Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-03
FROM PAUL BAGLEY.
For the Appeal

| For the Appeal
| PLANTERS HOTEL, ST. LOUIS, Octo-
| fer 29.-We arrived here last night from
| Joliet, few miles this side OF Chicago,
on the Chicago and Alton railroad. It is
/ almost unknown among cities, and yet
has its street-cars and a daily paper.
! The editor OF the Joliet Sun lives in q
| fine new house, in which he and his
family made US at home for the night,
but after supper he excused himself for
few minutes while he mike the cow.
Men OF the highest standing are not
afraid of work in this section Of country.
Our train on the Chicago and Alton road
was one Of the longest that you ever see,
and was crowded full Of passengers all
day. 1t is one Of the greatest thorough
fares OF the country, and brings you
across the great bridge and through the
tunnel, and lands you in the union de-
pot, in the heart of st. Louis. 1t ap-
pears that the difference in fare TO East
st. Louis and st. Louis is only eight
st. Louis; but if you do
not purchase q ticket, the
bridge conductor will exact twenty-five
cents. Two ladies were complaining to-
day that they had paid for tickets to
s.. Louis, and had not been given bridge
tickets, and so had to pay an extra
quarter each. Passengers should look ID
their bridge coupons when they buy
tickets to st. Louis. The whole journey
from Chicago to ST. Louis is through the
great garden and granary Of America;
the land is as rich as it can be, and
every few miles there is large and
thriving town. Springfield, the capital
Of the State, on this road, is a very beau
tiful city, and, it is said, has increased
forty-tive per cent. in population in the
last five years. Victoria Woodruff has
been lecturing through the State recent
ly, to large audiences. 1t is the shame Of
the people that they cannot only
listen to her sentiments, but
many indorse and pratice them,
especially wherein she teaches
that women ought not to have any more
children than they want to. One wo-
man Sc Disguised me by remarks to the
effect that che had two childrer, and
never intended to nurse any more,
made in my presence, that the rebuke
was given to her, "YOu will probably
nurse more or somebody else nurse
those you already have.o A man living
in q palace of q mansion thought the
werld was being populated entirely too
rapidly, and il was no harm TO prevent
it. He had never read the law of physi-
ology; he admitted the law of the land
was against him, and hs res arded not
the law of God. The abOminable child
murders OF China are e.ter, fol then the
child only is murdered; here, too often,
it is the mother also, eventually. Shame
on such sentiments. LIT them be buried
with SOdOm. Her f flowers are more
in the north than in the south.
The Mercantile library is one of the
most pleasing places in this great city
Of st. Louis. There are all the leading
dailies of the whole country, all nicely
fled around the eides Of q large room,
prominent among which is the MEM
PHIs DAILY APPEAL. There are doz-
ems of fine pictures and paintings.
There are some beautiful marble and
bronze statues and busts. There are
mineral specimens Of various kinds, and
there is a large room with cases all
around the walls filled with books of all
kinds. The literary department of the
British museum can hardly be said to
surpass it, if indeed it can equal it.
Thomas Allen, president Of the St.
Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railroad, is one OF the leading men
Of this city and the age. He is heavy
set man Of gray hair, and grayish beard
worn on the face, except the chin, and
was about his Office to-day IN his shirt
sleeves busy at work. To his enterprise
and perseverance is largely due the
great road reaching to Belmont, toward
your city and across the State OF Arkan-
sas to Texas. He is a genial, pleasant
man, and can acknowledge q kind
Providence that seems to remove Diff
culies that sometimes seem to be insur-
mountable. Surely, God is on the side
Of every work that is for the public good,
and of every honest labor. His road is
probably doing more to develop and
settle up the State of Arkansas than all
the acts Of its legislature on record.
The change in climate that we have ex-
perienced in our rapid run to the south
is very peroeptib'e. We had one or two
slight SHOWS before we left Michigan,
and the ground was frozen at times SO
as to bear cart. Here, q little exercise
brings the perspiratiOn pouring from the
face. The Planters hotel is one Of the
most desirable and hOme-like that we
have seen in our journeys, and seems to
have 40 iaok Of patrons. 1t is in the
most public part OF the city, its rooms
are large end elegantly furnished, sId
the whole air Of the house is quiet ana.
orderly, from the pEopriet tors, who move
quietly and unOstentatioDsly around, to
the walters, who remember with exact
ness how you will have your teaderloin
steak, ySur mutton chop, your roast,
your eggs or your chocolate, or whatever
yen may order. PAUL BAGLEY,