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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-26

From the Vicksburg Hcroifs biogr aphical
sketch OF the late Gov. Humphreys we make
the following extracts:
"Far back in the Territorial history of
Mississippi Pennsylvsnis family settled in
what now exists as Claiborne county, named
in honor of Gov. Claiborne, then command
ing the DEPARTMENT of Louisiana and Mis-
sissippi. There, near Por: Gibson, B. G..
Humphreys was born in 1872 His father was
SOD, and giving evidence in his earliest years
of extra and remarksble traits, was prepared
and sent as a cadet 10 West Point Military
Academy. He WAS a classmate of Jefferson
Davis, but left The academy before gradua-
ton. He married early in life and settled
down TO the quiet planters life of ease and
comfort. Losing his first wife in early
manhood, he remsinsd single for some
years, but in time sought another, who now
mourns him dead. She wac the daughter of
the late Judge james Msury, long a dis
tinvusb.d and honorable member of the
Pors Gibson bar To 1910 when Gen. Hum
phreys was elected State Senator, defeating
the Hon. VIM. Briscoe, the abiest Demo
cratic leader of Cisiborne county during
that day of sTippecznoe and Tyler Too
log cabins and hard cider. He opposed the
sciive legislation insugarsted at that time
and came out of the capital with his gar
msDts uusmirched by even . faint of re-
padiation- He never yielded his fidelity to
Clay and Webster, and therefore returned TO
his farm on the failure of his political idols
to held place and power in the administra-
ton snsi the Cabinet.
"Alii 5ugh a strong and devoted Union
mani IL the stirring aud exciting times pre-
cediog the overt zct' of Fort Sunter, ne
FURNISHED up his shield and girded on bis
srmor in 1861 and went forth with his people
to battle and TO die he raised q company
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CATHOLIC DEGREES
COME. ming PIesIes and Fxeursious for
ihe Kenenf of Churches

NEw YORK, December f5-Tbe DEGREES
OF the Fourth Synod Of the Roman Catholic
archdiocese OF New York, held at St. Pat
rick's cathedral in this city on the 9Th aud
9th oil November last, have jus. been made
public. No synod was ever held on this
continent with so large an attendance Of the
secular clergy, $50 being ia attendance, and
of the regular forty eight. After setting
forth 10 long preamble the me-
eesaity and utility Il diocesan synods,
six chapters ere devoted 10 the adj
EniusstEesiop of The sacramen.s Nath--
Ing new has been advanced except in
the case Of matrimony. It is recommended
that either a solemn or low nuptial mass
shall be celebrated as part Of the ceremony,
bat IN case oil mixed marriage, where either
Of the contracting parties is non-Catholic,
The marriage can only be solemn zsd 10 some
house outside the church. Picnics and ex-
eursions for the benefit of churches are
strictly prohibited except in rare cases, with
the sppro val OF the bishop. These cases viii
occur only in sparsely populated country
districts, where there are few other sources
Of revenue for the support Of the church, and
where there will be no danger of scandal 10
the faithful. The frat section Of the fourth
chapter is devoted TO the priests manner OF
living. Each pastor must wear an ecclesi-
asical dress, and the "Roman collar" must
not be dispensed with. Then follows a
prohibition to the clergy against frequenling
theatefs, Witnessing profaue spectscles or
horse-races (curSus equorum), and above all,
betting or gambling. 10 regard to amuse-
mentr, concerts not included.
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THE TOBACCO TAX.
WHAT REPRESENTATIVE CARLIsLE SAYS o
ITS PROBABLE REDUCTION.

