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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1889-03-28
TIE MEMPHIS APPEAL
TRIMS OF SUBSCRIPTIONS.
COTTON"

Receipts Of cotton yesterday were but 81
ha,es against SG bales same dav last year.
Sslos amounted 20 400 bales OF which eS-
poucrs sccurd 1850 bales and spiuners the
remainder. The local market closed firm at
an advance Of i-i6G on middling and higher
end,s Low grades nnchan-cl grades above
m!iiline arr about out OF the market and
may almost he quoted nominal shipments
Yesterday were s"C2 bales against lar Tor
corresponding day last sasou. Receipts
since S piemltT / arr now 5Ss25 balcs in
excess ~ pct.pis Tor same time last year,
ana only lack t22Sl hales Of turning the
$4,000 balcs point. which will be an event
in the cotton trade Of Memphis The stock
81 cotton on hand q being sold rapidly IL
now being but Gl2s7 bales against oS62
baics same DAY last year spots closed hrm
81 an advance Of l-i6c az New Orleans and
steady a. NeW York aud Liverpool Futures
advanced 90 . point. and closed quiet and
steady % New Orleans MNew York ia
ture, closed steady old crop months I'd.
yanccl . points and new rpmonths moved
up ! point Liverpool futures advanced ]
o. ? points closing firm. Port receipts yes
icniay were ass bales. or 80 bales 10 eN
c.. % rcccipts on same DAY last scasOn.
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with nature and truth, but not with all
natur and all truth. A fostering sore is
part of nature; It directly affects the thought
and action of the sufferer. and IL is as UNI
slightly, as deplorable and as potent as a fes-
tering vice on the soul. Why should the
latter be allowed and the bodily sore forbid
len?
The average middle class American reader,
male or female, is a Philistine unquestiona-
blythe most impervious and cloaked con
%yentionality known to all the nations, not
even excepting the clover middle class"
English. He wants his fiction to be as pro-
per, as full Of small exactitudes in demeanor,
as good an example" on the outside, as he
is himself. Humbug as he is, he is far pre-
ferable to the natural type of the morbid
morality mongers who teach a lesson of an
hour by a lifelong corruption. The Philis-
tine has q right to his taste, and he Is right
in voting down the lola school as the best
for his children. Being II Philistine myself,
L vote with him. JouY BOYLE O'REnLY.
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TRIBUTE TO JUSTICE MATTHEW'S.
The Memphis Bars Action IN the Death
OF the Great Jurist.

The Memphis Bars Action on the Death
OF the Great Jurist.
An adjourned meeting Of the Memphis
Bar was held yesterday afternoon in the
United States courtroom, at which there
was a large attendance.
II was to hear the committees report on
the death Of Justice Stanley Matthews, Of
the United States Supreme Court.
The committee on resolutions made q re-
port by presenting the following minutes,
which was unanimously adopted:
The members of the Memphis Bar con-
ven in recognition of the fact hat death has
again invaded the high places of their pro-
fcssion. The seat on the Supreme Bench of
the United States occupied for nearly eight
years by the Hon. Stanley Matthews is made
vacant.
This event has for us a great significance,
because Tennessee was embraced in the cir
cult of the deceased Judge, and we have
personally known him here on his official
visits. For this reason we may as a bar
give collective expression TO our estimate
Of him as a magistrate, and our sense of
the loss which the Federal Judiciary has
sustained.
Unquestionably Judge Matthews held rank
with the foremost OF his colleagues. There
was strength In his grasp Of the subjects
which he handled, and brilliant vigor In the
method OF his treatment. In comprehensive
clcarness Of statement in elegance Of diction
and in logical progress TO conclusiycness, his
opinions have distinguished place among the
deliyerances OF that august court. In the
annals of national jurisprudence he has
made his most endearing monument, writ
ten his highest eulogy, and left his worthy
epitaph.
We unite with the bar OF the whole coun-
try In cordial acknowledgment OF his pro-
f~essional eminence, in sincere honor Of his ju-
dicial character and in respectful tribute to
his memory. We unite, too, in the universal
and spontaneous tender OF sympathy and
coincidence to the bereaved circle who mourn
the loss Of husband, father and friend.
HENRY CRAFT,
7. w. BRowN,
J. J. DUBosE,
T.. $. HAMMOND,
WY. Z. SMITH,
LUKE T.. WRIGHT,
w. &. FOXES.
Eloquent and touching tributes to the dead
jurist were paid by several OF those present,
the most extended OF which were by Judges
L. S. Hammond and Il. NJ. Estes.
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Gertrude Atherton. Writing with n dis.
tinct purpose to prove that marriage is not
a failure, and that in that state alone wo.
men can find safety, security and happi-
ness, she has been bitterly and b~rutally
assaulted by critics who have hailed Mrs.
Chanler as a rising star, because she
pictures n girl who, "Mistress DER
herself" takes a loose rein and
illustrates the effect OF one act OF sin to
produce remorse as compared with the
continued RIGHTEOUSNESS OF q callous rouo
who did not care to hide his conduct or
shield his shame. And the most brutal Of
these attacks have emanated from u critic
who regards with complacency the stage
with its naked drama, its d%enouements
leading TO divorce and the shamelossncss
OF Camille" But these critics must in
dulge a spasm Of virtuous indignation TO
assure themselves that they have lot for
gotten how 10 do IT, They cannot asSail
The advertiser who prints his treatise every
morning on private diseases; that would
be to injure the advertising business.
They know it is useless TO cry out about
the leg drama as the people arc welded to
it and 50 they assail the novelist without
negard to the eonsistencies or the proprie-
ties for which they set themselves up as
guardians But the novelis.s will 60 on
in their own way and the people will read
them 30 long as they ano no, indecent
merely to accomplish indecency, Tor they
ike TO sec the minor held up to nature,
whether IL be naked or clothed.
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TnE %ATnLETIcs, oPERA.
Prof Levy, he Director. stin Wrestling
with n Voxatious Task.

