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Como, Mississippi, Visited by
Terrible Gale and Disas-
trOus Fire at the
Same Moment.
The Combined Forces of the Two
DestrOyers almost Annihilate
the Business Portion
Of the Village.
$4,000 Worth Of Property and
Ten Buildings Consum ID
List of Losses and
Insurance.

Special TO the Appeal
SARDIs, April 2S.-COmo was visited
by a most disastrous fire last night,
which came near resulting I'm the total
destruction of the town. The business
portion of the place now lies in ruins,
and but for the almost superhuman ex-
ertiOns of the citizens hardly sufficient
number of buildings would have been
standing to indicate the locality of the
streets. At about twelve o'clock last
night, at the moment when a terrific
storm was threatening the village, the
cry of " Firei" was raised, and nearly
every inhabitant, in a few brief mo-
ments, was reused from slumber and
rushed into the streets in every dIrec-
ton, each inquiring of the other as to the
locality of the fire. The CONSERVATION
created by the fire alarm and the ap-
pTOach of the threatening storm, was
almost maddening. 1t was soon discov-
cred that the establishment of Messrs.
B. B. Blackburn & Co. was on fire, and
Immediately every effort was directed
" EAllISulcu lut lldLutS hllu tie
ed means at hand; but before any pro-
gress could be made in that direction,
the storm struck the village, and further
efforts were in vain. The wind
swept the flames from house t. house
so rapidly, and the entire locality was
so soon beyond all human effort to save,
that nothing else could be thought of
but await the cessation of the storm and
take all the steps possible to prevent
the flying firebrands taking effect in
distant parts of the place. The latter
promised to be no easy task, as in seve-
raj instances residences were with much
difficulty saved from destruction After
the fire had ragged and the buildings men,
toned were consumed, the fury of the
storm began to show signs of abatement,
and seemingly satisfied with the work
of destruction the fire yielded to the eff
forts of the citizens, and was soon
brought under control and eXtinguished.
The scene of excitement and alarm that
prevailed during the short time the two
elements seemed to vie with each other
in the desolation of the village can
not be described, and for a time
no one seemed to entertain a
shadow of hope of saving a single build
ing. The names of the losers, amount
of their losses and insurance, are approx
imately as follows: Bryant, Cannon &
Co., $1,000, no insurance; b. +. Breck-
enridge, S25G0, insured for $1,000; B. B.
Blackburn, 5000, insurance $500; 7. C..
Bass & Co., Sl5,000, insurance 5000; J,
Greenwood, Sl5, 600, insurance SIC, ,000; r.
T. Kee, $1,000, insurance $500. Insured
mostly in Memphis companies. Very
little was saved. The fire was probably
the work of an ineendiary.
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From the wreck Of the Atlantic.

HALIFAX. April 2S.-Three bodies
were recovered from the wreck OF the
Atlantic Saturday. The body of a
woman was found on the bottom, a
few yards from the sunken hull,
with her eyes picked out. Otherwise the
bodies were in good state of preserva-
ton. Nothing was done at the wreck
yesterday, there being too much under
tow for the divers. Captain Sheridan
says his men could have brought up
more bodies if the New York wrecking
company permitted the removal of
goods and luggage floating in the steer
age. Scarcely anything was done by
the New York wrecking company last
week in saving the cargo. On Saturday
they brought up few cases of hard
ware. An attempt was made to blow off
a portion of the vessels side, but was not
successful. Another attempt was to be
made this morning. The Laekawanna
took down large quantity of powder for
that purpose yesterday. Captains Will
Jams and Merritt went to prospect to-day.
A rumor was current that the body of
Mrs. Fisher, for the recovery of which
five thousand dollars is offered, was
found at sea by vessel.
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TELEGRAMS.