WHAT REPRESENTATIVE CARLIsLE SAYS OF
IT'S PROBABLE REDUCTION.
WASHINGTON, d .cember % 1t has been
stated IN these dispatches that there was not
much, If any, prospt CT of the removal or
reduction of the tobscco tax his session.
This Hen. John G. Carlisle, the most promi-
nent Democratic member of the Ways and
Means Committee, and one of the ablest,
has authoriz the publication of
the following coming from him: 81
believe the time has come when those who
are known 10 be friendly to the interests in
volved in the agitation of this subject should
speak plainly. After a careful survey of
the tuatiop, am satisfied that no act re-
pealing the tax on tobacco, snuff and cigars
can be passed at this session, and / am
almost as well satisfied that the Senate will
not agree to any reduction below twelve
cents per pound oa tobacco and 81 per 1000
on cigars. In fact, it ia not by any means
certain that tbese small reductions
will be made. The Senate Finance
Committee proposes 10 reduce the
whole tariff system In the bill which
contains the proposed reductions of
Internal taxes, and of course the passage of
such com prehensive measure is, 10 say the
least, very uncertain. j think the manufse-
lurers ard dealers in tobacco, snuff and
cigars can safely assume that the question
OF repeal is settled. The agitation ought
now 10 cease, in order that the trade may
go on in its usual wayn Mr.. Carlisle sub
mitted the above views for publication only
after careful investigators and mature DELHI
GRAFTON.
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Omaha, Neb December 25.-Six inches OF
snow fell here to-day.
New York, December 25.-It is rumored
tonight that Oscar Wilde was feecei by
bunko steerers. Oscar denies the story.
New Bedford, Mass December 15.--The
whaling bark Hercules, arrived. had ten
cases of smallpox on board. Two died.
Chicago, December % Herr John Most.
SocialIst, arrived yesterday aud WAS warmly
received BY small band Of Germ an Social
lists. He spent the day and night looking
about the city. No formal reception.
Knoxville, Tenn, December 25.-J. ii.
Iiams, president Of the Tennessee Asylum
for the Deal and Dumb, died OF congestion
Of the brain.
Chicago, December 25.-The Pres Club,
IN meeting to-day, admitted The hon.
Henry WatIerson, of Louisville; A. ).
Ble!beu, OF Kansas City, and HI. J. Phiipoi,
OF Des MoIneT, as nonresident, msmDeIs.
St Louie, December 25.-Csi. W. ID.
Cotfio, land commissioner of The ST. Louis
and San francisco railroad. died a. tne
home OF his daughter, Mrs. Meach, at Bluff
dale, Ill, to-day.
Boston, December 25.-Lucius w. Pond,
Of Worcester, who was sent "a Concord Safe
prison In March, 1876, for twelve years; Tor
forgery and embezz ement, was pardoned o.
day with the customary reduction oil Time
for good behavior.
Jacksonville, Fla, Deceuiber. 70 =
dredge OF the Okeechobee DssiBipg Com
pany, working up Caloosahsacbis river, oas
entered Lake Okeechobee. This opens a
nsvig ole channel from the hesrt Of the
Every AIDES to the Gulf of Mexico.
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THE JETTIEs.
THE JE TIES.
A QUESTION BASED AS TO THE PAYMENT OF


CAPT. EAIS.
WASHINGTON, ID cember 25.-A question
has been raised about the payment which is
annually made, under the contract for the
construction of the jetties, to Capt. Fade.
The law requires that he shall keep chan
mel of a certain depth throug h the jstties,
snd TO establish the fact that the specified
channel has been mslHiained during the
year a report of su engineer of the army is
fled, upon which the moaey Is paid to Esds.
The annuity fell due December 9th this
Time The engineer OF the army who gave
the certificate as to the depth Of the water
10 the ietties' channel during the past year
also made a statement showing that at the
head of the pass the water was shoaling for
some hundred feet. For an investigation OF
the question as TO whether this initiated
sgaInst the payment ID Capt. Eads the c'se
has been taken 10 the Department oil Justice,
and tbs money held back. The Hon. A j..
Cochran, of St. Louis, Mr.. Eads's attorney,
has a brief in the Attorney-Generals hands,
setting forth the facts and arguing against
the retention of the money by the gov
eminent on the ground thar the law is salts
fed by the condition of the channel. He
argues that Capt. Eads is required to make
and maiBtsiu n channel Of a certain depth
at the mouth Of the pass, or, in other words,
between the pass aud the Gulf, where the
bar for some two and quarter miles was
located, csused by$he precipitation OF the
sediment brought down in The river where
the latter ana The Gulf met. He claimed
that the maintenance of this channel does
not apply 10 the pass itself, but siu1Piy to
its mouth, and that the shoaling certified 70
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Accident ON the wabash.

ST. LOUIS December 25-News reached
here yesterday thst the east-bound passen-
ger train; which left here at $40 O'clock
Sunday night on the Wabash road, teollided
with an engine and caboose from Decatur,
Ills, on a curve one and one-balf miles
from Carpenter, between and O'Clock.
Both engines were knocked off the track,
and George Slsbee, engineer of the passen-
ger train, and Hank Dresser, conductor of
the engine and caboose, killed. Capt. Hyde
and Ed Bramble We're dashed against the
postal boxes in the mal-car and severely
hurt, and several passengers are reported
someweat injured, and one or two of the
train crew wounded, but their names are not
now known. The cause of the sccpient was
either copfusion or the loss of orders. Dres-
ser and Silsbee lived at Decatur. Their
bodies were taken there yesterday afternoon.
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Siberia Ess No TerrOrs for Russian
EmbezzIers.

