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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21
Fourth of uIy.

FVlHE members of the Finance Committee
appoin nted by the various Societies intend
ing to celebrate the Fourth of July, will wait
upon all citizens and solicit contributions,
By order of the President.
je2I WASH JOHN DONOVAN, Secretary.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21

The jury in the case of Charles G..
Fisher, ex-sssistant district-attOrr ey, in
dicted for the larceny Of court papers,
failed to agree and have been dis.
charged. They stood seven for convic.
ton and five fof acquittal.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21

TIEN NEssEE LODGE, No. ), meets E,.ZSsJ
4 TONIGHT, for Election OF Officers NSSS9
and work in the rst rank. Members ~
are earnestly requested to attend. knighIs OF
sister lodges cordially invited to be present.
BY order JOSEPH LOCKE, q. Z.
W. h. MOYsTON, K Of Z. and =
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21

NEW ORLEANS, June 20.-Ths -Pica-
ytfne reports t3H longing Of five negroes
at Mount Pls ~ white. regulators.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21

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ON the 2Ist OF December next, SIX months
" from this date, the Stockholders Of the
Tennessee Club will hold an election in this
city for the election of Ofneers OF said Tennes-
see Club, in compliaDce with the charter
thereof. June q, 1s76.
je2I DAVID P. MADDEN, President.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21
Railroad Sale.

NEW ALBANY, IND June 2O.-The
sale Of the Louisville, New Albany and
st. Louis airline took place this after.
noon, under foreclosure Of first mort
gage bonds, in accordance with 8 de-
cree Of the United States circuit court.
Mr.. ]. J. Brown became the purchaser
at the nominal sum of eighteen thou
sand dollars for the bOndholders, and
three thousand dollars Of the purchase
mOoey was psid down, the balance to
be paid within thirty days, upon the
completiOl Of ths papers in the case by
the court. What disposition will be
made of the road is not known, Over
two millions dollars has been expended
on the work and twenty one miles is
already IN operation. The read passes
through one Of the finest sections oi
southern Indiana.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21
Rumored AmalgamstIon of Cable Line.

LONDON, June 20.-Tbere was a sharp
upward movement in Anglo American
aud Direct Csbie company shares yes
terdsy and toe day. Various journals ex-
plaiu the advance as based upon rumOred
amalgsmaion or working agreement
between the two companies. The man.
aging director of The Direct Gable COM
pany says: al am not aware OF any
project for snalgamaiion between the
Ang!O-AmeTicsn and this company
The general manager Of the Ans To-
American company Gays: There is no
proposition Ct the kind before US; nor
has any been made by either, company,
30 far as l know, but there are section
shareholders in both companies, working
independent Of the boards, which are
trying TO bring about the smalgsmatiOn
or combination OF some kind"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-21
News Resignation.

Treasurer New has written letter OF
resignation, TO tsks effect from the four.
teenth of July, and will hand it to the
President to-day.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
A Prominent Republican Speaks Ont
oourier-JOurnal.

LOUISVILLE OOuTleI-JOuEHdl.l
The Chicago Tribune is sorely dis
pleased because General John L. Farms
worth, of Illinois, has come to the front
as bold advocate of Tilden and Hen
dricks. General Farnsworth was one of
the original abolitionists of Illinois, the
friend of Owen Loveioy, and elected and
re. elected to Congress as a Republican
and an anti-slavery man. In 1872 he be-
came Liberal Republican and advocated
the election of Greeley. His well-known
record as an anti-slavery man and as
a Republican leads the Tribune to say:
How this radical Republican, after having
spent forty years in the anti-slavery service,
having risked his life for it, having fought
the Democratic. Confederate party since he
was boy, can new deliberately turn and
go back upon his record, his lifelong asso-
Citations and friends, and appear in Con-
federate meeting to help ratify the nomina-
tion of bogus "reformer and political
trimmer, and join hands with the men whom
he has fought all his life, is not only singu.
lar but unintelligible.
The Confederate meeting" referred
to was very large and enthusiastic pub.
lie meeting held at the city of Aurora
near Chicago, for the purpose of ratifying
the nominations of Tiiden and Hen
bricks, and the position of General Farms
worth would by no means be "unin
telligible" to the Chicago Tribune if il
would take the trouble to read his speech
on the occasion of the meeting. The
difference between General Farnswortt
and the Chicago Tribune may be stated il
few words. General Farnsworth hal
accepted the results of the war and tn,
Tribune has not. General Farnswortl
has marked the extinction of human
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
ga GiIded Humbug.v


