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LEGAL.
Trustees Sale.


by virtue Of three several trust deeds made
- to me by W. j Saint and his wife, Susan
d. Saint, all recorded in the office of the reg,
lister Of Shelby county, Tenn, the FIRST In
book No. los, page -, on the 18th Of Marcel
1875, the second in book No. 107, page $40, and
the third in book No. 10. page 400, I will, for
the purpose of paying the indebtedness caused
thereby, proceed to sell on
Monday, February ,, 1850.
at public auction, at the southwest corner Of
Madison and Main street in the city of Mem
phis, the following property situated in Shell.
by county, State of Tennessee, and described
as follows: One lot Mt Whitehaven, Tennes.
see, on the Mississippi and Tennessee rail
ROAD; beginning mt an iron stake 600 feet one
hundred feet from the center line of the tract
Of the Mississippi and Tennessee railroad and
in the west boundary line of the depot grounds
of said railroad 4l0 feet from tho northwest
corner OF said depot grounds, running thence
southwardly on said line and parallel with
the said railroad for a distance of SS1 feet 10
an iron stake; thence westwardly and nj
right angles to the line Of said railroad 14G0
feet to a stake in the west boundary line of r.
NJ. Whites land; thence northwardly with
said line 3Sl feet to a stake; thence eastward.
" and parallel with the second line 1917 feet
to the beginning stake la the ground Of said
railroad, containing twelve (12) acres more or
less, being the same land conveyed by 4, M.
White TO W.. j. Saint. i will sell for cash
Title believed to be good but / will convey
100 122 trustee
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%
Early in the morning of the first OF
June, a lad engaged in repairing the
drain of the house, No. % Via della
Stelletta, found a little shiny piece of
metal, and put it in his pocket, wait
ing for a chance to show it to some
cOnnoisseur. In the meantime a good
deal of the dirt from the drain was
carried away in the direction of Porta
Angelica, The lad had his piece ex-
amined by a goldsmith opposite, and
he was just receiving twenty francs for
it, when the head mason and owner of
the house, who had heard somehow of
the affair, came to stop the bargain at
the right time. Search was made i'm
m%ediately on the spot, and 142 gold
coins We're found scattered between the
drain and the walls Of the house.
Policemen were sent after the carts;
they overlook them Just outside Porta
Angelica, examined the contents. and
found A more coins, to the great
amazement of the drivers, who had no
idea they were removing gold from
such an unexpected mine. The treas
ure numbers, consequently, 1874 gold
coins of the largest size, perfectly
fresh, as if they had just been taken
from the mint. The period to which
they belong goes from 1850 to 1850:
the earliest are of Plus IL, the others
Of Innocent VII, Alexander VI,
Julius IL, Leo X, Hadrian VI,
Clement VII. and Paul III. Nearly
one-third belongs to Clement VII. a
few coins to the Viscontis of Milan
the Wladslaws of Hungary. |
am sure some we're engraved by artists
worthy to vie with Donatello or Ben
yenuto they are of exquisite beauty.
The next day Mgr. Casall, the owner,
was offered 36,SO0 francs for the group.
Of course he refused. The treasure
was not concealed carefully in one
spot; the the pieces lay scattered in
more than LOCO cubic feet of dirt
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'T1IE SUN for 1850.

