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LABOR TROUBLES.
All Quiet at cleveland.

CLEVELAND, O., July 1s-Al is quiet
and p aceful a. the scene of the strike to.
day. The day will be devoted to the pay
ment of the strikers wages, an event that
has anxiously been looked forward to in
some quarters, but there are no indications
of trouble. The men began to assemble
early, but have INDUCED in no fierce OF
wsrliAe demonstrations. Those employed
at the wire-raills, about 1900 in number,
are being paid their stipesds at the mill
offics O0ly tie men working in a single
department are allowed in the works at
time. There are ten such departments in
the wire-Eliil, aad the men, after receiving
their pay, depaft withou. any discussion.
The 1000 men employed in the other
branches of tse mill will receive their
money this afternoon at the regular pay
office on Jones avenue. The entire morn
ing was spent in giving them their due
bills. They also are quiet and orderly.
The money required to pay the men was
brought t, the mills under q strong guard
at O'Clock this morning. None OF the
men in the mill had checks, and thei.
money was paid as VISUAL. 1t is under
stood that tae checks possessed by all the
strikers will be taken from them when
they are paid their wages.
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IN MEMORIAM.
mr.. Peter h. wills,

| After q brief illness. died at his residence, il
this city. on the afternoon of Sunday, July Y
saort rd chronicles one of the saddest event,
sf the year in our community, and the large con.
tSnrsb To honor aba memory or Of end
ned the high esteem in Ehish he was bel held sy al
Peter Wits WI Gne' anS his wife, Mrs. Annie B. %is
he was a native of Petersburg, Va, and came
With the Youth Of the South of bis age, the war
seriously interfered with his education; but he
yssT 5e a. mlpa ~ sen
residing of the best authors. His lif, was spent
in this city, He grew w up n our midst: e. and while
exhibited many excellent virtues on which the
memory o his friends delight to dwell. now
a faithful man. In the various relations Of
son, man of business, member Of the church,
His cevotion TO his mother and brothers was
touchingly beautiful. Though strong man,
fully developed in years. yet he retained the af-
iaa Hs the % tune 'Sf 81 his death he eosueied P0y
Sr1hsTs one of M the a9ses
commercial establishments in the South,
and enjoyed the confidence Of his employers.
he was diiigent prudent, true to his obligations,
and conscientiou' in all his work. He passed
through the epidemic Of 1873, and took the fever
In the fail Of ISIS fe Joined the First MetRodist
OnurSn. Inc ICES OF u nODlo DrOlner, VINO Ietl
with the fever, deeply impressed him with the
vanity of worldly good, and was doubtless the
means OF binding him TO Christ As member
of the church his walk consistent. lie
loved the church. its usages, its doctrines and its
lasmbers. He fell in the prime Of manhood
Large, we'll built, robust to appearances, he sank
unexpectedly into the grave at the moment his
earthly hopes were brightest. On Saturday he
was regarded by some of his attendants as better,
with favorable symptoms. Sunday morning he
WAS U uch worse. Sunday afternoon his pastor was
summoned, together with his family, and il was
evident to every one who entered his room that
death had already entered toe. His mother,
whom he loved SO tenderiy, was an invalid, her
self absent at Tullahoma, Tenn, hoping change
would restore her health. Every effort was made
TO proiong life until her arrival, but in vain.
Ills patience during his sickness was remark able,
and he often engaged in prayer to God for mercy
and grace. To his pastors question if he felt
willing to die he replied in a calm, emphatic
voice, " sm.' After the change for the worse
he sank too rapidly for much conversation. God
gave him beautiful hour in which to die. Low
ing relatives and friends surrounded his bed;
the hoy peace of the Sabbath was on every heart;
the slanting rays of the evening sun as they
pierced the gathering gloom in the chamber
where tho noble man lay dying seemed to speak
of "the far away home. of the blest" to which
his spirit was ready to wing its flight His bod
sleeps in lovely Elmweod Cemetery. h'- .ou, /.
at rest with God, and his "A. il anbs,%sa in
tne me dsaeiess msm VI the friend who miss his
a.s VYnl" again here below. A FRIEND.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

