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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-16

TIE leading business men OF Memphis, 80
far a. we have been able to interview them,
are opposed to the proposed repudiation OF
half the interest on what is know n
as the State debt proper. Whatever the
excuses or equities that are offered in ex-
tenuation or justification of the. settlement
of the railroad debt at ifty-and-three, no
one Of them can apply in this case. On III
contrary, the Democratic party was pledged
on every stump in The State last fall, and in
all of the Democratic papers, to psy the State
4 .bt proper "dollar for dollar, cent for cent,
principal and interes'" No plea of poverty
or inability 10 pay can be alleged as TO
them, nor can any just plea in abatement
be advanced. They are, beyond cavil and
dispute, the legitimats issues of the State,
and they ought 10 be paid at their face
value, the six per cent. coupons snd all. Te
curtail even the interest would be deliberate
repudiAtion 10 that extent, and repudia
tion of the meanest kind; it would
be the falsiication of the June
PLATFORM and would be a desertion
of Gov. Bate, who, in his message, honestly
voiced the will Of the msjority that elected
him, and insisted that there should not be a
cents abatement of the principal or interest
of the State debt proper. OF the Demo.
cratic representatives, and senator's from
Shelby county, We are glad to know that
Senstor Porter and Representatives Kelley
Wendell and Patterson voted against this in
defensible and unjusti6 able assault upon the
plighted faith Of the State. We trust they
will remain true to tn eir pledges to the peo-
pie, and stand by the broadest and most
liberal construction of tn, June platform
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The article on psvements Published in
Wednesday, APPEAL is generally regarded az
deciding the question of experiments in
paving material. We have had enough OF
that sort Of thing, have suffered and are still
suGsriug from the rotting Nicolson on
Second street, which ought to be all taken
up before warm weather sets in. Block stone
pavement is the most serviceable and the
most economical of pavements, and the beat
for Memnhis
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STARKVILLE, MISS.
Assignment OF Montgomery & Saunders
Liabilities and Assets.

Special to the Appeal
STARKvnLE, February 15.-Montgomery
< Saunders, dealers in general merchandise,
made an assignment of their entire stock oi
goods to-day, appointing C. A. Hogan, as
signee. Liabilities are estimated at about
$4,000; assets more than enough to cover,
but mostly on paper. Their largest credi-
tors, we are informed, are New York and
Louisville merchants. They have been do
ing an extensive credit business for the last
three years.
The weather has cleared once more, and the
contractors on the Canton, Aberdeen and
Nashville road at this point have resumed
work again with vim
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AMMAN SNSs
uNFAYORARLE REPORTS CON

UNFAvoRABLE REPORTS CONTINUE.
LITTLE ROCK, February 15.-Unfavorable
reports continue from the rivers in the State
which still rise rapidly. Here the Arkansaf
river is rising one-half inch per hour and
shows nearly sixteen feet above low water
mark. 1t rose over four feet to-day. AT
Fort Smith White river is also rising rap
idly; tonight the water is within six feet oi
the railroad bridge. At Dsvalls Bluff, on
the Memphis and Little Rock railroad, the
st. Francis river is reported boomiag.
There is considerable rise in the Ouachita a
river. The Mississippi river at Arkansas
City tonight is twenty-six feet eight inches
below high.water mark last spring. The
levee work of that section is stopped. Al
Hope6eld, on the Arkansas side, the Mis-
sissippi river bank is rapidly giving away
and the surface of the elevator track is dam
aged. No present danger at that point.
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TIE Nashville American says that there
are nearly 500 bills on second reading in the
Tennessee House of Representatives. For
Iuuately it is not possible 10 pass all of these
laws within the allotted lime Of the present
sessisu, or the State might be sffiicted with
much unnecessary legislation. The more we
see Of it the more we are impressed with the
wisdom and foresight Of the constitutional
INIT of the sesaiops.
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Arrested for Embezzlemeu,

