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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-30
MEMPHIS, August %, 1876.

MEMPHIS, August 70, 1876.
Messrs Patrick Kerns, Il. II. Reilly, P! J.
Kelly, James Bohan, and others.
GENTLEMEN-Your note of this date,
inviting me to address the Democracy
Of the fist ward on tomorrow evening,
has just been received, as was pre-
pairing to start for my home in Missis.
sippi. Your invitation reminds me Of
the past, and recalls pleasant memories
Of many glorious meetings have wit
messed among the h-American citi-
zens Of the ward which is first in name
and first in true Democratic faith in the
city, and 1 will accept your invitation
with pleas ure, although it delays me
somewhat in my own work. Yours
truly, JAS. R. CHALMERS.
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Piles.

HALLS Vegetable Sicilian Hair Re-
newer DOES not color, but restores the
hair to its natural color.
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The Trade Winds

NHURALGLA.-"Neu cures 1t. Sold
by g. W. Jonas d Co.. NemphiE.
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RemOYal.

Otto Schwill d Co, seedsmen, re moved
to 223 Main, under Worshsm hotel.
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SPEAKING TONIGHT.
General James II. Chalmers Candidate
for Congress in the Sixth District
OF Mississippi.
To speak TO the IrIsh-AmerIcan Ciii.
zeps of the First Ward, by Special
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

The following correspondence suffi'
GENTLY exp aims itself We trust the at
tendance tonight VIII be equal to the
occasion. General Chalmers is one OF
the mcss foIcible of cur Dsmocratlc
speakers:
MEMPHIS, August @, 1876.
General James II. Chalmers, MeRphis, Ten
nesseei
DEAR SIR-Upon behalf Of the citj-
Tens of the fist ward, we invite you
address them upon the pOlidcsl gu sstiops
Of the day, at the corner OF Winchester
and Main streets, to morrow night, when
Tilden and HeDdricks reform club will
be organized. We will promise you
such reception as it has been the pleas
ure OF the Ifish-American citizens CT the
first to exte id to you in the past.
81. H. Reilly. Patrick Kerns.
p. Burns. John VI. Kerns.
Thomas Mccormick. II. B Miller
P; ]. Kelly. y. g. Patten.
Thos. Kofford. N. Dononue.
W. j. Chase. William E. Boyd.
James A. Bohan. Thos. Kelly,
7 Consadtne. VIM. M'Donald.
'Thos. Kelly. b. Ball.
Henry Frick. owen Riley.
NJ. Kincella. John ]. Duffy.
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GREAT REDUCTIOS
IN ROUND TRIP TICKETS
The"0ld Reliable Memphis & Charles
ton Railroad
ARE SELLING TICKETS FROM MEMsH1s TO

Apply to Tom B. Dunn, ticket agent,
273 Main street, and IT depot office.
W. 2. JOHNSON,
General Passenger and Ticket Agent.
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Me- - APES, LEMONS AND NUTS
~ - MAIN street. Ru2 cod

FkEss LAtH-eOO,seo Sawed tyvnr.-
~ Aenn ats 81 per thousand. BY
WILL M & co. Iunhos n,
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Pursuant to a call from Acting Mayor
r. G. Williamson, the general council
met in the city hall &C half-past four
O'Clock yesterday afternoon.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Personal. Imnersonal and Political.

The recent Arkansas State election
was Democratic by large majority, of purse.
The Democrats of BurkS county, Pa,
election to Congress.
Frank MoultOn has filed supple
mentary complaint against Beecher, locating
the action in New York.
The Republicans of Connecticut re-
nominated the old State ticket, headed by
by Henry c. Robinson for Governor.
In German political circles the be-
lief is expressed that Prince Milan's request
for mediation is only another move in the
policy of Russia to protract Turkish compH-
cations, SO she can complete her own pIepar-
ations.
A new Democratic Convention has
been called in New York to nominate can
didate for Governor in the place of Horatio
Seymour, declined. The convention was
called to meet in Saratoga, Sept. II.
The Morning News, of Auburn, n.
Y, took, down the Democratic State ticket
from the head of its columns as soon as it be-
came known that Seymour refused to accede
to the demands for him to accept the guber-
material nomination, and said their was gross
fraud somewhere. The papers with other
calls for a new convention.
The New York Democratic cOnven-
ton nominated Horatio Seymour for Govern
or by reclamation, in the face of a telegram
from that gentleman, saying: "You must not
let my name be used for Governor Ny health
will not permit" The convention then ad-
journed tor one day. On reassembling next
day Gov. Seymour's acceptance was an
nounced, and Dorsheimer was renominated
for Lieutenent Governor, and the convention
adjourned. No sooner was the adjournment
had, however, than it W authorltatively
stated that Gov. Seymour positively and I'M
qualifedly declined the nomination, and the
naming of substitute is the duty OF the COM
mittee
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08

