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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-23
OBEDIENCE TO LAW

Every iaw-abldln citizen " II learn with
deep regret taat mob-law has again erected
its hldeous front upon the sacred soil OF Ten
nessee. The APPEAL, of Friday, contained
,ne full particulars of the lynching of Pear
son and Sadler at Springfield, charged with
having outraged the person of Mrs. Graves
on the sixteenth OF May. There is an un-
written law in all sections of the Union that
summary punishment shall be visited upon
the brute who violates female innocence and
heiplessness. This atrocious crime has be-
come so alarmingly frequent of late, commit
ted by tramps, that the community seems de-
termined 10 take the law in their own hands
But lynch-law is still to be deprecated. Pear
son and Sa1ler protested their innocence,
and told the infuriated mob that they would
be able to prove an abb. There is some
thing monstrous in the crime charged to
tuese strolling vagabonds, but the crime OF
aanging innocent men is still greater crime.
Every concession to lawlessness is an adj
;ance to anarchy. The forest made a fatal
mistake when 1t sacrificed the helpless little
ash 10 furnish a helve 70 the AK of the wood
hopper, and whenever people make the
fatal mistake. We hive in a county gov
erned, not by the will or the opinions of in
iuria.ed men often mistaken in their judg-
ments, but by laws. The laws create the
official power of the rulers, and limit them
in precise and definite ways; and that coun-
try, State or city is governed best where least
discretion is lett to the rulers and greatest
=. Asa1 nd
ministration Of Law. For this reason It is the
duty of all good citizens 10 obey the law inn
plicitly. If it be n bad law, strive TO get it
repealed; but so long as it stands on the stat
ute books 1t must be obeyed. In that alone
resides public morality and public safety.
There is no safeguard against bad and care
less legislation so good as the rigorous en-
forcement Of such laws. This creates pub
lie indignation that leads to repeal. So also
there is nothing 90 demoralizing as laws
which are openly violated. Any law which
can be violated without exposing the
breaker to punishment weal1ens the moral
obligation Of all other laws. Every
good citizen should condemn the lynchlng
OF Pearson and Sadler, and inculcate the les
son that there is morality and safety only in
strict and impartial execution of the law.
No good citizen should shut his eyes to any
open violation Of law, however tolerated by
shpshod usage or however sanctioned by the
customs or fashions of the time. This is a
matter Of far graver import than mere expe-
diency. 1t outweighs convenience or mate
rial advantage. 1t is a matter Of public
morality, which is at last the basis of all
happiness and true prosperity.
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Rates OF Wages and Cost OF Living in
Scotland.

New York Herald: The consul at Dun
dee sends to the state department full sched-
ules of wages and prices of food for the last
FIVE years, in answer to the labor circular of
April 11th. Wages have increased in that
time from to Is per cent; ffty-one hours
make a weeks work in the building trades
Bricklayers and plasterers now receive 20
cents an hour: plumbers, haascns and skaters,
Is to II cents; painters and carpenters, Is
cents, and common laborers on building
work, II or Is cents. Stone carvers are paid
"A cents. The weekly wages range from So,
SIP to $12 "a. Engine and machine work
ing artisans receive from 81 to s. weekly,
while the various manufacturing tradesmen
get from 50 80 to s. so. according to trade
and skill. Women get from 81 to 50 so for
a weeks work of fifty-one hours. Railway
engineers, passenger and freight-t trains, are
paid from IS so to $40 per week for sixty
hours; stokers from SIS Is to So q, the por-
tiers from 81 to 81 80. The industry of Dan
dee is mainly the manufacture of Jute The
men are paid from 81 so to 81 50; the
women from So to 81 % per week for fifty
six hoGrs. Bread costs Is cents for a four
pound loaf; Rour and oatmeal, 4 cents a
pound; milk, 8 cents a quart; potatoes, 80
cents for q pounds; meat, 16t "a cents
pound; eggs, 30 cents dozen, and other
articles in proportion, a suit Of serviceable
Scotch tweed costs SIT. The rent Of two
rooHied house is $48 yearly; of a three
roomed house, s72; of four-roomed house,
$95, and so ON,
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The SIeepless Edison.

