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TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Chicago, October 3l.-Elery II. Andrews,
a clerk in the Northern National Bank, was ar
rested to-day, charged with embezzling $4,000.
Charleston, S. c., October 31.-The num-
Carolina railroad yard % On Monday was 2i65, VAL
ued at sl07 900; insured.
Chicago, October 31.-Confessions of
Judgment aegregating $1,000 were entered against
y. l.. BOskin, horse collar manufacturer, to-day,
and his place taken possession of by the sheriff.
New York, October 31-The firm of
Samuel Adler, Seligman, Adler < Goodman, New
bury, dry goods merchants, failed. The liabil-
ities are placed at SSl OO0 Actual assets 1872 600
Savannah, Ga, October 31.-Stubbs's
warehouse burned at noon, with 5000 bales of cot
ton. 1t is reported that several persons were
burned to death. Several dwellings were also
burned.
Terre Haute, Ind, October 3l.-Fully
half the corn crop in the first bottoms of the Wa
bash river ruined by the late freshet-- One
farmer mas 100 900 bushels under water. The river
is at a stsRd tonight
Cleveland, October 31.-The Press Club
tonight presented to Mr.. and Mrs. George S.
knight, at the Euclid Avenue 0perahouse, horal
piece and a neatly engrossed testimonial compli-
mentary of their artistic merit. The play was
Baron Rudolph.
New York, October 31.-Holzinger &
Truekman. dry goods fix their liabilities at
man Leopold, hats and cloaks, SCI 900; actual
assets, $1,000. Liabilities of Samuel Butchary,
SIS 900.
Louisville, October 81 Mai. S. r.
Crumbruagh, collector of internal revenue of the
Second District of kentucky, has been on trial
in the United States Court three days. charged
with using official envelopes for private cor
respondence, and was to-day found not guilty by
the jury.
Charleston, s. c., October 31.-The first
bale of cotton ever picked from the field by ma
chinery exhibited to-day at the Charleston
Cotton Exchange and attracted general attention.
The condition of the cotton pronounced by
cotton men as good as hand-pieked cotton of the
same grade.
New Orleans, October 31.-The first
through freight train the Northeastern rail-
road leaves Meridian for New Orleans tomorrow, 7,
when the Southern Express Company begins op-
erations on that line 1t is believed regular mail
and passenger trains Will be running by the 18th
of November.
Chicago, October 31.-The chemist en-
gagged by the coroner of Logan county to analyze
stains on the buggy whip and lines owned by
Orrin A. Carpenter, of Lincoln, now under arrest
in the Fora Burns murder case, completed
chemical and mechanical tests this evening, and
reports he finds no traces of blood.
b. Chicago, October 3l.-The incorporation
of the Chicago Hanson Cab Company was an
nounced a week ago, and the statement is now
made that fifty of the vehicles, patterned very
closely after those in use in London, will be
placed the streets of this city by the first OF
January. and fifty additional ones shortly after.
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APPEAL SPECIALS.
Severe Storm Along the Sunflower River
Many Houses Demolished, but No
Lives Lost.
Third Day Of the Mississippi State Fair
Awards for Blooded Cattle
The Helena Budget.
9REENvILLE, MISS.

Severe Storm Along the SunfiOwer
River-Gfnhouse and Cotton Burned.
Special to the Appeal
GREENvILLE, October Sl.-A severe
storm last Sunday, about midnight, has
done considerable damage along the Sum
flower river. From what we can
learn the quarters and outhouses of
the Smith place were totally de-
molished by the fierce element, and
great damage to the crops is
reported. The upper story of Smiths
dwellinghouse was blown across the road
and lodged in bayou near by. Nc
Kain's dwelling was also demolished, and
Mrs. McKain's arm was broken. No lives
have been lost as far as heard from.
The ginhouse on the Wheeless place
near Egg Point, was destroyed by fire last
Sunday night, with thirty-fve bales OF
cotton. Insurance, $1,000.
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THE CREOSOTE WORKS
OF Edward Andrews, ut Mary Point,
Va. Destroyed by Fire.

