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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20
THE CONDITION OF TRADE.
STAGNATION IN WESTERN BUSI,
NESS CENTERS OWING TO
The PailrOad Strike at 81. Lanis-
No improvement in the GEN.
eTal SitUatlOn,

New YORK, March l9.- special tele-
grams TO Brddstrtcfs report no real
improvement in the movement of
general merchandise throughout the
entire country, with the exception of
the increase in trs file on the Eastern
California railroads, owing to cut rates
at st. Louis and Southwest thereof.
There is continued stagnation and
much impatience is manifested at
business centers throughout Missouri,
Kansas and Texas, owing to the con-
tinuance of the strike and the conse-
quent embargo on strade. Brighter
weather and a moderately active order
demand for seasonable goods are re-
ported from Cleveland, Detroit,
Chicago, Burlington, Iowa and Kan
sas City.
At Eastern centers business has not
improved, but is equal in volume and
promise to that of week ago. In gen
eral it has been uneven, with the mos
strength shown in dry goods. Stocks
OF the latter at first hands are lighter
Higher wages paid mill operative, tend
to advance in prices, but the prospect
of labor troubles render the market
heavy and uncertain. JObbers are
doing better than last week. Print
cloths are frmer at BE less 3 per cent.
for 6-4s.
Wool is now limited, heavy and
lower in prices Mill supplies are light,
but labor troubles are held by mill
owners TO be a menace To the trade
outlook, andholders are shading prices
at seaboard.
Iron presents few features beyond
the weakness of unfinished iron at
prices of which are as low
as they were last autumn, while quo
tations for pig are 81. 80 higher. Pitts
burg is reported more bullish on pig
iron than any other producing center.
The general industrial situation has
not improved. The strikes of the |
southwestern railway employees of btu |
minous coal mines and of. the texture |
mill operatives continues and the
strikes at Pittsburg of 1900 employees
1f the National Tube Works and of
800 cloak and suit makers at New
York brings the grand total of those
)n the strike up,to $4,000.
Wheat is duller and lower again on
western estimates of a heavier reserve
IN July 1st than had been expected.
3radstreets estimates from available
lata points TO a total stock, visible
md invisible on July ] next OF about
100000 bushels on both coasts.
)ther grains present no feature.
The hog products, though in strong
lands, are not active.
Low prices for sugar in London al
ect the market here.
Coffee is easier under small de-
nand, and heavy offerings Of tea at
uction have had a like effect
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20
FORT SMITR, ARK ,
Nominations Made by she DemO.
cratic Convention, Election First
Monday In BpriI.
CORRESPONDENTS OF THE APPEAL. !

Fort SMITH, ARK, March 1.-THE
Democratic voters of the city, under a
call of the City Executive Committee.
met last night in their respective
wards for the purpose of nominating
a Mayor, Marshal, Recorder, Treasurer,
and two Aldermen from each ward
Samuel Edmonson was made chair
man of the First Ward meeting, S. H.
Sherlock of the Second Ward, ]. i.
Hendrick of the Third, and John
Dodson of the Fourth.
In the First Ward John Matthews
and ID. B. Sparks were elected Demo-
cratic nominees for Aldermen, Capt.
W. II. Rogers and w. J. Johnston
were elected in the Second, Levi Zinn
and Henry Kupor, jr., in tie Third,
Thomas Rogers and Henry Hinck in
the Fourth.
The candidates for mayoralty nomi-
nation were Mat Grey, Thomas Mar
cum, r. T. Kerr, j. II. Read and
John l.. Henderson. This contest re-
suited in making Mat Grey the NOM
inee.
Charles Eberle, who has served for
two terms as Recorder, and George c.
Faneitte were the candidates for Re
,order. Mr.. Fancitte took off the prize
This was a spirited contest, both can
lidates having warm friends working
IN their behalf.
The officials Of the Frisco road are
n the city. They speak in flattering
erms of the place. The road is now
.unneling Backbone Mountain, ten
niles south Of our town. R.R.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20

