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valuable YTOrsenesh.

New York letter.
The allusion to fine horses suggests
a brief paragraph in reference to 50
prominent a feature in American life.
The advance in the luxury and ex-
trayaeance Of the ages is shown by the
purchase of $60,000 pictures, Sl5,OOO
sets Of diamonds, as well as in houses
that cost a quarter ola million, Why
should MOI the same overweening
wealth be displayed in a $4,000
horseP These luxuries are all ola
class. and their cost in each instance
is a mere triAe to a man who can at a
moment issue his check for a million.
If the reader inquire how large a num-
Der is included in this class, | reply
large enough to keep up the
market TO its present fancl-
full quotation. Conversing with
a leading man in this specially, l
asked him the highest value set upon
any horse in this country. Fifty
thousand dollars" was the reply. Ny
informant then added that he referred
to st. Julien, which is at present the
property of Hickok & Morrow. Santa
Claus. owned by William Cole, is
valued at $25, 200. Foster Dewey,
who was at one time private secretary
Of the notorious ring; values his
Richard at $4,000. Maud s., the
property of William H.. Vanderbilt,
is valued by its owner at $4,000, and,
reader, should you tender your
check for that amount you might
be disappointed by a refusal.
Maud S. is at present kept at
Cincinnati, being still under training.
Her time is 2:10l, which may be men
toned as the best made on the Amerl.
can turf. The enormous value Of suct
animals is found on the ice course
where immense sums are won by sOmt
and lost by Others. Daniel Maze, VIII,
has a training stable on Twenty ninti
street, is a very successful trainer, ant
has also driven in some importan
trials Of speed. To drive successful.
on q race course require
great nerve, and at leas
three years practice. The fee
sometimes $500, to which is occasion
, ally added 10 per cent onthe winning;
: Such are some facts in connectio
with racing-a custom which has bee
on the increase for several years; moi
t outstanding its d~emoralizing tender
: cy. Bonner very properly refuses t
I allow his horses to ace for none.
His best animal is Rarus, whose tim
> is 2:13t, and perhaps he might do bel
e ter if put under the race course sy.
TEN. but Bonner will not deVia'
d from that rule which affords so goc
on eYamnle-
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been engaged. That he himselfis con-
6dent is clear. When he took o rest
and fred of his gun deliberately he
knew it was loaded and knew what he
aimed at. He clearly aimed at a very
large opening, which he had pretty
good grounds for expecting to be
called on to fill. We are by nature
sympathetic, and we feel for those who
standaghastat the idea that one should
rise from the old bench to push them
from their Stools Nashville Amerl'
can, rs
"PREsERvED in the bandbox ofthe
Supreme Court seems to bethe hard
est thing the American can say
about the Judge, and it would never
have INDUCED in this sheer even had
he not dared when called upon for his
opinion to express his disapproval OF
the 1908 act. His arguments are
answered with the assertion that
he is a candidate for Governor.
There would be nothing wrong in this
if he were, still there is nothing in
Judge Sneed's course since he left the
Supreme bench to indicate that he has
any desire to re enter public life, and
the assertion so often made that he il
a candidate for something betray'
the feyerish uneasiness that pre-.
walls in the High Tax Camp
No man Of any prominence may uttel
a word against the 1908 or thu
methods by which it was passed with.
out expecting slurs, inuendoos o.
abuse. This probably MAJ
win, but we rather hope ant
think that it will have thu
opposite effect from that intended
Free American citizens are sometime
mlsled by specious% reasoning, by falls
doctrine or by Aattery, but they ar
hard to drive. There has been a dea
of driving done in this State, by thos
who took advantage of circumstance
= and public crodulity, but the sam
means will not accomplish the same II
sui s again, and the men who crack th
whips if they do not already know
|, will find it out, The people Of Tel
! nessee, to use a current phrase, do nj
drive worth a cent" they are anxioV
to have one more opportunity to vo
on the debt question at the ballot DO.
:, The High Tax bosses know and drei
this.
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The 5O-l Dyspepsia.

