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Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-29
RAILROAD II TABLES.
Memphis ana OharleatOn.

LEAVIe AHHIVHs
New Orleans Mail daily I.45D.m $40 SIN
gardis accom'n, Except
sunday .....~..,..-".-.- a.4g Pm . % Am
VreiTht train car g p'g'sl IS a m 4 90 pm
Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-09-29
memph1. ana Llttle Roen.

LnkvH. ARRIVE.
Nall train, daily. 40 pm. 1880 pm
PAsseger h ......... 500 am. 8.tOa.m
freight. ............. ......... SIS am Z 90 pm
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

The Times correspondent at Alexandria tel
egraphs. that 10000 persons are supposed to
have left there thus far, leaving many serv-
ants and workmen without employment
The customhouse has been closed, and the
postm aster doubts his ability to continue the
postal service, owing to the probable flight of
the employees. The engineers at Atiek, the
junction OF the Mahmoudick canal with the
Nile, have threatened to quit work, which
action might imperil the water supply.
SPAIN WOULD ALSO LIKE TO BE REPRE-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
CHALMERs'S DETECTION
Predetermined MOyement-A State.
nient TO that Effect by Mr.. Page,
OF virginia.

New ORLEANS, June 15.-The Times
Democrat publishes to-day the following
among its specials from Washington:
CHALMERs's DETECTION PREDETERMINED.
1t seems that the charge so frequently
made against General Chalmers, of Missis-
sippi, that he abandoned his party because
the party refused to 6libuster in his behalf
is strictly correct. There is good re ason to
believe that he contemplated joining the
Independent movement in Mississippi at
least two months before he lost his seat in
the House. Mr.. Paul, Readjuster member
from Virginia, said to your correspondent
to-day that, hearing the charge repe ated
many times that Chalmers had deserted his
party because he was not sustained by
party friends in the House as he ought
To have been sustained, he had denied
it for the reason that Chalmers had,
in confidential conversation, Informed him
two months or more ago that the
Lamar Democracy was unjustly pushing
him to the wall, and that he intended to head
an independent movement in Mississippi,
Virginia. Mr.. Paul says Chalmers asked
him long before his case was decided to
arrange an interview between him and Ma
hone, and that he undertook to comply with
the request, but that Malone was away in
Virginia SO much he was unable TO do so.
MIR. Paul does not think the interview ever
took place Under the circumstances, per-
baps the Democrats of the House do not feel
badly for not having filibustered in Chal-
mers's tehalf
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
MRS. III. B. STOWE
Honored by n Garden Party on Her
Seventeen BirihdaJ-POem by
Elizabeth Smart Phelps.
Some of the Most Distinguished Liter.
airy People of the Country Present
A Brilliant Affair.

BosToE, June ia garden party was
given yesterday afternoon at "Old EIms, "
the residence of Elk Governor Claflin, at
NewtOnville, in honor OF the seventeen
birthday of Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe.
The party was under the auspices of Hough-
ton, Mifflin & Co. The more prominent per
sons present we're Oliver Wendell Holmes,
John q. Whittier, J. L. Trowbrisge, Bron-
son Alcott, w. B. Howells, Thomas Bailey
Aldrich, Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Mrs.
Burnett, George p. Lathrop, Mrs Baysrd
Taylor ana daughter, Rose Ii awJnorne La
throp, Nora Perry, James Parton, Lucy
Stone, f. z. Whipple, Lucy Larcom, Lyman
Abbott, Louise Chandler MoultoB, Mrs John
Q. Sargent, Mrs. Ole Bull, Judge Tourgee,
Henry Ward Bsecher, Charles and Edward
Beecher and wives, Isabella Hooker Beecher,
Rev. Charles Z. Stowe, Mrs. Stoves son, and
Fred Douglass. The guests were presented
TO Mr.. Houghton by William Lloyd Garri-
son, who in turn presented them to Mrs.
Stowe. The literary exercises took place in
a large tent; Prof. Holmes and wife, several
members of the Beecher family, and Mr..
Houghton occupied the platform. Addresses
were made by Mr.. Houghton, Henry Ward
and Edward Beecher, and many letters were
read from absent friends and admirers, and
poems delivered, many of them by their au-
thors, including one by Oliver Wendell
Holmes and others as follows.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

