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The New York herald., 1876-09-30
FLEETWOOD PARK.

Two matches were decided at Fleetwood yesterday
In presence OF about 200 spectators
SUMMARY.
FLEETWOOD PAnx. N. Y, SEPT. 20, 1s76.--Match
500, mile heats, three in five, IN harness
John Rpgere' b. m. Carrie Myers ......,..
w. E.sher'sb b. &. A. I. Stewart ..... .
The New York herald., 1876-09-30
y sursery Stakes. for two-year-

HHHuIcAVt hNtep
stakes OF $50 each, hall forfeit, aud .ony $40 II dc
cared, with $500 added. One mile and quarter.
The New York herald., 1876-09-30

B. J. Treaey's (Lexington, Ky.) (Anderson
K Bro 's) ch. f. Lady Patchen, by Nam
brino Patchen, dam Idaho, BY Gs ver-
uout. iiIeaCeyl
L. H. Titus Qos Angeles, CALI Dr.
Echora, by Echo dam The Young Mare,
by Jack Hawkins. ......... .tDono.han 3 4 4 7
Wilson, Snyder n Dingmans (Abdallah
Park, Cynthiana, Ky.) ch. g. Post Boy, by
Magic (son of American Clay, Jr), dam by
Berkeey's Ned Forrest, second dam by
Msmbrino Chief third dam by Gray
Eagle, &c.....................D .Dingman) IS s
l.. Herrs Lexington, Ky) br m Girl f.
Queen, by Mambrino Patchen, dam by
Dixie lson of imp Arabian Mokhladisj,
(Dr HERR 8 6
C. Backman's tstony Ford, N. Y C. Mir
anda by Messenger Duroc, dam Green
Mountain Maid by sayres Harry Clay. dr.
X Steele's philadelphia Pa b c. Blaze
Medium, by Happy Medium, dam by Nam
Drlno ChleI.... dr.
H. c. McDoweis frankfort, Ky.) b. T. Belle
Hewett by Belmont dam Grace Hewett,
by Wilson'S Snowstorm. ..................d DIR.
TINE
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
LUCKY OIL SPECTATORS.
HOsfetter, the Bttters Man, Makes a
HauI Of $3.50. 900 SehriEer $780,
900 Richer.

PITTsBURa, August 80 The excite
ment in oil circles is stili undated, and
Duquesne way to-day is alive with deal
srs. Ii is rumored that there is giant
ring bo's.eriDg up the price Of oil, and
that before many Gays the bottom Will
fall completely out. Others deny this,
and say the advance is the Legitimate
demand of German brokers, who, In an
ticipation of a still further rise, are buy
ing freely, and now fad the production
in no way sufficient to meet the demand.
However, be this as it may, reports are
in circulation of immsnse profits snd
fortunes some operators made during the
past week. Dr.. HOstetter, of bitters
fame, it is stated, held personally 3U, OOO
barrels, on which he cleared 81 per bar
rel. A number Of operators here who
held 10, 600 barrels sold yesterday OF Q
profit OF So 80 per barrel. Schrlver, OF
Oil City, closely connected with the pipe
lines, has cleared, il is said, during the
past week, $500, 900. Thum & Co., bro
kers, who hold a large quantity OF low
priced oil, are reported to have cleared
on its sale upward Of $1,000 One
broker here has As 900 barrels, which
cost him but little over 81 per barrel.
He still refuses to let 1t go at 81. An
other gentleman bought quite low some
time ago, paying about so cents, and
sold ct So Is. Another transaction,
much larger, was that Of dealer who
sold 5000 barrels at 81 so, for which he
paid IS cents, but was sfrsid the
market would collapse. Everybody IN
the oil region who had any cash on hand
seems to have invested when the rise
commenced and were made happy. At
Oil City, one of the speculators is about
SIS, coo ahead, and several others nearly
or quite as much. Many Of them count
their profits realized by tens of thou
sands. A large number OF outsiders,
who rarely If ever have anything to do
with the mSIket, have been induced to
take chance and have realized good
profits. Young men with limited cap
ital and board bills to psy have pur-
chas ed calls at prices which they little
expected the msrBes to reach, and have
realized profits ranging rom $50 to
$1,000. II lie safe to say Of the oil ex-
change that there was never scene OF
80 much excitement in three consscu-
tive days. Al TitusvIlle it was the same.
George A. Chase went to the exchange
in the morning, and came out at nignt
with Sl2 coo more money than he en-
tered with. ChieE.of. Police Rouse made
$3.50 net during the past three days.
Policeman Kane is worth $500 more
than one week ago. A boy Put $40 in
the hands of a broker to be used with
other money, and In two dsys time
drew out $500. Some of the dealers and
brokers might report something large.
One Titusvile operator since Friday
40, 600, and another $50, eco Others
have made various Gums from $500 to
$4,000 Will prices stick, is now the
absorbing conundrum to operators in
this city and residents of the oil regions.
The fluid has already reached a giddy
hight, bat the next twenty-four hours
may see a wonderful change in its
figure.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
GENERAL BANKS.
He Is Reported as Having Said that the
South Must he Destroyed-Can
1t BE True?

