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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1883-05-10
CHANCERY SALE
NJ REAL E0FATE


OF REAL ESTATE.
No. 4547, R.-Chancery Court of Shelby
county-State Of Tennessee for its own use,
etc., Us. Eliza 8. Cavelipe OF al.
ny virtue. Of an interlocutory decree for
~ sale, entered in tho above cause on the
18th day Of February, 1883, l will sell, at
public auction. TO the highest bidder. in front
Of the Clerk and Masters Office, courthouse
Of Shelby county, Memphis. Tennessee, on
Saturday, April IS, 1883,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in city Of Memphis, Shell
By county, Tennessee. to-wit:
Part Of Lot No, 3, east side Of Tennessee
street, in Butler tract, beginning at the in
tersection of center alley and Tennessee
street at a stake the northeast corner Of said
lot, runs thence south with the east side Of
Tennessee street 81 feet to a stake the north.
west corner Of W B Baley's lot. owned by -
Shanks; thence east $50 feet with the north
= Butler TO J II Rawlings and owned BY
Lavalette;. thence north with Lavale to-
west line 81 feet to Center alley; thence west
with south side Of Center alley $50 feet to the
beginning.
Terms of sale.-on a credit of seven
months, purchaser to execute note with APP
proved security and lien retained fol pur.
chase money.
This March "a, 1888.
X. j., BLACK, Clerk and Master.
BY j., Nj. Bradley, d. @. & M.
VIM Smith, = II Heiskell, W Heiskell
and s j Shepherd, solicitors. 2l5O
The above sale is continued
until Saturday, May IL, 1883.
This April 2S, 1888.
5262 r. j. BLACK, O. and M. n
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Equity Of redemption expressly waived.
sell and convey only as trustee.
s. O. MADDUX, Trustee.
FinIay a Peters, Attys 4s7B
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

President Arthur's son, General
McClellan's son, and several other
registering Princeton College lads
recently had a wine supper at a
hotel in that city, after which they
thought il would be funny" to stay
at the hotel all night, drive the
chambermaids out Of their rooms
and occupy them. The frail doors
were kicked in and the girls fed
shrieking down stairs The house
keeper, who slept at the end of the
hall, awakened by the racket, came
out, walked down the hall in her
night gown, hunting for the cause
ofthe trouble. Two ofthe crowd came
up, supporting in their arms a stu
dent. Seeing her room open they
ran in aud put their friend in the
old Iady's bed As they came out,
the door slammed aud fastened with
n spring lock. When the house
keeper returned, she found herself
locked out She raised an outcry,
which brought all of the students
out OF the rooms. YOung Arthur
and Mcclellan came out with guitars
and began 10 serensde the thinly-
attired housekeeper. She thought
the yOung men were bringing dis
grace upon the chambermaIds, and
sounded a nre alarm. Inls aroused
everybody. The students were cap
tured A small boy was put in
over the transSm of the house
keepers room, so that the student
there could not escape. 1t was
3 o'clock before the hOusekeeper
and her girls were restored to their
quarters. All the students con-
nected with the frolic were sus-
pended, but no complaints being
made, the students were last week
taken back These boys are max
ing history almost as fast as their
fathers.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

LONDON. March 1S.-The details
Of the attack on . ady Florence
Dixie arc a. follows. Sir Beaumont
and Lady Dixie were walking IN a
favorite part Of the grOuads OF their
residence. near Windsor, when Sir
beaumont walked on ahead, leaving
LADY Florence alone. Immediately
afterward two disguised men, whom
it is supposed had been following
her. assaulted Lady Florence. One
of the men stabbed her in two places
in the breast, but the steel ribs OF
her corset detected the point of the
knife and prevented her from being
swounded- During the struggle that
ensued Lady Dixie tainted, and on
regaining consciousness found that
the men-had disappeared. lt Is
believed that a huge ST. Bernard
dog. her special faVOFite, who was
with her at the time. protected her
from further assault BY the rutians,
and probably saved her life. Lady
Florence saws that one of the men
thrust filth in her mouth, prevent
ing her from making any outcry.
Her gloves on both hands were cut
across o. if with sharp knife. Sir
Beaumont Dixie says that he has
frequently received threating letters
during his residence i'm Ireland.
The papers generally attribute the
outrage to the Irish malcontents.
The Morning Post believes that
the "Invincibles" have transferred
their operations to England.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28
PUPPYLsM REBUKED AT GALA.
TIN