The Sun will deal with the events of the
year 1881 IN its own fashion, now pretty we'll
understood BY everybody. From January / 10
DeCempef 81 ~ VIII be conducted as a news
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est 70 the greatest number-that Is the Law
controlling its daily makeup. Ii now has n
circulation very much larger than that Of anv
Sther american newspaper, and enjoys an
income which IL is at all times prepared Ia
spend literally for the benefit Of its readers.
People Of all conditions of life and ali WAYS
OF thinking buy and read The Sun; and
tney all derive satisfaction Of some sort from
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In its comments on men and affairs. The
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~ mates injustice and rascality even more
than, 1t hates unnecessary words. 1t abhors
frauds, pities fools, and deplores n-incompoops
OF every species. 1t will continue throughout
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struet the second, and discOuntenanee the
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118 wv. ENGLAND. PnhIishD
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twins INDUCED, but this is done sim
ply to amuse each other and at the
same time keep the thoughts Of the
female sirens out of their united
minds; besides it takes Senator An
thony all his spare time to keep Sena-
tor Burnside out of mischief.
Since the Senatorial night-ca has
been laid aside, all sorts of
mental eggs have been Matching
in his brain, and some time ago
one of these eggs turned into an i'm
mense black horse and two-wheeled
vehicle, adorned by a real tiger skin.
This chariot was driven by a Jehu
black as the wings offnight, and had
not Senator Burnside sat by the sable
driver the people Of the capital would
have believed that the whole contriv-
ance was a phantom, such as Wash
ington Irving used to paint with his
magic pen. Il told him, said Charlie
Foster, that he must not drive so
fast. That his black beast was a dray
horse and not a roadster. But the
immense black animal, the two black
wheels, the sable driver, with the
tiger skin flying, Numbered UP and
down the avenue a target for the witty
Stillson Hutchins, whose paragraphs
on the subject were looked for in the
Post with keener relish than the most
aromatic coffee. Thin-skinned An
thony could stand it no longer, and
the black horse disappeared from con
gresslonal history 1t has never been
ascertained WHISTLER it was a real horse
or one Of those uncanny creations
"conjured' by means Of the "black
art" but as everything about it was
black and all in the highest style of
art it is safe to pronounce it black art
until a better word can be invented.
Just as long as Senator Burnside is in
the Senate, Senator Anthony will have
his hands full. In the meantime mat
rimonial schemes will be laid over as
unfinished business, and this is pecul-
iarly trying, for the loss to some fair
woman in not being allowed to cling
to Senator Anthony is more painful
than pen can describe.
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eyes at a quart Of mixed candy and
know that it will soon be all yours, to
industriously pry open the delicate an
atomy Of the dolls to see where the
squeak comes from, TO give your mus
eles development by pounding the
head ola toy drum into t~atters, and to
go to bed after it's all over, and be-
come the miserable victim of an over
loaded stomach, and wonder if chill
dren just about to die take their
Christmas trinkets to heaven with EN-.
Wouldn't it be splendid2 But you
are old and wrinkied and gray, and
you "a only warm your heart by the
sparkle Of the little innocent eyes, and
be sure that you do it.
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THE Use Of Nkntes In wnr.

A writer in Belgravia says: Ere
quently on the Continent skates have
proved themselves excellent engines
Of war, both in actual fighting, as
when a Dutch army on skates repulsed
a force Of Frenchmen on the Scheldt.
and as a rapid means of communioa-
ton. During the winter of 1906,
Napoleon, after the battle of Jena.
wished to send an order with the ut
most dispatch to Marshal Mortier,
directing him to make himself master.
without delay, of the Hanseatic towns.
The officer charged with this order
found himself at the mouth of the
Elbe at a point where it is seven and a
half miles from bank to bank. TO
cross In a boat was impossible, as the
river was coated with a surface of
newly frozen ice; to get over by a
bridge would necessitate a detour Of
more than twenty miles. The
officer, knowing how precious
time was, determined to skate
over the thin ice; and, though it was
too weak to bear a man walking. he
skinned along so rapidly that he cot
across in safety, gaining great honor
for the ingenuity and boldness that
enabled him to dispatch six hours
sooner than he possibly could have
done by the ordinary route.
In Holland, regiments have regu-
lar parades on the ice, but Norway is
probably the only country where n
has been considered necessary TO en-
body a special corps of skaters. In
this regiment the men are furnished,
says Mr.. Russell in his translation Of
Gulllaume Depping's book, with the
skates IN ordinary use in the North,
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A Dax WIN Lohn tiroMn.

