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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28

ing about il. Ituses material that is
before our eyes every day, but which
has hitherto been overlooked as a pos.
sible street pavement material. The
new article is the common brick. AT
Bloomington, ILL.,, as everywhere else
where the people are intelligent,
there wss dissatisfaction with the
street pavements. The City Council
tired Mcadam and Nicolson and
the rest, without any satisfaction,
when Mr.. N. B. Heater proposed ia
put down brick, the city to pay him
for 1t only i it succeeded. That pave.
ment is now fifteen years old, and
that fact says all that is wanted or de-
sired, as its condition is good today
and II has never needed repair. So
sia'es M. Heaters partner in the
Bloomington Drainage and Farm Jour.
nal. Good common we'll burned brick
is used, patent brick he declares TO be
unnecessary. The bottom OF the street
is excavated and rolled, then the
proper layer Of sand. The bricks, we
assume, for the writer omit1 TO say,
are laid edgeways, with intsrstlces at
proper intervals to prevent slipping,
and these filed in with sand. Tt @
writer, Mr.. Edgar Healer, says: "The
city OF Bloomington has now perhaps
two or three miles OF this pavement,
which is giving the best OF satisfac-
ton, and Furthermore, has pro-
vided by ordinance for the con-
struction OF about a mile more, while
the demand for brick streets has
reached the highest degree OF inten-
sity." Decatur and Jacksonville, Ill
have also adopted the brick pavement.
r. Heater has taken out no yatent,
bat he is ra pidly laying his pavement
down. Such is the statement, which
can be verified by writing to Bloom
ington. Have we reached the long
wanted pavement at last? IL worth
while asceitaining, and il the qualities
are found thatare described, Memphis
is just the place where the brick pave
ment Is wanted, earthquake or no
earthquake. Beside its recommended
ton Of smoothness and rel 'ef from the
wear and tear of vehicles, how del ght-
full would be the deliverauce from the
rosr and crash and rumble OF joltin I,
jerking, vibrating wagons and buggies
Is brick the long wanted savior from
nuisance that annoys the strong and
excruciates the weak and tortures the
sick? II 80, Uive Ia brique.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
"I.iebiw Co.'S Cocoa Reef Tonic

is far superior to the fashionable and
Elusive preparations of bs1f, wine and
iroD," says Prof. F. w, Hunt, MD. +,
Honorary Member Imperial Med al
Society Of st. Petersburg, Russia, etc.
II will reconstruct the most shattered
and eDfsebled, rsinvigorate the aged
and inhrm and build up sickly chill
dren. Invaluable in female irregular
ity, pains and exhaustion. Quiets rest
less children and infants.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Indignant Over the reatv st,,.,.,

OTTAWA, OST., September 27.-Iu-
itiatory steps have been tsken looking
to the prosecution Of the parties who
sent bogus reports concerning the al
legged new feIery treaty. Their Of
ferse Is indtctsble, and in conse quence
OF the popular indignation over the
numerous impositions practiced lately,
it rcems that the industry is to be put
an end to for a Tina at east.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
4 NEW NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..

The nineteenth century has pro-
duced many wonderful things, not
counting Wiggins's prediction, but it
has not given the world a satisfactory
street pavement. Our exchange papers
often mention the subject, and in
Europe complaint Of street pavements
is psrpe!ua'. Inventors try their best,
only to become disappointed, and ex-
periments appear to result in despair.
The last eGor, hal something surpris-
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Another OF the sos. GoD,

MONTGOMERY, ALA, September 81.
George w. Washington, one of the
best known colored Republican lead
ers in Alabama, died today at his
home in this ty. lie was one of the
SO6 who voted fer Grant at Chicago,
and had one OF the Grant medals.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Proclamation by wisconsin, Gov.
ernOr.

