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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
ANOTHER ROYAL BEGGAR.
Prince Leopold Granted an Additions al
Annuity of Fen Thousand Pounds
Because of His Marriage.
Moody and Sankey Asked to spend TN e
Year I'm LOndOn-Jeanne Bona
parfe Married.
PERILs OF RULERS.

BERLIN, March 23.-Bismarck is prepar-
ing bill for increasing the tobacco tax, TO
be submitted to the reichstag simultaneously
with the tobacco MONOPOLY bill.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

A paper signed by 800 persons, including
the Earl of Shiftesbury, Earl Cairns, Ear
OF Aberdeen, Samuel Marley, Canons Farrar
and Fleming, the Rev. Charles Springer, and
27S clergymcn, has been forwarded to Moody
and Sankey at Glasgow, asking them tc
spend the year in London in evangelical
work.
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reports of Suffering Greatly Exa
Eerated.

YAzoo CITY, March 23.-The river is fall
ing. The extreme suffering reported on the
Tallahatchie is greatly exaggerated. II is
supposed the exodus from the Yazoo delta is
oh arIa1
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FRANCE.
THE BRO KERS AT WAH


PARIS, March 23.-The outside brokers
declare they will not negotiate Bontoux
shares with the new bank which is to take
the place of the Union Generate, and the Of
fetal trokers say they will not grant them
settlements
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JEANNE BoNAPARrE MARRIED.

Mademoiselle Jeanne Bonaparte, daugh
ter of the late Prince Pierre Bonaparte, who
shot Victor Noir, was married to-day to
Marquis de Noileneur Pargamont, a legiti-
mist
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
Measures for Relief at cincinnati.

CNCINNATI, March 23.-The Chamber OF
Commerce to-day appointed committee OF
seven, consisting of Abner l.. Frazer, Frank
Laidley, James ID. Parker, o. Britton, Levi
J. Workum, James H. Laws aud ames II.
Foo.e, to solicit subscriptions and take such
other action as may be deemed necessary for
the relief of the sufferers from the overflow
OF the Mississippi rIver.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

Mr.. Gladstone. in acknowledging the re-
ceipt of Charles Russell's memorial in favor
of enabling the Land Court to make decis-
ions Prospective far they concern
arrears OF rent, and to grant loans to tenants
for the payment of arrears, writes that the
document will receive the anxious and care
ful attention due to its importance and those
who signed it
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24
ADDITIONAL WEATHER AND RIVERS

WAR DEPT, L. s. ARMY SIGNAL SERVICE, I
"WEDNESDAY, March %, 1852, 00s pm. !
Place of Wind. Wealth
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II O11I HNNHNNNNy
FavOrabIy Recommended

The House Committee on Ways and
Means directed to report to the House, with
favorable recommendation and for considera-
tion at the earliest practicable day, the bill
to amend the laws relating to the internal
revenue reported to the House on Friday
n,t and mn hlisheI at the time
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

Attorney General Brewster wrote a letter
to Dallas Sanders assistant district attorney
for the United States at Charleston, 5. c.,
whom he knows personally, in relation to the
contest between Sullivan and Smalls in the
House of Representatives. He says the
right of suffrage must be protected, no mat
ter who suffers
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-24

Secretary Hunt received a cable dispatch,
dated Montevideo, stating that Admiral
James H. Spots died at Stanley, Falkland
Islands, on March 9Th, of apoplexy, and
was buried there. He was appointed to the
navy from Kentucky.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
The Newspaper.

