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open, and registered in books accsssible to
official inspection, and from which any citi-
zen, on paying the proper fee, could obtain a
legal ceriifiOauoR of any marriage. This
would bring kcme at once the act OF poIygamy
to any criminal guilty of it, and the unscru-
pulous managers of the whole polygamistic
fraud would at once lose the principal in
strument by aid Of which they are carrying
on those schemes against the republic they
are known to entertain. The whole would
be done without trenching upon religious
liberty, for the law-breakers have no revela-
ton that marriage must be a secret rite. In
fact p~olygsmy is a violation of the book they
base their religion upon, the book Of Nor
mon. That book expressly requires that its
disciples shall have only one wife. Polyga-
my il not their religion, hnt is a breach of
that religion.
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BARLEY CampDelI's Plays.

Brooklyn Eagle: That interchangeable play
wright, Barley Campbell, has gone TO Ger
many again. Campbell, who was once a
newspa per reporter, and lived from hand to
mouth for many year,, has blossomed out
into a man OF princely income, and
all through writing plays and man
aging them himself. His invasion of Ger
many was an idea of his own, and he is
the first American who has ever
pushed native dramas into the fstherland
ALI the plays that he produced there list
year were successful, and he has gone over
again TO plant some more of his dramas.
Tne. surprising thing is, when Campbeil gets
time to write. Yet he has written two plays
this year. One Of them, a Woman
Of the World, has already been cold
to the Union Square Theater, and will
be produced next year. This reminds
me tina. the Union Square Theater has Sc
cured as leading lady that very beautiful
woman, Alice Dunning Lingard. She will
play in A Woman of the World. The
principal characters are man and wife, and
The plot is woven around them. The woman
becomes stass-struck, is opposed by her hus-
band, but leaves him and becomes an actress.
They are separated, come together again at
the end OF the play, and all is as happy a. a
msrriage bell. The play will be more am u.s.
ing than tragic, and a great number of small
character studies will be introduced. Camp
bell is the first of our playwrights who dis
covered that middle. men were not Necessary
in theatricals. One of his first plays-I for
get which it was now-he cold TO a manager
for $4,000 down and a small royalty on
every performance. The manager took the
play through the country, and in q year
had cleared $4,000. CampbelPs row
altIes amounted to a trife over $1,000. Thus
he has 5000 and the manager $50 600. He
added one and two together and the next
year he took out q company himself with
one of his own plays, and came in with the
profits OF manager aud author buttoned up
in his own pockets. Then he wrote another
play and took that out, and 80 he has gone
on ever since until he is now a man Of de-
cided wealth.
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SUNRISE M NI9HC AT HI BLUE
RIDGE SPINGS.V VA.

The Death Of Mrs. james Elder, Of Memphis, Tenn.
Memory brings in vivid, faithful touch
Power to see what oft I've seen before
tin scenes where much L loved to dwell)-
Bars OF red gold from light beyond,
Strike aslant t1e rugged mountain sides;
These broader, deeper grow, and heavens
Own jewels, with amethyst anc sapphire
Tlnts, shine through the purple mist.
They seem so near, as II we only touch
To clasp and keep as all our W
Yet on lower nights, our summer home.
Unbroken shadow rests and fingers still
Tho distant sounds of active work,
And tinkling bells from fields around,
Would herald here the coming day,
Myriads of birds yet claim their realm,
And every whispering leaf is heard,
So pure, so calm, so soft tne air
Now heavens gates seem opened WIDE,
And 10! there on highest peak behold
The glorious Subtle God given Light"
"A half hours growth to plains beyond),
And soon its rich and mellowed glory
Floods all the varied scene below
As Iomping children round them play,
Toilworn men, and women fair to see,
Will seek in happy ease the grateful shade.
And every comfort man can wisely ask.
To man is freely, fully granted here;
Fair Blue Ridge, and fairer still,
In twilight's holy hour, and later on,
When moonbeam's silvery veil, with
Magic touch, gives more Than earthly charms.
From Richmond Cottage, the Bridge, the Lake
We look down the glen, DER hill and dale,
With glittering light and deepening shadow,
And walls of darkest green on either side;
Far southwark other mountains bar the way,
Pointing heavenward with their tende blue,
Aud murmuIs of the distant pines,
The quivering aspen, the falling water,
Bring natures hymn of vesper praise.
A saddening thought must come
To many here-one we loved has gone.
Often she stood as we are standing now
For much she priced this beauty, 100
Her deep, dark eyes, undimmed by age,
Bright with tender love or prompt resolve;
The everready, helpful, skillful hands,
Quiet now, and folded cold and still,
Long she suffered and bore her pain,
AS earnest, gentle Christian may,
With bridal faith and clinging trust,
She claimed her husbands care,
Fer fifty years his chief and cherished thought
Sons and daughters, grandchildren dear,
Many and fair they were,
Watched and waited TO know her will;
And life could give, nor bliss no more;
So then she died-to meet her God
- The C~hureh1ldR.
"Mrs. Elder died during the past winter. Ha
pent eight summer at the Blue Ridge Springs,
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CONVICTION, TENN.
Chills aid Fever-The Public Schools
Personal Mention.

