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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02
NJ EENPHTS Appeal
WEDNESDAY MORNING. IuLY. , 1s7a
BOARD OF HEAETH AND STREET
CLEANING.


1t is quite unfortunate that wephave
not fresh, living streams Of wafer, in
ceaseless currents, ever flowing along
the streets and rushing with resistless
force through the sewers. There is TO
such means of perfect puriication as
fresh, living, moving water. Every spe-
cies Of filth would be dissolved or swept
away, and nOxious vapors would not
arise as now from every street and lane
over which water is hourly ditfhsed by
thOughtless people, who only poi
son, when seeking to cool the air they
breathe. just enough water is distrlb-
uted over the streets each day by busy but
ignorant street-spriakiers to clay the
dust, and liftup every poisonous gas gen
Grated by dissolving the filth that COW
ers the street surface Heat and moist
ure are the agents Of decomposition. A
stupid fellow on top Of g cart, or holding
a hOse-pipe, supplies the one, and the
SUMS rays the other requisite TO dissOlu-
ton; noxiOus gases are developed, and
then death stalks down the 'clesnly"
thOroUghfare. StTeet-sprinkleTs might
do the public good service if there We're
nothing but soil upon the street surface;
but there is offal and decaying matter of
every description, and when the elegant
street-sprinkler Of the period deluges
the ola DOdrida with steaming water,
the villainous efiluvium that rises up is
often deadly and always offensive.
Away from the main thorOughfares the
condition of the streets, covered with
filth and garbage, should prohibit abso-
lutely, in weather like this, the use Of
hydrants for street-sprinkling. It is
surely unfortunate that We must have
heaps of filth everywhere; that the city
can pay policemen by the score, and yet
secure the services of no corps Of scaYen-
gers, and infinitely aggravated becomes
the public calamity when all this filth
is drenched with hot water and
sodden, filling the air with dis
gusting noxious vaI1rz. Inodorous
and harmless enough when left alone,
the Iilthy streets-the cleaners Of them
become agents of pesdlence when the
ignorant or unthinking manipulation OF
a hose-pipe burdens the wind with foul
stenches, begotten by forced fermenta-
ton Of filth. If the board of health have
properly developed olfaetoTies let them
be lifted up and distended widely, as
when the war-horse snuffs the battle
from afar, to catch odoTs on a hot
afternoon that come yelling up
fgom the surface OF wstered streets
Ike the loftiest Inspirations Of
poetic genius that twine about and
exalt and adOrn a mayors message. IL
fact, the beard of health, since we have
no sewers, and not enough water is used
to remove the filth even from the gut
ters, should either have the diffusion Of
water discontinued, or daily have each
gutter become a self-cleaning Tivulet.
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THE GRAND JURY AND JOHN RO-
GERS.

The grand jury, as instructed by the
proper law officers, have indicted many
citizens for suffering the existence of
nuisances to threaten the public health.
The city government was incapable Of
its proper peculiar tasks, and therefore
very many gentlemen are subjected to
heavy penalties, incident as costs " to
these little invitations to appear before
the grand jury. If the city govern
ment had enforced cleanliness as a civic
duty, these citizens would have been
spared heavy exactions, and while the
court has done its duty un-
der the law, as against these
individuals who suffer heavily because
Of the zacHes Of the mayor, we would in
quire whether there be no mode Of pun
ishing municipal officers for derelictions
Of duty that cause such losses to private
citizens The only municipal officer
who has done his dHty, without fear,
favor, OF affection, is the modest police
man and ex-sOldier Rogers. He has
turned neither TO The right nor left, and
has made for himself many ignorant, un-
thinking enemies. He has been shot at
when invading back yards. Once hewas
knocked down, but finally, as became a
sanitary man, "cleaned out'' his antag-
onist. Yesterday a brawny woman
went fCr Rogers with q villainously-fou
scruB-Brusil. Rogers shook his flaming
red head at the roaring dame. She was
unterrified, and continued to advance.
There was no help for It, and Rogers,
with his red hesd, leach particular hair
standing on end like quills," etc,
went over the fence like a sky
rocket. Rogers is the only ad-
junct Of the city government
who bas discharged the functions of his
ungratefuI Office with perfect fidelity, 4
and Rogers is the only man Inadequate |
Jy paid for his services. Since he has
brought many a dollar into the till of
the cuminal court, and has been heavy |
loser, by 3 months sickness caused by |
invading foul cellars and filthy yards, |
and moreover by the loss Of the east
half Of his official coat-skirt when fly
ing from the maddeDed danlsel in Pinch,
it would be very proper for the grand
jury, when indicting the Mayor to COM
PEI a subdivision Of accumulating court
fees With the honest, irTepressible, fear
less sanitary policeman.
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pEOsPERIrY oFrENNEssEE.

