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HENRY SLADE,
The Renowned Spirit Medium. Who Co
operated With Prof. ZOilner, to
Arrive i'm Memphis To-Day,

Henry slade, the spirit medium, who
has travelled more extensively throughout
the world than any other except Home,
will arrive in the city this afternoon from
Nashville, where he has been sojourning
for some weeks. He will remain here sew
eral days.: during which he will lecture
upon his experiences as medium
abroad, and will, perhaps, give ex-
hibits of his mediumistic powers. Mr..
Slade was some years ago hon.
ored by the attentions of board of dis
tinguished scientists in Germany, who,
under the lead of Prof. Zollner, pledged
themselves to pursue line OF investiga-
ton Of the phenomena of spiritism and
give the results to the world. Mr. Slade
was selected as the medium, notwith-
standing he had just been declared a
charlstan in England, and had been
driven out of that kingdom by the revival
OF ancient Puritanic laws and the charge
OF jugglery and necromancy. The report
made by Prof. Zollner of his investigations
has long been before the public of the civil
lied world, as it found its way into every
language spoken in Europe and many of
those in India. The experiences therein
set forth entitle Mr.. Slade to a hearing
upon the part of the general public, and,
we have no doubt, if he lectures at the
Theater on Sunday night next, that
place will be crowded, for, say what we
| may, spiritism has a strong hold upon
the average man. 1t is the mystery OF
| mysteries that everyone would solve.
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PERSONALS.

JoHN CALHooN, of the Holly Springs Re.
porter, is in the city.
Mrs. MARY HARRIS is visiting her sister
Mrs. j. II. Doan, PA Union street.
JOHN p. CoYNE (of Lowenstein's) is very
i'll at DR.. Rogers's inirmary, on Vance
street.
WIN. A. GOODWIN and wife, formerly oi
this city, but now residents of Nashville
are at the Peabody Hotel. Their visit nc
doubt affords mingled feelings of joy anG
sadness-joy at meeting SO many valued
and old friends and sadness to know that
Elmwood is billowed with the graves OF SC
many children.
HENRY SLADE, the greatest of all the
spirit mediums, will be in the city to-day
and viii lecture on Sunday afternoon anc
night, perhaps at the Theater, on his ex
periences in Europe as medium. Mr.
Slade will be recalled by our readers a.
the medium whose powers were so thor
oughly tested by Prof. Zollner.
w. A. CHANEY, Cotton Plant, Ark
John F. Coley, Little Rock; J. w
Stephenson, Holly Springs: Maj L. G
Cairnes, Gainesville, Tex; Capt. VIM
Henson, Coahoma county, Miss; L. New
bergh, Coffeeville; \. Rainey, Helena
VIM. A Goodwin, Nashville; w. H
Noble, Bolivar county, Miss T. w. l.
Askew, Austin, Miss; J. N. Moore
Brunswick, Tenn, were visitors at the
Cotton Exchange yesterday.
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
The Approaching Political Canvass-A
New Land COmpany-Michigan Capi-

