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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-25

Of expense can be had-by the other bill
the court appoints receiver. Not less than
three creditors are required TO file an in
voluntary petition, 10y which the using Of
bankruptcy proceedings as a collection bureau
il prevented-by the other bill any one
creditor can file a petition. Fees abolished
a. far % possible and officers salaried-the
other bill preserves and enlarge= the fee
system beyond the old act The amount
Of exemption Of property Of debtor Is made
substantially uniform for all traders every
where-the other bill preserves the inequsli-
ties imposed by State exemptions. Creditors
rights are guarded by requiring three-fourths
Of the majority Of value to accept-the other
bill requires a bare majority. The honest
debtor is discharged By lawn the other
bill, whether honest or not, only at the dis
erection Of the court. Preferences and fraudu-
lent c0nveyances are prevented-the other
bill by It's looseness gives the dishonest
debtor opportunity for evasion. Grimes are
specified and punishment provided-the
other bill contains no penal remedies for any
kind Of fraud. Officials are salaried and
Oiuctdlly aiLdChtd 70 the CouFt-lHe otheF
bill allows fees and different officer can be
appointed registrar for each case. The
courts aid the law by making rules Of prac-
tice-by the other bill the courts virtually
make the law and fixes fees and costs
Oae single law for the whole country-by
the other bill a law created by decisions.
Decisions under the old act will be yalu-
able-by the other bill former decisions will
be Of little benefit Congress makes the
lsw-5y the other bill Congress in effect
empowers the courts to make the law.
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TERRIBLE TRAGEDY.
Two Women, Enraged by Jealousy. EE.
gage in "a Deadly Fight.

WILMINGroS, y. C., March 2i-The in
habitants of the beautiful valley Of Tyron
mountain were Monday morning - irtled by
the discovery Of a tragedy startling, sicken-
ing and rom sntic in its details it being no
less than deadly duel between two women
to decide which OF the twain should have
solely the affections OF a man who had been
paying altenti n to them. Sunday night
they met, and, after desperate hand-to-hand
conflict, one was left dead upon the field,
although, ~ the sequel proved, her defeat
was encompassed by means Of foul play.
Robert Selby, young farmer in hum
bic lie, lived near the 5csrt OF the
tragedy. \ year ago he was an ar
dent sutton for the hand Of Miss Oracle
Mills, who lived Just over the South
Carolina line, but, although he courted
her frequently, she would not marry him.
Some months ago he met Miss lane Jackson,
who lived in the valley OF Tyron mountain,
here in North Carolina, aud he gave up his
long strugsls- Tor the hand Of the South
Carolina maiden and transferred his affsc-
tions to Ms J zcksoo, upon who's heart,
after more Than one assault, he appeared to
make some impression. As soon as the
South Carolina WON aB discovered this she
entertained the most violent hatred toward
Jane Jackson, and the feeling was returned
by her rival, who had succeeded in getting
the love Of the man WLISh mad been re-
jected by the woman who was nav vexed at
not taking it when she had Z chance. Both
were robust country women, and 1t was
thought there would b. trou9ie between
them Each had on more than one occasion
defed tn other Last nigh; Miss Jackson
was sitting in the house with friend u Jra
Spencer. just at dark q voice was heard
from the road calling Jane Jackson. Jane
got up and went out, and never returned.
This morning, when search was made, the
searching party came upon spot ich
gave evidence that it hal been the sid oil =
desperate battle for life. Sticks and stones
were there, and the ground was torn
by the trsmpiug Of feet, while the sol!
was trodden until IN some places Il had
been turned into CORY mud. Further se7lch
revealed 4 trail, showing that body had
been dragged, and furtheron in the creek lay
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-03-25
All, my brave nihilist! 'twas not tru
TuECHRIsTIANCY DIVORCE
Some Evidence that Will Prove a Boz
mama to the ScaHdaI-MOagers.