Tweed was at Kingston, Ontario, re
/, Gently.
The shoemakers of New York are still
projecting strike.
Marion, Mississippi, complains Of 8
feast of strawberries.
Griffin, Georgia, was visited last weeE
with an eight-thousand-dollar fire.
Seven thousand bales of American
cotton were sold IN Liverpool yesterday
Bonapartist journals declare that the
conservative republic of France is dead
A white frost has destroyed the vine
yards in the vicinity of Lyons, il
France.
CAPTAIN w. Il. Strieklin, of Ripley,
accidentally fractured his leg one day
last week.
A woman named Jenny Haggerty wa:
burned to death in Cincinnati late Sun
day night.
A seventy ive-thousand-dollar fire
occurred at Providence, Rhode Island
yesterday.
The body of an unknown man was
found floating in the river at Little Rock
yesterday.
A sawmilI was burned yesterday al
Geneva, New York. Loss thirty thou.
sand dollars.
Little Rock was visited with a severe
wind and rain storm night before last
and yesterday.
President Thiers appears to be dis
couraged by the result of the recent
French elections.
d II,
SedaIia, Missouri, yesterday. Loss, tif-
teen thousand dollars.
San Diego, Texas, broke ground on
the Texas and Pacific railroad last Tues
day. A large crowd, etc.
A Man named Mercer shot and killed
his neighbor named Rice, at Lamonte,
Missouri, Saturday afternoon.
People living south of us-Mobile and
New Orleans, for instance-are taunting
US by telegraph with luscious strawber-
ries.
Woodbury. Blackson, of Dresden, Mis-
souri,, was shot and fatally wounded by
John w. Stuart at Sedalia, Missouri,
yesterday.
Lake navigation has opened at last,
and lake steamers are busily engaged at
all ports receiving cargOes for the first
trips of the season.
The Cotton States life insurance COM
pany of Georgia have just been cast in
a suit for ten thousand dollars in favor
of the heirs of John S. Scurry.
A steam-boiler exploded at Indianapo-
lis, Indiana, yesterday, fatally injuring
the engineer, and slightly injuring two
ladies in a residence adjoining the mill.
A sale of lots in Port Royal, South
Carolina, last Thursday, realized about
seventeen thousand dollars favorable
augury for the future of the "city of the
sea.n
An old man was murdered at Delta,
Mississippi, one day last week, his
throat being cut from ear to ear. The
perpetrators of the horrible deed left no
clue.
John White killed his brother, Dan
iel White, near Senato5ia, Mississippi,
last Thursday, to prevent him marrying
Mrs. BidsOng. The murderer was ar
rested.
The Vienna cabmen have struck on
account of the rates of tariff established
by the authorities. They are threat
ened with arrest, fine, imprisonment
and loss of their licenses if they persist
in their strike.
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AN ACT TO be entitled an act to provide fo
the Removal of County Seats.
Section l.-Be 10 enacted by The General As
sen1bly Of The State Of Tennessee, That here
after when the people of any county shall de
sire to remove their county seats, except wheI
an old county has been reduced by the frac
ton of a new county, it shall be done in The
Section 2.-Be IL further enacted, That the
county court OF any county may order al
election to be held by the sheriff thereof
Section 3.-Be 10 further enacted, That saiC
election shall not be held under forty da J,
after the issuance OF the order for said elec
tion, and the judge or chairman thereof shall
within three days, transmit TO the sheriff o.
the county copy of said order.
Section 4-Be 10 further enacted, That tho
sheriff shall give at least thirty days notice
of said election in some newspaper in Said
county, and if there be none, then it shall bt
posted in some public place in each civil dis
trict in the county.
sheriff shall then open the polls and hold an
elec ton in each precinct in the county, and
each voter shall put on his ballot the name Of
the place to which he desires the county seal
removed, or the words, no removal"
Section 6.-Be IL further enacted, That the
county seat shall not be removed to any place
unless a vote is cast for the removal to said
place equal to twO-thirds of the vote cast in
the next preceding Governors election.
Section BE u Further enacted, That the
sheriff shall make his returns to the judge Ol
chairman of the county court, and at its nexi
quarterly session after the election the vote
cast shall De- counted and the result declared
and if the proposition to remove the county
seat receive the requisite number of votes
then the county court shall proceed to make
all necessary provisions for the removal.
Section S.-Be 10 further enacted, That this
act shall take effect from and after Is passage
the public welfare requiring it.
Passed March q, 1873.
W. S. MCGAUGHEY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives
A. I. LACEY,
Speaker of the Senate
Approved March "a, 1873.
JOHN G. BROWN, Governor.
l certify that the foregoing is a true copy OF
an act of the General Assembly, the original
of which is now on file in my office. This
March 2S, 1873.
CHAS. N. GIBBS,
Secretary of Stata
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ADDITIONAL RIVER NEWS.
For full river news, see third page.l