New York correspondence Chicago Trib-
une: One of Edison's strange ideas is that
man doesn't need to sleep. Probably he
hasn't enjoyed proper amount of rest at
any one time for three years. His brain
goes like q saw-mill, all the time, and he
says he has no time to sleep. He expert
ments and works day and night without ces-
sation When bedtime comes, Edison is as
oblivious of the fact as one side of the present
Potter congress is of the existence of Mr..
Cronin, from Oregon. The great inventor
digs away at his work until nature Is COM
pletely exhausted, and then he tumbles into
bed for two or three hours of sleep. This
may be at morning, noon or night, just as
the fit of WEAKNESS SEXES him. Not one
man IN ten could do it and live. But Edison
has constitution like the ''one-hoss shay of
popular legend, and he don't break down.
He is wonderfully tenacious, alike of health
and of ideas. A friend who knows him init
mately, tells me that when Edison once gets
into his head that certain thing can be
done, he is going to demonstrate the fact,
though the heavens fall. If he had made a
failure OF life, we should have said this was
mere mulishness. But, as he is a success, we
may call it great perseverance. There is
vast difference between tweedle-dum and
tWeedle dee
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For The Sunday Appeal.
THE LITTLE WATER-CARRIER

'sOnah, Onah
Nowhere TO lay,
Nowhere to stay,
Nowhere TO rest my poor, weary bones"
On Its cushion OF jstty wool
The bucket no longer Is full.
Already it's dry, for in-noonday sky
The sun Is careering high.
Ana the urchin's ebon limbs
Are strulg for the grass-bound brims
or the little spring where the wet ferns cling
And the red-bird dips Its wing.
"onah, onah,
Nowhere to lay,
Nowhere to stay"
NO where to rest my poor, weary bones"
Dust In the field, dust In the road,
Thro' scanty garments blackly glowed
The shining Jet Of the African form,
Careless, happy and very warm,
kicking the dust as he goes
With his agile, horny toes.
He will dip them deep with Joyous leap,
Then Joining his palms, his thirst will steep.
Jonah, Onsh,
Nowhere to lay,
Nowhere to stay,
mo where to rest nv poor, weary bones"
All! the cool SpriDg-It cannot tell:
And out of its waters-ah! we'll
VIII the thirsting souls, mid the cotton-bolls
Dream OF the secrets il eniolds?
For water, water their cries,
Asleep on the grass he lies,
Belying his song by the slumoer long
That clings to his fastened eyes.
'Onan, vi an,
where Is my daughter?
"Onah, Onah,
Somebody bought her.
lis what they on the hillside sing,
And now down by the little spring,
Enclosing his eyes, the urchin replies,
With the welcome, the welcome cries:
''Onah, Onah, water, water, waterl''
The mockbird trills the echoes taught her.
The thrush on her nest holds pulseleSS breast
She has known the robbers cunning quest.
"Onah, Onah,
Nowhere to lay
Nowhere to stay,
Nowhere TO rest my poor, weary bones"
In the morning they are fTinged with dew.
Morning-glOrieS of June-sky blue,
In tiny list now their carols twist,
As they cling to the white bollS wrist.
The grasses are dry and sharp,
But over the hills harp
Eolus has made with his breath there laid
And 1t Quivers on every blade.
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For the Sunday Appeal
TWILIGHT.
MAGGIE E. CARNEY.

A pause in busy life, while daylight fingers
Between sunset and the moOn-riSe;
When labor s laid aside by weary fingers,
And shadows veil the aching eyes.
Then ask with hushed and vain, and troubled
yearning,
What is the charm that makes the twilight
sweet?
Perfumes from fields of clover the laden beeezes
bring,
Old voices, the echo of departed feet,
The music Of mothers voice we knew in child
hood
Comes back to soothe the heart that longings fill,
And the viOlets We gathered in the wildwood,
And laid upon her grave, are fragrant still.
The murmuring of a waterfall half hid away,
The soft, low ripping of a woodland stream,
The rustllng OF a robins wing upon SPRAY,
Come back at twilight like pleasant dream.
SO in lIfes twilight when we lay our burdens down,
Gladykshall We leave the cross, gladly take the
crown,
Looking backward DER the weary way we've trod,
Many times more lovely seems the world of God.
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Ungathered Sweets.