The courage that comes of culture
and education was admirably exem-
plifed by the women who were pas
sengers ON the Oregon, the racer of
the ocean, The New York Tribune
says that ss"after the collision the first
credit is given to the women passen-
gers for GOODNESS, bravery and dignifed
behavior. The men in the first cabin
are said to have come next in freedom
from panic and in the repression of
selfishness, but not all ofthem had self
command enough to refrain from con.
vulsive struggles to get into the boats,
and not all OF them remembered at that
exciting moment the courtesy habitual
to them. The women, however. be-
haved nobly and, so far as can be ascer-
tanned, perfectly. Helpless and utterly
dependent as they were, they made no
trouble, gotin nobody way, abstained
from all nervous collapses, did not add
to the general distress by screaming or
crying, implored no one to save them.
but conformed to all the requirements
OF the situation as calmly and prompt
ly as if they had been thoroughly used
to shipwreck." Score one more victory
for the women.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20

The condition of our paved streets
is bad beyond words to fell. The
dust, full a half inch deep, has been
refined by a process of pUlverizing by
the wheels of vehicles, and it is car
.Iied in nelouds when the wind prevails,
but at all times is ascending and find
ing its way into offices, stores and
dwellings, destroying books, furniture
and clothing to the amount, it is safe
10 say, OF half a million dollars an
nually. If q street force of 100 men was
kept constantly at work at 81 90 each
per day to sweep and keep the streets
clean it'would save the citizens fully
$3.50, 1000 per year and from much dis
comfort and annoyance. This, too,
besides that they would not, as now,
be compelled to swallow powdered
horse manure with almost every res
piration. Clean streets are as essen
tial as good sewer system, and both
are among the best evidences of civil
ization.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20

THE position taken by Col. Mont
gomery as to payment for street privi-
leges is the correct one. 1t should
have been enforced long ago, not only
here, but in all American cities. Fail
IRE in that direction has cost Mem
phis the control of its best streets,
which are now really owned by the
gas, the water, the telegraph, tele-
phone and street railroad companies.
1t is, therefore, too late to attempt to
enforce it. The granting of right of
way to'a' second or third gas COM
pany is merely conceding the right of
competition in field that has already
all but passed from the control of the
Council. The city itself contemplates
becoming competitor of the Water
Company, and it can only do so by an
invasion of the streets and alleys al
ready occupied by the Water Com
pany's pipes. If Memphis had had
Col. Montgomery thirty years ago to
look after her interests, such a sugges
ton would then have been in order,
but even in that early day it would
have been defeated on the score of
public necessity, just as it will be in
this. 1t is too late to lock the stable
after the horse has got out.
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
The street Railway Fight BrOught
10 q Crisis.
ESPECIAL To rHR APPEAL


BIRMINGHAM, ALA, March l9.-The
street railroad trouble on Eighteenth
street r ached point to-day when
Mayor Lake felt it incumbent upon
him to take action for the preserva-
ton OF the peace. The Birmingham
and Pratt Mines Company crossed the
railroads this morning and forced an
issue by putting squads of men to
work all along on the north end of the
street where a beginning was made
yesterday by the other company. The
latter met this move by distributing
its hands along the line, too, between
the other squads. Over half a mile of
street was thus disputed. The MAYOR.
to prevent a collision, had both parties
stopped, counsel for the old company
promising him to put the matter into
court at once. This was done this
afternoon by bill in the Chancery
Court to enioin the new company.
Defense to the action will be that the
old company's franchise ought to be
treated as forfeited as to Eighteenth
street, because no use has been made
of it all these years.
Messrs. George H. Nettleton, NJ. i.
Sargent and Wallace Pratt of the
management of the Kansas City, Fort
Scott and Gulf railroad, had con-
sultation here to-day with President
Raol of the Georgia Central. It is
fair to conclude that they are working
up some deal to meet the new CON
dition that will be created bv the
completion of the Memphis, Birming-
ham and Atlantic road to this place.
A telegram came here this morning
from Samuel Thomas, the Pennsyi- |
vania iron magnate, offering for GER
tain iron ore lands near this city
price considerably above what was
paid for them by iron men here yes
terday.
The City Court jury in the case of |
j. b. Shackelford, charged with ad- |
ministering strychnine in whisky to.
his rival for the affection of a third |
mans wife, returned a verdict of
guilty last night. Punishment is left |
for the court to fix.
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Cows. Martin aAd Mnrmaduke viii
Act as Arbitrator

