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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-19
GENERAL THOMAS,
The New President of the Il. T., Va. and
Ga. Railroad System En- Route.

KNOXVILLE, May 17.-General Thomas, of
Ohio, the newly elected president of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia railroad
system, Major Henry Fink, of Lynchburg,
Va, the general manager of the system, ac-
companied by Messrs. s. Shethar and c. H.
Coffin, of New York, large stockholders and
directors in the company, and Mr.. ]. II.
Woodward, of Atlanta, Ca secretary to Gen
eral Thomas, arrived in the city on a special
train, late yesterday evening, from the South,
and have rooms at the Hattie House.
This is the first visit of General Thomas
to our thriving and growing city, and we
hope he may be pleased with it when he has
an opportunity TO get glance at us. He is
one of the ablest and most experienced rail-
road men in this country rs we'll as a solid
and influential citizen and genial gentleman;
and being at the head of one of the most
thriving and influential systems in the South,
he will necessarily be called very much to
Knoxville, which is the central headquar-
ters He will always be met with hearty
welcome.
Major Fink is not altogether stranger
in our city, having been an occasional visitor
here since his accession to the general man.
agement of this line of road, and there is no
ADLER and better qualified railroad man in
the entire country. Besides, he is the soul
of genialily and sociability, popular with all
who have the pleasure of meeting with him.
Knoxville is glad to know that his head
quarters will be in our city, a room being re-
served for him in the new Office building.
These gentlemen will spend day or so
looking over the various connections and
railroad surroundings, and will go to-day
out over the Ohio division.
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PREACHING

Mr.. J. P. Mahaffey, the Dublin profess
sor who has written so intelligibly of the
Greeks and made for US moderns such per-
feet pictures of the common, ordinary and
everyday life of the greatest of the ancient
peoples, says, in his last work, The De
cay Of Modern Preaching, that it is due to the
force of custom-the insistence on the adhe-
sion to certain forms of speech, The
preacher must never be amusing; he must
always have text. Debate in the pulpit is
frowned upon an exhibition of bad taste.
Additionally, this decay is due to the fact
that ministers are hampered and hindered
by wives and families, and also to lack OF
ability. To remedy these defects, and to
avoid the evils following upon them, Mr..
Mahaffey suggests larger pecuniary tempta-
lions to compete for influence in the church;
higher culture, both special and general; the
celibacy of the clergy; system of itinerant
preaching; the publications of authorized
sermons" for men to read who cannot them
selves write a decent sermon; and, finally,
greater elasticity in the sermons. OF all
these remedies the dreariest-not even the
celibacy of the clergy excepted-is that of
authorized sermons" 1t is a make-shift
that in this progressive age, when the church
ceases to be aggressive and stands upon the
defensive every day, is discreditable to its
mission, and if adopted would be accepted as
an admission that the divine authority Of
the ministry was lie and a cheat.
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$4,000 EACH
To the Heirs OF the Late Yrs. Winters,
DaysOn-nrs. l.. b. Eaton, of
Memphis, One of Them.