THAT girl is as fast as hell" said
a young man the other day to q
crowd of his comrades, as a frail
little creature swept gracefully past,
bowling with smile. At this re
mark some were amused, while
others felt keen rebuke for hav
ing been present. The subject at
which this sting was directed was a
young and beautiful girl, innocent
and thoughtless, not yet tempered
and trained to the gruff usages of
the world, not yet taught that wo-
men must guard against slanderous
tonges by avoiding even the ap-
pearance of evil. Having inquired
we find that the young man is not
even acquainted with the young
lady and was never In her company;
when looking upon her tender face
one could but think that the vile
insinuation blistered his false throat
before his lying tongue gave it ut
terance. A thoughtless young girl
often acts and speaks imprudently,
which is construed by the vulgar as
indelieate and is often so started on
the wings of gossip that gather filth
as they fly from door to door. If
slanderous gossip must live and fat
ten by traducing good people, let
men, boys and married wOme and
girls, who are old enough to ward
of the deadly fangs, be the targets,
but spare the young girls. Because
they speak freely and laugh merrily
are no indications that they are no
less pure;thereis purity where ad-n
would make base degreda-
ton; suspicion haunts the guilty
mind and the guilty are the SLAM
derers--
"Tis slander
Whose edge is sharper than the
sword whose tongue - ~
Outvenoms all the worms of Nile,
whose breath
Rides on the posting winds; and
doth belle
ALI corners of the world"
-Gallatin TenneSseeaH.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28
THE SPECTRE or THE BROKEN
THE ArMosPHERIC PHENOMENON or
THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS SEEN IN
NEVADA.

THE ATMOSPHERIC PHENOMENON or
THE HARTZ MOUNTAINS SEEN IN
NEVADA.
The famous spectre of the Brock.
On, which frequently appears in the
Hartz mountains, seldom visits this
country, but it was seen not long
ago from the Toujabe range in Ne
vada BY Mr.. r. 4. Marr, of the
coast and geodetic survey, who
gives this account of the atmospheric
phenomenon:
suddenly, as / stood looking
over the vast expanse beneath me,
/ saw myself confronted by the
monster figure of a man standing
in mid-air before me upon the top
Of n clearly-de ned mountain peak,
which had but the thin air Of the
valley below for a resting place.
The figure was only a short distance
from me. Around il We're two
circles OF rainbow light and color,
the outer one family defined as com
pared with the inner one, which
was bright and cleare aud distinctly
iridescent Around the head of the
figure was beautiful halo of light,
and from the figure itself shot rays
Of cOlOrs normal 10 the body. The
sight startled me more than / can
now tell. 1 threw up my hands in
astOnishment, aud, perhaps, some
little fear, and nc this moment the
spectre seemed TO move toward me.
In a few minutes / got over my
fright, aud then, after the figure
had faded away, I recognized the
fact that / had enjoyed one of the
NEST wonderful phenomena of
nature. Since then, we have seen il
once or twice from JEFF Davis Peak,
but il has never created such an
impression upon me as il did that
evening when | was doing service
a. heliOtyper, all alone, on the top
OF Are Dome"
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

Shortly after the passage of the
Fourteenth Amendment, q move
ment in which Mr.. Greeley had
taken considerable interest, large
darkey who had called several
times at the Tribune Office came
into Mr.. Greeley's private room,
while he was busily engaged IN
writing. Now, if there was any
one thing that was wen understood
around the Tribune Office it was
that Mr.. Greeley was not to be in
terrupted i'm the midst of his thought
When he was seen TO be busy, with
his face close down to his paper,
and his pen running rapidly from
ieft TO right across bis sheet, no one
around the Office had the hardihood
10 speak TO him. But this colored
gentleman marched straight up to
his elbow, and with a large gold
headed cane under his arm, and a
fine broad-cloth coat buttoned close
around his breast, he broke right
in
aI say, Mr.. Greeley, / thought i
would call and talk with you, sab,
about advising the cullud people to
study de sciences EE.l-
Mr.. Greeleys face assumed a
nearer proximity than ever to the
paper he was writing on, and his
hand kept going across it from left
to right with greater rapidity than
before. The cheeky freedman was
not TO be put out of time in this way.
lie therefore spoke again, and in a
slightly louder tone of voice than be
fore:
Il thought l would ask you" he
continued, $50 write an editorial
advising the cullud people to study
the scienences."
Still the great editor wrote on.
On the third repetition of the re-
mark, Mr.. Greeley laid down his
pen, and looking up hastily, ex-
claimed:
$50 away Go to HI! Go
over into New Jersey, and go to
raising potatoes =
The colored man didn't trouble |
him any more.-Cleveland Leader. |
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

