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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-05-16
dot PICNIC"
Che Germans Have a Good Time at
EsttvaI Park.

The twenty-seventh anniversary of the
German Mutual Benevolent Society of this
city was celebrated In most satisfactory
manner by the members and their families
and friends at Estival Park yesterday after
ncoa and evening. Daring the early after
noon the society formed procession of decor
ated carriages, omni5uses, etc, containing
their members and their May Queen, Miss
Martha Eugenia Kesmodel, with her maids
of honor, Mis-, Pauline Emmerich,
Louisa Wehrum, Annie and Fetiss Snyder,
Bette and Lizzie Brumon, Georgia and Annie
Kunholz, Mary Becker and Annie Fleming,
which moved down Msin to Vance street,
thence to the park, where feasting, dancing
and merry making were INDUCED in by the
vast crowd assembled until midnight. Dur
ing the Gerry part OF the evening
Prof. Sax by's little pupils favored
the attendants with a grand ballet Little
Miss Viola Smith, only six years Old, danced
the Highland Fling" in truly artistic man.
mr.. A quartette, consisting of Misses Irene
Smith, Lula B3larand, Julia Fry and Katie
Han-y, danced the "Tyrolese" waltz and also
the HHigblaud Fling" in q most bewitching
manner Masters Lawson Treadwell and Will
lie Bowles captured the houses applause with
their rendition of the Sailors Horn Pipe"
Mons Nozsn performed some wonderful
feats of strength by lifting chairs, tables,
weights and barrel filed with water by his
teeth. Dancing was entered into by the
crowd Immediately after supper, and
under the guidance of Prof. Saxby,
assisted by Arnold's Grassland, was
continued until late hour. The
annual picnic of this society will long
be remembered by the participants, and all
praise is due their able committee of ar
rangements, Messrs. Charles Decker, John
S:oiz, John Becker, John Strehl and F.
Seidel, who completed the entertainment
with so muck satisfaction to every one.
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TnE storm OF Friday and S saturday

THE storm of Friday and Saturday, which
proved SO destructive ia the Hot Springs
valley aud that OF White river, Arkansas,
made itself felt in various parts of the coun-
try. On Long Island and in New York and
Jersey cities, and along the north Atlantic
coast, it was especially severe. In New
York, the Herald says, cold wind accom-
panied by rain prevailed, causing discomfort
IN the city and trouble in the harbor. Gel
lara were flooded, sign-boards and awnings
blown down, fences wrecked and pedestrians
hats AMI umbrellas sent flying in al direc-
tions. Toe gale blew with velocity vary
ing from thirty to forty-iwo miles an hour.
Two of the Sound s;eamers-the Providence
and the Observation-Disclosures to put int Hunt
ington, L. l., during the night, and many Of
the ferry boats were delay by being b'ownout
of their course. The temperature wss 45o at
o'clock in the morning, and at noon had
risen %. Considerable damage was done TO
the crops on Long Island, and on the New
Jersey coast many fishermen lost their nets.
The Shrewsbury river and Pleasure bay
rose higher than ever before, inundating the
meadows and covering the New jersey
Southern railroad track with two feet of
sand for over a m'ls The roar Of the surf
at Long Brauch could be hcsrd more than a
mile inland, and the bulkheads in front of
the hotels with much of the sodded banks
were torn away by the sea. Throughout the
South side OF Virgins the cyclone Of Thurs
day played havoc. Family residences barns
aud fences were demolished and huge trees
uprootej and leveled to the ground. The
cyclone was accompani d by a heavy fall Of
rain sn1 hail, which did incaleulsbie dam
age 10 wheat, young corn, oats, vegetation
and fruit. 10 some instances the hailstones
were as large as hens eggs All the streams
are greatly swollen, many bridges washed
away and several wa-houts reported. In
Connecticut and Rhode leland the wind
and rain was also very severe, and much dam
age was sustained BY farmers, and at
Burlington, Ontario, several docks were
washed away. In Indiana the heavy and
continuous rains wrought great destruction
along the valleys of the White and Muxata-
tuck rivers. The entire country in the val
legs OF those rivers is inundated, and the
farmers in Jackson, Lawrence and Martin
counties are heavy losers. Fifteen miles of
the track OF the Bedford nafrow-gauge rail-
road are washed out, and The fencing has
been carried away and 10 some places entire
crops are destroyed.
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CIvIL-sERvICE REFORM.
REPORT OF SENATE COMMITTEE ON C
SERVICE AND u E-rRENC.IINII.NT

