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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
THE BACON MURDER.
DIR. ChOIfant COnfesses the Deed, and
Relates the Causes that Led TO it
Great Mental Distress OF
the Murderer.

? SAN Francisco, April 16.-Dr. Cholfant,
the supposed murderer of Josiah Bacon, sur
rendered himself at the central police station
this morning. He is haggard and worn in
appearance, having been roaming about the
hills in the suburbs of the city since Sunday
without food or rest. He has made state
ment of the circumstances connected with the
death of josiah Bacon to the following effect
son Friday last Mr.. Bacon brought suit
against me for infringement of patent, and
subjected me TO very harsh examination In
court, and threatened to have me committed
for contempt. | was much exercised in mind
over the matter, and called at the Baldwin
hotel several times to see Bacon about it.
Did not find HIM until Sunday morning about
nine o'clock. At first the interview proceed
ed moderately, but Bacon soon changed his
tone and became very overbearing and AFRO
CANT. In the excited state of my feelings |
drew pistol from my pocket with the view
of compelling respectful treatment, but with
no intention of firing at him. Harsh words
my excitement the pistol went off, how, l
hardly know, but not with intention on my
part. Bacon fell. | ran to him and raised
his head. He said Don't rose to his
feet, fell again and instantly expired.
| remained in the room a few moments,
expecting that the people In the house would
hear the shot and come at once to my room.
No one came. | found the hall outside de-
serted, and suppressing my first impulse to
report the case at the Office of the hotel.
went to the police station to give myself up
found no one in tue upper office, and not
being familiar with the building, | left after
awhile and walked about the streets, scarcely
knowing where until found myself near the
railroad warehouses In the southern portion
of the city. | sat down there and remained
nearly all day, and then went to the Sacra-
mento house on Third street, where | re-
manned until this morning.
DR.. Cholfant has the appearance of one
who has suffered greatly from mental dis
tress, but tells his story in straightforward,
manly way that induces belief in its truth on
the part of Detective Lees, to whom the state
ment was made
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
MEMPHIS APPEAL
THURSDAY, APRIL IL, 1879
rHE ALARyT IA KANSAS.

The people of Kansas are expecting an
outbreak of the yellow-fever, imported In
their midst by the negroes from the infected
south. The citizens Of Nashville quarantined
against the furniture that was to be removed
from Memphis to Nashville; and if they were
wise in this precaution, the people of Kansas
are also wise in the belief that yellow-fever
can be imported in their midst in the filthy
rags, old bed blankets and dilapidated boxes
and chests which the negroes bring from the
infected south. If yellow-fever could survive
the intense winter cold of Boston, as shown
in the case of the United States ship Ply
mouth, what is to prevent its outbreak among
the fugitive negroes from the south, who
bring with them their beds and mattresses,
their old wearinR-apparel, and all the
rubbish IN which the germs of disease are as
safely protected as are the eggs of the bed
bug. The press of Kansas, always the first
sentinel everywhere to sound the alarm of
danger, is urging the people to provide pre-
cautionary measures against the introduction
of the dreaded scourge. If 1t be true that
filth is the congenial home of yeilow-fever,
this disease will follow the track of these
emigrants to Kansas, as they are fostering
in corruption. All this suffering of the
blacks, and all this danger to the whites, is
the result of cruel deception concocted by
villains for party purposes. Many of the
poor deluded negroes have already written
to their white friends in the south begging
them for help to return home. Even the st.
LOUIS Globe Democrat, the leading Republi-
can paper of the southwest, reports that
many of the victims of the Kansas fever are
very sick of it already, and are longing to
$50 home" again.
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AROUSED PUBLIC SENTIMENT.