NORFOLK, VA, October 31.-The acci-
dental escape of oil at the Old Dominion
Creosoting Works, Edward Andrews pro-
prietor, at Mary Point, few miles up the
river from here, destroyed in few min
utes the entire works, quantity of lum-
ber and 6000 barrels of creosoting oil.
The cause of the disaster was the loosen
ing of the packing on the pressure pump,
which let the oil escape, and knocking
over lamp, in moment everything
was in a blaze. The immense cylinders,
100 feet long and six feet in diameter, ex-
ploded and disappeared, it is thought, in
the river 100 feet away from the works.
The loss is estimated at 100000; insur-
ance unknown, No lives lost.
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DESTRUCTIVE TORNADO
At the Town of Fulton. -.un.. Sixty
Miles ,sorfh of Here.
Two New Churches Blown Down an
Half n Dozen Houses Wrecked.

News was received yesterday of de-
structive tornado at Fulton, Tenn, a river
town sixty miles north of this city, last
Monday night. The particulars are very
meager, but it is certain that two churches
which had just been built were blown
down and the timbers scattered for 200 or
300 yards. Six dwellinghouses were
wrecked, and it is reported that two per-
sons were injured. A number OF large
trees were uprooted, and number of
fences blown down. The damage done was
considerable
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THE STATES CASE
Against the Merchants National Bank
OF Nashville Dismissed with Costs.

NASHVILLE, October Sl.-The case of the
State as the Merchants National Bank OF
this city, a bill filed by the State seeking
to hold the bank liable for So 900 because
of an alleged credit given Marsh It. Polk
while State Treasurer, was heard to-day in
the Chancery Court. The proof was so
satisfactorily established of the good faith
of the bank that counsel for the
State declined to argue, and decree was
ordered dismissing the bill with costs. 1t
was charged by the State authorities that
the State Treasurer was improperly cred
tied upon the books of the bank with the
sum above mentioned, on which account
the Examining Committee of the Legis-
lature were misled as to the true condi-
ton of that officers books.
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MERCHANTS EXCHANGE.
Members Composing the Committees
ON Quotations During the Cur
rent Month.

The committees on quotations in the
various departments during the month of
November are composed of the following
members, appointed by President John X.
Speed yesterday:
Groceries and Pr0risions-S. II. Brooks,
chairman; J. A. Hunt, ]. II. Martin, Jno.
r. Pepper.
Produce.-L. Lawhorn, chairman; A..
Watts.
Gram.-E. C. Buchanan, chairman; l..
Erb.
Cotton-iSeed Neal. = Jno. d. Murtagh,
chairman, John w. Waynesburg, J. A.
Wigs.
COtton-Seed Oil.-B. F. Haller, chairman
F. w. Brode, r. G.. Latting, sr.
Secretary f. A. Keeling requests that
committees make up and furnish each day
by 1890 o'clock pm. Memphis quotations
of above markets, SO same can be posted
and recorded.
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IF O'Donovan Rossa's confession, pub
lished in to-day's APPEAL, is true he ought
to be held liable as an accessory before the
fact to an awful crime. But we do not be-
lieve it. O'Donovan has a mania for
blatherskiting and brag, and has long been
repudiated by the temperate and conserv-
ative Irishmen who support Mr.. Parnell,
and are anxiously helping that patriotic
gentleman in his constitutional and legiti-
mate contest for the Legislative freedom of
Ireland. No man with an ounce of brains
would for a moment countenance the
wholesale murder of innocent people as
means of redressing the national griev-
ances OF the Irish people. As the APPEAL
within the past ten days has shown those
grievances are some of them heart-rend-
ing, intensely dramatic and pathetic. Yet
the way to abolish them is not by the de-
struction Of lives and property in London,
but by the methods pursued by Mr.. Par
nell, who has triumphantly secured the
mitigation of so many of them.
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SEVERE STORM

