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manuel in the side OF the chapel instead oi
the center OF the Pantheon.
MADRID, December 27.-The Count and
Countess of Paris visit King Alfonso in
January.
ZEPEc, December ga severe shock OF
earthquake was felt here, causing the in
habitants to flee to the neighboring fields.
TORONTO. December 27.-The Trades
Congress unanimously resolved that the
future welfare OF the working people of
the Dominion required the prohibition of
the importation of Chinese labor.
PARIS, December 27-The National and
Temps both state that France will exact
some security for the due discharge of the
pecuniary responsibility incurred by Chi
mas aggressive attitude in connection with
the Tonquin question.
ST. PETERsBURG, December 81. - Won
Gossler, Minister of Ecclesiastical A fairs,
has forwarded to Bishop Kuhn 119 dispen.
sations for the priests of the diocese OF
Boest, who have hitherto been debarred
from exercising their functions.
HAVANA, December 27.-The sanitary
condition of Havana is improving. Only
ten deaths from yellow-fever for the week
| ended yesterday. Cases are scattered
among the population, and not confined tc
the shipping and military hospitals, as
they usually are.
Z PARIS, December 27.-Two hundred
! students, feeling offended by an article il
7! the Communist journal Cri du Peuple, be
sieged the office yesterday evening ant
demanded retraction. The editor re
fused. The students dispersed, but NEE
tonight to determine what course tC
pursue.
PARIS, December 27.-It is reported tha
the government telegraphed, Admira
Courbet, urging him to follow up his vic
tory. at Sontay with the utmost prompt
ness and energy compatible with pru
dence. 1t is expected that Admiral Cour
bet will make an attack on Hong Hoi be
fore marching against Bac Mini.
BELFAST, December 27.-At meeting t
discuss the question of holding reunion
OF representative Scottish-Irishmen a
about the tine of the meeting of the Pan
Presbyterian Council, it was decided t
hold the meeting July 4th next, whel
representatives from America, Grea
Britain and the British colonies will b
| nracaDt
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BOB'S BOOM.
Mr.. LincOln's Presidential Prospects Sc
riOusly Embarrassed by His Cab
met Position.
His Pretext for Resigning, and What
He Hopes to Accomplish by it
Matthew ArnOld's
Queer Action at the Capitalize Prin.
cipal Crop Estimates-Capi-
itaI Briefs.
Bob LINCOLN'S BOOM
For the Presidency Seriously HRmpere;
by His Position in the Cabinet

by His Position in the Cabinet
Special to the Appeal
WASHINGTON, December %. - Robert
Lincon's Presidential boom is understood
TO be seriously embarrassed by his posi-
ton in the Cabinet. Whatever strength
he has is based upon sentiment, and he
has no chance to do anything to help his
prospects, in opposition to Arthur, so long
as he is the Secretary of War. His only
chance TO make headway against Logan is
to get himself talked about, and to revive
the memory of his father. By~one stroke
he proposes TO accomplish this object, and
relieve himself of his present embaTass-
ing position. 1t is now considered alto
gether certain that the Fitz John Porter
bill will receive favorable consideration i'll
both houses of Congress, and it is
asserted that Lincoln will make the
passage OF the bill a pretext for re-
signing his place in the Cabinet. He
viii let it be known that he resigns be-
cause Porter's reinstatement will be an in
suit to the memory OF President Lincoln,
who approved the sentence which dis
graced the general. Iincoln's theory is
that his resignation under such circum-
stances will be the subject of comment in
every newspaper in America, and for dis
cussion at every corner geocery. 1t is eX-
pected TO make Lincoln the most talked
about man in the country and to enthuse
the men who reverence the father TO sup
peri the son. One of the best-informed
politicians from Illinois said to-day: 'Ii
Arthur cannot harmonize New York he
cannot be nominated. With Arthur out
OF the way all of the aspirants are likely
to turn against Logan as the next strongest
man and destroy him. These two being
out OF the fight, Bob Lincoln is as likely
To be nominated MS anyone else"
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ENGLISH ASSURANCE.
Matthew ArnOId's Queer Actions ut The
National Capital.