MILWAUKEE,. VIE, September 81
Gov Rusk today issued a proclama-
ton, forbidding the importation of
cattle from Illinois, except when &C.
compauied by certificate OF health
from the State Veterinarian of that
State, or an inspector of the United
States Bureau OF Animal Industry.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28

WASHINGTON, September 27.-The
President has recognized Bufno Velez
as Vice Consul Of the United States of
Mexico at Tucson, Ariz., and Peter L.
Cherry British Vice Consul at Astoria,
Ore.
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nOur nabv,. FIrs, Yenr. :,

by Marion Harland, with other valua-
BILE information; forty.eight page book.
Sent free ON receipt of 2 cent stamp.
Address Reed 4 Oarnrick, Mercantile
Exchange Building, New York City.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Louisville Cement.

Foundations, cellar walls and build
ings subject to overflow should be con.
structed with Louisville Cement 1t is
the standard.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Distinct Shock az Augusta.

AUGUSTA, GA, September 81
There was distinct shock of earth
quake here at 5 o'clock.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28

HAVE used Tougaline in facial neu-
ralgia, neuralgia of the heart, aud
chronic rheumatism; secured relief in
each case, and also in one most oh
stinste case, where other remedies
failed.
0. B. PETTIJoHN, MD,
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
Death Of an OIS Roston EDITOR,

BosToN, MASS, September 27.-Col.
Charles G.. Greene, formerly editor OF
the Boston POR, died this morning.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28
A Public Dinner 20 Justin NECTAR.

New YORK, September ga COM
mittee OF representative Irishmen this
evening called UPON Justin Mccarthy
aud rendered him a reception aud
dinner, to take place Saturday even
ing. Mr.. Mccarthy accepted.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-09-28

0. B. PETTIJoHN, NJ. D.,
Indianapolis, Ind.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
Not a Politician.

There is not so much talk in political
circles as there was a few weeks ago,
about the Presidents failure as party
leader. The President was not poll
tician, in the ordinary sense OF the
word, before he entered the White
House, and he has not developed much
of the politicians talent since he has
been there. The management of the
Government is to him a business mat
ter. He would like to transact the af-
fairs of the people in the executive of
client in Buffalo before he became the
President of the United States. He
does not take to the dicker and trade
Of politics as practiced by many of the
gentlemen in Congress. The talk
about his want of leadership originated
in two different quarters. 1t largely
came from men with whom he had re-
fused to enter into small political bar
gains for their private benefit. This
is the trouble with many of the mem
bers of Congress. They are uncertain
about their reelection. They are
plagued by importunate constituents,
who look to them to secure consulships
and other fat places. They are both
cred by competitors who are ready to
seize on every fact that can be used tc
their disadvantage, and who carefully
stir up disaffections against them a
home. They want the President tt
turn over to them the patronage o.
their respective localities. The Presi
dent will not do it, and his refusal i
called "a lack cf leadership. "--Bsste'
Rsratd,
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
PRESIDENTIAL SUPPORT.

There Has Been Nothing in the Present
Administration to Drive the People
From It-Mr. Cleveland VIII Not Trim'
Were the President as versatile in
making political changes of base as the
correspondents and other interested
parties are in making them for him.
he would not have time to give that
assiduous attention to the great inter-
ests of the country that has so con-
spicuously marked his very successful
Administration. He.has been recently
credited in some quarters, with a pur-
pose to pursue a "policy" that would
..unite the party" This idea is based
upon the assumption that certain Re-
publican gains in various city and town
elections Indicate division and disrup-
ton, and it is limited by some of the
malcontents, that unless Mr.. Cleveland
does something startling, and does it
pretty soon, the next National House
OF Representatives will be wrested from
Democratic control.
That is something for the Democrat
ic party to guard against If possible.
But we do not believe that. much as
the President would regret such re-
suit of the fall elections. he,accepts the
| responsibility for the danger, or in
tends to do any sail-trimming or pipe
LAYING to meet it. He has conducted
the Administration with a strong hand,
a wise brain and an honest heart. He
has shown the people of the country
that change of Administration was
not thing to be dreaded, but some
thing to be welcomed. He has proved
that the great National trust reposed in
him is as absolutely safe as it has been
under any Administration ever in
power. He has run the Government
with greater efficiency and economy
than any of his recent predecessors.
He has been ready to correct errors
when he has made them, but when CON
vinced that he was right he has beer
as firm as the great monument tina
towers the giant structure of the Cap
ital city. There is certainly nothing
in all this to disaffect the people o
drive his parry from his support.
| ton Statesman.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
THE SENTIMENT.
How the Montgomery Demon
stration is Regarded.
the Speech and Reception of Jeffer-
son Davis.