Regular Correspondence of the Appeal
C~ovINGTeN, Angus. 11.-Covington and
vicinity Is undergoing 4 siege Of chills aud
fever at present which is a little unusual for
our place, as it lays high, and as a general
thing is very healthy. The extremely cool
nights and rather hot days are the probable
causes. The doctors are fighting the enemy
with q~uinine, though, and if the drug stores
don't run out OF ammunition, they will coma
off victorious.
The fall session of the public schools COM
menced at the Female Seminary and Male
Academy last Monday. Next Wednesday a
free scholarship to some good college will be
given to the boy or girl who passes the best
examination in the branches OF study taught
in these schools.
Crops are nearly universally reported good
by our farmers. Up TO last week they have
had all the rain that was necessary. A good
shower would be acceptable now.
Tn new Presbyterian church is nearing
completion. The tower and spire are being
put up now.
The mother Of John Weiss, the young man
who was killed here on the Chesapeake and
Oaio railroad recently, has entered suit
ny 4iust the company, placing the damages at
SIS, 900.
MIR. Henry Townsend, of Arkansas City,
who has been spending a week with his m any
friends here, LETT for home yesterday.
Wm. Slaughter, who is connected with the
Pension Department al Washington City, is
home on a visit.
Mics Lena Thompson, of Memphis, is
visiting her uncle, Mr.. w. B. Smith.
"Mack" McCreight, of Memphis, is spend
ing a few days with friends here.
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he labors for a church that cannot afford 10
he liberal, sometimes accepting as little IS
$50 a week. He wrote to DR.. Stokes that
he had saved 22O0 souls in Decatur during
the winter, and was never in better condition,
physical or spiritual. There was some dis
appointment at Ocean Grove, l believe, on
account of the failure to bring the boy
preacher there TO take the place made
vacant BY the death of DR.. Palmer, the ad-
vocate of holiness, who had been conducting
daily meetiugs. l heard it grumblingly said
that DR.. Stokes himself drew $4,000 a year and
ought to be willing to give Harrison q proper
tionate~ recompense for q few weeks. Another
GROWER expressed surprise that q reyIvalist
should sccept any pay above bare subsist-
erce.
The aforementioned rigid rules for personal
conduct are still unrelsxed down there at
Ocean Grove. The 5000 summer inhabitants
must do without dancing, they must not sail
on the lake and battle in the surf
only during specified hours, and
they must totslly abstain from (beipg
caught att drinking alcoholic beverages. i
made that parenthe.ic Interpolation on a..
count Of having seen on the beach in tina
ssncti6ed place, the possibility OF the offensI
demonstrated by as drunken a party of fel-
lows as ever Disguised q sober observer
They had carried whisky bottles into tn,
surf for the sake OF defyiHg Ocean Grow,
law with novelty and conspicuousness, anC
If they measured their satisfaction by tn,
depth of their intoxicstiou, they may hsv,
been as happy as they thought they were
There was ere in DR.. Stekes's e-es when b.
prayed that they might be forgiven.
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JACKSON, TENN.
Barbecues anu Ptenfcs the Order of the
Day-The BuiidfDg BOom-PeI-
sOnai and General
REGULAR corresponaeuce of the Appe.l.l

