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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

makes some Of the most astonishing
and incorrect statements in regard TO
liquor traffic and drunkenness in
Maize.
] have been living for over a year
and q ha in one OF the towns Of
Maine OF about 5000 inhabitants. This
is what / have teen and known the
records of my own personal observa-
ton and experience:
There are on the street, within one
minutes walk OF each other and as
near the station, three grog sbops,
and suspect four others, two hotels
and four Drug torres, whsre liquor is
cold by the glsss.
i WIS walking by ore OF tie grog
shops before l had been here three
months, when two men just going in
turned aud raid t. me: "Won't oC
come 10 and take drink" | was
unknown to them and they to NE.
Thus openly is liquor sold here, a nd
yet for years they have had temper
ance Mayor, Reform Club and Law
aud Order Usage. 1t is no unusua al
thing to seq men staggering drunk on
the street, and on pub ic occasions the
sac of liquor is inc ca ed.
1t is a great mistake 10 make the
tsmp question an element in
po'it c., for by 60 doing it has 10 suffer
from the political co'ruptions. / am
nvinced the law could be mora ef-
fectively enforced were it not used as
TOOL by and in the interest OF poll
ticians aud parties.
l lived for short time near a town
in Massachusetts where local option
prevailed. TIE Inhabitants having
yo.ed no licenTe at the town meeting,
the prohibitory law went into effect
for year. During that year the num-
her OF grog shops increased from
twelve to fourteen, and the following
year the no'license was carried by an
overwhelming majority, the rum
sellers themselves voting for prohibit
ton, saying there vera no restrictions
aud no taxes and high prices for poo
whisky under the prohlbitoiy law.
In conclusion, would draw atten
ton TO these three statements, which
believe to bs incontestably true:
FiIst-Public sentiment can DE-
moro than law to regulate the liquol
traffic.
Second-Only public fentiment car
enforce the prohibition law, and pub
lie sentiment is not with that law; for
manifestly, prohibition doss not pro
hibi'.
Third-The prohib;to,y law does no
educate public sentiment, but onl.
demoralzes IT,
A CLERGYMAN IN MAINE.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

Of the club are all agreeable, its pleas
ant hours tighten the toll OF the day
and soothe the worry Of life. Sure Of
an agreeable evening, such as will bear
the mornings reflection, the toiling
artisan and the tired tradesman find
the social comfort Of the club more at
tractive than the debauch Of the
liquor saloon. Such institutions do
not drive and force with unsympathiz.
ing sternness, but win to temperance
by what is attractive and agreeable.
The gentle leadings Of love are better
than the bitterness OF hsrsh force.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
An Old Citizen Of Atlanta, Ga.

By the recommends ion of Rev. @. G. Da-
severe chronic case Of Indigestion, palpita-
ton aud irregu ar action Of the heart, with
constipation and biliousness. 1 also sut-
fered greatly with gravel and great pains in
the back and kidneys. much Of the time un-
able 10 stand alone. / was treated BY m amy
physic ans and used many remedies, but got
no relief. DR.. MoEley's Lemon Elixir alone
has made a perftct cure Of all these diseases.
/ am now we'll NAN. My wife has for many
years suffered greatly with conttipation and
sick headaches, from which she could get 40
rslief. The Lemon Elixir has permanently
cur,d her. A; @. ARNOLD,
% Ella street, Atlanta, Ga.
Sold by druggists. SO cents and 81 co per
bottle. Prerared by H. Motley, MD, At
lanta, Georgia.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
LITTLE ROCK, ARK.
A YOUNG MAN KILLED BY LIGHT
MING AT CADDO GAP.
Negro Train Wrecker Sentenced to
the Penitentiary for Ten Years
The Cobb Failure.
lsPECIAL TO THE APPEAL.I

