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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09
WIRE WAITS.

Boston, March S.-A. w. Perry, boot and
shoe manufacturer, has failed. Liabilities
| $4,000.
Bradford, Pa, March S.-Baum's Opera.
house at Richburg was totally destroyed by
fire this morning.
Milwaukee, March s-Edgar Starves, at
Royalton, Wis, was killed by the accidental
discharge of gun.
Louisville, March 8.-Henry C. Pindell, a
prominent lawyer of this city, died here this
forenoon, aged fifty-two.
Boston, March S.-A. w. Perry, shoe m IAN
nfacturer, has failed. Liabilities, SIS, 900
nominal assets, Sos, 600.
Columbus, o., March S.-James Harriott,
farmer of Bucktown, Union county, sui
clded to-day by hanging. The cause is un-
known.
Chicago, March S.-The Consolidated Lin
seed Oil Company is holding special secret
meeting at the Grand Pacific Hotel Fifty
five houses are represented, covering the en-
tire West.
Marshall, Tex, March S.-Prohibition has
been defeated in Harrison county after a
bitter contest, the negroes voting almost
solidly against the measure the whites being
evenly divided.
Montreal, March S.-McMaster & Co. have
entered another suit for 100000 against the
temperatures board OF the Presbyterian
church TO compel that body to render an &C.
count of its stewardship.
Chicago, March S.-The Pennsylvania
Railroad Company announces that no COM
mission will be paid on the tickets sold by
the agents of other roads over their lines to
Pittsburg and points East.
Cheyenne, March SIN the Legislature to-
day resolution expressing confidence in
Governor Hoyt, approval of his course for
the past four years, and requesting of the
President his reappointment, was unani-
mously adopted.
Cleveland, March S.-A Herald special
from Canton reports that verdict of MUIR
der in the second degree was returned to-day
in the case of Rice, reputed tramp, who,
in dispute killed another tramp. The PEN
atty is life imprisonment.
Cheyenne, March S.-The family of the
late Chinese Prof. 10 Kun Hua passed
through here to-day. An infant child, aged
fourteen months, died at the depot of general
debility, and the remains were placed in q
coffin and expressed to China.
Boston, March S.-There were many I'M
favorable comments on the inaction of the
police who allowed the man who murdered
Mrs. Bell yesterday to walk away under their
eyes without stopping to inquire regarding
the trouble at Mrs. Bells residence. The
murderer is still at large. Suspicion points
to an erpolice officer OF this city.
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A 0ueer Ornament.

A Washington letter says: "At a recep.
ton the other day my attention was calltd
to an ornament unique in the way of oddi-
ties and worn by lady, the wife of a naval
officer. 1t was long brooch or lace pin con-
sisting of the rattle and buttons of an I'M
usually large make. set in knife edge set.
ting of polished gold. There was a lovely
face above it, and the grisly Jewel caught to.
gether the edges Of an exquisite lace scarf
but the rattlesnake trophy was rather discon-
certing to some delicate ladies, who withdrew
from the wearer with fanciful shivers, when
they saw what the thing really was. In sx-
PLANTATION of such 8 strange ornament, il is
said that while standing with her husband
at some station on the Florida coast, the
lady's only child, little daughter, was
sived from the deadly snake when all coiled
and ready to spring upon her. The mar
who killed the snake and saved III, girls life
was handsomely rewarded, and the
mother having obtained the rattles sent
them TO Tiffany for mounting. The pin is
always worn by her in grateful remembran
of the event, and at the largest balls, the
great receptions, and the swell germans the
rattlesnake trophy appears, resting its gray
and ugly joints against the fair, white skin
of the lsdy's throat, and clasping the folds OF
her finest laces. There is an Indian belief
that if a set OF rattles are worn on the head
blindness will always be prevented, and there
is a trappers' belief that the dust from a
snakes rattles will cause blindness and ter
rifle ills, and much other rattlesnake lore
that is called up by the well-versed whenever
this famous breastpin puts in an appearance
1t is noticeable then that the young ladies
who wear the most life-like and expensive OF
the enameled snake bracelets coiled around
their wrists, or gold adders, with diamond
eyes, around their throats, are the very ones
to shrug their shoulders and call it queer
for anyone to wear part OF a genuine snake
as an ornament
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JEWISH PROTECTION.
Conformation OF Alleged CrueIties by n
British Subject.

