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Year: 1878

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THE APPROPRIATION BILLS


WASHINGTON, Dec. 21.-Congress had been
In session two weeks and half when it
took the holiday recess yesterday. In that
two weeks and half the House had passed
slx appropriation bills, namely: The Naval,
Consular and Diplomatic, Pension, Indian,
Military Academy and the Fertilization
Bills. This is almost an unprecedented
thing, and reflects great credit on the House
Appropriation Committee. But very little
time has been wasted in the House, all
buncombe proceedings being confined to
the Senate. Chairman Atkins, with q
quorum of the Appropriation Committee
will remain here during the holidays to
prepare the remaining bills. 1t is the OBJ
Ject to send the last appropriation bill to
The Senate by the 18th of February, or three
weeks before the final adjournment. At
that time Mr. Atkins intends stating that
II any rush is necessary with the bills in
the last days of the session, it will be the
fault of the Senate.


THE ARMY APPROPRIATION BILL.


The Army Bill will. be reported directly
on the reassembling OF Congress. 1t will be
practically the same as the bill passed at
the last session, the committee having de-
cided to-day not to wait till the Reorganiza-
ton Bill is disposed of, or to allow it to be
tackled on the Appropriation Bill, but to in
slst that it shall become law, if at all, on
its own merits.


RIVER AND HARBoR BILL.


Inc House Commerce Committee yester-
day postponed till after the recess the con-
slderation of the question whether River
and Harbor Bill should be reported to the
House at this session. As the general in
cllnatlon of the Committee is to refrain
from reporting BILL this action may be
said to practically decide the question.
Year: 1878

Northern chairmen since tho great blank
have proved unsatisfactory, 1t Is high time
that Southern member should be given the
position. Gen. Johnston is in every way
fitted for 1t, and II the next Speaker looks to
capacity and the public service Instead Of
reward for some personal supporter, he VIII
get It, There would be u stnlwart shrek or
two over his appointment, but the country ut
large and especially the army, would up
pIaltd it,
Year: 1878

the road behind you has captured the bat
terry and ali of the rear guard. and is now
tack you in rear" This was very startling


Arm mstrong says he felt that oil was up with
his whole division and so did Forrest but to
his surprise and amusement, without showing
the slightest disconcertmept, he heard Forrest
shout out so that 1t was heard by most Of the
command : "Is hef Damn him That's Just
where I've been trying to get him all day.
well give him he'll p Sure enough, the jiue
was faced about, passed through the line Of
horses, met the enemy, drove him from the
road, recaptured the battery and rear guard,
and secured about one hundred cavalry prison
ers Aud to this day the whole of the men
present with him believe that Forrest had laid
a trap for the enemy into which he had fallen.
Year: 1878

We have known a country society which
withered away to nothing under the dry rot of
gossip only. Friendship, once firm as
granite, dissolved to jelly, and then ran away
to water only, because of this love that pro-
missed future as enduring and stable Is
truth, evsporated into morning mist that turn
ed to days long tears, OIL ly because cfthis;
father and q son were set foot to foot with the
fiery breath of an anger that would never cool
again between them and husband and
yonpg wife, each BtrAining at the hated lash
which in the beginning had been the promise
of God. blessed love, sat mournf1lly by the
side of the grave where all their love and all
their joy lay buried, and all becsuse of this.
We have seen faith transformed to mean doubt,
Joy give place to grim despair, and charity
take on itself the features of black malevo-
lence, all because of the fell words of scandal,
and the magic mutterings of gossip. Great
crimes work great wrongs, and the deeper tra-
gedies of human life spring from the larger pas
sions; but woeful and most mournfnl are the
uncatalogued tragedies that issue from gossip
and detraction most mournful the shipwreck
often made of noble natures and lovely lives by
the bitter winds and dead salt water of SLAM
der. SO easy to say, Yet 30 hard to disprove-
throwing the innocent ell the burden aud
the strain of demonstrating their innocence,
and Punishing them as guilty if unable TO pluck
out the stings they see, and to silence words
they never hear-gossip and slander are the
deadliest and Cruelest weapons man has ever
forged for his brothers heArt.-AH the Year
RoHRd.
Year: 1878

This stock has been selected with great
care, and purchased a. bottom prices, and
to it will be added from time to time all the
new patterns and novelties as fact as they
are produced in the New York market.
The favorable conditions under which these
new and attractive goods have been pur-
chased, enable us to offer the same at
prices lower than ever before.