routes and corners and black Fridsys; that
fill the country with monopolies under the
pretense Of protecting American labor; that
sell oleomargarine fore butter, and candle
grease for lard, and cornmeal for pepper, and
glucose for sugar, are all capitalists. Will
they cheat everybody else but be honest TO
the workmen who have left themselves de-
fenseless in their hands? Let US come closer
to this important question, however, by OBJ
serving, in special instance, how the work
ing-men are often thought for when not
their mere wages, but their very lives are at
stake. The American Nacbinist informs US
that almost every day some terrible boiler
explosion occurs, with loss Of life. Ingenuity
has done wonders 10 make boilers safe, pro-
viding them with steam and water gauges
and safety valves, yet explosions occur and
lives are lost. Investigations are made, and,
in the mas of instances, the catastrophe is
proved to have resulted, not from defective
workmanship or machinery-not from bad
materiol-but from the incompetency of
the engineer, and from his untrustworthi-
ness. When guDpowder is stored up 1t Is
not Left 10 the care OF a stupid, ignorant,
unqualified man; but a steam boiler, held to
its utmost tension by an explosive force, il,
in continually recurring instances, left into
just such improper hands. The boiler may
have every appliance for safety that science
and skill can supply, but if the man that is
10 use the apparatus, to foresee every con-
tiugency and apply the necessary caution
aud remedy in time, il, from ignorance, from
want OF vigilance, or from inattention, in
TO perform his duties, of what
avail is all the rest? There may be the most
careful and conscientious inspection, but if
the person in care is untrustworthy all is in
vain. Yet such men are 80 frequently EN-
ployed that the Mdchiatst says: Time and
sgain il has been shown that nearly all boiler
* plosons are the result of carelessness."
Why are such incompetent men employed2
The Mdehinist says from "niggardliness" on
he part Of men whose crime should cause
hem to be ostracised by public sentiment and
brought to the bar of justice, because they
keep ignorant and incompetent men who
will work for less pay than an engineer in
;harge OF steam generators, thereby endan-
yering scores of lives. When anybody pro-
poses a law for the rigid examination of
men who wish to act as engineers, to deter
nine their capacity for such positions, an
,utcry is raised against interfering with pri-
rate rights" There is the explanation from
that cannot be doubted. If the !
capitalist, from "niggardliness," can thus ex-
pose the lives of men working where steam
boilers are holding their lives in the keep
ng OF an ill-paid engineer, what is to be ex-
oected to be done in the case OF his wages?
Let those who condemn unions and are OPP
posed to strikes show how, without the power
hat lies in them, the workingman is to OBJ
ain fair and full share of the wealth that |
his hands have brought into existence?
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
THE CURSE OF MONOPOLY.

The American people are eaten up by
monopoly, as the locust and grasshopper de-
YOUR the products of the lands lying below
the Rocky mountains. Monopoly has ban
ished the American merchant service from
the sea; monopoly has shut the worlds
markets against most of our manufactures;
monopoly is eating up the substance of the
farmer, and grasping, by its high prices, the
earnings of the toiler. Fair, open, straight
forward competition is, to a great extent,
banished. Law, expedien:, cajolery, trick
cry bribery and cheating in all directions
are resorted to that competition may be cut
off, silenced and smothered so that oppor-
tunity may exist for fleeing the people
without stint. An outrageous instance of
this kind exists among other railroad
monopoly extortions. Companies receive
grants OF vast areas of public lands.
These become valuable, monopolies shutting
out the public from acquiring farms on the
usual terms, and this monopoly is, as usual
with monopolies, made means of oppres-
sion. We will take the case of the Kansas
Pacific as illustrating the means by which
tue BSOHlS eliC III hhAo way OBpA0ooSu anu dS-
frauded. 1t is a rich company, and holds
vast tracts of lands, but the United States
patents for them are not taken out, as rule.
Why? Because as long as that is delayed
the roads pay no local taxes on their lands.
The farmers and the immigrants, who have
to pay for their land, have also TO pay taxes;
these "bloated corporations" leave those who
build up the country TO bear also the whole
burden of local taxation. Meanwhile these
lands are mortgsged as being the property
of the corporation, aad are sold TO farmers
and spectators at good prices. In this way,
OF the 100000 acres of railroad land in
Kansas, only SSS772 have been patented,
and of 1000, 900 acres in Colorado only 90,
S93 have been patented. By this device
of the great railroad companies hundreds of
thousands OF dollars are annually withheld
from counties to which these sums are Justly
due in the form of taxes. This wrong has
been going on long time, and of late Con-
gress has found it necessary TO interfere,
in time it will have TO interfere in the case
of other monopolies that are unjustly heec-
ing the people.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
Arise and Gail Her Blessed.

