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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-07
CHEAP COTTON MANUFACTURING
IN CHINA

The dispatches from London a few days
since announced that the Chinese govern
ment was purchasing cotton machinery In
Germany for the purpose of manufacturing
cotton goods in China, and thus giving en-
ployment to labor in China. This is phase
of the Chinese problem entirely unlocked
for, and has greatly alarmed the manufac-
turing establishments in Europe and the
United States. The Chinese can Inanufac-
ture anything cheaper than any other people
on the face Of the globe, and if this expert
ment should be successful, 1t will produce a
complete revolution. Ia discussing this
movement, the Chicago NeioS goes so far as
to say that 1.-THE success of such an attempt
as this, now being made by the Chinese gov
eminent, would compel US to plant ourselves
on the Chinese doctrine Of exclusivism, and
taking chapter out of their politico-e econ
omic system, to close our ports, not only
against themselves, but their wares. In
modern times, it Is claimed that the amount
of labor expended upon products gives them
their value; but if that labor can be procured
for mere pittance Of few pence a day,
how can present values be maintained in the
world at large, in face of a competition at the
back of which are hundreds of millions of
pauperized people? The progress of cotton
manufacture IN India has alarmed the British
manufacturers of that staple. They denounce
the British Indian government because 1t
slightly taxed imports Of cotton cloth into
India. China can lay on such tax while she
Is preparing to establish her system of impe-
rial manufactures, and no government can
reasonably object. THIS action of the Chinese,
who are an astute people, after their low and
materialistic and sensual manner. may be the
answer Of that government to our restrictive
legislation as respects their immigration to
the United States But, however that may
be, it is a move in a direction fraught with
the greatest interest to western Europe and
America; it is a conception the possibilities of
which are appalling. Being almost
purely initiative people, they cause
our inventions to paralyzs our own
Industries. Being a laborious and patient
race, to whom work seems to come as a sec
ond nature, they can labor more hours than
any other people under the sun, and at work
which requires the expenditure of the pa
tence and precision, rather than the eager
ness and force, Of human endeavor. 1t would
be strange turning point in the life of our
civilization, if, after having exhausted inven-
ton in the development of means to econo-
mize labor, the nations of modern christen-
dom should find in the extreme east a people
ready to snatch the fruits of such invention
from their hands, for the reason that they
themselves are the living personi6cation of J
the economy of labor"
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a Case of Reecherism.

BLOOMINGTON, ILL, March A social
scandal has just come to light at Farmer
City, Logan county. involving two very
prominent persons, whose regulations here
tofore have been unquestioned. Yesterday
morning Elder W. 7. Maupin, pastor of the
Christian church, Farmer City, was accused
of the crime of seduction and adultery, on a
confession made by Mrs. John A. Scott, a
member Of his church, to her husband She
confessed that Naupin and she had been
guilty Of repeated acts OF criminal inter-
course, extending back to period of two
years. Mrs. Scott, who is an extremely beau
tltul woman, was formerly Miss Belle Evans,
daughter of a prominent citizen of Farmer
City, and was married only five weeks ago to
j. A. Scott. The confession has fallen like a
thunder bolt In the community, and religious
people are in great state of excitiment
Maupin is a man of brilliant ability and has
q wife and two children daughter aged
seventeen, aud a son aged fourteen. At the
time Mrs. Scott made the confession Maupin
was in Chicago o, holding a series of revival
meetings. He was telegraphed for, and
came home on the first train, not knowing
the purport Of the dispatch. The church
will suspend Maupin until complete examlna-
ton IS made into the facts of the case. Mrs.
Scott also made the same confession 10 her
parents and three elders of the church.
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MANUFACTURES FOR MEMPHIS.

When the present stagnation of trade
passes by, and activity and life returns to
commerce, and capital begins to seek out
means Of investment, it will be suicide on
the part Of the people of Memphis if they
fail to establish manufactures in this city
Such experiments as have been made have
met with a degree Of prosperity that de-
monstrates what could be done on a larger
scale. Our oil mills, the cotton aud wooden
null in Fort Pickering, the cornmeaI mill on
Towards row, the gin manufactures near the
Gayoso house, the barrel mandatory that
has demand far beyond its powers to FL,
and other similar enterprises, are clear proof
of this fact. Our position on the Mississippi
river, the increase Of commerce on the Ms
sissippI in consequence Of the sue
cess of Eadss jetties, the cry of
a large portion Of our population
for employment, all point to the success that
lies before Memphis, when she shall make
herself something more than a mere recip-
lent of products from one quarter to transfer
them to another. We have, also, the ex-
amples Of other southern cities to give
all the encouragement that could reasonably
be asked for. Mobile, which has had serious
difficulties to contend with of late years, and
whose cotton trade has for some time been
less prosperous than she could wish, has seen
the Importance, and indeed the necessity, of
introducing manufactures as a means Of
prosperity. She has started a cotton-miIl,
and after an experience Of some months,
running seventeen hundred spindles and nine
carders, its managers expect to haze soon to
double their machinery, if the prosperity that
mas already attended the enterprise should
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MISCELLANEOUS,
Buildings Opened as to Chancery Sale OF
Real Estate.

