The Daily Memphis Avalanche from Memphis, Tennessee • 4

lit A jr Af V- yjv- r'-v1 1 1 underwear iu great variety Vf 4 NTH WATER AT LAST Grafton Quincy Bee and Yaeger New Orleans Departed: City of Quincy and Thompson Dean New Or known and appreciated in New York Jas Wallace Mr Wallace is the President of the New York Guaranty and Indemnity Company a large monied corporation with whom the Water Company have made a large share of their financial arrangements We must add in conclusion that all who witnessed the display yesterday were not only astonished but gratified Among the numbers who were present were Mayor Johnson City Engineer Humphreys Chief of Fire Department Anderson several aldermen and other city officials who unanimously pronounced the Memphis Water Works to be a success llie great curiosities of the nineteenth century The committee appointed hy the Chd tuber of Commerce to rejnjrt on aid railroads West of Mississippi river M-quest all parties representing project-d railroads west of and connecting with Memphis to meet the committee at office of Brown Hill No 35 Madison Ircet Wedm-sday April 2d at 4 pnv Tajuntv furt Clerk James Reilly reixrta the following marriage licences is turnel luring the last week: Iognn and Mi Fannie Frazier fi Patterson and Miss Millie Cams 1 1 Trohaugh and Jliss Allice Rol-on A A Hutchinson and Miss 5f Pinkerton Jenkins and Miss Ida ianhamW Pearce and Miss Mary I lernasters and and Miss Freeman About 1 o'clock till- morning a nuiultcr ot soldiers visited the notorious I iouse of Annie Gallagher when a quarrel ensued with the inmates of the tablishment during which one of the oliJiers was thrown out of a window i the ground The soldiers afterward i a large squad raided the house and lul it not been for the interference ol reant MeElroy and a nuniUw ot is Jieemen they would have shsl 11 xdl Pistols were drawn on Itotli ile- yet no lire was given hy either arly No arrests were made The following telegrams remain indelivere1 In the office of the Vt-iii I'nion Telegraph Company I a 1 1 stres-t: Barney 'Hughe- (2) laiewenstine Bros jr (-) A igdcMi George Mallei Kramer 1 5i it I Reddick Bartram nt In Lippi nan Bank 'filer brooks A- Co Finnie A IMA Post Harris Aro TT i lagler laslyard 1J A- Vliit-vorth A Bros" Gaisman Estes Fixer fc Pinion I Ifiwliorn Aco llucelman HartHson German National Bank tewart Bros A Guynne Brodt A i 'oojier Chief of Police Washing- mi IvOWt Ri A liitlered It Furstenlieimer Merri-nan A Willcox Win Bunn Wasli- iigton Seligrrian Mea liam Aco I dieihler A Co Miller Burleson Pattison Buchanan II A Co Mrs i McAllister Bale A Patou vt'o Farmer Joseph Andrews A 'ons Ad Storm Jas Dixon Harris Mallory A Co Farmer A Warden Har-i i-on A Morton Sloan Geo Houston Francis White Fiaut A BaCroix A llugne James II Mul-lortl Mancliester Bank A fi Tiithcr Koiiert Gilwon Keelan Washington Nathan Brothers James Ren-ki i A Bro of systems and the third the raislngof tlie financial means THE liOCATION was a matter of no little difficulty The point where such works could be erected must be in a healthy location away from gas houses abbattoirs manufactories and other establishments useful aud necessary but generally described In health reports of cities as nuisances The then limited means of the company rendered it also desirable that the cost of the work should not be enhanced by erecting them at too great a distance from the center of population The hoice was one of difficulty and finally the company selected grounds on the northern edge at Chelsea on the eastern bank of AYolf a -hort distance from its junction with the Mississippi and ou the line of the Memphis and Paduoah railway thus securing jto itself jtii a water and land route for the receipts of fuel and other material necessary to the works TIIE SYSTEM adopted by the company is the one known as tlie Holly system which had of late years been tested in several cities and towns and could lie introduced at less cost than any other It would extend the limits of this article loan inordinate length were we here to attempt a description It is suffi-Hent to Bay that-by the aid of force and lifting puniv- worked by powerful machinery the water can le brought from a great depth to the surfaiTe and Iroin there discharged into a reservoir or directly into the supply pipes The did! prrcas of erecting costly dams and long lines of aqueducts is thereby ob-viated while the water lieing taken Iron i the bottom of the river is not subject to the extraneous substances hicli arc mixed with the water on the surface Till-: FINANCES were as delicate a subject as most of Ilia other difticultii-i which tlie comuiny had to contend against The works would require an amount of capital Inch could not be scured in the home market and tin corporators had to go to tho East to secure the necessary means There they find to come into emnpetition with a thousand different enterprises all ot which held out profitable investments to tlie capitalist and it was not until January ls 1872 that theeompany succeeded in negotiating a loan on $iioouo first mortgage onds payable twenty years alter late in gold ami heal ing 7 ier cent interest in gold giving a deed of trust for the faithful payment of loan and inter-ist This enabled the company to COMMENCE THE WORK and it was in June ls72 that oerations were undei taken in earnest Tliegrouml solectisl by tlie company for the site of the work -i is tin highest which could be stvured It is above any slaughter houses manufactories or gas works and will when the works are completed be ii id isi si so as to In Iree from injuries hy roaming cattle mischievous or ciiminal depredators or other causes tending to injure the establishment The grounds secured at present are ample but if more be needed the eomjiany having like other similar corporations the qualified right of eminent domain can at its pleasure condemn the contiguous lands needed for the extension of its works Before we commence to de-scribe them let us give tin read a description uf the line of route taken by tin WATER FI FES These commence at tin works with a main of twenty inches in diameter This main goes due east until it strikes Bickford Avenue thence it goes south to Kafifarrans street wlierea sixteen inch pipe goes to Jackson