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The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-15

The Women's Christian Temperance Union
of this state is preparing for vigorous cam
pagn. The state is being mapped on, INTO
districts for organization and work. Gospel
meetings are to be held at stated times; con-
ventions are to be called, addresses made, and
pledge-signers solicited. Petitions will be cir,
culated asking the Legislature for temperance
laws. Among the active leaders of this move
ment are, Miss Frances f. Willard Evanston
Mrs Professor Fay, Bloomington; Mrs. NJ
Wait and Miss West, of Galesburg; Miss Lu,
ca E. +. Kimball Mrs Cummings and Mrs.
Hobbs, of Chicago; Mrs. Professor Kate Ross,
Of Abingdon; Mrs G. II. ST. John, Eureka
Mrs Nj. H. Villers, Pana; Mrs, Hibben, Pco-
ria; and Mrs. Hagans, Elmhurst.
The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1879-02-15
Sulphur Is a good dislnfcctant In hen houses

Sulphur Is a good dislnfcctant IN hen houses
and pig pens Sprinkled on bushes and vines.
it does much toward preventing blight and
nildev' Mixed with line wh;tewash and
applied to The trunks and limbs Of fruit trees.
il has u similar effect in preserving their health
and thrift. Flour of sulphur used with a bel
lows early in the spring. when an ounce of pre-
ventiOn Is worth pound of cure followed by
repetition of the process a circumstances
will decide seems to be the general remedy
for the grape mildew.-N. ]. Herald.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05
MISREPRESENTATION

This subject IS attracting much discussion
In many leading cities. Ten years ago the
Nicolson pavement was regarded as a sue
cess. Nearly every city ciamored FOR tins
kind of pavement, and nearly every city
adopted it. Everybody admired its beauty,
and vehicles glided over it with silent ease
that was charming. But the whole country
new unites In pronouncing the Nicolson
pavementa failure. 1t soon becomes rotten,
muggy and the prolific breeder of disease.
The cities are now as anxious to get rid of
this pavement as they were to adopt it. This
is peculiarly so IN Memphis, where the soil
and climate make such superstructures pub
lie nuisance. Many cities are experimenting
with a view of ascertaining what sort of
material will constitute the cheapest
and most durable pavement. After try
ing every conceivable style of street pave
ments, the people of Boston have settled
down On the asphalt block, and several
streets are being paved with it. The block
weighs twenty one pounds, and has a surface
measurement twelve by four inches and n
depth of five inches. 1t is made of ground
limestone, impregnated with aspheltum and
tempered with crude petroleum. The COM
position is struck into blocks by a steam press
which gives each block a pressure of fifty
tons. In quality it is like the Neufchatel
Paris asphalt pavement, but being in blocks
it can be readily removed to make street re-
pairs. The Boston papers speak of this
pavement as answering every requisite, sani-
tary and otherwise.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

ments in time, where the omission was caused
by circumstances over which the insurer
could not have the slightest control, yet there
is no way provided by which such possible
and affecting occurrence can be provided
against The difficulty cannot be met by
laxity on the part of the companies to enforce
their rules; such laxity would cause more IN
justice than exists at present. There IS want
Ing provision by which, in case the insurer,
on any particular date, should, from some
untoward event, be unable to attend to the
payment of his premium, that premium shall,
nevertheless, be paid, provided the insurer
has arranged that it shall be. The plan for
this purpose proposed by the Posts CORE
spondent is the following: 81 propose to de-
posit with the company the amount of a
years premium, in advance, ON these condl-
tons: So long as 1 regularly pay my premi-
UNI / shall be entitled to credit upon it OF
- per centum interest on my deposit for the
past year. In the event Of a neglect to pay
my premium on the day it is due the deposit
is to be Immediately applied to that purpose,
and notice in writing to be given me that it
is so applied; this notice to be repeated once
during the year and also at its termination. !"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, JUNE 3, 1879.
REVIvING TRADE.