| Such cruelties as have been inflicted or
| the Jews in Russia have been confirmed
with some details, by a correspondence ad.
dressed to the Pal Mall Gazette. The person
| who writes states that he ia a Protestant, a
| born British subject, speaking Russian flu
emily, and doing business with the Jews in
| Odessa, Kief and Warsaw, to the amount OF
some millions of roubles per annum. On
| the first receipt of the news of the
disturbances, having heavy interests at
stake, the writer OF the letters to the
| Pal Mall Gazette hastended to Kief. He
saw rows OF houses completely wrecked.
Every article OF furniture and other prop
| erty had been pillaged and removed, even
'the very doors and windows had been torn
from their hinges" Poor and rich Jews
alike had lost everything, and complete ruin
stared them in the face Two thousand I'M
fortunate people, men, women and children,
with scarcely any clothing, were living on
rations furnished by the authorities, waiting
tor such aid as their coreligionists might
send them. Laborers, carriers, porters were
found with those who had been wealthy, all
reduced to the same stage of misery. The
correspondent made all possible inquiries
into the causes of this wretched business,
but beyond the evidence of his own eyer,
''the authorities resorted to every pos
sible device to prevent the truth be-
ing known" Even the terror-stricken
which might arise from answering any ques-
tions. In outlying towns, and in the suburbs
OF the larger cities, numerous defenseless
young women were completely at the mercy
Of the mob, and during forty eight hours the
suffering5 of these unfortunate creatures were
too heartrending to describe. The most pain
full part OF all this correspondence is where
the inaction of the authorities is told. At
Kief, where afterward the trial OF the rioters
took place, "the government prosecutor, in
the opening speech, expressed sympathy
with the motives of the outbreak, and the
lightness of the majority of the sentences
passed showed that his sentiments were not
unshared by the court" 1t happened
that the correspondent did business with
a Jew at kief, and at or near his house
the first outbreak took place. A Russian
officer lodged in this house, and to him the
Jew, with promise of money, appealed for
protection. Two soldiers were at once posted
at the door, and with their bayonets kept off
the plunderers. But the destruction of the
whole surrounding ighborhood was wit
messed, 1.-THE Cossack soldiers sitting motion
less on their horses awaiting orders which no
one thought fit TO give" In the plunderings
the correspondent states that Russian mer-
chants, soldiers, policemen, and ''even an
officer" took part. In some of the small
towns the soldiers themselves, when ordered
out to protect the Jews, simply Joined the
rioters. Perhaps we ought to forgive the
Russians, for though o. K, the Russian
emissary to England Whose departure to her
own country was telegrs phed yesterday does
not so state it, civilization in Russia IL at a
very low ebb.
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THE king of Siam is sending Prince
Prisdang, his lf-brother, to this country to
arrange treaty. He speaks English and
French, and the st. Louis Republican re-
marks that Americans are not hooted at
and insulted in Siam, as the Siamese would
be treated here if they came to teach us any
thing we do not know. American preachers
of the christian religion are even allowed to
talk in the Buddhist temples in Siam, when
a Buddhist priest would certainly not be
allowed to teach his doctrines in christian
church. So the Siamese prince is worthy Of
some ciyiIity and consideration"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09

The opponents of Mr.. Reagan's bill in
Congress to regulate the railroads contend
that the owners of railroad property, like
other proprietors, have ga right to do as they
like with their own" But railroads are not
property simply as other property. Their
owners exercise the States right of eminent
domain" and take the right of way, on COM
pensation, whether the owner of the land taken
is willing or not. This does not give private
property, for the State can exercise its Pc
culiar right only for public purposes. As a
Philadelphia court decided with reference to
street which had been closed, when prop
erty thus taken ceases 10 be used for public
purposes it lapses to the estate from which it
was detached, and does not remain in the
possession of those who acquired it by yir-
tue Of eminent domain. When the railroads
deny their character as public servants they
renounee Their own franchises.
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A Singular Freak OF Nature.
Cincinnati Enquirer.

