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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-12

had made any examination OF this question were
consulted forty out OF nifty would say that
they believe this court had no jurisdiction He de-
and two doctors were the only persons who main-
tafned that the prisoner was insane. He (Mr
Reedl knew that men OF the highest position and
education believed that the man was insane and
should not be hung. Public sentiment Is changing
rapidly from day TO day.
Mr. Reed considered the question OF Jurisdiction
again at some length, dispuu ng propositions ad-
xanced pc % 6y his opponents 81 think, said MT
that II any man should shoot at the President or
attempted to kill him he should be punished by
death but that is not the law today. The killing
no greater crime than the killing of the humblest
hod-carr1er on the street"
ABILITY 10 DISTINGUISH BETWEEN RIGHT AND
WRONG
In reference to question as to the testimony con-
cerning the ability of the accused to distinguish
between right and wrong, Mr. Reed read from q
report OF the recent trial OF Mclean for shooting
knowledge OF the act committed did not imply
sanity.
The District Attorney said that the instructions
or the chief justice in that case was almost YER
Datm repetition OF the instructions OF Judge Cox
Mr. REED, IN CLOSING,
remarked that this case was test OF the moral
courage of the court He cared not whether every
man in the face of the earth believed the accused
ought TO go to the galows, that fact ought not TO
nave consideration by the court He submitted
that there were grave and serious doubt as 10
whether the Criminal Court had Jurisdiction I'm
this case, and IL the court believed It was their
duty to set aside this verdict -
He appealed to the court not to LET the judicial
ermine be solled by permitting human being to
the power OF the court to try him. At ten minutes
past two the court adjourned till Monday.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-12

THE COMMISSIONERS OF THE LAND OFFICE, Mr..
Mcfarland, after conference with the Secretary
of the Interior and the Assistant Attorney Gen.
eral, has issued an order removing the suspension
as to the issue Of certificates by the First National
Bank OF Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has also is
sued a circular inviting holders of these certifi-
Gates to send them to the department for certih-
cation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-12

VISITORS 10 THE NAVAL ACADEMY.-The Presi-
dent has appointed the following to be members of
the board of visitors to the Annapolis Naval Acad-
emy: Senator's Dawes and Jones, of Florida; Com
mOdore 8. R. Franklin, Captain p c. johnson, N.
m. Hubbard, OF Cedar Rapids, Iowa; William A.
vens, Nashua, NH, and Charles Watrous, ESQ.,,
New York. The board will consist OF twelve mem
berS, and there still to be designated an officer
OF the army and three Representatives.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-05-12
PICNICS, EXCURSIONS. &c.

GRAND ANNUAL PICNIC
M For the benefit of the Widows and Orphans of
WASHINGTON GROVE, No. l. w.A.OD.
10 oe given at atgUENEMANN'S PLEASURE GARDEN
MONDAY, May 18th, 1882.
Admission, 25 cents each person.
PhIZE BOWLING
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
TENNESSEE NEWS.

