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Trustees Sale.

pY virtue of the terms of a trust deed exc
- cuted to me by j N shepherd on the 18th
day Of August, 1876, to secure the aymen of
a note Of five hundred and forty-two dollars
n forty one cents, being unpaid, l will, on
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On the I0lh day OfFebruary, 1881,

between the hours of 10 and II O'Clock am,
at the southwest corner Of Main and Madison
streets, in the Taxing District of Shelby coun-
ty ia e city of Memphisl, sell to the highest
bidder, for cash, the following real estate, to-
wit:
Part o Original country lot No. 500. known
and designated upon the plan of John john
son and j. j. Murphy's subdivision eff said
lot No. SOB, as the north half Of lot No Is of
said johnson and Murphy's subdivision, and
bounded as follows: Beginning at a stake in
the south side of Alabama street, the north
west corner Of said johnson and Murphy's
four-acre lot; thence with south side of Ala
bama street. eastwardly 81 feet 8 inches to q
stake; thence s%Outhwardly at right angles with
Alabama street 81 feet to a stake; thence west
wardly, parallel with Alabama street to a
stake in the west line Of said lot; thence north
wardly with the west line Of said lot, 81 feet
TO the beginning.
This property has a good twe-story franc
house on it, has nice evergreens in front yard,
and will make a good home for a mail family.
Homestead and equity of redemption waived.
The title has been examined, and l believe it
to be good, but / will convey only as trustee.
Ills ll HUNsD0N CARY, Trustee.
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FINDER the authority vested in me by the
u terms of a deed of trust, executed by
William and Anna Hardt. dated January
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The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
Thurman and Edmunds

Howard Carroll writes as follows to the
New York Times:
with Few Of The Republicans Senator
| Thurman has always been on the most init
mate personal terms. This has been par
ticularly true as regards Senator Edmunds.
| Both gentlemen are members of the Judiciary
Committee, and the Republican giant in con-
| stitutional law has always, but especially
since Thurman's service on the Electoral
Commission, had great respect for his legal
| ability. This respect, which was of course
returned, has in late years ripened into
warm personal friendship, which develops
itself in many odd ways. For instance, the
two Senators almost invariably take in COM
pany that refreshment and little stimulant
which they may find necessary during long
and tiresome session. On such occasions
their movements are quite as eccentric as
they are amusing, and to the initiated we'll
understood. When the opportunity or the
spirit moves, one or the other of tlem-it is
sometimes one and then the other-will
solemnly and slowly rise in his place and
look slyly and significantly toward his
brother Senator Then the latter will in
a moment be seen also to rise in his place.
Then they 60 ont of the chamber, always
from different doors, and always solemnly
and slowly. In the same manner they go.
by different stairways, down to their commit
tee.room. There they meet, enter together,
and the door is closed upon the outside
world. What they do upon the inside can
only be surmised, but it is noticeable that
when they have been SO closeted for a few mo-
ments they invariably return to the Senate
Chamber looking very much refreshed and
strengthened. Sometimes one returns before
the other. AT such times, if it happens that
a vote be in progress, and, Edmunds being
absent, Thurnan's name is called, that gem
tleman, with the utmost gravity, though
close observer may notice sly twitch in his
eye, always replies
Upon this question, Mr.. President,
am paired with my honored friend, the SEN
ator from Vermont. If he were present he
would vote no-1 should vote yes.'
Exactly in the same fashion, If the great
Republican Senator be the first in the cham
Der and Mr.. Thurman absent during roll
call, the tall, straight form of the latter NAV
be seen slowly rising, and there comes in
deep tones from the clOse-cut and scarcely
moving lips the words:
Upon this question, Mr.. President,
am paired with my honored friend the Sen
ator from Ohio. III were present he would
vote yes-I should vote no.
Then, slowly again the Senator from
Vermont takes his seat and shortly after
when his honored friend, the Senator from
Ohio is again in his place, and has used his
now historical bandana handkerchief, they
exchange glances and 60 back TO work. At
such times lie is an unfortunate man who
attempts to contradict either of them in re-
gard to question of constitutional law.
Allen G. Thurman, his rugged red face,
portly form, clear-cut speeches, sound law,
and grim humor, will be greatly missed in
the United States Senate. Most of all, how
ever, will he be missed by his friend, the
Senator from Vermont
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
Now YOrk,s French Rail-.