DIR. Tevis, of Brooksburg, gives an &C.
count of a monstrosity born in the neighbor.
hood of his place, in the family of Mr.
Haskell, an estimable farmer. 1t is female
child, very peculiarly marked. 1t has nc
right hand at all, and upon the left hand
there are but three little fingers, all grown
together. 1t has no right foot, there being
no signs of one, with the exception of heel
The left foot tapers from the heel to the
great toe, and resembles a thumb. The
mother of this singularly deformed child
was in Missouri about eight months since
and while engaged in picking berries dis
covered three large rattlesnakes near hei
in the vines, which SO frightened her that
she had spasms on the spot, and the unfor.
tunate child has had spasms since its birth
The case will prove of special interest tc
physicians.
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A KICK AT THE SCORES.
O'Leary Downs Dowuey Ia a Walking
Match at New Orleans.

New Orleans Times Democrat 9th.
The thirty-six- hour walking match be-
tween Downey and O'Leary that commenced
at Mason Hall, Saturday morning at IL :05
o'clock, ended last night in a most unsatis-
factory manner, though 0'Leary scored a
victory that Downey said he wouldn't. AS
a walking exhibition, so far as style and
speed was concerned, the race was a success,
and so far the referee was concerned it
looked like a square race with an under
standing between both of the contestants that
when one went off the other should follow
If it was a fxed-up affair, only the men
themselves knew it, and so far as condemn
ing the scores was concerned, Downey should
have had, TO say the least of it, better sense.
He was certainly able to watch his score, and
if he suspected that he was b@ins defrauded
he should have stopped right at the stand and
insisted upon Its being corrected. 1t was not
until he found out that he could not make
up the difference in laps that he made his
break, and then there was evidently brandy
and gipger-ale at the bottom OF it. 81 de-
mand," said he, when nine laps behind, and
there only remained two hours and ten min
utes walking time, that all outside bets
should be declared off, as have been cheated
in the scoring" This demand was refused
and he again began his chase OF the leader,
who was walking in excellent form and with
a reserve OF speed left that assured his ulti-
mdle success. AT lU:zo pm, DOWney lett
the track, he having covered at that time 1856
miles and one lap. Dan continued walking
three laps further, retiring at 10:40 m,
with 135 miles eleven laps to his credit.
Downey only wanted to don his street clothes
before again appearing at the stand, when
he lodged another protest, and de-
clared that the whole thing was a hip
podrome, notwithstanding the fact that
he had been backing himself to run during
the afternoon. The whole matter in a nut
shell is this, that Downey neglected his OPP
portunities and so got left, though it is prob
able that with this morning he will re
heartily ashamed of his last nights conduct,
as indeed he may. During the closing hour
of the race Dan was presented with an ele-
giant walking-stick, made out of the rerie-
brde of sharks backbone, and mounted
with silver, by the Rev. Father Kennedy, of
81. Patrick's church, who is a great adlnirer
of the ex-champion. After the race Dan
said to the Times Democrat reporter and Il.
A. Haskins, Downey's hacker: "If DJwney
is not satisfied / will walk him a square
heel-and-toe race of five or ten miles, on the
race-tr ick, and bet him 500 to $50, or $4,000
to $500, that | beat him."
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Sr. LOUIS, March Sat meeting of the
merchants on Change at l O'clock to-day
Governor Crittenden made an earnest appeal
for aid for the sufferers in the OVERLOOKED dis
tricls of southern Missouri. About $4,000 in
money and provisions were donated at once,
and the relief committee appointed some
days ago instructed to solicit additional sub
scriptions. General Beckwith, of the sub
sistence department, United States army, il
here. He has sent 10000 rations to Mound
City, Ill., and 5000 rations each to Pemiscot
and Mississippi counties, Missouri, and more
A, fnllnu,
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Another Charge Against Mason.

IL is reported that Sergeant Mason, who
shot at Guiteau, is likely to be brought sec
ond time before the court-martial upon the
charge OF insulting the surgeons who, in the
course of the late trial. were sent TO his cell
for the purpose of examining the wound re-
ceived BY him in the Late war
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bananas, with just feck of yellow here
and there amid the green, clean-looking
lemons, almost as large as the oranges
heaped on to themselves, great citrons with
their royal gold color, groups of boatmer
and hunters with their swarthy faces and
picturesque attire, lending hand whenever
it was needed, a negro with banjo, strum-
ming rude tunes TO which the crowd gave
casual accompaniment, the ladies watching
curiously and sampling an orange now and
then-these were some Of the elements which
made up the scene-the whole being enliv-
ened with the haste and hustle of getting
ready against the next days boat, and hav'
ing the fruit ready to go out with the ship.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09