Regular Correspondence of the Appeal
JACKSON, TENN, August love are now
in the calm belt between the dullness of the
extreme heat of summer and the brisk rush
of the suiumnsl season. The days are warm,
the nights cool, which, together with the
melons and other fruit which our country
n~eighbors sell 10 Us, causes a general feeling
Of languor and sitting abouuvsness among
our ciiizsns who are not SO fortunate as to be
'otf at the ~springs."
Barbscues and picnics are numerous this
week. The employees of the Illinois Central
gave their annual barbecue last week at Oak
Geld, about seven miles north OF the city.
Three or four hundred Of the employees, their
families and friends, spent The day very
pleasantly, and at night the young folks
danced I'LL the early hours of the next
morning.
Two or three pleasant evening entertain
mems we're given this week-eue Monday
evepipg at the residence OF Maj. G. Shull,
plimentsry to Mics Latilla Barrow, OF Louis
vile, KY, and one on Tuesday evening by
Miss Henrietta Lancaster TO several OF her
frie uds.
Commercial tourists" are numerous, good
looking and cheeky as ever.
Our Two local summer resorts-White Fern,
about twelve miles south of east, and Craw.
ford Springs, about fifteen miIes east Of
~Jackson-sre both now crowded with visitors
Judge John NJ. Carmsck, OF your city, il
| very sick here, at the residence OF his kinsr
man, John S. Miller.
Misses Georgia and Willie Buchanan, o.
franklin, Tenn, after q two weeks visit tc
the family Of the Hon. John Y. Keith, o.
this county, returned home last Tuesday. -
Judge 7. G. Muse and Attorney Genera,
I. L. Bullock are holding Circuit Court thil
week at Henderson, in Chester county. OtheI
members Of the Jackson bar are in attend
ance.
Mr., r. S. Fletcher has cold out his inter
est in TIE Wea Tennessee Wig TO his partner
LOU J. Brooke. nud has embarked in mer
camille business.
1t is nov understood that Jackson is I
have another newspaper enterprise. I'M
prospectus OF the new paper is to be issued OF
the 10th instant, and the paper Itself on tn
1st proximo.
MIR. Robi. n. Hill, an old and respected
c%itizsn, aged si1ty-eight years, died Tuesday
night OF this week.
The jackson Musical Club held an inter
esting meeting Tuesday evening. The clu'
is growing in interest and numbers, and bid
fair to rival the Mozarts. BY the way, Jack
son ought not 10 have been left out of the cir
cult of amateur concerts TO be given by th,
Mozart Society this winter.
The building boom is still going on. Mt
J. Friedlob let the contract for a two-stor,
brick business house and residence on Mar
ket street this week, w. A. Taylor is havin,
a two-story brick business house built OIL
West Main street, and several private resi-
dences are being built.
Reports from all paris Of the county ar
encouraging ss TO the condition of the tw'
main crops, corn and cotton. All our Cit
zens wear a hopeful smile when the pros
poets and general outlook for the fall ar
spoken o.. JACKSON.
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Mis-. Middle Morgan, Journalist.

A New York correspo ndent says: Miss
Middle Morgan, the much-written-about live
stock reporter OF the Times and Herald, has
bought a lot of properly at Staten Island
and is going to build a cottage there. The
cellar is already dug and the foundation
stones are laid, but the work has got no fur
Their along for many months. Miss Morgan
is a specialist, 50 she is we'll paid for her
work. II she should strike she would no
doubt get what she demanded at once, for it
would be hard to find even a man TO take
her place. 1have not the pleasure of Miss
Morgan's acquaintance, but l have seen her
hundreds of times and heard her talk. She
has a ric1 Irish brogue and talks very well.
She Is quite a lady and trsmping about the
stock-yards OF C~ommunipaw has not robbed
her of any refinement. So far az appearance
goes she looks rough, not 90 much her face
as her dress and figure; but she is as gentle
1 am told by those who know her, as the
most delicately-nurtured belle, and, l have
no doubt, a great deal more iender-hearted
but you wouldn't think so to see her lunging
along in her short skirts and big shoes, ut
terly oblivious to the gaping crowd.
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ELY TO THE m-ouNrAINs.

