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q. HUNTINGTON.

A New York correspondent OF the
st Louis Republican describes Mr.. {.
p. Huntington, president of the Ches-
apeakc and Southwestern system OF
railroads, very accurately ~ a plain,
practical man, not seldom jocular,
who says original things, speaks slowly
and cautiously, and has none of the
purse pride so often seen in men OF
far less wealth. He is full of human
nature, but in his sixticth year cares
little for society. lie reads men as he
would an open book. He can assume
frankness, though he hath il not.
He is one of the few men who have
proved moro than a match for JAY
Gould. He has a full oval face, Il
prominent nose and dark brown eyes.
His eye is not so searching as that OF
the "Little Mag cian' just mentioned.
His manner is less terse, more easy
and careless as hc nonchalantly twid-
dies his eyeglasses; he wears in his
Office black silk smoking cap, usu-
ally on the back Of his head, giving
him an open, jolly look II is only
after you have left him that you real
ize that he is one Of the uncrowned
financial kings Of this country. lie
can ride on his own roads from Sar
Francisco to Newport News, Va, OIL
clear across the continent. He rules
his roads with an iron rod, but has
broad and statesmanlikc cast OF mind
He has reduced passenger rates on hi
Southern Pacific road 80 per cent. II
order TO encourage emigration in tina
direction and thus build up a perma
nent local traffic for the road he lose
ON his through business from the At
lantic seaboard, but the lever rates
he thinks, and not unrcasonably, viii
benefit him in the end.
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4 SrNsInLE MOVEMrNT

4 cable special informs us that
upon the advice OF Mr. Michael
Dayitt, who has long urged the neccs-
sity OF such a movemVnt, the Irish
loGdors are organizing agitation in Eng
land and Scotland in favor of home
rule, Mr., Joseph Arch, NJ F., and
other English Radicals will cooperate
10 the campaign, and active operations
vii. Doe begun at once This should
tavo been done long ago. II Daniel
O'Conuell hud made common cause
with the English Chaftists forty years
ago the cause OF liberalism in Great
Britain and Ireland might have been
advanced at least twEnty years. Mr.
pavitt has learned this, and he urges
i. consequence that the Il5sh members
~ the House of Commdfis should pay
more attention to subjects OF vital in.
terest to the English masses, and hi,
argument that The Irish people have
roTight to expect the sympathy and
AID OF a class whose own Interests ant
grievances the Irish have uniformly
ignored has ut last been needed by hi,
colleagues.
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INDESCRIBABLE DISTRESS
PREVAILING IN THE ISLANDS ON
THE IRISH COAST.
Young Girls in Hiding for Want OF
ClOthes-The Church Cues
tlOn In the Commons.

LONDON, March l0.-The govern
ment has placed gunbosts at the
service OF Mr.. Luke IN his work OF re-
lieving the distressed among the In
habitants OF the islands along the
western Irish coast. Indescribable
distress has been developed among
the people inhabiting the Arran
Isles of Galway, who, besides
having hardly anything to eat but
moss and sea grass, are without fire
and often without clothing and shelter.
1t is not rare to find girls OF seventeen
and eighteen years OF age kept
in enforced hiding during the
daytime, because bereft OF every
thread OF clothing, long ago
battered away for seed potatoes OF
roots to feed the smaller children.
Fishing Inspector Brady recently went
among the miserable people Of Arran
to distribute relief furnished by an
organization Of the Irish police: HIS
funds ran short today and he still had
so much pitiable wretchedness to re-
lieve that he appealed to Mr.. Busy,
who is charged with the distribution
OF the fund raised in America
through the New York Sun, for the
impoverished fishermen of Aichall
and Baffin islands, and begged him "a
divert part Of his stores for the benefit
OF the Aua1s. Mr.. Busy was per
mitted to do so, and he reports that, IN
order to save the lives Of scores o.
people now dying of starvation IN
these western islands, 1t is imperative
that relief on large scale be at once
organized.
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THE MISSISSIPPI APPROPRIA'
Ton nILI..

As the appropriation bill has passed
the House Of Representatives of Mis-
sissippi it provides $4,000 for the A.
Am. College, which, the Clarion thinks,
with interest on the Land Scrip Fund,
makes the total support for each year,
s20,92s IS, The appropriation for the
Girls College, at Columbus, was fixed
at the same amount, which includes
support aud improvements, The
appropriation of $4,000 heretofore
made 10 the Normal School at Holly
Springs will be paid to colored schools
at Clinton and Natchez, less the
amount due the teachers of the Nor
NAL School, This is much to be re-
gretted. The Normal School has here
toiore done a good work and should
have been sustained. The unpopular
ity Of any or all Of its teachers should
not have been permitted to weigh Sc
heavily rs tokill il.
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MEMPHIS APPEAL.
THURSDAY, :: MARCH II, 1856
pAy.ELECTRIC.