BG TEkEO kAFA.
LITTLE Rock, April 2S.-River falling,
now 81 feet by the gauge. Weather
clear and cool. No arrivals or depart
ures except local packets.
CINCINNATI, April 2S.-River falling,
Is feet in the channel. Weather
cold and rain all day. Arrived: James
d. Parker and Andy Baum, Memphis;
Sherlock, New Orleans; Hudson,
Wheeling. Departed; Alaska, st. Louis.
ST. LOUIS, April 2S.-River falling.
Heavy rain last night, cloudy damp and
threatening to-day, but no rain. Ar
rived: Minneapolis, Belle Lacrosse, st.
Paul; Grand Tower, Memphis; Robert
Mitchell, John kellogg, New Orleans
MOuntaineer, Missouri river; Babbage,
Cairo; Minneola, Galena. Departed
Muscatine, Galena; johnson, keokuk;
City of Chester, Memphis; Babbage,
Dubuque.
EVANSVILLE, April 2S.-River fallen
ii inches. Weather cloudy and cool,
Mercury 500 to 600. Down: Bowling
Green, S pm; Mary Miller, IL pm.
Louisville, noon; Arlington, 8 pm.
Mary Ament, pm; Arkansas Belle,
pm. Up: r. E. Lee, am; Quick
step, am. Fayette, 8 am; Morning
Star, 10 a.m.; Roberts, IL am; Pat Ro-
gers, 3p.m.; all with fair trips, business
improving.
NASHVILLE, April 2S.-River falling,
8 feet on Harpeth shoals. Weather cool
and clear. Arrived: Lumsden, Cairo I;
Silverthorn, Evansville; Ella Hughes,
upper Cumberland river. Departed
Exchange, Pittsburg; Silverthorn, Ev-
ansville; Lumsden, Cairo.
LOUISVILLE, April 2S.-River falling,
feet on the falls, S feet Inches at
head of canal. Weather warm and
hazy. Arrived: Lytle, Cincinnati; ;
Charmer, Evansville; Robt. e. Lee,
New Orleans. Departed: Franklin,
Lytle, Charmer, Cincinnati; Robert L.
Lee, Richmond, New Orleans; Taras-
con, Leavenworth.
New ORLEANS, April 2S.-Weather
clear and warm. Arrived: Thompson
Dean, st. Louis. No departures.
VIcKsBURG, April 2S.-River station
ary. Weather cloudy and warm. Down;
Glencoe, Garrett, Pargoud. Up: Mary
E. Poe, Continental, City of Quincy, P.
w. Strader, Bismarck, Robert Mitch
ell.
PITTsBURG, April 2S.-River station
ary, Z feet Z inches water in channel.
Weather cloudy with indications OF rain.
Carrie Brooks arrived from GAINESVILLE
and will depart for same port tomorrow
eve; Savannah viii probably depart for
st. Louis.
CAIRO, April 2S.-River fallen IA
inches. Weather cloudy and mild.
Arrived; Mary Houston, New Orleans;
st. Joseph, ST. Louis, Marble City, st.
Louis; Idlewild, Evansville; Grand
Tower, Memphis; Hobbs, Ohio river
Fearless, Pittsburg, 9 am; Charley
Brown, Pittsburg, 3p.m.; Capital City,
Vieksburg, A pm; City of Alton, st.
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Saturday, May 24, 1878,

