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AMERICAN HOG PRODUCTS.
DlCOInmu 1icnfIOu of Secretary FreIinE
EuYsrn tO tfne President.


huyscn tn the President.
NASHINGTON, January 30.-Secretary
Freliughuysen has addressed TO the Presi-
dent the communication which he trans
mitted 10 the House of Representatives,
in response to resolutions asking for the
papers relating TO the exclusion of Ameri-
can hog products from foreign countries.
He submits 10 the President copies OF all
pertinent matter found of record in the
Department OF State, and gives in detail
the history of the exclusion of American
meats from France, Germany and other
European countries. In March, 1881, the
Secretary says, the Department of State
prosecuted IL examination Of the various
phases Of the pork industry in the West
ern States which resulted in establishing
the fact of the entire healthfulness
of the pork product. The facts
thus elected warranted the depart
ment in representing to foreign govern
meuts that the prejudicial judgment
against the swine export of this country
was Cr EGr!C and unfounded. When it was
asce-taiCed that Germany vas about to is
sue an order of total exclusion, the Presi
dent notified the imperial government of
his intention TO appoint commission to
examine the whole product, and invited
II To send experts hither to act with the
commission. The invitation was declined.
The President has since appointed the
commission then contemplated. 1t is COM
posed of a representative of the New York
Chamber of Commerce, Prof. Charles +.
Chandler; representative Of the Chicago
Board of Trade, f. w. Biatchford; two
me nbers nominated by the Commissioner
OF Ayr allure. 4. ID. Curtis, OF New y ork,
Snd P~cf. y. T. salmon, the whole under
the chairmanshiD OF the Commissioner OF
Agriculture. Ia point OF scientific COM
peteuce and elevated impartiality the for
nation of the commission peculiarly fits it
for the execution of it's responsible
task. To ii should belong, in great
measure, the shaping of the policy of this
government toward the pork question, in
its domestic or foreign aspects. In view,
therefore, of the prominent part which
the results reached by the pork commits
sion must necessarily play in the treat
ment of the question, by the Executive
or b. Congress, the Secretary feels it in
cumbent upon him to advise the Presi-
nent to recommend that Congress abstain
from any lUcneiista legislative action
until the report OF the commission, soon
20 be presented before it.
The Secretary further saws the question
to be carefully, frankly and honestly met
is, whether the prepared meat products
exported iIQm this country are injurious
to the public health? We believe they
are not, and have so represented. Should
il appear that the meat products of this
country are, as we believe them TO be, not
deleterious, but prOmotive of health, it is
believed those friendly nations which put
forth the DEGREES inhibiting the importa-
ton of our meats would annul those de-
crees. II, however, in face of the clear
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American Hog Products from France and
Germauy-The Question to be
Met-Debate on
TEs FitZ John Porter Bill 10 be Closed
n TIE House Friday by Phelps,
of New Jersey.
The First State Dinner of the Season at
the White HOpse-The keifer
Investigation.
PITZ JOnn RTER-.
The Debate or His Case tn dIosc In, I'm,
House F.rfday

