davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
RAILWAY RECORD.
ARRIYAL NppEPARruRE oE rRAIfls

Chesap< ke, Ohio and southwestern
Trains move as follows: No. (eXpressl leaves at
3:IO am; No. (maiD at 1925 am; No. 6 fCOvlng-
ton accommodauOnl at $40 pm. No. I (express}
arrives a. 2o an; No. arrives at IS o. n; No
D. Cov1ngton accommodation, $40 am (city timel
Memphis and LittIe ROck-Trains move
= follows: No. leaves daily at $40 o n. arr YES
~ II 80 pm. No. leaves at 5 IN; arrives at
4m-; No. (freight leaves Hopeheld at 5 an; ar.
Ifves at pm.
Louisville and Nash v1IIe-Trains move as
follows: Fast mail arrives daily At 4:4O am;
leaves at ll:l0 pm; mail leaves daily at $40
am. Brownsville accommodation leaves daily,
except sunday, ct 4:55 pm; mall arrives daily
at 40 pm Brownsville accom- n Odstiou arrives
daily, except Sunday, at $40 am. CITY time)
Memphis and ChartssIOu-TraIns move
Is follows (city ume) Through express leaves
daily at II :O5 p m. Mail and express leaves daily
a. S;l5 am. bonneville accommodation leaves
daily, except Sunday, AZ 1855 pm. ThrOufh ex.
press arrives daily At II 80 am. Mall and eTpreys
arrives oallF-a 5:65 pm. gonneryfIle sccouuno-
oAuon arrives daily, except Sunday, at S:JgHu
MissfSsfpPf aud 1enn~ssee-JraiuE move
As follows; Kew Orleans fist mail and express
leaves daily at $50 y. m. freight leaves daily
e1eIpt SUNDAY. a. 6;S5 n. New Orleans fast
Inall and express sIiyc= DAT at $50 m freight
trains carry passengers
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
MEMPHIS COTTON STATEMENT.

Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern Railroad 60
The New York spot market opened quiet;
nominaIly unchanged; at IL. dull; at 2,
easy, closing easy. Sales, S13 bales; con-
tract, 400 bales. Closing quotations were as
follows:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
Chancery bale.

Cn8ncery Bdles
DURSUANT TO a decree of the Chsncery Cour
L at Nashville, rendered at its April Term, 1888
in the case of
The State OF Tennessee and another Va the Bank
OF Tennesse and Others,
which decree is entered at page l21 OF Minute
Book No. IL. Notice Is hereby given that viii
expose at public sale, to the highest bidder, on
the terms hereinafter set forth, at the courthouse
door, In Memphis, Tenn, on
Monday, June 10, Iss3, nj IL o'clock M,
the following described property, to-wit:
la certain lot or parcel Of ground in the city
of Memphis, Tenn, at the corner OF Third and
Washington streets, on the SouLh side Of wash
ing nifty feet on said Third street, and
running back l46% feet 10 an alley, on which ID q
dwellinghouse. See Deed Book No. 90, pp. $50, $50
and 59l, Register's ONCE.
2-Block CO. rs laid down In the plan of Fort
Pickering, beginning at the southeast corner Of
Seventh and Gholson streets, running thence east
along the south side of Gholson street 10 q point
where the west line Of Eighth street II extended
would cross, beng $50 feet; thence south on such
line TO the bayou; thence In a southerly course
with the meanders Of said bayou 10 the north line
Of Gaines street: thence west along the north line
Of Gaines street 70 the east sde Of Seventh street
thence north along tn east SIDE Of Seventh street
the south side OF Gholson street 473 feet the be
ginning point See Deed Book 20, p. 56s.
ga lot on Walnut street in the city Of Mem
phis, which was bought In by Bamnel Watson,
trustee, 20 satisfy a judgment against A. J. Mont
gomery, with George Dixon as indorser. more
particular description will be produced At the day
Of sale.
Lot No. IL, in block No. Il, fronting 60 feet
on 81 Martin Tor MARTINI street and running back
to the bayou.
Terms Of sale-Credits Of 6, u. Is and "a months:
notes with approved personal co Lateral security
required, bearing interest from date and lien re-
taiDed. sale free from redemption.
THOS. W. NkkSEK, Receiver
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
RIVER AND MEAIhER.