LITTLE Rock, ARK, August "A
summers G oud, accompanied with
thunder and lightning, pssged over
Caddo Gap, Montgomery county, this
Safe, LAST Monday, ana caught WILL
lam l. Jackp, a young man 81 years of
age, on his horse EN- route to neigh
borhood store, whittier he was gong
on business He was on horseback,
and seeing an inviting mu berry tree
in an old field, he TOOK refuge underi's
broad branches. While there both he
and his horse were killed in the
twinkling Of al eye by AFT Ssh oflight-
ming tbat also seemed 10 be seeking
refuge in the same lovely place. H 8
aged father and mother were not
alarmed when the boy d d not return,
b1t supposed he had gone TO
visit some friends. No one had
thought If the one who had been so
quickly hurle d from time to eternity
till the following evening, when a
lady Glanced to bo passing through
the field and discovered the horrible
sight He was still in the saddle with
his right leg under the horse and both
fest in the stirrups, and grasping his
bride rein in one hand and his UNI
brela staff in the cher, and his
othes rent from his body. Caddo
Gap is far in the interior and COM
munication with the outside world is
as slow as it wss before the Gays Of
the telegraph.
MICRO TRAIN WRECKER SENTENCED,
Information reached here today
from Malvern, Ark, to the fleet that
John Williams, the negro train
wrecker arrested in that town some
four months ego, for obsiructing the
track of the Iron Mountain road and
endapgering the lives of hundreds Of
souls, the purpose being robbery, has
been found guilty az charged and SEN
fenced to ten years hard labor in the
Arkansss penitentiary. Williams will
be tried on Monday on an indictment
for murder, committed six months
ago at Hot Springs. He il a bad Gus
toner. His accomplice in the effort
to wreck the Iron Mountain train,
Hunter by name, who is also negro,
made his escape.
THE COBB FAILURE.
The la-ge machinery firm of R. L.
Cobb q Co, of this city, which ss-
signed late yesterday at erloon, made
the following preferred creditors;
Fred L. Hanger ia the assignee; Rat
cliff & Fletcher, $3.50; James Broddie,
s31 81; II. d. MCGOWAN, $102 So; L.
B Glib on, Ss3 80; Standard Foundry
Company, sos 60; Chapman Valve
Manufacturing Company, $40; EN-
IN, Smith & Co, $4l5 80; ]. w.
Cardwell & Co., s92 So; J. E. Burk,
SOL IS; Plrer Manufacturing Com.
pany, $3.50; William Dsering & Co.,
s94 So; American White Br1rze Com
psny, $21 05; Springfield G a and
Emery Company, $32 Al; American
Paper Pulley Company, 81 %; G. w.
Wiemap, $lS; L II. Mandel & Co.,,
ST. %; W. H. II. Cantwell, $1,000 Ger,
man National Bank, s3400. Most oil
the creditors reside here. Liabiit ea,
$1,000, which ave fully covered by
ass cts. The failure is due 10 the dull.
ness OF trade.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
THE oLnoMARsARuNE FARCE.

"Man ia his time pays many
rart1;" 30 does Cjngyess, In the
oleomargarne bill it played pretty
broad farce, unless it was pretty deep
gsm9, l. was declared in weighty
speecheI delivered IN Congress that
oleomsrSarne is a pestiferous sub
stance ma 10 out OF candle gre SO, axle
grease and other vile substances unfit
for humn tooI. Yet Corg'es4 did
not interdict the sale OF the UNIV hole
some compound, provided the seller
pays a tax of . cents a pound for the
privilege Of promoting disease by sell
ing poisonous ford. This food was
declared to b. an imitation OF bn,tsr,
but altogether didersnt from and in
ferior 10 that wholesome and sslutaIy
article. With ali this difference aud
inteiiority, the introducer Of
the oleomGgarine bill declares
that where there is State law
prohibiting the sale OF oleom 'rearine
OR butter, ut is extremely difficult,
often impossible, to execute it, by
reason OF the fact that limitations Of
butter made in neighboring States
could come across the border unchal-
lenRed, ami only chemical analysis
could detect the fraud" Who but a
Congressman would think 1t neces-
sSry to tax oleomargSrine as poison
Gus, when only chemical analysis can
can discover any diff sTencs between IL
and sweet, wholesome dairy buIterP
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
Advice 10 Mothers.