KANSAS Cry. Mo, March 19.-Gov.
Marmaduke of Missouri and GOV.
Martin of Kansas, have decided that
|. the public interest render it necessary
for them TO endeavor to act as medi-
atOrs in the present strike. They
have prepared proposition which af-
ter consideration has been accepted
by the strikers, and the two Cover
nors left tonight for st. Louis TO lay
it before the railroad officials. The
men agree to return to work on the
basis of the settlement adopted at the
close of the strike a year ago, that is
they will come back on the terms of
agreement in force at the time they
struck, simply making a request
that the ques ion of increas-
ing the wages of bridge and
track men be taken into account. The
matter of Halls reinstatement on the
Texas and Pacific is not mentioned in
the proposition. Mr.. Powderly did
not leave for st. Louis, as he had in
tended, but is in secret conference
with the executive delegates this
evening, and has not been inter
viewed since his receipt OF Mr. Hoxie's
reply to his request for meeting.
The general feeling here is one of
strong hope that the intercession of
the State executives will secure a
settlement between the officials and
men, as it did year ago, and an early
conclusion of the strike.
PowDIRLY's REPLY To HoxIE.
The following reply was sent to Mr..
Hoxie late tonight by Mr.. Powderly:
- KANSAS CRY, No March 10.
II NJ; Hoxie, FirsG Vice President, Missouri
Pacific Hallway company, st. Louis.
since you Will not meet with me as
General Master Workman of the
Knights of Labor, l must decline TO
meet with you in any other capacity,
and the responsibility for the future
continuance" of the strike must not
be charged to the Knights of Labor,
since the executive officer of that
order will not be permitted to meet |
and cooperate with you in settling the
strike. 1t was my intention, had you
consented to meet with me, to en-
deavor to effect such a settlement as
would prevent impositionS being
practiced upon the employees of your
by subordinate officials, and
put an end to strikes on your lines for
he future. T. V. PowDERLY.
Mr.. Powderly when seen at a late
lour by an Associated Press repre-
stated that he had concluded
his business here, and would leave to-
morrow morning, going probably to
Detroit or Canada. The Executive
Boards, he said, discussed the situa-
ion tonight and decided to take no
action. They will now
wait the result of the conference of
he two Governors with Mr.. Hoxie
'efore doing anything further.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20

The Chicago Tribune, following the
lead of the North american Rere,v, to
which publication we are indebted for
very complete expose of landlord
ism in the United States, takes up the
case OF William Scully, an Irishman,
who seems to have profted by the
lessons of absenteeism taught in his
own country, and to be living in Lon
don in the enjoyment of all that the
worlds capital affords of pleasure on
the rents wrung fom tenants whose
miserable condition is sad and
mournful contrast with the happy
state of their neighbors who cultivate
their own lands. Scully, of course,
has no heart, no soul He cares moth
ing for his tenants. His sole concern
is to bind them so fast as to make
them his slaves for five or more wears
perhaps for life. He doesn't WELD
the lash OF the slave driver, but he
3 can put the screw of the law to them
and take allehat they have if it is nee
essary to satisfy his claims. Heis within
the limit of the law, and no matter
what heart-break, sorrow and degra-
dation. may follow to his enslaved ten
ants he cannot be interfered with.
BY his system thousands of men.
women and children are kept in a
state bordering on pauperism that he,
one man, may livein luxury and lord
it at his pleasure over human ehattels
Negro slavery was a great wrong.
In what is this less so? Slavery was
guaranteed by the federal and the
constitution of the States in which it
existed, but it was swept away and |
without compensation to the owners.
What is there to prevent the people
sweeping away Scullys ownership in
land in the same way and forthe same
reason that it is wrong, the remedy
must be radical and effective?
The people of the Northwest rightly |
and justly declare against Chinese la
bOr because Of its tendency to degrade
American laborers. For the same
reason American farmers will insist
hat the breed of the Scullys be smoth-
cred in its ineipiency. A way must be
ound to save the countryitrom the I
,nrse Of Scully.
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FniIures for the Wcell