The lady correspondent of the Cincinnati
Enquirer writes
"The French ball was held on Monday
night in the Academy of Music. Since 1864,
when the first of these annual masquerades
scandalized this city, they gradually tell off
in salacious quality until they were not
much wickeder than other free to- all dances.
This year, however, all the old time extrav-
aganCes of dress and department were re-
peated and ampliGed. The attendance was
enormous. The number of women who re-
mained closely masked proved that many a
respectable female was seeing life in safe
disguise (; bnt the majority of my sex present
took no more pains to hide their faces than
to cover any other part Of themselves. There
could not have been less than two hundred
pairs of female legs disclosed to points vary
ing between calf and hip. Page costumes,
outlining the entire form, were quite COM
mon; and many of those who wore long
skirts, compensated themselves by baroness
at the other end. During the small hours
Of the morning the Academy was pande-
monium of drunkenness and licentiousness.
The dancing was of the widest description
disorder prevailed in the boxes, and the great
wineroom below was crowded with yelling and
scrambliDg men and women. Some wonder
and ruined. One, with shower of champagne
drenched and spoiled, was of mauve satin,
with scarlet geranium blossoms and foliage,
both flowers and leaves so perfectly counter
feiting nature as to look as though passing
breeze would shake their creamy petals.
The wearer, a plump little blonde with a
babyish face, was too intoxicated to care what
became of her dress. About the most striking
fancy costume had tunic of fgreen leaves, and
all the rest was flesh colored tights. The
effect was that of an almost naked woman,
with her body showing through the
interstices of the leafy garment. Her arms
and bosom were wholly bare, and the silken
covering of her legs looked exactly like skin.
Is II any wonder that she was followed and sur
rounded by a crowd, and that finally, being
caught in a corner by some hilarious Wall
street fellows, she was plucked of the leaves
in jiffy She was willing TO dance in her
corset, but the floor managers retired her"
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proximity, although she did accept pro.
gramme from my hand, in an absent minded
kind OF way, without even glance in n '
direction, while the young lady on the other
side peepcd coquettishly at me.'
You conceited follow I" exclaims his
cousin.
g She did, upon my honor, from behind
her fan, every few minutes, and at last,
gaining confidence, from the angelic express
sion Of my countenance, no doubt, actually
offered me chocolate caramel"
why, Mr.. Mcofel"
| "ehe did, Miss Lees, and took IL and
ate it. She was about six, should think.
| However, to go on with my story. In the
third act, where"
Rose Mitchell ~
The Two Orphans i'
Neither. Where there is very some pa
thetic business my charming neghbor began
TO weep, and reaching her little gray -kidded
hand down by her side took from the pocket
OF my coat my handkerchief last of that
dozen of silk ones YOU brought the from Paris,
Ada"
Not really' And wha, did you do ~
Nothing. Yea, I did laughed silently
and long, till the firt of the fan and the
chocolate caramel said to me reproachfully,
Why do you laugh IL isn't funny And
"o.oheu heT ~ tne emu OF tne play walking
away in the most dignifed manner, after
carefully putting my handkerchief in her
polocoat, or whatever you called IL, pocket"
Twas all mistake, you may depend
upon II, Herbert. Last winter we wore our
pockets $685.
Ada hesitates and Linda as usual, comes
to her assistance: "In our back breadths.''
that sbe-I mean no doubt your coat
SKIRT was intruding upon the arm Of her
chair. And did you ever meet hrr again ~
~ did. And she Immediately possessed
herself, in thst as gnileless q manner as she
possessed herself of my handkerchief, or
something belonging 10 me, from my point
OF view, infinitely more valuable"
There's George, and we promised TO 60
sailing with him Come Linda" shouts Ada,
grasping her lazy friend by the arm, and as
they ran down the steps she shouts back at
her cousin, II there's any more tell us this
evening Herbert
" Is there any more, Miss Howell 2" asks
Mr.. Moore, rising and standing face TO face
with the blusliing girl.
"Should there be more !" she asks in re-
turn.
"Yes. And she gave him her heart in
place OF his own, and promised to be his
true and faithful wife, Do you approve of
that ending for my story ~
That would be happy conclusion, I'm
sure" laughs lllione. II can think Of no
better one, Herbert"
And he draws her little hand within his
arm, and they slowly saunter OF toward the
happy river.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
Fernau CabnIlera.