The Approaching Political Canyass-A
New Land Company-Michigan Capt.
talists.
Special to the Appeal
BIRMINGHAM, ALA, March 27.-The in
dications are that there will be pretty
warm work for the Congressional nomina-
tion in this, the Sixth District. The Hon.
q. w. Hewitt, the present member, is pub
lished in the -lge as saying to an in ier-
viewer for the paper that, although op-
posed to the Morrison bill, he thought the
tariff should be revised and the duty on
many articles reduced; that iron could
stand as low duty rs 50 per ton. The
consequence is that some OF the iror men
have declared against his denomination.
1t is not known yet, however, that he will
be candidate. Col. Hewitt came home
last Friday night and went to Jasper,
Sunday, TO appear as counsel in a muir
der case now being tried there. Col.
John = Bankhead, warden of the peni-
tentiary, Prof. JOHN M. Martin, of the
Law School in the University of Alabama,
at Tuscaloosa, and Col. y. n. Coleman, of
the same place, who was a candidate be-
fore the convention two years ago, will
doubtless be candidates.
A company has beer chartered as the
Avondale Land Company, with $4,000
capital, to build suburban town with a
fine park and such other Improvements,
and connected with Birmingham by an
extension of the street railroad, on tract
of $50 acres just out OF town that they
have bought for $4,000. A party arrived
from Atlanta Tuesday who thought they
had bought the same tract for So, 200, but
they found there had been misunder-
standing, and that the sale to the Avon
dale projectors had been closed.
Michigan capitalists, said to represent a
great deal of money, have bought 195
acres of land at Calera, thirty-three miles
south of Birmingham, and say they are
going to build blast furnace, car works
and plow factory. Calera is well located
for manufacturing enterprises, between
the crossing point OF the Louisville and
Nashville and East Tennessee, Virginis
and Georgia roads.
A survey has been begun for the shops
of the Alabama Great Southern railroad
at Elyton, mile and half down the road
| from birmingham.
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for the payment for depredations conf
mitted by the Ute Indians at the time u
the massacre at the White river agency 70
1879. The number of persons included
in the bill is eleven. The amount Is
about $500, of which $T7S is for MIS-.
Meeker, and $460 for Miss Josephine
Meeker, now dead. The money paid IN T.
isfaction of the claim is to be refunded .
the United States by taking the amoustt
out Of any moneys in the Treasury dNe
the Utes.
The following bills passed: Authorizing
the Secretary of War to examine the
claim of Thos. J. Miller, OF Washington
Territory. for the seizure and sinking OF
his ferryboat, on Columbia river, by the
armed forces of the United States to PRE-
vent its use by hostile Indians during the
Bannock war in 1878; to pay $500 to the
legal Representatives OF Mrs. Martha
Vaughan and $250O to those OF Mrs. Louisa
jackson, for patriotic services rendered,
and Information given the Union army in
Kentucky in 1858; authorizing the Court
of Claims to grant reheariflg in the case
OF Chas. p Chouteau, Of Missouri, for
DELAY and extra expense caused by the
government in building an ironclad during
the war; to repay the State of Georgia
1927. 1867, money advanced tor the deiense
of her frontiers asa...-. 'ne iiioi
1895 to 1918, and not heretofore pa1o.
The Senate then took UP the eduea-
ticnal bill, and Senator Hampton I'd;
dressed the Senate III its favor. SeEe.al
other Senators spoke on the subject, when
the Senate went into executive session
and soon after adjourned.
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APPEAL SPECIALS.
Indications Of Warm Work for the Con-
gressional Domination in the Sixth
Alabama District.
Destructive Fire at Sardis, Miss.-Nar,
row Escape Of the Bank and
Cperahouse.
TIE Spence-Wheat Murder Case-Nash.
vile to Have Union DepOt-Phil-
lips County Politics.
NASHVILLE.
rhe Case of VIVA. spence Continued

She Case Of Wm. spence Continued TIL
The Next Term OF Court.
Special to the Apreal.l
NASHVILLE, March e9.-Wm Spence's
case was called in the Criminal Court to.
day. The slayer OF Col. Edward S. Wheat,
when brought from :ail, seemed very
cheerful and unconcerned. HIS counsel
Judge John V. Wright, filed long aft
davit and moved for continuation tc
the next term of the court, J16ge Allen
set the case for the erst Monday in Nav
The Defendant was represented by Judge
John V. Wright, J. +. Bullock, Edwin
Thurman and Gen. ]. B. Palmer; the
State by Attorney General Washington,
Tulley Brown and R. F. jackson. There
we're thirty-five witnesses called for the
State and forty-si1 for the defense. The
continu1nce was granted ON the ground of
the absence of the. following witnesses:
J. E. Drumgoole, of Rutherford county;
W. Murry, of Carroll cotnty; Joseph
Spence of Austin, Tex, w. NJ Lewis, of
Louisville, and others, for whom sub
penas have been issued.
The petition OF General Manager John
w. Thomas, of the Nashville, Chattanooga
and st. Louis railway, to the City Council
tonight, announces that a union depot
for all the roads centering in Nashville, to
cost 100000, will be btilt. The depot is
TO be ON the south side OF Broad street,
west of the tunnel. Work is to be com
meneed in two weeks. A bill condemn
ing the property passed the City Council,
the rules being suspended for that pur-
pose.
The City Council passed a Sunday law
| allowing the sale of cigars till 10 o'clock
a.m., prohibiting the sale of liquor, beer,
| etc, allowing the sale of all kinds of or
| dinary edibles till 10 O'Clock am, and
newspapers, confectionery and the like,
all day.
A bill was filed in Chancery Court to-
day by the next friend of Annie and
Laura Fulcher, wards OF Edward Cana
way, defaulting ex.public administrator,
asking for judgment against him and his
sureties for $ll GOO appropriated by Cana.
way to his own use before fleeing the
State. The bill charges that Cana way not
only stole his wards money, but his bond
| for $4,000 from the files of the County
Court. ID. f. Wilkin, Jacob Bloomstein,
of Nashville, and A. X. Ward, of Shelby
| county, are his sureties.
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HELENA, ARK.