Boston journal, RADICAL
1t has not been our fortune Of late
years to sgree very often with the pub
lie views Of General Banks. Still, it
would seem that his divergence from
the Republican party in the last Presi-
Dental campaign, in giving him new
point OF observation, has supplied him
with valuable experience and iDforma-
ton as to the Democratic attitude st
present. In 1872 he thought that the
Democratic south was sincere in its pro-
fessions Of loyalty and fraternity, and
might be safely intJusted with the ma
tional power; in 1876 he has come to
think otherwise. IT. en- he believed that
financial and refoFmatOTy questions con-
stituted the main issues before the peo-
pie; now he declares that "nothing can
be done fer administrative reform while
the south is banded together az q Sec
ton, expecting to sweep the patronage
and possess the nation as q south" In
a recent interview in New York he was
asked If he thought the southern leaders
would be successful in their present
movement, and he answered In the fol-
lowing noteworthy terms:
mo. They will not be defeated, but
destroyed. This election will be the last
where they will trouble Us as 8 section.
Nothing unites them now but the mu-
nifcent possibility OF the patronage.
Defeated this year, as they will un-
doubtsdly be, they will fill into several
parties sEd give Us 10 more concern. I
regard their campaign IS certain 10
break down. We have only to show
them that they shall not come into
power as q south, as recently beaten re-
bellion, and they will not only be tIact-
abe but useful ci,izsns OF our govern
ment. Therein lies the wickedness Of
Mr.. TldeD's campaign, in saying to
those southern States, Unite again.
By violence, or Intimidation, or fraud,
carry the reconstructed States, snd we
will pick up a northern State some
where, and enable you to possess and
epjoy the revenues OF this rich gOveru-
ment.' Animated by such freebocters'
hopes, they are ready to murder tens Of
thousands Of men to get the United
States government. a member OF con-
gresJ from the south said to me: 80 be
frank with you, We want the govern
ment, and we will get il IL We have to
murder and stampede any number Of
DeODlP ~
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
THE AMERICAN STAGE.
What it is, What 1t Wss, and OushG
to be-A Few Bright and Cherished
ExampIes-TheT Theatrical Man
INSTRUMENTATION.
Pretty Maidens and Stage Struck SOeI-
ETY. Women tho Bane OF Man
ageriaI Life We Must Have
a Return 10 Legitimate
Methods.
New York Tribune ]

