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The Brookhaven leader., 1884-07-17
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Home ASoin.

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La, which will prove an immense accom-
uodation to her numerous friends and tho
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A POLICY OF DIsUNIoN.

That a powerful influence of the Eastern
portion of the Union should be opposed
II the improvements the River Commits
sianers are making in the Mississippi Val
ley is a misfortune, but one whose ill
etfe'ts can be averted as long as the people
OF tie valley act together. They have
hitheto done so, but we very much regret
to see hat our bright contemporary, the
Kansas City Times, is disposed to lend its
aid toward breaking the valley up into
factions, zach one crying out for the stream
that runs learest it. The Times, of Tues
day last, acc1ses the recent convention at
Washington # being animated by a "self.
ish spirit whl,h leaves those interested
in the Missouri rIyer "no alternative but re-
~tsliation," for the Missouri river peo-
pie must fight a preliminary bat
tie ''before uniting against the com.
mon enemy" it must be fought
at once-the Senators and Represent.
atives of Missouri, Kansas, Iowa, and Ne
braska must make common u agains-
the liberal appropriations to the Missis
sippi river, except upon the condition
that liberal appropriations be made to tn,
Missouri. They would be justified, even
in temporarily assisting the East in de
feating the neediul appropriations to tn
Mississippi" TO teach Tho surs-silious ad
vocates of Mississippi river improvement
that the cooperation of the people of tn
Missouri Valley is necessary to then
The Times accuses the Washington col
vention of placing impediments whic
may clock the wheels OF river improv,
ment." The appeal vainly made to th
convention must be presented by Nilsson
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
J0NESBORO, ARK.
Wholesale Jail D~eIiyery-The Weston
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Appeal.

From the Regular Correspondent of the Appeal. ]
JoNEsBoRo, February 13.-We had a
regular wholesale Jail delivery one night
last week. The city marshal went 10 the
Jail, as usual, the morning after escape, to
feed the prisoners, but lol the cage was
empty-the birds had flown. 1t is not
known how they made their escape, ex-
cept that they had assistance from un
known parties on the outside, as the door
was found to have been forced open from
the outside. One prisoner had been com
mitted for grand larceny and the others
for various little petty ofienses.
The Frank Weston Combination and
Lilliputian Family were billed here for to.
night. The company arrived from the
West yesterday, but the weather contin.
ued SO inclement they left this afternoon
without giving an entertainment, but ]
hear they will return in a week or ten
days. Their entertainment is well spoken
OF in other towns where they have lately
been. 1t is probable that the Williams
Dramatic Company will soon visit US,
your correspondent having been shown a
letter from the manager making inquiries
about the town, a suitable hall in which to
give an entertainment, etc.
The Hon. j. G.. Frierson is still quite i'll
at his residence here, though he is thought
to be improving at this time, and his many
friends 0 have strong hopes of his re.
coyery. Eminent and skillful physicians
lone from your city, DIR. Rogers) have
been in constant attendance upon him,
and all that human aid can do is being
done for him. The country cannot well
afford to lose such men as Judge Frierson.
He is a pure. good man, and has been
hund true as steel at all times and unde,
az circumstances.
Among those visiting this place recently
was Mr.. Ramsey, n of the firm of Ora.
nam, Cousins 4 Co, hardware dealers al
your city. Mr.. Ramsey is q nice, clever
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
.DEmoCRArro nLUSDEns.-

Everything the Democratic party does
or proposes is called a Democratic blum
der" The clamors of the Democrats
about Republican dishonesty and incom-
potency are invariably ~stigmatizeds as
Democratic bIunders." Every EFFORT for
retrenchment and reform and tos1bsdtute
Democratic economy in the place of Re
publican extravaganza and corruption is
sure TO provoke the stale device, another
Democratic blunder.n This criticism has
been so frequently made that ever Demo
Gratis have been deluded into the belief
that the party is composed of laundering
asses. The little squad of Democratic
protectionists, who oppose any reform in
the Republican tariff, which fills the
Treasury with superaous millions by tax
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15

