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A Curious Kind of swIndIe.

New Haven Palladium: IA well-dressed
and well-appearing man asked State street
book-keepcr Thursday for small bills for
FIVE. After the book-keeper had given him
the bills he changed his mind and wanted a
dollar bill for small bills, keeping the
change first given him in his hand. He then
changed his mind again and wanted ten
dollar bill for two fves, and in that way
mixed the book-keeper up so that he finally
beat him out Of FIVE dollars. The same mode
of swindllng, and very likely by the same
swindler, happened at the Hurlbus bank at
Winsted, where fellow, giving his name as
F. Z. jackson, asked for hundred dollar bill
for small bills. He was given new bill,
but wanted an old one, as he wished to mail
it, he said. He was accommodated with an
old bill and left, forgetting to return the new
one, and the fraud was not discovered for
some time. The trick lies in confusing by
repeated requests and exchanges Of money.
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FRAUD AND sXTImIDATION.

The Republicans are trying to blacken the
fair victories of the Democracy in South
Carolina and Louisiana by the old cry OF
fraud and intimidation. Both Hampton and
Nichols have promised rigid investigation
and to punish the guilty, should the charges
of the Republicans be proven true. Intimi-
dation is a somewhat vague offense, and de-
ponds a good deal on the character of the in
Inundated man. Two years ago Senator Nor
ton brought out what he fattered himself
was an uncommonly fine case of intimidation
IN Mississippi. A white Republican testified
that, being a candidate for office, the Demo-
Gratis marched through the town where he
lived and past his house by torchight, bear
ing a coffin marked with his name In illu-
minated letters, and groanIng and threaten
ing as they passed his door. Afterward the
coffin, conspicuously labelled, was set up
against his house, where he found it the next
morning. The story produced a profound
impression upon all who listened, until Sena-
tor Herman, seeing that the witness was a
burly man, who looked as though he could
take care of himself, suddenly asked him:
Aud were you really intimidated?" The
man grinned, and said frankly: 'No; not a
bit. l knew l was not going to be hurt"
The intimidation charged upon Democrats
in South Carolina and Louisiana amounts to
lust such intimidation as the witness de-
scribes in Mississippi. If the south resorts
to unfair measures to carry elections it is all
right for Republicans at the north to criticise
and appeal to public opinion, but they should
be sure of the facts and not put reljances for
such purposes on discredlted men. There
may occasionally be violence in the south at
elections, as there always has been, and al
Says will be, but the south knows nothing of
the violence and frauds which have been ex-
posed in New York and Philadelphia We
are familiar with southern sentiment, and we
lnow that there is no desire or necessity for
fraud. Nothing Will induce the southern
p,ople to again permit the establishment of
the thieving governments they have over
thrown. But we do not believe, and have
never seen any reason to even suspect, that
the majority of the black voters want to re-
establish governments which gave them no
protection and almost sacked the country
over which they ruled. 1t is unhappy the
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All SIN AT 1T AGAIN.