WASHINGTON, March 24-Chancellor Hag-
ner on Monday afternoon granted the motion
ton of the counsel of Elk Senator Christiancy
and appointed Mr.. Chauncy Flowers, OF De-
troit, Mich, to take the dispositions of George
and Victor Christiancy on heterogeneous IN
behalf of the ex-senator in the divorce suit
brought by him against his wife. Her coun-
sci attempted to have some OF the interroga-
tories stricken out as irrelevant, but did not
succeed. By the questions propounded TO
Mr.. George Christiancy 1t is expected to show
that Mrs. Christiancy, after her marriage
with the ex-senator, openly spoke of her love
and affection for Mr.. Frank y. Anderson,
and that she said he was the one man on
earth that she did love; that these declara.
presence and to others, and that while at
Lansing she received letters from Anderson
directed TO her under her assumed name;
that she made George Christiancy her mes
senger to bring her letters from the postoffice,
and on some occasions would read him ex-
tracts from them. He was also in Peru when
she arrived there, and will be questioned as
to a trip made by her in company with Geo.
+. Haight, and Of which he was a party, to
Southern Peru, the terminus OF the Oroya
railroad, aud to ChiCola 1t Is claimed that
they will show by this witness that Haight
occupied rooms at the hotel at Chicola with
connecting doors, and at another hotel at
which they stopped a short distance away
from there; that young Mr.. Christianey OBJ
jected to the arrangement, but that both
Haight and his stepmoiher ruled against
him. 1t Is expected to prove that the con-
duct Of these two was such as to attract no.
tice and comment and make them a subject
of notoriety after returning to Lima. By the
evidence of Mr.. Victor Christiancy it is pro-
posed to contradict that OF Mrs. Christiancy
as to receiving cruel treatment from her hus-
band while they we're living at Lansing, and
the constant interference Of the male mem
bers of the family This evidence, if it turns
out as Is expected, is likely to open up some
very scandalous behavior and furnish food
for the gOssippers.
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THE INTERNATIONAL MONETARY
CONFERENCE.

Our interests in this country, az 4 people
with debts to pay and as a silver-producing
country, are in favor of the bi-metallic sys-
TEN, but the mode in which our legislative
fnancialists undertook to accomplish the
wished for end has proved singularly I'M
fortunate. To allow the flood of silver to
pour upon Europe, through the regular com
mercial channels, and to make it to their in
terest TO keep up its value, appears to be the
policy that should have been pursued, as
was pointed out by able men when Congress
had the matter under consideration. The
very opposite OF this policy was what we,
"the smartest folks in creation" concluded to
follow. We took the edge off the flow of silver
by coming it into eighty-eigh t-cent tokens,
which we keep in safes costing 900 each,
and so relieved Europe OF any silver pressure,
and it has got along very well under the relief
we gave it, except that Germany, like our
selves, finds its vaults too heavily occupied
with silver coin. 1t was hoped when our
silver bill was passed that Europe would
consent to remonetize silver under the force
of our example, and conferences have been
held to secure that end. Our beuevolence in
relieving Europe of a pressure of silver had
done all that was wanted there, however,
and the conferences have left the question
just where we put it by our silver coinage.
1t has, more than once, been announced
that another bi-metal conference would not
take place, as some of the European nations
would send no representative, their course OF
policy being decided upon. We see the same
intelligence is now reiterated. The New
York Post says: "The announcement that
nothing is expected to come of the approach
ing adjourned meeting OF the International
Monetary Conference, and tn at it will prob
ably only take place to adjourn again, will
take no calm observer by surprise. Nobody
who was not carried away by the bi-metalliC
fever ever supposed that it would. 1t is use
less now to go over the reasons for this col
lapse. Within the last year fresh one Ia:
been added in the shape of the total failure
of the bi-metsllic predictions about the ter.
rible struggle for gold between the great
commercial nations. 1t is apparently nc
more severe than it has ever been; interest is
low at all the great monetary centers; specu'
lation is rampant, and silver even in silver
countries is piled up in wants"
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LIGHTING BY ELECTRICITY
Work of the Edison Company In New
York.
New YORK Tribune, March Ilth