Nashville World
= = In the meantime, orders
for copies of the great speech Of
Judge Sneed pour in from all quarters
Of the State, and other people are be-
ginning to want TO see what 50 distin-
guished a man as Judge Sneed could
have said that should have provoked
the wrath Of The American.
Just as that journal begins to i'm
agine that it has. eifectually killed off
d statesman in such a tanner as to
intimidate all others, it finds another
man who has dared to express an opin-
ion of his own, and who does
not seem incliued to dance
the Americans pole. This
lime il is Gen. Atkins, Of West Ten
lessee, a man who has been hcnored
Tor years by his district, and a man
Who has. on the floor Of Congress,
nsde q national Il put ton and r. fleet Z
d credit upon Ttnness e.
This man reeoenizes tie newt! bic
CT that the present settlement does
Iot settle the question Of the State
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-
Before D C~slaughter, J. p. for heIby county,
Tenn. r Moore X Co. VS.. g D Nosley
and I j Berry.
this cause an attachment having beef,
/ sued out under section 1856 Of the Code Of
Tennessee, and returned levied upon the
property Of TIT defendants, by garnishment
and affidavit having been made that defend
ants are indebted to the plaintiffs in the sun
Of four hundred aGd fifteen dollars and eighty
cents. and interest, due by note, and tina
the claim Is just, and that tho defendant
are non-rosidents Of the State Of Tonnes
see; it is therefore ordered that said de
Pendants make their personal appearance,
before mo on the 3lst day of December
1881, at IL o'clock m, at my office
No. Q Madison street, Memphis, Tennessee
and defend said attachment suit within th'
time prescribed by law, or the same will b
proceeded with ex-parto; and that q copy o
this order be published once a week for fou
weeks in the Public Ledger.
This the ed day Of November, 1881.
1878 "a 90 DC SLAUGHTER. j. P.
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The Man VINO Died for Mark
Twain.

A gentleman in South Australia,
who was under the impression that
Mark Twain had once visited that far
AVA region, and when there had
actually lodged under the same root
with his father, happened to hear
recently that the famous humorist
was dead. He was so much affected
by the news that he at ono wrote to
Mr.. Clemens TO ascertain If it was
true. The reply he received is printed
in the Adelaide Observer Of Oct 10,
and is as follows:
During the present year, have re
ceived letters from three gentlemen in
Australia who had in past times
known people who had known me "iu
Australia" but | have never been in
any part of Australia in my life. By
these letters it appear that the persons
who knew me there knew Inc intimate
%ly-not for a day but for weeks. and
even months. And apparently l was
not confined to one place, but was
scattered all around over the country.
Also, apparently, | was very respecta-
Bile: at least | suppose so, from the
character of the company l seem to
have kept-government officials, ladies
of good position, editors OF newspapers,
etc.
1t is very evident then that some
one has been to Australia who did me
honor to personate me and call them
selves by my name. Now, if this mar
paid his debts and coyducted himself
in an orderly, respectable way, | SUP
pose | have no very great aus Of
complaint against him; and yet / am
not able to believe that a man can
falsely assume another mans name,
and at the same time be in other re.
; spects a decent and worthy person.
suspect that, suspicious as this
stranger seems to have been, he was
at bottom a rascal, and a pretty shabby
sort of a rascal at that.
That is all | wished to say about
the matter. There are signs that
have an audience among the people o
Australia. | want their good opin
| ion therefore l thought l woulC
speak up, and say that if that adyen
turer was guilty Of any misconduc
there, l hope the resulting obloqu,
will be reserved for him, and not lev
eled at me, since | am not to blame
To-day's mail brings a letter to
member Of my family from an oil
English friend of ours, dated Gov
eminent House, Sydney, May 49," i
t which the writer is shocked to hear Q
. my sudden death" Now, that sug
q gests that that aforementioned impos
, tor has even gone the length Of dyin
for me. This generosity disarms me
: He has done a thing for me which
. wouldn't even have done for myself
If he will stay dead now | will cal
! the account square, and drop th
grudge l bear him.
MARK TWAIN.
S Hartford. u. S. A., July a, 1851.
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ADVANCE OF Not Adrance.

