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Edison's System in London.

A demonstr alton OF Mr.. Edison's system
of lighting the buildings and streets of a dis
trict may be seen now in London. The dis
trict lighted is supplied by four circuits, and
there are nearly 1000 lights in ALL For
example, in the third circuit there are
twenty -four street lights, and nine lights in
front of the London and Dover railway sta
ton, together with lights in warehouses and
restaurants. In the Office on the Holborn
viaduct is the dynamo mi chine which cup
plies the district. The claim for this Lon
don exhibition is, that for the first time
there is shown perfect system Of electrical
supply, means for manufacturing, regula-
ting, distributing and measuring electricity
by meters for general consumption. The
equable distribution of electricity over the
district is prominent feature 10 Mr.. Edi-
sons plan, 50 that at any point OF the wires
a lamp attached will have the same illumi-
mating power as lamp at any other point.
Steadiness of speed is secured, and when
lights in circuit are turntd out the safety
of the lights remaining lighted is insured by
a resistance regulator in charge OF a man in
the dynamometer room, the engines speed
being slackened in due proportion. The
electric pressure throughout the circuit is go
low that child can hold the electrodes
without risk. Another illustration of the
safety of the system is given by the expert
ment of placing handkerchief over globe
and shattering the glass, the only result be-
ing the extinguishing of the light by the de-
struction OF the vacuun- The Insurance
companies take the risk of the central office
at an exceptionally lo~ rate, though hum
dreds of lamps are there to increase the dam
ger of injury 10 property. The question of
cost depends at present largely upon calcu-
lation. Mr.. Edison's London agent claims
that the electric light can be given away, if
need be, so large will be the revenue from
renting electricity tor other purposes, such
as the movement of machinery, telephones
and electric bells. The success OF the ex-
pefiment in extensive lighting is undoubted,
while the comparative safety and expense of
electric liz hting are matters TO be determined
by full and continuous experience.
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ARKANSAS NEWS.

Fayetteville issued $1,000 in scrip to de-
fray the expense of her recent epidemic.
How much would vaccination have cost?
Camden Beacon: Colonel Urquhart offers
$35, 900 toward putting up cotton-seed oil
mill here, if the city will add $4,000 to it"
Within the last four years the attendance
upon the public schools of Arkansas has in
creased from 3,744 to 9S,744, aud the school
revenues risen from $170,335 to $710,461.
The Clarendon Sun is in favor of the next
Legislature framing and passing a bill pro-
hibiting the sale of liquor, not only in viii
lagos and cities of the third class, but also
within the borders of the entire State.
Cherokee Advocate: "Where the railroad
crosses the Verdigris river a village has
sprung up. About 500 people are there,
including the gamblers, who have come to
help the missionaries to civilize the Indians"
Mr.. Peschke, agent for colony of Saxon
immigrants, has purchased 1900 acres OF
land in Pope county, and is making arrange
ments to have the colonists brought over
from Dresden at once. The new settlement
will be named "Saxonia."
Pine Bluff Press: "Many of our farmer
friends from over the river report that the
caterpillsrs are creating great damage in the
townships of Plum Bayou, Bogy, Melton and
Dudley Lake. They are swarming all over
the trees and larger vegetation"
Helena World: "There is still much
water lying south of town. A great deal
of miasmatic influences get their origin there,
and if there had been nothing else to cause
sickness this is enough, but the city is
healthy at present except that there are
about twenty cases of fux in the city"
The steamer Bransford reports bad
state of things on the st. Francis. There is
no danger now of drowning, but the condi-
ton of the people is very little better than
it was when the food was at its highest. The
buildings are, many of them, swept away,
and others that are left standing are almost
ruined. The stock is nearly all drowned.
We are carrying horses and mules up the
river every trip, but there will not be
enough in the country to make any kind of
crop. The people are without food, money,
stock or credit
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he origin of the Lana League.