FRIESDsHIP.--When we see leaves
drop from their trees in the begin
ming of autumn, such, we think, is
the friendship of the world. While
the sap of maintenance lasts, friends
swarm in abundance; but i'm the
winter of need, they leave us naked.
de is a happy man that hath true
friend at his need; but he is more
truly happy that hath no need Of
his friends.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

United States Marshall Brown,
of Little Rock, has been arrested on
the charge of forgery and perjury.
It ii claimed that he made out false
accounts against the government
and swore that they wore genuine.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28
F-RIGHTFCL DEATH OF TWO
AEnONA UTS.

AEHONA UTS.
New YoIk Tribune
Information has been received in
this city of the frightfnl death of
two eVerdaring aeronauts in Mad
rid under peculiar circumstances.
1t appears that Capt. Mayet and an
assistant assembled in % balloon in
Madrid, before AN immense con-
course of people on January %.
When the balloon had reached q
height of about 1000 feet Capt
May ct got out upon trBpeze sus-
pended from the basket, and began
his performances. The trapeze was
seen to break and the performer lost
his hold. While in the air he turn
ed over and over many times. He
struck the stone pavement an un-
recognizable mass. A moment later
the balloon containing the other oc-
cupant was seen to descend with
meteoric rapidity and it crashed
with terrific force against the pro-
jecting cave of a house, tilting the
basket and hurting the occupant
out head first. Striking a veranda,
the man was precipitated to the
grOunQ, corn, cul auu niaugied 10
such degree that he died in few
moments. Both the men were un-
der aa engagement to Barnum,
Baily x Hutchinson, and were to
nave performed in this city on
March 20.
The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-03-28

II. N Lee, MouTezuma, Tenn, says !:
sBrawns Iron Bitters relieved me OF
dyspepsia-
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17

the rains are infrequent in the valley
on the eastern side, while the chill from
the Sierras is tempered by the east
ward current from the Pacific. 1t is
the meeting of the antagonistic cur
rents and their happy combination (so
says DR.. Widney, the naturalist of the
whole region) that makes this rich
fruit and fower-belt. The Sierra
Nevada range thrust down from its
lofty beds of ice and snow all the Cali
fornia rivers-the Sacramento, San
Joaquin, Los Angeles, San Gabriel and
Santa Anna. These, with some minor
threads from the merciful snow, are
tapped everywhere by these irrigating
zanjas, or small canals, that are fretted
and tortured into the fields and groves
and around the roots of every tree and
plant If you Chamber up a hill, as
we did near the Molino, and shut your
eyes, the murmur of these zanjas is
like far-off music, that makes you
dreamy and forgetful. If you open
your eyes and look abroad at the
streams that make the music, you seem
to be gazing upon vast piece of lace
work, that sparkles at every angle in
the blazing sunlight, as far as the eye:
can see. One looks at every step Of
his wanderings over the Los Angelo:
Valley, at those clear heights of the
Sierras, and longs to climb them.-Th
Independent.
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
Does the World Miss Any One ?

Not long. The best and most useful
of us will soon be forgotten. Those
who to-day are filling large place in
the worlds regard will pass away from
the remembrance of men in a few
months, or at farthest in a few years
after the grave has closed upon their
remains.
We are shedding tears above new
made grave and wildly crying out in
our grief that our loss is irreparable,
yet in a short time the tendrils of love
have entwined around other supports,
and we no longer miss the one who has
gone.
So passes the world. But there are
those to whom loss is beyond repair.
There are men from whose memories
no woman's smile can chase recollec-
tions of the sweet face that has given
up all its beauty at deaths icy touch
There are women whose plighted faitt
extends beyond the grave, and drive:
away as profane those who would en-
tice them from worship of their bur
led lovers.
Such loyalty, however, is hiddel
away from the public gaze. Tn,
world sweeps ON beside and arount
them and cares not to look in on thi
unobtruding grief. 1t carves a lin
and rears stone over the dead, an
hastens away to offer homage to tn
living. 1t cries out weepingly, LIE rc
est mort, but with the next breath e1
claim joyously, ViUe Ie rOi.
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
z537pING HIMSELF
.,n OF TOWER HALL.
Si - mn for some bread

