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MISSISSIPPI.
Recommended Ds-Ames aud
Grant Sustained.

WASHINGTON, February 24.-General
HUTlburt submitted the report of the
Mississippi investigating committee to
his Republican colleagues to-day, with
out adopting the views therein express
ed. The caucus adjourned till to.mor-
row. The report treats fully of the seiz-
ure of the sheriff's office in Vicksburg,
and the battles, as white residents choose
to term them; the report ridicules this
designation, and says the killing of ne
grOes was nothing else than a massacre; !;
that negroes were fired upon while fee
ing, and only returned occasional shots.
The committee conclude by recon-
mending the passage of a bill, and unite
in resolution sustaining the Presi-
dents action in sending United States
troops to Nicksburg upon requisitiOn
of Governor Ames.
MINORITY REPORT.
WASHINGTON, February 26.--Repre-
sentatives Speer, of Penpsylvar ia, and
0'Brien, Of Maryland, have united in a
report concluding with the opinion
that in the city of Vicksburg
and county of Warren the
white citizens pay ninety-nine per
cent. of the taxes, snRthe cO(Ored peO-
pie assess, collect and disburse them;
that the debt of the city, under this pro-
cess, has increased from thirteen thou
sand dollars, in 1869, to one million four
hundred thousand dollars at the present
time; that corrupt and infamous ring,
composed of negro officials, has existed
in said city and county for several years,
who by forgeries, peculation and sys-
tematic frauds on the revenues have
impaired the public credit, impover-
ished the people and augmented taxa.
ton to virtual confiscation; that Peter
Crosby, the sheriff and tax-cOl-
lectOr of Warren county, was the chief
impediment 10 the administration of
justice in the courts. The report con-
cludes as follows: THAT the call Of the
governor on the President for military
aid was based on partisan statements
utterly devoid of truth. At the time the
call was made Vicksburg was as quiet
and peaceable as any city of the same
in the United States;n and
"that the condition of Mississippi is, in
deed, deplOrable, with a governor who
has declared that if not in office he would
not reside in the State if given the whole
of it; with corruption prevailing to an
alarming extent in counties where ne
grOes and carpetbaggeTs have control,
with property depreciating and taxes in
creasing, utter ruin can be arrested only
by restoring to the people honest gov
eTnment and the control of their own
affairs without interference from the
Federal army"
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BROWNSVILLE.
Adjustment Of the Second Chancery
and AecOnd Circuit Courts of Men,
pbis-The Business and Agri-
cultural Prospects.


From an Occasional CorTespondent.l
BROWNSVILLE, February "a, 1876
The people have looked here with some
interest at the subject which seems to
be creating some excitement in your
city, and that is the prospects of having
two of your courts abolished. To this
they of course have no objection if your
people desire it, but the reports from the
clerks, published in the Memphis papers
this morning, make US wonder why
there is such q desire to abolish courts
that have so much business on their
dockets. Whilst it might reduce their
expenses a little, and but very little,
they think it would be crying iDjus-
tice to the people of Shelby county to
abolish them. There are six counties in
this chancery district, of which this is
one OF the largest. The number of cases
on the chancery docket in this county is
one hundred and fifty. Give each
county as much as this county and it
would make the number in the whole
district nine hundred, which is less than
the number on the second chancery
court in Memphis. A similar state of
facts exists as TO your second circuit
court compared with this circuit. Why
Sre the courts to be abolished in
Memphis and retained everywhere
else? These are the impressions
among intelligent men outside
OF Memphis. The business of this place
is said to be very good considering the
condition Of the country. Much more
corn and small grain will be planted in
Haywood county this year than has
been done for years. They ship from
this place twenty thousand bales Of cot
ton per annum. They have q railroad
graded from this place to Friendship, in
Dyer county, a distance of twenty miles,
which they hope to have manned,
equipped, and running during this year.
II is intended 10 extend this road to
Cairo, there to connect with the st.
Louis and Cairo road. II that is ever
done, they will extend it to Memphis.
The fires which have occurred here with
in the last two years will eventually prove
beneficial to the place by causing better
houses to be built in the place Of those
destroyed. They very much need gray-
elled streets and a graveled square,
since in the winter season they are al
most impossible for wagons or vehicles
of any kind. They could get the mate
rial with which TO gravel the streets
from Paducah. II the number of news
papers be an evidence OF enterprise this
must be All enterprising place, as they
have three Democratic newspapers here
the Bee, the Democrat, and the
States.
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place. Mr.. Buffers rashness is Of course
equal to any emergency, and il the
Presidents plans are not misconceived
by observers Of the situation, he will rot
require any pushing to go through with
the programme. 1t would be an in
structive spectacle, should thing Of
this sort be attempted before the Con-
necticut election, whittier, it is said,
Senator COnkling is going to enlighten
the electors on these various southern
mYsteries.
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THE EUNDAY APPFAL

