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MEMPHIS TO NEW ORLEANS.
Consolidation of All the Lines fn the
Hands of "a Company
Under the Control of II. II. Wilson a. Co..
the WeIi-KnOWn Bankers.

The Vicksburg Commercial, in its issue of
Thursday evening, states that reliable intel
ligence has reached that city that the con-
solidated line from Memphis to New Orleans,
including the Nicksburg and Memphis rail-
road and the Vicksburg and Ship Island
road, has within the past few days been sold
to K. t. Wilson & Co, rich bankers of New
York. The former owners retain good in
terest in the new consolidation. The price
paid was 800 10000, which very Justly goes
into the pockets of some of our enterprising
business and professional men-another good
return fer energy displayed in working up
the matter. We learn the syndicate is
backed by the Fourth National Bank of
New York, which has capital OF So $780,
900. This insures the early completion of
the contemplated roads leading to and from
this city. No event in the history of this
city ever foreshadowed greater possibilities
for future growth and prosperity. The early
completion of these roads, now assured,
will be the dawning of a new era in the com
mercial growth OF Vicksburg and bring new
life to every department of trade. Messrs.
L. A. Campbell, Thomas McGehee and f.
Martin now in the city of New York
perfecting the details of the trade and trans
fer
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WIRE WAITS.

New York, April THE Wolfe collection
of paintings netted at auction Sl3l ,S65.
Augusta, Me-, April THE Democratic
State convention has been called for Lewis
tor, June 9th.
Portland, Or, April THE courthouse at
Yokahoma City burned yesterday. The
records were destroyed.
Albany, April THE Barker railroad
commission bill was ordered to a third read
Ing by a vote OF 60 TO 55.
Dallas, April NEARLY every saloon man
in this city has been indicted for violation OF
the Sunday liquor law.
New Orleans, April THE graves of the
Confederate dead were decorated yesterday.
The Grand Army OF the Republic gave
wreath.
indianapolis, April IA man named
Conrad Kettle fell through haichway in
the Jolrnai building yesterday morning and
was killed.
New York, April 7.-Owen Mallory and
Joseph WeedeD, Pittsburg pugilists, fight
June 18th, in West Virginia, Tor a purse of
$1,000.
Portland, Or, April THE Democratic
State convention nominated Joseph S. Smith
for governor and William d. Fenton for
congressman.
Chicago, April James Strong, a stereo-
typer in the Times Office, while cutting up an
old table, was struck by ax-helve, dying
in a few hours.
Chicago, April IL. II. Truman's Eng
lish horses, recently imported, were sold at
the stock-yards Wednesday-nineteen in all
and brought an aggregate Of 81, 961. One
sold as high az $500.
Peoria, ILL.,, April 7.7-It is definitely de-
cidcd to rebuild the glucose works, which were
destroyed by fire few months ago. They
will be built on a more extensive scale than
before, and will give employment to 500
persons.
Dallas, April defective Jack Duacan
arrived in this city yesterday with Roscoe, the
Nevarro county murderer, who was arrested
in Arizona last week. He acknowledged his
crime, and also several other murders in
Texas, mostly negroes. He was sent to the
Texarkana Jail.
Philadelphia, April THE labor orgaui-
cations of this city have arranged for pa
rade and mass-meeting on the night of April
10Th, to express Indignation at the action OF
President Arthur in vetoing the Chinese bill.
The trade associations OF the country are in
vited 10 cooperate in disapproval of the veto
Louisville, April There is but COM
paratively little talk here in regard TO the
removal of the capital to this city, but 50 far
as can be ascertained the weight OF public
opinion Is d; cidedly in favor OF the change,
and it appears likely that an appropriation
of 81 100000 will be voted by the people
Saturday.
Little Rock, April IA Texas special to
the GozeHe says: "An unknown young man
was found hanging to tree by silk hand
kerchief near Srawn, in Easiland county,
yesterday. 1t is supposed that he shielded.
There was nothing to identify or locate by.
He was neatly dressed, and looked to be about
twenty years old.
young man from Columbus, Ohio, arrived
here last Monday, and registered at the St.
ames Hotel. On Tuesday he disappeared,
and has not since been seen or heard OF.
His friends fear something serious has be-
fallen him. He is son OF Judge Rainey, of
Ohio, and inherited handsome fortune not
long ago.
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of baser metal, be revoked; that gold and
paper currency below the value of twenty
marks be called in, and that silver alone be
used for the payment OF amounts below that
sum. In conclusion the Gazette saws that
gold currency must be placed on a sound
basis, and silver reinstated in its former
position.
LONDON, April THE 1Tmess Dublin
correspondent says the report that the
Irish-American suspects have been lib
Grated on condition that they quit the
country, except two or three who refused
to acceptthe conditions, is unfounded. About
six of the suspects, who are naturalized citi-
zens of the United States, have been released
within the last three weeks, but only on the
same grounds as were others who were lib
Grated. Their citizenship is entirely uncon-
neeted with their release, the executive hold
ing that all persons resident in Ireland are
liable to British law, and are to be treated
as British subjects. Among those Of this
class who were released was Boyton, who was
liberated on account of ill-health. There
are only four suspects OF the same class now
imprisoned.
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FOREIGN FLASHES
aoME, April THE collection Of Peter's
zee Sunday WAC $40 000l

