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CONGRESSIONAL.
The Bill Providing for Holding the Cot
tou Centennial in 1854 Passed
by the Senate.
EulOgies on the Late Representative
Orth-Buying Congressmen With
Theater Tickets.

WASHINGTON, January 3l.-Before the
Bailey investigating committee this morning.
Douglass, ticket seller at the National The
ter, testified III al he had honored orders from
Bailey for tickets 20 the extent sometimes OF
$40 per dav, and that the orders were turned
into the Gas Company as part payment OF
the iheater's bills for gas.
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lie Matted.

PITTsBURa, January 3l.-The report sent
out by special correspondents las, week to
the effect that the Amalgamate Association
was 50 deeply in debt that it would have to
disband, Is officially denied in the Labor T'!b
tne, which brands the statement as false 10
every respect, and gotten up simply for ef-
tacf
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DETROIT, January 31-Tne Michigan
Grape Sogsr Company, of this city, has
made > conditional transfer of Its business
and assets to d. A. Howell Sons & Co., of
New York. its only creditors, to secure them
sgsinst loss. The entire concern, when
started, cost $500 600, and the New York
firm, which were large stockholders, have
advanced 100000 more. The stockholders
have the option of taking the business back
within reasonable time On payirg the
debts, bu. there is little probability they
will IN
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CONGRESSIONAL,
TIE TARIFF STILL MosoPoLIZ NC THE TIM
DE THE TWO HOUSES.


TIE TARIFF STILL MoSoPoLIZ HG THE TINT
OF THE TWO HOUSES.
WASHINGTON, January 3l-House.
Speaker laid before the House the resoiu-
lions of the Board of Trade of Portland,
Ore, thanking Comma der Merriman fer
his prompt action in Furnishing insubordi-
nate Indians in Alaska, thus rendering life
and property secure. Referred.
Mr.. Red, from the Committee on Rules,
repored back the resolution providing that
the daily sessions OF the II use extend till
6 o'clock Pun. Laid over.
Ca motion of Mr. CaswelI, the Senate
amendments to the House joint resolution
making appropriations for continuing the
work Of the tenth census were concurred in.
Mr.. Valentine Neb. introduced bill for
the construction of bridge across the Mis-.
souri, al Omaha. Referred.
The House then went into Committee OF
The Whole on the tariff bill.
After completing the consideration OF
ffty-two of the $50 items of the chemical
schedule The committee rose, and the House
began eulogies on the late Representative
9th, of Indiana.
r solutions of respect were adopted, and
the House adjourned.
SENATE.
Senator Miller lCal !, from tue COMMITTEE
on Foreign Relations, reported fayorably the
bill TO incorporate the Maritime Canal Com
papy (Nicaragusn company.
Senator Hawley introduced bill to retire
Quartermaster.G General Rufus Ingalls, with
the rank of msjor-general.
The bill providing for holding the Centen-
NAL Cotton and Industrial Exposition in 1884
was called up, aud, after being amended SO
IS to provide that invitations TO foreign ma
lions TO participate in the Exposition shall
be given by the B1;rd Of Managers instead
Of BY the president, was passed.
The Senate insisted on its amendments to
the postofics appropriation bill, and con-
ferees were appointed.
The tariff bill was then taken up, the
sugar schedule being the item under cousij-
GRAFTON.
After debate, Senator Aldrich's amend
ment and Senator McPhersou's substitute
offered yesterday, were rejected.
Senator Frye offered au amendment tc
make the duty on sugars of all grades fort,
par cent. od vaiorem, aud on molasses twenty
i've per cent.
Debate was interrupted by the preseDta
ton of the House resolutions relating TO the
death of Representative Orth.
Senator'S Harrison, Frye and VOORHEES,
made addresses, resolutions were adopted
and the Senate sdlnurned.
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DETROIT, January Stat Kingsville,
Ont, last night as ALI Allworth, CLERK 10
smart's bank, wss locking the door, at IL
O'Clock, he was pounced upon BY three
masked men, gagged, dragged in the
bank, the key Of the vault taken
from him and the safe cleaned ont.
They then locked Allworth up in the vauI,
and left. The amount stolen ia not made
public as yet, but is supposed to be consider
able. Inc burglars took a northerly direc-
ton, and cut the telephone wire leading
north 10 prevent being tracked. Smarl'r
bank and postofice were together, and both
were cleaned out
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THE pespIs,s World.Wide Verdict.

