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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-04

Much has been said and written Ia re-
gard TO the funding act by persons who
seemed not to understand what it was OF
how il would operate. Funding means
the renewal OF a note which is due and
uupaid. II man gives note bearing
six ner cent. interest, and when it be-
comes due he is unable, or feels himself
so, TO psy either the principal or the in
terest. and his creditor agrees that he
NAV renew the note for several years,
including the interest, this is funding
and is what is done every day in private
transactions, and is considered a great
favor generally by the debtor. What
would be thought ofs debtor who, when
his note became due, should refuse either
to pay or to renew it. This is the whole
question, much as it has been misunier
stood or misrepresented. The funding
act provides that no fraudulent or illegal
bonds shall be funded or registered. This
disposes Of that branch OF the sHtject so
far as that act is concerned. We either
owed the debts or we did not. If We
owed them we were bound by every
principle of honor, justice and good faith
either to pay them when they became
due. OF 10 renew them il our creditors
would consent. Let those who say
that they should not have
been renewed so as TO give the State
time to provide for them show that
they were fraudulent and Illegal, and
that we did not owe them. That Is,
however, p mere pretext, which no sen
sible, well informed man believes. Ii
We owe the debt il would be disgrsceiul
to shave our own paper, especially when
we had caused its depreciation for that
purpose. We might as well refuse to
pay at all as to attempt such cOurse, as
this shaving our own bonds would in
lure Us as much in the eyes Of the COM
merclsl world, and Of all honorable men,
as refusing to pay altogether. The case
Of our city debt is different. Here We
think we have legal defenses, which the
courts will regard and protect. II the
courts decide against US, we must pay
even the city debt, no matter how
fraudulent may have been the issuance.
We must abide by the law, and by the
decisions Of the courts. The men who
oppose paying the State debt do not pre-
tend that there is any legal defense il
SO lei them make it, and if the courts Of
the country should decide that the
STATE Is not bound, then, we say, let US
refuse to pay the bonds held by the
courts 10 be fraudulent and illegal.
Inc question Of our ability
70 pay is not doubted by
any man who has a conception of The
resources OF Tennessee, and is a reflec-
tO1 upon cur State which all her citi-
zens. would resent. This talk about cur
poverty and our inability to meet our
obligations has done Us more injury
within the last two years than the vbo's
amount OF our State debt. II has driven
our own people away and has prevented
elterpriEing men from other States and
Countries izcn coming here to settle. A
people who are unable 10 nay foytv
cents tax in order 20 preserve their cha.
acter and maintain the reputs ion al
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Total l,2J9 SI8,a9,5I sIs,5ls