To-morrow's programme will be attract
i've, both in the arena and on the race track
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''WoSDERs will never cease" The in
Nentor Of what is to be known asthe "Syn-
chronous Multiplex Telegraph" claims
that at a speed of three words a minute
seventy-two different messages can be
simultaneously transmitted over one wire
and printed on tape; that at the highest
rate Of speed ever attained by an expert
telegrapher on Morse instrument six
different messages can be transmitted at
one time, and at the. rate of twenty-five
words minute twelve messages can be
transmitted. A telegraph company to ap-
ply this Invention to practical work is to
be organized in few days. Several lead
ing statesmen, well known to the whole
country, are interested in this invention,
which threatens to revolutionize telegra-
Dhv
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FROM the New York Tribune we learn
chat Mr.. Matthew Arnold and Mr.. Henry
Ward Beecher met in Plymouth church
last Sunday for the first time and inter-
changed confessions. Mr.. Arnold, as the
Tribune recalls, 'once referred to the Rev.
Henry Ward Beecher as heated barba-
rian.' But on Sunday morning he attended
services in this barbarian's church, and
concluded las good many other people
have done), after hearing the sermon, that
he had been mistaken in the Plymouth
pastor. However, this was admitted after
Mr.. Beecher had remarked that he
regarded Mr.. Arnold as his master, and
mad read all his works through and
through again. So, perhaps, after all, the
English critic thought ne could not say
much less"
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WE fear that an excess of zeal for the
suppression of gambling has led Judge
Greer beyond his authority, something
that in judicial officer is always to be re-
gretted. Finding some policemen in his
court on Monday, he charged them as he
might have done the grand jury, and in
structed and admonished them as to their
duty in assisting to suppress the vice the
existence of which all good men deplore.
The judge, in doing this, took hasty and
ill-advised step, one that the law will
not justify and that is contrary TO the
"Taxing-Dist act" This act, which
confers upon the Police and Fire Commits
sioners the duty of appointing the police,
says (section 81 that las soon as said police
are appointed, a list shall be furnished the
chief of police, and the policemen are
thereafter TO be under the control of the
chief of police" And "the police commits
sioners are authorized to adopt rules and
regulations of general discipline which it is
the duty OF the chief to enforce" Section s
OF the same act says that the Taxing District
HAlstAi power W htSu-
late control is added and suppress gam
blinghouses and private gambling by
fine and imprisonment" The APPEAL is
not unmindful of the existence of the act
OF the last Legislature, which Judge Greer
il anxious to enforce. That is supplemental
to and reinforces, strengthens the charter,
as we may call it, of the Taxing District,
50 far as gambling is concerned, and as a
law OF the State is TO be enforced by Presi-
dent Hadden and his co-commissioners.
II they fail OF that duty Judge Greer has
his remedy against them in law, but he has
no right 70 attempt the control OF their
subordinates, and thus confuse the admin
istration and enforcement of the law. The
Judge means well, but il is TO be regretted
that in this instance he displays more Of
the spirit Of crusader than the equipoise
balance and self-containedness of the
Judge He almost trenches upon ths
powers OF the executive, something tha
the people always view with alarm in I
Judge, no matter how we.l-intentioned O.
how good the purpose to be accomplished
Let gambling be suppressed, II the peopl
viii II, but let US move TO that and al
other purposes according to the constitu
ton eldsthe law,
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A MILLION-DOLLAR FIRE.
A Large Number of Buildings Burned
ut Savannah, Ga.

SAVANNAH, GA, October 3l.-A fire
broke out in Garnet, Stubs & Co.'s ware
house at II 80 o'clock this afternoon, burn
ngbuildings on Joachim, Farm, Mill, Indian
and River streets, and was checked when
it reached West Broad street and Indian
street. The Indian Electric Light Works
and Tenan's iron foundry are among the
principal places burned. The rice mills,
stores and other property on the north
side of River street were saved. Most of
the houses destroyed were wooden struc-
lures, occupied by poor people. 1t is inn
possible at this hour to give an accurate
estimate of the loss, but it is put down at
about 81 100000.
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THE GREELY EXPEDITION.
A Court of Inquiry Ordered by the Sec
retary Of War,

WASHINGTON, October 3l.-The War De-
partment has issued a special order ap-
pointing court of inquiry to investigate
the cause of the failure Of the Greedy re-
premises calls for further proceedings be-
fore general court-martial, and the rea-
sons for the conclusions they may reach.
The court will meet in Washington on the
Sth of November 1t is understood that
the Navy Department will take no further
action in the case of Commander Frank
Wild, commanding the Yantic, for the part
taken by him in the late expedition, un-
less it shall be deemed expedient as re-
suit of the testimony which may be de-
veloped in the proceedings of the court of
inquiry appointed by the Secretary Of
War
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AT meeting OF colored people held at
Springfield, Mo, on Tuesday night, one of
the speakers suggested that by industry,
education and the acquisition of property,
and not by special legislation, class legisla-
ton, the negroes were to acquire what
they in a vague and indefinite way regard
as their civil rights. This was sensible. But
the speaker might have gone farther and
asked the negroes present what rights they
had lost by the decision of the Supreme
Court, what is there they cannot do now
as citizens that they could do before it was
rendered. Are not the negroes who are
agitating this question pursuing the
shadow and not the substance of civil
riUhtao
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ThR whole country will be greatly re-
lieved 20 learn that the threatened trouble
between the negroes and whites in Texas
amounted TO nothing more than a scare
arising out of meeting of colored people
that had no purpose inimical to the peace
of the State, as they have no good cause
for disturbing it. But cause or no cause
the peace must be preserved, and all good
citizens, white and black, will do what
they can to that end.
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LUNDBORG,s PERFUMES.


