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The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-29
MRS. STEWARDS FUNERAL
Attended ORIy by Relatives and
Friends-The RemhiHs Taken
10 Garden city.

NKw YoRX, October 2S. The funeral
of Mrs. Corneia NJ. Stewart took place
today from her mansion, on Fifth ave-
nue.. No one was admitted to the
residence except the relatives and
friends Of the deceased. The body
was placed in a velvet covered caaket
with silver trimmings, and rested on
a floral catafalque in the center Of the
west parlor. The floral designs were
numerous, most OF which were made
of smilax, ivy and rossP. Fifth ave.
nue. and Thirty.fourth rect, in the
immediate vicinity of tho mansion,
were crowded with people, ard a
squad Of police kept the street clear in
front OF the entrances at Thirty-fourth
street. Bishop Littlejohn and the
Rev. Arthur Brooks ofiiciated and
read q portion Of the burial service
( ON the ritual OF the Episcopal
Church. At2 O'Clock p. m the casket
was borne down the steps on the
shoulders Of four undertakers' assist
ants and placed in the hearse. The
funeral cor.ege took the Thirty-fourih
street ferry. At Hunters Point a
special train took the remains and the
friends to Garden City, whore the
obsequies were held in the cathedral.
About sixty people attended the
tervices at the house and about forty
went to Garden City.
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THE EARTHQUAKE.
eoENEs IN CHARLESTON.

ST, Michael chimes pealed forth the hour,
On the soft, sweet summer air;
Mingled with the sweetest strains
From maidens bright and fair
1t was tho hour when homes are bright.
In our City by tho Sea;
Whom young and loving hearts are full
or JOY, and hope, and glee.
Gems glittered on the sweet young bride,
The feast was spread with oarei
Young forms were in the Macy dance,
The graceful, brave and fair.
The darling boy with dimpled hands,
And soft brown curly head,
Had kissed HIS dear mamma good night,
And was asleep in his little bed.
Tho merry voice Of the sailor boy,
On the wa'ers aonted out,
As he plyed the oar with buoyant hoart
And g'eeful song ana shout.
But, bark wall on the night wind,
II Is an awful sound;
A piercing cry II seems to fill
The earth and oil around.
And thon rumbling noise is heard,
Itsproads into a roar;
o horrors, We feel beneath our feet
The hoaving Of the floor.
Earthquake the awful, fearful CRY
Was ringing on the air;
Tbon hurrying forms Of boys and men,
And women young and fair.
And then tho rush for life began,
Mothers and children wall;
No pom can Ger describe tho scene
Whore bold men turn pale.
But all in vain the good men prayed.
The ruin came on all
And lonely, blighted, homeless homes,
Await the great and small.
nj, - a.,.. LID, ,,,n. m al, u,rnnnk
The shattered oil ID church tower;
The holly shrine is dosolato
In this lonely, gloomy hour.
Lovely young girls TO the rescue go,
OF the wounded who cry and grOan;
And with kind, soothing words they cheer
The languishing who sigh and moan.
When we thought the sad drama was Ger,
new trial we then had to boar;
A fire was burning our treasures,
Wewero plunged into deeper despair.
Afflicted ones, wo pray for you all,
II Is indeed heavy rod;
An unseen hand has doalt the blow,
Then bow your hearts and look to God.
Behind this cloud the sun still Shines,
Tho rainbow homo Is there;
Then lot it's light dispol the gloom
OfyOur bosom's dark despair.
| The crash of worlds can never dim
The light Of the Christian breast,
| When hope is there to cheer and point
! To the haven ofour rest.
+ Earthauakel o, what an impressive word,
How solemn Is tho gOundf
| To describe II no eloQuonco, poetry or prose
| Can DER this earth DO found.
OH what power II must have been
To move this mighty earth
| We stand aghast and wonder
AT the God who gave II birth.
| 1t Is solemn voice from Heaven
Telling ofthe awful day
| Whom the mountains, tall and grahd,
With heat shall melt away,
A solemn warning horc, too, is given,
| For GOD is passing by;
| But In the storm We have an ark
| To Jesus we can ty.
| We admire the spiritual grandeur
OF the Christians Heavenly power
| To triumph DER the wrecks Of time
In the darkest, gloOmiost hour.
And when these awful shadows come,
| Bcolouding our summer day,
| And we hear no echo in our homes
Of voices glad and gay,
Then let us look above the gloom
To that world so bright and iair-
| To our Fathers house in Heaven;
No grief can enter there
-Mrs. Wm, Archer Cooke, florida.
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A Young woman Jumps From {
Ferry boat and IL Drowned.