The government of the United States
has great weakness for marbles. Grant
was no doubt good at "kRucks" when
spending halcyon days of early man
hood among Digger Indians. In any
event there is a ceaseless demand, for
every variety of marble used, in Wash
ington. Two marble buildings are to be
erected in Tennessee; one, at Nash
vile; the other, at Memphis. Then
the use OF the cOstliest marble is never
suspended at the federal capitol. Vim
nie Ream and other sculptors have
wasted a vast deal Of valuable stone,
brought from great distances, and now
set upon end with labels in the
palaces and about the street-corners
of Washington. For building purposes
there is certainly no better stone in the
United States than that of eastern Ten
nessee. 1t weighs one hundred and
eighty pounds to the cubic foot, is easily
wrought, and costs less when trans
formed into a building, Mr. Mullett,
the United States architect, says, than
any marble found on the continent. Not
only the Memphis Masonic temple, but
the Memphis and Nashville custom
houses should be made Of this marble.
East Tennessee would be the immediate
but the aggregation of
wealth beyond the mOuntains would
lessen public burdens and those of
everywhere in the State. Dur
ing the next year the government
Of the United States viii have
marble headstones marking each federal
save. More than three hun
ircd thousand stones viii thus be used, |
and there is not elsewhere in the United
states marble as enduring as that quar-
-ied from brave and generous federal
soldiers farm near Knoxville. If we
an excite this community TO no effort |
INVOLVING the necessity for combined
lction, and can therefore secure the at
ainment of no local purpose Of public |
it is surely gratifying to
know that the eastern portion of our
state prospers as never before, and is
blest In attracting wealth
md population.
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4
lake and was drowned. So the report q
in the Houston Union.
Is not the Galveston Ne,Os little
oyerdOing the thing by using the Span
ish word colorado to distinguish the
blacks Of Louisiana, instead of negro, as
commonly used Our little knowledge
of Spanish teaches US that colorado
means red, and negro black-henee the
name of Affiean.-Austizl SStItcSHld7a Y
LOUISIANA.
We extremely regret to learn the
death in Marshall on Saturday night
last of Rev. DIR. T. B. Wilson. He was
an old and prominent citizen of Mar
shall, was universally esteemed, and as
an instructor of young ladies and as
minister of the gospel had exercised
potent influence for g0od,-ShreUeport
Times. alo H5lEt 1lg 30 1EbnsiGJ
The Sugar Planter maintsins that the
first step toward real, substantial re-
form in the State government is to re-
move the capital to Baton Rouge. There
can, 1t says, be no honest, just or fair
legislation until the general assemb y is
removed from the temptations WHICH,
in every form, surround it in the cityiof
New Orleans. -, .5.fs-aa h4e
In relation to q proposition that the
parish of DeSotO donate, in parish
bonds, 5000 600 to the Southwestern rail-
road, the Mansfield Reporter says that
if the road is run through the centre of
the parish, that, or a larger donation, if
necessary, will be freely voted. The
Reporter, however, objects to the dOna-
ton to the present proposed direct route
to Logansport, since the road would only
traverse seventeen miles of the parish
Shreveport Neaos.
Hereafter that portion of the New Or
leans, Mobile and Texas road lying east
of New Orleans will be known as the
New Orleans and Mobile, and that west
as the New Orleans and Texas railroad.
From card signed by III. ]. Gardner
and Peter Butler, trustees of the recent
purchasers, we are disposed to question
the early completion of the road. There
is too much vaunting of what has been
Shreveport times.
Rev. James Franklin, of Sabine par
ish, recently killed colored man while
fire hunting. He and the colOred man
went out together, found a pair of eyes,
fired, and killed a deer. The eolOred
man remained at the spot while Mr..
Franklin went off some distance in
search of another deer. He rambled
around for some time, lost his course,
and finally discovered another pair Of
eyes, when he raised his gun and fired.
Upon going to the spot he found that
he had killed his colored friend and the
horse he was riding. Coitshdttd Citizen.
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GATHERING WOES OF FTAx.PAYERs-
REsIGNATION OF THE MAYOR
AND CITY ATTORNEY.

