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THE AWFUL ACCIDENT
At POealsonfas. by which I54 Lives
Were Lost, is Still
The Topic i'm virgipia-The Mines Sealed
Help for the Afflicted.

PHILADELPHIA, March 1.-THE directors
of the Southwest Virginia Improvement
Company, owners of the mine at Poca-
hontas, Va, adopted resolutions authoriz-
ing the superintendent of the mines TO
take all necessary means to alleviate the
sufierings OF the wounded and furnish
food and clothing to the families of the
dead and injured. The introduction of
electric lights in the mines to guard
against a repetition OF the disaster is t.eing
considered. The following dispatch from
the superintendent OF the mines has been
received:
well make a hard attempt to- night and have
temporary fan up The indications that the
mine is still on fire. Will know in few hours,
and if fOundto be the case will seal all openings
at once and fill the mine with steam. Have five
boilers placed ready, and the steam pine will be
on hand by II o'clock pm. No life saved;
live in the atmosphere inside.
The railroad company is giving me every assist
ance, as have a SO the physicians. | have wired
the superintendent Of the Midlothian for advice
and help. lie is on his way in special with seven
teen men. My men are nearly all played out,
chiefly from the effects of the after-damp.'
A later dispatch from the superintendent
states that two expert mining engineers
arrived this morning, and agreed that the
bodies could not be recovered unless the
mine be sealed and the fire smothered.
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BISMARCK
To be Left by the House OF Represents
tfves I'm the Hands of the State De
partment.

To be Left by the House Of Representa-
tives I'm the lIands of the State De-
partment.
WASHINGTON, March H. The SUBJ
committee of the House Foreign Affairs
Committee, consisting of Messrs. Curtin,
Rice and Eaton, to whom the Hiscock
resolutions on the Lasker matter were re.
ferred, at a meeting to-day adopted a sub
stitute for the resolutions and prepared a
report to accompany the substitute. At
meeting of the full committee the substi-
tute, resolutions and report of the sub
committee were laid before the members.
Considerable discussion followed, as re-
suit of which the report was referred back
to the subcommittee with suggestions as
to certain charges the full committee
deemed judicious to have made. Another
meeting OF the subcommittee will be held
tomorrow, at which the report will be
amended in conformity with the sugges-
tions of the full committee. The follow
ing, which it is probable will be adopted
by the full committee and with the sub
stitute resolutions, will reach the House
Monday next. The sentiments which
will be expressed in the report of the SUBJ
committee are,
First.-That the House of Representatives had
right to adopt and transmit to the German
the character and abilities of the deceased Ger
man stalesman, its sympathy with the demo-
cratic ideas entertained BY him, and its condol-
ence with the party in German politics to which
he belonged. in the loss they have suffered in his
death.
Secoad.-It would not be dignified course for
The House of Representatives to indulge in abuse
bf Prince Bismarck for asserting his right to say,
when the resQlltiOns' renehe9 him. they should
go no urtler, as the question of his right 10 asl
sert that authority is one to be settled betweep
him and the Reichstae.
Nid,-That the action of our State Department
is deserving of commentator.
The resolutions which are to be reported
as substitute for the Hiscock resolu-
tiens will not differ substantially from the
latter, except in The modification of Ian
guage respecting Prince Bismarek's con-
duct, aud in additional gommendaiion OF
the course OF the State Department in the
matter
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CAPITAL POINTS.

