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LOCAL PARAGRAPHS.

The minutes of the Chancery Court will
be closed Saturday.
John Deering yesterday sued out libel
against the Fulton" for $40 wages.
The railroad case is now being heard on
its merits before Special Chancellor Morgan.
Criminal Court calendar for to-day 100,
Henry Page; 50, Clinton Hilliard; 16S, John
White
The "Old Folkes Concerto was given
Taste nighte at the LeMoyne Schoole at 484
Orleanse Streete. 1t was verie pleasante.
Mrs Belche, assisted by Miss Susie Gal.
breath and Miss Olivia Hill, will have
charge of the Art Loan Exhibition to-day,
and will be glad to see their friends.
"A meeting was held at the Cotton Ex-
change yesterday afternoon, at which the
proposed amendments to the charter of the
exchange were unanimously adopted.
Prof Harvey, of Boston, Mass, will re-
cite some selections from Bulwer and Shakes
peare, and Miss Olivia Hill and Miss Julia
Karr will also recite selections at the Art
Loan Exhibition this evening.
All persons expecting to attend the Ten
nessee State Sunday-school convention, which
meets in Murfreesboro, Tenn, April r. 1882,
will please forward their names at once to
the Rev. ]. H. Warreh, or II. f. Palmer,
Esq, Murfreesboro, Tenn.
In the Ross case yesterday, according to
agreement, Robert Ross pleaded guilty to
murder in the first degree, and the jury re-
turned verdict with mitigating circum-
stances. He was accordingly sentenced TO
imprisonment for life. He was to have been
hung to-day,
The benefit given last night to Mr.. Frank
Gray, at Leubrie's Theater, was pleasant
success in every way and kindly tribute to
the popularity of that gentleman. The
Jeans Senators gave delightful rendition of
the Golden, Plough. Owing to the crowded
condition of our columns extended notice
is impossible.
-Messrs. Robert Jones, jr.; A. D. Gibson,
7. A. Hamilton, f. r. Lanier, E. C. Mosby,
E. c. Postal, J. Fl. Rice, II. A. Montgomery,
T. B. Trezevant, w. J. P. Doyle, John NJ.
Peters and the Phoenix Fire and Marine In-
surance Company were yesterday elected to
membership in the Memphis Cotton Ex-
change.
Last night about 10 o'clock fire broke
out at 123 Exchange street, near Front in
oue-story double-tenement frame house be-
longing 10 J. II. Buxbaum. The loss was
value. 1t was occupied by two colored fam
lilies, both of whom were attending church
at the time. Their loss of furniture and
clothing was almost entire.
Tonight music will be the attraction at
the Art Lean Exhibition, and the pro-
gramme promises more than ordinary pleas
ure for those who attend. Mr.. Leo Kremer
presides at the piano, and some of the most
soul-thrilling selections of the great artists
are to be rendered by Miss Jennie Camp,
Miss Lorena Specht and Miss Fannie
Moseby.
"A Main street merchant, while "a little
oHfh &c So Iav II
street bucket-shop and approached an Off
Ger, who was an old acquaintance, and after
being informed of the modus Operdadi, "sold
1000 bales" for which he gave his check. He
insisted on buying another 1000 bales, but
was coaxed to hold off. Next morning he
returned, "still off," and closed out with a
gain of $500, which he pocketed and left.
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STATEMENTS.


The APPEAL reporters made round OF
the passengers and officers of the boat and
obtained the fullest details of the terrible
casualty.
WAKING THE CAPTAIN.
The first person called upon was Cap
tain Sterling G. Mcintyre, who commanded
the boat He said: "This morning, be-
tween and 5 o'clock, l heard a noise,
and shortly sfterward rouster, whose name
/ don't know, came to the hatchwsy and
shouted fire. / jumped up and saw the
smoke half way. | stepped in my room,
picked up my clothes and put them under my
arm, and started down stairs to see where the
fire was, but when | got down the steps on
the boiler deck / found the smoke 80 dense
that | started down the forward steps with
nv clothes still under my arm. get down
the forecastle and found the boat alongside
the coal float, and seeing no line out to hold
the boat, l dropped my clothes, went for
ward and took hold of the end of the line
myself and passed it over the guards, hol-
loing to make it fast. The head engineer,
Mike Kelly, and another man tied the line
TO enc of the timber heads on the float. At
the same time my brother end the
second mate, John Hill, made it
fast to the cabin on the boat,
and held it there some five minutes, giving
some of the passengers forward and the
crew chance to get ashore. l think that II
the boat had not been tied there would have
been more lost. l turned around to look at
the forward upstairs, and | found the flames
had advanced too far and the heat was too
great, and at the same time | stepped to-
ward the guard of the boat, holloing to the
men on the float to take the children that
Mrs. Butler had. The engineer caught one
OF the children, and seeing them safely on
the float, still stood on The boat and the
engineer was saying at the same time, "For
Gods sake, Captain, jump of, or you will be
l7st~ After got on the float, found the
heat 80 intense had to go ashore In that
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SPARKS,

