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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07

LOUISVILLE, April 6.-For some time past
there has been in contemplation the organi-
zation Of bar association, and the project
has been watched with interest by the legal
fraternity both in this city aud the entre
State. Atawell attended meeting yesterday
the society was formed, with The following
officers: President, b. r. BuckDer, of Lex
ington; vice-presidents-Wi William Preston
Of Lexington; John W. Stevenson, Of Gov
ioeton. G. F. Durham, of Richmond; Jame'
S6eeJ Of Louisville; Isaac Caldwell, o.
Louisville; John G.. Carlisle, Of Covingtoni
John F. Eiand, Of Hopkinsville; secretary
George Barber, of Louisville.
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There is Norhink Like Il.
KentueEy bar ASSOCIATION.

The failing powers Of digestion, assimila-
ton, secretion and eXcTeton restored to per
msnent health. strength and activity ny using
Browns Iron BittenS-a true tonic, perfect
strengthened, sure reyiyeri
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south Carolina election Cases.

CHARLESTON, April 6.-The argument was
finished to-day on the motion TO qussh the
indictments In the election cases, and the
Judge announced that he would take time to
consider the questions submitted motion
to continue until the next term OF the Rich
land County Court was denied. An aPPIi-
cation was then In .de for leave TO summon
witnesses Tor the defense at government ex-
pense, which the Court said 1t would con-
slider on the submission of the neces sary
afidavit-. Adjourned until Saturday.
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toned cigar, unless he has beforehand
"heeled" himself with supply;
The few sprigs of evergreen worn yester-
day gave evidence that outward observance
is not an infailible test of Cstholicity;
The principal talk, where two or three are
gathered together, is levees; those who pay
and those who build being chief controver-
sialists;
The eolored Baptists immersed several
converts at the foot of Main street, thor
oughfare sized OF nearly every town IN The
country;
the town is equal, ii not superior, to that of
and Vicksburg;
principally populate the streets Sabbath
| afternoons. Their betters are either in
church or asleep;
The two local newspapers get out their
weekly editions late Saturday evening"
move other journals similarly situated might
initiate with advantage;
The place where Love fell under fire from
Lanier is very commonplace stable, though
doubtless good enough Tor the purpose for
which It was then used;
The drives, so far as the water will allow
the "spinners on wheels" to go, are excellent
and all the fast men and teams are on the
road as occasion will permit;
The law against Sunday-selling of whisky
is most rigidly enforced, and drunkenness
and consequent rowdyism Is factor I'M
known to at least one day in the week;
The inscriptions on one signboard near
the wharf are, Seri0fiHl-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07
Plain Sewing.
Leyee Hands Wanted

The trade in gnat oil is an important e'e-
ment in the trade Of the town. Every branch
of business, even TO saloons, has out card an
nouncing that it can be procured "from
Within" SUNDAYS excepted.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-07

A POSITIVE curs for malaria, digestive and
1iuary troables Is found II Browns lion Bitters.
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TIE BOARD oF SUPERVISORS.

THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS,
answer ng to the county courts oil Tennessee
is IN session, and divides attention with the
Levee Board. The flood has entailed many
extra expenses supon the county, and ways
and means must be provided to meet them.
To this end the supervisors are bending
every effort. A resolution calling meeting
of the taxpayers, to be held here at an early
day, will probably pass, as several members
have expressed themselves as fayorably in
clined toward such measure.
THE STOCK LAW,
passed at the last session of the Legislature,
is an apple of discord in the board. In this,
as in almost every other legislative or execu-
tive body, there are two parties. Those who
may be said to represent the planters or land
owners are in favor of the enforcement OF
the law, which prohibits the running at large
of all live stock. The other, claiming to sit
as champions OF the laborer, are opposed 10 1t.
THE FIRST,
who will have TO bear the expense of repair
ing the hundreds of miles of fencing swept
away in the counties TO which the law
applies-Washington, Bolivar, Coahoma and
Quitman-say that unless the Ordinance Is
applied for one year-the limit OF the statute
they will be unable to make a crop, be-
cause Of inability to put up fences in time,
and hence the laborer will suffer to as great
or greater extent than they, for if there be
no crops to cultivate there is no need for
farm labor.
on THE OTHER HAND,
the man who does the hewing of wood and
drawing of water-otherwise, blowing, hoe
ing and picking-says he must have access
to the public range Tor his stock, or he can
not live. He made no corn last year; has a
few head Of cows, hogs, and possibly a mule
or two. To feed these he has not corn
enough to carry a shoat through the summer.
In short, he is dead sgainst the stock or fence
law, as an abridgement of his comfort and
privileges.
ONE OF THE FEW
extensive planters who oppose ~ measure,
assigns as reasons for his OPP osition: First
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THE PEOPLE RIPE FOR REVOLT.