ROME, A pril THE collection Of Peters
pence Sunday was 240, 009l. -, --- g,
LONDON, April s.7.-Frederick William
Kucken, a m siesl composer, is dead -f ~
LONDON, April 7-Leplay, the celebrated
engineer and scientific writer, is dead
DUBLIN, April THE police yesterday
made an extensive seizure Of arms and two
arrests.
LONDON, April There is serious fam
inc in Zululand. Crops failed because Of
drouth.
ST. PETERSBURG, April Three soldiers
murdered Jewish family of nine persons at
Sjubez.
BERLIN, April 7.-Bismarck's health is
unfavorable. The physicians recommend
long rest.
BERLIN, April 7.-Liebkencht, socialist
was sentenced at Dresden to two months
imprisonment for slandering Bismarck.
BERLIN, April 1T is said that the Prns-
sian government will recommend that the
upper house of the Diet adopt the ecclesiasti-
cal bill in the original form.
ROME, April Tt is stated that the min
is.ry propose to consider the scheme for
submarine tunnel between Reggie and Mes
sina. 1t ia estimated that the work will cost
"a, 000,000l.
BERLIN, April THE government OF Ba-
varia is giving notice of its intention to vote
against the tobacco monopoly bill, and adyo-
Gates a tax ON the manufacture Of tobacco.
Hamburg also decided against the bill.
PARIS, March DE Lesseps denies and
authorizes the contradiction of the statement
emansting from Washington, to the effect
that the Panama Canal Company intend to
take up the Nicaraguan concession if the
American grantees permit it to lapse, and
that negotiations to that end have been
opened with the Nicaragdan government.
ST. PETERSBURG, April THREE soldiers
(lancers) entered liquor store kept by
Jew at Doubra and demanded drink
After some objection the eldest daughter of
the Jew served them with liquor. A quarrel
ensued, and the soldiers shot the proprietor,
killed his two sons and infant, outraged the
daughter, brutally beat the mother, and
plundered the house.
LONDON, April THE father of DIR.
Lamson has written long letter, main
tanning that the question of his sons
insanity is not new one, nor was il
first raised after the trial, nor in America
through proH,p>;pgs from England. The
case, he says, VS. greatly prejudiced by DR..
Lamson's acts, showing as they did severe
monetary pressure. He expresses regret tn at
the plea of insanity was put aside by the
mansgers of the defense.
BERLIN, April THE Gey7na. Gazette,
discussing the silver question, recommends
the authority voted in the Bundesrath TO with
draw the thaler pieces from circulation, or
place them on the same footing as coins
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leries, was nearly filed. A number of He
brews were present, including the Rev, DR..
Gustav Gottheil, rabbi of the synagogue, who,
being present al the FIRE, was the first to
offer the use of his house of worship to Mr..
Brooks. The latter said to Tribune re-
porter, when asked If it was not very unus-
ual arrangement for a Protestant Episcopal
church to meet in a Jewish synagogue:
only recall one instance where any Protestant
church has thus met, which was that OF a
Baptist church in St. Louis, whose house was
burned as ours has been. There is no canon
forbidding the use of a synagogue. My
church was unanimous in accepting the use
of the temple, as l presume DIR. GottheiPs
was in Offering it. 1t was certainly kind
offer, and we are very glad to accept it.
Whether it will cause unfavorable comment
by High Church people l do not know. 1t
ought not to-" A vestryman of the church
said that he presumed there would be people,
perhaps High Church Episcopalians, who
would criticise the action of the Church.
Such persons, he said, would probably object
if the Church had hired hall which was
used on week days for dancing or theatrical
amusements. He thought the synagogue an
excellent place to meet in, and that the offer
of it was happy sign Of the times.
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now TO PUr CorEeN ON TIE MAR

