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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-01
DIED.

FARROw-At Bolivar. Miss, March Is. 1888, OF
pneumonia, P. 3. FARRow, aged twenty seven
years.
AcGARVEY-saturdsy. March 81, 1883 J. W. A.
MCGARvRY, in the sixty second year OF his age.
Funeral from the residence Of his son in-law,
Edward Bourne No. sos Pontotoc street, this UN-
DAY) afternoon at O'Clock. Friends are invited,
LAGOAARsISO-Friday March 80, 1888 at No.
17S Onion street. SAkAFIso LAGohARslNo, aged
twenty-five years.
Funeral from residence, No, 17s Union street,
this (sUEDAY) afternoon at O'Clock. Services
at St JOseph,h church
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29

wont have any clothes at all after a
while. [ wish it was so that folks
could dress up all the time. for don't
believe man is inclined to do a lit
tie moan thing when he is well dress
ed. l wish the girls could go in
purple and fine linen, diamonds and
pearls, for they do look so sweet and
charming, but poor girl cant do it,
that's all, and if she tries to live and
and dress beyond her means, nobody
but a fool is going to marry her,
college or no college. They say a
smart mother makes a smart son, but
how is a girl going to be mother at
all unless some feller marries her.
Society is very sxacting | know, very
caustic and envious. Sometimes
when smart, refine |, lucated girl
narries a mechanic or a working
man society whispers around that
she has lowered herself aud the girls
are afraid OF society. SO between
all their trouble the old maids are
accumulating at the South like they
do at the North. Now, the girls up
there are more shifty than ours and
so they won'tsit down and braid straw
and wait forty years for a fellow to
come alongsbut they pick up a few
dollars and go West in search of
school, or husband.
read the other day about lot of
em arriving on every train that goes
into Leadville- going there to teach
school and the Leadville boys watch
on EN- and marry 'em every where
betwixt the depot and the school,
house, ond so they haven't get any
school in Leadville yet. That's bad
amt it? Bnt still TN glad of it, for
1t always does me good to see the
young folks hitch together and settle
down to business.
Now, what we want in this blessed
Land is more high schools and col
leges for our young men and boys,
SO as to prepare them all right for
the college bred girls-so they will
be on an equal footing, and can talk
rhetoric, and botany and astronomy
together, and quote poetry from
T9nnyson and Longfellow, and court
one anothet in French or German if
they want to. Something must be
done right away for things are not
working right,
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29

in Atlanta at the time. When he re
covered, with ulagnanirnity of which
few men are capable even Of under
sfandings he refused to prosecute
Cone, and that person, instead Of
getting his deserts in the drak cell Of
state prison, was fined 81, 900, and
with his honor 'svindicated," was
allowed to 90 free. To his last day
Mr.. Stephens spoke of him in terms
Of ! consideration and lorgivness.
Not long ago, referring to the terri
ble struggle have attempted to de-
sciriDe, aud showing me the great
hole in his mangled band, he said,
with quiet far away look in his
deep dark eye, Poor Conel I'm
sure he'd be sorry if he knew what
trouble | have to write with these
stiff fingers of mine"
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29

AN Opening. Excuse me but you
said on vhas from Idaho?'
Yes, right from Idaho, have just
founded the to wn of Beaver Creek"
MANY people dere yet q
"Wsll, not many"
Il tink it vhas good place fur der
clothing. peasness, eh r
"Hardly. Why there's only me
and mule and nigger there as vet,
and | buy my clothing in Omana."
"Vheii, tink it vhas god open
ing shust der same for brudder, and |
maze him ready tomorrow to go.
Eaferypody must evpec ito begin
way down uni grow opp mid der vIty,
und by spring der population may
grow to be five niggers and mules.
Wall Street News.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
Mr.. stephens Narrow Escaps
From Death.

