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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-11

New York, March l0.-Geo. w. Cur
tin, peddler of cheap jewelry, sur
rendered himself to the police to-day
as the murderer of the barkeeper NAL
lory, who was shot in his saloon on
South Fifth avenue yesterday. Curtin
alleges, and the allegation has been
verified, that Mallory and Others some
time ago robbed him of portion of
his stocS; that he went to the saloon
yesterday to demand restitution, and
that Mallory ordered him out, threat
ening to kin him and making motion
as if to draw a revolver. Curtin says
he does not remember what followed,
but supposes he shot Mallory. He
did not know the barkeeper was dead
until he read of it in the newspapers
to-day. He says his family is starving
in BroOklyn.
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MISSISSIPPI LEGISLATURE
REPORT OF THE SPECIAL COM.
MITfEE ON THE PENITENTIAR
The~Mlh6rits ..SyOrt Fully Sus.
tained-The LeVee Bill Amend.
ed and Passed.
IspRo1AL TO rHE APPRAL,I

! JACKSON, Miss, March lO.-S'ndte. -
Bills passed last night: Amending the
act passed at this session relative to
the stock law OF Benton county
| House bill in relation TO the State
Female college. Senate bills: To
amend the charter of the city railroad
in Columbus; to incorporate the town
of Hermanville; to authorize the sale
of Kinds county stock in the Natchez,
Jackson and Columbus railroad; to
incorporate the Trenton camp grounds.
The levee bill was taken up again
and discussed at length and amended
and passed; also House bills granting
relief to merchants and Others who
have not paid a sufficient privilege
tax, affected by recent decision of the
Supreme Court in the Insurance COM
pany VS.. Pollard, and to repeal sec
tons 500, 593 and 594 of the Code rel
alive to some delays of business in
Auditors Office.
The Senate considered in committee
of the whole the House educational
bill, but did not finish with it.
THE PENITENTIARY MATTER.
The special committee to whom was
referred the majority and minority
reports of the Committee on the Peni-
tertiary, to reconcile the differences
between them, made a lengthy report
to-day. 1his report argues at length
the legal propositions involved, and
fully sustains the minority report
thereon, that contracts for repairs and
improvements charged for were made
by the Superintendent of the Peni-
tertiary with the lessees with the APP
proval of the Governor, and that the
same were authorized by law. This
committee sustains the majority report
as to excessive charges in the aggregate
for work, for which the lessees re-
ceived credit in their settlement with
the State. This committee procured
other architects to measure and
estimate the value of the work done,
and they differ with Scully's state
ment,upon whose estimates the major
ity report was based as to these facts,
some $35 being in excess of Scully's
said amount, and being ins excess of
the estimates of Taylor and others,
upon which credit was given to the
lesees of some $4,000.
BILLS PASSED TODAY.
Senate bill amending the stock law
of Benton; in relation to public
revenue; to secure the payment of
delinquent poll taxes; to incorporate
the town OF Hermanville; to author
ize the sale of stock by Kinds county
in the Natchez, Jackson and Column
bus railroad.
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DIED.

VIARS-At residence No. ~ Winchester
street. Wednesday morning, March 10, 1886,
at 3 o'clock, REBEOOA Il. WARS, aged ffty
years. lsan Francisco papers please copy
Funeral will take place from her late resi-
donce this (TAURSDATl afternoon It Z
o'clock. Friends of the family are invited
TO attend.
FARGAS0N-Wednesday morning. March
10, 1885, at $3.50 O'clock, at the residence Of
her parents, on Walker avenue, MARY, aged
,welve years and four tbs, daughter Of
David B. and Alice Pillow Fargason.
Funeral from residence this THURSDAY
morning at 1880 o'clock. Friends of the
family are invited to attend.
DAVIS-In this city, Wednesday, March
10, 1885, @. ALBERT DAVIS, youngest son Of
the late Rev. Q. A. Davis, in the twenty. first
year Of his age,
Funeral from the residences Of his mother,
No. 3O7 Adams street, this (THURSDAY)
afterno n at $3.50 O'Clock. Friends Of the
family are invited to attend. Services by
the Rev. II A. Jones.
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The Adverse Report ON the Repeal
OF the UfVtl Service Law.