World, H.
AL eyes will be turned upon the
Supreme Court to-day. 1t takes up
the motion to advance the 1908 case
on the docket and try it at this term
Of the court. No decision of the Su-
preme Court was ever looked forward
to with so much anxiety by so many
people. Whatever decision they may
render will be accepted as to the
court, as the result Of conscientious
convictions Of duty. There are tbous-
ands of people who may not be able to
see that the duty Of the Supreme
Court to advance the case is an imper-
alive ono. There are many who bes
lieve that the duty is imperative, and
each Of these classes are more or less
blinded by their p%rejudices. While
the Supreme Court is composed OF
men like all the rest of mankind, it
has been demonstrated that human
conduct is not always the outcome Of
prejudice. The Supreme Court will rise
above the sWaying TO and fro Of the
masses ana decide to advance or
not advance as may seem to be
their duty under the law. Fortunate
will it be for the State and its cred
If the court should reach the
conclusion that it is not their duty 10
advance this case to immediate trial.
II it is a matter of discretion, they
subserye the public good BY
allowing the oase to stand where it is
until tie people shall have declared
gther the settlement j., zoe tht
meets their approval, inasmuch as no
lecision on the question will bring
,eace in the State, unless that decision
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Burs them BIZ the CLOS

STEUBENvILLE, o., May %, 81.
Please send me at once one gross OF
most excellent medicinal tonic,
Browns Iron Bitters. | have used
them in my practice, for indigestion,
dyspepsia, sour stomach, heartburn,
nausea, vertigo, etc., aud have met
with great success, in effecting cures,
| find they give perfect tone and rea.
strength to every part Of the body
and in cases Of kidney diseases anC
consumption they quickly stop al
decay. r. b. ALEXANDER,
NJ. d. and Druggist.
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wholesale agents.
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He Has a Warming for a Visiting
Statesman.

Cosstitution.l
Old 81 came in yesterday afternoon,
and while polishing up the marble
lilies about the stem OF the aesthetic
editors's lamp, inquired:
docs yer reckin' dar's eny trufe
in de port dat Mr.. Blaine am sho'
huff comm ter de expizishun 2"
II imagine it is too too utterly
truel"
"Well, l amt got no konaict fer ter
git up ct he do said the old man.
But, as he finished his job, he said;
Nov, dat ar bizness motifs in dc tel
lergram am what took my eye"
I'm what way2"
dat de trip wuz undertooken jess
for plezur an fer perliteness-sake.
Dat soun'ed ter me pOwfully like wun
err desc adfertizin' kyards OATS got
Please doan' look on de udder side
printed on de back"
Howl
IVY, we all knows dathe'd jess ez
soon be President mex time ez to
stan around hongry wild his head ober
de top rail too fur frum de trof ter
get chen err smell OBJ de food"
"Well2"
AN eff yer gwine ter try ter jump
de fence while de udder horses is eI
feedin' moughty busy, an er frolickin.
moughty risky, yer got to get er good
runnin' start TO yer take de rise"
That's So" 49,.
but Misser Blaine better tess hi
lungs moughty well an measure
moughty close er he are gwine ter g
foul. Use bin ter many er jumpin
match, an Use seed hit time an
again"
Seen What?'
"Seen or man get back so fur al
den run so fas' dat wen he got to de
risin' line his ham strings refused fu
ter pulsate | tells yer time al
space an der right and lef' legs in {
/, perlitical race Y
, And with this burst the old ma
!. slid into the art rooms Of the sanctur
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To the Trade.

The high reputation which our
DON JUAN Cigar has attained has
induced parties to initiate it. We
hereby caution the public that the
Don Juan brand is copyrighted and
that we are the sole proprietors Of the
same, and the genuine r manutac-
tured at factory 294, Third District Of
New York. j. Baxter & Co. are sOlC
agents in Memphis.
BoNDY 4 LEDERER,
Propr's Factory 294, Sd Dist N. 7,
OF
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south Florida.