Total ....-....te ] - S4a-Di@4lo $50 "a
Average value per acre Of Msrengo
county, Alabama, and seven adjoining
counties is SIS Sc; total productions per
acre, SIS 76, paying for itself yearly.
There is nothing, scarcely, produced In
the bluegrass regions of Kentucky but
what can be raised to perfection in the
canebrake7ands Of Alabama; climate
far superior to that OF Kentucky. Other
southern States can make comparison
as favorable as that which Alabama has
made. These are the arguments TO in
duce immigration. They are unanswer-
able, and now that there is perfect peace
in the south, immigration will flow into
our midst If our people will interest
themselves in making known their re-
sources. If this be done here
after the attention OF the world would
= = s,.r,,,.i ~ the south. To that end we
sbonld all work heartily in season and
ont of season. The south will not want
for a thrifty population after the world
bacomes familiar with our true condi-
ton. We have no grasshoppers, no
plaques, no extreme cold, no SHOWS, and
land Is fertile and cheap producing, as
showed by the above figures, more 10
the acre than the celebrated lands OF the
bluegrass region Of kentucky. The
prosparity OF the south, and her regen'
Grafton. is q mere question OF time. The
day is not far distant when her rlch
lands. with a sparse9population, will be
oecupied by dense, teeming mass OF
thrifty people.
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Covington streets are to be sign
boarded.
The Brownsville negro schools are to
be consolidated.
Brownsville has roasting ears at
twenty-five cents dozen.
Mountain lightning has Partially
for East Tennessee horses.
A negro member Of the Brownsville
chain-gang escaped last week.
Cyrus Taylor, colored, has sent the
Brownsville States cotton-bloom.
Shirley Fisher, of Upton, had the first
cotton bloom Of that county this season.
A lot Of new wheat from Lauderdale
county sold for one dollar and five cents
at COvingtoD last week.
David Owen, Of Upton county, acct
IDENTIFY shot himself last week, necessi-
tsting the amputation of his arm.
Brownsville States: We have received
from Mr.. VIM. NJ. Walker two stalks Of
thirty-eight inches, and having respect
lively thirty and thirty-seven squares.
He also sends Us a cotton bloom.
Winchester Home Journal: Mr.. H.
n. Dulin, Of our Office, distributed and
set lsst Monday fourteen thousand and
five hundred ems, or about fifty thousand
type. This he did in twelve hours. Six
Thousand ems is considered average
work for a printer.
C0vington Record: Mr.. r. S. Hall, a
very successful farmer, about three miles
from town, handed in q few days ago q
bunch Of clover nearly six feet in hight.
Ii was taken from a field OF twelve
acres, which is all very fine, but perhaps
not fully up TO tine sample.
The Coyington Record, having dis
covered another journal ia Tennesse, says
OF it: "We lave received copy OF the
Union City Herald, published by d. w.
Chambers q Son, which for originality
Of 'get-up,' composition and spelling,
surpasses anything we ever saw"
Covington has just been circussed, and
the Record Of that town says: "lhe era
of good feeling appears to have returned
to the heretofore estranged sections Of
the country. II is really marvellous too,
how many newspapers and public men
had the honor to inaugurate the good
time.n
lue 1881 Vi lDc NlCGAF
New Era actually has one news item. 1t
Ia this: 'Maj9r A. S. johnson, who is
one Of our most enterprising farmers,
living in district number one, Gu; and
shocked from one acre Of land one nun
bred and five dozen large bundles OF
wheat. The wheat is Of the FultZ va
riety. Who can beat this?"
Covington Record: How is it that
Cooper q Bailey circus and menagerie
can get OF with paying in Upton one
haif the tax the law requires, while
home-fol ks-merchants and others
must pay every cent the law exacts?
Strange, isn't it?" 1t must be somehow
after tn manner of the Arab, who folds
his tent and quietly steals away.
Brownsville States: We have in our
office q regular agricultural curiosity. 1t
is a bunch of wheat stalks containing
seventy-niDe distinct and separate stalks
all having one common root, which
serung from one grain Of wheat. The
bunch Of stalks has seventy-eight well
developed heads, full and round, svers 2
ing forty-five grains to the head, making
Tires thousand five hundred and ten
grains as the product OF one. 1t is OF the
red ehaf variety and was grown and
presented to US by Mr.. ID. 5. Chandler,
who lives about eleven miles from town,
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The report that Edwin Booth is study.

The report that Edwin Booth is study.
ing Richard H. which play will proba-
bly, De produced in New York this win
ter, recalls its revival at the PriBcess's
thester in London, under the manage
ment OF Charles Kean, fifteen or eigh-
teen years ago. 1t was the most bril-
liant historical spectacle ever beheld on
the English stage, and the interIude, in
which was represented the scene in Lon
don when "BOlingbroke" came to town,
with the captive 'Richsrd" in bis train,
astonished even those who We're famil-
lar With the revivals, under Kean, Of the
Md Summer Nights Dream, Henry the
HLIIr and the Tempest. A play-biIl in
those days was an Archaeological lecture,
and one OF Shakespeare's plays living
lesson in English manners and customs
In the olden time.
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Some idea Of the ramiflcstiOns Of the
electric telegraph may be gathered from
an experiment successfully accom-
plished in London q few weeks since.
Captain Sartorius, at present in Tehe-
ran, Persia, wished to test his pocket
chr0nometer, and to check, with sbsO-
lutte correctness, its time in Persia with
Greenwich time. To do this it was
necessary to have clear line from Te
heran to London, a distance by wire"
of nearly four thousand miles. After
some little trouble in getting the Ger
man relays into satisfactory order 1.-THE
lines comes through Berlinl, the inn
pOrtant signal was made several times
u insure accuracy, with the resnlt that
tue watch was found to be two seconds
slow by Greenwich time,
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are kept ready for sport, and that the
matches are attended by large mum bers
OF people. Admiral R1us, PRECEDENT Of
the jockey.club, and an enthusiast for
all kinds Of sport, has come forward as
the champion Of cock-fighting. He con-
fesses that 'if cooking, which was once
a grand sport with the mobiles OF this
kingdom, be now q sin, he is an old and
hardened sinner.n
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a wOHA OF HUMANITY,
The LsbOss OF the Juited <sat,s Eff--
Saving station.