An investigation into the affairs OF
the Pan-Electric Telegraph Company
was begun yesterday by the special
committee Of the House. Senator
Vest was the first witness, his tcsti-
mony being taHen at his residence,
His statement is manly and direct, and
fully justifes the confidence
the people OF Missouri and his
fellow Democratic Senators repose
in him. He bought and paid for his
stock, and refused to be relieved by
Mr.. Stilson Hutchins OF supposititious
embarrassment in being stakeholder
after theuumpus was raised about The
company. As with Senator Vest SC
with all the other public men con
nected with this company. Then
ownership of stock in it is a perfectly
legitimate transaction,
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THE rNoLrsm HOUSE or LORDS.

An augury OF the future Of the En-
glish House Of Lords is TO be found in
the personnel of the vote that sustained
Mr.. Labouchcre's motion that that
body was inconsistent with the British
constitution and wholly useless and
unnecessary. Five sons Of peers, two
OF them heirs apparent, voted with
I.abouchere. These were the Hon.
Bernard Cocridgc and Viscount
Wolmer, son of Lord Selborne.
Five baroncts also voted with Labou-
chere, among them Sir Henry Have
lock Allan, son OF the great hero OF
Lucknow. The vote for Lahouchere' s
Cheeky" resolution by Lord William
Compton, himself the son of mar
quis, nephew of a lately created bishop,
husband OF the lady. who is said to
have refused the late Duke of Albany's
hand, and a regular Mayfair and Bel
gravia "swell," is especially comment
ed upon in aristocratic circles, "1is
the handwriting on the wall for Bel
shazzar," said Mr., 7, 7. 0'Conner
when the vote was taken. The years
of the House of Lords are numbered
1t is doomed, and the whole fabric o
the monarchy with it. The Queer
with her household, cher uncles, hel
cousins and her aunts," is no Longer
even ornamental, and the British tax
payer has about concluded that S.,
100000 is too much to pay annually
for vcilcd monarch.
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4 coNsrrruTIoNAL CONVENTION.

The jackson Clarion is doing good
work in series of editorials urging Il
call by the present Legislature for a
constitutional convention. In its issue
of the 9th instant it makes it very
clcar that among the most serious OBJ
jections to the present constitution,
and ono which of itself makes con.
yention necessary, is that it leayes too
much power in the Legislature, In
testing State laws whose validity has
been attacked because of want of
power in the Legislature to enact
them, the rule Of construction acqui-
esced in by all the courts is that all
powers not denied TO the Legislature
or committed TO some other depart
ment of the government 10y the consti-
tuition, belong to the Legislature,
which is equivalent TO saying that the
Legislature, unless restrained by the
terms Of the constitution, may do any
thing that the people could do. All
power being inherent in the people,
the Legislature, as the representative
or agent OF the people, has that power,
except as the people have seen fit to
reserve it in the constitution. A con.
stitutional statement that the powers
not conferred by the organic law upon
the three branches Of the government
was exercised by the people would
prevent such decisions in future and
save the State from many absolute
usurpations of power.
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EVANGELICAL WORK.
A Reformed DrunkRrd and Gam
bier as an ExhOrter-Reiig-
iOus Record.