The work Of rcclsiming the ever
glades of Florida is being carried on
with energy and with a fattering pros
pect of success. A steamer is working
at the head OF Caloosahatehee river,
opening a channel from Lake Plirt to
Lake Hiehpochee. A dredge boat is
rapidly approaching completion at Ce
dar Keys, which will have a capacity
for excavating in twenty four hours .
canal twenty-five feet wide, Elk feet
deep, and 800 feet in length, and will
at one hauling deposit material exca-
waited at convenient distance from
the sides Of the canal. It's expected
that this boat will be actively engaged
on the upper Caloosahatchee early in
next month. A dredge of greater
excavating capacity is now building
on the Kissimee river, and will be in
operation next month. 1t will com
mence work by cutting from Lake
Okeechobee out to tidewater.
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debt, and believes that 5O.4 will be
more acceptable to the people, and,
under ali the surrounding cir
cumstances, is the only way out
Of present perplexing. diticudltles
in the State, He dared to
express himself thus to a repor-
ter,4 and again,n with more mild
ness. the American brings down its
mole and remarks that Gen. Atkins
has allowed dyspepsia to take hold OF
his boo stomach. Our cratic neigh
Dor has studied the situation to little
purpose if it docs not know that
the same dyspepsia which %afiicts Gen.
Atkins is just now raging over the
State in an epidemic form, We have
known for some time that General
Atkins, like many other sensible men,
had strong symptoms of this disease,
and we knew it would develop itself
in time. The American is informed
that this thing which it is pleased to
call dyspepsia in General Atkins Is
prevailing all around the pole which
It has erected, and the most rigid
quarantine will not protect the people
against the 50.4 dyspepsia. The fact
Of tue business is a few good people
have tried to take the 1908 and make
no fuss about it. The more they try
to gulp it down the more does il re
fuse to lay on their stomachs. That
is what has brought SO much 5O-4
dyspepsia in the country. The dis
ease is spreading. General Atkins is
not the only victim.
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Arc your hands and feet coldl Docs
your pulse beat irregular? Does your
heart quickly palpitate at the least
exeition, Worriment, or nervous e1-
citement? Does your face often flush
from a rush Of blood to the head2 Are
you troubled with dyspepsia, indiges-
ton, or some urinary disorder? Be-
ware, death may at any time suddenly
ensue from apoplexE Do not delay.
Your system needs some true medici-
nal tonic. Nothing is so good as
Browns Iron Bitteis. This excellent
will assist nature in quickly
regaining her lost hold on health and
life. 1t Strengthens every part Of the
yystem, and restores the different
organs Of life to their normal condi-
ion. In diseases Of an exhaustive
laturc, having a tend ncy 10 weaken
10Th mind aud body. it invariably
Icts Ike a charm.-Journal.
s. Mansfield 4 Co, w. N. Wilker-
on & Co and G. w. Jones d Co.,
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DY virtue Of the provisions Of a deed Of
ID trust made to me, A.. Woodruff, trustee,
BY Annie W. Ammons on the sth dayo April,
1873, and recorded in Deed Book No. lE,
page 3Si, in the Registers Office Of Shelby
county, Tennessee. said deed being made TO
secure an indebtedness to the Workingmen's
BUILDING and Loan Association, fully de-
scribed therein, and default having been
made in tho conditions thereof. / will, IS
trustee, at the request Of the beneficiary in
said decd, on
Monday, January 0, 1852,
at II o'clock a N, at the southwest corner Of
Main and Madison streets, in the Taxing Dis
triet Of said county, sell at public auction to
the highest bidder for cash that certain lot Of
land In said Taxing District described as part
Of sub-lot No. / Of lot No. 7, block IS, begin
ming at northeast corner Of lot 7 on west side
Of fernando street; thence west with the
line Of lot No. 7 ls2 feet; thence south q de-
grees west 81 feet; thence east 80 feet moro
or less; thence north 81 feet 10 beginning.
with privileges and ap%purtenances thereto
belonging.
All right. Of redemption waived by said
deed. and title believed to be perfect, but l
IVA : ''u'''' A. WOODRUFF, Trustee.
j. W. Hampton, Atty. N1O8
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cation Seed from Below.

Helena 1eoman, vthI
The steamer Henry Frank passed
up Wednesday night en- route for
Memphis, having on board fourteen
thousand sacks OF cotton seed con-
signed to the soil mills at Memphis.
This shows that the mills at Memphis
have at last succeeded in breaking the
flow of seed cotton to New Orleans,
which at one time threatened to drain
the entire section contiguous to the
river bank.
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Avn Amerlcan sOiree in Paris.

London Truth
Mr.. and Mrs. Houston, Of Oalifor-
MIA, gave a reception at Paris a few
DAYS ago in honor Of the birthday of
their only daughter. Among the
guests we've MIR. and Mrs. Mackay,
Mis- Hooper, of Philadelphia; Miss
Bates, of Cincinnati, and about fifteen
other prominent members of the
American colony.1 Miss Houston
wore a corsage Of garnet stamped vel
vet, with a short skirt of pale blue
satin. Mrs. Mackay's dress was OF
dark blue satin, trimmed with black
lace and old gold satin, aud Miss
Mackay was in pale pink satin. Mrs,
Houston wore an elegant toilet in
dark blue satin, relieved with skirt
front and revers of cream grounded
Vatican broeade. Miss Hooper'E
dress was in pale blue faille and satin
trimmed with Valenciennes lace. The
other ladies, by a singular but pretty
hazard, were all in white satin, a fact
which gave to the table a very charm
ing aspect.
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REVENGE.
Two BrOtheFs Murdered in Cold
Blood Near Texarlkana.
sna0iaI 10 N, LittIo Rook Garetto.l