ELIZABETH STUART PHELPS.
Arise and call her blessed, seventy years;
Each one tongue to speak for her, who needs
No poor device of ours TO tell to-day
The story of her glory in our hearts.
Precede us all, ye quiet lips of love.
Ne honors high of hOme-nobilities
OF mother and of wife-the heraldry
OF happiness. dearer to her than were
The homage OF the world We yield unto
Thee royal rights of tenderness Speak thou
Before all voices, ripened human life
Arise and.call her blessed, dark-browed men,
Who put the silver Tyre aside for you,
Who could not stroll across the silken strings
OF fancy, while you wept uncontrolled
But rang upon the letters of a
Enchanted the awful chord which pealed along
And echoed in the cannon shot that broke
The manacle and babe the bound go free,
She brought a ma ton on its knees for shame;
she brought world into a black slaves heart.
Where are our lighter laurelS, o my friends,
Brothers and sisters of the busy penn
Five million freemen crown her birthday feast,
Before whose feet our little leaf We lay.
Arise and call her blessed fainting ,uls
For whom she sang the strains of holy hope,
Within the gentle twilight of her Gays.
Like angels, bid her own hymns visit her
Her life no ivy tangled door, but wide
Aud welcome to His solemn feet, who need
Not knock for entrance, nor one ever ask
WHO cometb there?" Sc still and sure the step
So well we know God doth "abide in her."
Oh, wait to make her blessed. happy world,
To which she looketh onward ardently
Lie distant, distant far, ye streets of gold,
Where up and down light-hearted spirits walk,
And wonder that they staid so long away.
BE patient for her coming, for sakes.
Who will love heaven better, keeping her.
This only ask we: When from prayer to praise
She moves. and when from peace TO Joy; be hers
To know she hath the life eternal, since
Her own hearts dearest wish did meet her there
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
IS DAILY APPEAL-SATURDAY

shows that there are 1000 homeopathic ply
sicisns and 21S institutions in the United
States; four national societies report 1869
members; twenty-six State societies I7S3
members, 103 local societies, of which sixty
SIX report 1855 members; twenty-three gen
eral hospitals, OF which eighteen report 1865
beds; thirteen clubs, of which seven report
seventy-nine members. Fifteen of these
hospitals reported having treated last year
6675 patients; the cost and value of eleven
of these is S770,500. OF thirty special
hospitals fifteen report $50 beds, and nine Of
them treated last year 1853 patients. The
cost and value of these hospitals ia 81 ,O06,-
600. OF thirty-nine dispensatories twenty
seven reported as treated last year l l 400 pa
tients. To these had been furnished 256,-
$50 prescriptions. Twelve medical colleges
have had 1867 students, and graduated 421
physicians this year, and $3.50 since they
were founded. The institute adjourned.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

Thrice welcome from the Land of Flowers
And golden fruited orange bowers
To this sweet grecn-turied June of ours
To her who, in our evil time,
Dragged into light the nations crime
With strength beyond the strength of men.
Aud, mightier than their sword, her pen;
10 her, who worldwide entrance gave
To the low cabin of the slave
Made all his wrongs and sorrows known,
And all earth's languages his owni
Welcome from each and all to her
Whose Wooing of the Minister
Revealed the warm heart of the man
Beneath the creed bound Puritan
And taught the kinship of the love
OF men below and God above;
To her whose vigorous pencil strokes
Sketched into like her Oldtown Folks,
Whose fireside stories, grave or gay,
In quaint Sam Lawson's vagrant way,
With old New Englands flavor rife,
Waits from her rude idyllic life,
Are racy as the legends old
BY ChauceT or BOccaccio told;
To her who keeps, through change of place
And time her native strength and grace,
Alike where warm Sorrento smiles,
Or where, by biichen shaded isles
Whose summer winds have shivered DER
The icy drift of Labrador,
She lifts to light the priceless Pearl
OF Harpswells angel-beckoned girl
To her at three score years and ten
Be tributes of the tongue and pen,
Re honor, praise and heartthanks given,
Tine loves OF earth, the hopes of heaveni
Ali dearer than the praise that stirs
The air to-day, our love is hersi
she needs no guaranty OF fame
Whose arm is linked with freedoms name
Long ages after ours shall keep
Her memory living while we sleep;
The waves that wash our gray coast Hnes
The winds that rock the Southern pines,
Shall sing of her; the unending years
Shall tell her tale in unborn ears.
And when, with sins and follies past,
Are numbered color hate and caste,
White, black and red shall own, as one
The noblest work by woman DONE
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
THE RUGBY COLONY.

