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PERSONALS.

GENERAL w. J. SMITH will be the orator
of the day at the decoration of the FEEDER al
graves to-day.
Mr.. JUSTICE STANLEY MATTHEWS, of the
United States Supreme Court, is in the city,
and will occupy the bench tomorrow with
] Judge Hammond.
MANAGER KIRKLAND left last night for
New Orleans, where he will negotiate for
several attractions for Estival Park. He will
endeavor to engage Levy, the great cornet
player, for few months.
REV. DR.. WHITE spent the Sabbath in our
city, occupying, morning and evening, the
pulpit of the Second Presbyterian church.
He has just. returned from the Southern Gen
eral Assembly at Atlanta.
PRoF. J. B. HUBBELL is on his way to his
home in Chicago from New Orleans, where
he was in service for the Red Cross Conven-
tion, of that city. The professor did good
work in this part of the country, and has
earned the gratitude of many thousands to
whom he brought needed relief.
THE Lexington (Ky.) Gazette announces
that "Msjor John r. Allen has been APP
pointed and sworn in as master commissioner
of the Fayette Circuit Court, in place of
the Hon. III. NJ. Buford, resigned. The posi-
ton is an important and lucrative one, and
we congratulate our young friend on his APP
pointment. 1t is quite compliment to a
young man to be called upon to fill such
responsible Office, but Major Aliens fitness
and capability TO perform the duties incum-
bent on him are known to all. 1t could not
have been bestowed upon a more deserving
or efficient man." Major John r. Allen is
the eldest son of the late DR.. John Allen,
during his lifetime one of the best known
physicians in Memphis and one of the most
scientific experts in diseases of the brain.
ONE of the most interesting of society
events occurred yesterday in the marriage,
at the Court street church, of Mr.. J. c.
Psine-a relative of our feIlow-citizen, Cap
tain r. w. Friend-ts Mrs. Victoria Davies,
of Mississippi county, Ark. The ceremony
was witnessed by large circle of friends,
who were charmingly entertained in the
intervals by the splendid music which Prof.
Schultze knew 30 we'll how to interpret. Mr..
Paine is prosperous planter and merchant,
and Mrs. Davies one of the wealthiest as we'll
as the most charming ladies of Mississippi
county. The ceremony was performed by
the Rev. III. A. Jones in his usual graceful,
earnest and felicitous style, and after con-
gratulations of friends the newly-wedded
pair left by steamer City of Helena for a
brief bridal tour. We join with a host of
true frienSs in wishing them a life of real
prosperity and the full measure of happiness
that their real worth so justly merits.
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Colonel J. II. Petit.

OF Petit, Sugss & Co., Front street, is OPP
posed to the present mode of settlement Of
the debt by the Taxing District government
81 am in favor OF being taxed for it, but am
opposed to the present city government hay
ing anything whatever TO do with 1t. 1t
should be done by q commission separate
and distinct from the government-the pres
ent commission will do, or some other dele
gated with the same powers, except as to the
amount, for which fifty and four or five
might be substituted. l believe six per
cent. would be too much. A compromise
at fifty cents on the dollar, with four
per cent. interest during the first if
teen years, and five per cent. the additional
fifteen years, could be bonded-and
that would be a great amount for us to have
to psy-hfty- -four ought to satisfy the
bondholder, and should be as much as we
ought to be taxed with. / want this sanitary
work carried on, and the streets must be put
in better condition. mean the principal
business streets We have the best city gov
eminent in the United States as it isnow, and
| don't want to see it converted into debt
making concern-no maRddmUses for me. Let
the Legislature delegate power to a commits
sion-the present board, say-to settle at the
best compromise that can be agreed upon,
and pay the debt upon that basis. have
great faith in the future prosperity OF the
city under the present form of government,
but none on earth if this government is en-
powered to create or assume debts. This
commission should have nothing else to do
but arrange the best possible terms and make
arrangements TO liquidate on those terms,
and leave the Taxing District with nothing
else TO do but manage its own internal
affairS"
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Mr., j. Il. GoodIetf,