The 6shboat of Mrs. Ferry was demolished.
The city dump-boat got severe dunn
itself. The loss will be about $500.
The commercial drummers were the FIR
men to propose relief for the sufferers.
Captain CIeary and one or two iremen
came very near being carried of with tbs
detached barge.
John CASTOR, with his usual generosity
offered his hotel free TO the sufferers as long
as they remained in the city.
Mr.. c. 3. Galloway, OF the Peabody, sent
his employees down 10 the river yesterday
morning TO bring any and all sufferers to his
hotel for their breakfast.
Seldom in the history of Memphis has
there been such universal sorrow over any
event as there was yesterday over the fate OF
the Golden City and its passengers.
The boat in which the Waterman, Mr..
Robert Lee, lived, was almost totally de-
stroyed. Mr.. Lees loss will prob ably be
$1,000.
The happiest man in Memphis yester-
day was a tall lsnk passenger from the
Golden City, who was seen on the street at
Main and Madison with red sock, white
sock, a straw hat, a coat and pair OF draw
ers on.
The burning steamer is responsible for the
disaster to a coal barge of c. B. Bryan d
Co. This contained some 10000 bushels Of
coal, and when the Golden City ran into the
tug Oriole, the latter knocked hole in the
barge and sunk it.
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INSURANCE AND VALUE.

The following dispatch from Cincinnati
gives the insurance and value of the boat
"rhe owners, officers and crew of the Golden
City reside here. The owners are Captain
J. D. Hegler, Sterling Mcintyre and w. F.
Mcintyre. She was valued at $4,000, and
was insured for $4,000 in Cincinnati COM
panies; she was built in 1876, and was
one of the best equipped steamers
plying between Cincinnati and New
Orleans. The government inspectors
say she was extraordinarily well built, with
every modern appliance is calculated
to avert the calamity which has befallen
her. She was 2763 feet long, forty feet beam,
and six feet four inches depth of hold.
She measured GIL tons, but had a carrying
cspAciIy of 1900 tone. The steamer left here
March 18th, and reached New Orleans
March oath. Captain Hegler, upon hearing
of the disaster, Immediately telegrsphed to
Captain Mcintyre, to spare no expense to
aid those in distress, or to recover the bodies
of the lost"
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TO LADIES'!

