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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-02-19

The Chamber OF Commerce of Charles
ton recently celebrated its centennial un-
der circumstances of unusual eciqt, as the
State of South Carolina, as well as Charles
ton, were never more prosperous than at
this moment, as We learn from the NelOs
and Courier, which, in a recent issue, de-
votes a supplement to its statistics of agTi-
culture, manufactures and trade. The
manufactures of all kinds foot up $50 ,32I,-
40i, as against Sl6,73S,O0S in the year
1850. OF this aggregate S7,96S, l9S was
cotton goods, and $3.50, 400 consisted of
fertilizers, the product OF the phosphate
beds in the Ashley and Cooper rivers.
The progress of the State in agriculture
has been satisfactory, as is proved by the
following statement of the production OF
cotton, corn and small grain:
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CAPITAL POINTS.
for fhe signal Ser

Appropriations for the Signal Service
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-A bill was
introduced in the House to-day by Mr.
Dockery appropriating SD 600 for the pur-
pose of maintaining, under the direction
of the Chief Signal Officer such additional
stations as are necessary in order to secure
reports and disseminate the same from ,and
in the vicinity of the tributaries of our
navigable rivers.
Greedy Relief Expedition.
Commander w. S. Schley has been
selected to command the Greely relief ex-
pedition.
One and TwO-DOIIar Notes.
The Treasury has suspended the issue
OF 81 and S2 notes, pending an appropria-
ton to enable printing more.
minister Hunts Illness.
Mrs. Hunt, wife of the Russian Minis
ter, cabled from st. Petersburg to her son
in this city that the illness of Mr.. Hunt
might possibly prove fatal. Mr.. Hunt left
here Saturday for st. Petersburg.
Opposition to the Morrison Tariff Bill.
The Ways and Means Committee to-day
heard number of manufacturers of cot
ton goods opposed to the Morrison tariff
bill. A Rhode Island manufacturer of
ginghams asked that the present duty be
increased nearly 100 per cent.
Gen. Sherman to the President.
The President to-day received letter
from Gen. Sherman, at St. Louis, thank
ing him personally for the handsome COM
pliment paid him in the general orders
announcing his retirement from the COM
mand OF the army.
Department: GT Justice.
The Committee on Expenditures in the
Department of Justice to-day determined
to begin March Sd and continue from day
to day until they complete the examina-
ton into the manner in which the Star
route prosecutions had been and are be-
ing conducted, and into the conduct,
efficiency and good faith OF all officials
and persons in the employ or pay of the
United States in connection with these
prosecutions. The committee will also in
vestigate whether or not the guilty parties
have been duly prosecuted.
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KILLED BY A SNOWSLIDE.
Five Lives Lost and Two Houses Swept
Away.

SALT LAKE, UTAH, February 1S.-A snow
slide this morning, near Ontario mine,
Park City, destroyed the house of William
Rich, killing his three children and wound
ing his wife, who is reported now dying.
Rich was at work in the mine at the time.
The slide struck the house of John Harris,
killing his wife and wounding him. The
houses of Mrs. Drew and r. johnson were
struck by another slide. Citizens are NOV
ing out of the gulch away from the back
streets OF Park City, where the snow is
deeper than ever before and still falling.
Trains on the Utah and Northern and
Oregon Short Line in Idaho are blocked
up. Most trains centering here are de-
layed by the storm.
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APPEAL SPECIALS.
4 Young Girl Rescued From q Life of
s Shame by Her Brothers, at
Nashville.
Application Filed at Birmingham. Ala,
for Charter for a New Roll
ing.Gill.>
JOnesbOrO. Ark, Experiencing Great
Annoyance from Irregularity of
the Mails.
NASHVILLE.
A Young Girl Rescued from a Life of
shame.