MARYvILLE, Mo-, March S.-A &C.
ries of meetings is in progress in our
city that is exciting great Interest
anu having iue results-over fifty
hardened sinners, including severa!
longtime drunksrds, having already
signifled their intention 10 lad new
life. These ettings have heretofore
been held in Salvation Hall, but
that place being too small to accom-
modats the Increasing crowds, the
meeting tonight was held in the First
Methodist church, seating 600 people.
The church was fl led to oveIhowipg,
and for time at least meetings will
be held there nightly The leader in
these meetings is Elder RUFUS Smith,
assisted by various clergymen OF our
city, but Vhe cent9r OF attraction now
is the reformed drunkard and gambler,
Edgar NJ. Forrest, who is highly
thrilling the souls Of his hearers by
the picture CT his own evil example.
A drunkard and professional gambler
for over fifteen years, Mr.. Forrest
can draw freely from his own life,
showing how pIotitless are the wages
OF sin. AS Mr.. Forrest lie becoming
somewhat noted in Western Missouri
and Kansas as an evangelist, drawing
hundreds OF men from the gutter,
who could not be reached except by
his thrilling example, q short sketch
of bic life may be interesting. Edgar
NJ. Forrest was born in Danville, Pa.
October /, lS49. His father, G. A
Forrest, was for sixteen years post
master at Louisberg, Pa, and
is now in the custom house al
Philadelphia. One Of his brothers
is teller in the First National Bank o.
Louisbure, and another is travelling
for leading Philadelphia house. In
1870 Edgar NJ. graduated at the Uni
versily OF LouisbuTg and began study
ing law with VIM. Il. Vangezsr OF thai
place. In 1871 he was married to a
niece Of Judge Biddle Of Philadelphis
but after about one year of married life
his habits OF gambling aud drinking
gained such q ma3tery over him that he
deserted his family and came West
his wife soon dying Of broken heart
He has wandered over the Western
Stats aud Territories, Mexico ant
Australia as professional gambler
ever since. He was in Australia il
! 1880 end 1881 for eighteen months, re-
turning from there with $1,000
With this capital he opened fare
bank in San Francisco and wa
busted in six weeks. In 1884
while in Memphis, Tenn, For
rest became impressed with thu
idea of quitting his unlawful lie, bu
the ties we're tol strong, and he wen
back. About six months ago he wa
running 8 game in Parsons, Kas., anC
one night, while dealing, being thel
several hundred dollars ahead of tn,
game, he felt az though hand wa
laid upon his shoulder, say ing
"Stopl' So impressed was he will
the thought tina, it was the hand o
God, that he threw all his winning
upon the table and exclaimed; "Righ
here Quit" He went to work tn,
next day exhorting tine drunksrd AM
gambler to follow bis example, AM
has been in the sans good work eve
since. He held meetings for tw
weeks ia Hiswatha, Kas., and owe
500 TOOK the pledge. This is out
sample Of his power for good.
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may rightly demand the record touch
ing the status Of the person named by
the President, it is folly to argue that
the Senate can 60 back TO the act OF
suspension for any light needed in
reaching a just conclusion as 10 the
honesty or fitness Of the Presidential
nominee. OF course any papers placed
on file in the departments, no matter
10 what question they may relate, are
subject to examination by coordinate
branches Of the government, provided
the examination desired is not deemed
injurious to the public service, but in
cases where this is asked the judgment
of the head Of the bureau in determin-
ingthis matter is taken as to thepoicy
Of granting the request.
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-11
A PLUCKYP ARSON
who Objected 10 His wife BeiDg
Made the Subject of Gossip.

PrTTsFKLD, MAS, March S-Every-
body is talking about the remarkable
personal statement made at his Sun
day service by the Rev. Edward o.
Holyoke, the YOUNG pastor of the First
Baptist church. The Rev. Mr.. Holy
oke, who is handsome young man
of twenty-eighi, and graduate of
Hamilton College Divinity School,
came here about two years ago and
entered upon successful minittry.
Trouble began, however, when, in July
last, thu clergyman brought home a
bride, q pretty young lady whom he
married at Sand Creek, N. Y, on her
graduation from the Woman's Col
lege there. Mrs. Holyoke is viva
cious brunette Of twenty years, with
fine education and some definite ideas
OF her own. She is not a member
OF any church, although she
has q strong leaning toward Episco-
pacy, which was her fathers religion.
She therefore has seldom been seen in
her husDand's church, preferring to
attend the services OF Rector Newton,
formerly Of st Paul's, Boston.
She has held aloof from the
Baptist ladies, and when a delegation
OF the sisters called on her after her
marriage, bring handsome token OF
regard, she sent down word by the
servant that she was indisposed. The
storm Of indignation she then caused
has never quieted sir ce. Matters
reached crisis, however, Wednesday
evening wher Mrs. Holyoke attended
social reception given by the
Business Mems Association, and
shocked the gossips by INDUCING
in the waitses and the dances
Just as if she was not the wife OF a
| Bsptilt minister. Next DAY the whole
town was talking about the matter ;
some Of the flying gossip naturally
| reached Mr.. Holyoke's ears, Yester-
day, at the morning service, the Cler-
gymsu publicly reprimauded bis con-
gregstion for their gossip about his
wifi :. snd their treatment OF her gen.
erally. "My wife came TO you" eaid
he, lin position involving no re-
spcn7ibility. She is neither the prop
erty OF the church nor my property
| in tbst sense, having views Telig
iously, socially and domestically
which are entirely her own. She is
not 10 be criticised by you. She
is accountable only 10 her God, and
the church is not her keeper, She il
not q c1worker with me, as far as
church affairs 20, and you have nc
authority to gossip about her. st.
Paul says il church members have 8
grievance against a brother, they shall
20 to him with two or three, and then
Il he declines to hear to cite him
before the church. / want you tc
come to me il you have fault to End
and not talk to third parties. My
wife shall do as she pleases and
she shall not be accountable tC
YOU in any sense. You would 5eitsl
let her alone" Tue minister contin'
ued in this strain to some length. His
rebuke has set the church wild will
excitement, and while he is sustained
by the best members OF his coDgregs
ton, the gossips are so angry that
many believe he will be forced to re-
| sion
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The New York post ON the West
ern Union Affairs.

