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MISSISSIPPI RIVER wATER DOC

If it were not that they have caused SO
much mischievous delay, there would be
continual fund of amusement to those
who are familiar with the causes governing
the various phenomena exhibited by the
Mississippi river in the laundering vac aries
and mistaken notions of writers who, isno
rant OF the peculiarities OF that river, under
take to prescribe what should be done to re-
move the difficulties and improve the adj
vantsges il offers. During the late tre-
mendous foods some of these doctors-at-a
distance prescribed the digging of reservoirs
somewhere about Cairo, into which the su-
perfiuous waters should be run, kept there by
gates and let out again in low water to sustain
navigation in the autumn months. A MIS-
sissippi water-doctor Of this kind published
last week in the Washington Register various
ideas of a similarly amusing description
He starts by explaining that if the Missis-
sippi had had the good sense to run to New
York or Boston instead of New Orleans, 1.-The
Great Eastern, at this hour, would cast
anchor at St. Louis" He has something
to say, also, about the utility to the Eastern
metropolis OF a great De Lesseps ship chan
mel like that between the Red Sea and the
Mediterranean, "and no trihing jetties hardly
giving little ships of $500 tons burden access
TO the river" He evidently is unaware that
the general depth of the Suez canal, twenty
xix feet, is less than that at the Mississippi
jetties. Owing to having jetties instead oil
having fifty miles of ship channel below
nrl Hvhaat
bacco, sugar, and rice growing redundantly
in this richest valley in the world, are not
worth the toll production COSTS" The intel
ligence displayed in this brilliant sentence
OF the value of the products of the Mi5sis
sippi river valley, shows how splendidly
qualified the Washington water-doctor is to
prescribe remedies for Mississippi river diff
cuties. The mistake about the jetties, &C.
cordipg TO this wise water-doctor, has made
living SO high that 10000 workmen have
struck for bread, land" he adds, therefore
it happens that the balance of trade with
foreign countries is against the United
States" This writer ia evidently as well
acquainted with his subject the writer
who, two or three years ago, published an
account in some OF the magazines OF the
wonderful canals the remains OF which have
existed from Aztec times until now, and
who, also in giving engraved repre-
sentations Of objects found in Ameri-
can mounds, actually included cross
legged figure of the East Indian vIshnu
an fact" proceeds this Washington author
ity, "every conceivable national evil springs
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STATE NEWS,
A Riot at KOgeKsyiIle-ShOcki Al
tempt at Murder-A Runaway Con-
tractOr-The Debt of Knoxville.