A MoscoW paper has just published list
OF the principal thefts and embezz dement's
that have recently been committed 10 Rus
STA, the trials concerning which are at pres
cot goins on or have lately been concluded.
First, mention is made OF Melnizky, who
carried of 240 DOOR. from the great Found
ling Hospital in Moscow, and who has Just
been sentenced 10 Punishment 10 Siberia.
The cashier Siridof defrsuded the Assecia-
ton for MHiusl Credit in Moscow to the ex-
tent OF 257 ,00Qr. A certain Safiauo man
aged to defraud the Southwestern railway OF
400, G00r., The deficit of the Skopin Bank
amounts 10 no less than $4,000, DOOR, of
which sum "Uncle" Rykoff is said to have
got at least one-half One evening the Agri-
cultural Bank at kherson was found on fire.
After the names we're extinguished revision
was ordered of the bank funds. There should
have been 170,000r. in coinage and 100000
in paper currency, but careful count re-
veAled deficit of no less than 2,000,000r.
Where the money went to no one knowss
The director of The SIjrurtsch Bank, in
Wiadik awss,= cannot expLNin The losz Of
La 0,O00r. from the treasures 10 his charge.
In Kronstsdt former members OF the board
of management of the bank there have
been srrested, as deficit of 3,000,000r. has
been discovered. In Kostroma the cashier
of the Communal Esuk was satisfied with
merely taking Jagateite of 20,000r, and
the chief of The railroad station at Kischi-
neff with a paltry 44,000r. The recent
commissariat process at Odessa has refer
encs TO a steal of 900 DOOR. The so-called
quinne process frauds In connection with
quinine contracts during the Russo-Tur kish
war; treats of tn # of 250,000r.
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one great n ed of the South is a cotton
picking machine. Every fber,of the cotton
crop of 1000, 5000 bales has 10 be picked
from the hollis with human fingers, and the
cost of the work ia estimated At S50,o0O,0O0
a year. Rspeated attempts 70 invent me-
chauicaI picker have so uniformly resulted
in failure that pIsnters have settled down TO
the conviction that the thing is impossible
and the co. ton crop must be picked by hand
forever. But the Charleston papers are just
now Interested in machine, invented by
New Hampshire msn, a resident 10 South
Carolina for twenty-siI years, which, il is
predicted, will be developed into the cotton
picker OF the future. II ia immature yet,
and works clumsily in the fed; but it is
asserted that with title Alteration it will
pick 5000 TO 5000 pounds OF cotton day,
dsiug the work Of zen or Eileen ordinary
hands
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by the engineer officer is eight or nine miles
above the jetties At the head Of the pass,
with which Capt f ada has othing to do, 1t
seems that the shosling was only a few
inches at the mos, and several hundred ieet
in extent. Ac. Cochran maintains that
Capt. Eads might with equal propriety be
held responsible for the breaks and varia-
tons in the channel of the river at Cairo as
at the head OF the passes, eight. or nins
miles up the stream freG the jetties, which
ne stipulated TO keep in a certain condition.
1t is claimed that the question is not raised
80 much with the idea Of actually withhold
ing the money as it is TO settle the doubt
bearing an the condition Of the channel OF
the river in the vicinity of the j-tties, under
the cootract which appears to limit C,pt.
E4dss responsibility simply 10 the outlet of
the South Pasa
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OBITUARY.