The inspiration of the Land League il
due to James Fintan Lalor, who originated
the idea of refusing to pay rents and resist
ing the service of the queens writs, the idea
appropriated by Mitchell and published by
Lalor in the Irish Feton after Mitche's trans
portation. Lalor stated his programme for
a successful instruction thus:
al That in order to save their own lives
the occupying tenants Of the soil of Ireland
ought next autumn to refuse all rent and
arrears Of rent then due, beyond and except
the value of the overplus of harvest produce
remaining in their hands, after having de-
Quoted and reserved a due and full provision
for their own subsistence during the next
twelve months. (2.) That they ought to re-
fuse and resist being made beggars, lsndless
and homeless, under the English law of
ejectment- 80 That they ought further, on
principle, to refuse all rent to the present
usurping proprietors Tor lords paramount,
in legal parlance), who have in national
congress or convention decided what rents
they are to pay and to whom they are to pay
them. ~ And that the people, on grounds
of policy and economy, ought to decide that
those rents shall be paid to themselves, the
people, for public purposes and for behoof
and benefit of them, the entire general
people"
Davitt and Dewey, with the approval of
the Boston Irish, set themselves to promul-
eating these ideas, and hence the Land
League. The history of the organization is
related with brevity and summed up thus:
"The settlement of Ireland is supposed TO
be complete, but the moral Instruction
which led it has lighted fire which it will
be found almost impossible to put out with
out the destruction of further property.
Lalor's policy has been so far successful.
The peasantry are the lords of Ireland The
second part of the drama has yet to be played
out"
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Divorced After a " edded Life Of Nearly
Forty ears.

CINCINNATI, May 2.-The suit of Melcina
B. Nicely for alimony out of the estate of
her husband, J. NJ. Nicely, and the cross Pc
tition of the husband for divorce, were dis
posed of yesterday III the Common Pleas
Court by Judge Conner. The plaintiff urged
as a ground for a decree of alimony that her
husband was guilty Of gross neglect of duty
in failing to provide clothing, medical at
tendance, etc, and that she was compelled
to use her own means for these purposes:
that he unjustly accused her OF unchastity
and of insanity, and threatened to take her
life, and alleged that III consequence of we'll
founded fear for her life she left him in
March, 1881. Sde ayerred that he had real
and personal property to the amount of
$4,000. The husband denied specifically and
generally these allegations, and in reference
to the property stated it was rot worth over
$4,000, while his wife had $4,000 of her own.
He charges his wife with gross neglect refusing
to occupy the same apartments with him,
and for SIX years refusing to allow him the
rights and privileges of a husband, and with
having abandoned him without Justification
The wife filed reply denying The material
allegations and charges in the answer and
cross-petition, but admitting her refusal to
cohabit with her husband, and assigning as
a reason that he had committed adultery
with a colored servant; that she left him at
that time, but returned to prevent scandal,
and IN the expectation OF receiving from
him fall explanation of his conduct, but
tn at subsequently, she left as he continued
his i'll treatment of her. She denies that che
is worth $4,000, and AYERS that she has only
$1,000. The court found from the testimony
that Mr.. Nicely had provided well for his
family, indulgiDg the plaintiff, ard that
while he may have been in fault somewhat,
he had conducted himself with forbearsnce
and propriety. The charge of adultery was
not snst aimed by the evidence. There was gross
neglect on the part of the plaintiff in making
charges of adultery against her husband, and
in reference to the general performance o. her
marital duties; also in the matter of her re-
markable intimacy with man of worthless
habits, named Mcdonald, and although fire.
quently while in his company she was ac-
companied by her daughter and was friend
of this mans wife, she was on many occa-
sions in his society alone. Mrs. Nicely urges
that her motive was to assist in reforming
this man, but her conduct brought on her
the severe criticisms OF the community
where the parties lived. Her abandonment
of her husband was not justified. Taking
the whole case together, the court must
hold that she was guilty Of gross neglect,
and that her husband was entitled to a d.
vorce on that ground. The couple had been
msrried forty years, and the plaintiff is now
forty years OF age.
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Novel Divorce salt.