Change Wanted i'm the Place for Hold
ing the District Democratic COnveu-
fiOn.
Special to the Appeal.l
HELENA, March 2T.-The Hon. j. Z.
Gatewood, chairman of the Judicial Ex-
ecutive Committee for this (the First dis
trict, has called meeting of the commit
tee on Wednesday, April I'd, at Clarendon,
Ark, the object being to take action upon
the petition OF the candidates for prose-
cutting attorney requesting the change of
the place of holding the convention from
Searcy, on the Iron Mountain road-all
of the candidates signing the petition ex-
cept Mr.. Brundige, of White county, who
wanted to sign under condition that it be
removed to Augusta, place more inacces-
sible than Searcy.
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CAPITAL POINTS.

A senntoIfa1 Pressure Party.
WAsH1Nsfos, March 3Y.-serators In
gals, Sawyer, Jones Fla and Manderson,
with their families left Washington this
morning for pleasure trip TO Jacksonville,
Fla. They were accompanied by Sergeant
alarms Canady, of the Senate.
Combinations.
Medical Director Francis NJ. Gunnell,
surgeon-general of the army; Robert F.
Cl.yto Georgia, consul to Para.
Public Health.
The Committee on Public Health held
a meeting to-day and decided to make an
early report on the quarantine question.
1t is not believed that the existing regime
will be disturbed.
The Eighf-Hour Law.
Secretary Lincoln has given instric-
tions for the observance of the eighthour
law as regards the hours of labor of the
employees of the Ordnance Bureau improv-
ing grounds at Sandy Hook.
Decl ease i'm Revenue Receipts.
During the first eight months of the
present fscsl year internal revenue re-
ceipts were $4,000, 800, decrease OF $lS,-
45l .260 compared with the corresponding
period OF 1893. The aggregate receipts
for February are $1,000, ,S62 less than for
February, 1888.
Lease OfAbsence for Lefter-Carrfers.
The House Committee ON Postofficecs
| and postroads decided against Ito recoyi-
mend the passage of the bill providing
that all letter-carriers at free delivery otli-
| ces be entitled to leave OF absence fourteen
| days each year without loss OF pay upon
| the same conditions now granted in the
| Postoffice Department.
Public Ruildinxs.
The House Committee on Public Build.
ings and Grounds agreed to recommend
| the erection Of public buildings at Clarks-
burg, Va, $4,000; St. Joseph, Mo-, 5000
| San Antonio, Tex, 100000. Additional
| appropriations of SIS, 600 for the public
| building at Fort Wayne, Ind, and $780,
600 for the public building at Detroit were
also recommended.
National Bank Laws.
The Committee on Banking and Cur.
rency are considering the propriety of sc
amending the national bank laws that
examinations may be made more fre
| quently and the directors be held account
able Tor Irregularities. This is the out
| growth of the failure of the Pacific Ma
| tional Bank of Boston.
| The Duty ON SILK.
A committee consisting of Senators
Platt and Sewell, Representative Phelp,
and Messrs. Richardson, Cheney and Lyle
| representing the interests of manufacturer
of silk, waited on the Secretary of the
Treasury to-day and protested against an,
reduction of the duty ON silk trimmings
etc, which, under a recent opinion ofs.h,
Attorney-General,a are only dutiable TWEEN
ty per cent, whereas, all other silk il
dutiable fifty per cent.
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THE Vicksburg Herald is very severe
upon Mr.. Barksdale for the foolish an
swers he made to the committee that in
vestigated the Copiah matter, and says
that If he "is incapable OF answering such
simple questions as the Massachusetts
Senator propounded to him, it may possi-
bly, occur to the voters of the Seventh
District to select Representative who
can. They will not look with much COM
placency upon the latest performance OF
their distinguished Representative"
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LOCAL NOTICES.

SHoEMAKERs, see "want" column.
BEST rooms in the city, Park Hotel.
GIVE your children Smith's Worm Oil
SroP that cough! Take Hessen's Cough
Syrup.
Go to see the last ring tournament to-
night at the Skating Rink.
DR.. w. W. TAYLOR, 33S Main street,
corner Union. Telephone 9l0.
ANGosTuRA BIrTERs ara indorsed by all
the leading physicians and chemists fol-
their purity and wholesomeness. Beware
of counterfeits, and ask your grocer and
druggist for the genuine article. Prepared
by DR.. j. G. B. Siegert & Sons.
THE Manhattan Bank Offers for sale al
an attractive price limited amount of the
Memphis Elevator Company's six pei
cent bonds, secured by property worth
much more than the amount of the mort
gage. The bonds are recommended to
investors.
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Consumption Cured.