New YORK, March l0.--The Pos! in
its financial article, says; About II
o'clock the Western Union directors
announced scrip dividend II per
cent. for the quarter. The revenue for
the quarter ending March list shows
deere ase Of 100000. The net revenue
for the quarter TO March 3lst is esti-
mated az S9O6,509. or equal to IL per
cent. on the 5000, 900 Of stock, but as
the estimate OF net revenue for the
uualt7r to December 3lst was S2Sj, 000
in excess Of the actual, it is not i'm
probable that the present hgu es may
also be overestim ated, though even OF
the present figures it appears that it
has not earned its last two dividende,
about 5000, and it becomes q peril.
nent Question as to whether previous
dividends have not been paid pa ty
out of the surplus fund. Western
Union dividends have been re-
garded with suspicion for several
years, but more especially since the
reduction to per cent. in September,
1884. The evidence OF this
suspicion has been in the fact that
while other dividends and stocks
have been selling on basis OF from 8
to 81 per cent. on the investment at
the average market price of Western
Urion has lesn 20 lstantly at prices
on which the 6 per cent. dividends on
the par value have yielded about 8 per
cent. on the investment, During the last
four months OF 1884 it sold at 67b and
5S4. and its average price was about 81.
In the wear 1885 it sold at $50 in jan
nary, and Sls in November, but its
average price was about o.. since
January list il has sold at 70 and 6Sse,
and its average price has been about
70. These averages show an advapc-
ing tendency, but this has been the
result of the greater general advance
in prices of other stocks and the con-
tinued low rates Of interest for money
rather than any increase OF confidence
in Western Union. Is is apparent
that with money loaniDg at l392 Ie'
cant. per anRum on call and 394 per
cent. on investment loans, stock
that would pay = per cent
wonId not be allowed to remain
at that price unless there was
some deep rooted suspicion that III
dividend would suddenly come to q
stop. II appears that the time has az,
lived when IL comes to 3 debate AMONG
the directors as TO whether they shall
mass the usual dividend or issue scrip
ia keep up the fiction. The end Il
near az hand rs to the cause OF this
improbable result ct the operation o.
tbe vast system of wires that coyert
the continent like a spiders web. IL Is
believed by some persons whose prac'
teal knowledge Of the operation en-
titles their Judgment to some cons a
Grafton that the reduction OF telegraph
rates in the last seven or eight years
| has placed the business on pSsl'
where there is no profit in It, Int
effects Of Weather aud storm are ina
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Communism in France.

PARIS, March.--The quarters of the
city which are most largely occupied
by workingmen, were p'acarded last
night with incendiary appeals to the
unemployed. They were urged to rise
up in their might, and by supreme
effort annihllate the bourgeoise. The
government has decided to prose-
cute Deputy Basly, 3 representative OF
workingnIen, and Mr.. Q1ercy, editor Of
q Socialist newspaper, for having in
cited the striking lion workers 10 riot
and resistance Of the police. It is ru-
mored that Louise Michel and others
will call q great meeting Of Socialists
for the 18th instant, the anniversary
of the outbreak Of 1871, which was
the precursor of the Commune.
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SIR john MACDONALD seems to have
spoken rashly in London during his
recent visit, when he declared that
Canada would aid Great Britain in
her wars with the last man and the
last dollar" A large number of Ca
madam newspapers, the st. Paul Pho
Near Press states, deny that Canada is
willing TO indulge in any such exploit
alton. Probably 30 per cent, of Cam
ada's population would decline to be
slaughtered in the Soudan, or in Bur
nah or Afghanistan, TO help fill up
the measure OF Britain's imperial
glory. Sir John might just as well
have consulted the Canadians before
he male any such pledges in England
The Memphis appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1886-1890, 1886-03-11
The Church question I'm the Com
mons.