The journal report of real estate transfers
to day has in 1t some unusually large figures
following the marks. Mr.. Valentine Win
tiers acting as the executor of the will of his
wife recently deceased, made division OF
her real estate, combining with it large
amount of valuable property of his own.
Mrs. Winters in her will gave Mr.. Winters
discretion to sell her real estats according to
his judgment; the proceeds. of it and her
personal property, consisting of stocks and
bonds, to be divide among her children. Mr..
Winters, desiring that the real estate owned
by his wife shonld remain in the family, and
finding that it was not divisible into eight
equal portions, decided to equalize the divi-
sion by distributing to their chill
real estate in this city and
county. He also gave to each a consider
able sum of money, which, with the real
estate ami previous cash advances, made
each share amount to the sum of $50. $50,
the total for the eight children being S403,-
600. OF this amount Sl93,000 was from the
estate of Mrs. Winters. Mr.. Winters in
one daughter in-law, seven daughters and
i've sons-in-law to dinner yesterday, and
after dinner made the distributions, handing
to each a package containing the necessary
deeds and insurance policies, together with
a check Tor each ones share of money. Mr..
Leonard Moore, for many y airs in the bank
of V. Winters & Son, of well-known reputa-
ton accountant, and who Is also y
practical conveyancer, had been for the
last two weeks engaged in the exam
ination of titles and preparation of
the deeds; and was present to assist
in the delivery of the deeds and to prepare
the necessary receipts and papers. The &C.
casion was most unusual, and Mr.. Winters
looked a very patriarch surrounded by the
stalwart men and women OF his household.
Their names are as follows: Mr.. and Mrs.
Jonathan II. Winters. Mrs. Mary E. McDer-
mont, Mrs. Laura w. McGregor, Mr.. and
Mrs. R. r. Dickey, Hon. and Mrs. Lewis B.
Gunckel, Colonel and Mrs. L. B. Eaton, and
Mr.. and Mrs. E. c. Shaw. Mr.. Winters was
the recipient of affectionate kisses and hearty
4 anEs
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requirement to exact such duties as legiti-
mate revenue purposes require, and the rest
will settle itself easily enough. So settled,
the trade Between the two will become of an
Importance that will bring much more wealth
to each Of them than can possibly be OBJ
tanned by strsngling their natural exchange
of commodities. Last year our whole eI-
port TO Mexico amounted only 10 81, l72, I3S,
while we imported from thence to the
amount of 81, 454, 1875. Break down the
artificial barriers that short-sighted legisla-
ton in both countries have imposed, and a
vast commerce would soon spring up 10 the
advantage of both, and the railroads now
constructing will pay good dividends. Sen
ator Morgan, OF Alabama, speaking in the
Senate upon the extension of our commerce
with Mexico, said: "There are no diff
culties in the way that our merchants,
bankers and railroad men cannot remove
readily and without difficulty, except the
legislative distractions created by acts of
Congress in the two countries" Here we
have another of the numerous practical diff
fcultIes arising that protection is continually
putting in the way of our commercial pros
perity. More and greater difficulties will
come into being, until the whole system will
have to be abandoned, and our commercial
intercourse with other nations be put upon
the basis of common sense and sound and
statesmanlike principles
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PROSPECT HILL, MISS.
A DOIefuI Story of Pests and mfsfor-
Iunes-The Outlook DiseOursging.
Special Correspondence of the Appeal

Special Correspondence of the Appeal
PLEASANT HILL, Miss, May 16.-Almost
every farmer is or has yet to buy corn before
the crops are finished, and that at 81 per
bushel, partly on account of the drouth of
last year, and also on account of
planting too much cotton the last year.
We are also paying fourteen cents a pound
for the bacon we are making or trying to
make this crop on, and at this rate, TO say
the least OF it, it is but question of time
when the Memphis merchants will not only
own our farms but have a clean bill OF sale
of US all. In the early part of the present
year labor worked well and continued so to
do until the 5th of the present month, when
it commenced to rain and did rain in this
neighborhood for about one week, and such
rains the Oldest of our farmers have wit
messed but few like them. The crops we're we'll
advanced for the season, and where
ten days or two weeks ago there were beau
tiful fields of corn and cotton now nothing
is to be seen but mud and water. This is
the case in all our lowlands, which were our
main dependence for a crop for the present
year. 1t would seem to one who is trying 10
farm in this locality that every Imaginable
curse possible has befallen US here for the
past fs = years. We have had two very short
crop years, and at the beginning of the pres
ent everything looked 80 promising and for
ward goo1ly number of farmers planted
their cotton early, only to have to plant a
second time, and this, with the scarcity of
seed and the high price commanded,
was hurtful. In the second place, we hao
buffalo gnats here for three weeks, something
we never were so vexed with for so long a
time before, and on their exit in came the
cut-worms, which not only annoyed the
farmer very much, but damaged this county
to very great extent. To take all things
into consideration, including the damage
done TO land by the recent rains, ihink that
one couid hardly put correct estimate on
the real losses We have sustained.
T. j. WESSON
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The MnIIeY Trial.