The Heather Chinee Is peculiar person
age, and one in whom closer knowledge re-
veals unexpected points. There is clear evil
dence that the Chinese were at one time
progressive and inventive people. At
some period they came to a stand.
They became conservative, and believed
the supremacy of wisdom consisted in
doing just as their ancestors had done
before them. When d whole people,
or a class of people, look backward instead
Of forward the stream ceases to flow,
the rush of the current is exchanged for
stagnation, and the river becomes marsh.
Accordingly the Chinese conservatism has
ended in intellectual inaction, and inventive
genius has subsidized into mere imitation. A.
gentleman being in Shanghai gave Chinese
a piece of cloth to be made into coat, and
also worn coat as pattern. Most faithfully
did the Chinese tailor, who had never seen a
white devils" coat before. reproduce true
copy of the pattern given him; so faithfully
as to cut hole in the new coat and put
patch in it along the'lap, just where, in the
worn coat, a cigar spark had burned hole
during the sea voyage and which the ships
tailor had mended. Such being the present
position of Chinese genius, we have feared
nothing from them but the competition Of
mere rude labor, such as occurs In
California-with our own highly. developed
faculty for invention, we thought
ourselves safe from All Sin,
although he has ways that are cunning, and
tricks that are guile. 1t appears we under
valued him, however; we forgot his powers
of imitation, and it now turns out that he is
at present checking the demand for Yankee
clocks by making limitations so perfect, and
so cheap, that it is not impossible
but that, at an early day, Chinese
pedlers may be selling their own country
made clocks in Connecticut. All Sing is
evidently irrepressible, and the best Yankee
speculation that can be made out of him is
turn his imitiave powers TO our own use; to
make his nimble fingers work for US, and so
prevent them bringing trouble upon US by
working against US. We have tried to des.
pise the Heather Chinee, but without success.
We have tried to put him down, but he
will not stay down. We must, therefore,
enlist his faculties in our own service,
and so make an advantage of what will,
without tact ana management, become mis-
chief. The skill that can manage steam
engine can surely manage Chinaman; he
will not explode like steam, but we must
watch that he does not impede the progress
Of the ship by leaking imperceptibly into the
hold. Set All Sin to v ork and he will be
manageable, leave him to find his own occu-
patton and there will be trouble.
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FROM MEMPHIS TO THE POLE.

An Arctic expedition, starting on the Mis-
sissippi river, would appear strange thing,
out the strangeness would be only in appear
auce We copied paragraph into the AP-
PEAL, few days ago, announcing the de-
parture of party, forming an Arctic expe-
dition, from Indianapolis. Their route was
by the Red River of the North. Passing down
the Ohio to Cairo, they could. then ascend
the Mississippi, going northward all the way
to st. Paul. There they would take the rail-
road to Duluth, leaving it on reaching
the junction of the Pacific railroad-on the
banks of the st. Louis river--for the road
the gold miners take when going to the
Black Hills. On this railroad they would
cross the Mississippi at Brainard, where that
stream has shrunk to very modest breadth,
and passing over the almost .tenantless
plains, reach the Red River of the North.
Embarked on this tortuous river, they would
proceed north, as they had done in ascend
ing the Mississippi, but they would now be
going dozen stream-a fact the writer, who
once pursued this route, found difficult to
realize, so thoroughly had his residence
on the banks Of the Mississippi
made upstream and north synonymous,
The party would thus, passing Penn
bina, the last village in the United
States, reach the fourishing town of Winnie
peg, in Manitoba, at the mouth of the Asin-
neboin river. Forty miles further is the
mouth of the Red river and the fine lake of
Winnepeg, from the northern extremity of
which the Nelson river runs to Hudson bay,
at Fort York, giving access to the Arctic
ocean. At Fort York the party that last
summer took the route we describe put their
boats together in sections, intending to push
up to eighty degrees and there await
the breaking up of the ice next year
to commence exploration and discovery.
1t will be seen by this explanation, that it is
quite possible for an expedition to the Arctic
ocean to start from Memphis, and when one
does SO, as the members of it sit
around the North Pole smoking their
pipes, they will no doubt occupy
portion of their leisure in the country
where every degree of longitude can be run
over in quarter Of an hour, in reading the
Memphis APPEAL by the electric light-not
Edison's but that of the aurora borealis.
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aRANr,rO BE THE CANDIDATE.