EDENIA AND
r.pECu.r ~rur NJ
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Minnie Hauk, the celebrated prima donna.
second only to Patti, appears with a corps
OF distinguished assistants, including Mile.
Sal, contralto; Sig. Montegriffo, tenor !;
Sig. De Pasqualis, baritone, and the cele-
brated pianist and composer, Constantine
Sternberg. The programme is: Monday
night, Faust third act); Tuesday night,
Carmen (second act)-all in full costume.
This win be an opportunity exceedingly
rare and not to be neglected. Sale of seats
begins at Hollenbergs Saturday morning
nxf
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THE Funding Board on Monday decided
that under their construction of the fund
ing act they could not fund bonds or any
part of them that had been issued under
the act of August, 1882, in exchange for
State debt proper bonds, unless the ex-
change was traced by the creditor to
their satisfaction. This, it is feared,
may work great hardship in many
cases, and may still farther retard
the work of funding, which so far has
been very slow. 1t seems to us that the
commissioners, being in possession of the
archives of their predecessors, ought to
assume the burden of proof in every case,
and construe the act literally toward the
creditors, so that no hardship or loss may
accrue to them. Working in such a spirit,
they would invite and promote hearty
cooperation on the part of the holders OF
the State bonds, who are naturally sdlky
and doubtful.
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GRENADA, MISS.
A Balnly Indian Summer-The kendaIls
The State Fair at Jackson.

The State Fair at Jackson.
Occasional Correspondence of the Appeal.
GRENADA, October 30.-The prayers for
sunshine have been abundantly answered,
and the balmest of Indian summer weather
delights US. Sometime ago DIR. Talmage
preached a sermon on 'The East Wind, !"
making it a scapegoat of many sins and
imperfections, inasmuch as its irritating
effects instigated misdoings which could
never occur with the wind in the north
west Judging from his standpoint, your
correspondent will chronicle no evil doings
this week.
l noticed in to-day's APPEAL the con-
demnation of Wagner's Minstrels from
Corinth, and / wondered if the usual per-
verseness of human nature would manifest
itself in a crowded house next Friday
night, just to see if their behavior will CO.
incide with that in Corinth. Nous uerrons.
The Kendalls are playing to good houses
here, and our neighbors need fear no ugly
behavior from them. 1 never saw more
quiet, decorous troupe, both off and on the
stage.
A number of our ladies, more enterpris-
ing than the gentlemen, have entered arti-
cles for exhibit at the jackson Miss
Fair, and are anxiously awaiting the YER
dict of the awarding committee. l hope
next week to be able to note their sue
cess. CHIPS
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GERMANS OF NEW YORK
To support the Democratic Ticket I'm
That State at the Coming ElectiOns.i

ROCHESTER, n. Y, October 3l.-Influ-
entail Germans, including representatives
of the brewing interest here, have resolved
to support the Democratic State ticket at
the coming election, with the exception Of
Isaac II. Maynard, their candidate for
Secretary of State. Maynard, in all mat
ters pertaining to the excise it is declared,
has always opposed the passage of any
Just and equitable law relating to the same,
and by his action has alienated from him
self the support of all those who believe
in the right OF personal liberty guaranteed
the people under the constitution.
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Office County Court Clerk, Memphis, Tenn, 0e-
tober 81, 1SSS-To James Reilly, Adm'r of James
A. Swain, deceased.
HAVING suggested the insolvency of the estate
IL of James A. Swain. decd. you are hereby
ordered to give notice. by advertisement in some
newspaper published within the said State, and
also at the courthouse door of Shelby county, for
all persons having claims against said estate to
appear and file the same. authenticsted in the
manner prescribed By law, on or before the slst
day Of Jan uary, 1854. and any claim not fled on
or before said day, OF before an appropriation of
the funds OF said estate is made. sha! be forever
barred, both in Law and equity Witness my
hand, at ofhce. this Slst day OF October, IssS-
HUGH b. CULLEN. Clerk
By Louis kettmAnn. Deputy Clerk
Notice is hereby given as required By the above
order. Ithui JAMES REILLY, Adm'r.
r. A. Jordan, Attorney
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ESTABLISHED 1S

