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Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1874-03-22
TIE TEMPERANCE CRUSADE.
Mass Meetings I'm JOnesbOrO-WOmen
CanVaSsing for Recruits.


From the Knoxville Press and Herald.
JONEsBORO, March IS.-For some time
we have had a temperance mass meeting
each week, at one or the other of the
churches in the town. These meetings are
we'll attended and a strong, deep feeling
exists in this community in favor of tenn
perauce reform. At the meeting last Fri
day night, a committee of ladies was ap-
pointed to canvass the town with temper
ance pledge and procure the signatures of
all that were willing TO sigr it. They have
been carrying this pledge TO ever family in
the town and many are signing it, but the
work of canvassing is not completed yet.
Aside from the strong, deep conviction that
this movement is making on the public
mind in favor of temperance and against
the liquor traffic, some of our most useful
citizens who have been constant drinkers,
have made public confessions and pledged
themselves to abstain ever afterwards.
A committee of ladies was also appointed
by the mass meeting to prepare an address
TO the grocery keepers, appealing to them
to desist from a vocation so destructive of
their own souls and the happiness Of others.
This petition is prepared and they are get
ting signatures 10 it. Nearly every one in
town will sign 1t, men, women and chill
dren-even the poor drunkards themselves
will sign it. If in the face of all this, and
the full knowledge of what he is inficting
upon innocent, helpless women and chill
dren, a man will persist in his work of
desolation and ruin, what will be his doom,
Our people are not excited immOderately,
but they have enlisted for life and they ex-
pect to perSeyere and never retreat.
\ deep religious feeling peryades the en-
tire community. Religious services are
held almost every night in some one of the
churches.
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TENNESSEE NEWS.

The Springfield Record or the 19th
states: Mr.. John WilkerSon, a highly re:
spected and much esteemed gentleman of
our county, put an end to his existence by
swallowing a large quantity of morphine
last Sunday night. He died Monday eve
ming at O'Clock. He was a quiet, peace
able citizen-leaVes a wife and children as
Well a. many relatives and friends to
laOuTn his untimeiy departure. We are
unable as yet to learn any further particu-
lars, more than that he sent his little son
to a drugstore at this place last Thursday
to purchase 20 grains OF morphine, aud
charged his boy not TO tell his mother for
what i,e went TO town.
The SOmeruGte FtIicOR narTates sad
casualty: Tuesday, the 18th inst, Mr.. j.
ii. Whitaker served as a member Of the
jury at our Circuit Court. In the afternoon
he was discharged and just before night
started home, a distance Of seYen miles
from town. y was very dark night and
was pouring down rain. He missed his
way and finally, after wandering about
some time, found himself al the house of
Mr. A. J.. FaITis. After some words with
Mr.. Farris he started home, remarking that
he could easily find the way. In passing
through a field he again missed his way
and was seen no more that night. The
next morning his rideless koTss, covered
with mud, appeared at his home. Search
was made and about nine O'Clock the same
morning his body was found almost buried
ont Of sight in the bottom ola gullsY ten
feet deep, situated in the Reld where he
missed his way. Ills neck was broken and
Al ,.aS evident that in fhe intaDza darkness
beth rider ana horse had fallen headlong in
the gulley, he falling beneath, while the
horse escaped by passing some distance
down the gulley until it widened consider
ably and permitted him to pass out, and re-
turn home as a dumb messenger Of his Wasl-
ters sad fate.
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ARKANSAS.
Homicide i'm Forrest City.
A Judge Shot bx a Lawyer.

A Judge Shot by n Lawyer.
LITTLE Rock, March PA special tele-
gram to the Gazette, from Forrest City,
states that Hon. John w. Fox, Judge of
the eleventh judicial circuit, was shot with
a dOuble-baTTeled shotgun this morning,
about o'clock, by J. K. p. Aldridge,
lawyer, and died from the effects of his
wounds at p. NJ. The dispatch says Judge
Fox was on his way to the pOStoffice from
the hotel, aud had not gone much more
than thirty PAGES when Mr.. Aldridge
stepped out from Mr.. Il. G.. Dyes drug
store and said: ''NOw, Judge Fox" at the
same time firing on him. The first shot
took effect in his stomach. He sank on the
ground, exclaiming, "Oh. Lord, l am
dead man." and after he had fallen, Al
bridge, to make sure of his work emptied
the other barrel at him, it taking effect in
his bowels. He was taken back to the
hotel, when, upon examination, it was
found that his wounds were fatal.
Aldridge then went and delivered himself
to the sheriff. A jury of inquest returned
a verdict in accordance with the above
facts. The origin of the difficulty is not
definitely known, though it is thought it
grew out of some remarks to Aldridge by
Judge Fox while the latter was on the
bench. Aldridge is now in the custody of
the sheriff.
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A TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Mrs SeOnee, of Scott County, ky.,
Cuts the ThrOafs Of Two Daughters
and then Her Own.

