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REV DAVID WALK.

Ii will be seen from a notice among our
personals that after nine long years Of toll
as Christian pastor in this city, Rev. David
Walk has rendered his resignation, for the
purpose of organizing and building up new
church al Kansas City, Missouri. Mr.. Walk
belongs to that denomination which rejoices
in the broad and general cognomen Of the
Christian church, which through his great
ability is now one of the most fashion
able, intellectual and popular churches in
Memphis. The progress of the Chris
tian church in this city, and through
out the whole country, is another evil
idence of the progress of religious liberality
and the decay of that despicable spirit of re-
ligious bigotry which formerly made religious
denominations 80 many warning factions,
hating each other instead of making
ing common cause in fighting
common enemy. Only few
years since the denomination called
Christians were regarded as a rank heresy.
But here in Memphis, through the popularity
of David Walk, this prejudice has been Grad
icated, as is illustrated by the fact that he is
a prominent member of the Pastors associ-
alton, and commands the respect and affec-
tions of this able and exemplary body of
ministers. Rev. David Walk has been
one of the ablest and most popular preachers
that has ever labored in Memphis, where the
friendship of the people for their ministers is
as fckle and inconstant as was that of the
Roman people for their rulers. The friends
of the late John F. Sale, whose heart was as
large as his brain, and whose massive intel
lect was as clear as the streamlet and as
abundant as the ocean, will remember his
enthusiastic admiration of David Walk. He
induced many to attend the Christian church,
and all concurred in Sales estimate of the
pastors ability, and in the opinion
that he was not only pro-
found thinker, but a fine declaimer. Mr..
Walk is a man of positive convictions, whose
strength lies in his aggressiveness OF
opinion. There is no weakness or lack of in
dividuality or originality about him. This
fearless, positive trait of character has occa-
sionally provoked enmities. But David
Walk is, no doubt, just man; man
whose nerve for condemning the wrong and
defending the right is oyermastering; man
who executes justice as he understands it, at
whatever expense to himself. There will be
a general expression of regret in Memphis at
the removal of Mr.. Walk. His church has
prospered under his career as pastor, and we
congratulate the society of Kansas City on
the accession of gentleman of such extern
sive information and great conversational
powers, and who is regarded as one of the
ablest men that ever filled Memphis pulpit.
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untary, but was caused by compulsion of the
war, the troops having been driven
out, overtaken and massacred by the
Indians when they had retreated out
short distance-about two miles-away,
and no man suffered to escape. Should this
public disaster be permitted to constitute
valid basis for the presumption of a claim, it
would establish precedent unknown here
tofore in history. That Il citizen could take
advantage of the misfortunes of his govern
ment as a means to deprive 1t of its lawful
domain and property without its consent,
such proposition cannot be entertained"
After citing the decision of the United States
supreme court in the case of Wilcox rs Jack
son I3 Peters, 1881, the committee state that
for these and other consideration they report
adversely upon the bill, and recommend that
it be indefinitely postponed
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The Woman That Married a Woman.

Tuscarora New Times Repiepo: l would
like to inquire through the columns of your
paper the officers having charge of the prose-
cution of Sarah M. Pollard, whether there is
not some law by which she can be punished
for the imposition she has praeticed, and is
still attempting to practice on the public, or
for the wrong she has inflicted on me? | no
tice in this mornings paper that you do not
think the question of her sex can be proven
in the examination on the charge upon which
by which the question can be settled and JUS
tice done II me? | have stated, and now
send you an affidavit for publication, that the
person known as Samuel M. Pollard is a wo-
man. l am actuated by no feeling of revenge
in this matter, but by desire to be set right
before the public. | understand there are
some people who disbelieve, or profess to dis
believe my story, and all l ask is for legal
measures to be taken to prove its truth or
falsity. If | have stated falsehood, let the
public brand me as the most infamous and
shameless woman that disgraces the face of
the earth. If my statement is true. let it APP
pear that | am unfortunate and wronged
woman, instead of base and wicked one.
MARANCY HUGHES
The following is the affidavit above alluded
to:
Marancy Hughes, being duly sworn, de-
poses and says that the person between whom
and deponent marriage ceremony was per-
formed in Tuscarora, on the twenty ninth
day of September, 1877, and who went by
the name of Samuel M. Pollard, is a woman,
and that his true name is Sarah Maud Pol
lard MARANCY HUGHEs
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NEGRO MORTALITY