La-d nm for some bread,
90, y call on oaSedi oS;d he TO bit of loaf
ror haven "a, a I% %s ker. 1--WE nothlug W s'0
BE of: sag hurry or rueft;, ,honld help your
BO1 llnsr,v ~ and strong anu
Yod'ree. re.f hf'i'' ' ,oaoitr
"A Il Is your duty 70 Snd d he reached for loaf
,is! is IL! o;~g i"i Il under his arm IL 'dol;cbt
sely plaes'.liSs, .S,sy with grin OF uensn''
den siaIe neither of trouble .,. os First bite
ninEhEg, ,Se loaf. but tne VGl! 9nt sit'' O
~ alas il gel ,',sn on his shoulder was lalu'
ror the hand VI bsd a badge on his coat. -, ,oid
Tlnd the man lisi y The row? och! MURDER S"iu
What on arm u
she straight 70 oIcemGn. tc is one to explain;
.zsre," said me Poat ye been stealing his bread.
T,r he says you W PAT voure jolly old COCK;
s6rh! honey ,ndade yer beauty .:,so
yes faith ana s.llt Ter bid me be helping mesillF
TrOth snl s.lS Yer YER said twas me uutS soo9
sol helpeu nv me sowl where !ti '"ii'e
And now, TT,s:jilf Sjilf to be helping s meSlIs'
hplling msSia, e accuse me Of stealing
And the, 70 SS,trick, and ye are Enave;
mt hOwly ~ ~ no hung on the morrow,
Ye Ougl. ssSysntage of Pat IN ms ,.,, nas;e'
For sIng his oussnm VII tsrWthen turning to
let him gOF sSiu -"
Pat ..v nothing aboutit." said he. oo,;n,, =
You'll sai u nTa nv store when you're needihg
But come " ~
loaf a your liking You'll see
surely ene ~ aid Pat. e I'll not settle at that'
'lrah. lten;k teask ST,C ye oughter have twisted.
fOryer negyn nesynS 10 me bout helping meSllt-
Ier Prealch,ol"ySe ,o ySerl have ne arristed.
Bad lqcS y Ess said Pat sticking out OF my hat
I've a nfisu,, fispua,,bsr to cover me toes;
And no "a ear ,vo ewes. I'll not com mpromlse'
r@h By Ils ri bs 5sS getting afH some clothes ,,,
Except III .n, ~ an order" the baker replied.
I'll give yOr Hall" Said Pat .'ye may scrapet
3siad sbi boys that are willing to sell enaPe
And s,o w ~ Il All but the big Tower han
ronSS Pisce ~ vid II the scrip in me paw; g. ~,
rSa, Sn know to me JOY that 'nS n'l' arc '''
boys 10y CONS of Old Erin go Braugh.
fur Wv = not stock of Clothing in the CIT!
There nicely iiT assorted and suitable for tn
Vhco H,g ~ garments as our present lot II Is tn'
seecuOn uau,,lete y, TO be found anywhere, ana W.
defy eOuIS u'1I Nos. SIS and $40 Market Stree'
IoS1H c,SITrE MAsrEN Il ALLEN.
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17

on the desert, placed his wife and two
children ON an OK, himself on foot, for
great, indeed, must have been the OK
that could take another rider. Thus
he entered Los Angeles and began his
ministry.
The streeas of Los Angeles are full of
busy life. Here and there trace of
an old dark arcade tells the story of
the earlier architecture, which came
over with the Spaniards from their
dear Castilian home; but the new
buildings-such as banks, hotels, and
stores-are crowding out the last
Spanish structures, while in the parts
where the citizens live there are just
such bright and sunny homes as one
sees in New Jersey or along the Hud-
son. My study has been the fruit
stores. They are frequent, and for
variety, color, and, delicacy and rich
ness of flavor, one would not know
what enchanted land to visit in which
to find their superior. The houses
many of them, have ample gardens
and grounds and here the fruit-trees
are the ornamental shrubbery as well
You cannot resist the impulse to stoI
and pull some of the bright red seed
of the pepper trees, that bend over tn,
sidewalks, and your hat hits tn
, bananas as you step on your friend
, piazza. In the one garden of Judg
| Widney, with whom 1 was a guest
s you count the following fruits:
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
Empire 2" I inquired gravely.