A Young Girl Rescued from a Life of
shame.
Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, February 1S.-About S
o'clock this morning two well-known men
of South Nashville, accompanied by two
officers, called at Lottie Lakes bagnio
and demanded their sister, who was de-
csyed there by her lover. They claim
this is her first deviation from the path of
virtue. She was taken home, and they
hope to save her from life of shame.
The Cumberland has fallen eighteen
inches in the last two days. Weather
clear and much warmer. 1t is anticipated
that all danger from the river is over.
Joe Elliston, prominent young farmer
of this county, committed suicide tonight
by taking laudanum. Just before the act
he went to several friends and told them
goodbye, stating that he intended killing
himself. He took three ounces OF lauda-
mum at 10 o clock, corner OF the Public
Square and Cedar street, and died at 70
o,olocl
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GEORGE FRANCIS TRAIN has, after many
years of silence, entered public life again.
He is editing newspaper in New York,
and in the first number pays his respects
to his confreres of the metropolitan press
in these choice and well-selected words
from his rich vocabulary of epithets and
billingsgate:
Venal scoundrels! There's blood on the face of
the moonl Lizards leg and gall of goat! Have
at it, ye ours! Out, damned spOti Whang!
Beng! Wh-o-o-o-pl Miscreants all of ye More
inkl-Spartan dogs, l hate ye! Roast We in the
deep-down gulf Of liquid fire Turn the rascals
out! Come on, feeble carrionS, all of ye Car
rions, all of ye Carcasses fit for houndsl Goose
heshed, feyered lepers and paralyzed imbeciles, l
hate ye!-More ink!.Emaciated, horned idiots,
pack terriers and gliding ghosts, avaunt! Cap
and knee slaves, yapOrs, minute jacks, naked
Rulls and dishcloth harbingers of pestilential
visits, have at it!-More ink!-Grcen sickness
earrion and tallOw faced baggage, away! Away
Norwegian banners hOut the sky! CaTbuncle-
backed toads, dove-ieathered hogs and canvas
backed heilons pale before mel Turn the rascals
Aut!
George, it will be seen, has lost nothing
of his virile vigor. He is the old George
OF bV-gone wears,
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The book is in essence and effect an autobiog-
raphy, and has that special value to the student
which always attaches to the autobiogrsphies of
men of action who have had to do with impor-
tant historical events. & " As a contribution to
the history of the war the hook is really valu-
able. 8 Frankly Southern in its points of view,
it nowhere ofends by the employment of harsh
epithets or by forgetfulness of the courtesy due
to adversaries. No Southern writer has
given us so large valuable store of histori-
cal matter and nterpretative criticism as is con-
tanned in these two volumcs.-N. Y. Tribune.
The work has been prepared at leisure and
with the utmost deliberation. So far as
strength of support by documentary evidence is
concerned, it is unique among works of its class
relating to the Civil War. singularly
vivid and picturesque presentation of some of
the leading events of the war " Merely as a
mine of materials for historical investigation
the book is one to be glad of. 1t sets at rest a
good many questions of fact which have hitherto
been unsolved and seemingly insolube. 1t cor
reefs a good many errors by means which leave
no occasion for doubt or question.-N, Y. Times.
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LITTLE ROCK.
fhlU


LITTLE Rock, February l8.-Water is
over the track of the Memphis and Little
Rock railroad at Hopefield, on the Missis-
sippi. Passengers and freights are now
transferred by boat from Madison, on the
st. Francis, river to Memphis. The water
is rising rapidly in the bottoms along the
line of the road between Madison and
Hopefield.
Later.-The Arkansas river here fell
twelve inches to-day. The levee on the
south bank OF the river at Warner, two
miles from here, broke yesterday, wash
ing out the track OF the Little Rock, Mis-
sssippi River and Texas railroad. No
trains will leave Little Rock for two days
Gibson's levee between Lewis City and
Riverside, and between White and Cache
rivers broke, overlooking large stretch
of country and flooding the track of the
Batesville-and Brinkley road: freight and
passengers transferred across the break by
boat. Fears are entertained that White
river will break the embankment of the
Memphis and Little Rock road, at De-
walls Bluff. All rolling stock has been re-
moved from the line between Madison
and HODpfiald
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BIRMINGHAM. ALA.
A New RoIIing-Mili Pr0ject-An Strike
Declared of.