TIE Hon. JOHN WENTWORTH has discov-
cred that the first Protestant in Chicago was
a Baptist; that the first book ever written in
that city was by Baptist clergyman, and
that Baptist clergyman preached the first
Protestant sermon in Chicago on the 9TH OF
October, 1925. The first Protestant alluded
to was Mrs. Captain Head Miss Rebekah
Wells, of Louisville, KY, who rode all the
way to Chicago on horseback, through a
country infested with the warriors of the
Prophet and Tecumseh, starting from Louis
willie on the 23d OF May. 1911.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09

THERE is sensation at Troy, n. Y. A pic
ture in lambert fire appears at intervals
showing toe Virgin Mary with babe in her
arms, cross, and the letters l. II. S. The
figures show themselves on the whitewashed
wall of an unpretentious house in an alley
on First street, below Adams. A correspond
ent of the Chicago Tribune there examined
the walls and and saw rude outline OF the
cross and letters, and on putting back the
candle those outlines seemed to be blaze
of light" Phosphorus is sal to be the
cause, but superstitious crowds try to obtain
entrance, and fanatics have cut pieces from
the chairs and other woodwork in the room
as re lea
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09

The cotton market yesterday opened and
closed firm, held higher, with good demand
middling quoted at 11sc. In New York
spot middling was IL 1885, and firm; fu-
lures closed weak, March 11.82@1l.S3. In
New Orleans spot middliDg was 1lsc, and
active; futures we're steady, with March
quoted 11.65911.6S. In Liverpool middling
uplands were 6:d and. Orleans 13-16d, and
hardening; futures closed barely steady at
G 80 GA for March, March-ApriI, and 29 32d
for AuVust-SeDtember
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The Signal Bureau Is making arrange
giving the probabilities for two coming days
instead of one. Mr.. Ed Barnard, the Nash
vile astronomer, has received letter from
the German government, in which he has
been requested to give the state of the
weather for the frat half of December for
the past two years at Nashville, Chattanooga
and Knoxville, as it proposes to send two
parties of German astronomers TO the United
States, and to locate them east of the Missis-
sippi river to observe the transit of Venus
over the sun next December.
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sarah Bernhardt'. GhastIy Bargain.


A queer lawsuit is in store for the Paris
ians. Some two years ago Sarah Bernhardt,
the errrande aTtiste and universal genius, took
it into her head TO be photographed reclin-
ing at full length in the famous ebony coffin,
padded with white satin, about which we
have heard 30 much. The photographer,
Melandri, undertook to satisfy the lady's ca
price, and obtained some excellent proofs,
Sarah having simulated to perfection
the stiffness of death. Thereupon Dona
Sol said to Melandri: 81 will make
a bargain with. you. Swear to me that
you will not sell any of these photographs
until after my death" "After your death?"
"Oh, it will happen sooner than you expect
l promise you to die within a year from
now. / am not joking. l have a present.
ment, and my presentiments never deceive
me. Furthermore, at the end of the year, if
l am still in this world, l authorize you to
sell as many of the photographs as you
please" Melandri consented to this strange
contract and executed faithfully his part
of the bargain but Sarah, happily for
her admirers, neglected to keep her
promise. Melandri wrote to the lady
while she was at New York, remind
ing her that she had no longer a right to be-
hold the light of the sun. Patience" tele-
graphed Sarah "at end of American engage
m9nt will fill engagement with you"
Melandri waited; but when Sarah returned
from Russia few days ago, he again re-
minded bona Sol that she had no right to
behold the light of the sun. patience"
wrote Sarah once more: 81 have promised to
create three new pieces at Paris; after that
you can sell the photographs" But Melan-
dri'5 stock of patience is exhausted, and he
has consequently referred his case to the
tribunal of commerce of Paris.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09
SERVIA.
KING MILAN's FIRST PROCLAIM.

KING MILANS FIRST PROCLAMATION,
BELGRADE, March S.-The prolamatio
issued by King Milan on his elevation to
the principally of the kingdom, says: "Jhe
political ediice founded In 1882 has been
worthily crowned" 1t expresses gratitude
to the European powers for their sympathy
toward Servia, and says: "The national en-
thusiasm is a guarantee that in the future
the spirit of Servla's immortal liberator,
Milosh, and that of her hero martyr, Mich
ael, will be honored." The energies of the
new king will be devoted to the dissemina-
ton of virtue and enlightenment.
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SENSATIONAL STORY.
Jesse James Reported Killed, After n
Desperate Fight.