The Debate His Case tn dIose i'm The
House Friday.
WAsE,sG-oN, January 3O-The Fitz
John Porter DEBATE will be closed Friday,
or, at the IS-,est, Saturday. In the coarse
of the rebate last Saturday, Gen. Slocum,
who has charge OF the bill, interrupted
e.r Horr to say he had in his possession
the original letters of Gen. Garfield saying
he was in favor of the commission. Gen.
SlOcum said further: "These letters will
Re produced before thisEUouse by a gen
tleTnap Of your own side, and cne whom
you have confidence in" 1t is learned
Nhat the Republican TO whom Gen. Slocum
referred is Phelps, of New Jersey, who is
to close the debate in defense of Porter,
fSlocum, ON moving the previous question,
yielding his hour to Phelps, who was Sc
lected ~ an old friend of Gen. Porter, and
becacse the latter has since the war been
= seailent Of New Jersey and the district
which Phelps represents III Congress
AZ 10 understood that the friends of Porter
have placed in Phelps's hands private let
ters and other new evidence of a notable
character, which viii iatly and authorita
lively contradict various assertions made
by the opponents of the Porter bill in the
course OF the debate
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proof ELECTED, both at home and abroad,
that our products are free from disease,
or communicable germs Of disease, proof
of which might be established to demon
stration, by actual inspection as well as
supported by knowledge of the precau-
Hons which surround the raising and
packing industries here, any nation with
which we are on terms Of intimacy and
amity should, by legislation, discriminate
against the trade of this country, rather
than protect the health of their people, it
would be then the province of the Execu-
tive to call the attention of such nations
to the provisions OF the treaties, with
the confident expectation that those
treaties will be respected. 1t seems very
plain that our policy, in any event, should
be to prove that our meat products are
wholesome. This the absence OF trichi-
nosis in this country, and particularly in
our army and navy, where our meats are
constantly used, goes far to demonstrate.
Measures, however, might be taken to as
certain with absolute certainty, by such
means as a commission of scientists would
devise, that our meats are or can be rem
dered innoxious."
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ley POsey Mob The Warrior Coal.
Mining Company.
Special to the Appeal.l
BIRMINGHAM, January 30.-The first trial
of member of the mob that broke open
the Jail on the night of December Sd in
search of the negro rapist Wesley Posey,
with the intention OF lynching him, was
concluded in the County Court to-day by
the conviction of the defendant, Bob
Crews. On account of mental weakness
and intoxication, both established by tes-
timony, the light penalty of $25 fine was
fixed. 1t will require six months to work
out the fine and costs in the coal mines, if
not paid, of which there is little proba-
bility.
The Warrior Coal and Coke Company,
| recently organized, is about ready to begin
mining near Warrior, eighteen miles north
of Birmingham, on the Louisville and
Nashville railroad, in which district it
owns some 10000 acres OF coal lands, from
1000 OF which, computing at the well-dem-
onstrated rate of 1000 tons to the acre for
three-foot vein, over 5000, 900 tons of
| coal may be mined. By building branch
railroad two miles long the company can
mine 600 acres by drifts, and by extending
the road three-quarters of a mile further,
400 acres more in the same way. The ex-
| traordinarily rich deposits of brown and
| red hematite ore in Murphy's Valley are
almost contiguous to this company's lands,
and it is very probable that, when a rail
road is built from the Louisville and Nash
vile to these ore fields, as is almost GER
tain to be before long, it will run through
these lands.
The Birmif. am rolling.mills, when
running all ths mills with full crews,
night and day, used to pay out for work
done an average of $500 week, to which
the cost of pig metal (all of which is
bought here) and repairs, salaries and
other items of cost added would make not
far from $4,000. Now, with part of the
mills idle, and the others running only the
day shift, the payroll for work foots up
something like $500. 1t is very probable,
too, that all the mills will be running full
time in little while. The mills are the
largest in the South, and the men now op-
Grating them write back to their friends
North that they are finest they ever
worked in. AS the stoppage OF the mills
was great blow, so will their resumption
be great stimulus to trade-the more so
on account of the proyerbial prodigality of
the craft into whose hands the thousands
of cash are paid every week.
Birmingham's pig-iron production in
creases every year. Both the Sloss and
Alice Companies built a second furnace
last year. and now the Mary Pratt, which
makes charcoal iron, and almost the finest
in the market, is out of blast for the pur-
pose of making improvements that will in
crease the output considerably.
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INVESTIGATING KEIFER.


NAsHINGToN, January 3O.-The sub.
committee of the House Committee on
Accounts, which has inschargc the invcs-
tigation of the circumstances attending
the removal Of official stenograpers of the
House by Ex-Speaker Keller, met tonight,
and, after reviewing the testimony, unani-
mously agreed upon report TO be submit.
ted 10 the full committee tomorrow After
meeting, however, the chairman of the
subcommittee was informed that some
further testimony would be presented en-
behalf of l.eiier, and will consequently
withhold the report for the present
Members OF the subcommittee decline
to say what the character of the report
agreed upon is in advance of the hearing
OF the further testimony to be offered
1t is understood, however, that the sub
committee finds the charge made against
keifer, that he removed Steuographer
Tyson in order to give the latter's place to
his nephew, is true; and also finds that
keiiers nephew performed no services
whatever in return for the salary paid him
since his apnOiutmeut
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Proceedings on the Death of Mr..
RaNiiss