New York Tribune, March Ilth
The Edison Electric Light Company has
resumed the work of laying wires in the dis
trict bounded by Nassau, Wall, South, and
Spruce stree Is. Major S b. Eaton, the vice
president of the company, was asked yester-
day by a reporter of the Tribune why the
company had failed to get its lights in this
district in operation last fall, as was ex-
pscted.
''The reason is" replied Mr. Eaton, chat
we were not able to get our contract for iron
and wire filled. After the frost got into the
ground we were forced to suspend operations,
the department of public works very proper
ly prohibiting US from making excavations
in the streets to lay the mains"
allow many houses have you put wires
into
ala alt. 94j. The number Of lamps is
14.3II There will all be supplied from
the central station, On Pearl street, near
Fulton"
Glow many lee, Of wire have you isid in
the Streets
''Ehe whcl. numb,r Of feet TO be put down
is -, 3I3. Of which 50. 8 feet are already
down This leavss SO $40 feet 10 be laid.
We resum d work ABOUT ten days ago, anil
wire is being pu. down at the rate OF 1000
feet per day."
'How soon do you expect to have the work
completed?'
THAT wall depend OF two things-the
weather and the contractors. We have never
vet had contractors Tor wire kee? their
promises: and we can't work in wet weather.
Ii we meet with no unexpected delays the
lamps will be in operation by June lst. Mr..
Edison is supervising the construction oil the
central station. All the heavy ironwork Is
completed. The boilers are in place, and lit
tie more rem aims than to put in the engines"
SIS the company doing any thing in other
parts OF the city?'
ave have canvassed SIX other districts.
At present We are at work in the distric. which
includes Madison Square, and extends from
Twenty-third street to Thirty fourth street,
and has for lateral boundaries Fourth avenue
and Eighth avenue. By actual canvass we
expect to put 5000 lamps IN this district"
With reference to the Ei:son light outside
of New York, Major Z ,,on aid it had been
introduced in more than fifty factories and
public buildings in this country, and IN as
many more in other countries. Five plants"
were recently sent to Tammerlord, Finland,
for spinning factories there.
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MORMON TRICKS IN PREPARATION

MORMON TRICKS IN PREPARATION.
To prevent disappointment it will be well
to bear in mind that the Edmunds law
against polygamists is only can entering
wedge" as much as could be got through
Congress as matters now stand. The manner
in which Mormons obey or disobey its mild
provisions will clearly indicate what direc-
ton legislation must next take to be effect
i've. The christian portion OF the population
in Utah, while welcoming the new law as
being in the right direction, have all along
declared that the only plan that will really
be effectual is for Congress to do away with
the Territorial government altogether and
govern by commission appointed in Wash
ington. This would be beginning anew,
doing away with the barriers the Mormons
have set up in Utah as protectors Of their
disgusting system. To begin at the kegin-
ming is the very thing that is required, but
the beginning lies further back than the
measure proposed by the christians in Utah
it lies in the marriage contract itself-aDd
a. long as that is left untouched, the main
problem remains unsolved, and difficulties
and obstacles are met with at every step.
Let Congress define what shall constitute a
valid marriage contract, not only IN Utah
but in every Territory OF the United States
and make that contract public and open
one, and require official registers to be kept
and official certificates given. This will be
a preventive to polygamy in the majority
of cases, and will provide the means of as,
certaining it when 1t is perpetrated. The
Rev. D. ]. Mcmillan, the superintendent OF
the Presbyterian mission in Utah, is quoted
in the New York Tribune as stating various
difficulties that he in the way OF the opera
ton Of the Edmunds bill. The Mormon
journals already boast that the measure car
be evsded with success. Persons living
IN polygamy are excluded from voting
or holding offices. AZ was done in the
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AsINKING INSTITUTION.