5000. 200, and he has Tor some time received a
pension OF $4,000 year from the govern
ment as an ex-minister
The ServianS met with a crushing
defeat at Alexinatz, on the Sd inst. The bat
tie lasted eleven hours, and is described by a
correspondent of the London Times as ex-
tremely bloody, but badly managed on the
part of the Servians. The retreat was an ut
ter route and the decentralization complete.
Instructions have been issued to the
United States Marshals in the South to Sc
cure to voters their rights as citizens and pro-
ect them from violence in the coming cleo
ton. 1t recites that in national elections the
federal authority is supreme and the marshals
will be held responsible for all .breeches OF
the peace in their respective districts.
1t is asserted that Montenegro did
not intend to join Servia in suing for media
ton and did not agree to the course taken by
Prince Milan. But Prince Nicholas has in
formed Prince Milan that he (Milan) need
consider himself no longer bound to keep the
agreement made at the beginning of the war,
that neither should separately enter on nego-
tiations for peace.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08

a large number of prominent Demo-
Gratis from different parts of the State,
who were invited to join in the consul
tations. The meeting was held in the
dancing hall of the hotel, on the
ground floor of temporary frame
building. A Cleveland newspaper
man, who had been denied admittance
to the meeting, with commendable en-
terprise, secreted himself where he
could hear everything that was said.
He states that the principal object OF
discussion was the use of a corruption
fund of $250,000 placed at the dispos-
al of the committee by Mr. Tilden's
friends. 1t was stated as the opinion
of several gentlemen that 1900 votes
could be changed from the Republican
to the Democratic ticket by the iu-
dicious use of money. and that this
change in the October election would
make Ohio sure for Tilden in Novem-
Der.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
An Outrage Ayprtpd.

The Democrats Of Jefferson county
Mississippi, prevented grand outrage
Aug. 18th. The Republicans of the
county had made arrangements to raise
a Hayes and Wheeler flag pole at Fay
cite, the county seat. But on the day
fixed the Democrats rallied and march
through the streets in military style,
armed with rifles, revolvers, and one
brass siX-pound gun. They drew up
in front of the Court House and gave
notice that that pole should not go up.
1t did not, and thus did the prudence
of Democrats. prevent outrage and
blOOd-Shed.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Miscellaneous News Items.

New Haven, Conn, last week shipped
fifteen million cartridges to Constantinople.
The public debt statement for Au
gust shows reduction of over three millions
for the month.
Wages of coal miners in the Penn.
sylvania mines have been reduced Is per
cent. in view OF the late decline in coal.
President Grant has replied to the
note of the Emperor of Germany congratu-
lating this country upon it's Centennial sue
cess
Now here 81 crumb of comfort in
the midst OF the hard times. The Atlanti
Mills, at Lawrence, Mass, will put /, 400 men
to work on the 18th
The final arrangements have been
made for opening in Chicago of a branch
wholesale dry goods house OF the great firm
of A T. Stewart & Co.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
decided that the new 4 1-2 per cent. bonds
may be distributed as security for bank cir
culation of national banks.
A counsel of ministers and great do.
nltaries of the empire have declared Abdul
hamid to be Sultan of Turkey in the place o
Murad whom they disposed.
The Spanish government is again
circulating the report that they are about to
send additional troops to Cuba This time
the number threatened is 1850.
The situation in Servia on the lst
INST was reported to be unchanged. The
prospects OF an understanding between the
advisory powers was not promising, the main
difference being between Russia and England
Advices from the Indian campaign
received on the 9Th state that Terry had cross
ed the Yellowstone and part of his force were
preparing winter quarters at the mouth Of
Tongue river.
Disraeli has no children TO inherit
his earldom. Besides his own ortune, he
has received in requests from admirers abont
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
4 Hint to Tildpn.