REPORT OF SENATE COMMITTEE ON CIVIL
SERVICE AND RETRENCHMENT.
WASHINGTON, May Ex-senator Pendle-
ton, on behalf of the Committee on Civil
Service and Retrenchment, today presented
the Senate report in advocacy of the passage
OF the bill "to regulate and improve the
civil service in the United States" reported
10 the Senate on the 29th of March last
The report reviews at length The growth
OF the government since its founda-
ton, and the effect of this growth
on civil service. Referring TO what is char
acterizsd as the 'spoils system" and its
effect upon the president, ii maintains that
int tead of devoting his time to great CUES.
tions of craftsmanship he must spend most
OF it In weighing in the balance the polit-
zeal considerations that shall determine the
claim of this friend or that political sup
porter to the possession of some office of
profit or honor under him. The president
of the republic created by the constitution
in the beginning, and the chief magistrate
to-day, 1t is maintained, are two different
public functionaries- There has grown up
such perversion of the duties of the presi-
dental Office, such prostitution of it to ends
unworthy of the great idea of lis creation,
imposing burdens so grievous and degrading
to all the faculties or functions becoming its
occupant, that charge, the committee
thinks, has already occurred in the character
rscted, will be permanent and disastrous
That personal attention which should control
the Executives action in the disposi-
ton of patronage and selection of Of
ficials has become possible; and political
control as the guide 10 such action is
fraught with demoraliz atom and danger TO
the republic. Without multiplying words
the committee say this much IS patent, that
in the growth end expansion OF the nation
the appointing power is taxed beyond the
possibility of personal attention to the
requirements of official positions, increased
buadredfold in number, and manifold in
variety and responsibility of the duties to be
performed; that in the discharge of this, the
highest OF all executive functions, political
influences and compensations have come
10 dominate and to subordinate all
other considerations, and the distribution of
official spoils has become TO be the l,wful
prerogative of political asceDdancy. Offices
have come to be sught aud bestowed as 50
many charities, furnishing support to the
needy and exacting in return partisan
service, not as so many trusts imposing du-
ties on the holders. These abuses, the COM
mIttee assert, have grown out of system
comparatively new in our government APP
pointments because of special ft-
mes, and removal for cause were
the rue in its early history.
The report, after quoting from the views
heretofore expressed by Presidents Grant,
Hayes, Garfield and Arthur, in favor of
regulating civil service by law, closes by
urgiuO The MASSAGE of the hill
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IN THE COMMONS.

In the Commons Parnell read letter he
wrote Ito O'Shea, Home-Rule member for
County Glare, before his release, and which
is to the effect that the reforms of the Land
act in regard to arrears of rent, purchase
and leases are necessary, and that upon the
completion thereof, the Land League would
do all possible TO suppress outrages in Ire
land.
Forster asked that the whole letter be
read.
O'Shea then read the paragraph omitted
by Parnell, stating that if the reforms speci-
fed we're made the Land-Leaguers might act
cordially with the Liberals in support of
Liberal principles,
The reading was received with cheers from
the opposition benches.
The Encouragement of Ireland announced
that the sub-inspector in command of the
police when the crowd was fired upon at
Beltina during the rejoicings over the re-
lease of suspects, had been relieved from
duty.
Gladstone has introduced the arrears bill.
He explained that the bill was limited to
tenancies up to $50. Grifith's valuation bill
will be administered by the land commission,
which will be assisted by the County
Court Judge, before whom the tenant
will be obliged to prove inability
to pay arrears. Either the landlord
or tenant may apply to the commission.
The bill only deals with two years arrears,
and requires the tenant to pay one years
arrears, from November, 1880, to November,
1881. When that is paid the whole of the
remaining arrears will be cancelled.
The government will contribute the
remaining years from the residue
of the Irish Church surplus fund,
the estimated amount of which is 81 100000
There is no reason to believe the claims on
the governments contribution will exceed
e2,000,000; the remaining 100000 will,
therefore, be made up from the consolidated
fund. The progress of the bill will depend
upon the progress of the repression bill,
which cannot be displaced.
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TERRIBLE sUFFERINGs
or the People by the Recent Cyclone in
Arkansas.