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The theater Ianguishes because the
public is Indifferent to it, and the public
Is Indifferent to it, partly because the
times are hard, but far more becsuse it
has been satiated with sensations and
because its better judgment and taste are
not, in general, addressed in the right
way. During the last fifteen years all
SORTS of experiments have bsen tried Ia
this city, by all sorts of mansgers. From
the ''sensation" drama-which was in-
vented and named by Mr.. Boueicauli,
and which worked we'll enough till it got
out of his hands and pumped In among
the inspired caTpenters-We have passed,
by stages that were no less free than
easy, through the spectacle, the bur
lie, que, the baTe-legged, the more bAie-
legged, the most bare legged, the opera.
bouffe, the transform alton scene, and all
possible forms Of the variety. Mr..
Whestley blessed US with The Black
Crook, Mr.. BEtemen lowered Us with
the French opera, Mr.. Daily dOsed u
with French morals, MIR. Fisk, ir, Ga
voorted befCre US in his own improper
person. And after these has deplOyed a
email army OF aquiline, fat and dusky
individuals, with lafge bosom. pins aud
small shows. 1t Is no great wonder that
the public taste has tired till not the
most broad-ch sted and crooked OF black
CO pitfalls can elbow itself into notice, and
even Mr.. Barnum, when he adorns the
suburbs with portraits OF his own be-
cOuntenance and adjacent in-
structions to "nOld the fort, for am
'icomirg," wooes the populace In vain
ALI the way through this sstuTnaiia of
speculation the motive of greed
has predominsted, and has been perfect
" transparent. Touching tina, I'VE touch
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VISTA.

There is a scene that hsunts my sight,
Arrayed in every mournful light,
AS sunsets pensive CLEANS;
There Memory gioOmy-pinioned sOars;
There Pity walls Of anguish pOurs;
There Meditation dreams.
It's but a waste o. eur'iog surge,
Where fixed upon lhe glimmering verge,
An islet looms alone;
Where seas in muffied thundeTs beat
To believing caves, and winds repeat
a requiem deemed mine own.
'Tis where the Orb in fiery wrath
Through heaven cleaves a middle path,
Where heel has seldom been;
And voice OF man are rarely heard
Unawes the yeeriug ocean bird
That haunts the pillows green.
Amid the southern deep It lies
Once viewed with sorIOw laden eyes
By him who tunes this strain;
A mournful scene, yet sancIihed
By one, the star OF love, VINO died
In midnight hurricane.
And there eutombed-there girded fast
In Watery chains-Whiie love aghast
Signs DER her molderiug shell:
She rests amid the grottoed ave,
Nor breads the hoaTseiy. sounding wave
That chants an endless kDen.
So calmly rests. nor heeds the moan,
one mourner breathes q dirgeful tone
An echo full Of woe,
That rolls as Fancy seems 70 hear
The pillows rush, the winds career
In melancholy dow.
But vain the chord, the dOad are numb
To sJTTow's piainls-cold, pulseless, dumb
Avouching no reply.
Unhe edei falls the WRImest tear,
As dew eXhalei from sky austere,
Or gust that w4ntons by.
Yet Nature still TO Nature true,
Her vanished shrtnes wilt keenly rue,
h er idols adOriZe,
Whether ensealed in eaTthern urn,
Or covered deep will fondly turn
Their fate 70 memOrizs.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
The Late Sneaker Kerr

Mr.. Kerr was under fifty when he
died, was always, while member of the
house, Ike Alexander H Stephens, q
sort OF curiosity OF vsletudinsrissm, He
was tall, thin and very soare, with an
emscisted and angular face, the most re.
ma1kable peculiarly Of which was 8
long, sharp nose, that quivered when he
was excited like madman's. The lower
part OF his face was concealed by a huge
sandy beard, while the strikiDgiy ssliow
skin OF his forehead extended almost to
the crown of his head He has been de.
scribed as always wearing a suit of rusty
black, "that fops and cIings to him
af.er the fashion Of garments once nc lie
very wet and since hung up to dry.u
His speaking was not Of the finest ora
toricaI description, Sbut very powerful.
He had the courage Of his convictions. a
conscientiousDess OF an unassailable re-
cord, and relentless power # logic. In
his more earnest discussions his long
figure would 8 wing to and fro, his arms
waving in the air in wonderful man.
L or; but the substance OF bis remarks
always overcame his ungraceiulnes, we
are told, in capturing interest.-B0ston
Transcript.
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ALL FOR LOVE.
The Romantic Suicide OF Miss PaoI-
laEEA, Beautiful Soprano.
New York SUM-