Governor Underwood, Of Vermont,
says of the Democratic candidate for
the Presidency:
have known Tilden for twenty years
know he holds the opinion that the war was
unconstitutional; heard him declare, i'll
conversation with myself near the close of
the war, that every man of the United States
army that marched across Southern soil was
a trespasser, and liable to a suit for damages.
1t is little strange that Governor
Tilden has not added to his railway
Wrecking practice this class of profess
siOnel business. According to Tilden,
every plantation owner at the South
over whose soil the Union armies
marched has an action for damages
against each "bOy III blue" What
more natural, in the event of his cleo
ton, than that Tilden should propose
to lump these suits for damages III one
grand clam for the benefit of the States
of the late COnfederacy
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
A Kentucky Giant and His Giantess.

From the Rochester Express.
There is an exhibition in store on
State street, in this city, perhaps the
most remarkable couple in the world
a man and woman who are giants in
stature. They are Mr.. and Mrs. NJ. V.
Bates, whose home is now in Seville,
Medina county, Ohio. They are each
feet IL ID inches in height, the hus,
band weighing AS pounds, while the
wife weighs 4l3 pounds. The COM
mon-sized visitor, when placed be-
tween them, feels very much as Gull
liver must have felt when he fell
among the giants.
Nh, or Capt. Bates, as he is called,
is tinely-proportioned man, of ruddy,
healthy-looking complexion, straight
and military looking in his regimen
tails. His immense stature is not so
noticeable as that of his wife, who
seems almost awkward somehow on
account of her length, she being act
ually taller for woman than he is for
man. They are evidently people,
who, If not SO wonderfully tall, would
be considered commonplace.
They are intelligent, however, and
the lady especially feels the awkward
ness OF her position as the object of
the curiosity and Open-mouthed Won
der of the multitude. In an interest,
ing conversation with our reporter
she showed openly her dislike of the
life she was leading, and her longing
to return to her home in Ohio. Their
home, by the way, was one built and
furnished for them. The ceilings are
y ID feet high, and no doorway is less
than ID feet high. OF course they
find the hotel accommodations insult
abe to them wherever they go, as the
doorways are so low and the beds so
short.
One of the strangest facts about their
history is that they were the children
of common people. Mrs. Bates father
was only five feet four inches in height,
while her mother was only common
sized woman. Her brothers and Sis
tiers are of no remarkable height.
Capt. Bates father was six feet two
inches in height-a tail man, but a
dwarf, compared with his son. Bates
is now twentynine years of age. He
is native Of Letcher county, Ken
lucky. His wife is a Nova Scotian,
twenty-seven years of age. They were
married in London, England, while
travelling in that country on exhibit
ton.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
PhiIadelphia Pluck.

From scribne for September
W HdteVef advantages of this sort
may accrue to the Quaker CITY will
nave been most fairly and loyallv won.
1or, OF a surety, never was there q
great business scheme of national i'm
portance carried through with SO clean
nandS, OF such absence of all pecula-
tlon as this Centennial Exhibition.
And Phlladelphians NAV well boast.
that, at a period when the business of
the country was showing UNPARALLELED
prostratlon. and political and private
JoDoery were rampant, they have
INITIATED and pushed to a successful
issue grand scheme of international
industrial exhibit, involving millions
OF cost, without any wavering of faith
or thlevish blot upon it's direction.
indeed, III the whole show there is
not TO our mind anything better worth
showing than the steadfast, strong
straightforward purpose with whicn
PhlladelphlanS have pushed this mat
ter, through thick and thin, to its final
issue, and the superb disdain which
they have shown for all sorts of scoffers
and dOubterS. Pluck of this sort de-
serves It's reward, and will have it,
whether it comes by admission tickets,
Oh III other ways.
And other ways will open whatever
may be the exhibit of temporary
pecuniary result. There is the positive
city growth already alluded to-some
of which must be healthy and real :;
there are the permanent buildings
within the exhibition Enclosure which
inure to the city; there is the newly
established "School of Art" whose
administrators, with wise forecast, are
making large purchases of such materi-
al as could be secured under no other
conditions, to such advantage, as here
and now; there is the immense educat-
ing influence of the exhibition in it's
entirety upon the population of the
city; and there is the further material
gain of winning and holding reputa-
ton for executing gigantic scheme
with steadfast purpose, and for enter
tanning world of strangers without
giving reasonable cause for complaint.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
4 Pin in His Back.