ONE OF The most mischievous results OF
American politics is the restless and
feyerish condition in which politicians
constantly live. One national or State
election is scarcely over before the "lead-
ers" begin to set their pegs ior another, to
make nominations and advance the inter
ests of their friends. That this tells
against political parties and politicians
there can be no doubt. The people,
anxious about the daily concerns of life,
need rest from the abnormal conditions
of unrest into which they are precipitated
by political campaigns, and they justly
look with suspicion upon the men who
seek to perpetuate this unrest and excite
mel,t on pleas wholly personal and purely
selfisb. Although the GubernatoTial
nomination, in this State is a year away,
and GOV Bate is only in the seventh
month of his second term, candidates are
already being trotted ont and slstes are
being made with view TO The aceommo-
datioa of cliques aud rings ana the per
etuating of the power OF certain ot tne
sbosses" Combinations are being made
with view TO tie United States Senator
ship, and arrangement" are being made
for the future in which the people have nc
part, and are only TO be consG'tec AT the
polls All this is wrong. 1t is uIss'eIno
cratic. and can only lead to mischievC"'
results, TO divisions and probable psr'y
defeat. What the people of Tennessee
need is rest from politics and an oppor'
tunity to give their whole time to theii
private affairs. Next year will be tiwt
pnOuUh 70 make nominations.
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THERE remains but one creditor in the
city of Memphis to be settled with by the
Taxing District. When this is done, as
there is reason to hope it will be very
soon, nothing will then interfere between
the people and their resumption of the
name Memphis" which, with all its
cinging memories, was put aside that they
might have time to adjust their aflairs, put
their house in order and settle with their
creditors on a basis that would be satisfac-
tory to them. The district has been borne
on the postofiiee rolls IS Memphis" and
the railroads have perpeiuated it by that
name, but legally it has been but Tax
ing District" Shall it "be nameless for
eyeTmore ?" Is it not the duty Of the people
to resume the name now SO historic just as
soon as the Legislature meets and an
enabling act can be had, or an amendment
to the act by which the district exists, SO
as to substitute "City of Memphis" " for
the Taking District OF Shelby County?''
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THE DEMENrED TRAGEDIAN.
Mccullough 10 he FOrmsI1y Adiudged
Lunatic ON Monday.

PHILADELPHIA, Pa, July 1S.-The
commission appointed to inquire into he
condition of the mind of John McCul-
lough, the demented tragedian, met
again to-day. The commission was to
have heard the testimony of the mem
bers of the family, but as the commits
sioners deemed that the testimony Of
others was sufficient to establish the in
sanity, they decided not to infiict any
pain upon his sorrow stricken relatives
by placing them on the stand in public
as witnesses. An affidavit made by
Walter Helm, of New York, swearing
that he had served on the actor personal
notice of the lunacy proceedings, was ad
mitted in evidence, aud the commission
then adjourned till Monday, when coun-
sci Tor the family will be examined. Mr..
Mccullough will then be formally ad-
,narad 1-ad lunatic, and the Guarantee
Trust and Safe ,H,,-,,nsit Company wall be
appointed as trustee of his estate.
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The Branch Prisons.

Nashville Union. July 18th: Col T. C.
Cain, superintendent of the peniten tiary,
returned yesterday from a several weeks
inspection tour of the different branch pris-
ons. He stated to Union reporter that
the sanitary condition of the prisons is
now excellent, and he extends an earnest
and cordial invitation to the people of
Tennessee to make visit of inspection.
He is anxious to have the members of the
press visit these prisons, and is ready at
any time to accompany them and afford
them every facility for making thorough
inspection. He is especially desirous that
representatives of those newspapers which
so vigorously condemned the conduct OF
his predecessor should make an examina-
tion of them. The Board of Prison In
spectors will make a tour of inspection
very shortly, and Col. Cain is anxious that
representatives of the press be present and
testify to the improvements in the conduct
of the branch prisons and their excellent
sanitary condition.
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II is pleasant to know that the APPEAL 8
suggestion that the Taxing District should
own the wsterworks and supply the peo-
pie with water meets with very general
approval, and by next year, and just be-
fore the Legislature meets in January, of
1887, plan is likely to be matured by
which pure and clear water may be pro-
cured. What the noted chemists, Klein
schmidt & Fahlen, say elsewhere about
the uncertainty Of Wolf river water en-
phasizes all that has been said against it,
and suggests the urgency that exists for
rapidly consummated reform. Pure, clear
water is essential even to passable sanitary
conditions, and Memphis must have it at
any cost, and plenty OF it, free as the air
we breathe, the costs and charges in pro-
curing and distributing it to be paid out
of the general tax levy for each year.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