During Mr. Stephens congression-
al service and pending the campaign
of 184S, he returned from Washing
ton to Georgia. He was fresh from
the great debates on the acquisition
of California and New Mexico as
United States Territories, aud for
having taken, against the wishes of a
maj joIity of the Southern members, a
most prominent part in opposition to
such acquisition, he was met with
much adverse criticism. Judge Cone,
who was at the tune one of the lead
ing politicians of Georgia, was par
ticularly severe in his comments
upon Mr.. Stephens action, and was
reported as having publicly de-
nounced him as traitor to the
south.
Hardly had Mr.. Stephens reached
his home when these and similar re-
ports were conveyed to him. AT first
he did not credit them, but as one
kind friend after another informed
him that Cone had called him traitor,
and advised, in the trne Southern
spirit, ihat he owed it to himself to
demand what is called satisfaction,
the fires of pugnacity in his nature,
which are always Smoldering. Missed
up, and he dsclared that if Judge
Cone would admit having called him
a traitor to the south he wodld "slap
his face.' Not long after this he
met the Judge at a numerously at
tended Wing gathering, and going
up to him quietly said;
Judge Cone, l have been told thai
you, for reasons of your own. have
denounced me traitor to the south,
and | take this opportunity OF ask
ing you if such reports are true.'
"No, sir" was Cones reply, "they
are not true"
81 am very glal to hear you say
so, said Mr.. Stephens, cordially, anC
in the same frien ly tone continued
"Of coutse, | do not desire to be ii
anyway offensive to you. Judge Cone
but in order that we may have nj
further misunderstanding through
the Misrepresentation of others,
think it right to tell you that hav
. said would slap your face if yo
: admitted having used the languag
, attributed to You
{ Upon this the Judge again disowr
, ed having spoken disrespectfully c
8 Mr.. Stephens, and so for the time tn
Y affair ended. 1t was the subject ,
0 discussion all over the State. how
+, ever, and the general verdict wa
I that Judge Cone--a very powerfu
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
NO BABY IN THE HOUSE.

For forty months our youngest one
Has been our hearts delight;
The first to greet the mornings sun,
The last kiss at night.
She's driven each cloud from out our minds
Esch trown from off our brows;
How closely round the heart it winds
A baby in the house
But yesterday, as on my knee
She climbed in childish play,
And said, "Georgie, tell to me
How Baby is to-day ?"
"Me amt baby! Mes drill
Exclaimed the little mouse,
And is it SO /? and 10 there, then.
No baby in the houseS
'Tis true the crib is put away,
The creeping dressing too;
A small form stands upon chair,
"Sec! Mes as big as you'll"
The ruddy cheek, the bright blue eye,
Most happy thoughts arouse,
Ba! stili there's something that miss
4 baby in the house.
And though with love and pride see
Nv children older grow,
stiil, ss .hey stand beside my knee
My thoughts will backward go;
And while kiss the ruby lips
Aud press the fsir young brows,
miss no less what have lost
a baby in the house.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
EDUCATING THE SEXES.
BY BILL ARP.

It is mighty bad, but it looks
like we can't help it. | met a
preacher the other day who is try
ing to raise lot of girl children
on a six hundred dollar salary, and
he says he can't do it-that is de-
Gently according to their social
position. Two of them are about
grown now and are smart and
likely, but they don't know what
to do for a living. They could
teach school but there ain any
vacancy in reach. They can sew
and knit, but that's a powerful
slow and unromatic way of max
ing a little money. | think they
could be persuaded to marry, but
somehow our thrifty boys don't
seem to fancy poor preachers
daughters. [ have noticed that
when a preachers daughter mar
ries it's generally to another poor
preacher, and they settle down
in some little town to perish tc
death together in the name of the
Lord. The like of that CITES me
L met another man last week, whc
makes two or three thousand a
year, and spends it and keeps live
ly, but don't lay up anything, anC
when / asked him how he was get
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29

1a-7A1
house or in the fields; and worse
than all, we grew i'll.
l sent for the doctor, who would
not come, and we went to him.
You are poisoned said he.
What have you been eating, or
what have you been drinking?'
We thought it over, snd [ told
HIM that We knew of nothing
harmful, and that We cooked and
prepared all our own food.
L never knew any one TO pass a
day at that confounded house YOU
live in without being affected in
this way said he; even those who
did not eat there. Constable Col
Inns says he touched nothing but
cold water, and he came near
dying
1T is the well then, said ].
They used TO call it the best
well in the country said the
doctor.
1t has nasty taste now, said I.
I'll beg water from my neighbor
until I've cleaned it out.
And that day l began.
We got better slowly, and I tried
to hire two farm-laborers to
help me with my well. No one
would come.
L was almost tired of living as I
did, and feeling like maniac;and
one day [ went to the well, and
sat there wondering whether it
might not be best to give up and
60 somewhere as a farm laborer,
when I felt what seemed to be an
ICY hand on my head, and looking
up saw two ghosts, side by side.
They we're horrible enough, I
can tell you, and they looked at
me and pointed into the well, and
| heard two voices crying;
Get US out! Get US out! Get
Us out and bury usl The water is
cold, and our wounds are deep.
Get us out!'
And then the truth came to me,
goodness knows how.
[ was just able to crawl over to
my neighbor's house, and said to
him:
Mr.. Jervis, will you send one of
your men to the authorities and
have the police sent up to my
place? There is something in my
wei that ought not To be there
Well, they took out OF that well
two bodies, rolled upin sheet lead.
By bits Of jewelry, and things of
that sort, they found out that they
were the bodies of the young wife
of the old proprietor and the
young man who used to run after
her.
The old man had killed them
both, but he must have had help
to bury them in their lead coffins.
And now people began to re-
member how two plumbers, who
had a good deal Of this sheet lead
in their shop, grew well of, and
went from the place about the
time the old man sold the estate,
and they believe that he had paid
them for helping him to dispose
Of the bodies.
They were buried in the grave
yard and Jane and l Inever saw the
ghost again.
The farm land and summer Wis
itors brought the price l agreed
upon for the place, and / have
been a prosperous man ever
since.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
Now Guess.