Nos. 1928 and 1892, R-Chancery Court Of Shelby
cOunty-Humes Il POston VS.. II. 5. NewsOme ct al.
PY virtue of interlocutory decree for resale
ID tered in the above cause on the 2ist day Of
February, 1879. 81. B. %, 1879, WILL at the Clerk
and Masters Office, Courthouse Building. Memphis.
Tenn, receive bids until Monday, March }. 1879.
at II O'Clock M. agreeable to the terms OF sale
herein, the following described pl opery, situated
in Shelby county, Tenn, t0wtt: Being in that Part
of Memphis known as Chelsea, ana being parts OF
lots 27S and 279 on plan of GTeenlaw addition to
Memphis, and beg inning for the part owned bS II.
S. NeWsome at stake the northeast corner Of Fifth
and Kerr streets; thence with Kerr street 80 feet;
thence north l4Sls feet to an alley; thence west
with said alley so feet to Fifth street, thence south
wardly with east line OF Filth street &c the beiH
Ming The property will be struck OF TO the highest
ana best bidder on said March 3, 1879, at u d.
Terms of Sale-Un credit OF SIX months; Iur-
chaser giving bond and security, bearing interest
from date and lien retained 10 secUTe purchase
money. This FebruaTy21 1879.
r j. BLACK. Clerk and Master.
u. ". Miller, Humes POstOn, and Ciapp 4
Meux, attorneys.
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PAY THE PRRACHER.