LILLIAN RUSSELL will sing in the Reged,
Student at the Alhambra, in London.
MILE. RHEA has taken a young Detroit
lady rs a protege, and is preparing her for the
stage.
MAPLEsoN says Gerster's baby is boy,
and Gerster says it is q girl. Which is rirht!
Confusion again.
"PRISCEss IDA" won't 90. She Is too
slow, too much used up, and there Is little Of the
true ring about her verse, even if the music, be-
ing Sullivan s, Is respectable.
MIMI PALMER is giving comedy and
farce at matinces in London, TO show the werld
that she can do more than "sing, dance and be
merry" in music-hall fashion.
CHRISTINE NILSSON is taxed for $123. 900
SIS, 600; Moses Kfmbaii, s25a,ooi; John ste,sos'
$4,000 real and s67.0o O personal estate.
IT is rather a singular anomaly In So
ciety matters that Mrs. Langtry should be ostra-
port, and yet on her return to Europe be resolved
with open arms by the thoroughbred aristoeracy
Of England.
LoTTA's singing of the hymn, "Sweet
Bye and Bye" was Missed in London not on ae-
count of any defect in her voice, but because ii
was a hymn. And yet it was this fe.tpr. Of ,hs
made it popular in this country.
MARY ANDERsoN's engagement in Lon
don has gone beyond'sll expectations, and the
profits on the season for which Mr.. Abbey has
fully $4,000. The profits on Henry Irving in
this country are figured at over s75. 900.
NINE. PATTI appeared last Wednesday
at the Philadelphia Academy Of Music, a.
"Anetta," in Crispino c q Condrs, and sang and
acted the part admirably, to the delight Of q
crowded audience. The receipts amounted u
s11 400. Philadelphia is not yet poverty stricken.
MoDJEsKA having given 800 to the
Confederate Soldiers Home of Louisiana, was on
the 18th instant presented, during a Performance
in the Grand 0perahouse ut New Orleans, with q
large Confederate battle-fag, wrought in fswsrs,
and an engrossed letter of thanks from the d.
rectors of the Institution.
A DISCUSSION is now going on in the
French newspaper about Beethoven. One side
claims the great musician as of French extraction
and the other that he was q natural son Of Fred
srick William L, King of Prussia. Beethoven
himself once requested n friend to make known
to the world the virtue of his parents and g.
pecially of his mother.
As soon as Mantell made a hit in Fedora
he was offered a very large. in~dueement to go into
any one of half q dozen tneaters and travelling
companies. He was receiving from Miss Daven-
port, ! believe, sl75 . week, and he might essily
have found a Place for himself AZ salaIs Of s4o0
But he went straight on with his contract with
Mis- Davenport, and was not sven disasPseshls
about carrying out it, provisions.
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river States Senators and Representatives,
ACCOMPANIED with complete assurances
Of hostility to all other Western river APP
propriations, until the rights Of the Mis-
souri, shall have been conceded" We
give the position assumed by the Kan
sas City Times in order that the readers
of the APPEAL may know the nature of
the new obstruction that threatens river
Improvement. That obstruction is, in eff
feet, that the Mississippi Valley, in con
tending against its opponents in the East,
must divide its forces and have one squad
for the Des Moines river, another for the
Missouri others for the Ohio, the Tennes-
See, the Arkansas and so on. With the
East united against the Mississippi Valley,
the effect Of such tactics cannot be a mat
ter of question. That the tributaries of
the Mississippi are entitled te attention
on the same natural grounds as the main
stream is at once admitted. As the at
titude of opponents requires concentration
of effort on the part of friends, the ques-
ton arises, on which point shall the con-
centration be made? On the main chan
mel, the verdict has said so far, and on that
policy opposition has been successfully
overcome. Now, the Kansas City Times
says divide AID conquer" but in such
victories it is always the enemy that is the
winner. The opponent of river improve
ment says the improvements are mere
experiments. To disprove that position
is what the improvement commissioners
are now doing. To prove the power of
the system used at the jetties to produce
equally good results when applied to a
whole river, the main channel is selected.
Success in that channel il administrative
Of the power Of the system to achieve
success in the tributaries, and to the trib-
utaries nothing but division of effort can
prevent their application when that dem
onstration is accomplished. There is,
therefore, good reason why the grand,
main effort should be made in the Missis-
sippi river. There is another oogeht rea
son for that selection. Suppose the Mis-
souri, to be improved as the Times desires
but when the boats that tome down it get
into the main channel they find the OBJ
structions at Plum Point and Lake
Providence, and other places, inter
posed between the freight they carry
and those ports in Mexico and South
America which the Times desires to reach,
the discovery would be made that the i'm
provements had been begun at the wrong
end. Capt. Eads, in indicating river i'm
provement, asserted that the commence
ment should be made down stream and
work upward, and common sense consid-
Grafton confirms his assertion. We hope
the Kansas City Times will reflect upon
the results that must follow the division
of forces that in effect it contends for when
it speaks of the West and the South de-
handing appropriations to their great
rivers" To disunite the aims of the peo-
pie Of the Mississippi Valley is to bring
indefinite delay and to check the progress
of their mme
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
NEW PLAYS
Produced 1t Wallack's and at the Star
Theater. New York, This week
"Nadjexda" and What
Nine. Modjeska Thinks of It-sLady
Clare." an Adaptation Of Ohnet's
sic Maitre des Forges."

