and the restoration of
health shattered in the public service, that
Miss Higbee be induced to remain in a COM
munity where she is so highly esteemed, and
where she has graduated so many young la
dies to reflect honor upon herself and to
adorn society.
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FOLLOWING the example set by VIck sburg
and Mississippi, Alabama has promptly paid the in
terest o. public debt This will greatly distress
some OF the od-die-a-cuS slng-and- growing Boug-
bons who believe 10 reputation. But 1t Will be left
Alabama, nevertheless 1t is not only honest 1t IS
unquestlOnably the wisest and best course. Good
times are rapidly approaching, and the peoples who
protect their credit will reap the benefits by having
the use Of all the cheap money they need. The re-
pudlatOrs however, Will be left TO pawn their 1eWeIy
with which to purchase tobacco, WHISKY, and other
necessaries - Vfcksburg Herald
Aside from the cheap, very silly and stale
clap-trap about the Bourbons-wheever they
may be-there is something in the above
worthy the attention of our people. Repu-
diation in any gulse is disgrace. 1t is
worse it is blow at the credit of every
merchant and business man in the
State that INDUCES in it. 1t ia to the
outside world the evidence of a spirit that
would If it could apply the same rule in prj-
vate affairs. 1t is demoraizing and damning.
For Tennessee there is no excuse for repudi-
ating. Her soil is teeming with wealth. Her
people are more prosperous than ever before,
and the future looks most cheerful. The
compromise which majority of the bond
holders have accepted is just and reasona-
bic and far compromise, and ought to be ac-
copied by the people, and we hope 1t will.
We owe the money and ought to pay it.
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TreaaurA TrnVe.

Salt Lake Tribune, May 31st: "M'I. D.
NJ 'Kissick settled en- the Brazos, near Rock
Dam, some twenty-five years ago. Mr..
N Kissick farmed, and when the war broke
out was possessed Of many slaves, herds and
fertile land. A bachelor, he led frugal life
and was known to possess considerable
money. The reputation of M'Kissick's
wealth proved his death, TOR one night In
1865 he was murdered. Suspicion fell upon
members of battalion of rowing cavalrymen
under command of one Colonel Beard, who
was then quartered on the Brszos doing no
good for the Confederacy or the country. In
fact, they were said to be in reality jayhawk-
ers and thieves. How much money, if any,
the murderers secured was never known.
Mr.. Nj Kissick left brother, William NJ 'Kis-
sick, and sister, who are now residing near
Mount Calm, in Limestone county. Near
Rock Dam stands an old, tumble down hut
that once belonged to NJ Kissick, being on
his land. 1t has not been used for years.
Last Friday morning a colored man who cul-
tiVates a field near the Rock Dam concluded
he would go to the river to fish, He entered
the dlapidated, hoorless shanty and began
to dig in one corner for earth to use
for bait. He presently unearthed an IRON POI, ,
covered with a lid. The darky was sur
prised. Taking the lid of, his surprise was
turned to amazement, for there In the pot lay
heap of gold coin, American gold ten and
twenty dollar pieces, amounting In all to
eight Thousand dollarI."
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A CORRESPONDENT of the Louisville
Courier Journal, who recently visited Muir
doch at his charming residence on Walnut
Hills, and describes bis surroundings and
life in an interesting letter, says that the ven
cradle actor is completing a theater in the
rear of his premises, having transformed his
barn into cozy little place of amusement,
with all the wings, fats, curtains and para
phernalia of complete temple of Thespls.
1t Is his intention to produce there during
the summer, for the instruction of his pupils
aud the amusement of his neighbors, one or
two of the old legitimate plays, School for
Scandal, or London Assurance, and then,
when the fall season in the amusement world
shall open, he having in the meantime been
sufficiently brushed up, it ia probable that he
IeiH again 90 upon the stGge-acceptinR en-
gagements IN New York, Boston, Philadelphia,
Cdicago, Cincinnati, st. Louis and Louisville,
extending his travels. perhaps, to San Fran
cisco. Thus in all human probability, this
great contemporary of the elder Booth, of For
rest, of Gus Adams, of Jack Scott, of Par
sons and of others of less fame now, but
whose names were GLORIOUS In another day"
will celebrate on the twenty-ninth of October
of the current year, by his temperance, the
iftieth anniversary of his entrance upon a
profession which he adorned, honored and
elevated. If he carries out his designs, he will
essay the old characters in which he gained
such fame, and which he rendered almost
mmortaI-"Hamlet," young Mirabla, :"
Alfred Evelyn" "Dick Dashall,' and the
mirth provoking t'Vapid."
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ACToRs are proverbialy kind to each 9th
er, as we'll as charitable toward thu world at
large. The latest instance that has fallen
under our notice is that of the kindness and
generosity of John M 'Cullough to Miss Ellen
Cummins, the actress who witnessed the
murder of Porter, and attempted assassina
ton of Barrymore, in Marshall, Texas, last
winter. Learning that she was almost des-
titute, he has assumed her hotel and doctors
bills, and has given her assurances that she
shall want for nothing necessary to her health
or comfort. She has suffered, and still suf-
fers, from nervous depression growing out of
the awful tragedy of which she was a wit
ness. She cannot sleep, aud gets no rest.
No sooner does she close her eyes than the
most terrible dreams ass4il her In these
Nightmares despair at being unable to escape
from some threatening pistol or the bodies
of half dozen people bathed in blood are
the prominent and horrible features FIRE.
quently at night she springs, screaming,
from her bed, and still sleeping from very
exhaustion, rushes through her room until
awakened by her attendant. Unless she Is
much better, her physicians will prohibit her
going to Marshall as q witness IN the trial Of
Curry, which takes place there this week.
Of course this will n5cessitate postpone
ment of the trial, as Miss Cummins is one of
the principal witnesses, Barrymore beirg the
other
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The contest between the mill -owners and
the mlll-hand at Fall River, Massachusetts,
has not yet ended. Both sides are stubborn.
By the first of July the Boston Globe esti-
mates that there will be fifteen thousand peo-
ple-men, women and children-out of work,
and this it thinks is not a pleasant prospect
for manufacturer, operative or any
patriotic observer OF the events of the time,
wherever he lives or whatever calling he may
follow. There are thirty print cloth mills in
Fall River, and they have a weekly produc-
ton of one hundred and forty-nine thousand
five hundred in pieces. The Crescent, the
Davol and the Pocasset are what are known
as wide cloth mills, making in all six thou
sand pieces weekly. 1t will be interesting to
note, as one of the most important matters to
be considered in view of the impending dis
aster, the monthly payroll of these print
cloth mills, as gwen in the last published
schaduIe IL Ia as follows.
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THE RIGHTS OF WHITE MEN.

