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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-04
TENNESSEE POLITICS.

Barrett for governor is the suggestion of a
West Tennessee man who thinks the crooked
senator a martyr.
The Hon. J. d. C. Atkins publishes a let
ter in the Paris Post formally announcing
that he will not be candidate for Congress.
The amount OF the State debt proper, in
stead of being, as some urge, from $4,000, 900
to Sc 100000, is demonstrably a little more
than IS, 100000. Whatever else may, figures
don't lie.-Frdakiia Progress. Some newspa-
pers do, however.
The Democratic party in Tennessee has it
In its power to live. If it decides to do so
on the Doth of June it will carry the State;
but If it does not come forward bravely, and
forgetting all differences, resolve to remove
the faint of reputation that cliDgs to the
State, it will have to step aside and let some
body administer on its estate. 1t is now or
never, and it is a moment fraught with most
important results TO our State. The party
ought to live, and it will live if it will do its
duty. Let the State debt never again appear
in its platform.-CotuHbid Herald.
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AsorHEs SIR ROGER rroHBoKNE

Many years ago Sir Roger Tichborne left
his English home and was lost sight of, and
was supposed to be dead. A vulgar, ill-bred
man, with none of the accomplishments the
missing man had possessed, appeared at
length as claimant, but legal investigation
gave him home in Jail as an imposter. To-
day another Sir Roger Tichborne starts up,
this time in California, and his supporters
are sure he is the right man. F. NJ. Pixley,
editor of the San Francisco Argonaut, is
prominent in his behalf; he says that in Feb
ruary he came to know that person known
as George Ogden Ferris was the missing
Tichborne. He has been guest with General
Barnes, who speaks of him as highly edu-
Gated and as conversing without excitement
of his adventures and future assumption OF
his rights. He Gays his mother being French
was kept at distance by his fathers family;
he took her part, and his aunt, Lady Dow
mer, visited her spleen upon him as we'll as
upon his mother; in this she was partly
moved by questions of succession to prop
erty. Embittered and disgusted he took an
oath he would leave the country for a whole
generation-thirty years-until his mothers
prosecutors were dead. He came to America,
enlisted in the One Hundred and Sixth Reg
iment, New York, lost a hand 10 battle at
Petersburg; had previously served on the
United States ship Flag. At the end
of the war he went back to Liverpool,
but feeling he was breaking a solemn oath
he returned, and has lived ever since in San
Diego, Cal. In March he endeavored TO re-
turn to England, but had not money enough,
and Mr.. Pixley assisted him to come to San
Francisco. Charles Burden, who had known
him in England, was found to be living in
Tuolumne county and was sent Tor; ON his
landing from the ferryboat Tichborne, as he
claims to be, at once pointed him out. Bur
den did not at once recognize him, but did go
on their chatting over boyish recollections.
Burden is a respectable man, coroner In
Tuolumne county. Mr.. and Mrs. Lane, for
merly in the employ of the Tichborne fam
ily, now residing in Costa county, recognize
him. Tichborne says now the thirty years
are up he shall return home unannounced,
and there will be plenty there who can iden-
tify him. He is a very pious Roman Cath
olic. and his conduct and language are ire
proachaSle. He is now at San Diego with
his family, but will start for England as soon
az he gels the means. He has several chill
dreu. all who have names after some one or
other of his English relatives. According to
oil this account still another TichborHe case
is to trouble the present Possessors oil the
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He EOt the Desired Information.
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1t was in the smoking car on the New
York Central. There was one chap who was
clustering good deal, and telling Of how
many duels he had fought, and behind him
sat a small man reading magazine.
"Sirp said the big man, as he wheeled
around, what would you do if challenger
"Refuse," was the quiet reply.
"Ah! / thought as much Refuse and be
branded a coward What if a gentleman
offered you the choice of duel or public
horse-whipping-then wbat?"
/ "Id take the whipping"
'Ahi ] thought so; thought so from the
looks OF you. Suppose, sir, you had foully
| slandered mel"
81 never SANDER"
"Then, sir, suppose / had coolly and de.
llberately insulted you? What would you
do?"
"Pd rise up this way, put down my book
this way, and reach over like this, and take
him by the nose as l take you, and give it a
three quarter twist-iust SOP
When the little man let go OF the big
mans nose, the man with the white hat on
began TO crouch down to get away from bull
lets, but there was no Ehooting. The big
man turned red, then pale, then looked the
little man over and remarked:
"Certsinly-of course-that's it exactly ~
And then conversation turned on the gen
eral prosperity OF the country.
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strength and purity Of heart so that they
Inay not in the discharge of their duties adj
minister a single drop OF poison to be in
stilled into the veins of the great reading
public. The press surpasses everything in
its modern growth, and is the necessity OF
our ripper life. the work OF repre-
sentative journal which keeps pace
with the march of the age, and rep
resent' its thought and enterprise, has 30
much power that it becomes part of the
nation itself. The newspaper is the most
remarkable outcome of our modern civiliza-
ton, and the signs of the times indicate that
this great power for good or evil will con-
tinue to grow better until its usefulness will
be unalloyed with the dross of evil. Indeed,
the glory and power OF the press distance the
dreams of prophecy. Verify has it become
the
"MiEhtest Of the mighty means
On which the arm OF progress leans
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE.
An "OutraSed Mother Objects 10 the
LeyeIfng of the Graves.

