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Wnite, black, Chinese-any color or race.
IN our part, We planters will gladly welcome
tue most stringent laws that can be framed to
force us TO keep our contracts with ignorant
iaoorers, but all the same we would like to
have lave also provided to hold the latter to
their engagements. A man with his family
contracts to cultivate twenty acres of land on
shares for you, and you are TO feed and
clothe him while he is doing it; in the mid
die OF the season, when the crop is half
grown, you kindly hint to him that he is
overdrawing his account, and in a moment
be is ready TO move bag and baggage and
there is no law to stop him. The trouble in
the South Is not that the white man bull
dozes and Expresses his colored brother, but
the very reverse. To make 500 planter
has to invest 5000 on crops which, from
natural causes may fail at last, and with Ia
borers who may desert him for the most insig-
ni6cant reason, and whose method of settling
debts is 10 cancel them by removing out OF
jurisdiction.
Finally. Notwithstanding these grumblings,
the country is improving; a better UNDER
standing than heretofore exists between em-
ployers and employed. The laborer, not yet
recovered entirely from the craze produced
by sudden and unex pected emancipation. is
learning that liberty is not license; that
rolling stone gathers no moss. The writer is
sanguine OF the future prosperity of the
country. II our colored friends would only
change their faith and believe in predestina-
ton matters would improve in many re-
spects, but unfortunately they all belong to
schoof<which teaches falling from grace,
which makes it necessary for the bulk OF the
population to be reconverted at least once
each year; and this annual saving of souls
renders the saving of crops sometimes hsz-
ardous, and moreover requires that quite a
large percentage of our newly-made fellow
citizens must be preachers, and consequently
preyerr, in that they do not work but expect
10 live off the altar. ARKANSAS.
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A FINE WATCH
Presented to Captain Robert n. Leech
by His Friends.

Captain Robert NJ. Leech, who has been in
the employ of the Mississippi and Tennessee
railroad for the past twenty-six years as
machinist in the shops, engineer on the road,
freight conductor, and as passenger con-
ductor since away back in 1868 or 1869, sew
cred his connection with the road yesterday
for the purpose OF engaging as general agent
and solicitor with the Livermore Foundry
and Machine Company, of this place. A
number of his longtime friends and associ-
ates, as we'll as several prominent business
men who appreciate his sterling qualities,
determined TO present Captain Leech some
lasting testimonial of the high esteem in
which he is held by all who know him, went
to Byrd's and purchased $500 Jurgensen
watch with pretty chain, which were turned
over to Mr.. John w. Graham for presenta-
ton to Captain Leeeh. He and few of
his friends were requested TO be at Captain
Ed Harris Office at 2 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, at which time and place the pre-
sentation was made in an appropriate little
speech by Mr.. Graham. Captain Leech, in
accepting, spoke as follows:
"GENILEMEN-I cannot say this is a eur
prise for a road with as many pretty ladies
and big-hearted men with long and con-
tinued friendship. ] accept this punch Of
your esteem and admiration. / am satisfied
that our rides together have made us at
tached to each other. As each succeeding
year calls a station which time is passing,
this memento will recall your features and
kindness. In running life's curves, trestles
and grades, the dangers and SORROWS will be
lessened by this tender. Ordinarily I can
compete in talking match, but 1 must sur
render on this occasion and say let's take
something else"
Something else" was taken with great
deal of satisfaction. There were toasts and
good wishes for the happiness and prosperity
of Captain Leech in his new business. He
leaves Immediately ON an extended business
tour for the company he has become con-
rontoI nth
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LOCAL NOTICES.