National Capital.
Special TO the Appeal
WAsmINGTON, December 27.-An admir-
able illustration OF the supreme assurance
of the Englishman in America, even
though he be a EHerdteir and be per-
meated with sweetness and light, is the
manner in which Matthew Arnold has
planted himself and family upon the
Letters. AS is well known Mr.. Letter is
the Chicago merchant prince who has late
ly leased the Blaine mansion with n view
Of giving an impetus to society affairs in
Washington. Some time ago Mrs. Letter
invited Mr.. Arnold to make a brief visit
to Washington during the social season to
see something of the fashionable life of the
capital Social life in Washington is eX-
tremely stupid and uninteresting before
the holidays. The season proper
does not begin until New Years
The lecturing business is also
extremely duh at this time of the year. 1t
is cheaper to visit than pay hotel bills, and
Mr. Arnold is credited with taking advan-
tage of an invitation which was given for
Il later date to take up his residence in the
Letter mansion with his wife, daughter,
nurse and small yellow dog. Mrs. Letter
is said to he decidedly mad about it, but
she cannot do anything except TO entertain
them TO the best OF her ability, and much
to her inconvenience, as the inopportune
visit has disaranged all her plans. Satur-
day evening Mrs. Letter gave 4 reception
for the Arnolds, but the thrifty English
man, for whom the reception was chiefly
given, and who was the only one of the
family whom any one cared to see, had re-
ceivcd an invitation to lecture, and fatty
insulted his entertainers by accepting it,
thereby accumulating the usual fee.
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THE PRINCIPAL CROPS.
preliminary Estimates Just Completed
INV


w WNsHtNCroN December 21.--prof. j. K.
Dodge. statsticiau Of the Agricultural De-
partmcnt, has Just completed preliminary
estimates of the principal crops for 1883.
Il shows that potatoes, all roots and oats
have grown with unusual luXuriauce and
welded abundantly. OF corn the pro-
fcSsor saws the average yield per acre for
present year is nearly - bushels-more
exactly by preliminary estimates 22.' bush
els--which is - per cent less than the
average yield for n series OF years, or j.
bii .O66, ,SS5 bushels. This stands for tho
quantity of the present crop, The quality
Is another consideration. Ii soft corn is
rribbed in masses, and after Il few weeks
of mild, moist weather, is badly injured,
or even spoiled il does not ehange the fact
that the corn was grown and harvested.
IL is doubtless true that the quality of corn
north of the fOrtioth parallel is worse than
for many years, increasing practically the
amount OF shortage indicated by the num-
her ef bushels as whole. Corn grown in
1888 in Michigan. Wisconsin, Minnesota
and Dakota, added to half Of that grown
in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Ne
brIska, would make 400,000,Q00 bushels,
only one-iourth of whole crop, 80 that Il
positive depreciation Of 10 per cent i'll ali
OF il would be equivalent to 10 per cent,
reduction in the valu of the entire crop.
Cur Illinois agent makes the quality ii
per cent. less than the average in that
State. An effort viii be made later, after
the worst part has been fed, TO test the
feeding value of the years products. II
iE not proposed, however, 10 reduce the
product TO an equivalent of merShantable
corn or sound corn, rs no crop ever is free
from immaturity and imperfectiOR, There
is slways some Northern fields caught by
frosts. some neglected acres, some chokcd
by weeds or damaged by overhows, and
sene corn nlailly nubbins. What is in
tended, without reference TO panic or
exaggertion, impressibla minds or
sensational natures, is to find tiiS exact
truth and then tell it. There is nothing
gained, he it 20 farmers or consumers, in
suppressing the truth on one hand or eN-
aggerItiDg losses on the other. One lea
ture of corn-growing in 1888 should prove
a lesson TO farmers OF the country The
general use of seed-coru in the West
grown in q lower latitude, planting Ne
braska seed in Minnesota and Kansas seed
in Illinois, has demonstrated the folly Of
attempting toacolimatc Southern maize in
the more northern districts. Much loss
from frost would have been avoided bad
the seed been carefully selected from the
best corn grown in the immediate neigh
borhood. The wheat crop is, as before
stated, slightly in excess of I00,0O0,000
bushels; and cotton product, Is shown by
the December returns, about 0.OOO,OOO
bales. There will be another ipyestiga-
tion after the close OF the cotton harvest
sand the shipment ct large portion of the
crop, when precise results Will be ap-
preached more nearly than possible hitl-
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WANTON MISCHIEF.
The StatehOuse at Frankfort. Ky.
Greatly Damaged by an Infer
nal Machine

