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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23
THE PANAMA CANAL,
What Has Been Done and What is Be-
ing Done by the EHgIneers
San Francisco Chronicle.


Operations in connection with the pro-
jected Panama canal have for some time
past been principally directed to the COM
pletion OF the surveys along the line of the
canal. This work, though prosecuted with
all possible dispatch, has met with consider
able vexatious delay in endeavoring to ma
terfslly reduce the excavations after the
central line of the canal shall be determined
With this end in view the regular en-
gineer corps has been divided into ex-
ploring parties, each having It's designated
locality for field of operations. The in
structions invariably received are to ascer-
tam the topography OF the country along the
main line OF the canal as at present decided
upon, note carefully the different activities
encountered in the immediate vicinity, and
their adaptability for stations. On the con-
cl1sion OF these researches a report is sub
mitted 10 the Executive Board at Panama.
and by the comparison which is instituted
line ia reached IA basis for future opera
tons. Under the direction of Pedro Sosa, a
prominent Columbian engineer, excellent re-
sClts have been arrived at so that the exca-
vations originally proposed have been ma
terially reduced.
In an interview with Jeronimo Ossa, a
member OF the engineer corps in Panama,
and who arrived in this city by the last
steamer, II was ascertained that the survey
ing had been finished and that attention is
now concentrated upon determining the CEN
ter OF the canal. The route OF the canal has
already been cleared of trees, and, with the
above exception, everything is in readiness
for the excavation to commence. In fact, 2
contract has already been given to excavate
a distance of eight miles, from Colon to
Gatun, and it is expected that work will be
commenced on November LIST. As has been
previously noticed in the Chronicle, the ma
chinery TO be used in this work is in process
of construction, some OF il awaiting shipment
from this city TO New York.
The most important labor, that OF erecting
a dam at Gamboa, one the Chsgres river, en-
crosses the attention of the engineers. Over
sixty Kilometres OF the river have been ex-
plored, and its affluents and currents studied.
In another direction tracks have been laid
tor the purpose of carrying the excavated
earth and stones to the proposed site of the
dam, while along the whole route of The
canal, from Colon to Panama, stations have
been established. large number OF ware
houses have also been built. A commodious
hospital has been constructed upon an emil
hence in Panama for the benefit of the canal
employees and placed under the
direction OF competent physicians. An adj
ditional contract TO that cited above has been
given for the excavation of 81 900 cvbic
meters at Obispo, where large warehouse
will be built, as well as additional shops to
those alre adv erected
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NICE YOUNG MEN.
Mem who Paint and Powder and Bang
Their Hair.
New York Sun.

New 1Ork eun.
There are men in New York who paint
and powder. The number is small, but they
exist, if the statements of druggists, BARRIERS
and dealers in toilet preparations are TO be
trusted. They are usually young men, not
of the highest fashion, and are to be found
occasionally in the Hobbies of theaters, or
speaking English at the French balls. The
practice began few years ago, and has not
fiourished. The custom of banging the hair
among men, on the other hand, grew very
rapidly. Capoul, the tenor, gave it impetus,
and now in almost any assembly frequented
by the well-to-do youth OF the city there are
one or more mems heads with banged hair.
A druggist of this city. in speaking on the
subject, said:
1--WE sell many bottles OF cosmetics, blooms,
lily whites and the like to men, and the in
ference is that they buy for their wives or
sisters, but in some instances they hnques-
tionably buy for themselves. Itdoesn't need
a practieed eye TO tell this. The effect on
the face is easily discernible."
Speaking of cosmetics, are any of them
absolutely harmless?"
81 could not recommend single one con-
scientiously. They all contain ingredients
more or less Injurious, and should not be
used with any frequency"
A barber, whose place Is near Twenty
I bird street, and who counts many young
IN ABOUT tONu DIS MS CuslOH1cfr, ne
de- ire 10 look beautiful is about as strong in
an 1oue young man as it is in an idle young
WON: U. Many of nay customers have no
end of trouble 10 fixing themselves up. L
sell a good deal in the way of liquid cos
mestics. though nothing like lily white or
pesrl wash Young fellows will come here
twice day TO have their faces well rubbed
with a mixture of bay rum, glycerine, and
several other fluids which have smoothing
effect on the skin. They come ostensibly to
be shaved in the morning, and 10 have their
hair dressed at night, but they really want
their faces attended to. They often say, Put
a little powder on my chin, it looks 50 black
but if you put little powder ali over the
face and then smooth it down. and make
feInt of rubbing it off with a towel, they're
sure to come again
There is quite house in Fourteenth street
devoted entirely, according 10 its many
gyms, ito the Identification OF the person"
The reporter climbed to the second floor,
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CATTLE MILLIONAIREs.
How Independent Fortunes Have Been
Acquired I'm a Single Season.
Boston Herald.