AT Pulaski the Giles Bank declared four
per cent. dividend last week for the last six
months.
few nights ago the colored population
of Rogerville engaged in a general row,
using kIsssSs nd iscloQslF.
in the course OF which lively past lime Tom
Wallace was dangerously cut about the head
by Price Miller.
Knoxville Tribune, 9th "Montvale Springs
has large crowd of Southern visitors this
season......... Knoxville has no military COM
pany, although the State military school is
in that town.........A new marble quarry,
opened at Concord, produces the red varie-
gated variety of such beauty that high ex-
pectations are entertained"
Covington Cal, 9TH: shooting in the
streets ls frequent. Only few mornings
since rifle or pistol ball was fred through
the window Of the family room OF Mrs.
Cooper, in the western part of the town, and
she and her little children narrowly escaped
the deadly missile. This is the second time
that the lives Of this same lady's family
have been jeopardized in this same manner"
Jackson Wing, 7th: az. H. Mayo, dry
goods and clothing merchant, has failed -.
A colored high school is to be built on a
four-acre lot near the cotton compress. 1t
will be ready by the LIST of September.
Royal street was burned on Friday night.
The family were absent......A charter Is APP
piled for and a street railroad will be lad
down connecting the two depO;s."
Union City Country, 9TH; Saturday morn
ing. as Il colored man was riding along
cut on the Mobile and Ohio railroad, seeing
the passenger train was about 10 overtake
him, he pulled his horse to one side OF the
road As the train came near his horse goL
frightened and jumped on the track before
the train. The horse was killed and knocked
the negro off into a clover field, which was
near by, hurting his right arm"
Chattanooga Times, 9th: Hosea Green's
wife left him some months ago on account OF
disagreement. He went 10 ST. Louis, but re-
turned few days since, and last night he
called upon his wife, who is a young woman
of twenty-five. As soon they were alone
ne put his arms about her waist and asked
her if she would rather die than live with
him. She said yes As soon as the word
escaped her he whipped out a large razor
and slashed it across her throat and then
rammed the point into her forehead, and
turned and fled. Surgical assistance was
at once summoned and the wounds were
dressed by Drs. Wight and Hope. The razor
entered Just below the ear, and cut a cash
three and half inches long. II was by
the merest luck that the jugular vein was
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THE PRESIDENT OF THE ROAD,
! Mr.. T.. c. Baldwin, said yesterday that The
prosperous condition of the road was due to
the unprecedently good crops along its line
and also to the further DEVELOPMENT of the
large coal and iron mines in the neishbor-
mood OF Blrming nam, Ala, particularly the
coal mines, the product of which is now being
shipped North and South over the lines.
Messrs. Carley ard John E. Green, of Louis
VILE, two recently elected directors of the
road, said yesterday that they had just seen
gentlemen from Nashville and points further
south on the line. These gentlemen reported,
and their own inform alton was that the crops
10 kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama had
never been so good as they are this year
The products of the country which the road
traverses, starting with tobacco at Louisville,
and including the corn, wheat, oats, ETC., down
the line, are all out OF any risk of failure
The cotton crop promises TO be no whit be-
bind the others. The farmers of Southern
Kentucky, Tennessee and Alabama are doing
what Is very rare for them to do; that is,
seeking agents through whom to dispose of
their surplus corn and wheat. The road is
also carrying large quantities of naval stores
TO. the Southern seaboard. Messrs. Carley
and Green also said that
THE APPOINTMENT OF Mr. MILTON III, SMITH
had given great satisfaction to persons living
on the line OF the road not only to the off
Gals, but TO the shippers, and kilograms bad
yesterday been received congratulating the
road on the advancement of Mr.. Smith TO the
first vice-presidency, thus making him the
acting president at Louisville and giving
him practical control Of all matters except
the financial affairs OF the corporation.
Mr.. Albert Fink said of the appointment:
II do not know of better man for the posi-
ton. Mr.. Smith was general freight agent
OF the road when l had charge of it. He
grew up with the road and knows it thor
oughly. He is capable, earnest and conscI-
entious, and | believe ne will materially
benefit the road"
"What have you to say as to the reports
that you refused the presidency because you
were afraid of the financial condition of the
company" asked the reporter.
81 thought they had stopped saving those
things" said Mr.. Fink. "Ihere is no truth
in the statement, for did not even examine
into the condition of affairs. | refused the
presidency simply because I found l could
not leave here. As far as / know, the road
is not only solvent, but in a flourishing con-
ditiOn, and will come out all right. There
is, in my opinion, nothing whatever rotten
about its condition. Had L believed other
wise L should never have considered the
proposition made me TO- an instant. Those
stories are started by men who merely want
TO run down the road for speculative pur-
poses"
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THE FRENCHIN EG1rr.

The great acquiescence with which France
receives the assumption by the English OF
the part of principal mansger OF the Egyp-
tiau trouble, is surprising many who know
the ambition that exists in France TO stand
always among the first. The fact is that the
French are cautious, because they know that
the sleepless eye of Bismarck is always upon
them. They believe, and not without reason,
that Bismarck desires TO see them humili-
ated and reduced to harmless helplessness
that he would like to see them involved in a
war so that, whether they are losers or con-
querors, they will be for the time exhausted
and indisposed 10 enterprise. There
fore Bismarck favors the exercise
of Turkish power in Egypt, in or
der that its influence may be enlightened
in Tunis, and the French position there
made sufficiently difficult to occupy French
attention and absorb French revenue. The
French are therefore on their guard, and will
take an active part in Egypt only in case
events should render action imperative, then
there will be no hesitation. In the mean
time France awaits the moment OF revenge,
and the opportunity to spring upon her late
Rhinish possessions. In this way France
holds Bismarck as tightly as she is held by
him, and some day a fierce struggle must be
the result.
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Egypt AND THE COTTON MARKET.