When is boat like snowf When
she is adritt.
What part of speech is kissing A
conjunction.
| When is soldier like a watch +?
When he marks time.
What is the form of an escaped
parrot? A polly gone.
When is fish like birds When
it rises and takes fly.
When is a thief like seamstress ?
When he cuts and runs.
When are gloves unstable ? When
they are kept on hand.
When is the baby like canisterf
When it is teathing.
When is clock on the stairs dan
gerou- When it runs down.
In what meter should Cup in
Balloon" be sung? Gas-ineter.
In what key is the Gobble Song
written? Why, tur4ey, Of course.
What is it that nobody wants, vet
nobody likes to lose9 A lawsuit.
Why Is f like bullock's tailf
Because it is ut the end of ''beef
What is that which does not die
through being drownel7 A voice
Why is hotel ghost like an excise
man? Because Ic's al ianspecture.
What kind of a ROBBERY is not
dangerous A safe robbery is, Of
course.
When is a widow like gardener?
When she tries 20 get rid OF her
weeds.
Why are jokes like nuts ? Because
the drier they are the better they
crack.
When does ship of war become
ship of peace? When she drops
her ancor.
Why have chickens no hereafter?
Because they have they necks twir-
I'D in this.
Why is father chastising his son
like game of seven up? Because
high beats low.
When is a ship like dressmaker?
When she's rounding the Cape or
tacking about.
What is it which has mouth and
never speaks, aud bed and never
sleeps A river.
How did Adam and Eve ever get
out of the garden of Eden? They
were snaked out.
Why is a solar eclipse like a woman
whipping her boy Because it is a
hiding of the sun.
Why is dew like a falling stars
One ID mist on earth and the other
missed from heaven.
When may a naa be said 10 break
fast before he gets up? When he
takes a roll in bed
Why are chickens necks like din
ner bells? Because they are often
wronng for company.
When does footmau reply when
no questions has been asked? When
he answers the bell.
Why is man who never CANDLES
quite rs bad as one who does Be
cause he's no better.
When viii there be only twenty
five letters in the alphabet When
you and | are made one.
Why is q rose like barrel of fiour9
Because by any other name il would
smell as wheat.
When has man three handss
When he has right hand, a left
hand, and Ii. tie behind hand.
What kind ola drum is that which
is always best when it cannot be-
beaten? A coaui drum.
Why does person who is poorly
lose his sense of touch? Because he
does not feel well.
Why do little birds in their nests
agree? Because they would hurt
themselves if they fell out
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
Good f,r Babies

With baby at breasi noihing is So
useful for quiefing my own anI taby's
nerves as Parker's Ginger Tonic. H.
p events bowel complaints, and is b t.
Ter than any stimulanl to give strength
and appetite A Newark Mother.
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
4 TERRIBLE GHOST STORY
BY AN OLD FARMER.