NEW HAVEN, May 18.-In the Malley trial
a druggist testified that he sold Walter Nal
ley four ounces of arsenic on September 6,
1880, for the purpose, he said. of killing rats.
Deputy-Sherif Peck produced letter
written by him, at Kelsey's request, in reply
to note sent me by my wife, which is on
the back of the note. Part of the language
used was BY Kelsey and part was my own.
The letter is as follows:
HDEAR JAMEs-Blanche is very much wor-
ried. She is afraid that if she gives up her
lawyer no one will go bonds for her. think
she is afraid she will go to Jail if she does.
''NETTIE."
know this was written by my wife, and
that Blanche tried TO sign her name as An
ME Zimmerman, but could not, and made
her mark.
The following is the answer:
fIf Blanche does as she says she will,
have the word of Mr.. Kelsey that she will
have protection. JIM"
"And she shall not leave my house.
81. H. PECK"
"Mr. Kelsey has Just sent for Judge Stod-
dard to come right out for her adviser in
place of Blyde. JIM
Peck continued: "Up to this time re-
fused him coming into the house. Judge
Blydenburgh being her counsel, told her
about the reward, and by turniDg,State's evil
dence she would get light sentence and a
reward. 1t was part of the arrangement to
discharge her counsel. Prosecuting Attor-
ney Pickett, representing Mr.. Doolittle, told
Blanche the State was always lenient with
parties who turned States evidence. Pickett,
Painter, Kelsey and Riley, a friend of
Blanche, was present. He said DIR. Painter
brought letter from New FORK, and Jones
proposed to offer it, but Doolittle objected.
Jones said he would shew it TO Painter. A
member of the coroner's jury and a repre-
sentative of the State was endeavorIng TO Sc
cure confession from Blanche"
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rHELAnoR nIru.rIoN.

The Boston Herald reviews the labor stu
alton and gives US an encouraging report of
the condition Of the working people, notwith-
standing the fact that "the cost of al the necss-
saries OF lille has advanced twenty-five per
cent. and rentals twenty per cent" In New
England, with the single exception of Fall
River, there is plenty OF both work and labor,
and the rate of compensation is not likely to
be changed. The Fall River manufacturers,
owing to the swindles of which they were
recently the victims, look to cutting down
wages TO reimburse themselves. In Chicago
and Cleveland the temporarily disturbed
good feeling between employers and en-
ployed seems to have been restored. In Gin
cinnatI there is more discomfort. The cost
of living has increased faster than wages,
and strfke- are meditated as a means of en-
forcing correspondence. Employers hold
that an advance is not warranted in view Of
the falling off in the amount of work to be
done. More anxiety prevails In Pittsburg
than anywhere else. The men who work in
iron and steel have an organization stronger
than ever before, and any measure upon
which they agree will be executed with pro-
portionate energy and promptness.
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Horr,b,e woman Murder.

NEwcoMERsTowN, O., May 1S.-A shock
ing saloon murder occurred at Dennison, a
few miles asst of here, last night, which has
caused the most intense excitement. Mr..
and Mrs. John Robinson keep a saloon in
Dennison, and Mr.. Steve Ryan, Mrs. Robin
sons brother-in-law, came in with friend
named Sterling and demanded whisky; the
demand not being complied with Ryan then
called for beer, and after drinking glass
began to abuse Mrs. Robinson, and drew his
revolver to shoot Mira. Robinson being a
large, robust woman, seized the revolver and
took it from Ryan, whereupon he, Infatuated
by drink, dealt her a terrible blow and at the
same time knocked the counter over against
her, crushing her against the wall.
Ryan then left and Mrs. Robinson sat down
in chair and began to spit blood. She
told her husband to have Ryan arrested for
she was going to die, and scarcely had she
uttered the last word of the sentence when
she dropped to the floor corpse. AS soon
as the news spread through town that she
had been killed the greatest excitement
prevailed, and Ryan was Immediately arrest
ed. He remarked, when he heard of her
death, that he was glad of it.
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MEXICAN RAILROADS. AND COM