Cleveland has had hard contest 10 escape
the saloon business, but in the eDakthe char
ter was readopted and drinks are again at
taiuable.
Brownsville: The small pox fright has
once more abatod. This spell resulted Ia
about nine cases, only one OF which devel
oped here-the others were six miles from
town. All were colored; two died; the
others will recover.
Shelbyville: Shelbyvile had a second
disastrous FIRE on Monday. 1t started in
Bates's saloon and spread rapidly, destroy
ing most of the block on the east side of the
square. The loss was heavy. Four men
were injured by the falling of a wall, one
probably fatally.
Trenton: Mr.. Elisha Harrison, postm aster
at Dyer Station, and chairman of the Re-
publican Executive Committee of Gibson
county, was found dead in the road, about
three miles north of this-c city. 1t is thought
La murdered, though particulars have
not yet been received.
Fayetteville Express: "At the planning mill
the son of MIR. Burge was working with his
father when, from come cause unknown he
was caught in the betting of the machinery
and terribly mangled before he could be ex-
tricated. His legs were both broken, as we're
also both arms, and he was injured internally.
He was removed to the residence of his
about midnight, when he breathed his last"
Dyersburg Gazette: ELIZA Tipton. COL
ored woman in Dyersburg, over seventy years
OF age, has recently had a strange expert
ence. Rorn and reared in the olden slave
regime, she was married to free negro but
soon became separated from him because her
master disliked his visits on account of his
freedom. He drifted away farther South,
and they lost sight OF each other. Thus over
fifty years passed, and each formed new ties,
she being the wife successfully of seven hus-
bands, all OF whom are now dead. He pros
pered, became the owner of house aud one
hundred and fifty acres of land, and finding
himself free again after so many years, re-
solved 10 come back and look up LIZA" his
first love. He reached Dyersburg on the last
trip of the Mark Twain, and after a diligent
search, found her living at Mr.. james II.
Fowlkes's. Who shall describe their meeting
when he made himself known, for she knew
him not, or their earnest talk around the
kitchen fire that night, or the visit to their
child, now an old woman with grown chill
dren? They propose TO live together now the
remaining years of life"
At Knoxville the popular president of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail
road has resigned, after thirty years Of ardu-
Gus rallroading service - Colonel Cole
would rather resign the presidency of the
East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia rail- |
road than change his home from Nashville |
to Knoxville, where he has large invest |
ment ID real estate. He will continue on the |
Board of Directors A Knoxville CORE
sPondent OF the AHls7ieG1 writes: "Knox-
Vile Is without rival in It's reg .rd for the I
Sabbath. 1t has bettsr churches. ADLER
preachers and more church eoumuaicspts
perhaps, than any city OF its size in or out OF
the State, The most OF our business men are !
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
STATE NORMAL INSTITUTE
To be Held at the Universally of Ten
nessee, Knoxville, this Summer.

The State superintendent of public instruc-
ton, DR.. w. S. Doak, has issued a circular
OF instructions in reference to the State Nor
NAL Institute to be held at Knoxville this
summer, from the 21st of June 10 the 2lst of
July, from which we learn that the course of
instruction will be distributed in two or
more grades, so as to meet the wants of ele-
mentary teachers as well as the more adj
vanced. In each course there will be four
regular daily lessons. Optional studies will
be open to all, yet 80 as not TO interfere with
the regular courses. The instruction will be
largely oral. Textbooks, so far as needed
will he ,orrsiided At REDUCED rates Pnnils
studies which they wish to pursue. Ger
tIicates, corresponding TO the respective
grades, will be conferred on examination at
the close of the course. These certificates will
exempt the holder from further examination
in this State. Tuition is free TO all teachers or
persons preparing to teach. Special railroad
rates will be provided on railroads in Ten
nessee for all persons properly certified as
members of the institute. Further notice
will be given on this subject by the State
superintendent. Board and lodging can be
obtained in Knoxville at from $3.50 to 81
a week. Hotels will make special rates by
the week, or for longer time. The STATE SUI
perintendent requests that all superintendents and
school officers receiuing this Tcuiar, piu make Il
NHOuB III useT 1uftSutcttOHS utS0, u3eu cOuhHy or
local institutes may be dnged as not 10
aict tcith the State institute. He earnestly re-
quests that all public tccu priuate teachers Ia
The State, icho can do So tcdl attend this institute
and win cooperate NTH hum in promoting lis sue
Cess
The faculty is composed of the following
named we'll known educators: The Rev. w
S. Doak, DID,, didactics and public school
work; Superintendent S. Y. Caldwell, school
organization and management; Prof. w. f.
Garrett, history and geography; Prof. James
Dinwiddie, mathematics; Prof. E. S. Joynes,
English language; Prof. s. III. Lockett, ex-
perimental physics; Prof. J. NJ McBryde
elements of agriculture; Prof. II. Nicholson
elements of geology; Miss Augusta Towel,
elementary methods; Mics NJ. r. S. Hunter,
primary class exercises.
The two last-named young ladies are
teachers in the Memphis public schools, oil
whom the community may justly feel proud
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05

The steel works are, as rule, crowded
with orders, because steel is rapidly sup
planting iron for most uses, and in cost will
soon be greatly reduced by the Bessemer pro-
cess. which manipulates the metal by ma
chinery instead OF by hand-labor, as is the
case in iron.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
BLAIR AND BLAINE.

