Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-01-05
SICK SHAWNEES.
General Spartaekus'' de Turner and
Others Hold a Wake Over the Body
RI. -s----. Of the PshaW Ticket.
Death Under Sad Circumstances Last
Wight from Wind Colie-Spelman
Holds The Inquest.

/ Nlght from WIND COle-Spelmah
Holds The Inquest.
! Something dropped last night by the ways
| side; several wayfarers noticed that it wa
sick unto death; emetics were applied;
| restoratives given; brandy was administered;
beer was prescribed whisky was hypodermi-
cally and otherwise injected; absinthe was
| sent for and poured down its throat; it WIS
| dosed with rum; it was soothed with gin; il
| was dOctored with HOstetter's buffers, and
| spiked with pop and ginger ale; but the
| efforts of those who gathered around it were
| of no avail, and shortly after 10 o'clock it's
| heart lattered violently, it made few spas
| modie kicks, E1eeled over in the gutter, and
died. --@
WHAT SIT?
A little crowd soon gathered, attracted by
its struggles to live, and everybody wondered
what il was. Nobody seemed to know any
thing about II, where it came from, or where
it was bound for. An APPEAL reporter, who
had attended select meeting at Cochran
Hall, and who happened half hour later
to be passing along where it fell, suspected
what it was Immediately. 1t lay there
bathed in the ftful moonlight-a pallid,
pulseless thing. Stepping up to il the
APPEAL reporter suggested that it should be
searched for the purpose of identification.
In its hands we're lot Of
OLD, TIsrE-woRN PAPERS,
which it held in a sort of death-grasp. On
examination they were found to be bonds of
the old city and scrip. The clothes were
taken of, and the only means to identify it
were some letters found family traced on the
shirt-tail They were "The Ed. Shaw ticket"
The details of its death will now be set forth
by the APPEAL seiTotim.
Last night the supporters of the Ed Shaw.
ticket assembled at Cochran Hall to ratify
Gloom pervaded every countenance, and any
spectator dropping in by chance would have
supposed that the occasion was a funeral.
About forty or fifty Germans, prominent
among whom were Colonel Jake Storz and
Mr.. Henry Clay Reichmann, were present.
Some fifty or sixty negroes were also there, |
but managed to keep quiet and showed no |
enthusiasm. Shaw had been put in the box |
and was not allowed to jump up. About |
twenty boys helped to swell the great audi
ence of one hundred and fifty Shawnees, and |
several
sHIRTLEss INDIVIDUALS
smoking old pipes sauntered in and acted |
the role OF the people. A few more persons |
of Nihilistic look and General "Spartackus" |
de Turner completed the number OF those |
present ON this sorrowful occasion. The |
very lights in the hall were oppressed by the |
sadness of the sachems, and Pickering, |
threatened to die out entirely. As it was,
they cast shadows upon the gloomy faces of |
those present, and Mr.. Theodore Krekel, the |
chairman, looked as dark as Mephistopheles.
When Mr.. Krekel was called to preside he
said he was glad to see 50 many Germans
present. The news from all quarters were
assuring. They had good workers out, and
favorable reports were coming in.
THE GLADIATOR.
General "Spartackus' de Turner was then
called for and he again stepped before the
footlights and delighted his audience with
his sHperb rendition of the Gladiator"
Rome's pet ruffian. When he began to speak
the currents Of air produced by his oratory
were so great that the hats of his hearers
were knocked off, cigars were blown out and
the tobacco ashes in the pipes of the "great
unwashedp were tossed up into their
faces. Men had to hold on to their
seats to keep from being blown away. An
old salt remarked that he had never
been in such a gale before in his life.
The gladiator said that whenever he opened
his mouth he put his foot in it. At a recent
meeting he had made speech in a quiet and
modest manner; he had made no issue with
any man; he was discourteous to none, but
it was considered by some audacity on his
part to have his opinion.
UNDER IHE AMERICAN FLAG
every man had right to think as he pleased,
and never until then did he know that he
had to bend the servile hinges of his kunee
that thurift might follow fawning. He was
an American citizen, and hanged if he didn't
vote for whom he pleased. In spite of ca5als
and rings he would vote as he pleased. He
then spoke about "bugbears" in the shape of
fears that Chase and Scheibler would saddle
The old city debt on the people. He said
that the Germans had not selected Mr..
Scheibler because he a German, but
because he was representative citizen, AT
he other end of the route he could hear the
-allying cry of "Hibernia to the frontw
The gladiator then said it was now conceded !
L crime TO vote against DIR. Porter and John
Overton, and he paused to say: Simon Peter, A.,
on of Jacob, lowest thou me? Nay, Lord.
Then depart forever accursed. The COM {
pairing of DR.. Porter and Mr.. Over !
on to the Savior can hardly
1--WE any votes to the Chase ticket. t
de said Messrs. Porter and Overton were .
ioble Romans, but that
sPARrACKUs YIELDED TO NO MAN.
lie paid high compliment to the press, and e
lie regarded the editors of the APPEAL as l
noble men. The gladiator aaid no one ever
leard OF Scheibier putting up Job, nor of c
chase doing SO. There was no special obiec- :
ion to any men on the Citizens ticket, but it !
vas safer to elsot Chase and Seheibler- He t
hen gave a picture OF himself. He
vas at nightfall Ia bar /
'er shop getting shaved chow symbolicai 7
hat was OF q Chase supporterD when a
orchlight procession passed composed of q
hirty four bootbacks and Are roughs. He /
bought of telling the barber to cut him deep a
md let him die. He afterward heard one :
# the roughs say he was getting two dollars {
o carry his torch, and he would NATURALLY
he was a rough vote for the Fshaw ticket !
he next day. He then devote considerable
ime to an explanation about himself, and
round up his speech with one of those bril- =
liant, irregular, G
METEoRIC METAPHORS
hitch are the delight of an unwashed audi n
nee and the co1undrum which an intelligent 2
ne will always give up. tine sun will rise c
n Friday (you see, the sun is not affected a
y the election, happy. sunD, the wynds will y =
emily blow, ripping the cabbage leaves, and n
he stars will shine Otis to be wonderful t
ay, D Memphians) and Chase and Seheibler 2
ill be elected and the government will not 4
e in ruins" This the gladiator said with n
is trembling finger pointed toward the q
enith. Thanks for the message thou hast r
rought, child of the wandering air. Y
JUDGE BROWN GETS SICK.
Judge Brown was sick and couldn't speak,
ut be cent his speech by proxy. 1t visa not
full as usual of his rounded periods and
yelling sonorousness. Captain Garrett read
4. 1t was as follows:
MEMPHIS. January 4, 1881. ID
o the Committee of Arrangements: a
GESTIENEN-Your note inviting to be pres =
IT Cochran Hall tonight to address the people q
behalf of the Peoples Ticket reached me in N
Y sick room at q very late hour this evening 1t
impossible to comply with the invitation. | IT,
threatening symptoms drove me home to-day and L
I'll prevent me going out tonight can only re-
at the tn 9oPminafon Which constitute the fogn e,
ltion of the Peoples Ticket and briefly G
ese- Il
First-The city government must be free from oil
ose who represent corporations that have public
titles to discharge and will necessarily have bust
,ss transactions with the city The people, in
ese transactions, must not be at a disadvantage
Second-No one ought TO be member Of the re
unieipal government who has private or Sc
ecial interest that may interfere with the general
terest. :,
official voters of the city ought TO be o.
sympathy with the masses. The rich can always n
otect themselves. The poor and those of narrow al
cans need the protection OF good government. %
Fourth-The city government ought to be care n