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Prairie Fires.

ST. LOUIS, March 20 "A Globe Democrat
special says that terrible prairie fires recently
occurred in Republic and Cloud counties,
Kansas. They extended over an area of ten
Eiles long and three miles wide, and swept
over one hundred homes were consumed,
also large quantities OF grain and farming
Implements, hay and other property, The
winds we're so high and the fires SO fierce
that the inhabitants were compelled to take
refuge in cellars, dug-outs or underground
habitations. But one life is reported lost,
that of Mrs. Barversox, who vas burned to
death while attempting to release some
horses from a burning stable. Several other
persons were severely injured. The loss is
estimated at forty thousand dollars.
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CHAMBER OF COMMERCE..
MEMPHIS March IN 49,

a SPECIAL meeting Of the Chamber of Com,
~ merce Will be held SATURDAY, March 22d-
at 3 o'clock m, to consider and act relative to
sending delegates to the convention to be held in
Cincinnati the 31st inst, in interest of perma-
nent improvement of navigation of the Ohio and
Mississippi rivers, from Pitsburg and st. Louis to
the Gulf OF Mexico; the reclamation of lands the
Mississippi we'll Also, will be considered. the
feasibility of opening and improving navigation of
Hatche river. Other important matters will be pre-
Sented 1t Is very desirable that every member hay-
ing the interests of Memphis at heart shall be pres
ent. BY order of 3. EISEMAN, President.
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Mr. Hendricks Position.

C1EoINEATl, March 20. "A Delphos,
Ohio, dispatch says: az handcar or tha
Toledo, Delphos and Indiana railroad, car
rying J.W. Hunt, president, and J. S. Clark,
superintendent, ran against tie that had
been placed on the track, wrecking the car,
IN Hunts head, and fatally iDiuring Pat
Kane, laborer. The tie had been placed
there evidently for the purpose of wreckng
tie passenger train
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ARKANSAS FUN.
The Friends CT a Desperate Make an
Unsuccessful Attempt to AVenge the
Death OF their COmrade i'm Sin,
who was Killed In an Effort
to Escape Jail.

LITTLE Rock, March 20.-About week
ago, at Fayetteville, John Reed, a Union
man during the civil war, ard of desperate
character, was killed in the county jail. A
friend of his, for an infraction of the law, had
been arrested. Fer some hours Reed fol-
lowed the officer In charge of the man about,
and finally followed him - the jail. About
dark, as he was committing the man to the
custody of the jaller, Reed, although able to
bail his friend, refused to do so. He entered
the Jail with the officer and prisoner, and Just
as the door was about TO be locked on the lat
ter. Reed struck the jailer with heavy junk
bottle, knocking him senseless. Reed was
armed. The jkiler, in falling, extinguished
the candle, and the guards knowing Reeds
character, fred upon him in the dark, one shot
penetrating his heart. The coroner's jury
was unable to determine whose shot killed
him, the guards themselves being unable to
tell. The jury found a verdict OF justifable
homicide. Reeds friends, fifteen or sixteen
miles distant, began to organize for
the avowed purpose of seiZing
Deputy-Sheriff Serrell, whom they
supposed fred the fatal shot, and who was
under bond to appear at the next term of the
circuit court. The people OF Fayetteville be-
came much alarmed at the threats and asked
and received permission to organize COM
pany of State Guards which, In time of emer-
gency, was to be supplied with rifles from
the State university at Fayetteville, the State
furnishing ammunition. Reeds friends in
the meantime had approached the town, but
finding the militia in arms, abandoned their
purpose and left their guns outside. and COM
ing into town organized meeting at which
resolutions were adopted denouncing the
course of the authorities. An additional
resolution, not presented at the meeting,
was added, as Mr.. r. A. Caldwell, who
handed them to the printer, admits in the
Fayetteville Democrat, denying the purpose
of the assemblage to resist the civil authori-
ties. No political QUESTION was involved In
the matter, though old animosities of the
war were revived. ALI is quiet row and will
probably remain so.
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WEATHER INDICATIONS.