Virginia New Enterprise: Evening be-
fore last Justice Moses married high toned
Chinese couple-Ah Suee to Miss All NOV.
The ceremony being concluded, some OF
by telling him Of the American custom Of
kissing the bride. ''Welly good" SAID the
husband of a minute, "s'pose you likee kiss
her you pitch in. My tell you, She one welly
good kissee." John then ex planned to the
bride in Chinese the curious American Gus
tom. She blushed little, looked askance at
the outside barbar1ans present, and smiled in
moderate and modest way. "You no kissee
her, said John, glanclng from one to anoth-
er.. No one responded, though tue bride was
quite pretty. the young wife was not
pleased. Her nose went up and her diagonal
eyebrows went down. She took her lord by
the sleeve, and, as she led him toward the
door, turned about and remarked: Hi yah
you all too muchee dam foolee!" which
showed her to be woman of spirit.
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Scribner's Monthly
MODERN COURSE OF TRUE LOVE
WALTER CAREY.

WALTER CAREY.
They met amid the bathrooms glare
And only this had either noted,
That he was dark and she was fair,
When breathleSS in the waltz they fioated.
But in that instant Cupid flung
A chain that bound their hearts together;
She thought that Hybla tipped his tongue,
Although he only praised the weather.
Tohm her spirit seemed divine,
Though still she talked but commonplaces;
Her accents breathed the tuneful Nine,
Her face and figure all the Graces.
His coat her critic eye approved;
He owned perfection in her bodice;
And II to her god he moved,
To him no less she swan goddess.
So when they danced it seemed to each
Their bliss had brimmed its fullest measure;
And when they sat in tender speech
Lie held Tor them no equal pleasure.
so sitting pleased ana bent TO please,
Or whlIling through the galOp's mazes,
UnconSciOuSiy by swift degrees
They slipped through all loves sweetest phases
He brought her 6oaitt9n on the stair,
With here hint of deep despair,
And there snatch of wOfu ballad
With pensiye pauses, shifts abrupt.
And speaking gaps of conversation,
And so by turns they sghed and supped,
And slid from ices to fiirtation.
He squeezed her hand. she blushed and sighed;
Her lips said "Eie!' but not her glances;
he told of lovers that had died,
OF cruel maids In old rOmanceS;
He claSped her waist, he stole a kiss,
Her eyes still f0iled her lips How dare her.
They dropped cold "Mr., )" formal Miss
And he was Frank and she was Mary.
Fifteen delicious minutes passed;
Loves star had reached its elimination.
Twin souls they knew themselves at last,
Born for each other from creation.
He Swore, ere half an hour went by,
She was his bOSom'S only idol;
As much she vowed; with rapturOus eye
The glad youth urged an early bridal.
All. sweet, coy maiden, shame! No more
Than this the modest muse discovers
They parted at the carriage door
EIrths fOndeSt pair of plighted lovers;
With kisses, tears and VOWS to meet,
They parted-and loves IHitiJIe Jtit.
Next day she cut him on the street,
Aud he, the false one, never knew IL.
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MONEY As a FACTOR IN ELEC-

