Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-09-28
THE VICTIMS
or the Matrimonial and Natal Bucket
Shops Looking for the Fortunes
Promised in the Leaflets
And by the GIib-Tongued Agents-One OF
Them Succeeds in Getting SlOo in
Place OF $4,000.

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| by the multitude daily, an outsider would
think that we are a walking encyclopedias oil
| matrinouial lore. All of US have had some
l experience in the business, but it Is OF a
| character upon which satisfactory answers
| could net be given TO the anxious inquirer.
Our experience is that which generations
| past and present, we'll as generations Tor
l all tine to come, will learn by experience
| the experience that follows the "for better or
l worse" part of the programme OF the CRITICAL
| event. The knowledge sought to be attsinedlby
| the preseni-day searcher after matrimonial
knowledge is OF a merceuary nature-ln
| other words aud more comprehensive,
"bucket-shop information-that is sought for.
1 We try to oblige everybody, and to save the
/ amount of repetition necessary to respond 10
| each individual, we avail ourselves OF the
l space allotted 10 local matter to answer all
| in one voice. Yesterday was not very pro-
| life of matrimonial news, except an occa-
1 sonal rumor that 4 matrimonial ASSOCIATE On
had
HANDED IN IT'S CHECKS
| and ceased to exist; that in the effort TO
"freeze out" its dupes il had literally "hred"
! itself out of existence. We made no effort
| to End out what association had given up
| the ghost, because we have predicted, and
confidently believe, that the days of all such
concerns are numbered, and 1t will not be
/ long before the howl raised by their dupes
/ will give as much publicity to the swindle
l as the APPEAL and all the papers in exist
ence could give in detail before the climax
arrives.
| FRESH YOUNG MAN
/ accosted one of us Yesterday and gained our
ear to the following bit of cheek:
81 say, you fellows think you are doing
something smart in assailing the matrimo-
| NAL association"
"We think we are doing the public SER
vice in exposing the frauds"
"Yes, but what do you want 10 keep it up
30 long for? get sick of reading it."
"The best thing for man to do when a
medicine makes him sick is to abandon it
| chapge off to milder remedy. If You are
/ sick Of reading the APPEALS comment aries
l on marriage association frauds, stop 1t and
1 read something else"
"But the trouble with the APPEAL is,
| when it opens its batteries ON anything it
never ceases firing until the walls are lev
| eIed, and the sight of SO much carnage is
| sickening." This was evidently intended
for Joke, but it fell as harmless as faulty
: fuse.
"Wben a soldier has life enough abou:
| him to become sick at the sight OF blood he
should be kept out of the hospital. The
1 conscientious soldier is inspired by the sight
| Of blood 10 the most terrible avengement OF
| the slaughter OF his comrades, and"
L but you uOn uuucIstduu uc.
81 KNOW YOU ARE RIGHT
I as far as ultimate results are concerned, but
you have said that often enough. Why do
you keep il upW
because every day we hear OF new organi-
cations springing up, giving evidence that
there are more fools to educate. You are
young man, and have much 10 learn. We
hope we will not be accused of intruding il
we offer few suggestions for your future
profit, and we will make them the more i'm
pressive by revealing TO you our knowledge
of the game" these associations are, in the
MAN. based upon. A friend of the APPEAL
yesterday related to US the predicament OF
young friend OF hisiwho had four policies in
as many schemes. Said he: 'Yesterdaynhe
received ass ssment notifications amounting
to S33, and to-day he has additional notifica-
lions amounting to S25-amounting to S58
10 two days. Now l happen to know that
my friends menthly salary does not amount
TO half that much money, and if he succeeds
in hunting up enough 10 pay those assess
ments he will never be able 10 meet what
may come tomorrow and the days following |
He has already exhausted all his resources |
in raising enough to meet demands; l think |
he has gone by the board, and what he has |
been paying in will have to be foIfeired.' |
Now, young man, this Is true story, and is |
but the beginning OF the
GAME Vi FREEZE OOT
Chat is going to be played upon he member
ship OF nine-tenths of these so-caIled mari
tai, natal, or whatever else name they may
choose TO hatch up. Bear in mind, the |
name is always selected with the view to be-
guile the unwary. We want to tell You an
other little story we heard yesterday: We
were notified that a suit would take place
before one OF our magistrates yesterday
aeai.sst . a1arsiasA assaeiali~..-xUA- s.---o.1
i md hI,f fha m aOIstrata knew n0fhInu of If |
Of course it was suggested that compro-
mise had been effected but we wanted the
gist of that compromise. The informants
we traced up as far as the fourth story, re-
suliing in story about as follows: A young
man had been employed by an officer of an
sssociation-ihe name is withheld because
he scheme did not work, and the
GOODNESS OF THE ADVENTURE
will break out at no distant day in probably
4 more disgraceful transaction-to go down
% some point in Mississippi and induce a
Young lady friend of his, upon eWhom a
number of policies had been taken, and
N srTiage with her present sutton, 10 rua
away and marry him anyhow. He went as
directed, but failed in accomplishing the de-
tired result, but earned his stipend
all the same as if he had succeeded. The
result was, the association failed of the
necessity OF issuing assessments upon its
to pay these fifteen
'r twenty per cent. OF which would have
zone TO the officers of the association, conse-
,uently the officers
REFUSED TO PAY THE HIRELING
his wages and he threatened suit. The in
erence drawn from the fact that the sui. did
lot come of, is that the association feared
he developments that would come out at
he trial"
"But will you explain why the APPEAL is
he only paper that antagonizes our associa-
ions? The"
"Hold on; we will answer your question
y denying that the APPEAL is the only
aper.
"ALLTHE LEADING PAPERS
in other cities have taken up the cue from
he APPEAL, and are literally 'lambsstins' |
hem, using epithets that in this community :
inning TO be felt elsewhere as In Memphis. {
'e assured, young man, the days of your {
cheme to acquire wealth without working '
II it are numbered. and don't you forget it.
We know that hundreds OF your age have
cen led into this thing by false pretensions, j
ither in holding out false Inducements or
= not diyulging the inner workings OF the r
lschine, and our advice is, if you owe them a
nything pay it and quit, and consider your a
If well of with the dearly-purchssed ex- C
srience." ii
Another Case. 4
After we parted with our young friend we |
card a rumor that two or three of the .
themes had suspended" but could not q
ace il to an authentic source. 1t was prob ii
bly, the augmentation of the incident of a d
ell-known bookkeeper who had policies I,
10 several thousand dollars, which Fl
II due day or two ago. Up to yesterday s
tsrnoon he had succeeded in finding the Of n
,es OF but two of the institutions, in each +
which his dues amounted TO $4,000. One of i,
ese proposed compromise by paying him h
OIL. and the other $IO4. He did not settle | q.