OFFICE 81 GSAL SERVICE, q. S. A.,
MEMPHIS, Tenn, June II, 1883. Z
The following observations are taken at the
same momentof time Il :Os pra) at all the stations
named:
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
Transactions aggregated 49,, 900 shares, as

New ORLEANS, June 14-Sight exchange
on New York, steady, 81 so per $1,000 pre-
MUM. Sterling exchange-bankers' bile,
4S6.
LONDON, June. 14.-Consols, 100 GIG; &C
count, 100 1916; Illinois Central, sol; Penn
sylvania Central, 6O4; New York Central,
274; Erie, $50; ErIe, seconds, 80; Read
ing, 81.
PARIS, June 14.-Rentes 79f, 473c.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15
RIVER NEWS.
STEAMERS LEAVING.

THIS DAY
Friars Poiut.. CoAHoMA, Miller pm.
Vicksburg go. ARKANSAS CITY, BrolEski 10 am.
OsceoIa. ADAMS Foster, pm.
St. Leuis.....CT CITY PROVIDENCE, Lenox, 10 Am.
WIT sHISKLE, Deem, pm.
New orlesns, Will KYLE, Hates, pm.
SATURDAY
Cfncinnati....... WILL s. HAYS Tichenor, 10 an.
New Orleans. CITY OF ST. LOUIE, Able, pm
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-06-15


Time. Bar. Their. Wind. Weather
l e: G 81: I ". S III:
Maximum temperature, Sc.
Maximum temperature. 81
WHEELING, June 3.-Noon-River II feet
IL inches and rising. Weather clear and pleasant.
PrrTsBURe. ] One 14.-Noou-River 10 feet
inches, and rising. Weather clear and pleasant.
New ORLEANS, June I4-Departed: Gold
en- Crown, Cincinnati; 5. L. Wood and tow, Pitts
burg.
CIScusNAII.J June IA -Noon-River 19 feet
3inches and falling. Weather clear; thermoIne-
ter 69o No arrivals or departures Nlgnt-hlVer
- feet4 inches, and rising weather clear and
warmer. Arrived: Andy Baum, late last night.
EVANSVILLE. June I4.-Noon-River sta
clear and cool; thermometer IS TO So: Night
River stationary, with 10 6-lO feet py ne gauge
Weather clear and warm; Thermometer IS''
LOUISVILLE, June IA -Noon-River ris-
ing, with feet inches in the canal. and Ieei
inches in the chute or the falls business sooo'
Weather clear and pleasant. Night.hIvet iaIlIng
with feet inches in the canal.aDd ice. Inches
IN the chute on the falls weather cl6ar snG
pleasant. Arrived and departed: James " Gan,
Cincinnati to Memphis; Paris G. Brown, Slnelh-
matt 10 New Orleans; Z g. Springer, New orleans
to Cincinnati.
CAIRO, June 14-Noon-Riyer 80 feet
inches, and rising. Weather fair; tneI 9oueVeI
80. Arrived: City OF yicksburg, VicksonTg ?
,. n; Golden Rule, New Orleans. m VIII
kSle, Cincinnati II m; Arkansas CltySI LOUIE
an; City Of Baton Rouge, New OileAn, = go ~:
| Departed: Golden Rule, Cincinnati, 3 pm; Olty
o. VickSburg, 81. Louis, AN; Herry BROW ~.
New Orleans 4 a. m; Arkansas City, VickHpurg .
an. Night-Riyer rising, with 80 feet incnes Oy
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
LIBELs ON WESTERN PEOPLE.