LeVeIfng of the Graves.
To the Editors of the Appeal:
Let me, through your paper, appeal to the
lot-owners of Elmwood Cemetery to use
some means 10 prevent the Dissertation Of our
little babies graves and the unjust infringe
ment on our rights. Are We, the single
grave owners, who / understand have no
voice in the matter, to sit quietly by and
submit to this horrible outrage, and have no
redress except in the removal of our dead,
which with many is an impossibility? The
question | ask is this; Have they any more
right to tear and trample down my poor
cbild's grave than they have to destroy the
mounds in any rich mans LOTT Messrs. direct
ors, have you set the example Of desecrating
the graves over the forms of your own loved
ones? The little space my darling rests in
is as much my property as if bad bought
100 feet, and should not my rights be as
much respected? The question has been
asked IL i was their intention to level the
mounds in the lots, and the answer wac, they
would with the consent Of the lot-owners.
You have not asked our consent; and surely
had it been asked, we are not so utterly de-
PRAYED as TO have given 1t. In one voice we,
the single grave owners denoHnce the plan as
vile and Decorating. ! would ask the lady
who so CALAMITY defends the directors in this
outrage, has she little baby lying there?
But l believe she said the charming walks
aud drives were especially dear to her. But,
kind lady, there is something more than that
to endear the place to rs, and We will never
consent TO having our children'S graves
turned into lawn. / am surprised that
anyone with a spark OF humanity about
them, much less men who are supposed to be
kind, christian gentlemen, should give their
consent to such an atrocious plan, much less
think OF enforcing it. Ii we have no right to
prevent this cruel aud heartless plan, and
the property We have paid for il not ours,
can we not prevent it from being divided into
lots and sold again? There has never been
a greater insult offered a civilized people.
AN OUTRAGED MOTHER
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THE rnIUwpus or THE PREss

