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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-27

VA have this cay associated ourselves under the
w hTm name Of BAUM d CO, for TIE Dur
pose OF continuing the business OF Wholesale liquor
ndCigar Dealers tn this city. We respec fully solicit
the patronage OF the former customers of Baum L
Hurst, and the trade generally. q BAUM & co.
No 35R Main street Memr.hfs
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-27

PULvERMACHER GRLVANIC co..
Cor. Eighth and Vine sts, CINCINNATI, 0.
Ia Aroid bogus appliances claiming cleo
iric qualities. orr Pamphlet explains hOw to
distinguish the genuine from the spurious.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-02-27

NEW FIRM.

/ n retiring from the above lTm beg to thank my
L fIienCs for the liberal patronage extended 10
and 10 solicit continuance of the same 70 my sue
c5SsOTS, MeSSrs. O. Baum u CO. BEN HURST.
, 1879-02-09

Mr.. T1DES hns been On the stand Ee
wanted to 60 there, and solicited the some
what questionable privilege Of personally
appearing before the POTTER Committee.
He had taken cold, and was hoarse,-so
hoarse, in fact, that it was hard for him to
tell the truth. His testimony, however, may
be regarded rs model for a good,
tirst-class, thorough~going denial What
TnDEx didn't deny yesterday wasn't
worth denying. He denied even Pei
TON, for be said: "Col p11oS's habits
of mind and mine are very different" This
is hard on Pg17oS, who has evidently striven
with all his might to initiate lis uncle in
nil things. He denied SaurH, his private
secretary, SO far as SMITH was engaged in
the cipher business. He denied A1AEDLE so
far as that master Of E!izabethnn English
deserted it for cipher ve1nacular. He denied
NEED, and said he never had liked him very
much any way. He denied everybody md
everything, and would probably have gone
rs far IS the misguided but subsequently,
rcpentant PETER did before the cock crowed,
II there had been any occasion for similar
proceeding. The direct inference from Mr..
I11pEss sweeping denia1s is that this quiet
, 1879-02-09

It looks as ii Ohio was giving Us Taft-y.
When sinners (co-parsinners) entice thee,
consent thou not.
Mc. Tilden even believes that Pelton is
the root Of all evil
Poor Mr. Hendricks He has become
cross~eyed trying TO look all wa, S at once.
Kate Field has taken SPACIOUS uans;on
in London, but, Kate, what is a mansion w,,hout
Man:
Billiardist Rudolphe is Violently onnosod
to nursing, We suspect that be was brought Nd on
the bottle.
4 Iilden Club has been formed at Pitts
burg 1t such little facts that lead us TO beieye
that the barrel is still On tap..
recent loan exhibition in ST. T,oniz ,vos
70 poorly patronized that we cannot ayoid the In
preston that 1t was also u loansome exhibition
A st. Louis girl, is said to have won 5000
from her lady friends in one year 4: penny nn,e
60 to the antc' thou slusgard, anu do likewi4e.
Anna Dickinson has just completed new
pia7 which she calls '.Au1eIlan,'' Aurel;annt
aren't yon turning ont plays altogether tor rnn.
iIlys wv Aap'
otd sammy l1lden went to the barrel to
set souIh car'l'na bone: when be rot there the
oosFel was bare. and poor South uar'lina eot
none. 60~
:. senator Chrstiancy;; whose health is rerr
delicate. goes to Peru hop:ng that he may derive
great cement from the famous earthquakes Of that
80; ;nLu,:<:: :1":
-:A singular ,beapest is contained in the will
o. '' MISS L'setta Rist, who for forty-three years
'eo the poat Of orgauiat at the Church OF AIihu-
.o"S 'a1.~ondon- She has left considerable sum
III 'ne nancs Ut Trustees to he applied .-forrycr
, 1879-02-09