Ykw York, February ia drama by
Robert Buchanan entitled Lady Clare was
produced at Wa,lsck's this evening.
1t is an adaptation of Ohr:et's novel
lie Mdare des Forges, and Ohnet, who
is responsible for Serge Panine, has said
some hard things of Buchanan for using
his literary material. The story of the
play follows the fortunes OF LADY Clare"
y proud young English nobiewomsn, who
is in love with a high-born cousin, but
who parries a wealthy young commoner
out OF pifdey because she has heard dam
aging reports as to her cousin. In the
second che tells her husband, in a scene
said to be one of much power, that they
must live as strangers. The third act finds
the people at Dieppe, and the high-born
cousin provokes a quarrel with the staid
and sober husband, and in the due which
is fought in tie next act the wife PUSHES
between the antagonists snd receives q
bullet in her shoulder. In the last act she
tells her former sutton that she has learned
to love her husband, and the drama comes
TO a satisfactory conclusion. Miss Cogh-
Ian played Lady Clare" Mr.. Tearle the
husbands part, and Mr.. Cheney the arts
tocratic villain. Mime. Ponisi, Miss Measor
and Mr.. Blackstone also appeared. Mis-
Ada CaTendish is now playing Lady Clare
with success at the Globe Theater, Lon
don, and Maude Granger rs o to appear
in Philadelphia in another decentralization
of it under the title of Almost q Life.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15
A SENSATIONAL MURDER CASE
Finally Disposed of by the Death of the
Woman Implicated.

New York, February 14.-Mrs. Emma
Uhler, made notorious last year by figuring
in a murder case that made a great sensa-
ton, died from morphine poisoning in the
New York Hospital this morning. On the
18th of last March Wilbur H. Haverstack,
a broker, who lived with this woman, was
shot and killed by Mrs. Uhler's brother,
George W. Conkling, a surveyor in the
service of the government. The latter I'M
~derstanding that his sister had been en-
ticed away from her husband by Haver-
stack, he visited her rooms and tried to
induce her to leave her paramount. Hav-
erstack coming in, a quarrel took place
between him and Conkling, and the latter
drew a revolver and shot the other in the
abdomen. Haverstack died in a few
hours, and COnkling was arrested, but was
released Oh bail. Mrs. Uhler then disap-
peared from public view, and for a time
was in the West, but for the last three or
Jour months has been living in various
disreputable houses in the Tw~enty-ninth
precinct. Conkling's bail was dismissed
to-day on account of the only witness, his
sister, being dead.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-15