There seems to be matter of stupendous
Indifference on this subject or paying the ministry
Some pay preJty lbeTallJ others pay little, others
PROMISE but never pay while the great majority pay
nothing and arc perfectly Indifferent on the subject
II Is the duty OF every church member TO eontTlDuts
something 10 the support OF the ministry be IL ever
SMALL and II + also the duty Of every good citizen
TO do the same. But besides this, there Is also a
penuHOusness on the part OF some
In this matter. thar Is operating so seriously In pay
ing the preachers OF tbs clly; whlcn ought 70 De
remedied and II the Cerdt Will join us we think II
would be a good plan 10 make exhibit OF what our
church-peOple and others are doing IN the way OF
supporting the respective ministers OF Water valley
Let US do ike the Memphis APPEAL-send out a
commission OF investigation
We hope our contemporary, the Water Val
ley Courier, will send out a commission and
give the world the result Of his investiga-
tons. There Is no form Of meanness so con-
temptble as that which underlies the dere-
liction of churches IN the matter of paying
the preacher. IL is absolutely dishonest in
a body Of protesting christians OF religionists
Of any name to hire a man at 50 much per
month or year, and after securing him pay
him in slippers, dressing-gowns, ladies'
smiles and promises to pay prethly fsped.
God and themselves only know the humiia-
ton and makeshifts to which men of ability
are driven 10y the cruel Indifference of Sun
day-law christians to the performance Of
their promise to pay the preacher regularly.
One such example we recall as within our
own knowledge, when preacher and his
family ate meat but once week for two Or
three years, living for the most part on bread,
molasses and coffee. And yet ne was prom
ised, and it was agreed to by the cOngrega-
ton, that he should be paid two thousand
FIVE hundred dollars each year. He did not
get it, and, indeed, much of the little he did
get was through fairs and other such methods
of begging a support from the general pub
lic-sinners and saints ahke-as Sunday-law
christians delight in. THIS poor mans wife
went to her grave heart-broken and spirit
broken, until the end hiding her bitterness
of soul under a mask Of patient resignation.
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| am hopeful, aad there you have the story,
my story. in full. Don t publish it, for, If 1t
was to appear IN PRINT, it would undo every
thing that has been done toward effecting
A RECONCILIATION
between your humole servant and Mrs.
Oates, whom esteem as the dearest Jewel of
all womankind." With a view to ascertain
ing Mrs. Oates's side of the love-story, the
Star man called at the Laclede hotel, but the
lady was at the Olympic theater.
CHARLES 5. AMMEL,
the manager of the Oates company, was found
during the evening, and on being questioned
as to the relations existing between Mr.. Con-
nell and Mrs. Oates, stated that there were
none whatever, with the exception Of busi-
ness relations Of the mildest possible form.
Mrs. Oates had detested the blatant English
man from the first, and was never on more
than distant speaking terms with hun. When
Council broke mis- arm at Virginia City, Mrs.
Oates pitied him, and expressed regret for the
accident, just as she would have done had 1t
have been the humblest member of the chorus
instead OF Edward Connell, the baritone, and
he had presumed upon that pity so far as to
misconstrue it as love of the deepest and
never dying kind. Mr.. Ammei had had a
vast amount of trouble with the baritone,
who was only a vain, superciious fellow, with
a good voice, and who would drink like
fish, and talk for hours without the least re-
gard for the truth. He had, time after time,
cautioned the baritone as to how he should
GAUGE HIS CONVERSATION,
while In the company of newspaper men, and
was certain that Mrs. Oates had never given
him any encouragement whatever in his
love- making; if any of his (Connell's) maud
lin utterances were published there would
be trouble IN the camp when it came to Mrs.
Oates's knowledge. As an interview could
not be obtained with the sprightly madam
over the subject of Edward Connell's love, it
now remains to be seen whether, after perus-
ing this artile, she will gather him to her
bosom with all of the pent up love Of two
years and better, or discharge him from the
Alice Oates new English comic opera COM
panY,
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Colonel Payne, chief engineer Of the Brook
Ign bridge, gave the following statistics in
his testimony before the New York Legislative
investigation on Tuesday THE average
hight Of the bridge from the center of the
towers to the middle of the span Is a little
above high water, and the lowest point under
which vessels would pass is that Just above
high tide. AS to the capacity of the bridge,
he said that forty-fv thousand persons per
hour, travelling at the rate of two hundred
feet per minute, could PISS over the prone
made, while fourteen hundred and forty vehi-
Giles, averaging three and third tons each,
could pass over the structure at the same rate
of speed. The entrances to the approaches
to the bridge are to be one hundred feet in
width" A Captain Nelson next testified
that the largest ships would not be pre-
vented from coming here on account of the
bridge.
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NOTICE.
InDOrtalt Notice
TO DELINQUENT
TAX PAYERS!


mEMPHIS. TENN, March /. 1879.
PY decree Of the United States Circuit court en-
ID tered February II, 1873 il is made my duty ito
demand and collect all the unpaid taxes due 10 the
Oily of Memphis. In the lawful money of the United
States, and II necessary Ito bring actions at law
suits in equity, against any person owing debts or
taxes to the city of Memphis"
This is therefore 10 make such demand, and 10 no
dty all persons to come forward in obedience to said
decree, and make prompt payment OF all such in
debtednesS. With full appreciation of the severe
strfngency which from many causes embarTasses our
people, most respectfully urge all debtors to make
every reasonable Sacrifice TO comply with this decree
and thus avoid litigation and expense These IN
paid taxes are an incubus on Memphis, most seri-
ouSly impeding its progress Cur creditors greatly
over-eStmate their real value. much TO our positive
injury. Their confident belief that nearly three mil
lions OF dollars including S7S should DC collected
on back taxes, is yell calculated 10 induce mDatieps
and complaint "a faithful paynen; OF ali taxes
actually due would disabuSe their minds of this Ct
TOR, and effectually encourage a much mare liberal
spirit toward US in the future When all citizens
stand equal In the discharge of their tax obligations,
and the payment of our city debt shall depend alone
on future assessments, the situation Will be much
more readily compTeherded by our creditors, and it
cannot be DOUBTED that the effect would be highly
favorable TO us. The prompt payment Of these back
taxes would, beyond all doubt lead directly to relief
from our present embarrassment and speedily to a
return of former prosperity Every good citizen Of
Memphis Is deeply interested in a prompt cOmpli-
ance with the order of the court.
I LATHAM
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Serious Accident.

