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the treasury cannot refuse to pay gold out
on demand. From January let to May t
the silver in the treasury increased Sl6,5I6,-
els, while the gold decreased 81, 43I ,365.
Let matters go on unchanged by Congress,
and by October 1st, when the money market
ia most sensitive and strained, the treasury
will have on hand less gold than silver. If
Congress adjourns without action on the
silver question the certificates may be paid
in much faster. About SIS, 100000 of them
are out now, and they can pc paid into the
treasury instead OF gold. What would
follow, business men can readily under
stand. OF course this is but possibility,
bat why should we, without necessity,
and at great expense, expose our COM
merciAI interests 80 the existence Of
such a possibility? Our present currency
system commands confidence as a whole;
why should risk be incurred by coming
silver dollars to an amount required neither
in hsnd-to-hand circulation nor in CONNER
cial transactions? 1t is time the commercial
world aroused itself to the consideration OF
the monetary problems of the day. 1t exhibits
strange apathy as W lue Iene"ai VI tue nd-
tionsl bank charters, and no less noticeable
indifference as to the weak link this unneces-
sary dollar-coining introduces into our sys-
tenn. Yet these may become matters of
safety or danger to the business man, and
onr chambers OF commerce and trade ex
changes will do well to give them the atten-
ton they require, and exert pressure upon
the movements of commerce that is evidently
required.
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GOLD DECREASING, SILVER In



That high protectionist journal, the New
York Tribune, joins the Intelligent portion of
the press generally in uttering note of
warning against continuing to mint silver
dollars, measure, it says, "that ought to be
considered urgent" as a failure to deal with
1t will involve serious and unnecessary risk
OF disaster" Last week $2,5S4,760 was ex-
ported in specie, making S11 SOC, 900 sent out
of the country this year; on Saturday
$1,000, 900 went after the rest; on Tuesday,
100000, and on Wednesday $780, 900.
GLOW much more will go?" asks the Tribune
No one can tell. The one thing certain, is
that there is a leak, with small chance Of
stopping il for the next three months How
has it come to pass? That can be answered.
Because, instead of sending unused silver
abroad, getting S1O0,OOO,0OO in gold for it,
and putting the gold TO use, We have bought
up silver, stored it in the treasury,
and put into use paper promises to pay
silver, with such conditions that the treasury
can be forced to redeem them in gold. Also
silver certificates and silver are paid into
the treasury in place of gold, reducing the
quantity Of that metal received. Yet, with
out destroying it's credit and causing panic,
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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Portsmouth, n. H, May I3.-A heavy
storm continues along the coast. Weather
extremely cold.
Boston, May 13.-A petition is being cir
culated here for stay OF execution in the
case of Guiteau, on the ground of insanity,
Boston, May 13.-Edward Hixon & Co.,
furniture dealers on Washington street, have
failed. Liabilities between $4,000 and
100000.
New York, May I3.-A Judgment was filed
to-day against the estate Of the late Corne-
illus j. Vanderbilt for S584S, obtained in
the Supreme Court by ZAchariah E. Sim
mons, a lottery man.
Minneapolis, May 13.-A fire here early
this morning destroyed block of seven
frame stores south of Washington avenue,
owned by E. Moore and E. T. Ttterad. To-
tai loss $4,000; insurance Sl1 1000.
Eureka Springs, May Ex-Governor Wash
burn had another stroke of paralysis at 2
O'Clock this morning, and has been in an
unconscious state ever since. His physi-
clans say he cannot live until morning.
ST. Louis, May 13.-A deed of trust on the
property of the ST. Louis Ore and Steel
Company, given TO the Farmers Loan and
Trust Company, to secure 81 ,000, 900 issued
by the company, was placed on record here
to-day. The bonds run twenty years and
bear seven per cent. interest.
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Germans Frightened By Russia.