The Manufacturing Department. as 3ere-
tofore will be in charge of Mr.. Henry Good
win, which is sufficient guarantee that all
Diamond work and the manufacture of any
article of Jewelry will be executed in
manner that cannot be excelled in any city.


The Watch Making and Repairing De-
partment will be in charge of the most
skillful and reliable workmen.


A Designer aud Eograver has been en-
ployed, and all goods purchased can be en-
graved on short notice.
Year: 1878

there, will give my recollection of his own
statement to me about it. l said to him one
at Fort Pillow how was thatf" ''Well," he
said, "pll tell You how that was. The boys
had promised their wives and sweethesrts TO
bring them a calico froot the first chance they
got at Yankee store, aud while were
fighting our way up tn tho bre asst works of Fort
Pillow, noticed the firing ceased all at once
on the left of my line. aud rode down that way
to see bat was the matter, and there was the
suffers store just broken open, and as l rode
up one of the boys came out with his arms
full of dry goods. l was , mad dropped him
with my pistol right behind him came
other, and he was captain, and he, too,
loaded with plunder, and shot him, too They
all went on with the fighting after that
"Weil" said chow about your shooting the
negroes after they had surrendered - 'Oh"
said he, "th ere has been great deal of ex-
aggerstion and misrepresentation about that,
aud III tell you how that was. When we got
into the fort the white flag was shown at once,
and the negroes ran out down to the river !;
and although the flag WAS dying, they kept on
turning back and shooting at my men, who
consequently continued TO fire into them
crowded on the brink of the river, and they
killed q good many of them in spite of my ef-
forts and those of their officers to stop them
But there was no deliberate intention nor
effort to massacre tho garrison q has been go
generally reported by the Northern papers"


ONE OF FORESTS FAvoRITEs.


= One of Forests most efficient and favorite
associates was General Frank Armstrong
himself man of extraordinary ability, and
with the peculiar qualifications of a great cav
airy general. Recently he related to me an
illustration of Forests simperturbability under
the most alarming circumstances. They were
operating against General Stanley in Tennes
see Armstrong in advance had struck the
enemy's pickets and was pushing them rapidly
before him. Forrest las riding with him. A
battery and rear guard of regiment had
stopped to water. So rapidly had Armstrong
been pressing the force before him that gap
of one or two miles was presented to Stanley


who swooped down upon this rearmost party
and occupied the road behind Armstrong; DI-
vision. courier or staff officer at full speed
bore the news of this disastrous condition of
affairs to Forrest, and the excited messenger
on arriving within hail, bswled out his tidings
thus General Eorrest, Stanley has cut into
Year: 1878

We don't like to he irreverent, but
would like to ask, What did our fore
fathers know? What for instance, did
George Washington know? He never
saw steamboat; he never saw a fast
mail train; he never held his ear to- a
telephone: he never sat for his picture
in a photograph gallery; he never re-
ceived telegraph dispatch, he never
sighted a Krupp gun; he never listen
ed to a "fizz" of an electric pen; he
never saw a pretty girl run a sewing
machine; he never saw a Self-propell-
ing engine go down the street TO a fire;
he never heard of evolution; he never
took laughing gas; he never hada set of
store teeth; he never attended an In
ternational Exposition; he never
owned q bonanza mine; he never saw
HOld Pr0b.;" he-but why go on?
No; when he took an excursion it was
on fiat boat. When he went off on
a train it was on a mule train, When
he wanted to talk with man in Mill
waukee he had to go there. When he
had his picture taken it was done in
profile with piece Of black paper and
II pair of shears. When he got the re-
turns from back counties they had to
be brought In by q man with an OK
cart. When he took aim at the enc
my he had to trust to crooked bar
relied old flint lock. When he wrote it
was with 3 gQose-Gnill, When he had
anything to mend his grandmother
did it with a darHing needle. When
he Went to a fire he stood in a line
and passed buckets; When he looked
alta clam he never dreamed it was any
relation of his. When he went to a
concert he heard q CRACKED fiddle and
an insane oiaTIonet. When he bad a
tooth pulled he sat down and never
left off yelling. When he got out OF
teeth he mummed his victuals.
When he wanted an international
| show he sent for Lafayette and order
| ed his friends up fEglp Old Virginia
with the specimen carefully labeled IN
bottles. When~he once got hold Of 9
nugget of gold from an Indian chic
he felt rich, When he wanted to
| know anything about the weather hf
consulted the groHnd-hog or goose:
bone. When-but why go on? What
did such man know? Who was he,