With the present high prices OF beef, and
the cow literally jumping over the moon,
Wyoming cattle men are reaping a rich
harvest, and many of them will make almost
independent fortunes this summer. The rise
has been rapid, and transfers are made so
easily, that large transactions are made every
day In which the buyer does not see hoof
of his purchase, and very likely does not
actually Use more than one-half the purch ase
money in the trade before he has sold and
made an enormous margin in the deal. A
year ago Laramie plains cattle man was
offered large Utah herd and ranch for
$4,000, which offer was accepted at the
moment, but later rejected. Since that the
Utah man sold $4,000 worth of the herd,
then sold the ranch for $4,000, afterward put
$4,000 more into the bunch, and last week
sold it for $4,000. In other words, the
Utah man is to-day ahead over $110,0 900 be-
cause his last years offer was not accepted.
Several years ago one Of the most promi-
nent cattle men in Wyoming, who can to-day
easily command 81 100000 for cattle trade
without impairing his business, came to Bos-
ton to negotiate loan with Massachusetts
capitalists. He met an old man who knew
more about cent per cent. than he did about
Wyoming and Colorado cattle, and began to
talk business. He said that he was 81 aking
large profits on his presant investments and
therefore he wanted to put more capital into
the business, very naturally, to increase bis
income. Mr.. Moneybags asked what secu-
rity would be given.
81 would secure the loan by mortgage on
my herd, sir"
"Where are your cattlep
'Some in Wyoming, some in Nebraska
and some in Colorado"
"How much land have You under fencep
"None."
allow much land do you own?"
"Not foot"
"Whose land does your stock Craze on?"
Government land"
"How often do you see your cattle?"
"Once year"
Don't you have a herder with them?"
-"No, sir"
"Well, young man, i would IS soon loan
you money on the herring in Boston harbor."
A Cheyenne man, who don't pretend to
know a maverick from a mandamus, has
made a neat little margin of S15, 900 this
summer in small transactions, and hasn't
seen a COW yet that he has bought and sold.
Cheyenne is wild over the market, and Six
teenth street is young Wall street. Mill
ions are talked of as lightly as nickels, and
all kinds OF people are dabbling in steers.
The chief justice of the Supreme Court has
recently succumbed to the contagious excite
ment and gone to purchase SAC, 900 herd.
Everywhere the excitement is as bad as it
ever was in mining stocks in the old palmy
days OF Comstock. How long this thing will
continue is matter of pure speculation.
Whether the laboring classes of the Estates"
will eat porterhouse steaks when they taste
like government bond, or quit all at once
and knock the bottom out of the Chicsgo
market, no man knows to dead moral GER
tainty,
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

