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LOUISVILLE.
Great Excitement Over the Continued
Rise of the River.


Rise of the River.
LOUISVILLE, February ct looks as
though the flood of last year was to be re-
peated. The river at noon was thirty-four
feet N the canal, and rising at the rate OF
four inches an hour. Shippingport and
Portland are flooded already. Over SEQ
people are driven out of their homes. The
government building is the only house not
submerged in Shippingport. -Four more
feet OF water viii bring the flood over the
cutoff above the city, and the point" will
be flooded with great loss of property, per-
haps lives. 1t has been raining steadily
nearly all day. The Kentucky river is still
rising rapidly at Frankfort. Considerable
excitement is prevailing, and the river
banks are thronged with people. No loss
of life reported yet.
A Frankfort noon special saws it rained
without intermission all day yesterday and
last night and is still pouring down a Hood
The river rose three feet six inches last
night and one foot six inches since day
light to now, 1880 O'Clock pm. 1t now
stands at tweniy-four feet six inch, s
in the channel by the bridge pier
marks. Advices from Clay's Ferry, ten
miles above here, by river, reported rivor
falling there yesterday, but then il was
also falling at this city. Mr.. George
Macklen, the coal dealer, and best in-
formed man on river news, says he does
not apprehend flood at this point.
Night.-At 6 o'clock the river is rising
three inches an hour, with thirty-five feet
in the canal and thirty-three feet on the
falls, and raining steadily. The people
living in the point are expecting the
water over the cutoff by morning, and
are moving out to escape the inundation
that caught them sleeping on the night of
February u, 1855, and which caused so
much damage. The flood scenes of 1888
will doubtless be repeated. Only one
drowning as yet, u man named Frank
Rudemaker, by the overturning of sl<iff.
, O'Clock A.M-It is still raining The
river ereeps steadily up four inches per
hour. At 1880 O'Clock the canal gauge
registered thirty-six and one-half feet OF
water, which is within eight feet Of the
highest mark last year. The river front
from Thirtieth street to Fourteenth is al
ready inundated, only two feet lacking to
bring the water over the cutoff above the
oil
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WHEELING.
- Flood Equal 30 the Famous Rise CT
lS32 Expected.


WHEELING, w. VA, February 6.-The
river here is forty feet, and still rising at
the rate of ten inches an hour Many
low streets on the island and south OF
Wheeling creek are already submerged,
many houses being surrounded and a few
invaded by the waters. A flood as great
as the famous one of 1892 is expected,
and residents of exposed localities are
abandoning their houses and merchants
removing their stocks to safety. Two or
three mills and factories have been stop
ped by the water reaching the fires. The
gas is already shut Off from the island, and
the gas works will no doubt be interfered
with and the entire supply shut off by to-
night. Most of the mills will be stopped
by the water by evening. The p, w. and
X. railway track is submerged for a short
distance along the wharf. Railroad
bridges and trestles are loaded down with
heavy trains. Communication with the
suburbs will be seriously interfered with
this afternoon and the damage to the
trestles OF the p, w. and X. and the c.,
l.. and w. roads on the two sides of the
river is apprehended. Frederick Eisel, a
German, aged sixteen, was found drowned
at Benwood this morning.
Nigh.-The river has been rising all day
at the rate of about eight inches an hour,
and there is now a depth of foEy-four
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having 1918 men and 7SS commissioned
officers Pennsylvania is second, with 7454
men and 552 officers; Florida third, with
8261 men and 455 officers; Ohio fourth,
rith 55I5. tr,en and $50 officers; South
Carolina :ssth, with 46l2 men and 507 off.
GERS. Delaware, Nebraska, Nevada and
Vermont report the smallest organized
militia, the first named baving 234 men
and 81 officers Nebraska 450 men and 42
officers; Nevada 615 men and 76 officers,
and Vermont 624 men and 65 officers.
Ohio has the largest unorganized militia
strength, 500, 900 men; New York, 49,, CPS;
Pennsylvania, 461 ,4S2; Illinois, 100000
and Missouri, 10000 men.
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FoUR thousand inquiries made in In
diana elected replies Is follows: For tariff
ior revenue only, twenty per cent; for
protective tariff, twenty-five per cent. for
tariff for revenue, aftording incidental pro-
lection, fifty-five per cent. What part OF
The 1000 were Republicans, and what
Democrats, is not stated, but at any rate
Republican protection" does not seem to
have many friends, remarks the Raleigh
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SwIfs-s specific