Special to the Appeal
HoT SPRINGS, May 15.-Rsports continue
to come in from the surrounding country de-
failing the destruction and terrible sufferings
of the people in the track of the cyclone,
and much restitution prevails, more than the
more fortunate can believe. The stage-
coach which left here Friday for Little Rock
returned to-day, being unable to get further
than Benton on account of high water. An
other attempt was made this morning to get
the mail through by travelling the upper
road, which is supposed to be free of trouble
1t has been eight days since a mail was re-
ceived at this Office. The telegraph COM
is doing lucrative business in the mean
while.
The first new oats arrived to-day.
Nest of the clearinghouse are feeding on
bologna sausage, beef getting scarcer and
higher, as also other provisions.
Miss H. W. Barry, an estimable lady, was
seriously hurt by falling from her residence
a distance of eight feet.
Mss Inez Morris, formerly of Memphis,
died Saturday night.
In the preliminary trial to-day Weber,
the murderer, was committed to await the
action of the grand jury.
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Fuller Particulars.

When the waters of the late flood began
to recede the people of the lower coast made
ready to commence planting operations at
the earliest practicable moment. Despite
their heavy losses their hearts were stout,
and all they wished for was a chance to
show of what stuff they were made. The
outlook seemed promisiDg-the river fell
rapidly, the warm sunshine gave hope of
speedy modification of seed when planted,
and landowner and laborer alike spoke Of
the overflow as of troubled dream that had
worried their souls for a night and passed
away. Everyone seemed to think the chances
OF a June rise" too remote to be thought of,
save as one OF the possible mot probable)
vagaries of the Father of Waters. Four
weeks have changed this hopefulness to des-
pondency. The middle of May finds the
river bank full, and running over many of
the newly-planted fields in Arkansas and
Mississippi. The levee contractors, though on
the ground ready for operations, had not
time to close any of the immense breaks
made by the flood of February and March,
and the result is that many planters are
ready to give up in despair, and forego ALI
idea of putting in crop this season. A
letter received from Laconis, Desha county,
Ark, by gentleman of this city yesterday
says: ave are about discouraged; after hav-
ing been drowned out and swept clean away
by one overflow, here comes another before
we can get the mud washed out of our houses.
1 believe everybody in the Circle would
leave if they had anywhere to go or anything
to go on" There is not an inch Of dry
ground at Riverton, and several other land
Ings are submerged. Messrs. George Arnold
& Co., of this city, had just organized and
sent forward large force of levee men for
work in Bolivar and Issaquena counties,
Miss, but are compelled by high water to
suspend operations. The same is true
of Messrs. Wallace & McTighe, n. Lamb
& Co., ]. S. Britt, and other contractors
on the same line of levees-those of the
Second levee district of Mississippi.
AS if drowning out were not bad enough, the
unseasonably cool weather has brought out
the cut-worm in countless numbers, and he is
taking in every green thing on all planta-
tions above water. Cotton is said to be rot
ting off at the ground, whole fields disap-
pearing in a day or two, caused by Score
SHIN" produced by cold, rainy weather. Let
US hope for mitigation of the evils which
now so sorely beset the planters and farmers
of the valley and the country thereto ada
cent.
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The MoRH LETTER.