THE nomination of John S. Wise for
Governor by the Republicans of Virginia is
hailed by the Democrats OF that State as an
augury of success in the coming campaign.
Mr.. Wiss is an able speaker but q very er-
ratio politician. He is neither consecutive
nor sequential in his methods, nor can he
be held down to any party platform. He
is siti geneiis, and must be himself or moth
ing, That he will make it lively foT his
opponents goes without saying, but he is
lust as likely to make it lively for his own
party by placing it in positions that even
the adroit Mahoae will find it difficult to
release it from. To begin with AS the Lynch
burg Trqinidn points out, the man who
boasted that he received the negro states
men of his party Through the back door
in his Kitchen" is to be commended to
those who constitute nine-teutbs OF the
voting strength OF that party, upon the rec
ord he maze before the SeRstoral Com-
mittee on the "Danville Massacre where
he, very un-Wisely, developed his method
of dealing with eolored statesmen at the
end Of a shotgun. Such man ought to
be easy to beat, and he will be beaten IL
only the Democrats make the best nomi-
nation possible on a wisel y arranged and
conservative platform, recognizing, espe-
cially, the rights of the States creditors.
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FEARFpLLY HOT.
BIistering Day In New York
A Number Of
Fatal Cases OF fsunstroke-The Mercury
Up to %.

New YORK, July 1S.-The weather here
to-day is suitry and close. The thermom-
eter at noon was 90O. 10 to that hour to-
day six cases of sunstroke were reported
The Health B oard reports that this week
there were 1919 deaths in the city, against
$40 in the corresponding week last year
OF this number, 395 were from Iiarrheaic
diseases; 6lS wefe children under five
years of age.
At 8 o'clock the thermometer registered
93' in the shade. Two additional sun
stroke cases were reported in this city, and
three on Long Island.
The highest point touched by the mer-
curry was 95', at $3.50 O'Clock pm. At
o'clo6 k pm. it registered 90', and at mid
night it was at the unusually high mark CT
790. The average temperature of the day
was 9430, against 7lio on the same day
| asst year. Since O'Clock twenty cases of
prostration have bes n reported. Five per-
IONS have died from the heat during the
day Five cases of prostration and one
death are recorded in Brooklyn since the
40 m q hour
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the camp. with direct wires to Kansas
City and Fort Reno, where Sheridan and
Miles are in hourly communication with
him night and day. Col. Morrow can thus
be advised of and anticipate any invasion
east of the caulp. ard move troops east by
rail, and SO get IN front OF the Indian ad-
vance. But should the Indians strike
north, on the Dodge City trail, or west of
there, they must make long detection
northwest, acd Col. Morraw's well-equip-
pei cavalry, moving inside the are the In
dams must describe, cnuld out-travel and
crush the Indians ere they get fairly off
their reservation, Tney would be surely
crushed and almost annihilated should
they strike any way, except West, and
there it is not thought they would go.
The CheyenDes number, according to the
opinions of militsry officers here, less than
1900 warriors. More than that many sol
diers are at this camp alone, or will be by
Sunday, who practically sleep on their
arms. Col. Morrow says it is rare that so
large United states force is assembled in
one camp. The Cheyennes appear to be
SO hemned in tonight thst an invasion in
northerly or northwesterly direction
would result in the absolute defeat and
all but destruction OF the Cheyennes' en-
tire force.
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THK war news bids fair to push the Pail
Nal Gazette's scandals aside, but it will
not prevent that paper from pushing its
inquiry, nor the distinguished commission
from probing the whole matter to the bot
tom. A letter from an "Old Roue" pre-
tends to give the origin of the beastly
business in a skating rink, but this is
doubtful. London has a large mixed
population, among which there are to be
found great many Orientalists and Le-
vantines, the latter, especially, noted for
fostering all those crimes against nature
which st. Paul inveighed AGAINST, as COM
mon on both sides of the Mediterranean,
and We have no doubt they have spread
their knowledge of these practices among
the rotten, salacious and time-kiliing
aristocracy. These crimes are but repe-
tition of the conditions that are INSOFAR
able from the vice and curse of idleness.
Without occupation, women as well as
men are, when within the reach of temp
tation, as grain ready for the sickle.
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WEST POINT, MISS.
An Enthusiastic Democrat OfClay tommy
Tor Fealhersto for Governor
[coRREspoNDEscE OF THR ArPEAL.l