WAsHINGToS, June sG-Tre r5-Iaw-
ing is 40 official statement ~ ILe work
performed IN tiues OF disasters hv the
United States ijie-ssviu- stations. +N-
tending from The eastern Crsst uT Efafn=s
to Cape May, and ffom Cap Heusr 20
Cape Hstser&s1 during the sza.gE Iuu-
ming rom NGveIle~ ], 1874 60 lie
present time: Nuuper Or g-ralka. So.
number Of lives Impel.eG, So; nom ber
OF lives saved, ST. Iyea lost, IS. Mum
Der OF shiParsCEed par.9uH shei --Ted
and sucoored st Iiis-sav.ug s,a.ioa=.
49, number Of days O.. shei er afforded,
652; tOsal value Of property imported,
=, o14 400, value Of property sava... 81,
6iS. $50; am ant lost $40. 700 o. the
lives lost "A were by ,Gy y-Tec., o.. the
l!aIian bars Giovanni, or CAPE Coz,
where the vessel was driven ashore ne
yoEd the reach ~ any invention in use
for life saving purposes. the other loss
VI lie vas case where 81 man gsIlshe,F
FROM cola agt Els body W. af,eytysrI
secured anu uguGgt. on shore The
lie saving service, under tie nre ems
organization, Las been ia uuerstiUn
since 1871. During this time the num-
bsT % Gs5z5-CTs in the vicinity Of the
stations have been Isl; the number Of
IIVes in peril are reported st 245I, and
the number OF lives lost IS iucIutiuE
the . above mentioned. The value %
property impeI.let is reported at S.
G6O $50, AMI the value Of property saved,
1876 GIG.
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Official Scare OF the international Rife
Match

DUBLIN, July S.-The official score Of
the international rifle-match, at Dolly
mount on Tuesday, which is published
to-day, gives Dakin 81 instead Of 81 at
the one. hundred yard range, and makes
the number OF points by which the
American beat the Irish team, 80, in.
stead Of IS. The contest for the Aber-
corn cup, at Dollymount, ended to-day,
Edmond Johnson, Of the Irish team,
won by total score Of 1888. Rigby and
Pollock made higher scores, but as they
had been winners before, the cup was
awarded to Johnson. O! the Americans
the best scores were as follows: Fulton,
81; Gildersleeve, 1863; BOdine, 3e4 Cole
man, $50. The Americans won - veral
all.cOmers prizes to-day. The ws4ther
vas bad for the rifiemeD; rain ii dur
ing the day, and there was high wind.
The Dublin journals, re ferring to Major
Leech's retirement from the captaincy
of the Irish team, concur in saying that
Ireland is indebted to Major Leech for
long-range shooting, which he estab-
lished in the face CT great difficulties.
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Davenport Is 2 modem town. 1t has
been having 3 scandal Of considerable
magnitude, and the local p4GsUl refuse
to print the evidence in Ehe gas. on the
ground thst Davenport is ''Lot su1i-
GENTLY me5TOpOiitaDiZed" yet to permit
the publication Of such testimony. Ii
appears that Hans Jsc5b Hansen, hay
ing been taken into Is farmers family,
seduced the OIL mans eldest dagghge-.
and married her 70 satisfy the father.
After that Hansen dis not seem salts
fed, and seduced his Uiie's younger sis
ter. Here the old msp became angry.
be mad hai suspicious before that Han
sen was a bsd man, and uuw hIs susai-
CjOns were confirmed. 6s took his
grievances into court. When the iuaEe
announced his intention n hold the
double seduccr for trial The old man re-
Tented, anil with teens Ia bis eyes sigaed
his sOn-in,law's bs.i-bgud, taking IN re-
turn a Mortgage on the iag-eI's crops.
Then the whole family went home TO-
gether ID = beslific state q Eec3ceilia-
ton. How il is V05 jal5 to as such a
pusilianimoUs OLD idiot IS ta.s father
was 1t is difficult t0 comprehend. 1t IS
a compliment to sUCI man 10 seduca
his daughters.
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WE learn that the granger picnic,
which was expected to come off near
Brownsville yesterday, at the Browns
vile landing, has been postponed to a
future occasion. 1t was intended, we
learn, some time since to have such a
picnic, but for some reason it was post
poned. We hope our Haywood county
friends will have such a one during the
summer, and we will take pleasure in
attending. 1t would perhaps be well to
postpone it until the crops are 'Taid by"
and secure, and then will be the time
for ~ iojeinO
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Herman Humphrey Barbour died in
Hartford, Connecticut, last week, aged
tifty-fve. He was an active worker in
reform movements in late wears, and
Vas formerly 8 prominent Democratic
politician. he was native of Connec.
uout, but went TO Indiana in early life,
where he served in the senate three
terms, and went to the Mexican war as
an adjutant from that State. He was q
nephew OF Professor Humphrey, Of Am
herst,
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EEaneh AnnirA