Montgomery, Ala, is TO have a Republic
can daily paper.
Extensive paint shops are in operation at
Little Rock, Ark.
Tea ia being successfully grown in Com
zales county, Tex.
Peaches are selling at Gsdsden, Ala, at
ten cents bushel.
Richmond, Va, is shipping large quanti-
ties of grain to Italy.
The average price of corn in Texas is now
thirty cents per bushel.
Alexander II, Stephens mot he of Liberty
Hall, but another Aleck--runs a hack line
at Macon.
Three thousand acres of land in Hillsboro
county. Fla, have rece ntly been sold by the
Disston agents 10 a Northern man.
Seveniy-fve thousand emigrants settled in
Arkansas last year; and it is thought the
number OF settlers this year will be even
greater.
Richmond, Va, has 675 factories of vari-
Gus descriptions, with capital of S11 .O0O,-
600, which turned out last year product of
sS2,OO0,000.
Six hundred and fifty lines from a sing le
bud, budded two year, ago on lemon stock,
is the result of an Orange county (Fla.)
mans experiment.
a mortal enemy OF the cotton worm has
turned up in Mississippi. 1t is reddish
looking spider, and attacks and kills large
numbers OF the worms.
A lamb recently dropped near Ell Paso,
Tex. was colored with tri-colored wool,
bright blue predominating. Black and
brown were the other colors.
The New Orleans TINES Democrat, from
carefully gathered information, learns that
the present condition OF the rice crop in Lou
isiana IL good and the prospects for large
and good crop most favorable.
General Dabney 81. Maury, of Richmond,
has been making tour through the cotton
States and writes to the Industrial South that
new factories are numerous and that the
people are getting along nicely.
Atlanta, which last year handled 10000
bales of cotton, expects to handle 100000
bales this year. Should she do SO her re-
ceipts will be dangerously near hose of
Augusta, which last year beat her by $1,000
bales.
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opened glass door, and found himself in
small reception room. A girl was address
ing circulars at a table. Her complexion
vas decidedly bad. Perhaps, however, she
is only a subject. Again, she may be
result.
"What do you wish. sir?" she asked.
DO you do up mems faces?"
"Oh, yes, with critical look; "Ell call
madame" Madame came and the reporter
stated his errand. she thought moment,
and then said: 81 see no reason why gen.
tleman should not improve his complexion.
l have seven regular male customers Two
of them come three times a week and have
their nails and hair attended to, besides the
face"
"What do you do to the face?"
"First we use stringent lotion with con-
siderable camphor in it, which takes the
natural oil out of the face. Then we remove
the blemishes. Moles are taken out with
preparation of iron. Then We build the
complexion up With" and che went on
to give list of coDcoctions.
what kind of men are these, madame~
"Ob," said she, they're nice young men;
unite nice "
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The Tarin Commission.

LONG BRANCH, August 22.-J. B. Sargent,
a hardware manufacturer, read an argu-
ment before the Tariff Commission in favor of
free-trade principles and was subjected to a
long cross-examination in which all the ar
guments of Prof. Cox were gone over. He
was followed by james NJ. Constable, of New
York, who advocated general reduction of
The duties on dry goods, and the admission of
wool and all other raw material free of duty.
He suggested very many notifications of the
existing tariff, but said that his own judg-
ment would be in favor of uniform rate of
twenty per cent. on manufactured goods and
putting raw materials on the free list.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23

sauce for the goose was sauce for the gander,'
but the car driver was not such gander, as
We, like geese, took him for. He would
not taste it. why" we asked. what OBJ
lection have you? Said he, Phase your
riv'rence, | am teetootsIer. and wont
taste drop Of IL We'll, that stuck in nv
throat and went 10 my heart, and Tin another
sense than drink thoughl) 10 NV head.
Here was an humble, uncultivated, unedu-
Gated Roman Catholic carman, and / said, if
that man can deny himself the indulgence.
why should not j, christian minister? l
remember that; and have ever remembered
1t to the honor of Ireland have often told
I ne story, snd thought of the example set by
the poor lrishman for our people 70 follow.
L carried home the remembrance of it with
me TO Edinburgh. The circumstance. along
witt the scenes in which was called TO labor
daily Tor years. made me a teetotalern
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worpg in the mechanic to insist upon having
fair wages, because that makes American
goods dear, but it is the praiseworihy virtue
of the tariff, tie very thing for which pro-
lection was invented, that they make AmerI-
can goods dear. For manufactured produc-
tions to be dear through labori Is abomlnabie,
for them to be dear through a high tariff Ia
good and laudable. This ia the position Of
the Chattanooga Times and every other pro-
tectionist. II the reader has had any doubt
about the evil OF protection let him look at
the fallacy it here presents, and such falla-
cies appear whenever the protectionists at
fempts TO reason.
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A SLIGHT DECREASE
Reported in Aggregate Ciearings for
the Past weet-The Statement
in PETAL.
New York the ouly Atlantic Port Show
ing a Gain, and That a Very
SmaII One.