The Albany Times Of Friday says
Zone of the lodges of the innumera-
BILE multitude which is always striving
to live without work is thus described
by resident of Hamilton street: A
strong healthy-looking man rang the
door-bell and asked for a few pennies
to buy him some bread. They were
refused on general principles, and then
the sturdy beggar began writhing as if
in misery, and explained that he had a
pin sticking in his back, which hurt
hin severely. He would like to go into
the house minute, in order to remove
the troublesome thing. In the case re-
ferred to, suspicion was aroused. and
the man with pin in his back was
ordered to move on. In others, how
ever, the imposter has been allowed to
90 into room alone, where he has
helped himself to whatever he could
lay his hands on. The trick was quite
common on Arbor Hill a few years ago,
and in one instance the lady Of the
house, who was alone, was rudely in
insulted. Our readers viii do well to
beware Of the man with q pin III his
back.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Another Democratic Murder.

A dispatch from New Orleans says !:
THE Democratic papers are engaged
in constructing elaborate theories in
regard to the assassination of DR.. Dink-
grave at Monroe Wednesday, attempt
ing to make it appear that he was kill
ed for some other reason than that he
was Republican. Republicans here
from that section express their opinion
that the latter was the sole reason. \
letter received in this city from Dr..
Dinkgrave, written the day before he
was aSSaSsinated, expressed the fear
that there was trouble ahead, and stat
ed that large consignment of arms
had been received by Democrats in
that section.
He was the principle Republican or
ganizer in that parish lie was told
that, if he did not cease organizing
colored clubs, some night he would
meet with blue ruin. The manner
adopted by the murderers was very
similar to that adopted by the assassin
of King, Ord, and Twitchel. Dink-
grave is the third prominent RepubE-
can who has been done away with re-
Gently in that section. The latest adj
vices from there are that the colored
people in the county have mostly taken
to the SWampS.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
SUMMARY OF THE NEWS.
Crimes, Criminals and Casualties

The prize fight murderer, Weeden,
and his second, Goodwin, have been arrested.
The sentence of Jesse Pomeroy, the
boy murderer, OF Boston, has been committed
to Imprisonment for liie
By the explosion of a threshing ma
chine boiler, in Dover, Mimi, three men were
instantly killed and three badly wounded.
William Carnthers, station agent at
Chatham, on the Great Western railway, has
absconded taking about $4,000 of railroad
money.
A colored attorney named Yardley
has announced himself as an independent
candidate tor Governor of Tennessee, because
the Republican convention refused to give
him the nomination.
Henry Howe is the last name on
record as noble martyr in the cause OF saw
ing human life. In Boston, few days since,
he attempted to save two young ladies from
drowning and succeeded in rescuing one,
but went to the bottom with the other and
both were drowned.
Advices from Decatur, Tex, says
Rev. w. q. England, Methodist minister,
his wife, and four sons were murdered at their
home, six miles from Montague, by party OF
disguised men. No particulars of the fend-
ish affair are received, but it is supposed the
buthery was committed for money.
The Office of the Pennsylvania rail
road company at Princeton, N. j., was lately
robbed of hundred thousand dollars worth
of tickets. The thieves, finding that the
tickets had been made useless, tried to make
something by negotiating for their return to
the company, but they were not sharp enough
and were arrested 10y sharp detective.
John Sheldon, wife and little boy,
five years old, from Maysville, Ky, accom-
panied by John Burke, of Cincinnati, on their
way to Carlo in skitf, attempted the passage
Of the falls ut Jacksonville, Ind. Just below
the bridge the skiffis supposed to have struck
a rock and capsized. The boy was drowned
BY the the timely aid of fisherman close by,
Sheldon, his wife and Burke were saved
A community of lunatics calling
themselves cobbites, has been found in Ar
kansas, in White county. An old man named
Cobb they look upon as of divine origin, and
his orders are obeyed even to the killing OF
infants as sacrifices. A young man who fell
into their hands was brutally murdered In
attempting their arrest the sheriff's party
killed two men and wounded another. The
remainder OF the party, numbering four men,
four women and two children, were arrested.
There seems little doubt that they are crazy
from religious excitement and starvation.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Tilden's Bari o. Money.

