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wEATmEs OBSERVATIONS.
WAR DEPT. SIGNAL SERVICE, q. g ARMY, |
WEDNESDAY. April %, 1879, 1908 pm.
The HeItostnt.

The heliostat is an apparatus which,
through some slight modern improvements,
carries on an idea whose origin is lost in an
tiquity. Il is an arrang ement Of mirrors
through which the reflection of the suns rays
is made by a code of signals to convey notes
OF military movements to distant points. The
plan OF working rs very simple. The mirror
OF the heliostat Is placed so as 10 reflect the
suns image to distant station, and when
the instrument has once been set the clock
work arrangement suffices to maintain the
mirror in its proper position. Ia this way
the distant station in question always sees
the dazzling ray reflected from the mirror,
except when the latter Is pu-pOsely ohscured
The appearances and disappearance of the
bright spot or fash constitute the Signals
The ordinary Morse alphabet supplies an in
teligent code, and no one out of the line oi
signals can read or undefstind the message.
As a substitute for the dot and dash, which
90 to make mp the ordinary written Morse
code. the light is shown for short and long
intervals. The appearance or non-appear-
ance OF the light can be noticed at ten OF
twenty miles distance without the aid of 9
glass
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PAROLES THIRD VICTORY.
He Meets but One Competitor at EPSON
for the Great Metropolitan Stakes,
and Vanquishes him With
out an Effort.
The Race Won on his Own Merits-Pa-
roles Owner Wins Twenty Thousand
Pounds on the Raee-The Horse
aGeneral FaVOrite.

LONDON, April 23.-Parole, at EPSON to-
day, won the great metropolitan stakes.
Castlereagh was the only other entry that
faced the starter. In consequence of the VIC
tory of Parole yesterday, he carried ten
pounds extra. Just previous to the race yes
serday Eif King was very much fancied, and
the dislike to Parole was so general that four
to one against him was declined. But win
ming so handsomely he became a strong ia
vorite at six to four for the great metropoli-
tan stakes. Lorillald had backed his horse
for the city and suburban handicap prior to
his Newmarket victory, and won something
over twenty thousand pounds. General sat-
isfaction at the victory of the plucky Ameri-
can yesterday was fully proved by the
rounds of cheers which accompanied Paroles
return to the Enclosure. Parole, it is con-
coded, won on his merits, without getting
anything approaching advantage at the
start or turns in the course 1t had been
freely rumored at Epson this morning that
Parole would not run to-day. Castlereagh
carried one hundred and ten pounds. Castle
reagh took the lead and drew away three or
four lengths, when he tried to bolt, but soon
righted and led till entering the straight.
Here Parole drew up and came out in the
last hundred yards and won in canter.
Time-4:43
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Gray says that Booth wronged friend of
ONLY ONE SURVIVOR
or Terrible Disaster at Sea-A Trad
ing schooner WaterIOgSed and
Dismantled, and All but One
or her Crew Drowned or
Starved to Death.

SAN FRANcIsCo, April pa dispatch
from Port Townsend says the ship Olaga re-
ports that a few days ago she sighted a
schooner waterlogged and dsmantled. One
man, Vlctoris Roper, Portuguese, was
found on board, dashed to the wreck. alive
but insensible. On recovering be stated that
the schooner left San Francisco about
month ago, bound north on a trading voyage.
Six days later the vessel was thrown on her
ends and partly filed and did not right her
self till the masts gave way. Of eleven per-
sors on board five were drowned, the captain
swept from the deck and lost, and the m ate
and the remainder of the crew dashed them
selves on the topgalant forecastle, where oue
by one they died, the last one expiring on
the day Roper was rescued. Roper's mind
Is unsettled on account of the suffering ne
has passed through. He cannot give the
name of the vessel or that of the captain, bu.
from his description 1t is believed to have
been the Z. J. III 'Kinnon, O'Bren master,
which left San Francisco March 20th, on
trading VOYAGE north
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Al rncaahed CneeE.