of Goodlett & Co., the cotton factors on Front
street, is emphatically opposed to shat bill"
teeth and toe-nail. "Our streets must be got
into better condition." continued Mr.. Good
lett, sand our sanitary work must be pro-
ceeded with until we are placed beyond all
possibility of the repetition of those disss-
trous epidemics. These things must be done
first, and then we may begin to think about
paving that debt. But when that time
arrives l do not think the Taxing District
government has any business meddling with
it. The Legislature of the State must pro-
vide a way for settling it outside of the
Taxing District government, which must be
let alone to attend TO its own affairs. l do
not believe a better plan could be adopted
than by a commission such as exists now,
with authority to fund at thirty-three-and-
a-third per cent, but / would be in
favor OF raising that rate up to fifty cents
with four per cent. interest. | believe that
ninety per cent. of the property-owners of
the city are opposed to the terms proposed
in the bill now pending before the Legisa-
tive Council, and 1 do not think any action
should be taken on it by that body, espec-
tally since it is recognized as a measure for
local legislation put upon this community Of
taxpayers without their asking for it and
certainly without their consent. The action
Of the Council, if they ratify the bill, could
not be regarded as in accordance with the
desires Of the people, because the question
was not before them when they were chossu
to manage the affairs of the city. 1 havs
exerted every effort to prevent this govern
ment from having anything to do with tie
question in that shape, and 1 will oppos
it as long as there is a shadow OF hop
of defeating it. When the bondholders enter
into obligations with representative business
men, delegated with authority to act for this
people, binding themselves to abide BY d
compromise at fifty cents on the dollar md
Whatever interest may be at the same tine
agreed upon, then am in favor OF urging
the Iegisla ture to action looking TO seth
ment at the earliest possible moment. 1 an
in favor OF paying the debt, but We canDt
look forward to the preservation OF the bst
municipal charter ever adopted, and allW
it to be saddled upon US in the way proposed
in that bill. If we would preserve our PES
emit e@isteEce we must pay as we go, az re-
quired in OR charter, and never open the
doors, as this bill does, for the contracting Of
dahfa -
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est could be mutually fixed upon; but what
ever compromise is made must be settled bv
a commission authorized by the State Legis-
lature, Just like the one now in existence on
the thirty -three-znd -one-third measure If
the Taxing District government assumes the
debt, as would be the result of its ratification
of this bill, we will be involved in an
inextricable muddle, which we cannot stand
with our streets unpaved and our sanitary
system incomplete. These are matters that
should claim our attention before anything
else. Our principal business thoroughfares
must be put in better condition and we must
perfect our system of sanitation, then am
ready TO settle the debt on the conditions
as stated awhile ago. ! want to pay it and
get it out of the way of our prosperity and
growth, but if We were to attempt to do it
now at any figure all these internal works
would have to stop, business would thus be
retarded and our health jeopardized, which
would be greater drawbacks than anything
else could be. When these works have been
done, then 1 want to see and shall urge that
measures be adopted to settle in the shortest
possible time-at fifty and-four if we can, at
ffty-and-six If we must"
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ADJUSTMENTS.
Italian Picnic.

The twelfth annual picnic of the Italisn
Society, which comes off on the 9th of next
month, promises TO be the most successful
affair ever given by that popular organiza-
ton.
Postponed.
The Land-Esague picnic, at Fitzgibbon's
Grove, was again postponed on account of
the heavy rain in the early morning and
threatening appearance of the weather dur
ing the earlier part OF the day.
The PIesie
Tomorrow for the benefit of the Garfield
Colored Orphan Asylum must not be forgot
ten. 1t will take place at the Exposition
building, and gold medal will be presented
to the child who has the highest grade fer
attendance at the public schools.
EstivaI Park Opened.
Estival Park was formerly opened for the
summer season on Sunday. During the
afternoon and evening many people attended
and enjoyed the music OF Prof. Hand
workers. band Roller-skating is promised
on alternate nights during each evening Of
the week.
German Picnic.
The German Protestant Sunday-school
held their picnic at Estival Park yesterday.
About noon the children formed procession,
headed by Arnold's brass band, and paraded
from their school on Third street down Main
10 beale, where lhey zoos street cars lor the
Park. They spent very happy day, enjoying
all sorts of outdoor sports, dancing and
singing.
Lecture Tonight at Temperance Hail.
Mrs. Saxon. one Of the clearest-headed and
cleyerest of the women who occupy the lee
ture field. will speak on Temperance" to-
night at Temperance Hall, Main street. Ii
ali the men and women who believe in tenn
perance will do their duty and go and hear
her. the Hall will overflow with good people.
Mr.. Saxon is strong and logical speaker,
a woman of very great and marked ability,
shrewd, observant and practical. Recently
as our correspondents have reported, she has
been delivering temperance lectures II LAu-
derdale and adjacent counties, and We are
hannv to saw with the very best effect She
ough; to be equally successful in Memphis,
and she will, If the temperance people help
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LOCAL POLITICS.
Mr.. NJ. Mcmahon Accepts the NOmina.
ten for Sheriff from the Green
hackers and Republicans.


