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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-06
uREL ON

The authorities of Montgomery, Ala, are
enforcing quarantine against Pensacola with
co~mmendable energy, but in doing SO are in
Aicting a very great injustice upon Men,
phis. The printed blank which every per-
son entering the city is compelled to affirm
or swear to contains this as the first ques-
ion: "Have you been in Pensacola, Fla,
Brownsville, Tex, New Orleans, La, Mem
phis, Tenn, or any place infected with yell
low-fever within the last twenty days, and if
so in what placer" Either of two things
may be said in truth of this question-that
the person who prepared it is too ignorant to
be intrusted with drawing up a paper of so
much Importance, or else he is a malignant
libeler, who purposely dove-tails Memphis
with New Orleans, Pensacola and Browns
vile. There has not been a case Of yellow
fever in this city since 1878, and there is not
a cleaner or healthier city than Memphis on
the globe. The mayor of Montgomery
should nave this paper corrected immedi-
ately. 1t is a libel upon Memphis and an
infereutial faliehood,
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RIFLE Nm HOUK.

As between Rule and Houk the APPEAL
is for Rule. He is a reputable journalist,
has been a consistent Republican, honest,
manly and pronounced, leaving no doubt oil
his position or views on any question. Then,
too, he is a man of good habits, a gentleman
in bis intercourse with men and women, and,
as we said before, he is a journalIst-that
covers a multitude of sins. That he is
wrong in surrendering his editorial position
for that of congressman there can be no
doubt. No editor should ever run for Office
or public place. His position in his prefes-
sion should safety any reasonable man as
among the highest to which an American
may aspire. But if Rule is willing to make
the sacrifice, and steps Town to put Houk out
it is his own business. We regret the fall,
even to save a congressional district from
being represented by a drunken beast. Why
don't the Democrats put out a man TO save
Rule and increase the party majority IN the'
next House2
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A coon cause PRosTIrurEp,

II the temperance cause had been forced
into this canvass by the popular clamor
of the people-if Democrats, Republicans,
Greenb2ckers, and the religious denomiua-
tions had united in forcing the issue in the
canvass, there would be some excuse for the
introduction OF this irebrandi intended to aid
in the election Of Hawkins. 1t is safe to say
that there is not a single Republican in Ten
nessee who will support RUSSELL on account
of The temperance plank in his platform.
All the support the boiling candidate for
governor receives on the temperance issue
will come from Democrats, and as q conse-
quence the friends of temperance are lending
themselves to the election of Hawkins and
TO the injury Of the cause they hope to sd-
vance. The Tennessee (Knoxville) Repu6h-
can, a jealous advocate of Hawkins, says:
1.-THE idea hat any Republican will vote for
Fussell because of his temperance platform
is as ridiculous as the idea Of a christian
leaving his church to join a temperance
society" The Republican party knows that
the temperance cause has been prostituted by
the boilers in the hope of deluding a few
Democrats. But now that it is evident that
no Republican will vote for RUSSELL because
of his advocacy of temperance, we cannot
zee how any temperance Democrat can con-
tribute to the election of Hawkins by
throwing away a vote Tor Russell.
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An OUTRAGE.

The attempted removal of General Sturgls
from the governorsbip of the Soldiers Home
at Washington has not increased the public
respect for the sentimental secretary OF war
Lincoln. General Sturgis in his testimony
before the Senate investigation ommltte
disclosed the fact that the trustees OF the in
stitution, Barnes and McFeely, had been sys-
tematically pilfering the milk, the butter,
the fruit, the flowers, and the material and
workmen of the Home to their personal
use, and that those high-toned members oil
the army have never denied his testimony.
But the thieves have more power IN high
places than General Sturgis. They were able
to secure an order removing him, an honest
official, from his position of trust while his
uncontradicted testimony had no weight with
"Bonny- Blue-Flag" Arthur 10 compel their
removal 10 the pe~nitentiary.
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GERMANx's sUsPLUs POPULATION