The cotton situation is becoming inter est
ing. Diminishing receipts show that a very
large portion of the last crop has reached
the market, and the consequence has been
an advance OF price on the grounds alone Of
the market situation of the staple. To this
the state of things in Egypt il adding an
other important element. Up TO this time
this season the shipments of Egyptian cotton
have been unusually large. The Alexandria
shipments from January Ist to July LIST
amounted TO 422, III bales, against 379, 1S2
the year before; of late the weekly shipments
at the same port have been about $500 bales;
those shipments have ceased since June 10Th
altogether. More important, however, than
this is the possible interruption OF direct sea
communications with India. The cotton
thence Tor Europe passes through the Suez
canal. That canal is 100 miles in length
and is mainly through sandy and desert
country. A body of mounted Arabs could
cut off communications by filling up por-
tions OF the canal, or in other ways cutting
off communication between the Mediterra-
mean and the Red Sea, and SO leaving the
immense detour involved in doubling
the Cape of Good Hope as the only
means of reaching India by sea from Europe.
The result, as far as the cotton trade is con-
cerned, would be the more striking, as up to
this time this season the shipments Of India
cotton have been beyond the usual amount
1862 900 bales from January let to July 1st,
against 90S,000 the year before. The
weekly shipments of late have been
about 10000 bales. The weekly state
ments of India cotton afoat for Europe
have of late ranged from $4,000 to 100000
bales-a very important portion Of the
worlds visible stock, especially when it is
that the total stock of cotton in
Europe is below what it was a year ago. and
that the worlds total visible supply is / ,943,-
9s4 bales, where it was 2,2l6, Cts bales a year
ago. To the cotton interest, therefore, the
daily news from Egypt is of important in
terest, independent of what is usually expe-
renced in connection with war news gener-
ally. Every telegram will be watched with
intense earnestncss. The receipt of news that
Arabs troops had damaged the canal at any
point would at once produce an effect upon
The price of cotton in proportion to the ex-
tent of the damage done. In case Of actual
war occurring, the result may possibly be
the acquisition OF Egypt by the English,
which would enable them to grow for them
selves an indefinite quantity of excellent
ong cotton staple, which would make Egypt |
formidable rival 10 the cotton fields OF our |
,wn South. The immediate effect OF war, as
8 shown above, would be to raise the price |
ii every pound of cotton now unsold in the
rkat
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LOVES FAREWELL.