Fran all that l can gather from the peo-
pie it is understood that those who effected
the "gerrymander" shall not, themselves, be
pro6ted by the outrage, deemed here a
crime. No such unequal and undefensible a
'gerrymander" was ever made in behalf OF a
party as was here effected in behalf of few
men. No such violation of congressional
law was ever enacted by State Legislature,
wheedled and forced to act by committees
constituted of candidates for Congress.
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Colonel John S. Wallace, contractor oil
some note in Arkansas, Is here on Ievee mat
tiers.
General D. H S ssions, of Bolivar county
is in town on business connected with the
levees in his bailiwick.
The thanks of the APPEAL are due &c
Colonel J. S. McNeely, of the Greenville
Times; Captain Julius Langsfelder, Of the
Greenville MiSs;Ssipptrn; Mr.. L. A. Woods
of the Mississi2Pian;; Judge E; Stafford
Captain w. o. Flynn, Colonel A. J. Paxton
Mr.. bennett, of the Western Union Tele
graph Company; Secretary Gunner, OF the
Levee Board; General w. 5. Ferguson, anc
other gentlemen whose names | am ashamed
to say have forgotten, for timely informa
ton regarding the subjects upon which
have attempted TO write.
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extensive planters who oppose tie measure,
assigns as reasons for his ops osition: First
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as to the result OF this years crop hereabouts,
but, striking average from information
from all sources, it is safe to say that three
fifths of the cultivated area Of the county
was under water, and that with fair grow
ing season four-fifths of the usual annual
crop will be raised-of course, promising that
no subsequent overflow of the banks occur,
of which only the most nervous seem at all
apprehensiye
The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1882-02-04
Why was Mr.. Tilden cheated out

tory. Why was Mr.. Tilden cheated ont
of the Presidency, to which he had been
SO overwhelmingly elected? Because the
Rings. monopofies and favored inter
ests which had grown up around the
general Government under the theory OF
implied powers, dreaded the application
of the Jeffersonian rule to their cases,
and foresaw that Mr.. Tilden would cut
them loose from their customary sup.
ports and compel them to stand or ran
without any artificial advantage over
the, rest of their countrymen. what
would have been the result had not the
Federalist Republicans thrust their
standing army between MIR. Tilden and
the Office to which the people had eject.
ed him, must remain forever matter OF
conjecture.
These are some of the reasons why
we have usually given our aid 20 the
Democratic side since the development
of Grantism. But If we thought there
was no difference of principle between
the two parties we should not concern
ourselves with the success or failure OF
either.-N y San. n - 49, -
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Is One Party Better Than Another,