We urge upon advertisers the i'm
poEtaucer for their sakes as for ours, OF
sending in their advertisements for the
SUNDAY APPEAL al as early an hour
to-day as possible. BY so doing they
VIII secure favorable positions, and en-
sue As - give them proper display.
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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
February 5, 1879.
By virtue of the first section of an act of
Congress, approved June H. 1866, entitled ''An
act 10 regulate and secure the safe-keeping Of
public money intrust d to disbursing officers
OF the United States, ," the First National Bank
of Memphis, Tennessee There being no Treas
urer nor Assistant-Treasurer of the United
States at that place., is hereby specially desig-
mated for the reception, safe keeping and dis
Dursement, according TO law, Of the public
-unds intruSted for disbursement to any and
ali officers OF the Treasury Department
CHAS. +. CONANT,
Acting Secretary of the treasury.
To Cashier First National Bank, Memphis,
Tennessee. fel2
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Saturday, March 20, 1876,

within legal hours, the following described
prODrrty, situated in shelby county Ienneh-
See and in the citv Of Memphis, tO-wit:
Part o. lot No. p on the plan OF +. :. Iodd's
subdIvisiOu Of the tract Of land sold by Mar
ems b. Winchester to John ). ClayOrOOk, and
nv CIay brook TO the Union Bank OF Iennes-
see beginning at a stake in the northeast cor
uer of lot No. p in said plan Of subdivis-
ion. thence east with what was formerly
known as Henry street, but now known as
Madison street extended 81 feet to a stake ;
Thence sOuthwardly and at right angles with
said Madison street l6l feet to the nOrtheas
corner Of the lot conveyed by Al. Wheeler to
4 lexauder Barnes, thence westWaTdlv paral-
lei with Madison, or formerly Henry street, rI
feet 20 "A stake, northwest corner OF the Barnes
lot; thence nOrthwardly, being the east line
of Nrs. DOyle's lot and line OF lot No p, lol
feet to the beginning, and being same lot con-
veyed by Mrs. Jennie =. Wheeler and 4. j.
Wheeler TO AmS nda NJ. HOTsley, with I'M
pTOvements, etc, ON the place,
Terms OF Sale-Du a credit Of nine months
notes with approved security bearing interesI
fI0m date. lien retained TO secure same and
equity Of redemption barred.
FEBRUARY 70, 1873. ~
f. A. COLE, Clerk and Master.
Ey r. j. Black, ID. 4 aud NJ
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Attachment Notice.

DEFORE JAMES HALL, J. P:-No. SD
Is No. T-Menken Brothers vs.. Thomas RAN
dolph. .- ...,.,,
In this cause an attachment having been
Tan1assae and returned levied upon the
property of the defendant" and amlHslt
having been made that the defendant - JGsSl-A y
nv occo1nt and that the defendant Us nom
Tesident Of the state OF Tennessee;
tits therefore ordered Iha- asIeLutAl ma
IS,, PT = ON the 2Dih day OF March $50,
At 10 o'clock am, and defend said attachment
suit, or the same will be pToceedea WIN eA-
Rahe3 for four successive weeks In the Mem
mis- Appeal, This 6th day Of January, ls75.
r. ~ JAMES HALL, j, r.
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The Georgia Legislature declared un-
constitutional, null and void the second
series Of six hundred thousand dollars
in bonds indOrsed by the State in 1870,
and issued to the Macon and Brunswick
railroad, said indOrsement having been
declared binding by the legislature of
1872. The first series OF bonds, amount
ing to one hundred and nineIy-five
thousand dollars, are declared valid and
binding on the State.
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at the old stand. 5II Main street, uu-
der the style of ]. NJ. Hill * Co., and asks a
continuance of the patronage bestowed on the
old firm, and will sell at the lowest prices for
cash j. NJ. HILL q co.
Feeling grateful for past iavOrs, recon-
mend the new firm Of J. VI. Hin & Co. to my
old friends and patrons ana ask cCntlnu-
ance Of their trade with said firm. -
JOS. ,. LENETT.
ls-l
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THE metropolitan police bill, one Of
Governor Ames's pet measures Of op-
preston, was killed IN the senate of Mis-
sissippi, on the twenty-fourth, by the
decisive vote oftwenty to one. We con-
gratulate the people OF Mississippi.
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DISSOLUTION.