when he was divorced from his first wife, whC
recently died in the Woman Hospital, New York
Joaquin Miller wrote these verses.
FAREWELL for here the ways at last
Divide-diverge, like dellu'd Nile,
Which after desert dangers passed
Of many and many a thousand mile
As constant as column stone
Seeks out the NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS..
Ana You AID I la ( LAIiSd love,
And red seal on the coffins lid;
The clerk below, the court above,
Pronounced it dead; the corpse Is hid.
And who never crossed your will
Consent that you may have ii still.
And you will come some summer eve,
When wheels the white moon on her track,
And hear the plaintive night-bird grieve,
And heed the crickets clad in black;
Alone-not faI-a little spell,
And say, well, yes, he loved me well.'
make no murmur; steady calm
Sphinx like gazed on days ahead.
No wooing word no pressing palm,
No sealing love with lips seal red,
No waiting for some dusk dawn,
Or sacred hour all are gone.
I go alone; no little hands
To lead me from forbidden ways;
No little voice in other lands
Shall cheer through all the weary days;
Yet these are yours, and that to me
Is much indeed So let it be -.
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from the failure of the government to dea
wisely with the alluvial valley OF The Mis-
sissippi" That settles Arthur, and is good
proof that he will not be the next president.
The reason why the mistake was made OF
having jet!ies instead OF ssh ip channel ,"
Is that the railways had them chosen 90 as
70 prevent an open river from diverting traffic
and travel to the South. The result of the
jetty blunder is that the jetties "have abso-
lUtely partly deepened and heightened the
rivers mouth" How a mouth that is deeper
in the Mississippi mud deposit can be higher,
none, We presume, bot a water-doctor can
tell. This Washington waler-doctor goes on
20 show how the Mississippi valley can be
redeemed only by draining it as farmer
his fields 10 a creek. He would shorten the
creeks route and so make it carry off the
water quicker, so the Mississppi should be
enlightened and shortened Next. the
continents should be turned from the
river and made 10 go about their
business somewhere else. This dash
ing water-doctor would "divert" - he
a diverting prescription writer, and the word
divert" appears with diverling frequency
in his sentences-he would divert the Red
river into the Atchafalaya, the Arkansas
Into the Red river, and one fourth OF the
Missouri into the Neosha. The whole thing
could be done with no more trouble than
that. but what the Mississippi river would
amount to in time OF low water when short
ened 30 to run its waters out rapidly to
the sea, and deprived of some of its princi-
pal atfiuents besides, this Washington pre-
scriber for Mississippi river maladies does
meet the high-water case; the low-water
difficulty must take care of itself. But this
doctor IN hydraulics has more and greater
than all this. He would have practically
two Mississippi rivers, parallel with one an
other, both emptying into the Gull of Mex
ico." More than this: He would have "the
2000 convicts in each Southern penitentiary,
now competing with honest labor, digging
a canal TO connect the Tennessee with the
that the Tennessee may debouch
into Mobile bay" This would drain lands
hat would grow cotton bales by millions
Some people regard rivers as advantageous,
out the Mississippi valley people should
pack them off in other directions, divert the
Tennessee into the Coosa, the Alabama, and
INTO Mobile bay, and send the Red river, Ar
KANSAS and MIssOurI Connuv-.a far awav
Then yellow death and desolation in the
7alley of the Mississippi will be no more"
Il will be seen that this Washington water |
loctor is thorough in his treatment, although |
he is entirely ignorant of the patian.'o ooaati
ntion. II any assurance were required of |
he wisdom and good sense of the plans of |
he Mississippi River Com mission, it would |
'e found in comparing them with the plans
proposed by the quack water-doctors whose
'utleis, and sea channels, and double Mis-
issippis, and diverted continents, and Mo-
Tile bay debouchments demonstrate the mag
ifcence of their ignorance of the subject
hey attempt to discuss.
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1t is too early in the canvass to form any
estimate of the majority by which General
Bate will be elected governor. But there
seems TO be no doubt among well-informed
politicians as to The certainty OF his election.
az. c. NJ" the intelligent Nashville CORE
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was celebrated here much 10 the manner in
Dictated in my last, only 'old Sol" recon
sidered the heat question, lowered the lem
pernture 10 bsarable degree, and the "white
trash" turned out in force and had half
days rare ort at the race track. Fonr
races were run by local stock, and pretty fair
tIme-a quarter OF mile in 0;253 and a
half mile IN 0:55s-was made. OF course
this is no. quite up TO Longfellow's or Pa
roles time, but pretty fair for work stock.
The weather to-day is, as was yesterday,
quite endurable-S2o in the shade. The
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CHICAGO, July 10.-About l o'clock Sun
day morning Joel Prescott, an old and re-
spected citz.n, was found lying in doorway
in a basement at the rear OF his bathing
house, Oh Desplaines street, with his brai MS
beaten out by some blunt instrument, prob
ably hammer, and his pockets turned in
side out. He WAS still alive, but died soon
afterward. The object was evidently rob-
berry, but the murderer got nothing, as it was
subsequently discovered that he had placed
considerable sum of money and his watch
in a secret place known only to himself and
his son previous to going into the basement
to close up. Four persons have been ar
rested, but with apparently little evidence
AGAINST them
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dents is double that of any previous wear.
Al the opening the Rev. DR.. 6. II. Vincent
made an address. Two grand concerts fol-
lowed, attended by large audience. Anew
and large chorus organ IN the amphitheater
was used for the first time. In the afternoon
the Rev. W. L. Harris delivered a lecture.
In the evening there was a reception of pro-
lessons and students. The Teachers Retreat
VIII continue three weeks, with daily lectures,
etc. On August Let the Chautauuua A ssemblv
will open its ninth year, continuing until the
2lst. y large hotel has been completed and
other public buildings erected. The attend
ance surna-sns nrAuinns rears
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DAILY APPEAL~TUI Y. II,

