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BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
The Permanent ExhibitiOn-Thc ETfa-
mons System of Convict E.ahOr-trin-
tDal Cases.

The Permanent Exliibifion-Thc Enfa-
Iuous System of Convict s.abor-Crin-
tDal Cases.
Special to the Appeal
BIRMINGHAM. December -Four car
loads of the Louisville and Nashville rail
roads Alabama exhibit at Louisville,
which ii has given to the permanent exhi-
bit:on in this city, have arrived. This ex-
hibit was awarded FIVE medals and FIVE
certificates at Louisville. Among the dis
plays that took medals were those OF coal
and coke, limonite. red fossil ore and mag
netite, clays and ochres; woods of Ala
bama, with a complete series OF the foliage,
flowers and fruits OF each tree; grasses and
other foliage plants. Two other carloads
of heavy specimens, mainly ores and mar
bic, being the remainder of the exhibit,
are expected in few DAYS. Work on the
Exposition building is going rapidly on,
and will probably be completed by the 1st
of January.
A munder case to which considerable in
terest attaches came up yesterday in the
Circuit Court, that OF Conner and Nc
Curdy, contractors, working convicts in
the Pratt mines, for killing convict by
running him down with dogs and then
whipping him. Ugly stories are told
about several concerns treatment of con-
victs leased to them, and a pretty en-
phatic expression of the popular feeling,
both as TO the present convict system and
its abuses, may be expected before long
unless some more conclusive vindication
should be made public than has ever yet
been offered.
Two negroes, VIM. Mitchell an;i Joe
Lewis, were sent up yesterdy i'll the Cir
cult Court for twenty years each, for
knocking down and robbing an old man
named John Dobson, from Cullman, in
this city, late in the evening on the 4th of
| March last. 1t would have required only
little rougher treatment OF the old man
to bring them in for even a seyerer sem
tence. As it was, he lay almost at the
| point OF death for day or two.
One of the furnaces here recently made
a shipment OF pig-iron to Cleveland, O.,
where some half dozen furnaces have
lately gone out of blast. some OF them
never TO 90 in again at their present loca-
| ton. Birmingham ships pig-iron from
1 New York to Topeka, ks
! IL OCtOck p. Mt is.reported here to-
night that little girl nine years of age,
I near Oxmoor, daughter Of a section boss
named Doyle, on the South and North
! road, was assaulted by a negro man who
| attempted to outrage her. Another report
/ following saws mob of 100 men in pursuit
of the negro caught him and hanged him.
| The news was brought by the engineer
who came up on tie freight train tonight.
| 0Xmoor is six miles frem here, but has no
| telegraph facilities, and ii is impossible
+ now to get particulars.
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AMUSEMENTS.
{. Lights a London