1t is gratifying to notice, in the general
tone of the press throughout the country that
there is everywhere to be found expressions
denoting an improvement in business, and
especially of confidence that, with the fall
trade, we shall see degree of activity to
which we have long been strangers. The
call for money Mt the banks is still sluggish,
but with increasing values of some promi-
nent articles of produce and merchandise
there is an increased tendency to draw de-
posts and invest. AS an instance of the
better tone of the press respecting trade. we
copy this from the Boston Shipping List:
sour reports continue to indicate a rushing
business in wool, woolens, cottons, hides,
leather, boots and shoes, and several other
articles, with a strong upward tendency in
prices. These movements are based on the
prospects of an increased demand through
out the country for all kinds of wearing APP
parel, and on the superstition that much
higher rauge of prices will be realized than
has ruled for some time past"
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GUING WEST.
Prospective Migration Of Large Num-
bers from New YOrk-Plan of Op-
eratiOns of the Irish COIOnI-
zatiOnSSOclety.

NEW YORK, June 2.-The movement to
send masses of Irish Catholics from the city
of New York and Brooklyn, and to settle
them on western lands, is creating much ex-
element in this city, and promises to end in
an Irish exodus. The class of persons most
opposed to it are the politicians, for New
York has been made and kept largely Demo-
cratic by the votes which. if the movement is
widespread. will be taken to the western
prairies. The priests of the city are enlisted
In the movement; the cardinal gives it his
favor. The bishops are talking for it, and
money begias TO flow in. The theory of the
movement is that in the crowded tene-
ments Of the city the Irish race becomes
impaired, and the benefits of the multiplied
ton of the Irish fail because of the great
harvest of death among them. Being
naturally a rural people, the design is to
transfer the Irish Catholics In large bodies to
settle them On western lands where they may
till the soil. The practical part OF the de-
sign contemplates floating joint stock COM
pany with one hundred thousand dollars CAPT.
tai already Incorporated under the laws of
the State Of Illinois, and known as the Irish
Catholic colonization ASSOCIATION. About tit-
teen thousand dollars of the stock of this
company has been placed in this city, and
Mr.. John Kelly. Eugene Kelly, Father Ducey,
Mr.. Thomas O'Counor and Father Donnelly
have each invested one thousand dollars 10
tue sUOck OF EHe company. Iue inNSsttucHt
is said to be good one, for the money will
be paid pack within certain number OF
years, for the colonists will be required to
pay for the land purchased by the associa-
ton, the Improvements put upon 1t, and an
Dual interest. Each farm IS to be held 10y the
ASSOCIATION as security. No money will be in
trusted to the colonist to imprudently squar-
der. The advances to him will be made IN
the shape of the improvements he desires.
The association has for each emigrant a
quarter section of land, plowed over the
previous summer. They have cottage al
ready built. The colonist goes upon the
place In the springtime, casts in his seed and
in four months he has harvest The plan
does not contemplate relieving New York of
the thriftless, absolutely destitute class, or
the foIsting upon the west of the off-scour-
ings of the population of that great city, but
the association design to select those who
have already saved up several hundred dol
lars, and to help them on to a road to indie
pendence. The scheme does not contemplate
aid to Protestants, but Mr.. William E. Dodge
and others are contemplating putting in OPP
Grafton a similar plan for the benefit of poor
Protestant Germans, EuRlishmen and Amer
leans.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