THE MESSRS. KREMER beg to announce that
i they have secured the services of
Madame FrancOise VanrOOtey,
of Paris France, as Cutter and Filter in their
Dressmakiug Department.
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The following is a complete and authentic
list of the lost and saved:
LOST:
DIR. Monahan and wife, jackson, Miss.
Mrs. Crary, Cincinnati.
Miss Luella Crary, Cincinnati.
Mr.. and Mrs. Stowe and two children, o.
Stoves show, of Vidalia, La.
Mr.. o. Wood and wife, Henderson, Ky.
Mrs. Anna Smith, Massachusetts
Mrs L. E. Kouns and three children, fam,
lily of Captain Kouns, of New Orleans.
Miss Campbell, Burlington, Iowa.
Mr.. ]. A. Cronk, owner OF stock in the
circus.
John Bell, cigar man.
Robert Kelly, second engineer.
Mary Boyd, colored chambermaid.
Amanda Atchison, colored chambermaid
A German youth from New Orleans.
Mrs. Percival Mastin, Hawesville, Ky.
PROBABLY LOST.
John Jones, deck roustabout.
- Marshall, deck roustabout.
- Wood, deck roustabout.
Mr.. - Williams, Alton, Ind.
J. G. Connels, Henderson, KY.
THE SAVED.
Willie Mckinley, lad of sixteen years,
Hswesville, KY.
Miss Ionia Mastin, Hawesville, KY.
w. z. Jewett, Point Pleasant, w. Va.
r. III. Chittenden, Carrsville, Ky.
w. II. Caruthers, Ripley, Tenn.
J. r. Jordan, Ripley, Tenn.
Robert f. Ellbreck treasurer Stoves cir
Gus.
Jno H. Trewalla, business agent Stoves
circus.
Burt Stowe, brother, and Frank Stowe,
cousin of proprietor of circus.
Jas. Meyers, aged seventeen, New Or
leans.
Chas. Rose, jr., Cincinnati
E. c. Underwood, Louisville, KY.
H. B. Hamill, Philadelphia
Mr.. Bloomfield, New Madrid, Mo.
Alb Veatch.
James Swift, Stoves circus.
John Filbart, Stoves circus.
John Mullane, Stoves circus.
J. c. Kimpel, Stoves circus.
Ned G. Glenroy, Stoves circus.
james Bloomfield, Stoves circus.
James Buck, Stoves circus.
J. G. Alderman, Stoves circus.
Captain Sterling Mcintyre, boats officer.
Clerk w. F. Mcintyre, boats officer.
Assistant-Clerk james Wirthlin, boats
officer
Assistant Clerk Frank Stein, boats officer.
Steward, John Dreffer
Cook, Pete Dreffer.
Second cook, John Lamb.
Pastry cook, Billy Luxford.
Mess-room tender Mart Whalen.
Dock Bondurant, mate.
John Hill, second mate.
Charles Harvey, deck Waterman.
Bryant Trobaugh, Leavenworth, Ind.
Ruhd Maybe Davies county, KY.
w. c. Clark, Muhlenburg, KY.
Allen Harp, Mead county, KY.
John Davies, Evansville, Ind.
Tom Fox, Evansville.
james Davis, Edmondson county, KY.
John Dunn, Edmondson county, KY.
Mr.. Burton, wife and three children.
Mr.. John Debouse, wife and three chill
dren.
Mr.. Simon Block.
The above were white men; the following
colored:
Bob Morris, sc eond steward.
james Miller, texas tender.
Henry White, berth maker.
Robert Wallace, berth maker.
Charles Guthrie, cabin Waterman.
Isaac Dixon, knife sinner.
Ransom Watkins, outsider.
Jessie Willitt, glass tender.
w. II. Smith, cabin boy.
Levi Fisher, barber.
W. ]. Williamson, cabin boy.
Michael Connell.
Pat Haley.
Charles Harvey.
Mike Malay.
Pat Kinney.
Nell Bloomer.
r. Weaver, porter of boat.
David Young, second barber.
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PERSONALS.

Miss KATIE TRADER is visiting relatives
and friends in Mississippi.
Mr.. HENRY HESTER and wife, of Cincin-
natl, are visiting their son at 1876 Union
street.
CAPTAIN JOHN CALHooN, of Holly Springs,
is spending few days pleasantly among h;s
Memphis friends, who are very numerous.
VISITORS on Change yesterday: J. H. Stat
ford, Concordia, Miss; Patrick Henry,
GAINESVILLE, Tenn; Geo. P. Nulshire, Rose
dale; Daniel F. Bude, New York; S. w. Pc
gram, Faulkner's Station, Miss; Gabe Meyer,
Pine Bluff; w. NJ. Folk, Leighton, Ala; NJ.
King. Pope's Station.
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THE INVESTIGATION AND INQUEST.
JUDGE HoRRIGAN S ORDER.


