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Year: 1879

A call signed by large number Of
our leading citizens for a meeting at
the Memphis Theater at $3.50 o'clock
to-day appears in the morning papers.
This is matter Of great Importance,
and it is undertaken none too soon.
1t behooves us to look at the situation
as it is and avail ourselves of the ex-
perience of the past and all the scien-
tlhc and common sense, knowledge and
executive ability that can be COM
manded. AT this meeting it is ex-
pected that the committees appointed
at the joint meeting of the chamber
Of commerce and cotton exchange
last Monday will submit report and
that action will be had on the same.
We recognize in the signers of the
call men who have the interest of the
city and the welfare of mankind at
heart. They and others who will at
tend the meeting can be depended
upon to devise and inaugurate sound,
practical measures. 1t will remain
for the great body of the people to
cooperate with them, and all work
together to accomplish the great sani-
tary reforms upon which our future
safety and commercial prosperity de-
pend. A people united and in earnest
can accomplish wonders. We have
great interests of life and prosperity
and happiness at stake here, and
a more serious and important matter
of a worldly nature could not be
brought before the public. The peo-
pie need only be aroused to become
united and earnest. We must take
care of ourselves and never again call
upon the world for aid. 1t is in our
power to remove the conditions which
make epidemics possible and promote
them, and we may as well make up
our minds to admit one thing, and that
is that this will cost much labor
and money. If Memphis is worth
saving now is the time for
display of faith and works.
The men who assemble this afternoon
mean business. All we ask and hope is
that all classes unite in the movement
on foot and determine that Memphis
shall, in the course of time, be made
as clean as a New England village and
as desirable a place of permanent
residence, year in and year out, as any
city Of its size in the country. This
can be done if we will it, and epidem-
les numbered with things of the past
There is more vitality, pluck and
recuperative power in Memphis, we
believe than any city in the world,
but we must utilize and solidify these
splendid qualities. What we have
most lacked heretofore to make Mem
phis something has been common
purpose and cooperation for the gem
eral good. Letus commence now at
the bottom and work out the splendid
destiny evidently intended for Mem
phis and show the world that we not
only have courage and good impulses.
but foresight and concentrated bust
ness sense.
Year: 1879

1t looks 50 much like an effort to get out
Of that investigation with some slight
semblance Of credit. -''7-


The point that Is carefully covered up
in the dispatch is that no denial Is made
OF the verdict Of the experts some months
ago to the effect that the accounts Of the
Treasury Department balanced to a cent.
Another point TO which no reference is
made, Is the ostentatious announcement
Of the Senator about a year ago that
he was on the eve Of developing
something tremendous to the country.
He made such an announcement 10
the Senate. 1t was almost startling in It's
character. Now comes the denouement.
The three black crows are fading away
into something very like a crow" Eras.
ures have been discovered. We dare say.
Mr.. Boutwell, said as much as that him.
self on the floor Of the Senate. But the
money Is all right according to the ex.
pcrts, and that is the circumstance that
constitutes the dead fly in Senator IIenry's
ointment.
Year: 1879

to the surprise Of every body, has himself
called public attention to the scandal
which his friends would have liked to
have had buried and be forgotten. When
it was reported sometime ago that reso-
luton would be offered to investigate his
conduct, the idea was hooted ut, because
it was well known to any one at oil famil-
lar with the subject OF Congressional priv
ilege that it was a matter with which the
House had nothing whatever 10 do. A
day or two ago Acklen stated to several
friends his purpose to make personal ex-
planation. They tried to dissuade him
from it, aud showed thatit was only stir.
ring up very nasty subject; but he was
headstrong, and would not listen to any
advice. Henot only made his explanation
and declared his innocence, but wound
up by asking the House TO investigate
him, and plead almost piteously that his
request be granted. The almoust unani.
mouse sentiment OF his fellow-members
was that such thing was unheard Of, and
could not be done. What Acklen dwelt
upon particularly was. that nearly oil the
Committee that had investigated the sub.
ject had ignored the social question, and
had looked at it entirely in its political
bearing. This is where the shoe pinches.
The scandal affects him socially in very
marked degree, and he is almost entirely
ignored in society. By his course to-day
he has invited new criticism, as his deClara'
ton OF innocence on the floor OF the House
has not yet strengthened him any more
than his recent card to the newspapers did
The general verdict Is that Ackien made Q
large sized donkey OF himself, for he has
by his own act, made this scandal part o.
the official history Of Congress.
Year: 1879