within legal hours, the following described
real estate, tO-Wit:
Situate, lying and being in the county OF
Shelby and state OF Tennessee, and being lots
one and two in the W. 2. Deadriek subdivi-
sion, described as follows: Beginning twenty
five CD feet south Of the south side Of the
Memphis and Charleston Railroad and on the
east side OF Trezevant avenue, and running
south with east line Of said avenue to CarDes
avenue 70 a stake; and thence east with north
line OF said Carnes avenue 1910 chains and -
links TO stake; thence north $50 chains and
= links TO a stake . feet south Of the Mem
phis and Charleston Railroad; thence west
within . feet OF said railroad to the begin
n1ngi containing 10 S-l00 acres, being same
property conveyed 70 sa +. J. Bates BY W. p
Deadrtck by deed recorded in Registers ofice
Of Shelby county, in book No. 69 pages
667, and 9.
Terms of Sale-On a credit of seven months:
note with approved security; lien retained
equity of redemption barred This April
., 1873.
N. D. L. STEWART, Clerk and Master
Humes PostOn, Soils. for eOmpln't. apps
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ADDITIONAL MARKETS.

MOBILE, April 2S.-Cotton is dull
and weak; middlings, 1S@IS4c; net re,
ceipts, 1347 bales; exports-coastwise
1857 bales; sales, 400 bales; stock, 80, IS;
bales.
GALVESTON, April 2S.-Cotton-
net receipts, 74I bales; exports-to Great
Britain, 3416 bales; coastwise, 1851 bales;
sales, 400 bales; stock, 50,8S4 bales.
CHARLESTON, April 2S.-Cotton-
net receipts, Ais bales; exports-coast-
wise, 525 bales; sales, 200 bales; stock,
q, ,256 bales.
SAVANNAH, April 2S.-COtton is
quiet; middlings, Isle; net receipts, 795
bales; xports-eOastwise 727 bales;
sales, 6S5 bales; stock, 80, $40 bales.
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Farmers Orga aizing.