frol boNlt inc BlFoctors Sun WrohtlinH
With n voxatlous Task.
Tho cast Of characters for Chimes Of Nor.
mandy, TO be given In May by the Amateur
Athletic Association, Is still exercising Prof.
Emile Levy, the musical director.
This difficult part Of the work was per.
formed two or thrco weeks aro by the Sun.
day Tinei, but neither Prof. Lcvy nor the Ath.
lciic Association had relocated the task to the
Times people. but have been looking around
for the best aud most available material
ever since. just ns though the chanctcrr had
not been assigned by an %untutorcd outsider.
At the time Of the announcement only three
selections were made, and these were not
properly PLACED by the T,mef. There was
one insurmountable barrier 20 the managers
OF the operate enterprise accepting the
g~ratuitously proncrcd cast which was thnt
the city's basso profundo par excellence re-
bcllcd, and refused outright TO carry the
tenor role.
Rehcarsals Of the opera are held every
Monday night over Witzmann's music stonc.
with full attendance. -
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beyond these purely autooratic declarations.
M. Taine, in his brilliant comprison be-
tween DE Musset and Tennyson, made 1t
quite clear to me that he preferred his own
compatriot but he did not demonstrate to
me, that was wrong In putting the French
poet a goods deal below the English one.
lola, in my opinion, is a very great moralist
ana a very great artist as we'll, | know why
think him a moralist, but / could not tell
you, Tor the life OF me, why / think him an
artist. don't know what an artist really
u.s., Does any one know? Then pray let him
tell us, provided he will only promise not to
lug, IN the Good, the Beautiful, the True"
ana TO keep as far away as possible from all
The old threadbare plaiitudes.
EnoAR FAwcFrr.
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OTHERS WHO ARE COMING.
Additional Names For the Southern
Baptist Convention.

Baptist Convention.
The following additional names have beer
semi in to the local Arrangement Committe,
for the Southern Baptist Convention;
J. n. Hall, Little Rock.
II. A. Cooper aud wife. New Albany, Mis-.
y. i. Leggett, Dyenburg. lem.
4. G. Carleton aud wife. Decatur, Ca
q. ". savage. Eagieyille. Tenn.
VI. N. Wood, Birmingham, Ala.
q. W. Riley. sarcpta, Mis-.
J. 4. jordan. Phoenix. < ~
n. Ball and W. A. Haywood, Joncsboro, Ark.
J. 4. Denton, warrcnsburg, 40.
u II. Harris. Richmond. Va.
". \ splawn. LaGmngc. Ky.
J. H. Maynard. Morrisyille, n. C..
W. 4. Dcyioux, Sparinnsburg. 4 Q.
Ircd. d.. Hale. Louisville, ny.
John A. lee, Harmony. Ky.
J. White, Durham. n. q.
y. W. Wright, West Plains, No
a. A. bowman, slater. No.
q. i. Watkins, Louisville, Ky.
q. w. Gardner. wylle's MIL, =. Q.
J. y. Pitts lAurens. :. q.
r. W. Merrill, New orleans. Ia.
J. j. burrows, Norfolk. Va
y y. Minton, toncsboFo. Ark.
]. l. Barker, MENDOZA, Va.
James A. smith. Fair Blum. N.C
" w. MO0tcn, faiT Blud, n. T.
u. W. kcy, Millleton, 4. G.
sam Pollard, Fulton. No.
J. X Edwards. townsville, La
Ernest Cook, ~ Louis Mo.
!. X. Obcuchain. Haynes Ark.
J. II. BurmAn, Fayetteville. Tenn.
W. H. Rutland, Baton Rouge. Ia.
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THE CHOSEN.
Mr.. w. II. johnson VIM Represent Men,
phis Typographical Union a. Dow r..