Suts Ahc AnFOsAS Oh Two Dou&nIerS
and then Her Own.
From the Louisville Courier-Journal
LEXINGTON, KY, March 2O.-A fearful
tragedy was enacted in Scott county to-day.
Mrs. Elizabeth Sconce, wife Of VIM.
Sconce, who resides four miles from George
town, on the Frankfort pike, cut the threats
Of her two little girls and then cut her own.
She had been troubled with Mysteries for
week past, and was under medical treat
ment. This morning her husband and her
father, who slept in the same room with
her and the two children, GOT mp and went
out, leaving the rest Of the family in bed'
Soon afterwards two grown daugh-
ters, sleeping in the adjoining room,
We're awakened by the noise,
and found their mother leaning over the
bedside and asked her what sla wanted.
She said nothing, and returned to the she'd
room where she slept, Immediately one
OF the childrea was heard to scream, and
the girls, rushing into the room, found the
two children, Lula, aged two, and Willie
Kate, aged nine, with their Threats cut.
Their screams brought Mr.. ScOnce TO the
hense, and when he arrived his wife had
cut her own throat and was speeches., al
though she made the effort to speak to him.
DIS. Adams and Wren We're summoned as
soon as possible; bat Mrs. Sconce had sew
cred hQth jUgular veins, and, despite
their efforts to save her, she died.
The youngest child is in a critical
condition. The next one, Willie Kate,
Is considered out of danger, although Sc
verely cut about tho throat and hands.
The cutting wSz done with a razor procured
out & box in the passage way between
the two rooms. MIS-. ScOnce is a daughter
of James Williams, Of Bourbon county,
has been married twenty-One years, and is
the mother Of five children. She was a
piOus, industrious, practical woman, and
lived happily with her neighbOrS. Two
of her siStres died about the same ace Of
heart disease. and this joined to her hySteria
filed her with gloomy forehodings Of
a similar fate and no doubt caused the
Temporary abeFatlan OF mind, during
which tho deed was done. She dressed
herself neatly and completely before com
mitting the fearful act. She was about
forty years of age, and her husband firty,
The family was much respected ia the
neighbOrhOOd.
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NEW YORK.
The Eric Strikers.

New YORK, March 21-.The Erie railway
Company endeavOred to-day to supply the
places of the strikers at the freight depOts by
employing Italians and Germans, but only
with partial success. A gang of one hun
dred and fifty of the CORNER were marched
early in the morning to pier 81, and left
standing on the sidewalk. While arrange
ments were making for them to work on
the dock, some of the strikers came along
and the Italians scattered in all directions.
Detachments of police were sent for and
under their protection two hundred Ger
mans who soon afterwards arrived
went TO work. The strikers hang about
the company's dock in Jersey City, saying
twenty cents an hour or no work. The
movement of freight is at a standstill there.
The freight which accumulated at the New
York dock has beea OYerhauled, and the
perishable freight forwarded 81 way OF
PiermOnt. A thousand laboTers, employed
on the new railroad tunnel a. Bergen Hill,
struck to-day for an advance from S1.50 to
Sl.T5 a day.
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ANOTHER KNOXVILLE HORROR,

Prom the knOXYlIIe thrchIeIei MATCH q.
Yesterday evening about dusk two boys
fishing in First Creek noticed the body Of
an inian' floating down the stream near
the Mabry street bridge, and informed
Officer Cain. DIR. TadlOck examined the
child and found it to be white newborn
babe, of the female sex, we'll developed,
and on testing the lungs, it was ascetained
that the child had been born alive, and was
consequently afterwards strangled with a
calico string which lad been drawn twice
tightly aynnRd its neck. The child was
round with this string around its neck and
a piece of cloth around its body.
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A ROTTEN BANK.
Immense Loans to Henry ID. Cooke
and to Jay Cooke d co. the Source
Of Ruin.

