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nmvmm APPEAL EJSTA.JBH.ISIIEI? 1S40. MEMPHIS, TENN., THUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1879. VOL. XXXVIII NUMBER 317 lIKTKOKniiOKICIIi KKPOKT. MiCTfTBia, September 17, 1879. Time. ear. Ther Wind. 30.17 M "cllm. - MO 12 H-i N. 0 12 72 E. - Wehtber. Smoky. Clear. 71 a.m. i. OO p.m. MKh) p.m. Minimum t .wmoroeter. M den K- T. 0 IBNEY. Private Signal Corps, U. 8. A. WKATIIKH UB9KKVATIOSM. - mw i.nr- i , niHnti, n KK TICK. U. o. ARMIi I W kknkhiht, Beptember 17, 1 879, 10:1) p.m. ri m., wind, weam- Cliatlpuooga Hal Teuton.. . Iniilnnol i.. . Louisville.. . Memphis... Kaalivtlle .. . NewOrlenii." 8irefKrt . V'ekshury.. Little Bock. r!i 77 7 HO 70 (VI 77 72 74 Calm. (ieiille. Fresh. C-tlm. Culm. Clear. Clear. Clour Hi Mm 111) 14 K. 8.K. Clear. i mis Clear. 'lit IK Calm. Light. Calm. (rentlo. Clear. :iM)H 8.K. n'.E.' Clear. Clear. Clear. :)().!( :).12 71 calm. Clear. K. T. DABN KY. Private -17 Corps, U. a The Kooitiile Tribune, of Tuesday, is the first pT in the ye!low-fevt r zone to an nounce tbis year' udvrr.t of the only known eoemy to yellow-fever, a follow: "The first frost of the season ,ut in an appearance in different portion of this county on Sunday morning last, disp. llintr. wa trust, all fears of the eporads devouring any considerable number of the inhabitants cf this section. A larae number of visiting Mroiphian will be gratified to learn that Jack Frost has at las, began an invasion f the SUf." The following are only a tew" tv- . tie a northern rhetoric Bpplied by the promoter, of the Qrart -ooom toward SQuth. era people, and y,t make a bri(jKe of the nose, of our ow- pppiJ,e by fcendiBg n Th kv S0' 'C't id for our stricken people. Ino ki-d" words are dipped from the edi- or,"- columns of the Lemars (Iowa) SeiUimJ, 'which sees no virtue oa earth save through Radical glasses: IIo, southlaod! Sunny southland! Lund of rattlesnakes, yellow fever, pestilence-breeding swamps; of wag SCnng bullies, painted cutthroats murderers in broadcloth; of the pistol, the bowie knife, the torch; of moral putrescence, religious in tolerance, political abominations, hideous mental malformation; of braggadocio, blus ter, swagger, ellrontery, brass; of cruelty, darkness, bloodtbirtinesi, ferocity, I natality; cold-hearted, on pitying, ruthless, sanguino lent land; land" of half breeds, cross-breed, bastards, hybrids, hottentotn. brigands, sav ages; of raw-boned he-traitore and scrawny she-devila; lawless mob-land, kuklux-bedev iled land; lecherous land, wallowing in de baucheries; land of lynch law, club law, re padiation, nullification; drunken, sottish, bacchanalian land; land of braggarts and cowards; wearisome, somnolent, drowsy, lazy land; vain, Btupid, ignorant, sunny southland! Wake up! The stalwarts are after you. With a hip, hip, hoorah! they will nominate Grant next year for Fred dent!" Onk of the elements of opposition to the quarantine regulations forbidding ingress and egress into and out of the city during the prevalence of jellow-fever has been provided for, and in a commendable way, for which we are thankful, since it has become a settled fact that we can gut no more at present. A notice is published elsewhere, explaining bow cotton-picker and farmhands generally have ben provided for by the National and Stat" boards of health in the establishment of a "camp of observation," to which they will bj permitted to go with their faunlies it they chooee, and remain ten or twenty days to be fed from the commissary department cf the government. After the limited time Las expired, they will bo fur nished with certificates that will allay the fears of the farmers as far as yellow-fever in fection is concerned. This camp is to be under the immediate supervision of the offi cials of the National and State board, who promise that the arrangements shall be as comfortable as can be provided under the circumstances. It having been considered best for all concerned that quaran tine regulations shall remain as they are for the present, with this slight modification, we urge that our citizens, as they have done heretofore, observe them with the strictest regard to respect for the effirta of both these bali to prrvi nt the rpread of the fever to localities not -t intected. The. plan proposed by the authorities will uitract the attention of those cmpl.iinirg because they are pre vented from i"'ii wiief irk awaits them. Outhidiciis, and rivals in particular, are busily engaged in ihe endeavor to create the impression that Mt mphis is at a crisis in her commercial tat. A placa so important as a commercial center ranuot be ruined or blotted out, but her people can suffer heavy losses, her trade lie depressed, and her population decroased before the day of recuperation ar rives. To prevent the evils that threaten, what is to b? done? We publish this morn ing the first of a series of communications from the able pen guided by the genius of the practical Captain Lenow, who is an im portant holder ot real estate in this city, and a public-spirited man, whose deep interest in the welfare of Memphis is too well known to admit of any doubts as to his honesty of thought and expression. lie shows how the question of the duty of our authori ties is to be answered, and where the money required shnuM come from. An act of the legislature to meet the expense by taxation has been talked of, but such taxa tion as Memphis can boar cannot do the work with the promptness that is indispensable if we are to avoid the evils that are imminent. In order to retain our population, induce in vestments and preserve our trade, the neces eary work must be commenced immediately on th ; abatement of the epidemic, if such we may term the present visitation, and it must be so far completed by the early months of next season as to banixh alarm about another attack of yellow-fever. The reasons given by our correspondent why the class he designates