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup
should always be used when children
are cutting teeth. II relieves the little
sufferers at once; it produces natural,
quiet sleep by relieving the child
from pain, and the little cherub
awakes as "bright as a button" 1t is
very pleasant to taste. 1t soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all
pain, relieves wind, regulates the
bowels, and is the best known remedy
for diarrhea, whether arising from
teetbing or other causes. Twenty
FIVE cents q bottle.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

SENATOR EDMUNDs doubts il the
r pubic ms Cal carry the next House
ard is not cersain that it would be any
advan age for them to do so, which
10 ks like ciss # sour grapes. He
also thinks there is a good future for
the Republican party, but that its
chances Of e'ectirg the next President
depend upon whom they nominate. II
they will 90 West, he says, land select
rome good, ce n, upright man, with
an honest record upon financial ques
tions, a mau above reproacb, the
chances for The Republicans electing
their candidate will be, / should say,
seven out of ten." Apparently he has
not yet become rsconciled to Mr..
Blaine,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
Gnitinr Sentenced

ST. LOUIS, Mo-, Auaust THE Ell
Paso correspondent of The Globe Demo.
crdt telsgrapns tonight that sentence
was pronounced on Cutting this even
irg 1t is one years imprisonment at
hard labor and $500 fine. If be can
not pay the fine he will have to serve
100 days longer. Medina, who caused
all the trouble, has cave to sus Gut
ting in a civil suit for damages. The
question of ceDsurirg the American
Consul, Brigham, ana asking for his
removal is referred to the Supreme
Court st Oh huahua. Cutting viii
probably be hurr ed off to prison at
Chihuahua tonight.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

REPORTS from Clarke county, Mo,
say the farmers of that section are ex-
per encing scare on account Of the
appearance OF u ma ady among their
cattle hat is generally at ended with
ia al result. 1t is thought to he the
disease known as Texas fever, and to
have been introduced among the cattle
in that vicinity by the importation Of
a lot OF youns Texan cattle that were
shipped inio the county recently by a
stock Grm near WayIand. Ole farmfr
is reported to have lnet fifteen head,
while o hers have suffered smell, +
losses, This seciln suffered severely
fiom a similar sc)urge about five years
ag,, and the itrming community is
terribly Harmed at the rea 9pes,apce
Of the ma ady.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
CUTTING SENTENCED.
One Years imprisonment and Six
Hundred Dollars Fine.

LAREDO, TEX, August IA detach.
ment of 400 Mt x'csn troops arrived in
Nuevo Laredo, Mex, last night. They
are pr ncipally infantry and artillery,
and brought two cannon with them.
They have placed the cannon so as to
command Fort Mcintosh, on the Tex
as eide Of the Rio Grande, and have
been noticed taking observations from
their position oil day. Considerable
indignation is expressed by Americans
at the arrival Of these troops, and this
action on the part of the Mexicans
does not augur we'll for peaceful solu-
ton of the present difficulty.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
"Our RabY,n Firnt Year.r

by Marion Harlaud, with other yalua-
bic information; forty.eight page BOOK.
Sent free on receipt Of 2 cent stsmp.
Address Reed & Carnrick, Mercantils
Exchange Building, New York City,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
Preparing for an Emergency.

GARDEN Cry, KAs., August IA
full volunteer battery Of two guns and
forty men was organized here today in
view of possible hostilities with Mexi.
CO. Its services will be rendered to
President Cleveland on Monday.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08
THE ILLINOIS CENTRAL.
A POLICY WHICH WILL MEET
WITH APPROVAL.
Hundreds of ExcursisDists Leaving
for Chicago, Taking AdVant.
age of the Cheap Rate.