The Indian has disappeared before the
march of civilization like withered leaves
before the tempest. He has seen the decline
of his power and the eclipse of his glory. He
beholds himself an outcast In the land of his
fathers. The last chapter in the history of
this unfortunate race will soon be recorded,
and the last council-6re in the mountain and
the wilderness will soon be extinguished.
That the Indian has suffered wrong from the
whites no one can deny. But he has nobody
10 blame for his decay and final extinction
but himself. If he had commenced the pur-
suits of civilization after the United States,
at an expense of untold millions, had removed
him to a country of his own selection, he
would now have proud nation, advancing
in greatness, population and prosperity. But
the leopard cannot change his spots, and
the Indian could never learn to forget the
traditions Of his ancestors. Nothing can
subdue the attachment of the Indian to oh
relics and superstitions. Any innovation In
cites the nation to arms. They fight and are
conquered. The old leaders and the flower
of the tribe are sacrificed, and they will soon
become extinct, not even leaving monu-
ment 10 perpetuate their rashness and
folly. The causes of the terrible IA
tality amoug the Indians are many. But
their unelean, indolent and inactive habits
will contribute largely 10 their final extlrpa-
ton. EHnHi begets vice, vice excess, and ex-
cess ruin. Intemperance, the chalice which
the white man pressed to the lips of the
savage, whose demoralizing and debasing in
fiuence is fat throughout ehristendom, keeps
open the fountains of destruction. What Is
to be the inevitable fate of the Indian will be
also the sure destiny of the negro, unless the
philanthropists OF all nations and all other
races combine in a humane and noble effort
to save the poor creatures from that destruc-
ton upon which they are rushing with the
fatality which attends the a-gulls that hurl
themselves against the lighthouses upon the
seashore The negro seems to covet destruc-
ton as the suicide wooes death. The celored
leaders, the intelligent and educated, are
never heard of save in times of elec
ton. They then come forward and lead
theirrace mp to the ballot-box, and after peck
citing the three hundred dollars paid them
they retire to live in ease and comfort, car
ing nothing for the mortality that Is as fatal
10 their race as is the rot to a flock of sheep.
These colored orators are eloquent in urging
their race to elevate white men, but
never utter a word in warning the
blacks as to the causes which are
1ecinatinG the colored population. In
every part Of the south the negro is rapidly
passing the Rubicon of his own destiny. He
needs net, like the Macedonian monarch, the
admonitory voice of a slave to remind him of
his mortality. 1t is written upon the iron
brow of grim and memorable fate. Nursing
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For the Sunday Appeal
KEEPSAKEs.


o sWeetly the maiden ponders
Over each keepsake small,
And the dreamy, fresh heart wanders
In memoirs fiower-hung hall;
And closely the words repeated
Touch tingling ears again,
And tho love has changed or Elected,
Little they bring OF pain.
But when years have come, and shaken
Wirh grief s strong storm the soul;
When the wrecking tides have taken
All that We sought TO hold,
Leaving US only the token
OF lives that we called our own,
The arc Of circle broken,
The ghost OF a vanished tone,
Then the heart beats hard and wildly,
Then the eyes with te 'rs o'erfiow,
o not like the maiden mildly,
Does memory claim and know.
Garry them out of our vision;
o bury them far away,
The cruel, the mean derisiOn
or these poor things that stay.
The wedding glare and the flowers,
Garments the dead have worn,
o trifies of happy hours,
That time away has borne!
These, these are the keepSakeS given
When years have crowned cur brows.
All! the fatal raiment riyeni
In dust the spirit bows.
For not human heart can hover
Over these tokens last,
And with sightless eyes we cover
Locked lids upon them fast
And we cry, Sweep swiftly, river,
The lingering year. away,
And carry US. Princely Giver,
On with Our buried May"
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A False Alarm,

