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THE power of superstition still so re-
marksble among the black people of the
South is shown in the case of Williams, a
murderer, just tried in Mobile. After he
had committed the crime, he cut off the
band of the murdered man and preserved
it in quicksilver and lime, carrying it in his
pocket, and firmly believing that the tails
man would protect him from any danger OF
detection. He was caught, however, for
all that, and is likely to be hanged in spite
of the preserved hand.
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BROWNSVILLE.
Phil sheridan's Ride.

BROWNSVILLE, April 25.-The Secretary
of War and Gen. Sheridan and S.atf reach
ed here to-day, after making tour of the
Rio Grande frontier for several hundred
miles. They were received by.the City
Council and are guests of the city. The
streets and houses we're decorated With flags
and general welcome is being extended to
the distinguished guests. They leave Sunday
for New Orleans by steamer, touching at
Galveston for few hours.
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Woodward. HOi

LAWRENCE, KANSAS, April 25.-Presi-
dent GRAFT and family stopped in this city
two hours this morning on their trip to
Colorado. A large ccncourse of citizens
with two bands of music met the President
at the depot. He visited the State Univer-
sity, the dam which is being built across
the Kansas river, and other points Of inter
est, and then resumed his journey.
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snowy Briefs.

CINCINNATI, April 25.-We have had
se5e o. brief snow storms during to day.
At Carthage two inches fell about noon.
Dispatches received from various points in
dictate similar weather. At Dayton, Eaton,
Middletown and other places in the, Miami
Valley l. showed at intervals during the
forenoon. This morning they had snow at
Charleston, West Virginia, and Ironton,
Ohio. Two or three inches fell at Anna
last night.
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.ROvers,, that viii Get Euchrsd.

TRENTON, N. J. April 24.-The Bower
branch of heirs to the Holland estate,
worth forty million dollars, had well at
tended meeting to-day. j. X. Bower of
Manchester presided. Reports from the
agent now in Holland and the lawyers gave
the heirs reason TO hope they would soon
enter into possession of the estate.
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FOREIGN.
The Commune Proclaimed in Madri'
Further Details of the Trouble

Further Details Of the Troubles.
Four Persons Killed and Several In
jured.
PARIS, April 25.-The Gdulois announces
that the commune has been proclaimed in
Madrid.
LONDON April 25.-Dispatches from
Madrid state that Figueras and Saimeron
were the only members Of the government
absenbat the conference with the perma-
nent committee. CASTELAR, admitted the
gravity Of the situation but said it was not
sufficient either to make necessary the con-
voking of the assembly or the postpone
fnent Of elections for members. The COM
mittee refused TO adjourn the conference
and the ministry retired to confer, but did
not return.
During the afternoon eleven battalions
of volunteers reyolted and fired on Gen.
ContreKas who escaped, but four others
were killed and several wounded. Shots
were fired during the night in various
quarters of the city, ard the volunteers
broke into the Hall of Congress where the
permanent committee was in session but
they sought safety in fight. Marshal sec-
rano and number of his political friends
concealed themselves.
Thursday the government dissolved the
permanent committee and the city became
more tranquil. Lieut.. Gen. Socias has been
appointed Captain General of Madrid in
plsce'of Gen. P&via, resigned.
Refugees.
Owing to the troubled condition of Spain
great number of families are leaving the
country. The steamers arriving here (Lon-
don) and 10 French ports are crowded with
refugees.
Worse Coming.
MADRID, April 25 "A formidable dem
onstration will soon be made by the Fed
eral Republicans here. Brigadier- General
Padias has re-captured a large amount of
property taken by the Carlist Chief Saballs.
The journeymen masons of Barcelona are
on a strike, and to-day formed process
sion which passed through the principal
streets of the city. Many other working
men have been compelled to join in the
strike.
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CUrious railroad Casualty.

PATTERSON, N. j., April 25.-This A NJ,
as a construction train on the Delaware,
Lackawsnna and Western Railroad, was
passing Little Falls, a number of rails on
one of the cars swung around with great
violence, killing John Shaughnahan and
seriously injuring five other men.
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AN exchange has the following oose:va-
ton: "We always get mad when we walk
along street about 9 O'Clock, and passing
shaded porch where young man is DID,
ding his beloved good night, hear the girl
exclaim in aloud whisper: %, stop George,
you haven't shaved"
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Germanic PrOgress.