KNABE Pianos at Hollenberg's music
house.
GRAND SELECT HOP at M@unerchor 81 all
this evening.
d. r. GRAHAM, plumber, gas and steam
filter, 55 Beale street.
FoR pumps, pipes and we'll points 90 to
J. A. Bal ey's, 295 Second street.
INVESTIGATE the Twenty-day Natal plan
of the Memphis Mutual Aid Society. 1t is
something entirely new.
HUI PUNCH, composed of rare, choice old
liquors, is incompatible with fine ice, lemon.
ade, milk or water. The trade supplied at
manufacturers' prices by 3. J. Semmes & Co.,
Memphis, Tenn.
You've GENTLEMEN, if you want a nice
time take your sweetnearts to the hop al
Iuka Springs on the 9Th instant. Round
trip tickets on. sale At the Memphis and
Charleston railroad office.
In Ayers Ague Cure we have positive
remedy for fever and sgue and all malarial
disorders, and one entirely free from quinine,
arsenic, or other injurious drugs. II is the
chemical and medicinal triumph of the age.
J. B. WALKER, 81. D., has returned from
Mexico, where he secured quantity of
herbs, ETC., which he is preparing into medi-
cine, for the cure of chronic diseases, at his
laboratory, No. I45 Beale street, and will
open the same to the public on September
l, 1882.
In these days of telephone, electric light,
and general advancement OF science, and old
ideas are being superseded. A sensible man,
instead of rushing to the doctor on any symp-
tom of disease, becomes his own physician
and prescribes for himself. and his prescrip-
tion is always DIR. Holman's Pad.
A GOOD veterinary surgeon is now stopping
(and will be for few days. at ]. III. Manor's
livery stable, opposite the courthouse, 164
Main street. This is good chance to have
all the crippled-up horses repaired. He
proposes to cure any disease or blemish a
cow or horse has that is durable, Do not
neglect 10 bring your stock.
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A GOOD STORY
On Pat Wfnters's. Meth0d OF Propttiat.
ing the COlored Vote.

A good story is going the rounds about
Judge Pat Winters's felicitous manner oil
soothing the average colored breast. 1t il
entirely too good to let pass. The fiutist has
a colored friend named Jim Murray who
figured on the Island for a while, and was
eventually extricated by the efforts of Pat
This man., by appointment, is usually pres
emit when the candidate for County Court
Clerk is addressing colored crowd. On
such an occasion the keynote of the orators
speech is to draw dreadful picture of the
state of affairs on the Island-a place that
is of great interest to the average negro.
'sIll tell you, gentlemen" begins the orator,
you are not treated right on that Island. A
short time ago, defended poor colored
man named Jim Murray, who was hit on the
head and bruised up there and I got him off
Amt that true?"
"You bet OATS co." said q colored mans
voice; you're telling de trufe, Boss. l was
darn
"Who's that?' says Pat.
aDis is Jim Murray, de very man you
Tended, and here's where dey hit me on de
head" pulling off his hat for the inspection
of the crowd.
$50 that's you, Jim, ir III" says the orator,
resuming amid thunders of applause.
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Cotton or Corn once More.

TO the Eo1tors OF the Appeal:
cheerfully admit the justice of the sensi-
BILE deductions from my article on "Cotton
or Corn" drawn by you in your editorial
comments. Brevity, which is properly re-
.quired of newspaper correspondents (limit-
ing their articles to statements bare of argu-
ment), left me apparently in the absurd
position of maintaining that farmer should
plant but one staple article. Please permit
me few lines to say that this is diametri-
cally opposed to my real views, which are
that no farmer should erer hare to obtain from
outside sources anything srhieh he Gun produce
cheaper than he can purchase. My argument
was that owing to enormous obstacles the
number OF such articles is very limited, be-
cause the producer has little or no protection
for any article which can be eaten or carried
away aud concealed.
could furnish you with statistics as to
the profits of cultivating different articles
more profitable than cotton, but statistics
are dry. Farmers are blamed that they are
not progressive, that they run In old ruts,
that they refuse to use labor-saving tools,
etc yet there are few intelligent planters who
have not expended sums, larger Or smaller,
in trying to introduce better implements, but
10 most cases without success. The ordinary
colored laborer, who thinks that ground can
plows, or who believes more firmly than he
believes anything else that planting must be
done during some particular phase OF the
moon which particular ooe no two at a ven-
ture will agree), offers DO opening to reasons
in favor of improved tools, and if you insist
on trial of any one highly recommended
you may expect failure as the result OF pre-
determined awkwardness, just as if you in
stat on planting without regard TO the moon,
you may look Tor indifference in after culti-
vatIon which will result in poor results at
best.
We planters are copiously advised in
other matters; We are pressed to abandon
share cropping and to work our plantations
with hired labor, but our advisers do not
know how valueless a contract with our
laborers is. One may offer the largest wages,
and then at the time when his crop is in the
grass and temporary neglect OF it entails
ruin, the gang approaches and demands adj
vanced wages, greater than the crop will
Justify. You are at their mercy, for the
laborer's wants are easily supplied and his
services are always in demand. Owing to
the fact that the demand for labor is greater
than the supply puts the planter at the
mercy of the lsborer, who is governed by no
law of contract. If you refuse to furnish
him as he desires, he quits you; if you fur
nish him as he desires. you will overpay HIM
for his labor, and once overpaid and in debt
he is ready to travel. We want more labor
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wAK In THE CAMP
OF a Firm that Gets Up she Memphis
Directory.