PARIS, July 3.-An important meet
ing Of the three groups Of the Left was
held last night. Three hundred and
thirty deputies were present. A resolu.
ton was unanimously passed agreeing
TO ABSTAIN from unnecessary discussion,
so that all necessary bills may be passed.
A provision was made for a committee
to negotiate with the ministry, the Duke
d. Audiffet-Pasquier and the leaders
OF the other parliamentary groups with
the object Of fixing day for the dissolu.
ton OF the assembly.
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Brutality Among the Lower CIassTs Of
England.

Brutality Among the Lower CIassTs Of
England.
English Correspondence of the New York
Times.
Is there really tendency to incress-
ing brutality among the lower classes in
E0gland? This is question which is
just now exciting unpleasant interest
here. II is notorious that in the north.
ern and midland counties wife kicking
with heavy irOn-plated boots, and ruff
fiaDly assaults OF all kinds, have reached
such point that the government has
thought it necessary to bring in a bill to
apply the whip to offenders Of this class.
Moreover, the juvenile population of the
country has lately been seized with a
mania for disChsrgipg a weapon called
a catapultr which it seems is a sort Of
India. rubber sling loaded with stones,
at persons in thu street or travelling by
railway. A few weeks ago the window
OF q carriage in which the Prince Of
Wales's children were going down to
VIII dsOz was smashed in This way, and
other cases were almost daily reported.
People in passing trains have also az
parentIy taken 10 peppeTiDg each other,
and the day before yesterday young
man bad his face badly cut Open by .
large crab shell launched st hiu FROM
another train. Then again, coekig ut
ing, which everybody thought had dieG
out, appears to be r. gularly pract iced,
in defiance Of the police, in various parts
Of Lancashire and elsewhere. 1t is svi
dent that large stock OF sgame-cOeks
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Over two thousand persons lost ihelr
lives by the recent disastrous flood on
the river Garonne, in France. Fully
hundred thousand people are entirely
dependent upon charity. It's gratifying
to observe that the appeals for AID Tor the
sufferers have been most generously
responded to. Already sufficient money
has been contributed to meet the press,
ing necessities OF those who lost their all
by the terrible visitation, and contrlbu-
tions are still pouring in. The disaster
wss one Of the most terrible OF modern
times. None Eho were within range o.
tbe food had time to save their personal
effects; thousands were overwhelmed
and lost their lives by the resistless tor
rent Fortunately, France is sble to
care for her own sufferers, and no assist
anee will be required from other sources.
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a splena,d Woman smugsI.r.

New York Correspondence of the Buffalo
Courier
The customhcuse inspectors noticed q
lady on one Of the English steamers
who appeared to be very much over
dressed. She was one solid mass of fur.
bellows and fills. and over her elegant
black silk costume she wore an India
shawl, which completely enveiOped her
person. She was stopped and escorted
into the searcheT'5 room, where the fe-
male in attendance event through herr
and was rewarded by finding on her per-
son more than five thousand dollars
worth % jewels, lsces and gloves. The
gloves we've found sewed I'D 10 the in
side lining of her hustle, and the lace
inside large braid of false hair which
she wore. Her undergarments were all
made to contain vI.riOus articles, even
her corset being made to do service in
cheating Uncle Sam. The guilty woman
cried bitterly. She is lady well con-
nected, and was allowed to go free upon
payment Of the sum total due the gov.
eminent
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The narrative psssapes of Az drarn