BERLIN, April 25.-The upper house of
the Prussian Diet to day passed the bill for
the control of the clergy. The German
Parliament has ordered the withdrawal, on
the first day of January, 1875, of all bank
notes not of the new imperial standard.
The Emperor William left this city to-day
for st. Petersburg. He stops overnight at
Konensburg. Great preparations are being
at st. Petersburg for his msjesty's recep-
ton.
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RRfaAnRG.

C1No1NNATI, April %. "A family nam.
ed Henry, consisting of father, son and
daughter, residing near Germantown, Ohio,
were poisoned Wednesday evening. 1t is
supposed that arsenic was put in their cof-
fee by persons unknown.
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Progress of JeH Davis.
SAN Francisco, April 25.-Gens. JEFF.
q. Davis and Hardie left this morning for
tue seat of the Modoc war.
WASHINGTON, April 25.-It is expected
at the war department that Gen. Davis,
who left San Francisco this morning for
the Modoc country, will arrive there and
assume command Of the troops about Mon
day morning next.
80 News Up To Thursday.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-A dispatch
from Yreka tonight gives news from the
lava bed to April "a: Nothing particularly
interesting. Col. Perry's cavalry returned
from their scout unattached, and convinced
that no Indians have left the lava bed.
Donald Mckay reports forty Modocs en-
camped in the big caves, four miles south
east of the first battle field. The Modocs
must come out for water. McKay's In
dams ale posted to picket them off. 1t is
thought desperate fighting VIII be required
to dislodge the Modocs. Captured squaWs
say in the first fight an Indian picked up
shell and chewed the fuse, when it exploded,
blowing his head of, cutting John Schon-
chin in two and killing another. Agenersl
OOA0C4 VOL Woo AC6tOd. OHtbS W oAS St@N
faith with the Indians on reservations and
the encouragement received SO far from the
example of the Modocs. Meacham is re-
covering; he left the hospital for Ford's
rancho, on Klamath Lake. Capt. Eagan is
recovering.
Later. ,N'frf
Donald Mckay, just returned to camp,
says the Modocs have left the lava bed.
No fighting since the 18th.
Still Later-HOw Now?
A dispatch from Yreka, just received,
says men have gone to the lava bed to bring
away the body of Lieut. Sherwood, to be
sent east. Neither the cavalry nor the
Warm Spring Indians found the trail OF the
Modocs on their scout at first, but the
Warm Springs finally found the Modocs' re-
treat. Mckay crowded upon them and
counted forty, including squaws, but didn't
deem it expedient to make anattack. The
Warm Springs and the troops expected TO
attack the Modocs on the night of the 23d.
In the first days battle Bogus Charley and
IIooka Jim were wounded.
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u,1Ied vttb a BLOW Of the Fist

PORTLAND, Me-, April 25.-Two labor
ers at the Aims House named Michael Sui
ivan and John Warren, quarrellei this
morning about woman, and the former
was killed by blow from the fist of the
latter.
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The Chesapeake and Ohio.

p FORTRESS MONROE, April 25.-The en-
gineer corps under Maj. Temple have com
pleted the survey of the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad to New York.
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French Canadian Exodus.

QUEBEC, April 25.-The exodus of
French Canadians TO the States from coun-
try districts and this city, is greatly in ex-
cess of the former season.
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Another Revolution Brewing In
France.


LONDON, April 25.-W0rld'S special
GEavest apprehensions are felt in the highest
circles in Paris of an immediate civil war.
The monarchists are determined to Gust
President Theirs at any cost.
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A CRIsPN of Mercer, Pa, being sutton
who went beyond bis last, in mercenary
mood has sued a young woman who jilLed
him for breach of promise, laying his dam
AGES at $4,000.
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TENNESSEE BONDS closed in New York
/ last evening at an advance to 7es for both
issues. 90.
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taina aud Smerifan.