1t is evident that [. S. Grant will be the
Republican candidate for the Presidency in
1890 He is unquestionably laying pipe with
the view OF securing the nomination. OF
course Blaine and Conkling are opposed to
his aspirations, knowing, as they do, that if
Grant should be again elected, he will be
President for life, for if he can be elected
third time, he.may also be elected fourth
and fifth time, and the door closed against
every other leading Republican. If an ex-
President should aspire to a third term, he
would be as anxious to serve as President for
life. There is no constitutional obstacle in
the way, only custom founded on Wash
ington' voluntary example. If a man can be
elected to the Presidency as often as his am
bition dictates, hereafter, so soon as man
reaches the Presidency he will prostitute his
whole administration in covert eectiOneering
for his own benefit, instead of administering
the government for the advantage of the
country. 1t will not do to permit even
the hope of third terms. 1t is the hope, not
the actual reelection, which causes all the
evil which Mr.. Clay and so many others have
deprecated, namely, the diversion of the
Let it once be supposed by an incumbent of
that office that he may be perpetually re-
elected, and our system will be infinitely worse
than the election of a President for life. If
he were elected for life he would have no
temptation to pervert his office and employ
its patronage to control the composition and
influence the action of party conventions;
whereas if a President is regarded as perpet-
ually eligible, he will always be an incessant
political intriguer. For the good of the
country General Grants hope Of third |
term ought to be promptly and effectually |
extingulshed, Notwithstanding the convic- |
ton of most men that they are delusive. |
The best of all ways to accomplish this |
particular object is by laying the ak at the |
root of the tree and abolishing re-eligibility |
altogether by an amendment of the constitu- |
ton extending the Presidential term to six |
years and forbidding the reelection of |
President in office. The next session of con-
gress is the most favorable time we are likely |
to have for carrying this needed reform |
through congress and submitting it to the |
States for ratification. 1t can never succeed |
in the FIRST term of President, because he |
would resist it with his patronage and in
huence. A President not a candidate for re-
election, has no motive to oppose 1t,
and such a selfish innovation can never
be met so successfully as when the pur-
pose is yet uuavowed and shrinks from the
hazard of exposure and public condemnation. !
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SLOR.ROIlinR."

Justice Miller, before the State bar asso-
citation: when the election of judges by the
legislatures of the States became the &C
copied theory of American statesman
ship, the appointment of many other officers
was vested in the same bodies. Here was
wide field for combinations, for exchanges of
votes and influence. This system mas given
rise to the expressive term log-rolling,' as
applicable to that and to other forms of leg
islatlve action. 1t comes from the customs
of the early settlers IN clearing the trees
from the soil which they intended to culti-
vate. When the trees were ali felled and
cut into logs from ten to twenty feet long,
they were gathered into large piles aud
burned up to get them cut of the way. This
piing business required more force than was
at the command of one farmer, and so it be-
came the custom, as 1t did in house-raising,
corn-husking, and other similar matters, that
when the settler was ready for the perform
ance, his neighbors came, and putting their
joint forces together, the logs were soon
piled ready for the fire. He in turn helped
each neighbor when needed, and so these
neighborhood meetings came to be called
'log-rollIngs.' 1t is aptly expressive of the
combination of forces In legislative body,
by which one member, or set of members,
who have particular object to accomplish,
secures the aid of others, Indifferent in that
matter, by promising to assist in matters in
which the others are interested. This log
rolling system found fruitful theater of OPP
Grafton in legislative appointments to office,
and was soon transferred to other subjects
of legislation, In which members, or their
constituents, had local or individual interests.
often at variance with the general welfare"
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fIElIPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1878
PACIFIC RAILROAD.

At the next session of congress the friends
of this great enterprise will make the last
great effort to secure an appropriation.
What the south asks is simply an
act of Justice. Millions were approprl-
ated for the Union and Pacific road,
and the south, taxed for the benefit OF this
road, insists that she be treated with respect
and Justice. If the friends of this great en-
terprise will unite, we believe they will sue
ceed AS rule, we are opposed to subsidies,
but a grand enterprise Of the magnitude of
the Southern Pacific, one which would give
employment to thousands upon thousands of
men, put In circulation millions of money aud
open up highway through very paradise
of country, and furnish cheap homes to
million of idle mechanics and workmen,
we can see no good reason why the govern
ment cannot lend the enterprise hand upon
honorable terms when not jeopardizing the
treasury one mill in so doing. Men
oppose the Southern Pacific road only from
a want of a careful investigation of the
result
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Riches of the EoIv see.