anyway?
Year: 1878

Professor Tyndall closed a discourse
at the Royal Institution with the fol-
lowing positive language: ~ hardly
think it necessary TO summarize up
what has been brought before you.
In fact, the whole discourse is but a
summing up Of eight months of ipces-
SAINT labor. From the beginning To
the end of the inquiry there is not, as
YOU have seen, a shadow of evidence
i'm favor of the dOctrine of spontaneous
generation. There is, on thecontrary,
Overwhelming evidence against it.
But do not carry away with you the
notion sometimes erroneously ascribed
10 me tbat ] deem spontaneous genera
ton impassible, OF Thai / 9ish to
limit the power of matter in relation
to life. My views on this subject ought
10 be we'll known. But possibility is
one lining apd Rrqqf Il another; and
when IN urday't seek fqr-eXperimen-
tai evidence of the transformation of
nOn-living into the living, l am led
to thecQnclqsion that no such evidence
exists and that in ths lowest, as In the
highest or organized creatures, the
method of nature is that life shall be
the issue of anteccdent lifc.n
Year: 1878

face of the woman who had b9en true
as steel through all.


And he took up the old life again,
only it was more lonely, more forlorn;
and yet frightened by Il hope that
where there is no marriage, Beryl was
waiting for him.
Year: 1878

Eliza, said fond mother to her
offspring recently rs that offspring was
about going forth in tow of young
man who worships the very sidewalks
she walks upon. go to tho bread box
and eat a good crust of bread before
you go out 4 don't feel the least bit
hungry. We have only just had tea
Il know it but you will be hungry be-
fore you get back; and, when Adol phus
takes you into restaurant. you will
eat ice cream and sponge cake, and
ham sandwiches ana oysters enough
to scare him out of years growth


You silly girls don't think Of this, but
we experienced women do. l was once
sixty-five cents worth of maccaroons
a cake for which have ever since en-
tertained the most profound Contempt
your paw c could have been Congress
man. with an fsquiline nose and Hy-
perion's curls. Beware how you sit
down on the budding flame of Cupid.
Of course Adolphus will spend the
money you save on billiards and things;
but that makes no difference When
he asks you to so in aud have some
oysters, even if you are hungry, don't.
Say yoa do not approve of girls vast
ing the money of their future husbands
on trities, when it might be applied
toward furnishing house. Point out
that for the price of an oyster stew you
might purchase a couple of towels. now
that toweling is SO cheap. and that n
saddle-rock roast is the equivalent of q
silver fork-plated, of course. but no:
easily distinguished from solid silver
or a glass sugar bowl. This always
takes the young men; it sets them to
thinking of housekeeping aud ma,ri-
mony; it makes them be heve you are
the incarnation of economy. and would
make an excellent wife; and so they
often say things which give you a hold
over them, and are effective before
jury Eliza treasured up these saga.
cious counsels, and acted upon them
with. such earnestness and effect that
when she came home she was an en-
gagged woman.
Year: 1878

The Withdrawal of the War Expectation


Prop Leaves the Market in Lamentabls


State of Depression Decline In Prices---


SpeculatiOns to the Surplus from


Russia.


LONDON, March 5.-Complete staynaion again on
Monday characterized the silver market. No tran
sactions heard of.


The Mark Lane Ecpress says the peace prospects
the fairly abundant granary stocks and heavy antic
pated arrivals, both from America and Southern
Russia, have combined to reduce the wheat trade to
lamentable state Of depression. During the past
week the inactivity has been such that in the absence
Of saes 1t has been matter Of some difficulty to re-
cord the ducuation In prices. That the withdrawal
OF the prop which the uncertain aspect Of political
matters furnished to the grain trade,


e1a WOULD DEPREss VALUES


was anticipated; but the concession of shilling to
two sillings per quarter has failed to improve the
demand for wheat which might be expected to have
done Having regard to the low state into which the
mlers have allowed their stocks to all over the
kingdom, an explanation is probably to be found In
the fact that supplies i'll prospective are too heavy to
allow the concession offered to have much weight,
and until some definite idea can be formed of the