MEMPHIS, IENN., May y, ISs2.
NJ. Mcmahon, Esq:
DEAR SIR-The undersigned have been
appointed a committee to inform you that at
meeting of the Greenback Club on the
evening of the 9th you was unanimously
selected as their candidate for sheriff of
Shelby county; and at the Republican
County Convention, held at the Exposition
building on the 18th inst, your nomination
by the Greenbackers was unanimously in
dorsed. Hoping that it will accord with your
views to accept the nominations thus made,
and con6ding in your eminent fitness for the
discharge OF the duties devolved upon the
Office of sheriff, we respectfully request an
early acceptance of the same. We are, very
respectfully. your obedient servants,
H. GUTENBERG,
]. i. JENNINGS.
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The New Clarendon Hotel.
Madison and Second.
Joseph Uhl for Circuit Court Clerk.
Rooms GERMAN EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE,
AIrArpIrrs Mn

MEMPHIS, May q. 1882. ]
WHEREAS, Joseph Uhl has discharged the
duties appertainipg TO the Office of clerk o.
the Circuit Court of Shelby county in a mos
satisfactory manner; and whereas, it is emf
nently proper to reward a public servant
who has been tried and found faithful; there.
fore, be it
ResoEped, That in Joseph UhI the Circuit
Court of Shelby county has clerk that is
eminently worthy and competent, the Ger
man popul alton a most creditable represent
alive, and Shelby county an honorable,
capable and faithful public servant; and we
hereby tender him our support if he should
become a candidate for reelection to the
Office he has 30 honorably filed
John Scheibler. A. Renkert,
Otto Zimmerman, F. L. Warner,
VIVA. Denies, j. J. Tanner,
John Linkhauer, Julius Nagel,
d. Pante. Sig Roescher,
VIM. Frey, H Gronauer,
James Bachmann, II. Schilling,
H. Reuhman, Committee.
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Messrs. H. Gutenberg and L. Jennings.

MessTs- II. ButIenDerS anu Z. Jennings:
COMMUNICATIONS of this date, inform
ing me of my nomination by the Green
hackers and Republicans of Shelby county
for the Office of sheriff, is before me- Con-
Teasing to both surprise and qualification at
the high honor thus fatteringly shown, 1
most gladly and gratefully accept the same.
administration of the office of sheriff, giving
to all classes that which is their due Re-
spectfulIy, NJ. M'MAHoN.
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When you visit or leave New York city,
save baggage, expressage and carriage hire, and
stop at Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Cen
tral depot. -Four hundred and fifty elegant rooms,
fitted up at an expense of 81 900 COO reduced 70 81
and upwards per day. Elevator. Restaurant sup
piled with the best. Horse-cars, stages and eie-
waited railroad to all depots. Families can live
better for less money at the Grand Union than at
any other first-class hotel in the city.
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nr Mard,s Seminary for Young Ladies',

Nashville, Tennessee, has 266 names on
its roll for this the seventeenth year of its
successful career. The closing exercises will
embrace four days. Tuesday, May Goth, is
class day, when all undergraduates will
read their valedictories- Wednesday, Thurs
day and Friday, following, the graduates,
forty-one in number, will read essays, and
the whole occasion will be enliyened BY DG-
SIC and also by the calisthenie drill and by
the art lsyee,
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MI. w. n. Brown,

of Brown s starke, another prominent cot
ton frm-Mr Brown being an ex-member Of
the supper house" of the old City Council,
was also very decided in his opposition to
the bill. He said: 81 am opposed TO the
Taxing District having anything whatever
TO do with that bill. At the same time / am
anxious to have that debt settled-ffty-and
four will do, but 1 would agree to a compro-
mise at ifty-and-six if no lower rate Of inter-
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LOCAL NOTICES.
DINNER-25c at IL Jefferson street.