B!air's testimony does not Consist" when
compared with Blaine's. He told the COM
mittee yesterday that the ex-secretary OF
state seemed to assent to Shepherds PROPOSE
ton, and furnished him with the substance
of his instructions to Ministers Hurlbut and
Fitzpatrick. Mr.. Shipherd possesses a con-
siderable mass of General Blair's correspond
ence about the Peruvian Company and the
state department which it would probably
be awkward for the senator to see in print.
Hence this testimony. Blair afford to
sacrifice Blaine, but he cannot break with
Brother Shipherd, the gOdly Sunday-school
superintendent. But in this particular in
stance Blaine sustains Blair. In his testi-
mony before the committee the ex-secretary
admitted that our minister TO Peru could not,
under his instructions, have recognized
treaty that did not provide for the Landreau
claim. This, the New York Herald points
out was the charge that Blaine pretended
70 get furiOusly mad about with Belmont"
Not one word of this admission by Blaine
came 10 US by the Associated Press report.
VINO cut i out" asks the Uerald, ri not
some one n the interest Of BlaineF'
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
THE MEMPHIS DEBT.
What its Settlement VIII do TO Advance
the Best Interests OF the City.

The Memphis correspondent of the Banner,
writing to that paper, says: The taxes in
the city now amount to 1924 ,O05, and the
assessed value of property is $14,000,000,
which is a very low assessment. The new
settlement will require, in order to carry it
out, $l26,000 per annum, and this will make
tax of eighty cents necessary to pay the
interest on the debt, and the entire tax will
be, for all purposes, including State and
county tax, s. 20.
This looks like heavy taxation, but if
they would manfully meet it their condi-
ton would be much better than under their
present condition, caused by the failure to
adjust and pay their city debt. Memphis
will learn by sad and bitter experience, If
she has not already learned it, that no city,
community, nor State can afford to let its
credit be destroyed and remain so. To de-
stroy the credit OF a city or State is to de-
stroY the city or State. 1t is said that with
a fair assessment the rate of taxation would
be greatly reduced. When small interior
town like Columbia can bear rate of
81 50 on the hundred, and that, too, on a
liberal, and, compared with Memphis,
high assessment, why should Memphis COM
plain?
Is she not losing every year three times as
much by her financial management as she
has to pay in taxes? Her financial status is
giving all the other cities the advantage of
her, which they do not fail to take. 1t may
be that the creditors are too exacting, but on
the other hand may not the citizens demand
too great reduction. Cutting debt half
in two is pretty considerable, especially to
the man who has to lose it. If the city is
really unable to pay, then her condition is
deplorable and should command sympathy,
but to take this position would not help her
commercially, and would not tempt the iu-
vestment OF capital. The property-owners
and taxpayers of Memphis should consider
these matters WE'LL remembering that the
preservation of credit is of the highest i'm
portance whether you use it or not.
But Memphis has a much better excuse
for not meeting her debt than the State of
Tennessee has. 1t requires not one third as
much tax to pay the States debt as it does
the debt of Memphis. The city, owing to its
misfortunes, has many more expenses than
the State has, and this day the State is better
able, far better able, to pay 600 than Mem
phis is 500.
The misfortune here is they have too much
street to gravel and pave. The city is too
scattered and there are too many houses of
inferior grade for city of lis extent. 1t
spreads over territory enough for city Of
100000 inhabitants, and consequently to
keep up its streets necessitates many expen-
ditures. The whole State should aid this
city in its sanitary work, for the whole State
is directly interested in preventing yellow
fever from devastating this city.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
MISSISSIPPI EDITORS.
Seventeenth Annual Meeting of tn
Press Association at Natchez.