The newspapers of Memphis have created
a public sentiment against the practice of
carrying concealed weapons. The evil con-
sequences resulting from this prevailing prac
tice are made manifest every day, and the
newspapers of Tennessee have joined the
Memphis press in urging the enforcement OF
the law against custom which is sad COM
mentary on our boasted civilization. The
Knoxville Chronicle says: THE Memphis
papers are laboring with commendable zeal
to arouse a sentiment that will abate the
pistol nuisance. They are urging the courts
to enforce the law by sending violators to
jail. We bid them godspeed In their labor
of love. Let the courts do their duty. Let
the laws be rigidly enforced. Let any man
who thinks he cannot go to social party, a
theater, or to any public gathering without
pistol in his hip-pocket, be regarded as any
other outlaw. The ball is moving In the
right direction now, and we trust the day
Will soon come when human lie VIII De con-
sidered sacred, and when murderers will be
deprived of the facilities for prosecuting their
bloody deeds. There are more newspapers
in the south now urging reform in this res
pect than ever before. 1t is a good omen.
Let good people everywhere join and CO.
operate together In putting down this relic of
barbarism. Let the pulpit speak out in
thunder tones on the subject and society will
reap great benefit" The Henderson Her.
aid says. "It never has been a benefit to any
one to have concealed in his pocket this dead
ly weapon, but on the other hand it has
robbed our land of some of its brightest
flowers. It is unnecessary to refer to in
stances, for the history of our country is full
of them. One prominent among the many
who have lost their lives by means of the
weapon was Aston, of Georgia; another was
the Inflated actor who was killed at Mar
shall, Texas. But merely passing this law
will not end this fendish practice; the law
must be enforced; our people must rise up
and with one voice condemn pistol carrying;
they must make it questionable and ungen-
tleman-like to carry death concealed in the
hip-pocket. The press of the entire country
is down on this cowardlY practice, and we
think the day is fast approaching when pis-
tol-carrying will be frowned upon by every
intelligent man." Such is the general voice
of the Tennessee press. If the practice of
carrying concealed weapons cannot be put
down by law, it can be put down by creating
a healthy public sentiment against it.
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sTANLEY's WAR RECORD
Getting a Thorough Overhauling
General M'COOk's Testimony In
Inmates the Existence OF
Rivalry I'm the Line OF
Promotion,

NEW YORK, April I6.-In the Stanley
court-martiai General Alex M'Dowell M
Cook said that he had asked General Stanley
why he pushed General Hazen SO, and he
said Hazen was trying to worm himself into
the new administration; that the people in
Washington did not know Hazen, and STAN
ley proposed that they should know him, be-
cause the first thing they were aware of he
would push himself into brigadier-general-
ship, and this the witness proposed to put a
stop to. He thought that Stanley had made
no threats against Hazen, but meant that he
would proceed officially against him. Stan
ley did not say anything about an agreement
between him and Hazen that he should say
nothing against him. Colonel Stanley 8
language was unfavorable to Hazen, but 1t
was not spoken in a very disagreeabIe way.
Stanley said he told Hazen at Fort Rice that
he was a coward and liar, and witness
thought it was at Crittenden's table that
Stanley said his main object was to prevent
Hazen' 8 promotion at Washington.
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SCIENTIFIC INTERROGATION

As we have a national board OF health,
State and municipal boards of health, the
country is encouraged in the belief that some
thing will be discovered to cure or prevent
yellow-fever. Last summers experience,
and all the scientific investigation that has
since followed, have added nothing to hui
man knowledge as to the means of prevent
ing or treating the epidemic which scourged
the south. The whole country shared in the
horror, the suffering, the privation, the great
injury to the business interests, which at
tended the last visitation of this frightful
pestilence, and the whole country will watch
with deep concern the labors of the various
boards of health. AS yet the old point of
dispute whether the disease is indigenous or
imported, whether ITS germs are brought
from foreign ports or arise spontaneously in
southern cities, is as far from settlement
as ever. The st. Paul Pioneer Press is of
the opinion that ''the vitality of the
plague-germ when once originated, and the
specific treatment to which it Yields. are even
further from determination than a year ago.
Then it was known we'll that the fatal germ
survived attacks with ordinary disinfecting
dS6nCleSj lnhC IL WAS lmpIeRudUte 10 car
bolic acid, lime or tar, or any other of the
primitive purifying remedies of a disease
laden atmosphere. But it was regarded as
effectuRlly demonstrated that the germ was
killed, once for all, by temperature of thir-
ty-two degrees above zero or below; and
that IN an infected region, once Thoroughly
refrigerated, the disease could only arise de
nOUO, or by importation from the tropics.
This theory is the basis of the new scheme
for refriReratIng quarantine ships, to test
which the senate has just appropriated two
hundred thousand dollars. But this, sup
posed to be the one fixed fact in connection
with the treatment of yellow-fever, is rudely
overturned by the experience of the ship Ply.
mouth, which was invaded by yellow-fever
last summer, was frozen all winter in Bos.
ton harbor, and discovered the germs witty
ing into active and fatal disease as soon as
she ventured into the tropics this spring.
This alarming fact indicates that the deadly
vitality of the fever-germ is only suspended,
not destroyed, by cold; that, while hi
bernating through the winter, it may or may
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
HORRIBLE.
A Telegraph Operator Gagged and
BOund to a Post in a Burning
Building by Masked safe
Blowers-TimeIy Rescue.