Some one who evidently under
stands the inside of a printing Of
flee, writes as follows:
"It is very convenient to have
home newspapers to announce mar
riages and deaths; it is very nice to
have them speak well of and encour-
age enterprises that will help build
up a town; it is very convenient to
have them assist in suppressing
evils that every now and then break
out in community; it is conve-
nient to have them do thousand
and one things which they are con-
stantly doing to benefit the public,
and for which they get no pay, but
it is not convenient for some, who
are abundantly able to support and
encourage their home paper to do
SO even to the extent of becoming
subscribers and paying for the
same.
"The hottest place in the world
is in the printing office. There the
roor printer tolls over his type and
the poor editor pores over his copy,
During the most trying time of the
day and during lonesome hours o1
the night, surrounded by whiting
gas jets and hot flames of lamps,
they toll on through their weary
task ID order that the public, re-
lfreshed by slumber, may beguile
Ithe early hours Of morning, in read.
ling the news. The generous bless
Iings bestowed upon those who labol
Tor the pleasure Of others is one ol
1.-THE printers chief rewards. Who
Twill deny him that blessed b0oni ~
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Words of Wisdom.

Costly followers are not to be hk-
ed; lest while man maketh his
train longer, he maketh his wings
shorter.
That man will be benefactor of
his race who shall teach us how to
manage rightly the first year of
child's education.
Occasion may be the bugle-call
that summons an army to battle,
but the blast of a bugle can never
make soldiers or win victories.
What makes people SO disconten-
ted with their own lot in life, is the
mistaken idea they form of the hap
py lot of others.
No man can make speech alone.
1t is the great human power that
strikes up from q thousand minds
that acts upon him and makes the
speech.
The beautiful must ever rest in
the arms of the sublime. The gen
tie needs the strong to sustain it,
as much as the rock flowers need
rocks to grow on, or the ivy the rug
ged wall which it embraces.
Nature seems to exist for the ex-
cellent. The earth is upheld by the
veracity of good men; they make
the earth wholesome. Life is sweet
and tolerable in our belief in such
society; and actually or ideally,
we manage to live without superb
ors.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Ihf Gireside
Shall We Meet Aea1n.

The following is one of the most
brilliant paragraphs ever written by
the lamented George d. Prentice:
The fiat of death is inexorable.
There is no appeal for relief from
the great law which dooms us to
death. We flourish and fade as the
leaves of the forest; and the flowers
that bloom, wither and fade in q
day, have no Trailer hold on life
than the mightiest monarch that
ever shook the earth with his foot
steps.
Generations of men will appear
and disappear as the grass, and the
multitude that throng the world to-
day, will disappear as footsteps on
the shore. Men seldom think Of
the great event of death, until the
shadow falls across their own path
way, hiding from their eyes the IA
ces. of loved ones, whose loving
smiles were the sunlight OF their ex-
istence. Death is the antagonist
Of life, and the thought of the tomb
is the skeleton of all feasts. We do
nota want to go through the dark
valley, although the dark passage
may lead to paradise; we do not
want to go down into damp graves,
even with princes as bed-fellows.
In the beautiful drama of "Ion"
the hope of Immortality, so elo-
quently uttered by the death-devo
ted Greek, finds deep response in
every thoughtful soul. When about
to yield his life sacrifice to fate,
his Clemanthe asks if they shall
meet again; TO which he responds:
II have asked that dreadful ques-
tion of the hills that look eternal, of
the clear streams that flow forev-
er, of stars among whose fields of
azure my raised spirits have walked
in glory. All are dumb. But as I
gaze upon thy living face, feel that
there is something that mantles
through its beauty that cannot
wholly perish. We shall meet again,
Clemanthe."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Gems of Thought.

Wondrous strong are the spoilers
of fiction.
Beware of the fury of patient
man.-Dryden.
A shot that hits Is better than
.broadside that misses.
What's gone and what's past
help, should be past grief.
The chains which cramp us most
are those which weigh on us least.
Travel improves superior wine
and spoils poor; it is the same with
the brain.
Nature has sometimes made a
fool; but a coxcomb is always of a
mans own making.
If idleness do not produce vice
or malevolence, it commonly pro-
duces melancholy.
Each mai has an aptitude born
with him to do easily some feat i'm
possible to any other.
Manners are the hypocrisies of
nations; the hypocrisies are more
or less perfected.
Calumny spreads like an oil spot;
we endeavor to cleanse it, but the
mark remains.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
"Good-By."