FORT SCOTT, Ks, April 2S.-A large
and enthusiastic meeting of the farmers
of Bourbon county was held in this city
last Saturday for the purpose of forming
a grand central council of the oranges
of the county. Resolutions were passed
denOuncing monopolies, cOndemning
the congressional baek-pay steal, and
censuring the action of the last legisla-
ture in passing the mortgage-exemption
act. About twenty oranges are organ
lied in the county, with a membership
of between three and four hundred, and
new ones are being formed nightly. The
farmers are thoroughly wakened up,
and are terribly in earnest.
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IOllOWluG
programme:
First Day, Tuesday, April 29th.
Hurdle race, for Club Purse Of 500. OF
which 500 to the second; two miles, over eight
hurdles, feet inches high. Three year olds
to carry no lbs; year oids, I24 lbs; year olds
and upward, 80 lbs. Four to start.
SAME DAY-The Trial Stakes, mile heats.
for three year Olds; sweepstakes of $50 each,
PIP, to which the Club will add 500. Five
THIRD RACE-Jocley Club Purse $50. mile
and half; free for all.
second Day, Wednesday. April 3Oth.
Jockey Club Purse $500, dash OF two miles,
SANE DAY-Jockey Club Purse $50, mile
heats; free for all.
Third Day, Thursday, May Ist.
The Minor stake, mile heats, for three year
old colts and hl1es that have not appeared in
public sprtor TO the closing of this stake; a
sweepstakes OF S25 each, PIP, to which the
Club will add 500. Eleven subscribers.
SAME DAY-The Robbins Stake sweep
stakes Of 500 each, hf. it., to which the Club
viii add S1uO; second to save his stake; heats
of two miles; free for all. Seven subscribers.
Fourth Day, Friday, May I'd.
Jockey Club Purse $50, mile and a quarter,
for all ages.
SAME DAY-Joekey Club Purse $50, mile
heats, best in D; free for all ages
Fifth Day, Saturday, May Sd.
Grand Steeple Chase, Conditions to be an
nounced on Wednesday, 'the second day of
the meeting.
SAME DAY-Chickasaw stake, two miles
for three year olds; a sweepstake of $50 each,
PIP, to which the Club viii add 500. Seven
subscribers
THIRD RACE-Handieap for beaten horses,
mile heats. Horses beaten once allowed Z lbs p:
twice, IA lbs; three times, q lbs. Entrance,
SO; money to go to the second horse. For a
purse of 500
The CLUB reserves the right to postpone on
account OF weather, or for other sufficient
cause. In case postpOnement is announced,
the entries for purses are of.
80 No Entrance Fee to Purses. A Walk-Over
entities horse to full amount of Purse
Prices of admission as usual. Extra accom-
mOdationS for Ladies, who are specially in
vited. JOHN DONOVAN President
Q. STONE, Secretary pro tenn. ap4
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LEAYENwoRTH, April 2s.-The Com
ulcrcjaL newspaper aud job printing
Office aud bOOk-bindery has been pur-
chased 10y ID. w. Huston and Il. n,
shaw. The Commercial was established
nearly seven years ago by Prescott,
Hume & Callahan as a national Union
journal. 1t subsequently became Demo
cratic in tone, and the last year it es-
paused the liberal movement. Under
the new management it viii be heartily
Republican, but independent. Colonel
Huston was United States marshal ol
Kansas during Grants first term, and
Mr.. Shaw has been on the editorial stat
about year.
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PRICES OF ADMISSION:
Chancery Sale of Real Estate
Saturday. May u. 1913.

No. 1881, +. DIN the Second Chancsry Court
OF Shelby county, Tennessee.-Janes NJ
Hart VS.. E. P Bates and FlOrilla J. Bates.
P1 virtue Of an order OF sale made in the
ID above cause on the Goth November. IS72
viii sell, at public auction, to the highest
bidder, in front Of the Clerks Office Of the
Second Chancery Court, Greenlaw Opera
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FUNERAL NOTICE.

| McCANN-The friends and acquaintance
OF DAVID W. MCCAIN and family are respect
fully invited to attend his funeral, from his
late residence, corner Fifth and Looney sts
Chelsea, this (rUESDAY) morning, at ten
O'Clock
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NOTICE.

FVHE Comm issiOners for locating the United
L States Government Building viii please
meet at the Union and Planters Bank TO-DAY
Tuesday, 18th, at II o'clock, for the purpose
OF examining bids for a site.
arEq i NJ. HILL. Chairman.
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The s Heathen ChInee. >.

ST, LOUIS, April 2S.-Between fifty
ana sixty Chinese were set to work in
the eoopershop of Jaynes & Co. to-day.
Considerable indignation was manifest
ed by the coOpers, and a number of them
entered the shop and INDUCED in rather
threatening remarks, and intimated
that strike would occur, but there be-
ing a strong force OfpOlice on the ground,
no demonstration was made, and the
probabilities are that no disturbance viii
result. There are nov nearly one thou
sand Chinese engaged in various occu-
patiOns in this city.
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The RACES!