The wesried limbs, tagged bodies, harrsssed
minds, and %throbbing brains that are at this
season feeling the effects of a long stretch OF
work and confinement with little rest or re-
Taxation, should now seek the restorative
effects OF mountain air. Let them take The
Charleston railroad, then go on to Knoxville,
there they have the land Of sublime scenery
and mountain rising beyouud mountain
within a days travel. By the Virgins, Ten
nessee and Georgia Air Line, or the Shensn-
doah Valley line Of railway, they can obtain
access to the picturesque valleys and tower.
ing summits of East Tennessee, or wander
among the health-giving springs and lovely
summe resorts of dear old Virgins, or climb
the lofty nights Of the delightful country
through Which the celebrated French Broad
pours its pure waters, and where the Unakas,
the Smoky mountains, the Black mountains,
or the soaring nights of Mount Mitchell
pierces the clouds and frowns in soil
tary grandeur upon a thousand lesser
nights that stand in gorgeous array around
1t to the verge Of the vast horizon. Taking
mule and guide at the village of Black Noun
tain, which is reached by railroad from the
ever delightful Asheville, the..tourist reaches
the summit in time to gaze upon the sunset
and see the golden rays tip with glory the
towering SUBMITS the sun is leaving. Then,
in a cavern, the guide prepares supper, then
makes a couch of the twigs of the fragrant
spruce, and upon it the traveller sleeps as
only active journeying aud mountain air
makes a man sleep. While it is yet dark he
is aroused 10 take a cup Of coffee the guide
has prepared; then, from q neighboring rock,
he awaits the coming sun. How cool and
delicious the early breeze feels to his cheek,
paled with long confinement to business.
How solemn the hush OF morning and the
undertone of the soft wind as it rustles
the Sea Of foliage. Lighter it grows
as the dawn advances, and the darling "eye-
]ashes of the morn" as Job calls them, reveal
the blue haze that like a regal mantle clothes
the mountain walls, and the domes of rock
and forest. The full orb at length darts into
view, and the whole panorama of mountain
range and sharp summit, and outlines gentle
rs the curve OF ocean, or hanging like doom
with ever impending threat. burst upon the
view of the %enraptured denizsn Of the city.
What pen can convey the delight of the
whole panorama, whose sublimity touches
the SOU with awe and subdues the mind with
the might of natures majesty. And all this,
poor wearied, exhausted, pale victim of
vigils and tolls, and the close air of pent-up
streets, is open 10 you. Flee as a bird to the
mountains, drink in exhilaration with every
breath; ii will give vigor to the pulse, make
the cheek glow and the eye brighten, take
the weight that has 80 long hung heavy in
the bosom, md bring back the hearty laugh,
the vigorous stride, and strength to begin the
next season with capital Of health to draw
UPON.
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THE UTAH


As was expected by all who are acquainted
in any degree with the condition of things in
Utah, the election there last week has shown
that the Edmunds law entirely fails to meet
the evil CT polygamy. Polygamy has long
been declared q crime, under the statute
which apples to the Territories, and by the
Edmunds bill bigamisis are d~isfranchis.d
and deprived of the right to hold office.
This has not stopped the iniquity, and the
responsibility for its continuance will rest
upon the country until it is stopped. But
what measures shall be adopted for that endP
Anything like religious persecution the
country viii not endure, and it would en-
tirely fail to meet the case. There is
no want of power in the government,
however, without calling any indi-
vidual or society to account for their
religious notions. By the law bigamy and
polygamy are crimes as are stealing and
counterfeiting, and to make religion a pre-.
tense for any one of these crimes is no jus!i-
tication OF them. Liberty consists in the
citizen having freedom to hold what opinions
may seem TO him to be good, and in doing
anything he considers useful to his W well
fare, so he does not infringe on the welfare
of other citizens. The liberty Of each citi-
zen is bounded by the liberty Of each other
citizen. On this w~ell-understood principle
the denial OF the privilege to steal, or coun-
~terteit, or marry several wives on plea of
religion may be sustained without any
breach of human liberty. The question the
result OF the Utah election has placed before
the country is this: What means shall be
adopted 10 stop polygany in Utah?
Congress has ample power over the
Territory Of Utah, which is its crea-
ture, called into existence by its fat, and
retaining that existence only as long as
Congress shall permit. All the provisions of
law which GO TO make Utah to-day a legally
organized government, hang on the pro-
visions of the statute law of the United
States, and all of these provisions are open
10 amendment or repeal. The continus nce
of the Territorial courts and other branches
of visible government in what Congress has
Temporarily erected into the Territory oil
Utah, depend for their longer existence on
the pleasure of Congress aud the President.
Congress can divide the Territory and dis.
tribute the fragments among the other Ter
T%itories; it can deprive it of Territorial
standing altogether and govern it as Alasks
is governed. Or it can try measures less
stringent than these, but more effective than
the Edmunds law. That law fails, and
polygamists cannot be convicted and sent Ia
the p~snitentiary, as they ought to be, because
the marriages it forbids are performed ii
secret and cannot be proved, therefore the
guilty cannot be convicted or punished
This fact points out the easiest, simplest
least Objectionable, and probably the mos
effective way of putting an end to polygamy
Let Congress pass a marriage law to be il
force in the Territories and in the District
wholly under United States jurisdiction
Such q law should require marriage to b
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The o., excitement IN missouri.