In behalf of the press the APPEAL returns
thanks to Miss Lizzie A. McGrath for the
beautiful and exuberant tribute she paid the
press on Thursday night. In graduating in
the Memphis High Schools, this charming
and accomplished young lady selected "The
Irlumphs OF the Press" as her theme, and
the manner in which she discussed it shows
how we'll she understood the task she had
undertaken. 1t is rare that the graduates in
our high schools rise above mediocrity. Their
subjects are seldom rich in thought, striking in
discussion or memorable for taste and beau
ty' but In the dreary waste, Miss McGrath's
production comes as a refreshing inspira-
tlon-a welcome relief to the monotonous
routine and oppressive insipidity which
usually characterize the ESSAYS on such &C.
caslons. Conceding, rs all do, the power
OF the press; its possibilities for doing
both good sod evil, no topic could
have beep@iore appropriately selected. The
civilized world now regards the press as
~hghy engine. Whether guided by the
weak hand or the strong, the power to warn
or TO arouse, TO hush or reveal, to shape or
dlstort the public morals exists, and q heavy
responsibility rests upon the shoulders of its
Conductors Newspapers used to drag out
Precsrlous existence. They paid no atten-
tloh 10 the material development of home
lile' The theme most generally discussed
was, Pay the Printer" There was the
stereotyPed Selected Miscellany" the
houths Column" the "Poetry," and the
dear old Humorous Department" contain
anS the jokes which Noah cracked in the
ARK There was no news-nothing but ap-
peas Tor the lew Subscribers to 'pay up," as
Inc EDITORS family was cold and hungry,
ana would be compelled to suspend unless
Ine party rallied and furnished him with
paper ana Ink. But of late years the press
mas bounded into power which makes it
the lever and fulcrum that moves the
"ofid' And now that girlhood in her inno-
oehee and beauty discusses the triumphs of
S"e press, and attributes 10 it power awful
IN ha magnitude, the journalists of the
,a-,o,-. I'%.es should appreciate the grave
-y1i'"- 9i'hii'les which they have assumed.
I1Al'ors' as class, are not noted for metz
Du' lhey are fret and foremost In savocst;r,,
Everything calculated TO advance IN. -,
izAtion OF the age, and which make, III
wohsd Purer and better; and at the dead
hour Of night they ait alone, listening
to the :elanks Athe steam press, consciou
that everv 49, ...pf its great heart throws OF
the iunro., DO cir feeble thought. Cor
pcious that it win n'inue W 'Hio -0Ao'N
Injecting f.. drops into the gre'
food 81 ,r through every arter
of the ,no0sAt, they feel ii
awful resno o"nnaniy, y cir positions; an
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through the Northwest, privilege granted
was never before given to any
other person for a like purpose. "The
place was capable OF seating 1000 or
10000 people, with one OF the best organs
on the continent, built by man named
Ridges, from Australia, who had TO trans
port his materials over great and uninhsb-
tied country by Indians only. She also says
the Temple was the most perfect building
for sound she had ever sang N.
In addition TO other hardships and trials,
Nine. Bishop has been captured by rob-
bsrs and suffered heavy losses, both OF money
and Jewels, and that she can sing and play
as she does still Is a TACT that becomes the
more astonishing when the incidents Of her
career are known"
In 1S66, l believe she married Baron
Schultz, then her business msaacer, who Is
still living, and is very intelligent, practical
level-headed, sensible gentleman. To see
the amiabie gentlewoman a; home one would
never suspect
HOW ROMANTIC HER LIFE
had been. Captain Condron, OF the steamer
City OF Brussels, is Nine. Bishops son-in-
Law, and though her daughter Is dead and
he is married again. very close and tender
relationship still exists between them. The
captain brings her petted grandchildren over
from England TO see her occasionally, and
ha distinguished artist is q very proud and
.Ippy grandmother.
Nine. Bishop will never cease TO be
a-cils,ing long : she lives, or interest
Al = long she can be persuaded to speak
oil h-- extraordinary adventures and the great
men nj women she has known, or be Goa xed
into II art-criticism she Is so competent to
make. What her resources are | do not
know, but I fear that out OF the many for
she has bat little lett. Another thing | res
greet and cannot understand, that is no one
has ever yet written elaborate or suffi-
GENTLY exhaustive sketch of her life and
career, a. certainly among all the most
distinguished queens of song there Is none
more EMIT ed 10 such honor. The few lines
in the CeHhEy, for April, with which the
writer dismisses her are alike unworthy OF
him and her.
The drowning last week OF those two
muiscians-poor George Comfy and Herman
Reiizel-was a shock to the whole city. In
musical circles nothing else has been talked
of. / notice in this mornings He, aid Miss
Kellogg and Miss Abbott are raising funds
for Conly's widow. Poor young Rsiizsl, the
most promising pianist i'll this country, and
ranking with the first among students in
Europe, Rubenstein petted HIM, and pre-
dicted most brilliant things of him. He was
extraordinary reader OF difficult music
at sight, and, l believe, surpassed Ruben
stein himself in that wonderful accomplish
ment. What must have been that fathers
feelings when the terrible news reached him.
j. T. f
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TENNESSEE CROPS.