TEONS.
The amount Of money used in a political
canvass y highly repugnant to the genius of
free and incorruptible elective system. The
drain upon candidates Is constant, never ceas-
ing. They are often blackmailed by vIllainy,
and there must be a reform; this disgrsceful
system must be broken up, or the offices Of
the country viii be put up at public auction
and Knocked down to the highest bidder. II
money il to become the ruling factor IN cleo
tons, cur local governments IN time viii be
IN a more debased condition than ever was
that Of New York. They viii become pred
atory organizations instead Of the guardians
Of the public interests. One of the defeated
candidates IN the recent elections in Califor-
MIA has published pamphlet, setting forth
his experiences. The scenes described are so
extraordinary that high cooring Is at once
suspected. But the candidate IN the preface
declares that such Is not the fact. 81 think,
ne says, ''if our best citizens will only read
my little work they will bless their stars that
they never did run for Office, for although
there may seem a disposition on my
part to exaggerate, can assure those
who think SO, that l have not set down
aught in malice, and that every word Is
true" From the morning succeeding his
nomination down to tbe election, and for
some days afterward, he appears to have been
hunted and badgered for money in every con-
ceivable way. All sorts of conventions and
clubs made for him whenever ne showed hlm-
self in public. Letters filed with dark hints
of impending political disaster if ne did not
call Immediately at a certain address, poured
in upon him. The first day of his candidacy
he found himself ''out and injured" to the
tune of seyenty-fve dollars, almost before he
knew what he was about. Further on in his
pamphlet he says: "There are eighteen dis
tinct organizations presumed to be in exist
ence, all calling On candidates for assess
Inents OF from one hundred dcil. rs to thou |
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do all to render the charm of your husbands
home irresistible; let them realize the precious
fact that when peace and love reign it is the
dearest spot on earth, and that "a charm
from the sky seems to hallow Us there,
which seek where you will is never met with
elsewhere" Think of the wonderful infu-
ence exerted by those noble, gifted women,
Augusta Evans, Marion Harland, Mrs. South
worth, Mrs. Beckwith, etc.-how materially
they have aided in the formation of the char
acters of many, though they perhaps may
never know ia rich reward awaits them
in the next word. Oh, above all things,
never marry a man over whom you
secure for yourself life of perfect wretched-
ness and woe. He does not love you, or else
he would gladly yield to your sweet, heaven
ly, wifely influence, and ere long that evan
escent emotion-a vain admiration-will wear
off, and your life will be perfect purgatory,
and your fate be that of an unloved wife.
Alas! what can be worse? That woman's
mission Is indeed beautiful, let US accept as
proof one of Owen Meredith S loveliest char
acters, "Lucille;" for her mission, accom-
plished, is DER:
The mission of genius on earth: To uplIft,
Purify. and confirm by its own gracious gift
The world In spite OF the worlds dull endeavor
To degrade, and drag down, and oppose II forever.
The mission of genius on earth: To watch and to
To renew, to reclaim and to regeBerate
The mission of woman on earth: To give birth
To the mercy OF heaven descending on earth.
The mission of woman: Permitted to bruise
The head of the serpent, and sweetly InfIlse
Thro' the sorrow and sin of earhs REGISTERED curse
The blessing which mitigateS all. Born to nurse,
And to soOthe, and TO soIace, to help and to heal
The sick world that leans on her."
This is woman's mission. Our life is but
love in act.
$50 No stream from ft source
Flows seward, how lonely soeyer its course
But what some land is gladdened. No star evar rose
And set without influence somewhere. Who knows
What earth needs from earth's lowest creature? No
life
Can be pure In its purpose and strong In its strife
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.
The spirits Of Just men made perfect On high,
The army of martyrs who stand by the throne
And gaze into the face that makes glorious their
own,
Know this surels at last Honest love, honest sor-
Honest work for the day. honest hope for the NOR
Are these worth nothing more than the hand they
make weary.
The heart they have saddened, tie life they leave
dreary?
Hush! the seven-fold heavens to the voice of the
spirit
Echo: He that overcometh shall all things inherit"
EMMA C. H. JONES.
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The sucoeseor OF the late Brigham Young
is, we are told. likely to visit London very
shortly. If he hopes to make MorGonisun
popular there, there is one chance for him
he must, by act Of parliament or otherwise,
bring about considerable simplifcation OF
feminine attire. Otherwise he will End the
average Briton quite unable to afford one
wife, much less half dozen.
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The new pope has, we hear, received al
the Vatican special messenger from the
Sultan of Turkey, commissioned to convey to
Leo XIII. the Ottoman soyereign's cengratu-
latlens, and also "depute5 to adjust all differ
ences between these two distinguished per-
sonages." He will have a tough job if his
Grand means all it saws.
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DEMOCRATIC COUNTY TICKET.


Shfrir,
els ANDERSON.
Pr0B1fe Court .IadQe,
,. L. *. RAY.
Comfy Trustee,
il. RAW LINGS.
GEORGE w. WINCH ESTER.
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ready the bolis are forming. Iodeed, much
is due to the interchangeable energy of Dr. Mer-
cier in introducing into our State a species OF
cotton which. while being rs easily cultivated
as the other, yields more on the same quaint
ty of land, and commands better price in
the market
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Appleton's Journal for July.
THETALE OF TIL K TERRIBLE FIRE