PITTsBURe, April 16.-A special to the
Chronicle from Bulger, Pennsylvania, says
four masked burglars broke into the store of
A. ]. Burrell & Co., at that place, about
three o'clock this morning, and exploded the
safe doors, securing small sum of money.
Laird, the telegraph operator at the station,
heard the noise Of the explosion, and going
out to learn the cause was seiz9d by the rob-
bers. who took his money and bound and
gagged him in the store. They then set fire
to the building and escaped, leaving Laird
bound to a post IN the store. He succeeded
in freeing himself of the gag before the
flames reached him and his cries speedily
raised the neighbors, who rescued him from
the building. No clue to the thieves has
heon fOucd Upt
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
A DoubIe Tragedy.

BALTIMORE, April 16.-Last fall shoot
ing atfray occurred between Denwood B.
who charged Kinds with the seduction of his
sister. The young woman died some time
ago. This morning the girls father and
Kinds met on Calhoun street, and both drew
their pistols. Several shots were exchanged,
resulting in the death of James and the NOR
tai MnnndinO of Kinds
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
Cyrus w. Field Accepts COnditiOnaIIy
the Presidency of the Wabash Rail-
CnnlnRnY.

New YORK, April l6.-Cyrus W. Field
has accepted the presidency of the Wabash
railroad company on condition that as soon
as he could find thoroughly practical and
reliable railroad man to take his place he
could resign, and in the meantime he would
serve the company without charge, and that
all suits brought against the company by par
ties in New York, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois and
elsewhere shall be contested TO the full extent
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17

of the law; and should it be discovered that
suits have been brought for the purpose of
depressing securities and specializing IN the
bonds and shares of the company, the parties
shall be prosecuted for conspiracy. David
Dudley Field was unanimously elected coun-
sci in New York for the company.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
Parole Wins the Newmarket Handicap
stakes

LONDON, April 16.-The American horse
Parole won the Newmarket handicap to-day,
beating Isionomy, Lena, and three others.
Isionomy was the favorite and Parole the
last in the betting.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
South CarOIIna BOnds Must be PaIt

SOutH OaEOIIHH bOMus MUST DC FHIU
COLUMBIA, s. G., April 16.-The supreme
court has unanimously ordered mandamus to
issue compelling the State treasurer to pay
out of the funds tor 1879 on the recognized
public debt of South Carolina. Payment has
been withheld in obedience to an Injunction
by the State court by the holders of I'M
recognized bonds, and is still in litigation,
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17

NASHVILLE, April 16.-Collector Wood
lock received information to-day that Special
Deputy-Collector Davis and men had de-
stroyed SIX illicit distileries in North Ala
bama. Just over the Tennessee line.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
HaiI-storm ar New 0-,esus

New ORLEANS, April 16.-This afternoon
hail-storm began, lasting fifteen minutes.
The ground was covered. The stones were
very large, some measuring three or four
inches in diameter.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17

REEDS gilt-edge tonic never fails in collie,
dysentery, and all disorders of like nature.
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-17
AaAIN swooPINe down

and tearing everything before it. But though
evidences of It's failure to harm were here
and-there visible, they only increased the
terrible aspect of those spots where lis sway
had been untrammeled. Nothing seemed to
Roofs of houses, garden fences, plank walks,
trees, hower-pots, summer houses, sheds
these lay scattered round in the streets and
in yards to which, properly speaking, they
were foreign bY block or more
The New York herald., 1879-03-07