An old physician, retired from practice,
having had placed in his hands by an East
India missionary the formula of a simple
catarrh, asthma and all throat and lung
affections, also positive and radical cure
for nervous debility and nervous COM
plants, after having tested its wonderful
curative powers in thousands of cases, has
felt it his duty to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this mo-
tive and desire to relieve human suffer-
ing, will send free of charge, to all who
desire it, this recipe, in German, French
or English, with full directions for pre-
pairing and using. Sent by mail by ad-
dressing with stamp, naming this paper,
w. A. Noyes, 149 Powers Block, Roches-
ter "
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Behning,s Pianos.

An APPEAL representative, happening in
at Hollenberg's music house, on Main
street, was shown two beautiful instru-
ments from the New York mandatory of
Behning & Son, which certainly merit the
award OF superiority in the many par
ticulars claimed for it. Tkese pianos pos
seSS> many Improvements OF accepted
mc.1t, notably the over-strung bass, pat
ented shoulder agraffe attachment, pat
ented concave name board, veneered
bridge, patented sounding-boar and the
patented music-rack for uprights, besides
superior finish and pleasing brilliancy and
purity of tone, which it is claimed is
retained for a much longer period than
could be done previous to the addition OF
the improvements mentioned. The ad-
dition OF the Behning piano to the list OF
standard instruments OF the Hollenberg
house is feature that our music-lovins
psop.e will certainly appreciate.
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THE UTAH MEMORIAL.
The Governor Charged With Being HO
If1e to the Interests of the Terr


The Governor Charged with BEING Hos.
Ii1e to the Interests of the Terri
tory.
WASHINGTON, March 27.-In the memo
rial of the Legislative Assembly OF Utah,
presented to the Senate to-day, the me-
morialists state that they were elected by
the people of the Territory under the pro-
visions of the Edmunds bill, and they
have made provision for filling the regis
tration and elective offices of the Territory
as authorized by that law, but their action
has been rendered void by the
refusal OF the Governor to sign
their bill, and in consequence of
that refusal one object OF the Edmunds
bill has been frustrated, and the interests
of the people of Utah jeopardized. They
also state that other bills needful to the
progress Of the Territory have been nulli-
fed by the Governor. Measures have been
introduced in Congress looking to extreme
and, as they consider, harsh and unjust
action toward the people OF the Territory,
and that these measures have been
prompted by untruthful statements made
| 10 Congress and by misunderstanding of
the facts and political situation of the
Territory
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ANoTHER candidate for stage honors has
made her appearance, this time in Balti'
more, in the person OF Mrs. Denison, q
leader OF society and possessed of large
fortune. She is to appear at the Madison
Square Theater, New York, next season
hrs. Denison is married woman, who fol
several seasons has taken prominent
parts in the theatrical performances of the
Wednesday Club, Baltimore, and her act
ing has been favorably commented upon
Last summer she appeared at an amateur
theatrical entertainment in New York,
and it was upon that occasion that her
acting won for her the oser from the
Madison Square manager. She is native
OF this country. Her accent. great beauty
and graceful carriage make her app ear.
ance on the stage doubly effective. Crit
les say she is not unlike Modjeska. Mrs
Denison says the step she has taken wa.
not taken hastily, but that she has con
templated it for year.
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.!rhe sisaatiop : st Greenvilie' >

.TAe k1tuot1ou s.
speeial TO the Appeai.1
GREEsFIfLt, March sf.-Refugees who
reached here to- day from the lower END Of
Issaquena county, report all the country
from the Yazoo to Chotard still complete
ly un Ter water, with no very early pros
poets of being soon relieved, as nearly all
the rivers above are rising. The negroes
in this overhowed region We're COIN
PEELED to seek shelter in ginhouses, where
they are now in great numbers, and there
is great suffering among them ior some
thing to eat. In this immediate neighbor-
hood things are little more cheerful The
backwater "a falling slowly in the eastern
portion of tins and adjoining counties.
Business in Greenville, however, is dull,
but our live merchants, in order to work
more in concert, have just organized a
Board of Trade, and have given it a good
send-off. The president Is enc of Our
most energetic merchants.
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TRADE-DOLLAR SWINDLE,
The Coin Being Shipped to Foreign
Ports to Defraud EmiErautS.