From the Louisville Courier-,TOurnal.
WASHINGTON, March 20.-The sub
committee, composed Of Messrs. Durham,
of Kentucky; Farwell, of Illinois, and Mer-
riam, of New York, made their report this
morning to the Committee on Banking and
Currency, upon the affairs of the Firs.
National Bank of this city. The facts de-
velOped disclose a perfectly rotten condition
of affairs. The amount Of past debts, run
ming for some time uncollected, is over
$4,000. One Of the largest debts due the
bank IT the time of the failure was from
its President, Henry ID. Cooke, the piOUs
banker, late Radical Governor Of the Dis
trict an ex-officiO member Of the Board
Of Public Works This sum, including in
tereSt, on the day of failure was 9,7.S.42,
and had been due by Cooke since 1868.
The amount standing to profit and loss in
the hank account on the day Of the failure
and for some time previously was about
$4,000. The debt due on the day OF fail-
ure by jay Cooke * Co., was $4,000, but
on the lst of August, 1873. their debt to the
First National Bank was only $23s. SOP;
so that this large increase was created in
one month aud eighteen days. OF this in
crease 500, 900 was created on the 18th
and 10th days Of September, only two days
before the failure of these institut IONS.
At the time Of the failute, the bank
was indebted to the Government S2S7, 900,
which has since been secured by the pres
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HighWaynnen.
his ReIigion.
MICHIGAN.
Incident and Accident.

LANSING, March 21.-The Legislature
has extended the time for the completion Of
the Marquette and Maekinaw Railroad till
Dec. 81, 1877.
The new Constitution as revised was
adopted. The Legislature has adjourned
sine die.
Duncan Mcintyre, prominent resident
Of HaTisyille, Michigan, hung himself to-
day. Cause, arrangement on account of
sickness.
Mrs. Abner June, highly respected res
ident Of the town of Bedford, near Battle
Creek, was burned to death. Her clothes
caught fire whilst kindling fire.
The temperance crusade israpidly spread
ing throughout the State. Ii is being very
generally successful in the smaller town.
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THE Neuc York Tribune tells an un-
palatable truth to many Republicans in
this way: at will doubtless take Gen.
Schenck, and most other leading Re-
publicans who have been out of the
country for some years, good while to
find out-what they are finding very
rapidly in Boston-that the Republican
party is not now in power, and that, if
it is not already in direct conflict with
the party that is in power, it is liable
to find itself in that predicament at any
moment >,
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ANEW wrinkle about the age of horses
is the discovery of an Illinois farmer, who
determines the age of all animals over nine
years old by the following novel method;
After the horse is nine years Old wrinkle
comes on the upper corner Of the lower eye
lid, and every year thereafter be has one
well-defined wrinkle for every year over
nine. If, for instance, horse has three
wrinkles, he is twelve; if he has four, he
is thirteen. Add the number of wrinkles
10 nine and yOa will get it.
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ent Secretary of the Treasury, an outside
and independent party having taken care
of this debt.
There is a leakage of S46,343 which is
not accounted for at all; this portion Of
the assets is clear gone and cannot be
traced. No explanation is given in refer
ence to it, either in the form of bad debts
or otherwise. The bank had at the time Of
its failure about S2T2, 900 in mutilated cur
reney, which had not been sent to the
Comptroller for cancellation. This money
came from other banks, and its retention
was breach of confidence reposed in this
institution.
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FO h EIGN.