WAR DEPARTMENT, OFFICE CH. SIG. OFFICER.
HAsHISGTOS. March 81, am. !
For Tennessee and the Ohio palley
partly cloudy ieeGther Nth light rain, fol-
lo'ced by clearing. iceathey, rariaJle and
shifting to colder nortAIeesteyly and higher
1lreesnre
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ST. LOUIS, March 2O.-John Lanham, alias
Charles Johnson, was arrested o-night and
placed in Jail. He is charged with shooting
and killing an actress on the stage of a the
alter in San Antonio, Texas, in July last; also
wounding two men at the same time. Lam
ham, who has been in the city three weeks,
was recognized among the audience of the
Coliseum by the ex-nanager of the Texas
theater, who was an eyewitness to the shoot
ing and killing. The PRISONER makes weak
denial of his identity, bus jewelry, the prop
erty of the woman he murdered, was found
On his person, and the statements of his ae-
euser leave 10 doubt that he is guilty.
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Fire 1t Ozark. Ark.

LITTLE Rock. March 20.-The Elsey
house, at Ozark, just completed, was burned
last night. Il vas the work of an iucendiary.
Loss, thirty-fiye hundred dollars.
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I,nrnt.,n genrIY Loses ILts Ike.

LOUISVILLE, March 2O.-Paul Roynton
had a narrow escape frcm death here tina
afternoon. thn swift current Of the falls Of
the Ohio eweeprEg him past the city. He
vas severely bruised ard thankful tnst his
life was not lost.
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AnUnrortunnte aiIk Fancier.

eral manager and confidential agent for Will
liam Ryle, importer of raw silks at No. 80
Mercer street, is in the Ludlow street jail
charged with appropr ating to his own use
silks valued at sixty-eight thousand dollars,
the property of Ryle. Falk has returned to
Ryle tWentY-four Thousand dollars.
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A Thrifty Bank Janitor.

TOLEDO, March 19.-By series of pilfer-
ings on the part of its janitor, the Toledo
national bank has, it is supposed, been robbed
of upward OF two thousand dollars in sub
sidiary coinage. The janitor, who is a col
arrest
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vt. Louis ARaire,

ST. LOUIS, March 20.-Harrison Attaway,
%nG was
and gauging coal-oil, brought action in the
circuit court to- day against Greeley, Burn
ham & Co. and A. B. Cunningham, proprie-
tors of the st. LOUIS Grocer, for defamation
of character, in publishing the article reciting
Attaway's alleged crookedness and approving
his indictment. The damage is laid at twen-
ty-ive thousand dollars.
The long pending case of the receivers of
the old st. Louis mutual life insurance COM
pany against the receiver of the Columbus
life insurance company, TO put aside trans
fer of about seven million dollars worth Of
property by the Mutual life to the Columbia
life on the ground of illegality, was decided
TO- day in favor of the receiver of the latter
company. This is understood to finally close
the litigation between the two companies.
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The UnIted Workingmen.

NASHVILLE, March 20.-The Supreme
lodge of the Ancient Order of United Work
of the order commence on the first day of
March.
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WASHINGTON.

Colonel John C. Burch, Of the Nashville
American, the Coming Man for Sec
rotary Of the Senate - Other
Nominations by the Demo-
cratic Caucus.
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NASHVILLE.

A Proposition by the Railroads OF the
State to Surrender Some Of Their
Charter Privileges and Bear
Their Share of Taxation
Message From the
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Senator CIapp's Speech.

Nashville american; eff Senator Clapp s
minority report completely disposed of and
answered every portion of the majority re-
port, his great speech made in the senate in
reply to the defense of the majority was a
final cleaning up of every issue of fact, of evil
dence, of law, of justice and of ability to pay.
The majority have made the best fight of
which the subject allowed. Their positions,
attacking the past of the State and involving
all together In condemnation, was logical
conclusion from their own principles and
premises. Ii involved them IN peculiarly
disagreeable logical position, confronted by
a reductiO ad abSurdum - disagreeable
where one finds it turned muzzle on
toward his own side. 1t is not their
own ingenuity is at fault so much as
the unfortunate occupation of premises,
which worked out a reductio ad absurduni
as to their own position. They have done
their best. They have made their posi-
ton and the facts and the history of the State
the best case that could be made against the
long line of illustrious representatives and
statesmen who made the laws and issued the
| bonds. All this ingenuity amounts to a
| reductiO ad GbsHrdunI. They vanquished
themselves, where false doctrine has been
held that was not sufficient. Judge Clapp's
| clear report and his earnest and con-
vincing argument have swept away the
last vestige of tenable ground. Point by
point every position has been demolished.
Judge Clapp. not satisfied with the
negative, not proved, which is the in
eVitable conclusion from the majority
report and the testimony, nor even with
the redHctio ad Gbsi!rds'ls In which the ma
| JorIty involved their case, has set up affirm
| atlvely the principle of sound morality and
craftsmanship, of good morals and of good
policy, which govern civilized nations, and
which were ignored by the majority, or al
least neglected in making up their indict-
ment against Tennessee and her past. What
are the lowscredit people going to do now
There is not enough of their material left by
| Is no new deal to be made. they have ex-
hausted the subject. 1t is now a PLAIN con-
| elusion that they must fight it out on that
line-make bricks without straw or mortar
and then be overwhelmed By the Red sea-
besides, as Egyptians, instead of passing
| through tribulation into the promised land.
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InsOIvent Notice.