At Leubrie's Theater, the whole of this
week, the Lights q London will be the at
traction. The Akron (0.) Beacon saws OF
it: The audience at the academy last
evening was the largest of the entire sea-
son thus far. Not seat was left vacant,
and early in the evening the standing
room only" notice was displayed at the
academy entrance. Every seat in the
house was sold, and in the body of the
house the lobby was filled with stand
ers." The play being one with six acts,
necessitated an earlier beginning than
customary, but the interest never Jagged
for a moment, the fascinated attention OF
the audience being held until the falling
OF the curtain at ii As o'clock. The
scenery is grand the finest ever seen in
Akron, and when the curtain rose on the
first act, the audience were convinced that
never before had there been such stage
setting at the academy. Skillful stage.
manager, carpenters and machinists gave
what the public did not expect, because
they thought it an impossibility here. The
smallness OF our stage became painfully
evident when the park at Armytage Hal
was liIst disclosed to view, with the
manorhOuse and keepers lodge right
down TO the front, instead of being back
where more illusion would be lent to the
scene. The next scene that was particu-
larly fine was the Chatham road in snow
and moonlight. Nothing seemed wanting
TO make the picture real. The Regents
Park slips and bridges, by moonlight, was
also beautiful thing. And the realistic
work OF the scene was more than had beer
expected. even 10 the splashing of rea
water, when the men went over the
bridge. The Saturday night view of the
RnrnuUh while mot nXoetlU a hanHSnn1f
scene, was one that was true to Londor
lifa -
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& Co., Job printers and book-binders. left
last night for Philadelphia, for the purpose
of buying new type and material for their
new business. He will he absent about ten
DAYS.
Miss JENNIE MONTGOMERY will sing the
sacred aria by Faure, "In Dreams I've
Heard the Seraphs Singing" at the Court
Street Cumberland Presbyterian church
tonight. There will also be violin obli-
cato by Sig. Arenal.
Miss LENA HnLNAN, one OF the most
charming bellies OF the Rock CITY, who
has been visiting the family OF Capt. p r.
Cousins for the past month, left for home
in company with her father this morning.
Her departure is regretted by many sin
cere friends.
MEsSRS. Brooks K HAMMER, attorneys,
have taken charge of thel Office formerly
occupied by the Hon. Casey Young, 254
Second street, Irving block, where they
can be found during business hours after
the adjournment Of the present term Of
the Bartlett Court.
THE pastor of the Central Baptist church,
the Rev. A. W. Lamar, will preach this
morning on Affirmative Religion rs.
Skepticism." At night he will begin a
course of lectures on David, King of
Israel The first lecture will be to young
men aud the subject David and Jona-
than, or, "he True Basis of Friendship
\ LONG and so..,ewhat romantic attach
ment between two worthy young people
terminated at TreD .on, Tenn. last Thurs
day evening in the realization OF their
cherished hopes. The hand of Miss Lizzie
Darden Gilbert, of Washington, ID. c.,
was sought fifteen years ago by Mr.. J. u.
Dashiell, who is now book-keeper for +. l..
Warner 4 Co, this city. The fair maiden
gave him her hand, and with all; the
wealth OF loving heart, but the match
was opposed by the parents of the young
lady on account of the slimness OF the
lovers purse. They were faithful to each
other, and st last the parental blessing was
given, and the pair became one.
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tainly do TO harm. Ii they fail, the
county will be at no further cost. We do
not believe that the gentlemen composing
the committee only wanted TO get Il big
fee" and not do the county any real SER
vice. Neither do we believe that the
county is in great danger OF losing the
compromise made with her creditors in
August, 1881. Two installments have been
paid promptly, and the county is just as
able to pay the next, falling due in August,
1884, as either of the former ones. The
account of the trustee OF Upton county,
at the Union and Planters Bank, Mem
phis, Will show that enough was TO his
credit, thirty DAYS or more, to pay the last
dollar falling due on the lst OF August.
1882. Upton county is plenty able to pay
her railroad debt, and the bondholders
need not be alarmed at anything they may
see or hear through the local press. Our
newspapers are good papers (the Cal and
Record, but our people take them for the
news OF local character, not for any opin
ions advanced bv the editors. Our obser-
vation is that country newspapers have
very little TO do in forming public opinion.
Thanksgiving day was observed by the
people of Covington pretty generally. We
don't know how many prayers ascended,
but no doubt many turkeys handed in
their checks"
The contractors building for =. A. Fisher
d Co. and ii. NJ. Moore, on hesou the side of
the public square, have almost completed
their work, and ere long that part of our
little town will have a very lively appear
ance.
The public schools in Covington have
closed, but Profs. Holmes and Fisher will
still continue to teach until their five
months have expired.
The Chesapeake, Ohio and Southwestern
railroad has not built their new depot
house at this place yet, but no doubt it
will be built by the time the cotton season
is over.
Our sheriff, Thomas J. Taylor, was mar
ried last, Wednesday evening, and the
Weekly Cal reported him ready for duty
early Thursday morning. He has made
us good sheriff in the past, and in the
future will do all things well. Marriage
licenses have gone up to S. 37l since the
lst of October in old Upton, and the
bachelor can sing "0ld Hundred" and
philosophize on domestic economy.
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AFFAIRS IN EGYPT.
Statement Of aa Eyewitness of the Re-
cent Massacre.