GERMAKY's sURPLUS POPULATION.
The legerdemainist, in his performances,
exhibits the inexhaustible bag, which SO
soon as he empties it, becomes plethoric with
something else. In the way of population
Germany seems to be an inexhaustible bag,
for Notwithstanding the constant flow of inn
migration to America, the population of the
empire still increases at an alarming rate.
The American people are surprised at the
Indifference of Germany at the loss of popu-
~lation, when the fact is the empire is anxious
to rid itself of its surplus. The impression
obtains that Germany will soon be depopu-
lated. But the German people are a prolific
race, and population, like water in the
Mississippi river, is continually coming and
going. If there were no outlets the popula-
ton of Germany would long ago have been
as dense as that Of China. America il the
outlet, the safety-valve, for the surplus pop
ulation of Europe. The New York Sta,
shows that between the years 1916 and 1875
the population Of the old Prussian provinces
alone had increased from 10,35O,OOO to 81
10000, or los per cent. insixty years. The
population Of the empirei in 1880 was 1885,
900, and it is growing in a ratio which is GER
tain to carry it up to S~0,0O0,OO0 by the year
1925. The census returns of France, on the
other hand, show the population there to be
nearly stationary, the annual births being
slightly in excess of the deaths; and this
TACT goes lar toward causing as well rs en-
planning the exceptional prosperity of the
French nation the mouths they have to feed |
multiplying ont of proportion 10 their
While it is obvious that Ger.
msnyis position as the foremost military
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DIR. MAUGUIRErsD DISCOVERY
A Valuable Paper Read by Him at b
Oriental Hotel, Ceney Island.

NEW YORK, September Among the
diseases which, like consumption, cancer,
hydrophebia and other fatal maladies for
which the phsrmacopaia furnishes no spe-
cife remedy, "Cuncrumoris," or gangrenous
ulcer, has been classed by the medical pro-
~fession. DIR. Constantine J. MacGuire, Of
this city, yesterday read an exhaustive paper
on the subject before 4 special meeting Of the
Yorkville Medical Society, convened at the
Oriental Hotel, CORsy Island, in which he
claims to have discovered an e~ffectual rem
edy for this deadly mslady. From The de-
scriptien given of the disease by the best
medical authors, as well as from the graphic
details furnished of Its appearance at the
various stages IN several cases recently
treated by DR.. MacGuire, it seems to be q
maiady even more loathsone than that oil
leprosy. About the latter part OF January
last, he said, nineteen children were adj
mitied 10 the Refuge in charge OF the Sisters
of ST. Dominick at Si1ty-third street and
Second avenue, OF which he Ia the medical
officer. The children were In a weak
and debilitated condition, occzsioned by the
bad and insufficient food furnished them,
and the polluted atmosphere in which they
were confined in an institution in the lower
part of the city, from which they were re-
moved when the establishment vas con-
demned by the Board of Health. A few
DAYS after their admission into the Refuge
four of them were attacked uiih this fatal
malady. DIR. MacGuire entered into : de-
tailed description OF the symptsms of the
disease, aad the appearance presented dur
ing the various stsges from its inception
until death ensued in each case. He applied
the remedies prescribed by the best medical
authorities, but they proved Intellectual 10
check the progress of the fatal malady.
After some weeks a Number of new esses
occurred, each having the same we'll marked
symptoms Of gsngrenous ulcer. Seeing the
hopeIessness Of following the line of treat
ment adopted before, he determined to try
the effects Of sub-nitraie of hismuth applied
externally to the affected parts- The result
was an immediate improvement In the aP-
pezrance of the ulcers, and eventually .
complete cure. From The first appearances
OF the disease in the institution up to the
present time twenty-four cases were
tre.ted, including the four that proved
fatal; and out of the twenty cases ifeated
with the sub-nilrate of bismath only
resulted fatally. BE cited the opinions OF DFs.
ElIiotson. Rijiiet. Barthuz, Heimeyer, West
and Others TO show that the disease was incu-
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Lis, Of Appointments.

Dyersburg, Dyer county, wednesday sePtem'
OG Ri ISR Lauderdale county, Thursday, septem'
corington, Upton county. Friday. September
Milan, Gibson county. saturday, September, 9th
Dresden, Weakiey county Monday. September
18th. r,ov -
Lexington, Henderson county wednesday, Sep
JacSson. Madison county. Thursday. September
14th.i rs.u EA
BOLIVAR. Hsrdeman county, Saturday, septem
Der 18th. uav h
18th. o.
10th. r- O.
Chsrlotte, Dickson county. Friday, septembel
Centervtlle, Hickman county. Saturday. Sep
Franklin Williamson county. Monday. Sep
Colum6ia Maury county. Tuesday. septem
Pulaski, Giles county, Wednesday. September 27ti
Speaking will begin about ii O'Clock am
each day, unless postponed TO a later houl
BY request.
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Murder and suicide.