WASHINGTON, March l0.-The ses-
sion of the House Committee on Civil
Service Reform to-day was principally
consumed in a discussion of the report
prepared by Mr.. Pulitzer, adverse to
the repeal of the civil service law.
Mr.. Stone of Missouri said that
while he believed the law should not
be repealed, he could not agree with
Ar. Pulitzer's reasoning. He will file
minority report expressing his own
views on the subject.
The report was agreed to by all the
other members, and was subsequently
laid before the House. 1t is as follows
Your committee find that this bill,
instead of either improving or enlarg-
ing the scope of the present law, sim.
ply provides for the unconditionaland
absolute repeal They report adverse
ly, and ask that the bill lie upon the
table for the following further reasons:
First = the principle of divorcing the
subordinate officers of the government
from politics and elections, and max
ing the term of Office depend, not upon
party service, but upon moral and
good behavior, is a good one. So far
as this principle is sustained by the
present law, the committee think
there should be no change.
Second The present law has not
been on the statute books long enough
to have had a full and complete trial.
Ii for no other reason than this, the
committee will oppose any measure
providing for an absolute repeal.
Third-No reason or information has
been presented TO this committee JUS
tifying an unconditional repeal of the
present law. 1t may perhaps need
improvement, but the remedy is
amendable, not total repeal.
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railroad and steamship ticket office
and collecting agency. He made
money rapidly, till he formed the
acquaintance of Gustav Silberberg,
who induced him To invest between
$4,000 and $4,000 in the glass sign
business. in Accommodation notes
and Wall street speculation. These
ventures proved disastrous, and Silber-
berg committed suicide a short time
ago. On Saturday Wahram absconded,
and is now supposed to be in Canada.
His liabilities are about $40, 0O0and his
assets $4,000 or $1,000. II is supposed
that he took about $1,000 in cash with
him. His two chief clerks have
arranged to 60 into business for them
selves, and hope TO be able to reduce
the loss to Walfram's creditors.
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BROWNSVILLE. TENN.
Suicide Of Maj. Jones-Judge Car.
Ihel's Visit.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS or rHR ApprALI


BROWNSVILLE, TENN March SAT
Tibbs, twelve miles moth of Browns-
vile, on Sunday evening, Maj. Frank
Jones committed suicide by taking
twenty grains Of morphine. Deceased,
who was about sixty years Old, was
in town Saturday, bringing lumber,
and seemed in his usual good health
and spirits. No reason for his act is
known.
Judge John T. Carthel came down
from Trenton yesterday to sim bill
of exceptions in the case Of Mary
Marbury against the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company. Judge
Carthel is considered a strong candi.
date for Congress, and is liked by the
people here; but Haywood county is
solid for her own candidate, the Hon.
Frank p. Bond.
Our merchants seem to feel little
better over the price Of cotton. Mo {
CT them hold large quantities in Mem
phis, one firm as many az 1909 bales.
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RUMORS OF STRIKES
ON RAILROADS CENrERING AT
CHICAGO THE RRPORTS
Generally DiscredIted by Railway
Officials, who Report Every
thing MOviBg smooth v.