AND CITY ATTORNEY.
Taxpayers begin to appreciate the
delights Of government administered by
a narrow, selfish intellect, utterly Ieck-
less Of public good if his own purse may
be filed and his own private fortunes
promoted. II Mayor johnson had ac-
cepted advice given him by the AP-
PEAL, and settled with the builders Of
the Nicolson pavement two years ago,
on terms then proposed, there would
not have come upon US the great
weight OF taxation unavoidable IN
der the decree Of the United States
court. We must now pay the
whole sum-five hundred and fourteen
thousand nine hundred and nine dol
lars, originally demanded-in money,
when the debt might have been dis
charged in bonds and in money, and the
payment made infinitely easier than
now required by the inexorable federal
court. But, then the mayor got his
back up, " and his wise attorney, who
has been so singularly lucky in drag
ging the city into ruinous litigation, and
in losing every suit which he and
tine mayor institute or defend, thai
the people should be supremely hap
by in contemplating the shape and di-
mensions Of tax-lists, as these two
have fixed them, for the next twelve
months. The mayor has been making
money, and of course big fees run along
with big, prctnscted litigation, and thus
the city attorney is lucky, and the city,
while sheIling out TO the street contract
ors, as it Justly should, owes magnifi-
cent debt of gratitude to the mayor and
his awful legal adviser. Is there noway
Of shaking off these two public calami'
tiles?
1t is said hat each taxpayer o.
the fifteen hundred whose names
: once appeared in the APPEAL
asking johnson TO become mayor, vii
now sign request that he resign. Ev
cry taxpayer, very nearly, in Memphis
will append his signature TO such peti
ton. 1t was not the APPEAL, but /
whole community that was duped by
this man johnson, utterly unfit for th'
place he fills.
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A CORRESPONDENT says that coun-
try tradesmen "are deeply interested
in difiusing terrible stories Of the rava-
ges of cholera in Memphis. People
must buy, and these merchants would
gladly sell, and while tie impression is
fastened on the mind Of the average ass
that cholera ravages Memphis, the
shrewd story-teller that fills another
ass's ears also empties its pockets" I"
Aud that's what's the matter with Han
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02

The question in Alabama is fast mar
rowing down to one of existence. The
elections next year will tell the story.
If We stand and fight together as Dem
ocrats and Conservatives, we will sue
ceed in the contest, and all win be well.
The State will, in time, recover, and
Alabama will not fall into the desperate
condition Of Louisiana. But let the
WarmOtbs and Kelloggs and Pinch
becks Of Alabama save the State, and
soon our condition will be as desperate
as that of Louisiana. After time we
will not be able to say which is a white
man and which a negro Montgomery
AdUertiSer.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02

MAJOR a. B. UPsHAw, now in this
city, has withdrawn from the editorial
management Of the Hadep0dent South,
which he has conducted for three years
past with distinguished success. The
toll aud energy employed by Major Up
shaw, as an editor, would win distinc-
ton in any profession and in any
cCuntrv
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02

WHEN the board Of health wants to
expend any money, it must recommend
the expenditure to the mayor and eoun-
ellis. These good people get together
about twice month, and The mayor
thus accomplishes his original design,
and we have, practically, no board Of
health.
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ARKANSAS.