FT'HE drum viii be tapped for the start In the
Il first race Of the day at 2=3o pm.
Entries for the races Of the following day
viii close, at the OVERTON HOTEL at 2
O'Clock each evening.
For the convenience OF such as desire il. a
box viii be kept at the Office Of the Secretary,
on the Course, in which entries may be de-
posted during the day, and for fifteen min
utes after The close Of the last race OF the day.
Pools sold morning and evening al the Over
ton Hotel. and during the day On the Course.
PRICES OF ADMISSION:
Day badges, admitting to Quarter stretch = %
Public stand, single tcket-...............-. 81
EE LADIES FREE
Trains leave the Charleston depot every
hour during the day, commencing az ten
o'clock am. Fare for the round trip, % cts
The public are invited. ap29
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NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
MASONIC NOTICE

A SPECIAL convocation OF Penn a
"A Royal Arch Chapter, No. 2, will beNAz
held this (TUESDAY) evening. APRIL"
18th, at ~ O'Clock, for work in the K. A. NJ
degree.
All r. A. NJ. 3 are fraternally invited.
BY order &. G. LOCKE, NJ. E. ii. p
A. ]. WHEELER, Secretary. ap2s
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Anxiety in regard to the pope's eondi-
ton has been renewed ON account of a
report that he passed Sunday night
restlessly.
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Louis, SPIN; Simpson Horner, Louis
vile, Z pm. Great Republic, st. Louis,
pm. Departed: Lady Lee, Red river,
| S p.m.; Mary Houston, Louisville, 10
pm; st. Joseph, Memphis, 10 pm. ;
wild, Evansville, midnight; Grand
Tower, st. Louis, am; Cowen, st.
Louis, an; Hobbs, st. Louis, 8 am. I;
Florence, st. Louis, i pm; Capital City,
st. Louis, pm; City of Alton, New
Orleans,5 pm; Simpson Horner, Vicks-
burg, z pm.
weather Probabilities.
WASHINGTON, d. c., April 2s.-The
storm area now extending from the
Ohio valley to Tennessee, will probably
move nOrtheastward quite rapidly
For the southwest, Tennessee and the
gulf States, excepting occasional rain
tonight, cloudy and clearing weather,
nOrthwesterly winds and diminished
temperature. For the south Atlantic
States, rain tonight followed by clear
ing and partly cloudy weather, with
sOutheasterly and s0uthwesterly winds,
and increasing pressure on Tuesday.
For the middle States and lower lakes,
northeasterly winds, falling barometer,
warmer, threatening and rainy weather.
For the northwest, upper lakes and
thence southwark to Kentucky and
Missouri, occasional light rain, north
westerly winds, partly cloudy and clear
ing weather. For Canada and New
England, increasing cloudiness, falling
barometer, winds veering to the north
east and rain by Tuesday.
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A club has been formed in Lisbon
having for its object union of the Por-
ugese republicans.
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Frederick, crown prince of Denmark,
as in Vienna yesterday.
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From the ModOes.

SAN FRANCISCO, April 28.-A special
courier from Yreka late last night, says
the opinion prevailed at headquarters
that the Modoes will not make another
stand, but will break up into small par
ties, and will have to be hunted in de-
tail, making work for the cavalry all
summer. General JEFF. c. Davis and
staff reached Yreka yesterday afternoon,
and proceeded Immediately to the front
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Associated Press Dispatch.l
KIOt in New Hampshfre.

KEENE, N. H, April 2S.-A riot oc-
CURED here last Saturday night. A
number of citizens came to the assistance
of the police, and the rioters were dis
persed, four of them being subsequently
arrested. The chief of police was badly
beaten.
First Civil Rights Case in New York.
ALBANY, April 2S.-John T. Yayne
and wife, colOred, complained of Aaron
Richardson, proprietor OF the opera
house, for ejecting them from that place
Of amusement, and warrant was issued
for the arrest of Richardson. This is the
first case under the civil rights bill
passed by the present legislature.
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RACES.
RACES! RACES
THE FOURTH
ANNUAL SPRING MEETING
OF THE
CHICKASAW JOCKEY CLUB
WILL COMMENCE ON
TUESDAY, APRIL 29th,
TUESDAY. APRIL 29th.
First DAY, Tuesday, ApriI eath.

md continue five days, with the followin,
DrOgramne.