Special 70 the Appeal.
LITTLE Rock, February 15.-C. w. Beals,
freight clerk in the Southern Express Office,
was arrested to-day for embezzlement. He
was formerly messenger on the Memphis and
Little Rock railroad, and is well known>in
Memphis. Mivelsz, who went on his bond,
surrendered him 10 the Authorities this even.
ing. Beals protests his innocence. The
amount short is but few hundred dollars.
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sDr. S. B. BRITAIN says: Gas rule ply.
sicians do not, by their professional methods
build up the female constitu,ionN while they
seldom cure the diseases to which it is always
liable in our variable climate and under our
imperfect civilization. Special remedies are
often required to restore organic harmony
and strengthen the enfeebled powers OF wo
manhood; and for most of these we are in
debted 10 persons outside of the medical pro-
fession. Among the very best of these rene
dies 1 assign prominent place to Mrs
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vege:ableCompeund.
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The Various Relief Organizations Doing
Noble Work-GenerOus Donations
from Various Points.
The Situation at Louisville Precarious-
No Business Of AnS.Eiud Being
Transacted.
Great Distress Prevailing at Jefferson.
Vile and New Albany-BOth Cities
Completely Inundated.
UnfavOrable Reports from Arkansas
White, st. Francis and Ouachita
Rivers Booming.

The indications for to-day, "a announced
By the Signal Service, are as follows:
For Tennessee and the Ohio valley increas.
ing cloudiness and rain, warm east to south
winds, stationary or lower barometer.
The river will continue to rise at Cairo,
where it is above the danger line, and al,o
a. st. Louis.
The lower Mississippi will continue to rise.
1t will reach the danger line at Memphis on
or about Monday next. The floods in the
Mississippi below Cairo will prove destruc-
tive. Citizsns OF the river towns should al
once remove property above the danger line.
The Rainfall.
The Memphis Signal Service observer re-
ports the following:
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THE SUFFERERS BY FLOOD.
An Urgent Call for Help By the People
Of JenersOngilfe. -
The Society of the Red Cross OF Geneva
Comes 10 the #. ont.

The following telegram was received yes.
terday morning by the president of The
Taxing g-Districl:
JEFFERsoSvILLE I'D, February H. 1888.
To Hon. D. P. Hadden, President Taxing District
of Memphis
More than three.fourths of the city OF
Jeffersonville is inundated. Fully 1000 peo.
pie are homeless and houseless. The city
government ard LEGAL charity are not able
10 relieve the suffering of the helpless citi-
zsnF. AT large meeting of the citizens
held tonight, an executive committee was
appointed with full power to ask aid and
relieve the necessiIy of our people. We
therefore appeal to the charity of your city
in this, our hour Of deep distress. Remit
rtances can be made TO James H. McCamp-
bell, president First National Bank of JEFF
fersonville.
ST. WARDERwAGAR
WARREN HARR,
JAMES H. McCAMPBELL,
NJ. V. MCCONN,
A ]. HOWARD,
j, G, DORSEY.
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Mr.. KELLEY and his coworkers have re.
peatedly asserted that lower duties would
injuriously affect the iron regions OF Ala
bama and Georgia. Mr.. Abram s. Hewitt,
who is doubtless the best informed if not the
largest iron master in the country, does not
agree with Mr.. Kelley and the protection
ring on this point. And he is right. Neither
Georgia nor Alabama nor Tennessee nor
Virginia need protection. They can take
care of ihemaeIvea
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FERRY GONE UP.
His Supporters Have Broken Away
from Him, and Want n New Deal.

DETROIT, February 15.-Only one ballot
was taken to-day, with the following result:
Ferry, AZ; Newton, 90; Burrow-, II; Cut
zaon, 7; Willis, 8; with 8 Republicans
scattering. FIVE fusion members voted for
Ferry; three of his previous supporters de-
serted him. a prolonged caucus of Ferry
members was held last night, lasting until
midnight, at which the formal withdrawal OF
Fsrfy was urged by many. Mr.. Edward
made strong appeal to the members TO ad
here unainchiugy 10 him, but this aroused
considerable opposition. The proposed
when some Of the minority announced they
should no longer feel bound to support the
senator. The result of the vote to-day is
an apparent break up, aud new deal ia
thought to be inevitable.
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KENTUCKY
THE SITUATION AT LOUISVILLE PRECARIoUs
NO BUSINESS BEING DONE.