GOLD was heavy in New York yester-
day, ranging from 1175 till it closed at 1l74
Ml173.
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Hanged.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 25.-John j.
Murphy was executed at Stockton Today
for the murder of Patrick Murray five years
agOI
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a CoTToN meets little better demand in
New York for export, at 1890 for mid
ding.
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CHICAGO, April 25.-DeBellsy, the grain
Spectator, who shot himself in Krickoffs
saloon last night, died about midnight.
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VIENNA, April 25-HerGld special
Twenty cases of sprradic cholera were
brought to the hospital yesterday, five of
which proved fatal. An effort is being made
to conceal the fact of the appearance of the
disease in the CITY.
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Total Destruction of q Bohemian
Village.
$50 Houses Destroyed, out of $50

40 Houses Destroyed, out Of $50,
NEW YORK, April 25.-The manufactur-
ing city of Joachenisthal in the mountains
at Bohemia was destroyed by fire on the
31st of March. Out of $50 houses in the
city $50 were completely burned, and 500
persons made houseless. A magnificent
church founded in the early days of reform
alton fell prey to the flames, as did also
valuable paintings, by Lucas Cranach and
Albert Durer,
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THE MODOO WAR.

The SaEages Escape from the Lava
Bed.
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Progress Of Jef Davis.

A General Border War Feared.
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Hon. F. R. Brunot, Chairman of Board
of Indian Peace Commissioners, aud Robt.
Campbell, one of the members, left tonight
for Washington at the request of Secretary
Delano to confer with him in regard to visi-
ting various sections of the Indian country
and holding conferences with different In
dian tribes during the summer.
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ATTENTION OFT
Railway Companies Mercantile Houses Steamboat Officers ThGs
atrical and ShOWmen, County officials, etc.
PROMPTLY
EVERY CLASS OF PRINTING AND BOOK BINDING
REQUIRED PEoU1LAR. LINES BUSINESS
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If the Congress OF the United States WILL
assent to the creation of the new State, OF
which Memphis will surely be the CONNER
cial capital, we can promise that as respect
able body Of gentlemen, MOI ally and i9-
telectually, will represent it in Washington
as ever went up from any Southern Com
monwealth. The scheme itself is q good
one, and only Objectionable because Con-
gress, for partisan reasons, will oppose it.
Decent men are not wanted from the
South in the Senate or in the House. They
couldn't be b 7ught or sobordiDated to the
purpose of rings. Moreover, the Radical mas
ters of each Southern State, now govern
ed by adventurers and commonplace peo-
pie of the knavish sort, will object to the
contrast necessarily presented between
themselves and gentlemen who wou sure
ly be chosen to fill places al the Federal
capital by the people and legislature
of the proposed new State. The
very necessity for the new State,
the very beneicience .of the results OF
its creation, are the very reasons why the
scheme must fail, even as it failed for sec
tional reasons, when originally discussed In
wears gone by. The West is not yet dOmi-
nant in Congress. New England is even
supreme in the West, and until the West
have proper native-born representatives no
such scheme as this now proposed can te
consummated. West Tennessee, and
Western Kentucky and Northern Missis
sippi have certainly been uniformly repre-
sented, when whites governed the country,
by men of honest worth. They have been
chosen in many instances because of their
peculiar personal virtues and traits of moral
excelIence, rather than because of any ex-
ai aOdn ny1ta This
class would renresent the new State and
Congress, as now organized, and tie car
pet-baggers in Congress would never con-
sent, for this reason, to the dismemberment
ofthree States. New England has reasons
enough, growing out of tariff questions
and navigation acts, to dissent, snd the
carpetbaggeIs and New England are the
supreme lawmakers for America. As an
isolated question of local interest there are
no two sides to the question. We have no
such community Of interests with other
districts of Tennessee as are uDnaturally
supposed to exist by laws made at Nssh-
vile. Whatever promotes the interests Of
East Tenne. see, in a majority Of instances,
is detrimental to this portion of the State.
We are separated from East Tennessee by
eternal mountain barriers which railways
have never even attempted to oVerleap.
The one district is devoted to mining aid
manufacturing, and to the production of
grain, the other produces cotton and tobac-
CO; the one is, practically, because of its
elevation, beyond the tropics; the other is
within the tropics, in the habits and tastes
and modes of thinking aud industrial pur-
suits of its people. A gr at river, as well
as strongly drawn, irrepesla5le climatic
laws, separate Us from other portions Of the
State, and the separation, sooner or later,
will occur. But not now.-MemphiS Ap-
peal, July 21.
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LOUISVILLE.
Fatal ARRAY in Brandenburg