1t is remarkable how general, among the
country people, is utter indifference as to the
condition and appearance of that portion of
their products they send to market. AT a
most trlfipg expense, and the slightest
amount of trouble, the butter brought for
sale might be rich golden yellow, but it Is
quite commonly the color of a tallow can
dies. 1t might be firm and sweet, but the
maker has taken no pains to work out all
the liquid, so it is neither, and will not keep.
Country hams and bacon are ruined because
bad salt is used in curing and the pieces are
cut awkwsrdly. Hog carcasses look disgust
ing because there was not attention given in
sIaughtering and dressing. The meat is
usually good, bat it will not bring the
price of city killed, though the hog If city
fed is far inferior for the table.
Quite commonly the same careiessness and
slovenliness exists with respect to cotton.
The farmer has plowed and tended with the
utmost industry; early and late the field has
had anxious attention; toll, and thought,
and WatehfuI efforts have brought it to ma
turIty. There is a good crop; the fields TEEN
with an abundant return for arduous labor.
The precious harvest repays for all. Now,
how shall its gathering be go managed as TO
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QUE SHRINKING pEsT.

Early in the century, in 1915, when the
battle of Waterloo terminated England's long
struggle with Bonaparte, its national debt was
100000, 600; to-day it is the same; a strange
thing to tell of the richest nation on the
globe. Year by year the interest ha, been
paid on that debt, taxes are exacted from the
rich and wrung from the poor to meet the
vast outlay. Millions have been paid for the
use of millions; and yet those first millions
remain Today TO be paid just as if no other
millions had been expended. What siiackle
such debt, with its long drawn out annual
payment OF interest, is upon the enterprise of
a nation. 1t is dead weight to the capital
list, an instrument of torture to the toil,r. In
this country we act on different plan. When
We have had national debt We have paid it,
and so stopped the perpetual leak to the
finances that comes from piling one years
interest upon another the century round.
The war brought US under heavy
oblig atoms, and the country is acting wisely
in paying them off. Procrastinators say let
the debt remain, and let the next generation
give its money to pay for what this genera
ton has given its blood to win. Wiser
thought says it is better to pay off the prin-
cipal, for that stops paying interest, in the
first place; in the second, it leaves the
nation clear and unfettered when the next
hard point in its course has to be turned, and
it preserves the national credit and the honor
of the eountry's flag. Steadily, accordingly,
year by year the mountain of debt is melting
down. The interest-bearing debt was at the |
highest point ON August 81, 1865, when it |
amounted to 81, 3sl $50. 291, upon which the
annual interest charge was $l5l, 900 00C. At |
the close of last month the interest be airing |
debt had been reduced to 81 ,514,75 200, and !
the interest charge had shrunk to SOL ,0OO,O 600 |
More than this has been done; the debt moi
bearing interest, mostly greenbacks, has been
reduced $1S3 ,377 ,554. Since Angus: 81,
1865, over 81 ,00O, 100000 has been paid;
every day since that time an average of
$4,000 has been wi ped out from VIII st we
owed. Our condition Is prospecting, our
population and revenues are increasing, and
if Congress will do no further mischief, per-
petrate no further pension-swindle blurders,
we may bring the whole debt down within
three yesrs to thousand millions. With
the debt brought within moderate limits and
the period of final extinction not far away
the tariff can undergo radical revision, and
with that revision the weight the shsckLes OF
the protection system impose upon the ooun-
try's trade will at least be made lighter.
This very fact, and the relief it would give |
to the people, raises up opponents to the
straightforward way of ebt-paying that we
have pursued. The monopolists, for their
jobbers and brokers, and all the trite of |
bears and bulls, and haunters of stock: ex-
changes and bucket-shops, want the interest
paying to go on Unfortunately, that they may |
bleed the peoples purses and raven on the |
impoverishment of the toiling laborer.
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OREGON DEMOCRACY.
Resolutions Adopted by the State Con-
venti0n-The Completed Ticket.