Special to the Little Rock GsEetto.l
TExARKANA, ARK, December o.
There we're two men found about five
miles from the city on the Richmond
road, murdered They proved to be
two brothers by the name Of Adcock,
of Little River county. They were
both shot through the head. The
supposed murderers are the friends OF
a man who was sent to the p~enitentia-
~ from that county, against whom the
Adcock brothers we're witnesses. The
murder was not committed for rob
berry, as they had money on their bod
les when found. About thirty men
left the city in search of the murder.
ers at dark this evening
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Everybody stands agog to sec
whether Judge Sneed is 10 be a great
man. The State debt case comes W
this week, and it is Judge Snced's
opinion that if the matter is left open
he will be the leader of Tennessee
Democracy. To sweep into the Guber-
material chair and pause but a moment,
and then be borne on the folds Of a
new toga TO the Senate, would be
10 compass a brilliant dream. There
is no doubt that Savage, Marks
aud Wilson r~ecoenize the danger
that Judge Sneed may be chosen
10 occupy this opening. Nor is it
unreasonable. lie has been 50 long
preserved in the bandbox Of the Su-
preme Court that he is free from the
smell Of the various conflicts 10 which
the rest Of the aspiring leaders have
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Notice.

D @ Slaughter, J.P. for Shelby county,
nn.-Campbell x Co. VS.. Fannie Rouse.
IN this cause an attachment having been
i sued out under section. 1855 Of the Code OF
Tennessee, and returned levied lpon the
property of the defendant, by garnishment,
and affidavit having been maze that defend
ant Is indebted to the plaintiff in the
sum Of eighteen dollars and twelve cents, due
by account. and that the claim is. just,
and that the defendant is a non resident o.
that said defendant make her personal appear
ance before me on tho I'd day Of January,
1882. at 70 o'clock m, at my Office, No.
Madison street, Memphis, Tenn and defend
said attachment suit within the time pre-.
scribed by law, or the Same will be proceeded
DO published once q week for four weeks IN
the Public Ledger.
This the 25th day ofNeyembar, 1881.
"a 80 Sc % DCSLAUGHTER, J.P.
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To all who are suffering from the errors and
indications Of youth, nervous weakness.
early decay, loss Of manhsod, etc. | will send
a recipo that will cure you, FREE o.
CHARGE. This great remedy was discovered
BY a mis- ionaTy 10 South America. Send
felf-addressed envelope TO the Rev. JOsEPH I
IsxAE, Station D, New York City.
~b2rKxiv52d
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Every young lady desires a clear
complexion, which is often prevented
by some one of the diseases arising
from torpid liver, which can be cured
by Portaline, or Tabler's Vegetable
Liver Powder. the great remedy for
sour stomach, biliousness, dyspepsia.
etc.
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Pree Once liore.

RICHMOND, VA, Jan. 81, 81
II. H.. Warner Il o.: Sirs-For five
years | suffered from kidney affections.
Your Safe Kidney and Liver Cure
freed me from pain, restored my flesh
and thoroughly cured me.
4, b. MCCUE.
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Etudes in modern French Art. A
series Of MonogTams on the best
French artists Of the present day, with
between fifty and sixty beautiful mi
tials, head and tail-pieces, and fac
SMILES Of original drawings by the
artists. Farther illustrated with ten
steel engravings, India proofs, inlet
tered, by masters of engraving, The
text, and illustrations in the text, are
printed on tint, with border, which
produces a beautiful and artistic
effect. The latter are strictly auto
graphic, and are the most valuable set
Of authentic drawings by the modern
masters issued since the celebrated
Paris urcie, to which they are far
superior. They form a series Of deco
rated panels, embellished from the
hands Of the greatest painters living
~ The production of this work is
a revelation of the possibilities Of
book making in America, and is a
surprise to all who have seen some Of
the sheets. The author of the text,
Mr.. Strahan, writes from a personal
acquaintance with most of the artists
and the subjects discussed. His repu
tation in the country as an art critic Is
uneXcelled.