LOUISVILLE, February 15-The food il
unsbsted. The United States Signal Service
gauge at the head of the canal shows forty.
three feet nine inches. The river is rising
halt an inch per hour. 1t is believed it will
come to stand BY nightfall. No additional
loss of life is reported, but probably 100
additional dwelling and business houses are
everfowed. All manufactures near the
river are closed. Thousands of workmen
are out OF employment, and almost the en-
tire populace is on the streets No business
is being done owing to The irregularity OF
freight trains. There is almost complete
cessation of river navigation. Transfer and
express wagons traverse every street, stop,
ping at all houses Of citizens and filling
them with contributions for the sufferers.
The response 30 far is a noble one. The
waterworks, In the extreme eastern limit and
beyond the point and cutoff, and which
held cut bravely against the food, sus-
cumsed this morning. The machinery wa.
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A number OF petitions and remonsirances
were presented, among them one against
any reduction OF The tariff upon books be-
low twenty Eve per cent, signed by Oliver
Wendell Holmes, 7. B. AldrIch and John
G. Whittier, as "writers of books" and set
ting forth at length their reasons for this
action.
Alter a short executive session, the Senate
resumed consideration OF the tariff bill,
discussion of which continued up to the
hour of adjournment.
Dawes and Wheeler obtained leave to have
printed in the Record their remarks upon the
Fitz John Porter bill.
The House resumed, in Committee of the
Whole, consideration Of the legislative ap
preparation bill
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A Pardon Obtained by Fraud Masl
AlAmd.

COLUMBUS, o February 15.-Issac Krepp
of Fremont, o, a life-prisoner pardoned BY
the governor, was resrres,ed January I'd or
the ground that the pardon was secured by
stituted in the Supreme Court, which de-
cided this morning that the habcas corpu
could not inquire into the validity of tn,
pardon, and the prisoner was discharged
Judges White and McIIvane dissenting. Il
was the first case of the kind in Ohio.
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WHEN the Marquis of Lorne visited Rich.
mond, Va, he took much trouble in hunting
up his poor relations who reside in that city,
and in making kindly inquiries about others
who reside in other parts of the State. These
relatives of the Marquis are the descendants
OF Mr.. John Glassel, a Scotchman, who
settled iu the Northern neck of Virginia
about 1910, accumulated a large fortune by
his thrift and Industry, and lett it 10 his
children. The family was scattered and
ruined by the ravages Of war, and are now
in reduced circumstances.
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4 lnp0rtant.

" men you visii or leave New York city
have aggage .expressage and carria &c hire, and
| top at Grand Union Hotel, opposite Grand Cen
@ GaI depot -Four hundred ana MY w elegant 70 oms,
| and upwards per day. Elevator. Restaurant sup.
| piled with the best Horse-cars, stages and ele-
| vated railroad to all depots. Families can live
better for less money at the Grand Union than at
| any other frst-class hotel in the city
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LOUISVILLE, February 15.-Contracts. for
the buildings for the Cotton Exposition were
awarded to-day. The carpenters work will
cost 100000. The lolal cost of the build.
ing, (which is six twenty feet by 90,
covering thirteen acres, will be about Sl75,-
900. II will be ready for exhibits during
June sad July. This exhibition opens
August 1st, continuing 100 DAYS.
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TaE Nashville American states that the
total of taxes paid by bank in that city
with capital of 100000 amounts to five
per cent; that is, five per cent. profit on the
capital must be made to pay the taxes.
Other expenses and dividends must be made
ahova fhia
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Non.Resident Notice.

No. 4746-In the Chancery Court of Shelby county
Tennessee-John Carnngton ct al ". W. W
Dancy.
1t appearing from bill which Is sworn TO in thil
cause that the defendant W. W. DaHcy Is q resi-
dent OF the State of Tennessee and il appezrine
from the bill that he is indebted to complainant
in about the sum Of $403 73, evidenced by iudg
ment, and attachment having ben issued and re
turned levied upon certain land in which perhaps
he may have an interest.
u N Inereiore ordered, Tnat ne MAKE MS ap
county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or before the frsi
Monday In april, 1855, and plead, answer OF
demur TO complainant's bill, or the same viii
be taken for confessed to him, and set fol
hearing exparte; and that q copy OF this order be
published once . week, forfour successive weeks
In the Memphis Appeal This 18th day Of Febru.
ary, lSs3- A copy-attest
ROBERT J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
ByJ. N Bradley. Deputy Clerk and Master.
Clapp Beard, Soils. for Complainant, fn
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MEMPHIS MATTERS.

