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Year: 1879

Within the last two or three days We
have seen enumerated in ono Of. our ex-
change papers q list, covering several
long columns of our defaulted railroads.
The amount of capital therein invested.
much of which has been irretrievably
lost, il fearful TO contemplate. It demon
strates very fully the difficulty of safe apd
profitable investment of money. The
experience of the last three or four years
in placing money, either temporary or
permanently, has fully demonstrated the
fact that far more knowledge Of The gen.
eral situation of business afiairs and the
exercise of more judgment and discretton
Is requisite than is generally snppoeed. ~
We have never known time when this
difficulty of investment was greater than
just now. The banks, the savings funds,
the trust companies and individual capi-
talists are all in q great bother to place
their cash 20 as to make it pay something
In the shape of interest and at the same
time hold the principal sale. The Bos-
ton Adpertiser some m0Dths since gave
ont some Wholesome suggestions on this
subject, showing that not only are present
values to be kept 10 view, bu', what Is of
far greater consequence, the successful
investor must be able TO forecast with
tolerable accuracy the prospective value
OF whatever he may put his money ip-
to.


Present values may be epherne eral, but
they are easily sscertained; but prospec-
tive values are affected by so many con-
siderations and by so many undeyeloped
conditions as to give wide field for the
exercise OF good Judgment. With many
the idea prevails that if given piece Of
property can be purchased for much less
than it cost it must be good Investment.
A man may fatter himself that he has
made an excellent investment when he
buys block of buildings OF piece of
land which cost hundred thousand dol
lars for sew ty-five thousand, but it ty
no means follows that he has done SO
just because be has bought it SO cheaply.
The property is valuable or the reverse,
al the lime he buys l., without any re-
gard to the original cost whatever. III
fact, the former cost of any piece of pro
perty is one of the most illusivs among
the many misleading ideas a. TO what
constitutes a good investment. A little
reflection will show that there is q, deep
and wide gulf between present value and
past cost. - q. sum
Year: 1879

MIDWIFE-1Ol West Sixth street, acknowledged
ul by medical men, as well as the citizens of the
city, to be the most successful and experienced in
her occupation in the northwest. 81.
Year: 1879




We understand that the work of re-
moving the bodies of persons who died
of the yellow fever and were hastily
buried at Emwood is still going on.
Any one of common sense must know
that this is very dangerous to the
health ofthe community, and it ought
to be stopped, if the people have to
appoint vigilance committee for the
purpose Yesterday, in the search for
the body of Mr. T, Il, Blitz, three
bodies were taken up before
his was found. In another in
stance ten bodies were dug up
before the subject sought was discov-
cred. There are a great many orders
in for the removal of bodies from the
trenches to more appropriate places.
Five or six negroes are at work all the
time, and horrible stencil arises in
the vicinity This ghoulish business
should be prevented, and if there is
no law to stop it let other means be
employed. We are surprised that the
respected president of the cemetery
allows such a thing, or that any under
taker would engage in it. Haven't we
had enough of death and sorrow and
gloom without deliberately planting
the seeds of another epidemic?
Year: 1879

CAPTAIN JAMES LoUDoN, large
creditor Of the city, had nothing to do
with garnisheeing the relief fund sent
here by generous world during the
prevalence of the yellow fever plague.
The Loudon Brothers have paved
Main street and the levee with stone,
doing honest work at reasonable
prices. They have not been paid in
full and have taken steps to levy upon
the assets of the old city of Memphis,
but they regard the money sent here
to relieve the sick and dying of the
city as a sacred fund, which they
would not attach even if they had the
semblance Of a legal right to do so.
We take pleasure in excepting these
gentlemen from the class of creditors
who would seize upon a charity fund
being used for the relief of the freez-
ing and starving poor of Memphis
Year: 1879

they have counted upon such unnatural


and suspicious combinations as the solid


South to help them to success. The South


is not solidly democratic in any sense ex-


cept that of a demagogue. Let Mr..


