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HATCMH RIVER.
The Result or a Tour ON Beth sides OF
1t From the Mouth to Bolivar and
Back-The People Will Per
Fierce. If Necessary, open
1t to Navigation.

The following Is a memorandum OF
trip made by Ralph Wormeley and Captain
John DeerinR, who left Memphis on the
ninth instant for Covington, Tennessee.
From there they proceeded on the south side
of Hatchie river as far as Bolivar, crossing
the river at that point, and returning on the
north side to near its mouth. The object Of
the trip was to ascertain the wishes of the
people in regard to the reopening of the
river to navigation. They did not find a
dissenting voice on the entire trip, but on
the contrary a universal desire and deter
mination by all the citizens to having the
distractions removed, the greatest of which
is the bridge at Brownsville. That being re-
moved by draw the navigation will be
again open for boats carrying from one thou
sand to fifteen hundred bales of cotton. One
boat did come out of the Hatchie, from
Bolivar, since the war, with fourteen hun
dred bales, and the bridge was closed at
Brownsville the next day after she passed
down, the river having been declared unaav-
igable by our legislature after safe and
successful navigation of over thirty years,
boats bringing cut annually an average of
sixty thousand bales, with less loss to IN
surance companies than any river emptyinG
into the Mississippi. Now, at this late date,
to declare HAtehie river unnavigable' Is
ridiculous and absurd, and the people along
its banks say they will no longer submit to
the imposition and extortion by the railroads
if the can possibly help themselves. Men
owing farms ON the banks of the river, where
they once shipped their cotton at one dollar
per bale to Memphis, have now to haul to
the depots at cost of two to three and q
half dollars per bale, aad thea pay the rail-
roads an additional cost of two to two and q
half dollars to get their cotton to Memphis
This extortion has drawn three-fourths OF
the cotton from this market, all of which
would again come to Memphis if the bridge
obstruction was removed. The other OBJ
structlons, such as few leaning trees and
logs, the boats could remove the VERSE ones
until an appropriation Is made by congress
which will doubtless be done next session, as
it will require but little. The State did al
one time appropriate thirty-two thousand
dollars-only one-half of which was used
to put the river in good navigable order, and
one season preceding the war they had eight
regular packets, all of which made money.
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BURNED To DEATH,
A Sister and Daughter, In Sight of the
Distracted Brother and Father,
Whose own Injuries. 1t Is
thought. II uSt Prove
Fatal.

Atlanta, Georgia, special to the Louisville
q Laa1s1qi; Z" 4 courier reached Atlanta
this morning at daytreak, announcing that
the home of Mr.. J. 7. Reynolds, near Jones.
boro, had been burned, and with it several
members of his family. Your correspondent
went to the scene of the fire, reaching it by
nine clock. tremendous crowd had gath
cred, and the excitement was intense. The
house, large two-stOTy wooden house, was
IN ruins, and nothing had been saved from the
wreck. Mr.. Reynolds, who was himself badly
burned, had been taken to neigh
boring house. and the corpses of the
two girls, or what remained of them,
had been taken out, making a horrible
sight. MIR. Reynolds was IN the most intense
pain, and was almost crazed with excite
ment. His narrative was frequently inter
rupted by his screams and shrieks. He says
that the first thing he heard was sort of
dripping, rafting sound, Ike the falling of
a summer shower. He thought it was rain
and so told his wife, not being wide awake
enough to know whether she heard his re-
mark or not. After dropping asleep again,
he heard dull, heavy, roaring sound, and
thought he heard cries for help. He Jumped
up and ran up stairs, finding that the noise
came from that direction. He found himself
in fearful glare, and saw that the whole
upper part of the house was In flames. He
rushed to the door of the room in which his
daughter, aged thirteen, and his sister, aged
sixteen, were sleeping. They had locked
their door on retiring, and were now crying
aloud, but could not uulock the door. After
trying it in vain, he hurried down stairs, and
was just In time to get his wife
to place of safety before the roof
fell in. The whole house was in ruins.
The most pathetic part of the story was
that the poor father, after he had rescued his
wife, staggered around to the side of the
house, and saw, as he had suspected, his
daughter and her aunt in the window,
for help. The stairway had
burned in, and he could not reach them. He
called to them to leap from the window, but
they would not do it. He continued to call
to them to jump, until they persisted at the
window III his very sight. The recital of this
made him almost wild. The fire caught from
the stove and swept up the stairway, because
Of the draft from the open windows upstairs.
He is seriously burned in almost every part
of his body, and it is doubtful whether he can
live. His wife is unhurt, but is Frustrated
with grief and hysterical with the excite
ment The scene is sad one, and the
crowds are large and sympathetic. Mr.. Rey-
holds was wealthy man, and the girls were
and popular"
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The Rio Grande RecofvershIp.