A German physician in relation to
food as between animal and vegetable
holds that both vegetarians and meat
eaters are on the wrong track. Veg6ta-
bles are not more wholesome than meat
or meat than vegetables, and moth
ing is gained by consuming COM
pound of both Whatever nutritive
qualities they may possess" he says,
care destroyed in great measure and
often entirely by the process of cooking.
All food should be eaten raw. If this
practice were adopted there would be
little or no illness among human beings.
They would live their apportioned time
and simply fade away, like animals in
wild state, from old age 1t is hardly
probable that ne will find many civilized
beings to fall into his views of eating
everything raw
Year: 1879

Newspapers of the present day, re-
marks New York paper, contain ar
ticles upon subjects in science, literature
ard art, which twenty-five years agonO
editor would have ventuped to publish.
This fashion has its Objectionable points.
II tends to encourage superficiality, to
engender cOnceit. and to lead incompe-
tent persons to form opinions upon very
insufficient knowledge. But on the
whole its tendency is good. A little
knowledge is not dangerous unless it is
misused; and all knowledge, however
great, must be little in its beginning.
The fashion of administering literature,
science and art in small and simple doses
brings great numbers of people under
their influence who otherwise would re-
main without tincture of any one of
them. People who would not touch any
bound book but novel will read
little paper-bOund pamphlet or maya
zine article, or if not equal to one of
these, an article in newspaper upon II
subject in which they would otherwise
remain in absolute Ignorance. In this
way thought is stimulated and the appe-
tite for knowledge provoked. This is one
of the means by which the present time
has become one of such general intellec-
tual activity The mind of the world
at large has been excited TO action by
little books on great subjects.
Year: 1879

A man employed on the farm of Will
liam Potter, in Sassafras Meek, Cecil
county, Md, wasNdislodged from his po.
sition on the platform of Il steam thresher
by a wagon being driven close alongside.
Another workman was standing near
him holding three-pronged fork with
the prOngs upward. Workman No. !
was forced either TO fall upon the belt
Of the thresEer, in which case he would
have been thrown into the machine, or
upon the fork. in the hands of his fellow
workman. He chose the latter course.
One prong of the fork struck him under
meath the chin, and glancing from the
bone, ran through the lower and upper
lips and out about the cheek bone. With
some effortupon the part of both men the
fork was drawn out, when the wounded
man sank to the ground. He discon-
tinued work for the remainder of the
day, but was at his post the next morn
ing.
Year: 1879

The law now in force, if permitted to
act, will in time drive us to the silver
standard. If silver continues to increase,
in IL short time twill equal in amount the
gold, then if it be given free circulation
the gold standard will be lost.
Year: 1879

TnK number of failures during the first
quarter of this year is far smaller than
that during the corresponding quarter of
1873. The bankrupt law has been repeal
ed in the meantime. 1t must not be
argued that because man cannot take
advantage of the bankrupt act his affairs
are blooming"
Year: 1879

A FEW years ago poor pawnbroker
took it into his head that the surest road
to fortune was to get possession of what
other people earned, SO he armed himself
with usury and took to the highways of
kingdoms and empires. He succeeded in
placing every nation of the world under
bonds to pay him tribute. He never
earned an honest dollar, but, by virtue of
his bonds, he absorbed the product of
three millions CT laborers every day of his
life. and at a recent ball in honor of the
emperor of Austria, the Baroness Roths-
child wore $800,000 of diamonds.
Year: 1879

WE can pay every public and private
debt we owe with the cheap silver dollar,
and violate no contract. BY paying the
interest on the public debt with silver we
can save more annually than is being
saved by the 4 per cent. funding scheme,
and by paying the principal In silver, we
would save $1GS,OOO,OOO. This is worth
saving, and finance minister who prop
crly guards the public interests would not
neglect to give the government the benefit
of it.
Year: 1879