New RolIing-Mili Pr0ject-AII Strikes
Declared OF.
Special to the Appeal.l
BIRMINGHAM, February 1S.-A declara-
ton was filed to-day for a charter of the
Jefferson rolling-mill at this place. The
project is started mainly for the benefit of
the last strikers of the Birmingham roll
ing-mills, who are still unemployed. The
company is to be organized and the mill
operated on the plan OF a cooperative
basis. Shares OF stock are SO, and the
scheme is for strikers and citizens gen.
orally to take stock. After maintaining a
hostile attitude again about a week, the
union men formerly employed in the
Birmingham rolling-mills have declared
the strike finally off. The mills are thus
opened to all who can get employment in
them. The final break OF the strike is
due mainly to letter from VIM. Wiepp,
president of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton, announcing that he could no longer
sustain the strikers
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a TELEGRAM received yesterday after
noon by his son conveyed the news of the
sudden death of Mr.. p. c. Bethel, the
Well-known planter and capitalist. The
sad and wholly unexpected event oc-
Cured at New Orleans at 2:30 o'clock in
the afternoon, and was caused by an at
tack OF heart disease. Mr.. Bethel was
well kaown throughout the South,
but especially in Tennessee and
Louisiana, in which States he held great
desi of property and in the enterprises
aud growth of which he was largely in
.erested. Before the war he was ranked
as one of the largest slave-owners in the
South, and has always been mated
among its richest men. He owned
and managed several sugar planta-
tons in louisiana, and in Memphis, Nash
vile and Columbia, In this State, owned
several blocks of real estate in the best
parts Of those cities. He was native of
North Clrolina and wass graduated from
the famous college of Chapel Hill,in that
State. He served one, perhaps more
terms in the Legislature of Louisiana,
and was a member OF the com.
mission TO settle with the holders 81
Memphis bonds during Mayor League,
administration. He leaves q son and on,
grandchild 10 inherit his possessions il
the care and extension of which he foun,
ample employment during the Inter year
OF his life. Mr. Bethel was good citizen
a kind neighbor, and an ahectionate hus
band and father.
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THE LASKER RESOLUTION.
II IL Has Been Returned, Minister Sar
gent AuOAHs NoIilinS of Ii.

II IL Has Been Returned, Minister sar-
gent Knows Nothing of II.
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-It is learn
ed at the State Department that Minister
Sargent has no positive information on the
subject of the return by Bismarck of the
resolution passed by the House of Repre-
sentatives concerning the death OF Herr
Lasker. He believes the resolution has
been returned. 1t has not been returned
through him, and there is no official in
formation concerning it. Herr Won Eisen-
decker, German Minister, has not received
any information on the subject as yet, nor
any intimation that the resolution was on
the way to him. He said if such was the
case he thought the communication trans
milting it would convince everybody that
the resolution was not returned in a spirit
of retaliation. The incident is said to
have created painful feeling in Berlin,
and even the friends of Bismarck do not
defend him. The TGgblGH hopes the
Americans will not hold the Germans
responsible for the acts of Bismarck.
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rible water coming down." etc., say, tell you,
Messrs Editors. we sleep quietly and smile at the
"woful predictions" of our friends, all Of which
is due to the pluck. energy, ability and wisdom
of the Leyee Board, assisted by brave people, and
We trust the Memphis papers at least viii halt IN
the ''doleful song" that only unneryes the timid
and causes unnecessary alarm.
will keep you posted in regard to the leyee,
the rise and fall of the river here and everything
that will interest your readers, and particularly
the Memphis merchants who have 'stood by u.s.
in times past and who are equally interested with
US. BOLIVAR.
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BRIBERY AND CORRUPTION.
Serious Charges Against Represents
tive Hatch. of Michigan

WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The petit
ton presented in the House by Mr.. Ed
ridge, with the remark that if the charges
contained in i. were true it would cost
Representative Hatch, of Michigan, his
seat, was from A. G. Max we'll, Democratic
candidate for Congress from the Tenth
Michigan District at the last election. In
it he says large number of votes for
Hatch, his successful opponent, were pro-
cured by fraud, bribery and corruption,
and $4,000 raised by assessing clerks and
officers holding positions under the gov
ernment, through the agency of Jay Hub
bell and his assistants, for the purpose OF
bribinS and corrnptinp voters
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MLITERACY OF THE COUNTRY.
The Balance Of Power i'm the Hands of
Those NhO Cannnf Esead.