Is entirely vegetable preparation, and
should not ee confounded with the vari-
Gus limitations, nor secret humbugs,
"Succus Alterans, etc, all of which either
contain Mercury and Potash, or are com
posed of old remedies which have long
since been discarded as of no value in the
treatment of Blood Diseases, and none of
them contain s single article which enters
into the composition of Swift's Specific.
There is only one Swift's Specific Is. S. s.
and there is nothing in TIE world like it
Be sure to get the genuine. Send for Treat
ise on Blood and Skin Diseases, free.
THE SWIFT SPECIFIC CO..
nra xcr 3. Atlanta. Ga.
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''Gop is good to The Irish Campencon,
She celebrated physiologist, states in
the PsTfa papers that the daughters of
Erin have, Of all women, the most beau
siful Of hands. Next to the Irish girls the
daughters of Poland desarun the palm.
rhgIisn girls have hands too heshy and
plump; Americans too long and narrow :;
the Gernans too short and the palms too
broad. There arc more beautiful hands in
France aud Italy than in Spain.
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--u..---------------,

THE New York Herald says that the
number OF politicians who think that Gen.
~herman's sweetness and light" or light,
ness aud sweetness, would make him a
moro popular Republican candidate for
shc Presidency than the wise and austere
Mr.. Edmunds is daily increasing. The
expected recital of the eveRts which made
tEe march to the see is regarded as an
overpOwering political argument.
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THE TRADE DOLLAR.
A Bill for Its Withdrawal Before the
Committee.


!. WASHINGTON, February 6.-The with
drawai Of the trade dollar was discussed
by the House Committee on Coinage,
Weights and Measures to-day. The sub
committee having charge of the subject
reported the bill TOR nua, acnon py the
full committee, but it was postponed until
tomorrow. The proposed measure pro-
vides that until January l, 1856, trade
dollars shall be received at face value for
the payment of all dues to the United
States, and shall not be again paid out or
in any other manner received. The hold
ers of such coin may receive dollar for
dollar in silver coin of the United States
on presentation OF the trade dollar at the
office of the Treasurer or Assistant Treas
urer, or st any mints of the United States.
The bill also provides that the trade. dol
lar be received rs any other coin Of the
governnesnt. A number of the members
of the committee opposed the manner of
recoinage proposed by the the bill, and
Representative Bland gave notice that he
would insist upon an amendment pro-
viding for the recoinage of the trade dollar
into the standard dollar, instead of any
authorized coin
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The Prohibitionists have determined to
meet in May next and nominate candi-
dates for President and Vice-P President Of
the United States. In 1876 it will be re-
membcrcd they put out a national ticket
and received an aggregate OF 9552 votes,
and in 1850 they put out another ticket
which received n total of lO,3O5 votes out
of 9,2lO,9l7 votes cast, being nearly one
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THe Weather Bareau, in view of the
increasing hcod5 in the Ohio and its tribu-
tary rivera, and the continued rains in the
great stretch Of country which it drains
from the sources Of the Monongahela and
Allegheny rivers to its confluence with the
Mississippi al Cairo, warns the people of
the lower valley OF the Mississippi to pre-
pare for perhaps al unparalleled overflow
and get their stock and their goods TO
places 81 safety and strengthen the weak
points in the levces. This is a timely
warming and il The people above and be-
low Memphis are wise they will take heed
and act upon il. QIick rs the people of
the cities and towns along the Ohio have
been 10 avail themselves of every means
If escape from an impending fate, many
"i them ksye been caught by the rushing
waters, rising at the rate OF from four
already lost very heavily in houses
and perishablc property. The unparal-
leled fall Of SNOW this winter, sue
ceedod by mild weather and heavy rains,
has brought this swift punishment to the
people who have cut down the timber on
the mountains, in many places unneces-
sarily, and the havoc of 1883 is being re-
Peated, with every prospect that the flood
will exceed in destructive force and vio-
lence those of that year and OF 1852 and
1882, the worst of which there is any rec
ord. The news from Fittsburg, Wheeling,
Cincinnati, Madison, Louisville, Evans
VILE and Cairo grows more alarming with
every hour, and it is feared that fully one
half of the vast amounts of corn stored
along the Ohio for shipment to a market
will be lost. The Mississippi at st. Louis is
rising 1.-THE rate OF two feet ten inches every
twenty-four hours, and the Tennessee aud
Cumberland rivers, the latter still rising,
are pouring out immense volumes of
water. The Arkansas is rising "a oidly, and
there is good reason for fear in that quar-
ter. The planters below will do well to be
warned in time and put their places in
order, SO rs to reduce the possible losses
to minimum.
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ACHANCERY SALE
Es ID a Il e g = A Z u.