A Western young lady, who has just
returned from "Yurrop," talks knowing
ly of "the statue OF Appoller with bev-
elled ear. ."-[New York Advertiser.
He must have been from the West.
He was idling about old Burling slip,
when he took a stumble and brought up
in the river. A ready hand threw him
plank to sustain himself, and he was
soon hauled out.
"Gentlemen, he said, as he gave
himself shake, "what's your time worth
per hourP"
"I'm getting twenty-five cents per
hour" replied one.
"And you were about nine minutes
fooling with my case. About nine, but
we'll call it ten. Your charge should be
about four cents. About four, but we'll
call it five. l haven't anything smaller
than dime, but one Of you can run
across the way and get it changed"
"Oh, we don't want pay" remarked
one.
"You don't? But you must accept OF
something. Here, boy, run over and
buy me couple of pears"
The fruit was purchased and placed in
his hands, and as he put one pear in his
pocket and bit into the other one he re-
remarked:
"And, if you ever come within fifty
miles of where my uncle lives, he'll be
glad to have you stop all night with him
He keeps hotel, and his charges won't
be over $2p'-fWall Street News.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
MY LOST LOVE.

l never shall list to the cuckoos song
When the summer days return,
But my heart shall throb the whole day long
And my weary brain shall burn;
For the cuckoo's song and the summer day
Shall tell me of love and thee,
Though I am here and thou art away,
Lost ever to love and me.
I shall never sit on a rustic stile,
With beechen boughs oerhead,
But back to my soul shall come the while
A day that is passed and dead
And when your face was near to mine,
And your voice was in mine ears
A day which but once the fates assign
To all in a lifes long years.
Alas that day can come no more
To this empty heart of mine,
Though t1ow'rs may spring and larks may soar
And summer suns may shine!
For woe is mine | stand alone,
With bosom full of pain,
While the meadow breeze is past me blown
And the evening sunbeams wane.
But the balmy breath of the meadow breeze
Awakens a wild regret;
And think it was first in days like these
That | and my darling met
NV bright young love, whose fairest face
OF all fair womankind
Hath found in my heart that sacred place
Another can never find.
| know all in vain my sorrow
Through the dreary days to be;
/ know that no bright tomorrow
Will bring back my love to me;
know that my love is lost to me,
That nv dream has passed away;
And | know what that dream has cost me
| As stand alone to-day!
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
ANIMALS IN FICTION.

Hippopotamus is not an accommodate
ing word for verse, and when it is re-
ferred to it is as behemoth, or river
horse, when it becomes "scaled" and
"spouting", and, therefore, more or less
fabulous or more or less mixed up with
crocodiles and whales. Montgomery,
however, calamity takes the whole name
into line, and for his isolated courage,
in spite of his absurd misrepresentation
of the comfortably browsing pachyderm,
deserves quotation
'"rhe hippopotamus amid the food,
Flexile and active as the smallest swimmer,
But on the bank ill-balanced and infirm;
He grazed the herbage ithhuge head declined,
Or leaned to rest against some ancient trea''
But | confess that the river-horse has
less significance than many animals.
There is much, of course, that is pleas
ant enough in tho manner of its lfe-its
lazy, lounging existence in warm
streams, its circumstances of perpetual
plenty, its innocent pastimes when un-
disturbed, its helplessness when at
tackled. But, except as living a slothful
and apparently useless life under condi-
tions of unalloyed hippopotamus happi-
ness, as symbol for pure, feral enjoy
ment in its utmost expression, this mon
strous grotesqueness-as if from some
"great chronicle of Pantagruel'
familiar of old Nile in his cradle, has
little to commend it. As behemoth it is
a delightful fiction, but in its actual
carnal bulk it is only a hippopotamus.
The Rabbins said that there were never
more than two behemoths at time in
the world. They inferred this from the
compassionate goodness of the Almighty.
For if there were to be more than two at
time they doubted if the whole earth
could provide them sufficient sustenance.
1t is pity in one way that the day of
beliefs in unique existences is past, for
what zest it would have ent to travel
and sport if there had been possibility
of meeting with the pair of hippopotami,
the phoenix, or the only unicorn. Nor
does Montgomery hesitate at the giraffe,
(though he scans its name in two shorts. J
But the very few others who refer to the
animal prefer to call it "the camel
leopard" Hood has sportive ode to
the "great anti-climax," as he calls the
animal, $50 very lofty in its front, but
so dwindling at the tall" but he does
not exhaust, or even tap, the potential
tiles of fun the giraffe suggests: "For
| this sky-raking animal, that passes all
its life, 80 to speak, looking out of a
fourth-story window, that looks out the
birds nests as it browses, and seldom
sees the ground except when it lies down
on it, is about the best instalment of the
impossible that has been vouchsafed to
us. - Belgravia.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
A GILA MONSTER.
An Arizona Monster that is as Savage ~
aDog and Fights Like Viper.