stret in North Memphis At Keel street Chelsea an eight inch pipe runs to Fifth down Fifth to Auction down Auction to Third down Third to Jackson thus completing at present the circuit in that part the city Another eifjht inch pipe diverges from the main pipe to Chickasaw street and up Chickasaw itreet to the Gas Works thus giving water laeilities lo another irt of lie city At Jackson stri ct the main pipe supplies four branches situated at the respective alleys anil running down to t'uion treet The fourth alley from Jackson to Cnion lias a ten-inch main tlie third alley a six-inch main tlie second alley a ten-inch main and the first allcyan eight-inch main These four mains are again crossed and connected at Washington street by an eight-inch pipe 'these pipes are all of the best iron and were tstel by hydraulic pressure before lieing sent from the foundry and tin defects which several had were received by careless handling while in transit Tlie company of course is laying down additional pipe: as rapidly as it can and ere many years there will In no street avenue alley or lane in Memphis which is not traversed by this net-work of pipes On entering tlie Water-works the ENGINE H0PSE the first which claims the is leans Lady Lee Red river Northwestern Dubuque General Anderson Tennesse river Rob Roy Keokuk St Joseph Memphis Utah Arkansas river Ilammitt Cairo River falling slowlv Weather clear and warm The "barge company havej knocked freights down to-day to forty cents on flour to New Orleans and twenty cents pound freight New Orleans March 29 No arrivals Departed: John Kilgour Nam Hale Cincinnati Belle Lee ljouisville John Kyle tit Louis Clear aud warm Little Rock March 29 Clear aud pleasant River at a stand MISCELLANEOUS The tow-boat Alice Brown is on her way to this port with a coal fleet containing over 250000 bushels all for this market The Great Republic Capt Thorwc- fan is due to-day on her way to New rleans Capt El Outlaw leaves to-day fora brief visit to New Orleans The Liuiy Iee will le down on her way to Red river to-morrow The Clioek is busy putting up new set of chimneys A heavy rain at Pittsburg yesterday favored another eoal-boat rise The steamers Peerless and liryarly collided at New Orleans last Wednesday without serious injury to either steamer The Capitol City is due from lelow this morning on her way to Nt Emis and tlie Marble City will pass down her way to Vicksburg The 11 Turner will lie down early this morning ou her way to New Orleans The towboat Peytonu with her three barges tihalcross Parker and McCul-lum obtained full cargo at Evansville and Newburg just alxive and started Friday last on their way to Southern markets The entire cargo amounts to 3000 tons and it was all sivurcdjw ith-in forty-eight hours The Exorter Edinburg Ashland and Nashville are still detained by low water nbove-Little ltoek at Hints previously rek)rted The Armadillo and Mallie Rm from Cincinnati are Ik-low Rob Roy bar Ixiund up The Mollie Ebert from New Orleans for Little Rock and West Wind from tliis eity for Little Rook were tx-low Pine Bluff trying to get up at last accounts Tlie Emilio Lallarge eptetel to start from Little Rock for St Ijouis last nigiit Drunkards and Tcniperanre Don In (he Kenatc Washington Cor Chicago Tribune I have soon many horrible cases of the bondage of drunkenness in tin Senate but never heard of any one where tin man was saved by Mr society Anti sad to say 1 never hoard that anyone of tluso drunken Senators had bought his scat or sold liis vote The kor inebriate is the victim often of ids good nature and they who admiio him uress the bowl to nis lips Who in tlie Senate lias made it an iarmst personal effort to save a colleague's soul going down tills leclivity? 1 know of hut one case aud that was Senator Vickers of Maryland who wresthd with William Saulshury like a brother Tlie Congressional Tern iterance Society took up Senator Yates and made hint sign the pledge and before the new moral nature got any growth whatever Dr Wilson trot test him out on tin platform as a patent-iniHlicine lecturer would trot out a limn witli a cured chilblain Then lie says with a flourish our little miracle! Bring on the next The poor weakened nature shipwrecked between indulgence a ml votegetting made a ssch like a trumiet and in tin Musi blew id I his strength away STEAMBOATS CAIRO anil uii'l si l-mis I'oi' Cull nnl HI Ioiil- A I I TO I TTY hither iinst i Al SloltM Treasurer Leaves ns iibow HIH )a anti Inst Hi UI non FOR ARK AYS AS RIVER nii'li-i lout Arkiinsiti River Uotmmuy ts Mull Kor Jtlult hltll: Rx-lc tiul till jiouils tliriugl) to Fort Hum It UTAH Vooi hi is master D-aves ns shove i'UEsOAl Arl I lit ill JOHN HAKUt Aeent mh Oftl-p on hfu-llxint xt Uouil fr FOR 3IF44' Oil 1 15 A 4 for Vicksburg Natelie ul New Otlciin- The rlegaii! 'Hss nger steamer 11 UK NEK Rusk master l-enve ai above 111IS DA) tilth I11-0 nt ti am 1-or freight or pti-wigo npplv to MILLER No Elliott Ulock loot JellerHou st SAYERS A KKKNAN Rimserucpr AgrpH mb 10 FOR REI) RIVER Carter of Red River For JcUis -son Shreveport Alexnnlrin Urntnl Eeora anti way tamlings LADY LEE I Slm-lds master IjOnves as above- MONDAY 31st Inst at pm For lieighfor pivecus apply to J' WASlllNGIXXN Agent niliY) 4i Mmllson street FOR VICKNIlintG Memphis nnl Hi Dims Malt Line For Jl Inn Uhlcot Greenville Vicksburg nml wiylmi iug 1 ('iilal)Hii master vator Rmlling is TRIM DAY March So nt lu am mh29 AD HTOKM TreaHorer for vrurrF river White River Accommodation For White nml Rluck rivers BATESVILLE Albert Hinitli master: 1 Young clerk I -oaves Tl)EKlAY April I al it pm For freight or passage apply lo rIGHTHURNK Agent mh'AI 2M) Front street Memphis ami New Orleans Packet The elegant new Steamer John IS Maude Noel MatOer Alf GrlssoiiiTcIerk Will run In the trade the ENTIRE year leaving Memphis every Alternate THI'RMtAT Her next departure will be on TH IJ KSDA APRIL 10 inh'A For bl FianciM Tuesday St Franciti -Regular Bowman Muster Kmv For all way landings ou Mississippi to Helena to Marinnn and Kt Francis river lo burg Will leavo Memphis as abovi I pHUieuIenr Wittsburg Will leavo Memphis every TUKHDAY at 6 pm For freight or pamime apply on lioard felU For Point sand Intermediate laiullugH Mteamer FRANK FOKKEMT ibSexton master Will make