About 1900 people have taken adj
vantage Ct the SO rae % Chicsgo. Pat
of them went by way of the Kansas
City road ard the remainder by the
Chel apsake and Ohio to Fol'on, thence
over the Ill n ia GENIAL. There were
800 de arturo by the latter ronte last
night. Hundreds of the excursionists
are dsrkies, thiug exceedingly un-
usual where the distance is go great.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

B. LowENsTRIN & BRe'. willcontinue
their Wholesale business in the Clay
Buildings until their new SO re is built.
SsThscrtbe Cor the "ADp eAl.'
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-08-08

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The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The Flagstaff Champion thus notices some improvements being made by General Manager Bull winkle, of the Arizona Cattle Com pany. It says he received from the East large lot of telephone wire, which is to be used in constructing & telephone line from Flagstaff to Fort Rickerson, the headquarters of the company. From that point the line will run to La Rue Springs, Hart's and their winter range. When completed the company will be in communication, by wire, with each of their different ranches and thereby save the expense of having to send Q courier to those points when business requires.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The Hoof and Horn discourses as follows about 8 former celebrity about St. Johns, known as Loco Tom: Tom Lucky, a sporting gen. tleman of unlucky procliyities, who has been jay-hawking the boys about Socorro, has been pulled ur in Arizona. on the charge of having stolen bunch of six horses from Patterson & McGee, and other numerous parties in Socorro coun' ty. There are some stock evils that are not traceable to the Indians and MT. Lucky will probably wish he were an Apache, with all the world to roam in, before he again enjoys the freedom of the country.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The cowboy" is no recent inven- ton. If We read the writings of Moses, the historian, correctly, there were cowboys" in the land of Canaan long before 'the rowdy west" was discovered. We thlnk that Abram and Lot had ranches there, "and there was a strife be- tween the herdsmen of Abrams cattle and Lots cattle" That is the way Moses reported it for the daily press in those days, but should such thing occur here in Wyo- ming to-day the eastern newspaper dudes would come out with four line pica headlines something like this: Terrible battle among the cowboys p Abrams cow-punchers and Lots bull-whackers get into 8 racket and shoot each other so full of holes that their hide won't hold straww "Abe and Lot arbitrate, and the latter gets up and dusts for the plains of Jordon where there is plenty of buffalo grass !" That is about the way the morning dailies would dish it up now. Even old Saul was ranchman. and Deg, an Edomite from Indiana, was fore man and had a regiment of cow boys in charge. Amos was cow boy in Syria, and Moses himself at the roundup in Egypt. Joel the cowboy got sad and had the jim jams because the grass dried up on his Zion, and Isaac was "cattle king" in Gerar. So it will be seen that the profession of cowboy has been an honorable one from away back.-Rowdy West.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Mir. Pryor, of Austin, in an in- terview published in the Dallas News, speaking of Col. J. w. Dwy- CTS recent purchase of one and two- year-old heifers, said that the stock papers, all over the west, had un- justly assaulted MT. Dwyer for talk ing these cattle to New Mexico, the papers referring to the cattle as a nerd of "sand-lappers" and "do- gies" which MT. Dwyer was using his official position to get into New Mexico, at the risk of infecting all the cattle in the territory. Mir. Pryor asserts that San Saba county where these cattle were purchased is far removed from the coast, and if there is county in the state that ought to be free from even a suspicion of infection, it is San Saba.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The inducements to engage in cattle raising in this country seve- ral years ago was so great, says the Chicago Times, that eleven compa. nies, with q capital of $20,OOO,OO0
 were organized in England. They own now 672, ,013 head of cattle and lease or own 2, 3,319,O82 acres of land in the west. In 1883 one of these companies paid dividends amount ing to POI per cent, but for two years past they have paid only 1C per cent. The rate of return is now very low, and the whole business seems to have suffered 8 serious de- terioration. Of nine of these Brit ish American companies in 1885
 one paid 2 per cent, one $, two 5
 one 4, and four paid nothing at all
 Last year there were nearly 50.OOO,' 900 head of cattle in the country,
 and one of those British compa' nies owned only 672,013 acres ai noted above. The reason for the decline of profits is in part due to the acton of the President, who ob
 liged owners to vacate public lands and pay for their grass. Besides
 in the year 1885 the yield of calves was behind that of the year before The chief reason for the decline il dividends is the smaller selling
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