Notwithstanding all that has been said
about the Rugby colony, SO triumphantly
founde by Mr.. Hughes, there are still some
OF the colonists who claim that it is yet liv-
ing aud has prospect before it. The fact
that German families having been adver-
tised for to settle there shows that the orig
inal plan of colonization will not hold. The
fact ia the "Wil Wimbles" who were con-
gregated there would not work. Tney never
will, even when soft places" are provided
for them, and failure TO such was sure when
blowing, digging, hoeing, seeding and har-
vestiug were necessary conditions OF life.
One OF the colony, who Is of the right stuff
and has not lost his grit, writes TO the Cleve-
land Leader: eve Rugbeians are of all sorts.
Some of us have come to these Cumberland
highlands from the old country, some from
various parts of the new; but nearly all Of
US come of a stock that is not easily beaten
otherwise it would not have managed in a
few centuries to grab two-thirds of the most
habitable part of this planet. Failure!
Let those of the old maids who
remain in the year 1900 come
along to Rugby then, and if we and those
who come after Us haven't by that time made
it a pleasant and profitable place to live in,
let them write us down failure if they
will-but meanwhile hands off !" Where
such a spirit as this exists there may be diff
ficulty, but there is not despair. Al this
very time the South is making immense
profits on lettuce, cabbage, beets, potatoes,
strawberries, cherries, peaches and other
fruits and vegetables sem North. Rugby is
excellently situated for all these productions,
and is near a railroad where they can be
shipped off daily. In the fall apples, pears,
plums ounces and other fruits will bring
fair prices and ready markets. All that
Rugby wants is unfagging industry, enter
prise, and patience to overcome initiatory
difficulties, but those qualities are not TO be
found among the unfortunate "Will VIM
bles"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
All The Powers Agreed to Request the
Immediate Acceptance of the
Conference.
United States War Steamers En- Route
TO Alexaudria-The Real and
Only Danger.

LONDON, June I6.-A correspondent of the
Times at Alexandria says that the real and
only serious danger is from the native troops,
who are in thorough sympathy with the
rsbble, and will become tired of guarding
Europeans and take part against them. The
correspondent urges immediate action. He
says that directly a superior force is ready
to land, the troops would have TO choose be-
tween fighting and submitting. In the first
case they would have TO deal with the in
yaders, and the foreigners could, in the
meanwhile, hold their own against the rabble.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
DIR AWING.

Tie PtttiC is Eel c1r.fr'lg ID n0,.ec III and
clt2rg-1 7slr... g. b tirGtca Monthly.
ns CAPITAL. PRIZE, Sz5.OOO.-6a
Tickets only So. Shares an proportion.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
ABOUT AND FOR WOMEN.

! 1t is reported that Miss Acott is The au.
thor of the new and far from striking novel
| AschcRbroedeL. 1t suggests also the hand Of
the author of an Earnest Tilfer.
The Richmond (Va.) Dispatch calls Presi
dent William Porcher Miles, of the AgricuI.
tural College of South Carolina, the Horatio
| Seymour of the South as the highest praise
1t can give him.
An agricultural editor says: "Plant your
pitchforks under the shade of your cherry
trees, point up. Should your neighbours boy
fall from the tree they might prevent him
| from striking the ground"
A New Orleans man has had his wife ar
rested for spanking" him. He says he
be treated as if he had been swimming
against orders.-LoueH Citizen.
Efforts are being made in Philadelphia BY
William Plat, jr., Arthur Biddle and other
gentlemen to raise a fund OF S250000 for a
free public library. Seventy-five thousand
dollars has already been raised.
Miss ~ Mary F. Robinson. the young En-
glish poet, has written for Harper an article
on Dante Gabriel Rossetli. 1t will contain
numerous authentic biographical facts and
two portraits-one OF the painter-poet and
one of his sister.
Mrs. Rebecca Taylor, mothsr of the late
and partly paralyzed, has lately reeled and
spun with her own hands skein OF fine silk
from cocoons of her own raising. Not long
ago she won 4 prize offered for the best
pouul of silk cocoons.
Heard on farm: "Yes wife, the old COW
has served us faithfully for twenty years and
that yoke of oxen have worked hard for nigh
only forty year, but they will have to go
now. We can't afford TO say mo- to the
butchers when beef is selling in the city at
thirty cents pound"
King Oscar and Queen Sophia, of Sweden,
respectively ffty-three and ffty-seyen years
old, celebrated their silver wedding on Tues-
day of last week. Among the gifts received
was a magnificent silver clock, from the
grand duke OF Baden, whose daughter is the
princess royal of Sweden.
10 sale which has Just taken place at
Bradford, in Yorkshire, was sold old chest
rom a farmhouse at Ilkley, which upon its
ceter panel bore the following inscription:
"Jo0 Longfellow and Mary Rogers was mar
ryed :e tenth daye off April, Ammo DIN.
1861. These are supposed TO be ancestors
oil Longellow, the poet
death OF tn, son OF Napoleon III, was COM
memorated " the Ex-Empress Eugene,
Prince LucieH and many OF their friends,
by appropriate Ceremonies at the tomb at
Chiselhurst. A Wrath OF immortelles was
sent to be placed on tse tomb by Queen Vic
toria and the Princes BEATRICE.
THE ILL-JOINED uOISER.
/ A cartAnter's wife having hacked aim for wears
| He rel4ired 10 a wit fer advice.
"A hsmnIrlng sir cred the wit, "il sppears,
! Is the Ihibz though il might not be nies y
| Indeed - Saiothe man of the chisel and plene
! my old hammer IS good and ne'er falls
But ii my good hsnItle, should raise the she Dane
Would go al me With eli Of her naiis,'
Mrs. Harriet Be'ther Stowe recently re-
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