Richmond (Va.) States: II people would
stop grumbling and croaklng about the
''hard times" they would be astonished how
rapidly the times would improve. A dozen
lugubrious dyspeptcs on change can lnfest
whole business community with their gloomy
looks and discouraging growls. Their ''im-
aginations are as foul as Vulcan's stithy, -
and they see nothing but ruin in the present
and starvation III the future. Men have been
known to die of diseases they never had a
symptom of by the sheer force of imagina-
ton, and bad times in the commercial world
are as often due to the pressure Of imaginary
as real ills. An impression is spread abroad
in the country that there is a dizziness, or
there is going to be a season of dizziness, and
we all talk so gloomily that people begin to
curtail, fear takes possession of the boldest,
and all enterprises In which money is invest
ed are brought to a standstill; and thus,
through our own fears, and without any Just
reason, we create ''hard times" when no
necessity or cause existed. The fact is, in
Richmond now there is no good reason for
this alarm, and If people would steadily set
their faces against 1t, and refuse to listen to the
croakers and GROWERS who imagine ali Is lost
because they themselves have lost their grip
and SINK into the mire without the energy
to extricate themselves, and take cheerful
view of the surroundings, the phantom of
bard times would soon disappear. 1t is
mucn more apparent IMAM real. Au around
US people seem to be doing well, and to have
plenty. They are building houses and spend
ing money freely, and doing good average
business. There are as many fine turn
outs on the streets as there have ever been;
the ladies, children and young men dress as
we'll; our amusements are well supported;
the opera paid; we have balls, parties, routs
and fairs, and many people can afford even
to marry, while not few die and have fine
funerals. With all these evidences of thrift
around US, and no great amount of poverty
or idleness, we think there is every reason to
believe that the cry of hard times is false
alarm-a cry that Is without either present
or prospective cause. The fact is we are a
people in vigorous health, robust. and flow
ing over with business strength, and we only
need cheerfulness and exercise, the active
employment of our healthful energies and
constantly growing, hopeful disposition to
put to flight all these gloomy apprehensions
and dark forebodings.
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For the Sunday Appeal
DOG-DAYs.
J. W. MORGAN.

And now doth come the rabid days
The fIiendless cur must die;
The yellow dog, with guilty gaze.
Avoids the human eye.
His soul, by many fears oppressed,
Oft vents itself In wall,
And underneath his honey breast
He folds his timld tall.
Oh, cruel cur! whv shouldst thou bite
The good man into fits?
Sad was the day that brought TO light
The emigrating Spitz-
Yet oft above thy woes We sighed,
And felt thy hardships, too;
For many a harmless dog has died
For what he did not do.
Still thine, my canine friend, but ape
The troubles we've outgrown,
For many a witch In human shape
Has felt the bigot's stone.
And superstition, grim and gray,
still newer victims Graves,
And rabies, like the witch, Will stay
Till blotted oUn In graves.
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Gnnd HIKE ON {. Abe .

Of Miss Kellogg the following story is told
by the Boston Sunday Times: Having gone
to Orone, Maine, to sing at the college COM
mencement there, she complained of the wa
ter. The inn-keeper where she was staying
bethought him of Mr.. Abraham Coburn,
wealthy citizen of the town, who had upon
his estate a spring of great purity. So to Mr..
Coburn he stated the case, and that gentle
man gladly consented to furnish the singer
with the famous water, and to give the cour-
tesy an especial emphasis proposed to bring
it with his own hands. The offer was ac-
cepted, and several times day Mr.. Coburn
carried the sparkling beverage to the inn. As
Mr.. Coburn dressed plainly and was called
ABE" by his friends, Miss Kellogg did not
learn of his position, and as she was packing
up she gave the landlord half dollar, which
she begged of him to give to "Abe," as he,
she said, was the best man that had waited
upon her. The landlord made no explana-
ton. When Miss Kellogg and her mother
were safely seated in the drawing-room car,
she suddenly discerned Mr.. Coburn on the
platform of the station. She called him, and
as he came blushingly forward she said,
ABE, my man, I'm sorry you didn't come
up to say good bye, but left half dollar
with the landlord to give you for bringing
me the water" The train moved Cd, and the
shout of laughter that went up ifors The
friends of abe" shook the station build-
ing.
IN -. ,loox1 Oh w X
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Little Classics.

