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RAILWAY CLAIM AGENTS.
Last Days Proceedings OF the Con-
ventiOn-Series Of Resolutions
Regulating Future Pro-
ceedinEs in their Line.

ST. LOUIS, December 5.-The railroad
claim agents met to-day, finished their busi-
ness and adjourned to meet again in Phila-
delphia next September. The committe ap-
pointed yesterday to formulate set Of rules
for the settlement of claims reported the fol-
lowing, which were adopted:
Reooloed, That the following rules be en-
bodied in the proceedings of this conven-
ton; and, also, further
Resolved, That a copy of the minutes of
the convention be forwarded to the various
freight-sgents of railroad corporations in the
United States and Canada, with the request
that they carry out the rules and regulations
herein set forth, or advise the secretary of the
association of any objections they may have
First-That a bill made out by the claim
ant be attached to claim when presented for
investigation.
Second-That the original or a duplicate
bill of lading and the original expense bill
accompany a claim for over charges.
Thmd-That the original bill of lading, ex-
pense bill and invoice of certified copy by rail-
road agent, must accompany claim for dam
ages, and also for loss when portion of ship
ment only is lost; when a whole shipment is
lost, the original bill of lading and invoIce,
or certified copy of same accompany a claim.
Fourth-When the open-rate from point
Is less than the printed tariff, and an over
charge is the result, the original expense bills
ohO hOO AOSOooeAAJ oOIt2ChCnI VI ouOA ONcI-
charges.
Flfth-That all claims shall be recorded in
the name of the cons gnee.
Sixth-It freight is found to be short or
damaged in car arriving at destination,
with forwarding seals intact, the claim, if
any, should be prorated on an earnings basis.
Seventh hat all railroads keep a record
of locks and seals with their marks and other
fastenings on cars on receiving from and de-
livering TO connecting roads.
Eighth-When the evidence collected in
reference to claim is in itself poeitive proof
of an attempt at fraud and to obtain money
or its equivalent under false pretenses, it is
desirable that the railroad company upon
which such attempt is made prosecute such
person or persons to the utmost limit of the
law.
Ninth-Tbat receipt or voucher, signed
by the claimant, shall be attached to claim
when forwarded to connecting line for COL
lection.
Tenth-That railroad companies shall use
all dispatch possible in the handing in OF any
and all claims.
Eleventh-That acknowledgment of receipt
of claims should be made in all cases, giving
claim. number of receiving road.
Twelfth-That all roads be requested to
stamp the original expense bills connected
with the claim as soon as voucher is made.
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spection of Cyprus by his colleagues
showed that the island surpassed all
the governments expectations, and would
soon be recognized as one of the
most influential positions in the British
dominions. He expressed the opinion that
the results of the victory of General Roberts
In Afghanistaa would be speedy and satisfac-
tory. He believed the worst of the CONNER
cial depression was over, and expected that
in year the position of affairs would be
very different He added in refer
ence to the business prospects, that
"The recent words of the President of the
United States, coming from such a quarter
on such subject, cannot be treated with too
much consideration. Enterprise in America
reacts on that Of England. ! look forward
with much confidence to the influence
of American industry and enterprise
shortly producing more favorable
results than we can now estimate. !"
In conclusion, he said the government
were prepared to meet the parliament's de-
Individually, but hoped the house would de-
eide to maintain the empire and sanction the
policy which mistakes timidity for wisdom.
The amendment moved by Earl Grey was
rejected and the address adopted without
division.
Ia the debate on the address in the house
Of commons, the Marquis of Hartingto
mace resoiuuon s'miiar 10 GnaG OF Lord
Granville in the upper house-of the inten-
ton of himself and his friends not to hamper
the government In the conduct of the war,
by any attempt to oppose the granting of
supplies He said that war having been COM
menced, it was necessary, for the security of
India, to con ;uc it vigorously.
Mr.. Gladstone spoke briefly, expressing
the hope that the house would have more
information before the vote of credit was
asked.
The address was adopted by the house
without division
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BASEBALL.
Last Days Session OF the National Pro.
fesslOnal League-Heets at Gin
eInnati Next Year,

CLEVELAND, O., December 5.-The nation
al league of professional base ball players,
which has been in session here for the past
two days, adjourned this afternoon, to meet
in Cincinnati next year. Several amendments
were adopted to the playing rules. the most
important of which was the dispensing with
foul bound catchers. Resolutions of respect
to the memory of the late Lewis Meacham,
of the Chicago Tribune, were passed. The
publication of league book was again
placed in the hands of Secretary Young.
Mr.. w. A. Hubert was unanimously re-
elected president, and was rendered vote of
thanks for the able and impartial manner in
which he has presided over the deliberations
of the league the past season. Messrs. Neff,
White, Roots and Evans were elected, with
the president, to constitute a board of d.
rectors. A lengthy and exciting discussion
took place in relation to the adoption of a
uniform ball to be used by all league clubs,
which resulted in the adoption of the Spald-
ing league ball.
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TELEGR ANS.