LOUISVILLE, July ga special to The
COuI ieT-JOuTnd from Brandenburg, KY,
gives an account of fatal shooting sffrSy
at that place this aft1ruO0n. Two Hcn
from Harrison county, Ind, crossed the
Ohio river and became involved in quar-
rel in the streets of the town, met after
wards in a bar room, when one named
Richards drew pistol and shot the other,
named McCarty, three times, the last shot
being fatal. Richards fed. McCarty, at
last accounts, was sinking rapidly. 1t
created intense excitement in Branden-
burg.
Attempt TO Throw Trains from the
Track.
Saturday an attempt was made to throw
the eastward mail train on the Ohio and
Mississippi Rsilroad from the track.
LAST night at point near North Vernon
Station, on the Jefersonville Railroad, the
engineer discovered pile of burning rails
on the track in time to stop the train, when
a man concealed behind the fence
fred several shots into the train,
and then fed. Henry Farmer, Con-
ductor, and the passengers gave chase
and soon overlook the fugitive, who proved
to be one A. P. Doherty, farmer, living
near by. Doh:rty claims that sparks from
a freight train set fire to his fences, and he
had taken this means of revenge; said he
had been drinking freely. Doherty was
taken to North Vernon, and after examina-
tion before magistrate was held on $500
TO answer. Great excitement and threats
oflynching were freely expressed at first,
but no fears are now entertained of trouble.
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Condeused Telegrsms.

The fourth cable between Sidney, Cape
Breton and Placentia has been successful
ly laid.
A colored man was run over and killed
by a train at Little Rock yesterday.
Jules Greenhood, young nan weH
known in San Francisco, suicided yester-
day. Cause-disappointment in love.
A convention of Wisconsin oranges is
called at Milwaukee on the 2lst of August.
Owing to a misplaced switch, 13 freight
cars were precipitsted through a bridge on
the NeWburg branch of the Erie railroad
Yesterday. Nobody hurt.
The cholera has entirely disappeared from
Cincinnati.
The Panama Star says the Filibuster ex-
pedition which landed from the steamer
Gen. Sherman at Honduras, was complete
failure.
Fifty persons who engaged in the Frank
fort beer riots several months ago, have
been convicted and imprisoned.
The members of the society which fig
ured so disgracefully at Lion Park, N. Y, q
few DAYS since, have been prohibited from
psradiDg in public in future.
Louis Davis, Kellogg's city administrator
of Improvements, was arrested in Shreve-
port Yesterday for hog stealing.
Two deaths from cholera were reported
in Mount Vernon, Ind, yesterday.
A new railroad is TO be built from Evans
vile to Louisville. M. Priest, of Hender-
son, KY, was elected President of the new
company.
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POLITICAL.
GrOesbeck Declines to Rum for Gov
ernOr of Ohio.

GrOesbeck Declines to Rum for Gov
ernOr of Ohio.
CINCINNATI, July i25.-Gen. Brinker-
hoff with MIR. Cunningham have been here
to-day, comforting with leading men in re-
ference to the convention, July 30tb, st Co
lumbus. They visited Hon. WIS. Groes y
beck, who positively declined the candidac
for Governor.
Endeavoring to Head or Butler.
BosToN, July 25.-Pursuant to call, a
meetir G of the members of the Republican
party opposed to the nomination of Gen.
Butler for Governor, was held to. day. The
hall was comfortably filed with Republi-
cans from all parts of the State. Among
those present were II. l.. Dawes, George S.
Hoar, Speaker Sanford, II. 81. Coolidge, ex-
Speaker Jewell, Adam Thayer, j. NJ. Forbes
and others.
The meeting was called to order by Judge
Hoar, who denounced in unqualified terms,
the salary grab, and pronounced himself
willing to do all in his power to prevent the
State from being carried for the author OF
that measure. Coolidge presided. An
Executive Committee was appointed to
consider what measures were necessary to
pursue and promote the welfare of the
State. An adjourned meeting of the Exc.
cutive Committee was then held, and q
committee OF three appointed to draw up an
address to the people of the State to be re-
ported at an adjourned meeting of the COM
mittee.
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MISSOURI.
Meeting of Railroad Managers,