AT meeting of the vestry of Calvary
church the Hon. Jacob Thompson intro
duced the following resolutions, which
were adopted:
At this session of the vestry of Calvary church,
Memphis, we find one seat vacant, which was 50
lately filled by our friend and associate, Bronson
Baylss. sudden and unexpected summons ha,
called him to render up an account of his stew
ardship; Death has thrown his sable. mantle
around him and gathered him to that home to
which we must all soon follow. Brother Bronson
Bayliss was man Ofearnest and strong conyic-
tions. lie had an unshaken and unsweryins
faith in the great leading truths of the Christian
religion. He firmly believed that death was but
opening the door to a higher and brighter life,
and hence he had no dread of its visitation . His
sudden departure, therefore, on the last day ofthe
past year, was no loss TO him, but to us
We miss his aid, his counsel and advice. The
church has lost n most useful and valuable mem
Der, as manager of the SundayZsehool while
he belonged to Grace church of this city. as a
representative of Calvary church in the diocesan
convention, and of our visitors. The
community has been deprived of an estimable
aud reliable citizen. For forty years he has
dwelt and done business among us, and we all
felt and knew him as an honest and upright man
double-dealing. Tennessee, his native State, has
lost a good and influential citizen. But we are
rejolced to believe that he all the time lived in
obedience to that injunction of Scripture, BE ye
also ready: for in such hour as ye think not
the Son Of Man cometh;" therefore,
ResotUed, That we as individuals and yes
try deeply deplore the death of our vestryman
Bronson Bayliss.
Reso,red, That we sincerely sympathizc with
the wife and relatives of the deceased in their be
reayement.
Resolred, That this preamble and these resolu.
uons be spread on the minutes of the vestry, and
that the secretary of the vestry furnish Mrs. Bay
Resotred, That the vestry do now adjourn in re-
spect to the memory of Mr.. Bayliss.
-a
DYSPEPSIA and indigestion cured by DR.
Duncan's Liver and Kidney Medicine.
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THE WHEAT CROP
The stesn ON Hand and Estimated Te.
Gufrements for the Year,

CINCINNATI, January 30.!The Price Cur
rent has made special examination of the
wheat stocks in the country, and will
publish the result tomorrow, showing the
total supply of wheat to be 175,0O0, 900
bushels. To this is added 35,00O,00O
bushels in -four In the hands of dealers,
making total OF 21O,00O,0OO bushels for
the remaining half crop year. The esti-
mated requirements for that time are: For
domestic food, etc, 126,00O,00O bushels
exports. including flour, 100000 BUSH
els, leaving surplus of 27,000,000 bushels
in exports this year, against LAB 5000, ,00O
bushels last ye.ir
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W ARLINGTON, January 30.-The House
committe1 on Elections dismissed consid-
eration of the contested election case of
Janer Us. Hunt, Louisiana, on the ground
that the evidence of the former was not
introduced in the time prescribed by law.
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DIED.