WASHINGTON, March lion Monday
next Senator Sherman viii appear before Judge
Drummond, of Chicago; for the pu pose Of clos.
Railroad Company with view 10 diseharging the
receiver.
Sam McGee, OF Louisville, KY, has been
restored to practice as pension attorney by the
Secretary of the Interior.
The House Committee on Commerce
agreed to report favorably the bills for bridges
ncross the Missouri river near Kansas City and
Leayenworth.
The House Committee on Indian Affairs
fol, the sale of the kiowa Indian reservation in
Nebraska and Kansas, and the removal of the
tribe to the Indian Territory.
Senator Maxey reported favorably from
the Committee on Postofices and Postroads
substitute for the joint resolution for the pay
ment Of Southern mail contractors, which is in
the Senate at the last Congress.
A bill was introduced in the Senate to-day
to establish life-saving stations at near Plumb
Sound, Lake Michigan; at South Manitou Island.
Lake M, Mieh,gan; A at South Chicago Illinois; at or
at or near Point Adams, Oregon
The Army Retiring Board, which met
recently at the Bioomingdale Asylum to examine
port to the War Department. The board finds
that Mckenzie is incapacitated, and that his in
ment therefore follows.
The House Committee on Postoffices
and Postroads ordered adverse report all
bills providing for the establishment of postal
savings banks. Several members of the commit
tee favor the system, but think it-not expedient
at present. An adverse report was also ordered
on the bill prohibiting the transmission through
the mails of newspapers containing lottery ad-
vertsements.
Senator Slater reported to the Senate to-
day substitute for the bill to declare forfeiture
of the land grant to the Oregon Central Railroad
Company, which provides that the land adjacent
to and contiguous with the ulcompleted portions
of said railroad shall be declared forfeited, re-
stored to the public domain and opened for sale
and settlement. II contains additional pro-
yiso that the price at which the lands thus for
feited and restored to the public domain shall he
sold shall be the same as hitherto fixed for even
numbered sections of this grant.
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HELgNa. ARK.
The Last Rise I'm the Obis E%ejfeS fhe
Fears OF the People Afresh = Per-
sOnaI.


The Last Rise in the ohis EseIfes lhs
Fears OF the People Afresh Pes:
sOnaI-
Special to the Appoal.l
HELENA, March 1.-THE news con-
yeyed 10 Helena through the medium oi
yesterdays APPEAL respecting the rise in
the Ohio has again cast gooti over the
inhabitants of the bottoms. Col. Miles,
Helena's river authority, says that the
volume OF water in the Ohio will, after the
water rseedas, again bring It to its present
hight.
Capt. C. A. Obey, pfsa..iaeGt candidate
for prosecuting attorney, and AF. FsaTk
Smith, of Lee county, Ark, yesterday en-
gage! in a serious alteration. Mr.. Smith
is one OF the wealthiest planters i'll Lee
county, but has 2 rew ugly disposition
when aroused. 6 fOley is, when an
CRY, ah wool and yard wide. There was,
consequently, when the Two arrived, :
public exhibition of their pugilistic ability,
which would have yeterIn,nated seriously had
the participants not been separated.
Reports to-day from Bolivar. Tuniea and
Coahoma counties, Miss, aud the Old
Town ridge, including the plantation of
y. II. Apperson, of Memphis, state that
the condition is steadily improving. The
water is OF the plantations of Mr.. Russell
Hancock, son OF Sea, W, 5. Hancock,
and Ex-Gov. AicofR.
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ACCORDING to reliable statistics we are
on the descending scale as the food-pro-
ducing country of the world. India this
year will export nearly half as much as
we do, and her exports are on the ascend
5ng scale In addition to India as food
supplier of considerable increasing i'm
portance, is Australia, whose wheat sta
tistics this year show an increase OF fifty
per cent. over last, and in whose ports
shippers are to-day offering forty shillings
freight for vessels to load their grain for
Europe as against the present San Fran
cisco freight rate of twenty-five shillings.
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Issaquena, while in conversation with
Herald reporter yesterday, stated that as
general rule only very few of those ilter-
ested most in the preservation of the
leyees now protecting the lowlands be-
tween here and Greenville, seem to take
any interest in the matter whatever, they
appearing utterly careless of the results Of
an overflow which will surely follow
break in a levee, and impose the duty of
experimenting the work on the leyees on
a few go-ahead men, who are keenly SEN
sitiye to their own and their neighbors' in
terests. Those who are bending all their
eneI gies TO the great work before them,
cry out loudly against the lack of interest
exhibited and the apparent lack OF knowl-
edge of many planters of the terrible
calamity which is hanging, as If by hair,
over themselves and those residing ada
cent to them.
A civil engineer who has made study
OF the Mississippi river wss heard to pre-
diet yesterday that unless rapid fall
takes place at once in the Mississippi,
from Helena, Ark, down, that an overflow
of unprecedented proportions will occur
as soon as the rise now coming out Of the
rivers above reaches that point.
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Big Railroad Suits.