The time ia approaching when our facili-
ties for intercourse with Mexico will make
it an easy matter tor the people OF the two
countries to enter into as close relations with
each other as they may desire, or find to
their mutual interest. Railroad construc-
ton is in rapid progress throughout Mexico
and will make transit regular and easy.
What use will the two countries make OF
these means of communication? How will
the railroads make profit on their invest
ments? The reader probably replies, "by
trade" Here comes in remarkable thing.
The roads are built for trade, but the Laws
of both countries limit in some cases and
prohibit in others the trade which the rail
roads are built TO establish. Nature say
certain things are produced more readily
and consequently at less expense in
Mexico than in the United States, and
certain other things in the United States
than in Mexico. Her implied command if
therefore, exchange these commodities with
each other. But the law says that the wis
dom of man ia greater than that of the
Creator, and that wisdom decides that no
such unrestricted exchange shall take place;
that where it is allowed at all it shall be
shackled and obstructed by the imposition
of heavy duties for the protection of man
against the operations of the provisions OF
nature. Accordingly "the smartest people
in all creation" have put tax of over sixty
per cent. on Mexican sugar, sixty-six per
cent on it's tobacco, over fifty per cent. on its
wool, forty per cent. on its straw hats and
braid, and so on through a whole list OF
articles. The Mexicans, whom we call
"greasers" and regard as far down in the
scale of mental acuteness, prove to be, in this
respect, as "smart" as we sre-or we are as
dull as they are, whichever it may be-
and they fire the hot shot OF taxation
with as lively an effort as ourselves, and
80 limit or prohibit that exchange of com-
modities which is so important an ingredient
in the worlds commerce. Engineers build
railroads in aid of mutual interchange,
while legislators make laws to cripple it.
Which of the two is to conquer, the influence
that builds up commerce, or that which i'm
pedes and injuries it? Here protection is
brought to practical test. Either the rail-
roads must fail to pay, and vast outlay of
American capital be loss, or the laws must
be changed to save it. The railroads have,
at least, as much right to protection as sugar
or straw braid, and a choice must be made
one way or the other. One mans capital
put into railroads is as much entitled to pro-
lection as another's that is put into straw
hats, and if the railroads ask for no taxation,
why should those who have invested their
means in other ways insist upon a tax
the railroads will be injured by?
and the greasers will have to settle, for the
difficulty is of their own raising. Let the
trade of the two countries go on without in
reference, simply obeying our constitutional
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ARKANSAS NEWS.

The Little Rock postoffice received five
days mail, between five and six tons, on
Monday. 1t had been detained by high
water.
AT Rutherford, Green Morris, a student at
the college, was bathing with other students
the water had risen, and he got into deep
water; he called TO the others, but they
thought he was jesting, and he was drowned.
Augusta Videite: weather rainy; our
next door neighbor, who keeps restaurant,
has been forced to keep an extra hand in the
kitchen this week, to hold an umbrella over
the cook .........Our town is orderly and quiet
since prohibition"
The Clarendon Ne,cs says prohibition does
not prohibit there. Those whose efforts put
the prohibition law into effect should zee
that 1t is operative; to get mere paper law
is poor work. II liquor is to be sold openly,
let it be sold legally.
Corning ADVOCATE: "Waters out, rains
heavy, mails stopped. Some citizens obliged
10 seek drier homes. IA mob whipped a
man in Black River township a few nights
since, suspected him as being implicated in
the recent burglaries there. Burglaring is
wrong; mob law is worse. Down with such
doings."
Dardanelle Arkagsidn: 81 ohm Cole, colored,
living about seven or eight miles below town,
was assaulted by crowd of armed and
masked men on Wednesday night last, and
very badly used up, having cuts all over his
face and head. 10 the melee he snatched the
mask off one of the men whom he says he
recognized. He has taken warrants out
against his assailants- -. B. Rogers,
magistrate, says that he has been nagis-
trate over eighteen years, and has been kept
busy with cases arising from whisky. He
adds: Since the doggeries have all been
closed my occupation as justice of the
peace has dwindled down TO very insignif-
cant proportions. Every body white and
black-who formerly were regular pimps at
the groceries, playing cards for whisky and
wasting their time, has now gone to work TO
try to make an honest living"
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SOUTHERN NEWS.