should assume the duties he prescribes for them uth striking, and will arouse considera tion. The whole subject is timely, and can not fail to receive the earnest attention of all interested in the future welfare of Memphis. Lonlne a Disappointment." Chicago Timet: "Outwardly, and to the ladies, at least, the Princess Louist. now at Toronto, ia a disappointment. When the troops were reviewed the princess was poorly mounted, HDd her contume as far from be ing rival. The can-tul chronicler of the atlair reports thut che word a short riding habit, decidedly the worse for wear, a hole in it being connpicuou. There was not a bit of trimming on it ;iuy where; tho only piece of color was a button-hole bouquet of bleeding hearts on a green leaf. Sho wore a plain linen roll coll.ir, fastened with a stonuless gold brooch. Her ear-rings were large pearl drops. Her faco was shielded by a black veil, with lartro black spots, and her gloves were of dotr-skin, with plain black ridges. Alt gethr it hi th homeliest of homely COftunjev I, i h h tier roai highness ha soni"tini if . in- inn wtucu is a mac! 'd char.icterit.nc o h r r.il ill t'liuiii." Mil v-r licov- Ira m New York. Mekkdith, N. Y., S-piember l.i A rich vein ot nlv-r has been discovered hare. Four feet down the or asuy mlv-r, sixty-two dollars to the ton; lead, nine dollars. At six feet depth the vein is much richer. YELLOW-FEVER. A Slight Decrease In New Cases bnt Not In Heaths New Cases Reported to Health Hoard Yesterday, Five Whites and Four Blacks Camp Father Mathen. Deaths Yesterday, Four Whites and Two Blacks Inside the City and Two Whites la the Suburbs Contri butions Received by the Howards News From Other Points. The board of health official reports for yes terday indicated a decrease in the number of ew cases of yellow-fever, there being i,ttt colored persons bavi f,uen victims to the av Til' ake U a" in a,, cannot said that the rever is abating in any respect C "',r can reasonably be predicted tjlft '.. will do so during the present month. oat will take place in October is yet a mystery. , Sew Cases Wednesday. WHITK3. Charles Miller, 69 years, 51 Market. r- uioom. hw years, old Union. nestle Burns. '2 Tears. Broadway and Orlearlit. waiuenne aioner. 4 jenre. uotn j&ckson. A. Blerman, 44 rears, 21 Mulberry. COLORED. Jooeph Clark, 10 rears. 169 Beale. Bloom, 85 years, lrl2 UnIO u Ellen Harris, 89 years, Alabama and Washington, Fott Pickering. Calvin Cob. IfO years, 70 Marshall avenue, Deaths Wednesday. WHITES. George B. MahafTer. 40 year!). Wellington. Fred Volkmar, fiW yeafs, Ho Union. M jllle Hndrten, 18 years, H-0 Beale. Fred Dielrlcn, 49 tears, city hospital. COLORED. Maria Ward, 89 years, 71 Desoto. Emma Bill, 89 years, 240 Third. Oatalde nty. WHITES. tonn Aright. 80 years. Union avenue. Dr. A. C. Campbell, 69 years, Flmlngo. CONTRIBVTIOm. TO TIE HOWARD ASSOCIATION. The following contributions were received yesterday: Haymakers oriental order of H., Selma, Ala., $25; Mayor's office, Baltimore, Md.. $5; L. Hughes, Dyersburg, Tenn., $5; A. M. Clayton, Lamar, Miss., Union and Planters bank, $20; Miss Nannie Lemon, Memphis, $7; M. T. Hungertord, hardware board of New York, $400. Total. $462. t. &OANS waring, setfy. FIREMEN'S RELIEF FUND. Bolivar, Tksn., September 13, 1879? M. M'Fadden, Chief ot Fire Department: Dear Sib Inclosed find check for twenty five dollars on the German national bank, for the use of your department. Truly yours, THOMAS BOYLE. Memphis, Trnn., September 17, 1879. Thomas Boyle, Esq.: Dear Sir With gratitude do I acknowl edge your favor of the thirteenth, inclosing a dralt for twenty-five dollars for the benefit of the Firemen's relief association. This gen erous act is properly appreciation, and will not be forgotten. Amid the trying circum stances by which we are surrounded at pres ent, it is encouraging and consoling to under stand that our fire department has friends whose friendship is practically demonstrated with such, liberality as you hav j generously accorded. Accept the kindest regards of the fire department, and the heartfelt thanks of yours truly, m. m'faddkn, Chief ot Fire Department aiI8CKLL.A9iKOUI. CAMP FATHER MATHEW. Editors Affeal We have just emerged from the deepest gloom of fear and anxiety into the sunlight of hope and security. I have witnessed during the past week more genuine heart-feeling than could be evoked by any of the powerful ones of earth. Such expressions as the following were on the lips of many: "I would give my life far Father William Walsh;" "I do not care to live if Father William dies," while with others the eyes, those true mirrors ot the soul, revealed what the lips refused to utter. It is no won der that such feelings are cherished for one who, while he points the way steadily heav enward, does not forget to labor to supply te wants of the body. This faint and poor tii b ate is the least that can be paid by one who up to the fever-time last year was an utter stranger to the reverend gentleman, and who, when stricken with affliction, experi enced from him that heaven-born sym pathy aud aid that will never be for gotten until the last sigh is breathed. That handsome reporter of yours that was here last week did not flitter us sufficiently, be should have pronounced the women all lair ana ine men all Drave. I excuse him this time. We had a number of visitors here on Sunday, the seventh, to witness the bless ing of the streets and avenues leading into the camp and placing them under the protec tion of some particular saint. It was an im pressive scene; as the procession ascended to the north of the encampment, fresh, youth ful voices mingled in litanies and hymns, while the cross was borne aloft, with lighted tapers on each side, which appeared in the gloaming like twin stars shining under the leafy canopy of the Great Architect's grand cathedral. The ceremony was concluded with benediction of the blessed sacrement. There are two masses