well known in connection with the important move
ment for the endowment of scientific research by the
funds of the English universities. movement which
he originated in 1872 and III connection with the
subject of international copyright, in behalf OF
which he waited the United States in 1875. DR..
Appleton was educated at the grammar school
of Reading. of which his father. Rev. Robert
Appleton. was long the head master. and won
by competitive examination In 1889 Tunbridge
scholarship at st. john College, Oxford where after
graduation in 1868. he obtained q fellowship, and
subsequently took the degree Of doctor in civil law
He never, however. practsed the legal profession,
the bent of his mind being strongly toward meta
physics. He wrote but little. but had specisl apt
tudc fer the organization of literary work. and de-
voted himself to subject throughout his active
career. About 1868 he spent some time at Heidei-
berg and Berlin to perfect himself In German tera-
stiles. Past and Present. On October o. 1869. the
first number Of the academy was published as
monthly critical journal. with the original feature
original form it was not pecuniarily success
full being perhaps too serious and too severely
scientific. It passed into the hands OF
company and became a weekly journal. still under
the oditorship of DR.. Appleton. and. with some
modification Of its original character. achieved
marked success. In 1877 Dr. Appleton took up the
subject of Endowment of Research" with character
istic enthusiasm brought about the great meetings at
Freemasons' Tavern and another at Willis Rooms
in 1873. formed the Association for the Organiza-
tion of Academical Study. and. with the co-opera-
ton of his friends Dr. Pattison Archibald II. Sayce.
DIR. G. Gore and others. printed volume Of essays
ls76) upon the subject in question. He also agi-
tated the matter in numerous communications to
the Times and Pail .ndu Gazette The result OF this
agitation the passage of the Universities act OF
1877. Dr. Appleton the author of various articles
in the theological. Fortaighay and Contempo-
of the theological systems Of Strauss and Matthew
Arnold and he wrote the elaborate articles on
Atheism and doubt" i'll Blunt's Dictionary OF
Doctrinal and Historical Theology 1t Is announced
that his essays will be collected. probably under the
edltorship Of his intimate friend and co-workcr in
rhe Ac0de Professor Archibald III. SQvCc. the de-
cipherer of SO many Assyrian inscriptions. DIR.
Appleton resided since 1872 at Hampstead. In the
winter Of 1877 he made voyage for health to Egypt
Syria and Italy partly in company with Professor
j. s. Blackie and became enthusiastic student OF
Oriental archaeology. Returning to Egypt last No
vembcr, he suffered through the winter from an
organic complaint which has now prematuIely ter
minated his life He was buried with fitting ccre'
monies in the Coptic cemetery at Luxor.
The New York herald., 1879-03-07

straightway became the mischievous spirits Of the
ball These were the will o. the wsps that drew the
attention OF the gilded youths who were
in quest of adventures, whose opera
glasses dartod suppliant glances each
domino as she passed. and who were only
too happy II they at last found faded widow 10
confde to them her sorrows her sixth dozen OF
oysters and eighth glass OF champagne. These were
the Pucks that ravished roses from your butto9hoie
wells OF lace. These the houris. whose ewes
now swan with languor. now flashed ont upon
You in nockery. The success Of the six "Pnaforcs
was phenomenal. Their victims might have Deen
counted by the hundred. and when they ventureo
down into the and danced merry hornpipe
their amorous swans simply knelt ut their feet ana
prayed they might die in that posture.
MASKS OFF!
At midnight the reign of pasteboard was over.
The order went forth for general massacre or the
linen faces which had shroudcd much loveliness,
obey. for nothing but the play of feature can
really animate pantomime. And now the charac-
ter OF the bah for the first time
clearly understood. Strange types of beauty
all Sides Large. dark eyes filled with light
as Rnchel's prayer and Eleazar's pealed forth
in the music of LA Juive." Miriam and Joel.
Judith and Ruth-all the heroic spirits OF Judah
line, might have been represented under these
FORMS The music fitted from Strauss to
Lecocq. from Ofenbach to Ardti, skimming
over the shadows of the dance. but the
strange light still cleaned in those fair Jewish eyes.
and when the gray dawn broke through the chinks
of the theatre and the patines OF bright gold had
one by been swept from heavens flow, pretty
Jessca still clasped the of young Lorenzo. till
Kncken's 'Good Night sent her sadly home to
dream Of the joys of the past night.
The New York herald., 1879-03-07
CLEARED.