LONDON, December 1.-The Times pub
fishes dispatch from Khartoum, dated
Friday, which states that Capt. Mer-
chant, who witnessed the battle between
the Egyptian arinya>..id the forces of FL
Mahdi, saw Ala IL Deem Pasha, Governor
Of khartoum, l7aled at the opening of the
battle. lie states that Hicks Pasha was
slain by lance on the third day OF the
battle, when the last cartridge OF the Egyp-
tians had been fired. The men in Hicks
Pasha's army had then been without wa
ter three days, and the soldiers were offer
ing 81 drink. The fugitives, if any, from
the Egyptians must have been slain or
captured while making for well-known
wells. Col. De Coetlingon has again sent
a spy TO visit the scene of the battle and
enter FL Obeidid and ascertain the fate OF
the survivors. Cheyenne, civil engineer,
was with Hicks Pasha, and it is supposed
shared his fate. All biscuits and provis-
ions stored at Duem for Hicks Pasha's
army have been brought to khartoum.
Outlying garrisons are gradually arriving
at khartoum. Greeks and Copts, the
Austrian Mission, with 40 negro Chris
tians, and the French Consul, are leaving
khartoum.
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THE conviction OF O'Donnell yesterday
and his sentence to death will not sur
prise those who have carefully watched
the course of British justice where Irish
men are concerned. Everything was
against the unfortunate man who slew the
cowardly and brutal informer, whose par
don ranks with the most intolerable in
samies at which England has connived and
80 which she has consented in hermuddled
anil Anticipated, unjust and cruel man
agem, m,>nt OF Irish affairs. English public
sentime ut was against O'Donnell as it is
against all Irishmen. He had that to con-
tend with. added to which there was his
trial in n London court and by an English
iurv. How strong all this was may be
gathered from the reasons given by Gen.
Pryor for declining TO apply for hearing
as one of the counsel for O'Donnell. The
mere fact OF his being an Ameri-
can sent out by the Irish peo-
pie in this country to defend the
prisoner was fatal to Carey's slayer. The
Judge, yielding to public opinion, charged
the jury against O'Donnell, and the evil
dence which induced most people TO re-
gard him guilty of manslaughter, was ig-
nored. The conclusion is irresistible, from
what we publish to-day and gave yester-
day OF the trial, that O'Donnell was a
.doomed man from the first, and the YER
dict OF death is the logical result of that
booming.
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COYINGTON, TENN.
The RaiIroad Debt of Upton County
General News Notes.

The RaiIroad Debt of Upton County
General News Notes
Special to the Appoal.l
CovINGToN, December l.-Ioung Amer
lea believes in pointer dogs and double
barreled shot-guns in these parts, and the
farmers are beginning to put POSTED" at
the cardinal points of their farms. So the
sporting men will have to look sharp to
see that the fun does not bring little
court cost.
DR.. ]. B. Hill, druggist, OF this place,
has erysipelas, but at this writing is sup
posed to be better.
NV. Raptist, our County Court clerk.
has returned from his New York triD. He
came back through the oldsDominion TO
see relatives.
Mr.. X. II. Mumford has another article
this week in the Heekly Gail on the ''Rail-
road Debt" He says that he is opposed
to measures and net men, We think
that Mr., Mumford should prefer charges,
and let the people know what the County
Court and the committee appointed at the
July term OF the court, intended by the
contract they entered into. Very many
people think now, and have thought, that
the court used poor Judgment in the mat
ter, or, in other words, many believe that
the danger OF forfeiture in the payment
OF annual installments on railroad bonds
was saly imaginary, and the honorable
eoloring given IS was ihe art" OF an ora
tors pencil. However, the contract has
been made, and it is nothing but fair to
the gentlemen composing the committee
10 give them O little time II the COM
mittee can borrow enough money and
! bny up all our bonds, it will GER
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PERSONALS.

Miss Lot THOMAS has come back home.
J. B. WEAKLEY, of Florence, Ala, was
in the city yesterday.
Miss H. B. McGHEE, of Knoxville, Tenn,
is visiting Miss Pearl Neely.
c. w. kEALHoFER, for a long time cit
izen OF Memphis, but lately of Little Rock,
has again returned to this city.
Miss LoLLIE DUNCAN and Mr.. ]. J. Bar
ton are to be married on Thursday even
ing next, at $50 O'Clock, at st. Johns
Methodist Church.
A. V. STAFFORD has been appointed
cashier and Thos. NJ. Gibson land commits
sioner of the Little Rock, Mississippi
River and Texas and Little Rock. and Fort
Smith railroads.
Dr.. NEWBORN is recovering slowly from
a spell of malarial fever. He has en-
gagged DIR. Suddoth 10 take charge Of his
Office until he fully regains his strength.
Office, 81 Madison street.
The Rev. George W. Sweeney, pastor OF
the Linden Street Christian church,
breaches this morning at IL o'clock on
s'Christ's Own Ideas OF Christianity" and
tonight at so o'clock on "Who are the
Damned and How May They be Saved
r. CsEIeHroS, OF the new firm OF Diver
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HELENA, ARK,
Bad Men from the sunk LANDS The
Printers Organizing.