A large number of new bills were intro
duced, most of them being of local har.
acter
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LOBBYISTS INTHe SENATE.

SCHEMES REsoRTED TO TO OBTAIN ADMISSION
TO THE FLOOR
WAsHINGToN, February 15.-In the execu-
tive session of the Senate to-day Senator Ed
munds called attention 10 the alleged privi-
leges of the floor OF the Senate by lobbyists
and others who, through the Indulgence of
senators, have been in the habit of obtaining
cards Of admission, ostsnsibly as secretaries
With view TO the correction OF this evil,
Senator E1munds introduced the following
resolution: "Ofdered, That no person shall
be admitted TO the floor as private secre-
tary by senator until the senator appoint
ing him shall certify in writing TO the ser.
geanL- at-arms thai he is actually employed
for the performance Of the duties of such
secretary, and is engaged in the perform ance
OF the same" After some discussion the
resolution was referred to the Committee on
Rules. and ordered printed
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THREE LIME-KILNS

CIR MILES OUT ON NJ AND C. RR. THREt
lAC weIl-built Stone Lime Kilns; one thou
sand acres of land 80 acres OF which are in cult
yation. under good Flank fence; also q fine new
fve-acre orchard with well-selected fruit; forty
good houses for hands; dwelling, large barn, new
coopershep. blacksmith-shop and store; twelv
mules, carts, wagons and quarry tools: 800 cord
wood. The place Is vel. improved Will sell with
or without personal property. Title perfect and
no membranes. John A; DKNIE.
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MISSOURI.
THE ICE GORGE AT ST. CHARLES BROKEN
RIVER RISING.

ST. LOUIS, February 15.-The gorge in the
river at St. Charles broke about 2 O'Clock
this morning, aud the ice is now running
past this city; but it is we'll broken and
doing no damage. The gorge at Wolfe Is
land, near Alton, lie still firm. Unless the
upper Mississippi river rises rapidly, and Of
which there are no signs, it will hold week
longer. The river has risen emily about one
foot here since last night.
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NEW YoRK, February 15.-Mr. John C.
Reid, mansgiDg editor of the New York
Times has received cablegram from Cam
panini, dated Milan, stating that the great
tenor has signed with Abbey. Campanini
will open at the new Operabouse here
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PENNSYLVANIA.

THE MoNoNGAHELA AND ALLEGHENY RIv-
ERs RISING.
PrTTsBURG, February 15.-The Mononga.
hela and Allegheny rivers continue 10 rise
with nineteen feet six inches in the Monon.
gahela at o'clock this afternoon aud about
one foot more in the Allegheny. The rain
which had been falling since yesterday
morning cleared this morning, aud the
weather ia now clear
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New ORLEANs, February 15.-Specials TO
the PeayURe and Iimes-Democrat from the
Sixth District indicate a moderate Demo
cratic and light Republican vote. E. F.
Lewis, Democrat, is undoubtedly elected TO
Congress in place Of Heron, deceased, by
several thousand msiority.
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= *aKeep to your place and vour nj

*.""Keep to your place and your place
will keep you" But you cannot expect to
keep your place without health, the founda
ton ef all success. For instance, a railroad
engineer in the employ OF the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul railroad had been grlev.
ously affected with diabetes for SIX years.
He took four boxes of Kidney Wort and now
writes that he is entirely cured and working
regularly,
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rhe Re,iremeut of Jadah ,. Bepjamip