FRANKFORT, December 25.-This morn
ing the discovery was made that the indul-
gence granted by the city authorities to
the practice of shooting fire-cracIers and
other explosive contrivances at Christmas
brought about another Guy Fawkes ar
rangement for the destruction of State
house OF Parliament, the only difference
being one was a malicious and the other
mischievous plot. All day long yesterday
there was succession of loud reports on
every street, increasing in power and vol
ume with the decline of the sun, until
night closed over the city, when sky-
rockets blazed and tremendous detona-
tions were heard on every side.
The imagination conceived that the dogs
of war had been let loose, or that the
devil himself had taxed his ingenuity to
devise a more terrible substance than gun
powder or dynamite. Be that as il NAV.
the citizens were astonished this morning
to find that terrible havoc had been made
at the Statehouse by an internal machine.
Gunpowder, it is supposed, in large
quantity, had been placed in an empty
beer keg and set on the steps leading into
the Court of Appeals from the east en-
trance, or the side next to the new wing
of the Statehouse. The explosion, it is
now known, took place at 6 o'c ock, though
in such deafening roar of artillery it was
not thought of excepting by few who
felt the shock. The windows, sash and all
in the Court of Appeals room We're shat
tered .opieoes, the lights in the windows
on the east side of the House OF Repre-
sentatives were blown out, the lights in
nearly every window on the west end of
the new wing of the Statehouse were
broken to fragments, even as high as the
fourth story, and chips, twigs of trees and
fragments tell all about the place for a
distance of nearly half a square. Police
man Norwood says he was standing across
the street when it occurred, and the shock
was so great he thought the building had
been blown up. He hurried to the scene,
but found nobody there to tell the tale,
nor have the police yet been able to dis
cover the authors of the mischief, which,
bad enough as it is, at that early hour might
have resulted in the death of every living
thing within the Statehouse yard, had it
not been Christmas and everybody away
from the building. There is a great deal
of merriment now made over the affair,
some laughingly imputing it TO Fenian
raid on Kentucky, and others to a mes
sage from Tom Buford to the Court OF
Appeals.
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MEMPHIS
Building and Savings
Association.
Notice to the Members and the
Public at Large.

GO The officers of this Association beg leaye to
announce that the First Series expires with the
month ofDecember. All borrowers in said series,
who have paid up their dues and interest, will
have their trust deeds satisfied and all investors
in said series entitled to two hundred dollars
cash for each share of stock thev hold, which will
be paid presentation of certificate at the office
of the Secretary. This series has been in exis-
tenee ten years and five months, and consequent
ly the Association returns two hundred dollars
for every one hundred and twenty dollars in
vested.
The officers of this corporation feel just pride
in having kept faith with its members and in
managing its affairs honorably, oquitabIy and in
telligently. This is the first Building Associa-
ton of this city which mas run any series TO its
close, and this is, doubt, sufficient guarantee
for its future management. The officers of this As
soeiation, nearly all of whom were connected with
il since its organization, are James 5. Robinson,
President; Edward Goldsmith. Treasurer, and
Samuel llirsch, Secretary, l.. X E. Lehman, At
torneys.
This Association Issues a New Series ever quar-
ter, or four during each year. The last quarterly
series contains 425 new shares, and shows the
confidence of the public in its management.
\ new series will be opened on tine first of jan
next, and all parties desiring shares, as in
vestOrs or borrowers, will apply at the office of
SAMUEL HIRSCH. Secre tary,
Ia,
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NEWS IN BRIEF,