Bayard announce real democratic


platform in December and one-half
the South will kick out of the
traces; but Northern votes will much
more than make up the loss. A large
part of the Southwest wants railroad subsi-
dies, which are undemocratic wants new
imitation, which is undemocratic wants
the unrestricted coinage of a debased silver
dollar, which is undemocratic. If there is
to be u real democratic party it must do
that which will lose it many Southern
States But if there is to be continuance
only of a sham democratic party-in that
case the republicans will elect whomever
they choose to nominate.
Year: 1879

BILE torment many good liver to the very
verge of worthlessness; while hard meats
whose only virtue is in their flavor, fish
smothered in irritating sauces, and desserts
richer than Crnsus would have dared
to be, are through the stomach
stupefying the brains of numerous
men worthy of at least nobler means OF
self-destruction. Most of these annoyances
and misfortunes the doctor might avert
were he sent for at the proper time ana
shown into the proper department OF the
household. There is only one serious fault
about the proposed new system-if doctors
properly inspect kitchens and give advice
to servants and householders, what hope is
there that they themselves can earn re-
spectacle livelihoods?
Year: 1879

during the past fty years are matters OF local his
tory. The command displayed great courage at
riots notably the Astor place. in lsii and the Dead
Rabbit disturbances. In 1857. 1t was also the meam
of putting end to the unseemly police war II
1887. when tho old Municipal force fought the
Metropolitans. Always prompt in response to ths
call Of duty. the Seventh deserves it's popularity and
gallant reputation. At intervals attacks are made
upon the regiment because battalion it hap
pened never to carry it's colors into any battle
during the late civil which does not at all
detract from the good name of the organization.
Those who remember the outbreak of the war in
1861 that when the President called on
the governors for military aid the Seventh started
tor Washington In less than twenty -four hours, and
when it marched down Broadway, with full ranks,
drawn from every profession aud calling in life,
the people gave their favorite militia regiment
such Gods speed stirred mems souls. II
was not tho Seventh's fault that il
met no enemy on the way to the capital,
but by seizing. rebuilding and holding the
railroad line between Baltimore and Washington
it performed service fully equal to the timely
act Of General Butler In taking possession of Fort
ress Monroe When the thirty days for which over
900 members had volunteered had expired the regi.
ment returned home because fully one half of tho
rank and file had already accepted commissions ia
the volunteer service and nearly 700 carried swords
before tho end of tho struggle. From that date
until the end OF the war the Seventh
represented on every battlefield and in every
campaign. Besides this tho regiment
cruited to its tull strength and went into the
field whenever fresh calls were made. Those
who carp at the Seventh might as we'll ind
fault with the battalion of West Point Cadets. They
did not march with muskets as body but the
two Oldest entered the regular and volunteer
services as officers. thereby proving themselves
more valuable to the nation There other
militia regiments in New York quite as popular as
the Seventh. as has been shown on frequent occa.
sions. The Ninth. Twenty second, sixty-ninth and
seventy-frst WILL no doubt. ind the citizens of New
York as generous the seventh. They only need
an opportunity to show their faith in our National
Guard deservedly known to be tho model organiza-
tion in the Union.l
Year: 1879

The nastiness of the streets Of New York
last week battles description. The mud
was unusually sticky, slippery and greasy,
comprising accretions OF filth from several
weeks or dry weather. BY retarding loco
motion and by soiling clothing beyond
human capacity to cleanse it the pecuniary
damage it did may be fairly estimated at
several hundred thousand dollars. Of its
immoral influence in rufiing temper and
provoking profanity we. will say nothing.
The tour Police Commissioners who are
charged by law with the duty Of keeping
the streets clean, and are endowed with
nearly million dollars year for the pur-
pose, admit that the condition of them was
inexcusable But each of the four disclaims
responsibility and casts the blame on the
others. This is the privilege of u four
headed Police Board. But the long suffer-
ing people cannot help remembering that
no less than three of them were appointed
to Office by Mayor Cooper after preferring
charges against their predecessors, in which
neglect to clean the streets was prominent
specification. Are we any better off than
we were before? If not, why not? Is it
possible that one reason is because partisan
politics and not executive capacity con-
trolled the new appointments? And is not
four-headed Police Board an absurdity
ANYWAY?
Year: 1879

what larger than it was in 1876. owing to
increase ofpopulation during the four years.
There are 140, 600 citizens of the State who
gave no account of themselves in the recent
election, and how they will vote next year
is matter of conjecture. There is nothing
in such q state of things to discourage
effort by either party. Success in New
York in 1880 is likely to depend on the
popularity of candidates and skill in man
aging the canvass. The chances are against
the democrats unless they settle their in
testine quarrels, but if the party can be
reunited it will be able to make vigorous
publicans to hold the advantage they have
gained.
Year: 1879