LONDON, March l0.-In the House
of Commons latt evening Mr.. Dlllwyn,
Liberal, moved to disesaOlish the
Church OF Wales.
Mr. Grey, Liberal, moved to reform
instead OF disestablish.
Sir William Harcourt, Chancellor OF
the Exchequer, contended that the
question Of the disestablishment OF
the Welsh and English churches were
involved and separable. .
Mr.. Grey's amendment was first
adopted by vote Of PAL to 229, and
then, as a substitute Tor Mr.. Dillwyn' q
motion, was rejected by vote oil 346
TO 40.
In the first division the minority
consi, ted OF Liberals and Parnellites
In the second division the Parnellites
lett the House in a body. Messrs;
Gladstone, Chamberlain, Morley and
Trevelyan abstsined from voting.
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Demonstration Against the Govern
ment at London.

ment al London.
LONDON, March 10.-A procession Of
British seamen marched from the
docks to the city this afternoon to
make demonstration against the
government for neglecting to take
steps toward relieving trade OF its de-
preston. They behaved in an orderly
manner and were loudly cheered along
the route. They carried great num-
Der of banners, some of which bore
the inscription, British labor is sac
rificed in the interest OF foreign labor"
etc. The procession attracted much
attent ton, and the streets through
which it passed were filled with people.
For time there was some excitement
caused by a fear that roughs and
rowdies might use the occasion to
reproduce the scenes OF the Trafalgar
Square riots. When the seamen
reached the city they proceeded 10 the
neighborhood Of the Board OF Trade
rooms, where they held a meeting.
At this they appointed committee
to wait upon Mr.. A. j. Mundell, pres
ident Of the Beard of Trade, and urge
the necessity Of such changes in the
free trade pol cy Of the government
as might be necessary TO revive the
foreign and domestic trade Of the En-
pire.
M. Carlton, lessee and manage
Of her Msjssty's Theater, has dis
appeared. A summons sgainst hin
for unpaid wages had been granted il
behalf Of sixty employees of the thea
ter. 1t is alleged that he took in a
the doors on Saturday last el300.
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Sh,DD,ux Chinamen in BOnd.

LONDON, ONT, March l0.-A circu-
lar has been issued by the superin.
tendent OF the southern division OF
the Grand Trunk railway ordering
that hereafter all Chinese going over
the road will be passed through in
bond, and that the conductors will be
held responsible to see that none OF
the Mongolians are allowed TO stop in
Canada,
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NKw ORLEANS, La, March l0.--The
weatl. er was clear and ecol and the
track slow.
First Racial ages; three-quarters
OF mile: Girohs won by length
Dick Watts second, Luna Brown third
Time, 1:20l.
Seo9nd Rdce-For three-yeaI-olds;
winning penalties; seven furlongs;
Ida won by a length, Leonora second,
Bee jaw third. Time, / 81.
Th;rd Race - Selling allowances
three quarters Of mile; Baton Rouge
won by a length, Juliet second, Hot
Cox third. Time, l;2J.
Fourth Rdee-Sslling allowances; oae
and ope-sixteenth miles: Ligan won
by q lsngth and half, Rio Grande
secord, Amanda Brown third. Time
l 1861.
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Attempted AssRSsInatiOn of Jules
Verne.

AMIENs, FRANCE, March 1O.-An at
tempt was made to-day 70 assassinate
Jules Verne. Two shotI were fred at
him by young student, who turned
out to be the authors own nephew,
and who had come from Paris for the
express purpose OF killing his uncle.
One Of the bullets missed the novelist
altogether; the other struck him In
the leg, inHicting slight wound. The
nephew haa flr some time been a stu
dent in Paris, and is thought to be q
monomaniac.
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TheGerman Reiehstag.

BERLIN, March 10. - Herr Wind
thorsts motion that members should
not be compelled by the courts 10 tee
tify in support of statements made by
them in the Reichstsg was discussed
by tnst body to-day. Herr Won Boet-
,icher, Minister Of the Interior, said
he was opposed TO referring the mat
ter,to g committee until theBundes ath
had decided as to what course it
should pursue in the matter. He adj
ded that the ministry was unanimous
~ OF the opinion that Article 30 Of the
constitution, dealing with the immu-
nifty Of the members, did not exempt