There has been war in the firm of Sheles &
Co, publishers of the City Directory, resulting in
legal proceedings. Sholes is extensive
directory aker, and is continually travelling
from one city to another. G. F. Weatherbe
who forms the company, has been working
up the canvassipg here, and has virtually
had control in the city. Sholes claims that
he has furnished the plans and has managed
the getting up of the directory. The cause
of the present war seems to have been the
fact that Weatherbe began canvassing some
time ago for directory under his own name.
He also stated to every one that he proposed
to get up his book on an entirely new plan.
With his proposed improvements, he made
rapid headway. Hearing of thie, Sholes got
over the city:
MEMPHIS, TENN, July 26, 1882.
DEAR SIR-The interest of Mr.. C. F.
Weatherbe in Sholes's directory business
ceased in May, having been compelled to
dispense with his services on account OF his
general unreliability. From the fact that
he is now attempting to run opposition TO
my works / am obliged to state this, and to
also add that never, during the six years of
his connection with me, have trusted him
to compile a single book, his sole duty hav-
ing been that of solicitor. My force will
begin in q short time the canvass OF the city
for my tenth volume, and trust that you,
as well as all my friends and patrons, will
reserve your orders for me, IN the assurance
that the standard OF excellence attained in
the past will be maintained in the future.
Yours respectfully, A. E. sHoI.Es.
This of course aroused Weatherbs's ire,
and as soon as Sholes came to town he had
him arrested and summoned to appear be-
fore Etquire j. s. Galloway yesterday.
Sholes gave bond. If all of this now results
in giving Memphis better directory-and
it is susceptible of improvement-the mer-
chants may congratulate shemselves that it
has arisen
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The boy drowned Saturday evening has
been discovered 10 be Joseph Adler, a youth
of sixteen, whose father works at w. H.
Eader & Co.'s. About dozen boys were
swimming at the foot of Union street, where
the accident occurred. Adler was probably
drawn into the swift current, drowned, and
then carried on down the river. At last ac-
counts the body had not been found. The
boys have been warned time and again
against swimming in the river here, but
somehow the terrors of the stream do not
exist for them; and every summer furnishes
a new list of sad deaths.
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ImpOrtauf,

When you visit or leave New York city,
save aggase, expressage and carriag e hire, and
stop at Grand U MON Hotel. opposite Grand Cen
trail depot -Four hun dred and dity elegant 70 oms,
and upwards per day. Elevator. Restaurant sup
piled with the best. Horse-cars stages and ele.
rated railroad to all depots- Families can live
better for less money at the Grand Union tina n NJ
any other drst-class hotel in the city
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LETTERS FROM THE PEOPLE