NEW YORK. March 10 THE bust
ness failures throughout tlls country
during the past seven days, as reported
to r. G. Dun & Co., number for the
United States 100 and for Canada 80,
or a total OF 225, as compared with a
total of 239 last week and 246 the
wee previous to last. The gradual
decline in casualties in this country
still continues, but in Canada, failures
seem to be on the increase as the
spring opens.
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DE FUNIAK SPRINGS.
Lectures Before tho Florida Chan.
tRuqua Assembly.
lsPEc1AL 10 rnR APPEAl

De FuNIAK SPRINGS, Fla, March
l9.-The Florida Chautauqua Assem-
bly, continues to increase in interest
and numbers. The college of cookery
will send out missionaries to revive
this lost art in the South. The insti.
tute of music has adopted the Case
system for voice culture and chest
expansion. Two remarkable papers
were read to-day, one by Dean Wright
of Boston, on THE Language OF In
sects," and the other by DIR, T. r.
Eaton of Louisville on "The True
Aristocracy," This gentleman advo-
Gated a more centralized government,
ruled by an aristocracy of the purest
and wisest.
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ESTABLISHED lS4O.

IT is comforting even to us in free
America to notice the rapid strides
England is making toward the inevi-
table in her destiny republic tits
assuring proof that the race in the
mother land has lost nothing OF lis
yirility or love of liberty. When the
monarchy and the aristocracy and
the church goes, the English-speaking
people will stand united on q solid
basis of individual liberty, and can
then take up their tasks as propagand-
lists of freedom.
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such of our former employees and
Others as desire TO work, to do so
without fear and intimidation, leaving
this company free to resume its opera
t'"as =. adjust with its employees, as
it is at all times ready and willing to
do, any grievances they may have.
II. NJ HOXIE.
First Vice-President Missouri Pacific Rail-
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20

LuNDBoRa's perfume, Edenis.\
Lundborg's perfume, Alpine Vi6let.
Lundborg's perfume, Lily OF the
Valley.
Lundborg's perfume, MarChal Mel
Rose.
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rRLcmNnsls IN n.LNANY.