AMOUNT WHEAT


this country may expect from Odessa Nicoleff aud
other southern Russian ports, miers will only buy
from hand to mouth. That the accumulation OF
grain in the Black Sea ports is large cannot bo
doubted for one moment, but we think . large pro-
portion will be found to consist of low class and
badly conditioned, the demand for transport dur
ing the war obliged inland graners to store % best
they might on the spot, where of the spplt-
ary for 80 long period would be to great extent
inefficient. There Is dragging trade for feeding
corn, as barley, maize and oats all receded six pence
TO- one shilling per quarter With very little business
cargo trade for wheat ruled steady without ouotable
change in values. Maize fairly steady. Barley dull
Year: 1878

RICHMOND, Va, March 5.-The auditor of
public accounts to-day reported to the joint
committee finance of the General Assembly
that the financial condition Of the common
wealth was truly deplorablc. No money was
being received for taxes, all pay
ments being made on coupons
on which there Was thirty per cent. discount


The Auditor states there is but $1O3 in the
treasury, and that none could be borrowed nor
collected, and that he can run the State govern
nent not an hour longer. The asylums were
behind even i'll the support acct unit, and he had
no means for paying the per diem Of members.
There was Sl75,0O0 now due to banks, and they
refuse further loans. He said the dead lock
might be avoided if the general assembly
would provide that the license tax be paid in
money only. OF the one million balance OF
taxes due for the last fiscal year, there was now
on the first of July $500, 900 more of them
would mature. The joint committee meets
again tonight to consider the situation.


In the House various propositions were sub
n,ittod looking to a solution of the public debt
question, one of which the appointment of
committee consisting of the Governor and
other State officers to meet the State creditors
in order to adjust the debt. No action is yet
taken on any of the propositions.


LATER.


The joint committee on finance this evening
adopted report in accordance with the audi
tors suggestion recommending the General As
sembly to pass law providing for the collec-
tion of license tax, including the revenue from
the Motfett register, in money to- the exclusion
of coupons.


SAN FRANCISCO.


SAN FRANCISCO, March 5.-The board of SUI
pervisors last night adjourned till April first.
The affairs of the municipality have come to a
dead lock for want Of funds. bill recently
passed by the Legislature restricts the board to
monthly expenditure of one-twelfth the an
nual revenue, holding the members and their
anv oVerdraft s eonseouence nof
nearly every fund is exhaused
for the current month. The fire department.
has not money enough on hand to buy feed for
the horses: No resolution can so to print, no
authorization be passed for payment, owing to
the exhaustion of the advertising fund. The
hospital and almshouse have but six hundred
dollars to run on for the current mouth. Some
legislation will probably be sought to relieve
the city government.
Year: 1878

5dBExooNsFIELD and ,Gortschakof are
not likely to meet again at another Euro
penn Congress. Neither was able to at
tend the court dinner at the close of the
last session Of the Congress, on account o.
bodily infrmities. They have been before
the public for more than half century
Gortschakoff beginning his life as a diplo-
matist in 1924, and Beaconsfeld publish
ing his first novel in 1925. The one is
eighty years of age, and the other in his
seventy third year.
Year: 1878

We regret to see our friend Capt. Thos. Scott absent from his place of business on account of quite severe spell Of sickness. We hope to see him np and at his post again in a few days.

 As soon as winter is over we hope to see something done for our streets and sidewalks. There Is nc use in say ing nothing can be done. If the town is too poor to do anything out of the
Year: 1878

we nave warned aDSenteeS SeVeral
times during the past two or three
weeks, not to return to Memphis
until there was a killing frost. But
in spite of our friendly admonitions
they have been pouring into the
city for the past ten or twelve days
only to sicken and die. DR.. Mitch
ell informs us that there have been


many new cases during the past
two warm days, and nearly all of
them have occurred among persons


who have been away, but who re-


turned with the hope Of escaping


the fever. This is a fatal mistake


which many of them have made.