Nashville Anerican 23d: Representative
Little was member Of the Legislature of
1862, from Benton aud Humphreys coun-
ties. Upon the fall of Fort d )nelson the
legislature migrated to Memphis. Little,
while at Memphis, obtained check, signed
by State Treasurer Henry, for three hundred
and fifty seven dollars, in payment of his DeI
diem, upon the Bank OF Tennessee. Toe
check was never cashed, for the reason,
doubtless, that by the time be got ready tC
collect it, the bank had moved further away
in Dixie out Of his reach. He subsequently,
lost the check. Upon his return home fro N
Memphis he was taken sick and soon atteI
disd. From hat time until few days age
Mrs. Little had permitted his coat to hang IN
the corner where he left it, only occasionally
taking it down to dust it. la the exs4Rlna-
ton of the lining, she found the long lest
check, and il was sent to the State treasurer,
Monday, to be cashed. This be cannot do
unless empowered by the Legislature"
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-xho S'rncdOm or the state or New York
,"nderSd General Grant.

ALBANY, ~. y, April 23.-The senate, by
vote Of II to H. adopted concurrent reso'
lntions rendering I, g couriesies IF the State
to General Grant, au,. by a vote OF 25 to
the following:
WHEREAS, The ratioE& epcampment OF
the Grand Army of the RspuS'lc aud the an
nual meeting of the Army of the Potenee
are t. be held in the capital of this State N
the seventeenth and eighteenth OF june next
at which meeting there will be present a
large number Of distinguished soldiers Of tbe
Union, among them President Hayes, Gov.
error Mcclellan, General Hooker, General
Sherman, General Franklin, General Slocum
and many others; therefore
ReS0lred, That a committee Of senator's
ana assemblymen be appointed to represent
the State AZ this representative assembage
of those to whom we are indebted for the
preservation OF the Union
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TENNESSEE MOONsHINERs
Continue to Add TO the Number who
Are Accepting the Terms of Dew
ens's AmneStY-A Large Num-
her or Witnesses Discharged.
Special to the Appeal. !

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, April 23.-Since Monday four
hundred and twenty three moonshlners have
accepted Devens's amnesty. OF this number
seventy-two accepted its terms to-day. Two
classes still remain-those who can secure
bond for the payment Of costs, and those
who neither have money nor sureties. 1t has
not yet been determined as to what will be
done with the latter. They are anxious to
avail themselves of the provisions of the am
nesty, but have not done so on account of
lack of money and sureties Under the cir
cumstances, the government could afford to
discharge them without the payment of costs,
and save money. Two hundred witnesses
have been discharged since Monday.
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The car an. m,s EnemIes

ST. PETERSBURG April % Lieutenant
Dubroviu mas been arrested near Novgorod
VINO is suspected rs one Of the chief memb Al
of the revolutionary committee. The ASA 3
sination OF another spy who betrayed the
whereabouts o. the secret printing office, al
SaDrovo, is reported.
The car who until lately drove out unat-
tended, now has his carriege surrounded 10y
cossacks.
The high court of criminal justice under
the presest Grand Duke Constantine. a
brother OF the car, has been appointed fol
the trial OF Salovif, who attempted to xii
the car.
The moderate-liberal party in POLAND
adopt a more oonoiiatory policy toward the
car. An influential deputation is about tC
proceed to ct. Petersburg to congratulate
him on his escape.
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All for Rove.

Chattanooga 7iBlee, April ODD: Sunday a
fallen woman named Jessie Bowers, an in
mate of Flora B1yd's baqnio, situated near
the Nashville and Chattanooga depot. at
tempted suicide by taking morphine. She
left a note behind her, and it was discovered
by another woman, who at once went to Jes-
sic S room aad found her lying on the bed in
an insensible condition. A physician was at
once sent for, and the Necessary antldotes adj
1ninisteted. A stomach pump was vigoro s.
by applied, and after some trouble the woman
was restored to Consciousness, and Is now in
a fair way for recovery. The reason Of this
attempted suicide she explained In the fol-
lowing nota, addressed to a man whose name
is withheld:
DEAR --.-When YOU reed this note Will be
out of all my trouble. You do no love ely more, and
my poor heart Is broke. have taken "A dose of NOR
phne, AID will be oed whenever you git this. can
not live and sou come TO another girl rite be-
lore my eyes. Good bye darling You are TO blame
for my dsth. Your broken hearted JESSIE.
ne had, it appears, been paying more at
tentions to another woman than 10 Jessie. AID
through Jealous she tried to take her life.
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Beersheba Springs,
GRUNDY COUNTY, TENN,
On Top Of Cumberland nrOuntaius.