The New York Erening Post recently SUD
mitted nineteen samples Of coffee bought al
various stores in New York and Brooklyn &c
Dr.. MoTr, a chemist, who found IN tnen'
chiccory, roasted wheat, rye, peas, beans'
| roasted carrots, parsuips, turnlps, roasted
ncorus, snwdust, lupin seeds, oak-bark tan'
croate, burned sugar, and baked horses and
bullocks' liver. The coffee-bean is also lml-
tated with an artificial bean made OF blue
clay and mixed with chiccory and dandel;on.
| Dr.. E. r. Soumn, OF Albany, also recently
read paper before the State Medical Society,
! showing the same infamous practices we
| bnve recitea above, and suggesting d" the in
corporation of Il State Board Of Health, to
| consist Of four members nominated by
the State Medical Society, who shall
ba physicians two expert physi~
cists, nominated by Columbia College and
Cornell University and two lawyers, non1i-
mated respectively by the Bar Association
and the Modico.Legal Society. After this
Board is formed, it must appoint, by COM
petitive examination, seven officers, who are
to constitute Board of Inspectors Of Food
and Medicine. Lastly, Board Of Prosecu-
ton has to be formed, to consist Of lawyers,
who shall hold meetings at certain times,
aud each one of whom shall prosecute alI
cases received from the State Board Of Health
in his own district"
The difficulty does not lie in finding out
what is adulteratod, but in Furnishing it. It
is pretty safe to assume that everything We
consume, except eggs, fruit, and vegetables
(when they are not rotten), is adulterated,
aud that oue-half of mankind is engaged
in poisoning the other: half, With the
new helps furnished the poisoners by the
progress Of scientific discovery, it is not re-
finding new diseases. All this may bo ns-
sumed The despair Of the situation is how
to punish the adu1terators. There are
aready severe penalties prescribed by law,
but tho laws are dead-letters. No prctcnse
is made of enforcing them. As the half who
IRE engaged iu poisoning are not prosecuted !
by the other half, it would seem to Indicate |
TINT they are willing to bo poisoned. Those |
who are fastidious about the matter must
either live on boiled eggs whose ssparentage |
is known, or potatoes cooked with their !
jackets on, or else surrender themselves to
the tender mercies OF the arsenic and prussic-
acid aaulterators. There is no hope that
the laws can help them, for they are adul-
terated worse than the stuff We eat nnd |
drink. I
, 1879-02-09

and gentle victim Of irapd was reposing in
an easy-chair at No. Ii Gramercy Park in
utter and peaceful ignorance that there had
been Presidential election, in perfect in
difference to the existence Of such character
istically- Southern institutions as Returning
Boards, and in Iethean oblivion as to the
possibility of transmitting messages in ci-
pher, or even the application Of electricity
to the art of telegraphing. All T11DES
knows about it is that ,00o, 900 citizens were
defrauded while he was in this guiescent con-
tiitiont
, 1879-02-09

One Of the Cook County nembers-B. F.
WEpER (Dem.) .)-has introduced bill in The
House which provides for the election of the
fifteen Commissioners Of Cook County next
| fall, eight of whom shall hold Office two
years, and seven for one year, and eight and
seven to be elected alternately thereafter.
| The territory outside OF Chicago is divided
into five separate districts. The bill requires
each Of the Commissioners to give bonds for
$4,000 for the honest and faithful discharge
! Of his duties. and that he will not accept any
bribes, and fixes the compensation at $1,000
| per aunun. Mr.: WEBER has perhaps cut out
! q little district for himself, with a 81, 800
! salary, and, not having confidence in the
strength Of his honesty, wants to be put un~
der bonds against receiving bribes or levying
!. blackmail. The bond provision is humbug,
aud not worth the paper it il written On.
Commissioners will not be prevented from
making contractors whaok up with them by
any such silly device. If any change be
made in the existing cement for the elec-'
ton of Commissioners. the best one is that
proposed two years aga: to make the term
two years. luu elect e1SQt memDerS aG Tie
next county election on general ticket, Eve
from the city aud three from the country
towns, aud the next year seven on general
ticket, Eve from tue city and two from the
country TOWNS, and SO on alternately. The
Whole county should vote together, or else
the city should be- cut up into districts as
well Us the country part of the county But
the general ticket Is the best. -Four or five
thousand citizens do business in the city, but
sleep outside Of The city limits, where they
keep their families Their interest will be
better represented by voting for general
ticket eaeh year thnn for Il single Conn,is-
sioner once in three years, The honest voters
who live in the city want the assistance Of
the voters in the country towns to help them
elect Commissioners who will represent the
taxpayers rather than the rings and robbers. |
If the Commissioners were elected on gen.
eral ticket the bummers would he lnid out at |
every election, aud honest rule established !
i'll the County Of Cook.
, 1879-02-09