La another column we publish a letter from
Mr.. A. J. Gilkey, CT Mississippi, in which he
shows that the white employers have no
rights which the negro is bound to respect.
The Republican press is shedding hypocrIti-
cal tears over the wrongs of the blacks, but
it IS perfectly oblivious as to the ruin and
bankruptcy often entailed upon the whites by
the dishonesty of the blacks. The experience
of Mr.. GIlkey Is that of thousands of others
who have been pecuniarly ruined by the
failure of the blacks to comply with their
written obligations. In publishing Mr.. Gill
keys letter the New York World hopes that
the experience which Mr.. Gilkey recites is
moIe exceptional than ne is inclined to think
1t If, or at any rate that the state of things
OF which it proves the existence may De con-
fined to a very narrow district of the great
planting regions Of the southwest. Whether
the case is one of few or one of many, how
ever, does not in the least affect the deduc-
ton to be drawn from his letter, that it is
nothing less than an outrage that a viola
ton OF contracts, express or implied,
should be encouraged or condoned on
any grounds by any set of men. 1t
makes no earthly difference whether the
encouragement and conformation proceed
from political craftsmanship, from race hatred
or from purs and simple ignorance. The en-
enlargement and condonation are a worse
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CLEVER FORGERIEs
PerpetrAGcd upOn Chicago National
Banks-CharIes Brockway Arrest
ed as the Leader OF the ODer-
atoEs-Sthers Taken Il
AO1e=AOrIes-

CHICAGO. June 16.-A year ago the First
national bank officers, finding that they had
been victinIizsd by some clever forgeries, set
Plnkerton's agency to work on a clue, which
to-day resulted in the arrest of Charles
Brockway, alias Charles Seymour, one of
the most expert forgers in this country, and
well known IN the eastern States as the
leader of those other noted crooks, Ed
Hall, Andy Roberts, Valentine Gleason,
Walter Sheridan, Walter Patterson and
Spence PettiE. Shortly atterward two "pals,
William Odell and James Morgan, of Phila-
delphia, we're arrested. Some eighteen months
ago Brockway came here, and having the
appearance Of a gentlemanly and respects-
bic merchant, became member of the board
of trade, aud obtained an insight into the
manner of conducting business, the places
where the firms deposited, and had several
accounts with different banks himself, under
the name of Charles Seymour. He seems to
have begun work at once, but very discreet
", and long intervals interviewed between.
The local banks suffered most, their losses
being estimated from about ten to twelve
thousand dollars. Brcckway had friend
ship with the two alleged detectives known as
Sam and Doc Welker, and, when his nest
became known, they moved his baggage
from the hotel where he had been living;
but it was found, later in the day, at No. SIS
Wabash avenue, and consisted of the most
complete set of forger's apparatus ever cap
tured-dies, checks, stamps, rlbbons, pens,
blank drafts, etc. Brockway has served two
years in the Auburn, New York, peniten
tiary. The Fir national bank is said to BE-
the heaviest sufferer.
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The withdrawal of that amount Of money
from active circulation will be injurious, no
doubt, to every interest in Fall River. But
the operatives are not to blame. They have
the truth and right on their side.
Mr.. Robert Howard, president of the
Spinnars' association, stated to the New
York Herald correspondent that they were
fighting for a princi pie. They expected to
win because they had right on their side.
The manufacturers had refused to arbi-
trate on the questions at issue.
There was a difference between the en-
ployes and the employers, aud before
proceeding to violent measures the
latter had offered to enter into q
conference, and try If an amicable settlement
could be made. This was refused. The
spinners had suffered cut-down Of fifteen
per cent, and they had assurances then that,
when an improvement in business would
warrant it, restoration would be made.
They had shown that that time had come,
and, therefore, they were entitled to the
restoration. He believed that the operatives
would be thoroughly united in the strug-
gle. Other operatives and officers of the as
ISOLATION expressed the same view of the
situation
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Marriage at sea.

