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lO Spruce street. New York
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SYRuP MAKTNG.

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L. HARRISON, Gen'l Agent, Cussetta, Cham
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A Rhake-BaR Eight.

= The New York Star, of the seventh, says:
ga large crowd of sporting men congregated
at Westchester cock pit yesterday to wit
ness 'shake-bag fight between New Jersey,
New York and Connecticut, for a sweepstakes
of three hundred dollars. Each side was to
produce a fve-pound twelve-ounce fowl and
eight for one hundred dollars a side with
gatfs one and one quarter inch In length, the
winning fowl to take the stakes. New Jersey
pitted pyle. New York dark red and Con-
necticut a brass back Thomas M 'Cabe
handled the Connecticut, James Dolan the
New Jersey and Robert Malcolm the New
York fowl. The birds were in good condi-
ton and the betting was even. The triangu-
lar fight was a novelty and created consider
able interest. The New York bird opened
the fighting and slasbed right and left, FIRST
at the Connecticut and then at the New Jer-
sey fowl. The Connecticut birds throat was
cut at the first buckle. and the contest then
lay between New York and New Jerse ?.
Both birds were quick and effective fighters.
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"a ErtshrrnI Ex.mnIa ,,

Burlington Hawkeye; Twenty years ago, u
said the passenger with red ribbon IN his
buttonhole. 81 knew that man whom you
saw get off at the last station. He was a
young man of rare promise. a college gradu.
ate, a man of brilliant intellect and shrewd
mercantile ability. Life dawned before him
In all the goiaer colors q is.:- promise. He
had sonle money when he left college, de
invested it in business. and his business
prospered. He married a beautiful young
girl, vino bore him three lovely children
The sad-looking passenger, sitting on the
Eooa boz; h4ll st ono t,me?" The red
ribbon passenger ':N6S IN b.enpia! iE2tal-
ments o. -, - No one dreamed thai The poor
house would eyer be their home. - IA ~
evil hour the young man yielded to the
tempter. lie began to drink beer. He liked
it, aud drank more. He drank, and encour-
aged others to drink. That was only fourteen
years ago, and he was prosperous, wealthy
man. To-day, where is hep" The clergy
man in the front seat. solemnly: "a sot and
beggar." The red-ribbon man, discon-
solately: ''Oh, no; he is a member of con-
gress, and owns a brewery worth fifty thou
sand dollars" Sometimes it will happen
that way.
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The New York Times points out that
much more has been done on the other side
the Atlantic than on this toward the prGCtl
cal adoption of the electric hght, and a much
more eager interest has been displayed on
the subject. For month or two past 1t has
absorbed a large share OF attention, and ex-
perimeuts have been actively going OF.
Electric lighting involves two independent
con;nVdnces, one for generating the neces-
sary currents with sufficient power, and the
other for their distribution anu application 70
the produCtio" Of separate lights OF requisite
intensity. Electric machines operated by
steam engines are not new, ana different
ones have been employed IA the various ex-
psrments with the lght. They are various,
as that Of Brush, Of Cleveland, Ohio, Hoch-
hansen, Wallace and the GCamme, MefitUs,
In France, has recently introduced another,
which Is expensive at first cost but
cheap TO generate. Experiments to perfect
the light are making extensively, beside the
well known efforts OF Edison. Ia France ID
England several public bodies aud many pm
vate concerns have interested themselves III
the new mode of illumination. Not only Is
the London board Of works experimenting on
the city thoro, ghfares, the lighting of which
Is under its control, but the corporation hiss
made provision for lighting the spaces m
front of the Mansion Hou.e and the HolbJ-n
Viaduct. Liverpool, Manchester aud sew
eral other municipalities nave taken the mat
ter in hald, aud dock-yards, iron works,
ra lway stations, and numerous manufac-
turing establishments have been fitted with
electric lights with satisfactory results.
For the most part, the trial has been thus
far confined to streets or open spaces, ana
large buildings requiring a great deal OF
light, and each area, whether open or in
closed, has had It's own separate apparatus.
The more important and interesting process
of lighting an aggregation of private dwell
ings, with all their separate rooms, great add
small, from one common generating source,
has not as get been successfully effected. 1t
is toward this result that Mr.. Ellison s
efforts are specially directed, and notwIth-
standing all that has been done already with
the electric light, it is quite possible that for
eign achievements may yet be eclipsed at a
single stroke. In this country the Brush
light to which incidental alluslou has been
made, has been IN use for some time in GER
tain large establishments, notably some ex-
tensIve manufactures IN New England,
which formerly had to make their own gas.
The results are said to be gratifying, not only
in the character and working Of the
light, but especially 50 III the matter
Of cost" The Cleveland (OhIo) Leader last
week explained that Prof. Brush, Of that
city, has had success beyond Others with his
fast machine, Just set to work at his manu-
the Leader says
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-15
IS, 1879.

