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SENTENCED.
John M'DonaId and w. o. Avery must
Go TO the Penitentiary.

ST. LOUIS, April 13-Genersl John
M'Donald has been sentenced by
Judge Treat Of the United States district
court to three years in the penitentiary
anG i've thousand dollars fine.
Ine impris1nment part OF General
M'Donald's sentence dates from the
tWenty-thiTd day OF November last, the
Gay OF his conviction. Judge Krum,
his counsel, made strong appeal to the
court to substitute the county
jail instead of the penitentiary
as the place of cOufir ement,
on account Of the better sanitary regu.
lations Of the former, the general being
ia very poor health, and suffering from
chronic disease, but Judge Treat did not
see the force Of this, and named JeffeT-
son City penitentisry as the place of
Imprisonment. The sentence was the
maximum penalty under the law. After
these proceedings were finished the dis
trict court adjourned and circuit court
opened. w. o. Avery was called
and answered, and the forfeiture
of his bond, declared q few days ago,
was set aside. Judge Treat then over
ruled the motion in arrest OF judgment
in this case, and sentenced the prisoner
to two years in the penitentiary, and 10
pay fac of one thousand dollars, the
minimum penalty. Mr.. Avery was i'm
medistely taken to the county jail to
await his transfer to Jefferson City. A
motion was then made for stay OF ex-
ecution in Colonel Maguire's case until
next Monday, or until arepIy can bs re-
ceived TO a petition sent to President
Grant, praying for remission Of the six
months imprisonment to which the de-
fendsnt was sentenced. The motion
was granted. -rs
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A MUD BLOCKADE.
A Landslide BIOckades Two Trains on
the Rock Island and Pacific Rail-
rOad-Fears of a Flood.

Iowa CITY, IA, April ia slide
occurred at about eleven o'clock last
night on the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific railroad track, on the east side
Of Iowa river, at this point, by which
two passenger trains from the west have
been shut in all day, unable to come or
go back. The track is covered with six
feet of hnpd, and the wagon roads are so
bad that it is only with the greatest
difficulty that provisions can be sent to
the passengers, forty Of whom are ladies.
The blockade will perhaps be raised at
seven O'Clock tonight. Iowa river is
rising rapidly, and there are fears of an
other hOCd like those of 1851 and 1855.
A heavy snOw-stOrm, extending along
the Missouri river from st. Joseph and
Fort Sully north, is now raging. No
particular damage as to crops is antici-
pated. The sowing Of wheat all over
the State is at present suspended. The
Missouri river Is rising,
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An intelligent black boy was trudging
along highway at night in the viCini-
ty Of Palestine, Texas. There was a
negro woman riding horse in the same
direction the boy was going. The in
telligent black boy reappeared in Psles-
tine that night out Of breath, and as
pale as he could get. He said he saw a
ball Of fife come out Of the sky and
strike the woman and set her ablaze.
The horse ran away with the woman
afire on his back, and he ran to the
town to tell the people what had hap.
pened. The people went to look after
further particulars Of the curious Incl.
dent. They found the woman lying on
the ground, with her clothing burned
off, hut life enough in her to tell that
she had been struck in the breast with a
ball Of fire. The horse was found with
his name siDged, and the woman died
the next day. The people think she
was hit by q meteor.
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WHO'S AN d" ASS p"
A Question for ihe New Orleans Times
to AnsWer-LOOk out Below.