Tri-weekly trips as above leaving Memphis Mouduys and Fridays For freight or passage apply on loanl oeU Regular White ltiver Packet Far Bln AT Augusta and Jack-on per The Splendid Passenger Bteamer Pat Cleburne Ashford master I DavTsTelorET" Leaves EVERY TUESDAY son at i pm For freight or passage apply WALKER at his Wharfboat LEU No Elliott block Freight received at the fool tea Mcanpkla Helena and Friar's Fetal Semi-Weekly Uue The elegant passenger steamer JPRH ILIS James Lee maste dffiKS'J? ro Eor freight or passage apply on hoard fel Kcmpkia and Arkansas River Faekei Uo 'TIIIS' WELL is one of the marvelsof modern science There are neither brick nor stone walls to its sides but solid f-inch thick boiler Iron made out of 3 feet wide plates The excavation of this well was begun fast July and was at first only 3d feet deep but was sunk gradually by drifting and digging till the required depth of 60 feetwas reached At the bottom there is a solid bed of masonry of three feet in thickness then -'follow two layers' oak timber Joined 9 id corked like the deck of a steamboat and on these timbers rest eight iron girders 18 inches wide aud 18 feet long Theplates ol the iron wall are riveted and braced in the center by angle iron rims The well is divided into four different sections and has as many stair-cases while in the center comes up a huge iron column which is neither more than less than the 20 inch main pipe which connects at the bottom with THE TUNNEL built out of brick 49 inches in diameter 6 feet high and 130 feet long leading to the receiving well which has been sunk 20 feet below the bed of Wolf river in a gravel bed inaccessible to seipage or sewerage and connected with the filtering crib which by the nature of its construction inspects all the water and refuses to pass any impurities But out of the tunnel and out of the well we emerge again to the surface aud go to the llOI LER HOUSE A forty-foot square apartment paved with brick where there Ls a battery of three great tubular boilers each sixty inches in diameter sixteen feet long and having eighty-three Hues: These are the most voracious fellows in Memphis To keep them at work and contented GOOO pounds of coal are daily required while a doukey engine is iet apart for their especial use to give them the water they need Then in a corner hy itself stands ail auxilliary upright boiler eight feet in diameter and twelve feet high No one will ever earry that fellow off But outside are other objects worthy of notice First THE RESERVOIR Which Ls two hundred and thirty feet long one hundred and sixty feet wide and sixteen feet deep paved with brick laid in cement and with brick walls at its inner side while the outside will lo soddel with perennial grass The cai unity of tliLs receptacle Is only 5000000 gallons of water This is intended to be used in case of Hros and not for domestic service Then tlie company has an inclined plain roadway worked by a small portable engine which docs the work of one hundred porters and carries up tlie coal required for the lurnaces from morning till night without complaining and without ever thinking of striking for higher wages PERSONAL Then are a few men who have done all this work this truly great work who have spent their time an I their means to accomplish those groat results Mr John Cuhbins tlie President of the company who lias personally superintended the work Mr Pearsons the faithful comieteut and honest Engineer and Mr Frank Holly who lias had the exclusive charge of putting up tlie machinery Mr Mahan the Financial Agent through whose efforts the financial arrangements were successfully accomplished Mr Cameron the Secretary and the other officers of the company all deserve great praise and more than that reward which we hofe they will achieve by their success The water pipes making 2200 tons wero bought of Gaylord fc Co of Cincinnati Ohio and the contract for laying them was awarded to Rutherford A Air the senior member ot the firm lieing John Rutherford tlie President of the Gayoso Gas Company of tliis city The contract of Rutherford Air lias been carried out successfully amt the work under it per-lbrmedto the entire satisfaction of the company THE WORKS TESTED Yesterday was set apart for tlie purpose of making a partial test of the working of the water works anil it was arranged that at twelve different point the water should he let on simultane ously Tlie programme could only ho partially carried out as a break was reported at Vance and Orleans streets in the southern part of the city At the other points designated the exhibition took place and was even more than successful TEST OF TILE MACHINERY while the streams were being thrown in the various parts of tlie city the action of the machinery was carefully noted by experienced engineers selected for that purpose by request ol the mayor and others with results as follows Tunc Steam 1'res re Water IJrero Revolutions 70 tU () 70 (A) This table abridged from the report of James Clark Engineer of steamer No 2 shows the gratifying fact that during the test the engines were not run to more than one-half of the speed they wero capable of and the firing of the boilers was correspondingly light the smooth easy action of the machinery and the periect solidity of the foundation also adding to the certainty that the power of the engines is sufficient to throw double the number of streams which were thrown at the test AMOUNT OF WATER The measurement of the Reservoir showed a consumption of water during the test of 368074 gallons giving 550673 gallons thrown by each stream the average flow from each nozzle leing 255 gallons per minute At corner Shelby and Vance streets which we visited first the stream In the beginning was ninety-one feet perpendicular but soon attained a height of one hundred and twenty-seven feet perpendicular equal to one hundred and eighty feet horizontal At Union and Wellington the hydrant wasobstrueted by mud but nevertheless the column of water thrown reached a heighfof one hundred and fourteen feet perpendicular At Union and Lauderdale one hundred and forty feet was tlie maximum: at Jefferson and Orleans one hundred and sixteen feet and at Union and Main one hundred and fifty feet Other tests were made at: Center alley and Adams