KANSAS CITY, March SIT was reported
this evening by gentleman who came in on
the Wabash train that he obtained Informal
ton from the sheriff of Moberly county that
jesse James and companion had been sur
rounded by officers, in some place unknown
to the gentleman, in Kansas, in a little cot
tsge, and that Jessie fought desperately, and
killed seven OF his ASSISTANTS and wounded
three others, being himself mortality wounded.
The story is treated with incredulity by some
of the local officers here, and wholly disbe-
lieved by others. Particulars are wanting.
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ACCORDING to last October's reports Nash
Vile banks had total capital of 81 $4,000
individual deposits, S3,GO2,6o9. Memphis
capital, S575, 300; deposits, 81, 545,574. Chat
tanooga-capitaI, $4,000; deposits, s64s ,4O2
Knoxvllle-capital, SlOO, 900; deposits $685.
26s. Sixteen towns had twenty-five banks,
with total capital OF s., 100000; deposits
1888 979. None of the banks outside of the
above mentioned cities had az much as $780,
0OJ deposits. Murfreesboro had 1908, 1903
the remainder were all under $500, 900. The
smallest capital was Shelbyville and Jack.
son, $4,000 each; the smallest deposits
Iackann- S6S Dos.
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RESOLUTIONS OF RESPECT

WHEREAS, This board has heard, with deep re
gret, of the death of Colonel y. r SLrDGE. who
directors of this company, and deeming il proper
to put record our high esteem OF him Al d our
recogn ition Of his long and eminent services 20
this company; therefore,
Resolved. That in the death Of Colonel SLEDGE
this company has Loaf = couselor whoee uisc ON
and faithful service have done much for It's sue
cess and preservation during the long period that
he one Of its directors
Resolred, That in Colonel SLKDSE the country
has lost wise and patriotic citizen and the mem
bers OF this board q vslued friend
ReSoltsd, That we deeply Eympathize with his
beresved family in the great and irrepsrAole loss
which they have sustained
Resolued. That these resolutions be pa bIshed in
the Memphis press, and copy Of the same trans
mitted TO his family.
The above is q true copy from minutes OF the
Board of Directors of the Mississippi and T, nnes-
zee Railroad Company, on lst March. lss2-
S, II. LAMB, Secretary.
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PINE BLUFF, ARK, March S.-Austin,
Atkins & Co., general merchants, have as
signed. Liabilities, SIS, 900; assets in goods
and accounts, 100000. The principal cred
itors are II. & c. Newman, New Orleans,
S39, 600; Cans, Arnold & Co., Philadelphia,
$1,000; Bamberger, Bloom Co., Louisville,
$500; August, Bernheimer & Bauer, New
York, $1,000; Ely, Walker & Co., St. Louis,
$3.50, and various smaller amounts to differ
emf eirias
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A stormy Passage.

New YORK, March S.-The steamer Her
mann arrived to-day from Antwerp, and re-
ports that she lost all the blades OF her pro-
pell, during the passage, losing her last
blade March 4th, while lying to in a severe
gale, and was compelled 10 make the re-
mainder of the passage, go miles, under sail
with variable winds. From latitude 460 40,
longitude Az 10, TO latitude 430 40>, longi-
tude 49' so, the sea was encompassed with
ice fields, passing some of considerable
thickness and doing slight damage to the
ship's bows
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FOREIGN MISCELLANY

LONDON, March S.-The steamer Apollo
has been sunk of Ushant, by q collision
Six persons were drowned.
PARIS, March Sit is reported that nine
Europeans, iourneying from Tunis to CASA,
were murdered between Tunis and Karwan
LONDON, March S.-The report about a
convention between Germany and France
for annexation, by the latter, of Luxem.
bourg, is an invention
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-09

TIE indifference to truth exhibited by the
Mormons is shown in the petitions they have
just got up to Congress, by which they assert
that polygamy is part of the Mormon re-
ligiou. The contrary is the truth, the Book
OF Mormon distinctly pronounces against a
man having more than one wife