An English physician is writing series
of papers to prove that doctors might serve
their patrons in the kitchen as we'll as in
the sick chamber The idea is eminently
sensible, for the old saw about an ounce of
prevention being worth pound of cure
exactly expresses the situation. People
become sick because they have violated
some physical law, and nine times out Of
ten it will be found that the malady
began at the stomach One of the most
valuable acquisitions-one which cannot
always be had, even for money-is good
cook; but when she or he is obtained, what
happens Nothing, except that tho family
meals are more palatable than previously
they were and that there is less to grumble
about in matters of variety and seasoning
1t is possible TO offer dinner, even in
ing color ones recollections with sad
and sombre tints, but accomplished cooks
do not always know how to prepare such q
one. Their standard of excellence is o
pleased palate; natures standard is an un-
perturbed digestion; and as nature is sort
of q shadowy being anyhow. while the aver
nge solidity of cooks Is remarkable, the
cuisiaiere has the advantage of tho older and,
nominally, more respected autocrat, and
she uses it to the delight of her patrons and
the permanent benefit Of the medical pro-
fession.


In the greater number Of families the
situation is still worse. II most good
cooks enrage the stomach, what Is to be
said Of the bad ones--tho servants who ore
expected to prepare three meals day,
though they never had any instruction in
the culinary art? Further, what do tho
men and women who order dinners
know of things fit to eat2 1t is not
only possibility, but lamentably
frequent occurrence, that q meal Of which
the essentials are good in themselves is
ruined for practical purposes by combina-
tions of dishes that can never agree upon
transformation into blood, bone and
muscle. The condiments, seasoning, &C.,
which are supposed to make dishes palata-
Year: 1879

THE ETHICS OF ANGER are defined in
abstract of Mr.. Beecher's sermon. Preachers
seldom admit that anger can ever be right
that this defence of muscular Christianity will
attract attention.
Year: 1879

The BUSINESS MEMS MODERATION SOCIETY
has enrolled Governor-elect Cornell and General
Butler among its members If this temperance
body is going to draw recruits from among poll
ticians the liquor business is doomed beyond
hope.
Year: 1879

Yes, she says with smile. you
know full well | will not abuse any
confidence you may repose in me.
She turned to 90 to the store; he went
to look after his team. Now Just look
at him He is at home, seated in
front of a roaring log fire. The black
cook is getting supper in the kitchen.
She pauses to smile over her red
calico dress and new calf-skin shoes
Johnny is strutting around with his
boots drawn over his pantaloons.
Mary is before the glass trying on her
new bonnet. The baby is crying and
jumping in its fathers lap. The wife,
dropping on one knee and placing one
arm around her husbands neck and
the other around the child's, says,
" Kiss papa, baby" As the tiny lips
approach the mustachc she coulden {
help pressing her own between. 1t
was a triangular arrangement, but
papa got the most of it.


Early to bed and early to rise is
his custom. i is now Q o'clock.
Everything is still and quiet around
the farmers residence. and the gilt
tering stars bespanele the frost cover
ed roof that shelters one of The hap
piest families in the solid South.
Year: 1879