Is Just completed for one o. the largest cot
ton mills in New England L Is a machine
which absorbs about fourteen-horse power,
and produces, In a single circuit, eighteen
powerful, steady lights, Of two thousand
candle power each. The Leaders reporter
tOuad the eighteen lamps 10 row upon the
fourth story were al burning Ia vanished
glass boxes, so that their operations could
DC closely studied without injury to the eye,
while the machine was propelled on the
around floor. These eighteen lamps will oe
. located IN eighteen different rooms Of the
great factory, and viii furnish light equal TO
the midday IN b-IaIsncy. When the lighting
Is desired, it is not necessary to give any at
t@Htiou g. the various lights, buJ simply TO
turn the baud upon the shaft and start the
machine ia motion, when Instantly all the
lights IN the circuit burst forth into brlIancy.
very Ingenious device IN the lamps prevents
any particular one from getting more than its
share OF the voitalc are, and another device
allows any lamp 20 b. temporarily cut out of
the c.CCc1. without disturbing the rest In the
least. In case an accident should happen to
any lamp which prevents It from burning, it
Is instantly cut out Of tue circuit and remains
out, allowing all the rest to burn until the
lamp Is IN its normal condition again, when
it rehghts itself. In the eighteen Brush
lamps described the total cost of the carbons
/ consumed n all the lamps Is seventy-two
{ cents tCt Atu4s EsL-1 li-tll ICING G4udl " lNO
thousand candles, and lasting eight hours
without attention. The company here have
/ already received orders for four of these large
machines from Mass cAUsetts and Rhode
Island. The Office aud factory of the COM
pauy, corner Of s.. Clair and Ontario streets,
are nightly Et Ip by the Brush light, one
[ lamp beng placed in the Office, two on the
second and two On the third floor, rooms fifty
by one hundred feet, flied with machinery.
/ The light Is ample, aad as tine lamps are pro-
vlded with opal globes. it Is soft and endura-
bs 10 The eye. The effect, as viewed from
Ontario street or the park, or even the lower
pant OF Euclid avenGe, near Chambers, is ex-
Ceednglv brilliant, the whole building APP
pearing 10 be filed with sunlight" From
this It appears we are not behind, on this
side OF the ocean, IS regards lighting build
ingS and spires. II Edison can give a light
for the street lamp, the store and the dwell
ling, he will be foremost Of all the electric
| light inventors.
For the Sunday Appeal
TzzE BOUTBLACA'S TBANKSGIV-
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y :. rEw nrcrEoNAL Wax.