TX reply to a question by Mr.. Warner
Secretary Sherman said:


"We cannot get the silver dollars into
circulation. We have tried it in every
way, but we cannot succeed"


We would suggest to the secretary that
he offer them in payment of the public
debt, and stop interest from and after the
time the tender is made. II they are not
then taken he can make more interest by
their folly than he has through the wis
dom of his funding scheme.
Year: 1879

As1W SASSA Assp ~S~s A>'


Last night, the sluice in the Tas-
ker river bank blew out, causing the
marshes to be again overfowsds There
is no doubt but it will be repaired with
in day or two. s.. 4F


The railroad crossing at Seventh street
is in bad order. &


Two trains took possession of the Sew
enth and South streets crossings, and put
all stop to travel OH the former for not
less than half an hour.


Laura, the eight year old daughter Of
l. Davis, living in Dobbinsville, met
with very distressing accident yester-
day afternoon. 1t seems that she caught
hold Of the tail board of M. Bart0n's
-four wagon for the purpose of getting .
ride home, and by some means her foot
became entangled in the wheel breaking
and otherwise injuring her foot. Her
cries caused the driver to stop, and he at
once took her to the home of her father
and medical aid was called in.


Workmen are busy laying curb from
Fifth and Sixth streets along the east
side of Delaware. To show that the
property owners are in hurry, they
have the brick for the pavement on band
ready to begin laying as soon as the curb
is set, tfa
Year: 1879

We desire thus publicly to return our
thanks to our many friends and patrons
who thronged our store rooms yesterday,
on the occasion OF our Annual Holiday
Opening. And to annunce that our store
will be open every evening until 10 o.
clock. The bulk Of our goods are now laid
but we shall be in receipt of new goods
and novelties daily, Come and see us.


JAMES Il WEBB, 224 Market st.
Year: 1879

The fair for the benefit of the West
Presbyterian Church will open in the
Grand Opera House tomorrow, and
will continue until Saturday evening.
There will be a large and carefully Sc
lected stock of both useful and orna-
mental articles for sale. AS the proceeds
are for worthy cause, the fair should
be literally pattOnized.
Year: 1879

AN EARNEST DISCUSSION IN THE SENATE on AN
APPARENT JOB IN FAVOR OF RAILROADS.
WASHINGTON. Jan. 1j.-Nearly three hours were
devoted by the Senate to-day TO an earnest discus
sion of the merits Of the bill for the revision Of the
patent laws


4 wear ago when this bill first came from
the Senate Committee, attention was called
in a Washington letter to TuE tribune
TO a provision contained in the second
section of the bill, which seemed to have
been inserted for the purpose of enabling railroads
and other large corporations to seize upon and ap-
propriate to their own use the property of invent
Ors in patent rights, while debarrinG the latter
from any remedy at law. The section has been en-
tircly remodelIed since that time, but as developed
in the debate to-day the Objectionable features
seem to have been retained.


The section as 1t stands provides that IN all suits
for the infringement of patent the measure OF the
plaintiff recovery shall be the same both in law
and in equity. Ii 4 license fee has already been es
tabl;shcd by a reasonable number of transactions
applicable 10 the case at bar, such hceuse fee
OF n portion thereof, according to the extent
and duration OF the infringement proved, shall be
the measure Of the plaintiff :, recovery. If license
fee has not already been established, one shall be
determined for the actually made from all the
Evidence in the case. The Objectionable feature OF
the section lies in the provision that no
account Of savings shall in any case be allowed,
and no evidence or account OF the defendants
profits shall in any case be admitted, except as the
actual profits resulting from making tor sale or
selling the thing patented or the prOduct
thereof as aforesaid By this provision
il would seem that any railroad company
OF other large manufacturing corporation
may any patented device III its shops or fac tories
which has the merit of saving expense If an
actual profit is not realized from the sale
of the manufactured articles or some pro-
duct of the article. As railroad companies
very seldom manufacture any articles for sale, il
would seem that this provision gives them an un-
limited Use of whatever they may think It best to
appropriate in the way of patent rights.