The German residents of St. Petersburg
were considerably agitsted on account o.
General Skobeleff's speeches, but they are
more excited over a little pamphlet from
the pen of one Troubniekof, which is far
Germans than we're the old generals
speeches. The pamphlet would have at
traeted no attention were il not for the fact
that lis author is g subordinate Of
the Russian minister of the interior,
and that the pamphlet was pub
lisbed with the special permission Of the
censor. As IL is it has created tremendous
sensation. a. it is supposed to reflect the sen
timents of some of the first officials of the
empire. The Germans in Rlszia are be-
coming more and more suspicious OF the
government. in spite Of the friendly azur-
ances of the latter, and they are said 10 lock
upon the persecution of the Jews a. fore
runner OF an uprising against the Germans.
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FROM parliamentary return issued
April 10Th it transpires that during the
quarter ending March 31st there were 1917
families, composed of 1920 persons, turned
out of theirhomes in the four Irish provinces.
1t was in Ulster that the largest number of
evictious took place, 2os9 persons being
made homeless there. Connsught follows
with 2055, and Munster and Eeinster show,
respectively, 1884 and 942 persons evieted.
Four peers-Lord CIoncurry, Lord Leiirim,
the Earl of Bantry and the Marquis of
Sligo are amongst the latest employers of the
crowbar brigade. Nothing could be more
eloquent of the wrongs of the Irish people
than this. But Gladstone's arrears bill'
will put stop to much Of it, and peasant
proprietorships would put a stop to it alto.
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Alsions, when on their Journey from North
carolina 10 our State were fortunate TO have as
Inelr companion the late Bishop Hopkins. of
ermont- Some member of the family ex-
pressed their regret that in the portion of
the country IN which they proposed to settle
they would be deprived of the privileges of
the church, and the honored bishop urged
them to establish a church They did so.
Before their dwellinghouse was completed
regular services were held in it by members
OF the family, to which their neighbors were
invited. This was the beginning Of the work
commenced in the Western district, and aided
by Aston, Wright, Weller, Stephens and
others, praise is in all the churches, and By
Jet, Odom, Rose, Taylor, Hames, Fisher,
datIon was laid which We have faith in God
nothing will overturn.
IN REVIEWING THE PAST
my thoughts revert to the names and minis
trations OF some who, while they lived, were
burning lights in the Church IF God. In
times OF trial and distress they never fall
tered. Duty with them was everything
When pestilence visited some portions of
our State, when the hearts of the bravest
began 10 quake, when the cries of the sick
and the groans of the dying were heard in
every direction, they stood their ground I'M
moved by the heart-rending surroundings
father or wife, no remonstrance of friends
and acquaintance could induce them to
leave the polluted air which they constantly
breathed, but they might be seen in the
novels of the poor, in the abode of the rich
attending to the sick, ministering to the dy-
ing and providing for the dead burials
"a decent as the exigencies of the time per
mitted. In the midst of the pestilence they
fell. The beautiful, the young, the honored,
the useful
ALL FELL VICTIMS TO THE DREAD PESTI-
LENCE.
We call them to mind one by one, and
think Of them still dear TO us, and still
loving to us. We hope never to erase from
our memories the recollt ction of their
unselhsh devotion TO the cause OF Christ and
their wonderful trust in God IN times sf
severe trials. The names of Sisters Con-
stance, Thecla, Francis, Ruth are recorded
upon the annals of the church and will be
referred TO with admission and gratitude
These blessed ones have not forgotten the
changing joys and SORROWS that marked
their esrIhly lot on memory's record.
Their eyes can calmly dwell, they can see
what here they wasted. God hath done
all things we'll, and vain regrets and long
Ings are as old as things passed away. No
| shadows dim the sunshine OF that bright ele-
ment. In conclusion, permit me 10 return
TO our bishop sincere thanks for the oistinc-
ton conferred upon me to address this con-
ventioD, and at the same time beg to throw
| myself upon his indulgence, and that of the
convention, and to express my conviction
that had another been selected to execute The
task OF disooursing on the origin and pro-
gress of our church in Tennessee, the task
would have been better executed.
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background; all that they have TO teach
will be known, and men will feel compare
lively little interest in their own past. On
the other hand, the more they know OF ma
ture the more there will be to be known.
Chemistry and physiology offer inexhausti-
bic fields for research; and the truths which
they reveal will prove more and more
interesting to mankind. 1t is very diff
ficult TO say what men will think or
do a hundred years hence; but it seems
likely enough that this will be the tendency
OF study. Certainly, even now, the men OF
science are becoming more and more impor-
tant factors in the life of all of US. They
are little by little winning the fight against
disease; they are giving us facts, and en-
abling US to found our beliefs on the sure
ground of knowledge. Their influence must
surely become greater and greater as time
goes on, for humanity always reserves its
highest honors for those who teach ii to
know.
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WHITE RIVER FLOOD
JacksOnpOrt, Ark, Entirely Submerged
-Great Damage to Property
The Entire Crop on
Bottom Lands Entirely Obliterated-
Mills, Houses and Fences Swept
Away-FIoods Elsewhere.