NEW YORK, June 16.-The impression re-
garding the trade situation is more hopeful,
being result of the continuously favorable
weather, good promise of crops and the i'm
proved demand for seasonable goods. The
apprehension that a crisis was impending
seem to have diminished in contemplation
of the vast sum that will be realized from the
almost unbounded production which we
seem TO be ON the eve of. The money market
still continues easy at rates little better than
last week. Loans on call, two and half
to three and half per cent; on time, four
and half to five per cent.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17
CouIdn't Keep Him.

OxRINGFIELD, ILL, June 16.-J. W. Bug
by, bucket-shop man arrested several days
ago for swindling parties out of $4,000,
escaped from the officers early this morning
Since arrest he had been in the custody Of
the officers, trying to get bail. While his
guardians were engaged in little game of
poker he walked to a window in his room, in
the third story of the First National Bank
building, and slid down the waterpipe to the
ground, since which time he has failed TO
materialize
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

When capital calls upon labor to submit
to a reduction of wages, or refuses an adj
vance that increasing prices and plentiful
profits to capital justify, a general cry is
raised OF "do not strike" Suppose the work
ing class disband their unions and give up
strikes, leaving the capitalists to fix the
amount of wages the toiler shall receive, are
we entitled to believe that the capitalists,
when all was left to them, would act fairly
nd Justly? The men that get up Star
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

THNH 3 Original Summer Resort II The EorflF 90
- The OaE sEood-'i No place equals il for boo TITS
rest and comfort Wrile for illustrated cifc-la-s
David GreenwHy & Sons, hartford P.O-. WiscoEsin
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

SPAIN WOILD ALSO LIKE TO REPRE-
sENTED.
A dispatch from Constantinople states that
the Porte has been assured that the confer
ence will be strictly confined to discussion
of the Egyptian question. Spain considers
that she should be represented at the confer
ence, as the Suez canal is the shortert route TO
her Eastern possessions.
UNITED STATES STEAMERS EN- ROUTE TO
ALEXANDRIA.
GIBRALTAR, June 16. - Rear-Admiral
Nicholson, with the United States steamers
Lancaster and Quinnebsug, has arrived here,
and will proceed to Alexandria Immediately
THE CONFERENCE ON EGYPTIAN AFFAIRS.
PARIS June let is semi-officially stated
that all the powers have agreed to request
the immediate acceptance of a conference on
the Egyptian question. By Turkey failing
to give her assent, the conference will meet
elsewhere than at Constantinople, with Tur-
keys participation.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-06-17

LLANo, Ten, June l6.-A free fight oc-
Cured here yesterday between two parties at
feud with each other, in which Henry Halty
was killed, John Coggins MORALLY wounded,
and Jack Coggins, Jack Heritage, Ben Car
ter and A. Harwell more or less hurt. The
battle was with Winchester rifles, and from
fifty to sixty shots were fired. No arrests.
The District Court made a requisition on
the acknowledgement for a company of State
troops TO protect the court and preserve the
peapa