We know that our business men


abroad are impatient TO get


home and renew business. We say


to them again there is no business


being transacted here, except in


connection with the different asso-


Citations which are caring for the


sick and burying the dead. Mem
phiS is now dealing in death, and


not in the goods which go to make


up the business Of the commercial


season. Why will our valued friends


and business men rush back into


the jaws Of inevitable death, when q


few more short weeks of absence


will insure them health, life an(


business? God knows we have car


ried many, too many, Of our best
friends and business men out tC
. Elmwood Cemetery already, and W,
cannot afford to lose more Of them


especially when a remedy for tina
loss is so simple and within tn
> reach of all those now out of dan


ger-Absence. We can scarcely ex
pect or hope to have killing fros


before the first or second week 0
! November. The light frosts 0
s October have never been known t
t destroy yellow fever sporules in th
: climate Of this country. 1t re
s quires November frosts, and sever
d ones, too, to dispel the poison
r GUS properties from the atmosphere
d 1t is a well-known fact that in 1S1
If we had three or four light frosts !
J, October, and yet the fever contir
s ued its deadly work until the M
}. vember frosts came, and even ate
'r they came there were many DEATH
IS Again, we say to our friends abroa
B. shun danger by remaining in yot
r, safe retreats. The few paltry do
Al lars you migkt make by returnir
8, here to renew business will b
'e compensate you for the deadly ri'
er you would incur in the foolish a
+ tempt to grasp them. The treac
~ erouq, insidious poison still linge
u in our atmosphere, and those WI
O. come from a healthy cline to o.
g. fever-scorched city can only
y termed deluded victims of fthe bee
70 onings of an invisible but murde
Nc Gus monster.
Year: 1878

WE wish it distinctly understood
that we are no apologists for those
rich men who ran away from Mem-
phis at the commencement Of The
dreadful epidemic, and cent (well,
let's sep about a nickel per week
back for the support of those they
left in charge Of their valuable
possessions.
Year: 1878

WE regret to hear that our friends
of the Citizens relief committee
have taken our remarks ia regard
to feeding the idlers SO much to
heart. While we WOnld not do
either Of the gentlemen composing
that organization any personal in
jury, yet we must oppose the en-
couragement and support Of able
bodied men in idleness. Idle hands
create evil hearts.
Year: 1878

prohibited from discrimination, or
extortion, and to act as a compet-
ing line with the present Pacific
roads, there is little doubt that the
measure will be consummated by
proper legislation. When this is
done, and the work of construction
fairly inaugurated, it will give such
an impulse to all the languishing
industries of the country that we
shall forget the troubles and mis-
fortunes of the past in the new tide
of wealth and prosperity that will
set in from the far West.


WORD FOR EASTERN CAPITALISTS.


Boston, New York and Philadel-
phia seem quite Indifferent about
the completion of the Texas Pacific
railway. Many of their capitalists
and business men say: "Let the
Southern Pacific build the road and
we shall get all the advantage" A
very great mistake. If the Central
Pacific builds east of this point, it
will only be to reach the mineral
fields of Arizona a1d transport their
treasures to San Francisco. The
Pacific railroad syndicate is deeply
interested in making that city the
one only commercial mart of the
Pacific coast, and to achieve this,
would gladly divert large portion
of the trade that should naturally
go to the Atlantic and Gulf ports.


J,L. T.
Year: 1878

Chicago Tribune: Medical men
have known for a long time that the
best remedies for consumption were
plenty of pure air, sunshine and ex-
ercise, and also food that contained
much carbon. Cod liver oil has
been a favorite remedy, and has
done good in prolonging the lives of
consumptives, and putting off the
approach of the grim destroyer.
The virtues of other remedies are
in proportion to the amount of
carbon they can infuse into the
system to feed the consuming
flame that wastes the body. The
theory is, that the internal fever
burns up the carbon in the blood
faster than the food eaten can re-
place it. The disease then preys on
the fatty substances of the body,
and destroys the lungs, and event
ually the life; in short, there is not
oil enough in the lamp for the wick,
and the latter is burnt and the lamp
goes out. This is the prescription !:
One-half pound finely cut up beef
steak (fresh), one drachm pulver-
lied charcoal, four ounces pulver-
lied sugar, four ounces rye whisky,
one pint boiling water. Mix all to-
gether, let stand in cool place over
night, and give from one to two tea
spoonfuls liquid and meat before
each meal.


have used this preparation very
frequently, and have never found it
to act otherwise than beneficial.
The dose should be small at first,
until the stomach becomes used to
it, and then gradually increased.


This remedy has, at least, the
merit of simplicity. Any one can
try it. If it does no good, it can
do no harm.