Special to the Appeal
LITTLE Rock, May 19.-It is now one
week since the food, and trains are not yet
running on the Iron Mountain road. The
passengers on delayed trains from St. Louis
were held at Cabot four days, and went to
Hot Springs in old-time four-horse stage
coaches. Papers and letters from Hot
Springs, brought by teamsters who came in
to-day after groceries, report great damage
there by the flood, the damage being esti-
mated at $4,000. The Hot Springs railroad
lost three iron and one wooden bridge. Mr.
OBryan, a merchant was damaged $4,000.
The Waverly Hotel lost its laundry, store
room, etc. A supply-train containing bread,
boiled hams. ETC., for the laborers repairing
the Iron Mountain road north, left here this
evening
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The Crowafng of milan of servia.

King Milan /, Of Servia, will be crowned
next August, not at his capital, Belgrade,
but probably in the Monastery OF Siozi, in
the ancient city of Karanovatz. In thai
monastery were crowned the seven Servian
kings of the Mem anich dynasty, new open
ing being broken ON each occasion through
the outer wall, through which issued the
newly-crowned monarch, sword in hand and
the t'diadem of Dushan" upon his head
Hence Siczi has been named "the Clois-
ter of the Seven Doors" And now, in ac-
cordance with the wishes OF his people, the
first sovereign of the Obrenovieh dynasty
will ''bear his crown forth into the world" in
like manner through an eighth opening in
the rnoss- grown wall.
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its width extended for many miles over the
country, washing away crops, fences, houses
and mills. Whites mill, the largest ia this
section, was swept away, and the extensive
vineyard Of DR.. Lawrence was almost totally
destroyed. In the fertile valley of the Saline
river and its tributaries throughout the
county many rich plantations were flooded
and practically ruined. As yet the total
damage in the county cannot be accurately
estimated, and is placed by some at S150.000."
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New Theory OF the Comet.

Major Lamar Fontaine, of our city, demon
strated by experiment for us, day
or two since, that comet is nothing
but light shining through a trans
parent body that revolves in clip
tical orbit near the sun, with the regu-
larity of any planet or sphere in the heavens,
while its shadow ghost is many millions
of miles away. He is DESTROYS of having
his theory investigated by astronomers and
scientists. His experiment consisted in pro-
ducing perfect fac si~liie of all the different
comets heretofore shown by the use of
a small magnifying glass for the transparent
body revolving near the sun and common
lamp fer the sun, and piece of white or
blue paper for the armament. By slightly
changing the focus OF the glass magnifier the
most perfect comets we're shown.
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An Imper ding Fate.

The Himalayas are one abode of snow and
the regions around the Sjuth Pole of the
earth are another, deserving this name by
pre-eminence. II is affirmed on high au-
thority that possible accumulation of snow
at the South Pole, in connection with certain
coniunctions OF the planets, might cause an
instantaneous change in the position of the
axis of rotation OF the earth. The result
would be deluge, and the placement of the
present continents and the formation of new
ones; but it ia understood by men OF science
that even in such an upheaval of the great
deep, the tops of the Himalayas would re-
main above the waves, and thus form a
beginning for a new career of the life of
plants and animals and men in a renovated
world
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ga Spectacle for Gods aud:nen..