CHICAGO, Ill, March 10.-A dis
patch from st. Louis announced that
the employees of the Chicago and
Northwestern and other Chicago rail.
roads would strike at r O'Clock this af.
ternoon. Mr.. G. G. Wheeler, the gen.
eral superintendent of the Chicago
and Northwestern road, said that as
far as he knew there was no trouble
between the company and the EN-
ployes, and that he was sure there
would be no strike at 5 o'clock as he
was that the sun would not set at that
hour. A switchman said that the EN-
ployes had some little grievances
against the company, but that they
had all been satisfactoril : settled, and
as far as he knew there would be no
strike. One of the engineers said he
was sure that the engineers and fire
men would not leave their work before
the usual hour to-day, and he did not
think there was any strike imminent.
The st. Louis dispatch was generally
discredited in railway circles It
served, however, to create a stir on
the Board of Trade for little while,
but the excitement soon died away,
the improbability apparent in the
news being accepted by nearly every
body as proof that it was lcanard.
AT the principal down town railway
offices a similar feeling prevailed. At
none of those places was il known that
there was anyth ng of misunder-
standing between any railway com
pany here and its employs.
Mr.. Wellington, assistant general
freight agent of the Wabash road,
said: "There is not any trouble at
this point that we have heard of, and
we do not expect any. We are send
ing out our freight and passenger
trains the same as if no strike was in
existence anywhere, the only differ
ence being that we are not accepting
any freight to points on the Missouri
Pacific road. We have no Knights of
Labor connected with the road here
that we know OF. We got rid of
them about year ago"
The managers of the Chicago and
Alton and Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy railroads stated that there was
no foundation for reports of strike
here, and that nothing of the kind was
anticipated.
Commissioner Wicker of the Chi
cago freight bureau, when asked if the
strike on the Gould system had af-
fected the freight business of Chicago,
replied that it had not materially as
yet. He said that there was belt of
country in Missouri, Arkansas and
Texas where, if the strike runs along
until the middle of next weekit will
make trouble. Freight shippers can
reach points in Texas by the Illinois
Central and by the Atchison, Topeka
and Santa Fe roads. 1t is notlm er-
chants but manufacturers who will
feel the effects of the strike. The
of plows and similar
implements are the ones who will feel
the effect most seriously.
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Reduction or ,he Pnhlic man,

WASHINGTON, D. c., March 1O.-The
Secretary of the Treasury sent to the
Senate to-day his reply to its resolu-
itipn of the Sd instant, directing him to
inform the Senate how much if any
the actual payments and purchases Of
the principal Of the public debt since
July LIST, 1877, have been in excess of
the requirements of the laws regulat-
ing the sinking fund and how the ex-
isting laws can be carried out in rela-
ton to said fund from this time until the
$3.50, 100000 Of A per cent. bends ma
ture. The Secretary says that the reduc-
tiOnOf the public debt from July lst,
1877, 80 July LIST, 1885, has exceeded
the requirements of the sinking fund
by 43l2,647,55l. The amount Of 3 per
cents. outstanding is 1884, 6S3, $50 and
these are the only bonds now out
standing redeemable at the option of
the government. As these bonds may
be absorbed before the maturi y Of the
Al per cent. bonds OF 1891, which
come next IN order for redemption,
further additions TO the fund can only
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Nnne Riend Hnnrsd.

LOUISVILLE, KY, March l0.-A
special to the Courier-Journdl says;
Last night twenty-five masked men
quietly took Harry Woodward, col
ored, o1t Of Jail at RusSellville, KY.
and hung him to the same lin b that the
notorious Sambo Bailey was hung two
years ago. Woodward was identified
as the man who attempted to outrage
the twelve-yesr-old daughter OF Chas
Johnson, the station agent at Red
Oak, ON Monday.
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LIGHT ON PAN-ELECTRIC.
INVESTIGATION BY THE HOUSE
SPECIAL COMMITTEE.
How Senator Vest Became a STOCK.
holder Considered it Mere
Speculation.