San Francisco, December 5: The steamer
City OF Panama sailed for Panama to-day.
London, December 5: The bishop OF
Durham has resigned on account of i'll
health
San Francisco, Demcember 5: Mr.. E. D.
White, one hundred and eleven years old,
died to-day.
Montreal, December 5: Bowen, uude
sentence to be hanged on the sixth instant,
escaped from Sherbrooke Jail.
Montreal, December 5: The water has
been let out of the Lachine canal, and WORK
on its enlargement begun at once.
Paris, December 5: Specie in the Bank of
France increased two hundred and ninety
one thousand francs during the past week.
Balston, N. Y, December 5: George
Vests cotton-m mills burned this morning
loss, sixty thousand dollars; insurance, thirty
Thousand dollars.
Paris, December 5; Rumor on the bourse
says another convention between England
and Turkey cedes to England Alexandretta,
a seaport of north Syria.
London, December 5: The steamships
Greece, Wisconsin, Anchoria and Leherdam,
from Kew York, and the Hibernia, from
Baltimore, have arrived cut.
Fall River, December S; The grand jury
indicted Gharleg ?. Stickney and Roratio =
Howard, colored insurance agents, and John
A. Coffey, lawyer, for embe2zlemeat.
London, December s: A Lahore dispatch
says it is believed there is no Afghan force
between Dakka and Cabul, and that General
Browne will occupy Jellalabad.
San Francisco, December 5: A Wala
Walls. Oregon, dispatch says that the two
Umatilla Inoiass, convicted of numbering
settlers in the late Indian Wag, gre sentenced
to be hung January "a.
London, December 5: Bullion in the Bank
of England has decreased one hundred and
thirty whine thousand pounds in the past
week; proportion OF reserve to liability, forty
and one-quarter per cent.
Chicago, December 5: Rale & Rale's liv-
cry siable, at Petersburg, Illinois, burned yes
terday. Sixteen horses and the entire stock
were consumed. Loss, thirty-hve thousand
dollars; insurance, twenty-three thousand
dollars.
New York, December s: At a meeting of
the directors of the Chicago and Northwest
ern railroad company to-day dividend was
declared of three and half per cent. on pre-
ferred stock, and two per cent. on common
for the past SIX months.
Pesth, December S. At conference of
liberals, Premier Tisza pointed for a pro-
gramme to his former declarations relative to
annexation and to Count Andrassy's recent
statements. The liberals declared their
readiness to support this programme. Tisza
declared himself and colleague ready to form
a new cabinet.
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DIED.

COVINGTON-At o'clock p.m., December 4
1873, OF pneumonia, WILLIAM LYON, infant son OF
DR.. Thomas II. and Mrs. Sallie f. Coyington OF
Crittenden county, Arkansas. aged four months and
eighteen days. lSouthern Kentucky and Marshall
tTeXas) papers please copy.l
LAGOMARSINO-At the residence Of Joseph and
Caroline LagomarSino. corner of Beale and st Mar,
tin streets, KATIE LAGOMARsINO, at fifteen minutes
age
The funeral will take place from the parents res
idence, at ten o'clock Saturday morning.
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THE crowd, of visitors from the interior
and the T4sh of heavily-!aden vehicles
through the streets to the depots end wharf
Indicate thrifty b1siness. Added to this
the immense quantities Of cotton being
handled daily, we feel assured that Memphis
will soon come out of the great depression
caused by our recent unprecedented calamity,
and sadly deceive the few timid hearts who
predicted our utter pa-alyzation.
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The people of the United States consume
about tEo-thirds CT the immense coffee pro-
duct of Brazil, paying for it mainly IN gold,
because we have no steamship lines to trans
port cur goods to that country. We permit
England and Francs to supply the trade of
Brazil with boots and shoes, butter and
cheese, and cotton cloths, articles in which
30 other country should be able to success
Nth
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THE Nashville american, of Wednesday.
says the recent legal decision which makes
Tennessee "new issue" notes good for paying
taxes has indisposed holders to part with
them. Nashville brokers ask SIXTY for these
notes. There is also a tendency to buy up
trade-dollars, with the expectation that con-
gress will put them on par with the stand
ord dollar
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Sale of Stock.