We are frequently told, by persons
never troubled with political convictions,
that there is really no difference in prin-
ciple between the two parties which
make the politics of the country. Mr..
John Sherman is reported to have re-
Gently declared, while looking after his
Ohio fences, that this strife was all a
sham; it was merely a contest for office;
there was no principle at stake Yet
Mr. Sherman, who makes this extraordi-
nary confession. is the same who engin-
eered the Fraud of 1876, to keep the
Democrats out of the power they had
fairly won, and who openly said from
his place in the Senate that anything
was right which would prevent the OPP
posing party from gaining control of the
Government ,sEHnC
To those who agreed with Mr.. Sher-
man in this opinion, one which has been
,theughtlessly expressed by many NOR
ally better nsensfhan he, Il emns3 Be- a
matter Of small moment what party is
uppermost. General Arthur, for in
stance, being a personally honest
and respectable man, would, in the eyes
of such people, make just as good a
President as Mr.. 1ilden. On the other
. hand, prudent citizens who believe that
the doctrine and policy Of one party
make the peace and prosperity of the
country, and that those.of the other do
not, might consider the elevation to the
Presidency of any man opposed to their
party a great public calamity, even
while feeling the most profound respect
-f,v. HE v,<s,-- r,,ol oh orarfop 80
The Democratic party processes to-
day the principles Upon which that par
ty was founded at the foundation of the
Government, They've formulated by
Mr.. jefferson, and maintained in prac-
tice through the twenty-four years of
jefferson, Madison and Monroe. They
are allbased upon the great principles
of strict construction. That leads log
ically and inevitably to simple, pure
and inexpensive Government, confined
to a few objects and administered by a
few servants. The opposite doctrine cf
implied powers, ignoring the Tenth
Amendment, has been professed
by the opposition to x the De-
mocracy frUm the earliest 81 to
the latest trial Of strength between
them. 1t tends SUipe out the States
by continually tp6hching on local pow
er; to consolidation, imperialism, SPLEEN
dor, extravaganza; a multiplication of
office-holders, and ever increasing tax
alton to keep pace with increasing ex-
penditures. That these are sti1l the un-
DERIVING and animatlng principles Of the
two parties is shown BY very recent his
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A pang went through her heart with
the words, melancholy air fraught with
sobs of passion overwhelmed her spirit,
an infinite yearning as of thirsty soul
for sweet waters took possession OF her,
in that moment she had a glimpse of a
lost heaven and snatched at the golden
hoop that kept her. within a circum-
scribed limit.
A few days after this great and ter
rible excitement broke out in the little
town on the coast. A vessel had stopped
in the night to put off sick and unknown
man, who wandered from door to door
seeking refuge; it was Algy Fisher who
took him in and permitted him to die in
his bed. In few days terrible raging
fever broke out, and Mrs. Remicke hur
riedly packed her trunks and rode as fast
as horses would carry her to the railroad
station, accompanied by her daughter
and nephew. These two were not going,
Elaine uould mo-, go and Leonard dare
not. but the news at the station decided
him, and he was very angry at Elaine's
obstinacy. When she understood finally
his pusillanimous cowardice, she drew
the ring he had giyenher from her finger.
Take it." she said, ''Ihave no further
use for it. You are free.n3
The last she saw of him there was a
curious look of modification and vacilla-
ton on his han dsome face, but no MINI
bus of heaven Sencircled his cowardly
head.
When it was known that Algy Fisher
was dying, and Miss Remicke was his
nurse, people were excited, but not sur
prised. Death had long marked him
for his own, and no one worried now
over Elaine;- she had nursed all the sick
by turns and they were inclined to defy
her. The old minister, who came from
the next village to bury the dead, per-
formed a strange service one sun-bright
even; he stood by Algy Fishers death
bed and married this man to this woman,
and there were no dissenting voices.
Again a ring, but this time old and tar
nished, rested on Elaine's finger. 1t
had been his mothers, and it bore on the
inside the single word Mizpah. 'Let
this be for remembrance between thee
and me.". ce, .no Is q.
a"And is that the church of Mizpah?"
asked my friend, looking up at the
pretty stone edifice which was easily dis
cernible from our boat. btfl
'ss.fhat is the church, and the dark
spirituelle woman who breaches there
every Sunday is the pastor of Mizpah;
her people adore her, and you would
never know. only for sad pathetic .ex-
preston in her great dark eyes, that she
had nasSed through SO tra0ie a historv'1
''Mizpah! Mizpals what a pretty
napae," said my friend, smiling. ''What
asweet motto for an altar cloth"
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English and Foreign g.Birds.