NEW YORK, Angus - ~ GS:I
changes of the clearing cot,'-J "a on Its,
oorar1s-oJ Ell ,hoss OF the corresponding
sHal =, IeSi show slight decrease in the
aooragsts imons the Atlantic ports New
W. i H. arIv city reporting gain, and
,b., = ~, .a,.u Western cities show
Iossss in sln,os. syery instance, which can be
trsced 10 = 9rest change in the produce in
marketsNorsin and provisions having been
inf ated last year on gigantic oulf specuia-
tions, while last week insy were cenPara d
lively quiet at much io.e u .e'r
The Eastern Manufacturing centers are the
onlv noints which make good exhibit. The
following is the s.stenea1 III ue'sii as iui-
nished by the Boston foSt:
New York $50, s0o, 29e; increase, 2.5 per
Boston. s6s777. l62; decrease, IL per cent.
Pbiladelpbis. s4s,ss6, 615; decrease, per
Chicago, s4o,Oss;ssa; decrease, 1852 per
Cincinnati, sls,oSsssa; increase, II per
St. Louis, slssoaOOo; Increase, 6.s per
'Ff Baltimore, sls.s4ssssi decrease, IA per
San Francisco, slssa7, s5s; decrease 1876
per cent.
Milwaukee, 81, 10000; decrease, 17.s per
Louisville, ss,4osso6; decrease, III per
cent.
cent.
Pittsburg, 81 ,o54, O62; increase, 6.S per cent.
Providence, 3, $4,000; increase, Ills per
Cleveland, s2.o7ITa4; decrease, s.s per
indianapolis, sl544.5oo; decrease, 1O.4
per cent.
Hartford, sl,ssol42; increase, s2.2 per
cent.
New Haven, 81, LOG, 496; increase, rs per
cent.
Peoria, 1888 .4s9; decrease, 125 per cent
Worcester, S7I3.SiS; increase, 81 per cent.
Springfield, ss4O,779; increase, 1872 per
cent.
Lowell, 1925 ,I7S; increase, 9S per cent.
Memphis, $40, 766; decrease, 122 per cent.
Syracuse, S42i ,65i; increase, S0.4 per cent.
Total, 81 10Y ,0S2, 7S7 decrease, per cent
outside of New York, $254, ls1, 43s; decrease
2 per cent
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A srEo,mEN pRorECTIvE FALLAux.

We pointed out short time ago that an
American firm of bridge builders found
themselves unable TO compete with English
builders, because of the high prices caused
by our tariff, and were compelled to send
their American plans and drawings TO En-
gland and have the work done there, and we
spoke of the fact as an instance where the
so-called system of protection was driving
trade from us. The Chattanooga Times, an
apologist for protection, undertook TO reply
TO this. The way it done so is worth notice,
for nothing is so convincing as the acknowl-
edgemenls or failures of those who are try
ing to prop up what is bad and conseq uently
weak. The reader will see that the reason
why The work in question could not be done
here was because of the his h price; the
APPEAL attributed the high price to the
tariff. The Times implicitly admits that the
price was the reason, but attributes that price
TO The high rates OF labor. 1t finds no harm
done by employers taking stiff profits, or by
the desrness of materials owing to the high
tariff. 1t is the wages of the workingman,
the food and clothing of the workingman's
family that is the cause of all the damage.
The fine residence, carriage and horses, COM
pany and travel, dress and education of the
employer and his family have nothing to do
with it. The potatoes and salt pork and
cornbread of the woTkingman and his family,
those are the tremendous things that make
American manufactures dear. According to
the Chattanooga Times, then, the expense of
labor is the cause that we cannot compete in
foreign markets. Ii this were so, and all
the foreign labor imported without any pro-
tective duty upon it prove insufficient to
bring down those wages to the foreign point,
what should be done to reduce the prime
cost of our manufactures? Plainly, we
should reduce the price OF all the material
we import that is used in those manufactures,
so "a to make our products as cheap as can
be done under the circumstances. Was that
done? No. but the very opposite of it wac.
A tariff was put upon goods for the
very purpose OF making them dearerl 1t lie
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KILLED BY CARELEssNEss.
Fatal Railroad Accident ON the Della
ware and Lackawanna Road.

CASTOR, PA, August 22.-An engine on
the Hampton branch of the Delaware.
Lsckawauna and Western railroad collided
with s. coal train at the cross-track at WASH
ington, n. J., last night. The conductor,
known as Daddy" Sheppard, and Edward
Christine boy, were instantly killed.
Frank Frost, engineer OF the coal train, had
both legs broken, and another boy named
Christine, cousin of the lad killed, was
seriously injured. Responsibility for the
carelessness is not yet fixed.
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DARkNES S.

Come, blessed Darkness, come and bring thy balm,
For eyes grow weary of the garish Day.
Come with thy soft, slow steps, thy garments
gray.
Thy yelling shadows, bearing in thy palm
The poppy-seeds of slumber deep and calml
Come with thy patient stars. whose far-off ray
Steals the hot fever of the soul away;
Thy stiffness sweeter than q chanted PISA nj
o blessed Darkness, Day indeed is fair,
And Light is dear when summer days are long,
And one by one the harvestefs go by;
But so is rest sweet, and surcease from care,
And folded palms, and hush of even song,
And all the uflfa thomed silence of the skyl
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How DIR. Guthrie became a Testo,aIer.