We are still able to report that the
health OF the town, throughout every
ward, is exceptionally good. No indi-
cations Of cholera, and no serious H.
ness of any description. But we still
feel disposed to caution our citizens to
exercise prudence in eating and drink
ing, and to be sure to have cleanliness
prevail in and around their houses, cell
lars, stables, privies, ete.--RusseiIUilIe
Herald. fClE b eai
The engineer corps of the Camden
and Red River railroad, in charge of ID.
w. Lear, started on the survey Of said
road last Tuesday. This is one step ia
the important work, and let it be fol-
lowed up by other and longer ones, un-
til an early completion is placed beyond
a doubt. To speak of the great i'm port
ance Of this road to Camden is like
speaking of the benefit and advantages
of the sun to the earth Camden
Journal,
The weather has been hot enough for
a few days past, for q Hotentot, and dry
withal, which latter is an agreeable
change, as rain has been the order Of the
day for month or two past. Farmers
are rejoicing, bat the mellifluOus notes
of the rain-frog are hushed for the
nonce, and the seductive song If the
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-02

In the city OF Memphis, in the county OF
Shelby, and State of Tennessee, has been duly
organized under and according TO the require
ments of the act of Congress entitled 'sAn act
10 provide a National Currency secured by a
pledge Of United States Bonds, and TO provide
FOR the circulation and redemption thereof, y
approved June 3, 1864, and has complied with
all the provisions of said act required to be
complied with before commencing the b6si-
ness Of banking under said act. .n2i0 lf
Now, therefore, l, John jay Knox, Comp
trOller of the Currency, do hereby certify that
THIS FoUnrH NATIONAL BANK OF MEMPHIS
IN the city of Memphis, In the county Of
Shelby, and State Of Tennessee Is authorized
to commence the business of banking under
the act aforesaid. ~
In testimony whereof witness my hand and
seal of office, this 3lst day of March, IS73.
lSignedl JNO Jay KNOX,
ap4 Comptr II Currency.
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BANKS. 1-''
Sterling Exchange.

UNION AND PLANTERS BANK OF MEMPHIs,l
June is, 1878
81 Having effected proper arrangements,
this Ba will hereafter draw on London or
Live pool in 1ums to suit purchasers.
jelS S. P. READ, Cashier.
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KENTUCKY.

Harvesting commenced on Monday
last. In the course of five or six days
the entire wheat crop of this neighbor-
hood will be ready to be cut. The wheat
looks well, and it is supposed will yield
a fair MdySUiJle Bulletin.
Some six thousand railroad ties for.the
Kentucky and Great Eastern have been
delivered at the Widow CreWy's, near
Bull creek, to be used between this
place and the mouth Of Cabin creek.
AS the road-bed is ready for them, we
may expect soon to see the laying down
of the rails. The work is going on rap
idly, the number of hands increasing
daily, and we have no doubt the reason
able expectations of the friends of the
road will soon be realized in its compile
ton to Portsmouth, when our farmers
and other shippers will have an easy
and short outlet to the eastern markets
for their prOducts.-MdySuaLe Bulletin.
Mr.. King, an industrious and enter
prising mechanic of Carlisle, is making
speciality of the manufacture at that
place of an implement for the stripping
and gathering of bluegrass seeds, and
we are happy to learn from the Mercury,
he meets with ready sales and has the
piOSpSCb VI q ldA SS DuSiucoSs II y iAOIn
just such beginnings that many of the
large manufacturing establishments of
the country have sprung up, and one
such man as MIR. King in a community
is worth a regiment of drones. We
have seen the machine referred to, and
from its perfect adaptation 10 the work
intended to be accomplished, we cannot
see why it may not be in demand in
every place on the continent where it is
important to save bluegrass or similar
seeds. = AldysrRle Bulletin.
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TEXAS.