1t is hard word to speak. Some
may laugh that it should be, but let
them. Icy hearts are never kind.
1t is a word that has choked many
a tear. The hand is clasped, the
word is spoken, we pant, and are
out upon the ocean of time-we go
to meet again-where, God only
knows. 1t may be soon; it may be
never. Take care that your "good-
by is not cold one; it may be the
last that you can give. Ere you may
meet your friend again, deaths cold
hand may have closed his eyes and
chained his lips forever. All, he
may have died in thinking you low
ed him not. Again, it may be a
long separation. Friends crowd on
ward and give you their hand. How
do you detect in each "good-by" the
love that fingers there; and how you
bear away with you the memory of
those parting words, many, many
days. We must often separate.
Tear not yourself away with care
less boldness that defies all love,
but make your last words linger-
give the heart it's full utterance-
and if tears fall, what of that? Tears
are not unmanly.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
True Pol,tanass.

As to politeness, many have at
tempted to define it. / believe it is
best to be known by description, de-
finition not being able to comprise
it. / would, however, venture to
call it 'benevolence in trifles,' or the
preference ofothers to ourselves in
the little daily, hourly occurrences
in the commerce Of life. It is a per-
petual attention to the wants Of
those with whom we are, by which
attention we either prevent or re-
move them. Bowing, ceremonies.
formal compliments, stiff civilities,
will never be politeness--that must
be easy, natural, unstudied, manly,
noble; and what will give this but .
mind benevolent and perpetually at
tentive to exert that amiable disro-
sition in Sriflles to all You converse
| and live with.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Selection of Cotton Seed.

Presuming that the best seed
that could be obtained was planted
last spring, the best from the best
plants should now be selected for
use next season, keeping in view
it's early maturing as one among
several other points to be taken in
to consideration. 1t is by careful
selection of the largest and most
perfectly formed bolls, being alike
distinguished for their softness and
length of fiber, that best results
will be obtained. The stalk should
be of medium size, the branches of
moderate length, the bolls evenly
distributed on them, being regular
ly spaced, and the general form Of
the plant is that of pyramid
Where cotton is selected for seed, il
should be kept dry and ginned with
more than usual care. In all the
details of cotton culture, brain
work, supplemented by field work,
is essential to attaining profitable
results.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
es; and aren't you Williar
-, of Buffalo?'

Josh Billings has come to the re-
lief Of Judge Black in his contest
with the distinguished Infidel as
follows:
Il wouldn't give five cents to hear
Bob lngersoll on the mistakes of
Moses, but would give $500 to hear
Moses on the mistakes of Bob In
gersoll."
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19

On Canada Southern train the
other day a Detroiter had q seat be-
hind a couple who got on at little
station near St. Thomas; and he
thought he had seen the mans face
before. He was looking at him
sharply and trying to remember
where he had met him, when the
man turned and asked:
Aren't you Thomas , OF
DetroitY
Yes; and aren't you William
--, of Buffalo?'
sYes.'
i thought so when you came in
And aih.t you running away with
old Judge Blanks daughter, OF st.
Thomas?'
I've got a better thing than that,
whispered William, as he leaned
over the seat. I'm running away
with his wife
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
1iferagy.
At H.,u,se.

At Hssnse.
Here in the body pent,
Absent from Him roam,
Yet nightly pitch my morning tent,
A days march nearer home.
My Fathers house on high,
Home of my soul--how near
At times to Faiths foreseeing eye,
The golden gates appear.
All, then my spirit iaints
Toreach the land love;
The bright inheritance Of saints,
Jerusalem above.
Yet clouds will intervene,
And all my prospect flies;
Like Noah's dove, / flt between
Rough seas and stormy skies.
Anon the clouds disperse,
The winds and waters cease,
While sweetly Ger my gladdened heart
Expands the bow Of peace.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19

