The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1888-07-15
IDLE STREET TALK.
WHAT BUSINESS PEOPLE TALK
ABOUT OUTSIDE OF BUSINESS.
The Memphis Bridge Settlement Salts
factory to Memphians-The Critten-
den County Troubles and the Trou'
bles Incident to Type Writing.

~ believe the Memphis bridge question
r. settled at last" gasped 05' pcrspirng
citizen TO an eApPEAL commissioner, "the
Secretary OF War went thirty feet better
than Congress on the main span, but see
In Tue ArpEAL OF this morning that Prcsi-
dent Ne,tlcton Of the Kansas City rail-
road is very we'll satisfied with the ruling,
THIS settles the 81. Louis river cranks,
barge tow and steamboat men, who are
opposed to Memphis progress"
"The secretary seems sound on the float.
ing barge tow business" remarked the
scribe.
"0i course he Is; helpless floating tow
is a dangerous thing 10 all floating crafts,
and should he interdicted in any harbor.
They should be made TO break the tow
above Memphis and double trip Il TO the
head OF Presidents island, but these
barge and steamboat folks at 81. Louis
think they own the Mississippi from its
head TO its mouth. The bridge will be
built, and IL will be thing OF beauty and
Joy forever To Memphis, the head Of all.
year-round navigation on tho Father Of
Waters"
81 thought you were over in Arkansas"
exclaimed Front street trader They
are having war over in Crittendcn county
between the niggcr and the whites"
81 hadn't heard of any fighting over
there" answered the scribe.
at was only bad scare on the part oI
the whites and at the wrong time. II is
fine capital for the Republicans in the
doubtful States. The order out was not
necessary, as il now perfectly clear, be-
cause the whites were In no danger. The
ringers amt rz vet, nor are they going
90 rise. TIn ArpEAL IL right in suggest.
ing that the expelled negroes be- permitted
10 return 10 their homes unmolcstcd and
law and order should prevail over lynch
Law and vigilance committees"
"Col. Jones Hamilton. OF Jackson,
Miss, remarked n well.known Irish.
American citizen 20 Tuu ArrRAL loungcr,
"should remember the advice given by
Daniel O'Conncll to n man who had stolen
pig and was tried and acquitled-'Iou
have been acquitted by jury, my man,
said O'Conncl. Now 10 home and be
have yourself and let pigs alone here
after.
"Tho latest fashionable craze seems 10 be
running away with and marrying youi
typewriter remarked Front strcct mcr'
chant This Is 20 bc regretted, "a type
writer Is most useful person In business
Office, and the employment IL growing ~
favor, but these cscapadcs ap calculated tC
injurc the business"
'ln what wayl" inquired the newspaper
news hunter
swell, will tell you. Hero on FROM
street many Of my brother merchants, VIII
are rather advanced in life. have been IL
yorably considering the propricty and ne
ccssity Of giving employment 10 type
writers 10 conduct the correspondence q
their houses, but they fear the rid
cule which would eventually follow
should they do ~ after the late MomphI
sensation. and then mems wives ARE no
In favor Of the employment Of typ
writer's by their Lords aud masters. wa
about 90 yet one for my business Office
but the Johnson Morrison scandal settle,
that matter at least ior some time. q
course, nobody wants an ugly one, no on
wants 90 Introduce n cnricatufc ON human
iiy into his business office, but a typg
writer appears 90 be more dangerous thai
pound Of dynamite just NJ present.
"You remember the lines oi the poet,
suggested the scribe, Sin the spring ia
young mans fancy lightly turns
thoughts Of love- etc.
81 do, but this isnot n case Of the youn
man; Il Is n case Of the middle agrd mal
reckon II h better 90 wait until ial
when fancy will turn 30 thoughts Of 9th,
things Of Importance. III advise NJ
friends 90 do ~. DO YOU think that a
fall will be- ~ dangerous as spring."
Give me an easy Onc.' replied II
man Of the pencil. "No season can into
icc with love"
81 believe You are right young maj
But when aman II adyanccd IN ycan the
can be no danger DO YOU think 500
"Rcmcmbcr the lines written hcnca
the statue Of Cupid, answered the scrib
"NhoCf you are.
lshuld your master
lr Il ~ va,
or in To-"
"IIang Cupid" was the respon,