yIyHE partnership heretofore existing be
| tween the undersigned, under The firm
name of Levett 4 Hill, in the COOt and shoe
business, is this day dissolved by mutual con-
sent. ]. NJ. Hill assumes the payment of all
liabilities of the firm, and is alone authorized
TO collect all debts due said firm.
JOS. ). LENETT,
j. NJ. HILIL
February l., 1916
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Depository for Disbursing OfEeers OF the
Treasury, Var and Judiciary De-
psrtments OF the Government.
ORGANIZATION FOR 1876.
nTRECT0Rs:

W. P. PRoUDFIT, OF Day q Proudht, Cotton
Factors.
JNO. c. FIZER. Of Estes, Fizer & Co., Whole
sale GrOCerS.
Dry Goods.
W. a. GAGE, OF Gage & Fisher, Cotton Fac
tors.
]. n. OLIVER, of Oliver, Finnie & Co., Whole
sale Fancy Groceries.
T. B. DILLARD, Cotton Factor.
\. D. MENKEN, of Menken Brothers, Whole
sale and Retail Dry Goods.
C. I. CURTIS, Cotton Buyer.
7. g. ELY, of Ely, Harvey & Richardson,
GrOcers and Cotton Factors.
N. &. PEARCE, of Pearce, Suggs & Co., Gro
GERS ana Cotton Factors.
r. L. COFFIN, OF billiard & Coffin, Cotton
Factors.
a. FURSTENHEIM, of Furstenheim & Co.,
GrOcers and Cotton Factors.
T. 9. DAVIS, President First National Bank
Memphis.
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nR Ak TAYYuz
CHANCERY SALE
REAL ESTATE.

No. 1910, R-First Chancery Court OF shelby
cOunty.-Amanda VI. HOTsley VS.. ". r.
Hardin.
DY virtue OF an iuterlOcutOry decree for
D sale, entered in the above cause on the
18th dav OF February, 1870, 1 Will sell, at pub
lie auction, to the highest bidder, in 'front.' OF
the Clerk and Masters office, new courthouse
building, Main street, Memphis Tenn on
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THE SUNDAY APPEAL will be unusu-
ally attractive, and offers the best in
ducements for advertisers 20 reach a
large class u readers.
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The house Of representatives OF North
Carolina, 10y vote Of fOrty-six 10 thirty
one, expelled J. William Thorne, from
Warren county, yesterday, for express
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The Russellville Sunday schools have
one hundred aud fifty members.
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A telegram from Colonel Neil's Ara
pahoe agency, Indian Territory, states
that Stone Calf has come in there TO
surrender himseliand whole tribe, about
sixteen hundred in number, with the
two white women held by them. 81 sent
out an ambulance to bring in the two
white Captives. Stone Calf has agreed
that thsy shall give up their arms and
ponies and 60 into camp near the
agency Grey Bird, Heap OF Birds, and
an the principal chiefs except Medicine
Water, sre with Stone CllEn
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Notice to Stockholders.

TENHE annual meeting OF the stockholders OF
the Memphis 6asIfght Company will
be held at the COmpany's office, AZ Madison
street. in the city of Memphis, Tenn, on nom
day, March L. 1879. to elect Seven Directors
to serve the Company during the ensuing
year.
By order OF the President.
JOSEPH CRAIG, Secretary,
Memphis, Tenn. Feb. /, 1875. te2
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Ice in the Echuylkill at Mayunk, Penn
sylyania, broke up yesterday afternoon.
The water during the night rose rapidly
twenty feet above its usual hight, and
only four feet below the point ever
reached, submerging all the houses IN
tie lower part Of the town, aud forcing
the occupants 70 abandon them, Win
their contents. The gssworks were over
S,uvsd and The streets We're in dark
Trs. AN the mills, except one, have
-usnarded, throwing out Of employment
~ lesgt two thousand persons.
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TUD
FIRST NATIONAL BANK
OF MEMPHIS, TENN,

Designated Depository and Financial Agen
Of the United States; also, specially
designated as
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NOTICE.
Change of Schedule.
MISREPRESENTATION
RAILROAD.

