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4 BURGLAR KILLED
And Another Captured while in the
act of Ransacking q Private Res
idence-COurageOus Conduct
OF q Private Citizen.

New YORK. March 9.-One burglar was
shot and killed and another captured to-
night by John P. Richards, who surprised
them W hile they were ransacking q parlor in
his house, No. 305 East Eighty sixth street
Mr.. Richards was upstairs and heard noise
in the parlor below. He got a revolver and
ent cautiously down. By the light of the
moon he saw tw1 men IN the room, who saw
him co ing, and ran, one to the right the
other to the left. He fred three shots after
the latter without apparent effect. Failing to
ge- cut of the back window the latter turned
on Mr. Richards, who shot him through the
heart and he fell dead in the middle of the
room. The other man was then covered by
the revolver and surrendered. The police
were attracted by the shooting, and as they
came into the house Mr.. Richards, after tell
ing his story, surrendered himself. The
dead burglar was recognized as Timothy Ca
sey, hardened young criminal, hardly a
man, who has given the police Ia the upper
part Of the city a good deal of trouble.
James Dargan, the captured burglar, is
known to the police as an old offender. In
the stationhouse he said to Richards that
If he, Dargan, only had had 4 revolver,
Richards would not be at the stationhouse
with him. Mr.. Richards is a member of the
firm of John P. Moores & Sons, dealers in
guns and arms, and is captain of the Seventh
regiment ritie-team. Later in the night the
coroner discharged Mr.. Richards from GUS
tOdV
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TEzE PLAGUE.

Surgeon-General Woodwork, of the ma
rine hospital service, has provided against
the introduction Of the plague, so far as he
can under existing laws. In circular ap-
proved by the President, IN regard to vessels
coming from ports on the Black sea, sea of
Azov, the Mediterranean, or other places,
after calling attention to the existence of the
plague and its dangerous character, he in
struct5 officers of the customs, medical ma
rine officers, and quarantine officers gener-
ally that, until further orders, no vessel from
the ports indicated, conveying any rags, furs,
skins, hair, feathers, boxed or baled clothing
or bedding, or any similar articles liable to
c5uvey infection, shall enter any port of the
United States until the articles have been re-
moved and the vessel thoroughly disinfected
aad ventilated. The suspected articles are
to be disinfected or burned, as the surgeon
general may determine in each case. Now
let him issue a similar circular in regard to
Brazilian ports where yellow-fever prevails,
or that are likely to be affected by the plague
now ravaging the northeastern provinces of
that empire
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The public health bill which passed con-
gress on the closing day of the session, has
nothing to do with quarantine or the proven
ton of the introduction of plaques or pesti-
lence. 1t only provides for board of health,
to consist of eleven members, three of whom
shall be medical officers detailed from the
army, navy and marine hospital service, one
officer from the department of justice, and
seven members to be appointed by the Presi-
dent, who are to receive a per diem compen-
saIon while actually on duty. The board
are to meet IN Washington within thirty days
alter the passage Of the act and are to elect
their president. The duties of the board, as
defined by the bill, ara to obtain information
in all matters connected with the general
government and with the executive of the
several States on all matters that may be
submitted to them, whenever in their opin-
ION such advice may tend to the preservation
of the public health"
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A FALsEaOOD OUT OF WHOLE
EVaATH

Your correspondent was Conversfup Win
a young lady last Sunday afternoon, and there is
no meeting of friends in this city unless yellow fever
Is Of the topics to be discussed, OF course we had
told me OF fri, md OF hers now In bed with win
ter case' of yellow-fever She said her friend was
now convalesctng, but had been only few days be
friend If she and her mother had not better be max
Ing arrangements to leave the city in case the fever
should break out here again. Her reply was: I'VE
Lave already anticipated such an emergency, and
now have our entire household goods In such con-
dtiOn that we can In two hours get everything we
on the cars and be en route TO Chicago" This
family nave an excellent business mere put are
anxious to sell out and leave the city for all time
there more groceries, stores and various other
kinds OF business firms here anxious TO sell out than
to be found IN any other place in the country.
Even Barnaby, the dealer in gentlemen's furnishing
goods, under the Peabody hotel, has given up his
stand the best in the city for his line of trade ar
will remove to Minnesota in few days In fine
every man, woman and child In Memphis, white or
black who financially able TO leave this place
this summer, have already fully determined to do
50, and are now shaping all their efforts in that
direction.
The above from Memphis correspondent
of the Louisville Egening Post, has gone the
rounds of the press of the country, and is
copied into the APPEAL that cur readers may
see on what sort of evidence the leading pa.
pers of the Union are condemning our city
as public nuisance from which our citizens
are anxious to escape, and which ought to
be avoided by the citizens Of every other part
of the country. As our readers know, the
APPEAL has not hesitated to call attention to
filthy streets and alleys, and to press upon
cur authorities the necessity for immediate
action in cleaning up our highways and by
ways. Some weeks ago we found it neces-
sary to do this. Since that time the health
board has been vigorously enforcing the
health ordinances, and the work of putting
Memphis in a good sanitary condition has
been thoroughly prosecuted. Our city is,
therefore, even now in very good condition.
Before two weeks rolls round it will be in
better, and as we have before remarked will
be cleaner and healthier city than any
other, except Boston, in the country We
have no reason, we may add, to expect Wis
itation from the fever this summer, not near
as much reason as New York has to antici-
pate visitation of the black plague.
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VIII EELRE&
The West Virginia Legislature NOdi'
fies it's Action Toward the BaIti-
more and Ohio Railway, and Ac-
cepts it's schedule of Freight
Rates-A New Democratic
journal.

