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Ku kluX and Crops In Montgomery County.
Special to the APPEAL.l
CLARKsvILLE, Tenn, August 2S.-
The Ku Klux case of the MOTOws,
(not Msrr) Slys and Others, reported
in your paper OF the 22d inst, (On
docket not tried) was called this
morning. A plea Of abatement was
entered by defendents, alter able argu-
ment by James NJ. and General w. a.
Qusrles for the defence, and Attorney
General Anderson and VIM. Daniel
for the State. The jury returned a
verdict for the State.
If the military will let us alone we
will attend to these little matters with
out the aid OF soldiers OF Ku Klux
committees.
We are having good rains as needed,
and crops are promising throughout
Montgomery and the adjoining coun.
ties.
The School Question in Germany.
NEW YORK, August 2S.-Mail ad-
vices from Germany state that the
Catholic Casino, at Munich, has ex-
PEELED a number Of its members who
have voted for the school regulations
abOlishing the right of interference by
priests.
The clerical at Orleans are repre-
sented to be so destitute of funds that
some will shortly be compelled to dis
continue publication.
Steamboat Sunk.
ST. LOUIS, Aug. 2S.-The mountain
steamer, Viola Belle, sunk at Smiths
landing on the Missouri river last
night. Total loss, awarded by Err
fort & Petering and G. Fleming, of
this city, valued at SIG, 800. Insured
in the Enterprise, Cincinnati, s., 800;
Peabody and Franklin, Wheeling,
s, ,253 each; Commercial, Chicago,
S., 2,253; Independent, Boston, $40;
Citizens, Wheeling, 1901; total 81 900.
The Cholera and Caste"
NEW YORK, August 2S.-Mail ad-
vices from Europe state that accord
ing to the official register the deaths
from cholera for the week ending Au-
gust II, at K9aiesberg, amounted to
fOrty-fOur, fifteen being children un-
der eleven. The persons attacked by
the cholera belong exclusively to the
lower order of society. The disease
is attributed generally to the want of
food and cleanliness. Only a few
have suffered of the better educated
class of tradespeOple, and hardly any
in the middle and upper classes.
The alssouri Pacific Railroad Troubles.
ST. LOUIS, August 2S.--An applica-
ton for an Injunction to restrain Cap
tain Mcguire, collector of st. Louis |
county, from selling certain personal
property Belonging TO the Missouri |
Pacific railroad, to satisfy unpaid tax
bills, was argued on Saturday before |
Judge Dillon, of the United States
Circuit Court, sitting in chambers at |
Davenport, Iowa. The application |
was refused, so far as State, county |
and school taxes were concerned, and |
the matter of city taxes was taken |
under advisement, TO be decided ear
ly in October.
GOlOred Ku-Klux In Kentucky.
LOUISVILLE, August ga negro,
named johnson, is in jail at Dan vile |
for incendiarism. A rumOr was cir
Culated that the Ku-klux were coming
to take him out, when one hundred |
more negroes filed and stationed |
themselves around the jail last night. |
Early this morning one Of them gave |
a false alarm that the Ku-Klux were
coming, and the negroes rushed en- |
masse into the street and commenced |
firing. Some two or three hundred |
shots were fired, and several negroes
were wounded, but nobody killed. |
The town is in state of great excite |
ment.
Terrible Steamboat Disaster in Mobile Bay
MOBILE, August 2S.-Phe low pres
sure steamer, Ocean Wave, exploded |
her boiler at halEpast five O'Clock on |
Sunday afternoon, at the wharf at |
Point Clear Wave. About 200 eXcur- |
siOnists were on board, from fifty to |
sixty OF whom were killed and wound. |
ed. A portion Of the bodies were /
brought to this city by the steamers
Fountain and Annie last night. 9th |
eTs will be brought here TO day. Eff
forts are being made for the recovery
of the bodies drowned. The cause of |
the disaster has not been aseertained,
and an investigation is to be made.
O0h Va bCNCA lciSbiS NuuA bIlSluk Ou6
Creole family, six were killed. The
captain, engineer and pilot were
killed; only three officers escaped.
Democratic Germans Of New York Have
Say About the Funds.
New YORK, August 28.-The Dem
oeratic Germans OF this city are be-
ginning TO take action in reference to
the alleged frauds on the City Treas
ury. Yesterday the German Demo-
cratic Executive Committee met and
adopted a motion that said Commit
tee recommend the appointment OF a
general committee with the view of
declaring themselves opposed to the
frauds, corruption and dishonesty in
public affairs, and il the gentlemen
accused Of malfeasance in Office ,ie not
Immediately prove themselves innO-
cent of these charges, that the German
Democrats will no longer acknOW ledge
them Ss leaders or Representatives of
the Democratic party or its principles.
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