We clip the following from the New
Orleans Times, of recent date, which sa-
vera Of having been written in a spirit
of personal pique against Mr.. VIII. o.
WOOGsOn, the Associated Press sGent i'll
this city. Perhaps by this time the
writer is ready to acknowledge that i'll
the effort to P7sC ciate the expression
''ass' with Major Wo0dsOn, he hes
written himself one. But we will let
that pass. The Associated Prc7s agent
here, as far es we have been cOgnizant
Of his reports, has bean Of the same
mind, as regards the threatened over
flow Of the Mississippi, IS have been the
expression of 10th the morning and
evening papers Of Memphis. We have
considered dangerous overflow immi-
nent, and our opinions have turned out
to be about correct. Already we hear Of
dangerous and damaging breaks in the
levees between Helena and Bolivar
landing, and yesterdays kilograms tell
us that wall OF water is coming cut OF
the upper Missouri and upper Mississippi
rivers. So, we are not yet "Gut Of the
water" Mr.. NeH Orleans Times. We
append the extract:
THE ASS: PRESS MAN AT MEMPHIS.
New Orleans Times.l
It appears that the amiable young
man who gets up the Ass: Press dis
patches at Memphis, has been fOiled
again in an attempt to inundate the Mis-
sissippi valley. Last year he made de-
liberate and vigorous effort to devastste
the alluvial region by an overflow, and
now we find him engaged in the same
eopgsnial and destructive occupation,
Present appearances, however, in
4L.,E l. b -, F.sT
Contrary to all his predictions, and in
open defiance Of his evident wishes,
the rivers above have concluded to
subside. The news yesterday told
Of decline st all points affecting the
volume of the water in Louisiana, and
in place Of the previously sensational
announcements from Memphis, there
came meek admission that q sharp fall
had occurred at Cairo and st. Louis,
with the further remark that, after all,
comparatively few have suffered any
serious damage as yet" We always
sympa .hize in the disappointments of a
really deserving person, and in that spirit
are moved to say that we feel for the
Associated Press young man at Memphis
in this hour of his bitterness. If indus
try and enthusiasm went FOR any
thing there would have been q flood
wholly unprecedented by this time
throughout the slluvial region OF the
southwest; but we are beginning to
fear that true merit is not recognized
ty the elements, and the river will re-
fuse to cooperate with our Memphis
friend. 1t is hsTd-yery hard. It al
most makes one doubt the Justice Of
Providence. Such are the facts though; !;
we are bound to acknowledge them,
however disspiriting and Objectionable
they may be.
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PORK.
Report for the Season by the Packers
of the West through the Chicago
Association.

CHICAGO, April 13.-Seeretsry How
ard, of the pork-psckerS' association,
makes the following report Of the pack
ing of the west during the winter season
of 1875 and 1876: Total number of
hogs packed, 4, ,S74, l25 against 3, ,566, ,226
last season, a decrease OF 692, ,101; aver
age net weight, 2lS Sc pounds, against
2O977 pounds last season, an increase of
$50 pounds; average yield of lard,
35.52 pounds, against 81 20 pounds,
an increase of 1872 pounds.
The aggregate net weight of the hogs
packed this season is equal to sos, $50
hogs OF last years average weight. The
production Of lard is equal to 541, lis
tierces Of 800 pounds each, against 594,-
939 tieIces last season, a decrease of SO, =
S24 tierces. The decrease in the aggre-
gate net weight is 1O3 297, 900 pounds, or
equal TO 72, ,30S 400 pounds of meats. The
decrease in the number OF hogs packed
in the west, with the receipts at
the city Of New York, Philadel.
phia, Boston and Baltimore is 994, 1870;
calculating the receipts Of hogs at the
seabOard cities at the same average
weight and yield of lard as those packed
in the west, the decrease in weight is
159, 429, 500 pounds, equal to "A 600 tier
ces, or %. eco pounds of hams, 25-
sos, 600 pounds Of shoulders, and 63, 722.
0C0 pounds of sides. The shortage in
the yield of lard east and west is re-
ported at 26,442, 900 pounds, or S2,684
tinrOar
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A White Girl Assaulted by a Negro.

At little settlement known as Lower
Cross Roads, four miles from Tsrrytowp,
Westchester county, New York, hor-
Iible outrage was parpetrated by negro
on the person OF a young white woman,
lsst Thursday afternoon. Nettie Many,
sged sixteen years, a step daughter of
Robert CYpher, who keepsa store on the
Cross Roads, was coming along a path
way through the woods. While in sight
Of her house, 8 negro sprang from the
underbrush and bore her into the bushes,
despite her screams, which he attempted
to prevent by choking her. She offered
him her jewelry to let her 60, but with
out avail, and tearing her clothes to
pieces. hs OverpOwered her. The poor
girl shortly atterwsrd reached home in q
fainting condition, with her garments
disOrdeTed and almost tom from her per-
son. When the outrage became known
the greatest excitement existed in the
neigbbOrhood. Armed men, both
mounted and on foot, made all haste in
the direction taken by the negro, and
after securing the woods and surround.
ing neighborhood all of that evening as
well as during the ensuing night and q
portion ofthe following day, they reluct-
antly abandoned the search, believing
that the villain had made COED his es.
cape.
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Nonresident Notice.