ON AND AFTER FEBRUARY 2I 1870
Mail train leaves daily u 80 pm
Express train leaves DAILY except
Saturdays).. ..............-. I 90 pm
BOmeTViile Accommodation leaves
daily except sundays. ...............-... 20 pm
Grand junction Accommodation
leaves dahy except Sunday. ......... $50 am
Mail train arrives dail y.............. II 10 am
Express train arrives daily Except
Mondaysl :Ol pm
SOInervtlle Accommodation arrives
daily Except Sundays) 8 40 am
Grand junction Accommodation ar
rives daily Except Sundays l........... :25 pm
Ticket office Z7S Main street.
W.. j. ROSS GenT Sup't.
Tom. B. DUNN, Ticket Agent. feb23
J. Il. BROWN, :. c. ALEXANDER
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THE
SUNDAYAPPEAL
THE PAPER
FOB ADVERTISERS
Send in your Orders Early.
F2G
Send in your Orders Early.


TVIHE members of the various .,gs-gszl,
1 Lodges in the city are hereby s 49,
earnestly requested and expected - -
to meet at their hall this (~ArURs INV
DAY. evening at ~ O'Clock sharp, as business
of importance will be brought before them.
E.O. MILTON, n. q. NO.6
d. F. GOODYEAR, n. @. No. s.
HENRY SCHILLING, y. q. No. l4J.
/ I ROSS n. q. No. l3T.
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HAYNES LINE OF SAILING SHIPS
Between New Orleans and Liverpool.
FOB LIVERPOOL DIRECT.
The Magnificent American Ship
4. B. FULLER.

oCOJl..s III essoA
Is now loading and Will have dispatch.
Through Bills of Lading signed to Liverpool
and all parts of the Continent.
For freight, apply to
HAYNES q CO., Agents,
IL West Court ST.. Memphis, Tenn.
MANAGING Owner-W. H. HAYNES, Liverpool
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J. Ii. BROWN, :. c. ALEXANDER
COGhOma county, Miss,
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BOOT AND SHOE BUSINESS,

February L, 1915.
Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1875-07-24
Fishing for Sharks.

The shark fishery Of the Northern
Sea, in the bay Of Tercherskya and
peninsula Kola, has recently been
viyed. Two kinds Of sharks are foI
in this region-.he Greenland shark
the basking shark. They frcquer
assemble in shoals, and boats engage
the fishery are often surrounded i
hundred or more Of these sea hyel
greedy for prey. The Russians fish .
the coast with small boats holding .
men. Anchoring at certain dista
from the land, they sink vessel pier
with holes, containing oil, tallow,
other fat matter, which the sea-curre
distribute in the neigIiborhood. q
attracks the sharks, and they are eau
with baited hooks attached TO !
chains. az they could instantly
through the strongest rope. Thre<
the men pull the fish TO the side Of
boat, and the fourth stands ready y
his wooden hammer, weighing tive
pounds, To strike with all his force
moment the head appears. The sbar'
then cut open, the oil taken, and
swimming bladder inflated II Is y
cast adrift TO float, a., If allowed 70 q
the other sharks would eat II and
care TO eat the bait. sSoLs~times
sharks surround boat 20 thickly GA
cannot escape, and the crew are killed
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Is il Pleasant TO do Nothing!

The common Italian phrase " dolce jar
nicnte," (sweet doing-nothing,) is sure to
be used by summer writers enjoying
rural vacation and rest, and that is all
very well. Idlcness is "sweet to those
who have toiled, and need it to recreate
them and they get the most enjoyment
out of it who are not idle people, but
who take their few weeks doing-noth-
ing" as 4 grateful relief. But the
habitually lazy must have 4 wretched
time. An old school-story from France
well illustrates the misery of total inac-
ton:
NJ. Berryer, who was one of the great
est French statesmen of the present
century, in his youth was very lazy. His
master had great trouble in making him
submit to school discipline. The under
masters quite despaired of him, ard
went one day to tell the head-master
that this boy would never do any thing,
and that they could not make any thing
of him. He sent for him into his study,
and said to him.
"My boy, work is disagreeable to you,
and you think that happiness consists in
doing nothing. DWELL, come into my
study; you can look at me while am at
work that won't fatigue you, and you
will do nothing. But let us well under
stand each other-nothing of any kind,
remember"
The boy was delighted. The first hour
passed away to the great pleasure of the
scholar. He congratulated himself on
neither having to open his dictionary,
nor learn his rudiments by heart. At
the end of an hour and half, however,
he had enjoyed the delights of fancy.
He put out his arm to take book. The
master stopped him at once.
"You forget our agreement; you are
to do nothing. To read is to do some
thing. Enjoy the permission have CIV
en- you; do nothing"
The boy began to discover that the
pleasure of doing nothing soon became
monotonous. He hazarded some ques-
tions; the master did not reply. Then,
when he had come to the end of the page
he was writing, he said,-
"My boy, each has his taste; you have
that of doing nothing. l have that OF
working. L 40 nol tTouple Sou, ~ uo
not disturb me-"
Young Berryer could scarcely help
saying that it would be difficult for him
to find happiness much longer in such
patience. At the end of three hours the
master got up, and went to take walk
under the shade of the trees in the park.
As soon as he came into the garden he
wished TO leave his master and go with
his school-fellows, who were having a
merry game. The master held him by
the arm.
"You are not thinking of our agree
ment. Playing is doing something. Re
main by my side; we will walk up and
down this avenue, or you can sit down,
if you like better"
But the boy had had enough of doing
nothing. Hewas very willing TO promise
to learn his lessons, in order to escape to
his playmates.-Methodist.
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Why Men Smoke.

