Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-04-30
GENERAL WASHINGTON NOTES.
The HaIIctf-KiIbSurne Verdict Set
Aside


GENERAL WASHINGTON NOTES.
The HaIIctf-KiIbpurne Verdict Set
Aside.
Judge Macarthur set aside the verdict for
100000 damages, rendered in the kilbourne
case for false imprisonment, on the ground
OF excessive damages, and gave each side
twenty days in which to make further mo-
tions.
Relic of the Revolution.
Representative Dezendorf will next week
introduce bill appropriating S25, 900 for
the purchase of the Moore house, on the
Yorktown battlefield. This house, which
has borne the name by which il is now known
since The revolutionary siege, is the one in
which the treaty of cspitulation was pre-
pared which was aft rward signed by Gen
era! CORVALLIS. 1t stands in a plot of 500
acres, including the first and seconi paral-
lels thrown up by the allied American and
French forces. Tradition says that Lafay-
ette, Rochs smbsau and De Grasse occupied
the bHilding for time during or after the in
vestment of Yorktown. The land and
building were bought by the yorktown Cen
tennial Association for $l5000-S10, 600 of
which was p 'id on account. About $4,000
was spent in repairing the house and in
fencing and otherwise improving the neigh
borhood. To shelter the visitors TO the
centennial celebration $4,000 was spent in
the erection of building. The property is
held in trust by Mr.. Reuben Foster for the
Centennial Association. The visiting French
officers, the descendants of the commanders
of the allies of the Americans, express great
interest in the proposed purchase, and have
written TO Colonel Psyton since their return
to France TO say that they trnst the property
will be preserved as a valuable relic of a
time full of concern for the A merican nation.
The marquis de Chambrun, the grandson of
Lafayette, is to visit the Moore house with
party on the 10th of May.
An Alleged whisky Ring swindIe.
A special dispatch to the Cincinnati Ga.
zete, from Washington, says: A highly sem
sational article was printed here to-day on
the subject of an alleged whisky ring, EN-
bracing Kentucky speculators and other,
including the commissioner of internal rev.
enue, by which it is claimed that $50, 100000
is to be stolen from the treasury. The means
through which this is TO be accomplished is
the bill introduced by Mr.. Dunnell for the
extension of the bonded period for spirits in
a distllery warehouse, and the special act of
hi iding is described as follows: Half of the
goods are to be sold in bond to outside small
buyers at profit, sufficient to cover the cost
of the whole lot, and then by premeditaled
default in renewal of the bonds the tax
becomes due, and the government, by forced
sales OF the spirits, attempts to re-
cover the sum, when these sly indi-
viduals slip around and bid in the
whisky for next TO nothing and leave the
government out in the cold, SO far as its
taxes are concerned, and then they can reap
their harvest by having protection equal to
the amount of the tax against other manu-
factureIs. The astute author of this article
has overlooked one material provision of
faw. Section 1854 of the Revised Statutes
provides that all spirits sold under distraint
(for taxes) shall be sold subject to the tax,
and that the purchaser shall Immediately
before he takes possession of said spirits pay
the tax thereon. The argument based
upon false premises, and so had led the
author into an absurdity. The friends OF
the bill claim that il ii was the intention of
any whisky ring to make money they would
kill the bill, allow the bonded period to ex-
pire on the 1st of May, and force the
whisky on the market, then buy it up at a
song, pay the tax, and thus hold all the fine
whiskies at price less than the highwine |
producers could make them.
startling Figures from Naval Bureaus. |
Some Information in response to Mr.. Hew- |
tits resolution OF inquiry has been received |
from the navy department by the House of |
The chiefs of the bureaus |
Of equipment and of engineering have made |
reports concerning the amount Of money ex-
pended in their divisions upon the vessels OF |
the navy, and these reports contain some in |
Ieresting matter. The bureau of equipment
supplies saila, rigging, anchors and fuel.
[ pom thirty vessels this bureau has ex-
ended, since 1865, about 100000. The
bureau OF steam engineering directs the de-
signirg, fitting out, running and repairing of
The engines and boilers. Upon forty vessels
this bureau has expended, since 1862, more
han $40 100000, or an average of a little
more than S250,000 for each. The expenses
for machinery seem to have been ex-
large. For example, the
Alaska, wooden screw steamer, now
in the Pdcific SOU idron, built in 1857,
has cost the government 1926, 81 in the
equipment bureau and SS09, 1888 in the en-
cheering bureau. For new machinery S4S.-
700 was paid in 1869 and S33, 600 more in
1870. The bill for repairs is $4l ,000 New
boilers were put in in 1875 at cost of
almost 100000, and about $4,000 was
spent in 1877 for "repairs with new boilers"
Upon the Tennessee the equipment bureau
lGs spent $475, So since the war, and the en-
cheering bureau $63l ,734. Her engines,
luilt in 1864, cost S764,00 Repairs of
the most of which have been
made since 1870, have cost S220 900. New
boilers cost $4,000 in 1874 in addition, and
n 1876 and 1877 there was an expenditure
IF $4,000 under the same head The PEN
'acolas machinery cost S46S,000 in 1866, and
N repairs ard for boilers about S260 900
nave been expended The hulls Of the Min
lesota, Colorado, Wabash and Franklin, the
irst used as gunnery ship and the
-emaining three receiving ships, can
De repaired, but, it is said, at great
,ost They are of obsolete type, and
heir boiiers are worn out. Upon these
our vessels, which would be c. ne Use for
active service, the bureau OF equipment has
expended 81 1862, 600 and the bureau of en-
cheering Sl,2lS,000, with the bureaus OF
and repairs and ordnance to
iear from. The new boilers built for three
If them in 1875 have not been put in, ac-
,ording TO the report. TIE Minnesota's
,oilers coat nearly 100000 in 1866, and are
lot worth repairing The Colossus. Massa-
husetts and Oregon are described as not
scrth finishing. They are now on the stocks,
md the M achinery IN them cos; s. ,665 900.
rhe figures seem 10 indicate extravaganza 10
and repairing machinery.
Cap4tsI Brtens.
The presidential party returned this morn
ng.
The estimated reduction of the public debt
or April Is about Sl4 100000.
The secretary Of war had a long confer
nee with the President this afternoon in ref
renee to the Indian outbreak in Arizona
Representatives Kasson, Dunnell, Watson
nd Belmont will constitute the sut-eommit-
ee to take testimony in New York in the
hill Peru investigation.
Augustus NJ. Soteldo was arraigned to-day
md pleaded not guilty TO the charge of MUIR
ering bis brother, and assault with intent
C kill Barton. He was remanded for trial
First Comptroller i-awrelns has signed a
Yarraut to pay to the administrator OF the
ate President Garfield $2672, being the bal
nee of his salary due up to the day OF his
leath.
Judge WyEe quashed the indictments !