THIS magnificent and delightful watering place
and retted bS the undersigned will be ready fo- the
reception of guests by the 18th Of Stay next,
ana continue open the entire year. Appealing to
their past reputation and character as gentlemen
and hotel proprieors, they confidently expect a iull
snare OF southern patronage. Round-tTip tickets,
after the nrst June, be obtained at the various
railroad ticket offices.
TERMS $50 per month; $40 per week; 81 per
DAY. children (under - yeaTs) and servants, half
price.
CaAS. E. SMEDES, late Of st. James Hotel n. o.,
jas. III. MARTIN, of New Orleans. Productions.
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ChRntor ISS

AN ACT to amend an act passed March 20, 1888
entitled An act to e. tablish the Chattanooga Nor
nal Academy OF Music; TO incorporate the Nash
VIE GERMAN Harmonic Dramatic Society; the
bdScombe Rhetorical Society of Andrew College;
and for the benefit OF the Trustees of Laurence
Academy, In the town of Woodbury., and for other
purposes. "
SECTION 1. Be 10 endctss 5y the General Assemble
OF the STATE q Tennessee That section 3 of an act
passed March 90 1855 entitled An act to establish
the Chattanooga Normal Academy of Music; to In
corporate the Nashville German Harmonic Dramatic
Society," the Baseombe Rhetorical Society of Andrew
college, and for the benefit of the Trustees OF Lau-
renee Academy, In the town of Woodbury., and for
ether purposes, be and the same is here repealed.
Sec BE ii Jtrtlser enacted, That this act shall
take enect from and after its passage, the public
welfare requiring It.
L Passed March 20, 1879. j. R. NEAL.
Speaker of the Senate
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Pittsburg, and Warren Smith, of Halifax,
for Eve hundred dollars side, to come of
on Silver lake, in Massachusetts, on the first
of July. The articles of agreement will leave
to-day for Morris's signature.
Cincinnati, April %: The carriage factory
of Charles Behlen, on upper Vine street,
burned at an early hour this morning. Loss
on stock, fifteen thousand dollars; insurance,
nine thousand dollars. The building cost,
originally, sixteen thousand dollars; insured
for fifty eight hundred dollars.
London, April %: The Times scouts the ru-
NOR relative to the intention of the Broes to
seize Sir Bartle Frere's kilograms, and an
nounces that Lord Chelmsford will form re-
doubt at Ginglelava, which will fulfill the
same purpose as that of Ekowe would have
done during the forthcoming of the advance.
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a stuuendous engineering scheme

DETROIT, April % The work was com
menced with considerable ceremony On tn
Canada Southern railroad tunnel, to be bull
under ihe Detroit river, at Crosse Isle
Special trains were run from Detroit and To
ledo, and from the Canadian points on th'
Canada and Southern, to carry the invited
guests and railway officials. The ground wa
broken on the Canadian side for the approach
80 the tunnel entrance. the order of the
Canadian parliament authorizing the Goa
struction of he tunnel was read by Secretar.
Kingswill, Of the Canada Southern. anC
dedicatory speeches were made by w. X
Rsuir, OF thu Canada Southern; C A. King
of Toledo; President Green. of the Column
bus and Toledo railroad; President Hugli
of the Canada Midland rail way, and others
After which the entire party partOoS of al
elaborate collation. spread in the office Of tht
tunnel company.
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The British Mfners Cono.

