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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-01-04

-ATKES0N--On Thursday, January 8, 1884,
NELLrk, only child Of Andrew and Annie Atke-
son.
. Funeral will take place this (FRIDAY) morn
ing at 10 clock from residence 45S Poplar street.
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Election Notice.

Is will. ON the first Thursday after the first
Monday in January next, same being the 10th
day of January, 1884, open and hold an election
in Mi the Wards of the Taxing District Of shelby
county, for ono member of the Board OF FIRE and
Police Commissioners, and for two members OF
School Commissioners for said Taxing District to
serve for the term Of two years; ear "a, and & l1r TWO
This the 29th day of December, 1883.
n CANNON Sheriff Shelby County.
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DISSOLUTE6k.

rJ,HE nm :. ESTES ELLETT has been dis
i solved by muti.a, crpsepI ,,sr,,
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DIVIDEND NOTICE.

UANK OF COMMERCE,
~ MEMPHIS, TKSS,, January l, 1884.
BANK, k held fsth'tiss tkIs a. ~ pisidsna Of
Five ~ Per Cent,
out of the earnings of the past six months, wai
- j. A. OMBERG, Cashier.
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nstles Of Dissolution.
Dividend Notice.

rJNHE FIRM OF ENSLEY 4 MATHEWS has
1 been dis.slysd b limitation, ,,,
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MEMPHIS NIMRODS.
Description of the New Club Houses
at Beaver Dam and the Sunk
Lands.
Ten Kinds OF GNae on the Table at
Once--Achievements Of Crack
Shots.
WAere TO Find Sp0rt-The Cost Of 4
Camp.Hnnt-List of Gun
Clubs.

There never was time when the anna
teur sportsmen of Memphis were more
enthusiastic than at present, The inter-
est in field sports, which seems to be a
Characteristic OF the professional classes
though they are by no means the only
persons who take an interest in them
has been steadily growing for several
years, and now there are quite number
of gun clubs which are carried on in
thoroughly .business-like manner. The
country about the city is stocked with all
kinds OF game, and those who understand
it and know how to hunt heed never 80
cunning IN vain. As instances of the
justice Of this claim, it may be stated that
Mr.. Bard Edrington recently bagged ia
ducks in one day, Judge Greer fifty quail
on Christmas day, Mr.. w. a. Wkca.l5y
thirty-one in half day Ut braden, and
Mr.. D. II. Pcstth 100 quails and eighteen
rabbits in three days about Covington and
Rossville, Mr.. Wheatley 121 snipe at Car
Isle, Ark, in one day, and Messrs. Pestor
and Wheatley averaged ninety day
when hunting together. Among the clubs
recently established is the
BEAVER DAM DUCKIEG CLUB.
The membership was limited at first to
t"~enry one, bus within the last week this
limit Vas been increased to thirty-one.
DR.. R. w. Mitchell is captain, w. A.
Wheatley, secretary and treasurer, and
the followinp ara memhers.
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A MEAN ISLANDER

On the New Orleans Worlds Fail
Promptly Denied by Gen. Burke.
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DIVIDEND NOTICE!

|OurcE rtAsrESs ms: CO.; .,,.,, >. ,ss,
- ~ . meeting Of the Board of Directors. helt
this day, semi-annual
Cnsh Dividend OF Six (6) Per Cent.
was dsslarsd, payable on demand.
D. T. PORTER, President.
q. n. 1xryr Secretary
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been worth million francs, according to
the prices which the Jew estimated his
pehBles.: Brought was, not the correct
rotd Ahrahati offered to The actress tS
let his treasure, and naturally accompa-
MED his offer with the request for Sarsh's
signature. He had in his pocket chattel
mortgage already drawn out, by which
the ttaveler engaged herself, first, to re-
turn, hen she got back, the jewels, that
she could not keep without risking a suit
for theft; second, to pay for their use two
thirds of their yalue.
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"'A SHORT TINE SINCE

