Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-06

wires gather startling facts that must I'll
deep inches in the temple historians
would rear, so deep the chasm dug by
war, separating the present from the
former age of American men, politics and
statesmanship, that they who lived be-
yond it, If they sought to write their
names in ever enduring annals, lived
wholly in vain. Constitutions and laws,
like history, fail to bridge the depths OF
the mighty gulf that yawned when q CON
tinent was convulsed, and that grows
wider and deeper with the lapse OF years.
We, of this age, read only the history
that we make, and our practical
knowledge is derived solely from the
nitro-glycerine lamP-lght ofour own ex-
perience. q
This last reflection suggests the fact
that Brownsville will soon be ~gas-lighted.
There is a mayor, a police force, q board
of aldermen, one railroad on its first legs,
and now Brownsville would have by night
the light of day. Brownsville has been
reading newspaper reviews of that charm
ing book, entitled ''the Coming Race, .
the authorship of which is ascribed to
Lord Lytton. My lerdteHs us how mar
vellously a ghostly city, down in the
esrth's bowels, is illuminated by electric
light, how the wonderful people of that
strange abode of q more advanced race
than ours drift about on wings, driven by
| voluntary electric forces. Brownsville
is well pleased with the story that pro-
roses to define mankind's condition CEN
turtles hence, and therefore Brownsville
will be like Lord LyttOn's city, and have
its homes and ~thoroughfsres brilliantly
illuminated. There Isl deal of e~lectri-
city in the eyes OF the daughters OF
Brownsville, and though they fly not, are
not the less angelic in purity and beauty.
These are they who grow weary of
of tsllow, dips, of breeding darkness that
now enshrouds the plsQe, only broken by
rude explosions of coal oil lamps, to be
followed by frightful CONGREGATIONS. The
plan of gas production adopted in Mem
phis will be resorted to in Brownsville,
and naptha will be used instead OF coal.
Cars are specially constructed for the
transportation of the cheap oil and not
only will villages everywhere, remote
from eoaf1elds, be TINS lighted up, Jbut
steam boilers will be heated and steam
ships propelled by the same agency for
the production of heat,
TASTE.
The fair begins this morning after I
leave the place. The fair grounds are
most attractive and have all needful
buildings and appliances for The proper
exhibition of the products of art and in
dustfy. A great number of horses and
cattle are already on the grounds and
many specimens ofmechsnics1 skill. The
hotels are full, and Brownsville will to-day
wear its holiday attire. An architect is
sadly needed. Many buildings are in course
of construction and one only differs from
all the rest. W. W. Vaughn recently
went TO Washington, 9 member of con-
gress. He returned and is engaged in
perfecting a tasteful cottsge-a sort of
Gothic villa, wholly unlike the two-story
saddle bags in which most of the people
dwell. The business houses of Browns
viii are superb, unsurpassed by those of
any interior city. The aarea of trade is
widened, population grows apace
and Brownsville and its landlord, G. F.
Read, know how to entertain a traveller,
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