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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-02-20

Toe -. Francis River transportation
Co. = Fine Sids-W heel U 3. Mall Steamer
Reqe MaCready, -
U. X. Joplin .......,........,, a. aster,
WILL LEAVE MEMPHIS EVERN
TUESDAY,
at o'clock, for Msrienns, thu Cut-0h, and
intermediate landings on 50. Francis river.
The, captain reserves tho right to gassIl
landings he deems unsafe. JAS. LEE, il
Srnn-lrierdsut nfhce. No, Madison st.
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BANK STOCKS.

The first column we give the price bid
and in the second the price asRed.
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Goa IROnlA,

E. T, ClaEett 90. mastor | Platt Rhodos, .clsrE
"WEDNESDAY and FRIDAY, at 8 O'Clock,
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FOR CAIRO AND ST. LOUIS.
FOR NEW ORLEANS.
ET g Lee IN n,

All brlEsOm u., master,
Will leave as above SATURDAY, Pob. Goth,
Freight for all way landings will be received
at ELEVATOR, For general information ap-
ply at 3 Madison 1t. Call Telephone No. 81.
II O. LOWE, Agent.
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DEAN ADAMS.

For Randolph, Fulton. 0lceola and War
laudinrg-StBamor
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FINANCE.

Money in good demand at s per cent.
DC clearinghouse report lis as follows:
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easy, and close Lice lower, with goo
demand. Sales, l0,2 bales.
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New York futures opened weak, and
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04
A MONTH I'm SEARCH OF WORK
IN A FREE.TRADE LAND.

Aug. 9, 1851 left London and
walked to Luton, thirty miles.
Aug. 10.-Inquired at foundries
next morning, but was told that they
had no work for their own men, and
then walked on to Bedford and re-
ceived the same answer as at Luton,
and being very short of money began
to think of returning. but was told
might get work at Northampton, so
walked on to Northampton, and
found on arriving there that my
funds amounted to 1O1d., after hay.
ing only one meal that day.
Aug. 11.-Inquiring at the foun-
dry next morning, but found that
they did not want any hands, so l
determined to walk on to Birming-
ham, and having no money walked
on all night.
Aug. 12.-Arriving in Birming-
ham quite wet. went to the Free
Library to see the papers, but found
no places vacant, that would suit me,
so made inquiries in town as to trade,
but was told that trade was as bad
as it had been for the last three years,
and now that my money was all
gone, and having no food all day,
began to look around for the means
OF a night shelter, but could only
raise 21d., so slept in an unfinished
building till morning.
Aug. 13-17.-Being determined to
find work if possible staid in the
town for five days, being without
food for two days, and sleeping in an
clubhouse three nights, living during
that time on a few pieces of bread
that l begged.
Aug. 1S.-Seelng that there was
no work to be had in Birmingham,
| then went to Burton on Trent, and
there | had a shilling given to me
by some men at the foundry, and
one of them took me to house and
paid for my bed, so that / had good
supper and breakfast.
dug. I9.-I then walked to Derby,
but found that they were as short of
work there as anywhere else.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

Democratic inconsistency IS well
displayed in the Marion county
election. In 1882 the returns from
a district giving a Republican ma
jority were thrown out by the Dem
ocratic county court because Of de-
fects in the certificates, and Foun.
tain Smith was thereby declared
elected to State Senate over Furbee.
At the late election the very same
error was committed in making the
returns from two districts in that
county giving Democratic ma.
jorities. To follow now the pre-.
cedent set by the court in 1882,
composed identically of the Same
men, they should have thrown ont
the returns Of the two districts
making unlawful and defective
returns; but to do so would elect
Flick to Congress and give the Re
publicans another member OF the
Legislature. This the court refuses
to do, but had the defects in the re-
turns corrected and proceeded to
count them. No baser prostitu-
ton of the law TO partisan purposes
was ever committed in the history
of elections than has been perpe-
trated by the county court Of
Marion county, and the people will
no doubt put their seal OF concem-
nation upon their illegal action by
burying the whole lot SO deep at the
next election that there viii be
no possible resurrection Grafton
Eagle.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04
A General Taste for Mutton.

(" We all like sheep, !" the tenors shrill
Begin, and then the church is still,
While back and forth across the aisle
Is seen to pass the S catching smile"
:. We all like sheep" the altos moan
In low and rich and mellow tone
While broader grows the merry grin
And nose gets further off from chin.
/" We all like sheep the sopranos sing
Till all the echoes wake and ring;
The young folks litter, and the rest
Suppress the laugh in bursting chest.
" We all like sheep. the bassos growl.
The litter grows INTO how'll
And cen the deacon 5 face is graced
With wonder at the singers taste.
/" We all like sheep. " runs the refrain.
And then, to make the meaning plain,
The singers all together say
We all, like sheep, have gone astray.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