Burnet's Cocaine has been sold in every
civilized country, and the public have rem
derded the verdict that it Is the cheapest and
best hair dressing in the uoild.
variably acknowledged the purest and the
b.st
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The committee counted the money iu The
treasury vault and found S152,0C0. The
deficit is 1927 900, amply secured by good
bondsmeD. IL is developed that the money
was taken in last wear, and nearly all before
November last. Vincent, by The statement
OF s witness before he committee, lost over
100000 in cotton through one house, Fred
Wolfe, and-some through others. 1t il sur
missed that he may have loaned some. There
has been some talk since he has bought q
house, rich furniture and carriage and
horses. The governor has taken charge OF
the keys of the treasury. The defalcatiou
will not interfere with the business Of the
State in the least, or cause any. Interrupt ion
to the regular payment of warrants. The
January interest is all paid.
The committee is investigating VIncsnt's
specUiations to ascertain with whom the
transactions were made.
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BUN F. PRICE
Deputy Grand Master Of Free and Ac.
eepted Mas0ns Of the State-A
Well-Deseryed Compliment.
The Work OF Tuesday-L0dge Of Scr.
row In Memory Of the Late
r. A. Caruthers.

Specialize the Appeal
NASHVILLE, January 81 Every Mason
in Memphis will be glad to learn that Bun
F. Price, master Of Desoto Lodge, has been
elected deputy grand master of the F. and
A. NJ. of Tennessee. A well-deserved honor.
Grand Chaplain Coleman, of Kentucky,
lectured on the "Holy Land az Promised"
The degree of high priesthood was conferred
to, and all masters who had taken the past
masters degree were Installed.
A great deal of important business was
transacted by the Grand Lodge to-day, and
formal reception was given to the repre-.
sentatives of foreign grand bodies. The
Grand Chapter will meet tomorrow and the
Grand Council of r. and S. Masters whe
that body sdjourns. Nashville Council No.
/ will give baUque, and eIemplify the de-
grses of S. and E. NJ. ON Friday evening.
Taesaay's Proceedings I'm the Grand
Lodge.
The American repors that the M. w.
Grand Lodge OF Tennessee met on Tuesday,
NJ. w. Nathan S. Woodward grand master,
presiding, and the following officers present !:
W. W. Mcconnell. Worthy Deputy G. N.
lillian T.. Randall, Worthy ). G. w.
B. r. Harris. Worthy J. G. W.
VIM. H. Morrow, Worthy G. Treasurer.
John Frizzeli, Worthy G secretary.
J.P. Sprowle., Worthy G. Chaplain.
f. NJ. Smith, worthy q. S. d.
A. X. Miller, Worthy J. G. ID.
ID. j. Pierce, Worthy G. Marshal.
John Bell, IT,, Worthy G. Sword. Bearer.
C. Rogers, Worthy G. Steward.
John Q Strange, Worthy q. Pursuivant.
q. Sierferie. Worthy G. Tyler.
n L
address, which was full Of important and
Interesting matter.
Inc several grand officers submitted, in
turn, their reports, the most interesting Of
which wss that OF the grand lecturer, show
ing the absolute necessity OF such an officer.
j. N4Is14,.s fessassP al Ifish Constilu-
ton Lodge, No. 81, and past grand deputy
of Aplrim, Ireland, was presented and IN.
trodu no: he Grand Ladgs By P. G. M
Conner Ia his own iuimitabfe etyle, and il
was sud that it was the most eloquent effort
of his life. Perhaps the Jurisdiction from
which the brother hailed had something to
do with this.)
During The afternoon the committees on
Dlspensatious, BY Laws and Appeals sub
United reports which were adopted.
Mr.. III. r Coleman, grand ch splain of the
Grand Lodge Of Kentucky, was Introduced
and received. In acknowledging the compli-
ment he alluded TO the pc assut iraiernal re-
laIioFs existing between the Grand Lodges
OF Kentucky and Tennessee. La alluding to
the commission from the Grand Lodge OF
tennessee, composed OF Grand Past Masters
Dashiell ard Ffizzsil, who visited the Grand
Lodge of Kentucky few years ago, he said
"A more Intelligent and dignifed deleg alton
never visited this Jurisdiction, aud more
| hearty welcome he never saw extended to
Il .
vislt TO the Holy Land, and spoke of Masonry
| In the Orient
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Dividend Notice.