that Incompatible evening, while escort
ing to their last home the remains of the
poor, but great artist, who was Sarah Bar
mum there follow few lines devoted to
the life and sneers of the departed up to
the time Of her fall). We can say it now
reporting which respects nothing having
Uncovered the true causes OF her death
the female Barnum did not kill herself.
Abandoned by the man she loved, a home
ly fellow, we are told, the poor woman
sought forgetfulness in drink. Last
Thursday she tried last step toward her
lover, and not having been able to mollify
him, she returned home in despair. Upon
her prayer the janitor's wife went to get
her bottle OF atsinthe. Sarah, the woman
tells us, had red eyes, but was calm. She
gave her orders for the next day, and shut
herself up in her room. On Friday, as
the janitor's wife did not set
her come down, she, went up tc
the actress room, and not be
ing able to open the door, became fright
ened and ran to notify llse police Tht
door was forced open, and poor Hanun
lay on the foot of her bed, her face cover
ed with blood The bottle OF absinthe wa
half empty, and the bed tossed. The ply
sieian called at once could, after examin
fnx the wound, explain ths Gpsns- Sarah
when drink, I'LL irom har hoI and CT hq
skull opeu 10 hR III By hil1uE De coEPe'
Of her Saa}s ds nsil. Il1fs ~ esld- y ses
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
A n,l11onaire,s Closet ske1eton.

From San Francisco Letter.
 Millionaire Hopkins never lived to enjoy the magnifcence of his new house, which is finished in costly native woods and furnished in the most sumptuous style. When the way under the strain of combined work and worry He used to be led up to the top of the hill by an attendant, and then gazing vacantly at the structure which his money had paid for, he would ask: ''What d-d fool is building that house?' When he fail ed to improve here, the experiment was tried of shipping him down to Yuma, but neither heat nor cold revived his faculties, prema- turely worn out by over-exertion, and he in his prime, one of the many victims of this coast of this suicidal devotion to business. The widow moved into the fine new house and set up as a leader of fashion, and the pat roness of charity. She succeeded very bad ly in both roles. She has little social tact the scene of much festivity in the winter months, but she has had to fall back mainly on the entertainment of eastern and English aristocrats. Among the latter have been in cluded some of the worst of the pretenders who have victinized San Francisco blood About two years ago the great house wit messed the marriage between Timothy Hop kins, the adopted son, and Miss Crittenden protegee of the mother. All her hopes had been centered on the union, but it is said that the marriage has not been happy one .sTim, 7, as he is called, is one of the boys Matrimony didn't agree with him, and after marriage he lived about the same life he had led before-that of gay man about town, fond of the good things of this world. A eoolness was the result-hence the skeleton in the costly mansion.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
Give Me The Baby,

Give me the baby to hold my dear- To hold and to hug, and to love and kiss, An! he will come to me, never fear Come to the nest of breast like this As warm for him as his face with cheer, Give me the baby to hold, my dear Trusffully wield him in my caress, Bother" you say? What! a bother" to
 me?- To fill up my soul with such happiness As the love of baby that laughs to be Struggled away where my heart can hear. Give me the baby to hold, my dear. An! but his hands soiled you say, And would dirty my faces and clutch my
 hair We'll, what would please me more, pray, Than the touch and the tug of the wee hands
 there?- The wee hands there and the warm face here Give me the baby to hold, my dear. Give me the baby? Oh, won't you see Somewhere out where the green of the lawn Is turning to gray, and the maple tree Is weeping it's leaves of gold upon A little mound with dead rose near Give me the baby to hold, my deari
 JAMES WHITCoMB RILEY.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
AN UNJUSTIFIABLE SCHEME.