street 153 feet perpendicular Poplar between Main and Second streets 150 feet perpendicular Poplar and Orleans streets 135 feet perpendicular Monroe between Main and Second streets 143 feet Union and Main 150 feet Besides the above there were several other tests made at different places the result of which has not been reported to us but the average Is said to be from 110 to 155 feet perpendicular There were only 115 pounds of pressure on the pipes tie yeral of the hydrants had not been washed out and tne nozzles were as yet not smooth while a good many of the mains especially in the southern part of the city were not thoroughly cleaned thus preventing anything like a true test From these simultaneous tests it will be seen that the works at present are more than ample tc supply water either for domestic use or olher purposes for the 1 wants of the city Wherever the demands shall render an i Derated supply necessary the company we feel assured will be able to supply the want connection- wUh this matter we append the following telegram received yesterday bythe company: 1 -Mew Yobk Cmr lt- -) 4817311 :30 pm' Mahan Financial Agent the city Pf roEhkUaJcOia soagra- of all kinds at Lowensteln A Spring 187? We will for this season introduce more styles and finer qualities of hats than ever has been displayed in this market mh27 lm Leidy A Co Hatters Auction Sale A Oo will sell on Monday morning a large lot of furniture and groceries at 201 Main street Silks Silk Bilks 1 I Beautiful new springs silks received at Lowensteln A Messrs Murray A Ridgely the popular fashionable merchant tailors will remove to the new building now being erected for them at their old place on Madison street about the first of May For the present they are at 802 Mam street up-stairs opposite Peabody Hotel where they are receiving 01 their own direct importations from London and Paris the largest and finest stock of English and French piece goods ever brought South It includes all the everything kept in first-class establishments and gentlemen desiring spring and summer suits should send in their orders at once mh23 Grand spring opening Thursday April 3d at Lowenstein A Fine parlor furniture at auction Read the advertisement on first page The latest styles hats at Buyers of furniture wanting a bargain should attend the great auction ale advertised on first page Goods on exhibition Monday New novelties this enstein A week at Low- Look out Public Library Concert April bth For information apply to John Hudson 7 to 9 p111 Pealaxlv Hotel )ur hats are the latest styles Leidy Opening day at Iowenstein Thursday April 3d Great bargains in fine luirlor furniture may be exiected at the great auction sale at 267 Main street on Wednesday April 2d Bee advertisement on first page Vienna liat new for traveling at New dress goods just received at liowenstein A All lovers of good wines and liquors should call on Geo A Hamilton at the Commercial Hotel Haloon They will find there 10 year old whisky the best in the city The French pocket hats House furnishing goods at tlie lowest prices possible at 15 Lowenstin Corned Is'ef family use in hhls and lif hhls for Taylor Dutfin 278 Front street Fashionable hats at Public Library Kentucky can bo ordered through worth tickets South- Grand opening day Thursday "April 3d at Lowenstein A The chcancHt nml Ixjut Ktenin Dyeing anil ailing lioiiMo in the city is ut g4ti Second -treet limit A old stand llanson A Walker Feather weight hats RIYEIt NEWS Avaianchr Ocfick Sunday Mar-li ARRIVED Steamer Carrie Knuntz New Orleans Henry Ames New Orleans Crescent City St Lcuis Grand Tower St Louis City of Alton St Louis Peninali Arkansas River Allegheny Belle Evansville Mary Forsyth New Orleans DEPARTED Steamer Carrie Kountz St Louis Henry Ames tit Louis Crescent City New Orleans City Of Alton New Orleans Peninah tit Louis Grand Tower St Iiuis Glasgow Cairo Pat Rogers Cincinnati Mary Boyd Arkansas River Legal Tender White River Pink Varlile Arkansas River Allegheny Belle New Orleans Mary Forsyth New Orleans IN PORT Cheek RI WEATHER BUSINESS The river swells slowly with plenty of water to all points above The weather is clear and pleasant and busi ness yesterday was good Arkansas river continues very low and waler in White is getting thin The following is a record of what transpired at the landing up to dark: The Henrj Ames passed up putting off 125 sacks of salt and 15 bxs oranges The Crescent City and a tow passed down The City of Alton passed down merely touching to put ofr a passenger or two The Peni nali passed up from Arkansas river Sutting off 61 bales of cotton here The rand Tower arrived from St Louis with a big freight including 1672 sacks of corn 151 of bran 177 of oats 1674 bbls flour 846 of meal 110 of potatoes 41 pkgs of bacon 152 kegs beer and heavy consignments for the interior She unloaded and went up the river nearly light in the evening The Glasgow lelt light lor Cairo during the evening designing to take a lot of corn from Madrid Bend to Hickman as she goes up The Pat Rogers got off for the Ohio during the evening with 450 bales of cotton The Mary Boyd and Pink Varble went to Arkansas with fair freights and the Legal Tender had good trip for White river Tho Allegheny Belle and barges and the Mary Forsyth passed down heavily laden and did no business here 8PECIAL ItIVER TELEGRAMS Pittsburg March 29 Continuous rain Monongahela rising ll feet inches No arrivals Departed: Ju iata Cincinnati The Reindeer de- Kirted for Louisville with 90000 and ittle Giant for Cincinnati with 70000 bushels coal Evansville March 29 Clear and mild mercury to Tho river has risen 2 feet: very windy Pori list ffp: Rose Hite and Idlewild 6 Fayette 9 Charmer 2 pm Eckert 2 Andy Baum 6 Down: Pey-tona and barges' 8 am Mary Ament noon Gray Eagle 1 pm Indiana 7 Business active Cincinnati March 29 River 39 feet and rising Departed James A Parker and Arlington Memphis Louisville New Orleans Skll-linger Red rivers II Durfee passed from tit Louis to Pittsburg with barges Joseph Ii Stowe with barges for Pittsburg Baltic and My Chplce to Pittsburg with empty coal bnrges Cloudy Nashville March The river riling with fourteen feet bn Ilarpeth shoals Weather fair and blustering Eddy ville Upper Cumberland Cairo March Arrived Marble City