celebrated every morn ing, and rosary and benediction at night. We are all enjoying good health here. Messrs. Editors, I perceive that come weal, come woe, you are the staunch friend of Memphis. Nothing in imical to its interests will find a place in your columns. Perhaps you are right; it will not do to parade personal wrongs or suf ferings. Let the individual perish, but let the community stand fair before the world. We do not go around all day moping, al though we do not employ the tin bread-pan in our concerns, still there ia plenty of food for mirth. We can laugh and grow fat, if not on government rations, certainly at the eccentricities of character daily coming under our observation. I would respectfully sug gest to Dr. Plunket to try and procure one of Ehrenberg's microscopes; it would enable him more clearly to discern the yellow-fever germs in lint or seed-cotton. Poor science, what absurdities you would-be high-priests commit in your name. I wish frost would hurry and gobble up Yellow Jack, and per mit your humble servant and all the rest of the refugees to return and save the city from the tender mercies of the Helleborians and Corkoniacs. m. a. m. TUB MEMPHIS TROUBLE AND WAT OCT OF IT. NO. I. Editors Appeal By a lesson of the most serious and strikinar character we hav undeniable evidence that the most vital interests ot the city of Memphis are rjro- foundly endangered. If the yellow-fever were to occur here once every ten years our prosperity would be interfered with to a most damaging extent, but when it comes with all its losses and its agonies two years in succession and one of those years at a time when other cities ordinarily liable to its visitations escape it horrors, occurring, too, in an inland city that in the earlier years of its existence was considered safe frora its at tacks we have warning, plain as the blaz ing characters that terrified Belshazzar, that we must stir ourselves, decisively and enect ually, to banish the scourge whose threat portends ruin and whose chastisement brings death. At this moment we are at a crisis when, like mariners on a vessel damaged bv a storm, we must hasten to make repairs or ail must drift helDlesalv on a Bhoreless sea, "Let things slide, the maxim of eay-going prosperity, must be abandoned by Memphis ror earnesc ana eihcient action. To sit ov th- stream and wait until the water runs past that we may cross, is no longer possible III US ll we would flourish and nnisner What is to be done, and who is to stirt the active measures that must necessarily be laaen r are two practical questions whose con sideratiou can no longer he delayed. There are persons who, betore considering these two questions, will ask a third. Is it worth while, the city being already hopelessly nve wnices ana iour Diacks yeaterci-y The death list was not likbt, howev, Bjx whites, including two outside the r; i,m;fJ1 j ruined, to engage in any recuperative meas ures at all? The city is not ruined. Its situ ation alone gives it immense natural advan agos and commercial facilities which, sotfe of what has been endured, remain intact. When there is an industrious and as past endurance and effort have amply proved an energetic and persevering people, a people who can retain their courage and undaunted ly proceed with their enterprises after the ravages of war and the calamities of pesti lence. Where there is for a hundred and fifty miles around an unsurpassed agricul tural country, with a medium climate; where there are railroads from every point of the compass, telegraph lines, splendid buildings wealthy and entetprislhjr. business firms, val pable real estate, and half a million bales of cotton worth twenty-five million dollars arriving every year, and the scene of all this situated upon the most important commer cial city and river in the world, there can be no ruin, although there may be much .loss from a season or two of yellow-fever. That cities well situated for trade can endure much more than Memphis he.s yet hs.2 to contend With, the history of ivery commercial center past ocd modern times fully proves. Wuere is there a finer site for a business city than that of Memphis? I answer, nowhere within the seaboard limits of North America. The exUhng difficulties and embarrassments Can neither ruin nor permanently damage Memphis as long as her inhabitants retain the courarn scd indomitable energy and per sistence they up to this time have manifested under the most threatening and ihrarten ing circumstancesv When the citizens of Memphis cease to mako use ot the advan tages their splendid geographical and com mercial position gives them, then rttin will fall upon their , city ahd not till then. The fate of Memphis ia in the hands of its people. Prosperity, success, and final triumph are all attainable, it the fiat of their will so com mand. With prospects such as lie before us, to ue the Words a respected and gitted fe male friend wrote to me a few weeks ago, just before she was carried away from us by the yellow-fever: "Everybody can car tail ex penses; ccnee.fi ti4ate their charity where it belongs at home; give up for a season cost ly entertainments, equipages, expensive clothing, and all supetfluous luxuries and in dulgences; the Ralvation of Memphis stands only waiting to be accepted. The work be fore us is to ettirpate the yellow-fever how is thft to be done? By removing the causes taat originate or sustain it. The French in Algiers, and others in parts of Italy and Australia, and other places, have extirpated natural malaria from infected localities. We therefore, by the use of appropriate means, can extirpate the artificial malaria that has come into existence only of recent date, and from artificial, and consequently, removable causes. This ability to control epidemic or infectious disease was known to those re markable people, the Jews, twenty-five hun dred years ago. The leprosy was to them what the yellow-fever is to