New York SUM-
About a year ago, Angeline PaOl-
lagga became acquainted with Joseph
HSus in st. COlumbia's Romsn Catholic
church, in West Twenty fifth street.
Both belonged 10 the choir, she being
the leading soprano, and he the tenor.
They met every Sunday, and was sooa
regarded as lovers. She lived at 222
West Sixteenth street, with her wild
owed mother. Mrs. Paollsggs looked
coldly on the wo ing. In May last she
heard stories affecting Hous's character,
and she forbade his visits to her dsugh-
ter. He then quit the choir, and en-
gagged himself IS pianist and leader OF the
glee club on the steamer Plymouth Rock.
Mrs. PaOllagga saw nothing more Of
him, and supposed that his attentions to
her daughter had ceased. A month ago
she learned that they were in the hsbit
of meeting, and che sent her daughter
to the Catskills. The girl returned on
Friday, and confided to an acquaint-
ance the fact that she had planned to
elope with Hsus. On Saturday Mrs.
PsollaggR WIS informed that her daugh-
ter had accompanied Haus on the
RICK to Roeksway. She met her on
of Twenty fourth street, and scolded
her, TOOK her home, and, when they
went to bed, refused to kiss her good
Eight. This marx Of affection the
mother had never refused before, and
the daughter remained awake all night,
weeping. On Sunday the girl told her
brother that she had taken poison, and
pointed to an empty bottle, labelled
"bitter oil Of Almonds" that had been
In the house for culinary use. Physi-
clans were summoned, and she begged
that her life might be saved; but abe
died within three hours in great agony.
She was in her nineteenth year, and IL
described as very besutiful. Her father
was an officer Of the French govern
ment In AlgieIs, and afterwsrd consul
at st. Thomas. She came to this city
five years ago, and sang as volunteer
In the choir Of st. Francis Xsvier's
church. Prof. Berger took warm in
terest in her musical progress, and
thought that she was destined to be-
come a-great singer. He obtained her
the position she held in the Twenty
fifth street church.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
LAUTO DA.FE.

In the hush of the winter midnight
In the hush of the sleeping house.
When no weird wind stlrs in the gloomy frs
The spirits of the storm to rouse,
When never CLINT of moonlight
CLEANS from great black sky,
By the rel nre's low, as 1t sm Olu ers Low,
We crouch, my letters anu /.
My letters, they lie where tossed them,
On the crimson he8rth-rug there,
Still vivid and bright in the rudy light,
As cobras in their lair.
push the hair from my forehead,
That burns and throbs so fast,
Thinking the while, with a strange dull
smile,
OF the task must do at last.
Who knows but the comfort
Tho,e foolish letters have been7
The depth and scope-the strength and hope
or those "Ieaves" that are always green"
Who knows but 1, how sadly,
To- W. L oxad my dream,
Fly the asnes sray Will weep and say,
woes me for that vanished CLEAN.
1.-THE CLEAN of idle gIadness,
The gllmmer of memories bright,
That hid la eaca line OF those letters Of mine +,
Those letters burn Tonight"
Alb, well! the dream was a folly;
Its joy was an idle thing,
Its hope wa q lie, and its loyalty
Died of Wbisperer's sting.
So kiss-the last-to my letters,
A resOlute hand and-there!
Do the sad dark e. es OF my Paradise
Meet mine through the ferce flames flare?
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
Curions Epitanhs.