Mr.. W. II. Johnson VIII Represent Men,
phis Typographical Union n. DoLvlr.
In accordance with a revising act OF the
last international typographical Union. local
unions all over the country went into a.
election yesterday for delegates 10 the next
meeting, which takes place at Denver. Col,
In June.
In this city tho contest has been shaping
up for some time. aud friends Of the various
candidates wrcstlcd with members Of the
body In season and ont Of season, the over
topping object being TO swell the vote for
their %fnyoritc.
Tho candidates were W. II. johnson. ns.
sistant foreman 81 THE ArrEAL composing
room. William Holmes, OF the draianobC X.
Lyon, foreman for T.. Whitmorc. u. G..
BrOokshirc, Of the S%cimifar. aud John G..
Hook. Of the Iraidache. Mcssrs. Johnson
aud Holmes were acknowledged leaders in
the race from the start. Mr.. Johnson was
elected aud Memphis will send delegate 10
Denver whose Intelligence aud pleasing
personality will be felt for good 10 the
Union. The vote stood:
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Chancery Sale
or
ESTATE.

No. Gn0 In the ChAncery Court Of shelby
J~onniy-hardwig PercA guardian, etc, va
ny virtue Of an inicrlocutory decree for sale,
entered In the above cause on the 2ist day OF Do
ccmber, lssA Mhe ~ pare go. and amended on
auction. 20 the highest bidder, 10 front Of the
Clerk aud Masters oflcc, nt the Main street en-
tmncg Of the court house Of shelby County, Nom
phis. Tenn. on
saturday. the 9th Day OF April, 1850,
within legal hour, Inc following described prop
cfiy. situated In shelby County. Tenn, towit
Lying and being IN the Eighteenth Civil ul.trfct
o. said county, about ~ mile southeast q Nem-
phta being pars Of loA Is aud 40 of y. A. owens
subdivision. recorded In BOOK - page 10, begin
ming NJ a Jake In the north iiue OF W. n. Persons
tract G. ch>b n west from the southeast corner %
thence north ~ chains aud % links 20 a STAKE on
the south aide Of bum avenue. thence east 10
chains and ~ links 10 n stake In the west line OF a
~ loot alley thence south along the north line Of
taid alley 10 chains and ~ links 81 a stake. theace
west Gchains aud - links 70 a stake. thence south
> chains aud y links 10 n stake thence east 7
chains aud v links thcnco south 2 chains and -
links 10 the pointoi beginning. containing a s0io
II he aboye does no, veil cor enough to satisfy
The judgment Interest nnd costs Thea the mmain-
der interest w The following tmct set apart as q
homestead 10 James stewart and family. Will next
b. sold, to-wit beginning ~ n sake On tho east
ine ~ James ticWafts ~ acres ? chains aud ~
Inks " 10 fcct north 90 The southeast corner %
uid 20 acres ihonce south NJ wcsi chains aud "a
Inks 10 a stake thence north 80 west - chains
and = Ink ~ a stake. thence north ~ east
snsIas sna y s INK 70 staks " ihs east Inc q
line ~ chains aud . links 70 the beginning, CON
talning n acres
Terms II saie-on q credit OF six months note
barred.
THIS 10th day Of March, lisa
In McliENKY. Clerk and Master.
W u Qllson, n W. liinh, u. IA barnes and Ma
lone a Malone, Foltrltonl
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saved by ATS sou.

Special Dispatch 10 The Appeal
NEvroHr, Ark, March g7.-Goo. Steele
and am old man named John Jackson. eoi
into a fight near Newark, fourteen mile,
from here, last night Jackson was down
aud Steele was pounding him, when youne
jackson, a twelve year old son, Naw tho turn
OF anairs. He picked up a handsplko asd
bit Steele q terrible blow on the head. steele
u Unconscious aud Il II fcA<sd nc will dle.
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THE NOVELIST \ n . ornL.