A LII persons having claims against the estate OF
n c. NJ Williams are hereby notified to appear
and file the same authenticated IN the manner pTa
scriDed by law before the }th day Of July
1879. In the Probate Court OF Sceiby county, Ten
nsssee; and any claim not fled on or before said
day or before an appropriation of The funds Of the
estate is made shall be forever barred both in Law
and equity. March 20. 1879.
N A. WILLIAMS Admir- of c. 81. Williams
EfDlaV & ATTORNEYS
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Kearney's Impudence Gets him a
A0und Heating.

SAN Francisco, March 20.-Kearney Is
stumping southern California for the new
constitution. In his speeches he abuses
people without stint. A dispatch from Santa
Anna to-day says a man who had been viii
he'd, after he got through speaking, gave
kearney an unmerciful beating.
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Tuesday, April =, 1879.

~~N~N~0f
Tuesday, April =, 1879,
at A. E. Frankland's auction store. No. I95 Mali
street, Memphis. Tenn, at IL O'Clock of said day
the effects, as follows:
W. D. Ridoat & Co.-All books, notes, accounts
judgments, etc,
A. A. Burlescn-An books. notes, accounts, judg
ments, claims, ETC., and also all interest in real
estate.
F. Ranksmith & Co.-An books, accounts, notes
claims, etc.
E. +. Risk & Co.-An books, notes, accounts, judg-
ments, etc.
G. W. L. Crook-Al notes, claims, accounts,
stocks, and also all interest in lands.
+. W. Royster-An notes, accounts, judgments,
claims, etc.
Paul A. Cicalla-An accounts, notes, claims, etc.,
and also all interest In lands.
James W. Crocker-An notes. accounts, stocks
etc; also all interest In real estate
Solomon Rose-All notes, accounts and judgments.
C. ID. Stetnkuhl-Al books, notes, accounts,
claims, etc.
The schedules and other evidences of property to
be seen at my office, Planters Insurance Building.
Madison street, Until day of and at time of sale
wed o. WOOLDRIDGE, Assignee.
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CLOSING RATES

yesterday Of cotton Liverpool cotton, 9-I6d ;
Memphis cotton, 9 3 Sc. Ne,c Orleans cotton,
9 Sic. NeIo York cott0N. Zoe.
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CABLE NEWS.

The Financial Director OF East ROume-
lila MObbed While on a Tour OF In
spectiOn-P Pinto, the African
Explorer, Gives the Results
OF His Last Tramp.
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KEEP reliable friend always at hand, -
such DR.. Bulls cough syrup has eminently
proven itself to be. Thousands of testimo-
malls. Try it. Twenty-Five cents.
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Little OF Interest Transacted in Either
House OF COngress-The Democratic
Members of the House in Caucus
on the Business to be Trans
acted at this session.
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Cattle Alleged infested with Disease.

CHICAGO, March 20.-Some excitement
has been created here by the publication CT a
special from Toronto of cable news said to be
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WEATHER ORGANIZATIONS.

WAR DEPT SIGNAL SERVICE. U. g ARMY,
THUEsDAT, March 20. 1879. zoos pm.
Place of b. rhsr- Wind: Wealth.
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The Legislature.

