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sPUYFEN DUYYEL DISASTER.
a Ve-diet of CnIpabse Negligence Re
turned by The Corouer's Jury.

New YonK, January 2G.-The coroner's
jury in the Spuyten Duyvel abroad disaster
case rendered verdict that George Melius,
brakeman OF the Chicago express; George F.
Hanford, conductor of The same train; Ed
ward Stanford, engineer of the leading loco
motive; Archibald Buchanan, engineer of
the locomotive Immediately attached TO the
Chicsgo express; Frank Bum, engineer of
the larry town train; John NJ. Toucey. su-
perintendent of the New York Central Rail-
road Company, and the officers and man
ayers of the New York Central and Hudson
River Railroad Company are guilty of caus-
ing the death Of Webster Wagner, Park
Valentine, Louisa Valentine, Mary L. Brown,
J. Albert Richards, Oliver p. Kelley,
Francis Mareehal and Darling L. Ran
som, by criminal means and culps-
bic negligence in the performance
of their several duties connected with the
said railroad, in so lar as 10y such inquisitIon
the jury has been able TO ascertain; that each
and every one of the persons named is re-
sponsible in his own individuality, no one
sharing the responsibility with another. The
jury affirm that with an experience of fifty
years of railroad management, aud with APP
planes in general use for the prevention
of like disasters there appears to be no pal
liation, whatever, for the criminal careless
ness and disregard for human lie exhibited
by the employees of the company.
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CHICAGO TRADE.
wheat DuII-COrn strOng-Oats Steady
Provisions Weak.

CHICAGO, January 26.-The wheat market
for futures was dull to-day; receipts con-
tinued small and shipments were insigni6-
cant. The movement in -four being nearly
six times as great that Of wheat the mar
ket opened a shade weaker than the close.
became heavy and declined l Ic rallied &c,
huctusted. until the close, when it was IA
lsc below yesterday. Sales were made at
81 324@l 342 for February, 81 34G1 $50
March. Sales On call were 100000 bushels,
and prices were unsteady for February.
Corn was strong and s@4c higher in
early dealings. Prices then settled back
A(9sc, and the close was barely steady. The
receipts were large and the shipments mod
crate. The weather was soft and unfavor-
able to the moving of grain. Sales were
made at Gl5G962ic March, 67@674c May.
On call the sales were pretty large, with prices
about Ic up.
Oats were steady and very nearly IN
changed, but the tendency was for higher
prices, 10th on Change and on call. Sales
ranged from 453c to 46ic tor May.
Pork, with liberal offerings and the warm
weather, ruled very weak, declining 20G125c,
and only recovering 5'g10c. Inquiry was
rather slack. Sales were made at SIS IjG3
IS 30 for February, SIS 35GqIS so March.
Lard was active, but prices receded early to
l0@102c, rallying 24@5c near the close.
Sales were made at 1l.25@1l.30c for Febru-
airy, 1I40G11 SOC March. On call pork
weakened decidedly, and lard was a shade
weaker.
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folded it and weighed out the dust which
was $50 worth He was about i cast the
paper aside when the Celestial motioned to
il and asked that it might be given back as
it had some washing accounts on it. The
paper was returned, and the next night he
was there again, betting $50 in gold-dust as
before He put his package carefully on the
ace and won. The dealer handed him out
$50 and the Chinsman shook MS head.
Whats the matter, John?'
You payee alice bet. One bundled fifty
dollars"
The dealer laughed contemptuously, but
the heathen unrolliDg the package, showed a
hundred dollar bill laid in between the
double piece Of paper which contained the
dust
The dealer looked very cheap, but the
Chinaman never moved muscle. He acted
as if it was the regular thing to keep hun
dred dollar greenback folded up in his gold
dust packages.
"Pay it." said the lookout man. He's got
US dead"
The same bill was in the paper the night
before, but the dealer had handed II back
thinking ii a wash bill But OF course this
wasn't the Cbinaman's fault.
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ruE rRoUnLE rHE nALKASs.