SAN Francisco, April THE Oregon
Democratic Convention adopted resolutions
demanding the legislative regulation of rail-
roads and tariff reform, attributiDg the as
sassination of President Garfield to the
Republican spoils system, denonncing po-
lygamy, favoring the repeal Of the naviga-
ton laws, demanding that the congressional
delegate do his utmost to secure an sppro
priation for Oregon river and harbor i'm
provement. The resolution on the Chinese
question is as follows: "That the Presidents
veto OF the Chinese bill is public misfor-
tune; it sets the degrading mark Of the COM
petition of coolies from China upon labor
and the workingDen of America; it treats
with contemptuous derision the unanimous
protests and appeals of the entire Pacific
coast. On behalf of the people of Oregon we
We disapproye, condemn and declare il to be
the duty of every citizen, regardless OF
party, TO express his disapProval with his
vote as we'll as with his voice" The ticket
completed is as follows: Secretary of state,
J. X. Misunderstood; treasurer, III. Abraham;
superintendent of instruction, w. II. Worth
ington; state printer, Wilbur Cornell; su-
prtme court judge, Eden Shattuck.
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CHICAGO, April IA special to the Erea-
ing Journal says: "a terrific tornado
through the township of Kalamo, Eaton
county, last night, did immense damage
to houses and barns, and killing a large
amount of live stock. Several lives are re-
ported lost and many injured. The place is
remote from travel and telegraph. Later
particulars say of the Oakland county
storm, that Lafayette Crandall, his sister and
little boy and Mrs. Henry Tyler were killed,
and his little girls arm so badly crushed as
to require amputation. Miss Ora Ward
was also injured. The debris looks like an
explosion. Everything is ground to atoms
A horse was blown out of a barn and found
IN a distant field covered with mud.
The idiot sister of Horace Sherman,
of Kalamo, was killed, and another sister
had one of her legs broken His wife's jaw
was dislocated, and the whole family were
carried fifty rods, thrown into a swamp and
badly bruised"
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POLITICAL PERSON AIS.

GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN, Of Missouri, says
that parsimony toward educstion is liberal
ity toward crime.
ONE OF the results of Logan's educational
whisky bill: "What'll ye have? A Greek
sour, or trigonometry julepr'-Dubaque
Times.
SPEAKER KEIFER is said TO favor an early
adjournment of Congress, on the ground that
he would like to save little reputation as
presiding officer to carry home with him.
THERE is now claim before Congress to
pay for some gunpowier used in the revolu-
tionary war. 1t makes some chaps boEes
ache TO see The government waste so much
money in paying off the public debt.
SENATOR MORGAN, of Alabama, has ac-
cepted an invitation to address the Jefferson
ian ID, mocrstic Club of Newark, y, j., on
the 18th of April, on the occasion of the eel
ebration of the birth of Thomas Jefferson.
THE following is.the history of Massa-
chusetts sorehead: He held au Office for four
years, another one for four year., aud. still
another for eight years. AT last he had no
Office, became a sorehead, and refused TO vote.
SAYS Governor Cullom, of IllinoIs: 81
have been made poor in prblic life. When
l first entered az a congressman, ] was, for a
yoHng man, considered well off. Had l been
close and lived like hog, might be in good
shape now uuahCAdIy
BLAINE's Republican enemies recently
put a story in circulation TO the effect that
he proposed becoming a minister in the Con-
gregationaI Church, and devoting therein
the remaining years of his life. Blaine pro-
nounces it "an internal lie."
Ben BUTLER, now past seventy, is still a
pushing politician. He has Just made the
announcement that whether Mr.. Neyes or
Mr.. Pierce is the Republican candidate for
governor in Massachusetts, it will have no
influence upon his determination 10 enter the
field.
Mr.. ABRAM S. HEwrTT's nomination for
governor of New York, upon his record and
upon the merits of his position on the tariff
question, would be the vigorous assertion of
Democratic principles, and would carry the
conviction that they would be practically
carried out SO far as possible.
THE proposition TO make Secretary-of-the
Treasury Folger a candidate for governor of
New York has been already Endorsed at
Albany. 1t is said that Governor Cornell
now realizes that his chances for renomina-
are very slim, while the candidacy OF Mr..
Folger is gaining increased strength every
day.
COLLECTOR WILSON, of Louisville, KY,
who had been in office since March, 1881, and
who but month ago received letter from
the commissioner Of the internal revenue,
Mr.. Raum, congratulating him upon his IN
common efficiency and success as public
officer, has been suddenly removed, and Mr..
Lewis BuckDer was nominated TO succeed
him because he was Grant man. This is
civil service reform.
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WATTERsoN as a medium is a failure He
has been trying to materialize Tilden for the
past five years, but the old man don't mate
rialize worth darn. Still al. W." con-
tinues his labor, though he begins to confess
failure. In his last letter to the "C-J." from
Washington he Gays: If Mr.. Tilden re-
appears upon the scene of active political
life, he must appear as an organized ldea
and moral force rising out of the immediate
situation. If he wants to resppear, and has
the physical strength to make his desires
voluble, there is not a shadow of doubt that
he can do So" We call particular attention
to the "ifs" in the above extract.
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what Ex.TreaIy Commissioner (