A good many foolish and unjustlhable things have been done by trade unions in this country, but nothing quite so foolish and unjustiiable has come to light lately as the action of the master plumbers. These gentlemen have an association fo- joint ac- tion and mutual protection, and they re- gently sent their president to New York for the purpose of presenting certain proposi- tions to the New York and Brooklyn manu- lecturers and dealers in plumbing materials. A meeting of the latter was held, and the demands of the master plumbers duly pre- sented. The first article states 'Ethat the manufacturers and dealers in materials shall not sell to others than licensed plumb CTS, who shall exhibit certificate duly sign ed by the president and secretary of their respective associations" The second article forbids manufacturers and dealers to 'Efgure on plans or specifications for any one."
 The adoption of this scheme, will readi- ly be seen, would place every architect and builder at the mercy of the plumbers, which it was thought would be fine thing for the plumbers. But thus far the plan has not met with as much favor as the plumbers would like to see bestowed upon it. The New York and Brooklyn manufacturers have fatly refused to have anything to do with such a combination. They met, discussed the matter, and sent reply of which the fol lowing is a part: ''We do not like to feel that a document so untenable, so unbusinesslike, so opposed to all the established laws of commerce and trade, both written and unwritten, should have emanated from your body" It would not only "be ruinous to your business, dishonor- able to yourself, but would place you in the very unenviable light of extortionists, before the eyes of the public"
 The western manufacturers have, it is said, yielded to the desire of the master plumbers, and the president of the master plumbers as- sociation, in replying to the letter above quoted, uses threatening language towards the eastern dealers and manufacturers who venture to oppose his machine. One sen tence in the rejoinder ends with an appeal to all plumbers to act in common "against these men, who would deprive us of the name we bear as master plumbers"
 It does not seem as if the master plumbers would make anything Gin the long run" by attempting to carry out such scheme Their action in starting it was selfish and short-sighted. This is too big country to be F'bossed" in the way they propose.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
Thursday, September n, 1884.
For State Omcers.

FOR GOVERNOR, HENRY B. HARRISON, of New Haven LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR, LOREN A. COOKE, of Barkhamsted. FOR SECRETARY OF ESTATE, CHARLES A. RUSSELL, of Killingly
 TREASURER, V. B. CHAMBERLAIN, of New Britain
 FOR COMPTROLLER, LUZERNE l. MUNSON, of Waterbury,
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
KISSES IN LITER
Stories of Milkmaid and Duchess with
 Their Dukes and SUains.

Stories of NIiIkmaid and Duchess with Their Dukes and SWafns.
 From the Detroit Free Press.
 Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire, gave Sleet, the butcher, a kiss for his vote nearly a century since; and another equally beauti- full woman, Jane, duchess of Gordon, re- cruited her regiment in similar manner. Duncan Mackenzie, @ veteran of Waterloo, who died at Elgin, Scotland, in 1866, delight ed ip relating how he kissed the duchess in taking the shilling from between her teeth to become one of her regiment, the Gordon Highlanders, better.known as the Ninety see ond. The old Scottish veteran of '87 has not left one behind him to tell the same tale about kissing the blue-eyed duchess in the market place of Dutkill.
 An American naval officer who had spent some considerable time in China narrates an amusing experience of the ignorance of the Chinese maiden of a custom of kissing. Wishing to complete @ conquest he had made of young mel in (beautifu1 lady) he invited her-using English words-to give him a kiss Finding her comprehension of his re- quest somewhat obscure, he suited the action to the word and took delicious kiss. The girl ran away into another room throughly alarmed exclaiming: Terrible man eater. I shall be devoured." But in Q moment, finding herself uninjured, she returned to him, saying: q would learn more of your strange rite Kees me-" He knew it wasn't t right, but he kept on instructing her in the rite of kee-es me until she knew how to do it like native Yankee girl. And after that she suggested second course, remarking: f<Kee-es me some more seen jine, Mee-lee- keel" (Angice-American) and the lesson went on until her mammals voice rudely awakened them from their delicious dream.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