WHEELING, w. VA, March 9.-The West
Virginia legislature, at late hour last night,
adopted resolution accepting the new tariff
proposed by the Baltimore and Ohio railroad
allow SPECIAL rates in certain cases. Special
rates shall be given to all shippers by the
carload without discrimination. The resolu-
ton rescinds the former action Of the legisla-
ture idirecting thee attorney-general Of the
State to proceed by quo to0,Tdi,tO or other
proceedings against the company for viola
tons of its charter. The senate, by tie
vote, refused to pass the usuary bill, which
provided for a forfeiture of the entle inter-
rate lo than six iDap nep cent pe Tg annnm
charged. The time for the adjournment of
the legislature is fixed for Monday at noon,
An effort will be made to extend the time
one day.
The EUeniHg Standard changed hands
yesterday and. willi appear as a. Democratic
paper tomorrow.
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through its continued agitation. The legIs-
lature of Tennessee should act promptly and
decis.yely. The people want action, posi-
tive, prompt determined and final If the
Democracy Of Tennessee Is not equal to any
emergency that may arise-incapable Of set
q az on the fnarces Of the State, it ought
to throw up the sponge, and give
place to those who can grapple
with the great interests of the State. The
creditors Of the State have already made
propositions as fair and liberal as we could
expect We still think they ought to COM
promise at ty cents, as the people would
Z 10 doubt ratify a settlement on that basis.
A higher rate would be hazardous before the
people. and II sixty cents compromise
should be defeated before the people it would
be difficult afterward to rahfy an adjust
ment at fifty cents. The APPEAL has uni
iormly supported Governor Porter's PROPOSE
ton made to e extra session Of the legisa
ture; but if the bondholders are wise they
will p oppose a settlement at fifty cents. Any
thing higher endangels any settlement at
all. Because we cannot pay all The debt, is 1t
right, just or proper to lie use 10 . ? any
thing? The legislatures Of d. other
southern States have shown az -, and
willingness to settle their State d., nd it
is to be hoped that Tennessee wii no longer
b. placed in the attitude Of Genouncing
Reputation, but at the sam time i,f,sjng to
make fair and honest settlement
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If THE sanitary board of Boston, or of
Paris, were called upon to report upon the
sanitary condition of Cincinnati or Louisville,
the people of those cities would be surprised
to know on what dangers they repose. As
to Chicago, they would say that owing to the
river it was not a fit place to live in. As to
New York, 1t is self-condemned. Between
its slaughterhouses, its tenementhouses, its
nasty docks and its bone-boiling establish
ments, not to speak of its dumping grounds,
it sometimes becomes unendurable to its
people. The New York Herald, almost
every day, makes well-grounded complaint.
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A STATEMENT is in circulation in CincIn-
natl to the effect that the body of Mr.. Nathan
Menken was taken to New York ria that city
This Is not true. 1t went by way of Lynch
burg. 1t is also falsehood. as stated in
Cincinnati, that the four men who exhumed
his body died of yellowfever. There is not
a case of yellow-fe in Memphis, and has
not been since the tenth of December. If
the papers of that city, with which Memphis
does large and to it lucrative trade, want
to get the truth as to our condition of health,
they have only to consult the weekly mortu-
airy table of the board of health, which is
published in the APPEAL every Sunday.
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RAILROAD CONsTRUyTE.N