NEW YORK, October 20 Emma
Kline followed Leon Jauvorover, wine
dealer, of No. "a Stone street, this
city, when he left bis boarding house
in Fort Lee, N. j., yesterday morning
to take the 8 o'clock ferryboat for
Manhattsnville. Jauvorover went to
the gentlemen's cabin to smoke.
When the boat reached midstream
the young woman went to him and
asked him 10 make up quarrel that
had taken place Tuesday evening.
Jauvorover refused, "Don't leave
me-" the young woman pleaded. "If
you do I'll drown myself" go away,
have done with you,h said Jauvor-
over. The woman left the cabin, but
soon returned. Jauvorover refused to
listen to her. Then chs took of her
Jacket and threw ii az him. "Here,
take your jacket" she said, 81 don't
want anything OF yours. | will jump
off the boat" She walked out of the
cabin, elowly glaucing bacbIat Jauvor-
over, who sat sEolidly in his seat
Then, without hesitatiug an instant,
she walk I'd to the bow OF the boat and
threw herself of. A young
man by the name OF Mer-
rigan, who was said to be an assist ant
demonatrator of anatomy in the Col
lege Of Physicians aed Surgeons,
leaped in after her. Before he could
rescue her abe was pest help. Merri-
gan was in the water more than half
an hour Jsuvorover told Coroner
Ferdinand Fidman that he hsd paid
the young womau's board for about
two months, He grew jealous of her
and told her that he would have oth-
ing more to do with her. He quar-
relied with her Tuesday evening. On
the boat he offered to pay her ex-
penses il she would return to her
home in Philadelphia. The young
woman had been married TO Edward
T. Chamber by Alderman Smith, Of
this city, September Is, 1888. The
marriage certificate, torn to bits, was
found in her poCkethook.
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SO CO.'S. Hinson, dentist, No.
279 Main street. Il. Bolger assistant.
Call and get new set Of teeth for Sc,
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Report OF the Second Assistant Post.
master General

WARRINGTON, October 2S.-Fiom
the annual report of the Sec
ond Assistant Postmaster General, A.
Lee Knott, 1t appears that on the 30lh
Of June, 1886, there were in operation
throughout the United States %, 700
routes Of all classes in which mail SER
vice was performed, at an annual rate
OF expenditure at the close of the last
fiscal year OF 500 026,66s. The aggre-
gate length Of all these routes was
3S75S6 miles, on which there WAS an
aggregate travel OF 25S,7SS,065 miles
The report states that from April | i,
1886, to June 80, 1885, the total
savings in the annual rate of cost in
this department of the postal service
effected by orders, and by new con-
tracts for transportation and mail
equipments, was $l,9i07S6. In the
Star service there was an increase of
S74 routes, and Of 1898 miles in
length, and decrease OF 500 1923 in
the annual rate OF expenditure, In the
mail messenger service there was au
increase OF twenty routes and de-
crease Of Si4,357 in the annual rate OF
expenditure. In the steamboat ser
vice there was an increase Of one
route and q decrease OF 1875 miles
and Of $ll6,5S3 in annual rate Of cost,
the steamboat service thus dispensed
with being supplanted by railway and
star service. In the railroad service
there was an increase OF eighty.one
routes, OF 290l miles in length, and OF
$76l 1896 in annual rate Of cost. In
the railway postal Car service there
was a decrease of S5S, 1877, or 2,94 per
cent, in the annual rate Of cost. Tue
annual rate OF expenditure for rail.
road transportation on the 30th OF
June, 1886, was Sl5,520, 19l, as sgainst
Sl4, 758, 495 on the S0th OF June, 1885.
The estimates for the next year are
H,5S6, 1862, being an increase of only
$272530 over the appropriation fol
the current year. In the star service
there was an increase OF III per cent
in, The quantity OF service, and a de
Tease in the rate of cost of 9,6S pei
cent as compared with the preceding
Ave years.
The report closes with a recon-
mendation for a change in the method
OF compromising the railway mai
service. Under the present law rail
roads are paid according to the averag,
daily weight carried both ways. o.
account OF the many incongruilie
under this method OF pay, and the un
satisfactory method of adjusting thu
compensation, a change is recon
mended by the substitution OF space
basis instead of weight basis OF pay
Its believed this method will, with
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-10-29
A smnShup ON the wabash - one
Mar Killed.