A correspondent of the ST. Louis Re-
publican az Martha's Vineyard has been
visiting the old graveyard at Edgar
town, and collected while there num-
Der of epitaphs on the hali-sunken head
stones of a century ago. From very
considerable list these few are selected:
Here lies Margaret, Stevens wife;
We lived six months in brJil and strife;
Death came at last, and set her free,
And was glad, and 80 was she.
Ringle, wrangle,
Two young men
A fishing went.
Ringle, wrangle,
Honus Hole,
Cedar Pole,
Etringle, strangle.
Lydia, the Wife of
John Claghorn.
She died IN Childbed
Dec. 81, ITO, in ye
I'D Year OF her Age.
John and Lydia
That Lovely Pair
Whale Killed Him
Her Body lies here
b 1-r-s.-a-.. Their souls we hope
With Christ may reign
So our great Loss
Is their great Gain.
In the village Cemetery a stone over q
child Of four years bore the following:
She tasted OF LIES bitter cup,
Refused 10 drink the pot on up,
81 But turned her little head aside,
Disguised with the taste, aud died.
A stone, under the date of 1915, has
this tender tribute:
Hare lies in silent dust
The partnerOf my Joys,
his Spirit with the Just
In more sublime employs.
Snatchfd from his friends and mate
In middle age of life
Hath left three children dear
Kind parents and wife.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
TELEGRAPhIC SPARKS.

HiIlory Page, colcred, wss hanged
yesterday In ChesteIf Id county, Virginia.
The miners in the Penn sylvania 90 |
region have gone TO work at alen-per.cent. re-
duction of wa es.
Two river thieves were killed While
attempting to board schooner 10 New York
haIbor yesterday.
Oae hundred and seventeen dismis.
from the various departments IN Wash
tngton occurred yesterday.
A stranger was stabbed to death in
Little Rock, Monday, in the bagnio Of Ke'e
Mertck, by man named MCrary. Risky
was the cause.
nat Buckley, Illinois, Wednesday
night, while a wedding was being celebrated
between George Sleeper and q lady named
Hamilton, Sleeper was called TO the door by
Burt Fleming, and shot dead. Fleming had
been rival for the lady's hand.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
Personal.

Actors cluster around Long Branch.
Beaux at Saratoga are called "parasol-
holders"
Not one woman at present in the Ne.
bTaska penitentiary.
Rose Eytinge will star with her own
paniments this season.
General Lew Wallace, author of The
Fair God, has new novel in hand.
Four Spanish spits watch the move.
mepts of Don Carlos in this country.
Bonnets of cashmere and lace, with
red rosebuds, are worn by bridesmaids,
Lord Ribblesdale, step.son to Earl
Russell, has committed suicide in SWitz.
erland.
A Maine girl has soft, fine hair, very
thick and beautiful, seven and q half
feet long.
DIR. Mary Walker continues to BLUR
cate, and was bitten in the calf by dog
the other day.
The daughter of the Due de MOntpeu-
sier has just received her betrothsl ring
from King Alfonso.
A Taunton Mass. dog recently found
bis way back home on foot from New
Hampshire, distance Of two hundred
miles.
1t is reported that while Alfred Ten
nyson Is spiritualist, Mrs. TenDysOn is
not, and forbids all mention Of the SUBJ
ject at her hearth.
A new fruit has been discovered in
Q1eensland, combining the flavor Of the
pinesple and the pear. 1t is thought to
be of Mexican origin.
Since Disraeli's promotion to the peer
age he has ceased wearing corsets, and
gays truthfully enough that an earl does
not need to travel Oh his shape.
A Swede has invented a dress, COM
posed Of two sections Of canvas filed
with water, which enables q man to
plunge for several minutes into flames
Of fire.
Professor Westbrook, a temperance
speaker we'll known throughout Ohio,
got drunk after delivering q lecture at
gainesville, fell in front of locomotive
and was killed.
A large and fine piece Of Roman mo-
sale, CT elaborate design, and in good
preservation, has been found at Lyons.
ftis supposed to have formed the pave
meat OF room.
His royal bighness the duke Of Edin-
hugh completed his thirty-second year
on Sunday, August 9th, which moves
an eastern journal to say, "The Guelph
boys are getting well along"
In this country the man who carries
revolvers and dirk-kDives around him is
called a reckless fellow. But it ia differ
ent in Nevada; there, the man who
doesn't do it is called reckless.
Nashville american: Miss Ould,
daughter OF Hon. Robert Odld, OF Rich
mOnd, Virginia, was married few days
ago to Mr.. SehoOlcraft. She is great
belle, fiue figure, large, beautiful.
A man who tried to drown himself by
jumping from an excursion steamer In
Boston haIbor, on Friday, YVES so fat
that ne couldn't sink. and the boat sent
for him found him floating like q cork.
An infant at Griffin, Georgia, was
stolen the other day by negro boy If
teen years Of age. What he wanted
with the infant is not known, but it ia
probable that he had o hankering for
baked baby. s- -.-
The statue Of Dr.. Livingstone, lately
in Edinburgh, repref ents the
explorer in travelling costume, his right
hand holding out bible, and his left
resting on the handle Of an ak. The
Is bronze.
Willie Dunlap, boy OF thirteen, from
Colorado, was found asleep In thresh.
ng machine in Keokuk, having Iun
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-03
THE COUNTY AND CONGRESSIONAL
CONVENTIONS.