All the signs indicate that we are on the
verge of another era of prosperity. Railroad
construction, which is an unfailing evidence
OF growth, is being pushed In the extreme
north and in the northwest, and by next fall
fully three thousand miles, perhaps four, will
b. added to the eigbty-fve thousand which
already affords us inter-communication with
all the States and Territories. Mr.. Garrison,
vice president of the Missouri Pacific, in an
interview with a reporter of the Cincinnati
Enquirer, gives great deal of information
that is in this connection very valuable, and
proves him to be a man Of extended iDforma
ton as to railroad progress. He says: 1--WE
are going to build our Missouri Pacific out
through Kansas south of aud parallel to the
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe road. We
shall lay our track from forty to sixty miles
south of the Atchson, Topeka and Santa Fe
road and run it clear through to Albuquerque,
in New Mexico. Then, the Santa Fe people
are building toward Leadyille, in Colorado,
aad down into New Mexico; the Southern
Pacific people are building west and
south OF Fort Yuma mile day; Albert
Pierce has gone down to San Antonio
to commence building his Galveston and
San Antonio road from San Antonio west TO
the Rio Grande. where he will meet the
Southern Pacific people; the Northern Pacific
people are piling up their steel rails on the
west banks of the Missouri at Bismarck, ready
to lay the track to the Yellowstone with the
first grass; the Canadian Pacific people are
blasting through from Winnipeg, in Mani
toba, and piling up steel rails at Fort Will
liams and Winnipeg, to connect with Thun-
der Bay, on Lake Superior, in the spring;
the st. Louis, Kansas City and Northern road
will push through from Chillicothe and Gal
latin to Council Bluffs; the Utah Southern
will be built one hundred and fifty miles
south and the Utah Northern one hundred
and fifty miles north from Fort Hall, toward
Virginia City and Helena, making continu-
GUS north and south line, in the center of the
continent, of over seven hundred miles long.
Besides there are dozens of other little roads
all over the country which, you know, are
aIuays being built -
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Not symptoms. but the disease.

1t would seem to be truth appreciable by all and
especially by professors of the healing ant that
remove the disease, not to alleviate its symptoms
should be the chief aim of medication. Yetin how
many instances do We see this truth admitted In
theory, ignored an practice. The reason that Hos
letters Stomach Bitters is successful in SO many
cases. with which remedies previously tried were In
adequate to cope, is attributable to the fact that 1t
is medicine which reaches and removes the causes
of the various malades to which it Is adapted In.
digestion, fever and agua, liver complaint, govt,
rht umatsm. disorders OF the bowels, urinary aTec-
lions and other maadies are not pallIated merely,
but rooted out by It. 1t goes to the fountain head
II Is really, not nOminally radical remedy, and il
endoTs the system with an amount of yigOr viii ch
Is Its best protection against disease.
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NO 6ETTLE1EENT.

1t is evident the legislature Of Tennessee
will adjourn without agreeing upon any adj
justment of the State debt to be submitted to
the vote of the people. The attitude of the
legislature is no compliment to its wisdom or
patriotism. The constitutional limit for hold
ing the session will soon expire, and yet moth
ing has been done with the State debt. II
seems to be the settled policy of the legisla-
ture to badger the creditors of the State, and
TO finally worry them into just such a settle
ment as the debtor may dictate. Is this hon.
est, Just or right? How unfavorably does
such conduct contrast with the legislature Of
Virginia, which accepted the new proposition
OF the bondholders, imposing, as it did, much
higher rates Of taxation than can possibly be
inflicted upon the people Of Tennessee. The
evasion of the State debt question, the desire
to shirk the responsibility, Is no compliment
to the Tennessee legislature. The creditors
OF the State are no doubt willing to make a
liberal compromise. They have shown a dis
position to do so, but their anxiety to make a
6nal satisfactory settlement has not been met
with corresponding spirit. The APPEAL
has sympathized with the burdens of the tax
payer In view OF the shrlnkageI 10 values, the
depression of the times, and the further fact
that on account of the low price of cotton
planters instead Of deriving a profit from
the production Of this product have sustained
loss, we have urged the bondholders to
scale their debt. Every man and every news
PAPER that has made this concession IS &C
cused Of drifting into reputation, and those
who oppose a settlement upon any terms are
encouraged. But they will find that the peo-
pie OF Tennessee are not regulators per Sc
N every part of the State there is yearning
tesire to see the State debt finally and for
ever settled. They d. not indorse the
course of those who trAe with great ques-
ton. 1t is evident that there are many men
IN the legislature opposed to a settlement on
any terms, as they wish to Keep the question
open for the purpose of securing office
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The Big walking Match.