LIS speaking of the retirement of Judah P.
Benjamin, Mr.. Smailey, in his cable dispatch
10 the New York Tribune of Sunday last,
from London, says: "Bsiujamin's retirement
from practice at the English bar elicits
elaborate eulogies from the principal jour
mails, the Times regretting that he was not
offered a judgeship, which his health might
have allowed him to accept. During recsnt
years Mr.. Benjamin has admittedly stood
foremost among advocates practicing solely
In appellate courts. The disease which
compels him to withdraw from practice is
Incurable, but not Immediately dsngerous.o
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The people of Cincinnati, so sorely tried
the past few days, have this TO cheer them
the river is falling, and though it is ris-
ing at Pittsburg, it is believed the WORT
- passed. At Louisville the river is sta.
tionary, and there as we'll as al
Jefersonviile there is much suffering
among the poor people who we're driven
out Of house and home and cannot fad work,
the mills and foundries being under
water. The Cumberland river is still
stationary at Nashville, but the Ten
nsssee rose ten inches at Chattsnooga
yesterday. AT 81. Louis the Mississippi
rose thiriy-6ve inctss; at Cairo twenty -siI,
and At this point eleven inches. The Arkan-
sas river in the past twenty -four hours ro Sc
four feet at Fort Smith, aud half an inch ger
hour at Little Rock, where there is sixteen
feet Of water above low-water mark. The
Ouachita and White rivers are also rising
rapidly, and the st. Francis is booming The
Mississippi at Arkansas City last night was
twenty six feet eight inches below the high
water mark OF last spring. The weather prom
ises to be rainy hereabouts to-day.
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EXPRESSIONS of gratitude on the part oi
the public are always impressive and solemn
1t ia plesssn: to know that the people are
Justly prsising the merits of Dr. Bulls Cough
Syrup, a safe remedy for coughs, colds, bron.
chitis, Group and sore-throat.
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n.r,e,,. Expee,. Ano,hsr Flood.

MARIETTA, February 15.-The heavy rain
of yesterday continued till o'clock this
morning. Both the Muskingum and Ohio
are rising, with rise of three feet during
the night. Rain is reported al Zanesville,
and food equsling that of last week is eI-
pected aoain
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HiIl.burx In D.nx.r Of Inu.a.,io..

HILHBURe, February Is. - Dispatches
from headwaters report the weather still
rainy and the rivers rising steadily since last
night, which would indicate that there will
be twenty-five feet here before the food
reach ,s its highest point. No damage excep.
from inundation is apprehended.
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THE OHIO RIsING AT THE RATE OF ONE AND
ONE HALF INCHES EACH HOUR.
WHEELING, February l5.-The river is
twenty-eight feet, and rising atthe rate of
one inch and one e-half an hour. The river
men expect more water in this rise than the
last. 1t rained all night, almost all the
morning, with the weather partly cloudy,
and warm,
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Buy pound package of FIoyd's candies
1t will have in it all kinds of caramels
English wslnuts, cream almonds, French
nougat, real sugar plums, marshmalIows and
fine chocolates. No glucose, all pure colorr
and no adulterations in anything. Every.
thing sold strictly pure, wholesome and nus
tritious. at FLOYD d MONEYS
90 Main Street.
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The Society of the Red Cross of Geneva.
A meeting of this society, in behalf of the
sufferers along the Ohio river, is hereby
called, 10 be held at the Office of Greene &
Beasley, Is Madison street, on Saturday
night at 7:35 O'Clock. Members are urgently
requested to Attend.
JIM. KEATING, President.
J. Z REAsIEV Eenretarv
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THE Nashville World says that Gov. Bate
has been called on by many colored people
aud thanked for his suggestion to have au
assistant superintendent Of Poblic Iostruc-
tion selected for their race
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FRIDAY FEBRUARY. 16. 1855

stopped, as also the supply OF the two large
basins filed with millions of gallons of
water. The gssworks yet hold out, but
few more inches of rise will bring the tallow
dip and coaloil lamp to the front. There
are no more reports from broken sewers, but
water runs over a large portion Of East
Broadway.
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The London Times reports rather un-
promising crop outlook, not only in England,
bat all over Europe. This ought to.encour-
age American farmers to put in large grain
crops.
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INDIANA.

JEFFERsoNvILLE SURROUNDED BY WATER
AND THE PEOPLE SUFFERING
INDIANAPOLIS, February 15.-The tele.
graph operator at Jeffersonville says they
are entirely surrounded by water; every
street is under water, and that it is Impossi-
bic to get anywhere without boats.
AT New Albany the river is still rising,
with prospects for two feet more of water.
Many people are suffering terribly, but still
moving out TO higher ground. The city is
completely surrounded by wafer.