CINCINNATI, March 6.-By the falling of
a cylinder ten feet in length, in the sugar
works at Vincennes, Indiana, yesterday,
VIM. Jones and VIM. Shoup each had hand
cut off. T. 3. Ross was badly bruised on the
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The young Ladies' of England might learn
a lesson from the following incident which
has Just come to notice: The Marchioness
OF L1rne has beer an active patron of and
visitor at the Victoria hospital for sick chill
dren IN London. On one occasion she no
ticed some dust on the floor. "This room
ought to be swept more carefully" she ex-
claimed; then seeing a broom in a corner,
evidently left by the housemaid, who van
ished on her entrance, she took it up and
began playfully to sweep. Her companion
demonstrated, when the princess said, laugh
ing, Now, DO you suppose my mother left
my education so unfinished that | can't
sweep?" and accordingly, half in jest, but
witt askill many housekeepers sigh for, the
little lady vigorously swept the apartment,
having taken the homely precaution of pin
ming back her gown before she commenced
the operation.
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M EDICAL.
Radison UIspensary,
PRESCRIPTION FREE

lNOR TIE SPEEDY CURE OF Seminal Weakness
L. Lost Manhood and all disorders brought on by
indiscTetion or excess. Any druggist has the ingTe
dents. DR. JAQUES d CO.,
40 West Sixth street. Cincinnati
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sInguIar CoIneIdencea at q DeatI. seene.

mother Of Stanton, the superintendent of the
Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad, killed in
the late bridge accident, the one from Ohio
and the other from Philadelphia, hastened
to him by the quickest route and with the
least delay. One arrived before he breathed
his last, and tee other after, but IN time 10
see him laid away in his last resting
place. The parents n ct thus for the first
time IN thirty years. Long years ago they
separated and were divorced, and young
Stanton took his mother's maiden surname
Both his parents were remarked, and to
make the strange occurrence still more singu-
lar, they were both accompanied on the sad
pilgrimage by their respective mates And
thus happened, probably, the straugest meet
ing that ever occurred at a death bed scene"
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Notice to the Creditors Of Taylor,
Mcclure IL Co.

TTNBE undersigned. assignee of Taylor, Mcclure
L Co., hereby gives notice to the creditors OF
said firm to present and file their claims at the
former Office of said firm, 369 Front street. with
DR.. Justice, the book keeper, who be found
there every day, from q TO 10 O'Clock am. DistH
buttons will be made speedily possible.
L. z. COOPER,
= Mc(,nfra ~ N
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l am hopeful, aad there you have the story,
my story. In full Don't publish it, for, If 1t
was to appear IL PRINT, it would undo every
thing that has been done toward etfecting
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
The Contested Election Case,

MEETING OF THE SPECIAL COMMITTEE
OF THE BOARD OF EDUCATION LAST
EVENING.
The special committee consisting of
Messrs. Conrad, Ruth and Morrow, ap-
pointed ct the meeting of tho Board Of
EducAtion on MouJayzto examine toto
the contested election case of the Eighth
Ward, met last evening in the Board
room. The contestants are Messrs.
Lloyd and Grubb, who set forth in their
petitions that the officers who held the
election were not duly qualified accord-
ing 70 law that no tally list was kept (;
and that . number Of the votes polled
were illegal, tho voters not being quah-
fed 10 vote.
Several witnesses were examined,
among them being being Mr.. Quinn, the
inspector, who testified under oath thai
the election Offices were all duly
qualified according to law, but that no
tally list was kept.
After the witnesses were examined
the room was cleared and the committee
went into secret session. .t
just what conclusion they arrived,at Is
unknown, but IL asserted BY several that
the committee willrepnrt In favor of the
two members who have been seated fr. IN
that ward, Mr.. d. O'C. Kenney and DR..
Brown. .ff
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
The Indian TERRITORY Rssa1

WAsHINGroN, May 9.--Secretary
Scburz said this morning that the
threatened migration into tho Indian
Territory turns out 10 be not so formida-
BILE as has been reported. Carpenter, its
chief promoter, has been levying contri-
buttons GU the merchants of the border
towrs promising in return that be would
turn the stream of emigretion through
their towns, which would benefit them
greatly. The Secretary said that all re-
ports to the contrary the Administrative
is very much IN earnest in this matter
and will surely stop the movement. A
question OF much interest now Is, what
hall be done with the men who are IN.
iiing tue movement In opposition to the
Presldent's proclamation.
Some people IN Washington and else.
where have been sending circulars invit-
ing emigrants to join the movement, ,and
insisting that the attitude of tho Admin
istratiOn Ia not warranted by the law
Mr.. SchurZ said that the d. department. had
not yet sufficient evidence on which e
| convict any one, but there 10 no doubl
| thst the Department Of Jus ice will look
into the matter, and IL possible win 50.
cure the indictment Of three perR 0us fol
c0nspir'ng to violate the law. It Is moi
vet certain that an existing statute coveI
| the offense, but IL there is one that does
aud the evidence can be found the ues-
tion will undoubtedly be brought before
the courts. -.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
! RE Iksneas I1isAsvay.