Printers Organizing.
Special TO the Appeal
HELENA, December Ia trio OF gem
tlemen from the Sunk Lands arrived in
our city this morning on high horse, and
avowing their intention to seize on to our
peaceful little city by force OF arms, to
pick us all up and dump us into the river
Fortunately for them, or for us, before
their intention could be executed our eff
ficient constable, ]. a. Fitzpatrick, had
them in Jail.
The jury in the Dale and Proctor MUIR
der case still hangs, and his honor Judge
Frank Vaughn, declares his intention to
hold them until verdict is decided upon,
if he has to carry them around the circuit
with him.
MIR. Carlisle has among our citizens
some very enthusiastic friends, who were
offering to-day to wager two to one on his
election to the Speakership
II. \. Ward, for the past five years
editor and proprietor Of the Mariana In
der, has sold out his paper to j. II. Foster
and j. i. Stevenson. Mr.. Foster assumes
editorial control.
The printers OF our city are contem-
flating the organization OF Il typographical
union, and ii they do we venture the as
sertion that there will he demand ior
printers in our little city unless their rates
are the same as now, because the business
here is not what it should be.
J. B. Schneider, who failed Wednesday
was sold out to-day by the constable
To-day's Patriot contained very flatter.
/ ing notice of the county clerk, Whitley
| Jarman. which was well deserved.
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DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
The Largest Business Block i'm Chicago
Burned.
Two Lives Lost -Panic-Strici.cn Women
Another Efazc.

CHICAGo, December l.-At 80 o'clock
this afternoon fire was discovered in the
Farweil block, the largest business build
ing in the city, bounded by Adams, Mar
llet, Monroe streets and the river The
great structure, however, is broken by a
heavy fire-wall running through it, but
for which the entire building would have
been swept away by the flames. The fire
was confined TO 16S and 10 Market street.
The three lower floors were occupied bv
Metzler Bros, notion dealers, and the
four upper floors by Beck q Bucher, fur
riers. The latter firm employs nearly 200
girls, all but about seventy-five of whom
had gone home when the fire was discov-
cred. Those remaining in the building
became aware of the approach of the
flames by the smoke seeking its way from
the lower floors, where the fire originated.
PANIC ENsUED
among the young women, and their terror
was increased by discovering that the
main doorway, leading 10 the lower floors,
was locked and barred. They made their
way to the fifth floor, and a numbermade
their way along the window ledges on the
outside to point beyond the protecting
fire walls into the adjoining store. Two
young women, Kitty Hilgert and Frances
Fareweather, made their way to the fire.
escape, but, through terror OF the flames
below dropped TO the stone sidewalk, and
both were
INSTANTLY KILLED.
Great confusion reigned in and about
the building up to 9 o'clock, when state
ment was made by those interested that
all the remaining employees had escaped
from the structure but, as the upper floors
are filled with dense smoke, and as the
firemen had been unable to make search,
fears were entertained that further loss OF
life bad occurred. MctzleT Bros carried a
heavy stock, but the loss and insurance
arc not known at this hour Beck q
Bucker had 100000 stock, and carried
$4,000 insurance. Mark, Wachsmuth &
caps, occupying one OF the other stores,
carried $4,000 in stock, which is badly
damaged by water, but covered by insur-
ance.
$50 O'Clock P.M-The Journal build.
ing, on Dearborn street, is now on fire.
The three upper stories were destroyed
and the whole building, which is five
story structure. watersoaked. The loss is
estimated at S60,000. The Journal loses its
whole equipment, except presses. Insured
fully
The firemen madea search on the up
per floor of the burned building shortly
after 10 O'Clock, and it is now believed tc
be certain that no other casualties thar
those heretofore reported occurred. Metz
lers loss is estimated at $4,000 TO 5000
insurance, $4,000. Beck & Bucher's los:
will approximate $4,000 to $4,000; los.
| on building $4,000, fully insured.
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CAPITAL POINTS.