Appleton's Journal for July.
OF TIL K TERRIBLE FIRE
1 will tell you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t springs from the earth 1t is dreadful and dire
In the dark
Wintry sky,
See the spark
Upward fly;
See it grow
In its frame
See ii glow
Into ham2.
See IL burning and blazing,
See 1t spring into lie
With VigOr amazing
How 1t longs for the strife!
Hear the noise and the rattle
How 1t swells, how it grows,
Like the crash of battle,
Like the clash of the foes!
See it rushing and rising and roaring,
See 1t trying to touch a tall star:
1t seems in the sky to be soaring
Like flag of fierce flame from afar.
See 1t turi ing and burning and Drawing e.
See it streaming and cleaning and red!
Ali the smoke in the air now is waving
Like winding sheet of dull lead.
Hear laugh with wild glee at each futile endeavor
To quench or to queli its exuberant force.
1t is flaming and tree and fantastic forever;
1t delights and exults with no pang of remorse,
With no pain, but with passion-mad passion-it
With its pennant of scarlet, the bloodiest hue,
With its cleaning streams and its roaring rivers,
1t dares to do all things that flame dares to do.
How 1t darts, how 1t dances and dasheS,
As though Ii had taken for aim,
To reduce all the world into ashes
And to fling all the stars in o flame!
1t is glttering and glowing and glaring-
And raging 1t rings its own knell;
1t is showing its wonderful daring
1t is turning the sky into hell!
How itlaZiy fingers
With its swell and its fall;
With its fiery fingers
Weirdly weaving pail;
With its horrible Kisses,
Like the wind In a storm;
With its clustering kisses,
On face and on form!
OF its flashes
Bereft,
Only ashes
Are left;
Till its cries
Tell its doom
And it dies
In the gloom.
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,iENTPHIS APPEAL
SUNDAY, JUNE %, 1878.
SUNDAY,

DEMOCRATIC JUDICIAL TICKET.
Tor ne Stat n LdTge.
JAS. w. DEA Derrick, or Hamilton.
PETER TURNEY. OF Franklin.
For ne Eastern Decision.
ROBERT II'FAKLAND. OF Handle N +.
For fAe Mill DiriSi0H.
WILLIAM +. COOPER, or Davidson
FOR M West,ru DiUisiOn
THOMAS J. FREEMAN, OF Gibson.
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Mothers, Mothers. Motheys.

ing syrup for an diseases of teethlng in chill
dren. 1t relieves the child from pain, curt
wind colc, regulates the bowels, and, by Civ
ing relief and health to the child, gives rest
to the mother
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When the country is threatened by an am
bilious rival, then is the time for all
patriotic citizens to speak out; but yet it
must not be forgotten that the most popular
military virtue lust now is-Raserye.
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If you 60 for g Taik, you viii ind on your
return that you have left it behind you. 1t
is, therefore, better to take one; at the same
time 1t Is necessary to be careful that the
walk you take is your own.
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The correspondent of a contemporary,
writing from asia Minor, describes the in.
habitants of that part of the world in no
very hattering terms, and declares that ''the
milk OF human kindness is unknown amoug
them" Yes, but he should recollect what a
number of them are Kurds.
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The Good Templars are so unreasonable as
to insist on water drinking, as if water was
ever thirsty. They are also very inconsistent,
for, although they do not get tipsy them
selves, they like to see water drunk.
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1 have told you the tale of the terrible fire;
1t has sung its last song to the luminous Tyre
1t has its last song, it has breathed Its last
breath,
1t has lived without life it has died without death
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Trunl<s ar5 Pelessieurs.
SesJ and cheapest . factory, 352 Main st.
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For the sunday Appeal.
Female Influence.

Is there theme more hallowed, more ex-
allied and extensive, or more thoroughly de-
serving Of attention from any pen than the
apparently insignificant one l have chosen
above? Aye, to woman's influence we
should award ga sphere exclusive of ros-
trums and all political arenas) wide as the
universe and high as heaven" 1t indubita-
bly, affects the lives of many-her sisters, as
to the snow fakes of heaven; there is hardly
a crevIce it cannot penetrate and pervade
with calm, holy luster, a magic radiance,
deep and lasting. How beautiful the min
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A TRAGIC TABLEAU


while this action of his was transporting
was standing about thirty or forty feet away,
leaning on lamp-post, where could hear
the speeches. Wilkes Booth, or Jack, as he
was called by his intimate friends, gradually
worked his way up to where was standing,
placed his hand upon the post against which
| was leaning, and after the usual courtesies,
| inquired: Jack, have you come to hear
the great Lincoln speak, Yes lie replied,
can We hear well f:om here?' | told hin.
thought i Vas Ihe bsst place, not only to
l,ear :Ae speakers but to see them. He made
no answer, but appeared to be much excited.
HIS pale and pallid face vas whittier than
usual, while the nervous twitching of his ia
cial muscles aud the strange, wild CLEAN in
his eyes bespoke that some more than
ordinary circumstance was harrassing his
mind. While he was standing by the post
lady of medium hight and dignlGed carriage,
clothed in dark raiment and wearing a Jockey
hat. graced with blue veil which completely
covered it and concealed her features, came
up and said something to him, but was un-