II is astonishing that, in spite of the power
! of this great writer and the fascination of
| the language in which she wrote, her name
should be almost unknown m England.
Spain, II indeed, as Schopenhauer describes
it, " the subtlest of nations" is, at the same
time, the least advanced as far as progress
is concerned, and the farthest removed from
actual tendencies of thought. When, there
fore, We enter the region of moderp Spanish
| fiction, we find ourselves in a wholly new
world, and cannot without an effort extend
| our sympathies to phases of character and
conditions of life wholly unlike our own.
But the effort once made to make the acq,laint-
ance of Fernan Caballero we soon become
sensible of a witchery that holds us fast
We feel, rs We read her glowing pages, that
the very singularity and remoteness of their
subject have charm. We are grateful to
the author for being as conservative as the
nation she portrays, for indeed and in truth
1t Is nothing less than the Spanish nation
that this daughter Of Spain has pictured
for us. This is her title of honor, and
had she been one shade more cosmopoli-
tan, one whit less conservative, she
with anything like the same sue
cess Would we learn, then, to know her
country people-would We become acquainted
with the sprightly Madrileho, the shrewd
Andalusian, the sevillan beauty, the rustic
heroine, the stately Marquesa of "sangre
ozul," the homely son of the soil, as we'll as
the dashng young officer, "what II is they
say and do, we have but to turn TO the lit
tie library Of fiction bearing the pseudonym
of Fernan Caballero. Possessed of extraor-
dinary insight into character and passionate
sympathy, ever limited to Spain and things
Spanish, she has identified herself with its
literature by a series Of works remarkable
above all for their sincerity. So sincere is
she, so bent ON giving utterance to the
thought uppermost in her mind, that she
has damaged her novels, considered as works
of art, by disregard of the great models. She
will be true to herself at any cost. Familiar
alike with French, German, English, and
Italian literature, she has prolted by none
in matters of style and form. She seems to
have willfully abstained from prohting by
them, and, without quarreling with her for
not being stylist, we should have been
grateful for little more respect shown TO
accepted canons OF taste. Yet SO naive, pie
turesque, and forcible Is her language, SO
ture to life are her characters, SO replete are
these stories with poetry aud passion, that
We forgive technical imperfections and read
each to the Macmiilan's Aogasine.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
ON GETTING KISSED.
pr CHESTER II. ou,rps.

I
You kissed me and this lie at once seemed to die;
My soul winged with transport scared up to the sky
In clouds Of bright rainbows II fioatcd along,
While echo gave back its Thanksgiving song.
But moment 1t lasted, and yet would give
My whole life another such moment TO live,
And though Paradise claims an infinite bliss,
I'd lose II to gain but another such kiss.
oh thus TO be kissed Is Joy most supreme
ne'et felt one like II except in dream;
And then awoke and sought, but In vain,
With my heart all nname to dream II again.
The glance that YOU gevc me seemed almost divine.
The touch Of yVur soft hair, entangled with mine,
Th.iicd through my whole being, absorbing in bliss
That moment OF rapture produced by the kiss.
The dew OF your kiss as IL welded my own,
Spoke soft to my heatt In silvery tone;
II broke like bubble from your lips on mine,
And rotrumed my breath with tho fragrance OF thine
MY proud Hips bushed red they felt sse
And Sigh born In rapture, was drowned In the mis-,
That rose from the fountain OF Joy on my breast,
Whose fond murmur lulied each sad thought to rest,
Whiie memory Inscribed on her tablets not eys
The birth Of the kiss and the Death " tss sisN.
CSirier. yourpo,
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
sheridan and LII. Xife.