OYFIcR OF THE
NKNrHB CITY FIRE AND GENERAL ISsURANcEC Co.
No. 10 Madison Street,
MEMPHIS, TENN, January O. 1888.
the regular meeting OF the Board OF Direc-
"a tors, he'd this days.
Divided OF FIVE (5l PER CENT.
on the capital stock OF the Company was declared
out OF the net earnings of the past SIX months.
By order OF the Board.
z u. APPERsoN. President
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THREE LIME-KILNS

4 c,S MILES OUT on NJ. AND c. RIB. THREE
lIC well-bujlt Stone Lime Kilns; one thou
sand acres of land o acres of which are in culti
walton, under good plank fence; also tine new
hve-acre orchard with vell-selectad fruit: forty
GOOD houses for hands; dwelling. large barn, new
coopershop, blacksmith-shop and store; twelve
mules, carts. wagons and quarry tools: 1900 cords
wood. The place IL vel improved. Will sell with
or without personal property. Title perfect ana
no membranes. JOHN A. DENlE.
No $50 Front street.
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vrNcEsr's CONFESSION.
STATE OF ALaBAAA. TEEAspEY DEPAErME.

STATE OF ALABAMA TREASURY DEPARTaEsTl
MoSTGosERY, January q, 1883.
DEAR CRAwFoRD-I find this evening th at
piiA over to the Importers and Traders
Bank, as promised. / leave for New York
10 straighlen the whole matter. have, per-
hsps, waited too long, and will be oensured,
bui have no idea Of running away. / wish
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GOV. o'NeaI 60 ahe Legislature.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:
l, becomes my painful and Notifying
duty 10 ioform you that Isaae II. Vincent,
treasurer OF the State, is short in his ac-
counts and has left the city. This fact was
made known by Vincent in the following
note to A. D. Crawford, clerk in his Office
da'ed the 29th instsnt. which was received
by Crawford on the afternoon OF the S0Ih in
slant, and was communicated to me at $50
o,clocL N N, tbatdav.
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GastoD's Hotel.

Ayes Pills are the best OF all purgatives
for family use They are pleasant, safe and
sure, and excel all other piils in healing and
eura iv- on slitiss.
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Large sums OF money sent Fred Wolfe,
supposed to be dealings in cotton, have been
traced up, and Vincent dealt also, it is sup
posed, with other cotton houses.
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Dbl ED.

sPANG-wednesday afternoon. January 81.
1888, at 4 O'Clock. JOHNNY. son OF John and Bar
bra Spsng. aged one year, ten months and twenty.
four days
Funeral win take place from the residence. No.
Is South street. at O'Clock this fTHUksDAY)
sf srnoon- Friends Of the family are invited 70
attend
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BUSINESS FAILURES.
A DoubIe Assignment.


NEwsUReH, n. Y. January S1.-Edward
p. Roe, Arthur aud James G. Roe, hotel
keepers, have assigned. disabilities, SIS 900.
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YellOW.Pine Flooring.

WE have at Brookhsveu, Miss. 10000 feet Of
wv Dressed yellow ne Flooring, that we will
load on cans At SIS per m face measure. II Is
HOSKINS Il HAMILTON
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GAIssvILLE, Fla, January s1.-The East
Florida Seminary burned to-day. No lives
were lost. Insured
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you would assist the committee, aod after the
balance is aseertained, ask them 10 wait
day and telegraph me, care Of Fred Wolfe,
New York. If anything happens me, wish
10 state emph atically spd positively that be-
ing behind in my cash is my own fsult, and
that you have had nothing 10 do with it,
Your friend, JH. VINCENT.
THE STATE INSURED AGAINST ULTIMATE Loss.
The amount OF Viucenl's defalcatiou can
only be ascertained after minute examin-
alton OF the treasurer's books and careful
count of the money in the treasury, but
hurried and partial investigation indicates
that it is more than 100000. 1t is not
known by what train or in what direction
Vincent left Montgomery. Means have been
adopted to intercept and detain him, if pos.
sible. 1t is believed the State is largely in
sured against ultimate loss. The two houses
will have communications delivered from
time to time Of further information that
comes into my hands.
p
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NE W FIRE M.
Election Notice.