Columbia Herald, ID: "The wheat crop Is
very promising at present, and many think
it is the best we have had since 1854. Much
wheat was sown, and we hear of no failures.
......... At Cathey's Greek the corn prospect Is
good and there is warm weather, which will
Danish the destructive cut-worms ......At
CampbelPs Station most OF the cotton has
been plowed up and corn put in AT
Bigville the farmers think themselves
the worst treated people in the world
it rains too much, the army-worms
eat everything up, the wheat has the rust,
the cotton is dying, the apples are falling
from the trees, and the potatoes are small.
AT Spring hill the ravsges of the army
worm have subsidized. -. AT Cullooka they
are cutting wheat; there never was better
crop in the Sixth district; the sorghum
promises a good yield. -. In Perry county
the prospect is good for the wheat crop;
farmers are blowing corn the second and
third time. AT Williamsburg wheat is
harvesting, with good yield; oats and bar
ley doing well; warmer weather has i'm
proved the corn crop; cotton is worse than
for m any years; it is almost an entire fall
ure; every kind OF fruit is in good condition /;
the Irish potato crop is far, sweet potatoes
promising, but damaged by the May frost.
Camp Branch: The farmers are some
what distressed about the army-worm; they
have been playing sad havoc in some parts
of the country Wheat looks well and
promises abundance. Double Ridge:
Wheat, corn, oats and barley look
very well in this vicinity; wheat has
some smut, but only TO the blade. $500.
Dyersburg Clipper: Wheat harvesting has
already commenced, and promises yield of
from ten to twenty five bushels per acre.
The wet lands will soon be planted in corn"
....... Dresden Democrat sit is indeed cheer
ing to hear the glowing reports from the
wheat crop Such yield has not been pro-
duced for years." One of the wheat
crops harvested in Crockett county yielded
twenty-five bushels to the acre .........J ackson
Dispatch: "The warm nights are causing the
cotton, yhIch before looked so sickly, to
change its color, and it is beginning to grow
off very we'll. Corn is also growing very
fast, and has a very good color s......... From
reports received from different parts OF
Crockett county We are satisfied that the
wheat was not so badly damaged by the army
worm as was at first feared it would be.
Harvesting has commenced. The yield is
proving to be very satisfactory.
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ointment.
MY DAUGHTER Louise.
In the light of the moon by the side OF the water
My seat on the sand and her seat on my knees,
We watch the bright pillows, do ! and my daugh

In the light of the by the side OF the water,
My seat on the sand and her seat on my knees,
We watch the bright pillows, do ] and my daugh-
ter,
Ny sweet little daughter Louise.
We wonder what city the pathway OF glory,
That broadens away to the limitless west,
Leads up t0-she minds her of some pretty story,
And says ITO the city that mortals love best, u
Then say: ''It must lead TO the far away city
The beautiful City of Rest
In the light OF the moon by the side of the water
Stand two in the shadow of the W INSPIRING trees
And one loves my daughter, my beautiful daugh-
ter,
My womanly daughter Louise.
She steps TO the boat with n touch of his fingers
And out on the diamonded pathway they move
The shallop is lost in the distance, il fingers
1t waits: but know that its coming will prove
That 1t went TO the walls of the wonderful city,
The magical City of Love.
In the light of the moon by the side of the water
u wait for her coming from over the seas;
I wait but to welcome lhe dust of my daughter,
To weep for my daughter Louise.
The path, as OF old, reaching out in its splendor
Cleans bright, like a way that an angel has trod:
kiss the cold burdens its pillows surrender.
Sweet clay to lie under The pitiful sod;
But she rests, at the end of the path in the city
Whose builder and maker is Cod
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MISSISSIPPI POLITICS.

Rumor says that Major Barksdale will be a
candidate for the nomination for Congress
against Colonel Hooker.
Ex-Governor Alcorn, of Mississippi, would
like to represent the Shoestring district in
Congress, but says he won't scramble for the
place.
There is some talk that Ex-senator Bruce,
now living in Washington, will be a candi-
date for Congress from the Greenyille dis
trict
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One Cent Damages.