This section of the bill was most earnestly Op-
posed by Senator's Conklng. and Davis. of Illinois,
and was defended by the members of the Patent
Committee as the bestunder all the circumstances
that could be devised.
Year: 1879

Colonel Won Borcke, the Pruss an
officer who attended Prince Frederick
Charles to tn marriage of his daughter
to the Duke of Connaught, fought, it is
said, for more than two years of our
civil war on the Confederate side. He
got bullet in the left lung which the
doctors were Unable to extract, and
went over to London, where he wrote
an account of his war experience for
RIocl,pood
Year: 1879

DETROIT. Mich. Sept. s. 1879.


The excursion steamer Alaska, of the Detroit and
Put In Bay line, while a few miles from the mouth
of the Detroit River, in Lake Erie. on her down
trip at eleven O'Clock this morning exploded the
dome of her boiler. instantly killing both the
gneers and one deck hand. and seriously scalding
ten other deck hands-two fatally. OF the large
number of passengers board only one was slightly
injured. The steamer City of Detroit was but
short distance from the Alaska at the time Of the
accident and Immediately went to her assistance and
took Off the passengers and crew. and towed the
wrecked steamer to Amherstburg. Canada. near the
mouth OF the river. only the upper works OF tho
steamer suffered from the accident. The amount OF
the loss is not known at present.
Year: 1879

Mayor Cooper yesterday received all the docu-
mcnts from the Park Department in relation to the
contract for the improvement Of Riverside avenue
and the charges growing out of the same which
have been iully recorded in the HERALD. His Honor
said that it would take some time to examine thcm
and after he had done this he would make up his
mind what course he should pursue. The Mayor
subsequently announced that he would give the
Park Commissioners the investigation they de-
manded and that he would communicate with them
on the subject IA soon as possible. 1t was deemed
probable that he would send them communication
to day The Mayor is in favor of having the exam
ination conducted with open doors.
Year: 1879

Some extraordinary rumors werecirculated among
the city politicians yesterday affecting the guberna-
torial honesty in the removal Of County Clerk Gum
bleton and in the failure to remove Mr.. Loew from
the Office Of Register. In the latter transaction
motives were imputed Of 80 base and improbable a
nature that few could be induced to hear them pa
tiently and they are not thought worthy OF repro
duction in type
Year: 1879

Last year when the epidemic was
raging in Memphis among the
Cincinnati physicians who rendered
their services and lives to Health
Officer Minor was young DR.. Col
lins, of this city, an unusually
bright and intellectual man, who
was making precarious living at
his practice, not through lack of
ability, for of that he had abund-
ance, but from the lack of patients.


His services, together with five
others, were accepted, and on a
certain evening they all went to
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
depot to take the 8 80 train for the
South. Young Collins in taking
leave of the health officer, who had
gone down to see tho little band
off, said: "Doctor, L will either
make a reputation in Memphis or
never come home again" lie ar
rived in the city, and reported to
the Howard Association for duty,
was given an assignment in part
Of the town where the disease was
carrying people off by the scores.


Among others that he attended
was the family OF \ wealthy planter.
lie was successful in bringing the
children through the sickness, one
of whom was beautiful and in
telligent young lady.


Within short time the doctor
himself worn down 10y unceasine
labor, was smitten with the scourge
and lay tossing feverishly in his
small room. The young lady,
hearing of the circumstance went
to the house and nursed him tender
ly through his illness.


1t is almost needless to say thai
by this time the youthful pail
became mutually attached, pro-
posal and acceptance followed, II
which consent was unhcsitatingl,
given by the parent. They wer,
atterward married, the father in
vesting his new son-in--law with
handsome interest in his lara,
plantation. DIR. Collins is now on,
Of the rising young physicians o
Memphis, and is the efficient secre
tary OF its board of health.
Year: 1879

Ut is said In Boston by Butler democrats
tnaL Gen. Butler Will receive ana ACCEPT the
form and Democratic convention this fan the
former leading on. WIG


q The democratic members of the Louis,.
ana CONSTITUTIONAL convention In caucus laef
nignt voteo on several propositions TO scale the
state DEBT, also on the majority report for ita
re-adJustment, all OF which were deteate1
Year: 1879