The expenditures for the current wear
are Sal, 154,4 99 more than they were in
1881, and s65, 216,27S more than at any
time during the Democratic control of the
House. These are the series Of "blunders''
for which the Republicans have been
clamorous against the Democrats in the
past; a saving to the people OF SOS, 1000, 900
annually from 1875 to 1880. Now we come
to the present anticipated blunder. In
1882 Keller, Republican, was elected
Speaker under a policy which increased
the Federal expenditures (of all kinds)
from s216, 465, 1877 to 1926, rs ,015, an in
crease in a single Congress of $40, 263, S1S.
On a policy of reduced taxation and les
sened expenditure Mr.. Carlisle has now
been elected Speaker. The Democratic
'blunder' nov is to save an overtaxsd
people from the criminal folly of Republic
can robbery and reckless extravaganza.
During the last tao years tho govern
nent has been run on a high-pressure
principle. Is now to be run on 8 low
pressure principle. 1t is to descend from
prodigal expenditures and profigate ap-
preparations to economical expenditures
and necessary appropriations. The Scre-
tary OF the Treasury estimates that the
surplus evenu for the fiscal year ending
ext June will be $S5, 200, 900. Yet the
interest on the public debt has decreased
and business everywhere is improving.
At this rate in seven years this surplus
would amount to 1896, 000, 900, or more
han 100000, 900 more than enough to l-
deem the outstanding bonds then matur-
ing. The same annual surplus continuing
TO 1907, when the last bond is due, would
amount to 81 ,460, 0O0, 900, or $500, OOO, OO
in excess of the entire national debt. Th,
policy of Mr.. Carlisle's election is to lower
this enormous and excessive taxation. The
Republican plan under Keller was to in.
crease taxation. The Democratic plan
under Mr.. Carlisle is to reduce taxation.
And this is called the latest Demo
cratic mistake. Carlisle's election to
the Speakership means reform, an end
to Republican oppressive taxation, ex.
travagant expenditures and profigate
appropriations, and this reform will
be called Democratic blunders.' ANY
reform in the tariff which saves the
people the burdens of taxation will be a
Democratic blunder." To insist that the
taxation of one industry for the benefit OF
another is unjust and unconstitutional is
a Democratic blunder;" to oppose taxing
of the farmer, the mechanic and the la.
borer for the purpose of protecting the
rich manufacturer will be characterized as
an ~egregious Democratic blunder." The
people approve what the Republicans call
Democratic blunders,' and when the
Democrats get control of the government
in all its departments, the Democratic
blunders' will be continued until there
will be an end to corrupt and profigate
expenditures, sectional hatreds, and the
inauguration OF peace, honesty, retrench-
ment and reform.
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ing the hard earnings Of the people, have
joined in the chorus, and their little
chirrup swells the old Republican song
about Democratic blunders." We fail to
see the "blundersp' which are attributed
to the Democrats, and which even igno-
rant Democrats confess have been
committed. The late war decimated
the Democratic party. Twenty
years ago the Republicans reveled in a
saturnalia of power. There were only
thirty Democrats in Congress, and the
constitution was regarded as a rope of
sand. Notwithstanding the edfhinistra-
ton of the government and all the
moneyed power of the land were in the
hands of the Republicans, the Democrats
rapidly gained strength, until, as early as
1875, they elected their President by q
large majority of the popular vote, and a
still larger majority of the American peo-
pie are now Democratic. The Democratic
party has no doubt committed mistakes,
as all parties have done in ali ages and in
all countries. But this constant iteration
and reiteration about Democratic blum
ders'' is made to impress the people with
the belief that the party is incapable of
government, and its frequent repetition
has had its effect upon Democrats, who
join the Republicans in criticising Demo
cratic blunders," while supporting the
policy of the Democratic party. The
Democratic party in and out of Congress
opposed the policy of reconstruction be-
cause it was lagrantly unconstitutional,
oppressive and ~tyrannical, and opposed to
the genius OF u institutions. This op-
position was called a Democratic blum
der" But the Democratic party has lived
to see the wisdom OF its course indicated,
az a Republican Supreme Court has pro-
nounced most of the laws enacted under
the reconstruction acts unconstitutional,
revolutionary and void. The "Solid South"
is called another Democratic biunder."
The South was made solid as the only
means for self-protection against ignorant
negro rule, led by carpetbaggers. Was it
a Democratic blunder" for the Southern
people to stand shoulder to shoulder under
the Democratic banner, on which was in
scribed home-rule and opposition to the
rule CT strangers who were a~rraying the
blacks against the whites and robbing the
taxpayers? 1t is easy to demonstrate that
what is called Democratic blunders have
been in the interest of the people-fruit-
full of blessings to the country. The San
Francisco Examiner shows that, commenc-
ing in 1870, under Republican domination
the expenditures of the government were
in successive years as follows:
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~DYERSBURG, TENN.
A Memphis Man Sick Unto DeaiI-The
Saloon Tax-Ton Neal and Butter.