tit Louis 6 pin Belle Mem- Shis Bt Louis 6 Departed! Yaeger Louis Arkansas 'Belle Evansville 3 am Bismarck New Orleans 4 Richmond Lonisvlltej 6: Alice Brown Memphis 81 City of Chester tit Louis 9 Colorado tit Louis 4 8 Turner New Orleans River has risen Inches Weather Mtuiiitio' 'iii ilt Vicksburg! March 29-No boats down to-day fi Up Commonwealth Pargoud Julia' Hyatt nd cool falling hi uo i aifciUiLouinyi Man' 1 29- Arrived: Fanny Lew and Derusay uiirb I nneola Cincinnati Mountaineer Ouachita rivert Boh Roy Keokuk 8t Joe'MCfois on a on dl wri thf English 4 to A Home by a young lady In a ilvJtii-imly t- cliHiiren many briilio uiiU inuKic Uiiomr mn5t A hi lucr lutr a patent A rare wuh a small capital a tent ll l' lhi' 1 person Ad-mh it ti 111 I mill nation to know f-ned a in ami llnely Barts Miop at Al Main nrwi Hhaving lOo: HliMiipooninc llidrl'iiuing Would be ii 'l to lift Vi them all '1'jojt WILLIAM JOHNSON ifAM lil-i' ler rritrN a i i i( ss pr i 1 ll A ihmAI yt booolv' cl I I ili-ner AUin 1 Gardener this office ii Uernnn a situation as gar- i i jovrii'-nt mercantile bnal- i Kx--rU-noe In hardware AV II I care tills office Itl lor the xaa Pacific A l-o farmhand ii- fcrnlgiant- i 1 7i I fi i on st mh i loliliiW ti loi lime i i i i nt )er annum on uu- i ui it ot three tltru a ll care Avalanche I AM I 1 It' I ll I i afli I ryt-cty to know ttiat this is tli I and rneapest advertising iiii in in i In lFKM il KONl 111 ll Ill'll 1 write me tub tfJ li I i losi i i- Ii ovi-i 1 1 in In uJ ol Bef little from dpot iK nml IouIm III Hnilroad Ulei r-wiiU will le pau mi vitnln or Ki iv 1 1 til ll rv ii tin I it Ml KL Ll' tV I 1 1 M'M l'v (it I ii II I a 1 i i i in' it I I'lfti 1 1 I In llmli-r ill I ie- i i Mil u)lHtli L't in in sa1 iiit'lit piolal u-l ICooiii the frVttlxHly il Smlatn levani vs ill te A i tTJ Itteis ill st srit i vii IKtilll Jii-t Tiuln Horn the Sexton roM Mil Mine Mar In forehead 'll in'l ll nine I laree met new hIkhs 1 1 -r ii I svmi'I vs ill jhM fi OltKKN MOiHK Sexton plae In lb a Mu re given the rnti2M it 1 if 1 ii to 1 in: nt 1 nil I'll I I ie tor rent at lie I i is I'lrm 1 I ii 11 i i 1 I I ll 1 -ll large hru house '8H Me-now ready tor a find cliu-s oil i 1 1 I I or to i -H JH Front I i -i ii lo I it I 1 1 1 KtfOuis it 170 Main mliL'Ku ui i i ini with suit llull ne lit to IUMWeNS lo Hwl holy or Miiall Abli' A ulain'he 1 A Ll lot I trill il 1 1 i 1 1 1 Hilt It llil 1 1 1 I VS ll I I HOllH i 1 1 rlns OIN pjl i oinl const riictl ami Ii Ill comlorlii-1 ui tin very thing lltllic Ol Olll i 11 hands and linn -ns i-x ni I hois etc ll 11 A llollfllhi I si or lo I Jell in lllll'JI I 11 I mill How will! ci-1 I li iioi-i lions Ap-NHUtWK SDNS No 1 rout How id siore No tsl Main 1 slot room have lv tli Hli gas ppli to llKAt ll VI tln I ii 1 1 ii I I til JfiilM i ut en 1 1- III 1 I to 1 I lOU I bit lv A ot 11 1'le 11 1 niM (IK il I iit 'lt Iitv nl 'l I I otlli-i: li ell Ii I 1 Kl itii(i Mon on I I iii I' il in ti Apply JiH pil I ANOHFWs SONS No Front struct I ui ni si vcrii nice A II KATIKY i Hciitil Am nt MJn 1 1 Moose I' Mm cl coiHning 1 IliiOct room kltclicii Mr I i loom in gooii order i I'ophir i-l mil AIH IIol Hi- Tin coiiiiikkII- hx'iitc'l wnrchoiisc om I Ii 1 1 I known ns 'lvlor iS pply i ii iniAii i it Hros or 1 I I mWKNSTKIN I wi iihIcI ti Hro 10 II MIX MIII Nil i jl 1 I 1 1 1 I'll An Hu 1 -liitil s'icil Wiilchnuikcr in in I lie )rx Hum lies-- I i it'ioul slock i I i ii stoic P' i ii Main street Memphis mli i 1 ir i Ii iiiuml s' 1 1 1 1 1 I' letl'-rson lo 1 I I- 1 I ITS 'In- tiiigalii' on tin nun I 'n he hail of us In WiiXitngt'ti I ois Im proven 1 1 II 1 1 1 1 1 1 ov i 1 11 1 id MIV elilrllly lu'llled I ii "rs will plt'i'u ylv' tills iioth'e tlndreftllv 'nulv NI'I Krnnllfol Inindsoniel Improvcl and eiiteni I Htmited ll in lukii r- ne nui'iui 'tlni ud mil agev ii 'I mil I eii I he a it I on ll tine piotlt 11 i iiiil of I In- plop 1 1 ill he given lev i'll Ill'll ot II under good I Apply No mii'Jll let 'i i ot 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 i I I ll- tO I UI KV ANT A CO HS5I hUl 1 11! 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out gloriously The day police made hut three ar rests yesterday A uuniber ot our cgtiens are preparing to leave for Europe Send us the great and gotxl Ava-i nviil is theory from all tlirections --The Katie Troupe will remain another week at the Grand Opera House Credit plentiful in mercantile circles and the same is not loss true ol Madison street -Mrs Clara More asks the Second Circuit Court fora divorce from her husband Wood -The weather was delightful yester-d ty and the fair sox was numerously represented on the streets Lowcnstein fc spring exposition of dry goods will take place on Thursday of this week A society for the correction of extravagance In female dress is talked of among the young men of our city A buyer who bought 300 boles of cotton last week rejected 125 bales as being dusty or otherwise undesirable Souto people who say Memphis has ffbetropolitan foatu res should observe tie street cars as they pass up and down iirprincipalthoroughhiro Some holders of Gayoso gas stock we wot of would like to sell at considerable under the figures quoted for that in cstmeut in Ledger long talked of masked ball for the benefit of the orphan asylums will Vie given at the Exposition building April 17tb as advertised elsewhere The contract of finishing the roadbed laying the track etc of the Memphis and llaleigh railroad was awarded yesterday to Messrs McGavock and Tate contractors Temple of Lovo No 1 a temperance organization will hold public exercises at the Cumberland Presbyterian Church Friday evening April 4th Pcveral of the young members will i-peak certainty of attractions at either of the theaters after this week with the cxceptlouof Lawrence Barrett and company who are under engagement to play at the Grand Opera IIoue about May 1st Barrett Superintendent of the Memphis City railway li sald talks of vwlting tne Vienna Expoeltiot We suggest that he take hW 'raUjrOJd and equipments wlthhimiM' among The Memphis Water The History of Enterprise the bet: eruption of the Buildings and Machinery The Whole City Underlaid by Network of Pipes The Successful Test Witnessed by Thousands Official Statement of the Engineer City The