DINNER-25c at IL Jefferson street.
SEND your orders for plumbing, gas and
steam fitting to Bailey's 295 Second street.
THE Memphis Floral Company are selling
out their surplus stock at auction sale, on
Main, near Madison street.
THE lenses used in the Celluloid Eye
Glasses are ground with scientific accuracy.
They are free from chromatic alterations,
and produce brightness and distinctness OF
vision. For sale by all leading jewellers and
opticians.
DR. HoIMAN's Pad and PIasters will do
more for sickly spinal column and paraly-
sis than all the known appliances combined.
Neuralgia never fails 10 yield unto perma-
nent cure with the use of DR.. Holman's Pad
and Plasters
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Led Asfray.

'FERSAEDISA. NASSAU Co, FLA, March ., 1850.
Il have used Dr. Simmons Liver Regulator
and always found it to do what is claimed
for it. The last bottle and two packages did
me no good and were worse than nothing. l
see it is not pat up by j. II. Zeiliu & Co.,
and not genuine, and waste OF money to
buy it would be glad to get the pure and
genuine. Send me some from honest hands
with red z and ZeiIin & Co.'s signature On
wrapper). The fictitious stuff sold will injure
some one badly. Your obedient servant,
BENZ T. RICH"
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EXTRA
EXTRA
EXTRA
EXTRA
Extraordinary Reductions /!
Clearing Sale of the Most Determined,
Relentless and RemOrseless
Character!

sE One thing only reconeiles us to the enormity
and enormousness of these reductions. 1t is that
as s-A
they are temporary. Do you hearit? for the time
BEING-onIy for the SPECIFIED time being
Hats at half price. Silks. Parasols. Dress Goods,
Lace, Flowers. Ribbons, all-an reduced, and
most radically reduced. Carved. cut, slashed,
butchered without mercy! But soft; it's but for a
week-a short week. 1t begins MONDAY, May
9th. ana ends with tie closing of Saturday, June
Sd. If there were Hat heaven it would weep at
the sacrifice of our Trimmed Hats. And for one
week. as herein above recited, this Clearing Sale
will swing itself into profit for the public, aud
clearing of the overburdened shelves of
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Twenty FIVE feet 3-hose aud nozzle, g so.
Fifty feet 3-bose and nozzle, s. 80.
Fifty feet CHOSE, nozzle and reel, So.
Quality guaranteed
BROWNE. No. 40 Madison street.
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Is very popular with the ladies. After the
drill take your friends there, where you can
spend an hour very pleasantly. We make
a variety of pure creams, and have all the
Injuries the market affords.
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Marriage Guilds.

J. NJ. Gregory, jr., 434 Madison street, is
agent of the Southwestern Benefit Guild, the
Mobile Guild, the Knoxville Benefit Asso-
citation and the Jackson Aid Association.
Amy one desiring information concerning the
same will do we'll to call on him.
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THE FIFTY.CENT ACT
Judge II. T. Elicit PrOnouHees 1t Null
and Void as 1t is, and that 1t is
Calculated to Produce
Confusion and Embarrassment and Lead
to Litigation that Would Increase
the Burden OF Taxes.

Our commissioner was on his rounds again
yesterday in search of the sentiment of the
masses on the issue of the day-the adop-
ton of the ffty-cent bill by the Taxing
District Council-with the following result:
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Our annual auction of surplus stock to-day
at 292 Main street, near Madison, from 10 to
IL am. and to pm.
MEMPHIS FLORAL COMPANY.
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FIOyd,s Candies
Auction Sale of Plants,