During the day he stayed with me
in Lawrence, | had my first good op-
p~ortuDity to Judge the old mans char
ac'er. | had seen him in his camp,
had seen him in the field, and he was
always an enigma, astrange compound
of enthusiasm and cold methodie
stolidity--a volcano beneath a noun
tain Of snow. He told me of his
experiences as a wool merchant and
manufacturer in Ohio, and of his vast
travels in Europe. 1 soon discovered
that his tastes ran in Q military rather
than a commercial channel, He had
visited many OF Qualifications in
Europe, and infinitely criticised
them sharply, holding that the mod
ern. system Of warfare did away with
them, and that a Well-armed, brave
soldier was the best fertilization. He
criticised all the arms then in use, and
showed me a fine specimen of repeat
ing rife, which had l~ong-range sights,
and, he said, would carry 800 yards
but, he added, the way to fight was to
press to chose quarters. He had two
small pamphlets or circulars; one he
had had printed on the armies and
military systems of Europe; the other
was addressed to the soldiers of the
armies of the United States, and was
an odd mixture of advice as to disci-
pline and soldierly habits, and wound
up by advising them to desert when
ever there was an attempt made
to use them against a free government
and human liberty. He looked upon
passing political movements as mere
pr%eliminaries or adjuncts to more i'm
portant events in the future. With
him men were nothing; principles
everything. In his ordinary moods
the man seemed SO rigid, stern and
unimpressible when first knew him
that | never thought appetite and i'm
pulsive nature lay behind that cold
exterior. The whispering of the wind
on the prairie was full of voices to
him, and the stars as they shone in
the armament of God seemed to in
spire him. How admirable is the
symmetery of the heavens how grand
and beautiful. Everything moves in
sublime harmony in the Government
of God. Not so with us poor creatul es.
If one star is more brilliant than
others, it is continually shooting in
some cratic way into space" One
of the most interesting things in his
conversation that night, and one that
marked him as a theorist land perhaps
to some extent he might be styled a
visionary was his treatment Of our
of social and political life. He
thought society ought TO be organized
on a less selfish basis for while ma
terial interests gained something by
the dedication of pure selfshness, men
and women lost much by it. lie said
that all great reforms, like the Chris
tan religion, were based on broad.
generous, self-sacriicing principles.
He condemned the sale Of land as a
ohattel, and thought that there were
an infinite number of wrongs to right
society would be what it should
be, but that in our country slavery was
the sum of all villianies," and its
abolition the first essential work. III
American people did not take
courage and end it speedily, human
freedom and republican liberty would
soon be empty names in these United
States.
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public affairs. II is impossible to oxaggerate
the Importance Of the political events which
II shas in store, or the necessity OF r~ssolute
vigilance on the part Of every citizen who
founders gave Us. The debates and acts of
congress, the ut%teranues Of the press. the
exciting contests of the Republican and DEM
oeratie parties, now nearly equal in strength
throughout the country, the varying drift of
public sentiment. will all bear directly and
effectively upon the twenty-fourth Presiden-
tai election, to be held in November. Four
years ago next November. the will of the ma
tion, as expressed at the. polls, was thwarted
by gu abomlnable conspiracy, the promoters
and benehciaries of which still hold the Of
fees they stole. Will the crime of 1876 be
repeated in 1892 The past decade of years
opened with o corrupt, extravagant and inso-
lent administration intrenohed nc Washing
ton. The Sun did something toward dislodg-
ing the gang and breaking its power. The
same men are now intriguing to restore their
leader and themselves to places from which
they were driven by the indignation of the
people: VIII they sueceedY The coming
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principles OF constitution against all agrees
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instructive, and at the same time entertain
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Thursday, January q. 1880.
Administrator Sale.

ON the I'd day of January, 1890, I will pro-
~ coed to sell, with the consent of the exec
utrix of j. P. Vanordstrand, decd, The per-
Sonal property Of the late firm of Waters K
yanordstrand, consisting of house moving
rollers, blocks, timbers, jack
etc., to satisfy claims against
the said firm Of Waters & Vanordstrand. at
the yard. on Poplar street, east of themarket
mouse; sale 70 commence at 10 o'clock, a. m.
uhVMAS MOFFETT, admir- Of estate Of John
" ators' decd. Memphis, December 20, 1879.
g6 107
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that fixed on the right foot, being
somewhat longer than on the left.
Furnished with these the soldiers
descend steep slopes with incredible
rapidity, reascond them as quickly,
cross rivers and lakes, and halt at the
slightest signal, even while moving at
the highest speed"
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SOMETHING
EVERY LADY
OUGHT TO KNOW.