DAVENPORT WORKING UP THE CAsE-AN
IMPORTANT WITNESS.
WASHINGTON, May 15.-The Star prints a
special from Cumberland, Md, saying Frank
Brady, an important witness in the Morey
letter case, has gone to New York and will,
it is understood, testify there to what he
knows about the connection OF certain Cum
berland politicians with the famous letter.
The correspondent BRADY" is SAID to be the
man who went before William NJ. Price and
offered to swear to an affidavit that he was
Robert Lindsey. The next day Brady
backed out and refused to go before
magistrate, when James O'Brien, of
Washington, was induced to swear to
similar affidavit, which was forwarded to
Barnum on the day before the election.
Davenport has obtained from w. H. Barnum
the original affidavit of the fictitious Robert
Lindsey in the handwriting Of Price; also
Prices receipts for money received from
Bsrnum, and other original papers.
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Columbus and Portland are not included
in the totals.
The aggregate clearings reported for the
cities show a decrease OF q. 5 per cent, and
also slight falling off compared with
those of last week. In New York the clear
ings show large falling off-25.1 per cent.
This is due partly to the excessive dizziness
of trade, and partly to the slight transac-
tions at the Stock Exchange as compared
with the large volume of business at that
institution the corresponding week of last
year. Outside of New York the country at
large clearings still show a falling of,
the decrease this week amounting to 6.5 per
cent. The Eastern cities all show falling
off. Boston hangs below the line, with de-
crease of 16.5 per cent. This city, however,
reports an improved business in leather,
boots and shoes. Philadelphia, with contin-
ued quiet m rkets, shows a decrease of "a
per cent. Baltimore, with no particular
change in its business situation, shows a de-
crease of 4.3 per cent. The manufacturing
cities continue to show large gains. The
lockout at the Cleveland rolling mills
has undoubtedly had some effect upon
the Clearinghouse Exchange. The clearings
at Columbus footed up 81 ,733 331 against
81 ,353, 901 the previous week. In the West
the report is hardly as favorable as the one
given last week. Chicago shows an increase
of PAP per cent. against gain of rs last
week and one of 3S.1 the previous week. st.
Louis shows decrease of 10 per cent. Gin
cinnati has gained 1879 per cent. against 1874
per cent. San Francisco shows a decrease of
10.7 per cent. against gain of 1875 per cent.
last week. Milwaukee lost So per cent.
Peoria gained 80 per cent against 37.5 per
cent.
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| lished regarding the imprisonment of Amer.
/ lean citizens in British prisons had been re-
/ ceived at the state department, and what
answer had been given thereto.
Mr.. Lynch introduced bill to reimburse
depositors in the Freedman's Saving and
Trust Company for losses incurred by the
failure of said company.
A resolution was adopted directing the
secretary of war to inquire into the propri-
ETY. Of purchasing the dwellinghouse in
Washington in which President Lincoln
died.
Mr.. Lynch introduced bill to repeal
section 2029 of the Revised Statutes relative
10 the appointment OF supervisors Of cleo
ton. Section 2029 provides that supervisors
shall have no authority to make arrests or
perform any other duties than to witness
election proceedings and mske returns. The
bill also requires United States supervisors
in their reports to the chief supervisors to
report all violations of the acts, and give to
the United States district attorney free ac-
cess to the reports to obtain information
upon which to institute criminal proceed
iDgs against any persons charged with vio-
lstion Of the provisions of the act. Referred.
The Committee on Pensions informed the
House OF deficiency in the appropriation
of $4,000 to meet the June payments of
army pensions, which should be made avail
able by the 25th instant.
Adjourned.
.Stn1fe.-FayorahIe reports were made for
public buildings at Louisville, New York,
Hannibal, Mo-, Detroit, Mich, Council
Bluffs, Iowa, and Jackson, Tenn.
A number OF bills were introduced and
referred.
Senator Morrill, presented amendments to
the House bonded distilled spirits bill in the
form of a substitute for that measure.
Senator Harris's bill to refund the taxes
on incomes collected from the citizers Of
Tennessee without authority was passed.
The five per cent. land bill was laid over
informally, and the HOUSE bill for the re-
moval of the remains of General Fitzpatrick
passed.
on the House bonded distilled spirits bill,
arguing in favor of the justice, fairness and
honesty of the measure, which he claimed
would promote the interests alike of the
distillers, dealers and government. He also
referred to the alleged whisky ring.
Senator Morrill,, in opposition to the bill,
said that the evil of which the holders of
spirits now complain would be aggravated
by the pending measure, and argued against
the claims on which it was supported.
Senator Window, the mover of the i'm
pending investigation into the alleged corr
ruption in connection with the bill, replied
to Senator Beck's reference to that matter.
Senator Beck's resolution, having served
its purpose in calling attention to the sub
ject, was indefinitely postponed.
Senator Garland reported, from the Ju-
dietary Committee, an amendment to the
Revised Statutes, relating to claims of per-
sons in the naval service entitled to bounty
land warrants.
After an executive session the Senate adj
iourned.
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WASHINGTON NoTEs.

Shipherd has been summoned to appear
before the Foreign Affairs Committee next
Wednesday.
Fifty thousand dollars is the amount APP
propriated by the Senate bill for public
building at Jackson, Tenn.
The total value of exports of domestic
b:eadstuffs from the United States for the
ten months ending April so, 1882, was
s257, $40, III.
A member of the minority says: "If the
contested election cases are forced ahead
of the regular appropriation bills, the
chances are the session will extend into
August"
Judge Wylie has directed the grand jury
TO receive az evidence certain reports sub
mtted by Woodward, special agent in the
Stsr-route cases, and his statements concern
ing them.
Mr. Dibble, whose seat is contested by
Mackey, of South Carolina, asks an investi-
cation, alleging that the trial election in
Charleston has shown that the contestant,
after securing testimony to support his
claim to the seat, materially changed that
testimony in the Record.
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BRITISH BREADsTUFFS.
weekly Review by the Mark Lane Ex-
press.