THE Annual Meeting OF the Stockholders of the
l. Memphis Gas Light Company will be held At
Memphis, Tenn, hursaay, March .. L ssS.
to elect seven Cd Directors 70 serve the company
the ensuing year. Election from 10 O'Clock an.
to O'Clock pm m. JOSEPH CRAIG, Secretary.
Nemphis. Tenn. F-hruary /. 1883.
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ESTABLISHED 1910.
INDICATIONS.

For Tennessee and he Ohio GALLEY, colder,
fair reOther, northWesi, Usering 10 nortAeos,
winds, higher pressure, loscer temperature
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WE understand that sealskin coats are
going out OF style, aud in consequence colds
are Increasing among the fair sex. How for
tuuaie there lie such remedy as DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup.
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A PAssENGER TRAM

yesterday when within six miles of Crested
Butte DIVIDE, the engine going ahead TO clear
the track. When about four miles from where
it left the coaches, the engine was struck BY
the snow--lide, dilched and is now under
about twenty feet OF snow. A wrecking en-.
CINE which left this morning could not gel
nearer than two miles TO the coaches, and re-
urnsd Tonight for provisions for the starv.
ino n~aaenuara
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loco IONS RAGS. lron and Bone,

DIT BAN GABAY, AGENT. DEALER N SEC
d ond-hand Goods, al, <13 and as SHELLEY
STREET. Alss buys and sails sysrything from Q
Needle TO q Steamboat. He invita- syNybedy %
whit lis Free Public Lthrary. An kt1dspf M
chfnsry bought and sold.
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DISASTROUS SNOW-SLIDE.
Thirty Men swept Down the Mountain
sfge-SevefaI Killed
And u Number Seriously IsJured-Nar.
row Escape Of y KAflrOsd Train.

DENVER, Col, January Sl.-Last night,
sbeuI three miles from Crested Butte, &C.
Cured one of the most disastrous snow
slides ever knswn in the Rocky Mountain
regions. Late in the night thirty men en-
ployed 10 the Howard F. Smith anthracite
coal mine were startled from their sleep by an
eminous rumblinglnoise, and almost instantly
the avalanche was upon them. The building
in which they we're sleeping was crushed
TO atoms and The human occupants hurled
down The mouuiain eide. A rescuiug party
started out from Crested Butte Is soon as
the news was received, and after several
hours of indefatigable labor the men were
all recovered Pnilip Corwin, Logan In
man, Louis Richards, WIN. Moore, Charles
Belts, ]. ]. Raymond and one other. name
unknown, were found dead. Eighteen 9TH
ers were wounded, several fatally. All oil
the company's expensive machinery was
DESTROYED
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A DESCRIPTION OF THE DErAuLrER.

n OASNhlFAAOh OF LEE oEfAUbIER
Treasurer Vincent left Monday night, but
BY what route is not known. The governor
will offer large reward, and has sent tele-
grsms 10 the police Of all large cities. Vim
cent ia five feet ten inches high, very neat in
dr,ss, brown hair and beard, aud beard full
aud long, with mustache, has very bad
teeth, and ,csr on forehead. The governor
sent to the Legislature the following mes
az.
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ANOTHER REPORT.

Associated Press Report
MosTeoMERY, January 31.-There is great
excitement here. The committee to exam
inc the books and accounts Of Stste-Treas-
urer Vincent we're to begin the examination
yesterday. Vincent left The ciy Monday
night. A letter from him 10 his chief clerk
was delivered to the latter late Yesterday
afternoon, which he laid before the governor.
Vincent, 1t is said, was behIud, but was 60
ing to New York to get money, which the
letter indicated he had loaned. Ane1aui-
nation OF the books OF the cashiers and
others late last night shows that Vincent
speculated largely in cotton futures. The
deficit. as far as can be gathered, is between
S225, 600 and $500, 600. The governor s,nds
Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1883-01-19
Early Marriages.