There exists a means of Sc
curing a soft and brilliant
Complexion, no matter how
poor it may naturally be.
hagan's Magnolia Balm is q
delicate and harmless article,
which instantly removes
Freckles, Tan, Richness,
ROughnesS, EruptiOns, Vulgar
Flushings, etc, etc. So deli.
cate and natural are its effects
that its use is not suspected by
anybody.
No lady has the right to pre-.
sent q disfigured face in sOciety
when the Magnolia Balm is sold
by all druggists for as cents.
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Trustees SaIo.

PURSUANT to a trust deed executed to me
l by J. I. Hillsman and Mary II. Hillsman,
dated December 26, 1875, and recorded in
the registers office Of Shelby COUNTY Tonnes
see, in book No. ll6, page lOl, will, on
Thursday, January 8, 1850,
between the hours Of 10 and Il o'clock am,
IN front Of the courthouse door, in the Taxing
District of said county, sell for cash. at pnb.
nc cutlery, the following described real estate
y the said Taxing District, formerly city Of
Memphisp viz; Beginning at the southwest
corner Of Vance and Lauderdale streets;
thence westWardly on and with the south line
OF Vance street 100 feet; thence southwardly,
parallel with Lauderdale street, 200 feet;
thence eastwardly y, parallel with Vance street
Iz9 feet to Laqderdale street; thence on and
with Lauderdale street 200 feet TO the begin
ming, except the following part thereof which
Will not be sold, viz; Lying at the said cor
ner Of said streets and fronting 60 feot on the
south line of Vance street and extending
eaek soqthw9rdly between parallel lines $50
ieet, All rights and equities of redemption,
dover and homestead expressly waived,
w liz W. X. POSITION, Trustee,
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UNION AND PLANTERS BANK
OF MEMPIIIs.

MEMPHis, TENN., December 10, 1879.
STOCKHOLDERS are hereby notified that
y an election will be held az this bank on
Monday. January IL, 1850, for the pur-
pose Of choosing fifteen directors 10 serve for
the ensuing year. S. p. READ, Cashier.
u. IIk
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administrators sale

I'm the Both day of December l viii proceed
" to sell, at public auction, all the personal
property, consisting Of groceries, ETC., of the
late James Taylor, contained in the grocery
store, corner Of fernando road and South
street; to satisfy claims against the estate of
said Taylor. Sale, 10 Jam.
THOMAS S. EASTON,
Admir- Of estate of James TAYLOR. deed.
Memphis, December 18th, 1879.
931O5
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CARD.

To all who are suffering fromthe errors and
indiscretions Of youth, nervous weakness,
early decay, loss Of manhood, etc., l will
send a recipe that will cure you, FREE OF
CHARGE. This great remedy was discov-
cred by a missionary in South America. Send
a self-addressod envelope to REV. JOSEPH 7.
Imam. Station D, New York City.
e~od-2-xxx-1&w
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NOTICE.