New YORK, April 2S.-In the Supreme
Court, chambers, motion was made before
Judge Barrett on behalf of Charlotte Rams
den for an order granting her alimony and
counsel fee in suit brought by her to obtain
d decree of divorce from her husband, Ed
ward Ramsden. She married the defendant
in Cologne, Germany, the British consul be-
ing witness, and the ceremony being in &C
cordance with Euglish law. Ramsden repre-
scented himself to be an English bsronet.
Sac had at the time of her marriage e60, 600
in money and jewelry. He gambled until he
had dissipated her fortune, when she left
him. He prevailed upon her to return, and
she borrowed $4,000 from her friends and
started him in the coffee business in London.
There he continued his designations. He
then accumulated debts of honor which
she sold out her furniture to pay,
and finally he had to come to
America to avoid arrest for debt. She
charges that he betrayed her scullery maid
and registered her child as that of the plain
tiff byIan English nobleman, the marquis of
Townsend. In September, 1881, she came
to this city and found him engaged in the
coffee business, having an annual income of
SIS, 900 and living with two women. The
defendant admits the marriage, but denies
the other charges; that in April, 1877, she
was convicted at Newgate of perjury and
sentenced to Millbank prison. When she
arrived in this country che went to his office
and threatened vengeance against him. She
went before the grand jury in this city and
made a charge OF bigamy against him,
which was thrown out. He concludes that
he is not 10 receipt of an income exceeding
$1,000 a wear
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GENERAL NOISES STATEMENT.
TENNESSEE NEWS.

On Friday, at Wartrace, it was believed
that Captain E. Fleming who was shot the
day before will probably recover. He is we'll
known as the captain who had a fight with
Colonel w. Il. Stokes, in command of his
regiment during the war.
Jonesboro Times: ~. d. Godfrey shot a
man by the name of Moore on Tuesday
evening, killing him instantly. They had a
quarrel at Godfrey's house. The mar
row-gauge railroad is advancing rapidly
near town."
Nashville Banner: "a number of the
principal merchants in Nashville publish a
by the undersigned that we will close our re-
spective houses of business at O'Clock pm,
beginning on the LIST day of May, 1882, and
continue until the 31st day of August, 1882:
and thus to give our employees and ourselves
an opportunity for healthful recreation dur
ing the summer months. 1t beng under
stood that in the event of an extraordinary
busy day rendering it necessary for any house
TO keep open, to complete the business OF such
day, beyond the hour named herein, it shall
not be regarded any violation of this agree
ment. There is scarcely day that presses
but can be seen from two TO five cars in every
freight train, loaded with agricultural imple-
ments machinery, etc, such as mowers
threshers, rollers, harvesters, planters and ev-
erythIng and Kind necessary Tor a farm, to
take The place OF manual labor. Their des-
tinations are for many points over the whole
South"
Chattanooga Times: Eight cases of small
pox were discovered Thursday evening in
small cottage, about one and a half miles
beyond Missionary Ridge, five miles east of
the city, all occupying one room, there being
four patients in each bed. One little girl, on
whom the care of the sick devolved, rema aimed
at her post with heroism, and ministered to
their wants to the extent of her ability. An
older son left the house, to escape the con-
tagion, and kept them supplied with what
food he could procure. The house stood
isolated, and the truth was not known to the
n-ighbors. The horror was intensified Thurs
day night by the death of the mother, the
remaining being then in the worst stage of
the fever. When doctor called the poor
girl looked to him IS TO an angel and chung
about him begging him not TO go away.
When the neighbors came to know kind
hearts quickly supplied help and food. So
much for neglecting vaccination. -. Eggs,
chickens and butter are beginning to arrive
and grow cheaper"
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CARLYLE AND EMERSON.

Mr.. Lowell, in his FobEe for Critics, says:
There are persons mola-blind to the souls make
and style,
Who insist ON a likeness 'twixt him and Carlyle;
To compare him would be vastly fairer,
Cariyleis the more burly. but + is the rarer:
BE sees fewer objects, but clearlier. trulier-
IL C. as original E-'s more peculiar:
Inst he 5 more of mAn you might say of the one.
OF the other, he's more OF Emerson
Z the ciearer-eyed Olympian, rapid and slim
The ones two-Ihirds NOrseman, the other half
Greek.
Where The ones most Astounding the others too
sleek:
C.'s generals require 70 be seen in the mass
Els specialties gain, If enlarged by the glass:
C. gives nature and God his own lit of the blues,
E sits in mystery calm and intense.
And looks coolly around him with sharp common
sense.
c. shows you how every day matters unite
With the dim, transdiurnal recesses OF night
While E, in plain, preternatural way,
Makes mysteries matters of men every day;
G. draws all his characters quite a ld Fuseli-
He don't sketch their bundles of muscles and
thews lily,
But he paints with brush so unframed and pro-
fuse
They seem nothing but punches OF muscles and
thews;
E is like Flaxman. lines straight and severe,
And colorless outline, but full, round and clear;
To the men he thinks worthy he frankly aecords
The design of white marble statue in words;
c. labors to get a. the center, and then
Take a reckoning from there of his actions and
men;
E calmly assumes the said center as granted,
And, given himself, has whatever Is wanted.
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ARKANSAS POLITICS.
The gubernst lrial candidates opened the
Prnra Gntrnrdnrr