Those Who Cannot kead.
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-Represent-
ative Willis has prepared a most interest
ing table to accompany his bill for Fed
eral aid to education, which shows that il.
literaey holds the balance of power in
fourteen Northern and all the Southern
States. In the thirty-eight States there
are 1871, ,217 illiterate voters. One voter
in five cannot write his name in the
Southern States; the illiterate in South
Carolina are more than half; in Alabama,
Florida, Mississippi, Georgia, North Caro-
lima and Virginia, one in two, while Mis-
souri,, with one in nine, presents the best
record. In the Presidential election OF
1876, New York, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, Connecticut, Indiana, California,
Nevada, Ohio, Oregon, Wisconsin, Illinois,
Rhode Island, Michigan and Pennsylva-
mia were ranged on the side of illiteracy.
In the last Presidential contest thirty
States of the Union, with 29S electoral
votes, were again within the domination
of sovereigns who could not read the very
charter of their liberties. The majorities
which they gave could have been over
thrown by the combined vote of their
illiterate voters, even if those majorities
had been five times as great as they were.
In 1876 sixty out of seYenty-siX Senators,
three fifths OF the whole, and 259 OF the
292 Representatives, were in the grasp OF
illiteracy. In 1880, fifty-eight out OF sew
enty-six Senators, and 292 out of 325 Rep
resentatives, were in States and districts
whose illiterate voters held the balance of
power.
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VETOED BY THE GOVERNOR.
The Virginia Reapportionment Bill Re.
turned TO the Legislature.

RICHMOND, February 1S.-The Governor
vetoed the bill reapportioning the repre-
sentation in Congress. The Governor
holds that it cannot be right when the
voting population OF Virginia, as shown
by the last general election,is nearly equal,
to so apportion the representation as to
give one political element of the State pos
sibly eight, and probably seven of the ten
districts. 1t is manifestly against public
policy to throw together the counties and
cities of different sections of the State,
thereby losing that identity OF sentiment
and interest which should be observed.
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IRONT0N, o.
The Business Portion Of the Town Clear

IRoNToN, o., February 1S.-The United
States relief boat has Just arrived here,
where she will leave supplies and then
proceed back to the sufferers in Pomeroy
Bend and vicinity. Catlettsburg and
Ironton are still partly submerged. Iron
ton is fully supplied with provisions, and
the Relief Committee is distributing sup
plies in the flooded country. The extra
police and militia companies which have
been patrolling the city were discharged
to-day. The business portion OF the city
is clear and trade is resuming.
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Copy OF a letter from. Mr.. CHARLES A. DANA
TO General BEAUREGARD,

1t is, in my judgment, very valuable and i'm
portant work. 1t sets forth many facts hitherto
unknown or unappreciated. 1t sheds new and
valuable light some controverted questions
and it narrates in simple, unaffected, easy, and
engaging style the story of the most important
facts of the great struggle. 1t is especially
worthy of eommendation for the moderation and
freedom from excitement with which it discusses
points that have been the subject of embittered
disputes in the hands of other writer's. While
the view of the author is powerfully maintained
and fortified by unquestionable documents, / have
not found anywhere an angry word, or an undig-
nifed rejoinder. In this respect the book seems
to me worthy of the highest praise.
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1910.

THE flood is rapidly subsiding in the
Ohio Valley but is beginning to make it
self felt in the Mississippi bottoms be-
tween this city and Cairo. The Kansas
City and the Little Rock railroads have
both been compelled to abandon their
lines and establish connections, the first
named by boat ria Helena and the latter
by boat by st. Francis river.
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DcpRrtlner. a Jusfice.
ROASTED TO DEATH.
The Terrible Fate OF Six Negro Chill
dran.

CROCKETT, TEX, February 1S.-Reuben
Hart and wife, colored, residing three
miles in the country, went to church last
night and left their six children at home
asleep. Hart locked the door and took
the key with him. At 10o'clock the house
was discovered on fire, and burned so
quickly it was impossible to save it or the
children, every one of whom was roasted
to death. The eldest was thirteen years
old
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CAIRO.
The River Rising SlOwIy-Tha WabaSl
Road shut Out

CAIRO, Ill, February 1S.-The river at
l o'clock pm. was fifty feet eight inches
and rising slowly. The weather is cloudy
and mild. The Wabash railroad has been
shut out from Cairo since Saturday.
Nigh.-River at o'clock p. m, fifty feet
ten inches, and rising about quarter the
last hour. 1t now lacks one foot four
inches of last years gauge, and the proba-
bility is that it will not reach it. A watch
has been put on the leeves to patrol night
and day. Everything is quiet here. The
river at Paducah covers two-thirds of the
city and isstill rising. The steamer Fowler
will lay up after tonight on account of no
landings either at Paducah or Metropolis.
Bulkheads have been erected at Mound
City, the river being at the top of the
levee. The weather here is clear and
mild
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Published by HARPER & BROTHERS,
New York.
To Passengers & Shippers.