Samuel J. Tilden, the candidate for Presi-
dent, we mean. A greater old hum
bug than that same Samuel J. T.lden never
lived.-LiUingston Republican.
We have seen that estimate put upon
Tllden, and have heard that sort of talk
before. When that same Samuel j.
Tilden" told Tweed, Sweeney & Co. that
he had gathered proof of their plumber
of New York City, and they must stop
stealing and make restitution, they
laughed at him and said be was hum
bug. When he became Governor and
told the boys upon the canal that he had
been looking into matters along the tow
path and discovered a great deal of ras-
cality there, and that it was about time
for the extraordinary repair business to
stop and for them to pay back something
to the State, they smiled at his apparent
verdancy and said he was a humbug.
We believe they are all now pretty welt
convinced that that same Samuel j
Tilden" is no. humbug, and that when
they thought he was asleep he had one
eye wide open.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
From These and all Other Evils, Good
Lord Deliver Ms.


The Republican platform declares that
the Administration merits commenda-
tion, and President Grant deserves hearty
gratitude. For what?
For the crooked whisky frauds.
For the unnumbered railroad jobs and
swindles.
For the Leet and Stocking-Murphy-
Custom House frauds.
For the postofice straw bid frauds.
For tie navy e5nSract frauds.
For the Frsedmen's Savings Bank
swindle.
For the Secret Service frauds-payine
John l. Davenport thousands of dollars
from the peoples treasury to elect the
Republican ticket.
| For the Schenck Emma Mine frauds
and disgrace.
For the Belkndp grave stone frauds.
For the Belknap post-trader frauds.
For the District Ring Boss" Shep-
herd frauds.
For the Indian Ring frauds.
For the Safe Burglary villainy and
Babcock and Harrington.
For the Credit Mobilier infamy.
For the st. Domingo job.
For Landaulet Williams and his
infamy.
For Casey, Oryil Grant and Company,
For the fraud in the sale of arms tt
France.
For corruption in every department
of the Federal government.
For increasing the salaries Of the Presi
dent and other public officers.
For increasing the burdens of the tax
payers, and blocking every effort at BE
trenchment and Reform.
Those are some of the reasons why the
people should commend the Republican
Administration and remember Presiden-
Grant with hearty gratitude, and stant
by Hayes and Wheeler.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
Republican Opinions of Tilden, the Re
former.


Here are few extracts from Repub-
lican newspapers in New York State,
where Tilden resides. Home testimony
is good.
An admirable man for public Office
N. Y. Epening Post, (Rep.)
Personally he is honest enough.--M Y.
Commercial Adrertiser, Rep.)
Mr.. Tilden has fairly earned the favor
of his party-Syracuse journal, rep
thoroughly honest man.-M Y. journal
of Commerce, Rep.)
In public and private life, as De-
mocrat and as citizen, his record chal-
1enges scrutiny.-M 7. Nal, Ind.
We have nothing to say against Tilden
as man, an exemplary citizen. and a
Democrat-Lockp0rt Journal, (Rep.)
No one will deny his eminent respect
ability, or venture to cast any doubts
upon his integrity. = Brooklyn Union,
(Rep.)
MIR. Tilden is a gentleman of culture
and refinement. His has been busy
life, useful, if not great Utica Herald,
(Rep.)
We have respect for Mr.. Tilden. We
utter nothing in disparagemeht of his
character or his worth.-Albany journal,
(Rep.)
His honesty and integrity lift him
above the foul atmosphere in which they
plan their nefarious purpose Brooklyn
Argus, hnd.)
Mr.. Tilden's personal character is SO
far above reproach that it will reflect
honor upon his associates.-New Yorl
Tribune, Ind
We respect Mr.. Tlden personally, and
are glad to have an honorable opponent
in the coming campaign.-Bufaio E!r
press, Rep
Aman of unquestionable integrity and
great ability, against whom nothing car
be said on the score of qualification OF
experience.-Ne,o York Express, (Lad)
Mr.. Tilden is highly respectable can
didate, and no man in the state who
wishes to see the return of the Democrat
to power need be ashamed to vote fol
him.-NeD York Times, (Rep.)
We congratulate our Democratic
friends on being led by so respectable
standard-bearer as Samuel ]. Tlden. l
is good sign of the times when evel
the Democracy can nominate such ,
MANI Poughkeepsie Eagle, (Rep.)
He is a man of ability and integrity
and his selection by the Democracy a
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