The house Of lords Is sinking more and more
into contempt in England. The recent attempt
made by it to throw an obstacle in the way
Of the working Of the Irish land law has re-
vived bitternes -. The lords are between the
horns Of fatal dilemma. If they resist
what is done by the house of commons on
any question in which the country feels an
interest, an avalanche OF Indignation is
poured ont upon the incorrigible OBJ
-tructives" If they fall in with and ap-
prove Of all the commons DO, then they are
mere incapables in popular estimation, mere
recorders OF the acts Of the house of COM
mons, and are therefore unnecessary, being
mere impediments in the way of legislation.
English liberal journals are calling for an
act from the queen amending 'the bill OF
rights" so as to deprive the lords of their
Legislative functions. If that cannot be ac-
complished, then to reduce them to a cypher
by creating new peers enough to pass
what the commons send up to them. The
English dearly love a lord" and crouch be-
fore him with a servility that is annoying in
50 sturdy a people, but the house Of lords
and individual members OF that body have
Of late years betrayed many characteristics
that are gradually undermining the old
feudal influence and booming aristocracy TO
become, like the proud barons OF the middle
ages, mere historic memories The policy
Of the lords on the Irish question verges on
imbecility, yet their followers and toady
journals complimented them upon their
Of
ity All this simply afforded Mr.. Gladstone
opportunity to give them help on their
downward career. In speech to his liberal
parliamentary adherents, while his language
was all that it could be in outward respect to
the lords, he cOntrasted their irresponsible
position and non-representative character
with the place which the house Of commons
holds as the really sovereign power of the
State. Such a remark from such a source is
a sufficient proof how the old standing of
"the bold barons of England" is dwindling
off into a sort of Oscar Wilde-suniower
and drooping-lilly kind OF existence.
The house of lords attempt to give
support to their brethren, the Irish land
lords, is a signal failure. Those landlords
are past all help; the wrong doings of by
gone years are weighing upon the present
generation with heavy hand. Their in
comes from rent are reduced twenty to
twenty-five per cent; out OF that they have
to pay interest on mortgages and other
charges against the estate, the portions of
the younger children, iointures annuities,
and all the other accessories for depicting
income. These charges 'and liabilities re-
main unchanged, while one-quarter of the
income from which they should be dis
charged has disappeared. As Scotland
Wales and England will all extort land acts
on their own behalf, we see how, from an
other and a very serious quarter, the English
aristocracy is sliding down the descending
scale, soon to be swallowed up in the stream
Of democratic ideas which is constituting the
people, not monarchs or aristocracies, the
source and wielders of sovereign power.
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EHISSLSSEPPI POLITICS.