1t is not improbable that exciting events
may be preparing in the East once more.
D'Israell's Berlin conference, at the conclu-
sion Of the war between Turkey and Russia,
cared more to oblige the kings than to satisfy
the people or to Tighten the burden of their
wrongs. Already the petty seifshness that
so greatly characterized the measures taken
at Berlin are bringing forth bitter fruit. To
Austria was given the territories of Bosnia
and Herzegovina. This was tearing them
from the wolf to deliver them to the tiger
Bigoted, harsh, overbearing and cruel,
Austria proved herself to be when unhappy
Italy was subjected to her coarse and insolent
sway, yet the two unfortunate Balkan dis
tricts were remorselessly consigned to her
savage care. Since she marched an army
into her new territory Austria, as is her ma
ture, has shown herself harsh in administra-
ton, keen and rapacious in her tax-gather-
ing, and tyrannical in her mode Of govern
ing. Armed guards everywhere made prac-
teal slavery; there was no liberty where
the Austrian presided. The govern
ment was military one, reign OF
force. When the Austrians proceeded to
conscript the people for the purpose of put
ting them in their army, opposition broke
out and promised to become formidable.
The spark that lighted up tue Russian war
was first lighted in Herzegovina. A revolt
which has not been subdued broke out
against the CONSUMPTION last spring; many
persons fed TO the mountains. and many
sought refuge in the United States A few
We eks ago a fresh attempt to force the people
of Herzegovina into the hated Austrian
army led TO a new and more formidable out
break. -Four Austrian gems d'dy7aes were
killed. AT Newesinje thousand insurgents
captured military post, the conscripted ma
tives were liberated, and the Austri an cap
tives we're sent to an interior town. Bosnia,
Albania and Montenegro are all sharing the
impulse of opposition. Austria is cultivat-
ing favor with the Turks, gaining Germany,
and winning even Italy to support its mon
strosities. England looks on and disap-
proves, but, as long as her cherished way to
India is not threatened she says nothing.
Russia would try to turn the trouble to her
own ends, but she is crippled just now with
debt and internal disorder. The trouble Will
give Austria an excuse to introduce more
troops with which she will, probably, annex
adjoining territory, and in doing so another |
big blaze may be lighted up in Europe.
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FOR AND ABOUT wOmEN.

Mrs. Robert Lincoln has blue eyes and
golden hair.
PATHS maid writes all the Autographs"
for the Prima donna.
The Prince of Wales has ordered Cow
entry tricycle. tor the use of one of his daugh-
tiers.
James Gordon Bennett mentions some New
York ladies who carry toothpicks in their
mouths 10 stores and streets.
Miss Julia Jackson, the only child of
Stonewall Jackson, is reported to be engaged
to marry Mr.. Frank Baker, wealthy young
Baltimorean.
The waists OF fashionable, conventional
dresses grow longer and longer, while those
of aesthetic dresses grow shorter and shorter
Presently the infatuated youth of the coun-
try won't know where to hug.
Queen Victoria, combining motherly afIec-
ton and musical taste, has commissioned
that crusty composer, Mr.. Gounod, to write a
nuptial march for orchestra and organ for
the marriage of her youngest and favorite
son, Leopold, duke of Albany.
"You may talk about Gansborough hats"
said old theater-goer the other day, "but
I'd rather take my chances behind one of
those monstrosities than to be Just back of
the man with head that goes away up
from his shoulders aud shuts out the entire
stage. l lost the whole performance the
other night when got behind head of that
sort"
The widows of India who used to get on
pile of wood and be burned with the bodies
of their husbands. don't DO that way any
more, but go and get married again. The
American widow has always wondered why
the Indian widow should leave a world full
of charming bachelors to bury herself in an
ash-heap with the man she happened to
marry first.
A pretty superstition in vogue IL some
parts of France makes the young gir's who
are in want of husbands pluck little .ranch
OF an apple-tree as they are returning from
mass on Christmas night. This branch they
place in bottle full of water hung up in
front of the window Of their chamber If
one of the buds burst before Easter the girl
may be sure that she will be married before
the end of the year. This is called Pdques
feurie.
The knowledge of America and Americans
shown by the average English editor is some
thing extraordinary. The Manchester Cott-
Tier publishes a serious paragraph to the
effect that Mrs. Edmund Adams, the wife of
the American minister, is about to Wait st.
Petersburg in response to personal invita-
ton from the czarina, and that the visit has
caused some displeasure in high circles in
Berlin. Mrs. Edmund Adams Is unknown
in this republic, but Nine. Edmond Adam,
clever French woman, has accepted an invi-
tation from the czarina.
gentleman of Port Jervis, New York,
has a family of three or four little girls.
Not long since the children were talking
about a pair of twins. One of them, an
elder one, turned to her father and said: |
"Papa, what do they call it when three !
babies come at once?" A little one, who |
was much interested in the conversation, |
and who had heard talk about the smallpox, |
at once interrupted an said with much ami
nation: 81 know, papa" "Well, what do |
they call it?7 said the father. "An cpl |
demic," said the little one, proudly display |
ing her knowledge
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Served the Fellow Right.