Albany, n. Y, December 27.-Hough
Kirk, barn-burner, was sentenced to five
years in the State prison.
New YORK, December 27.-The Feuar-
ent-De Cesnota case was to-day continued
in the United States Courts.
Richmond, Va, December 27.-Peter X.
Morgan, aged ninety-eight years, a vet
eran of the war of 1872, is dead.
New York, December 27.-The number
of schedules of assignment filed in this
city in 1888 was 343. Liabilities, $40, ,S57, :
S43; actual assets, 1854, ,451.
| Bastrop, La, December 27.-Miss Ste
venson, young lady living in this parish,
was accidentally shot and killed Christ
mas day by q young man named Kitchen.
Boston, December 27.-The case of the
Rev. VIM. Mitchell, the clergyman arrest
ed for stealing book from a store, has
been dismissed. He is now in private
asylum.
Boston, December 27.-A mass-meeting
at fremont Temple to-day considered the
constitutional prohibition of the manu-
| facture and sale of liquor. About 20O
persons were present.
Reading, Pa, December PA petition,
requesting Congress to prevent the impor-
tation OF foreign laborers under contracts
made abroad, is receiving many signatures
Of the workingmen.
BrinkleY, Ark, December %. = The
dead body of Penn, negro preacher, was
found yesterday six miles from town be-
side hog he had Eilled. It is believed
he was SHOT immediately after killing the
hog
| Detroit, December 27.-Three lumber
men quarreled on Christmas over a girl,
at Conesville, Clark county. The next
day they fought it out with pistols, and
one of them, named Atwell, was seriously
wounded.
Boston, December 27.-The will of Prof.
! Sophocles, after several private bequests,
| gives the rest of his estate to Harvard
| College, as permanent fund, to be known
as the Constantius fund, in memory of
deceased uncle.
New York, December 27.-At the So
ciety of Naturalists of the Eastern States
| Convention paper was read and discussed
| entitled, application Of Photography to
| Productions OF Natural History, Figures,
| Lectures and Charts"
Pittshurg, December s5.-Three thou
/ Company, McKeesport, decided tonight
sand employees of the National Tube Works
/ to accept a reduction OF twelve and q
half to twenty-five per cent, January lst.
1 The mills now will probably continue
operations all winter.
Trenton, n. J., December 27.-The
/ chancellor granted an interlocutory in
/ junction against the New Jersey Zinc and
Iron Company from further working
mining property in Sussex county, the
ownership OF which is claimed by Charles
" Trotter and others. The case has oc
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cupied the courts for several years. The
property is valued at several million dol
lars.
New Orleans, December 27.-The Jack
son saw-mill, owned by Lomba & Noel, was
burned. Total loss, $4,000; insurance,
$4,000.
Petersburg, Va, December 27.-Inttelli-
gence has been received of the murder III
Northampton county, of Tuck Barnes, by
his brother, who is believed to be insane.
New Haven, Conn, December PA
thunderstorm passed over the city this
afternoon. Lightning was frequent and
sharp, and thunder very heavy. A strong
smell OF sulphur pervaded the air.
Louisville, KY, December 27.-The trial
OF George w. Levix, chief of the Fire De.
partment, charged with defrauding the
city OF its revenue while he was in the tax.
department, terminated in his conviction
and he was sentenced to three years in the
penitentiary.
San Francisco, December 27.-Frederick
G. Burchard, who testified yesterday in the
Hill-Sharon divorce case that he was or
April Is, 1881, engaged to be married to
Miss Hill, was, on the complaint of that
lady, arrested this afternoon for perjury.
He was released on bonds.
Albany, n. Y, December 27.-Private,
| dispatches from Hanover, Germany, state
| that Col. Henry K. Rathbone, who killed
| his wife and committed suicide, was con.
nected with some of the most prominent
families here. She was the daughter Of
Ex-United States Senator Harris.
Chicago, December 27.-The American
| Fire Insurance Company, of this city
which was organized in 1855, has decided
| to retire from business January LIST, and
its outstanding risks to the amount OF
S73, 81, 900 has been assumed by the Home
/ Insurance Company, of New York.
! Fort Smith, Ark, December 27.-The
body OF an unknown white man was dis
covered Monday on the McAllister road,
near Mckee Kings, Indian Territory,
stabbed in various places and his throat
cut. The man seemed poor. He was a
traveller. There is no clew to the mur-
| derers.
Pittsburg, December 27.-The miners
of the Connellsville coke regions met at
Scottsdaie to-day, and after passing a
series of resolutions denouncing Hun
garian serf labor, appointed committee to
prepare a petition to Congress requesting
the passage of some restrictive law upon
their wholesale importation.
Detroit, December PA fire at Saranac
Ionia county, at an early hour this morn
ing, destroyed mos. FoulkSS furniture
store, G. A. Burbanks's jewelry store, Bon
ner & Hunter, boots and shoes; Anderson
& Walker, hardware; J. p. Anderson, dry
goods; ]. H. Killmer, groceries. The es-
timated loss is $4,000.
Bridgeport, Conn, December 27.-Capt
Hunter, John Stewart and John Mayhem,
members of the Salvation Army, were ar.
rested to-day on charge of violating the
city ordinance by parading the streets
Hunter declares that the army will parade
every night regardless of the city ordi,
nance.
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New York, December PA fire in the
oil store of Ward & Co., 172 Front street
broke out afresh this morning. The en-
tire rear of the building was lit up. The
engines quickly dealqged the building, as
oil, reaching to the sidewalk. 1t will he
necessary to pour water on the building
all day. Ward said, owing to the dullness
in trade, large stock had accumulated on
the firms hands, valued at about $4,000.
The indications were that it would be a
complete loss. Insurance, $4,000.
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CUBA AND THE UNITED STATES.
An Objectionable Article OF the Decree
of March. 1865. AbrOgated.

of March. 1865, Abrogated.
MADRID, December PA decree has
been gazetted abrogating article OF decree
of March y, 1860, whereby goods from the
United States pay duty in Cuba as if they
had been brought in foreign ships, even
when arriving under the Spanish flag. A
preamble of the decree states that the OBJ
jects are to define equitable conditions Of
reciprocal trade between Cuba and the
United States without prejudice to the
Interior revision of the tariff, and place
the commercial relations between Spain
and the United States upon sound basis.
The decree becomes operative thirty days
after its publication by the Spanish con-
suls in their respective localities.
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CiBLEGRAMS.