The gubernst lrial candidates opened the
canvass at Van Buren, Saturday.
The Hon. John Kimball appears to be
gaining in favor as a candidate for Sta:e
land commissioner.
General Slemons says he is not Of tho;e
who "believe the Office should chase
modest man down and drag him before the
public"
Fishback has been again heard from in an
open letter to the Little Rock Gazette. He is
getting mouotonous, and should take rest.
There Is such thing as too much Fishbsc ok.
The coming campaign does not promise to
be so lively as foreshadowed some time since.
All fears of a split or division in the Demo-
cratic ranks have been dispelled by the wis
dom of the State Executive Committee, and
no issues are at stake TO disturb party har-
mony.-ArkansGs City Journal.
The Democracy of Marion, in convention
at Yellville, in Que of their resolves, an
nounce the patriotic pledge of "hesrty and
undivided support for all the various offices
TO be filled at the approaching State and
county elections to Democrats whose merit
and ability we deem best fitted to the posi-
ton sought, regardless OF any opinion he or
they may have or entertain upon any local
er State policy, relative to the constitutional
amendment"
Cotton BeIf BuIIetin.
MEMPHIS, Tenn, May ]. 1ss2. pm.
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INSURANCE.
CHERRY PECTORAL.
Nothing Short of UnmistakabIe
Benefits

Conferred upon tens of thousands Of
sufferers could originate and maintain
the reputation which AYERS SARsA-
PARILLA enjoys. 1t is a compound of
the best vegetable alternatives, with the
Iodides of Potassium and Iron, all
powerful, blood-making, blood-cleansing
and DEMONSTRATING and is the most
effectual of all remedies for scrofu-
lous, mercurial, or blood disorders.
Uniformly successful and certain, il
produces rapid and complete cures Of
Scrofula, Sores, Boils, Humors, Pim-
Piles, Eruptions, Skin Diseases and all
disorders arising from impurity of the
blood BY its invigorating effects it
always relieves and often cures Liver
Complaints, Female Weaknesses and
Irregularities, and is potent remover
of waning vitality. For purifying the
blood it has no equal. It tones up the
system, restores and preserves the
health, and imparts vigor and energy.
For forty years it has been in extensive
use, and is to-day the most available
medicine for the suffering sick.
For sale by all druggists.
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Fire Danger from Electric wires.

The superintendent of insurance in the
State of New York, savs, in his last report,
that serious danger ef FIRE is found in the
wires for the electric light. In our larger
cities and towns these wires thread. the
streets in every direction. They are stretched
upon poles few feet over our heads; they
pass over the tops Of our houses and into
our houses. OF themselves they are harm
less enough, and SO long as they stand alone
and kept from contact With other metals
when charged with cleo richly 10 danger
arises. But regardless of public and pri-
waite danger they are led BY the side Of and
across telegraph and telephone wires in such
near proximity that inter-communication is
sometimes inevitable and always imminent.
Positive and serious dangers arise from
this state Of things The most impressive
and alarming danger is that OF instant
death to persons coming in contact with
the electric spark. FirenIen are especially
snbiec< to this danger when working on the
rSois of houses or anywhere IN the nsighoor-
hood OF these wires The Use OIL the tele-
phone Is also threatened, for the interiseing
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Celebrated Observation-Disclosures Case

CHICAGO, May flames 3. Doyle is on
trial in the United States Court, on the
charge of having been connected with the
counterfeiting of United States bonds. The
case is a celebrated one, as the bonds were so
skillfulIy wrought as to deceive the treasury
and its band of experts, and the amount was
upwards of 100000. This is a new trial,
the former verdict against him being invali-
dated by an informality. There seems to be
little doubt to the facts of his guilt.
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shot Because Re would Not Drink.