ST. LOUIS, June ga Denver (Col.) dis
datch says in regard to the appointment of a
receiver for the RiS Grande railroad. the
court held that the counsel of that company
could not represent the receiver. He must
come into court in person, when, if he had
acquired any rights and they were shown to
be valid, the court would respect them, but
the Rio Grande company could not be heard
in this respect. Judge Miller, of the United
States supreme court, who was present and
fully agreed with Judge Hallet in the deci-
sion, SAID he considered it his duty as q jus
tice of the supreme court of the United
States, to say that if any resistance was
made to Judge Hallet's order, 1t would be
very disastrous to the parties engaged in it..
Judge Miller also ruled in the Grand Canon
case as to the matter set forth in the supple
mentary bill, that if they operated as an
abandonment by the Rio Grande company
their proceedings under a mandate Of the
supreme court must be delayed until the
supplementary matters had been fully heard
and testimony taken.
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NEW YORK, June pa cable dispatch
from Callao, ria London, yesterday, alluded
to the commandment of Antofagosta by the
Peruvian ship Huascar, and the Star and
Herald has the following reference to the af-
fair at Antofagosta: "The Huascar had a
sharp engagement with the shore batteries,
several heavy Krupp guns being in position,
and silenced their fire; but it was found i'm
possible to destroy the water condensers, one
of the chief objects of the expedition. Hav-
ing received forty-eiGht hours notice of the
approach of the ram, the authorities had
time to effectually protect these machines
with piles of bags filled with sand and
nitrate. The Huascar captured two CHILEAN
merchant merchant snips, Ioaaed T WITH copper ore, and
cable leading from Antofagosta to Caldera,
and returned to Iquique, where she barely
escaped the Gillian squadron. These vessels
appeared Unexpectedly 10 the offinR, but gave
time to the Huascar to avail herself of her
superior speed and get to sea, exchanging
shots as she passed, but. without effect. ="
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Railway Troubles in Grand Canon
Colorado.

DENVER, June pa dispatch says Jus.
tice Miller, of the supreme court OF the
United States, this morning, motion OF
the Rio Grande counsel to execute mandate
of the supreme court in the Grand Canon
case, went into general review of the man
date, and stated in plain terms that priority
oS the right of the Rio Grande company in
Grand Canon covered only that part which
was too narrow for two tracks, that before
the Rio Grande could be granted a prior
right under the mandate they must first pay
the Santa Fe cost of the construction of the
road through that part of the canon known
as Royal George, and they could not occupy
it till they had paid for it; then the right OF
the Santa Fe company to occupy the track
Jointly with the Rio Grande company must
afterward be settled by the court. He would
not turn the Santa Fe company out of the
canon, but there must be speedy settlement
of these difficulties, and by both parties
coming together and settling on an equitabl lie
basis
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Fresh Sunnliea nf Vitality

To renew a waning stock may be gathered from
source accessible to ALL and sought in vain BY
any whose constitution and vIgor are not so much
dilapidated as to be wholly past repairing. xvi
dence direct, convincing and ample. indicates Hos
letters Stomach Bitters as a tonic OF unexampled
efficacy and perfect purity and possessed OF proper
ties that constitute it invaluable remedy for dys
pepsia, constipation, liver complaint, urinary and
uterine weakness, rheumatic complaints and mala-
rial fever. Delicate females and infirm old persons
are nvigorated and sosced by It, and the physical
proStration which usually follows severe illness is
in great degree remeded and convalescence accel-
Grated through its use. 1t occupies leading PEST
ton among medicinal staples.
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The ohio Liquor DeaIers,