1t would startle many people who hap
pen to see locomotive blowing off steam
in railway station, if they were told
that there is electricity enough gener-
ated in the discharge of steam to blow
the whole train of carriages to atoms, if,
instead of being dissipated, it We're col
lected. The fact was first accidentally
noticed by an engineer at Newcastle,
who perceived sparks which proved to be
electrical among the escaping steam.
The discovery was confirmed by the con-
struction of hydro-electric machine in
the shape of boiler set on glass legs.
The steam, as it rushes out OF the escape
valve, is received on series of metallic
points by which it is gathered and accu-
mulated in the conductor, as in an ordi.
nary electric machine, in which the elec.
tricity is generated by the friction of q
glass plate or cylinder. Will engineer.
ever come to appreciate the fact thai
every locomotive carries the means O
lighting itself far better and more cheaply
than any lamp?
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

slavery, the acceptance by the South of
the results of the war, and her efforts to
acquire her old material prosperity under
the changed conditions Under these cir
cpmstances Farnsworth has no use for
party which has become like dead
body chained to the living republic, pu-
trefying and vitiating the atmosphere,
while it insists that its mission is to
put down rebellion" by enslaving the
entire South. Seeing in Hayes simply
another chapter of Grantism and de-
structive sel6shness and injustice, he
having with the South accepted the de-
cision of the war, honestly comes for
ward, and, renouncing the party of cor
ruption, prefers to assist in bringing
about an entire and healthful change of
air, which will be inevitably secured by
the election of Tilden and Hendricks.
In General Farnsworth's speech at Au-
rora, after discussing the gross irregular
tiles of the President, he gave his reasons
for his position in this brief paragraph
/ know that the Hayes men are in the
habit Of saying that General Grant is not re-
sRonsible for these things / believe sim
cerely, however, that he is in many respects
culpable. Now l say to you, for Gods sake
let us have President who is responsible or
who is not. We do not want President
whom we shall have to exculpste one day
and blame the next. These men will some
times say that Grant is not to blame, and
then they will turn round and say that it
was Grant that did it and not the party.
want to see man in the White House who
has got the strength of character to make
himself responsible for the actions of the
| executive and such q man ia Samue1 T
Tilden. He will take no counsel of your
Babcocks, and your Boss Shepherds, and
your Fishers and Williamses, and your Ca
leb Cushings and Ben Buffers. He has
brains enough and logic enough and courage
| enough to take counsel of his own con-
victions and to follow them. That is what
| want to see there. / want to see this respon-
sibility brought down and fastened some
where. Now, my fellow-citizens, / said a
while ago a. party could not reform itself
| while in power. The intentions of a party
must be gathered from its acts. Now it is
true that if the Republican party should go
out of power to-day and ten years hence OBJ
tain power again it might produce reform.
1t would then come in again fresh from the
people. It would see whence reforms
ought to be made, and it would then tread
upon its own dust. The concurrent history
is what we want. It is what we are all de-
string to-day.
This from well known and. intelli-
gent man, who helped to construct the
Republican party, is pretty good evil
dence of the fearful decline Of the organ
ization in honesty and virtue Farms
worth will not risk his reputation by
perpetuating the party in the persons Of
Hayes and Wheeler.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
4 Repuhlican,s Opinion Of Tilden,