Things appear 10 have come to this issue
between the author and the reader-that one
or the other must be sacrificed. Either the
author must lie, must continue to write Of
human nature as 1t Is not, or, at best, must
portray IL in dress suit, or the young girl
VIII be ruined. Now, the young girl Is m
object TO be considered, but the person 10
take care OF her is her mother and not the
author. Moreover, II the author be an artist
in words the innocent will be able TO read
nothing between his lines, and as for the
enlightened, he mo harm them. And
an author TO be great and to contribute any
thing of value 10 literature must tell tho
truth, the whole truth and nothing but the
truth, no matter how he may halo II with
his art. Truth Is not pruriency nor realism
indecency, and the Intelligent public Is
weary of puppets and the unsequential
string of incidents which are not life. The
ambitious author writes for this class Of
readers, not for the school girl and the patent
novel devourer. That class of writers who
have the courage of their opinions, added TO
depth OF insight, should be %applauded and
encouraged. Those who are writing merely
for mercenary or sensational purposes and
who are devoid alike of love OF truth or the
literary instinct, should certainly be ignored
INTO obscurity, for whether harmful or not
morally, they cannot but lower the mental
one OF those who frequently read them for
want Of something better TO do.
GERTRUDE FRANKLIN ATHERroS.
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THE ronrEss OF PASSION SPEAKS.

The province OF the author Is to entertain,
10 amuse, TO instruct TO elevate, 10 sympa-
thize with and TO strengthen humanity. TO
accomplish this with so vast an audience as
the world offers, q variety of methods must
be employed. The realist and the idealist
can work side by side in harmony. Nur-
sery tales, however excellent, do not cover
the needs OF all the reading world. The
deeper experiences Of mature life have a
place in literature when those experiences
serve TO elevate honor, kindness and un-
sclfshness in the readers mind-as life, the
great realist elevates them In the eyes Of
every discerning being.
Sin and its methods have a place also In
lituraturc.
once heard q woman say she was saved
from n moral peril by accidentally reading a
novel In which occurred q realistic descrip-
ton Of a temptation like her own and its
consequent evils. But base and immoral
actions should be suggested, never dwelt
upon or digniiicd by detail.
There Is a, proper place In literature for
the delineation Of n great and loyal though
misdirected passion; there Is no place for
the portrayal Of licentiousness.
A lesson can be conveyed in describing the
steps by which the youth was led TO the
designation, but notin relating the interview
itself.
A murder described In detail incitcs more
murders Of n like kind. The horrible and
disgusting should be passed over as quickly
Us possible, the beautiful and noble fingered
upon in Literature as in life.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX.
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Romantic literature belongs to the domain
Of art, on the same level as sculpture, paint
ing and the drama. In nouc OF these othcr
expressions Is the abnormal, the corrupt the
wanto-ly rcpulsiye allowable. The me o.
trcat--N on these subjects ~ dchni,sly
drawn and generally acknowleased Inc
unue scssarily foul Is u~npardonanlei
Why should not the same nmi. oso
served Ia romantic ltcraturcl All arr uoa''
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LITERATURE SHOULD M non ".

Literature and art should be moral. There
Il no rial beauty apart from purity. hope
the time Is far distant when the language
which Taino puts into the mouth 81 En-
gl~ish-spcaking people shall be no longer
true. I'VE are practical and We would not
have literature corrupt practical life. We
believe In the family, and we would not
have literature paint the passions which as
sail H." JoHN GnEENLrAF WmrrfgR.
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Chancery Sale
-OF-
II e A ESTATE E.

20 900. h--Chancory Court o. shelby county
~ q Mlncy ct al Va Memphis 4 Charleston
Railroad Company q o., and other causes cOu.
foiidlici Herewith.
~ virtue II an lnicfloruiory dccrco Tor alo. en-.
tend ln hcabuNc cause on the iitisday ~ fcbfu.
AIRY, lNN9 lNs n ~, pace glk ! VIII sell nt-ruhlic
auction. 10 the highest bidder, Ia lront Of the clerk
und Masters onicc. M the Main ,trci cutmnoc %
The court houo 81 shelby county. Memphis leu.
ucsscc, on saturday,
. . 3Oth day Of March. 1850,
within legal hnun. the following dcscribci proper
y. situated Ia Memphis. shelby county, TcnneSee.
t0-utt
A tsct Of land beginning at the Intersection ~
The north line u Alabama street with tie west
line % Front street, ns nprFam on fhc map OF plan
Of the original town of FORT Pickering. and run.
niug thence north along the west line OF Front
sirccia ~ feet NOR or les to the south line ol
Roadway thenoc wttt along the aid limo 81
bro5dNay, a. laid down on aid map. ii2is feet
NOR OF les. 10 TIE cast line of the lots In block
No. ], on the original plan or maj Of Port Picker.
lug and theme along The eat line of the lots Ia
tnid block No I, southwardly, NJ feet, more %
le-, 10 the north line OF Alabama street, aud
thcnce ea.twardly along the north line Of Aisbama
inE
credit OF = aud " mouths note bearing Interest
with security required lien Uaincd. redemption
This 2sh DAY Of February, 1850.
n MCHENRT, CLERK and Masier
WA Randolph. solicitor.
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speeinI BuIIetin.