No; 4661, Rr.-Chane~ry Court of Shelby county.
state of Tennessee Cor its own use, and use of
Shelby county, and M of the Taxing District,
etc., VS.. l.. d. MckisicA W. b. Ross and l.. b.
Mcfarland Trustee.
RY virtue of an interlocegry decree, for sale
ID entered in the above cauhs on the 18th day
of December, 1888, NJ. Il. Al, pages6, will sell at
public auction, to the highest bidder, in front of
the Clerk and Masters office, courthouse of Shelby
county, Memphis, Tenn, on
Saturday, March =, 1SS4s
within legal hours, the following described prop
erty, situated in Shelby county, Tenn Np-wit:
In the Tenth CIVIL District; Beginning at ma
pie marked J. w, John Wards southeast cor
ner: running thence west fifty-one (5D chains to
u stake with hickory and postoak pointers
marked J. w; thence south twenty-nine lZsD
chains and twenty five (25) links to stake in the
creek with black and swectgum pointers; thence
north fifty four 90 chains and sixteen 90 INK
to a postoak marked n. s.: thence west chains
and 80 links to redoak; thence south a chains
and 30 links to the beginning, containing i't
acres, more or less; sold for taxes and as the
property of said L. D. McKisick and Willetta u.
Ross. ~,
Terms of Sale--on credit Of seven months
note with security required; lien retained; re
demption barred. This February 6, 1884.
r. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
By Geo, Mallery, Deputy Clerk and Master.
W NJ. Smith, C. W. Il +. IL. Heiskell, R. D
81, -.
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The Knoxville Chronicle declares our
State penitentiary system to be zone OF
the most diabolical that ever disgraced
earth CT offended high heaven. Under it
human beings are treated as soulless,
mindless, beartless beasts, whose only
business IS to 60 the most work at the least
cost" The same is said OF the peniten-
tiary management of Mississippi.
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OAKLAND, MISS.
The People Condema the POstpenemcnt
of an Important Measure.

Special Correspondence of the Appeal.l
OAkLAND, February 5.-At a large and
enthusiastic meeting held here to-day, the
Hon VIM. Black was called to the chair,
and Mr.. John D. Kerr requested to act as
secretary, and upon motion Of Mr.. Kerr
the following resolutions we're adopted
amidst great enthusiasm:
Resoired, That We. the citizens of Oakland and
vicinity, irrespective of party party afiliatons
express our surprise at, and condemnation of, the
action of the House of Representatives in indef-
nitely postponing the bilr to abolish the Second
Circuit and Chancery Court District in this coun-
ty, in the face of the will of the people clearly
and directly expressed in the election of the Hon.
W. V. Moore TO the Legislature upon that issue
alone by majority of SEQ; that regard such
action impolitc, unwise, undemOcTatic and
oppressive, and yioiative of one of the cardinal
principles of Democracy, and not in accord with
the genius of our institutions and government.
Resolued, That We request the Hon. W. V. Moore
to introduce bill aboiishing the said Second Cir
cult and Chancery Court District, to be submitted
to the peorle of the county at special election
to be held some time in August next, and that We
earnestly request a9d petition the Legislature to
pass said bill, in order that people may be re-
lieved of an unnecessary, unjust and OnerOu
tax, and that the people may be heard and theii
will respected and made supreme.
Resoired, That the secretary be requested Il
send n copy of these resolutions to the Jackson
Clarion, Cofeeville Times and Memphis APPEAL
| with the request that they be published.
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.terly depraved wretcf