city of Memphis like other great centers of population felt years ago the neesrtity of securing an adequate supply of water We nineteenth century people have always held fast to the trite proverb that cleanliness is next to godliness and ospcially in the United States it has been the duty of the various municipal authorities totake steim toward having abundance of pure water at all timtM its a means for preserving (lie public health Besides this the frail character of our buildings both public and private compelled tlusse to provide protections against lire lienee at an early day the con-tnutioii of water works in all American cities Iteeamc a matter of necessity and ur engineers had (o gather up their wits and study out the problem of water supply Aqu-duet building is an ancient craft ami in Europe but more especially in Italy there are works of this character which were constructed by the Romans ng betore the Christian era These old monument of antiquity are models of -solidity and durability and their cost mii-t have been a great burden upon the state especially when we consider the low price of lalior in those days and hat a dollar then could procure what live would hardly buy in our own time But the great drawback in these ancient works was the low grade of srien-titic knowledge which the engineers of tlie olden and even of tie comparatively more recent times would bring to the work Steam then had as yet not been utilized and the use of metallic pips was unknown ()en canals always objectionable had to bo relid upon anil the water although sufficient was not always pure The amount of water used in largo cities in olden times was however trilling when compared with the amount we i -cm I now-a-days for domestic uses fur sanitary purposes for man fact ling ami for protivtion against tires From tliis brief statement it will be 7ivn that hero must luivo leen a great revolution in th is branch of architecture that men must have been compelled to study out tlie problems of science more thoroughly in order to provide for tlie ever increasing demand for more water We will only here mention the Croton Water Works of New York tlie Fairmount of Philadelphia the Cociiituate of Boston and the St Louis works as the most prominent and best known works of tins kind and at the same time as tin most expensive of any in America All those works cost millions and they wore constructed hy large and opulent cities Memphis ju--t recovering from the ejects of a civil war which prostrated her commerce could not a (lord to spend millions upon works of this kind however necessary they wen to her Still so great had become the need thereof that the Legislature of the State of Tennessee seeing the inability of the ity to build works of this character ly tint ad passed February 2 HTo imorporatd the Memphis Water Company Thomas Brown John Toof John Gunn and Benjamin Brown being named as incorporators which organization lemained unchanged till March ls72 when Thus Brown disposed of Ids interest to the other stockholders Tlie act gave them exclusive privileges for thirty years and limited tin existence of the company to ninety-nine years Its capital Ctock was placed at $100000 with authority for an increase to $2-000000 The incorporators anil the gentlemen whom they associated xv i I Ii them-rlves meant business They had faith in the enterprise and they had faith iu Meruphii At a time when there was more than a financial -tree in the market when old houses of good standing went under when both public and private credit were at ebb tide the gentlemen composing the water company set themselves to work and commenced operations They thought they had a clear field hut they found themselves mistaken The city of Memphis claimed the right ol constructing water works as one of the privileges of a municipal corporation In 1 s()H (December H) the Mayor and Aldermen had passed an ordinance to create a Board of Commissioners for the erection care and maintenance ot tlu Memphis water works The commissioners were appointed and organized and entered on the discharge of their util's and made reports from time to time to the Mayor and Aldermen the last of which was made in April 1CG9 when a plan of constructing water works was reported and adopted by tlie Board of Mayor and Aldermen Tlie commissioners caused surveys maps draw ings measurements and estimates to lx made preparatory to commencing the actual constmctioif of the water works In these prepara torv steps the city of Memphis exiieniled $30000 prior to tlie 28th of February 1870 at which time tlie city had not commenced the actual construction of water works No contracts as oontemplatd by reports of the commissioners were' made or entered into and no advertisement for proposals had hoon made as contemplated by said renorts The want of available moans by the city anil the financial distress and disturbed condition of the country were the causes of tlie non-prosecutiou of the building of water works by the city Tlie city however notwithstanding its inability'-to1 no the work stoutly eoutpstod tho right of tlie Water Copi-pany to stefi In plAce and litigation was the consequence In both tlie First Circuit Court of Bhelby coupty and the Supreme Court of theStitte the rights of tlie eonijiany granted to it by the legislature were maintained and Judge Nicholson lu his opinion held as follows: question then Ls narrowed down to the iuquiry: diu the individuals composing the Memphis Water Company have tne right before their incorporation in common with others to erect water works in Memphis to "take up pavements occupy the streets and do such things as were necessary and proper iq completing JLheir water works? It fs clear that none had the right do $hese things except the city of Memphis by virtue tf its corporate powers and this right on the part of the city was exclusive until it was taken away by the and transferred to the Memphis Water Company It 18 no moro taonopoly'when Conferred ort the1 Water-Company than when it belonged to the city of Memphis 1 wps an exclusive privilege wheu exercised by Dm city1 but it tvas hot a monopoly It is an exclusive By this decision ol I legal pbsucleo tod ihe success of the efiterprise werc cleared away and the Memphis Water Com-Iaay master'fef