SeHGte.-Ihe committee on the Torbett
issue reported bill to pay the Torbett issue
IN four installments, two hundred thousand
dollars to be taken up in taxes per year until
eight hundred thousand dollars are can
celed.
Mr. Tolley introduced a bill to settle the
debt at dfty cents, and four and FIVE per cent.
interest. He said he introduced the bill out
of spirit of compromise.
Mr. Byrd was willing to compromise on
fifty cents, and four, five and six per cent.
interest.
The discussion on the State debt was con-
tinued.
HouSe-Mr. Wilt introduced bill to set
tie the debt at sixty cents, with six per cent.
interest, as embracing the views of the Re-
publicans.
Mr.. Gregg off red a resolution that the
State debt be settled upon such a basis that
the tax of forty cents will meet the expenses
of the State government, the interest upon
the public debt, and provide sinking fund
for the early extinction of the same.
Mr.. Mathes moved to suspend the rules
and take up the resolution. Lost. The
resolution therefore went over.
The bill to amend the school law, by add
ing to the curriculum of schools elementary
studies on agriculture, passed its third read
inc
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GROCERIES!
at Costs
FOR CASH ONLY

We have concluded - dispose
of our Entire Stock Of FANNY
and STABLE GEOCEREEl8 at
Cost for the next sixty Days. ia
order to make room for Large
and Fresh stock of EObaccOs.
Cigars, Wines and Liquors.
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A FINANCIAL EARTHQUAKE.
New Orleans Banks Imposing Restric-
lions that Indicate an Alarming
ShakIness-The Rfreet In st.
Louis and New York.

NEW ORLEANS, March 20.-The clearing
house banks decide not to pay out on checks
more than two hundred dollars to one de-
poster in one day, all other payments to be
made by the certi6cation of checks, which
shall be received on deposit by the banks of
the clearing house. The arrangement will
be temporary.
Collections for distant customers will be re
nitted for as heretofore in currency checks
on New York. In effect, this action involves
only local interests here, and has checked the
panic, the pretext for which will be entirely
removed In day or two, when the currency
arrives which is already ordered from New
York. The bonks held this morning about
two million etwo hundred thousand legal
tenders and three million sight exchange
on New York. Exclusive of their portfolios,
with which to meet about ten millions due
depositors, most of the banks to-day received
more currency from depositors than they
paid out.
THE EFFECT IN ST. LOUIS.
ST. LOUIS, March 20.-The news of the
suspension of the banks at New Orleans had
comparatively little effect on change other
than IN the southern provision jobbing trade,
which was somewhat depressed owing to the
belief that monetary affairs at New Orleans
and adjacent toms which do their business
through the New Orleans banks would be al
least temporarily disturbed. The general
business of the city and banks here will not
be affected to any apprecable extent.
NEW YORK COMING TO THE RESCUE.
New YORK, March 20.-The following is a
list of the New Orleans banks whose temper
airy suspension is announced: Germanla ma
tional bank, Hibernia national bank, Louisi-
ana national bank, Mutual national bank.
New Orleans national bank, State national
bank, Union national bank, bank of Lafay-
cite, Citizens bank of Louisiana, Citisena
savings bank, Louisiana savings bank, Metro.
politan bank, New Orleans canal and banking
company. Peoples bank, and Workingmeu'
bank. Many orders for currency were re.
ceived here to-day from New Orleans, and
large amounts shipped. The order of sus-
pension expires on the twenty ninth instant
and before that time funds from this city will
have reached the banks. The action taker
was to avert a threatened panic.
Over one million dollars were sent to the
New Orleans banks TO- day from this city.
MI. HendrIcks's Position.
Indianapolis Journal: "We are not au.
thorized to speak for Governor Hendricks
nor is Montgomery Blair, and when he say;
that Mr.. Hendricks is for the old ticket o.
| Tilden and Hendricks he does not speak au
| thoritatiVely. That may be Mr.. Hendricks e
second choice. 1t is not fair play, however
| for eastern Democrats to assume to speak by
! authority and place Mr.. Hendricks second on
the ticket. Hailing from the only State
| north of Mason and Dixon's line carried by
the Democrats last year, he is entitled to iail
play in the canvass"
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BANKRUPT SALE.