HAVING qualified as the Administrator of
IL 4. NJ. Arnold, deceased, this is to notify
all persons indebted to said estate to come
forward and settle, andiall those having claims
against II will present them az once TO me or
my attorney. GEO. FREEMAN, Admr,
Scales n Winchester, atty0
Memphis, Tenn, December n, 1879.
l02 100 JIG 1913
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Under and by virtue Of q certain deed OK
~ ecuted by j. A. Boyd on the first day OF
January, 1876, and duly recorded in the regis
ter's office Of Shelby county, Tennessee, in
record book, No, ll6, page 800, 70 which refer
enee Is made, the said j. A. Boyd conveyed
n trust me hereinafter described property 70
v u. Miller, trustee, and the said W.. L.
Miller having died leaving the trust executed
and by virtue Of n final decree in the cause on
w. Ii. Walker vs.. W. Il. Miller and a., R. ID.
sos. Chancery Court of Shelby county,
Tennessee, Go which reference is also here
made, the undersigned having been appoint
ed trustee IN the room and stead of said
W. f.. Miller. Now, therefore, l will at the
request of w. II. Walker, the beneficiary In
said deed of trust, and for the purpose of
paying the Indebtedness thereby secured on
Saturday, January 3, 1850,
between the hours Of 10 am. and 2 o'clock n
M, at the residence house on the premises.
oter for sale the following described. real es-
tate, 70 the highest and best bidder for cash
VIII, Lying, situate and being in the county
of Shelby and State of Tennessee, in range Z
and 3, section 2 Of the eleventh surveyors
district and IN the Ninth civil district of said
county. Beginning at a stake in Norris
south nne 81 links. west Of a walnut tree
marked "C;' running thence south 925 links
70 a stakei thence west 10 chains to n stake
IN the eenterof the Germantown road; thence
ovuAh ~ utBIeeb west ~ CHAINS and rs links
70 q stake; thence south so degrees east a
chains and 25 links to a stake; tbenee south
" degrees west 81 chains and so links To- n
stake Spanish oak and sassafras pointer,
thence east 20 chains and AS links 10 n dos,
wood; thence north $40 degrees east AZ chains
to an oak; thence north IS degrees east &
chains and IS links to a stake; thenee norm
2I degrees east q chains and 81 links 10 n
stake in Mrs. Caldwef's west line; thence
north " degrees Is chains and 30 links To n
stake with black. gum and redbud pointers;
thence south n degrees west i chains and d
INKS TO q stakei thence west % chains and so
links 20 the beginning, containing one hun.
drsd and ninety-tiye and one-half acres.
The right Of redemption is waived In said
trust deco and the sale will be made dis
charged thereof.
The title TO said real estate is believed IN
be good but ] win sell and convey as trp.seee
only. 5, b. SHEPHERD, Trustee.
Taylor q Carroll, attys. So 10S
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trustees sale.

TNDER the deed Of trust from J. A. /
steele d 20 70 me, on record in Shelby
Monday, January 8, 1850,
in front Of 27s Main street, Memphis. Tam
sell at public auction to the highest bidder
Tor cash, the undivided one-half interest oil
j. steele y Co. in a tract ofland, sitnated in
Shelby county, Tennessee, near Shelly Denot
consisting Of four separate parcels, the wboieo
containing i05 acres. Said land a known nv
the, Tauman land and is fully described II
said deed Of trust, TO which reference Ia mode
Equity Of redemption waived. ~
December Is, 1879. 81 ia
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Friday, Ianunrx ea. 1850.

in front Of the Planters Insurance Compan,
building, Ne. 80 Madison street, Memnb; -.
Tenn, at u O'Clock m, proceed To- seIii 70
Sash, 70 me highest bidder, the real estate
described in said deed Of trust, to.wit, M
being q part designated in The plon NJ tbs
surrey OF the O%hiekasaw nation as section Ia
IN township l. range 8 west, and situated In
enYlDy county, tennessee, and bounded ms
loi..ss' b%eginnlng NJ the northwest corner ar
sald section and running east with the north
ern boundary lines $50 poles to a stake i'm said.
llnei thence south 6l15 poles to stake; thence
Wosi goV pores 70 a stake IN the western bound-
airy hne Of said section; thence with the said
western boundary line to the beginning. Tho
same being 100 acres off Of the tract of land
conveyed by VIM. Edinston TO John Is
Plunkett by deed dated January 10. ISIS. ami
recorded in the registers office. Shelby cam
w Tennessee, IN book G, pages IN and lis
Title believed to be good, but / seIl ssa
convoy as trustee; ,EhS9qity Of redemption
9S l25 A'"eVVV'
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