] am an old farmer, living in the
Oldest house in Oldtown.
The only thing new upon the
place is my well.
We have an ancient well, but no
one ever tastes the wat II there,
though it is as cold and clear as
crystal,
/ suppose the place is worth a
great deal.
1t was valued at twenty thousand
dollars when l bought it years
ago.
The house is a handsome man
slon-the sort of q place gentle
man retiring from business usual
ly buys to end his days, and city
people come to see it and the
grounds, and seem to be delight
ed.
Now, when | tell you that I came
into Oldtown with exactly six hun
dFen dollars in my pocket, and
that l had 10 idea what I should
do when that was spent, you will
feel surprised that six months af-
ter, l owned this place.
But I'll tell you about it.
1t is what folks call a haunted
place and for ten years it had
stood vacant.
People tried to live there, but
were always frightened away.
If it had been only the house,
that could have been torn down;
but nobody could even farm on
the land.
Twelve years before this, the
proprietor had been jealous old
gentleman who had a young wife,
whom he would never permit out
of his sight if he could avoid it.
However, she was sly as he was
~atchful, and she managed to flirt
7n'lciently to make herself talked
shout.
Being very pretty, two silly
young fellows fell in love with
her, and one used to follow her
about making eyes and signing
dreadfully, like a love in a play.
The post-mistress said he wrote
to her-and l suppose be did
And at last the news spread
through the place that she had
run away with him.
lie was gone, and she was gone:
and the old man came one morn.
ing to Lawyer Tantivy, and sold
Ills property at a great loss, to a
man who had wanted it for years
a rich man, who liked to have il
said that he would owned the fin.
est place in Oldtown.
1t was plain that the old gentle
man did not care what became OF
himself; and when he got the mon
ey ne wandered away aud was
never seen again.
The new proprietor moved ur
TO the great house in state; but al
dawn the whole family-servants
and all returned to their OLD
quarters
What they had seen, or what
they had not seen, it was hard tc
tell' but they were all frightened
to death.
The doctors was sent for the
ladies', and they spoke of the mos
AWFUL apparitiens.
After this, the head of the fami
ly and three constables, from tn,
little market town, spent a aday ant
a night there.
They held their tongues; bu
those who saw them next da,
knew they had been well frighten
ed, and then the man put the plac
on the market at once.
Lawyer Tantivy privately toll
people that only coward woul
have been frightened by rats i
an old wall and sold the propert
The Dawson journal., 1883-03-29
to a city man.

The city man went elsewhere,
ana tried IN vain to get rid of his
bargain.
1t was let for summer once,
but the people did not stay a
week.
After awhile, nobody would farm
the ground.
Some say they saw a woman
with her throat cut; some say they
saw wound in her breast; some
both.
Voices were heard; hands were
felt; and there, when came to the
place, the old house stood, with
moths and spiders for its only
tenants.
l went up and looked at it, and
then | talked to Jane.
She had not bit of superstition
IN her and she agreed to what I
proposed.
| went to old Tantivy, and offer
ed him hundred year for five
years lease of the place, the five
hundred to be paid in one sum.
After that, said I'll give you
two thousand for the property.
Wife and L are not afraid of
ghosts.
The old lawyer shook his head.
You say you've met with LOSSES
said he, and have just six hund
red dollars left? Keep it. You
wouldn't hive in that house one
week. I've tried it. rd make a
bargain with a rich man, bat I'm
not rascal enough to take poor
mans all.
I'll risk it, said [. l do it free
ly, but the papers must be made
out fair and square two thousand
after five years lease.
And SO l had my way.
Jane and [ went up to the house
next day.
1t was a wonderful, grand dirty
old place.
We set to work to clean ito
drive out insects and rats; and we
got some fresh straw to sleep on,
for the beds were all mouldering
away.
That night at nine we lay down,
with lamp burning, and vent to
sleep like tops; and I think it must
have been twelve o'clock, or nigh
to it when Jane shook me vio-
lently.
l started up, holding each others
hands, we both saw what frighten-
ed her.
A man stood near the bed,
young man, with fair curly hair
about his temples, his breast was
bare, and we saw a great bleeding
wound thare.
/ had my pistol under my pill
low, and / drew it out and looked
at him.
Away you go, or I fire. ] said;
Tn not q fool to be tricked in this
way
Instead of obeying, he slowly
moved towards the bed.
Jane shrieked, and drew the
counterpape over her head.
l covered him with my pistol.
One more step, and / fire. l
said.
He took the one step.
Then l fred.
A shrek Of laughter followed,
and there was no one there.
l arose and searched the place.
Every window was barred, every
door locked.
[ unlocked one Of the doors, and
entered the adjoining.
A great bed, with teesters and
canopy, stood there, upon which
lay the figure of a woman, all
covered in blood.
l rushed toward it lamp in
hand. Again those hollow shrieks
of laughter, and nothing but the
stained and yellow ticking of an
old feather bed lay under the can
opy.
Luke Luke!' screamed my
wife, who had followed me, cling
ing to my arm, 1T is all true. Let
! us leave the place.
Jane, said l, it seems to be true
that this place is haunted, but we
have risked our all on it. The
things we have seen have not hurt
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-16
PRODUCE.