uige Horrigsn ordered Attorney General
Turner to attend TO the inquests, 10 investi-
gate the wreck, and if criminal carelessness
could be proved on any of the officers to
bring them to Justice. Accordingly, the
officers and attaches of the boat we're sum-
moned before Esquires Quigley and Gallo
way, to investigate the matter, and more
especially Wash Smith, the captain of the
watch, who was suspected of being the cause
of the fire. Smith is rather tough looking
negro, but the officers of the boat say
he had always been good man and faithful
to his business. Smith himself denies most
positively that he was the cause of the fire.
He says that when he went into the engine
room to wake the men up, he found the
flames already broken out. The witnesses
in the case were Jim Burke, w. F. McIntyre
J. G. Nelson, Wash Smith, William Harris,
B. A. Purcell, IT,, K. c. Ellbright, S. g.
Mcintyre, j. c. Hill, ]. n. Bond and Jessie
Willett. The jury in the matter was COM
posed of Phillip Franciolls, James Glass, ].
T. Bassett, R. r.. Church, Charles Taller,
James Lucerina, d. c. McDougal, Frank
Ellis.
DEAD BODY.
The jury was really summoned as coro-
ner's jury at first to pass judgment upon the
dead body of a woman found by Joseph q.
Nelson some forty yards from the boat. 1t
was almost a matter of impossibility for the
officers and employees of the boat to identify
her, as her face was burned until it resem-
bled smallpox. Nelson stated that when he
found the woman she was still warm. He had
tied her to tree and taken her ashore. She
had the letter III" on her stockings. Jesse
Willard, one OF the walters, said he recog-
nized her as one of the passengers. He
waited on her but didn't know her name.
She was going 10 Boston. The baby is most
likely that of Mrs. Smith, OF Massachusetts,.
She got on the boat at New Orleans. Gen
eral Turner asked that Smith be commit ed
to answer the charge of criminal csrelessness,
until this afternoon, when the investigation
will be resumed
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OTHER sURsCRIBERs.

The above fund is in the hand of John H.
| Schafer, and those in need will apply to Cap
tain WE. Mcintyre, clerk of the Inflated
| steamer, at the Anchor-Line wharfboat for
order on Mr.. Schafer.
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silk.Raising school

Commences April 10, 1882. Call and registeI
your name.
p WALLACE MCKITTRICK,
Practical silk Culturist and Reeier,
~ second streer. MemphLs. Tenn.
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Don,f Die In the House.

Ask druggists for Rough on Rats" II
clears out rats mice, bedb0gs, reaches, YER
min, flies, ants, inseets-15 cents per box.
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THE TRIP TO DOOM.
TIE ORIGIN OF THE FIRE.

No one gives clear statement as to the
origin of the fire, but from all that can be
gathered, it resulted from the carelessness of
Wash Smith, the captain of the watch on
duty at that hour, who was in the after part
of the deck-room, with lantern, calling up
his relief, preparatory to making the Mem
phis landing. Some say that one of his
squad was missing-hid away to avoid being
called; that the Waterman took the bottom
out of the lantern and stuck it down between
two bales of jute to see if the missing man
was not hid away there, and the lamp
ignited the inhammable stuff, and the watch
man ran away to save himself. Another
story is told by a negro decker, that the
watchman's light was burning dimly and he
turned it bottom up to cause the oil to run
down on the wick more freely, and when he
turned it back the bottom dropped out and
set the jute afire. Another is, that while
calling the relief he took the lamp out and
began trimming the wick, dropping the Gin
ders among the jute. Not one of these stories
is reliable. The fire originated from care
lessness on the part OF the colored Waterman.
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ADJUSTMENTS.


Mook's strictly select class meets Tuesdays
and Saturdays at o'clock, at Casino Hall
corner Second and Union streets.
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A CIRCUS IN THE FLAMES.

On board the burning boat was w. A.
Stoves circus and menagerie, which was on
its way to Cairo and Louisville. The circus
was simply entirely broken up. The pro-
prietor and nearly all his family were killed
and nearly every animal was suffocated by
the clouds of smoke. The circus man had
six cages of wild beasts and birds. Among
those that were lost we're the following: One
lion, one tiger, two leopards, one Albino
deer, several monkeys and many birds.
The owner of the trick horses called them
as soon as he discovered the situation, and
they, obedient to his voice, rushed immedi-
ately out and were safely taken to shore
j. III. Cronk, one of the showmen, is lost
Mr.. III. n. Alderman, who was himself
thought lost for a while, and who slept in
the same room with Cronk, woke the latter
up, and endeavored as best he could to save
him. He got him to the foot of the stairs
but the smoke was so dense he had moi
strength to drag him any further, and the
poor fellow probably died right there.
A buffalo rose superior to the gnats, the
flames, the flood, and everything, and swan
ashore, slnged all over, but still alive and
kicking. A mythical story is told of three
negroes who rowed around in a skiff; they
did, not for the purpose of affording help, but
to secure plumber. But mark you how
swiftly retribution like poised hawk swoops
down on the guilty in a well-regulated fable
/ The three felonious darkies were Just or
the point of laying unlawful hands upor
the property of others when bear, swim.
ming from the boat, cause up unperceived
behind them, and naturally made slap at the
boat to get a little more balance. The slap was
not quite SO tender as was designed, and the
boat was overturned and the three negroes
were drowned.
Mrs. Stowe, who was lost, was pupil Of
Dan Rices it is said, and in days gone by she
was known to fame as Lizzie Marcellus, the
dashing female bareback rider. There were
about fifteen circus people aboard, most Of
whom escaped.
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INCIDENTS.
CHILDREN Lest