No. 2lIO-In the ChauceTy Court of Shelby
county, Tennessee-B. p. Anderson, Com
missioner OF Revenue, vs.. Mary Ellen Bog
giano ct al.
III appearing from the bill in this cause
which IS sworn to, that the defendant, Mary
Ellen BoggianO, is a nonresident OF the State
Of Tennessee aud resident Cfthe Kingdom Of
Italy: that the names and places Of residence
OF the heirs Of Jackson Bowman, decd, are
not known and cannot be asCertained after
diIigent inquiry, and they perhaps have some
interest in the land sought TO be subjected by
these proceedings; and II also appearing from
the Sherifs return that the defendants, Kan
dOlph stores and Y. Nevitsky, are not to be
found in his county:
It's therefore ordered, Thatthey make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse in the
city OF Memphis, Tenn, on or before the dGst
Monday in June, 1876, and plead, answer
or demuI 10 cOmplainants bill, or the same
will be taken for confessed as TO them
and set for hearing eXparte; and that a
copy OF Lis order be published once a week,
for four successive weeks, in the Memphis
Apreal, Ihis 18th day of April, 1876.
A copy-att6st: EDMUND A. COLE,
Clerk and NJ asteE
By r. b. McHenry, ID. G. & NJ.
TC,I1 nI
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The Funeral Of Ar, stewart

New YORK, April 13.-The funeral
services Of Alexander T. Stewart were
sOlemnized this morning at his house
and at st. Marks church, Bishop Potter
officiating, assisted by a number of cler-
gymen. The floral decorations at each
place were magnificent. and the crowds
in front of the house, church and along
the streets were vely great. The admis.
sion to the house and church was by
ticket, end the holders of these included
the leaders in social professional and po-
litical lie. Governors Tilden and Rice
headed the pall-bearers.
NEW YORK, April 13.-The dry goods
merchants held meeting yesterday,
and appointed a delegation Of fifty OF
the most prominent to attend Stewards
funeral.
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HOUSE.

Mr.. WalliDg reported back the bill
to authorize the claimants on even num-
bered sections OF land within twenty
miles of the limits Of the Northern
Pacific railroad to make proof and pay
ment for their claims at a minimum
rate Of one dollar and twenty-five cents
an acre. Passed.
Mr.. MOTey reported a bill granting
the island IN Wisconsin river to the
city Of Stevens Point, Wisconsin.
Passed.
A bill for the restoration to the market
Of the Uintah Indian reservation, of
Utah. Passed Also o bill respecting
the limits Of reservation for town sites
on public domain.
Mr.. Sayler, from the committee on
public lands, reported the senate bill to
confirm the pre-emptiOn and homestead
entries OF public lands within the limits
of the railroad, granting cases where
such entries have been made under the
land department. Passed.
The morning hour expired.
Mr.. Scales moved to 90 into commit
tee of the whole on the bill To transfer
the Indian bureau to the war depart
ment.
Mr. Randall moved to amend the bill
by going into committee on legislative
appropristiOn.b bill. Negatived.
Mr.. Scales's motion was agreed to
yeas, 13S; nays, So. The house there
upon went into committee Of the whole,
Mr.. Blackburn IL the chair, on the In
dian bin, and Mr.. Cook concluded his
speech Of yes; erday in favor of the trans
fer to the war department.
Mr.. Seelye spoke against the bill.
Mr.. Hooker advocated it, and without
action the committee rose and the house
took q recess till half-past seven.
The night session viii be for the con-
sideratiOn OF the~legislstiye appropria-
ton bill.
NIGHT SESSION.
Various amendments to the bill were
offered and rejected, and after progress
ing as far as page 81, the committee
rose, and the house adjourned to meet
Saturday, tomorrow being q public hOl-
iday in the District.
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FEARFUL HURRICANE,
Damage Rsne and Death Dealt I'm and
- AbOut Germantown, Kentucky,
Last Night.

LOUISVILLE, April l3.-In the suburbs
Of Germantown tonight, a hurricane
caused great deal Of damage and death
u two men, Michael and John MiffeTt,
father and SOD, besides numerous Lesser
accidents. Niiert, ST., Was eighty-six
years old. The son and SIX others were
IN Johns house when il was struck by
the wind and blown down. The party
were covered by the walls, etc. The
father and son were crushed as to be un-
recognizable. The others were more or
less irjGred, and taken cut ia from one
to three hours time. At this hour the
full extent Of the damage cannot be as
-anrLainnG
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WASHINGTON, April l3-The house
committee on appeals to-day instructed
Randall TO antagOniEe the pending ep-
preparation bill against all other business
In the house, both in the evening and
day sessions.
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Mississippi LegIsIature,

Special 70 Lhe AppeaI.T
JACKSON, MISS, April 13.-There has
been q big run Of business in both
houses, nearly all purely local. The
general appropriation and revenue bills
passed the house. The senate refused to
confirm the appointment of J. a. Orr IS
circuit judge Of the Columbus district.
Upton NJ. Young WIS appointed judge
of the VicksbuTg district. The commit
tee reported that Fred Parsons, repre-
sentative from Natchez, had obtained
the pardon OF Schmidt, the convict,
through fraud, aud recommended his
expulsion, but the matter was laid over
till next session. The legislature spent
yesterday in a visit to the Mississippi
cotton and wooden mills at WessOn.
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N NOIaICE
& SHIPPERS.