WARRINGTON, March l0.-Messrs.
Haleand billiard, designated for the
purpose by the House special COM
mittee to investigate and report the
facts concerning the ownership Of Pan
Electric telephone stock by certain
public officers, took the deposition OF
Senator Vest at his re idence this
afternoon. The Senator stated that he
first heard OF the Pan-Electric Tele-
phone Company through a printed
circular sent to him through the mails
some time in April, 1884 The circu-
lar gave the names of the officers Of
the company and the purposes for
which it was organized. He noticed
that the name of Senator Harris of
Tennessee was mentioned in the cir
cular as connected with the enterprise.
He tcalled on Senator Harris and by
him was referred to Senator Garland,
who, it was represented, was well ac-
quainted with the status of the COM
pany and its relations to the Bell Com
pany. After obtaining Mr.. Garland's
opinion, the Senator said he concluded
to take and did take 100 shares of
bbDlhg lOI hlllNll llC EiNN
his check for $1,000 on the Metropoli-
tan Bank of Washington, which was
paid on the following day, and for
which he received a contract, showing
that he was entitled to 100 shares OF
stock, which, owing to the incomplete
organization of the company, it was
not at that time ready to issue. "That
stock was issued to me-" said the
Senator, "abOut one year ago,
that is, ninety shares of it;
the other ten shares were
retained by the company as an assess
ment to defray the expenses of expect
ed LITIGATION with the Bell Company"
"After this matter got into the papers,"
continued Senator Vest, "Mr. StilsOn
Hutchins of this city offered to take
my stock off my hands, and pay me
what it cost. This offer | refused, as
it might look like retreat under fire.
considered it mere speculation, but
was willing to take my chances. / have
received dividend Of Sl2 or Sl5 since
have owned the stock" Continuing
he said: al have had no conversations
with%Mr. Casey Young, the secretary
of the Pan-Electric Company, and !
never met and do not know Mr.. Rogers,
who, it appears, was prominent in the
organization of the company. Mr..
Garland represented to me that, in his
opinion, the Bell patent was illegally
obtained, and that the Pan-Electric
stock might be worth some money. At
that time Mr.. Cleveland had not been
nominated to the Presidency, and of
course Mr.. Garland was unthought of
in connection with the Attorney
Generalghip.
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be made by purchase Of bonds in open
market
Money for the Utes.

WASHINGTON, March l0.-The Presi-
dent to-day sent to the Senate a mes
sage Enclosing a letter from the Secre-
tary Of the interior submitting a bin
to pay the Ute tribe of Indians in
Nebraska 100000 due them under the
treaty with the United States, in two
yearly iustalllnents OF S45, 900, instead
of nine installments of $4,000 year.
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smallpox in Japan.

SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, March TO-
The City of Sydney arrived to-day
from Hong Kong. Smallpox is still
prevalent in Japan. 1t is also reported
to be very bad in Seoul, Corea. The
Coreans have no knowledge of the
means to prevent the spread Of the
disease, and it Is, therefore, allowed to
take its course unobstructed.
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81 am thirty-fve years DID," writes
Mr.. Charles H. Watts of West Somers
Putnam county, N. Y, land had suf,
fered from dyspepsia for fifteen years
The current treatment did me no good
Listlessly, and without hope, / gave
Parker's Tonic trial. can give the
result in three words-it cured me-" II
will cure you"
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rHANCERY SALE
H AL ESTATE.

Ms IN ~ - ~ u n - -. .
No 5lO6, RID -Chancery Court Of S elby
county-State Of Tennessee va. I b. Car
sOn ct al.
10y virtue Of an interlocutory decree for
ID sale catered in the above cause on the
4th day Of January, 1886, NJ. Is. 81, page 4,
will sell, at public auction, TO the highest
bidder, in front Of the Clerk and Master
Office, courthouse Of Shelby county, Mem
phis, Tenn, on
Saturday, March I3, 1850,
within legal hours, the following described
property, situated in Shelby county, Ten
neBsee, t0-Wit:
South half Of lot !, FraIer's subdivision,
40 feet front by $50 feet deep, on the Wesi
side OF Lauderdale street IS feet north Of
Frazer street.
North half Of lot 81 from ing s71< feet
on the west side Of Sixth streat, S71T feet
north Of SaGarans street, 9Th ward, aud
running back 1851 feet. Sold as property Of
Emma Snd John CaeeY.
Part Of country lot 46S; 30 feet front on
south side Of Auction street. east Of and adj
joiI ing bayou Gayoso, by depth Of 40 feet,
9Th ward.
Terms Of Sale-0n a credit Of six months;
note with security bearing interest required
lien retained redemption barred. This
February II, 1885.
3. 1. MCDOWELL, Clerk and Master
By ]. NJ Bradley, Deputy Clerk 4 Master.
Il. III. &c. W. Heiskeli, Soils. sat
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100 Hen Wanted.

A 7 JENKISs'S CAMP, Bald Knob rail-
"a road, west side Of VIII 10 liver. Good
dry station work and DAY labor. Prices good.
Fer full intern alton apply 70 M. X. II AR
RY, Captain steamer DeSmet, Saturday,
March 18th.
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Murder a. New OrIennu.