what she gave him de name. 1t il"
she added, eonfidentially, "de name
of Won she lofe, long, long ago. He
ish dead now-poor Ulrich. Acb,
what peety! So nice he vas, so
wise, and she 20 much lote him !!
She viii never get married to any
odder Won. Ach, no!' said Katrina,
pensively returning to give another
touch to the neatly-spread table.
Herr Schenning sat with bowed
head, his face hidden. I heard soft
footsteps approaching, and a faint
odor of violets came through the
door. I looked. There in the door
way, with the little Ulrich slipping
from her arms and clinging to her
dress, stood golden haired woman,
Herr Schenning, gazed at her as If
spell-bound. She reached out her
arms to him.
HUlrichp
Barbara, liebling?"
When, some months after Herr
Schenning had taken out citizens
papers, and with his little frau, had
settled upon public land near Helm
ster, who hadn't married Barbara
and discovered on his land gold
mine-I asked him what he thought
of the law of compensation, and he
answered: ut is divine"
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Twenty Impolite Things.


l. Loud and boisterous laughing.
2. Reading when others are talk
ing.
3. Talking when others are read
ing.
4. Cutting finger nails in compa.
ny.
5. Joking others in company.
6. Gazing rudely at stranger.
7. Leaving stranger without a
seat.
8. Making yourself hero Of your
own story.
9. Reading aloud in company
without being asked.
10. Splitting about the house,
smoking or chewing.
II. Leaving church before wor-
ship is closed.
II. Whispering or laughing in the
house of God.
13. A want of respect or rever-
ence for parents.
IA. Correcting older persons than
yourself.
Is. Receiving a present without
an expression Of gratitude.
16. Not listening to what one is
saying in company.
II. Commencing to eat as soon
as you get to the table.
Is. Answering questions that
have been put to others.
10. Commencing talking before
others have finished speaking.
20. Laughing at the mistakes ot
others.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19
Trained Fleas on Exhibition.

A novel and interesting show Wis
tied Raymond last week, but did
not exhibit, owing to the lack of
appreciation manifested among
those who learned the nature of the
performance.
However, a Gazette representa-
tive had an opportunity of witness
ing private rehearsal, and takes
pleasure in advertising the wonder
full training skill of Prof. Joking
ham.
In the room was a table spread
with white paper, and upon this a
small box with perforated sides.
The Professor explained that here
he kept the only lot of TRAINED
Fleas" ever shown to the public,
that had excited the unbounded ad-
miration of the American people.
With this prelude the box was
oponed and the Profes sor called:
"Gen. Grant, come out" Immedl-
ately large black flea of the Egyp-
tian variety, came forth and jump
ed upon the white cover of the ta-
BILE. Our attention had to be called
to the diminutive sword that it
wore, and which trailed along as the
little animal strutted around with
all the pomp and bigotry of it's il
lustrious namesake. "Gen. Logan
let yourself be seen," again called
the Professor, and another large
black flea jumped out, similarly at
tired, which joined Gen. Grant, and
the two paced majestically on their
hind legs up and down the table
Hail Columbia was played on a
French harp and the feas, keeping
time, marched around.
A little buggy was then taken
from the box, and "Gen. Arthur"
called for. A third flea came slow
ly out, and under the imperative
command of the Professor, allowed
itself to be hitched in by Gen. Lo-
gan, who got in the buggy with
Gen. Grant and the two rode sever
al times around the table. Here
Gen. Arthur took fright at the
supposed ghost of Gen. Garfield
Ia large white flea, overturned the
buggy and spilled the occupants of
the buggy.
The Professor then showed us
some fleas he had in training.
Around the leg of each was a tiny
ball and chain, that held them in
subjection while being fed. This
was done by placing them upon his
naked arm, where they would bite
through the skin, and draw his
blood,
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19

It is easier to return thanks than
borrowed money.
The Brookhaven ledger. (Brookhaven, Miss.) 1875-1883, 1882-01-19

