Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-25

and made salt for the people that hal
sent nm. The water was in abundance,
so hehad nothing to do but keep fire
under his boilers. Toward the end OF
the disturbance Stcneman rode
tin-here one fine day and burned
the sheds, eXtinguished the fires under
the kettles, punched holes in the pots
with railroad bars, stopped up the wells,
broke the pumps, put gravel III the
pipes and created general ruin. Imme-
diately after the "disturbancep subsidized
the company that succeeded to the
rights, franchises and patents of old
Mickey Kane, resumed operations UNI
der the most favorable auspices. Your
celebrated railroad man, Captain Jaques.
was of the firm. The company had
paid them regularly and literally for the
use CT the water. The receipts were iu-
diciously applied by Messrs. Chambers
and Stuart, the latter a brother of
General Stuart, of cavalry fame, and
the former a native of Syracuse, New
York, in paying off membranes and
IN the purchase of the surrounding hills.
SO successful were they in this that at
the close of the war they owned seven
thousand acres of land, and all that re-
manned of the salt works. Captain
Jaques sold out his share for about sew
enty-nine thousand dollars in gold, and
went into railroad speculations with re-
newed vigOr. There is now about one
mlllion bushels salt taken every year,
that averages ten cents pes bushel profit,
ana the land is worth fifty dollars per
acre. 1t will be seen from this that this
gorge is not to be sneezed at.
CURE FOR CONSERVATIVES.
The salt is all made by boiling. This
is done in a long, low shed, where a
hundred kettles or boilers are always hot
and steaming. To stand over them once |
a day, regularly for two months, until
the peTspiration gushes freely, is said to
be a sure cure for the worst case of con-
sumption. The water is as clear as
crystal, and contains, in weight, eighty
per cent. of saline matter. The COM
pany own the gorge and all that is
therein.
BOOK LARNIN IN PREFERENCE TO
PREACHING.
Several farmers wind in and out daily
through this gorge, with various sorts of
products. The hills are splendid for
cattle and sheep, and there is a cheese
dairy at the upper end, u by Signor
Chambers, who also owns twenty-seven
hundred sheep and most everything else
about here. In various hooks and cor
ners economical, arcadian people find a
living out of the soil and out of wood
chopping. The place is 50 extravagantly
healthy that folks, wearied of life, have
to leave here to die. 1t is also prolific.
The crop of children is immense. Being
4 simple, areadian people, strangers to
The doings of a diabolical world, they
felt the need OF a preacher, mol of
! church, consequently they have nei-
her, but they have their common school
houses, one of which is conducted by
| German professor of ability. These
choOls are stuffed full of young ones
day, and the greatest eXhilara-
and enthusiasm prevail while they
re getting off their lessons. Here is a
community such as Rousseau sighed for, 1
nd PrOudhon dreamed of during life. {
Three schools and no church! and yet [
njOying abundance of the " salt of the ,
Here is a lesson for ubiquitous [
lemphis, with its twenty-five churches
nd its three or four school buildings, its Z
emo halls, faro banks and expensive
1unicipal machinery. There is no
Iayor here, MOI elaborate School Board. {
he Tax-gatherer is said to visit the i
lace only once in three months, and c
hen he is Indignantly kicked out; ana q
ct the people have three schools and no y
hurch. Three school buildings anG +
one store! Three schOOlhOuses and {
OF a grog-shop. 4
"Since Jacob amounted the stone, c
No such thing has been known e
1t is the most peculiarly constituted v
Immunity to be foundanywhere. They p
slieve that all human progress at pres d
ut is in the way that the pedagogue
Dints out, and being ambitious TO excel, d
ley followin the direction of the school v
faster. Next after salt, they imagine
lie schOolmaster is the favorite produc- d
on of the Almighty. NJ. .