Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-12

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A colored gentleman advanced him $500,
after going to GToton and receiving the
heavy trunk as security. Thereupoi9, the
freedman vanished, end his friend found
he had paid $500 for q trunk full of sand.
The following are the names of the
officers of the Alabama and Chattanooga
railroad under the new regime: Colonel
]. h. Gindras, Receiver; Captain r. c..
Randolph, Treasurer; H. F. Wheeler, Su-
perintendent; ]. Mckee Gould, Assist
ant Superintendent and Engineer; L. ]
Wagner, Master of Transportation; 8. F.
Eagsn, General Agent.
The law governing the management
Of street railway cars has been dihnsd by
the courts TO be that, SIT g passerger Is
either intoxicated, or his ann In such
ss to lead the conductor to suppose he is
intoxicated, and he uses violent, loud,
profane and indecent language, and does
not stop upon remonstrance, Ii Is the
right and the duty of the conductor to
stop the car, tell hum TO leave, and If be
does not, TO put him out"
A missionary Of the American Sun
day School Union, organized new school
In q mountain neighborhood In Tannes-
see, where there were four distilleries.
Three leading men sharply opposed the
school. One said that he would rather
have 3 diStlLeTy in corner Of the church
than q Sunday school. And the school
was broken up. But the missionary was
not to be thWsrted. Going back to Esobert
Raikes' plan, he offered to pay those teach
ers five dollars, who would help keep up
the school for three months. And he sue
cesded.
The Commissioner OF Internal Rev
enue writes that since May 1, peddlers
are not required to be licensed or to pay
special tax as such, and, therefore, they
have no right as psddlers to sell tobacco.
Manufacturers are only authorized 20 sell
tobacco in full packages, put up as pre-
scribed In section 81 and stamped ts re-
quired by section 81. Peddlers employed
by manufacturers to sell their goods nave
no right in this respect which their prin-
cipals, the manufacturers, have not, and,
therefore, such peddlsrs can only sell in
original and unbroken packages, and
dealers become liable If they retail manu-
featured tobacco otherwise than from
original and stamped packages.
"A prominent merchant on Front
street writes hat be has been blest with
two thousand and eight applications for
places by ''gOod young menn of fond
Young men, this correspondent tells US,
''sre willing to do anything that they
may be in the shade, wear nice boots and
store Clothes go to the opera and hirt
with the girls.D They only ask for board.
Give hundred youths" the writer con
tinues, daily drift into the city to leave
it penniless, and five hundred go away
with boots made bottomless in tho end
less search for employment" There
should be- sn end Of all this. Cities every
Whers are overcrowded like the learned
professions. The country is bonndless,
the fields rich and lsborers few. There
health is ecure and morals remain IN
contaminated; there fortunes may be
soonest realized and youth finds no pre-
texts for idleness and dissipation.
Down on Csusey street, where footsteps
are seldom heard, lives rather a queer
woman. She is tall, healthy and robust;
her age is about forty she has never Gasted
the sweets of matrimony, though she
could have found husbands in sbund-
ancs. It seems that there stands behind
her an uncomfortable impulse" which
moves her away from all earthly joy and
sDlendOr, into the dark shades of solitude.
Her house Is small, diDgy, and dilspi-
dated, there being In il but one room, into
which an occasional sunbeam steals its
way, through 3 narrow little window,
Her furniture consists of n three legged
stool, q wooden peg, the floor, which is
her bedstead, and q tall walnut coffin,
standing open and upright in one of the
corners. This singular female considers
life but an empty dream, and in order to
remember this she shrOuds herself three
times every night and stretches out in the
coffin, where, with eyes closed and hands
crossed, she remains for several minutes
like 8 corpse. At midnight, before enter
ing the coffin, she places four candles
around it and sings q melancholy dirge.
How irksome to many are b trials Of
this life which impel this genial, lovely
female TO indulge in these sweet little
foTetsEtes of the world to come.
A distinguished preacher of Cincin-
natl has presented the "sOcisl evil" in
perhsps q somewhat novel aspect. It
seems that prominent ladies of Washing
ton had formed a club with the objsct of
having q reform tn~sUgursted by which
women might be reclaimed from their
life of shame. The preacher condemned
severely the plan which the ladies had
adopted to elevate prostitutes by giving
them social Justice" He argued that So
ciety has established 8 ban or law which
excludes this class from the society of the
virtuous, snd that no individual or indi-
vidusls have q right to bring into society
those thus excluded; that this law Is the
only protection which society hss, and
should be kept inviolste. He would even
the odium which is cast upon the
fallen. He judges that it is but right that
the woman should suffer for her crime,
while her companion in shame goes COM
p~aratively free, as by nature and position
woman hss q greater power for good, so If
this power Is used for evil her punish
ment should be the more severe. The
only way of escape which the preacher Of
fers is to carry the Gospel to them.
In Mifiin, Junists, and Snyder coun-
ties, Pennsylvania, are large numbers Of
a singular sect called Omish. These peo-
pie somewhat resemble the Dunkers in
their religious belief; but their customs
include many peculisrlties characteristic
of themselves alone. They exceed the
Quskers in their efforts to attain sinlplic-
ity Of dress. The men fasten their attire
with hooks and eyes, and look upon but
tons as an sbominstiOn in b sight of the
cody. The Omish girls wear a blue cot
ton dresg, the waist of which comes just
below the srm-pits, while their heads are
covered with close-ftting white skull
caps, which give their faces a CHASTITY ap-
pesrance. They have no poor; s~coffers
say that 1t is because when one Of their
number becomes poor, they turn him out
of the society; but this is Islander, for they
are not only thrifty, but charitable, never
refusing to entertain a stranger without
money and without price. They forBwesr
all things that psrtske OF worldly vanity,
practice the right Of baptism by INNER
sion, and celebrate the Last supper in
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