ColOidiiy III tuC CuttdSC.
II dinks you moost pc quite shil-
ly," he said, placing a chair near
the fire. sit is 20 cold auf der
mountains; it is peter you taste dis
vine. Mein frau will pooty quick
come. Katrina" he added, as a
rosy young matron entered, adese
pc some young people vat got lost
from a pignig.
Zach zo!'' exclaimed Katrina,
compassionately looking at us, as
| if she thought we might be the YER
liable Babes of the Wood, grown
up. At that, and the touch Of wo-
manly sympathy in her look and
tone, burst into hysterical weep
ing. Her arms were about me in a
moment; and, what with her droll
English, her humorous expressions
and comforting assurances, soon re-
covered my composure and glanced
at Herr Schenning to see how it
was with him. Pale and with lips
Itensely set, he was gazing at Katri-
ma as if intent upon penetrating
some mystery.
Katrina, in her enthusiasm, was
running about the room, and put
ting supper on the table, quite ig-
noring the fact that we belonged to
| q picnic. Taking up book that
Hay upon q table beside me, | start
ed at reading the name, { Frau
Heimsteher," and gave Katrina such
q look that she came to see what
was on the page.
"Ach, yes; thatsis pring me from
Germany BY mein sister. She comel
1 pooty Soon She makes asleep meir
j kleine mann, mein leetle Ulrich
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-09-26

An authority on iewelry says En-
eralds are once more in vogue, though
nothing has ever detracted from the
favor which they enjoyed, save their
rarity and consequent expense. But
for the purpose above alluded TO, the
emerald is almost indispensable, as no
other style approaches it in color. I
this age Of cheap and clever imitation,
the hitherto unassailable domain of
precious stones is very strongly men,
aced. The unapproachable luster Of
diamonds has beenPerceptibly furnished
by the more vulgar radiance of Rhine
stones, and the exclusive dignity of ar-
tistie lace has been sorely tried by the
efforts Of prosaic machinists, with their
modern democratic inventions.
Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1882-09-26
THE LARGE STATES AND rHE SMALL
ST1TRR.

oAaAnNa
During the debate In the last Congress
on the bill for apportioning Represents
tivcs under the last census, the usual
conflict arose between the small States
and the large States. The former COM
planned that the latter had combined 10
deprive them Of their due share Of men,
bers
There seems 10 be no way Of relieving
the small States. Take New England, for
example, which suffers decline in men,
bership under the new apportionment
These six States do not increase in pop
ulation so rapidly as the Middle and
Western States and Of course the mem
bership Of the former must be reduced.
II is none the less irritating, however,
10 the shrewd, ambitious Yankees, TO
see their power in the House steadily
waning. In q Congress with hardly
half as many Representatives as the next
will contain, Maine had eight members.
II now has but four. For a long while
New Hampshire had six members. II
now has but two. Vermont, which in
days gone by had six, has also dropped
10 two. Rhode Island has always had
two members. The new apportionment
gives the State barely one. The time
was when Connecticut had seven. II
will stand now at four. When Webster
was first chosen 10 Congress from Bos-
ton, Massachusetts had fourteen Repre-
sentatives. The State has since grown
in population, opulence and wealth.
But in q House twice as numerous as
that wherein Webster made his speech
on the Greek revolution il can obtain
but twelve members. In short, New En-
gland, which formerly elected one-eighth
of the House, will be allowed 10 elect
only one-thirteenth of ii during the next
ten years.
But New England finds compensation
in the Senate, as do all the small States
which look with envious eyes upon the
increased representation of the largo
States in the House. New England is
allowed only twenty-four members in
the House, but she retains her twelve
Senators. The six States which lie Inn
mediately west Of her, reaching from
New York to Illinois, have 125 members
under the new apportionment, or more
than five times as many as the six New
England States; but they have only
their twelve Senators.
When the smaller States grumble at
the larger because Of their increased
membership in the House, the former
must draw consolation from their COM
paratively superior power in the Senate