Railroad property increased g 900
in value last year.
From twenty TO thirty carloads OF iron
ore are shipped daily from Gadsden, Ala.
In South Carolina the contending local
factions are called the wet ticket and the
dry ticket.
The prohibitionists OF Mississippi hold a
State convention at Jackson the first Mon
day in July.
The assets of the Ladies' Calhoun Monu-
ment Association, in South Carolina, now
amount to nearly $4,000.
Aberdeen, Miss, has organized company
for silk culture, and has absorbed the silk
interest heretofore carried on at Corinth.
Women who are put in the city prison
at Knoxville, Tenn, are set to work on ''rock
piles" in public view, on one of the principal
thoroughfares.
The people of Waco, Tex, are becoming
very much alarmed about smallpox. They
are putting the city in good sanitary condi-
ton as preventive.
Beaux are so scarce in Albany, Ga, that
the girls have all resolved to catch the first
one that comes along, cage him and keep
him as a natural curiosity.
In Macon, Ga, the little two-year-old boy
of Officer w. w. Henderson was found dead
in bed. 1t had slipped between the rail
ings and the foot-board during the night and
broken its neck.
At Jacksonville, Fla, recently two boys,
aged sixteen and nineteen years, sons OF re-
spectacle citizens, confessed to being guilty
of numerous robberies, burglaries and at
tempt TO murder.
The East Tennessee Farmers Convention,
which met in Knoxville last week, is said to
have been the largest agricultural conVen-
ton ever held in the State. Over three hun
dred farmers we're present.
Some Texas papers seem to think that the
Hon. J. W. Throckmorton lie the proper man
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PERSONAL MENTION

The wife Of the Crown Prince Frederick
William has been safely delivered Of son.
This means higher taxes for the Germans.
Colonel Ipgersoll finds difference between
practicing law and occurring. There are
belligerent tendencies in the legal profession.
Alexander 81. Stephens seems to be willing
to run for governor Of Georgia if the Demo-
cratic party, or an independent party, or any
considerable body of citizens, will organize
and force him into the breach.
Proctor Knott will probably be returned
to Congress. Randall, of the Augusta
Chronicle and Constitutionoiist, Gays that che
is a man of wonderful and original gifts, but
rather lazy. He needs squirting by some
true friend"
Give dog bad name, etc. A New York
shoemaker named Joe Emmett fell over
board in East river last week while under
the influence of malt liquor, and the metro
politan press at once began heading the item,
"Joe Emmett Gone Again; Sad Fate OF a
Once Eminent Actor"
Judge Tourgee, the author of A Fools
ErrQnd, Bricks Without Strar, John Ear, and
some other works of only mediocre ability,
but nationally popular-they would not be
nationally popular unless they were mediocre
has been mortgaged by Oar Continent to
write exclusively for that m agazine.
"a man, my boy, never feels SO much like
moralizing as after an indulgence, when his
stomach is full of good food and his veins
are filed with generous wines. The Wisest
man Of sacred record had the most concu-
bines and was a high liver, and he said,
Vanity of vanities; all is vanity"
Close on the heels OF the death of Jesse
James, Americas pet bandit, the boss outlaw
of Mexico, one Mancero, has been obvIated
from existence; he was found dead in the
chapparel with tventy-eight bullets in MS
carcass, which caused the coroner's jury TO
decide that his death wss not the result Of
suicide.
The New York Grophie, in its leading ed
itorial Of Tuesday-an editorial upon the
assassination of CaEendish and Barke, char
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.Disaonest stock arohers.

NEW YORK, May l7.-President Lawrence,
of the Stock Exchange, will to-day officially
summon George II. Kennedy and VIM. ].
Hutchins to appear before the governors of
the exchange to answer grave charges which
will be formally preferred at the special
meeting of the governors called for May 2lst.
When arrangements were made for the IA
nous st. Joe corner last year, John r. Duff,
of Boston, gave his business to Kennedy &
Hutchinson and supposed he had made a
great deal of money, but few weeks ago it
was publicly alleged that his brokers had
not dealt fairly with him, and Hutchinson
subsequently refunded $4,000 to Duff.
The charges are of very grave character,
and it is said that the proceedings of the
committee are not favorable to Hutchinson.
The complaints made relate wholly to trans
actions by the firm prior to lis reorganiza-
ton the first of the year.
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ried, and when she flung her fair fingers in
his face and said: Captain, 1 maintain my
bought the bridal chamber, and here is, if
you want II, the certlfcate of a 500 bill
which Mr. Colt has probably fooled away on
a preacher for marrying u.s." Mics Lille
Hitchcock is one OF the most brilliant, if not
the most brilliant woman on the Pacific
coast. She is the daughter of an eminent
officer of the regular army. Once in walk
ing on the plaza in the City of Mexico she
came back to the hotel escorted by a Mexi-
can colonel of cavalry. He said to the Mere
Hitchcock: Madame, L return you your
daughter as took her from you" Miss
Lille replied with the quick wit and snap
which has made her the admiration of Cali
fornia for some years past: ~Yes, mother,
he, although a Frenchman, returns me in
tact -