BEw ORLRANs, La, March l0.-Thic
afternoon, in the. hallway of the
United States Court, Capt. ]. E. Draw
and N. A. Grace became involved in
a quarrel. Pistols were drawn and
Grace was killed and Draw wounded,
receiving four bullets in his body
The cause of the difficulty was a suit
in the United States Court in which
Grace was proctor for the plaintiffs.
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Consumption and DtstributIOn Of
the Grain Crop.

WASHINGTON March 10.-The March
report of the Department of Agricul-
ture on the consumption and distribu-
ton Of T. g grain crops makes the pro-
portion of corn still in the hands of
farmers 40 per cent. of the last crop,
One year ago the proportion OF the
crop on hand was 1913 per cent. The
proportion is lowest in the West,
where heavy winter feeding is re-
quired, averaging 80 per cent. in
twelve States. 1t is 40 per cent. in the
South. The proportion merchantable
is S2.6 per cent, which is slightly
above the average OF a series of years.
The stock of wheat in the hands of
farmers is 30.1 per cent of the crop.
1t was 1871 one year ago and 2S.4 two
years ago. II amounts to 107 100000
bushels, against l69,000,000 last March
and 100000 two years ago. 1t is
only 100000 bushels more than in
March, 1882, the shortest in visible
supply in recent years
The visible and invisible supply
March ! was therefore 159,000000
bushels, against 2l2,000000 last March.
The proportion of the crop est a ated
for consumption within the country
where grown is Ais per cent.
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Tne RIllInrd Tournan,ent.

NEW YoRK, March 10 Play in the
50OO-pcint fourteen-inch balk-line bill
lard match between Schaefer and
Vignaux was resumed this evening.
The audience was larger than that OF
last night Schaefer was in excellent
trim, while his opponent seemed dis
couraged and entirely unequal to the
brilliant execution for which he is
famous. The story of the night is
plainly told in the score:
Schaefer-77, II, 0, l, /, 0, s, 0, %,
s, SO, 0, Z, II, 6, so, 0, /, %, l, ., 4, So,
So, 10 600; average, "a Vignsux-0,
10, 0, 80, !, 80, ?, |, 10, rs, 0, 6, %, As,
5, o, Z, ,, 0, 0, 0, II, %, 2-239; average,
8 1924. Time of game, 2 hours 10
minutes. Total for two nights games
Schaefer 1900, Yignaux 74l.
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LANDLORDS perfume, Marchal Mel
Rose.
LuNDBoRG's perfume, Edenis.
Lundborg's perfume, Alpine Violet.
LANDLORDS perfume, Lily OF the
Vallav.
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SALVATION On, the celebrated
American remedy for cuts, bruises,
sprains, burns, scalds, ehilblains, etc,
can be had of all druggists. II kills
pain. Price % cents q bottle.
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b6~ Holders Of Mississippi No. 1
Leyee Bonds, Act 1871, who desire
to collect same, will do well to ad.
dress ut once,
W. ~. II. GREEN. Jackson, Miss.
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Another Addition 90 Canadian
society.
NEW YoRK, March l0.-In 1873,
Gustav George Walfram came to this
city from Cincinnati and opened q
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WEST POINP, MISS.
Excitement over the williams
Shooting, at Conway. Ark.
ESPECIAL TO TEE ApPEAL.I

WEST FoINT, Miss, March 10.-The
news of the shooting of T. ]. Witt, at
Conway, Ark, by j. II. Williams has
created ripple of excitement in our
city. j. III. Williams, the accused, is
a native Mississippian. A special from
Little Rock stating that he fed from
the State for having killed a negro is
as base and false an accusation as was
ever perpetrated on an innocent man.
The special to the st. Louis Republican
was read or our streets tonight, and
the article was condemned as lie by
those who have known him since child
hood. The latest from Conway states
that the shooting was justifiable.
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HAVE used Tongaline with salts
factory results, and recommend it as a
valuable remedial agent in neuralgia
and chronic rheumatism
G. w JOHNST0N N, MD,
fairmount Nah.
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Boston, March TO- Clafiin, Allison
4 Co., one of the oldest wholesale tea
and coffee firms in Boston have failed.
Liabilities $4,000; assets $4,000.