ST.. LOUIS, Mo-, October 2S.-At an
early hour this moruing the Toledo &C.
commodation passenger train ON the
Wabash railroad, which left this city
ct II o'clock last night, collded with
a ifeight train two miles west OF Ed
vaudeville, Ill. The freight train was
the second section of No. n, and had
orders to wait for the passenger train
at Edwardsville, but the conductor a.
tempted to reach Mitchell, four miles
beyond. The trains collided on a
curve. Both engines were wrecked,
the baggage and express cars were
telescoped and several cars ditched.
The engineers aud fremen escaped
serious injuries by jumping, but the
express messenger, VIM. Ballou, was
crushed to death by the contents Of
the ear being thrown upon him. s.
A. Boughman, a freight brakeman,
was seriously injured. 1t was moi
until this evening that the wreck was
cleared away.
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Expenses Of the Postal Service for
the Fiscal Year.

WARRINGTON, October 20 The es.
timAtets of the postal s,rvics for the
next fiscal year aggregates $55, S42, 100,
while the appropriations for the CUT
rent year were S54, 1866, 1853, sho wing
an increase Ia the estimates for the
next year OF $685. This increase
is made up Of the following items ::
Compensation of clerks in postofliCeS,
100000; additional expenses OF the
free delivery system, $2i6, 469; Second
Assistant Postmaster Generals office,
1877 900; Third Assistant Postmaster
Generals office, $247,50O; foreign
mails service, $4,000. The estimated
ordinary revenue for the next fiscal
year is $49, 962,596, and the revenue
from the money order system $780,
900, making a total estimated revenue
of $506l2,59S. The estimated dehc.
ienCy in receipts, as compared with
expenditures, during the next year is
placed at S4,729,5 54, while it Is esti.
mated that the current hscal year will
show deficiency Of 81, 3,914,
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sprouIe 70 re Hanged

Toronto. OET., October SS.-A spe-
cial from Victoria, b c., saya; Sheriff
Mcmillan has been notified that the
law must take its course with Sproule,
the murderer, on Friday, when NO will
be hanged,
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sCRoFULA

| I do lot believe that
Ayers Sarssparilla has
an equal as q remedy
for ScrOfulCUs HUI
mors. IL is pleasant
to take, gives strength
and vigor to the body,
and produces \ more
permanent, lasting, re-
suit than any medicine
II ever used.-E.
Haihes, No. Lindale, o.
I have used Ayers
Sarsdpariua, in my fam.
lily, Tor Scrofula, and
know, If it is taken
faithfully, it will
thoroughly eradicate
this terrible disease. -
NV +. Fowler, NJ, d.,
GreenYille, Tenn.
For forty years |
have Suffered with cry.
slpelas. l have tried
all sorts of remedies
for my complaint, but
found no relief until /
com mPnced using
Ayers Sarsaparilla.
After taking ten bot.
ties of this medicine |
am completely cured.
Mary c. Amesbury
Rockport, Me.
/ have suffered, for
years, from Catarrh,
which was so severe
that 1t destroyed my
appetite and weakened
my system. After try,
ing other remedies,
and getting no relief, |
began TO take Ayers
Sarsaparilla, and, I'm o
few months, was cured
Susan J.. Cook, 800
Albany St, Boston
Highlands, Mass.
Ayers Sarsaparilla
is superior to any blood
purifier that l have
ever tried. / have
taken II for Scrofula,
Canker, and Salt.
Rheum, and received
much benefit from 1t.
1t is good, also, for a
weak stomach. Mile
Jane PIERCE, South
bradford, Mass.
'arsapariIIa,
,. Aver & Co., Lowell, Mass.
six bottles, So.
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Reuort Of the Third Auditor OF the
Treasury.