Rich HILL, Mo, August 1.-The oil ex-
element continues uuabated. II is given up
that that the best grade of petroleum is here
in abundance. Old Pennsylvania oilmen are
taking the county, and lands are being bought
at fabulous prices. Thousands of acres are
being leased and options taken for thousands
of acres more, and many large and small
tracts have been purchased at from $50 to
300 that a month ago could nave been
bought for $40 to $50. Several gas-weIls
have been found and more oil wells. Oil
rock abouuds over a considerable territory,
and the extent is unknown. The number Of
wells under contract continue increasing, aud
machinery is being shipped from Chicago and
Pennsvlyauia.
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The N,mrod of Ca,.ktu.

Maurice MAslen, the mighty hunter Of the
Shawangunk, who has stalked the game of
the Catskills for fifty years, ia described by
the Kingston freeman: "Since q boy he has
climbed these mountains that have looked
down for centuries upon this beautiful couu-
try; these mountains that looked upon this
land when the smokes of the Indian Wig.
vans curled mp from along the shores of The
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aannnA.

PETERSBURG, Va, August n.-Rsporu'
are thzt toe crops OF the s.sis are suffering
for the want Of rain. In come sections no
rsin hss fallen within SIX weeks, and the corn
i. burning up. Indications point 10 crops lar
short Of lzst year.
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KILLED by a Railroad Train.

PrTIsBURe, August 1l.-Shortly before
midnight lasl night three men named Owen
Dorrls, John Kirwas and JAMES Cannon
we're walking on the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad track near Demler Station and, s eF-
ping aside TO allow a freight train to pass
we're ground under the VIII els OF the express
coming in an opposite direction. Doris snd
Kirwis were instantly killed, their bodies be
ing horribly ~manglsd. Cannon, who wa
muiilated beyond recognition, lived severa
hours, but died this morning.
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The Sympathetic Queen.

Queen Victoria does not part easily with
her money. When she hears OF a peculiarly
distressing case Of triplets she sands the
mother just e5, with 4 warning not TO dc
that again, but for ordinary misfortuues shs
generally sends her sympathy. When zoe
children were killed in that horrible slaugh-
ter at Sunderland she cent to the surviving
sufferers her sympathy. When 200 men snC
women were drowned in that fatal laun
ON TIE Clyde she sent her sympathy. Now
that 5000 poor peasants are swallowed up by
the earthquake a! Ischia she sends-hel
sympathy. This hing is getting TO be gro.
tesque. The only further step for her &c
take is to initiate the example of the gentle
and kindly Baron of Brougham and VaHx
who, when ssked to subscribe 10 any public
or charitable purpose, always in answer &C
kuowledged the receipt of the letter and
said; 81 beg to subscribe"-here the pag,
turned over-"myself your very obedieut aud
humble servant"
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ARemarkable Trfbute q.

Sidney Ourchundro, of PItrsburg, Pa.
writes: II have used DIR. VIM. Halls Balsam fol
the lungs for many years, with the most gratifying
results. The relieving influence of Halls Baisam
cidental to q tisht cough, soon disappear by The
use of a spoonful according 70 directions. Ny wife
physician, and health is speedily restored by lis
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PARIS, KY, August 1.-The heavy wind
and rain-storm yesterday afternoon damaged
the crops, and blew down the tents Of
O'Brien's circus during the performance.
Mr.. Hurst had her leg broken, and several
others were slightly injured.
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SAVANNAH, GA. August 11.-Rsports &c
the Morning Neus from forty-hve counties 10
Georgia and Florida upon the condition Of
the cotton crop, stste that it is thought the
general droulh is broken and the outlook
brighter. Some fear rust and damage by
worms and caterpillsrs in some counties.
The prospects in Florida are better than in
Georgia. Owing more 10 frequent rains,
caterpillars are numerous in the latter State
Picking has begun to q limiIeo extent. Labol
generally in good supply.
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IA AIR outside Is out Z poor sub-tiluie
fr Inward worth" Good health inwsrdly,
Of the bowels, liver and k~idneys, Is cure 10
zscure a fair outside. the glow 81 b,sltn on
the cheek and viger IN The foams. For this,
use Kidney Wort and nothing else.