CONVENTIONS.
We publish this morning the names
of a majority Of the delegates elected
yesterday to represent the Democracy OF
Shelby county in the convention for the
nomination Of senators and representa-
tives in the next legislature, and in the
congressional convention, which, it lie
not too much TO hope, will meet to
nominate, as the people will go to the
ballot.box on the seventh of November
next to re-elect, Casey Young. 1t will
be seen that the names Of the county
delegates are q guaranty that we are to
have 8 representation Ia the next legis-
latUrs that will not only creditably re-
feet the intelligence, wor b and wealth
of Saelby county, but will have weight
and influence enough to direct legisla-
tiOn IN the wholesome channels whence
- -->or-, (7ovo relief not vsnr~olys f-or.o
heavy expenses, but from laws which, as
they stand upon the statute books OF the
Safe, are to-day Disgrace to US, many
of them being hindrsncs to the gen.
eral prosperity and welfare. No repre-
sentative political gathering ever had
weightier responsibilities than those
which rest upon our legislative eonven-
tioR. The people have at last learned
that the legislation which affects them
most is that which emanstes from Nash
vile. II is cur local laws and enact
% hot fha
cuIties OF our enterprlsiDg business men
aud Capitalists, and not those of Wash
iDgton. Understanding this, the people
demand the nomination of men who,
representing the varied walks Of life,
and having direct interest in the pro-
gress Of the city and the welfare of the
State, will go to tine State capt.
tai with a comprehensive knOwl-
edge Of what is needed, and thor.
oughly prepared to work to secure 1t.
They want men without passions or
prejudices; men who have 20 friends to-
reward or enemies to punish, and who
will have but one motive in all that
they do-the good, the safety and the
welfare of Shelby county and of Tennes.
see. They want men who will repre-
sent them fairly, who will deal with
them candidly and who, while guided
in what they do by Democratic prece-
dent and platform, will not forget that
they are from Shelby county and are
Tennesseans. They want men of brains,
Of good common sense, of intelligence
and address, who have no hobbies, no
preferences, no specialties, kut who are
free to deal with every question upon
its merits and the needs of the State.
This is, the sort OF material we
anticipate the delegates elected
yesterday will present for the
tuf. ages of the people. Lass in de-
gree or kind will not satisfy them. We
have fallen upon crisis in our domes-
tic affairs, and Shelby must send dele
CATION to the next legislature that 1t
will do to point to with pride, and
whose work we shall sh unite, at the
close of the session, most heartily to in
dOrse