DYSPEPSIA and indigestion cured by D
Duncan's Liver and kidney Medicine.
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Flathead Indians had conference with
the Secretary OF the Interior to-day, upon
the proposition TO remove the Flatheads,
row in Bitter Root Valley, to the Iece
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Mexico, has Just returned from an official
visit to Monterey and saltiIlo. and repprts
that the young Amsrican, Mudds, said 10
be an accomplice of one Leggett in the
murder of Contractor Wickland, near
Garcia Station, has been confined in a
Mexican prison without any charges pre-
ferred against him; and that the Mexican
authorities and the American consul at
Monterey were laboring under the opinion
that Mudde escaped from prison eight
months ago along with Leggett.
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Grand f,odSs shall be made a source Of
ilnproyemehi 20 its. members. They are
geeiining intS purely busiress rieatihes.
The tendency is to hurry through with ths
business viii the greatest possible dis
patch and gesome. Grand Lodges ought
to be more thssu mere business machine.
They ought ~ schools of instruction in
the work and "a .lgc principles of the or
der. They ought to be social reunions
among the brethren.
Zone wrong find among Masons is the
excessive uss OF Intoxicating drinks by
Eolhe OF its rtieBiiiers. There. is powerful
moral sentiment among the very best te5-
pie Of the State against the use OF such
drinks altogether. The influence of one
drunken Mase1 will destroy the growth OF
the order over the whole region in which
he moves. ] therefore urge that the old
edict prohibiting Mason from keeping a
saloon be enacted. Another vice which
find is iniuring the order is profane
swearing. Ona of the first lessons which
Mason learns is prayer, and what mock
cry it is for man to pray to the Great Je-
hovah whose name he profanes. Another
fault find more prevalent than any other
is, that we talk too much about one an
other.'
After transacting some routine business
the Grand Lodge closed until O'Clock
PM
AFTERNOON Session.
The Grand Lodge met at o'clock, the
sarie officers pressnt as at the morning
session.
The various committees made their re-
ports, which were fully discussed.
The Grand Lodge closed at $50 O'Clock
pm. until ssh o'clock pm, at which time
it reassembled and listened to a beautiful
and impressive address by DIR. Strickland
The first degree was then conferred by
Edgefield Lodge No. 254 upon candidate
W.F. Foster, Z. g. NJ, presiding.
The Grand Lodge will meet again this
morning and will probably be in session
two DAYS
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RIRMINGHAM. ALA.

The First Trial of n Member of the wes-
ley POsey Mob The Warrior Coal
Mining Company.
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No. 5l76, r. DIN the Chancery Court Of Shelby
county, Tenn.-Geo. b. Peters, Jr., admins
traitor, etc, of Thos. Peters, deceased, VS.. L
J. Barchus, executor, etc ct al.
1t appearing from a order of Court entered in
this that the bill filed herein is for the pur-
pose of winding up and settling the estate OF
Thomas Peters deceased, as an insOlvent estate
under the insplvent laws of the State of Tennes-
see, and ordering all persons holding claim:
against said estate to come forward and file and
establish said claims by competent proof;
1t is therefore ordered, That all parties having
claims against said Thomas Peterss estate make
their appearance herein at the courthouse of Shell
by county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or before the
first Monday in May, 1884, and have themselve,
made parties hereto and file and establish theii
demands with in the time prescribed by law or the
same will be forever barredi and that copy o
eessive weeks, in the Memphis Appeal. This 29tl
day of January, 1884.
A copy attest: 4. J. BLACK, Clerk and Master
By j. NJ. Bradley, Deputy Clerk and Master.
Finlay & Peters and Harris, Turley & Freeman
Solicitors for comnlainant. wed
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Twenty Year. in the Penitentiary

GONZALES, TEX, January 30.-Philip
Davis was tried to-day on the charge OF
arson. The testimony showed that quiet
old farmers outhouses and fences were set
on fire at night, and when he went to
arrest the flames was fired at by maraud-
ers. The farmer swore one man cursed
him, and he recognized the voice as that
OF the defendant. There was no other
testimony, but such a feeling existed
against the fence-destroyers that the jury
gave the extreme penalty, twenty years in
tho renifantiar,-
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CAPITAh POINTS.
haFreA by Limitation.