Some of the Democratic organs are talking about railroad monopolies, etc., i'll this State with the intent to injure the Hon. Henry B. Harrison. The Hartford Courant makes a good point on these organs by quoting from Governor Walters message to the general as- sembly last winter, as follows: The manage ment of these great corporations has general ly been conservative and satisfactory The differences that have occasionally arisen be- tween them and their patrons and the com nIunities on the line of their routes have been usually adjusted by the parties in inter est, with reciprocal fairness. The spirit of monopoly on the part of railroads, or preju- dice against such corporations on the part of the public, hs5s never asserted itself in our State, as it often has elsewhere. As the off cers of such companies are presumably bet ter able than legislators to manage the de- tails of their business for the advantage of all, they ought not to be interfered with by special legislation, except in cases of oppres- sive discrimination, or where there is per sistent neglect to meet the wants of the pub these corporations have paid-protesting, however, taxpayers oftentimes do against its excessiveness sum of four hundred and ffty-six thousand, one hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty-fve cents ($456, 128. 55) in taxes to the State.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

M w oAAS fSAN SAAAS and hear Senator Platt and Corporal Tan ner.
 Some people have thought lately that the sun was losing some of it's power. Wonder what they think nows
 The offer of one hundred thousand marks made some time ago to the University of Heidelberg, on condition that women should be allowed to study there, has been declined by the faculty.
 They don't ''fool'' much with careless coun- ci1men in Kansas City. The city council re- gently gave away valuable franchise to horse car monopoly, the mayor vetoed the ordinance, mass meeting proposed to hang the aldermen, and the mayors action was sustained ''by large majority"
 Summaries of nearly five hundred returns from agriculturists in various parts of En- gland show that the wheat crop of the pres ent year is considerably above the average of late years, and is better than the average of the last twenty years. Barley is just under the twenty years average. The yield of oats will be a short one and the hay crop has been ruined. The Rev. Miles Grant has been warning the people of Chicago to prepare for the de- struction of the world. He prudently re- frains from fixing date for the event, which he claims will occur in a few months or a few years. He also volunteers the somewhat am biguous information that Gods people' will come to their own this fall Any of the political parties can get comfort out of this prediction.
 A prominent and we'll informed business man at Chicago, whose business connections throughout the West give him exceptionally good facilities for forming intelligent and ac- eurate judgments in regard to the political drift in the Northwest and on the Pacific slope, makes these estimates of the plurality for Blaine and Logan: Illinois, 5000; Indiana, 5000; Wisconsin, 10000; Iowa, 70, GOO; Kansas, 6O,0O0; Minnesota, 25,OOO;
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

The Eighth Connecticut regiment will hold it's eighteenth annual reunion at Seaside Park. Bridgeport, on the 17th inst.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
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Kiss her gently, but be sly; Kiss her when there's no one by; Steal your kiss, for then 'tis meetest Stolen kisses are the sweetest.

Tom Hood once asked whether Hannah More had ever been kissed-that is to say by man. It is almost impossible to imagine such a thing and yet it has been asserted by the author of Rejected Addresses" But to think of her being kissed on the sly and in chorus time. Horace Smith distinctly afirms that on a certain occasion
 Sidney Morgan was playing the organ,
 While behind the vestry door
 Horace Twiss was snatching a kiss
 From the lips of Hannah More.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
NO. 237.
Rarnuran. the Snowman.

EHermit's New York Letter in Troy Timesl
 The veteran snowman is now In his seven
 ty-first year, and has been in active service ever since childhood. His father was poor man, and the boy was early put to work. He has gone through wider variety of employ ment than any other man on record, the range including the sale of lottery tick cts, keeping an oyster saloon, editing a paper, tending bar, negro melodist, boarding house keeper, book canvasser, making bears grease, Bohemian dramatic critic, preacher, bank president, author, partner in clock factory, Jenny Lind concert manager, and last of all travelling snowman. He has also been inter ested in the clock manufacture in land spec ulation in the fire annihilator in an illustrat- ed newspaper and other enterprises Success and failure alternated in these efforts but he has made the show business more profitable than any other man, and he has bought and sold and imported more animals He is now estimated at three millions, one-third of which is in real estate in this city and in Bridgeport. The latter has always been his home, and he has a grand establishment there, but his itineracy has kept him absent most of the time. He has been married twice, but his only children are four daughters of his first wife, all of whom are married Bar mum has lived before the public, and his life will bear inspection. Whatever may have been his errors, his worst enemies cannot charge him with any violation of public morals. As snowman he employed the tricks of the trade, and this is all that can be urged against him. On the other hand, he has been generous in benefactions, and has also shown a uniform kindness which long since won public esteem.
 Will Prophett of West Suffield, the owner of the mare Kitty O., has taken her to Char ter Oak Park, where she will go into training for fast work. It is alleged that she has shown '32 on Sheldon Park, Norwich, within few weeks, and good judges pronounce her stopper of no mean pretensions. MT. Proph- cit purchased her of the same party from whom he bought the horse Emerald, which he sold to a New York gentleman for &, ,000.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