The Augusta Chronicle makes this com
ment: General Chalmers was not always a
prudent man when he held his seat securely
in a Democratic House of Representatives
He got into some unfortunate controversies
about Fort Pillow and matters Of that kind
The common opinion of the country is that
his title to his seat was only such as the
Electoral Commission held-an inability or
indisposition to go behind the returns The
Republicans slaughtered him. maiority
of Democrats sustained him. The country
would not have kindly tolerated a long fill
buster at this time of the session.
Legally, we think General Chalmers
had a title to his seat; but there was
not backing enough behind it of a moral
nature to warrant protracted party strug-
gle. Had General Chalmers ventilated his
spite, as reported, little sooner, there might
have been no struggle at all. Why he shoIld
breathe vengeance against his party and its
associates, under the circumsl snces we do
not see, unless he has allowed his passions to
get the better of his sens,s. That he should
have been mortified or indignant is natural;
but nothing done can justify his recreancy.
There must have been something uncanDy in
the man originally. Such a swift, headloDg
and yociferous plunge into the affections OF
Bill Chandler would warrant the ASSUMPTION
that the Democratic party has had fortunate
riddauce OF such an incubus. If he is dis
gusted with the Bourb1ns,' they can return
the compliment with compound interest
Nay, more, when he, the hero Of Fort Pill
low is taken to the embraces of the Radical
coalition, the disgust will not be confined to
Bourbons. 1t viii extend to various and
sundry Republican Conservatives who have
not swallowed Malone and may be sure to
refuse a dose of General Chalmers If
Chalmers has no better snccess in Mississippi
than some of the Independent chiefs
have in Georgia, he will soon reach
the end of his political rope The
moral of all this is that DO Southern
politician is too odious for the Republicans
to coalesce with, so that he purges himself Of
Democratic utilization and seeks the destruc.
ton of everything he upheld when in Office,
by Democratic liberation. We can say of
Chalmers, if these reports be true, as Hill
said to the Republicans about Mahene:
Take him, gentlemen; he is yours. Make
the best of him. The hero Of Fort Pillow
posing as a Malone in Mississippi, and
backed by 'Bilr Chandler, Is a spectacle
not only for gods and men, but for the rest
of mankind"
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CHALMERS'S
Attitude Toward Lamar and the His
sissiPpi Democracy Is Simply
that of
The Little BulI that Attempted to Butt
the Locomotive from the Rail-
road Track.

The Mobile Register, commenting on the
card of General Chalmers recently published
in the APPEAL says: 1--WE admit that for
thirty years Chalmers has harassed the ears
OF Mississippi audiences-not for their good,
however, but for his own political advance
ment. His miserable jejuue oratorical dis
plays no doubt brought him into notice, but
they never made a statesman of him, not
even an ordinary politician. His politi-
cal ability was about on a par with
his military. And now because
he cannot retain a seat in Con-
gress to which he was not elected-be-
cause some Democrats prefer equity TO the
letter of the law-he concludes to oppose the
Mississippi Democracy. When Lynch was
about to be seated Chalmers, in very melo-
dramatic manner, charged the Republicans
with being about to do thing which would
haunt them hereafter. II they had suspected
that the catastrophe about to befall them in
the near future would be the adhesion Of
Chalmers to their side of politics, we
venture to say that they would
have hesitated before driving him
into their ranks. 1t is said that
the more dog is kicked the greater love he
will have for his master. 1t msy be that
some such singular law OF nature has brought
about General Chalmer-'s detection. In the
case of any man of greater mental caliber
than Chalmers, it would be impossible to un-
derstand how he could desert the body of ID m
ocrats who defended him in his attempt to
held a seat, even with no better claim than
the technical forms of certificates and go
over to the party which has denounced
him unstintedly as having murdered his
Mississippians by throwing them need
lessly and only for personal ambition
against the battIements of WoodsonviIle, and
as having refused quarter to the negro cap.
tiyes at Fort Pillow IL General Chalmers
can find sympathy and consolation in the
ranks of his new friends, he can go and
take his stand with Longstreet, Malone,
Withers and Slaughter. When those Illus
trious officers get together and put into act
i've operation their vigorous intellects, we
will be amused to learn their programme for
the relief and elevation of the Southern
people. No tive CT them will think alike
and each will be suspicious that the other is
trying to get that little office. The attitude
of Chalmers towards Senator Lamar and the
Mississippi Democracy is simply that of the
little bull that attempted to butt the locomo-
tive from the track"
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The Rev. George White, DID, rector OF
Calvary church, is go well known through
out the State of Tennessee, and indeed
throughout the whole country, that it is en-
tirely unnecessary to introduce him other
wise than by mere mention of his name.
Threescore years and ten are said to be the
allotted span of mans life, but this venera-
bic gentleman has overstretched that by
nearly decade. As a theologian, histo-
rian, profound and ripe scholar, his peer
can hardly be found. In modesty, charity
and brotherly love he has no peer. This
sermon will be appreciated by every Episco-
palian and others in Tennessee, not alone
for the depth of wisdom it contains, but as
rare and unique history of the church in this
State.
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Ex-GovERSoR CHARLES II. HARDIN, the
founder of Hardin College, at Mexico, Mo-,
has just given to the institution $4,000 in
cash to build new wing to the edifce and
make other improvements. This makes an
aggregate of nearly $4,000 which he has
bestowed upou the college
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A STATEMENT has been made by the Rev.
r. P. Parrish, D. d., moderator of the Gen.
eral Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
in the United States, which states that on
account of the smallpox being prevalent in
Atlanta the session TO convene on May Is,
1882, will be held in Columbus, Ga.
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THE GUITEAU CASE.
The Four Judges Unable 10 Reach a
Decision.