William Blackheath, when he re-
turned from a six months sojourn in
Arizona, brought to the Comstock, New,
the skin of what he, for want of better
name, calls a Gila monster, but which
is evidently that of saurian of differ
ent species. The skin now measures
seven feet from tip to tip, and it has evil
IDENTIFY shrunk some inches in drying.
Though about the color of an ordinary
Gila monster, the reptile is evidently a
kind of inland crocodile, or, more prop
erly, cayman, as it had not the webbed
feet of the crocodile. -
The strange saurian was found in q
small valley in the Wheatstone Noun
tains. When alive it stood two feet
high, and its body, just back of its fore
legs, was over three feet in circumfer-
ence. The creature was as savage as
bulldog, and as full of fight as viper.
1t was found by the dogs of Mr.. Black
heath and partner. When the men ar
rived at the haunt OF the reptile-to
which they were attracted by the fierce
and peculiar barking of their dogs, three
in number-they found that one dog had
already been killed and the others were
badly cut up and covered with blood.
The creature displayed such activity,
and was so diabolically vicious that the
two prospectors feared to go near It, be-
ing armed with nothing better than .
prospecting pick and shovel with
short handle. I.,.,t
Finally the thing got one of the dogs
by the foreleg, and finding that it held
on like terrier, with no signs of loos-
ing it's hold, Mr.. Blackheath ran for
ward and struck his pick into its head.
Even then the reptile held on, and it
was not until it had been struck several
blows with the pole of the pick, that its
jaws relaxed and it gave up the ghost.
When the dog was released it was found
that his foreleg had been broken at q
point about two inches above the knee.
Mr.. Blackheath says that he has met
with several of the creatures known a.
Gila monsters that were two feet and
two and half feet in length, but never,
before or since, saw, or even suspected
the existence of one so large as that
whose skin he possesses. 1t was sur
prise to all the white men in that sec
ton, but some of the Indians asserted
that far south in the Sierra Madre Noun
aims they had seen some that were az
large or larger.
Unfortunately, in fiaying the saurian,
Mr.. Blackheath's only idea was to have
the hide tanned and made into boots
and CATERS, therefore he did not preserve
the feet, otherwise the skin might be
stuffed and mounted by taxidermist.
He says the teeth of the creature were
over an inch in length, were sharp as
needles, and in shape resembled the
teeth of shark.-[V Virginia City, (Nev.)
Enterprise.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
FIVE oBEDIENT HUSBANDS.