A1nP PilC ihdu dullOO SlofCly'
"I don't wonder you laugh at me-"
he said. without replying to my ques-
ton; but you know that Miss Sophie
has set her hopes upon her cousins
capture of Captain Jack"
"Oh! then it was some one else that
caught the savage chieftain ?" said I.
"Yes," he answered, it was an en-
tire troop of cavalry, and SOphie's rela-
tive was not in it. If you could have
seen the effect the news had upon her."
he continued, "you would not be sur
prised at my excitement. She was
utterly prostrated with grief, and could
not be comforted. She sat with her
hands folded, her eyes staring express
sionless before her, and insisted that
all she had lived for was gone-her
hopes blasted"
1t became apparent after this that, if
Miss Sophie did live for anything, it
was certainly not for Mr.. Schmidt, and
one morning the latterly suddenly dis
appeared, his hopes also blasted, and
strong evidences of the presence Of a
flea il his ear
? l never saw or heard of him again,
but have often seen Miss Sophie since.
, Probably there is not a commercial
traveller on the road that does not
: know her. Though her father is still
f living, she is the mistress of the hotel,
, and attends to the comfort of her
e guests with zeal that the proprietorF
e of the larger hotels would do well tc
D emulate. There is no hotel in thai
section of the country more popular
e and less pretentious than the Sauerbecl
b House.
l When l visited it a few weeks since
d 1 renewed my former Acquaintance
n with it's fair mistress.
do the boys give you as mucl
4 taffy as they used to ?" inquired o
Miss Sophie. "Oh, yes" she replied
Il smilingly, but 1 give them back a
20 good as they send"
q Which give you the most trouble ?
"Well, that would be hard to say
w There's the hardware boys. The
- have so much to do with brass thf
20 they have forgotten how it seems to
a bashful, but we all like them hel
70 nevertheless"
90 "How about dry goods drummers
,o "Well, they can keep their end I
~ every time, but the embalming sale
.ss men are the most persistent, l thin
10 on the road. When hear them tai
:, 1 wonder how a customer can ever g
or away when once they open the
se mouths. Why, once an enterprisil
70 embalming salesman bet that he cOu
~ out-talk Charley Barmore, of the cofl
of trade. The bet was taken up, and t
ON two men were locked up in big roc
in the garret. This was at 9 o'clock
r. the evening. Well, at 4 o'clock t
Of next afternoon, hearing no noise
,ot there we opened the door, and what
you suppose we saw ?"
"Both men dead?"
~, VI "No, not at all. The enterprise
~ ~. embalming man was lying on the fic
e'' in a comatose or almost lifeless con
W. w, ton, and Barmore, of the undertake
,clO trade, was whispering in his ear
@ i'9 particulars of the Higgins story.
-0" whats that?"
= : "I'll tell you when l see you aga
ieS' Good morning" And she disappear
Smyrna times., 1883-01-17
The Use Of Chloral,

Ever since the discovery of the hyp-
motto of soporific properties of chloral,
by DIR. Liebreich, the drug has been
popular with those who suffer from in
Those persons for whom
opium possessed only horrors, well
coined chloral as sovereign balm for
nervousness and sleeplessness.
A New York druggist stated, the
other day, that the chloral habits more
commonly vice of the wealthy, and
especially of those engaged in literary
work and other intellectual pursuits.
This is probably true, as the records of
the many fatal cases from its use show
that the majority of its victims are
those engaged in arduous mental toll.
An account of its most famous victim
an English poet and painter-has
been recently published.
A medical writer in Chambers Jour
nal, in an article on the subject, earn
estly disparages its use. Chloral, like
all other medicines that bring sleep tC
the weary brain, is used in constantly
increasing doses, and, while some o
the fatal cases which have come under
the notice of the medical profession
may have been accidental, in the ma
jority of deaths large and poisonou
doses have been taken. 1t is the opin
ion of this authority that, " although
chloral drinking is not so apparent a
dram drinking, yet it has even great
er power over its victims; and, as it
immediate effects are not so degrading
ing as those of alcohol, they imagine
is not so ruinous as the latter; but it
the result of Unsuitable desire, and, a
such, it becomes an infatuating and dc
grading vice."