A Paris paper denies the stories of the pow
erty Of the holy see. Its expenses, the writer
says, are from one million two hundred thou
sand to one million four hundred thousand
dollars year, and it, with nine hundred
bishops and two hundred thousand priests,
this amount Of money cannot be raised, the
church must be in poor way. The late pope,
1t is said, received from twelve to sixteen
million dollars, sum which could MT alto
gether have disappeared before or at his
death. The expenses Of the Vatican have
also been reduced, and are still further de-
creased by the death of officers holding sine
cures and pensioners whose places on the pom
tifcal payroll are not filed. Pope Leo. to
relieve the suffering among the poor of Italy,
especially at Florence and Rome, thinks Of
holding great sale of articles presented to
his predecessor, many of which are of great
useless seclusion in the treasures of the
palace.
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bis other performances were wonder struck
at this This feat was performed by the re-
markable degree Of the compensatory of the
chest and his power to force his heart and
lungs into the abdominal cavity, and then to
force his visrera INTO his chest. The abdo-
men was hardly less curious when the viscera
was forced upward by the diaphragm than
was the inflicted chest, for at such times there
seemed to be an entire absence of organs in
that part of the body, and to be no distance
at a. from the front walls Of
the abdomen to the spinal column. This
subject proved fine study in the anatomy
of the muscles, because he could contract
them so as to show the position OF each one
from origin to insertion. He had this power
over the muscles in pairs or separately, and
could make them as distinct as if dissected.
Mr.. Warren concluded with an exhibition of
his ability to control his whole body, drawing
himself through rings and performing other
things, much to the amusement of the
students and of the professors if they had
only felt at liberty to give way to laughter"
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Albany Lac Journal: "Mrs. Lockwood.
the female lawyer of the District of Column
bia, whom Judge Magruder, of the seventh
Judicial circuit of Maryland, characterized as
a wandering woman aud forbade to speak,
not only in his court but in his courthouse,
after the court had adjourned, intends to
test the question of her right to practice in
the Maryland courts. The Federal courts in
Maryland, it is said, permit her to practice
before them, but it is doubtful if the State
courts will be found as LIBERAL
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Unknown Heirs Wanted.

OFFICE OF CLERK SUPREME COURT, NASH
~ Vile, October Z, 1S78.-Washington Hall, ct
ais. John Bell, ct as.-In the Supreme Court at
Nashville, Tenn The transcript In the above enti
tied cause was filed in the Supreme Court december
II, 1915. The original suit was commenced In the
Chancery Court for the countlss of Williamson and
Davidson, at Franklin, Tennr19une "a, 1886. The
suit involved the settlement OF the mercantile busi
ness of Hall, Quinn d Co. and c. D. Quinn, under a
deed of trust of c. D. Quinn to Henry Crabb, ESQ.,,
executed on the 18th day of February, 1920. By
recent order Of the Supreme Court am directed to
ascertain to whom the funds now il the custody Of
the court in said cause belongs. In order to DO So
1t is necessary to ascertain who are the heirs OF
legal representatives of the following creditors of
said c. D. Quinn: Tennessee credltors-Edward Ra-
WORTH Thomas E. Sumner, Washington Hall. Bal
timOre creditors VIM. Baker-tk Sons Philip Lifting
F. Lucas, Isaac BuTnstOn, D. Warfeld & Logue (of
Pogue), Nelson, Nichols Co.. NJ Donald & Ridgley
r. d A. NJ Kim, G. il Jacob Lindenberger, W. VIII
kins. will therefore, In pursuance of said order,
take and state account of these matters, at my
Office at the Capitol. In the city of Nashville, on
Wednesday, the 18th day of November, 1878, contin-
uing from day TO day until the proof is closed Par
tiles desiring to take proof previous TO that day with
a VIEW to Submit the same to me- will notify Col F.
E. Wihtasns, of Nashville, Tenn, who has been ap
pointed By the court TO represent the of said
fund. and to whom ali letters the subject should
be addressed. W. n. COWDEN,
fri Clerk Supreme Court
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This game was successfully tried on one Of
the bank officers in Windham county, a few
weeks since, and but fo- the quick wit of an
officer who was at once putt on the fellows
track the bank would have been out fifty dol
lars or more. The rascal was caught and
gave over the money
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POrtGr,Taylor go