OFFICE OF THE MEMPHIS CITY }
. FIRE AND GENERAL INSURANCE COMPANY,
10 MADISON ST., Memphis, Nov. 22, 1878.
10y order OF the Board OF Directors Of this com
ID pany will sell at public SALE to the highest
bidder, for cash. % shares (of 500 each) Of the
capital stock OF the company, as follows: Ger
tieaies No. al for 10 shares, No. 20S for shares
and No. pa for 10 shares.
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The Washington Post thinks that if Grant
should happen to be reelected in 1880 we
might as well make up our minds to war
with Spain. One Spanish paper calls him a
"boor," and another, which is supposed to
speak for Alfonso, declares in unvarnished
terms that he was drunk and made an ex-
hibition of himself while a guest of his ma
jesty. This means war.
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Heavy Failure In Jewelry Circles.

PROVIDENCE, R. l., December Sack
EFT, Davis & Co., one of the Oldest and
heaviet manufacturing jewelry houses in this
city have made a trust conveyance of the firm
and individual property for the benefit of cred
itors. Liabilities about two hundred and
twenty thousand dollars. The firm estimates
their property at three times that amount in
this city, Chicago, Newark, New Jersey, Jer-
sey City, and other places. Unavailable
barrassment
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The Ficksburg Herald says: "The states
man must study the terrene chart as well as
the stars" Mast he study the stars as well
as the terrene chart? IF so, which stars?
and will the study make him star states
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The Tennessee Sportsmen's Associa-
tiOn.

NASHVILLE, December Sin the cham
pion stake of the Tennessee sportsmen's asso
citation, finished to-day, Campbell's 10, o.
Tennessee, and Adams's Drake, of Boston
divided the first honors; Bryson's Whip, o.
Memphis. third. In the Dupont brac,
stakes, Adams's Drake and Dash, of Boston
won first money; Joe Dew's Lincoln anC
Bryson's Gladstone, of Tennessee, second
and Smith, of Canada, third, with Paris anc
Clip.
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ChickasaW Building and Loan
ASSnciatinn.

A CALLED meeting OF the Stockholders will be
~ held at the Union and Planters Bank, at
o'clock on Friday afternoon, 9th instant, for tae
purpose OF electng twelve Directors to until
the last THURSDAY In September next, and to con-
slider the question OF meeting the collection OF dues
for the months OF September, October and NoYem-
ber full attendance is desired.
Z. q. CRAIG, President.
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A Gang OF ResurrectiOnists Snatched
In Cincinnati.

CINCINNATI, December 5. - The police
early this morning arrested Henry Goddar
ana nni r uev,ns. they having just delivered
the the body of a negro girl to the Miami medi-
cal college. Heyns, who appeared to be a
new man in the business, was intoxicated
and talked freely. &c reault the police fol:
lowed the case up and exposed a gang OF
resurrectionists consisting of FIVE persons
the two white men above named, two women,
one the widow of Cunningham, of former
notoriety in this business, and a negro. The
women talked freely of their experience in
the business. The two men arrested were
sent to the workhouse. Heyms on the charge
of drunkenness, and Goddar on an old charge
of ahusiuc his family
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The receipts of cotton yesterday as re-
ported to the cotton exchange were 5561
bales; on the same day last year 1897 bales.
aud the year before 1897 bales. Receipts
since September 1st, 1913, 281 bales; year be-
fore, 1873, 582 bales; a decrease of 30,301
bales. Sales yesterday were $500 bales.
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Fatally Injured.

CINCINNATI, December 5.-A Times special
says Moses Long and George Carter were
fatally injured, and a man named May seri-
ously hurt, by the premature explosion of
blast in quarry at Cumberland river shoals,
| near Somerset, Kentucky, last evening.
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and buried under some debris. 1t is sup
posed the absence of water in the boiler was
the cause of the explosion, as the iron at the
point of the fracture presented a burned ap-
pearance, and at no point between the boiler
house and the point at which the boiler final
ly fell, show any indication of water.
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a Rig strike for More Wages.

CHICAGO, December 5.-The scrapers and
cutters of the Chicago packing and provision
company, a large concern which comprises
several of the most important firms doing
business at the stock yards, struck this morn
ing to the number of about one hundred and
fifty, for an increase of wages from two dol
lars and seventy-fve cents to three dollars
per day. AS the company refuses to accede
to their demands, some two thousand of their
other employees are idle.
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HUNTING Stewards bo1y proves to be a
ffty-tho Isand-dollar allurement to the young
and grare occ1pation for the old fine
combination of the attractive and the seri-
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SENATOR MORRILL,, who declares that he
thinks the original managers of the Freed
men, saving and trust company should have
been criminally prosecuted, yesterday intro
dueed a resolution in the senate, which was
agreed to, looking to the final winding up of
the swindlinR concern.
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A Protest Against the FrancO-Amerf>
can Treaty.