The following letter is to friend in
this city from Mr.. Parke Goodwin, known
SO long and well as the editer of the New
York Euening Post. This letter, as will
be seen, was written some time before
the meeting of either the Republican
or the Democratic Conventions:
MAY z, 1876.
As for politics, / would like to see the
Republicans nominate Bristow, but my
preferences are most decidedly for Tlden.
I have known him all my life, and know
him to be honest to the core, singularly
conscientious in all he does, OF great dis
interestedness, and as q statesman head
and shoulders before any man now prom
inent. He is the most profound, sound
and clear in his political economy of any
man l krow completely grounded in
principles, sure of his every step, extremely
judiciOus, and without conceits, preju-
dices or weaknesses. If he were President
at this moment, in less than three months
we should see our finances on their best
feet taxation reduced half, and the cur
rency in a sure way to recovery, by gentle
and almost imperceptible means.
What is more, we should see tides of
Northern capital flowing into the South to
turn its rich natural resources into unex-
ampled prosperity.
Tilden inspires all classes with confidence
saving the rogues. Abuse of him does not
affect him at all. He has, In fact no per
sonal resentments, which his enemies say is
profound policy, but which 1 know is the
make of the man. He is SO deeply absorbed
in his principles that he pays no heed to
personalities. You might assail him for
years, and at the end Of that time, if you
were worthy, he would be the first to ac-
knowledge it. When 1 consider the con-
dition of the county, and his peculiar apti-
tude to meet the emergencies on all sides,
he really seems to me more of providen-
tial man than we have had for a long while.
do not believe the Democratic party viii
be so. blind as to reject him. No Demo
cratic name can carry this State, which is
all important except Tilden and he would
carry it easily, because all the Independ-
ent Republicans would go for him.
Yours truly, PARKE GoDwIN.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

a Midsummer. Song.
Oh, fathers gone to market town; he was up before
the day,
And Jamie's after robins, and the man is making
hay,
And whistling down the hollow goes the boy that
minds the mill,
While mother from the kitchen door is calling with
awill-
aPoIly Pellyl The cows are in the cornl
Oh, where's Pollyy'
From all the misty morning air there comes sum-
mer sound
A murmur as of waters from skies, and trees, and
ground.
The birds they sing upon the wing the pigeons bill
and coo,
And over hill and hollow rings again the loud
halloo-
"PoIlyl Polly The cows are in the cornI
Oh, where's Polly 2"
Above the trees the hOney-bees swarm by with buzz
And in the field and garden hundred howers
Within the farmers meadow brown-eysd daisy
blows,
And down at the edge Of the hollow red and
thorny rose:
But Pollyl Pollyl The cows are in the cornl
Oh, where's Pollyf
How strange at such time of day the mill should
stop its clatteri
The farmers wife is listening now, and wonders
what's the matter.
Oh, wild the birds are singing in the wood aad on
the hill,
While whistling up the hollow goes the boy that
minds the mill.
But Polly Polly The cows are in the cornl
Oh, where's Pollyi
Midsummer Holiday Number Of Scribner
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
Fasy.to,. Notes.

Fashionable summer materials furnish,
for early morning wear, fine woolen and
all its kindred stuffs; for day wear are
taffetas, barege, China crepe, faille mixed
with foulard, soft silk broche and Louis
inc; for country wear and excursions the
two fayorite fabrics are batiste and Mad
ras and for evening occasions gauze mus
lin, crepe lisse and light foulard.
The Revolution hat has high pointed
crown and many feathers.
Black kid belts, with aumoniere bags
bearing the monograms of the bearer,
are worn.
Brocaded grenadine, trimmed with
thread lace, is one of the favorite selec-
tions in grenadine dresses.
A fashionable garniture for straw hats
cherries and strawberries with bronze
foliage.
Satin finished ribbons are much used
for dress trimmings.
"Soie Centennial l"-summer silks of
national colors sent over by the Lyons
| factories. The ground is irony, with
peucil stripes of blue and rose.
Novelties in grenadine dresses are the
/ green ones, trimmedwith gold and silver
braid.
/ White muslin dresses are seen, without
oyerskirts or 'polonaises, the skirts being
covered with small hounces.
Ribbons of silk canvas gauze are very
fashionable for summer.
All toilets are much trimmed with
ribbon bows.
| Bonnets are worn according to the
fancy of each individual over the face,
back on the head, or in other of the diff
ferent fashions of the past two or three
years.
The fashionable material, batiste, comes
in all shades.
Dresses appear to be growing lcngel
. and longer, and tighter and tighter.
Costumes still govern the feminine
toilet.
With the ultra fashionables who are
using red carriage parasols, scarfs ars
substituted for other wraps.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27
SOME COOP STORIES ABOUF
CUSTER.
New York Her.ld.l