us, and Leviticus chapters xiii and xiv show that, at that early day, they understood the practice of sanitary precautions that we are now slowly, and too often reluctantly, endeavoring to learn. Moses orders that infected articles, "whether warp or wool, in woolen or in linen, or any thing of skin, wherein the plague is, shall be burned with fire." (Lev. xiii:52.) When a house is infected, it is ordered that it be scraped, and the dust carried outside the city. If the, plague returns where the walls have been scraped and plastered, it is ordered to ' bre.k down the house, the stones of it and the timber thereof, and all the mortar of the house, and carry them forth out of the city." (Lev. xiv:40 45.) As our present object, with the lights of science to guide us, is to prevent the occurrence of the plague at all, we have to go back further than the Jews reached we want pure air, pure water, cleanly dwellings and cleanly skins. JOSEPH LENOW. RoGKBsviLLB, Tame.. September 10. 1879. BV TBLEGBAPH. Collections la StwVork for Sfemphla Haanna and Orynaag. Special to the Appeal. 1 New York, September 17. The Grand Master of this State is asked by the craft to collect funds for the relief of the Masons ot Memphis. - The collections at the postoffice for the Memphis orphans, amount to ri hundred and thirty dollars. Amount forwarded to-day. The Fever at conenrdla. Louisiana, Traced from Memphis. Special to the Appeal. New Orleans, September 17. A Green ville (Miss.) special reports that the doctors have decided that there is yellow-fever at Concordia, and trace the infection to Mem phis. Three new cases are reported. One hundred and fifteen persons remain in Con cordia unable to get through the shot-gun quarantines. RUSSIA.N OFFICIAL CHANGES. Am Vaeasy Ceelln- la St. Petersburg- Important Appointments Fore shadowed. London, September 12. Despite the Journal of St. Petersburg'' a implied denial ot the statements that important changes in the Russian diplomatic service have been de cided upon, there ii evidently a very unset- ti. d feeling in official circles in Uussia. The Ruaakoja Pravada, a St. Petersburg news paper, gives, under reserve, a list of the im pending changes, which includes the appoint ment of the czarewitch as chief of the Imperial Guard and commander of the military district of St. Petersburg; Prince Dondoukotf Korsa koff as minister of foreign affairs; Privy Councilor WalujefF as minister of the interior; General Todleben as minister of ways and communications, and General Obrutscheff as minister of war. A Berlin dispatch says: "In the event of the reported conversation at Baden between Prince Gortschakoif and the correspondent of the Paris Soleil turning out to be authentic, matters could scarcely be considered to be settled satisfactorily from a German point of view-until Prince GortscbakotT was replaced by Count SchouvalotT. The change in Rus sian representation at three important courts, which seems to be resolved on, may very well lead up to such a substitution." CII111LKS CALIiAllAJI, Another Newspaper Impostor Is Bent to the New York Penitentiary for JTour Month for (Stealing Twa Coats. New York Mail, 13th: "In the court of special sessions another young man, who has been swindling the public for some months past, under the cruise of a newspaper repor ter, was brought to grief. A few weeks ago Maurice Cohen, another of the same class, was sent to the island by Justice Wandell. The present case is that of Charles Callahan, alias Charles Roberts, who was charged with larceny by John Neary, of 23 City Hall place. Mr. Neary testified that the prisoner hired a room in his residence, and disappeared on August 7th, taking with him two of Mr. Neary's coats. Two weeks ago Mr. Neary caught him in the street, but released him on his promising to return the property. He did not do so, and Mr. Neary, on meeting him again, collared him and lodged him in the Oak street station. He was wearing one of Mr. Neary's coats at the time, and in his possession was found a bogus badge, in scribed 'Charles Roberta, the Sun Reporter,' and a number of documents which proved him to be a most accomplished young swin dler. He imposed on a number of prominent citizeps by representing himself to be the son of a deceased wealthy merchant named Roberts, aud that Messrs. Fisk & Hatch held a fortune of over three hundred thousand dollars in trust for him and his brother Louis. Ho carried around with him what purported to be a copy of his father's will, by which Fisk & Hatch were appointed his guardians. The story was investigated by a reporter, and found to be devoid of the slightest ele ment of truth. He also imposed on the Children's Aid society, who were about send ing him west. His counsel, Mr. Alfred Stealer, interposed the impudent defense that the coat was his and not Mr. Neary's. Tbe court promptly found Callahan guilty, and Justice Otterbourg sent him to the peni tentiary tor four months." An excellent remedy. Dr. Bull's Balti more pills are superior as a catharic to any other in all cases in which a purgative is employed, rnce, zoo. JOHN AM) JIM. Corrupt and Crooked Combinatlons TJnholy Alliance Between Sherman and Blaine Their Shibboleth Being, "Any Thing to Beat Grant." Sherman Abandons the Presidential Field to Blaine And Concludes to Pre-Empt the Next Senatorshlp from Ohio Washington dispatch to the Cincinnati Enquirer, 15th: "For weeks there have been ill-aefined rumors afloat here that Secretary Sherman and Senator Blaine had formed a mutual alliance, the object of which Was the elevation of both and the destruction of Gen eral Grant as a Presidential candidate. Of course) it is difficult trJ prove the compact, because, if it existe; it is understood only by the parties to it, and both are too shrewd not to promptly deny its existence. Hence, tbe rumors must be judged solely in the light of events as they present themselves. Judged in that light, there is the best