Another heavy storm has visited Dal-
las county.
At Galveston they are sending Off
beeves to Havana.
/ The Jefferson Tribune reports excel
lent crops in that region.
f The Waco Rcgtotor says the fiuit erop
will be total failure in that vicinity.
The West I61as ATyUs (Stephensville)
represents the crops as fine in that Sec
ton.
Houston boasts of tomato weighing
fifteen and half ounces, raised by DR..
J. NJ. Hill.
The cotton prospects in Denton cOun-
ty were never better, though too much
rain has fallen.
1t has been raining in Wise county
every day for week, and the crops are
injured in consequence.
The thermometer has been up to nine
ty-six in Denison. Several counterfeiters
have been arrested there.
The location of the Methodist univer-
sity at Georgetown is still a subject of
exciting interest to the citizens.
Quite number of cattle, out of
drove of five hundred, were drowned in
attempting to swim the Brazos the other
day.
Crop prospects are represented as good
in Leon county. Laboring men get from
a dollar to dollar and half day, and
scarce at that. r. H'+.
The Huntsville Item says that one of
the haiIstones that fell on the twentieth
OF May was three inches in circumfer-
ence and nine inches long.
The Houston Nel0s says there w8s a
great falling of stars there on Saturday
week-they were tin ones, and fell from
the coats of the defnnct police.
The house of Mr.. Il. J. Smith, of Wal
lace Prairie, was struck by lightning on
the sixth instant. 1t passed all through
the house, shivering doors and flooring,
but no one of the family, consisting Of
four, was injured.
The San Marcos Times, the NeaOs Echo
and the Seguin Times, all have hoisted
the name of Judge Ireland as their can
didate for governor, subject, of course,
we suppose, to the decision Of the Dem
ocratic Stale convention. = dustin
Statesman.
Tom Madden, an escaped convict
from the penitentiary, who has been
living some time in the Brazos bottom,
was caught the other day, and, while
being conveyed by the officer back to
Huntsville, managed 10 jump into a
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High on the dusty rolls That ages Keep
Within no two years that are TO come in
the future is Alabama likely to add so
many bright names to the neurology Of
the times. 1t is poor consolation TO be-
lieve that such a misfortune could not
be repeated. HCtyReUiHe E.rdDsiner.
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EDUCATION. 81
WASHINGTON AND LEE
UNIVERSITY.
Lexington, Va.
SUMNFR SCH0OI
CHEGARAY INsTITUTE.

Established in New York in i3l4. English
and French for young ladies and misses.
Boarding and day pupils l6E and 1919 Spruce
street, Philadelphia, Pa. French is the Ian
guage Ofthe family, and is constantly spoken
in the Institute. NINE D'HERVILLY, Prfn.
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Alabama has been particularly unfor-
tunate in the loss of her public men.
Within the past two years Winston, A.
B. Moore, Shorter, Jamison, Reavis,
Dowdell, A. ]. Walker, Chiffon, Clan
ton, Whitfield, Pratt, and now the gen
ial Cochrane have passed away. The
roll is certainly an illustrious one, for
each had placed his name
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Memphis, May Il, 1873.
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ARaInna for an oliver

A neat little story Is published IN a
Calcutta paper. A lady, tho wife OF one
of the upper crust Of Anglo.lnliiAn so
eiety. called at a house, sent up her
card. was admitted, paid the usual visit,
and enjoyed the usual amount OF small
talk with tho lady Of the house, Re.
turning home she informed her husband
where she had been, when that distin-
auished member OF society name not
eivenl Al once wrote 10 The Occupant
al the House No. -, - street, say
inc that his wife had called by mistake,
and requested the return Of the card
she had left with the lady OF the said
house. The husband Of the lady Wis
tied, however was equal TO the occasion,
for he replied that, on returning home
and finding the card he had looked
Al his wife's visiting list, and not
finding the name OF the visitor, ne had
torn up the card and was, therefore,
unable to return il. This was Roland
for an Oliver at all events, and II some
what reminds one of the old story OF Sir
Allan McNab, when Governor General
Of Canada. Sir Allan was not the head
of the Scotch clan Of that name, but
another gentleman, who went by the
title of The McNab." This gentleman
went on a tour in Canada, and on ar
irving at Quebec left his card for Sir
Allan at once, 1.-The McNab." Sir Allan,
not TO be outdone in politeness, at once
returned the visit, having, however, pre-
viously written on his card, The other
McNab." Each was greatest, no doubt
in his own particular sphere.