NEW York, June S.-A dispatch from
Little Rock Gays that after five days trial,
in the libel suit of Erber & Co. against r. q.
Dun & Co. for $4,000 damages, the jury re-
turned a verdict of one cent for the plaintiff.
The Judge held, however, that the reports OF
the mercantile agency, given in good faith,
were privileged communications.
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.Pana non-t KIM No >,

AsHEvILLE, n. C., June 81. E. StamaD,
a weIl-to-do farmer, who lives fourteen miles
from here, went eff on 4 spree on Sunday,
eight years old While her father wss sleep
ing off the effects of his libstions, the child
secured the bottle OF whisky and swallowed
Its contents and made her way home, where
her father found her drunk. He reused her
up and told her it was his intention to kill
her. She begged for her life, saying: cps,
don't kill me now, am drunk. Wait till
get sober" The Infatuated man dragged her
out of bed and beat her to death.
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ATLANTA, GA, June S.-Wm. Moon, SEN
fenced to be hanged yesterday at Carrollton
but who received a respite Of tweniy-foul
hours on account of an attempt at suicide
was executed to-day
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A Hieh.To.ed sharper Arrested

ST. LOUIS, June .3.-Chief of Detectives
Watkins LETT here last night for Shelbyville,
Tenu., armed with a requisition for the arrest
of Robert 5. Montgomery, president Of the
Savings Bank at that place. Montgomery
has been indicted by the grand jury here on
the charge of defraHding George H. Small &
Co., grain brokers of this city, out of $4,000.
He induced the firm to make large purchases
of grain on his account, pretending to be
exceedingly wealthy, etc. They were duped
by his plausible conversation, and, conse-
quently, when he asked them TO draw drafts
at three days, they granted indulgence.
Montgomery Immediately sold the grain and
pocketed the proceeds, while the drafts were
never paid. 1t is learned that Montgomery
had played the same trick on L. NJ. Samuel
d Son 10 the tune of $4,000, but, a threat
of criminal proceedings, settled the affair by
paying $4,000 in cash. II is also said that
he is known in Chicago, where he attempted
the same or similar game.
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SI8UBl
FulIy "a mucb more will

Fully as much more will be spent for do
nestle missions. Upon the retirement Of
the old treasurer, Mr.. J. w. Manner, the new
board passed resolution of thanks for the
very efficient and faithful services rendered
by him to the board during long term Of
years. DR.. Young, the new secretary, entered
upon his duties to-day, with, az he express .
it, bright hopes Of a prosperous four
wears run
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KILLED hN KeroAanP.

DECATUR, ALA, June "A kerosene oil
can exploded at the residence of Alexander
Adams, at Three Notch, last night, and set
FIRE to three children, burning them to death.
The accident was caused by attempting to
fill lamp while burning.
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Al Imporlanr Deci.ion.

LoUEyILLE, KY, June 3.-Judge Ed
wards, Of the Chzucery Court, has rendered
opinion in the case of Throckmorton
against the National Mutual Benefit Associa-
ton. Throckmorton had $1,000 policy in
the company which he assigned 20 one
Basey. After the insured died his heirs
claimed the money, because the certificate
read payable to Throckmorton's estate.
Edwards gave judgment 10 BaseY for 500,
the amount be paid for the policy. He said
in his opinion Of the case, the insured TO sell
or assign policy TO any one has no insurable
interest in life. If assigned to creditors the
There was a conflict OF law on these ques-
tons which had never been decided by the
courts Of this State. II is held that the
wording, "to John X. Throckmorton's es-
tate" meant his legal heins.
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Mr.. ROBERT McNEALY. Hsgersto,

Mr.. ROBERT McNEALY, Hsgerslown, Nd
writes: Il Was reduced TO a living skeleton BY
distIessful ailments that conf letely exhausted me
OF all vitality. AL tie organs Of the body-lungE
Iyel kidneys, heart. sight. hearing. brain, nerves
etc--Were in disorder and each gave me trouble
in greater or less degree I dOctered for kidney
complaint and dyspepsia; took consumption
cures; did everything in my vain effoits 10 md
relief Mr. Wells in Aorris's drug store, toiI I-e
10 Try Browns Iron BtteTs. Two bottles have
made ne feel like q new person, and / believe
am permanently cnTed OF all my distress. weigh
twenty-fOuT pounds more now than did = month
ago."