MEMPHIS, Tcna,, March %, lSSa-ii pm.
The following information has been recelved
from the Chief signal officer
Observer, Memphis, Tenn;
Hoist cold wave signal; temperature viii fall TO
nhont 40 degreos by s O'Clock am, MArch ~
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METEOROLOGICAL Report.

WAR DEPARTMENT L.. s SIGNAL SrRvicE,
MENrnls, TENS., March y, 1889. 4
18th Mcr. Time. Bar. Tenn. Hum,
ga m s.ssss-s..-s-sss ssss-sssssssssss .NNM ~ y.
Sp. @.q6i 60. 81
Maximum temperature. 20 minimum temper
nturc. 90. river, 5 r. m. la6 iect change during
past twent.iouf bOurs, o. rainfall for past twenty
four hours OF.
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President HARmsoS yesterday mp
pointed Robert Il. Lincoln. son Of Abm-
ham Lincoln aud Secretary Of War In
Arthur's Cabinet, to be Ambassador 10
England; Mr.. Mumt Halsiead, editor Of
The Cincinnati Commercial Gdstte, TO be
Minister TO Germany. and Allen
Thomdyko Rice, editor OF The
North Amerom Rerios to be Minister
10 Russia. These arc o~mincntly satisiac.
tory appointments. Mr.. Murat Halstcad
has been one Of the hardest hit,cu Of the
South; he has been betimes a bitter Re
publican; but Il is 10 his credit that he
supported Greeley for President and that
when Harrison wa known 10 be electcdho
Immediately declared for a hands-oG pol.
Icy so FAR s the South is concerned. Mr..
llalslcad will be welcomed nj Berlin.
whore ho Is already known as nm Amer.
clan journalist Of distinction, and he will
doubtless make as high a place for himself
In the esteem Of the Germans a. Mr.. Pen
dlcton, whom he succeeds, has made. Mr..
llalsicad Ia ono Of several journalists
whom the President has promptly hon.
orcd, putting his Administration In marked
contrast, In this respect, with Mr.. Clcve.
lands. And all the journalists whom no
has appointed 10 Office arc worthy aud
well qualified, are men Of Affairs and ox.
pcricncc, and will, Il Is hoped, reflect
credit upon him aud upon our country.
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TnE poitch electoral bill and the My.
cn registration bill did not come up In the
Senate yesterday ~ the order Of the day.
but they will today, when It is "a bc hoped
they will both be passed by decided votes
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lr Is earnestly hoped by the people that
the uniiorm-teSi book bill aud he Phelsn
history bill will net be heard Of amy more
this session.
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TnH bill appropnAling eos, 200 to com.
pleic and inish the West Tennessee Asy.
lum at Bolivar passed the House yesterday
aud will doubtless bvcomo law.
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Wealth Err.
indications

- WNNHTNVTVNf WFNH ~ FN@F
For Alabama. Mississippi and louisiana
Fair, followed In Mississippi and Louisiana
by light rains, stationary temperature ON
the gulf, cooler In the interior, variable winds.
For Arkansas, Tennessee and Kentucky: Fair,
colder, northwesterly winds
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onluM's bill 10 force Phclan's school
history upon the children Of the State was
rejected by tho senate yesterday. The
majority would doubtless have been larger
" Senators had recalled the fact that the
bill was In the nature Of special lcgisla.
ton, and therefore unconstitutional.
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rnr Ynrxn ninL Mrsr 90.

have treated this subject W often IN the
columns Of iBcoica that ! have nothing new
10 submit In my opinion. the young girl
has 20 40 unless she can stand moro than her
gratuitous champions Imagine.
Il. 81 think she viii stick.
JuLtAN HAWTHORNE
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Mr.. johnson was given a reception be.
fitting his triumph when he appeared for
duty nj the Office last night