In 1892 his wife died. al never,u saws
Michael Kelly, in his " "Reminiscences, f" be-
held more poignant grief than Mr.. Sheridan
felt for his beloved wife and though the
world which knew him only as public man
VIII perhaps scarcely credit the fact, have
night after night seen him sit and cry like a
child, while sang to him, at his desire, a
pathetic little song of my composition,
l. ''They bore her toa grassy grave''
lie married again three years afterward.
His second wife was Miss Ogle, a daughter
OF the Dean of Winchester. The story Of the
courtship and marriage is curious one. They
hrst met at party at Devonshire House ;
years OF dissipation had sadly disfigured his
once handsome features, and only his bril-
llant eyes were left to redeem q nose and
cheek too purple in hue for beauty "What
fright " exclaimed Miss Ogle, loud enough
for him to hear. Instead of being annoyed
by the remark, he at once engaged her in
conversation, put forth all his powers of fas-
cination, and resolved to make her not only
reverse her opinion, but to fall in love with
him. At her second meeting she thought him
ugly, but exceedingly fascinating. A week
or two afterwards he had so farsucceeded i'm
his designs that she declared that She
could not live without him. Her father
refused his consent unless Sheridan could
settle 9l5, 900 upon her, and, in his usual
miraculous way, he found the required sum.
But they We're totally unsuited to one an
other and the marriage was by no means n
happy one.
In 1893 he brought out his last dramatic
work, Pizzaro, an adaptation from Kot-
zebue. His usual dilatoriness imperiled its
success on the first night. When the cur
tain rose he was in his room writing the last
act, which, with the most profuse apologies,
was sent down bit by bit to be studied by
Kemble and Mrs. Siddons, during their wait
in the early part of the play. The receipts
OF the first sixty nights performances
amounted to 100000, and he received as
much as $4,000 for the copyright.
On the Oath of February, 1909, Drury
Lane Theatre, which had been rebuilt only
ten years previously at cost of sl50, 600,
was burned to the ground. There is a story
which relates how, while the theatre was
burning, Sheridan was coolly sitting in
tavern close by, slipping his wine, and, upon
some one demonstrating with him. he re-
Piled, with inimitable sang foid, "A man
may surely be allowed to take glass of wine
by his own freside. - Michael Kelly, how
ever, who was his acting manager at the
time, and present at the catastrophe, tells a
very different tale. He says that there was
no performance ON the night, and that Sheri-
dan was at the House when the news was
brought him. Ont OF respect to him a mo
tion OF Adjournment was made, but he op-
posed II, saying, that "Whatever might be
the extent Of his private calamity, he hoped
il would not be allowed to interfere with the
affairs of the nation, moved that the de-
bate should be proceeded with, and calmly
kept his seat.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
LOVE IN DREAMS.

Love hath It, popty-wreath,
Not Night alone,
laid my head beneath
I,ove's lllied throne,
Then to my sleep he brought
This anodyne--
Tho flower OF many thought
Aud fafcy hne.
4 form, face, no more
Fairor than truth;
A dream from Death pale shore:
The soul OF youth.
4 dream so dear and deep,
Alldreams above,
That stiil pray to sleep
Bring love back, Love.
j, A. syMoNbs.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
Straining at CHATS.