LONDON, May 15.-The Marx Lane Express,
in it's review of the grain trade for the past
week, says: "On sound and well cultivated
land wheat has regained healthy appear
ance. The prospects are that the larger
proportion Of the remainder will be indiffer-
ent to bad All other crops look remarka-
bly, well. The grain trade is extremely dull
and prices are weaker. Sales of English
are increasingly difficult Foreign bread
stuffs are generally weak. Oats weaker;
cargoes very quiet. Ten fresh arrivals were
withdrawn-five were sold and four remain,
of which one is California and one red win
ter Sales OF English wheat during the
week, 81, l35 quarters, at 46s lid per quarter,
against 81, ITO quarters, at 44s 10d per quar-
ter, for the corresponding week last year.
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the sale surpassed expectations in the prices
realized. Seventeen colts brought SIC, 500,
an average of 500 each, and twenty-one
fIlies brought s9160, an average of S436
each. The most remarkable fact in connec-
ton with the sale was that Monarchist's colts
brought higher average than those by i'm
ported Glenely or Virgil. This result is one
that Mr.. NJ. II. Sanford, the former proprie-
tor, looked for and worked for against the
combined Judgment of all the turfmen in the
country, and il must be peculiarly gratifying
IN him
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The Rivers Above.

1.-THE prospects of another overflow from
above, which have caused considerable
uneasiness among the planters in the
lowlands the past day or two, have
passed away. Yesterdays reports from
the signal service bureau indicate de-
elines in the Cumberland, Tennessee, Mis-
souri,, upper Mississippi. and upper Ohio
and tributaries. Rises are reported at Gin
cinnati and Louisville, but at Cairo the
rivers are stationary.-EDs. APPEAL.
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The cotton market yesterday opened and
closed quiet at quotations; middling, 12c. In
New York spot middling was u 5.16c, and
quiet and steady; futures closed steady; May,
1225@l226. In New Orleans spots were
dull at 12tc; futures closed steady at
12.0S@12O9 for May. In Liverpool middling
uplands were 6sd, aud Dreams 1S-16d, and
quiet; futures closed steady at 6 SO 64d for
May, May-June, and 8 40 Cad for August
S,niernhar
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Rivers Failing Arkansas.

LITTLE Rock, May 15.-The repairs on
the st. Lonis and Iron Mountain railroad
have been completed, and trains are now
running regularly the full length of the
road. Five days mails from the north ar
rived yesterday. Trains on the narrow
gauge road from Malvern to Hot Springs
will begin running Wednesday. The Ark
ansas river at Fort Smith is falling rapidly,
as are also White river and all other streams
in the State. Weather clear and pleasant.
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THE "JUNE RISE"
Approximations of Another Disastrous
OveraOw-Lower-COas People Be-
coming Discouraged.
Crops Look Badly, and the Fine Pros
poets of Two Weeks Ago De.
cfdedIy Changed.

Special 70 the Appeal
GREENv1LLE, MISS, May 15.-The June
rise is upon us. The water is running
through Kiverton lake, Bolivar and Boston
breaks, inundating the plantations in this
county. The rise is three feet from the
mouth of White river down. Serious appre-
tensions are felt, and planters are gloomy
and respondent. The weather for the past
week has been cold and wet. Crops look
ago are materially changed.
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THE 90 AND 3, 4. 8 AND 6 BILL
Passed the Senate by Vote of IL
TO H.

Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, May 15.-After lengthy dis
cussion in the Senate over the committee
bill to settle the debt at go and 8, 4, and
s, it was passed by the following vote:
Yeas.-Bell, Brown, Cason, Coleman, Dug
gan, Hill, Huddleston, Matthews, Perkins,
Smith, of Fentress, Smith, of Shelby, Till
man, Watson and Mr.. Speaker Morgan-14.
Nays.-Alexander, Barrett, Bib, Carter,
Daniel, Headrick, Mccullough, Rankin,
Ragland, Smallman and Taylor-11.
1t is thought the bill will pass the House
beyond question by Thursday.