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, October 90 1873.
Our Office at st. Louis will be closed on November
9th, at which time Will return to Memphis, where
our business is going on, and will be continued as
heretofore. Parties having cotton ship, will here
after send tito US at Memphis.
During absence have visited the large cities
and made heavy purchases Of BAGGING, TIES
FLOUR, and all other articles necessary to full
and complete stock, which Will be forwarded to
Memphis in few days and offered to the public at
the lowest rates.
We buy exclusively for cash, and offer our friends
the benefit Of advantages thus obtained
Our Cotton warehouse at Memphis Is now open,
and consignments made to there will receive our
most careful attention.
We are prepared to make liberal cash advances,
and Will be thankful for all business Entrusted TO
Very respectfully, etc.
PORTER TAYI OR 4 co.
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Notice to Teachers.

TNEACHERS in the Memphis City Schools are no
i titled that at the meeting OF the School Board,
be opened on the first
Monday C2d) OF December,
provided all the school buildings are pronounced By
the Health on Ger in proper condition for the Tecep
tlon of pupils.
" r NfrII-NF Sae,r
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". r NrCLUNE, See'y.
Administrator Notice.

HAVING been appointed and qualified by the
/ Probate Court OF Shelby county, as admins
trarfx on the estate Of Gus A MJIt notice is here
by given to all creditors OF said estate present
their claims to me, CT my attorney. L. v. Miller
and all persons indebted TO said estate are requested
to call and settle.
MRS. S. L. 1IORTI. Administrative
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Clerks Building and Savings
Association.
lday, November goth,
Sale OF stock.

OFFICE OF THE MEMPHIS CITT
FIRE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY, !
10 MADISON ST., MEMPHIS Nov. 23, 1878.
10y order OF the Board OF Directors of this COM
ID pany, will sell at public sale. to the highest
bidder, for cash, p shares (of 500 each) Of the
capital stock OF the company, as follows; Ger
tiicates No. 147 for shares No POS for , shares
and No. pa for 10 shares on
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Friday, December 6, Is9s,

at IL o'clock m, at the company's Office said sale
will be made to satisfy a certain Indebtedness due
said company, and secured to them under the pro
visions of the lien held by them under section Is OF
their charter. HENRY J. LYNN. Cashier.
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Administrations NNtice

HAVING been duly qualified as the AdministTa-
IL tor or the estate OF VIM. X. ThiXtOn deceased,
all persons indebted TO said estate are notified TO
come forward and settle the same, ana all persons
having claims against said estate are hereby nOtf
fled to file the with the undersigned, duly pro-
bated and within the time prescribed by law, or
they will be barred
GEO W. NALL, Administrator
NoYemher d 1873.
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Crepe Wells for 50.
Crepe Wells for 50 30.
Crepe Wells for SO, 81, So
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.IuSt Oneno0,

just Opened,
10000 new Hats in the following styles and shapes
TULIPS. HAMILTONS, HASTINGS, SARA
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AND MATINEES.
These hats in the real felt, camel's hair and CASH
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Great Reduction
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OUR house has been open all through the cpl
~ demic with the exception of about three weeks,
when our MR.. YONGE was sick with fever. We are
prepared to fill Orders from Friends and receive
consignments Of Cotton as usual.