In the District Court of the United States for the
Western District OF TennesSee-In the matters OF
the following named bankrdpts-In bankruptcy
at Memphis Tennessee.
NOTICE Is hereby given that as assignee of the
IN said estates, will sell at public auction, for
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Senators Anderson, Bib, Beckerdite, R.
II. Smith, Brandon, Mass, Roberts, To!lcy,
Ewing, Hanson and lands met at the Max
we'll house tonight to see whether they could
reach some definite result, but did not in
consequence OF the great variety of opinions
Gaines was read, showing that if the debt
was adjusted at fifty cents and four per cent
interest, forty cents tax would meet all
necessary demands, with surplus for sink
ing fund of one hundred and ffty-two thou
sand dollars
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COnBFosbiUuaA EEUcbUuInSS


Mr. M'Mahon callei up petition of citi-
zens of Cincinnati in relation to the election
of Messrs. Butterworth aud Young. and the
whole matter was referred to a select COM
mittee with leave to sit during recess. The
committee was also directed to inquire into
the operation of the supervisors Law IN Gin
cinnati at the last election.
Adjourned, and Democratic caucus was
held.
IN THE SENATE.
After prayer and reading of the journal
the senate adjourned until tomorrow.
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10 MS EXcellencyy AlOerI .. MATHS, UOfefnOT OF
Tennessee:
SIR-The undersigned representatives of the rail-
road companies named below believe that by settle
ment of the debt of the State Of Tennessee upon
terms satisfactory to the people and creditors the
State would by a restoration of confidence and
credit greatly promote the agricultural, mechanical
and commercial prosperity of the people and en-
nance the value OF their property. By far the
largest proportion OF railroad property in the
State, In fact about twO-thirds Of It, is. the
companies confidently believe, protected by a
charter exemption from all taxation whatever,
but being DESTROYS Of aiding In such
settlement, and thereby relieving the State and her
people from their present embarrassment, said
panes agree in the event of such settlement. that
their said property shall In future be subjected to
taxation for State purposes as and upon the same
assessment and rate as property of private citizens.
They further believe that should the State debt be
settled, such will be the improvement In the value
of property in this State that fair assessment npOn
railroad property including that portion of It
for the first time subjected to taxation. will produce
an annual fund of between eighty thousand and one
hundred thousand dollars which, with the forty
cents tax other property in the State will enable
her to meet with the expenses of the State gov
ernment including her charitable institutions and
school fund.- together with the interest upon her
bonded debt and the proper sinking fund for its ul
Hon AA.N1W
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Governor Conveying the Proposition to
the Legislature. With the Sugges-
ton that a Settlement of the
State Debt be Made With
in the Limit Of For
ty Cent Tax.
Special to the Appeal

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, August 20.-The following
message from the governor and accompany
ing communication was sent to both houses
Executive OFFICE. March 90 1879.
GENTLEMEN OF THIS SENATE AND HOUSE OF RKP-
REsENTATIvES-Ih have the honor to submit herewith
the accompanying communication from the railroad
commissioners OF the State. 1t will be seen from
their communication that the railroad companies
propose to abandon all claims to charter exemptions
and to submit to such assessment of their prop
ery will require II to contribute from eighty to one
hundred thousand dollars per annum upon tax of
forty cents This effeT the part OF the railroad
move In the right direction. For obvious reasons the
railroad companies are largely interested in salts
factory adjustment Of the State debt and as they de-
clare themselves for settlement that will not ex-
coed tax of forty cents for all purposes 1t simply
remains you to determine whether you Will meet
them on that basis. 1t is apparent that If the
unite upon common ground. that a satlsfac-
tori settlement will at once follow as the taxpayers
of the State more interested in the amount they
have to pay taxes than they In the details Of
the settlement adopted. II is suggested that you
first determine the measure of taxes you willing
to levy and let the details of the settlement follow
AS the people in convention have number of times
declared their ability and willingness to submit to
tax of sixty cents, am of the opinion that they
will ratfy settlement upon that basis. While this
subject remains unsettled II VIII continue fruitful
II II Is In your power to reach Just settle
ment at your present session II ought
upon will have my concurrence which will not re-
Quire greater rate Of taxation than forty cents,
AID which provides for the submission OF the settle
ment adopted to the people for their ratification or
rejection at the ballot-box II you reach basis of
settlement, 1 suggest that you fix the minimum
amount to be paid by railroad companies and set 1t
done it will render the minimum amount TO be raid
by them certain. and II failure to pay 1t occurs,
the responsibility for the failure will rest where 1t
Proposition OF the Railroads.
NASHVILLE March 10 1870