New YORK, March 14.-Suit has been
brought by Clark Robinson Griggs against
Commodore @. N Garrison to recover the
amount of s., sos, $50, which sum is alleged
TO be the proceeds Of sales by Commodore
Garrison of 3i07 bonds Of the Wheeling
and Lake Erie Railway Company. Grisss
also seeks to compel the defendant to ac-
count for promissory notes made by the
Wheeling and Lake Erie Railway Com
ny to the amount of 81 900, 900 in his
tgriggs) favor. and by him transferred to
defendant. The defense is in tha nature
OF general denial. The case was sent to
q referee.
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A CIRCULAR oi Moss x Co., the great
English ship-brokers, states that the
steamship building of 1855 in Great Britain
reached the total of 100000 tons, which
II admits, however, was in excess OF
actual requirements, and has resulted in
heavy fall in freights. This would mean
6eet of 1000 steamers il all were 1850
tons each; of 500 steamers il all were of
$500 tons each. This, too, be it remem-
bered, was the work OF community num-
5ering but little over 20,O00,Oo0. "What,"
asks the New, ork Eceniag Pos, "have the
United States, with their 50,000,000 of
population, TO show in this same field,
daring the same period? We built in
1855 l39 steam vessels, with tonnage of
17o, ,229.7s, and it must be remembered
that we have a monopoly of the coast car
ing trade, and an immense GEas of in
and navigation. or sailing vessels re
built 72l, with a tonnage of 137 ,036.17.
4n c ther words, we added to our total tom
naes. both sailing and steam, Just one
fourth of what the British added to their
steam tonnage alone" The remedy for
this is the repeal OF the navigation laws,
.snd they ought 10 be repealed at once.
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NEWSPAPER COPYRIGHT.
Henry wafiersOn In Support of the
Pending Bill.

WASHINGTON, March 14.-Henry Wat
terson appeared before the Joint Commit
tee on the Library this morning and made
argument in support Of" the newspaper
copyright bill. In answer to inquiries by
members of the committee, Watterson
said the misapprehension with regard to
the bill had grown cut of the fact that the
original bill provided for exclusiveness in
published matter for a period OF forty
eight hours, which time was subsequently
reduced to twenty-four hours. Both forms
were impracticable and unnecessary, Wat
terson said, and the present bill, granting
a copyright for eight hours, was all that
was sought by the trainers OF the measure.
Its object was simply to prevent the
piracy of news and concurrent publica-
ton. He illustrated the purpose of the
bill and the evil it was designed to cor
rect by numerous examples. He said it
did not act as bar to the reproduction by
afternoon newspapers of mater which
appeared in morning papers, and conld
not in the remotest degree affect what is
known as the country press.
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TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

Dallas, Tex, March l4-ft is estimated
that the cattle drive from Texas this coming
season will reach over 800, 900 head.
Utica, \. Y, March 1.-THE senior
class of Hamilton College will return Saturday,
practically accepting the original conditions of
the faculty.
st. Paul, Mimi, March 14.-An Asso-
ciated Press Winnipeg special says the execution
of Stephensons at Regina is further postponed
till April Sd.
New Haven, March 14-Oliver Dyer,
Yale sophomore, who was roughly hammered
by cassmate in college athletic game on the
sth instant, died this morning from the result of
his Injuries.
Stanford, KY, March 14.-Fire last mid
night DESTROYED odd Fellows Hall and buildings
belonging to ii. Berghman and Mrs. Mary Port
man, which were occupied stores. Total loss,
$1,000; mostly insured.
Sandwich, Mass, March 1.-THE labor
ers on the Cape Cod ship canal have struck for
the novel reason of the unpalatable quality of the
food furnished. The employers say that either
the cook or contractor is to blame.
Indianapolis, March 1.-THE safe of J.
A. Commons, at Centeryiile, was burglarized aud
eight SlD nited States four per cent. bonds ta-
ken The bonds of series No. 1907. dated
July /, 1877, and numbered from 50, lbs to
81 49,
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vhe Repnbiica,. necora.