not severed. The wound IN the forehead is
but slight. The surgeons do not regard
either wound endsngeriDg to life.
The man has not been taken.
D. Silari was contractor for erecting the
church on Georgia avenue. 1t turned out to
be heavy loss at the price he had taken it
al. He paid promptly up TO a week ago
when 300 TO 500 was due for wages. A
delegation of workmen demanded their paw,
and he was about TO assent. when his wife
interfered and prevented him. On Monday
night both OF them left clandestiuely for
Colorado.........A heavy debt is hanging over
the city Of Knoxville while her treasury is
depleted. The old board went out boastipg
that they had left $4,000 in the exch.quef,
but they also left debt which exceeded th at
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A WeII-knOwn ChicagOan Killed by
HIS Mistress.

CHICAGO, July IO.-AtS O'clock This MORN
ing Charles w. Stiles, for many years caller
in the call board and well-known man in
trade circles, was shot over the heart and in
stantly killed by young woman of doubt
full reputation, who passed under the name OF
Madeline Stiles. She gained access TO his
room by au artifce, when quarrel ensued
which resulted in his death. The woman
claims that Stiles, who had for some time
been on terms of intimacy with her, had
made her life UNDESIRABLE by his dissolute
habits and cruelty, and she had determined
to leave him, and her announcement of this
fact precipitated the quarrel OF this morning.
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Outside OF New York

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Columbus and Portland are not included
in the total exhibit this week. If we take
into consideration all the circumstances tell
ing against it it is a favorable one, both as
compared with last week and with the cor
responding week OF last year. 1t must be
borne in mind that the week Just passed has
been broken, comprising only five business
days, and in number of larger cities only
four, and in few, such as New York, only
three; then. too, the comparison is made with
a week in 1881 which comprised only five
business days. The aggregate cIeasings for
the past week were SS1G, $50, 701, against
1915, Gil the preceding week as compared
with the corresponding week last year. The
percentage of decrease amounted to 26.9 per
cent, against 24.4 per cent. last week and one
of Is per cent. the previous week. The
Western cities very generally present
favorable exhibit.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 1O.-Patrick w.
Mallory, Of Columbia, clerk of the Bethel
House, was run over and killed by the
sout h. bound train at the Louisville depot at
S o'clock this morning. He attempted to
board the train while in motion, and fell
between the wheels Deceased was formerly
clerk OF Wizards Hotel, Louisville, and the
Battle House Mobile
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Unproyoked Wife.Murder.

SYRACUSE, n. Y, July 1O.-At 5 o'clock
Sunday afternoon James Hawks, laborer,
killed his wife. Mrs Hawks had purchased
pint OF beer in saloon and was returning
home when she met her husband, who was
intoxicated. Hawks whipped out jack
knife and, without a word, stabbed his wife
to the heart. He threw the knife away and
staggered up the street. Hawks, when in
formed his wife was dead, exclaimed: 81
am id glad of it. 1t is good thing for
me-"
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A Man Terribly Mutilated by an En-
stallion.

DETROIT, July 10-An accident occurred
at Coldwater Saturday evening when a
horseman Familiarity known as Doc Leighton,
was attacked by an enraged stallion while he
was in the &C. of adjusting the harness about
his head. The stallion knocked him down
and, kneeling on him, bit off his under lip
and all the flesh beneath it, running down
under the point of his chin. He then bit
the right cheek and back of his neck, also
taking hold of his left hand SCATTERING the
bones of several fingers.
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SHREVEPORT, La, July 1O.-In Webster
parish, McTaylor, colored, fourteen years
old, severely beat white boy named Nc
Donald snd fled to Arkansas. A few days
ago McDonald's father, assisted by J. F.
Ticket and John Almond, pursued, cap
tured and brought McTaylor back. They
tied him to tree and shot him to death.
The body was found yesterday. The bones
were picked bare by the vultures. The as
sassins will be arrested
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DIR. Notion Will Retire from the Min
islrY.

ST. LOUIS, July 10.-The Rev. DR.. George
A. Lotion, pastor Of the Third Baptist
church, whose erratic condition on a train
recently occasioned so much scandal, has
resigned his passionate. H. will preach his
farewell sermon next Sunday. He will also
leave the ministry, and it is intimated that
he will GO into business IN this city.