the ntodtlod? This in June 1871 aud now the company reinforced by the accession Choice of location the second the choke i A COMMONPLACE ROMANCE Deserted and A Husband With no Bigodd Nonsense About Him Yesterday Esqs Miller and Holst ha 111 rather interesting and romantic casebefore them It appears that William and Fred Ogltsby are brothers who had worked together on a farm in Hardeman county a number ot years LOVE AND MARRIAGE Fred the oldest almost a year ago became very much attached to a youug girl 14 years of age whose parents resided in tlie neighborhood The attachment was mutual and they were soon afterward married William had Iiecn acquainted with tlie young girl before the marriage and now she having become his sister-in-law his friendship for her grew shortly into brotherly love and finally into a fondness which aroused the jealousy of the newly made husband However nothing was said by the husband to the young wife about his suspicions regarding his brother and matters went on smoothly until last Wednesday THE IIIUI) CAGE EMFTY That day the husband returned home from his daily labor when to bis astonishment lus wife was gone Investigation convinced the husband that her departure was the result of deliberate preparation that his brother was a party to the mysterious disappearance and that tlu elopers had gone to Memphis Oglesby was without money but tlie next day he obtained some by selling several articles of household furniture started westward and arrived in tliis city Friday looking for a stray wife TIIE TRUANTS FOUND Yesterday morning he made a vigorous though for many hours fruitless search for tlie truants Late in the altei noon he went aboard tlie steamer Legal Tender at the landing aud walkinl back into tlie cabin There lie found tlie faithless wife and treacherous brother impatiently awaiting tlie hour of the departure Ighsby Hy into a iiassion and his brother's hair He unmask a park of artillery shut his eyes and pull tlie trigger Not much Hequietly turned around walked to office procured A WARRANT FOR THEIR ARREST and had them arraigned before that great constitutional functionary The charge against W111 )glesby was aliduct ion but tlie statement of tlie fair but frail Mrs convinced the Magistrate that it could not le sustained lie was therefore discharged from custody aud departed MUCH JOY The young wife who is a mere child in years and simple and childish in manners remained The husband who sincerely lqves her was all kindness and forgiveness entreating her to return to the hearth made desolate hy her absence At last she consented and the husband and his roelaimd wife lelt later in tlie evening for home Hpriug Nunsliine anl Hot Come gentle Spring ethereal mildness long ago sang tlie bard Spring lias indeed come with its geui- and the fact will remind all iersons who vant photographs or any other of the typos produced bv first class artists that at Messrs Bingham A celebrated gallery corner of Main and Jefferson streets pictures are made in tlie highest style of the art They devote especial attention to photographs ambrotypes and ivory-tyjies and the best evidence of their success is the fact lint old patrons return Persons desiring to secure pictures should take advantage of the present fine weather Taste Fashion and Elcanct Tlie handsome store No 17 Jefi street just opposite the Avalanc he office will be opened to-morrow morning by Monsieur Klein the fashionable and popular French tailor of Nashville for years back He has discovered the superiority of Memphis and has removed to this place one of the best and most complete stocks of the South He is a true artiste with a taste lor what is elegant and graceful Every young man who desires a true fit an elegant cut and a garment at once fashionable in style and suitable to his figure will find Monsieur Klein the very man to array him as he would desire Go to Monsieur Klein and taste fashion and elegance will be secured TIIE CO CUTS First Circuit Court Heiskeli Judge Calendar for Monday: 236 Dean vs ti It Co 2364 Fealey vs Graff 2374 Milius vs Copps 2281 Reese vs Youug 2382 Richardson vs Kofford 25585 Trousdale vs Thompson 2390 Clements va McSpadden 2398 Welcli vs Grogan 2399 Shields A Co vs steamer Shannon 2400 Apperson A Co vs Williams 2401 Apperson A Co vs Mason 2408 Tobin vs Krous A Co 2411 Patton vs Lowenstein 2412 Redford vs Lo wen-stein 2415 Greenlaw vs Shelby county 2410 Greenlaw vs Shelby county 2417 Fleming vs Thompson 2418 Robertson vs Rogers 23-15 Brinkley vs Gavin 2392 iforrigan vs Moyers A Deadrick 25593 Walker A Bros vs Moyers A Deadrick 2394 Walker A Bros vs Moyers A Deaarick 1549 State use etc vs Ilingwald 2278 Miss A Tenn Co vs Famplin ct al CITY ITERS Opening day Thursday April 3d at Lowenstein A Five hundred thousand dollars in Sale of tickets to the Public Library of Kentucky will close this week John Hudson Peabody Hotel Grand April 3d at opening Thursday wenstein A Monroe bat at Shirley hat at Brilliant hat at Verwee hat at Waverly hat at Zephyr hat at Field-sport hat at -m Imperial hat At Andover hat at Matinee bat at Bulyer hat at 1 rrrs -1 1 )( 1 -i I 5M (' i 'lb "HA i I vauhofl hat LVemirna hat at Wheaton' I pashaway bat at Tyheatpnyv i All styieVbaJs Wheaton 1ft Coa 279 Main streets FUtkOVU Among flic visitors to the city Flagler of Lockjiort ident of tin Holly Manufacturiii in at the Ivcrion lion Vaughan ex-congrms-mati from tin Nintli District who has been in the city a day or two left for his home in Brownsville afternoon Mr Jules A Menken senior partner ot the house of Menken Brothers sailed from Liverpool on the steamer (treat Republic This lirm promises ome elegant goods at their opening Representative Mulvihill returned home yesterday from Humboldt where he was detained hy professional business His judgment on the funding Legislature is equivalent to a verdict of murder Mr John Owens one of the most popular hotel nten in St Louis for years chief clerk of the Laclede but now the St James of that city is in town the guest of Parson Kelsey of the Overton Rosters about the streets announce in huge letters what will also lie found in the advertising columns of the Aval ancjik that the distinguished spiritualist lecturer Wilson will hold forth this morning and evening at the Grand