VI 0A's
Reuort of the Third Auditor OF the
Treasury.
WASHINGTON, October 2S.-Third
Auditor Williams's report was sent to
the Secretary OF the Treasury today.
In submitting this report, he says that
il affords him pleasure to direct atten-
ton to the improved condition OF tue
business of the offife, ss disclosed in
the operst' ons OF the several divisions
compared with the preceding f,caI
wear. The total number Of claims, &C.
counts and casee, settled and disposed
of during the fiscal year ending June
80, 1886, was IL $3.50, involving $780,
40l,724, During the preceding
fiscal wear, the number was
1910, involving SOL, 57S,6O5. An in
crease of SO per cent. is thus shown
over l8S4-'S5 in the number OF claims,
etc, disposed OF, and about "a per
cent. in the money involved. Refer
ring to the Slate war claims, the
Auditor says that while full invesli-
cation had not been completed, a cur
sorry examination unfolds gross irreg-
ulariiies arising out OF absolute
careletsness, or willful perpetIation Of
rand. The office, after a thorough
examination of the claims OF the
State Of Indiana, found that in round
numbers sos, 900 had been illegally
allowed. Fifty thousand dollars OF
this sum were in the year 1874 discov.
cred and withheld from credit found
due the State; and, upon investiga-
ton, now $4,000 more, made up Of
accounts allowed in excess Of vouchers
presented, amounts allowed twice for
the same service, and amounts allowed
without vouchers, appear rs a
legitimate charge against the
State. In the matter of the claims
OF the State OF Vermont, it appears
that for a want Of proper system in
keeping the accounts, $225,254 have
been at various times since the close
OF the war OF the rebellion paid to the
State, which, instead, should have
been applied to the Indebtedness,
amounting TO S543, $50, charged sganst
the State on the books of the ordnance
Office OF the War Department, being
the money value of arms, equipments,
ETC., furnished by the United States in
the years 1868 "a, which have never
been returned or accounted for. The
Auditor states that he is informed
that the State of Vermont sold the
greater portion OF these arms to a for
eign country--Turkey-and deposited
the proceeds, amounting to $4,000,
in her treasury. At this time the
claims Of the State OF Iowa are re-
ceiving attention, but the examination
is not sufficiently advanced to include
full report. Enough, however, has
been discovered, the Auditor ssys, to
warrant the conclusion that consid-
cradle sum has been unlawfully
paid the State, growing out Of reim-
bursements on account OF advances to
troops, the came services haviug been
previously paid for by United States
payma5terB,
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out seriously affecting the present
service, make a saving OF about $780,
600 in the annual expenditures.
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mr.. SECRETARY MEANING
TO TAKE POSSESSION OF HIS OF
FICE TODAY.
REPORTS Of the Third Auditor OF the
Treasury and Second Assistant
Postmaster General.

WAsHINeroN, October 2s.-secretary
Manning will resume actual control OF
The Treasury Department tomorrow
and Mr.. Fairchild will be relieved OF
his duties SIS Acting Secretary, which
office he Las held from the time Mr..
Manning was taken sick up to date.
Orders have been issued to have the
Treasury mail tomorrow prepared for
the Signature Of Mr.. Manning.
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HOPKINS
OUT
To Dissolve COpartnershIp.
MILLINERY
BELOW COST

rH- Our entire stock has to be sold by Jan.
uary ], 1887, to Dissolve CopartneTship-
our company retiring,
aa5- We Offer cur immense stock Regard.
less OF Cost.
Good Felt Doe
Fine Felt Hats, New Shape worth lbs, 75o
Genuine Beaver ts.......................... zoe
JOB Lot Of Hats, worth from 81 to S2......... 25c
Beautiful RoseF, all COlors".".......3 for loo
Ostrich Pompons. I've
Children's Trimred Hats, worth q, for 81 90
Boys's Cloth, Velvet and Plush Caps,
Ladies' Trimmed Hats, worth "a .......- 50 90
Long tlumes frOm........ ..'...............5Oc up
Ostrich Tips, 3 in Bunch, FROM. soc up
Birds, Wings, Fancy Feathers, Feather
Bands, etc., at RidicuiOusly Low Prices
p4-Don't Lose Your Chance. Remember
from this day to January l, 1887.
M Bridal and Mourning Oatffs.
sS-Tho finest assortment Of DOLLS in the
city.
ps-Hsts Reshaped, Feathers Cleaned, Dyed
and Curlsd,
n1-aolden Hair Wash by the Small or Large
Quantities.
The examiner., 1886-01-02

MIDDLETOWN.

The hall where the Derby boys performed should have read "St. Mary's." It was given by the society free, thus saving about $50 for the strikers. The light is spread ing, and all seem desirous now of pushing the K. of L., but the boys are working carefully, and keeping look out for spies and other creatures.
 The H. G. Hubbard company of South Farms closed thelr works on Thursday, De- cember 24th, with two months pay due the operatives, and although Saturday, the 26th, was the regular payday, not dollar could bs procured unless at a discount of five per cent. This caused a good Ceal of disap- pointment for Christmas, and many were forced to borrow from their ntighbors or starve. We presume that this is one of those cases which Commissioner Hadley would regard as being liable to be much worse if there were a law on the statute book designed to prevent it.
The examiner., 1886-01-02
ANSONIA.