WEST POINT, July fS.-To those who
arg familiar with the Organization Of
Clay county, it is well known that the
county was taken from Chickasaw, the
old home of Gen. Featherston, From
an intimate acquaintance with the citi-
zens of the county, | only express the
sentiment of the larger portion of them
when | say that there is no man whom
they would more cordially and enthusi-
astically support for Governor than W.
S. Featherston.
A Democrat of the Jeffersonian school,
with the highest order of craftsmanship
aud executive ability, he would make h
Governor of whom every 1Mississippian
would be proud: The writer has known
Gen. Featberston over 35 years, aud has
always been DEMOCRAT. 4.
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FIRED BY AN ELECTRIC SPARK.
The western Union Operating-Room at
Philadelphia Burned Out.

PHILADEI PH1A, July 1s.-A fire broke
out about o'clock this molning IN the
operating-room OF the Western Union
Telegraph Company, on the fourth floor of
the Mutual Life Insurance building, on
Tenth and Chestnut streets. In COM
paratively short time the entire room was
gutted, chairs. tables and instruments, in
Guiding duplex and quadrupleX instru-
ments of considerable value being de-
stroyed. A handsome and valuable
switchboard was also destroyed. Only
few operators were on duty at
the time, and after sending an alarm
they made a hssty escape from
the room. The prospects at noon are that
the company win befable in few hours to
handle business. The fire is supposed to
have been caused by an electric spark
carried into the Office on wire which had
come in contact with an electric light wire.
Many of the comBany's wires connecting
with other cities do not enter the main
office, but Work directly from the prin-
cipal office, az Third snd Chestnut streets,
and the business to that extent is there
fore not interfeTed with.
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THE AMEER's PROCLAMATION.

The proclamation of the Ameer of At
ghanistan, announcing the rsceiot by him
of the decoration of the star of India and
declaring that he was now entitled to aid
from the Indian army if necessary, was is
sued at Herat. The Ameer in his pro-
clamation ordered the illumination of
Herst to celebrate his investiture with the
order.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19
IHE MORMONS.
Gen, Howard Ordered 10 Keep Soldiers
in deadiness for Them,

OMAHA, NEB., July 1S.-Gen. How
ard, who recently wrote President Cleve-
land suggesting the possibility of hostile
demonstrations at Salt Lake by the Nor
mons, on their pioneers anniversary, on
the 9th instant, received a telegram
yesterday from the President, directing
him to keep all posts of the Western
Platte Department in full strength, and
prepared for any emergency that may
arise in Utah in the near future. Gen.
Hatch, with the Fifth Cavalry, will be
ordered to remain at Ogallala, ,sNeb., to
proceed by fast train to Salt Lake, if
necessary. The Sixth Infantry at Fort
Douglas, Utah, consisting of 800 men,
will be retained there and are considered
sufficient to guard against anything ex-
cent an organized outbreak.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

LONDON, July 1S.--This was the second
day of the Manchester July meeting. The
race for the July handicap was won by
Mr.. w. S. Arderson's four-year-old bay
colt, Hambletonian. Mr.. R. Jardenier's
three-year-old brown colt Beaumont was
second, and Mr.. r. Viner's three-year-old
bay filly Alb third. The last betting was
s to l against Hambletonian, to against
Beaumont, and z to l against Alb. Mr..
r. M. Biddulph's three-year-old chestnut
colt Orchid w:s the fsvorite at odds of
to 2 against him. There we're seven
startars
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