CHARLESTON, W. Va, Nav about mid
night last night Huston Whiting, colored,
shot and instantly killed T. S. Greaves, in
front of Markley's saloon. Whiting had
asked Greaves to drink with HIM, and
Greaves declined. Whiting went out and
waited until Greaves appeared, when he shot
him without word. Whiting escaped, but
was arrested this afternoon.
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Crockett Left out.
To the Editors of the Appeal;

pIedI-
L have read in this mornings APPEAL,
on the first page, second column, the redis-
tricting bill for congressional districts,
and for the Ninth congressional district are
given the counties of Weakley, Gibson, Hay
wood, Lauderdale, Dyer, Obion and Lake,
leaving out the county of Crockett, which
belonged TO the Ninth congressional district.
Crockett county, named after the immor-
tai Colonel David Crockett, votes about
5000. Has she been left out in the cold by
our "Selons" at Nashville, or is it mistake
OF the printer This should be set right
Is Crockett county to be disfranchissd as TO
Congress? Yours truly, E J. REID, JR.
BROWNSVILLE, April p, 1852.
[Crockett was evidently left out of the
Ninth district by mistake of our CORE
spondent, possibly by the Legislature
EDITORS APPEAL1
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PrTTsBURG, May "A special from Green's
burg says that last night about IL o'clock
the house of Mira. Jonathan Stump, three
miles in the country, was broken into by
three masked men, The women were bound
and gagged, and one of them strung up to
the rafters, in order to extort information in
regard TO where their money was secreted.
Mary, the youpg daughter, was brutally
beaten, but all refused to give the informa-
tion. The burglars got about $500 and
escaned
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have. We have no doubt that that court
will issue a writ commanding Greenhow to
receive the coupons in payment of taxes; but
whether it shall or not, Its decision will be
final, and there will be no kicking against
the pricks. When Chief-J ustice Waite sends
down the decision of that august tribunal
there will not be Readjuster in the COM
monwealth, from William Malone down,
who will dare to recommend that the same
shall be treated with contempt" The Wing,
the Readiuster organ, on the contrary, re-
CARDS the opinion as great victory for the
Resdiusters and expresses confidence that
the Supreme Court of the United States will
decide in favor of the constitutionality OF
the "coupon-killer bill"
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OF the wires sends the spark to the telephone
instrument in the houses of citizsns, creating
the double danger both of fire and loss Of
HE such instances have occurred within a
few weeks past in the city of Albany, coming
under the personal observation of the super
intendent Of this department. The whole
subject is proper one Tor careful, prompt
and efficient legislation
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Fears Felt for the Safety OF Fort Hua-

TOMBSTONE, May "A courier of Epitaph,
from Dragon mountains, was fired on by In
dams near Helms rancho. He returned the
fire, killing one Indian. He heard rapid
firing in the direction of the rancho. Sew
eral Indians appeared near Contention this
evening. DIR. Larber had a fight with them,
killing one. Fears are felt for the safety
of Fort Huachucs. The families of Captain
Topper, Dave Haskell and four others are
there, and only few men to guard the post.
Volunteers are organizing.
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SON killed bxHls Father.

TIUIII III lAPPvHI NUIItspOHdeHN.I
NEsBIT STATION, DESoTo Co, Miss, AApril
30.-This morning Anthony Driver, colored,
at his residence, five miles east OF this place,
shot his son, young man eighteen or
twenty years OF age, so badly that he died
on Monday morning from the effects of his
wounds. The son sold on Saturday one
dozen eggs. but failed to pay over the
money promptly upon demand, and the
father attempted to chastise him, when he
tried to make his escape by running, offer
ing no resistance whatever, but Just as he
was passing through the yard gate the con-
tents OF a double barreled shotgun were
emptied into bis body, with the above re-
cults. The father and murderer has fled.