In 1870 the Kinep Hoad, now Walnut
street, MiIford, Wos surveyed and laid
out to b. forty foee wtdes In l506 james
johnson re- eyed it aud iasd ont its
m. cts and bouuds. But By gradual enl
oroaohmeues lann boldsD ON Sue wsss
side have taken In from fonr "a fourteen
feet OF it and nov! the town csnhmiaslon-
ers hsvs ordered Il widened q IT, orig
ns1 bound$ ftvm 9ssOp pdstEset northW6s1
TO tho voWn Mmifs. Thus order tskse 81
fourteen fset Of Dr. Clafkis front gard,
which v % sloeed and walled By kssvy
stose and bsIck WALL put mp b. Dpnisl
Goodwin, xbsn. hs built The housss It
also fsk+i on : strip of Al the loas y the
West tlde cleaP nut 70 the forks Of TIE
road at Wilbuf's plsce. e
The same stats ~ facts Islso exists - 70
N North STIR e. excspt that ths encreech-
meut here .bay been from the East side
and this sIso tke commksuiopers have or
dered Opened ont - ~ sga! width III
the way out 20 The forks Of the rop0 -
Wilbufs alyo. Tbis will make . pEOpof
sud much hssdsd 'lmpfovensst a the
northern approachee to the town and
the commissloners deserves the tbeuks
OF the pseple fOr hooking - eassfa1ly
after the pubic welfhss tn this ssspsct.-
MtVOf0 Me1Vs ~ Il ssfs-ai a. NJ
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
FIFTH EDITION.
Three Nexrees Ma.eed.

AUGUSTA, Ca, May 9.-Two negroes
Tom Jones, alias Satterwhite, and
Henry Messed, alias Cantello-were
hanged to-day at Appling, Columbia
County. Jones killed q negress in 1875.
McSeed killed his son in November last
because he belived him guilty of steal
ing from him. He had the son a. rested for
burglary, but there was no evidence
against him in t e preliminary trial and
he was discharged. The father became
exasperated and waylaid and murdered
him. There were about four thousand
persons In attendance at the execution.
Satterwhite said that he was innocent of
the crime that he did not intend to
shoot the woman, with whom he was
living as his wife, but the man of whom
he was jealous, and that his life was
sworn away by negro witness named
Peter Luke, who had a gaudge against
him.
Mcseed acknowledged bis crime aud
spoke from the gall0ws In Z rambling
manuer. Both men we're much affected,
.,tns o1t met death Ca, calmly. expressing them
were pulled over their eyes at IL O'Clock
aud the drop fell i've minutes after. Nc
Seed's neck was broken by the fall. Sat.
terwhlte struggled violently, but died
quietly. E Eh ~
FAYETTEvILLE, N. c., May o.-Rlch.
ard l. ., a negro burglar, was publicly
banged here TODAY. He confessed his
crime on the scaffold and said be deserv-
ed to be hanged. This ls the only execu-
ton which has taken placs here during
the past twenty years.
The daily gazette., 1879-05-10
An Editor surpr~ieal.

While Mr.. solomon H ersey, editor of
the kepublic0n, was at church, Ias' night,
h- was called Out by messenger who
Informed him that he was wanted at
home lminediatrly. Fearing some 0f
his child eu hal b-en taken sudtleuly Ill,
or that som.thing' very unusual had hap
penrd, Mr.. H6rsey hurried home with Y
mind full auxio0s forebOdings. On ar
living ut his huuse, No. 7i8 Madison
street, he was asi Oni>hed to fiud large
company assem- bled. who Informed him
that they had como 10 help him celebtats
his fifty second birthday, m event
which had almost entirely slipped from
his mind. The company bought an
abundance OF refre hments, among
which was en- Immense cake, iced In the
most splendid manner, aud, beal ing the
inscription, "Soiomon Hersey, 52nd
birthday" This cake was presented 20
Mr.. Hersey with the compliments Of Mr..
Daniel B. and Mrs. Patience Hull, Rev.
J. B. Mann making tine presentation
speech. Tue company, after spending
. very pleasant evening, retired, wish
ing Mr.. Hersey hfty-tw0 more years Of
life, and leaving him inspired with q
'resh vigor to pdrsue his editorial labors.