HERE is the record OF the Republican
frauds, DE Golyer frauds, Robeson frauds, In-
dian Bureau frauds, Pension Bureau frauds,
Presidential steal, Black Friday rascality. Freed
mans Bureau swindle, Belknap impeachment.
Credit Mobilier viilainies, Indian briberies,
Grantism, whisky frauds, land donation, Boss
monsVed sranInient snlep ii political anu
voting soldiers by platoons, setting aside cleo
tions by military force, making the military in
dependent of civil power, using the people s
money to corrupt Legislatures, debauching the
elective franchise. coercng Southern voters, pau
perizing labor, protecting capital packing the
Judiciary for partisan purpose, loose civil ser
vice, manufacturing Southern outrages, issuing
money without law for campaign purposes, ecm-
pelling political assessments.
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A DISPATCH from San Francisco describes
very serious riot, growing ont OF the in
EAirous robbery of the people by the ticket
scSiPers standing in" with Mapleson.
Some OF the rascals put i'm their appear
ance wheu the excitement was at lis
worst and offered s. tickets for SIS. The
crowd promptly threatened them, when
they beat hasty retreat. There ought 10 be
some means for the protection oitke people
of all the cities from this systematic
method of robbery. II necessary it should
be made misdemeanor TO sell more than
four tickets to one person or 80 begin the
sale Of seats until one hour before the be-
ginning of performance, and the man
ayers, who are found to be beneiiciaries
on such robbery, should be fined or I'M
prisoned, or both, at the option of the
,coeFi. The manager who engages in this
sort OF ding is nothing better tiisus sneak
dhief
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-15

"ARE our girls trying to become too
masculine 2'' says 81. JdRes's Gazette. is
the physical development produced by
excessive indulgence in the horizontal
bars, the trapeze, and other graceful forms
of exercise, good for them? This is a
question asked by one of those disturbers
OF popular contentment-a medical man
in the columns OF contemporary to-day"
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-15

THE awful calamity by which 154 lives
were lost, is the topic of discussion in Vir-
yin ia TO the exclusion almost of everything
else, and the generally accepted explain
alton on the explosion is that it was occa-
stoned by iire-damp. Some claim, what has
always been contradicted by mine officials,
that there is gas in Pocahontas coal, and
that the explosion was caused by miner
singing gas fissure. On the contrary,
experienced engineers say they have never
known a case of explosion from Striking
gas assures in mine above water level,
as is the case with the Pocahontas.
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The independents ms a Party,

POLITICAL parties are necessity in all
republican governments, says the Waco Tex }
Examiner, and for that matter, at the present
day, in all governments, and often there are
three four we'll defined, fully organized poiti-
cal parties in this country, but what is TO be done
with the independent element if it rises to that
designation? So far u controlling influence in
affairs of the government they are not an in
fuential factor, for that element un-
dertakes TO accomplish any end the first thing
done is to organize, as witness The New York
Sun and Richard A. Dana, Whitelaw Reid and
the New York Tribune, Carl Shurz and Chicago
Times, Ben Butler and the Chicago Tribune
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Non.Resident Notice.

No. 52oS- In the Chancery Court of Shelby comfy,
Tenn.-Mary L. Beecher ct al. vs. Sarah 4. Nor
ton ct al.
It appearing from affidavit in this cause that
the defendants, Lutte Norton Edrington and her
husband, - Burlington, and EL,mot Nortona
are all fsSidents OF the State of Arkansas and
non-restdents Of the State Of TENNESSEE;
= Il is therefore ordered, That they make their
appearance herein, at the courthouse in Shelby
county, in Memphis, Tenn, on or before the first
demur to compliments bill, or the same will be
taken for confessed TO them and set for hearing
exparte; and that COPY of this ottier be pub
the Memphis Appeal. This March, Z, lSSi.
copy-attest: RI. BLACK, Clerk and Master.
gyJ. NJ Bradley, Deputy Clerk and Master,
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TIE British losses at the battle of Tamai
Wells, fought on Thursday last, are not as
heavy as we were led to suppose, though
they are too heavy when the cause for
which the poor fellows fell for is con-
sidered- Gen. GrakRm telegraphs that
five officers and eighty-sx men were killed,
eight officers and l03 men wounded. and
nineteen men missing. The rebels num-
bored from 10000 to 1900. Three
Officers and seven men of the naval brigade
were killed at the guns. Over 20o0 rebels
were Killed. The rebels charged regard
less of their loss. They left 600 dead at
one point of the square.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-15

A DISPATCH from Philadelphia says that
the National Reform Association yesterday
announced Il convention to begin in that
city on the evening OF March oath and
.continue the next day, for the purpose of
discussing the principles and aims of the
national reform movement. The call says
the movement seeks to strengthen the
Christian elements In our national life,
such as a Christian Sabbath SUD marriage
laws, of the Bible in our public sciaools.
1t opposes the carrying OF mails on the
Lords day, which has been n fruitful
parent of nearly all our public Sabbath
.desecration; polygamy and easy divorces,
now so common, and the license OF liquor
traffic in any form.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-15