CHIcAeo,S September 5.-Louis Eekland and
Oscar Anderson, brothers-in-law, are EN-
ployed in an iron foundry in this city. On
Saturday night they left the city for South
Evanston, twelve miles north, to spend the
night with a third brother-in-law named
Rand. A quarrel over some unknown cause
arose, and they got off the train at Rogers
Park at II o'clock at night. Anderson APP
peared at Rand's at / o'clock at night. At
6 o'clock Sunday morning Rand, hearing a
shot in the basement, wen down and found
Anderson with a bullet wound in his breast.
Anderson confessed that he murdered Eek
land the night before. Rand and Anderson
went 10 the police station. The former went
10 to tell the story. When he came out An
derson was gone. Late Sunday afternoon
his body was found hanging from a tree on
the lake shore. His clothes were wet, show
ing that a previous attempt at drowning had
been made, and strips of clothes sirewn
about showed that Anderson made several
futile attempts to hang himself before. He
got strips torn from a pair of overalls strong
enough TO hold his weight. In the meantime
the body of Eckland was found at Rogers
Park with three bullet wounds in il.
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In Convention at Bost0n-Onieers
Elected Tor the Ensuing Year.

Boston, September 5.-The National Tele.
phone As 'ociation met this morning, George
L. Phillips, OF b Iston, in the chair. The al.
tendance was very large, and representative;
were present from all paris of the country
The following officers were elected: Presi-
dent, Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell, of Con.
n~ecticut; vice president, James B. Speed,
Louisville, KY; secretary, O. N. Fay, Chica.
go; treasurer, v. q. Beach, Chicago. Mem
bers OF the Advisory Committee: George C.
Maynard, for three years; Executive Com.
mittee, J. o. Vaille, Denver; w. H. Eckert
New York; George L. Phillips, Boston
Robert Morton, Philadelphia; Morris F.
Tyler, New Haven. The Committee or
Legislation made an extended report giving
the laws affecting the use of telephones in
States OF the Union, and the decisions oil
courts under them, in which il appeared
little uniformity exists, and that the law
are much more favorable 10 companies in
the East han in the West.
Discussion followed, participated in by
Bundy, Beseh, Fay, SPang, Tyler and others,
during which 1t was stated there IL a singular
conflict in the decision of the courts and
little uniformity in the experience OF the
different companies as to liability Tor DAM
ages to sidewalks, trees and houses. The
report will be published with the report OF
the proceedings.
C. n. Fay, OF Chicago, said reports had
been received from eighty-one exchanges
representing some 1000 subscribers. There
are about $1,000 t. 10000 subscribers in the
United States. In New York there are 2S73
subscribers, and the smallest number in one
place is ten. There is a steady and con.
tinued growth all over the country. The mum
Der OF connections increase each month al all
localities with improved service. After
further discussion on various subjects the as
ISOLATION adjourned.
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BUSY As BEES.
THE REPUBLICAN CONGRESSIONAL NPA
MMITTEE HARD AT WORK.

THE CONGRESSIONAL p
COMMITTEE HARD AT WORK..
The work of the Congressional Republican
Committee is not confined 10 the making and
collecting of political assessments, although
there are great experts in that business con-
nected with the committee. There is q large
force of clerks constantly engaged in sending
out documents to be distributed literally
throughout the country. The list of docu-
ments now ready for distribution was to-day
completed, and the committee will gladden.
many country editors by inserting the lis,
as an advertisement. There are now twenty
six documents and speeches ready, which
will be furnished at low rates. Speeches upon
the tariff predominant. Among the speeches
upon this subject are that on the tariff and
tariff commission, by Updegraff, OF Ohio;
two on The tariff, by Mckinley, OF Ohio; one
on the encouragement of American industry,
is history and result, by Jay Hubbell, chair
man OF the committees; the notable speech of
Senator Frye, on England and The Democratic
party, champion of free trade and Ireland,
illustrating the fallacy of this doctrine; aud
the speech OF "A. Russell, of Massachusetts
on the text: "a tariff for revenue and pro-
lection promotes and diversifes industry,
secures general prosperity aud e~levates la.
Dor" The national banking system is con-
sidered in speeches by Representatives Din
siey, HuttefWortn, ward, Hewitt and Grape.
1t will be of interest to the Democratic Cam
paign Committee TO discover that one Of the
speeches circulated by the Republican com
miltee is that OF Abram s. Hewitt, in sup
port of the Republican national banking
system. The qHesiion of transportation is
discussed in collections from speeches and
government reports. Internal improvements
are advocated in speeches on the improve
ment OF the Mississippi river by Page, Hoar
and Townsend, of the Commerce Committee,
and Van Horn, of Missouri. The violation
of the election laws in the South is exposed
in extracts from the noticeable speeches OF
Mr.. Ranney and Mr.. Miller, of PennsyL
vania. Ben Rutterworih's speech, with the
tables prepared at the White House, COP
trasting the removals and reappointments by
Presidents Garfield and Arthur is in the list,
while the question OF political assessments is
met and answered from the committee's
standpoint in a speech by Eugene Hale.
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AREMARKABLE A s
A Woman Who Has GONE Three Months
Food.