The narrative passages Of the drama
especially the descriptions OF "Lsdv
Jane Grey's" death, and of "Cranmer's"
death-are worthy Of Mr.. Tennyson;
and, for descriptive passages, there
could not well be higher praise. The
two or three songs, again, are, as might
have been expected, perfect in their
way. The prose passages-dialogue
between citizens, etc. ,--aIs in one sense
the most difficult for a nineteenth CEN
fury dramatist treating a sixteenth cen
tury subject, since it is precisely in
hOmely talk that the artist runs most
risk OF seeming an antiquarian. 1t is
Mr.. Tennyson's humOr which has en-
abled him to succeed so well here. The
conversation between the two "garrul0us
country wives,n In act w., scene 3.
could hardly have been written save by
the author Ct the Northern FaTmeT.
But space forbids us to dwell longer on
details. We can but end as we began
by saying that we do not know where
to look in past-ShakespeaTean English
poetry for poem in which the tue fire
OF drama so burns as in Mr.. TennysouIs
Queen Mdry.
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The death is announced OF Tso, vice.
roy Of Kausuh, and the most powerful
official OF the old Chinese race in the
Celestial empire, with the single exeep'
ton Of SiyaDg Chong.
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Count Hoyssprinzenstein had been sP-
noipted Austrian minister at Washing
Ton. in uIaco of Baron Schwartz-Sen-
norm. III tbs counts ability is common
s,Irate with the length of his name, he
will no dOUbt be the ablest member OF
the foreign diplomatic service at Wash
ington.
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Average value per acre Of the above
eight bluegrass counties Of Kentucky is
S6S so; total productions per acre, Sl2 IL,
which takes upwards Of five years pro-
duction to pay for ITSELF
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thsir State, can with very poor grace
invite either immigration or capital to
come among them.
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REMOVAL,

wv .t-T G removes my stock OF Hardware
II Z5a -hain Pumps 10 No. fiH Main street,
would - plea sed 70 see ali ms C.d i.euUs and
Gus. g-l5ss. W. ". RICHIE.
June Il $50. .UiQ
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Mary This Philip shall not
Stare in upon me in my haggardne 5
Old, miserable, diseased,
Incapable OF children. Come thou
down. Cuts out the picture
and throws IL down.
Lie there. [Waitsl o God, I have
killed my Philip.
Alice No,
Madam, you have but cut the canvas
out,
We can replace it.
Mary All is well then rest
I will he Z Hav
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AMERICA VERSUS IRELAND.
Result of the International Contest
The Effect UponsIhe COatsstaDts-
E1EIsnd's Pro6t by the
Transaction, Etc.

New York World Friday
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" Green Boys"

We have seen lot of city or village
boys gather around boy from the back
country and make fun of him, and talk
about his "greenness,n because he was
not up TO all their ways of acting, and
very often ways of mischief. And very
often the country boy feSs' chagrined
| about it and goes home ID tie sad. Yes
;crday We were having chat with some
| city boys, sons cf wealthy parents, and
| in our conversation the word buckwheat
was mentioned We asked the boys
| when 1t was sown, how the plants looked,
how they got the buckwheal ilour out of il
which makes their nice mornings "i,at-
| jaCks"-or f1ap.iacks, as some call them.
Our country friends would have laughed
at the answers. One large boy said they
sowed buckwheat in the fall and cut it
the next summer, he believed Another
said he supposed they sowed IL the same
as any wheat, and cut it and ground it
the same, and he supposed il was only SO
called because ii was kind first raised
by a Mr. Buck. None of these bows
could tell any ythlng about the appearance
OF the plant or grain-though one thought
1t looked more like oats than like wheat.
(They had all seen oats fed to horses and
seen wheat at the city grist-mill)
Now. were not these boys Just as green"
as any country lad that ever visited
the city? The truth is, city boys are
fully as "green" about things in the
country as country boys are about things
in the city and the country boys have
the advantage of knowing less about
mischief. It's all nonsense. for city BOYS
to put on airs and laugh at country boys,
for the latter know great many useful
things which the former do not know,
and if one of each class should be left a
homeless, friendless orphan, the farmer
boy, with his strong frame, his practical
skill and seli-reliance, would stand the
best chance of taking care of himself.
Let the city boy and the country boy
each have a mutual respect for what the
other knows that he himself does not
know-and remember that one is Just as
green" as the other when he gets into
the others territory BY the way, we
know CT city boy who is collecting a
cabinet of all kinds of grains and seeds
used in agriculture and horticulture, and
is studying the habits of the plants. That
boy will not be SO green" when he goes
out to see his country friends. This is u
good example for many other city boys.
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