Persian prohibition prohibits,
swiftly and decisively. The women
of Teheren went few weeks ago in
a body to the Kings palace, and
complained that the coffee shops (of
which an extraordinary number have
been opened lately took away their
husbands from their work and their
home duties, causing them to spend
all their money in smoke and drink.
The Shah ordered that all the coffee
houses in the capital should be clos.
ed. Closed they were and closed
they remain. The next day the
royal edict went forth that all the
provincial coffee houses should be
closed. They, too, are all shut up.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

The genuine patriot, as a rule,
dies poor-the man who gives his
best days unseltishly to his country
has little to bsqueath to his family
when he dies but an untarnished
name. Many of our great men have
died in humble circumstances, and
the news comes that Gladstone's
pecuniary condition is uncomforta-
BILE. 1t is unfortunate that, after all
he has done for his country, he is
not at least moderately well off,
Albert Gallatin, once Secretary of
the United States Treasury, said he
could not afford to make money and
die rich. How many of such states
men are there now in the public SER
vicef
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

For twelve years Iowa has been
agitated by the famous calf case that
has just been decided in the court
and the verdict set aside. The par
ticnlars are these: Twelve years ago
Mr.. Potter purchased five calves
from a Mr.. johnson, but as they
turned out to have been stolen John
son was prosecuted by the " Anti
Horse Thief Association" He was
acquitted and at once sued seven
members. The case has been tried
five times, and each time except
one, Johnson was awarded damages
from $4,000 to $500. Last week
the verdict was set aside. The total
court costs amount to $4,000, and
the expense on both sides aggre-
gates $4,000. Several men have
been bankrupted. The question
has gotten into the church and into
politics and there is hard telling
what the end of the trouble will be.
The calves we're only worth 800
En-.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

How unenviable must be the posi-
ton of the Car of Russia when he
suspects his own soldiers as assas-
sins. Alexander is represented as
IN frenzy Of fear at all times. He
cannot trust any one, not even his
most confidential advisers or his
body guard. Alexander the Great,
the Greek who believed he had con-
quered the world, turned his suspi-
cion and his rage on his best gen.
erals, some of whom he slew in
drunken anger, believing they were
his foes. The Russian Alexander,
while not as good a soldier as the
Grecian, is said to be as fond OF
drink and as needless a mailman as
the latter. Truly, uneasy lies the
head that wears a crown these days.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

The three days storm Of week be-
fore last on the great lakes increases
in its results as the news comes in.
Thirty-slx vessels foundered, eleven
gone to pieces, 100000 lost, and
forty-seven, and perhaps sixty, men
drowned, form a record that Is
seldom equaled in this country.
Two of the Aldermen of New
York city, in 1884. when the Broad
way Elevated Railway charter was
granted, have confessed that they
received $4,000 each to vote for 1T,
and that eleven others did the same.
Their evidence was taken for the
State last week, in the trial of AL
derman McQuaide, for a like
offense. They turned States
evidence to save themselves from
prosecutions.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

Charles Francis Adams died in
Boston on Sunday, Nov. 21st. He
was a son of John Quincy Adams,
the sixth President of the United
States and grandson of John Adams
the second President. He was born
August, 1907, and filed many impor-
tant public positions, serving in the
legislature OF his State and in Con-
gress. In 1S4S he was one of the
organizers of the Free Soil y party
and ran as its candidate for Vice
President. During President LIN
coins administration, he was Minis
ter at the English Court, and with
rare wisdom and tact met the inter
national complications growing ont
of the rebellion. He subsequently
was appointed arbitrator at the Go
neva tribunal on the Alabama
claims. For the last few years he
had been in bad health.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04
It is to this abuse Of the ballot that

1t is to this abuse of the ballot that
all our bad laws and harmful legisla
ton may be traced, and we can only
approximate perfection in govern
mentuntil a more serious and thought
full regard is paid to a right which is
one of the most important secured to
us under our political system, where
the people are the government.
Aud yet there is still more wick.
ed disregard of the ballot and the
sanctities which should surround il
"a still greater peryersion of its
mission, than that we have mention.
ed. 1t is the systematized efforts to
control 1t by force, by bribery, and
by fraud. 1t is not an uncommon
thing to see at the polls men, hav.
ing deposited with them this high
privilege, pulled and hauled about
by designing and corrupt tricksters
and strikers, bull.dozed and coerced,
cajoled and coaxed and all the
methods the ingenuity Of desper.
ate partizans could devise, used
to make them vote against their in
tentions and wishes. We have seen
free white men approached and their
tickets snatched from their hands
and torn up and others placed in
their stead and taken up by the arm
or showed up from the rear to depos.
it them. We have known men to
be threatened with the loss of EN-
ployment and the means of support
for themselves and families, if they
dared to cast the ballot they prefer
red, and thus express their convic
lions and maintain the dignity of the
privilege they were empowered to
exercise, and we have known intelli
gent men, who would scorn a dis
honest act in business or a discredit
able advantage in trade, use the
power the accident of fortune gave
them to degrade the ballot by com
pelllng their less fortunate neighboI
to vote for what he did not wish.
And we have known them boast OF
such achievements and gloat over
the success effected in prostituting
the right to vote to such influences
1t is evidence of the decadence OF
public virtue when such things are
looked upon with lenient or approx.
ing eye or tolerated by public senti-
ment, and the prOofof danger to our
institutions when the depository OF
their power and the source of their
existence, are thus invaded with cor.
rupt and debased purpose. 1t is,
indeed, the duty of every citizen to
guard with jealous eye the ballot,
and frown down ali attempts to di.
vert it from its Office Of expressing
the freeman's will and recording his
honest convictions. 1t is only through
an honest ballot that good govern.
ment can be vouchsafed. Not to
recognize and defend it is a crime
against Republican institutions, and
he is an enemy of his country, wheth-
er he knows it or not, who would
deliberately prostitute it to selfish,
partizan ends, regardless of the
principles and policies it should in.
dicate.-V VALLEY Virgiaian.
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