No habit adopted by whole race Of
men, indeed by all races of men, butt
have a rais0n detre. The dhudeen of the
Irishman, the chibouk oftbe Asiatic, the
calumet of the Indian, the cigar Of the
white American, would not exist stimuli
taneously on every part of the globe, if
in the use of tobacco there did not slum-
Der some spell of great potency over
men. The lazy man it seems to make
lazier. the nervous man it makes more
nervous, the brain-worker it inspires, and
and on the artist it bestows visions of
beauty. All lecturing against it, all
writing against it have proved vain. The
habit spreads with population over Aus
tralia and Polynesia, and in a couple of
centuries from now, smoking will be as
universal as eating. 1t behooves us, then,
to see that something is done to insure
the rehabilitation of the better qualities
of tobacco, which seem deteriorating 20
fast. Manila is ceasing to produce even
q decent cheroot, tobacco culture is dying
out there like wine culture in Madeira.
One thing is certain that the substitution
of the cigarette for the cigar is exceed
ingly dangerous. The only safe substi-
tute for the cigar is cleanly pipe.
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How Kid Gloves are Made.

In certain parts of Europe the rearing
of kids for the sale of their skins il an
important business, those which COM
mand the highest prices, and are re-
garded as superior TO all others, being
the French. BY some the fine quality OF
those skins is attributed TO a peculiar
virtue in the wild vines upon which the
young ones feed in the pasturage which
they frequent; this, however, being a
popular error, as their value is simply
the result of the care with which the an
imals are reared during their life Of four
or five weeks. They are not allowed to
roam at large, as such license would
imperil the eyenness Of their skin, which
would become scratched by rubbing
against stones or passing through hedges.
They are, besides, deprived OF all food
except milk, as eating grass would tend
to make their skins coarse. Conse-
duently they are kept under wicker
coop, fsom which, at regular hours, they
are led to suckle the mother, and this
continues until they are killed, at the
end of four or five weeks The younger
they are killed the thinner the skin, but
of course the smaller they are the less
valuable, too, especially when they are
only large enough to allow Of single-but-
toned gloves, while the demand is all for
two, three and four-buttoncd gloves. BY
rearing the kids in the manner just
described larger skins are obtained, which
are as fine and delicate as those Of
younger ones of other countries where
they roam at liberty. As France pro-
duces the best skins, 90 Paris excels all
places in France where gloves are manu-
factured, and an adept in the trade can
select a Paris-made glove from among
hundreds made elsewhere
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Carried too Far.

Denver, Colorado, gives an instance of
a joke being carried too far. 1t was per-
petrated years ago, but only lately came
TO light in public dress After the Allan
tic cable had been established, a telegraph
operator at Denver sent the following
dispatch:
"To the Emperor Napoleon, Garden of
the Tuileries, Paris, France: Governor
Gilpin will not accede to the cession of
Italy to France. Please let Bohemia
alone"
The operator supposed it would make
some fun in the Omaha office, and stop
there, as the station agent and
he had general understanding
in regard to each others jokes.
BY some hook or crock the dis
patch went on, and dived under the ocean
and came up smiling in the Garden o
the Tuileries, in France. The manner
of its reception by Napoleon has been lost
to history. All thas is known, is, the
Emperor did not pay for it, and the
"cetious operator was hunted up and was
to pay bill of $3.50 in gold
The operator was en-
result of Sedan