A Deal Not According 10 knowledge.
To the Editors of the Appeal:
The friends of temperance who are seek
ing to bring the cause into politics are want
ing in knowledge and discretion. To bring
the cause of temperance into politics is 10
wound it in the house of its friends. North
Carolina attempted prohibition and signslly
failed, thereby giving the cause of temper
ance mortal wound. They were told shat
he that would live by the sword should die
by IT," They were told that their policy
would bring out the opposition in full force,
and when il was too late they would learn
that knowledge is power. The opposition
having learned their strength are waging
war against all temperance measures. A
fanatic is an injury to any cause he may
espouse. Many of the temperance advo-
Gates are as indiscreet as the woman who
killed the hen which laid golden egg daily.
The cause of temperance has been steadily
advancing, and is hedged about by many
laws. But many, in their infatuation, would
lose what they have by an attempt to get the
entire lump at once. The cause of temper
ance is the cause of God, and the weapons of
his warfare are not carnal. Peter defended
bis Lord with a sword and was rebuked.
A man who is temperate because he cannot
get intoxicating drinks is not approved of
God, but to men he appears as sober as any
one. Consequently, the man who is sober
from choice cannot be distinguished from the
man who is sober from compulsion. But
God has designed that the wheat and the
tares should grow up together SO that the
excellency of the wheat may be manifested.
1t is evident that christianity will be shorn
of it's glory when, men are made moral by
law. The existing embargoes placed upon
intoxicating drink by both State and ma
tioual laws constitute premium on sobriety
which is proper and right. The consumers
pay the tax, which is penalty for inebriety,
and it is self-inficted. The tax causes no
one to drink. Its apparent purpose is to
deter men from drinking. But the moderate
use of intoxicating drinks is not an evil. To
assert that it is an evil is to condemn the
Lord Jesus Christ, who turned water into
wine at the wedding at Cana, of Galilee,
when it is evident the party had INDUCED
freely. The same spirit that inaugurated
the crusade is now at work in the prohibit
ton fanatics. "Be temperate in all things"
is the injunction which will be needed BY
MORRIS
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PERSONALS.

Nh. JOHN II. RICE and family left for
Harrodsburg, KY, Sunday evening.
Miss KATE =. SEXTON left last Friday
morning to spend several months with friends
in Georgia.
Miss LEFTY VANCE, daughter of Mr.. G. T.
Vance, has returned from visit to 1uka
Springs, Miss.
Miss LoREsA SPEcHr left Sunday on the
City of Cairo for St. Louis to spend the re-
mainder of the summer.
DR. w. B. RoGERs, who has been on visit
to Europe the past several weeks, is on his
return home, having sailed from Liverpool
on the steamer Caspian, which left that port
for New York on the 22d instant.
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STEALING q Reputation.

Would you trust one dishonest enough to
steal the reputation of another, to make for
you any thing-especially your physic-not
knowing of what it may be compounded
How to tell the genuine Simmons Liver Reg
ulator: Look for the clean White Wrapper
having a large red u in the center and the
signature of J. III. Zsilin & Co. on the side.
All others are worthless and injurious imita-
,tions. Don't tamPer with them, however
iplausibly Recommended; health and life are
foo Drecious to end anger
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BON AQUA SPRINGS

NEW BON AQUA. with its magnificent NEW
IN HOTEL and 100 Cottage rooms, with an ele-
walton OF l150 feet above the level OF the sea, is
now open for the season. It's sulphur nd Chaly-
beatc Springs will be found valuable for the fol-
lowing diseases, viz: Dyspepsia, Diarrhea Dysen-
terry, Constipation and Summer Complains OF
children, diseases OF the kidneys, diseases OF the
Skin, Aneomis, Chlorosis Nervous prostration,
Menstrual disorders Chorea, Rheumatism, and
othes morbid diathesis.
~ Telegraph and Express Offices at the Springs.
Visitors change cars at Dickson Station, on the
Nashville, CHATTANOOGA and Northwestern railroad.
where an elegant car will take them to tn Springs
distance IL miles. We invite correspondence.
j. n. M'DOWELL,
Ron Aqua Springs, Tenn.
z. WA. CHATHAM. Reside pt EMysician
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Adjourn'd Meeting of stockholders
IN TIE
Memphis & Charleston r. r. Co.

WHEREAS, The Convention of Stockholders
wv in the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company, which met at the call of the Board oil
Directors of said Company in Memphis. Tenn, on
the 221 day of June, 1882, by unanimous vote ad-
iourned to meet in Huntsville, Ala, on the fourth
Tuesday in August next:
Now, therefore, notice is hereby given that the
stockholders in said Memphis and Charl ston
Railroad Company Will meet, pursuant 10 sdjourn
ment in HUNTSVILLE. ALA, on
Tuesday. Ihe 2ed Day OF August. Iss2,
to consider and vote upon proposition of conscI
ldation of tho Memphis and Charleston and Eakl
Ten nessee, Virginia and Georgia Railroad Com
panies and to transact any and all other business
which may come before them, the same as ~
rsFhlar annual meeting.
The Company's agents at the several stations viii
furnish stockholders with free passes to and from
the meeting g. r. CRUISE
secretary Of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
Company, and Secretary of the stockholders'
Convention, which met in Memphis, Tenn,
June "a, 1882
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You have no Reuben Springers or Charlie