THE question of a Southern statesman
for Vice-President on the Democratic
ticket to be nominated in 1884, as sug-
gested by us some months ago, is still be-
ing discussed by the press, and generally
these discussions end in hearty indorse-
ment of the APPEAL. Some interesting
reading to this effect will be found in
another column
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POSTAL REVENUE.


WASHINGTON, October 30.-The esti-
mated amount of postal revenue for the
fiscal year beginning July 1st next, in
Guiding $430,000 estimated receipts from
money order business, is S47, ,l04,07S; es-
S50,062, ,1S9, leaving a deficiency in the
revenue of S2,95S,111. The estimate for
the compensation of postmasters last year
of So, ,250,O00 is increased 70 $3OOOO,OOO
for clerks in the postoffice, 81, 900 900, an
increase of 81 ,250 900; for the free deliv.
cry service, 100000; railrq4d mail trans.
portation, 81 ,250,000, an increase of ST..
050,000; steamboat routes, $685., ZOO, ar
increase of S25, 900; star routes, S., SOC, 900
an increase of S3,5O0,O 900; railway postat
service, SIG, 100000, an increase of $50, 600
and for railway postal clerks, -, ,200, 600
an increase of S31S,6l9.
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Yeirow.rever al San Francisco.

SAN Francisco, October 3l.-The Pacific
mail steamer San Bias, which arrived this
morning from Panama, brought three
cases of yellow-fever, John Murphy, cabin
passenger, of New York; Francisco Perez,
Acapolis, and the steamers cook. The two
last are reported dying. Murphy is recov-
ering. The vessel failed to fly the yellow
flag. The surgeon was ignorant that the
sickness was yellow-fever, and on the way
up stopped at Acapulco, Mazatlan and
San Bias. No communication was held
with the latter place. The fever is still
raging there. At Mazatlan the steamer
took thirty passengers, who had gotten a
bill of health. The first case developed
after leaving Acapulco. The well passen-
gers were transferred to the steamer
China, the sick ones to the feyer-hoating
hosnital
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THE LOTTERY CASES.
Postmaster-General Gresham's Action In
the Matter OF the New Orleans
National Bank
Sustained by the President-Gen.S Sher.
mans Retirement-The Greely Elk.
pedition-Capitaf Points.
THE LOTTERY CASES.
The President to Sustain the Postmaste
General I'm the Matter.

General in the Matter.
WASHINGTON, October 1.-The Repubii-
can this morning says it is stated by an
authoritative party that the President has
decided to sustain the action OF Postmas-
ter-General Gresham ia the New Orleans
National Bank case. This decision OF the
President is in answer to the petition of a
large number of merchants, bankers and
others of New Orleans, who protested
against the decision of the Postoffice De
pertinent in the lottery case, which de-
cided that so long as the national bank
in question acted as the agent for the
Lottery Company just SO long should its
mails be regarded and treated as that oi
the Lottery Company which it represented
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Rabid Reformers Refused Rectincntion.

The rabid reformers of morals are con-
stantly urging the authorities to attempt
to invade the well-secured privileges en-
joyed by the Louisiana State Lottery under
special agreements by direct legislation /;
but they might as well attempt to swim
fair and its promises fulfilled. NJ. A. Dau-
phin, New Orleans, La, will give all infor-
nation relative to the matter on applich-
ton before the 162d grand monthly draw
ing, which takes place November l3, 1888.
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sE In consequence of rumors having been circu-
lated by few of the boss bricklayers that the
men now on strike have struck work for an ad-
vance of wages. We, the men on strike, wish it to
be understood that that is not the fact, but that
We are striking against reduction of wager. Our
wages since June have been s. per day. The en-
ployers propose to reduce il to - so. They have
also signiied their intention of not employing
any Union man unless he will sign an agreement
to withdraw from the Union. There is as great
demand for labor in our trade at the present
time as there has been at any time the last six
months, and we have determined TO resist this
action of the employers. JOHN LYLE,
President Bricklayers' Union.
Gropce SIyERs. Secretary