The most horrible feature of the fire was
the death of the children. Ii is supposed
that several othera, in addition to those re-
ported, were lost The little ones were kindly
lent helping hand. The struggle of all
classes to get from the boat resulted in great
confusion. A great number of those on
board had to leave without making
their toilets. One very pitiable case was
that Of an Italian family-Jobn Devoss and
wife and three children, Mary, Gustave and
a one-year-old babe sucking at Its mothers
breast They were deck passengers from
New Orleans to Louisville. Mary, the
little ten-year-old girl, aEoke and
saw the flames around the family, and
yhenthe boat struck the berges all of them
ESCAPED 10 land. The old woman's clothing
was burned in spots, and the child was cry
ing at the breast.
A PERIIDUs TRIP.
One of the casualties consequent upon the
running ashore of the Golden City was the
Ioo.ening of one of the coal fats. On this
fat some dozen OF the passengers and hands
of the burning boat had jumped for safety.
The fat was detached 60 quickly that il was
out in the current before those upon it could
make for the shore. They were consequently
The current carried it away very rapidly,
and the men saw that they were in for a
trip. Their anticipations were none OF the
brightest, because they knew not where they
might be taken, nor what fate awaited thsr =
The burning boat came on a short distsni e
behind them, and they could see some OF the
passengers in the stern unable TO escape.
They were powerless to offer assistance OF
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LADIES. WAIT!
MENKEN BROTHERS

The numerous patrons who have for years
given a generous support to the favorite
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HELP FOR THE SUFFERERS.


Captain james Speed telegraphed t.
Colonel c. P. Atmore the facts regarding tbs
deplorable condition of the sufferers, anc
that-gentleman at once ordered him to give
free passes to all on any of the lines of the
Louisville and Nashville railroad. The fol
lowing were given passes to Cincinnati: Ma
riOn Purcell, Brice Purcell, Joseph Purcell
Mike Kelly, John Druffy, Gus Blue, Ec
Drake, John Lamb, William Lexford, Martin
WbaleD, Charles Russ, w. A. Huff, Johr
Coup, e. Myers, James Workman, Frank
Steine, Len Tevens, Mike O'Donnel, Mike
Maloney, Pat Kinney, Pat Huly, Louii
Dupuy, Levi Fisher, David Younger, Buct
Smith and Richard Weaver.
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SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR SUFFERERS.

Amount subscribed by the commercial
travellers of Memphis for the benefit of the
sufferers from the fire OF the steamer Golden
City, to which others kindly subscribed:
| AUETEPc
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will please be patient and in a short time the
brightest novelties in the Eastern cities will
be displayed at the old stand, and all at pop
ular prices.
ST ANDREWS, Agent.
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THE YOUNG HERO.

The young hero OF the day was Robert
Kelly. 1t was a habit of the ancient
Spartans to shed tears of Joy whenever a
friend or relation met glorious death. and
surely tears of joy might well be shed over
the death OF young Robert Kelly, youth Of
nineteen, the second engineer of the boat
When the FIRE broke out he was on duty.
As is we'll known the flames spread SO
rapidly that if the young man wished to
escape he would have had to desert his post
in the beginning of the engagement. He
terrible death staring him in the face,
but he did not quail before it. Other lives
were in danger, and he thought they we're Of
more consequence than his. He conse-
quently died gamely at the post of his duty,
that last heroic sacrifice will fully offset
them