WARRINGTON, January 30.-The House
committee on Elections dismissed consid-
eration of the contested election case of
Janer Us. Hunt, Louisiana, on the ground
that the evidence of the former was not
introduced in the time prescribed by law.
Removal or ine Fiatheads.
Chief Chorlos and his delegation of
Elathead Indians had conference with
the Secretary OF the Interior to-day, upon
the proposition TO remove the Flatheads,
row in Bitter Root Valley, to the Iece
reservation, Montana.
Exports ard Imports.
Excess Of value OF exports over imports OF
merchandise for the month ended Decem-
ber 81. 1883, 2f,593, 142; for the six
months ended December 81, 1883. S6i 1885,
665; for the twelve months ended Decem-
Der 81, 1888, $l0S,07l 1854.
Patent Oaice.
The annual report OF the operations of
the Patent Office for the calendar year
shows an increase of seventeen per cent,
In the number of patents, trademarks and
labels issued over The preceding year.
The cash receipts increased S137 900; ex-
cess OF receipts over expenditures, $780,
600; cash on hand, S2,67e,476.
Dorsey st Washington.
Ex-senator Stephen w. Dorsey, who is
in tho city, is here, it is understood, for
the purpose OF going before Springers rs
committee to testify in regard to certain
matters connected with the late Star-route
trials. No subpoena was issued for Dorsey.
His appearance before the committee is
| entirely on his own volition,
Combinations.
Among the combinations by the Senate
| to-day were the following postmasters
James B. Rudd, Houma, La; Neil Sinclair,
| Morgan City, La.; Carroll Bellinger, Lu.
| ling, Tex; James II. Ashcraft, Paducah,
KY; Harry w. Grantley, Appleton City,
No.; Lendell G. Cantwell, Richmond, Mo.
Adrian c. Case, Albany, Mo-; Mercalor
Jessup, Dardanelle, Ark; j. Brewster,
Midlen. No.
Needs Something of the Sort.
Representative Dockery expects to intro
duce bill at an early day to prohibit the
discharge, without cause, ,-of employees oil
the House during the vacation of Congress
Mr.. DocEery has been led to the prepara-
ton of the bill by facts brought out by the
| Committee on Accounts in the investlga-
ton of the removal of Tyson, the stenogra
pher, at the last Congress, and appoint
ment in his stead, of Gaines, nephew of
| Ex-Speaker keifer.
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THE wINDOw.GLAsS WORKERS.
The Long Strike at Pitisburg et Last
Ended.

PIrTsBURG, January 30.-The long strike
of the window-glass workers is at an end,
and after seven months idleness the men
viii return to work as soon as the furnaces
are heated. As stated last night, the
Manufacturers and Workers Conference
Committees reached a satisfactory conclu-
sion yesterday afternoon, but were in ses-
sion again to-day arranging details of the
agreement, and did not adjourn finally
until late this morning, while both
sides made great concessions. The terms
on which work was resumed largely
favor the workmen, who will be paid last
years wages until April 1st, when the
sliding scale will 9, into effect and wages
thereafter bo sottsned by card rates. The
scale will be subject to changes every four
weeks, and the agreement will last until
July lst, and il found to work sa 'isfactoriIy
will probably be adopted for the ensuing
year. a number of factories have already
started their fires and it is expected that
by February 18th all the factories in the
West will be in operation. By the re-
sumption 2500 men will be furnished en-
ployment in this city.
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MR. WHITE, OF KENTUCKY,
Repeats His Charges Against Gov. Mur-
E@-, of Utah,

<se- OF BtsSbs
TAsE-HG-ON, January 3O.-Representa-
tive Write, OF Kentucky, testified before
the House Committee on Expenditures in
the Department of Justice to-day in refer
ence to his assertions in the House last
week concerning the present Governor OF
Utah. He referred to the charges of ir-
regularities in the office of Murray while
JEited States marshal OF Kentucky, and
said the government had been wronged
out OF thousands Of dollars in consequence
ot the eXpCusGs incurred by the fruitlcss
aud unnecessary prosecutions against the
citizens of the state, by which they were
hauassed and embittered against the COVER
tnent and its officers. False and fictitious
charges for guards were made and numer-
Gus prosecutions have been instituted for
the most trivial violations of law and the
arrested parties taken from remote parts
OF the State to Louisville, passing en- route
commissioners who could have heard their
cases on preliminary examination This
was done, he said, not in the interest of
the government but apparently for no
other reason than to make costs
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AUSTIN, Ten, January 3O.-Gov. Ireland,
in his message to the Legislature to-day,
referring to fence-cutting, says: "But five
working days are now left, and it is with
much solicitude l note the fact that not a
single bill has reached the executive
touching one great question before the
House. | still indulge the hope that in
the next few days you will be able to pass
necessary laws to give quiet to the country
and protect life and property" The Gov
ernor also hopes the measureSwill be such
that no one can justly say they are class
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Moscow, January 30.-Lieut. c. B. Har-
Der and Master w. II. Scuetze, escorting
the corpses OF Lieut.. De Long and his COM
rades of the Jeanette expedition, started
for Hamburg to-day on their way to Amer
lea. solemn procession followed the
collins to the railroad station, where the
chief Lutheran pastor of the city delivered
an address. Many wreaths were depos-
tied on the coffins, including one from the
students of Moscow University.