Burlington Haiokeye: 1t was long about
the kalends of May, when Coriolauus went
into the ball-closet at the head of the stairs,
and brought forth pair of last summer
trousers. The mailed hand that, "llke an
eagle In d dove-cote, huttered the Volsces in
Carroll" dropped with gesture of despair
when he beheld yawning postern gate In
the ralment, where breach or assure there
should have been none To him, his true and
honorable wife, the fair virginia:
NOW, the gods crown thee, Coriolanus.
what appears to be the trouble with you?''
NOW, the gods mend these trowsers. Oh,
my gracious silence, replied Coriolanus.
''See what rent this envious tooth of mine
has made"
Virgilia dropped her tender, beaming eyes,
and heaved heavy sigh as she turned and
dove down into the rag bag to hunt for a
patch.
My lord and husband" she said YEARLY.
dragging up bits ofred flannel, tufts of straw,
bits OF cotton, scraps of calico, tags of carpet
tacks, and finding nothing that would make
the lavender trowers nearer than a piece of
seal brown empress cloth, I've patched
these trowsers until my eyes and fingers
ACHE at the sight of them. / would the inn
mortal gods would send on Rome and our
house the one unending blessing of eternal
peace.
Coriolanus looked at her fer moment, but
couldn't tell from her unrippled face whether
she meant it or not.
: And |, too, thou noble sister of Publico-
la, he said; 81, too, thou moon of Rome.
for my great soul, to fear invulnerable, is
weary of the restless god of wore"
Vlrgilla dropped the rag bag aud looked
at him quickly, but he never smiled.
'Keno!" she said.
Put it there, ne said; and then theyrboth
promised that they would behave never 40
ike mounting photographers again.
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The LouIsvtIIes EcIipsed.

Louisville COKTTey'-j0W7Ial, Nav Both:
" Tine disparity in the figures ted in
the table below may look somewhat queer for
a game played for the city championship. but
those present on the Fourth street grounds
yesterday afternoon, more particularly the
Loulsvilles, will testify to their strict aecu-
racy. A good crowd, including MANY ladies'
was present, and the sharp PLAYING which
characterized the first three innings seemed
70 SIGNIFY that the game would be close and
notly contested. Commencing, however,
with the fourth inning, the Louisvilles began
to go to pieces, and as each succeeding inn
Ing appeared their decentralization grew more
and more effective. The work of the Louis
vllles In the three main branches of tie game.
batting, fielding and base-rupninG, was quite
disappointment to their friends, who looked
Tor better things, aftes Witnessing their fine
opening game with the Mutuals a week or so
since. They failed to do themselves credit,
and toS their very weak exhibition they
have only one excuse to plead-it is
summed up in the following IA
mIliar words: We were awfuIIv
of, and couldn't play even little bit For
the Eclipse, Coleman carried off the honors.
making hve runs, three base hits and catch
ing splendldly. Reccius was very effective
IN the pitchers position, and when he gets
his arm down within the prescribed limits
nctSlng more can be asked Of him. His style
OF delivery during the greater portion of yes
eeroay game amounted to a regular shoal-
ger throw, and was thoroughly illeS,aI-
browning played a slashing game at saoond.
and the remainder of the boys all acquitted
themselves with great credit. louisville. o.
Echpse, N- Umpire Dan Deyinney. Time.
Of game-One hour and thirty minutes
Runs earned-EclIpse, S. Two-base hts it,
HHsideman, l. Left on bases-IouisviiIe, 81
EEc,ipse, 8. Out ON hies-Bouisville, q
Eclipse r.
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Three Men Killed by Boiler explosion

CINCINNATI, May 31.-On the farm OF
Robert Lynn, four miles from Hillsboro, this
morning, the boiler of portable saw-mill
engine exploded, killing three men and Sc
verely scaldiDg several others. One man
was thrown completely over tall tree. The
boiler was found three hundred yards dis
tant
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Russian Agents Buying Up q Navy i'm
the United states.

PHILADELPHIA, May 3I.-Captain Grip
penberg, of the Russian navy, under whose
supervision the alterations to the recently
purchased steamships are being made, is
again here. 1t is said the Russian agents
will buy six vessels before leaving.
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Madame Pappenheim skipped Out for
Europe.

New YORK, May STA Boston special to
the Posi- says that Madame Pappenheim
sailed for Europe in Warren lins steamer
on Thursday, her name being added to the
list of passengers after the regular list had
been distributed to the newspapers.
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English Mothers.