WASHINGTON, December l. Bigelow,
late receiving teller of the Bank of the
Republic, has been convicted OF embezzle-
ment and sentenced to five years in the
penitentiaTy.
Excess of value of exports over imports
of merchandise for October, 1883, SIS 5,OSl,-
$50; twelve months, ended October 9lst,
$l22, ,4l0,944.
The libel suit OF the Rev. Dr. Hicks
against the Star was dismissed. The suit
grew out Of a statement published in the
Stcr concerning the transfer of Guiteau's
surgeon-geneIal Oi the army.
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They are on the eve OF bloody riot in
Ireland. The work OF Sir Stafford North
cote, some weeks ago, in re-awakening the
old religious feud and feeling, is bearing
fruit. Fearing to encourage the massacre
OF their fellow nationalists at Ncwry yes
teFday Messrs. Healy, Seton and O'Brien
did not arrive there last night, although
expected hy a large crowd collected at the
depot awaiting them. They hooted and
groaned at the constabulary and magis-
trates at the depot for the purpose of main
tanning order, but there were no other
demonstrations. Policemen are patrolling
the streets OF the town and the military
are kept under arms to prevent riot.
What was it Sheridan said about hell or
Texas? 1t ought to be he'll or Ireland.
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Death Of Dr. sagby.

RICHMOND, VA, November so. - Dr.
George W. Bagby, lecturer and humorist,
died here yesterday, aged fifty-fve years.
DIR. Bagby was well known throughout the
length and breadth of Virginia, and in the
South generally, as a humorist, lecturer,
and man OF scholarly attainments and
culture. Just after the war he entered the
lecture field and his lectures were such
that everywhere he went he drew large
houses His picture of the "Old Virginia
Gentleman won for him considerable
fame, and his writings under the nom de
plume of 'tMozzis Addamsn we're eagerly
sought after. Although personally dry
sort of a man and rather quiet in his ma
ture, he had keen sense of the ridiculous,
was careful observer OF men and things,
and could always delight and amuse with
tongue and pen. His lecture ON Bacon
and Greens" was one of the treats of the
war. He was brother-in-law of the late
John Hampden Chamberlyn. the founder
of the Richmond State.
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ESGLAND proposes to Egypt the policy
OF fighting the devil with fire. The sug-
gestion has been made in n very inhuen-
tial quarter that the easiest solution of the
new Egyptian problem would be to adopt
Sir Samuel Bakers plan OF letting the
Abyssians fight FL Mahdi. The
proposition is to offer the King OF
Abyssinia portion of the Soudan on
condition that he shall crush the False
Prophet and end his nienacing career. IT is
doubtful if permanent garrison of En-
glish troops could live in the unhealthy
climate OF the Soudan, and this, together
with the expense and trouble OF cam
psign, furnishes n strong argument in la
yor OF adopting the Anglo-Indian policy Of
putting one Eastern nation against an
other, and taking advantage Of the result,
whatever it happen TO be. Is England
hecoming cowardly in her old age?
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The APPEAL, in common with all his
friends, regrets that Gen. Atkins, of this
State, was yesterday defeated in caucus
for the office OF clerk of the House of
Representatives. Gen. Clark, of Missouri,
defeated him by only three votes. But
though beaten, there is some consolation
in the figures which prove that Gen. At
kins has made record with his fellow
members for ability and integrity that is
worth cherishing.
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LORD ROSSMORE,
The Orange Leader, Politely Snubbed
by the Government, 20 Whom He
Complained OF the
Suspension of His Commission rs Magis-
trate-Serieas Rioting Looked for
at Newry To-Day.
Archbishop CfOke on the Future Of
Ireiand-The Recent Egyptian
Massacre

DUBLIN, December Lord Rossmore
has written another letter to the Lords
Commissioners of the Privy Seal in de-
tense OF his action mt Roslea, county Fer
magh. He says the suspension of his COM
mission as justice OF the peace is of small
importance TO him, but many loyalists will
consider it anoAler slight directed against
those anxions . protest against the doc
trines of rapine-and revolution. The Lords
Commissioners replying, stated they have
no doubt OF the propriety of their deci-
sion and decline tOl discuss the matter
further
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The silver King.

Hayerly's Silper King company, with
Frank Bangs in the leading role, closed last
night decidedly the most successful weeks
engagement of the season. An attraction
must be more than usually meritorious TO
draw eight good houses week in Mem
phis, and The !Siircr King has done more
1t has had densely crowded houses twice
and hattering audience every other pre-
sentation. 1t is decidedly the best thing
of its kind that has ever visited this city,
and nothing except the most unstinted
praise has been bestowed upon it by those
who have had the good fortune to see it.
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English 0ranGeznen TO Take a Rand In
the Fetmanagh Matter.

LONDON, DecembeT 1.-The deputy
grand master of the English Orangemen
has issued an address in connection with
the case of Lord Rossmore. He says he
cannot sit still and tamely submit to see
the Irish brethren so treated, and sug-
gests that effective steps be taken to ex-
press sympathy with the 0rangemen OF
Fermanauh.