New YORK, March 9-There was a tre-
mendous crowd at Gilmore's garden tonight
to witness the start in the greas pedestrian
contest CT six days, between O'Leary, the
present champion; Rowell, the English rep
resentative; Harryman, of Boston, aud Ennis.
of Chicago. Several thousand persons were
unable to obtain admission, and the crowd
carried away all the front doors. Great ex-
element and confusion prevailed. Ennis,
O'Leary, Harryman and Rowen appeared
simultaneously on the track and went before
the judges stand. They vera cheered tre-
mendously, and when the word ego" was
given at one O'Clock, they all started eff at a
sharp walk and O Leary was ahead on the
first LAP, Rowell being second, Harryman
third, and Ennis fourth. Then Rowell COM
menced running, and he was soon followed
by Ennis and O'Leary. Rowell made the
first mile in 9:25, O'Leary in 1927, Harry
man in 10:40, and Ennis in I0:40
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article of human food; neither English, Irlsh
or Scotch have learned to eat cornbread
although one portion of them are content to
feed on potatoes, and another on bitter oat-
cake 1t is as a food for horses that our corn
is becoming celebrated. For hard-worked
horses 1t is coming to be considered the best
several hundred million bushels of this most
abundant of our cereal products may, with
proper exertions, be cultivated in Great
R-,fain
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IT is computed that there are eight million
Catholics in the United States, and of these
not more than one million five hundred thou
bishop Purcells debt would require from
these three dollars head. A pretty heavy
tax nova days. "And remem Der, says a
prominent Catholic publisher of New York
to Herald reporter, THAT nIne-tenths of
the Catholics belong to the poorer classes,
and, even as it is, they are fairly ground
down under the weight of their church con-
frihuFiOnc ~
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Bulgaria PrcVOkes the Serious Dis.
pleasure or the Powers

LONDON, March "a dispatch from Der
lin states that the powers have notified the
Bulgarian deputies that their dilatoriness has
provoked the serious dipleasure ofthe powers,
who refuse to consent to a provisional regency,
but desire that prince be elected.
Emperor William had a slight fall on Fri
day, which, though unattended with injury,
caused some apprehension through a report
spread that the fall had been occasioned by
fainting.
A dispatch from Cape Town says that a
large proportion OF the zulus are temporarily
disbanded for harvesting.
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LOUISVILLE, March 9.-The merchants
stake. for all ages, dash of mile and one
eighth, fifteen hundred dollars to be added.
to close March goth, being an extra stake
run on Tuesday, May 9th. The manage
ment having concluded to have an extra day,
and give two other important events to fill up
the programme on that day, this being the
largest addition ever given to the distance, it
has caused quite commotion in running
nirclaS
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If st. Louis, Cincinnati and Louisville re-
peat their attempts to assassiuate the char
acter of Memphis and murder her reputation,
would it not be patriotic in the merchants
of Memphis to give their trade to eastern
cities. This persistence in lie when it is
officially proven to be 50. looks as if there
was a concerted effort to ruin a city whose
sufferings entitle her to sympathy and not
cold blooded and calculating enmity.
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Heavy Failure.

FALL RIVER, MASS, March 9.-The petit
ton of VIM. d. Duval as involuntary bank
rupt, was fled in the court of insolvency at
Taunton, yesterday. The failure was caused
by iudorsing for his son-in-aw, Charles P.
Stickney. He is also liable TO large amount
as indorser for the Duval mills The total
liabilities are not far from SIX hundred thou
sand dollars.
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SAN Francisco, March IO.-A fearful
wind and rainstorm mas prevailed for several
days, prostrating telegraph lines in every d.
rection. All the streams are swollen to
Overlooking, and the roads are almost i'm
pas sable. A dispatch from Summit station
says the overland train is blockaded six
miles west, with the snow sixteen feet deep,
and still storming.
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The amount of corn the west can produce
is prodiglous. The soil is peculiarly fitted for
it, and our people know how to make the
most of their advantages. Under these cir
cumstances it Is gratifying 10 see that there
Is a continually increasing call for Indian
corn Ia Europe. In Great Britain it is COM
ing more and more INTO favor, but not as an
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The international exhibition at Sydney,
New South Wales. promises to be as inter-
esting an affair of the kind as the world has
yet witnessed. Steam, which annihilates
distauches nowadays, makes ii possible for
the rapidly-erowIng colony to be crowded
with visitors on the occasion.
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The Mae sahOn Impeachment HesoIu-
ffDsa

LONDON, March "a dispatch from Paris
says that If the chambers vote for the i'm
parchment cf Elk President MacMahon, he
intends to demand that he be prosecuted
with the ministers. The belief is gaining
ground that the chamber will reject the i'm
parchment resolution. The PreSse says that
Renault will oppose it on behalf of the left
center. The Pays, the organ of the militant
Bonapartlsts, advises the Bonapar,istS to alb
stain from voting and not to aid in saving the
republic. The L'OTdTe, the organ of Rou-
her advises the Bonapartists to vote against
Impeachment. The chambers will probably
adjourn about the twenty fifth instant until
Nav
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December u, 1881

December p, 1881
1.-THE Pulvermacher Electric Belt is recon-
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remedy is universally acknowledged to be
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iusted so as to cover the parts affected. The
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