The English birds are more domestic
and familiar than ours; more directly
and intimately associated with man; not,
as class, so withdrawn and lost in the
great void of the wild and the unre-
claimed England is like continent
keoncentrated- the waste land, the
barren Stretches the wildernesses left
o,ite The birds are.b brought near together
and near to man. Wood birds here are
house and garden birds there They find
food pasturage- and protection every
where. A land of parks, and gardens,
and Indigenous, and game preserves,
and a climate free from violent extremes
what stage for the birds, and for en-
HANGING the effect of their songs! How
prolific they are, how abundant flour
Esongsters were huntedz and trapped, by
bird faneiers and others, -as the lark, and
gold-finc and mavis, etc. are in Eng
land, the race would soon become ex-
tinct. Then, as a rule, it is probably
true that the British birds, as class,
havem9exoice than purs have, or GER
tain qualities that make their songs more
striking and conspicuous, such as greater
yiyacity,- aud strength. They are less
bright in pluinage, but more animated
in voice. They are not so recently out
of the woods, and their strains have not
that elusiveness and plaintiveness that
ours have. They sing with more conf
dence and copiousness, and as if they,
too, had been touched by civilization.
Then they sing more hours in the day,
and more days in the year. This is
AZ IL a.
climates I heard the sky-lark singing
above the South Downs in October, APP
parently with full spring fervor and de-
light. The wren, the robin, and the
wood-lark sing throughout the winter,
and in midsummer there are perhaps
three times as many vocal Threats as
here The heat and blaze. of our mid
summer sun silence most of our birds.
On the other hand there are, certain
aspects in which 6tir songsters appear to
advantage. That they surpass the
European species in sweetness, tender
ness and melody have no doubt, and
that, our. mocking- bird, in his native
hs,lnts IN The South, SURPRISES any bird
in the world in compass, Variety and ex-
ecution. is highly probable. That the
total effect of his strain may be less wins
ming and persuasive than the nocrurne
of the nightingale is theronly question in
my mind about the relative merits of the
two songsters. Bring our birds together
as they are brought togetherin England,
all our shy, woed-birds-like the hermit
thrush, the veery, the winter wren, the
wood wagtail, the water wagtail, the
many, warblers, the greenlet,, the solitary
sireo, etc. Abecpme birds .of the groves
and orchards, and there would be a burst
of song indeed.-John burroughs, in the
| Century. - tr.l.s,a 1gf tssfsf
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Yesterday was genuine November
day, cold, bleak and heavy winded. The
zephyrs which tore across Main Street
at the corner of White tore off and threw
into, the mud three female hats. One
owner said, 40 myr' another, +" Good
ness mer' but the third said nothing
until she got the hat on her head, Wien,
giving it a sharp little dab, she was
heard to observe; IF l ever marry
again I'll marry man that can swear, 1
know. ~ d,sbigy Neios.. .'ssa, 5i
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This strange looking creature is a
Billy Goat. He has Beard ON him that
Looks like Papa's, and he is Stronger
Butter than Mamma uses for Cooking.
What is the Billy Goat doing? He is
Eating an Oyster Can. If you Were to
go up and Pull the Billy Goats beard
you Would feel something Drop. And
it Would not be the Billy. Goat. Either
Denrer Tribune PriDaer.a9g SEQ
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"A band of outlaws raided the town

"A band of outlaws raided the town
of Bullion, in Idaho, some days ago, and
held undisputed possession of the whole
place for several hours. One of the
first places that Bill Kearney, the leader
of the gang, entered was the Office Of
the Gold and Silver Mining Company,
where he ordered HI. Stevenson, the
bookkeeper, at the end Of revolver, to
draw a check for $4,000 in his favor.
Stevenson obeyed, but when Kearney
laid his pistol down and began to fold
ap the check, Stevenson seized the pis-
tol quick as flash, leveled it at Kear-
ney, and ordered him to return the
check. Kearney had no alternative but
to comply, and left the place very crest
fallen, nor was Stevenson disturbed
again HcT2A%2 1HlA1
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Mcleod of Mcleod arrived at Nice
the, other day. bringing with him as
travelling companions two huge cats,
each one haviDga personal attendant
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- -
Opium kills about 100000 persons
annually in China
The sold pewter craze threatens 70
rival the craze for old porcelain in new
England.
"A Judge in Morelia, in Mexico, VINO
rave a bull fight recently, was hned nIty
dollars because his bulls were not brave
AT Zwicken, Saxony, spectaclcs have
cured very shortsighted mare OF Sny-
ing. How many poor animals nave
been beaten ON account OF naturai de-
feet in the eyes.
The Empress. of Austria declines 10
follow the French fashion OF wearing
short hair. When she is not in the sad
die she allows her long chestnut tresses
to float loosely over her shoulders.
The murder of Mr.. Gold in a COM
partment carriage in England has at
last walked up the whole country 70 the
necessity Of having railway carriages
open. with passage way through 'ne
middle.
= There is superstition among Penn
sylyania coal miners that II any person
whistles in mine some disaster IS sure
tn follow. The theory is that whistiing
drives away the good luck spirit, leaving
the miners to the mercy of spirits OF evil
A whistler was lately mObbed in Lack
awanna mine.
james j. Horsman, twenty years OF
age, while playing in a football match at
Middleton, England, recently, lost his
life. The teams were Middleton Rangers
and Higher Crompton, and the Rugby
rules were observed. One of the Cromp-
ton men threw Hersman, and falling
heavily upon him, fractured his spine.
The Governor of Bombay has tele-
grapbed to Lord Dufferin that the cholera
has ceased in Surat. Owing, however,
to a habit among the Japanese of disin-
terring and bathing the dead on every
third year. the world is liable to fresh
Eruption of that plague, as the dead
there of three years ago were the victims
of great cholera epidemic.
THEW ashington Capital says that Sec
retary FrelinghIysen is far from being q
man with cold heart, and it tells how
on a winter night, when the sleet was
driving and a poor Irish woman was
struggling along the icy pavement with
heavy bundle in her arms. he came out
of his house on his way to state dinner,
and with courtesy invited her to take
his carriage and tell the driver where to
take her.
"A noeei IN the exac' snape ~ can a. e
Pnan mI mas oeen pu,s ~ 1 = ~ Jr ~ ar
.. me luea, u coulse, ~ = ~ %%" re
curslonlsts py means u .ne nose.'S. rno
structuIe Is e'gnsy-:'A ice. :ong any sly io.
nve iee' nlgn. o'alIways insiuo sne lie
ieau up 70 = ny rcs..,u en' aliI yt"c :.
rooms IN the Dody, wnlie on 'Ie JAN 10
car forming goou PIacs % ou'iooN.
Inc exteI,or Is P slnseu anu San sanucu 81 a.
70 resemble an e'eRnants skin, ss eAo ooI,
ior tne WINDOWS nc cos' was Szo'oOV'
Citizens of Virginia City, New, were
for the moment attracted, few days
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THE KINGS QUEST.