1t Is marked feature of social life in
England, and certainly one of its special
charms, that mothers and daughters are so
uniformly seen together at home. Not only
Is the mother the first lady to whom YOU are
introduced at the house where you visit. but
she is mistress of the ceremonies throughout;
not only does she preside at the dinner-table'
but at the evening party she sits as queen.
Whatever may be your first impressions of
such an arrangement-ifit happens that YOUR
sympathles are with the younger ladies-you
Will very soon learn to think that the mothers
absence would be very sincerely regretted by
the daughters. As picture, all must admit
the arrangement to be perfect. The portly
form and matronly dignity of the mother are
an exquisite foil to the youthful beauty and
maiden coyness of the daughters. And Won
will find nothing to mar. but everything to
enhance, the interest of the picture. The
mother S presence never seems to operate as
an unwelcome restraint. Between her and
the daughter You will mark the most Joyous,
playful, loving freedom, without the sacrifice
OF little of maternal dignity and authority
on the one hand, or of sweet and graceful
duty on the other. 1t may be said of English
families, generally, that these two things are
eminently characteristic, namely, uniform
parental authority, and the most charming
freedom of intercourse between parents and
their children.
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EVANSVILLE, IND. May 31.-A. Carl
pagnett was taken from bed at Owensville,
Gibson county, last night, and shot TO death
by a mob, for dissoluteness and a murderous
attack on a quiet citizen.
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A Logical Explanation of the Excess of
Females in Massachusetts.

New York Times: Instead of saying that
there is an excess of thirty thousand women
in Massachusetts, we shall be able to reason
more clearly if we say that there are thirty
thousand unmarried women in that interest
ing state. If the facts are stated in this way,
we at once see that, instead of troubling our
selves about over-production, we should
merely ask, why are these women unmarried?
The answer is not difficult to find. These
women aresunmarried because they are of a
pattern which has of late years gone out of
fashion. About the same time as the gray
trousers of England drove out the black
broadcloth trousers, which, in connection
with the black satin waistcoat and black dress.
coat, formerly constituted the walking cos
tune of the American citizen, there was in
PRODUCED the plump English style OF girl.
The latter soon became enormously popular,
and the bony and specialized maldens of Mas
sachusetts became drug in the market 1t
was still generally conceded that the Massa-
chusetts girl knew more about Emerson's
philosophy and Atcott's orphic utterances
than did her plumper sival, but the merits of
the former were no longer able to awaken
any enthusiasm. The Boston poetical young
man no longer wrote sonnets expressing the
emotions of his heart on hearing the bones of
his beloved object rattle as she ran to meet
HIM at the gate, and the Boston youth of
fashion no longer proposed to publish at pub
lie dinners the once familiar toast Beauty
and Bones" in honor of the spare sex. In
fact, spare and angular girls went entirely
out of fashion, and Massachusetts men went
outside the boundaries of New England
when they sought for wives.
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Ashamed Of Doing what is Good.

Springfield Republican: Colonel Bob In
gersoll and his wife sat near me in the thea
ter at Washington the other day. The latter
is handsome, matronly woman and happy
looking mother. On the other side were two
fine, healthy-looking girls, said by my in
formant to be the two daughters, one OF
whom is rather proud in telling that she has
never been in church. They were the FIRST
real, live infdels l had ever seen, and, COM
pared with some of the sour-visaged, dys-
peptic-lookipg preachers l know, with droop-
ing, dismal wives, this family of handsome,
cheerful, happy-faced free-thinkers seem to
be having the best of it in this world, what
ever may become of them in the next. When
Lolita sang The S.0eet By-and- By in a way
so touching that a good many susceptible
people found themselves unconsciously she'd
ding tears, | glanced toward Colonel Inger-
soil, whose fine features were not free from
emotion, and was glad to think that breeze
from the beautiful shores had been waited
to him" He cleared his throat hastily, and,
leaning over to an acquaintance, who had
been shifting audibly, said, brusquely
"Why, man, what were you crying about
just now?' Nonsense" said the stout gen.
lleman addressed, 81 wasn't crying; the light
hurt my eyes" ''Ah!" said Colonel Inger-
soil, thoughtfuAy, SIS it not strange that a
man is ashamed of doing what Is good, and
not ashamed of doing what is bad"