ST. LOUIS, September ga curious case Of
a woman starving slowly is exciting com:
ment here. The case is that of Miss Philli-
pima Frengel, residing in North st. Louis
For the last three months she has not taken
a bit of solid food, aud has not been able to
retain liquids. She has been treated by sew
eral physicians, among them Drs. Erhart and
Bauer, who lave introduced food into the
stomach with 8 tube, but 1T was immediately
elected. Miss Frengel is a tall, lank girl,
with black hair, sunken eyes and extremely
yellow complexion. She is young and thin,
but not nearly so emaciated as would be ex-
pected. DIR. Bauer thinks it themost remark
able case on record. She has been under his
charge for forty days, and he is positive she
has taken no nourishment. He thinks there
is probably a structure of the pholoric end of
the stomach, or that there may be a tumor.
he says the girl csnDot possibly live,
although she at present is not confined to
her bed, but helps her relatives, with whom
he lives, in light household duties.
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JAMES II. CHALMERS.
The Impression He Has Made Upon In,
Average Northern Democrat.
New York Sun.

III there is = man in this country upon
whom the Republicans, in and out of Con-
gress, have for years expended their bitterest
wrath and hercest denunciation, it is James
X. Chalmers, of Mississippi. He has been
denounced constantly by them as the con-
trlver OF the brutal massacre at Fort Pillow.
His name has been used in every Republican
campaign since the close of the civil war to
excite the passionate resentment OF Northern
voters. Mr.. Chalmers recently represented
in Congress the Sixth district in Mississippi,
bu. was ousted by John Z. Lynch, the pres
ent colored member. Many Democrats gave
Chalmers the benefit of their doubts in sus-
tanning his claim TO the sest, while many
others believed that he was not fairly elected,
although he had something of a technical
case. Chalmers complained loudly because
the Democrats did not 6libuster in osder 10
keep him in his seat. 1t now appears that
At the very time Chalmers was making this
complaint he was preparing the way for the
course he has since taken. 1t is alleged that,
IS the result Of certain negotiations with
William E Chandler, Chalmers is now a
candidate Tor Congress in the Second district
of Mississippi against the regular Demo-
cratic nominee, and is backed BY the power,
the prestige and the patronage of the ad-
ministration. II is said that his fzther-in-
Law, his brother-in-law, and several of his
friends have already been appointed TO Of
fceR. On a small scale, he is playing the
part Of Malone, and the Republicans Of
Mississippi are expected not only to vote for
"the infamous hero of Fort Pillow as they
have been accustomed to describe Chalmers,
but they will be required TO give up the idea
of running = straight Republican candidate of
their OWN. Mr.. Riddleberger, the author of the
repudialion scheme in Virginia, and the man
who furnishes the brains and The audacity for
Mahone's movement, said in 4 recent speech,
I'VE are for Arthur because he is for u.s."
The trading politicians in Tennessee who
failed to get Office from The Democrats are
for Arthur because he is for them. And now
comes "the infamous hero of Fort Pillow"
who is for Arthur because Arthur or Chan
der is for him. William E. Chandler is
peculiarly fitted to make bargains with
Chalmers and other Democrats in the South, |
who, having no further hopes from their own
party, are quite willing TO sell out to any
body that will buy. But it is a bad invest
ment for the administration.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
WEDNESDAY,. : SEPTEMBER 8, 1882