LONDON, April PA circular has been
addressed to the various Organizations Of
miners m snsd throughout the country asking them
Yorkshire, In May, to decide upor fhe adj
visibility OF stopaing all aiming for four or
dye weeks, so as to lessen the output.
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LONDON, April 23.-The pumber of nersons
killed by the 6re-damp explosion IN the
Agrappe coal pit, near Mons, Belgium, April
18th, 10 ascertalned to be one hundred and
seventeen Only forty-seven corrses have
A dispatch from Paris says the smallpox
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are daily pre- scribed by the ablest PHYSICIANS
whose successiis due to the specific influence
OF these components. DIR. Bulls cough syrup,
sklllfully prepared for immediate use, is for
sale by all druggists.
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ADDITIONAL RIVERS,

ST. LOUIS, April 23.-River falling with 3 feet
above low-water mark. Weather-clear and warm
Departed: Colorado, Vicksburg.
EVANSVILLE, April 23.-Rivar falling, Is feet
3 Inches by the gauge. Weather-clear aud warm:
Arrived: James W. Gaf, Thomas Sherlock De,
parted: Thomas Sherlock, Cincinnati, 9 am
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WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE On. Sic. OTFTcKR, |
WASHINGTON, April "a. | am.
For Tennessee and The Ohio Udliey,
stationary or rising barometer, slightly
icaymer, clear Or partly cloudy 'rs0ther,
southeast to northeast ioiHGs
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AEorphIned into Eternity

SAN Francisco, April 23.-W. M. Mans
field committed suicide by taking morphine,
on account of business embarrassments and
ill-health. lie was formerly publisher Of the
Gospel Banner, at Augusta, Maine
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,79. j. R. NEA
II. p. FOWLKES
Speaker of the House of Representatives
Approved March %, 1873.

ALBERT 5. Marks, Governor.
l. Charles N Gibbs Secretary o. State OF the State
OF Tennessee, certify that the above is correct copy
OF an act OF the General Assembly of the State of
Tennessee, the original OF which Is on file in my
o11lee CHAS. n. GIBBS. Secretary of State
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BOOTH A TARGET
For WOuld-be Assassin's PIstOl-Mark
Gray Fires Two Shots at the Great
Actor in a Chicago Theater-
No Cause Assigned.
Gray's Explanation Indicates him Either
Crazy or a FOol-The Performance
but Slightly interrupted
Gray's Occupation.

CHICAGO, April 23.-While Edwin Booth
was giving the soilequy in the last act of
Richard III, at M'Vicker's tonight, shot
was fred at him by mau sitting in the left
hand upper gallery Booth sat still, and
after about three seconds a second
shot was fred, when he rose and started
toward the left wing of the stage. pointing out
as he went the would-be assassin. The latter
was at once seized, and, but for the interven-
ton of the officers, would have been roughly
handled. He states his name is Mark Gray;
that he is twenty-three years old, and dry
goods clerk of st. Louis; that he has been
three years preparing to do this deed, and is
surprised that he failed; that his failure to
kill Booth is the only part of the attempt
which he regrets. He refuses to state the
cause of his action, but says his
reasons will be regarded as sufficient
LATER.
Gray says that Booth wronged friend of
his one time, and he had been resolved to pun
ish him ever since. He states that he is from
keokuk. but is now travelling fer firm in
st. Louis. He was only thirty feet distant
from Booth. He had on his person letter
addressed to lady by the name of Katie,
stating his intention of shooting Booth to.
night, and asserting that Lawrence Barrett is
a superior actor to Booth. He is now in GUS
tody at Central station. The audience at M
VIcker's remained after the episode, and the
play proceeded to the end without further
break
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WASHINGTON,
A Proposition to Pay Moneys Due
Captain Eads-A Call for the Re-
mainder of Certain Five Per
Cents-Cr0D Prospects
Political.