reason to be lieve the truth of the report; and events which are to be subsequent, but which can now be anticipated, make it almost absolute ly certain that they both (Sherman and Blaine) mean to put forward the weight of their united influence to handicap Grant's friends, who are pressing him for renomina tion. I telegraphed last night that John Shertlan had abandoned all hope of his own nomination. There ab solutely no doubt of this; but at the same time he is ready to stand by the reported compact with Blaine, and help the latter to the goal he has no hopes of himself reaching, and to dampen the Grant enthusiasm in Blaine's behalf. The mtu",tion s such that a blind man can almost diagnose it. Sher man as a Presidential candidate was snuffed out when Conkling dictated Cornell's nomi nation at Saratoga. That one act served di rect notice on Secretary Sherman that all the money of his pet banking corporations in New York city was not sufficient to buy the machine which Conkling controls. That act said plainly: 'Mr. Sherman, you can never have the vote of New York in a National con vention;' and no one knows that better than Secretary Sherman. The fact, though, that Bla ne by hapless chance, for it was naught else, and was unexpected by either Sherman or his ally, Blaine carried- his own State made Blame as much a Presidential proba bility aa did.the Saratoga convention make Sherman a hopeless impossibility. Had Blaine lost Maine, he would have himsr'f abandoned all hope, and would have put forth every effort to carry to Sherman's support tbe influence which he undoubtedly controls ia the northwest, and given the financial wrecker a respectable fol lowing in a National convention. The sav ing of Maine, though, put the shoe on the other foot, and gave Blaine a prestige to start with which Sherman did not possess, and for this reason : While the great north western States are loyal to Blaine, they have a weakness at the same time for Grant; and it was very questionable with the two con spirators whether, with Blaine out of the race, he would have been able to have car ried these States to Sherman as against Grant. At all events, and judging the situation by the sequence of more recent events, Sherman thought he could not, and hence he aban doned the field to Blaine, and both will work in double harness under the old shibboleth of 'Anything to beat Grant.' The first act in this conspiracy will begin in Ohio the latter end of the present month or very early in October. Theu both Blame and Sherman will invade tbe State. Blaine, with that magnificent enthusiam which hi3 presence inspires, will be advantageously placed in sections of the State to make an impression. Meanwhile Sherman will lay siege to the senatorship, and fix the pins in such a way that should the legislature be Republican he ill be the benehciary ot the senatorial plum. This is all he now covets, and all he hopes for. Mr. Charles Foster will kindly- act as Sherman's 'Cassius.' The trio will form a tripartite of distinguished (sic) soldiers moving to the same music and having one common purpose, . ., the de struction ot tnree gallant soldiers, General Grant, General Ewing and the maimed Gen eral Rice. And for what? An answer is only a work of supererogation. There may be those who think; the undertaking rather more than can be developed. It may be. and probably will be, that Sherman and his creature, Foster, will not be able to defeat General Ewing; but if the Grant Republi cans by their votes help Charles Foster, a renegade, to power, Sherman and Foster will as readily sell them out for their own selfish ends as were General Grant s friends in Lou isiana and south Carolina sold to make Hayes President. Both are used to political trader, and the effrontery of each knows no blush. A. MTU 4.X m 12 DISCOVERY. Odd Dishes and Kleroalyphlced" Htone Dug from the Earth. Little Rock Gazette: "Several days ago a very interesting discovery was made by the workmen employed in the construction ot Colonel Zeb Ward's railway, intending from a point on the rort bmith road, above Mor rillton, to Colonel Ward's ginbouse, out on his farm, about a mile distant from tbe junc tion. While the workmen were digging through an elevation about eleven feet above the bed of the road, a negro man, just after a blast, exclaimed: 'Look bete. Mars John, we have struck tbe devil's house. Look at bis dishes.' Mr. John Ward, to whom the words were addressed, approached the place. On the ground, scattered in every direction, lay stone dishes. Some of them were broken, while thicker ones were whole and perfectly sound. Numbers of them had mouths like old-fashioned lamps, and some looked as though they had been used as crucibles. The stone is soft, leaving doubt as to whether they are petrified wood or original stone. There were at least a wagon-load of them, and so mysteriously were they stored away and so curiously shaped that the greatest of curiosity was awakened. Mr. Ward, soon after the blast, began exploring the excava tion. In parallelograms there were curious looking blue stones, between other kinds of formation. Taking out a long stone, smooth ly cut, like a brick, Mr. Ward, with a knife, began removing the dirt, when he discovered lettering on the stone. A closer examination disclosed the fact that the stone was covered with well-defined and skillfully wrought hieroglyphics. General Hendersoo, who has seen both the dishes and the ancient work of chirography, pronounces it very wonderful. Nothing comes to the relief of the discovery. Desoto may 'gee' with old coin and flint-lock muskets, but here he does not leave a mark. Conjecture is at an end. There is not, sur rounding the place of discovery, the least sign of geological commotion, and, in fact, there is no hill near that would indicate a land-slide; besides, the elevation is one which seems to have been moulded into its present shape by 'gradual' nature. The hieroglyph ics