CoNGREss has taken cognisance of the
foot and mouth disease, and there is
reason to hope that Miller's bill will be
pushed through both houses as fast al
most as the resolution appropriating
money for the relief of the sufferers along
the banks OF the Ohio river The West
ern States must be helped to stamp out
this disaasa
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BUSINESS FAILURES,

n G. nun a CO.. weekly Report.
New YoRK.s March 1.-THE weeks
business failures throughout the country,
as reported to RIG. Dun & Co, are for the
United States LA, for Canada and the
Provinces 42; total atG, as compared with
272 last week. The decrease is principally
in The Western, Middle and New England
States. Canada has the same number Of
failures as last week.
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Letter From Assemb,yman Hoag.


ALBANY, April 13, 1888.
During my temporary residence here
the past winter contracted a severe cold,
which for time confined me to my room
and rendered me unfit to attend to my
duties. l not only suffered all the incon-
veniences which usually attend a heavy
cold, but was afflicted with tightness in
the chest, accompanied with severe pain,
which made breathing difficult and rest
impossible. tried the usual remedies
cough drops, cough cordials, etc, but re-
ceived no substantial relief until applied
ALLcocK's Porous PLAsTERs on my back
and chest.
These I put on when retiring, and was
delighted to find myself much better the
next morning. In two days | was well.
This, and the experience have had with
Allccck's plasters in my family, has con-
vinced that for coughs, colds, sprains,
bruises, rheumatism and local pains, All
cocks Porous Plasters are the quickest
and most effective remedy extant.
JDHN HAAn
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GRAND LEyEE GONE,
And the Besf Part of Four Parishes
Overhowed.

New ORLEANS, March 1.-THE Grand
levee, which has given way, protected
probably the richest sugar producing sec
ton of Louisiana The water will over
flow the greater part of Point Coupee and
West Baton Rouge parishes, and portions
of Iberville and Assumption, including
Bayou Crosse Tete section. The leyee
was built by the State last year at cost
of S67, 900. If the whole levee is gone, as
reported, volume OF water mile wide
and ten feet deep will pour ont OF the
Mississippi at that point.
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railways report the loss OF two iron and
three wooden bridges. Aggregate length
of the former, 635 feet. of the latter 6oi
feet Estimated cost of replacing $42, eco.
The counties report loss of three iron
and forty-seven wooden bridges Total
ter 1904 feet. Cost OF replacing, Sl6S, 900.
Grand total-bridges destroyed, 90; aggre-
gate length, 7437 feet; estimated cost OF
replacing, S2l0,G00.
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THE Hon. E. John Ellis, as was conf
delltly predicted by his friends, was yestcr-
day declared by the Investigating Com
mittee TO be innocent of any wrong in
connection with the Star-route frauds. The
charges were utterly groundless. Mr.. Ellis
is to be congratulated upon this verdict,
and the prompt steps he took to secure it.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-15

THE manufacturers of DIR. Prices Flavor
ing Extracts and Cream Baking Powder,
with their large trade, wide reputation,
and constantly increasing popularity, have
too much at stake to put upon the market
anything which has not, by careful anal
ysis and constant trial, been found to be
not only harmless but positively beneficial.
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A DISPATCH from London says that the
Canadian government objected to some of
the emigrants recently sent out by the
Tukes Commission, and has notified the
English government that many of them
are unsuited for colonial life. The Ca
nucks won't have thieves, paupers and
the degenerate SCUM OF the London
sewers, and they are right.
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CUT FREIGHT RATES
From Chattanooga East-A Reduction
of Nearly Sixty Per Cent. by
fSne Rf nd

CHATTANOOGA, March 1 i4.-Cutting freight
rates by competing lines from New York
to Chattanooga continues at a lively pace.
The East Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia
announces in to-morrow's Daily Times that
freight rates over their iIne from Eastern
cities to Chattanooga are as follows;
First-class, fifty cents; second-class, forty
five cents; third-class, thirty-eight cents /;
fourth-class, twenty-eight cents; fifth
class, twenty five cents; sixth-class, twenty
cents. This is a reduction of nearly sixty
per cent. from regular rates.