ICLEDO, June 24.-Ihe ONO liquor deal
ers association met ut Tautonia hall at eleven
o'clock this morning. The attendance was
large and enthusiastic. Every county in the
State but FIVE being represented. D. P. Fos-
ter, of Cleveland, president OF the associa-
ton, presided. A constitution and bylaws
were adopted. A clause in the constitution
provides that any member who shall sell
liquors 10 any minor or habItual drunkard, or
drunken person, shall be expelled from the
association. A weekly newspaper, to advo-
cate their principles, Is to be started under
the auspices of the association, President
Foster made an eloquent and statistical
speech. A declaration of principles will be
rnI1hlishnH
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THE outrage perpetrated by few fenda
in human form, near Newcastle, Kentucky,
is one of the most barbarous and brutal we
have ever been called upon to record. 1t
makes ones blood curdle to think of such
deeds being. even possible in land professed-
ly christian. Ill fares The land, to fastening
ills a prey, where men are basely murdered
every day, by cruel rutfians compared with
whom the Zulus are as saints.
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The senate Tuesday recommitted the
proposition to adjourn congress on the
twenty-ffth to the committee on appropria-
tons. The resolution was defeated in the
house. The house Tuesday passed the SEN
ate bill for the benefit of the widow and
children of the late General James Shields.
Congressional proceedings were otherwise un-
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doors within its bounds Judging the rest of
the county by Newcastle, no county in the
commonwealth outranks it. Its citizens as
general thing are all highly educated, accom-
plished, genial and thrifty, and stranger
coming in their midst and conducting himself
properly is made to feel that he is among
friends of the right ORDER
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An ALLEGED EemaIe Enrser.

MILWAUKEE, June 24.-Mrs. Sarah W.
Underwood, arrested some weeks ago charged
with having uttered forged notes to the value
of fourteen thousand dollars, purporting to
be drawn by 5. NJ. Underwood, of Milford,
was arraigned in the municipal court to-day.
After hearing the testimony of the complain
ant, w. s. Hayden, of Chicago, Judge NAL
lory dismissed the case on the ground that
there was in his opinion no good ground for
the prosecution.
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The brutal and cowardly assault made on
crowd of peaceable negroes a few days
since on the Paducah railroad, remains to be
punished. Pending that, we call attention
to the report of the grand jury as to the
condition of the workhouse on Presidents
Island. This ought to have the immediate
attention of the authorities of the county.
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A CARD.

To all who are suffering from the errors and indis-
creons Of youth, nervous weakness early decay loss
Of manhood, ETC., Will send recipe that Will cure
you, FREE OF CHARGE This great remedy was
discovered by missionary in South America. Send
a selt-addressed envelope to Rev. JOSEPH I. INAAH
SGttioD D., Nel0 York Oily.
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WONDERFUL CHANGES
Christadoro's Hair Dye

have occurred in thu country during the last three
four years, but none more wonderful than the Reno
buttons ia Color, produced among the Heads Of tn.
I1ao,ye
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PRESCRIPTION FREE

For the speedy Cure OF Seminal Weakness, Loss Of
Manhood. and all disorders brought on by indlscre-
tion or excess. ANY druggist has the Ingredients.
Address DAVIDSON d CO., IS Nassau st., New York
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fords no parallel to the trumphs over competition
and prejudice, accomplished by this powerful ye
harmless vegetable agent, which lnstantaneously
changes any obnoxious color of the hair into BLACK
or brown as magnificent as any that heaven ever be
slowed upon the head OF man or woman. Manufac
tured by j. CRISTADORO, No. 90 william street
New York Sold by all Druggists Applied By al
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= ..
~ Tickets, $50. 55 Tickets, 800.
AL applications for club rates should be made to
the home Office.
Remit by Postoffice Money Order, Registered Let
ter Bank Draft or Express Full list OF drawing pub
nshed In Louisville OOtfTIeT-JOuTNdL and New York
Herald and mailed to all ticket holders. For tickets
and Information address OOMMONWEALTR DIS
TRIBUTION co., or n. j. OOHMERFORD. Sec'y,
OoUrseT~JouTI1dL Building Louisville, Kentucky. For
further Information, apply to west Court street,
Memphis. Tennessee
N.RzAfter July 81 st Drawings will occur monthly.
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DIR. TUT has suo-
ceeded in combining in
these pills the hereto
fore antagonistic quail
tiles of a STRESGTHING,
PUR6ATIvE, and a PU-
|RIFYING TONIC
Their first apparent
effect is to increase the
appetite by causing the
food to properly ss-
simulate. Thus the sys-
tenn nourished, and
by their tonic action IN
the digestive organs,
regular and healthy e.
vacuations are pro
duced.
The rapidity with
which PERSONS TAKE
ON FLESH while under
the influence of these
pills, indicates their q
daptability to nOurish
the body, hence their
efficacy in curing Ner-
vous debility, melan-
choly, dyspepsia vast
ling Of the muscles, sing
gishness of the liver,
chronic constipation,
and imparting health a
strength to the system
Sold everywhere.
Price 25 cents.
Once
SO Murray Street,
NEW YORh-
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MISCELLANEOUS.
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