on the stones are, of course, unintelligible to any one who has yet seen them, and it is now left for some skilled archaeologist to de velop their meaning." Her Cheek. Paris letter: During tbe earliest years of Sara Bernhardt's fame a gentleman in tbe audience had one night the exceeding bad taste persistently to hiss her. She "spotted" him, found out his address, called at bis house and bad an interview all alone with him. I wonder bow he liked it? Then and there she told him it was always her endeavor conscientiously to do her duty as a histrionic artist and to please her public; that she re gretted anything like failure in that duty, and that she should feel greatly obliged if he would kindly point out her defects, in order that she might correct them. This epinted conduit won for her another passionate ad mirer. Another day she read in a certain Pa risian paper the statement that her hair was false and that her teeth were far too good to be genuine. Next day the dramatic critic was amazed to behold a lady dash into bis room and let down her hair in his presence. "Pull it!" she exclaimed, as she placed a luxuriant tress in one of his hands. "Is this "Certainly, certainly." Catching hold of his Other hand she opened her month Vmfc han. pily not tr bite-e id made him finger her teeth. 'Are these false ?" shrieked the lady. "No; they are the most beautiful real teeth I ever beheld in my life," declared the ter rified victim, who would willingly have sworn that black was white if it would have given his visitor the least satisfaction. "I am Sara Bernhardt," proclaimed the lady, with as much serenity as she could possibly put into her voice, and the wretched CritiO made up his mind for the worst. He, too, ' has since become one of her most devoted vassals, though, indeed, I do not know how any man would dare to do anything else. If any such foolhardy wight exists in Pariej he may be sure that, sooner or later, Sara Will go lor him. mssissii-ji pouitics. As Immense Barbecue and Sfass-Jfeetfa-r at Htarksvtlle Hon. K. Harksdale Addresses the As- . semhlsjre on the Politi cal lssmes la His mate. Special to the Appeal Starkbtillh, September 17. An immense mass-meeting and barbecue Was held to-day. Hon. E. Barksdale was introduced to the audience as the first speaker, in compliment ary and eloquent language, by Dr. J. G. Car roll, one of the Democratic nominees for the legislature. Major Barksdale alluded to his visit to Starksvilie three years ago as a can didate for elector for the State-at-large, and expressed the delight afforded him as the de pository of the trust confided to him by the people to participate in casting their votes for the Democratic candidates who had been deprived of their seats by fraud. He re viewed the history of tbe Democratic perry since the overthrow of Radical rule in Mis sissippi, and Bhowed that it had redeemed ail the pledges which it had made to the people to reduce taxes and economize expenditures. "I am here to-day," said Major Barksdale, "to plead for the continued ascendancy of the Democratic party in the State government to arraign its enemies whether they sad under the colors of open and undisguised Radicalism, or operate behind masked bat teries as Independents or Nationals, for their conspiracy to plunge the State back into the depths from which she has been rescued." Turning to national politics, he described the financial questions, and demonstrated that there was no reason why any ;Democrat should abandon his party - to bring relief to the peeple from the effects of Republican legislation if reform is the object. He ar gued that the Democratic party was not responsible for past legislation in the interest of the money power, having opposed it from the beginning, and being also pledged to correct the evils resulting from it as Boon as it shall obtain the control of the government, which he predicted would be in 1880. Turning from this subject, he said there were issues involved in the pend ing election more important than the finan cial question, and cited the recent speeches of Messrs. Sherman, Schurz and others show ing that Republican leaders of the north were willing to subordinate every other issue to the measures designed to convert tho government into a central despotism for depriviug the southern people of their liberties. He Baid the south was solid for her own protection, and not as a menace to the Union or the rights of any other section; and that the solid south united to tho National Democracy would constitute a line of defense for the constitutional liberties of the people against which the fanatic might beat and expend their fury in vain. Major Barksdale con cluded with an exhortation to the Democrats of Oktibbeha to stand by the regular organi zation and ticket of their party. It is greatly regretted that Major Barksdale's speech can not be given in lull as it fell' from his lips, full and overflowing with1 true Democra ic principles, poetry and eloquence. Every Mis sissippian knows how noble Barksdale stood by the Democratic banner when all else had fled in the dark days of adversity. There has been a wonderful revolution in the sentiment of the people since Major iSarksdale announced his candidacy, which will be more fully demonstrated by the next legislature, who will obey the mandates of their constituency by selecting Hon. Ethel Barksdale to fill the chair vacated by Bruce in the United btates senate. A Hag of gi gantic proportions, inscribed "E. Barksdale: Our Choice for United States Senator," was hoisted to-day amid an ovation of cheers and cannonading. Hon. O. R. Singleton, mem ber of consrreee, and also a candidate for senatorial honors, followed in an excellent speech, after which dinner was announced It was variously estimated that there were from three to four thousand people present white and colored, ladies and gentlemen said to be the largest audience ever assem bled in Oktibbeha. After dirner Hon Charles E. Hooker, member of congress, or tbe agle Urator ot Mississippi, was fully at himself for two hours with that ease, elo quence, grace and impressiveness for which he is so characteristic fatal Keslstanee. Coluvbus, O., September 13. Officer John Scheat shot and killed James Lee, col ored, here, last night. Lee resisted the cm cer, and it is said that the shooting was done in self-defense. The ball took effect between the eyes. Sheaf is under arrest. 