In a journey in ireland in 1910, in an open
car, the weather was cold, with lashing rain.
"By the time we reached a small inn we were
soaking with water outside, and as those days
were days not of tea and toast, but of toddy
drinking, we thought the best way was to soak
ourselves with whisky inside. Accordingly
we rushed into the inn, ordered warm water,
and got our tumblers of toddy. Out of kind
ness to our cardriver, we called him in; he
was not very well clothed-indeed, he rather
belonged in that respect to the order OF my
ragged school in Edinburgh. He was soak
ing with wet and we offered him good
RUNNER of toddy. We thought that what was
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HAD an Appetite.

There is negro in Brunswick, Ga, whose
sole claim to distinction lies in his capacity
to eat more at time than any other man IN
the State. The other evening he agreed 10
eat twenty losEes of bread and dollars
worth of bacon, provided the spectators
would pay for the meal. In case of failure
he was to pay for what he ate himself. In a
few moments he had disposed of nine loaves
and half The bacon, at which point the by
ISLANDERS inlerfered, not wishing TO be impli-
Gated in homicide. The negro was much
incensed at this Interruption, declaring that
he had thereby lost The only chance of get
ting square meal which he had had In
thirty years.
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July and August is the most favorable
time for gathering, as they are then at their
best. In pressing, the indispensable requi-
sites to good result are sufficient quantity
of paper, perfectly even pressure and a
proper degree of weight. The paper should
be of soft, porous nature and unglazed.
Blotting paper is considered best, bat the
newspaper will do very we'll. Books are
most conveniently they can be found of suf-
ficient size and ungiszed. Three or -four
weeks will be required for The drying unless
they are changed 10 fresh papers. II this is
done they must not be exposed to the air 3
perfectly dry, they will remain smooth.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23

AYERS AGUE CURE has saved thousands
OF lives in the malerial districts of this and
other countries. 1t ia warranted a certain
and speedy remedy, free from all harmful
INGREDIENTS
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-08-23

You can strengthen the digestive organs,
prevent costivenezs. diarrhcea and all bowel dis
orders, by a timely use of Browns Iron Bitters, a
true tonic, perfect strengthener.
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MEDICINAL.
MOTHERS READ.

GENTs:-About nine years ago had a child
two years old and almost dead. The doctor
had attending her could not tell what allied
her. 1 asked him If he did not think it was
worms He said no. Howe YER, this did not
satisfy me, as felt convinced in my OWL
DIR. C. AIcLANE'S GENERATED YER
MIFUGE (genuine). ! gave her a teaspoon
full in the morning and another at night, after
which she passed seventy-twO worms and
a well child. Since then have never
been without it in my family. The health of
my children remained SO good that had
neglected watching their actions until about
the same sicHly appearance that Fanny did
nine years ago. So l thought it must be
worms, and went to work at once with q bot
tie of DIR. G. McLANE'S VERMIFUGE be-
tween four of my children, their ages being as
follows: Alice, 3 years; Charley, years;
the result: Alice and Emma came out all
right, but Charley passed forty-five and
Johnny about sixty worms. The result was
gratifying that / speKt two days in show
ing the wonderful effect OF your Vermffuge
around Utica, and now have the worms on
exhibition in my store.
Yours truly. JOHN PIPER.
The genuine DIR. C. MeLANE'S yERNII-
FUGE is manufactured only by
Fleming Bros, Pittsburgh, Pa,
and bear the signatures Of c. DTcLane and
Fleming Bros. 1t is never made In st. Louis
or Wheeling.
Be sure you get the genuine Price, 20
cents bottle.
FLEMING BROS. Pittsburgh. Pa,
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so1Ip pEMocRAr1c suPpoRr.

Instead of Malone increasing his follow
ing in the next House he is more likely to
lose some he now has. In the Second dis
trict Mahone's candidate is opposed by a
Republican, and in the Fourth Jorgensen,
the present member, who has already been
tricked out of the support of the counties
which favored him for denomination, will
run as an Independent. Thus, in these two
districts, the opposition TO the Democrats will
he divided