Governor Hendricks playing the part he has
been playing for two years, and more,
should particularly respect him. If | we're
a more polite person, l should have bided
my time; gone on assuming the old ticket
and hattering him as part of it. to the end
that in 1880, as in 1876, he might be drafted
But my disgust got the better of my discre-
ton, and let him have it over the left ear
with more force than grace. l am sorry, L
am sure, but if | am to emulate Governor
Hendricks IN the art of 'straddling, l fear l
shall never be either diplomatist or states
man"
But is not your assault upon Governor
Hendricks an abandonment of the old
tIcket?"
''As far as he is concerned, it is. But what
of that? He has not only abandoned it, but
is openly assailing it and secretly intriguing
against it. He says, fatty, he will not take
the second place. l believe him. His Indi-
ana friends say they will put him forward for
the first if he does not get another vote. l
believe them. Now, if things should be al
lowed to go on undisturbed, and convention
should assemble and nominate the old ticket,
and then Governor Hendricks should refuse
to serve, should we not be in pretty pickle !?
Is it not best to know what we are to expect
in advance; to wash our dirty linen before we
are required to wear 1t? Governor Hendricks
brought little strength to the ticket before,
and will add nothing to it next time. He is
a respectable man, of good ability, intellec-
tually clad in neutral tlnts, possessing neither
magnetism nor dash. Half dozen western
Democrats would suit as well as he.''
Il suppose that you are aware that you
have greatly incensed the Indiana Democrats,
and that there has been talk OF getting up a
series of indignation meetlngs?''
''The Indiana Democrats are q warm, i'm
pulsive body of men. They are the best
fighters IN the world. l should be sorry to
incur their ill-wIll, but if they must be angry
| because | cannot see as many public virtues
in Governor Hendricks as they think they
| see, cannot help it. l have my own duty
to perform, and must pursue the lights before
me. Governor Hendricks piques himself
upon never making mistakes. l pique my
self on nothing, and often make mistakes.
But there lie one thing l never do; straddle
no fences, and can always be found shinnying
on my own side"
With this parting shot Mr.. Watterson
turned TO resume his work, and the reporter,
having filed out the instructions furnished
him, took his leave.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

GRANTS friends are determined to make a
hard fight for him. Already the GEObe-Dem
oerGt is debating as to the personnel of the
next national Republican convention. 1t
says: 'Mr. Hayes seems to have repealed
civil service order No. l, but the Republicans
will enforce it to the extent of keeping Fed
eral office-holders from active participation
in the campaign of 1880. In 1872, by eeneE-
al agreement, no Federal Office holder was
elected to the Philadelphia convention. This
was in order tc answer the howls of the lib
erals that Grant was using his patronage to
secure a second nomination. Grant has no
patronage to use just now, but it would be
well to make the agreement Of 1872 into a
general rule, and to exclude Office holders
from national conventions in the future"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

SAYS the New Orleans Picayune, and it
speaks words of soberness aud truth: Ne
groes have usually voted IN Louisiana, with
but few exceptions, with as little danger of
violence as Democrats voting in New Eng
land. But even if negroes had been re-
strained in this respect in some or many in
stances, the Radical restraints upon white
voters among the miners of Pennsylvania,
the factory and railroad employees of the
northern states, and clerks and servants gen.
orally, have been much greater and more ex-
acting than that thrown by the southern
Democrats around the negro voter"
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NATIONAL NOTES.
Judge billions Successor Appointed
Recollection OF the Old Board of
Union Pacific Directors
COInRge Statistics
Four Per Cents,
Etc.

WASHINGTON, June 3.-The result of last
nights joint meeting of the Democratic eau
Gus committees was the adoption of the pro-
gramme suggested by the subcommittee.
JUDGE billions SUCCESSOR.
The President to-day sent to the senate the
following: Il nominate George w. NJ 'Crary,
Of Iowa, to be judge of the eighth United
states judicial circuit, in place of John +.
Dillon, resigned, his resignation to take effect
on the first day ct September, 1879, and this
nomination is to be for the vacancy thus Gre
ated."
Nathaniel Niles, New Jersey; George b.
Smythe. Iowa Daniel Chadwick, Connecticut;
Ralph (Rackstraw) b. auckland, Ohio; and
Charles H. Chousell, Nebraska, have been
appointed board of government directors
of the Union Pacific railroad. Niles IS the
only new member.
CABINET SESSION.
At the cabinet session to-day Secretary
Sherman gave an account of the operations
of the treasury which have Just closed, and
the deceased General Shields was mentioned.
Secretary M 'Crary will order military escort
10 be present at the funeral
FOUR PER CENTS.
Subscriptions to the four per cent refund
ing certificates since yesterdays report,
$1,133, APO.
COINAGE EXECUTED AT THE UNITED STATES
MINIS DURING MAY.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