1I1ED. DAVIS At Overton Station, Tenn., September 16 1879, of congestion, Laixik. C, daughter of Henry L. and Mattle A. Davis, aged 4 years 7 months and 8 dajj. " For ot such Is the king lorn of Heaven." SYMPTOMS OF A TORPID LIVER- Tjos of Appetite, Bowels costive, Pain in the Head, with n dull cessation ia the back part, F:iin under tjio shoulderblado, full nasa after catins:, -w ith a disinclination to c-torticn of body or mind. Irritability of temper. Low spirits, with a feeline of hav ing neglected some duty. Weariness, Diz ziness, .Fluttering at tLe Heart, Dots be fore the eyes. Yellow Skin, Beadacho generally over the right eye, Kestlessne3a with fitful dreams, highly colored Urine. IF 1T1ZSZ WARNINGS AKS UNHEEDED, SERIOUS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED. TUTT'3 PILL3 arc especially ndnptcd to micli ruses, one tlo.c efforts sucb it rhaniro of feeiinc ns to Hxtonish the sufierer. . CONSTIPATION. Only with regularity of the bowels enn perfect health bo enjoyed. It the constipation la of recent date, a sinprle dose ot TUTT'S PILLS v. ill fuillce, but ii it has become Imliiiual, oue pillf hould be takju every nlght.gradually lessen ing the freq-.teni-Tof the dose until a regular daily movement is obtained, whieh will soon follow. Dr. I. Guy I.e-wii, 1. nlion, Ark., says "After a practice or 25 years. I pronouuca TUTT'S PILLS the best anti-bilious metliciuo ever made" Key. F. It. Osiiooil, New York, says r "I have had Bytpepsia, Weak Stomach and Nervousness. 1 never hart anr medicine to do me to much good as Tl'TT'.S PI LLS. They aro as pood as represented." Olllec 3. .Uunuy Street, Xow York. TUTT'S HAIR DYE. C.RAT Hairok WmFKKns chnnem! to a i.ossT Hl.ACK hy n Fiiiflo Ui,h.utl(n i.I tins 1TK. It im pnrls . Ntnri;l Color, ac ts Instantaneously, rnd is as UnnuleHaitasprinK water. Sold by Druggist., or a'nt byexpres. on receiptor $1. Office 35 Murray St., New York. OLD PAPERS -AT- 25 Cents Per 100 AT- Appeal Office. real hair or not?" stammerc 3 the man TUTTS iF t las Hsi CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE The) Great Malarial Ajftidoio. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Eradicate Fever and Ague. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Never known to fall. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Sore Cure for Pnmb Ague. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Core Period-leal Headache- CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE The Greatest Tonlo Known. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Cures Billons Fever. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE Safe, Certain, Sure and Speedy. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE TJnf ailine and Infallible. CLIFFORD'S FEBRIFUGE TOR SAXE EVERYWHERE. Pals In fv bleaalnar. It locates disease. Whenever the Dowels Decome irregular, nss Tarrant's Seltzer Aperient. It will save much pain and danger. Nature some times Is so outraged by the burden she Is Crade to curry, tnrougn me Heedlessness 01 ner cniinren, that she openly rebels, and punishes fearfully. Don't neglect the DroDer treatment when the symp toms first appear. Besort to the Aperient, and get well speedily. SOLD BY ALL DRUGGISTS. MEMPHIS. TESX. r;i. 17, l7tf. The State and National Bo ud.t of Health be ing desirous to aid the people In their efforts te maintain themselves, propose to estn-illsh a Camp of Observation, Into which all i? rons wlshln? to go to the country to seek work wt. 1 their fami lies, be received, made comfort?.b:v nd furnished with Government Rations for tu.:.t; 1 20) days. At the expiration of ten tlO) dajs, uiose in good health who desire to go to seek work In tbe sur rounding country, will be furnished with a certificate stating the fact, and that they have been out of the city for ten to twenty days, as the case may be, and that they can, without dinger, be employed by par ties desiring their services. Those who accept this bounty of the Government, must do it with the un derstanding that tbey will not be permitted to return to the city until the end of the epidemic. As soon as the probable number of those ; .-irlng to scf pt the above generous offer of the Government is as certained, tbe necessary Tents fi.d R itlons will be telegraphed for, and the camp eswilr-Ued. JOHN JOHNSON. buperlntendtnt Quarantine. . J. W. ROSS, M.D.,' Inspecting Olucer National B-mrd of Health. cats. f i S 2 aw nA P s rp 5 5 m ft a a s s - 3 s 5.2 s- 3 " B e -.'S 3 a B m ffc s B SB f6 - o H e 2 I 9 C a s"5 w - 3 ""jp 2 2 9 2 erg MANUFACTURERS OF C I G A R S And Wholesale Dealers In Tobaco, Pipes, Smokers' Articles 286 Main St., 1310 East 54th St 91RMPHIH. SiKW YOKH. WE would respectfully request our friends and the trade generally to address all communi cations to Memphis. We have a large slock of goods ready for shipment In New York, and will be well prepared to nil all orders frora an entire Iresh stock as soon as Quarantine Is removed. ErT" We are In receipt of Fresh Imported Key Notice to shippers. MiasiSSlFr-I AND TENNK3SEE R. R., I Krright Offick. .Memphis, tiept 15. 