Sent by express everywhere. Soda, Mead,
Ginger Ale and Mineral w alter on draught,
cold as ice will make it, and very refreshing.
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of Busby, Toof & Co., the Front street COM
mission and grocery merchants, stated that
If the Taxing-District government ratifes
that bill it will throw aside all the benefits
expected TO be derived from the abrogatio
of the old charter. Every well-informed
citizen knows that it would take all the tax
revenues OF the city during period OF five
years to place the streets in the condition
necessary for the convenient handling of our
commerce and for the proper conservation of
health-one as necessary as the other for the
promotion of our material interests. Mr..
Toof continued: "My position at the time
the old city charter was abrogated was that
it was absolutely necessary to be done in
order that this community, already over
burdened with taxation to meet the food of
mandamuses flowing from the courts, and
not a dollar to be saved for necessary i'm
provement of streets, to say nothing of sani-
tation, should have resting spell and al
lowed time to recuperate, build up our
thoroughfares and redeem ourselves from
the odium which attached to Memphis on
account of the destructive visitations of
epidemics that had crushed our her very
life. The old charter was destroyed, the
new one formed, and that object attained, and
l must say to our credit, under this new
form of government we have accomplished
wonders. Two years more and we will
have accomplished all, or nearly all, the in
ternal work necessary. When that time
transpires l am of opinion that some ar
rangement should be made TO pay the debt
at compromise of say fifty cents on the
dollar and four per cent. interest, but am
not in faver, even then, of the Taxing
District government having anything what
ever to do with it. Whatever settlement is
msde-I mean on whatever compromise the
bondholders agree-it must be done by
commission like the one authorized by the
Legislature to settle at ty-three-and-a-
third per cent, or let the present commission
settle at the amount agreed upon at that
time. But we cannot think of settling now
because it would entail upon us burden We
all ought TO know we are in no condition to
assume. 1 am in thorough accord with the
APPEAL on the subiect-all you have said
except your innocent exaggerations in your
low rate of property assessments for taxa
ton. You place it at twenty-five per cent.
of commercial value, which / think is far
too low But that has no material influence
one way or the other as to the vital question
at issue. / have great hopes for the future
prosperity of Memphis. The world, l do
not believe, can show a parallel of democrat
ization that existed here in 1879 and look
ing at our condition now, and the prospects
ahead, do not believe the world can show
a parallel of recuperative powers exhibited
by our people as individuals or as a COM
rnupitvO
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FIoyd,s Ladies, Restaurant

FoR pumps, pipes and we'll points 60 to
J. A. Baiiey's, 295 Second street.
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Awnings.
Important.

Tents and Mattresses OF all descriptions at
Buttenberg's, 231 Second street.
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Trunks at COst-Repairing Done.
To close the manufacturing of L. Ber-
torelli, No. 1858 Main street, near Gayoso.
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FOR RENT.

TWO COTTAGES-NoS, 1Ss and 100 Robson,
i near Jones avenue; in best repair. Apply al
"a Mosby street.
d ESIDENCE-245 Poplar, near High.
III Observation-Disclosures street, cor. Orleans.
Residence-Gt Bartlett-Dr. Wrtghts.
Residence-197 Carroll avenue-Mrs. Seyerson's-
Residence-Dunlap; also, IS Mosby.
Residence-273 Poplar; also, 65 Second.
Residence-Furnlsheds and garden-Bass avenue.
Observation-Disclosures at Ridgeway Station.
Residence-On fernando and South
Residence-156 Causey: also, "a Clay.
Residence-On Orleans, near Vance.
Residence-(good yard) 3l7 Madison.
Residences-On Monroe; also, Marshall avenue.
Rooms-S56 Main. us Main. Adams.
Rooms-On Causey, Linden and Second.
Stores-On Main, Second, Adams and Poplar.
GreenlaW Operahouse. Alexander Park.
W. A. WHEATLEY, 2sl Main street.
COTTAGE, CHEAP-On Poplar Boulevard, one
~ block of cans; five rooms garden, cistern, etc.
Apply at 46S Poplar street. L. O. ROBINSON.
HOUsE-Nine rooms; 262 Union street; So per
Ii month. J. G. JOHNSON, Court
QUITE OF RoOMs-over my store, 2SS Second
- street A. HITZFELD.
II oUSE-3 rooms, in good repair, with cistern.
IL Apply 10 Mrs. Taylor, SO North jackson st.
GoTTAGE-Four rooms, at2 9 Mosby street.
~ Apply at ~ Mosby.
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ROOMS AND BOARD.

DLEASANT ROOMS-First-elass board at Miss
L Bayliss's, rs Union St, Gen. Wiliiams's place.
DOOMS AND BOARD-Two rooms, with south
IL ern expos ure, at 20 Court street
MICE ROOMS AND BOARD.