WASHINGTON, March 27.-The Secretary
OF State, acting on information received
from the Secretary of the Treasury, noti-
fled the. United States consuls at all the
principal emigrating ports in Europe that
trade dollars in large quantities were being
purchased in New York for export, with
the supposed view of putting them off at
par on emigrants about TO embark to this
country. The Secretary suggests that the
consuls do all in their power to prevent
emigrants to the United States from being
imposed upon in regard to the real value
of the trade dollar, and take such meas
ures as are necessary for their protection
in, fhio racpaot
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The Chicago Ne,cs has discovered that
of all the distinguished pretenders in the
Republican party Logan alone can dance
upon the grave of Lindley Murray" and
that the incapacity of this favorite son OF
Illinois to speak the English language
correctly is his best and, indeed, his only
claim to be made chief magistrate of the
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rhe Missouri sttn Ri.inx at aismarck,

BISMARCK, OAK, March 27.-The river
is still rising. 1t is gorged from Sibley
Island to Bismarck Landing, five miles,
very firm. The Buford gorge has broken
and is coming down. Lively times are
expected when it strikes the gorge here in
two or three days. The water is backing
in that part of the river below Mandan
and the ice is being blown up with dyna-
mite. The outlook is assuming a serious
aspect. Trouble is reported here from the
Yellowstone division Of the Northern Pa.
cific. An engine and ten freight cars went
down with one bridge, and several Others
have washed out
Night situation here is becoming
serious. The steamer Behan had her hull
stove in by ice and sank at her mooring
The coming flood will totally destroy her
Value $4,000. A breakup and rise O.
several feet is reported at Washburne
The heavy ice floating down will react
here tonight, and az three feet more o
rise will overreach the banks, the whole
of the lowlands will be inundated.
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MALONE's LANDING, MISS.
Death OF d.. Charles baskerville. of
Esalenl AIfack af RuarImnnin

Death OF BN. Charles Baskerville of a
Violent Attack of Pneumonia.
From Special Correspondent of the Appeal
MALoNE's LANDING, CoAHoMA COUNTY,
Miss March 26.-Dr. Charles Baskerville
died at the residence OF John W. Eldridge,
at this place, on Sunday morning at 80
o'clock. His death was the result of a
violent attack of pneumonia. Without a
struggle and surrounded by friends this
noble hearted, generous and gifted ply
mortal life to one, we fondly hope, of rest
to his weary soul. His many friends are
in full sympathy with the dear ones ol
his family fCol6mbus Miss papers
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Advice TO Mothers,

Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup should
always be used when children are cutting
teeth. 1t relieves the little sufferer at
once; it produces natural, quiet sleep by
relieving the child from pain, and the lit
tie cherub awakes as "bright as button.
1t is very pleasant to taste. 1t soothes the
child, softens the gums, allays all pain, re.
lieves wind, regulates the bowels, and is
the best known remedy for diarrhea,
whether arising from teething or other
causes. Twenty-Five cents bottle.
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HENRY IRVING will sail for England on
the 30th of April, and will open at his
own sheater in London on the 3lst OF
May, where he will, perhaps, produce a
new play. He will then return to Amer
lea, appearing in Canada first, arriv-
ing in New York about the second week
in November. He is now reading the
proof sheets of the work he has written
on this country, and it will be produced
here about the middle of May by osgeod
and Co., of Boston, and in London at the
same time by Sampson, Low < Co. Some
thing of what we may expect can be gath
cred from Mr.. Irving's appreciation OF
American audiences, of which he says
"There is quickness of perception and
an enthusiasm when they are aroused
which is contagious, have been struck
by one fact, which seems to me curious.
Invariably we found our. first night in 9
new city to be the worst as regards tc
business, which steadily increased until il
reached its high-wster mark on the last
night of our stay"
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COyINGTON, TENN.
The KILLING OF A. }. Locke by Justi.
Driver oceasioned by Senlousy.

The KILLING OF A. j. Locke by Justice
Driver oceasioned by Senlousy.
From tie Reyaisr Correspondent of TIE Appeal
CovIsaro:s, Tenn, March 25.-The shot
gun has again done its deadly work. On
the evening OF the oath instant, Justice S.
p. Driver, living three and half miles
northwest of this place, entered the bed
room of A. j. Locke, a young man of about
twenty.eight years OF age. and boarding
with said Driver, and shot him dead with
a load of twelve buckshot The facts con-
nected with the shooting are very hard 20
get at, but from Drivers statements tofa
gentleman after he had done the act are
as follows: Mr.. Burns, near neighbor
of Mr.. Driver, stated before the jury of in