Commissioner Swift, now in Sacramento,
publishes carl in the Record Union to the
effect that the recent interview with him,
published in the San Francisco Cal, was not
correct in making him say the commission
ers discussed and agreed on any limit Of
time for the suspension Of immigration.
What he did say was that it was distinctly
agreed that what might be necessary time,
whether ten or fifty years to correct
the evil, the United States was to be the sole
and only judge; and the Chinese govern
ment, as he understood it, relied upon the
government of the United States not 10 take
more time than was necessary TO accomplish
and decide the result, and in his opinion
thirty-three years would be satisfactory to
the authorities at Pekin
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Great Damage i'm the Lower DeSM@fnes
Valley.

KEoKUK, IA, April THE Keoknk Con-
stitution's special from Keosauqua, the county
seat of Van Buren, county, states that the
hurricane yesterday wrecked a great deal Of
property and played much havoc throughout
the lower DesMoines valley. AtKeosauaua
a large new house, in which a locomotive was
kept, was demolished, a fireman badly in
jured, two or three brick houses partly de-
molished, sections of sidewalks torn up and
borne away by the wind and the glass-front
of Martins new storehouse ruined. The
wind tore up trees and blew down fences in
all directions
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7
THE APRIL ANGLERs.


Now from his ambush does the trout
Look sharply out,
To keep upon the wandering fly
An anxious eye;
And carefully his optics sean
The quiet man
Who seeks to lure him from his pool,
An April fool.
Forth do the eager anglers fare,
Devoid OF care,
And seek. afar from busy str, cts,
Their unusual beats.
Where in his c oil and quiet bed
sl. The liver fed f 2
And logy trout can now be caught,
..,t,. Or dearly bought.
But others seek the mountain streams,
Where sudden CLEANS
Tell OF as true and game a fish
As heart can wish
A fish whose senses, keen and sly,
Can judge a fly;
Who calls for patience, nerve and skill
To break his gill.
Good luck with all the anglers goi
And may they know
The keenest joys OF their pursuit,
And again, to boot;
And when, with baskets full, they come,
Recruited, home,
May they omit, TO our surprise,
The usual lies.
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"You are the only man." said Lord Mel
bourne te John Black, former editor of the
London Morning Chron'e'e on one occasion
when chatting with him in his study, "who
forgets that / am prime minister" "How
SO, my lord?" asked Black. supposing for the
moment, that he had inadvertently omitted
to pay proper respect to the rank Of his
visitor. "Well," said Lord Melbourne, "you
are the only man | know who never asks q
favor of me-" 81 have no favor to ask, my
lord, replied Black. 81 have no favor to
ask of anyone in the world. You are prime
minister OF England; but am editor OF the
Morning Chronicle, and l would not change
places with the proudest man in England
not even, my lord, with you"
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Another Cyclone.

KALAMAZOO, MICH, April IA severe
hail and wind storm prevailed in this region
yesterday afternoon, and at Kendall, on the
South Homer road, it was regular cyclone
Mr.. Wilder's house was blown down and he
was killed, and his wife and friend injured.
Other buildings were injured. The cyclone
moved east. across the northern part of this
county, unroofng houses and doing other
damage. 1t is rumored that a man was
killed in Cooper township
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The Presidential Canvass.

Already the canvass for the next presi-
dency seems TO have opened in the organiza-
ton OF number of Arthur clubs in The
city of New York, to be devoted to the NOM
ination and reelection of the President. 1t
is also asserted that all the nominations for
Federal offices in New York State are based
upon this idea of denomination In 1884