Cheerfully we give place to the following,
contributed by former aud long resident of
our city, but now of another State, embody-
ing rs it does a graceful and d ,served
tribute TO the memory OF the late Reuben s..
Jones, for thirty years prominent among the
leaders in our commercial and financial
circles:
THE news of the death of one of your
prominent merch ants and capitalists, Reuben
s. Jones, mentioned in the columns of the
APPEAL, created painful sensation in our
community, where the deceased was we'll
known, although from his long and danger
ous illness the event was not unanticipated.
For quite thirty years was he known to the
writer, when, in 1858, he connected himself
with VIM. n. Brown in a cotton and
commission partnership, which continued
with but a single short interval until
stricken down with what proved 10 be
a mortal mslsdy. During all this time,
amid even the cashings and strifes of incl
dentslly autagonized Interests, he retained
the respect and abiding confidence of his
psrtner-the close of the firm realizing the
fortunes of liz original founders. Modest of
mien and unostentaiious port, quietly he
pursued his business callings, averse TO and
avoiding positions of official honor aud pub
lie trust, though oft thereto urged, eIcep-
tional only when, yielding his personal
wishes TO the public good, he consented 10
serve brief term 10 the councils of your
municipal board. While repelling official
positions he was ever ready to serve in the
boards and directories in the various cor
porations and banking institutions with
which he was connected as a prominent
stock no der, and when the benefit of his
sound judgment, and far-reaching financial
ability was invoked by his associate cor
porators. His was n tireless energy, with
business methods sharp-cut and unslIerable.
His nature was mild-simple almost
cbild-yet in purpose he
was positive ami observation-disclosures harsh,
angular or aggressive. In stainless integ-
rity, probiiy beyond assailment, he leaves
to his children and his chiIdren's children a
priceless heritage. No more in your Ex-
changes and Stock Boards or busy m art. will
be seen his manly face, but from whence
will be missed no presence more than that OF
the genial and generous
REUBEN g. JONES.
This grace to his memory-"'Twill not
frat fufn dad
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WHISKY TAXES.
THE EFFORTS BEING MADE FOR AN EXTENSION


WASHINGTON, December 25.-The effort
now being made 10 extend the time for taxes
to be paid on whisky now in bondt ware.
houses is likely to succeed. There are about
S5,000,000 gallons in the warehouses, which
have accumulated through over-produciion.
The limit for its storage has heretofore been
three yesrs, and much of the quantity In the
warehouses will have TO be taken out during
the coming twelve months. The suggestion
is that if the government does not give s1me
relief, the whisky will have 10 be Withdrawn,
the tax paid, and the market broken by the
immense quantity thrown upon it. APP
parently the business has beea overdone,
and doubtless is still being overdone, 80
that the relief now granted is only post
pouing the day of reckoning. Congress bad
better not interfere, but let matters lake
their natural course. Tue quantity OF whisky
consumed is about 60,000000 gallons an
nually, while the over production is at the
rate of 100000 gallons per aunum. Un-
less this over-produclion is stopped, and The
loss met now, the disastrous results will be
sill worse when the evil day comes. Ia any
event it wou seem that the holders Of this
whisky have made bad specul alton, and
sooner or later somebody has got 10 be
caught. For with an animal production of
80, 600, 600, and an annual consumption of
100000 the situation must become worse
rather than better.
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EADS' SHIPRAILWAY
Placed on Sound Financial Basis By
lis PreiectOr-NO Government
Subsidy Needed.
Ne Reduction in the Tobacco Tax Prob.
able This Session National Beard
Of HeaIth-The Jetties.

WAsHIEeTos, December 25.-Depsrtmeni
estimates for the appropriation bills in course
Of preparation BY the House OF Represents.
lives are in smouDt as followss For pensions
SOL ,575 600; Notifications, 81 100000; navy,
S23, 4Sl ,075, legislative, executive and Judi
cisl expenses, S21 SAC, i7O; suudry civil ex-
pendiiures. S34, l8l $40; District CT .ColUm-
bia, S775,749. The pensions, Notifications
and navy Bills will be ready for report to the
House Immediately after New Years day.
There remain for preparation the general de-
hciency bill and possibly the river and har-
har hin.
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The energy displayed in developing the
resources of me Stale of Alabama is in some
respects unparalleled in the history of raiI-
,Soad management in the South. The coal
interests alone have received such attention
aud care that it is fair 10 assume that within
the next decade very little coal will be used
in the Gulf States other ihan that OF Ala
bams. Vast quantities of coal are being
mined 10 day within radius OF forty miles
of RirnliOobam
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-26

CLAREMoNT, N. H, December 25-The
main buildings of freeman & ClarR's Nov
city woodworking establishment burned.
Fifty men are thrown out of employment
and lose tool, some OF which cannot be du-
plicated in this country. Loss estimated at
10000; insurance, $4,000. R. L. Howe g.
Co.'s pail and tub factory, and the Clare
mont File Company's establishment were
dsmsged slightly. The wood working estab-
lisnme Mt will b. rebuilt
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EAps1s SHIP RAILWAY.
WILL NOT NEED ANY SUBSIDY OR HELP
FROM THE GoYERNM ENT.