DETROIT, January 26.-Q ute an excite
ment was stirred up at the operahouse last
night, where Herman, the magician, was ex-
hibiting. Between the performances the re-
suit of the Guiteau trial was announced,
when the audience broke into loud applause
In the midst of the noise hiss from the
gallery was heard. As soon as the signs of
appreciation had subsidized little the hiss
became more audible, and there were cries of
condemnation. A special officer instantly
discovered the man who was Kissing, and
stepping down the steep aisle, advised him
to desist. This attracted attention to him,
and before the officer could get him out OF
the thea1er crowd OF men and boys near
by pitched upon the offender. The fellow
was badly cut and bruised by his patriotic
ASSISTANTS, and was removed with great diff
Guilty, but managed 10 help himself as soon
as put outside of the building.
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DIVISION OF DAKOTA.
Mass Convention at SIOux Fails 10 Con-
slider the Question.

YASKToN January pa mass conven-
ton in southern Dakota assembled at Sioux
Falls yesterday TO consider the question OF a
division of Dakota and the admission of the
southern half as State. Over five hundred
representatives were present from twenty
three counties, made up of the most infiuen
tiel Republicans and Democrats OF southern
Dakota, representing all professions and
branches of business. Great enthusiasm pre-
vailed. Elk Governor Edmun1s. of Yankton,
was made chairman; one hundred and thirty
four delegates were chosen to visit Washing
ton and urge Congress to pass the enabling
act now PENDING for the admission OF Dakota,
and to give the northern half t. rritorial
government. The resolution claims two
hundred thousand people in the southern
half of the present Territory, ADD sixty
thousand in the northern half, and they de-
mand admission to the Union and enfran-
chisements of rights as guaranteed by the
fundamental law of the land. Entire har-
mony prevailed and rousing speeches were
made by the most prominent Democrats as
we'll as Republicans. The delegations will
leave for Washington at very early day.
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under the horse and bruised his arm $500.
Since the prohibition of the liquor traffic in
this place, We have had peace aud quiet,
and everybody gone to work.
Montgomery Adre51iser: Excursion rates
to the Ryan Sullivan p1ize-fght are being
announced The chief OF police esti-
mates that lor.y-twc hundred persons have
been vacciEsted within the past three weeks
.--....-. Trouble about false rumors OF small
pox.......--An unususlly large number OF
strangers are in the city at present. They
are mostly Northern gentlemen
Mobile Register: another house burned
down by incendiarism. The crossings in
many psrts OF the city are almost impossible
$50. Yesterday one of our cotton factors
collected for one sale Of cotton Sl25,0OO
800. Mobile is getting ready for the carni-
val. Two small negro boys were arrested
yesterday morning for experimenting with
kerosene and matches. .---- Mobile citizens
still get bitten by the dogs.
Moulton AdceTtjser: There is not a man
in Moulton who supports silk hat .-.-.- II
one vile Is blessing, two must be a JOY for
ever We urge our farmers to plant
plenty Of corn next spring. Put in plenty
and then double the amount. The oat
and wheat fields look green and promising
throughout the country, and the sowing con-
tinues in many sections $50. Our streets are
being rooted up and the shade trees are being
ruined by the hogs. Some of our people are
calling for hog law, and others are being
greatly annoyed with geese.
An Alabama journal before US looks as if
the ink was put on by the fat side OF fresh
cut turnip. and ii is folded as neatly as the
turnip tops when wilted, while the paper is
the color of the turnip leaf when half
withered. All this would not be much If a
column and half OF the space was not &C.
cupied with an aasthetic outburst on beauty
OF color, grace OF form and harmony of sur
roundings. Since writing about our tur-
nipple lded contemporary we find in a jour-
nal Of his neighborhood the following: "If
the devil OF the - would dampen his pa
per a little, soften his rollers a good deal,
and warm up his ink, he would doubtless
print 4 paper his subscribers could read"
The advice may do good in several quarters,
If taken.
Selma Times: son account OF the extreme
warm weather which has prevailed during
winter and the short demand for coal result
ing therefrom, the Monticello mines have
stopped working. Scores of negroes are
about the street these days with farming i'm
plements in thsir hands. Thus the prelimi-
nary work for next years big crop goes on. |
Two hundred and thiriy-eight persons,
all but eight Of whom were negroes, were
vaccinated at the Council chamber yesterday. |
The totsl 20 date j. five hundred and thirty |
two. 49,. .JoEers trouble Selma with repeated |
false fire alarms. \ party Of negroes |
ira veling on em,grart tickets Issued from
Atlanta, Georgia, to Jackson, Mississippi, ar
rived in this city. Two meu were sick, one |
with vsrioloi], and the road refused to take |
the party on and they were qusrsntined."
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corTON.sEED OIL.