Selectman James Sweeney has been chosen a delegate to the Irish National League convention to be held at Chicago next year, by the first division A. O. H. Mir. Sweeney's heart beats in unison with any attempt to re dress a wrong or lift up the fallen, and we are glad of the choice. We trust the other Irish National societies may use like judgement in their selections.
 The prospects are that a cooperative paint-shop will be fixture i'll Ansonia. | The necessary capital has been raised, and all the preliminaries have been arranged. The members all practical workmen, and will work all the better for themselves There will be no scab prices nor skin jobs under their management. Their motto IS, ''We work for living, and we do our own work" Success to the work.
 Gordy the Second, the king of Rattan Had subjects who hated his rule,
 So he thought at last of an excellent plan
 To banish rebellion in school.
 He told thom that Liberty was grand thing
 As they of the Stars and Stripes would sing
 His strap to the music kept time.
 If the impress was poor, the drawing not fine
 
 He'd try it again--and successful this time
 By imprinting the flag on their back.
 There are men mean enough to steal the pennies from dead mans eyes. But there is ghoul here in Ansonia who is willing to feed on the name of the Silver shop strike. This ''skin", who is too lazy to work, was in the upper part of the city day or two last week trying to sell some sort of a fake clothes-pin, saying he was hired by the K. of L., and that the money went for the benefit of the strikers As incredible as it may seem, he took in a good many, but at last he spot ed and should he try it again, or any other artful dodge of the kind, he vii find himself where dodges and schemes must be more clevar than this | late one to avail him much.
 In the mud and slush of last week | stranger. carrying grip in his hand, came foundering down the Naugatuck railroad l track till he came to Bridge street corner. | There he paused, cast glance southward and shook his head; then his face was turned with despairing look northward | again, and he retraced his steps. At the | corner of Water street he met an individ- ual of whom he asked: 'Say, where is the depot of this road anyway" (Which way have you come from!" five been up and down and everywhere, but l can't find the station, no how, said the muddled strang- CT. E'Why the stations up the track just round the corner," answered his inform ant, 'tdidn't you see it as you came down?" ''See it; see the station! 1 saw lot of d--d sheds up there!" and with grunt of disgust he strode, up the track again.
 ''For real merit" says one of the most celebrated Prima Donnas, B. H. DOUG LASS & SONS CAPSICUM COUGH DROPS for irritation of the throat are superior to anything have ever used.'' Sold everywhere. Price 15 cts per ar. pound.
The examiner., 1886-01-02
HARP0ONING A WHALE.
A Dangerous System of Catching the
 Monster of tho Deep.

A Dangerous System of Catching the
 Monster of tho Deep.
 Now and then whale manages to make its escape after being harpOOned. When ever that is the case the animal has learn ed wisdom by experience, if it should again be harpooned takes very good care not to exhaust its powers by diving. 50 1t remains on the surface of the water, where it can breathe at ease, and rushes along at full speed.
 Three or four boats will sometimes be ssfast' to the same whale, and will be tow ed along at such speed that one of the crew is obliged to stand over the line with up- lifted axe ready to cut the rope at 8 mo- ment's notice. The Northern whales al most invariably make for the nearest ice field and try to dive under it. In one 1n- stance 8 Rorqual which had been har- pooned in mistake for a Greenland whale, rushed off with such unexpected speed that it shot under an ice field before the line could be cut and neither crew nor boat were ever heard of afterward.
 It is, by the way, fortunate for the whal- CTS that the animal cannot turn it's head or body, as if it could do so, even civilized men would hardly be able to approach such an animal As it is, however the well drilled boats crew have just time to back out of reach of it's tail before it can make it's stroke.
 For it must be remembered that Sensa- tion occupies an appreciable time in pass ing along nerve. All of us who have suffered from an accident must be aware that at the moment of inf1iction there is no pain and that there is an interval between the injury and the pain. The duration of this interval is measurable by the length of nerve between the seat of injury and the brain.
 Now, the whale is a very large animal; and supposing that full grown speci- men of eighty feet in length be struck about the middle of the body, the sensa- tion of the stroke would have to be con- veyed through nerves nearly forty feet in length before reaching the brain. Then, the return message delivered to the tail would have to traverse nearly twice that distance. So, although the whalers may be wholly ignorant of physiology, they know by practice that the whale never strikes instantly on receiving the wound from the harpoon.
 Shell bullets, charged with prussic acid or strychnine and just enough powder to explode the shell, have been found to kill 8 whale in a very few minutes. The sail OTIS, however, with all the prejudices of ignorance, think that they will be poisoned when 1ensing the whale, and 90 insist upon the tedious and dangerous system of fharpooning and lancing.-[ Longman's Magazine.