The seventeenth annual meeting of the
Mississippi Press Association will be held at
Natchez, Wednesday, June Z, 1882.
Hon. Thomas Spight, OF the Ripley Scnti-
mel, will deliver the annual GRAFTON, and f.
C. Morehead, of the PI rnters Journal, the an
nual essay. Poems will be read by S. A.
Jonas, of the Aberdeen Examiner; Mrs. Mol
lie MCGEE Smell, of Columbus; Miss Johnnie
Hunt, of Vicksburg, and Mrs. B. H. Moore
of,Corinth. Major G. w. Harper, Of the Ray
mond Gd=stte, was requested to write history
Of the Mississippi press, to be completed, il
possible, by this meeting.
Railroad and steamboat lines will give
free transportation upon presentation of GER
ti6cates of membership, applications fol
which should be made to the president. The
members will meet at Bolton Depot, Vicks
burg and Meridian railroad, on the morning
OF June 9th, where vehicles will be provided
to convey them to Raymond, eight miles dis
tant. At this point special train on the
Natchez and Jackson railroad will be In
waiting to take the members to Natchtz. Ir
order to arrive at Bolton on time, it will b.
necessary to reach Jackson on the night Of
June 5 b, or early on the morning of june
9th, so that connection can be made at thii
place (Jackson) with the Vicksburg and
Meridian train going vest, which leaves
about o'clock am. The editors are ex
pected to go in body from Bolton.
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wreaths and bouquets around the coffin was
prodigious. Mile. Loisset had made the
circus fashionable, and when the empress of
Austria was at Paris she used to meet fire.
quently the Inflated ecUyere in the Bots and
ride with her. Her msjesty lectured her
about a nsgging way she had of of reining
in her horse, which was nervous and hard
mouthed- She recommended her to so to
some wide open plain, provoke the horse to
run away with her, and then, instead of
holding him in, give him plenty Of rein and
fog him until he gave in from sheer fatigue.
In this way the steed would have become
perfectly docile. The invitations to the
funeral were issued in the names of the
Prince and Princess de Reuss, the Count and
Countess de Rossi and their children, and
the Roux and Froment families. All the
circus company to which Emile Loisset be-
longed were at the funeral mass, and the
managers, actors and actresses Of various
theaters. Celebrated singers were engaged.
At the close OF the ceremony the body was
taken to the st. Lazare terminus, to be con-
veyed to Maison LATTE, where three genera
tions of circus riders of the family are
buried
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
roLre PROFESSION AND PRACTICE.

The polygs at Salt Lake are posturing Just
now martyrs prosecuted by people who
envy their prosperity and hate them for
their virtues. They are meek sufferers of
religious persecution, although they have
founded a new society where peace and con-
tent arise from the uprightuess, sobriety and
purity that prevail. The grand jury there
last week pricked this soaring balloon filled
with flashy virtues. When the Legislature
was in session a month ago they desired the
county clerk to prepare a statement of the
county's financial position, but he would not
and did not. Since then there has been
rumors of crooked doings, and Judge Hun
ter, on opening the April term of the Dis
trict Court, called the grand jury's attention
to the matter. A brief investigation was the
consequence, which reveals state of ac.
counts that has been but too frequently
found in the accounts of officials, book
keepers, and bank cashiers and presidents
for some time past. The jury was unable
in ths little time they had, to discover
all of what would probably require
many weeks investigation, but their
report shows that the county Is
100000 in debt, and is paying from ten to
eighteen per cent. year on the amount.
There has been no more than the ordinary
county expenditures. In addition to this,
the county was reported to be in arrears to
the Territory more than 100000 in Jauu-
airy. The strongest and wealthiest treasury
in the Territory is at least $4,000 behind,
and ,,olsnl- H. "A .ts-i4-- -
debt The amount of interest entered on
the books of the clerk and treasurer as paid,
indicates a much heavier county debt than
has been discovered, it may be, in the neigh
borhood OF 100000. Entries were found of
accounts paid twice over, and other irregu-
Iarities. In short, Mr.. Polyg turns cut to be
now what he was, only in rougher style, in
the old Nauvoo days. The Mountain
Meadow DANTE crowd only want rope and
they will hang themselves. The Edmunds
bill is compelling a surface decency, accom-
panied by bud claims of devotion to virtue
Those who possess virtue do not boast their
goodness
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05