Cleveland O., dispatch of Sept. l..
There is no doubt that Tilden 8 bar
rel O. money" has arrived here, and is
being distributed where it can do the
most good. On Friday last there was
a meeting of the Democratic State
Committee at the Putin Bay House,
Putin Bay Lake, Erie. 1t was called
by John G. Thompson, Sergeant-at-
Arms of the House Of Representatives,
who presided sover the deliberations.
There were present not only major
ity of members of the committee, but
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Southern Democratic Sentiment.

From the Brownyille IS. c. Sentinel (Dem.)
The Pickens Sentinel says white
Radicals are getting to be as scarce up
there as hens teeth. Wish Barnwell
could say the same, We have not SO
many carpet-baggers in our midst as
infest other countries-but the scala
wagsl There is no end to them, and
won't be until next November, then
the blamed devils will have to get up
and dust. Carpet-baggers are getting
their bundles ready.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
A Printers Dream.

A printer sat in his chair, his boots
were patched and his coat threadbare:
while his face looked weary and worn
with care. While sadly thinking of
! business debt, old Morpheus slowly
around him crept, and before he knew
| it he sOundly slept; and sleeping, he
! dreamed that he was dead, from
trouble and toll his spirit had fled,
and that not even q coW-bell tOlled for
the peaceful rest of his cow-hide sole.
AS he wandered among the shades
that smoke and scoTch III lower Hades.
he shortly observed an iron door, that
creakingly hung on the hinges ajar,
but the entrance was closed with
red hot bar, and Satan himself stood
peeping out, and watching for travel
ers thereabout. and thus to the pass
ing printer spoke: "Come IN, my
dear. it shall cost you nothing, and
never fear; this is the place where !
cook the ones who never pay their
subscription sums, for though in their
life they NAV escape, they viii find
when they are dead it is too late; ]
viii show the place where I melt them
thin, with red hot chains and scraps
of tin. and also where | comb their
lettuo Will oCI dps VI Blttoo anu h4C4Lcu
lead, and if Of refreShment they only
think, there's boiling water for them
to drink there is the red hot grind
stone to grind down the nose, and red
hot rings to wear on their toes. and if
they mention they don't like the fire,
III sew up their mouths with red hot
wire and then, dear sir, you should
see them squirm, while roll them
over and cook to turn" With
these last words the printer awoke.
and thought it al practical joke, but
still at times, SO real did it seem, that
he cannot believe it was all a dream;
and often he thinks with chuckle
and grin, of the fate of those who
save their tin, and never pay the
printer.
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08
Story of a Golden Robin.

From the Boston Post.
Lovers of birds will be interested in
the story of golden robin in New
buryport that has been through quite
tragedy for small chap. While en-
gagged with its mate last week in build
ing their nest, which was suspended so
feet high, from an extreme branch of
an elm, his foot became entangled in a
piece of Irvine, which he was deftly
weaving into the structure, and, losing
his balance, he dropped about two feet,
the length of his rope, and hung in
mid-air. The little rascal had lust
stolen the string from the grocery
steps near by, and retribution was sure
and swift, though he doubtless thought
hanging severe penalty for SO small all
otfense. He hung several hours, strug-
Cling till exhausted, to regain his nest.
his terrified mate fluttering and scream
ing around him, and the spectators be-
low plying his fate, but unable to re-
lieve him. Finally a tender-hearted
spectator came to the rescue with a
long ladder and hooked pole. He as
cended the tree and climbed along the
limb till he could reach the bird with
the hook, and, capturing him, brought
him down in safety. Robby's leg was
found to be badly broken and twisted.
DR.. Hurd volunteered to set it, think
ing it might possibly be saved, though
in few days it was obvious that am
putation would be necessary. and the
Doctor performed it as skillfully as if
his patient had been a Christian. and
at third visit removed the bandages
and pronounced him all right. After
Robby had been stumping around his
place of confinement few days, his
kind protector caught his mate and re-
stored her to the bosom of her lord
The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1876-09-08

Boston, Notwithstanding it's Puritan.
ie origin, its churches administers, land
its Radical Club, is making bad name
for itself. How Cotton Mather would
have been shocked had he known that,
with population of 100000 people,
Boston would consume 100000 bottles
of lager beer per day, or over two bot
ties for every man, woman and child !