VICTOR HUGO has been speaking about
ciyilizing Central America. In the nIne-
teenth century the white man has made the
negro a man." said NJ. Victor Hugo recently
at banquet given in commemoration of the
abolition of slavery, 'and In the twentieth
century Europe will make Africa a world"
On the latter theme the great writer en-
larged, and said the day had come for the
vast continent which alone among the five
parts of the world had no history to be re-
formed by Europeans.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

MRS. ANNIE Cook is a candidate before
the next legislature of Kentucky for the Office
of state librarian. 1t will be remembered,
says the Clarksville Tobacco LsGf, that her
husband, DR.. Cook, was one of the first who
went to Hickman during the yellowfever
and there yielded up his life in behalf Of a
suffering people. Kentucky will do we'll to
provide place for his widow and two
orphan children. We sincerely hope she
may be ELECTED to the Office which she seeks.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

HERE is what might be termed advice
gratis, it is from the Globe Democrat, of st.
Louis, leading Republican organ: eff Mr..
Foster doesn't want to be very badly beaten
candidate for governor of Ohio, he should
suppress those fool friends of his who are
saying that his election will mean Grants
defeat in 1890"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

HOPE inspires US. The Cleveland Herald
has turned its attention from the negroes who
are exoditng to Zululand (Kansas) long
enough to curse the hrutes in Philadelphia
who whip and starve little white boys TO
death. If the poor whites are only patient
they will yet get their rights in Ohio and
Pennsylvania.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

Both the two great political parties will go
into the next Presidential election with the
same. shibboleth inscribed upon their ban
ners-that of free elections. When the OPP
posing elements are united in demanding
that the people shall exercise the preroaative
of freemen in casting their votes at the bal
lot-box, it seems that the country will here
after be blessed with free elections. But the
manner by which the Republicans propose to
give the country free elections is cheat and
a delusion. They pretend to believe that
there can be no free elections unless the bal
lot box Is placed under the control of troops
and hired partisan supervisors, who are paid
10 browbeat and overawe freemen in the ex-
ercise of the elective franchise. Give the
party in power the right to control elections
and it can perpetuate its rule indefinitely.
The Democrats demand that the elections
be held as they were held from
the days Of Washington until a few years
since, when the Radicals conceived the idea
that the system under which Washington,
jefferson. Adams, Madison, Monroe, Jackson,
Lincoln and Grant We're elected Presidents
was dangerous to the liberties of the people,
and therefore passed law placing troops at
the polls. The Democrats, in demanding a
return to the election laws and customs Of
other days, when fair and free elections were
held without the presence of troops and
supervisors, will be sustained by the people,
who have always and IN every country been
jealous of military power. The people of
free popular government had better risk and
even endure disorderly and dishonest cleo
ton, without the use of the army and partisan
supervisors, than owe the peace and integrity
of elections to supervisors and military power
under the control of party which will use
these appliances to perpetuate its power. The
temptation to use and abuse two such power
full and dangerous instruments is stronger
than any human virtue can resist, and
therefore the temptation should never be
giyar. The Republicans will go into the
contest pratiug about the purity and freedom
of elections; but the people will understand
that the purity and freedom which they mean
is of that kind which elected Hayes by fraud,
and which has controlled elections in New
York, Philadelphia and the southern States
by such convenient supervising rascals as
John l. Davenport.
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An Indignant TeIeDhOue

Indianapolis NeicS: The other day a
prominent railroad man who has no intimate
acquaintance with the capabilities of the tel
ephone, and Is particularly ignorant of the
microscopic attachment which when the
mouth is placed near it and it is used with a
loud voice, blurs the sound. The other day
he spoke to lady operator over the wire,
and her answer came to him spread out like
dough under a heavy rolting-pin. Gracious
goodness! SAID he, turning away from the
instrument and addressing a bystander in his
office, that woman talks as if. she hadn't a
tooth in her head when he was completely
demoralized to hear the telephone scream in
a very high and shrill key, Yes l have, you
old brute, and you'd better mind how you
talk about me- Then he withered like a
frost-bitten morning glory
PURGE out the morbid humors of the
blood by a dose of Ayers pills, and you will
have cleaner heads as we'll as bodies,
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A WRONG THAT wANTs RIGHrING