Opera House Those who have objected to oilier -etureis (hat they did not suport their assertions hy proofs art notified that Mr Wilson prohvses to give public ted iii confirmation of his doctrines If Wilson is as mighty in spirit as he looks to he in body be must be a formidable champion of thecauso Inyadvocatcs NPKIVG At hat Iowons(dii A Hi lfate For Their ranl lAposiliou Tlie advent of Spring it vested witli special interest to the fair readers of the AvAiiANHiF in connection with novelties in dreo and changes of the Fashions Not less interesting than iormer occasions and on a larger caleit possible will he the Grand Exposition ot Soring styles of feminine wear and adornment at Lowensiein A Lftos on Thursday of this week Extensive preparations point to a monster and almost dazzling display and it i not surprising ttiat the ladies of our city ami vicinity should lu on tip-toe of expectation Novelties will ho nu mo-rous and pleasing wo are as-mred consisting largely Hu own direct imHrtation from Europe in bond Among the features will be elegant and costly suits ot black ami stripd silk black grenadine piqua linen alpaca ami lawn polonaises of grenadine Swiss and linen and rare shawls of new design and very suitable to tin season together with an immense variety of Spring silks and dress goods tact goods etc saying nothing of extensive assortments of laees fane gloves handkerchiefs and other tilings almost innumerable essential to the comfort and adornment of lovely woman KFIIGIOI Church Revr Carmichael Grace rector Services at ll am and Calvary There will pm bo di-of this I'nion mil 7i Rev vine service in the basement church to day at 11 a and First Congregational Church striet Service's at 11 am pan Sabbath School at 5j am A Baldwin pastor Vance Street Church Rev McLean imstor Repeats his sermon on hy request at 11 am Service at 7 :45 pan Second Presbyterian Church corner Main and Real streets Rev Wm BontPS pastor Services at II am and 7:80 pan Divine services by Slater pastor of the First Methodist Church Sec-onu street near Poplar at 11 nan Evening service at 7140 Preaching at the Chelsea Baptist church at 10 amand 71 pan by Rev Dr Keep Central Baptist Church Services to day at 11 am and 7:30 pan Sabbath School at 9:30 am Dr Landrum juistor First Baptist Church Preaching by the pastor A Loftou at 11 this morning and at7J tonight Baptism at night Services at Central Methodist Church Union street at 11 and 1:30 pro by Rev Suratt Sunday School at 9 am David Walk will preach iu the Lin den Street Christian Church torday at 10 a mami I i The Quarterly Concert of the Sunday School of the Linden Street Christian Church will be held this afternoon at 3 Addresses on the International Bible Lessons by the scholars The public are invited 1 The Styles' In lists1 1 The spring styles in hats jure many and splendid and all of them 'be found at 2GD Main street where one of the most elegant assortments ever brought South' is displayed Every thing worn by the lashiouables ou Broadway nod street-t Hat is everything nice and bo obtained at Leidys whose establishment luts been for years one of the Justly no ba fashlon'ethjionnmi of Memphis attention of the visitor This structure is 72 fet long 40 feet wide and 2s fict high It was built of first class brick no defective ones being allowed in tlie wall and was constructed as ail tho other buildings under the immediate superintendence of Mr John Cubbins the President of the company himself a mechanic A tablet of marble on the south wall has the following inscription: MEMPHIS WATER COMPANY STOCK HOLDERS Brown John Toof John Gunn Lyle Chas Phillips Mahan John Cubbins HI REC TORS John Toof John Cubbins Brown II Humphrey John Randle OFFICERS John Cubbins President Chas Phillips Treasurer Cameron Secretary Mahan Financial Agent Lyles Attorney A Kctchuin Consulting Engineer Pearsons Constructing THE ENGINES are confronting the visitor on entering Their very looks impresses every one who sees them with their immense power anl yet their workmanship is so delicate that we involuntarily have to pay a tribute to the labors ot tlie American Mechanic There is first a double engine with cylinders 21 incites in diameter and 33 inch stroke which can be used at will either with high or low pressure These engines drive the eight giant force and lilting pumps which bring the water from a depth of sixty feet out of Wolf river Then there Is one rotary engine of 130 horse iower which gives life and animation to two large rotary pumps for lire purposes with a capacity of sending out ten million gallons of water in twenty-four hours A little bit of delicate machinery not much larger than a good sized house-clock is tne automatic regulator which with forty pounds to the square Inch is used for tlie domestic service but can increase its capacity to one hundred and fifty pounds It is the tell-tale which shows the engineer the amount of water which goes through the pipes Another tell-tale contrivance is the alarm whistle Which opens its valve when the fire plug down town is opened and says to the engineer' must send more wnter down town for there Isa fire in this The engines cost $92000 anL were made ty tnollolly Manufacturing Company at Lockport New York They are kept scrupulously clean and are as bright 99 anx good kitchen utensils Bad are tb mi ill With an look about tbm which work in pairs and are er lidlen Theyvgo way down into bowels of Mothef'Earth into a dry Mail Line Passenger Boats i for all points on Arkansas Passenger Boats of this line leave for all Points on Arkansas ri rpHE Elegant phis and HAT KDAYH at 6 p-n JNO HARBIN Agent Office on Wharfboat 1 Foot of Court street Ja23 CUEEK LINE ud Vtekaknrg Packet tk for Helene Friar's Point Napoleon and the Benda UNITED STATES MAIL TO NAPOLEON Steamer iA! Jj WHITE Mark Cheek master 1 Leaves fUEBDAYB and FRIDAYS at Span Memphis and White UtrerFcktih ffiHl splendid PaWnger steamers of this line ill will leave Memphis for ali pot it on White and JJltle Red rivers every Tueaday ami balur day kt o'clock For freight or passage ag-plii I JOS ELLIOTT Agent I fcHiwiJUiock foot Joowaod tulateei taving pueh enterprising citizens 1 compos? the fW papy and on tlie splendid success of Water Com id success bat fnterprlsw both of which well.