/ Z. unL-y Will place the responsibility OF
! inaugulsting sectional hatreds where it prop
erly belongs. The conservative and moderate
/ Republican papers condemn the recent sec
| tional discussion in the senate between
/ Blaine, Edmurds, Thurman and Lamar.
They cengure all alike, and thus seek to make
the impression that the Democrats invited a
discussion Of these issues. If these papers
were honest they would tell the country that
the d mocrats did not precipitate this debate.
They did not throw the irebrand into tic
senate. On the first day Of this session OF
congress Blame Introduced his resolution.
The N.rub.c q senators iGdorsed it in eau
Gus After advertising himself for two
weeks Blame poured out his old TRADE
against the south, and because the Demo
Gratis defended themselves from SANDER and
abuse they are falsely accused of reViVing
sectional hatreds. The Republican party Is
alone responsible for opening up this fretiul
subject and throwing the whole country into
excitement. If old party hatreds have been
made to blaze out anew, and all classes of
people are drawn into proftless and hurtful
AlelA-o stAtg IL eOCo 6CCl 10 Us lhdI Tue party
which introduced the incendiery resolution,
after adopting it in caucus, ought to be
made accountable before the American
people. Has the south introduced into the
senate anything calculated 10 fire the north
ern hearth Has Thurman or Lamar made
any assault upon tue northern peopleP Il IS
only the Radical ofhce-seeking headers who
have raised the bloo9y-stlirt. IF Harris, or
Hill or Lamar had introduced in the senate
a resolution stgmatiziug The north as Blaine 5
resolution stigmatizes the south, the south
ern people would assemble in public meetings
and condemn them. Reconstruction long
ago ceased to be a mere sentiment, and the
hearts Of the southern people beat to-day il
unison with those of all patriots, whatever
their State, their politics or their section.
As a matter Of fact, the social as well as bust
ness relations between the south and north
are as cordial as good fellowship can make
them, and save among such politicians as
Blaine, Mason and DiAoa's line has been
blotted ont forever.
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The grand thing about our country has been
that we have always had land enough. When
we could do nothing else we could go
west" and, alas! If the Indians did not die
off quick enough TO give Us space TO 90 to, we
sent them missionaries 10 convert them and
soldiers 10 xiii them, aud so we have always
had room. Since the war, however, we have
found out the young man. who followed
Horace Greeley's advice and went west, is
raising 60 much corn, and wheat, and hog
that We cannot consume .t. Let the reader
turn to our commercial column on our third
page, and he will ind corn selling at forty
cents q bIshel ia Memphis, and en-
'privats terms it has been sold still lower.
Beef Is selling here, 10y the quarter, at two
cents pound venis0n, by the carcass, at
three cents; CJrnmeal at less than two dollars
a barrel; hams Gt eight and q quarter cents, /
and breakfast bacon az SIX and a half |
cents, and middiiug cotton at eight and I
a quarter cents. Our manufactured /
goods are propOruouately low, and the |
consequence is that manufacturer and Gull !
uvators are everywhere looking out for out
lets Tor our productions and manulacturCs.
The results Of these efforts have astonished
the world. We have shown ability to COM
pete with England in the markets of her own
colonies. We have put cotton manufactures
on the market that have beat England in the
diapers shops Of London and in the stores Of /
Calcutta, while our cutlery is causing tie
artisans OF Sheffield and Birmingham TO turn
pale with apprehension. The fact Is, when
the 'hard times we are now enduring have
passed by, and the worlds commerce revive.
we shall enter into rivalry with ths world,
and Engiand's skilled artisans, unable to
bear the weight ar.stocrscy iuficts upon
trade in addition 10 .he necessary difficulty
OF comp petition, will rush b. our shores, and
make our cities tie grand eahepofs OF the
world trade. This g. no Boosting; we
simply speak words Of truth and s5lerness."
Our large merchants are earnestly at work to
enter the markets where we can
beat Manchester in It's calicoes, and
the Baltic IN its wheat. They are
rapidly learning in what form each country
wants It's supp.iel-a knowledge We are
backward H. Tie South American markets
are receiving a thorough exploration. The
east, China and Japan, which come so readily
into our grasp, through San Francisco, and
Will be easily reached when our Southern Pa
cifc road, with a terminus at Memphis, IS
built-is now receiving attention. These
eountries have a dense population, and their
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JR. Todd. white,
SOUTHERN NEWS.


Brookhaven Ledqer: This community
was greatly shocked on Saturday night by the report
that HAYWOOD Roberts had been Killed By Hiram
Conner"
Vioksburg Herald: "On DIT, that the col
OEed people are about TO starr temc erdnc5 move
ment. Let the whites now take lesson from their
example"
Alfred Luugrip. a prisoner confined In the
jail at YaZoO City, under indie ment for murder,
committed ciGe IN hts cell the twenty thId ultmo,
b. opening vein in his ann and cutting his own
throat.
Vicksburg Herald: ''When the Delta point
Il so protected as to prevent further abrasion then
Will the harb be dredsed and the wharfbOat re-
Occupy its old place between Crawford and Clay
streets-perhaps."
A United States engineer is in EickshurG
looking after the road to be constructed TO the
National cemetery, for which the government apprO-
pdtfei seven thousand dollars, and Will push The
work forward as soon as the right Of way can be
fixed.
Raymond Gazette: "a gentleman of Ed
point north to the Madison county line gives it as
his opinion that fully one thousand colOred people
from northern binds and southern Madison are
preparing TO emigrate to Kansas"
A couple of bridges, one over Fuunacusba
and the other across Black creek, were bid of by
the Messrs. AmmoDs, last Monday, At very low
on the Lexington and Carro.lton load, and the
other on the Tchua and RoekpOu road at Bowling
Green.
Marysville Leader: Everybody wants to
move away from MarysvtlIe, because, as they say,
ms bad place to live, and worse place to die in
We think IL a good place, provided the laws are
properly administered, but not so long debaucheTy
and midnight reveiry is tolerated, and by certain
few the sooner We all move the better. Whisky ap-
pears TO be the ruling power Just nOS.'
Lexington Advertiser: THAT feature Of
the latest convict law, which compes a person who
is merely charged with chine, 10 90 to the cOntTac
tor 10 be worked without compensation, or be put
upon short ratons, should not be allowed to remain
a part of the statute" To accuse man of a crime
he may never have committed, then to make him
work for no pay until he is tried beats anything the
id Yankees" ever cOntrived.
TenuRaSRe.
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RYAN
Tells His Side Of the story Of His Mis-
fortune Concerning the ALLEGED
Bogus Insurance Agency,