A WRONG THAT WANTS RIGHTING
A correspondent of the New York Post
calls attention to point in life insurance
that strongly demands attentions; the point
is the possibility of losing that insurance Just
when the crisis requiring it arri yes, owing to
the increased possibility, just at that con-
juncture, to fail to make due payment In
tame to prevent forfeiture of the policy. At
any time of life accident, insanity-tempo-
rary or otherwise-dlstress from occurrence
OF some atiiiction, absence where commune
cation is difficult and uncertain, may cause
delay entirely independent Of the will of the
,nsarer, in paying the premium when due.
When the insurer Is lying on his last bed,
unconscious perhaps OF what is passing, ex-
hausted and fading out of life, or tossed with
delirium, a premium may become due and
failure TO pay leave wife and children, for
whose safety from poverty he had been pro-
vidinG for years, dependents upon the cold
hand Of reluctant charity. Many instances
are known where great hardship has occurrt d
in consequence Of the omission to meet pay
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VOLUNTARY
TESTIMONY .
EXTRACT from, The Baltimore "a = rioan,"

ILCtTCIcf from me DUtStHlOTe "a - Ptc6I'ls
December y, 1851
"The Pulvermacher Electric Belt is recon-
mended to general use for the following rea-
sons: First, for It's wonderful properties for
the cure of diseases of the kidneys, stomach,
liver and blood; secondly, for its extreme
simplicity, and the fact of its being applied
outside, precludes all possibility of any in
Jury being done to the patient, as an external
remedy is universally acknowledged to be
safe Another advantage is the facility with
which the progress of the disease and cure
can be watched, and if the Belt be not quite
in the right place, it can be very easily read
lusted so as to cover the parts affected. The
Pulvermacher Electric Belt, and its perfec
ton, has been hailed with delight, not only
by the sufferers who have regained health,
enjoyment, and a new lease of life through
it's beneficent qualities, but by tho medical
profession, who very frequently prescribe its
use to their patients"
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a NameIess Crime.

GALLON, ONO, June 2.-Your correspond
ent has learned ola most horrible, brutal and
atrocious crime committed by nine tramps a
few miles north of this city on Saturday
night. Among their number was a boy aged
fourteen, named Wilkins, upon whose person
the vile wretches committed a nameless
crime, and after satisfying their brutal pas
sions threatened to cut his throat if he dared
reveal the act. During their torture they
twice stabbed their helpless victim in the
back, but the wounds are not dangerous.
After the nine villains had gone the poor boy
made his way to this city, where he met
Night Officer Ichinder, and told him of the
terrible outrage that had been perpetrated
on him. An examination of his person re-
vealed the truth of the boys statement, but
ne was unable to.describe the tends who COM
mltted the outrage, owing to the fact that he
had met them after dark. Young Wilkins
was at once made as comfortable by the city
authorities as his case would permit. This
crime is one of the most dastardly outrages
ever perpetrated in this vicinity, and, could
the citizens place their hands upon the vii
lains, Judge Lynch" would render speedy
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-06-05

staring eyes. and the smallest voice imagins-
BILE. Mile. De Vaily said she was afraid to
keep her any longer, and the Justice sent to
the society for the prevention of cruelty to
children to know what disposition could De
made of her.
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which is tic Cheanest

A package of Dukes Durham, containing
tfcenty pipe-fulls Of the best smoking tobac-
co made, or one common cigar? Each costs
ten cents
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FULVERMACHER'S
ELECTRIC BELTS AND BANDS
BELTS.

A sure cure for Nervous Debility, Premature Decay
Weakness, Consumption, Liver and Kidney diseases
General Debility, etc.
The Only Reliable Cure.
Circulars mailed free. Address j. II. REEVES
Al Chatham street, New York.
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Slmia, June 3: The famine IN Cashmere
is very serious and great distress prevails through
out the country Many towns and villages have been
depopuated. The authorities are sending for as
sistancA