The King rode fast, the King rode far;
Z" Now, by my crown" quoth he,
IL I, i'm all the land, shall find
A maiden of conteuted mind
BE she Of high or low degree,
By Pagan rite or Christian signed
My consort she shall be"
But when he CHANGED the maid to meet,
Sowell content was she,
She would not wed-but, deaf and blind,
Went on her way: I" Alack, find
I'm caught I'm my own web" ql,oth he;
"This maid of contented mind
Is too content for me-.
-CentuTU LIdqdzine.
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-0f 254 samples Of victnals lately
analysed by the Berlin authorities
forty -four proved adulterated. Green
tea was dyed and mixed with flowers Of
hay. cocoa with potato and corn -four.
There will be more rigorous penalties.
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The Shah of Persia pays bis bsrbe,
&5,0 900 per year.
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power OF curing diseases BY the laying on
Of hands, has had great succeAs amonga
of invalids who had not much the matter
with them, and to whom imagination
was much the same as medicine. When
he tried his ecclesiastical hands on
balky horse, he made lamentably con-
spicuous failure. The man who owned
the horse had paid the Bishop three dol
lars, as the ecclesiastic would not make
the attempt unless paid that price in adj
vance. The laying of hands on the
beasts head had the effect of frighten-
ing him ard making HIM furious. So,
from 9 klker, he sudde1I changed to
kicks9 Easskdng g, Rish down, the
adanal RAD avay,, and, = he IN Kicked
70 pieces the buggy which was fastened
behin9 Afh. The Bishops repufatio1 in
Salt Eoke 0fy aeia. healer ef dID6ose
does not efsnda high rs il did before
he attempted that expeiiment in horse
doctoring. -
20 While1th Portuguese church Of st.
John tie Baptist ID, Boston was under
going repqirs last September the work
men fcund . spning 81, pure. water be-
'neazh de. bpildidg:, & wellswsss dug,
above y = shrine Wa. erected, and the
water was consecrated Tie pastor OF
the church assured the people that there
was no miraculous power or even medi-
cal virtue in the water, and that If any
cures had been effected they were simply
the result of faith in God. But the peo-
pie would not accept the explanation, and
the stories of the remarkable virtues OF
the water spread rapidly. Soon there
was . perfect rush Of people to the
church and it was found necessary to
establish restrictions in regard to sup
plying the coveted fuid. Applicants are
now required to repeat prayers for the
souls in purgptory, and to drop cent
into the contribution-box, and are sup
Piled with the water il bottles