MEMPHIS AND LITTLE Rock RAILWAY COIL
OFFICE OF BUPERINTENDENT, :
MEMPHIS, Tenn, April ., 1876.
- Commencing Saturday, april 18th,
and until through trains are resumed, packets
will make daily trips, Sundays excepted, be-
tween Memphis and Madison.
Passengers leaving Memphis at pm. ar
rive at Little Rock at p m, making daily
connections with the st. Louis and Iron
Mountain Railroad, and Little Rock and Fort
smith Railroad or all points in Arkansas and
Texas.
Freight will be received daily at the depot,
at the foot OF Washington street, as heretofore.
Rates of freight and passage unchanged.
apl4 W. E. SMITH, Sup't.
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Attacked hY Indians.

FORT LARAMIE, April ia man by
the name Of RoWser, who used
to belong to the FOurteentbIinfantry, ar
rived here yesterday, and reports that
he and his party of five men were at
tackled by Indians just south Of Chey-
enne river, on the seventh instant, when
returning from Custer City. One of the
party, named Norman Storms, from
Iowa, was shot through the body and
killed. RoWser was shot through the
shoulder, but not seriously. Indians are
numerous in that section, and great
deal Of stock has been run off
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I'm Nasty Predicament.

ST. PAUL, April l0.-L. w. Rundlett
and Albert Stsrkey, young men attach
ed to the city engineer corps, traversed
the Minnesota sewer for masking meas
urements. Raising themselves at a man.
hole TO rest and make entries in their
field.book, they noticed the smell Of gas,
which instantly exploded from contact
from the candles which they carried.
The hair and eyelasbes Of both were en-
tirely burned off. Their faces and neoks
were badly burned, and clothes SET on
fire. Rolling in the seweT-wstsr they
extilgulsbed the fire and then Crawled
in the dark four hundred feet snd out OF
an open msnhole, when they were con-
veyed home.
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Nonresident Notice.

No 2ll6-In the ChanceTy Court OF Shelby
county, Tenuessee-B, p. Anderson, Com
missioner OF Revenue, ETC., vs.. Meredith
Yates ct al.
It appearing IOm the sheriff g return in
this cause that the defen Gants, @. +. Binder,
Daniel Stahl and +. i. v amer, are not 10 be
found in his county;
1t is therefore ordered, IT, at they make their
appearanCe herein, at the courthouse in the
city Of Memphis, Tennessee, on or before
the first Monday in June, 1876, and plead
answer or demur TO com mplalnant's blll, or the
same will be taken for confessed as 10 them
and set for hearing e1paTte; and that copy
OF this order he published once week, for
four success i've weeks, IN the Mem pnis Appeal.
This I2th day OF April, 1876.
A cOpy-attest:
E. A.UOLE, Clerk and Master.
By +. B. McHeury, d. Q, and ".
John Johnston, Sol, for cOmplt. apl2 Fri
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-04-14