Hubbell is a dirty dog. He Is doing a
business that is no better than tnen- ne
stands with the power of a great party athiS
back and to the employees of the government
cries, "Stand and deliver" The man OF large
family and small salary, the widow support
ing a family of cripples and the young girl
who is the prop and stay of a widowed
mother with a large family, all are alike
his prey. He has no bowels oil com
passion. Like Robson, the robber' and
Keller the cypher, he has no conscience ne
has no convictions az TO right or wrong. he
is a stolid, impervious ringster who knows no
law out might. When Congress meets agaln
there ought to be a law passed to prevent the
raids of HubbelIs in the future.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-06
HI EDISON LIGHT
In New York Cify-The sFirst District
Fairly Started.

what is known as the First District" of the
Edison Company's system in this city is now
fairly started. Up to last Saturday about
sixty premises had been lighted successfully,
and by next Saturday the company expect
to have 1000 lights "cut in" Over 900
houses have een"wired" and 800 connected.
Making the final connections anu introduc-
ing the light has been delayed by the tardi-
ness Of the insurance companies in granting
their permits, but is nov going forward rap
idly. The tests Mr.. Edison has been max
ing on the system are pronounced satisfac-
tory. The insulation of the underground
conductors was found TO be good. In three
and a half miles it amounted 10 $500, 900
ohms, which Mr.. Edison is reported as saying
sis unprecedented for the size of our work
and the necessarily rough and practical
character of our MACHINERY"
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ppeal.l -.-v

MOTHkE dOOoE-
Lines suggested By reflections on the past and pr esen
of Memphis.
| sPass under the rod
And know that / am God!
/ Low bent on suppliant knee,
Hear Nv august decreeI
| Almost It grieyes Me that / granted birth
To thee-thou wayward and rebeIlious race,
or placed thee on MY fair green earth"
lone lesson more it seemeth good to give;
To teach it / must wrap the world in gloom.
f cTThen1 ear "a fell these terrible words OF doom
aGrim PestiienceI grant thee fullest swayi
Their fairest, dearest, best must pass away
Before they tremble at my awful might.
And bend 70 fiss the Fathers chsst'ning hand;
Then I win stoop to hear thsiT cry Of anguish;
Passed under the rod,
We knew that He was God;
Our pride of place was spenti
With awe our anguish blent,
For cold lay the ashes in many a silent HEARTH
Slow, sad and slow the stricken mourner's tread
flushed every sound ofehildhood's careless mirth!
Tears flowed unceasing for the dying and the
Hung were the heavens with banners of black
Death struck with blight, our ~fruitage fell to
Sore pressed the crown of thorns that was our
For every hour to fresher woes gave BIRTH
In days of old when Egypt's Pharaoh fierce
Sent forth the fiat Israel heart to pierce,
Through tenderest fiber of each flrst-born child,
For Egypt's BLOOD hot EgYpt,s soil believed
Before the storm-blast of a worse despair,
Our bearded grain and budding flowers VIC
strewed.
Pass into the light
Arise in thy might
Thy sins be forgiven
Thy peace made with heaven.
BY thorny paths it was My viii to lead
Thee, erring children of the earth, to feel
That each has of the other loving need
N Rnn1n IN UNA mr. ffnA nf m nm x.~
From the thistles Of ~affiictien thou mayst gilthel
figs of love,
And from the thorns of sorrow may the grapes o
But to Him who wrought the wonder, the Lord o
Let songs Of cheerful gratitude and humble prais,
be sung"
Passed into the light
And arose in our might
Let the feast of our Passover
Rise as incense to JekoVahl
hot scathless passed we through those pregna nj
When human hopes were quenched in huma L
When he who rules us all-Jehovah high
saw fit to smite US hip and thigh.
olasp'd close the southland's form and stained her
With blood of her dear sons by brothers stain
For every hero dead-a living desperate CANT
Eut Time-the foe that wounds, the friend that
heals,
Who silver Innings to each cloud reveals.
Sound up eur wounds, erased our every scar,
And smovth'd the wrinkled front of sa rage war,
The dove OF peace down-sped to bless our sight
Now once again. as in the days of yore.
Tne messenger of death has passed our guarded
Rich is the harvest of our freshly ysrnefed store,
Peace with smiling plenty has eIasp'd a sisters
Tae voice OF their rejoicing shsll echo thro' the
Now should the grateful feast of our Passover
swift Use as incense TO benign Jehovahi