IT WILL NOT NEED ANY SUBSIDY OR HELP
FROM THE GOVERNMENT.
WAsHINGToN, December 25.-Mr. Coch-
ran, who Represented the Pittsburg District
in the Forty-6fth Congress, and who IS at
torney for. j. b. Eads, is in the city. He says
Mr.. Eads has returned from Europe, where
he has made arrangements for the co.,
struction of his proposed ship railway across
the Isthmus of Panama. 1t will be remem-
bered that at the last session of Congress Esds
asked for government aid for his proi ect,
ard was defeated. Mr.. Cochran says he
will not need any subsidy from the gov
erpnient, and will not ask it, having placed
his enterprise on a sound financial basis
through the aid Of European capitalists. He
will ask of Congress, however, to guarantee
his railway against harm or damage, grow
ing out of any war that may involve the
isthmHs. This will be asked 10 order to
give the railway a quasi-national character,
and in return for the guarantee it is under
stood that Mr.. Eads will agree to the free
use of the railway by the government for
the transportation of troops and war mate
rial, and make a liberal concession for 10 all
service,
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HkTHE solar engine used in Paris Tor driving
a printing press has proven so sHccessful
that there appears to be possibility of hav-
ing it succs ssfnlly employed for light power
purposes in Egypt, India and other bo.
countries. The rays of the sun are concen-
trated by teHectors On boiler. which fur
nishes steam to an engine OF ordinary con-
struc' iou, snd this drives printing press of
apparently ore boy power. A patent has
been taken ont in Washingioa by an AmeIi
can inventor for q similar engine.
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THE EEwLY-APPoIrTED ARCHBISHOP OF

TIE Right Rev. Edward White Benson,
DID, Bshop of Truro, who has accepted the
succession 10 the late DR.. TAFT, as Arch
bishop of Canterbury, is now in his fifty
fourth year, having Been born near Birming-
BAN, July IA, 1922. He was educated at
King Edwsrd's School, birmingham, and at
Trinity College, cambridge, where he was
graduated in 1882, Taking order in 1853,
he served for some Ltlne ss an assistant
10 aster at the famous Rugby School, and in
1858, on the opening of Wellington College,
WAS appointed its head master. This posi-
ton he retsined for fourteen years, and in
1872 was appointed a canon resideotiary and
chancellor OF Lincoln lcaIhedral. By an or
der ia council, in 1876, the diocese of Exeter
wss divided, the county of Cornwall being
set off as a new bishopric, with the church OF
St. Mary, Truro, as a cathedral, and DIR.
Benson was consecrated in St. Paul's cathe-
DIAL in April, 1877, as the ,hrst bishop of
Truro. The new diocese had a net income
of SIS 600. and the bishop had twenty eight
liFings 10 his gift. DR.. Benson is the author
Of seseFzi hooks, among them, Boy l1yc,
Ssndass IN WeRinglor Collsgs and come COL
l~etious Of SERMONS. In church politics DIR.
Benson Is known as a moderate high-church-
ms n
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The New York Sun has it that lump
Sherman is Blaine's candidate for 1884, and
that Logan is in for it too; also that it is
written, not between, bat distinctly in the
lines of the compact, that, with Sherman
president, Blaine will be secretary of state
and Logan secretary of war. Lincoln will,
perhaps, be The candidate of the admins
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TIE Chicago Timcs says that if the "Re-
Pubiicans of the State at large had an op-
portunity to decide the question by popular
vote, Gov. Oglesby would be elected as David
Davis's successor by an overwhelming ma.
jorify. There is not more popular man in
the State, nor one who hae done more either
for The State or The Republican party
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-26

IN grading the Northern Pacific road-bed
in Montana a charge Of 24O boxes Of powder
was pot into the side Of rocky mountain
chat projected into the river, blowing it out
OF sisbl, and so thoroughly doing The work
that not single additional Charge was
needed 10 clear away the fragments.
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Knocked Down and Kobbed.

Special 70 the Appeal
F6LToE, KY. December 25.-To night
about o'clock two unknown men met Capt.
G. w. johnson on the strset, KNOCKED him
down and robbed him of 1910. He has an
idea that he knows the men, and has put
an officer on track Of the parties 70 the in
famous crime. Our town i. gaining much
notoriety for numbering, fighting and high
way robbiug.