THE BOHEMIAN COMMUNIST SHARPSH00rBRS
who were imprisoned at Chicago for firing on q
crowd were In court yesterday, but pending the
result OF the injuries OF Donahue, one OF the
wounded men, the case was continued, and
they were remanded without bail
Year: 1879

VCR NAVAL REPUTATION ABR0AD-Our min
lister to Great Britain, in dispatch to the De.
partment OF State, calls attention to the follow
ing extract from a communication In the Times
from high authority: GAS an example of an
Almost perfect cruiser, may quote the Tren-
ton, OF the U. 8. navy. UWpen COM
pared with our own largest unarmored frigates,
the Trenton seems to combine every point of
naval efficiency which they possess, whether
for the protection or destruction OF commerce,
While the tonnage OF the American ship is less
than half the tonnage Of our own vessels. AS
cruiser OF the hrst-class In war, and a train
Ing ship In peace, commend the Trenton to
the admiralty"
Year: 1879

A singular and deplorable' event has
just taken place, which shows once more
what one may expect from the intelli-
gence of certain animals.


Everybody knows the pond in the Gar
den of Acclimation, in Paris, where the
seals frolic, and the little rock, from the
top Of which the keeper Alexander comes
at meal-time to give the animals their
food.


The seals which the sight of Alexander
made happy, climb sometimes the rock,
and were in the habit Of coming to get
their food out of the hands of the keep
er himself. While Alexander was feed
ing these amphibians, wedding party
arrived. Alexander wished to be gal
liant toward the bride, and made the two
seals climb the rock. There he took a
live fish and held it in such a way that
the seals in order to catch it were obliged
to stand up and make jump for it
This sight made all the visitors burst in
to hearty laugh, and the whole wed
Year: 1879

"A correspondent at Lisbon vOuches for
the truth Of the following narrative, which
he translates from the Diaria de Noticias:
At the distance of one kilometre from the
village of Fratel, near Mia G.e. on the
frontier of Spain and Portugal, near the
town Of Portalegre), Theresa Maria, who
was carrying her husbands dinner to him
in the fields, was told by little shepherd
boy that wolf was prowling about the
place. Wishing to see one for the first
time in her life, she put down hel basket
and climbed up to a high place to which
the boy directed her. There she saw the
animal in the act of devouring a lamb.
The shepherd boy began shouting and
throwing stones, to see whether it would
, let 60 its prey; and the wolf in it's fury
then attacked the poor little fellow, jump
ing up at his face, tearing the flesh from
his jaws, and throwing him upon the
ground. The woman seeing the boys
imminent danger, in an impulse of heroic
self devotion, ran on the wolf wholly un-
armed, seized tight hold of him, and then,
after a struggle, contrived to blind him
with stone, and eventually killed him.
Meanwhile the boy whom she had rescued
ran, wounded as he was, to seek help in
the village. While several villagers were
coming up, armed with guns, stones and
sticks, to Kill the beast and save the wo-
man from its fangs, she was returning
to the village covered with blood, and
with her arms, hands and face terribly
wounded. She said that at times she
was on the point Of being overcome, but
contrived to keep the animals throat in
the close hold of her left arm, while hit,
ting him hard on the head with stone
which she was able to pick up. She was
taken to the Mia hospital. It is with re-
gret that all will read what have now un
fortunately to add, that exactly month
afterwards the poor creature died there o1
her wounds. She has left eight children
six of whom are very young, and dis
tracted husband ITO mourn her loss; bu
she found comfort in her last sufferings
and under the pain of such a parting from
the recollections that she had given hel
life for another. The English and Portu
guese have sent some e22 as small con
ISOLATION to poor and industrious family
who have to mourn noble heart takel
from them.


| In a postscript written two days late
the correspondent says: II am sorry in
deed to have to add the narrative tina
the little shepherd hoy, for whom tn
brave woman sacrificed her life, is deat
also She was allowed to console her dy
ing hours with the belief that she ha,
perished in saving life. But it was no
to be so. The poor child died in the ter
riple sufferings of hydrophobia. Beside
the subscription raised on behalf of tn
bereaved husband and the orphans, anoth
er has been very properly started to erec
a monument at Mia, SO that such dee
may not be forgotten"