ST. LOUIS, July 25.-An adjourned
meeting of railroad managers, superlntend-
ents, ticket and passenger agents, TO con-
slider commissions, free passes, etc, was
held here yesterday. After cor siderable uls-
cussion, resolutions were adopted declaring
that no more free passes or half fare tlczets
shall be issued after Aug l, except to ON
GERS, agents and employees of roads.
Twenty one roads were represented, two
thirds of which are west of the Mississippi
river.
The state Temperance Convention
The State Temperance Convention me-
In jefferson City yesterday and adopted a
report pledgiDg CO operation to secure Tor
Missouri civil damage liquor law, aud Or
ganized State temperance alliance.
The Express Robbers.
The police of this city, from facts which
b We come to their knowledge believe the
robbers of the Iowa railroad train the same
gang that robbed the bank in St. Genieve,
Mo, LAST My, Russellville, KY, bank two
wears ago, the Gallatin bank in this State,
and committed several other bank robberies.
Their rendezvous is said TO be in jackson
G 1uuty, Mo-, and that their homes are scat
tered around in that and Clay and Lsfay-
cite and Ray counties. Some OF their
names are Jesse and Frank James, Bill
Shepard, Cols Younger, and Mccoy. Iht II
famile, are said to cultivate small farms IN
The counties named, and their homes are
surrounded by those relatives and frlends,
who would not themselves commit crime,
but would shield these desperadoes to the
last.
The ST. Louis and Illinois Bridge.
The opposition of portion of the steam
boat iaterest here to the bridge now being
built across the river at this point, created a
great deal of surprise, as the bridge is being
CONSTRUCTED in accordance with law, and in
some particulars even more favorable to
boating interests than the law requires.
For ,xample, the law requires the spans to
be 80 feet in the clear above the city di-
rectrix. The main arch when finished will
be So feet In the clear, and the other arches
III feet, which Capt. Eads, Chief Engineer,
saws will allow the largest boats on the riv-
or To pass under the bridge with smoke
stacks down at ordinary ST ge of water,
with several feet to spare. SteamboatmeL
ssv Z ey thought the Oridge was to be q
level span. instead of aTChed, but as The
nlaus of the bridge have been On exhibition
i've years, it is thought strange that oppo.
sition should spring up ct this late day, and
when the structure is SO near completion.
sale OF Mai. Ewin's Interest in she 81.
Louis Times.
ST. LOUIS, July 25.-An eighty thousand
dollar interest in the ST, Louis daily Times,
was sold to-day by G. G. Rainwater, admin
,strator of the estate of the late Maj. IL.
Ewin, principal owner ct that paper, to Geo.
B. Clark, State Auditor aud Charles A.
Man,z, St. Louis County COLI ectOr.
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NEwsPAPER ON THE BRAIN.


We are told that another newspaper Is
soon to be started in Shelbyville. Well,
the newspaper business is pleasant busi-
ness and is fully as profitable as it is pleas
ant: and we would advise every young man
who desires TO have little fun or make a
fortune quick and easy, to embark in the
business without delay. ALI that is neces-
sary t0 enable man to successfully estab-
lish himself in the newspaper business is
TO secure q press, type, ETC., and the
paper viii run itself, no matter
where ii is located. Of course we
count as nothing, the writing of editori-
ais and the making Of selections-thas is a
part of the fun incident to the business.
But if man wants heap Of fun and 40
immense amount of money, we would coun-
sci hin not to bother himself with weekly
paper, but to publish daily. Hear what
the Danbury Nelcs man has TO say on this
subject; be krows how it is himself;
"The Fitchburg (Mass.) SeatjBeJ, an ex-
cellent paper, is going to start q daily. We
are glad of il. We started daily once.
We ran it nearly four months, and then
paused. Since then we take lively inter
est in such enterprises. We have no doubt
the Sentinel peopls will make the daily
work, and we are quite positive it will make
them work. A man who goes through life
without having started daily paye- misses
a rare snd valuable experience. Falling
down stairs will hardly. compensate him."