Big sister shouting to Bobby
" Bahbee you are wanted to do an
Grand" Bobby Shouting back
" Tell mother 1 can't do it now: Pm
busy Big sister" It's not mother
who wants you; it's father" Bobby
(hastily)-" All right.-Tell him I'll
be there in a minnteD
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

"Uncle Zeke, did you go to the
poultry exhibit yesterday ~ "No,
Massa Jones, coundn't span de
time" "But l thought you we're
fond of chickens 7" $50 is, Massa
Jones, but de fac is | was afreed to
trust myself dar. 1t afiecs me
powerful to see dem air birds in
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04
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1t is guaranteed to give perfect satisfac-
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

"You see," said an English gen.
tleman, who was handling his
dinner with a wonderful appetite, to
Scotchman dining at the same
table, :" take a great deal of but.
ter to my fish," "Ay," said the
Scotchman, Gan deevilish deal
dish to your butter, too!v
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

A Chinaman speaking to himself
as he irons shirt, picks up shirt
showing evidence of having been
we'll cared for, and says: "Bache-
lor. Him landlady fix him." Picks
up another, buttonless and all
frayed at the wrists and neck, and
says: Mailed man,
Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04
THE LIFE OF LINCOLN

By HIS Confidential Secretaries, John G..
Nicolay and Col. John Hay.
This great work, begun with the sane
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POETRY.
DREAMS.

Nay Let them dream their dream of
perfect love:
It is the sweetest feeling, the most fair,
This fiower-like joy that blooms in the
soft air
OF Youths bright heart. with Hope S
blue heaven above.
Breathe nought of disenchantment do
not bring
Misgiving to the bliss of blended souls.
The while Life's trimming river gold
en- rolls
Through primrose-lighted uplands of the
Spring.
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In the dim kindling buds of dreams
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A fiuttering pulse within Times brok-
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the world.
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Our lowland eyes that yearn and
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And to the isle-like mists that round
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And to the moon and to the morning
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Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1886-12-04

Simon Cameron Wilson, mayor of
Harrisburg, Pa, died Saturday.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-07-30
AFRAID TO MEET THE ISSUE.

The Beck bill, prohibiting members OF
Congress from acting as attorneys for land
grant railroads is to be defeated, evidently,
: by L. prnoesa-rsf rbohing IL " 2ea& - Az
introduced The measure was entirely unob-
jectionable to honest men who were not In
the corporation employ. To make any &C.
ton exceedingly doubtful the committee to
which the bill was referred has reported
back three substitutes, in the consideration
of which it is expected that the Senate will
become so hopelessly muddled that none of
them will be favorably PASSED upon.
II there is any purpose on the part Of the
eminent corporation lawyers on the Judi
ciary Committee to put stop to the scan.
dalous practice by members Of Congress of
serving corporations, whose interest they
must frequently consider in an official ca.
pacity, they would have agreed to the Beck
bill, which is simple and to that point. Not
having any such desire they have scattered
in their advocacy of three bills, the one hav.
Ing the support of the majority being SC
stringent in its terms as to invite and merit
defeat. and, beyond doubt, desgnedly so.
MIR. Beck will not have the pleasure Of
seeing his bill become law, but he must
take not little satisfaction in the fact that
he has stirred up his fat.pursed brethren
more successfully than anybody else since
the days Of Cakes Ames.
Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1886-07-30
HE SEN TIN Ell.
ROCK WILLIE. MD.
Friday Morning...-......July 80. 1881
STILL NO ACTION.

Since 1876 the Democratic party has with
great regularity every two years promised
the country reduction Of taxation and a
revision and reformation of the tariff
With the exception of only two years it
has had large majority in the House OF
Representatives during all OF this time, and
yet itnas not succeeded in taking single
ste, in advance.
There are in the country great many
ardent tariff reformers who make speeches,
publish newspapers, write books, and In va
rious other ways seek to impress upon the
people the desirability Of changing the ex-
listing laws. In the East there are many
free-trade clubs and not few organizations
of manufacturers devoted to the same ends
and throughout the West there are many
men belonging to both ofthe old parties who
are morally certain that they are being
robbed every day of their lives to maintain
some tariff nabob in princely style What
are all these people going to do about it p
Are they to keep on crying out against the
inequality of protection and submit humbly
to whatever indignity the two great politi-
cal organizations see fit to put upon them.