The recent decision OF the House of
Iorde, tie final court Of appeals in En-
ylsn,i. in the case of the Aylesford peer
ACE. has ,>ttracted great deal of attention
and has been tSe subject of much com
ment. The case br' Say stated is, that dur
ing her husbands absen,"a iq India with
the Prince of Wales, in 1875, Eedy Ayles-
ford ran away with the present Duke of
Marlborough, then the Marquis of Bland
ford. She never afterwsrd resumed
marital relations with her husband, yet
in November, 1881, gave biith to boy in
Paris, for whom she set up claim to the
title OF her husband, who died in Texas
last year; and she did this in the face of
the fact that the boy was registered in
Paris as the child of unknown parents.
With this registry before them snd the
antecedent facts the House Of Lords could
not do otherwise than it did in giving
the title and estates to the late
Earis brother. With them before us
it seems preposterous that Lady
Aylesford ever set up the claim or
found lawyers to prosecute it. But the
worst result of this trial is not the loss OF
the title for her child, but the blszoning OF
her own shame and compelling the lords in
deciding against her son to brand her as in
famous and proclaim her from one end of
the land to the other wicked wsnton.
But what will not q woman dare or en-
counter for q son or for the man she loves?
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BALDWIN. MISS.

Prentiss County Goes for Lowry, Sloan
and Harper
ESPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.
BALDWIN,, July 1a.-Primaries held to-
day in Prertiss county gives the county to
Lowry, Sloan ard Harper.
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Fire I'm the ,,,,uo,. n..,,.u,,.ry.

sr. LOUIS, July 1s.-A special to the
Post Dispatch from Joliet, Ill, says that
furious fire ragged within the walls OF the
State penitentiary at that PLACE al night;
Originating In the cooper shop, it spread
so rapidly sthst it soon Threatened to es
nm ali the wooden STRUCTURES in the enele =
sure. The fire got beyond the ..,u.rol oi
the prison FIRE apartment. The mayor
was called upon, and be promptly sent one
steamer to the aid of the prison authori-
ties.- At late hour this morning the fire
was sqbdued. The loes to the st to Ia at
least SIS, 900. ]. II. Wiuterbotham 4 Sons
contractors, lose $4,000. The prisoners
behaved heroically. The trustees worked
| like Tre JAMS in fighting the fire.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

Tax new president of Cornell univsr-
sity, Charles X, Adams, is the choice OF
Ex-President White, whom the trustees
requested to make the selection to fill the
place he had Just vacated. He was for
many years connected with Michigan
University, where he enjoyed very ine
repuSstion for ripe scholarship aud cul-
ture. But cloud overhangs that reputs-
ton that Prof. Adams has never been able
to clear away. About ten years ago he
published & volume OF essays, which fell
uuder the notice Of one Of the critical con-
tributors of the New York Nation, who not
only charged him with bareisoed plagiar-
ism, but proved It by the puhieata0n OF
extracts from those essays SIDE by side
with the originals SIS found in the works of
De Toequeville. Laufray and Buckle. This
showed that be had appropriated whole
pages without any credit introduction,
foot-note or explanation OF any kind. To
these charges Prof. Adams replied that
he had read Buckle when the latter's
works were Grst brougbt to this country.
and took oopious notes tberefrom on the au-
thorities TO which he bad referred. These
notes he had freely used in collecting his
library and making Ais researches. Re-
garding an especially fisgrant appropri-
alton from De Tocqulyille he said that he
had read the Frenih writer studiously,
and supposed that be must have used the
passage in question without thinking of its
source. The trutf is that Prof Adams
presumed upon tho ignorance Of his read
ers and his critics, and took the chances =
in the hope thai he would not be fonsd
out. Like mang others, both men and
women, who pos for ability and culture
he wanted 10 achieve reputation without
The trouble of thought or work. There il
much of that sort OF thing iadulged II
nowadays, a great deal Of it in social life
bnt the people who 30 indulge Themselves
are like a certain animal who, posing OF
a certain occasion for other than he was
left his eas uncovered, and 50 gave him
self awaf.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-07-19

Col. Knally, chairman of the Imperial
and American Club, entertained Consul
General Weller and the American con-
sulate staff at dinner this evening. Earl
Dunraven, Stephen P. Nash and j. G..
Meigs have joined the committee. The
club building contains forty bedrooms,
which are kept at the disposal of the Amer
ican members, and which can be engaged
by telegraph upon arrival in Europe.