win gave to this subject of natural history
special study-the study OF life; His Or
ign Of The Species was published, with ad.
mitted doubts and hesitation, as the result Of
twenty-five years of patient labor, of search
after the truth; but there were people ready
to answer any question about the universe in
TWENTY-FIVE minutes. The study of nature
was the study of facts. The depths
of creation we're not TO be sounded
with a child's 6shing-line." In con-
clusion the preacher remarked that
they, ss christians, were satisfied Of the
truth Of what they believed-the great facts
Of their faith-but it was absurd to suppose
that the book of Genesis was intended to
teach science. What branch of science was
taught from it2 Science has no part with
what happened in the beginning. II could
not make experiments on things till they
existed; could not analyze laws that we're
not vet established. Science began where
theology ended, and theology began again
where science left of. The great work OF
the Bible was to teach US spiritual and
moral truth; it dealt with facts altogether
outside of the order of nature, and with
which science had nothing to do.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
SENATOR GEORGES
SOn-fn-Law Leaves the Baptist Ministry
and the Church If Jesus ChriAt.

Boston, May 3.-William Hsyne Leavell,
pastor of the First Baptist church of this
city, severed his connection with the Baptist
denomipation on Sunday morning be-
cause, as he claims, il does not
allow sufficient liberty of thought. In
his farewell address he said: "Unfortu-
nately for the Baptist denomination
there is no recognition of the liberal
evangelical wing in its ministry. So soon as
one desires to breathe freer theological at
mosphere, no matter how truly the evapgel-
ical tone of his thinking nor how strong his
desire to remain orthodox, he is suspected
of having transcended all legitimate limits,
and his usefulness az a minister of the New
Testament is thereby impaired. The only
liberty granted to such a man is the liberty
to go out. There are other denominations
as evangelical az ours, where the limits are
not so contracted, and to such one / go.
1 leave both the Baptist ministry and
Church of Jesus Christ" Leavell is a native
Of South Carolina, son-in-law of Senator
George, of Mississippi, and came here from
New York city, where be was for some time
pastor of the Baptist church, and his liberal
tendencies created much interest in religious
circles
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
CROP NEWS.
mississippi.

Mississippi.
Ripley Advertiser: "The crop prospect up
to this date is good"
Florence Ners: "From Sunday, Tor a
whole week, the wind blew directly from the
north, and the cold weather which it brought
| maue everyone rear that killing frost
would be the result. There was a slight
frost on Sunday night, but very little damage
was DONE"
Statkville: Last year the cut-worm almost
devoured our gardens. We hear of their
depreciation this year. We are using bone
dust as a fertilizer. We understand that
farmers out West have discovered that GER
tain commercial fertilizers prevent bud
worms. Ii these fertilizers keep off worms
they will prove valuable indeed.
Otoc: We had no overflow; Noxubee was
three and half feet below high-water mark :;
we planted early; a few have not yet all
their cotton in; corn looks tolerable; oats
are good and wheat fine; provisions are
scarce-I cannot see how some of the people
are going to live; but, thank God, there are
plenty of dewberries, which will help until
other fruit comes.
Tupelo journal: Sweet potatoes are now
selling in Tupelo at 81 25 per bushel, and
cornmeal at 81 10. The fact that the COM
mOnest articles of provisions command such
prices in an agricultural community proves
conclusively that our people are pursuing
ruinous system of farming. But it seems
they are so welded to it that not even self
preservation can induce them to abandon it."
Friars Point Gazette: |sDr. P. c. Dickerson
has cut forty tons of hay and still has his
mowers at work finishing up the crop. This
Is somewhat of an innovation upon the sys-
TEN of farming in this section, but he Is
only decade or so in advance of what all
farmers will have to come to in the end.
The ridiculous system of our farmers impov-
erishing themselves by having to buy their
bread ana meat and feed for stock is beconl-
ing too absurd to last much longer"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-05
Not a Daniel.

A week ago Boston paper made calcu-
lation that at least one-half of the inhabi-
tants Of that city were church-goers, and
drew the conclusion, with a something of a
"holier-than-thou" air, that an uncommonly
high state of morality prevailed there. Some
learned and talented people live in Boston,
and doubtless some very good ones, but there
are also some uneommonly mean specimens.
The latest and mesnest who has YET APP
peared is Police-J Judge J. Wilder May. A
man brought before him for committing an
indecent assault upon respectable woman,
who as crossing the common at O'Clock at
night, was discharged. the judge giving as a
reason that no woman had any business out
at that hour. The assault was proved, the
woman's screams bringing the police 10 the
rescue, and the man had nothing TO say in