WASHINGTON, May 13.--The four judges
before whom the bill of exceptions in the
Guiteau case was argued were in consulta-
ton four hours to-day trying to reach a
decision. 1t is said they failed, and the
court is equally divided, and argument
will be ordered before five judges. Another
consultation, however, will be had and
an effort made to harmonic the views OF the
four Judges and secure a decision if possible.
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HOrrfGYinS.

OF all tumultuous horrors the most in
credible is reported from the Hungarian viii
lAge of Belenyes. A handsome man of
forty-fve and a devil-may-care youth OF
twenty became enamored OF pretty young
widow who kept a wine shop. Jealous of
the favors shown 10 the boy the man lay in
wait to kill him, but instead fell victim to
the superior strength of his rival. An in
vestigatiou proved beyond question that the
the pretty widow was the daughter of one
and the sister of the other. II was a grim
fate which brought these three together after
separation which began during the infancy
of the children.
ID. HIRsoH Co.'s Old Judge clgars, factory
s73, Sd Collec. Dist. n. Y are best, for Csc,
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Associated Press Report. ]

Associated Press Report.
LITTLE Rock, May 13.-A Hot Springs
special TO the Gazette gives the particulars
of cyclone in Montgomery county on Mon
day evening. The storm came unheralded
and was Of but few minutes duration. 1t
swept from a nothwesterly direction and
barely visited the towns of Silver City and
Mount Ida At Caddo Cave, A. S. Swinton's
residence was destroyed. Four persons in
the house were carried some distance and
alighted in a we'll, but were rescued. Two,
Swinton and Anderson, were fatally injured.
s. Bates's residence was demolished and its
several occupants severely injured. Rufus
Barrett, Riley Wheeler and james Bates lost
residences; the two former persons sustaining
dangerous injuries. S. NJ. Ouattlebaum's
house, near Silver City, was destroyed, and
the occupants we're all injured, though none
fatally. At South Fork the postofiice was
lifted as feather and carried away. w. L.
Burton, postmaster. lost everything, includ-
ing the effects and property OF the Office. Tie
extensive farm of S. P. Mckinney, probably
the largest and finest in that locality, suffered
much damage. The grist and steam saw
mills and cotton gin, together with fifty other
buildings, were destroyed. The families &C.
eupying the residences were nearly all
MANNED or killed. Mrs. james Edison gus
tanned fatal injuries, and, probably, also
Mrs. Condry. The large church was to-
tally demolished. Mrs Gilhart and family
were seriously hurt. Hundreds of sheep,
hogs, horses and cattle were lost or killed,
and $4,000 in currency and silver scattered
to the winds and lost. The damage to Nc
Kinney's property will amount to $4,000.
Jerry Watkius's rich plantation, on Ouachita
river, is wholly destroyed, and also Shelton
Fultons valuable farm. The total damage
incurred cannot fall short of $4,000. This
will include the damage in the entire coun-
ty. 1t is safe to say that at least 100 fami-
lies are rendered homeless and without
shelter. Your correspondent was shown a
letter in which it was said that seven or
eight people were killed outright and several
hundred wounded. The citizens met at
Mount Ida and Issued an appeal for aid.
Money and provisions are being forwarded
from this city as fast as possible.