MEMPHIS AND LITTLE ROCK R.R,
{As reosganized.) K. K. SIBLEY, Gen'l Manager.
OFFICE SUPERINTENDENT AND CHIEF ENGINEER,
MEMPHIS, February 10, 1884.
OWING to temporary break caused by extreme
" high water, all trains between Memphis and
Madison are, for the present, discontinued. Dur
ing the suspension, a line of steamers will run
daily, making close connection at Madison for
Little Rock and a., points West. The Coahoma
will leave this fTUESDA1) evening at pm. !;
shc Ida Darraeh will leave tomorrow (WEDNES-
DAYl evening ats PIN; Each leaving ON alter
nate days thereafter. Easssnsers and all freight,
IN board or at ianding, foot of Poplar street.
10 freight VIII be res~.sa ca after pm, and meme
!or poiht- 0etween Hopekeld and Madison. No
interruption to freight or travel,
L. X. SIBLEY, General Manager,
H. q. FLEMING, Sup't and Chief Engineer.
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CINCINNATI.
The River Running out Rspidiy -Busi-
nRsS En,nroying.

CNcINSATI, February lS.-The river is
falling on an average OF an inch and a half
an hour, and reached sixty-three feet nine
inches at 10 o'clock am. Cloudy and
foggy. The railroads are tesuming opera
tions, and marked improvement il bUsi-
ness is already apparent.
Ni9ht.-Ihe Ohio river continues TO fall
steadily an inch and 9 half an hour. Ii
Is row nearly nine feet below the highest
stage. 1 great many business houses
have been cleaned as the water recedeS,
and business resumed. Nearly all the
street-cars will be running te-nonGv, snd
in 2 very short time all railroad connec-
tions will be resumed. The question of
raising the city bottoms above the high
water marx is still receiving attention..
The city engineer has been called on to
make an estimate. Relief is stu going on
with Yigor
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RIVERS AND HARBORS.
Some of Those Needing Immediate APP
preparations for Their Improvement.

Some of Those Needing Immediate APP
preparations for Their Improvement.
WASHINGTON, February 1S.-The Secre-
tary of War reports that Immediate ap-
preparation is needed for the improve
ment, among Others, OF the following
rivers and harbors: Great Kanawha
river, West Virginia, 75,000 Saint Pass,
Mississippi river, 100000; Sabine Pass,
Texas, 100000; Galveston harbor, $780,
900; Bay of Corpus Christi, Texas, $780,
900; water gauges on the Mississippi
river, S25, 900: Ouachita river, $1,000; Ar
kansas river, $4,000; White river, Arkan-
sas, $1,000; Mississippi river, between the
Illineis and Ohio rivers, $3.50, 900; Mis-
souri, river, S270,00O; upper Mississippi,
S400,00 Tennessee river, S125, 900; Ohio
river, $4,000; Monongahela river, S20,-
600; Muskingum, $4,000; Kentucky
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MINNEAPOLIS, February 1s.-The Trib-
Hseis Bismarck special says man just
down from Poplar river says the reports
OF starving Indians are not exaggerated.
Seven thousand have nothing but little
flour. All game having disappeared, dogs
and ponies have been killed and eaten.
In sixty days, without relief, all must
starve to death. Fear OF massacre of
agents and post-traders is expressed.
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JONESBORO, ARK.
Great Annoyance ON Account of the In
regularity of the Mails.

Great Annoyance ON Account of the Ir-
regularity of the Mails.
Special to the Appeal
JoNEsBoRo, February 1S.-Our people
are now being subjected te great trouble
and annoyance on account OF the irregu-
larity of the mails, occasioned by the
trains on our railroads being cut off by
the floods. 1t is not known here as yet
how We will receive our Memphis and
other Eastern mails, as the Kansas City
trains only run as far as Nettleton, three
miles east of this place. Trains on the
Texas and st. Louis road now run only
from Maiden, Mo-, on the north, to Clar-
endon, Ark, on the south.
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THE FOUNDRY BOARD.

The Establishment Of Two GUN FactO-
ries recommended.
WASHINGTON, February IS. - The
Foundry Board submitted its report
to the Secretary of the Navy. 1t does not
recommend the establishment of gov
ernment foundry, properly so called, but
thinks steel manufacturers should be called
upon to provide material and recommends
the establishment of two gun factories IN
der the control of the government.
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Sold by Subscription Only.

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