COLUMBUS, O., April 30.-The demonstra-
tion in honor of jefferson Davis, and his
utterances at the Montgomery (Ala.) de-
monstration, have been the subject of Sc
we're criticism here to-day. The. Times
Dem.) headlines the indignation meeting
of Soldiers at Albany, last night, as fol-
lows, but says nothing editorially: WANT
ed, at Albany, fool-killer with his club,
and wanted quick. The Empire Capital
advertises itself the biggest fool of the
season. Ready to declare war on the
South" The Dispatch Independently this
evening thinks the demonstration at Mont
gomery all right, but condemns jeff Davis
utterances. The State Journal Republi-
CAM will say tomorrow that it is hard to
tell whether the demonstration at Mont
gomery is the funeral of the Confederacy
it appears too lively for funeral.
WASHINGTON, April 30.-The reception
given the ex-President of the Confederacy
at Alabama's capital was the general topic
OF conversation among members of Con-
gress, and with few exceptions were there
allowing himself to be the the object of so
great prominence. General Singleton,
Of Mississippi, said: ssIt is not
within the power of the people
OF the South to keep Jefferson Davis Gagged,
and pre1ent his being honored by those
who made him their leader in 1861. 1t is
natural that he should be given I ne ova-
tion that he was, but If he says thi igs un-
patriotic in his address he should lie hung
before he leaves town. It may be the
means of starting the Republican press
at the North in saying that the Sc nth is
still in rebellion, and the Confederate flag
is floating from the staff of every build
ing" ''The ovation means but one thing, 81
said another prominent Southerner lit
is to commemorate the brave and heroic
dead of the South and it was but fit that
Mr. Davis should deliver the address. He
has outlived all his enemies, and in bis de
Ginning years he can do the country neither
harm nor good. He asks nothing from the
Government, and is but a private citizen. u
VIcKsBURG, MISS, April 3O.-Comment-
ing on the Montgomery celebration tbe
Vicksburg Commercial Herald, the leading
Democratic morning paper of the State
says: "Mr. Jefferson Davis is not of the
new South. He is of the ole
South. He said things at Montgom
cry that would have been better unsaid
and did not say things he, of all men
ought to have saidn
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
Foreign iTotes.

U. s. MINISTER PHELPS and wife visited
Westminster Abbey and Eton Hall on
the I'd.
Mr.. PALGRAvE has been appointed Clerk
of the House of Commons.
SIR ARTHUR SULLIVAN and Mr.. W. s.
Gilbert will probably be present at the
opening performance of the '.Mikado" in
Berlin, on June ,.
The Earl of Redesdale is dead, aged
eighty -one years. He took a prominent
part in the debates on the Alabama claims
in the House of Lords
A YOUNG painter named Durr, of Burg
dorf, Switzerland, while ascending the
Mythen Mountain. in the Canton of
Schwytz, was killed by an avalanche.
NUMEROUS British Liberals have signed
memorial to Mr.. Gladstone, favoring the
retention of Irish representatives at West
minister and the imperial control of the
customs, asking that the property qualifi-
| cations and e25 franchise be dropped, and
! the rights of Ulster be safeguarded
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
THE HOUSE IN 1888.
A Forecast of the Result of the Next
Congressional Elections.