About 1000 votes is the voting strength of
the Greenback element.
Governor Lowry says there are no serious
Indications Of an independent movement in
the STATE.
V. c. Butt, the former incumbent, was re-
Gently elected sheriff of Montgomery county,
at the special election held in that county on
last Tuesday week.
Colonel Singleton will positively run for
Congress, Notwithstanding the gerTym ander-
ing Of his district to suit others, says the
Vicksburg Herald
At the last election the Democrats cast
76 S57 votes. The Republicans, Iudepend-
ents and Greenbackers formed a fusion
party and cast $1,000 votes.
Some OF the State papers are complain
ing in bitter terms that Governor Lowry is
using great Partially toward his personal
and political friends in the use Of his ap-
pointing power.
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case OF Utah delegate TO Washington
some time ago, whose seat was contested,
the polygamist may be divorced from his
various wives. In the morning the divorces
can be perfected, at noon he can vote, and
next morning marry all over again. Plural
marriages can be made auxiIiaries to plural
wives. This is a case that shows the nece--ity
OF Congress regulating marriage and di-
vorce in the Territories. II Is just such tricks
as these that the Mormon priests excel in,
and they actually win admiration from their
ignorant dupes by these shallow, bat, as
things stand even under the Ednuuds law,
effective acts Of jugglery. The power the
Mormon leaders have acquired TO compel
the obedience Of their victims is immense.
Should farmer refuse to obey their direc-
tions his water for irrigation is cut of, and
he must obey or be ruined. Ii the refrac-
tory man be in trade he finds the pains Of
the old Roman Catholic communication
put in force against him. His customers
are forbidden 10 deal with him, and nobody
will add intercourse with him, or give him
employment. The election Of members OF
the assembly Is by districts, and the new law
allows persons " no ere polygamists by con-
viction though not yet by practice, to vote
Their votes are absolutely under the control
Of the priesthood, consequently the assembly
will be mere fundamentally Of the priest
hood, and that assembly once chosen will
enact Just such laws as the priesthood die
tates. The Mormon conspiracy has been al
lowed to go on Tor years unchecked, and lts
willy leaders have done everything neces-
sary to perpetuate their own power as long as
the assembly is allowed to rule. Therefore
it is that the christians in Utah are in favor
of repeating the act organizing the Territory
and making voidable all proceedings that
have taken place under that act. BY such a
repeal all Territorial laws and the proceed
ings under them could be abolished, other
wise the grants Of lands and franchises that
have been made cannot be recalled, and the
people would therefore remain under the
tyrannous grasp that now holds them.
The control that has been established
over water privileges, over all the
choice lands over trade and over labor, and
over the conduct Of individuals, would re-
main only slightly DISTRACTED, and Cannon
can divorce his wives for the time being and
come back to Washington, with new claims
to be admitted to a seat in Congress. Such
measure as this the Utah christians pro-
pose is unprecedented in our history Of
course, but such re-establishment Of the
Church practices of the middle ages on
American territory is also unprecedented.
The remedy must be prOportioned to the dis
ease, and in this case the remedy proposed is
a removal of what has become a means Of
perpetuating shameful wrongs-s remedy in
tended to remove the shackles OF bondage
from American citizens, and to establish
right and freedom and the purity Of woman,
and to remove the stigma OF shame from the
brow of childhood.
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ROYALTY AN INCREASING TAX.

The vote ia the house of commons in OPP
position to comforting $4,000 a year on
Prince Leopold, and remainder OF $4,000
to his wife in case of his death, was small
only AZ to 387, but it is indicative OF the
steady growth of republication. Mr.. La
bouchere, editor of the London Truth, was
among the liberals who voted against this
allowance to Leopold on his marriage
to the princess of Waldeck Pierremont,
Shelby county. In recent number OF
his paper ne said he could not COM
prehesd why the public should be supposed
to glow with servile satisfaction because
Prince Leopold is going to marry the daugh-
ter of an obscure German noble. He thinks
the prince ought to be satisfied with his ap-
pointment to a colonelcy. He even carries
his republicanism so far as to criticise the
duke of Cambridge, who has been made a
Knight Of the Thistle. mo one" he says,
"would grudge his royal highness his
Thistle, but when it comes to the country
having to pay about $500 for this weed
being conferred on him it is a very differ
ent M after" He also has scruples against
Prince Leopold's new tartan. But Mr..
Labouchere will soon have another cause
for grumbling. The Princess Beatrice, now
more than thirty years of age, must be pro
vided with husband, and then there are the
children of the prince of Wales growing
up the oldest boy being eighteen. In
few years he will be seeking a spouse
and the means of keeping her. There are
other royal grandchildren, and with the pres
ent liberal tendencies OF the English it seems
doubtful if the people will tax themselves
for those who are out Of the direct line OF
succession. Still, if royalty is to be main
tanned, it will be hard 10 deny the privileges
all its branches have long enjoyed Nothing
short OF the establishment of republic will
save the nation from the swarm OF prince
lings who are increasing to a degree which
proves that the capacity Of the Guelphs for
breeding is far from declining.