: In late number of popular magazine a
contributor undertook to point out the evil
which bad rhymes were working in our lit
erature, and said that imperfect rhymes,
learned and repeated by child, might make
him an incurably slovenly speaker. The rea.
son given for this was that il would induce
said child to mispronounce words in order to
make them "jingle;" as for instance, if
dumb" was used i'm the first line and
home as the rhyme in the corresponding
line, the latter word would be pronounced
hum" and SO on. This objection is whit
tied dawn to the finest kind of point the
writer inyeighing strongly against Hood, for
illustration, who makes mystery " rhyme
with history" in "The Bridge of sighs."
Thus.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
Ned underclS,hinx.

No Paris woman who is anybody ever
wears any other than SILK undcrciohos, and the most
fashionsbe color for these well as for many other
articles OF dress, Including tho corset is red. cell
ehrated modste says; 'sIt would be quite itnpossl-
bio To produce the same effects on an English O,
American figure, for the that so much and
bungling underclothing Is worn. A Frenchwomal
has everything 10 NJ her nguro exactly thin and nn,
In materials, and regards fold wrinkle as a dey c,
Of tho arch enemy u ihIure heI Appearance. y
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06

use Of these words as rhymning terminals is
allowable, and that 20" in the one and the
20 in the other are silent, our sensible
reviewer says
know a man who does not say
sblendor (making the obscure) like the
rest Of my acqualntaiices. lie Gays splen.
dor with the 0 as in nor. But he also SAYS
picture, Christmas and often. haze
him. Chicago Inter. Ocean.
The Sunday herald., 1881-02-06
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Mad from life's history,
Glad TO death, mystary. etc

His opinion is that the lips of that child
will be shaped to say mystory forever after
reading those lines, and he says Perhaps
1t Is for such crimes as this that Mr.. Emer.
son excludes Hood from his Parnassus, a re-
markable case of poetical justice.n
IL Is almost mOurnful to think that man
who can express his thoughts fairly in prose,
and is able to contribute readable articles "a
a magazine, should spend his time bew ailinp
such triiles as these instead of doing some.
thing that will add TO the knowledge or even
the amusement of the world. II is always
painful to behold these human engines work
ing away, welding ponderous pile-drivers to
fiatten shadows. In this instance II is graft
Tying to see a contributor coming forward in
the same magazine to beat this thresher with
his own fail. If Emerson excluded Hood on
account OF such " crimes " as that mentioned,
the last contributor shows that he should Law
an embargo on his own wares, for Emerson
begins his problem like this
like church; like a cowi;
love monarch Of tho soul.
''This is bad enough" says sensible con-
tributor, but don't suppose any child
except, maybe, a son Of one of our esteemed
adopted citizens-from often repeating these
lines would ever get to saying sopi for
som." This is common sense, and our later
reviewer continues. He says:
!" In Woodnotes occurs the very rhyme
which your contributor ridicules in Shelley :
Where feeds the moose, and walks the sury bear,
And up tho tall mast runs the woodpecker.
In Each and All We have
Tho sexton tolling his bell at noon
Deems not that great Napoleon
stops his horse, etc.
That is a favorite poem of mine, and have
read or repeated those lines, l suppose, some
hundreds of times, but | don't remember
that was ever yet betrayed into speaking of
Napoleon in consequence.
That one thing Is success,
Dear to the Eumenides.
ON eastern hills see their smokes
Mixed with mlst by distant loehs.
Who bides at home, nor walks abroad,
Carries the eagles aud masters the sword.
This Is Emerson, one OF our very greatest
men, and certainly one Of our finest poets,
yet not free from roughness and imperfection
in his verse. The idea Of his excluding any
body from Parnassus on account of bad
rhymes is chimerical.
The nnduly sensitive and precise writer
who made the objections alluded 10, also
felt shocked to find Shelley using " render y
to rhyme with "splendor, /" fearing that the
former word would be pronounced rendor, or
the latter splender. After showing that the
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