Nine-tenths of the unhappy marriages
are the result of green human calves be-
ing allowed to run at large in the society
pastures without any Jokes on them
They marry and have children before they
do moustaches; they are fathers of twins
before they have two pairs of pants, and
the little girls they marry are old women
before they are twenty years old. Occa-
sionally one of these gosling marriages
turn out all right, but it is a clear case of
6 ,loots sparkling and marrying before they
have all cut their eye teeth, we suppose the
little cusses would evade it in some way;
but there ought to be a sentiment against
it. 1t is time enough for these bantams
to think Of 6uding pulet when they
have raised money enough to buy bundle
of laths to build hen house. But they
see girl who looks cunning, aud they are
afraid there is not going to De girls enough
to go around, and then they begin to get
In tneir work real spry; and before they
are aware of the sanctity of the marriage
relation they are hitched for life, and be-
fore they own cook stove or be, stead
they have to get up in the night and go af-
ter the doctor, so frightened that they run
themselves out Of breath and abuse the
doctor because he doesn't run too, and
when the doctor gets there, there is not
enough linen in the house to wrap up a
doll baby,-RObert Burdette.
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would nave half the town running after
them. 1t is grand to listen to the voice
of such renresen tative of the people, no
matter if q is ignorant and uneducated
But in the churches the big scholars get up
and they are so stiff and so starched and
so cold that there is no use going to hear
them
Surprised at such an amount OF fnforma-
tioa concerning the habits of metropolitan
clereymen on the part OF one who, as re
supposed, rarely.saw any one OF them 10
know him. nay inf rmant inquired Ca N y,
Where do you usually attend church,"
And the reply came as he expected. "Oh
I am one of the outsiders, as yon call them;
have not been in pew for many ayear. :"
But then he went on to cay that he re
specteI religion and all that; he rented
sitting for his wife in the church on the
corner of - Street and - Place.
"But why doyou never go with her =.
persisted his friend.
Because, as SAID, they are all so prosy
and stiff; If knew a minister in this town
who could preach sermon like that we
heard just now, would go five miles every
Sunday to listen to hmi"
More amused than amazed, his compan
ion turned on him with a single quiet
remark
"WelI. then, you had better try it next
Sunday; for Mr.. Moody was away to-day.
and the man you heard in the Hippodrome
was your wife's pastor, Rev. DIR. b. of
the churcb on the corner of - Street
and - Place"
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. a Chinese Tea Garden.


l send you photograph of a portion Of
a Chluese flower garden, where, as may
be perceived, water is made very impor-
tant feature. Though their gardens are
not arranged according to our Western
plan, yet they are places of beauty, and it
is surprising how much beauty and yarie-
ty they can have In so small a space
There is. no smoothly shaven lawn. no
babblnig brook, no fountains, but most OF
the space is taken up in buildings, tea
houses fitted up with pretty Chinese pic
lures, colored glass windows, mirrors and
screens. and few foreign. curious sing
ing birds and fragrant flowers. Here in
| the pleasantest weather the Chinese men
and few women sit and enjoy their tea
AID little dishes of fancy desserts. and a
good long chat with their friends, their
eyes being feasted with the beauties
outside OF running vines and pretty flow.
ers that fill the air with their fragrance.
Outside of these tea houses, which are
CONNECTED together by curious winding
passages, ornamented here and there with
quaint carvings and odd figures, is what
| accords more with our ideas of garden,
| and 1t is place of beauty; still think a
Western gardener could improve it much.
Here is pond crossed by zigzag bridges.
large stagnant pool, thing of beauty
when covered with large. cool lotus leaves,
with it's large bright pink and its pure
| white Hnwars. hut haforo ithaca opnoa r
there is no beauty there, for the water is
so murky that it is only occasionally that
one can catch a glimpse Of the little gold
fish with which it is filled. The sides,
though, are covered with pretty overhang-
ing vines and ferns and bushes.
The rockeres are odd and pretty They
are not merely piles OF stones, but display
ingenious masonry, representing a cave.
with many winding passage ways. If one
starts in he is surprised at its many wind
ings, which. of course. make it apnear
much longer than it really is, and wonders
IL he will never reach the other end, or
find himself again at the place of starting
for at one time he is led by his guide to
the top, getting glimpse of light, then
down, and sill deeper down in the dark,
in and out, back and through. ziozag, and
every conceivable way. alwaysa new path
aud never retraversing those already
passed. until at last he mas passed through
all. Vines grow so readily here that walls
and stones are soon covered with green,
and are transformed to objects of beauty.
The roses and hnneysuckles, the camelias
azAleas, the peonies and many other fnw-
els all a0d to the beauty OF the place. This
is Chinese Paradise China letter IN
Vick's Guide.