The latest instance Of '' nnother good man
gone wrong " is one j. WARD. Of Kalamazoo.
He employed two burglars to rob his wife.
To enable them to dc SO he left the front
door unlocked. Mrs. WAnp declined to be
pacifcd by the death-dealing revolver, and.
sei2ing An az. LETT her mark On the shoulder
OF one Of tho marauders, who was subse-
quenty arrested The other escaped. and
the husband has not since been seen. An
empty pocket-book is all that the missing
twain secured
, 1879-02-09
4 REm1N1scENcE OF "HomE rNsURANcE.n

| A REM1NTsCENCE OF 'HOhdE INSURANCE.
| There are probably still good many peo
| pie in Chicago who remember that amon1
the ante-fre loca! institutions in which loya
| Cbjcagoans were expected to take largt
| amount of pride, as well as most of the poll
cies, were the home insurance companies
| These numerous and pretcntious local insti-
tutions disappeared suddenly some time
during the night Of Oct 8, 1871, and the
most vigorous search subsequently, failed
to discover SO much as the ashes in some
cases in others, proceedings in the State
Courts and the Bankrupt Court occasionally
raked up dsxjfcta .en6rG Of certain home
companies; but generally the cost of the legal
search was greater than the value of these
scattered remnants when found. As a rule,
the people who had insured their property in
these local companies found it more proita-
Bile to go around borrowing money where
with to rebuild than to spend either time
or money in the forloru effort to collect an
indnltesimal percentage of losses on their in
surance; and the wlsest among burnt-out Gil
cagoans preferred to file away the old policies
asdre-memeutoesa aud useful warnings against
the indulgence Of local pride. It has always
been more or less of q mystery to the unin-
itiated how it was that these companies, and
their securities, and the individual liability Of
stockholders. could have been so completely
obl'terated; and the BLopoErr investigation,
if 1t had accomplished nothing else, has been
of some service in lifting the veil from this
profound and impenetrable problem.
p. The Garden City Insurance Company was
one OF these local institutions which were SO
dear always, and ultimately SO costly, to the
loyal Chicagoan. The mystery in the case
Of this particular Company was deepened by
The complication Of a Reinsurance iu some
other local company. Nevertheless, some Of
the more inqnisitive Of the policy-holders dis
covered that it had liabilities amounting to
about $Goo,ooo, and' that among the stock
holders were such men as JonS G. Donr.
JoHS c. HA1SE5, Dr.. Foster, the State Say
ings Institution (Which was spared ouly to
be victim to the wrecking of SpEScER). and
others who we're then able to pay. There
was danger that some Of these creditors Of
an inquiring turn Of mind might proceed III
tho State Courts in order to get 1l>e CON-
pany into the hands OF a Receiver, and
force the officers aud stockholders to
yield up to the full extent Of
their liability. Thcreupon some of the
partiea in interest conceived the brilliant
idea Of putting the Company into bankruptcy
as q means Of dragging out the probIematic
existence of the institution to such length
that the creditors would be gled to take any
thing that might be offered to them. 4 SON.
lu-law OF alr. HA1SEs happened to be one Of
the policy-ho}ders and creditors, aud became
the instrument for carrying out this plan.
How the State Savings Institution people
knew or came to believe that proceedings in
bankruptcy could, be made practically inter
minable, is no part Of the present story: it
IS only certain that their fondest hopes were
realized; that the Garden City Company.
, 1879-02-09

furnish afu1l stream Of pure water through
the canal from Lake Michigan, will find o
hearty, united, and liberal support from
Chicago. This city will pay full share of
any cost that may be necessary for that or
any other object Of State expenditure. But
when it is proposed to maliciously close the
canal because it is of some benefit and con-
veuience to Chicago, then the half million
Of people in this city will have something to
say On the subject.
, 1879-02-09

Congress- neld last evening, it WAS agreed to
report bill repealing the jurors test oath
and abol;shing Federal Interference in Con-
gressional elections The bill will be at-
tached to the sundy Civil Service appropria-
ton in the shape of m amendment, and its
passage will be Insisted or even at the risk
OF an extra sessiou. 1t would be in better
taste and more honorable for the Bou1bons
to call the bill IAN act to promote fraud at
Congressional eIect1ons"
, 1879-02-09

Financial questions seem to no longer in
terest Congress. and probably this is the ill.,
difference for which the country has SO long
waited 4 bill for the exchange of silver and
gold coin for legal-tendcrs e.: tho mints and
the New York Sub-Treasury was yesterday
;abled by considerable majority. Il was
cia:med by the friends Of the measure that it
would make the silver dollars in circulation
equal to greenbacks and gold coin. The gold
bugs opposed it because it would prevent
discrimination against silver, md the silver
men did likewise for the reason that it
would restrict the general circulation Of the
white metal by inviting it into the Treasury,
, 1879-02-09