From the Appeals Correspondence
DYERsBuRG, February 13.-Mr. A. ].
Roach, of your city, and travelling agent
OF Hill, Fontaine & Co., is very sick with
pneumonia at the Tucker Hotel, in this
place. He has the best of attention but
the chance for his recovery is very slender.
Col. Tom Neal, the veteran agricultu.
rist, left for Jackson to-day, and will
doubtless tell those Western dairymen
what he knows about butter-on bread.
If we had a dozen men like the colonel, that
took the same interest in home improve
ment and development of the county, we
would soon have a tide of immigration
this way, but the moss grows too long on
the backs of our people.
AS you have probably observed in the
Gazette, the aldermen of this enterprising
town refused to raise the saloon tax. 1t
was believed by the people, who elected
the mayor, that he was for high taxes, but
he certainly disappointed a great many.
He said hat if the tax is raised from So
that it must be made $500. Well, that
may or may not mean a high-tax position.
The writer believes it meant to leave the
tax at S25, as the mayor well knew the
$500 proposition would not carry. II he
was in favor of a higher tax than S25 why
did he not gay so in just that many words,
so there would be no mistake about his
position. REPORTER"
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FRIDAY. FEBRUARY Is. 1854

ETC., and-200'000 feet outside the building
for the Mexican garden, building for the
commission and camping-ground for a bat;
talon of Mexican troops. A magnificent
band of musicians and corps of cadets will
be sent from Mexico. Arrangements are
being made with the Central American
republics and South America for fine dis
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gentleman, and will always find a welcome

gentleman, and will always find a welcome
here.
l was pleased to meet DIR. Whittsit, of
Marion, to-day. He is here attending
Doctor.
Mr.. John R. Malone, of wittsburg, is
visiting relatives here.
The APPEAL is received here regularly
the day of publication and is fast becom-
ing more popular with our people. Until
recently nothing but st. Louis dailies were
received here, but our people, finding they
could get the APPEAL the same day Of
issue, while st. Louis dailies do not leach
here until they are more than a day old,
are beginning to take the APPEAL in pref
erence. AIN.
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iBBEY'S FAILURE.
His Losses as Manager of the NetropOli-
tan ~Operah0use.

NEW York, February 14.-Abbey will
retire from the management of the Metro
politan Operahouse next May, and eye,
the London impressario, will probably take
the lease. The statement OF the Metropoli-
tan Operahouse shows a deficit of S23S,47S,
and the directors nave ordered an assess
ment of $500 apiece on the stockholders.
1t is stated that Abbey lost terribly this
season, and that the largest receipts have
not exceeded $4,000 in one week, whereas
the expenses have been estimated at moi
less than $4,000 a week. The floods in
the West have proved especially disastrous
to his enterprise, and it is doubtful if he
can pay expenses where last year Maple
| son made a clear profit of $50. 0O0.
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A PARTING ~ADMoNHTION.

Young man, I've a word of counsel,
Which nay not come amiss,
If you're disposed to heed it,
And il is simply this:
As forth in life great battle
You are about TO start
Don't part you hair in the middle O.
It's not a manly part.
Did ever you know a Webster,
\ Calhoun, or u Clay,
To part their hair in the middle?
l eek not-not they.
Oh, no, my friend, true greatness
ScOrns such a part as that
Then don't part your hair in the middle,
Nor wear a red cravat.
These are little things l know, sir,
But did you e'er reflect
How life's made up of ''littles?"
Then do not these reject.
If you would the reputation
Of a man of sense enjoy,
Don't part your hair in the middle
Is my parting advice, my boy.
-NeU York Journal