Disraeii Denies the Right Of Petition.
LONDON, March 21.-Disraeli to-day re-
fused to receive the deputation which came
to ask for the release of Fenians.
Ashantee Hero.
Gen. Sir Garnet Wolsley disembarked
at Portsmouth this morning, and is expect
ed i'm this city this evening. An immense
crowd has assembled TO welcome him.
LATER.-Gen. Wolsley arrived this
evening. His reception at Waterloo Station
was perfect ovation. An immense crowd
OF people had assembled.
Counting the Cost.
The House of Commons to-day passed
bill appropriating S4,000,000 for the ex-
penses of the Ashantee expedition, and
Mr.. Anderson gave notice that Monday
next he would ask the government whether
it was willing to cooperate with the United
States in fixing sailing tracks for vessels
crossing the Atlantic.
Several Children Drowned.
The extraordinary rise in the Thames
yesterday caused great damage in Lambeth
and Ratherhithe. The sewers burst, and
the floors of many houses were forced up,
drowning several children and horses. At
Mapping the lower stories of the houses
were filed with water, and business ON the
wharves was suspended. Numerous fami-
lies were compelled 10 abandon their
houses. At Woolwirh the fires in the gun
factories were extinguished, and the store
sheds were flooded. Embankments have
been erected to prevent repetition of the
inundation apprehended to-day.
Cuban Items.
HAVANA, March 21.-The Vose de
Cuba has information of the killing of in
surgent Colonel CelisOrio Peralla and six
teen Of his men by Spanish troops. Senior
Villamel, Intendente of Havana, has It.
signed. SenOr Manas is his successor.
The DidriO and Fose de Cuba deny that
Captain General Jouvellar forwarded his
resignation since the present government
came into power. The people comment
upon the coming of Gen. COncha and the
manner Of his appointment.
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THE YOUNGERS.
The Late Rattle with Detectives.


ST. LOUIS, March 21.-The latest infOr-
nation from the scene of the fight between
the notorious Younger brothers and the
detectives, near MOnegaw Springs, is that
the detectives engaged were Allen, of Chi
cago, and Wright, of St. Louis. The for
mer is still at Roscoe mOrtally wounded.
The latter escaped. 1t is further stated
that Jas. Younger was wounded in the
affray and his capture is expected; alsOthat
the Younger brothers came down from the
North just after the murder of Whicher,
near indianapolis, which leads to the belief
that they had hand in that murder.
Later.
The latest adviceS regarding the fight 1T
MOnegaw Springs ale that Allen, the Chi
cago detective, died at two O'Clock this
morning. The st. Louis detective who
escaped was not named Wright, but Beck
worth, who resigned from the detective
force of this city some weeks ago, but who
is believed to have been in PinkertOn's
service.
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PITY the sorrows of the wealthy Of
you are only a newspaper man, that is about
the nearest YOU win ever come toa personal
acquaintance with the woes Of the wealthy
That beautiful ex-distributor of suFperfne
hash az a Terre Haute QInd.) hotel hasn't
slept a wink since the gallant beaux Of the
town discovered that she had inherited
$4,000 in gold. She says 'theu noises is
worse than a regiment Of sick fsh-hoTns>"
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ILLINOIS.
The CentreviIIe Massacre.

ST. LOUIS, March PA gentleman Just
from Belleyille, Illinois, reports that Sher-
iff Hughes has returned from the scene of
the murder of the Stiltzenreiter family,near
Centreville. He obtained no clue TO the
asSaSsins, but the murder was evidently
committed for plumber, as the house was
thoroughly ransacked and the contents of
bureaus, closets, etc, strewn all around.
The elder Stiltzenreiter had considerable
money in the house, which the mur,lerers
are supposed to have gotten. The house is
situated some distance from any other
dwelling in the vicinity of 4 settlement
called SaxtOwn. The neighboFs are greatly
excited, but suspicion is attached to no
one. 1t is believed the murder was com
mitted Thursday night as the bodies of
Mrs. S. and children were in bed when
found. That of her husband was on the
floor beside lounge on which he slept,and
that of the old man in the passage way lead
ing from his own to his sons room. The
heads of the men were nearly severed from
the body, while those of the mother and
children were crushed with some blunt
instrument. The County Court of St.
Clair county has offered a $1,000 reward for
the murderers.
Later.
ST. LOUIS, March 21.-AdditiOnal but
still meage information from the scene of
the Centerville butchery has been received.
The name of the murdered family is Stelz-
uride, not Stilleriter, as previously report
ed. At the inquest this evening held by
Coroner Ryan, of East St. Louis, several
witnesses were examined and facts elected
lead to the belief that Fred. BOeltz, hus-
band of sister of Mrs. StelzIride commit
ted the horrible deed. He was present but
refused to testify until forced to, and then
his answers and general conduct were such
as to excite strongest suspicion Ofhis guilt.
He acknowledged he had been on bad
terms with the murdered family,
entertained feeling of enmity toward them
and was in old Mr. Stelzuride's debt several
hundred dollars. These and other facts
brought out, together with another fact that
the house was not ransacked and pillaged,
as previously stated, and that old man
Stelzuride's money was found, establish
beyond doubt that the murder was not
committed for plunder, and tend more
strongly to fasten suspicion upon BOelLz.
When our informant left the scene the in
quest was still in progress, and a verdict
has not yet been received, but the prOba-
bilities are that Boeltz will be committed.
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Later.
BOSTON
Big Fire i'm the state Prison.