Tie recent decision of the Supreme Court
in the matter of Mormon po'ygan,y does not
Seem to have auy weight with the disciples
and followers OF the late BRIGHAM YorSG-
They go on marrying and giving in marriage
The same as ever: The Mormon news
papers deuounce tia Supreme Court, aud
insist that its Judgment was rendered under
tile influence Of popular pressure. At
meeting Of the Anti-Po1ygauy Society Of
Salt Lake, held yesterday, memorial was
adopted asking Congress to amend the act Of
1862, SO that the general reputation of the
conjugal relation may be regarded as proof
Of marriage, and tie polygamus cohab!tation
the offense. Some such provision is urgently
needed to enab1a the officers OF the Govern
meut to enforce the Inv.
, 1879-02-09

There has been 4 decided weakening on the
part Of the Democratic Hostilcs in their warfare
upon a1r. T1LDEN during the past three weeks
Or So This phenomenon has followed closely
upon the e1tensively-circulated announcement
that the old gentleman had made q cool million
gu MS investment IN tic Elevated Railroad
stock; an announcement which seems to Indicate
that in June, 1850, bis bar'l would .be as
miracuIous1y repleDished as the widows was
G. oId. The Aoat:les are now discovering
, 1879-02-09

Unborn generations of Londoners will bless
the meu,ory Ut Miss LlsErrA R1sT, who had for
forty-thrce years filled tho post Of organlsr at
the Church OF All Hallows. Barking, in Great
Tower street. That lady, now deceased, has left
(thc Pal .HaI Gazette informs us) q considera-
bic SLIM in n. hands Of trustees to he applied
"forever" to the distribution of gravel in steep
and slippery London roadways.-a work which
SHE had personally superiutended and paid for
during her lifetime.
, 1879-02-09
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 1870.

The amended Army b:l succeeded in
passing the House yesterday. To it was
tackled provision regulating the tolls to be
charged by telegraph lines owned by land
grant rAi1road companies The reorganiza-
tion scheme projected By the BURNSIDE
Commission was also adopted. The House
declined to entertain the proposition to
transfer the Indian Bureau from the Interior
to the War Department.
, 1879-02-09

Dr.. sQu1nBs, the eminent physician Of Brook
lyn, says that the Legislature will never frame
law TO prevent adulteration until it defines pre-
cisely what, adulteratiou IS. All previous laws
on this subject have been failures, because they
have not made clear. beyond the possibility OF
a mistake, what VAS the nature Of the offeuse
the Legislature intended to punish.
, 1879-02-09

II the shark expects to maintain bis proud
e.elnipence, be had better leave off being
found with such lrilcs as cannon balls, broken
bottles, old boots, brass watches, chain-cables,
and rusty bayonets In his stomach. Let him
tackle boarding~house hash Or botcl entrtes, or
something serious, or else retire Into i.no-
minious oDscurity.
, 1879-02-09

It will not do to be "doWn" on tile Three
Young Men because they did not make out i
case against Judge BLoDGErT. They showed
that something was rotten in the surroundings
Of the District Court, though not in the Court
itself; and. until IN Investigation was had, it
was impossible to say precisely where the rot
tcnnCEs WIS.
, 1879-02-09

We hope it is not true that Senator CosoyEn,
Of Florida, has been offered the appointment Of
Minister to Italy, to succeed Mr. GEORGE T.
MARSH. Nr. MARSH has been too long abroad,
and is thoroughly un-American; but Mr. Co.'S
OVER Is hardly the man to succeed him.
, 1879-02-09

Mr. RICHARD SMITH thinks # would be good
idea to have tile United States Senators nominat-
Cd in the State Conventions before the election.
This would be better than having the Chairman
OF the State Campaign Committee choose tlie
Senator,
, 1879-02-09

The Brooklyn Eagle thinks-or rather says,
for it doesn't think anything of the kind-that
when MIR. TALMAGE bcsought his nephew, Ia the
name of the Highest, to play the part OF the
stoo'-pigcon and lure the pccunious OF the
Tabernacle within range, " he did an euthusias-
tic and generous thing" II also sees nothing
at all wrong IN the cipher business.
, 1879-02-09

TRIBUNE BRANCH OFFICES,

TIE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has established branch Offices
for the receipt Of subscriptions and advertisements
follows:
NEW ToRK-Eoorn - Tribune Building. FIT. Nc
AurES, Manager.
PARIS. Fraucc--So. 1G Rue de In Grange Batcere.
=. MAHLEE. Agent
LONDON, EnE.-Amcstcxn Exchxn9e. 44s Strand
R1xEr F. GIII1a. Agent
sAN FRANCISCO. Cal-Pa1ace Hotel
WASHINGTON, q. c.-No. 1919 street
, 1879-02-09