TIE S)msTvillc Falcon says: "Sen-
''st0r Key made a miserable blunder.
ale can never explain this act Of his to
''the satisfaction Of the people OF Ten
"Gessee, and by it has struck a death.
elbow to any aspirations he msy have
Cherished in regard 10 future senatorial
"honors, and doubtless dug his own po-
HsIiticsl yrayeU -
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Vtcksburg. He got into the confidence
Of Johnson, and undertook 10 carry q
lot Of percussion caps from him to Penn
bertOn IN Nicksburg. He came TO Grants
headquarters with the caps, gave Grant
his dispatches from HuIlbUt, showed
him Johnson's dispatches TO Pember-
ton, and after having dampened the
caps 80 that they were useless, he went
on through the lines to PembertOn in
! NicBS0urg. He remained there some
days drew a map OF the Notifications,
which he concealed between the sOles Of
his bOots, got some dispatches from
| Penn berton 10 JChnEOl and started off.
! Be dpivefed the PembertOu dispatches
1 and the map he made to General Grant,
and both proved very useful. He was
| once seven months ia the Iebsl army
aud ia connection with Hurlbut all the
! lime. He rose to be q sergeant in the
| rebel ranks. One OF his characteristics
/ is his wonderful eyesight. 1t is said
that he can Distinguish objects at a dis
| tance that would be impossible TO other
! eyes unaided by telescopes. He can
| read ordinary msnGscript or newspaper
! Print 81 distance of two yaIds, and
this wonderful faculty is very useful to
him 10 his business as detective. Since
-
hood by blsckmsiliDg and borrowing
money, being much OF the time in gov.
ernment service. He pretends to be
editor Of The Southern ,50tsrRol, printed
at Chicago, aud exhibits a contract with
that paper authorizing him to solicit
subscriptions and advertising on com.
mission.
Text of sherman's Bill.
ing is the text Of Hhermsn's silver bill,
passed yesterday by the senate:
Be ii enacted, etc That there be, and
hereby is appropriated, out Of any money
iD the treasury not otherwise apprOpri-
ated, the sum Of one hundred and sixty
three thoCssnd dollars TO provide for the
engraving, printing and other expenses
OF making and issuing United States |
notes, and the further sum of fory-eight |
thousand dollars to provide for the en-
craving and printing Of national bank |
notes, to he disbursed under the diTec- |
ton Of the secretary of the treasury.
Sec. 2. That the secretary of the treas |
ury is hereby directed to issue silver
coins of the United States, of the de- |
nomination of ten, twenty, twenty-five |
and fifty cents, Of standard value, in re-
demptjOn Of an equal amount of frac-
tional currency, whether the same be
now in the treasury awaiting redemp-
ton, or whether it may be presented for
redemption, and the secretsry of the
treasury may, under the regulations Of !
the treasury department, provide for ,
such redemption and issue by substitu-
ton at the regular sub-tressuries and
public repositories OF the United States,
until the whole amount OF fractional
currency outstanding shall be redeemed,
and the fractional currency redeemed
under this act shall be held to be a part
OF sinking fund, provided for by the
existing law, the interest to be eomput-
ed thereon as in the case Of bonds re-
deemed under the acts relating to the
sinking fund.
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CINCINNATI, April 13.-Mrs. Sarah
A. Walker was found to-day in room
in her house, oa West Court street dead,
with terrible wound in her head, and
had evidently been dead several days
The room was in badly disordered con-
dition, probably caused by the wOmsn's
resistance when assailed. Henry Walk
er, her husband, who kept a saloon in
the building, has been arrested charged
with her murder, and held to await the
coroner's inquest tomorrow.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-04-14

TIE Helena World and Helena Mail
are unit on Judge John J. Homer for
congress from the first Arkansas dis.
trict, while Mississippi county demands
d.. +. e. H'G1vOck, and 81. Francis is
for CnlnRrl Lard
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Brutal Outrage.
Chicago Times Special

IuLLa-U IIILts . IIeCIdLsI
NEW HAVEN, CONN, April 1O.-On
last Friday rape Of peculiar bad char
acter was committed in Guilford, Willis
Bailey, a married man, twenty-five
years old, entered the sleeping-room Of
Mrs. Evsrts, . widow nearly seventy
years old. Divested Of clothing, with q
revolver in his hand, he took her by the
throat, threatening z to shoot her If she
cried out. She resisted as well as she
was able, and succeeded in defending
herself for some time. Bailey abused
her horribly, and ct last effected his pur-
posey nearly killing his victim. He then
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-04-14

A telegram from Algers Wednesday
reports a serious engagement between
the French troops and tue insurgents,
south of Constantine. The latter num-
bered four thousand infantry and one
hundred cavalry. The French force
was much smaller. The insurgents were
completely defeated; about six hundred
were killed and wounded, including
their lesdeT, and large number were
taken prisoners. Two French officers
were wounded, and twenty soldiers
killed or wounded.
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The Toledo, Wabash and Western Rail,

NEW YORK, April 13.-The stock
holders of the Toledo, Wabash and
Western railroad to-day appointed 8
committee to confer with the protective
committee to take such steps as may
seem advisable 70 secure a full represent
tation of the stockholders at the special
meeting called at Toledo, May 5th, to as
sist the protective committee on meas
ures designed to save the stock from
threatened extinction.
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WEATHER PROBABILITIES.

WAR DEPr- OFFICE Gil. SIC. OFFICER,l
wAsEISGTos, April u I s.In. (
For Ie5z3esses and the Ohio valley,
falling barometer, clouds and rain, fol.
t5Csd BE- cooler north and 1gcSt tOiHds,
TiS.Hg barometer and party cloudy
zregtksr.
The Mississippi yiUT 1giN continue
J7Ring at CItro and Memphis, but sta
tiy7aTy Or rising slightly c,setOherc.