EDITORS AFPEAL-S,uce my ARE { In your
city on the charge OF obtaining money under fal,e
psetense,' much has been said by the press which,
though trust not Intentionally does me great In
Justice IL seems THAI some persons. iRnoiantly OF
ma1ciouSiy. construed the meaning of The ''St.
Louis underwriters agency' into an Insurance com
pany Issuing It's own policies. the fast IS it Is
no such thil z, nor was II ever rep eSeuted by
Palmer 4 Ryan, MANAGERS thereof. who are AID
have only claimed 10 be Insurance brokers. I'll,
true the application Tor Insurance. the receipt for
premiums, etc etc are all made out our O<u
b anks but the policy Is Issued by the company In
which We can place 10 tn best advantage Ny ar
rest on the warrant Of Cole most IN Just and
lie Gus. could not have acted with HIM other than
did. The loss occurred In ueTy few days after
mIktng his application No pyiicy had been is ucd.
and when was Informed Of ths less by himself
simpIy Claimed the rght, rs Or condition OF the
c-ipt u decline his application and refund 10 him
the amount OF premium which he mad paid This
did do. and Tor this was chaTg by the said Cole
with obtaining money under false pref nSe, and at
his Instance rested. Truly. Ills hard to suffer such
treatment ard Its attendant misrepresentation
when honestly prosecuting d legitimate business.
J. W. RYAN.
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The Green Liners.

NASHVILLE, December -. - The inint
committee OF the Green Line and Southern railway
and steamship association havs agreed upon Joint
classification as to what IS psculiaT the eastern ar
western products and What are common to both
sections Rats from Chicago 10 the coast and Int
HOr points have been nxed. and they are substan.
tally the same wa the Eastern Baltimore lines as
they are in effect on the Green line Relative 10
the difference IN rates between Louisville ST. Louis
asd Cincinnati 10 points south created quite heated
discussion. aud peldiTg their consideration the COM
mttee adjourned to eight O'Clock Saturday. The
following IairOadmen arrived tonight ON special
fr Nm Louisville: W. II. Cummings. Of the New
YORK Central: Luelen Hills. Cincinnati. Columbus
ana Cleveland aud Indianapolis; q. O Darling,
general manager of the White line; r W. Geiger.
J. NJ and J. railroad. A. +. NJ. Lands Merchants;
T. Upperman, " hite line; c. p. Atmore Louis
Vile and Nashville and Great Southern. They are
here on their amt al prospecting tour, They viii
return north tomorrow night.
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Call ior Fleeing of Tennessee
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Science and Crime

Science is ore of the keenest detectives
employed in ferretlng out crime these days.
In Hamburg, recently, drop of sulphurlc
acid and half a grain of bichromate OF pot
ash sent one criminal to his death, by show
ing that his wife's spasms were caused by
strychnlne he administered. In Brussels the
microscope gave doctor to the guillotlne by
showing to the jury that stains upon his I'm
en- were those of murdered mans blood.
In Paris, year ago, man was executed,
convicted by Reinsch's test OF having poi
soned his brother with arsenic ten years be-
fore. And, at the present time, in Vienna,
a woman lies under sentence, having been
convicted by the spectroscope of administer
ing poisonous preparation OF zinc to her in
FAINT The microscope, analytical laboratory,
spectroscope, polariscope, and camera are
each important factors in the detection Of
crime, proving the inestimable benefits Of
scientific research accRing to even the mora
standard of the worldS