New York Heraldl
Just as great battle is about to begin
each army waits for moment as if to
draw long breath and brace its nerves
for the struggle. That moment is like
the moment before an awful storm
breaks. Every man knows what is COM
ing, every horse is watching and trem-
bling, and the bravest man in the ranks
will turn pale and mark himself
for victim. 1t is a terrible moment.
Every scul feels awed, every heart beats
painfully, and it would seem as if the
fall of musket would stampede whole
brigade. When the sharp crack of a
single musket, or the hoarse below of a
cannon echoes from The hill, the spell is
broken, and the men are eager to dash at
each Others throats.
I have watched Custer while We
waited Sitting like figure of bronze,
only his eyes moved. They glanced here
and there, noting everything in detail,
and before the signal came he knew
where the fight would be hottest. He
was to lead us, and he might have trem-
bled without losing our respect or any OF
the reputation he had won.
It has been asserted by several infuen-
tial dailies, since Clusters death, that a
spirited cavalry charge was pet hobby
of his. General Custer had but one
theory in war-whip the enemy if you
can. He often could and did, but it was
not always by cavalry dash. Two
thousand men encamped in a
field can be routed by a charge of one
hundred troopers. A whole brigade of
infantry in line of battle have been
known to fly before charge of six COM
panics of cavalry. Even when it is cav
airy against cavalry, fierce charge, a
long yell, and the good use of sabers
leaves the victory on the side of dash.
General Custer not only loved music
for its soothing influence. but he loved it
because it cheered the men, and nerYed
them up for bold dash or hot encounter.
His band was probably more exposed
than any other in the service. The
proofs of this are the scars which some
CT the members are carrying to their
graves. Before the war closed every
member of the band was willing to make
oath that Clusters hobby was band
music.
At Burns's Ford the cavalry found the
bluffs on the opposite side of the rivel
alive with sharpshooters. Custer must
cross, and when he saw that the sharp
shooters must first be routed, he turned
to the band. It was ordered to the front
stationed where bullets whizzed past
their ears, and the General remarked:
/ "When you see me draw my saber de
you strike up Yankee Doodle and play
her for all she's worthp'
He put himself at the head of tht
brigade, drew ssber, and as the banG
struck up, the troopers charged the ford
crossed it, and routed the sharpshooter
in no time at all.
j At Bristow Station, the gunners of {
field battery received such vigorous re
ply from another in the hands of tn,
enemy that the men wavered little.
Where's my band ?' shouted Custer
and when the leader reported, he wa
ordered to take position beside the bat
terry and give the gunners something
lively. The band went down, every mai
wishing he was his horn or back in Mich
igan. The guns kept roaring, and Will
there is no doubt that the band played
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

WHILE construction train on the
Mount Washington Extension Railroad
was ascending grade of three
hundred feet to the mile the engine
slipped both eccentrics, and the train
commenced running back. The work
men were thrown into panic, and all
but one (who weighed above three hun
dred pounds) jumped of. Six of them
were severely injured, having arms and
legs broken, shoulders dislocated, etc,
The train ran TO the foot of the grade,
and stopped without damage.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

political reasons there can not be any
doubt. And it is quite probable that he,
of all others. knows the cause. Fair
minded men will be gratifed to know
that the attempt to fasten this crime up
on the Democratic party in the South
has failed signally. Radical newspa-
pers and ranting ministerial demagogues
should wait for the evidence in the fu-
ture before they make assertions that are
entirely unwarranted and can not be
sustained. Had politics been at the
bottom of the Coushatta assassination
Mr.. Weodburn would surely have found
it out and have said SO. We. are glad
that this latest SANDER upon the South
ern people has been SO ably refuted. Mr..
Morton's clergyman at indianapolis
seems to have emptied himself without
Just provocation.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1876-07-27

their standard bearer is an evidence that
character and capacity are still thought
to be worth something as qualifications
for ofice.-Ne,o York Graphic, (Ifad.)
He has always had the reputation of
high personal character, and his opposi-
tion to the Tweed gang of thieves has
even placed him in some degree among
political reformers. Mr.. Tilden is a
man of great wealth, and is generally
recognized, we should say, as thor
oughly safe, conservative persoR.-Iroy
Wing, lRep.l