Vests, consequently you must depend ON the
poor and middle class. This has been the
experience elsewhere, and it will be yours.
You are conversant with my slender means,
yet you will do me a favor by placing my
name in the S50-list and present the life
membership to some poor studious young
man or woman. Trusting that you will take
an active part in the endeavor 10 realize the
magnificent donation of Mr.. Nash (who for
yeare lived in this city,, beg to be, truly
yours, J.D.r.
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FATAL ACCIDENTS.
An Old Negro Falls from a TwO.Story
Building and is Killed A
Drowning.
A Young Negro Shoots a ColOred Mar.
ried Woman, KILLING Her Almost
Instantly.

Early Sunday morning an old darky
named Uncle Phil Joiner met with an acci.
dent which proved fatal. He has been en-.
joying peculiar relations with a colored
widow living on Causey street, between Beale
and Linden. He has been, according to- her
statement, a sort OF friend Of the family, and
has been in the habit of taking her two chill.
dren out good deal. He has been SO thor
oughly family friend that it was not con-
sidered indelicate for him to come home
drunk Saturday night and fall asleep in the
the old man was peacefully doing in the
moonlight he fell out q the window By acct.
dent. He fell directly Upon his head on the
pavement and mashed 1t in 80 far that, to
the APPEAL peripatetic, he looked for all the
world like
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PITTSBURG LUMP COAL,
Forty cents per barrel, delivered. Now is
the time to lay in winter supply.
BROWN JONES,
0S2 Main Street.
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Ladies Are most Attractive

When their faces are free from pimples.
Parker's Ginger Tonic is popular among
them, because it banishes all impurities
from the blood and makes the face glow
with health
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Old Reliable

FoR recreation and pleasure, attend the
grand hop at Iuka Springs on Friday night,
4th instant.
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Auother County Heard From

OAK RIDGE KENTUCKY COAL,
A superior family article; only thirty cents
per barrel, delivered. Try it.
BROWN d JONES.
2S2 Main Street,
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To the Voters Of the 14th Civil District.
Having been solicited by a large number of
the voters of the above district, hereby an
nounce myself candidate for Constable.
MAII0RY
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FIoyd,s Ladies' Restaurant.

Patrons of our house will appreciate the
many improvements lately made. Our Res.
taurant will compare favorably with any in
larger cities
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THE best coal yet discovered for steam and
cooking purposes, Is
PITTSBURG NUT COAL.
Only thirty cents per barrel, delivered.
BROWN s. JONES.
80 Main Street.
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The odor of Floreston Cologne is entirely
new. See signature of Hiscox & Co. on
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He stood just as he fell on his head, with his
feet against the wall of the church. An in
quest was held by Esquire Spelman, and a
verdict returned in harmony with these facts.
Joiner was draymau
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Horsfsrd's Acid Phosphate.

s. s. Parker, Wellington, O., says: "While
crossing Lake Erie gave it to some fellow
passengers who were seasick, and it gave i'm.
mediate reliei.n
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Grand Hon.
INSECT POWDER.

A grand hop will come off at Iuka Spring.
on Friday night next.
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FIoyd,s Candies.

Made with great care, finely favored and
fresh every day.
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French Steam Dye-WOrks.
Ladies' and gentlemen's goods dyed and
Q ieaned at Louis RiegePs. 5S3 Jefferson street,
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HOTEL ARRIVALS.

Peabody HoteI-C. B. GALLOWAY d Co.,
Pr0priet0rs.
Rates-s2 50, 50 and 81 per day, according TO size
aud location of room Table board. from LIST of
dar-
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MEMPHIS ABROAD.
What a Former Memphian Has to Say
About Her Apathy in the Nash
Library Proposition.
A New Scheme Suggested BY Which the
Necessary Subscriptions are to
be Raised.

The following letter has been received by
a gentleman of this city from a former resi-
dent of Memphis, now a citizen of the Queen
City, place that has emerged from mere
hog-killing town to the highest position as
the seat Of literature, music and the fine
aria
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HOTELS.
MRS. cox.
Visitors to New York City.

I44 Madison Avenue, New York.
Superior Board Moderate Summer Prices, Ele
Suifas~aud Single rooms. wed