DROPOSALS Will be received by the City Clerk OF
L the Common Council of this city until the Both
OF June, 1879, for Shaping and MacadamiZlng and
Curbng streets Of this city All bids to be presented
to the City Clerk within fifteen Q5) days Of the
tice. DAN O'SULLIVAN, City Clerk.
LITTLE Rock, June IA 1879
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a AA n AREWhRD E &c. sp E,: 90 q
Notice to Creditors.

A LII parties having claims against Michael Bella
II omini, deceased, will hear something TO their
advantage By calling Immediately at the corner OF
Second and Jefferson streets. thu
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13
A Wonderful Occurrence.

Since the days of Ben Franklin and
the generation Immediately following,
it has been supposed that an umbrella
is common property. Within the mem
DRY of the Oldest man living, there has
been found no exception to the rule I'm.
til last week, when DR.. Warren Frazier
of this city, was on his way to st. Louis
and, chancingto put his umbrella down
in the depot Of the Ohio and Missis-
sippi railroad at Cincinnati for mo-
ment, returned and found it gone. He
made diligent search, but left without
finding it, To his astonishment, when
he returned home he found aw aiting
him a letter from P. W. Williams, OF
Aurora, Ind, stating that he had taken
it for his own, and had not discovered
the mistake until he reached home,
where he CHANGED to open it and found
the doctors name in it. He asked
what should be done, with it, and when
advised sent it per express, prepaid.
This is an extraordinary variation OF
the prevailing umbrella ethics of the
country, and deserves Communications
LeGi11qt071 (Ky0 Press.
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Cheap Food for Englishmen.

Of food, cheap food and good food,
Englishmen are now eagerly writing
and talking. The coming winter prom
Uses to be a wofully hard one among
the British laborers, and the starving
agonies of India may, it is feared, be
repeated in Ireland. Again the En-
g,ish journalist chants the praise of corn
meal, OF the small American bean, ct
cheap and delicious French stew and
soup. He will probably have his song
for his pains, for if there be anything
as to which the ignorant Briton's preju-
dice is immovable, it is food. The
great ambition of his inner man is to
have enormous chunks of meat three
times day, accompanied by plenty of
beer. Cheese and miserable bread go
to fill up the bill of fare. The awful
scorn with which the English navy"
contemplates hominy, or samp, or hasty
pudding, or pork and beans, is calcu-
lated to scorch the beholder. The wife
Of an English laborer will live, day in
and day out, upon bread, beer, a horri-
BILE decoction of stuff supposed to be
tea, and once in a while an extensive
cut of meat; the proposal to make a
delicate, nourishing stew or soup out
of cheap pieces Of meat, or to make an
occasional breakfast of hominy and
milk, would rouse her deepest contempt.
It will be sadly long before either
starvation or cooking schools lead the
English to feed well; their disgust for
new articles of food to which they are
unused is as intense as their adherence
to the coarse and rude kitchen methods
of their feudal ancestors. ''@
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13
"SoIid as Granite"

1t is pleasing though not q surprising fac'
that the new business of the Etna Life Insur.
ance Company has been notably increasing dur
ing the past nine months, the advance, as com.
pared with the corresponding period of las
year, being especially gratifying. COMMISSIONS
stedman, who has just completed the regular
examination of the Company, as required by
law, speaks Of it's condition with the utmos
confidence and enthusiasm The other day hi
remarked, in conversation concerning the Etns
Life, that it's assets are as solid as granite
Hartford Post, Oct. %, 1879. 80, r.. ,sf,-- |ts
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instantaneous Photography.