WASHINGTON, April 23.-The sub.com-
mittee of the house committee on appropria-
tons will recommend to the full committee
bill authorizing the secretary of war to
make requisition on the secretary of the
treasury tor such money as may become due
to Captain Eads under the acts of 1875 and
acts an1endatory, with proViso that nothing
in the act shall be construed as waiving or
lmpalring the right of the United States,
and that the act shall not be construed as
approprlatlng any money for the payment OF
the million dollars which becomes due to
Captain Eads, half in ten years and half in
twenty years after the completion of the
work.
THE REMAND Err OF THE IS LOAN
call was issued to- day by the secretary of
the treasury fer the balance of the loan of
1865, hive per cents, amounting to two hun
dred anu sixty Thousand dollars. These bonds
are all registered. The holders may, at any
time within ten days, exchange them for four
per cents at par, with interest computed on
each class Of bonds to date OF exchange. If
not exchanged they will be paid at the ma
turity of the call.
CROP REPORTS.
The April returns to the department of
agriculture show that the acreage of winter
wheat ls about seven and a half per cent
greater than last year. This increase is due
mostly to the transfer Of spring soWirgs to
fall sowlngs IN the west and northwest. I'm
less the spring sowipgs increase beyond pres
emit expectations, there will be a reduced ag-
gregate ofthe wheat average in 1879. Wheat
In the ground, taken as a whole, is about two
per cent. below the average. The crop in
some sections was unfavorably affected by the
fall drought, and in others by the absence of
snow during the extreme winter cold; with
average growing conditions, however, it will
make ve:y large crop of winter wheat
Rye has fallen off about four per cent. in
acreage, and is about four per cent. below the
average, 1t follows generally the analogies
OF the wheat crop,
POLITICAL.
The Wisconsin delegation have selected
Representative Pound to represent their State
on the Republican congressional campaign
committee, and the ILLINOIS delegation have
selected Representative Davis, of CHICAGO IN
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a CoIored neIIef GeetIDR in New York

NEW YORK, April ga mass-meetIng
was held 10 the Cooper Unlcn hall to night,
10 procure aid for the colored re rple who ans
leaving the southern States for Kansas Tts
hall was crowded, aud on the platform wei q
Hon. Ihurlow Weed, Rev. DR.. Henry New
man, aud others. Rev. II. H. Garnet pre-
sided. Letters of regret were read from
W endell Phillips, VIM. Lloyd Garrison and
Mayor Cooper. MIR. Phillips in his letter
says: 'Two courses were open to the colored
people Of tie south, one was to resist, the
other 10 leave and let their oppressors
starve" Mr. Garris0n's letter states that
the personal and political rights of colored
men were ruthiessly trampled down, and
says the government Ia not tit to live if it al
lows four,uillicn Of eople TO be LETT like shee p
among wolves. Suitable resolutions were
adopted and a liberal collection taken up.
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CROP REPORTS.
POLITICAL.

The Wisconsin delegation have selected
Representative Pound to represent their State
on the Republican congressional CAMPAIGN
committee, and the ILLINOIS delegation have
selected Representative Davis, of Chicago, TO
serve in a similar capacity.
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= Catholic University Burned Down

CHICAGO, ApTI "a South bend special
says. The Notre Dame Catholic un versity is
sn,Te'y ourn SS Town WI; re I inurmaryi Oiu
ioining were also burned. No lives we're
lost. The loss is estimated at from one hun.
bred and fifty 10 two hundred thousand dol
lars. The insurance on the university build
ing is sixty thousand dollars.
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Notice to EleIinquents

VILE delinquent list of State, Counts and Railroad
L Taxes, from 1865 to 1875 inclusive, are In nv
hanos Tor collection. In every case where wilt Of
possession Is authorized. the same will be issued
and placed in the hands of the sheriff to be exc
cuted- In cases where other steps are authorized,
the same will be taken, and levies maze in accord
ance with the following acts of the legislature, to
which respectfully call the attention OF all parties
Interested:
ACTS OF 1875, CHAPTER lob, SECTION 8.
" That said back tax-colleetor shall have all the
powers TO enforce collections of said unpaid taxes
tna were possessed by the various revenue collectors
OF the state on the first day of January, 1875, and
his right to levy or distran and sell personal or
property belonging TO delinquent tax payers, shall
exist so long as such taxes remain unpaid"
In order To avoid annoyance and additional costs,
parties should see that there delinquent taxes
against them or their property as in many cases 1
can only give notice to property owners through their
tenants respectfully ask all persons desiring to
arrange and settle their taxes to call on me before
the wits are placed In the hands of the sheriff.
Respectfully c, WEATHERFOBD,
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Probable Suicide.
A Nashville Man In Trouble.

CENCISN ATT. April 23.-T. J, Richmond, of
Nashville, vas TO gay convicted Of obtaining
goods, valued at sixteen hundred dollars,
under false pretences, from John Shillito &
Co. The sentence Is suspended to await a
decision on a motion for a new trial.