TRGCmNuSis IN GlnfANY.
The Secretary Of State has received
communication from the Consul
General OF the United states at Ber-
lin, in which he states that within
the last few weeks, not less than thir-
ty to forty cases of trichinosis have
been discovered in Iuttichan, town
in Silesia, and vicinity. Similar cases.
the Consul General says, are reported
from time to time from other places
in Germany, showing that the theory
which led to the prohibition of Ameri-
can hog has received set back by
facts which cannot be denied. Men
ton is made of the great sensation
created in commercial circles at Ber-
lin, caused by the bill lately intro
duced in the United States Senate, the
fate of which the manufacturers and
exporters of Berlin look upon with no
little degree OF anxiety.
CONGRESSIONAL PLEASURE PARTY.
A party consisting of Senators Ran.
som, ingalls, and wife, Senator Sauls-
bury and niece, Senator Palmer and
wife, Mrs Senator jackson, Mrs SEN
atOr Malone and daughter, Repre-
sentative Ermentrout and wife, Repre-
sentative Caldwell and Mr.. II. Bryan of
the Department of State and wife,
will leave here tomorrow morning at
II o'clock, in the special car Est.
John, for Jacksonville and Tampa,
Fla, via the Atlantic Coast Line. EN-
route to Havana, Cuba, where they
will arrive next Tuesday afternoon.
They will remain three or four davs
in Havana, and will make several
stops in Florida on their return. Tkev
expect to be absent about ten days.
GEN. HOWARD PROMOTED.
Brig Gen. Howard was to-day nomi-
mated as a maior-general in the army,
vice Gen. Pope retired. In view OF
the fact that Maj. Gen. Schofield has
expressed a preference for the COM
mand of the division of the Atlantic,
it is now thought likely that Mai
Gen. Terry will be assigned to the
command of the division of the Mis-
souri,, and Maj.-Gen. Howard TO the
command of the division of the Pacific.
1t is not probable, however, that the
question of assignment will be settled
until Gen Howard's nomination shall
have been acted upon by the Senate.
Cols. Ruger and Merritt are said to !
have been selected for promotion as
brigadier-generals.
EDITORS TO BE HEARD.
The House Commit eeo ON Pc st9fIioes |
and Po=t'Olds Cor ducting the tele-
graph inv, s cations under the Ander- |
son resolution Of inquiry, have to-day
Hiyaed next Tu sday, 2Sd instant,
I1r herring any edit rs or pr0prietors
ot spapers " no desire 10 be head |
)u the subject of alleged discrimina-
ions against them by the Western
Union Telegraph Company, and at |
empts to Coerce them into making |
exclusive contracts, e:c.
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DrV Goods Imports at New York
New York, March l9-The total
imports of dry goods at this port dur
ing the past week were valued at So
972,60I and the amount thrown on
the market at 81, 720,S67.
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DIR. g. W. DeIbrIdge, Of Atlanta, Ga.
Writes of Guinn's Pioneer

Guinn's Pioneer Blood Remover has been
used for years with uaprecedtnt6d success.
1t is entirely vegetable and does the system
no harm. II improves the appetite, diRes-
uon and blood making, stimulating, inVig-
Grating and tOning up all tho functions 0nd
tissues OF the system, and thus becomes the
great blood renewer and health restorer.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-20
WASHINGTON NOTES
PENSION nlLL ArrRoyEp.

WASHINGTON, March l9.-The Presi-
dent has approved the bill to increase
the pensions of widows and depend
ent relatives of deceased soldiers and
sailors.
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mend Guinn's Pioneer as tho best tonic.
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DEATH or carr. v,rriy

Capt. w. =. Martin. United states
army, retired, died this morning at
his residence in this city.
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A CONFERENCE DECLINED.
VICE-PRESIDENT HOX 'F'S R1rLY
TO Mr.. PONDERLY.
Reasons Why the Missouri Pacific
VIII Not Treat with Knights
of Labor.

ST. LoUIs, No., March The follow
ing reply Of Vice President Hoxie 20 the
request of Master Workman Powder
ly for conference was telegraphed to
that gentleman late this afternoon:
The southern sentinel. (Winnfield, La.) 1883-1910, 1886-08-06

work eastward, where ft becomes
cooler. If there was to be any upheaval
of equilibrium, owing to the suns heat,
it would seem that it ought to take
place under the sun and not seven or
eight hours after the sun had passed.
Furthermore, Prof. Ferrel's theory re-
quires rarefaction of air Immediately
in front of the advancing storm.
while the observation of the f;ignal
Office shows that there is no such
rarefaction, but, on the contrary. a
dense pressure preceding the storm. The
belief of the Signal Service is that a
tornado is the extreme development OF
q thunderstorm, accompanied by in
tense electrical manifestations and Q
sudden increase N pressure and of wind
blowing suddenly and powerfully from
the direction of the tornado. It is be-
lieved that these tornadoes are the re-
suit of peculiar electrical conditions in
the upper air. The Signal Bureau has
from time to time recommended that
there would he great saving of life il
people would take reasonable precau-
tons. A town with q forest immedi.
ately south and west of it has pretty
fair protection from destruction. All
towns during the tornado season should
establish a lookout at the distance of q
mile to the southwest, and give warn.
ing on the church bells. Tornado cell
lars are q device which are open to
everybody, and a great many lives have
been saved by them.-Washingto n Let
ter.