SuAKIM, December 27.-The rebels are
menacing Rimayeh. An Egyptian gun
boat embarks the garrison and Inhabitants.
IiARIs, December ~ Jean Raptiste
Ciceron Lesueur, architect and momber ol
the Institute, is dead. He was born
IN l794.
ST. PErERsRsRe, Beasmber 2T,-The
health Of the Czar is improving. and the
inflammation caused by the recent accident
rapidly sAbsiding.
PARIS, December 27.--The Chamber oi
Deputies discussed the hill to-day grant
| ing credit of 3,00O,0 900 francs for the
proposed colonization Of Algeria.
9 RoNE, December 27.-King Humber
consents, in accordance with the wish o
the Pope, toerect the tomb of Victor En-.
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ASSISTED EMIGRANTS.
Mr. Parueli on the Work of Tuke's
COMMITTEES.


London special: Mr.. Parnell was ques
toned to-day by cable news correspond
ent in regard TO the letter published yes
terday from Mr.. Tuke. chairman of the
| Tuke Emigration Committee. Mr.. Parnell
said that the Irish National League was in
receipt of many letters showing that ter
rible suffering had been endured by hun
dreds of the unhappy individuals upon
whom Tuke's emigration experiment had
been made, and that the Irish people ne
garded any system of emigration as q
murlerous blow against the life OF the
nation.
Whatever Mr.. Tuke's individual mo.
tives may be" said Mr.. Parnell, "the pro-
ceedings of his committee stand exposed
as an indecent attempt to aid the govern
ment 10 get rid Of the Irish people. II
emigration be such a wonderful thing
why not bring the theories OF Lord Spen-
Ger and Lord Derby into practical opera.
ton in some of the congested districts OF
London? The government knows full
well that such thing would lead to the
opening of questions and principles by no
means palathble TO the landed proprietors
of England"
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TALK WITH MORRISON.
Pretty General Reductions Promised
by the MaYH and Mems.

WAsHINGroN, December 27.-The Post
will contain tomorrow an interview with
Morrison, chairman of the Ways and
Means Committee, in which he is quoted
as saying that the committee will report a
bill making pretty general reduction in
existing duties, and that in arranging the
provisions OF the bill the committee will
look TO the possibility of preparing a
measure that can pass Congress; but
whether or not the bill can get through
the House without being amended so as
to destroy its usefulness is matter of
mere conjecture. Morrison said he was
not in favor of disturbing the tax on
whisky and tobacco.
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wha, ,he Agents Know Abou, IL.

New YORK, December 21.- Finch,
Eddye & Co., agents of the Plantyn, state
that the vessel was inspected just previous
to her departure from New York, and
was furnished with RATS and boats suifi-
cient to carry 800 persons. She had pro-
visions for l20 persons, although she had
only twenty-one passengers and a crew OF
forty. Her agents are OF the opinion that
iiity-three persons landed at Oporto, all
the brig c. ID. r. could carry, and the re-
manning eight will be heard from aboard
some other vessel. Following is the list
of passengers: Antonio Lawino, Leonard
Polmaro, Rosano Pietro, Pasqual Sinsone
Guisepe Sipzen; Nicola Lauzier, Pella
Antonio, Rozo Lanzo, Angelo Crosse
NJ. A. Ruzziero, d. Falesmo, Filippi Con
fatani, c. A. Durrozno, G. Terraro, V.
Ferraro, F. Cicconardi, o. Dull, Semli
Seekar, o. Bernstein, Geo. Stambec, Jno
Giano and Dronis Triarro.
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LOTTERY MAIL CASES.
The Motion for Dissolution still Being
Argued at New Orleans

NEW ORLEANS, December 27.-The mo-
ton to dissolve the injunction obtained by
the New Orleans National Bank prohibit.
ing interference with mail matter adj.
dressed 10 the bank 1.-THE Louisiana
State Lottery Company is still being ar.
Chandler and Moulton made arguments
for the bank and lottery company, fol-
lowed by Prof. Maury on behalf OF the
government. The court took recess till
tomorrow. Attorney-General Brewster
makes the closing argument.