BosToN, March 2l.-Shortly after noon
a fire broke out in the Tucker Manufactpr-
ing Co.'S shops in the State prison at
ChmleStOwn, which were entirely consumed
with the contents. Loss 100000. partial
ly insured. The cOnvicts were at dinner at
the time and were locked in large hall in
the east wing, thus preventing escape.
Going Back on the Negro
The New England Freedman's Society
has decided to wind up its affairs. Since
April, 1854, the Society has received and
expended over S350,O00 and has supported
seventy teachers among the colored people
of the South.
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THE SIAMESE TWINS.
Their Bodies Not Sold, sHd Not 90 be
Exhibited

PHILADELPHIA, March 21.-TwO sons
of the Siamese twins have arrived here and
will leave tonight for home with the re
mains of their parents. They deny thlai
the family Intend to exhibit the remains,
and say they are to be at once decently in
tered. The SONS have obtained from the
physicians statement denying that the
bodies were given them for autopsy as the
result of pecuniary arrangement.
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The Memphis Ledger gives us soln

THE Menaphis Ledger gives us some
information which is important, If
true" That journal says:
1--WE hope our cOtemporary will give
itself no further trouble on account of
the repudlators of Shelby county.
There is not corporal's guard of them
all told. We only know of three out
of about 10000 voters, and they can
neither bear the price of bonds nor
bear the current Of public opinion"
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DeSperadO Killed.

LOUISVILLE, March 21.-C. b. Berthu-
man, noted Kentucky desperate and fugi-
tive from justice, was shot and killed in
his mountain recess a few days since by a
party Cf officers attempting his arrest.
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Big Fire at Dallas. Texas.

NEW ORLEANS, March 21.-A GdluestOn
NelcS special says a fire in Dallas last
night consumed ten stores. The loss is
estimated at $4,000; fully insured.
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TENNESSEE BONDS were nominal in
New York yesterday, with both issues
at 80.
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THE poet, VIM. Cullen Bryant, has
added to his fame By writing "a popu-
lar history of the United States"
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Ss6GPPe.

BALTIMORE, MD., March 2l.-Dr. fanl
Schgppe was remanded to prison to-day to
give reasonable time for 4 requisition from
the Governor Of Illinois,
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COTTON was firm IN the New York
market yesterday, with middling at
16ac.
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PLYMOUTH CHURCH.
The CONGREGATIONAL Council.


NEW YoRC, March 21.-After a prayer
meeting in Plymouth Church last evening,
letters from DR.. StOTrs' and DR.. Budding
TONS churches were read, inviting Plymouth
to send Mr.. Beecher and a committee to
the Congregational Council, but intimating
they would have no voice in the proceed
ings, except in contradiction of misstate-
mentS and in furnishing information that
might be asked for. Plymouth Church
has not declined the mutual council as a
consummatiOn of course of proceedings
against which is irregular and Unwarrant-
able. We have felt bound to protest from
the beginning that we recognize in the
statement and intimation persistent at
tempt TO put this church under accusation
and on trial plymouth Church will meet
Wednesday night next to take any action
made requisite 10y the action of the Council
the night before.
THE Response from Chicago.
CHICAGO, March 2l.-Three of the Con-
gregalional Churches of this city have taken
action relative to the invitation OF Drs.
Storrs and Buddington, Congregational
Conncil in New York, TO investigate Ger
tain charges against Plymouth Church.
The first church in this city has accepted
the imitation and appointed DIR. VIM. Pat
ton to attend while the Union Park and
Plvmouih Church have declined. These
claim tie Council is improperly called, and
Is eSpaTte.
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Tie Response from, Chicago.
Three Miners Killed and Seven
ManSIed.

PoTTSvILLE. March 21.-By the breaking
Of the rope of 4 mine car in a coliiery at
Phoenix Park. ten We're precipitated 10 the
bottom of the shaft. Three We're killed in-
sEantlv, and the remaining seven cut and
bruised.