The Hartford Fire Insurance company los S14, GOO by the Cleveland fire
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Go to the Grand Opera House this evening and hear Senator Platt and Corporal Tan ner.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

Some people have thought lately that the sun was losing some of it's power. Wonder what they think now!
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
FLOUR $4.5O 4 BARREL.

Household Ammonia. In the Toilet, Nursery, Laundry or House Cleaning nsures health, beauty and cleanliness
 For sale by
 J. D. DEWELL & CO, Ine1eod3ms and all GrocerS.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
ING, SEPTEMBER II, 1884.
Colorado, 10000; Nebraska, 15, 5,0OO;. Califor- mia, 15,000; Nevada, 5000; Oregon, 5000

The Chicago Current says something worth thinking of as follows: America has been In too much of a hurry to settle her country thickly. Is it noble thing to parcel out every acre or sell every franchise for messes -of pottage; and leave forty Belgiums here for the next coming generation? We have some big States left, but it is not our foremost duty to fill them full of humanity so that a railroad may fulfill the dreams of it's share holders. People are already so overcrowded in Pennsylvania through recent wicked inn portation that the stories now coming from the Keystone State do not sound American at all.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

very good illustration of President Ar thurs practical observance of the spirit of civil service reform is afforded in the ap- pointments just made by him in the auditors office of the 1Postofice department. MT. R. F. Crowell, of Minnesota, the deputy au- ditor, was promoted to fill the vacancy occa- stoned by the death of the late Auditor Ella MT. Boone Chambers, chief clerk, was rec ognized as standing in the line of promo tion to the deputy authorship, but declined the promotion, preferring to retain his pres ent position, whereupon the President SC lected MT. Edwin s. Clifford, chief of the examining division, for promotion to the va cancy. It was meritt recognition of faith full service by good men, and thoroughly in. accordance with President Arthur's public declarations upon the subject of promotion in the civil service.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

The offer of one hundred thousand marks made some time ago to the University of Heidelberg, on condition that women should be allowed to study there, has been declined by the faculty
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

The annual watch output of the world is no less than six million tickers Of this num- Der 3,65O a day are made in the United States. The average life of watch is five years. What becomes of it in it's old age is not definitely known, but there are dark hints of the small boy and the pawnbroker The hand-worker in England turns out forty watches a year, but the American machine worker makes one hundred and fifty. Our home made watches are driving out the for eign article, and we already monopolize the East Indian and Australian markets and un- dersell the Swiss in Japan.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11
w. B. TREWHELLA.

@1I4A-N 1AN7I UT
 Hair, Cotton Husk Excelsior; also Feather Beds, Pillows, Bolsters, etc Renovating Mattresses Specially Will call and deliver residence in city, Prices the Lowest. S1 EAST WATER STREET,
 a17d6m New Haven, Conn.
Morning journal and courier., 1884-09-11

4 NATTER DINNER HEADACHE is A unpleasant, and to business man unprofitable. Usually the stomach is the cause. One dose of BURDOCK BLOOD BITTERS, 15 or 20 minutes af- ter eating will stop such headache, and do you good. This is worth remember ing.