SAN FRANCISCO, December 4-The con-
stitutional convention to-day adopted me-
mortal to the President and congress against
the proposed Franco American commercial
treaty, as being prejudicial to the agricul-
tural interests Of California Copies of the
memorial have been ordered sent to CalIfor-
MIA representatives at Washington.
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-Tre Hammotb weckIy Appeal,

In wrappers. ready for mailing, can be had
for FIVE cent? per copy. 1t contIins more
than double the quantity of reading matter
published in any other Memphis weekly. Its
news and commercial reports ere the fullest.
latest and most accurate. The weekly is 81
per year, postage included.
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Masked Highwaymen In Texas

GALVESTON, December 5.-The Neps's
San Antonio special says the Austin stage
Chandler, both st. Louis commercial travel
ers, robbed of about sixty dollars. The mail
was rihed, but nothing distracted.
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THREE persons have been arrested on the
Portugueselfrontierh having in their possession
documents emanating from the Information
alist center at New York.
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A LONDON dispatch last night announced
the death of Captain Whyte Melville. the
novelist, who fell from his horse and broke
his neck while hunting.
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The shipments of cotton yesterday were
4lsl bales against 1856 bales last year; since
September 1st, 49,7l4 bales. The stock on
hand, running account. was "a 52I bales
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A Brace Of old Murderers Arreste,

CHICAGO, December A Springfield dis
from Pottsville. Pennsylvania, arrived here
to-day with a requisition for Michael Mer-
rick and Michael Gaffagon, two well-known
citizens of Springfield, for the murder OF
Mike Mike Durkin. at Pottsville, on Janurry 18,
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The question of a natural system of quar-
antine is being thoroughly discussed in con-
gressional circles, on which there is a remark
able unanimity of sentiment iavoring the
unoyement
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Admini.trator's Notice.

HAVING qualified as the administrator to the es-
Il tate of John H Mitchell, all parties Indebted
to said estate requested to come forward and
tie. All persons having claims againgt said estate
to file the same with my attorney. 6. &. Dent, l27
South Court stree, CT myself, duly probated. and
within the time prescribed by law, or they viii be
barred.
December 9th. III
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CLOSING RATES

Yesterday Of cotton and gold: liverpool cot
ton, 1-sd. Memphis cotton, S Lie. Ne'o
Orleans cotton, S4e. GalrestoH cotton
8 5-se. Nero Pork cotton, 9 3-16e. NerO York
gold, 100 IA.
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Not Cha lie ROas

TAwANDA, Pa, December 5.-Mr. Ross
returned to Philadelphia this morning after a
visit to the boy claimed to be his The boy
mentioned is not the missing Charlie.
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GALVESTON, December 5.-A special to
the NeUs from Eagle Pass, says General Ire
vino, the Mexican commander, visited Fort
Duncan this afternoon. He was received at
the river by company of cavalry and es-
corted to the post with music and salvos of
artillery. A ball will be given tonight in
honor Of the general.
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TIE Cairo Bulletin says: Nobody was
ever fined one cent for bringing traups into
Cairo" No, and that is how Cairo got
settled
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Friaav.Decemhar 1879

at II O'Clock m, at the compapy'9 Office said sale
will be made to satisfy certain Indebtedness due
said company, and secured to them under the pro-
visions OF the lien held by them under section Id OF
their charter. HENRY J. LYNN, Cashier.
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The wife Of the czarowitch has been con-
fined of a son, was the burden Of st. Peters,
burg dispatch last night.
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The New Orleans Times has an article
headed: "Are we solid 2" Not when we are
hollow-hearted or hollow for want of Wet
mails
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Tribute OF RESPECT.
Resolutions OF the Law Class.


At a meeting Of the members of the law class
held Monday night, second instant, It resolved
that q committee OF three be appointed to prepare
resolutions OF respect to the memory OF GEORGE ID,
LANDRUM.
At the meeting held last night, the committee SUBJ
mitted the following, which was unanimously
adopted,
Upon the reassembng of this class for the session
OF 1879, we find that the dark pesileDce has car
rled fr m US our class mate, GEORGE D. LANDRUM,
his vacant chair remindS us more forcibly of our
loss because It stands alone.
In the discharge Of filial duty he returned from
place OF safety that tho he most loved might not
want In vain the tender ministratons which loving
son could render.
Resolved, That iE the death of GEORGE D. LAM
DRUM this class has lost gifted colaborer, bright
and winning orna nent, society worthy man, and
his parents q son who delighted to do them honor
IleSot0ef That to these parents we offer heart
felt sympathy and that our secretary deliver to them
a copy OF these resolutions.
RESOLVED. That the morning papers be requested
to publish the same.
A W. OTIS,
H. c. MCCALL,
WALTER GREGORY,
COmmtttaA
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An advertisement in the Nation inquiries:
"Do you sleep on the Dumford woven-wire
mattress?" No, we sleep on the left side
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For Tennessee and the Ohio raiiey teayper,
partly cloudy weather, Joilorced in rcest pO'--
tiOH By rain areas. rariable Icinds, mostly
sOWthsdsterly, stationary or falling baron-
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