Many Of our readers can remember the
time when cotton-seed was one of the great
est nuisances that infested a plantation. The
heap sometimes became so great that the
ginhouse had to be removed to get out of the
way of it. How many planters who were
then complaining of hard times had for
tune in their hands and did not know it!
Now the oil of that very seed is fast becom-
ing one of the most valuable products of the
South. Nearly seventy cotton-seed oilmills,
it is stated, are in active operation. The
value of the oil made last year was $780,
600. The production of seed was nearly
three million tons, of which less than two
hundred thousand tons was pressed for oil,
which shows how much more important this
branch of business has to become than We
have yet seen il. In its crude form cotton
seed oil is used as a lubricant, for making
soap, in painting, and is exported to olive
oil producing countries, where 1t is mingled,
when properly purified, with that substance,
and the whole sold as olive oil. Within the
last year very important step in advance
has been made in the cotton-seed oil trade by
its extensive adoption as an article OF food.
The country had been Mortified by revela-
ions as to the unclean filth palmed off
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A WHITE SLAVE.
German Woman Redeemed After Sew
enIeen Years of Servifade.

New ORLEANS, January 26.-The history
of that era in the history of New Orleans
when the tide OF immigration first set in is
replete with romantic incidents and stories
of the hardships endured and the suferings
to which SOME OF these immigrants, who were
called Redemptioners, were subjected are
almost beyond belief. That these immigrants
were treated no better than slaves; that all
the work that could be obtained from them,
even to the sacrifice of their health and, in
many instances, their lives, was ex-
tracted, won by the lash, cannot be
doubted, for there are those still in
the land OF The living who can
upon which came Mrs. Margaret Diedrich,
who departed this life on the 18th instant,
and the ship Emanuel, Captain Post, from
Amsterdam, which landed at her wharf on
March Z, 1918, was an Alsatian family, con-
sisting of husband and wife, a daughter
going on eight years OF age, and a son. The
two adults succumbed to the bardships OF the
voyage, leaving their children TO the care of
those who unwittingly were destined to be
sold into service for their passage, and who,
on the arrival OF the vessel would be sepa-
rated from each other by the fortunes of the
auction block. When the ship arrived aud
the sale OF the immigrants was effected, the
girl, a dark complexioned, black-haired
child, was adjudicaied 10 John b. Miller, the
owner Of plantation on the Mississippi
river, and at the time we'll known turfman
and owner of racing stock The child
was placed among the negroes Of
the plantation, and very soon lost
her identity. As she grew up she was led
to believe that she was in reality a negro
slave, and remained on the plantation in
utter ignorance of her parentage until she
reached the mature age OF thirty-seven year,
when she was placed upon the slave market
with two male children, her offspring, for
sale. One of the children was the issue of
her union with a mulatto, and bore the
features of its fathers race.
The other was the result OF Haisoa with 2
white man, and was distinctively a white
child. When the mother and her two chill
iren we're placed on the block they we're
purchased by family in the lower portion
D. the city. Some time after this, while
making purchase at grocery store, kept
BY German, the resemblance she bore to
friend Of the proprietor'z vile struck the lat
.er, and she inquired Of the slave woman her
anieeedentz. These questions the lat
.sr could not answer. but being in
'pirsd with confidence by the evil
itnt intsrest the grocery-keeper's wife
1ad taken in her she admitted that she had
faint remembrance OF brother, and also
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MEMPHIS APPEAL
FRIDAY, ;: JANUARY %. 1882
The UTAH POLYGAMIST REPREsEN-
TATEVE.