A fond parent in Brooklyn, whose


daughter was approaching her eigh-


teenth birthday, ascertained that a


handsome watch was what she wanted


for a present. He had friend in


Maidcn-lane who selected watch and


chain with great care, and the birth


day gift was received with many ex-


pressions of delight. One night soon
afterward the young lady forgot to
wind up the watch and in the morn
ing the hands and wheels were mo-
uonless. She was frightened and
took it for granted that she had used
the watch carelessly and thatsomething
was broken inside. She did not like
to say anything to her father about il.
but going to Fulton street jeweler
the next day asked him to look at the
watch and see what was the matter
with it. The jeweler took it, put
magnifying glass before his eye, opened
the case, touched the wheels with
pick, and remarked that it needed
cleaning, as it was very dirty. On
inquiring the cost of such an opera.
ton, she was told it would be
$3.50. The young lady was amazed,
for she had had the watch only three
days and was reluctantto believe thatit
required so extensive renovation.
She passed on to the best known Jew
eler store in Brooklyn, and,
handing her watch to the man
at the counter, preferred the
same request as before. He went
through the same process of inspec-
tion, and said the hair spring was
broken and the watch needed cleaning.
Inquiring the cost again, she was told
it would be ST. She said she would
see her father about it, and at night
when he came home she told him of
her days. doings, and said his friend
must have cheated him. Her father
took the watch to New York in the
morning, and in the course Of the dav
stepped into his friends store and
asked him to look and see why it had
stopped. His friend, after looking at
1t a moment, took up a key, and wind
ing it up, handed it back with the
remark, mo watch will 90 unless
it is kept wound up" Moral to the
Brooklyn watchmakers Learn your
trade. ~ Tribune.
Year: 1879

Pulaski Tenn Correspondence the Gin


cinnati Commercial.


Did you see him? He was coming
out of the door of the Giles National
Bank he had just dumped handful
ofthe subsidiary into his vest pocket,
he was showing roll of bank notes
into his pocketbook, he wore no coat;
his jeans pantaloons were hecked with
cotton, so was his wool hat; he had
just sold three five hundred-pound
bales, and had cashed the check.
Leaving the bank he went in the
western door Of the courthouse. In
a few minutes he passed out of the
eastern door. He was folding up his
tax receipt. Did you hear him ?
Bill, he says, II have just paid my
taxes. | don't owe nary man on TOP
of dirt one cent. He had followed
Johnston in the charge at Shiloh; he
was with Hood in his retreat from
Nashville; he had proved himself a
man Of courage; he was an affectionate
husband, a kind father. There was a
consciousness creeping over him that
if not born a nobleman, he was to day
an independent sovereign. He met
his wife and daughter on the pave
ment. What did you get for cotton.
husband?' "Sll,25, want that good
prieeY' Yes, we can live at that.


She drew him to one side Illus
band, " she says, you have more cot,
ton to sell and pork to spare. Our
Mary is now seventeen yerrs old, the
young men are coming to see her;
couldn't you give her a seal brown
merlno dress, trimmed with silk. Mrs.
Rudd will fit and baste it for a dollar
and can make it on the machine. and
60 to Mrs. Grahams and get her a IS
bonnet, she never had one, and johnny
wants a pair of boots, and"-"Wife,h .
says the farmer, since the war we
have had a hard struggle to make a
support. You have done your part
without grumbling or complaining.
Now my head is above water; what's
mine is yours; there is the pocket book
with the money, Use it in any way
you want to,
Year: 1879

WE regret to oppose anything delib-
erately determined upon by the legis-
lative council, because personally we
have such high respect for the gentle
men composing it, They carry a great
responsibility, and have to act upon
many perplexing and difficult ques-
tions. Their duties were new to them
when they went into Office, and with
all the care and judgement they could
exercise, it was natural that they
should make some mistakes. In the
main, they have done we'll and de-
serve great praise. Perhaps they have
been praised too much by the press and
have come to feel that whatever they
do will be endorsed and sanctioned.
We have seen good men in Office be-
fore who were praised to death. We
have sustained the local government
as far as we had any influence just to
the extent that we conscientiously ap-
proved its action, and shall do so in
the future. A little criticism now
and then may have healthy effect.
The earth closet business is too mani
festly piece Of nonsense to be sane
toned and we give fair warning that
we intend to give it free advertising
until it is abandoned, which will not be
later than next summer. DIR. Porter
m cans business and will no doubt en-
force the ordinance to the letter. The
better he enforces the law the sooner
it will become odius and be abandon
ed. He is responsible for more chan
the enforcement Of the law, he is the
father Of the ordinance. He cast the
deciding vote to make it law. 1t is
his pet idea, and a sweet pet it will be
when fully tested. The sooner he
sees his mistake the better for
him and for the people. If the system
is universally adopted warm weather
viii tell tale which viii run the peo
pie out Of town worse than yellow
fever. We will have sweet scented
place next summer. There will be a
rise in the cologne market, and those
who cannot buy the cologne or balm
of thousand flowers, will be glad to
get breeze from slaughter pen OF a
soap factory. Meanwhile as law abid-
ing citizens we have no course left us
but to comply with the requirements
Of the ordinance
Year: 1879