New YORK, March 15.-Cotton-StesdY
and unchanged at loh9lo3sc; futures uuu
and easy. Flour-Dull and unchsngsai re-
csipts 10 600 barrels; exports S,o0o par
rels. wheat-At 81 02@1 OH; options
@%c higher; receipts $1,000 bushels; eA-
ports 1000 bushels; No. red steamer
81 IL; No. 8 red 81 1871; uugraded red 81 W;
ungraded white 81 OF; No. 81 0SS; , no,
white, sales 5000 bushels, at 81 dS!S
l 121l; No 2 red seller March. salei lOi,.
COO bushels, at 81 l9H9l 207S, closing o.
81 2O2S; seller April, sales 792, 0eo bushels
at 81 2011@1 22ss; seller May, at 81 2z2s9
al 2SA, closing at 81 23H; seller June,
sales $4,000 bushls, at 81 23H9l NS;
closing at 81 24h. Corn-Receipts i5i,VV
bushels: exports 10000 bushels; market .
@5sc higher. closing firm and unchanged;
upgIaded 5S@72c; No. 8 e1@6lSc; No; z
I0AG574c; steamer white Csc; No: seller
March .7O1I@7O7sc, closing at 7OHc; seller
April 70%G7lc closing at 7lc; seller MAY
7l1@r &c, closing at 7l9sc; seller June June
7O%@711sc, closing at T1c. Oats-h9He
lover; receipts 5000 bushels; exports ia
bushels; mixed western i9H952e; white
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-16
LIVE STOCK.
Chicago.

CHICAGO, March 15.-The Drovers' Jour
nal reports: Hogs-Receipts II 900 head
shipments 1000 head; demand brisk and
market fairly active; sc higher on bacon
and heavy shipping; mixed 81 30; light
s. so; heavy 81 60@S 90; skips s. 4OG6 80.
Cattle-Receipts 5000 head; shipments
$500 head; market strong and active at lOc
higher; exports So 1907 90; good to choice
shipping Sc 60; common to fair s. 1905 50;
butchers 81 509i So; stockers and feeders
S. 3O@5 %.
Sheep-Receipts 1000 head: shipments
$500 head market strong and active; ship
ping s. 1906 90; common to fair So 5O9
East Liberty.
EAST LIBERTY. March .-Cattle-Receipts
S55 head. Nothing doing. all through con-
signments.
Hogs-Receipts $3.50 head Market slow
Philadelphia s. Dogs 10; Workers 81 BOG
I so.
sheep-Receipts 800 head. Market slow
at yesterdays prices.
Cincinnati.
CINCINNATI, March Is. Live Hogs-Active
firm and unchanged; common and light
S. 25@7 40; packing and butchers s. cog
New York.
New YORK, March l5.-Bseves-Receipti
125 head. No trade except the sale of l6I
Illinois steers to exporters at S. rs; dress
ed beef sold slowly at 50 oO91O so; city
SO 5O@l0 w; western shipments 100 live
cattle,
Sheep-Receipts 5,723 head. Market firm
at s6 00@7 40 per cwt.; yearling lambs
81 0O@S 20 per cwt.; few spring lambs
sold at s. 00(17 90 per head, =
Hogs Receipts $50 head; live hogs ii
good demand at s. 25@7 IS per hundred
weight None offered alive.
I 50. Receipts 1852 head; shipments ON
head.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1883-03-16
PROPOSALS.

CLERKS Orr cE BOARD OF CoMMISsIoNERsl
OHIO COUNTY, w. Va, March 10. 1883. J
Sealed propos AIS will be received at this
Office until the 2bth int at II noon. for turn-
lshipg clean or u dt coal. as may be ordered,
TO the county jail for one year from April l.
1883.
For furnishing such ccal as may be ordered
to the county intrmary at Elm Grove, for one
year from pril 1, lSSS
For furnishing coal such as may be ordered
by County Ton missioner TO the poor living
north Of Wheeling Creek, in the City OF
Wht cling for one year fIom April I, 1883.
fur furnishing coal such as may be ordered
by "a County Commissioner II the poor living
south OF Wheeling Creek, in the City Of
wheeling.
Clean and nut coal In each case to be pro-
perly screened and certificates Of weights In
all cases of delivery of the coal, must be re-
ceIpted for
Bidders must specify the price OF clean,
mixed and nut coal per sushel delivered.
The Board reserves the right 10 reject any
and all bids
mpici I've " ROBT. B. WOODS, Clerk.