A Forecast of the Result of the Next
Congressional Elections.
Under ordinary circumstances the
majority of the House of Representa-
tives will be Democratic, as it has been
at every election since 1872, save one,
and as it would then have been had
the districts been arranged as they
now are in the several States.
During this time the Southern States
have sent at each election practically
the same number of Democratic Repre-
sentatives, except that the Missouri
Democrats in 1880 lost several districts
through Greenback-Republic al
lance. Decided politica. changes
have been confined mainly to the
Northern States, and the disastrous ef-
fects were felt only by Republicans.
The Democrats, sure of more than one
hundred Southern members without
| any considerable expense of time or
| money, found it no very difficult mat
ter to secure sufficient number from
the Northern States to give them ma
| iority, which, in such years as 1874
and 1882, ran well into the seventies.
| The present House has 184 Democrat
| ic members, of whom 108 are from the
South, 80 from the East and A from
the West, considering all the late slave
States the South, New England, New
York, New Jersey and Pennsylvania,
the East, and the rest of the States the
tWest. The dividing line between par
ties runs now-as it has for years
East and West, the Democrats carry
ing the House because their members
from the North outnumber the Repub-
lican members from the South. For
merly this same line was drawn in all
important votes in Congress. Latter.
| ly, however, and especially now, the
line is purely imaginary, and, if drawn
at all, is rather North and South than
East and West, thus tending to divide
both parties, instead of welding togeth
er the discordant elements in each.
1t is this fact which makes sagaciou
politicians of both parties apprehensiv'
of the result of the coming Congress
sional elections. Democrats suffe
from no monopoly of the prevailing
uneasiness However serious the dis
satisfaction may be in the Democratic
party, Republicans are no less con
cerned. The only consolation the.
have lies in their confidence that TO
once in this generation they are no
the only party liable to be hit by
political cyclone. Washington Post.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
The Facts in the Case.

The Republican calculations about
being able to capture the vote of New
York State do not appear to be very
we'll founded on basis of facts. The
abuse of Governor Hill does not seem
to have amounted to much, while the
blunders of the Republican Legislature
have made it somewhat notorious.
The Herald, which generally knows
'.how the wind blows" says: "H the
Governor does not spoil the good rec
ord he has made since January, and
the Republican majority of the Legis-
lature do not improve their bad one.
the Democratic majority of ten thou
sand in the election of 1885 may easily
run up to fifty thousand in the election
of 1856. New York is State in which
such changes happen very rapidly. y
Des MotneS Leader.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
BIRD DESTRUCTION.
Some Interesting Facts on tha
Subject.
Tho Number and Kind of the Feathered
Tribe Killed to Satisfy the Demands
Of Fashion.

CINCINNATI, April 2s-Superintendent
Todhunter, of the s. p G. A., who has
given considerable attention to the matter
OF bird destruction for ornamental pur-
poses, gives the following startling facts
relating to this subject: The decrease in
song and shore birds has become SO marked
thet u is attracting most general attention,
and is becoming SO generally discussed that
1t is evident that the wave of destruction,
which has increased so rapidly of late
years, has reached its limit, and must now
quickly subside. Complaint is made that the
English sparrow is driving out our native
birds. A well-known ornithologist, who
In person has Investigated the subject
on the ground is authority for the
statement that there has been in the last
lew years in the Southern Atlantic States
wholesale destruction of northern breed
ing song birds, which resort to those States
for winter home. The destruction of 40.-
and ], 200. 600 rail and reed birds (boboiinks)
killed in single month near Philadelphia
are facts that may well furnish food for
reflection. A single dealer, in a three
months trip to the coast of South Caro-
0lS bird skins. A considerable number of
the birds killed were, of course too much
mutilated for preparation, SO that
the total number Of the slain would
This man claims to handle thirty thousand
skins per annum. In four months time
seventy Thousand birds were supplied to
New York dealers from q single village on
Long Island. On Cobb's Island, Virginia,
an enterprising woman from New York
contracted with Paris millinery firm
to deliver during this summer forty
thousand or more skins Of birds at forty
cents apiece. Not long since a bird lover
heard an agent of the millinery trade solicit
sportsman in Texas to procure for him
the plumes OF ten thousand white egrets
There were sold in q single auction store,
In London. during the four months ending
April, 1885, 404, 44 West Indian and Brazil
ian bird skins, 256, ,389 East Indian, besides
thousands OF Impeyan pheasants and birds
OF paradise The slaughter has extended
to all parts of the world, and seems to in
clude every species of bird, great and
small, land and water. There are in this
country 10000, 600 Inhabitants, one-half of
whom, or q, ,000, 900, may be said to belong
to what some one has forcibly termed the
sdead-bird wearing gender" of whom at
least 10, 900 are not only of the bird-wear-
ing age, but, judging from what is seen
on the streets, in public assemblages and
public conveyances, also of bird-wearing
proclivities. On many hats and bonnets
parts of three, four or a balf-dozen birds
will be found. But suppose that each one
of these 10000, 600 bird-wearers has but q
single bird, and that these are made over
SO as to do service for more than a single
season, even at this rate 100000 birds
must be sacrificed annually to supply whal
has been the fashionable demand in the
United States.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06