1t is expected that the Elections Commit
tee viii actively take up this week the ques-
ton of who is entitled to represent Utah in
Congress. The votes were nearly all for the
prominent polygamist Cannon. The Gen
tiles were not able to give many to their
man, Campbell, who claims the seat. 1t is
objected that Cannon is not an American cit
izen and is, therefore, ineligible. The papers
before the committee, on the evidence OF
Cannon's brother, state that the two came to
the United States from England in 1912. Can
non was then fifteen years old. In 1847 he
settled in Utah. William Farrar, one of the
Mormons, states that Cannon was sent in
1850 to the Sandwich Islands as a missionary,
remaining there until 1854. Cannon claims
that in December, 1854, he was duly natu-
rallied and shows certificate from the clerk
of the proper court in Utah to that effect, but
the journal OF the courts proceedings contains
no statement ofsuch fact, as the law requires
it should do. 1t is, therefore, contended
that the certificate is null and of no
authority, and issued in contravention OF
law, evidently by very obliging clerk, who
ought to be made to answer for his fraud.
Cannon was not entitled to naturalization in
1854, not having resided continuously in the
United States for five years preceding that
date; the four years Immediately preceding
ne spent in the Sandwich Islands. Besides
this plain disqualification, second point
will come up before the committee. Cannon
lives in open violation of United States law,
and is liable to a penalty for his crime OF
not over $500 and to imprisonment for not
over five years. Thai he advised and taught
others also to violate the law is admitted by
him, for he found that if he did not make /
certain admissions that the women he calls |
his wives would be brought up to testify, and |
therefore concealment was impossible. The |
following is n copy of his admission:
In the matter of George Q. Cannon's contest of |
Allen G. Campbelrs right to seat in the House OF
Representatives of the Forty-seventh Congress of |
the United States delegate from the Territory OF
Utah /, George @. Cannon, contestant, protesting /
that the matter in this paper contained is not rel
evant 70 the issue, do admit that am member of |
the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
commonly called Mormons; that, in accordance |
with the tenets of said Church, have taken plural
wives, who now live with me, and have so lived l.
with me for q number Of years, and borne me l
fenets OF said church as being
GEORGE q. CANNON.
That this four-wived bearer of false certif-
cate of naturalization is not entitled to the
seat he claims appears plain, but it does not
follow that his adversary of the few votes is
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ALABAMA ABSTRACTS.

Tuscumbia has organized corn-growers
club.
Huntsville is afraid OF another mad-dog
epidemic.
The work OF building new courthouse at
Elba has commenced.
The Montgomery Advertiser has been pub
lished fifty-three years.
The county of Mobile pays the largest tax
Of any county in the State.
The opera Patience will be presented at
Huntsville by local talent.
The capital stock of the Huntsville Ma
tional Bank has been reduced from 800, 900
to $4,000.
\ sportsmen's association has been organ
lied at Huntzyille, with General Anderson
White president.
The total indebtedness of the State of Ala
bama, as shown by the late report of Auditor
Carmichael, is s., III 500.
General Wheeler has introduced a bill in
the House for the erection of SIS, 900 gov
eminent building at Huntsville.
The increase of the taxable value OF all
property in Alabama, Tor the year 1881, was
S16.000,000 over that of the preceding year.
The Prattville Signal says that a large area
has been planted in oats, and those planted
in the fall are looking well in many locaIi-
ties
Selma Times: "Numbers of bare-footed
boys are about the streets.-.....-F Fully six
hundred persons presented themselves at the
council chamber yesterday for vaccination"
The Moulton Advertiser, quoting an AP-
PEAL statement as to the population CT this
city, appears to be under an apprehension
that some day the greatness of Memphis
may rival that of Moulton. Evidently our
Moultou friend is too modest: let him brush
his whiskers, pull up his shirt-collar, and
stand up for Moulton against all creation.
Franklin Neus: Our citizens have been
entertained this week by the chinmusic of
couple of book agents. On last Wednes-
day Mr.. Massey's little daughters clothing
caught fire and she was dangerously burnt.
49,. The horse of T. Ii. Moore, on last
Monday, got into quagmire OF quickssnd,
and Henry, in attempting to jump of, fell