G. D. Cook, of Prescott, accom-. panied by A. R. Eylar and J. Miller from Phoenix and Big Bug, Arizona says the Albuquerque Democrat passed through the city this morn. ing for Kansas City. They had in charge a whole train load of fat Texas cattle, the property of Mir. Cook, and as the market is very firm in the Chicago of the west al this time, big money will undoubt. edly be realized for the stock.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Wm. Munds, says the Flagstaff Champion, one of ,he largest cat tlemen in Northern Arizona, is wis iting our mountain city on business connected with his cattle interests Mir. Munds has two as fine stock ranges as are to be found anywhere One is situated about twenty miles south of here, and is what is called his summer range. The other, ol winter range, is on Oak Creek and the Verde river. He reports the rodeo as only about commenced or the mountains, and says that the calf crop this year exceeds that ot all previous ones.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

the Dragons and thence in the di- rection of the Graham Mountains. They had not prepared themselves with water, and as the trail took them through an unwatered coun- try, Mir. Logan became prostrated from thirst and heat. They finally reached Mir. Towards place at Winchester, and after resting there for 8 day, Mir. Logan came to Will cox, being still in 8 weak condi- ton. MT. Roberson continued on the thief's trail, with prospects good for overhauling him.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Some Mexican troops had a fight with the hostiles last week nea, Magdalena, Sonora, says the Will. cox Stockman, and succeeded ir killing one squaw and recovering the niece of A. L. Peck, who was captured at the time Peck's wife and child were killed about two months ago. The girl, who is g Mexican, aged twelve years, is now at Magdalena.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The Tucson Star is authority for the statement that the late Indian raid through Pima county has alarmed the people in the vicinity of Salero to such degree that 8 number of them have left for the north. George Garnett and James Johnson's families passed through Tucson yesterday bound for Pres colt. Others have brought their families to this city.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The sale of a large block of the bonds of the Arizona Mineral Belt railroad, says the Tombstone Dem ocrat, to an eastern syndicate, in. sures the early construction of sev- enty-fve miles of that line, which will bring it through 8 magnificent timber belt to a point near the Tonto Basin.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The Hoof and Horn says Zeigel Bros. cattle at Navajo Springs are in splendid condition. No stock could have wintered finer. The in creaee has far exceeded their ex. pectations. By constant care and watchfulness no losses have been sustained worthy of note.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Berry Gatewood returned from Arizona yesterday. He says it has rained some in the northeastern corner of the territory, but that oth- CT portions of the territory are dry as a powder house, and destitute of both grass and water, and the out look is gloomy in the extreme. Ge- ronimo and his band of Apaches are ravaging the country, murder ing, robbing, stealing, burning and
 otherwise having a time that par. takes largely of the nature of a savage picnic, and Gen. Miles and his soldiers don't amount to a fly on a bulls horn. In the first place the country is so dry that an expe' dition against the Indians is out ot the question, and in the second place, if they could go in pursuit
 the Indians would escape into the mountain fastnesses.-Dallas News
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

J. c. Saint, of the Acoma Cattle Company, having a range in North ern Arizona, recently purchased $500 head of stock cattle in Chi huahua, which will soon be ship ped into the Territory. They will be taken off the cars at Grant sta- tion, on the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad.-Wilcox Stockman.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

It has been asserted that print ing is not a healthy business, and that one of it's chief ailments is lead poisoning. I can testify to this from personal knowledge. A friend of mine once started a pa. per out in Arizona some years ago, and he had not been running six months before he died from lead
 poisoning. It was a 44-caliber Smith & Wesson in the hands of a wild-eyed miner which caused the attack. It was fatal and he has been dead ever since.-Peck's Sun.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Wm. Garland, whose range lies between St. Johns and Woodruff on the Little Colorado river, is report ed to have sold all his beef cattle at 34 cents per pound to Farr & Jackson, butchers of Albuquerque, to be delivered at Williams, on the line of the Atlantic & Pacific rail road.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

Says the Florence Enterprise: A report comes from the San Pedro to the effect that several bands of In. dians residing there have been or dered to the San Carlos by the au' thorities, and that they are obeyine the order. Eskiminzin's band is included in the number.
The St. Johns herald., 1886-07-08

The Hoof and Horn says that a number of stockmen on the Verde have made up a pool for the ship ment of 500 beef cattle to eastern and western markets, and will drive their stock through Salt River valley and ship over the Southern Pacific railroad.