Passage
alton Bill . Sufficient Answer to Mo-
nopoly Attacks upon the Postmaster
General.
Ever since Mr.. Villas refused to yield
TO the insolent demands of the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company to hand over
the mail subsidy which they had SO
persistently lobbied for at the last Con-
gress, he has been the object of fierce
and unreasoning attack. Not only
that swash-buckler organ of rabid Re-
publicanism, the New York Tribune,
but newspapers which should know
better, have assailed the Postmaster
General for what they we're led to be-
lieve by the disappointed lobbyists was
blow against American shipping
interests.
Mr.. Villas complied with the full re-
| 1uirements OF the law. There was no
| mandatory clause in it, obliging him to
| submit to the demands of the Pacific
Mail Company, and his action in resist
ing the bulldozing course of that mo-
nopoly has been sustained by public
sentiment. His exhaustive explana-
ton of the question in his annual re-
port convinced every fair-minded read
er of the wisdom and prudence that
governed his action.
| The passage of the Post-office Appro-
priations bill in the House of Repre-
sentatives is striking vindication OF
the course pursued by Mr.. Villas. The
wise discretion he had exercised was
eloouently explained bv Messrs. Hol-
man and Randall. That remarkable
specimen of New Jersey statesman
ship, William Walter Phelps, made a
most amusing misstatement of the
question between Mr.. Villas and the
subsidy grabbers. bringing in entirely
irrelevant subjects, from the Presiden-
tial succession to the silver question.
He made no effort to explain away the
discretionary power left to the Post
master-General by the very bill abou
which he talked so glibly and he wa.
suggestively silent on the des
perate efforts made by the sub
sidy lobby and the manipulation
of the Conference Committee. Th'
Pacific Mail Company was evidentl,
disheartenrd this time and abandoned
the field to Mr.. Phelps. who was any
; thing but comfortable in his isolation
} The subsidy lobby in Washington hav'
! discovered that this is not the kind o
! Administration calculated to give then
any consolation and that the temper o
the House was decidedly against them
Even Mr.. Bingham, of Pennsylvania
was forced to acknowledge that tn
!. | Post-office bill without subsidy wa
{; the best reported in his experience q
: a member of the House in a period o
eight wears. 1t now remains to be see
/ what disposition will be made of tn
r bill by the Senate. If that body al
2 tempt to load it down with objection
+ able amendments it will find more OF
position in the House than was encouI
9 tered last year.-Albany Argus.
The Eaton Democrat. (Eaton, Ohio) 1875-1903, 1886-05-06
More Shooting at East St. Louis.

EAST ST. LOUIS, ILL.,, April 29.-About six
o'clock tonight a disturbance, which al
most assumed the proportions of riot,
occurred in East st. Louis. A freight
handler named August Brondtoes and Belt
Line Engineer John Gibson were walking
along Missouri avenue, when they
were suddenly attacked by four
men. Both were knocked down and
badly beaten with brass knuckles and
billies. Gibson succeeded in drawing his
revolver and as the men fed he fired four
shots, two of the bullets passing through a
down any thing. Several hundred people
fiocked around in a moment and the
militia were summoned to protect the
wounded men. There were no arrests, but
Gibson recognized two of the men who
assaulted him as Tom Stanton and James
Ellis, strikers under Indictment.