JOIN BRIGHT once said OF Wendell Phil
lips that there was no orator superior to
him who spoke the English language. He
was also probably the hest educated man
in this country; historically, he was WON
deriully so. He was a great student of
English history, and Charles Sumner once
spoke Of hin as the greatest historian he
had known. His style, too, was exception
aliy pure.
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THE New York Tribune says the health
of Mr.. Til6en, who has spent the winter
at Greystone, on The Hudson, has been
evenly fair. Ills voice is somewhat weak
er, the result of constitutional defects. The
Sage OF Gramercy continues to take the
liveliest interest in the relation by friends
of the various political movements of the
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IiTE New York Ford states that a liter
AIRY gentleman in that city is engaged on
a book !'lch is tolerably certain to create
a stir when it appears. The author claims
20 have proof that Queen Victoria was
secretly married 10 John Brown shortly
after the death Of the royal cousort. He
claims that Disraeli discovered the fact,
and through threatening to disclose it
secured his advancement. The collated
evidence in support OF this remarkable
theory Is all to appear in this book.
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EVANSVILLE,
Forty Feet On the Gauge, and Rising
Two Inches an Hour.

FOrty Feet On Ihe GEUSe. aikU R1s1nis
Two Inches an Hour.
EVANSVILLE, February 6.-Gloomy pros
pect; forty feet on the gauge, and rising
two inches per hour. 1t rained hard all
night, and is still raining. The banks of
the river are covered with corn awaiting
shipment. The prospects are of a higher
river than in February last. 8ll boats are
busy moving corn, but net half enough
tonnage.
Night.-1 boats are busy moving corn
and stock and families. No arriy al of
packets. There are said to be l I 900
bushels of corn on the banks between
here and Paducah, much of which will
be destroyed. The Wabash has hardly
started. There will be big flood IN that
stream. 1t rained all day, and is still
raining.
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GEORGE ACGUsTUs SALA, the well-known
English journalist, wants somebody to write
Il book on "The Extent to which History
has been Falsifed by the Poets and Paint
ors." The New York Tribune says that
writer in Tie Cs.'3soris UsaIS presents as a
subject O: one chapter the story ef-the-
Cenci lie writes OF the beautiful Beatrice
as OF an utterly depraved wretch.
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CAIRO.
The Ohio Rising Rapidly and the Mis-
si.ainrli SiaMl4-tf KaiuS.

CAIRO, February 6.-Heavy rains since
is rising fast, and is now thirty-seven feet
six inches on the gauge, having risen over
three feet during the last twenty,;four
hours. The Mississippi is rising slowly.
Night The Ohio is rising an inch an
hour. The gauge is now thirty-eight feet
five inches. 1t has rained all the after
noon. The people in the io#laiids have
been for some time removing stock, etc,
to high ground, and should the river reach
the Threatening, stage there mnI be COM
para'lVely SIN. i....I losses this year.
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Ia " HIM Ed Q ItNI, IND.
The Levees Broken and the Town Under
Wafer.

AURORA, IND, February 6.-There was
inteuse excitement here at 10 o'clock to-
night, when the alarm bells at Lawrence
burg two miles away, were distinctly
heard The levees of that town have
given away and the place is being sub
merged by the rush OF floods. No means
for getting particulars
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A Singular Explosion.

CLEVELAND, o., February 6.-About i
o'clock this morning a violent explosion
startled the people of this city. At Lin
dale, five miles out, John Kramer, freight
conductor on the Bee Line, crawled under
a tank car, which had contained gasoline,
to inspect it. The lamp ignited the gas
still lingering around The tank car was
torn to fragments, and Kramer will prob
ably die.
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IN MEIORIAM.
Lee Garrett.

