Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-10-01

| ANOTHER BATCH OF MARRIAGE ASSOCIATION
| swINDI.Es GONE DOWN BEFORE THE BREATH
OF THE LAW.
"Yesterdayn saws the Little Rock Gazette
| of Friday "was a cold day for wildcat corpora
tionsNfor seif-mutuai endowment associations.
| In past days 'wreckers used to hang out false
their destruction: lately scaipers OF the Pawnee
| tribe have been hinging out banners along our
streets to capture gudgeons, by promises tnat II tne
| gudgeon would surrender SIS he would receive IS
a day as long as he lived, or until he wished TO
selves out of the Ss5 for agents fees, Sc for sala
ries, thus leaving "a only to Fay the promised s.
| But yesterday all the banners were hauled down
son, the Chief, the 1Fsthetic. the Bonanza and
| other like fakes shut up shop. The fire of the
sti still" pretends to i've but it is mori6und It
/ maintains its existence to receive rem1ttances
the Gazette have not yet reached Is il not in or
der for Postmaster Edgerton to consider if he has
not the power TO withhold letters from that fraud,
| as the department has frequently ordered In the
cases of other swindling lodges?
Of the city authorities took hold Of the daily
rage associations, which were spr1ng1nG up ike
mu. hrooms, and from soil as odorous as tney ike
Chief Counts yesterday brought up before Judge
ciations: F. NJ EcEfoFd. IT,. oiiphant, jonathan
Kellogg, E: D: DrUmgoole, Nm j. DuysIts, j. d
der the gift enterprise ordinance, but the others
waived further pToeee dings until Monday.
day to themselves possibly. but they did not re-
cefve anything from this city. They got the
money from poor dupes in the country VINO nave
not yet heard of its character.
NASHVILLE.
"CoUNTRYMAs," THROUGH THE'AMERIcAN,"
TELLS HIS LONG cared FRIEND ABOUT THE
MATRIMONIAL swIEDLES.
Ny Long cared FRIEND-Your episile of
INQUIRY regarding matrimonial, birthday and an
niversary associations received, and hasten to
Indeed my knowledge of them is SO very ex-
tensively limited that doubt II my letter VIII be
orinciple when serves as a mud-sin for these
merry Institutions, it's about this way: Several
gentlemen club together. with combined capital
Somewhat less than the amount invested in the
Suez canal and procure eharter1 N S, sew
got about six charters on the same day, the only
difference between the charters consisting IN the
is only the large, wealthy concerns that can afford
to do this.
A CHARTER COSTS SOME TWO OR THREE DOL
LARS.
Well, you and forty-nine Others, say, who are
equally as intelligent. come and pay tn se gentle
men about $40 for the privilege OF joining their
association, in all about $1,000, and In conddera-
ton for this the gentlemen who run this associa-
ton agree to make each OF you pay the others
something whenever one OF you beat the rest
etc.-that is, if they can. Of course. If you won't
contribute to each others assessment II Is your
bly, true that you fifty fellows might have levied
this tax upon each Other In q cheaper way, but
then that would have taken all the romance out
of the thing. These institutions have done great
deal for the country in the way of developing its
hidden resources and its skilled labor They have
also done great deal in the way of raising rents
and creating demand for rooms hitherto unoccu-
pied. As many as
FIVE COMPANIES SOMETIMES Do BUSINESS IN
THE SAME ROOM,
which is not more than eight by ten Sometimes
even On the same table two companies may con-
OF one company may sit opposite each other at the
ends of the table while the president and secre-
tary of the other company can SIT at the sides. In
this way. by always sitting opposite each other,
they won t get things mixed-they can always tell !
which is the other company. They have done a |
great deal too, in the way OF giving employment |
to worthy young men who did not heretofore be- |
long to the class of toiling millions which has |
done so much for the State. No one can offer any
all II he hasn't the capital to start large enter
prise of his own, perhaps he can start small one
Work under one charter until he begins 10 realize
something from his labor, and he may in time |
be able to have thirty forty charters OF his own
ike some of the mllionaires engaged in the bust
ness and whom he now envies. If unable to |
raise all the capital himself, he could combine |
with several friends and
SELL A SHIRT.
damaged character, or a secondhand one, |
might be had for seventy five cents. IL is not es-
sential success that any considerable airs or L
style be put on first; let him conten. himself to
be patient and grow up with the business II a |
Young man hasn't the ready money % engage in
The business for himself, he can get an agency
from any Of these companies by producing GER J