Chicago NeVS; at has long been tradi-
ton, in the navies of tho world, that the
commander of national vessel can, at sea,
legally perform the ceremony of marriage;
many novelIsts have used the idea in their
works; indeed, it has been universally prac-
ticed under circumstances where it has been
considered demanded by necessity, probably
on the principle that In all the christian sects,
including even the Roman Catholic, in cases
where death was momsntsrIly expected, bap
tIsm can be administered by lsyman In the
absence of a clergyman. The usual process
is to perform the service in an intelllgible
manner, to make an entry Of the same in the
log book of the ship. and to give the parties
a certificate. So many of such marriages
between subjects of the British crown have
taken place that finally the government, to
avoid litigation and to legitimatizs offspring,
has had a bill introduced into parliament
which confirms all such in the past when
performed by officers commanding ships in
the royal navy, in accordance with religious
rites or ceremonies, or by the words of the
parties, and in the belief that such marriages
were authorized by law. Curiously enough,
the act does not provide for future marriages
of this kind, which gives color to the idea
that 1t has been prepared for the purpose of
leQalizinQ some special case or cases
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Penny Banks for Poor People.

New York Journal Of Commerce: Thrift,
ex pTessing itself IN the humble form of penny
deposits, amassed during the last three years
one hundred and slxty-four thousand four
hundred and seventy-two pounds In the
Penny bank of England and Its branches.
The depositors (about a million IN number)
are class who had not been reached by any
other kind Of savings bank. The institution
was founded expressly for the poorest of the
poor who work and have frugal instincts.
They were made as welcome with their pen
MES as the more fortunate persans with their
pounds elsewhere. 1t is an interesting fact
during the very years when trade has been
most depressed in EaRland and all the large
savings banks have suffered a decline in de-
posts, the little Penny bank has gone on
prospering. The parent establishment has
thrown out one branch after another to
catch the increasing business, Last
month the foundation stone OF a new
branch was laid IN London with imposing
ceremonies. Speeches made on the occasion
by eminent and public spirited men revealed
The interest which practical English philan-
throplsts are taking in this movement. 1t
has fortunately been kept in good hands and
prudently and honestly managed. The peo-
pie finding this out have confidence In it. We
do not mention the gratifying success of this
experiment IN order to instigate anybody to
start a penny bank In New York. Whether
such a thing would be good for the poor or
not depends altogether on the ability and in
tegrlty Of its management. An unfortunate
distrust which exists with regard to savings
banks in general, at this time, among many
of the poorer classes, might prevent the sue
cess of a penny institution. The achievements
of the London penny bank prove that there
is room for something similar
IN every great city. They prove also
that no man able and willing to work is so
poor that he cannot lay up an occasional
penny against a rainy day. Many a man
dates his prosperity from the time he began
to accumulate money slowly and with much
self-denial in a savings bank. Whether the
beginning was dime or dollar, and wheth-
er the accretons were slow or fast made but
little difference to his happiness so long as he
acquired and persevered in the habit of treas
uring means which might have been wasted
IN sef-indulgence and folly. No lesson more
needs to be taught to the American people
than thrift. If that great virtue was prac-
ticed universally in the United States, how
soon drunkenness, pauperlsm and crime
would cease 20 be appalling elements Of our
CIVILIZATION, and contentment and happiness
Fl The Land "
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see the famous American preacher. A dense
crowd blockaded the streets leading to the
church. The enthusiasm was immense.
Half a mile before the Presbyterian church
was reached the carriage of the reverend
gentleman was lifted from the ground and
carried bodily to the church. 1t was one of
the most tremendous ovations ever paid to
an American minister in London" And
right here the thought obtrudes itself, what
are we coming TO when the straight-laced
Presbyterlans Of England's capital-nay, of
the worlds capital-thus violate all the
Puritanic proprieties of the Sabbath and
make an ovation on the Lords day, even for
Talmage, the Boanerges of Brouklyn-what,
indeed?