1879. f Ci& Freight for Local Sb-tlons on this road. nr. c 'in panted by permits from Board or Health at des tination, will be received dally between the hours of H a in. and 2 P m. i IT" No perishable freight will be received. P. O. WOOD, Agent. riant itics. B 9 t 2.S1 rjs-3 ST 25 5..? S 5 S Sg.B?DB - I r m (i " ? J Hniii k Bro. RGILL BROTHERS & CO. Agricultural and Steam Machinery Depot, 3LO-312 FBOKT ST11EET, VftV-Omt STORK WILL HKMAIN OPEN A3 LONG A3 PRACTICABLE jDUBIJW THS FKVEB and be under the charge of MKMHBn. I OlDIAKDKU and, - H- IKjltOSf. One of our firm Is now East purchasing a full and fresh stock of all goods In o ir Una, wnlcb will be shlprwl from the manufacturers direct, in time to All orders for our full trdv o iitnar is mm mm NATURAL "Purity, Iresnness, persistent eflerveacence, and v.a rnm nf tK.i! ti JL Ianest the Secretary of Stste was asked to eause a thorough inquiry to be made Into the matter by our Con sul at Cologne, who concludes his report as follows: 'I therefore state that It h my opinion, formed after what I consider a careiul ana painstaking investigation, mat me Apoiunans wsirx, mimm "P""" arts Springs, as exported to the United States, la beyond question a Natural Mineral Water. The evidence which accompanies the Consul's dispatch abundantly sustains bis conclusion that the Apolllnarla Water, as imported, ts a Natural aiioerai water." Thlsevldence was given after thorough examination by such eminent scientists of theOld world as xunWMHi.H tv HiiVMAlliN. F RH.nrr Tuixrrnhj of Hrrlin. Member of thu Scien tific Department of the Kingdom of Prtima. Tice-Prexiient of the Chemical Society of Gertnany, etc.. tie. fKiil'KNNOK W. !! I Mw. Profettor of Chemixtry at the University at Oxford, Chemical Judge a the Centennial Exhifriiion, thUadelphia, etc., etc And ether. A spurious aiticle, purporting to be ihe genuine Apolilnarls water, being offered to the public, we warn all buyers to be sure that each and every bottle bears the Yellow .b-l. KKKIK lK R4KY A CO . Krw Vrk. Mole a g-nr for Intlfil wttf Hll Cl COTTON 300 TRONT ST., MEMPHIS. On ing to the continuance of yellow-feYer House at So 21 Month Jlain street. t. L.oui. Mo., wuere we win De pleased to receive from our patrons, friends and the public jrenerallj their shipments of Cotton, which will be sold to tbe best advantage. Orders for merchandise filled at lowest rates. Onr Memphis house will J. It. 01rYl. L. D. MULLIUS, Jr. . R.GODW COTTON AN1 COMMISSION MERCHANTS, No. 336 FRONT ST. 1 Memphis, Tenn. I HTWe have opened an office at 219 Chestnut street, St. Louis, for t? purpose or serving our customers and friends until tbe fever abates. Our Mr. r.Ur.LIXS will make BARTLETr, TE his headquarters. We also have a competent man at our office In Memphis, who will receive all Cotton consigned to us at that point, aud will advance liberally on It, either in A.M.BOYD tfe SOU 336 FRONT ST., MEMPHIS, Are Btill open, and hope to serve their friends through this epidemic as they did the last. Orders to points quarantined will be filled In St. Louis or Cincinnati. As soon as Cotton comes in, their shed will be opened, and liberal Cash Advance s made on same. Arrangements will be made to sell Cotton in St. Lonis and Cincinnati, shipments consigned to nsat either place will receive onr best attention. FULKlEti, . (SUCCESSORS TO 8LEDGE, MeXAI & CO.) W SOTiTTg k TTF1 rocers. Cotton Factors And Ccmmission J&erchants, rV. 371 and 373 Main W. W. Uuy. J no. W. IMllard. DILLARD, COFFIBJ GO. Wholesale Grocers 219 Chestnut Street, St. Louis, Mo. H AVING TEMPORARILY ESTABLISHED ders or our friend., as usual, during J. T. FARttASOX. JAMES A. HUNT. J. T. FARGASOfl Si CO. Wholesale Grocers.CottonFactois 219 Chestnut Street, St. jLonis, Mo. SST" Owing to the yellow-fever epidemic at Memphis, runy prepHfeq 10 mm me warn or our cimnmers ntrfimum. uwi, im. BaawBwMBwaaaBaBwaCBA l"Mwww'a.wwMMM"MM"M M. tjiavia Jolin . Halllvau. 1VE. GAYIN Wholesale Grocers 232 Front St., Memphis, & 16 S. HAVINa TO CLOSR OUR HOUSE AT MEMPHIS, TENN., DUBINU THE PBEVALENCB Off YKL-low-rver we have iocu'ed here, at No irt South Commercial street, temporarily We have all the advantages of olt-eitabllsued merchants here, and can anure our o' f rln is. and new ones, too. that any business Intrusted to us while here shall have our prompt attention, and the full benefit or our long expe rience In our line of business. Consignments ot Cotton and orders for goods In our line solicited, and perfect satisfaction In evry particular guarantee. CHICKASA HANDLE & MYSRMORE, Prop's, 98 Second St., opp. Market Square, Memphis. Honae Front, Wrought and Cast Fencing, I'reHsrs, UuXiearlng Falleya, Hhaniac, ltolt. Flpe ana hillings, tsrax . jt emors. Engines, ienvrul Krpalr. and everythiaxln llneof r'sondry or Jla-nine-nop Work. sRIll KOK H.l.l MTIUTKII HI.IMil Ki. fa. C. FKAKCE. FiiMlb SUBUS & U0-. .ar. m. m rm. .-tnrO -Ka aa i WHOLESALB eEOCESS, Cotton Factors and Conmrission Merchants No, 258 Front streot, Memphis, Tenm P K'FMWl It ATTKKTIDSf Hadden & Farrington, 278-280 Front Street, WILL COXTIXUE OPEN, HAVlJiW A large stock of tlKOCEKIES, are pre pared to serve customers. Liberal Cash Advances made on consignments of cotton. MXiSER AX WATER agreeabl flavor alone or mixed wltn 'rtnjeIr1J!' iiAt.rf mnt "In conform I tv with your re- FACTORS 24 S. MAIN ST., ST. I,OUIS. in Memphis, we haye opened a Branch remain open. FORI EE, tiiluk at ak S. M. McCALLUM. FACT 219 CHESTNUT ST. St. Louis, Mo. cash or merchandise. N&CO URTON CO street, Memphis, Tenn. M.G. Hall and Cotton Factors, OURSELVES HERB ARK PREPARED TO FILL OB- prevalence or yenow-rever in aemimn. C. C. HElJi. K. A. PARKER we have opened an office here temporarily, and are tho. Clark. Si. J. Clara. Co. and Cotton Factors, Commercial street, St. Louis, Mo. TKKVia ian all klnda Iron and Brain Casting-. Cottoa ,. It. HCtiHZi it - .rif JfAIH TO TH K MALK UPCOTTOl Change Headquart rs THE office of tbe Hernando lanaranee Oowiia.y will be located at T uliulioma, Teas , until further notice. F. M. NELSON. Secretary. TO PLANTERS, OUR Klre proof Warehouse, on Adams street. Is now open, snl we will make lib. ral c'dsh Ad vances on Cotton stored th re. upon i.ivM-ii'ftl'in ot warehouse receipt to S. A. Tuylor, Ksu.., Mate Na tional Bank. J. J. Ml SKY at CO, W IRONWORKS i T v V ; '