There were five of them together, and
it was late. They had been drinking.
Finally, one of them looked at the clock
and said:
"What will our wives say when we
get home?"
"Let them say what they want to.
Mine will tell me to go to the mischief" !"
responded No. 2.
"I'll tell you what we will do. Let
us meet here again in the morning and
tell our experiences. Let the one that
has refused to do what his wife told him
to do when he got home pay for the
nights entertainment"
"That's a good idea. We all agree to
that"
So the party broke up, and the men
went to their respective homes. The
next morning they met at the appointed
place, and began to tell their expert
ences
Said No. L.
"When / opened the door my wife
was awake. She said: "A pretty time
OF night for you to come home You
had better go and sleep in the pig-pen,
for that is what you will come to sooner
or later Rather than pay for what we
drank last night did what she told me
to. That lets me out"
"Nextr'
No. 2 cleared his throat and said:
"When got home, stumbled over a
chair, and my wife called out: There
you are again, you drunken brute! You
had better wake up the children, and
stagger about for while, so they can
see what drunken brute of father they
are afflicted with So l woke up the
children and staggered about until my
wife limited to me to stop. She used a
chair in conveying the hint. That lets
me out"
tNextr
No. 3 stood up and said:
al happened to stumble into pan of
dough, and my wife said: Drunk again !!
Hadn'tyou better sit down in that dough p
So | sat down in it, and that lets me
out"
"Nextp
"No. 4 said.
al was humming a tune, and my wife
called out: There you are again! Hadn't
you better give us a concerto 1 said
Certainly and began to sing as loud as
could, but she told me to stop or she
would throw something at me, so
stopped. That let's me out"
No. 5 looked very disconsolate. He
said:
al reckon I'll have to pay. My wife
told me to do something none of you
would have done if you had been in my
place."
"What was II ?''
"She said: so you thought you would
come home at last! Now, hadn't you
better go to the well and drink couple
buckets of water, just to astonish your
stomach That was more than bar
gained for; so its my funeral"
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
"If YOU do not decide before | have

"If you do not decide before have
counted three you die"
Still the banker was silent.
"One-two-"
"Yes," the banker almost shrieked
81 confess it all. You were innocent
and the guilty one. Are you not sntis-
fled with your revenge? If you have
any human pity left, let me see my
daughter"
81 have none," the other answered,
"but you shall have your wish"
He drew aside the curtain as he spoke,
and the banker saw pallid form lying
on narrow pallet, but so wasted and
attenuated that in her features he could
hardly recognize those of his daughter.
"My Cod" he walled, "she is dead"
ayes, she is dead" the other an
swered, in the same fiendishly dispas-
sionate tone. "Would you know how
she met her death? Upon your soul is
the sin, for it is you who made me the
fiend that am. She starved to death. "
The unhappy father sank upon the
floor as if struck by bullet.
"Let your revenge be completed, and
kill me also," he walled.
"No,' the other answered with a
fiendish laugh; sit is l who die. My
vengeance would not be complete if you
did not live. Officer" he added, "this
man is by his own confession your pris-
oner; arrest him. My band know of
my resolve, and have arranged it all.
NV mission on earth ia accompljshed
now, and life uncomfortable to me-"
AS he spoke he placed the mIIzle of
pistol to his forehead and, pressing the
trigger, fell to the floor corpse.
The detective turned to arrest the
banker, but started back with an excla-
nation of Mortified surprise. The mus
cles of the bankers face were twitching
in convulsive sort of a way, until he
suddenly broke into peal of terrible,
joyless laughter. He had become a
raving maniac, and the convicts terrible
vengeance was, indeed, complete.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
THE POACHER IN WINTER.