Nephew. PELToN squirmed about in pitiful
way during his cross-examination before the
Cipher Committee in New York; and it was dis
covered, when he tried to step from the stand,
that he had inadvertently tied his legs in
double-boW-kn0t,
, 1879-02-09

II it be true, rs stated in the New York
papers, that the victory Of tile Administration
over CoNKL1NG was immediately followed BY
the discharge Of ten clerks III the Custom
House supposed tn he friendly to him, and the
appointment IN their place OF ten Others known
to be unfriendty, the triumph VI Civil-Servicc
reform ou thut occasion was not so complete as
has been reported. but it will be wise, perhaps,
to take the comments OF the New York press In
this connection for some time to come with ii
grain of allowance.
, 1879-02-09

The success Of the elevated railroads in New
York is not q certain Indication that they would
succeed in any other city. New York is very
peculiarly built up. Owing to its i1n1novable
boundaries on two sides, the residence quarters
of the city are necessarily remote from the
business quarters, and rapid transit is ques-
tion Of Importance TO large part of the popu-
lation. No other city is similarly situated as
regards transit within the city limits. But 1t
may soon be question whether the steam rail-
ways will not have to elevate their tracks in
cities. They are a constant source Of annoy
ance and danger in crowded streets. and city
ordinances requiring low rate Of speed are as
great an Inconvenience to them as they are to
the people. If their main tracks could be
raised they could effect an immense
annual gain in suburban passenger traffic
alone. The fifteen or twenty minutes
consumed in getting from the dcpots to thccity
limits are no inconsfderab1e proportion Of the
time spent in trips to aud from the near sub
nrbs. Half the ti1e consumed in making the
trip to Evanston, for instance, is used in getting
from the depot to the city limits, though the
whole trip is about twelve miles, aud the city
part OF 1t is less than two miles.
, 1879-02-09

JoHs BnsGnT's comparison, ia his letter to
CYRUS ". FIELD, Of the system Of Protection
with the system Of Slavery arouses the tndi2
nation Of New York man. who writes to the
Herald that, =" While England governs India in
the manner she does. her pretcuse OF abhorrcnre
to Slavery lnlreles the tone Ut the Pharisee with
the crY Of nypocrtte.' a hit,-a very palpable
hi<
, 1879-02-09

The Rev. Mr.. Trxo announces sermon aTo
Non-Churc}sgoing Meu." This must be preach
ing to all empty house, unless lie is ayaflinc
himself oF the telephone
, 1879-02-09

An exchange SAYS that Observation-Disclosures are
down." Only part OF them, dearest
, 1879-02-09

The THREE loUSG ME:,: ave hare done
the State some service, and we know it,
, 1879-02-09

that It will be necessary to aveuge the Great
Fraud by renominattng the ticket Of 1876. The
opposition in New York, too has cooled down
about 212 DEGREES since some one thought be
discovered the old gcntculan's haud in the
overthrow Of Tammany last November, and the
subsequent proceedings against john KELLY.
We warned these brash young men twelve
months ago not to 20 on fattening np cror
against the day OF crow; but they despised our
counsel. we have only to add, as a matter OF
news, that Mr.. T1LDEN is still fatteuing up that
crow in coop In his back yard. Tie bird meas
urcs :hirty-eivht feet across the extended wigs,
and when be is served up In July, 1880, Will be
Us big as SINBAD's roc.
, 1879-02-09

The recommendation OF Secretary EvARTs
that the salary of BArARp TAYLOR as Minister
to Berlin he continued to his widow for the uu-
expired year OF service is approved by leading
newspapers OF both political parties. 1t would
be 4 gracious and generous act--such an act as
is too seldom charged up to tho cradit Of Our
Government. There is, indeed, hardly any
thing more dlsheartenin@ in our politics than
the contrast between tile stinginess Of our
Government iu dealing with tic willows Of mer-
ftorious officers, civil and military, and its
prodigal bounty in voting subsidies.
, 1879-02-09
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A. Post-Oaice Commission has bceu at work
in Baltimore. We do not know exactly how it
discharged its duty; but It selected site and
advised that 81 600, 600 be appropriated for the
purchase OF the ground AMI tie erection OF q
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astica1ly to all the recommendations Of the
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sary ut present. It may be supposed that the
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success in these days.