YESTERDAYS Courier journal is
marvel of journalistic enterprise, typo
graphical beauty and exceptional bril-
liancy. 1t is double sheet OF the
largest size that can be printed in this
country. There are ten columns to
the page, making eighty columns in
all, and it is all in one piece About
twenty Of these columns, in solid
miniop, are devoted to Gen. Grants
reception there the day before, his
wanderings over the world and his
early history. The dinner at Mr..
Watterson's, is dismissed modestly
and neatly in five lines. The general
makeup of newsy and miscellaneous
matter takes a wide range and is
exceedingly interesting. As a news
paper this number will compare favor
ably with any paper ever issued in
New York Or London. They never
do any thing by halves in old Kahn
tuek
Year: 1879

A New York correspondent Of a
prominent Memphis bank writes :
I'VE have shipped all your orders to
date for currency, and beg to suggest
that you husband what currency you
have as best you can, as the drain Of
currency for weeks past has been from
New York, and we for some two or
three months past have received gold
coin only in payment Of all due US.
Our supply of notes is almost exhaust
cd, and as we receive none, we shall
soon, at it now looks, only be able to
make shipments in gold coin.
Year: 1879

For wonder, and for the first
time in years, Senator Sharon, OF
Nevada, has gone on to Washing
ton to take his seat in the Senate.
This exemplary conduct is doubt
less referable to the fact that Shar-
on is q candidate to succeed him.
self. He is emphatically on bis
good behavior. 1t is to be hoped
that the Democratic Secretary of
the Senate, who has announced it
to be his purpose to decline to pay
Sharon either salary or mileage for
the period during which he has
been absent from his seat, will
stick to his determination. It is
simply outrageous that a man who
is notoriously o citizen of San
Francisco should be elected United
States Senator from Nevada, and
the infamy is intensified when, for
years at stretch, he never once
presents himself at the scene of his
supposed labors. The thing calls
for reform in both aspects.
Year: 1879

THERE is no doubt of the fact


THAT in San Francisco a very ener-
|getic movement for the annexa-


tion of Mexico to the United


Estates has its headquarters. 1t is


fostered by capitalists in the East


fern States, and it is said to have a


very strong support in certain dis


affected provinces of Mexico, or at


least amongst the disaffected pub
lie men of those States. 1t is long
|fime since the restless elements of


the United States have had any oc'
|cupation for their military and ac-
{quisitive impulses. In the days


when the Democratic party swayed


the country almost despotically its
|pewer was largely founded upon


The fact that it was continually
/ adding to the national territory


and doing it at any hazard-peace-


fully If it could, forcibly if it must.


This policy guaranteed to the De-
mocracy the allegiance of the


large class who do not theorize


much about right or wrong, but
who are content with the loaves
and fishes of this life. All projects


OF the acquisition of new territory
were always fought by New Eng.


land. AS section the six staunch


little New England Common
wealths have ruled the United


States for the past seventeen OF
eighteen years. All the indications
point to the transfer of this power
to the great west, northwest and
southwest. These people them


selves inhabit territory which was
either acquired by purchase or con
quered, and they naturally sympa
thize with the policy which ha
made them what they are. Con
sequert!y, we should not be great
iy surprised If the advocates of al
extension of the stars and stripes t.
the southwark should make them
selves felt in the next eighteel
months. That diligent and stronI
efforts are being made to secur
such result there can be no doubt
Year: 1879

THE New York Sun justly re-


marks that, for the first time in
his life, Grant finds himself really
popular. This is due to the fact
that distance has mellowed and
magnified the military achieve.
ments of this fortunate soldier;
and, at the same time, thrown into
obscurlty his faults as civil mag
istrate. The best thing that could
happen to Grant would be to be re-
lieved from the opportunities of
ill-advised friends who would like
to force him into a position in
which he would be surrounded by
the corrupt parasites and rings who
made his eight years. residence in
the White House notorious for off,
cial proGigacy and wasteful hand
ling of the peoples money.