Winter brings joy to the poacher's
heart. He then begins his work in
earnest, returning to his task as regular
ly as the swallow comes to the window
caves in Spring. The weather makes
him more active, and the gray after
moons and dark nights favor his enter
prises. Then the poacher moves about
more freely, for pedestrians have almost
deserted the roads, and pedestrians to
the poacher are all considered as wit
nesses in esse. 1t is remarkable the
time he will sit in a wet ditch in Winter,
waiting for hare. A successful poacher
requires the patience of Job. No man
more frequently uses the old by-roads or
footpaths, or appraises their value 80
highly. He does all the walking he
possibly can along the narrow strips of
beaten footpaths, which lead him sud-
denly away from the turnpike and land
him down at the same turnpike in q
short cut. Footpaths invariably take
one silently along, for the ground is soft
and is not covered with stones and to
the poacher they possess this great ad-
vantage, they generally lead into many
fields or across green meadows, and run
alongside hedges or running water.
Hedges and running water are to him,
when hard pressed by the game-keeper,
most invaluable shelter. In dead of
Winter, when the frost has made stone
hewing and house and stone dixie build
ing impossible, the stone-mason takes to
poaching as naturally as a coastman
takes to the sea. The frost makes both
man and dog more alert, and sometimes
when the snow is deep on the ground
the hares come to the house garden for
food. In broad daylight you may see
the amateur poacher using his eyes
across the well-trimmed hedges and
about the plantation strips, which give
color to the landscape and break up the
long stretches. He is taking stock and
laying his plans for evening, or he may
dexterously and quickly lay a gin-net.
Nearly every stone-mason in the country
has gun hanging in his house he can
get the loan Of dog from one Of his set
or mates, and with his ready hands he
can easily make few stray snares and
nets. But what stands him in best need
is that cute cunning akin to that of a
cautious dog. He looks the image of
ruddy health his black k-and-red checked
cravat, brown corduroy trousers, and an
old red-brown coat tied together by pieces
OF string in place of buttons harmonic
with the field cOlors. What else can he
do? In Winter one can only curl on the
ice or poach in the fields, and the last is
most profitable. So says the Otter, and
no man knows better. Winter sends the
best Of us to our purses; the poacher's
thoughts are always there, for the high
festive days, New Years Day and Auld
Hansel Monday, are coming round.
Now he moves about wide awake, alert,
and on the qui rive from head to foot,
for at the one years end and the begin
ming OF the other he must stand his hand
like the rest The Contemporary Re-
view.
Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Anacortes, Wash. Ter.) 1882-1887, 1883-11-17
BRIGHT THOUGHTS.

The world is a looking and gives
back to every man the reflection of his
own face. Frown at it and it will in
turn look surly upon you; laugh at it
and witt. it, and it is a jolly, kind COM
panion, and SO let all young persons take
their choice.-[Th [Thackeray.
All men have their frailties, and who
ever looks for friend without imperfec-
tions will never find what he seeks. We
love ourselves Notwithstanding our
faults, and we ought to love our friends
in like manner.-[Cyrus.
Contentment is pearl OF great price,
and whoever procures it at the expense
of ten thousand desires, makes a wise
and happy purchase.-[ Ealguy.
Men are never so ridiculous for the
qualities they have as for those they sf-
feet to have.-[Charron.
All censure of others is oblique praise
of self. 1t is uttered in order to show
how much the speaker can bear. 1t has
all the invidiousness of self-praise, and
all the reproach of falsehood. Addison.
We rise in glory as we sink in pride,
Where boasting ends, there dignity begins.
Il Young.
There is as much difference between
the counsels that friend giveth, and
that a man giveth himself, as there il
between the counsel of friend and fiat
terer.-( Bacon.
Avoid him who from mere curiosity
asks three questions running about q
thing that cannot interest him. Lava
| ter.
Difference often shrinks and withert
as much upon the approach of intimacy
as the sensitive plant does upon the
touch of ones finger.-[ Shenstone.
A grateful mind
BY owing owes not, but still pays, at once
| Indebted and discharged.
Milton.
BY ignorance is pride increased;
Those most assume who know the least.
| IGay.
A good word is an easy obligation
but not to speak i'll, requires only oul
silence, which costs us nothing.-[Tillot
son.
An injury unanswered in time grows
weary of itself, and dies away in vol
untary remorse. In bad dispositions
capable OF no restraint but fear it has Q
different effect-the silent digestion o.
noe wrong provokes second.-[Sterne