In memory of LEE GARRETT, who died at the
residence of his father, Mr.. Thomas Garrett. near
Marion, Crittenden county, Ark, January. 80
1884, four days before the completion of his nine
teenth year.
/: is hard indeed to believe that LEE is dead
that enc so young, so full of life and happiness
should be called so soon in the bloom of early
years, and be consigned g. the silent grave. lie
was the last remaining child of aged parents,
whose home is now overshadowed with indescfib-
able gloom, for he who was the pride and joy of
1.-THE tender, thoughtful, loving son-will never
more brighten it with his presence. But it is not
alone in Il home circle that he VIII be missed.
for in social life he fiiorite-H Oldest and
unassumi1g in manner, ardent and firm II h's
friendship, and genial TO marked degree in his
intercourse with ell. He was attentive to busi-
ness, and displayed an energy indicative of fu-
ture success. When stricken with the illness that
ended in death, he was at his post as shipping
clerk of the steamer 0verton. lily can any com,
munity spare such young men he was, and
such as his undeveloped manhood promished.
LEE, think of thy mother, and mid the calm night
When the stars, heavens eyes, Gre SO brilliant
and light,
Look down from the pure world Of angels above,
And in dreams fill her heart with thy hoiest love.
MARION, ARK. Me.
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CONGRESSi0NAL.A
.,uaeeedtugs I'm the House and Senate
Mills and Revolutions.

WssHINGToN, February 6.-House.-Mr.
lewis offered a resolution referring TO the
Court of Claims for investigation, and to
report on, all claims for cotton seized by
Union authorities during the civil war.
Referred.
On motion of Mr.. Matson, resolution
was adopted calling on the Secretary of the
Interior for copies OF orders and correspond
ence in relation to irregular practices on
the part of attorneys practicing before the
Pension Office, together with copies Of all
Official charges against such attorneys, and
copies of circulars used by them which
were deemed deceptive in character.
A number of bills were introduced and
referred to the appropriate committees.
The House then went into Committee of
the Whole (Mr. Cobb in the chair on the
pleuro pneumonia bill, and lengthy de-
bate ensued, Mr.. Latham leading of in
opposition to the measure, followed by
Messrs. Reagan, Hunt, Eaton and Belford,
also in opposition. Messrs. Anderson,
Peters and Lawrence supported the bill,
but without action the committee rose
and the House adjourned.
The Senate.
Senator Miller zeal. ], from the Commit
tee on Foreign Relations, reported the
Senate bill prepared as an amendment to
the anti-Chinese act. Placed on the cal
/ endar. Senate bill appropriating S777, $50
| for the completion of the capitol terraces
j and stairways connected Herewith, passed.
The following bills were reported favor
l ably, with amendments, and placed on
4 the calendar:
Senator Miller n. Y. |, from the Com
/ mittee on Agriculture: The bin provid-
| ing for the suppression and extirpation of
| pleuro-pneumonia and other contagious
diseases among domestic animals.
Senator Miller Cal. b from the Committee
on Foreign Relations: The bill to pro-
vide for executing treaty stipulations re-
lating to the Chinese.
| A number of bills were presented and
referred to committees.
The Chair (Sherman) laid before the
Senate the unfinished business from yester-
day, being the Mexican land grant bill,
| which was debated at great length and
several amendments proposed and re-
jected.
An amendment was offered by Senator
! Coke, which was agreed to, excepting from
the limitation of the act in regard to three
years within which claims have to be pre-
sented, all minors, married women and
persons non compos R,eftis.
| Without action the Senate went into
| executive session and soon adjourned.
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MIR. GEORGE w. CABLE, the novelist.
though confined to his room at the resi-
dence of "Mark Twain" IN Hartford,
Conn, with Intermittent fever, is not dam
gerously i'll. He viii not, it is said, resume
his lectures this season.
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NoL. HhGGGNSc@, in the course of a lee.
Cure recently delivered in Boston, said that
the place OF literature in American society
Is ene of honor, but that 10 be caiiet a
literary man was = compliment that was
not quite compliment. American litera-
tpre, he added, has rot quite established
itself in general recognition. Its quality is
all right, but lis quantity is limited. Eng
land or Germany or France Yields three or
Sour times rs much OF good literature a
year. And much American literature has
not stood sitting well. Few American
writers OF fifty years ago are destined to
last another fifty years.