/ Mr.. Maybridge's method of photo
graphing horses in rapid motion has
lately been applied in San Francisco to
the study Of human action; particularly
that of athletes, while performing their
various feats. In order to display as
completely as possible the movements
of the actors muscles. they wore brief
trunks only while performing, and thus
all the intricate movements of boxing,
wrestling, fencing, jumping and tum-
bling were instantane ously and exactly
pictured. The first experiment con-
sisted in photographing an athlete while
turning a back somersatllt rsISS r
He stood in front of the camera, mo-
tionless, aud at a sign sprung into the
air, turned backward, and in a second
was again in his original position.
Short as was the time consumed four
teen negatives were clearly taken,
showing him in as many different posi-
tons. The same man was also taken
while making running high Jump.
The Jumping gauge was placed at the 4
foot notch in order to give an easy
jump, for in making it. fourteen stout
hempens strings had to be broken, as in
photographing trotting horses. From
the camera to point beyond the line
on which the jump was made a number
Of strings were stretched. The two
base lines were only.a few5inches above
the ground, and from them to the apex
the strings were placed equal distances
apart In jumping, seven of the strings
were broken in ascending and seven
in descending. The strings we're faulty
drawn, and SO connected with the came
ra that as each one parted negative
was produced. Other pictures were
taken of men raising heavy dunb-bells'
and the various movements of boxing
fencing and the like. london Tim es
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overlies the deceased Egyptians. If
any Of the apparatus of Egyptian war
fare should be brought up, it may serve
as circumstantial evidence that the place
has been found where the host was
drowned. But if the Able and his as
ISOLATED capitalists should fail to find
any trace of the King or his followers,
the scriptures will still be as true as
ever, and the enterprising Fienchmen
will be out their 100000 francs.
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Instead of being vehicle for agreeable SEN
sations some peoples nerves are a most dis
tressing endowment. Such sufferers, it will
usually be found, are dyspeptic, lack vitality
ana flesh. What they need is more vigor.
There is means of obtaining it, if they will
but avail themselves of that means. 1t is Hos
letters Bitters, tonic which experience has
shown to be of the utmost service to the debil-
itated, nervous, and dyspeptic. Digestion re-
stored upon permanent basis by the Bitters
ministers as it should to the wants of the sys-
tenn, and Its integral parts, of which the nerves
are one of the most important, are properly
nourished and invigorated. The various func-
tons are thus more actively discharged, and
creasing vitality. Instead of nervous prostra-
ton, new strength and vitality will be infused
into the whole motive machinery "a
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13
Looking for Traces Of PharaOh's Army.

THE I Able. Meigne of Paris wants
100000 francs as capital with which to-
start an expedition in search of the re-
mains of Phsraoh's army. His object
is not only to pick up such valuables as
may be at the bottom of the Red sea,
but, by finding the whole or any part Of
the Egyptian host, to demonstrate the
truth of that part of the Bible which
tells of their destruction. The Able
has heavy undertaking before him.
Nobody knows the precise spot where
Pharaoh went down, nor can anybody
tell, without costly excavations in the
wet sand, how much solid matter now
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13

49, CAREFULLY avoid the use of rasping cathar-
tics. They weaken the bowels and leave them
worselo than before Use, instead, that salu-
tary, non irritating aperient and anti-bilious
medicine, DR.. Morris VEGETABLE LIVER PILLS,
which, will not only achieve the desired object,
relaxation of, the bowels, without causing pain
or weakening them. but promote digestion and
assimilation and depurate the blood The pills
are sold BY all druggists. . -
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-11-13

Greensburg, Ind, deaf-mutes, lived
four years in noiseless disagreement,
and finally had a desperate parting
fight, in which he was scalded and her
skull was fractured.