Steamer City Of Montreal d,r. Cowdron Liverpool via
Queen ow n--John q Dale.
steamer tniiico (Hrj, Ellis. fivcrpooi-Busk Jcvona
Steamer Eiysia tBr, Harris 1pndonIiendcrscn Bros.
steamer Rhiwindda tBr), Allan. Cardin-ioo BulIcy.
steamer state Of Indiana tBr Sadicr Gnsgow--A Bald
steamer rr.ia o;er,. Meyer Hamburg via Plymouth and
steamer Cult stream, Ingram. Charcston--J W Quin
steamer Martha Stevens. Chance. Baltimore. &c-J 3
kroms.
steamer Norfolk Clark, Philadeiphia-Tamcs Hand.
Steamer Elcanora, johnson. PortIand-J Amos.
Steamer Neptune Berry Boston-il Dimock.
ship Lcv Burgess starrcti; London.-snov Burgess
Ship America Port. Soarcs Ororto-G Am-inck Y Cc
Bark Astoria tBr). Drummond, Londcn-J Tucker Co.
bark Atta tNor Larsen. Queenstown or Falmouth Tor
orders--Bcnh n Boycsen.
Bark vansc Norj. Tollc-cn, kocnigsbcrgC Tobias Co.
BARK lscynlus (Nor Hottie, tottcrlnm-C Tobias Co
Bark Vuccn OF Hearts Dr. Matter. Havro-boyd
uinckcn
Bark Catharina (Bcg,, Groom. Leshorn-J W Parker q
BARK Marie coc,, Crp, Lnns'rc,scc, Rio J"nero--' y
Brig Pride Of chaieur t3r, Pyc. Caenscnmmcli Bro.
Brig Cora Green Ph lbrook. Port Spain frinidad)-F
Smith 4 Go. -
brig Ada l. White White IImvnna-Miicr 4 Houghtcn
brig Hector tBr) Murchison, ~ Johns, Nf-Pcrkns&
Co. -
sehr Mabel, Maoncy. Kingston. Ja-Teaycraft Co.
schrJ sawyer, Orchard. 81 Pierrs, Mart-I~aycrst
Co.
The New York herald., 1879-03-07
FOREIGN PORTS.

Avov. Jan 4-saiicd, bark Abiei Abbott, Chase New
York fbcfore reported IN port Jan ~
AUCKLAND NJ. Fob 2-In port. bark Jas Wishart Dr.
BAHnApos. March 4Arrived previously bark Florence,
Arrived Feb 49, .chr waidcmar Parker Philadelphia
CAry HAvrEs, Feb 5-Arrivcd schr Jane Ernson Peace
In port Feb ~ sshr Annie Palmer. Lewis, for Mira
Dusyp.s. Feb 3-Arrvod. bark James Borland, Kent,
IiosolrIu rch 3Arrivcd barks Aipionse zclic (Fr,.
Iebcaupin San frnnci-co 18th Ccns'ttution Mcdonald
Riatea: Jenny Pists sicvcrt Port Gamble.
M rcr, reb ~ brrs sssrd Wood 70 Iii sn. dsv 20,
San franeisco Hcspcran, Winding. to sail day for
iasSss. March o-saca steamer Yiasara, Curtis, New
HAirvsx March 5-Arrivcd schr Liz,ic A Emma ty,r,.
Thompson Now York for ~ Johns NJ in for hsrbor
Kanyi Fob i2-Arrivcd bark Roberts, Olsen San
KIsasros ia, March 5--Arrivcd steamer Atlas (Br,.
Low. New York for Jncmei.
Arrived Feb y, brig Arnbcll r, Vaughan, Now York;
Sailed fcb ~ schrs VIM Dening Mct,ubrv, New York
via Old IIarbor I'D. John Soncs Wall Pcnsscoln Sth,
bark whitehall orr, Davidson. avrc with cargo Of con.
Sailed March l. steamer Arran tBr-ncw) Giadwu, Mar
acaibo.
son, Newcastle; 18th, ship Peruvian Congress tr Power
port Jan ~ ships Pr,dc Of England (, wcRay from
s,ud arrived 9Th; barks Frank Marion Dow from san
Francisco, arrived 18th. Fred Ltchneld Spnudtng
nnc Colnsa iIowcs from Port Dakcly arrived 9TH; Keep
MArAszA March lin port, brig John Brishtmsn. Han
son, for Bnltimorc
bridge. San Fraucitco; 2ist. Othcc dr Thomas, do;
sailed Jaw ~ barb Tucker Mc,,ywsn; wc,I,ns.c.
Baltimore t.I
The New York herald., 1879-03-07
A MARROW ESCAPE.

fire broke out yesterday morning in the second
story Of q restaurant and lodging house known as
The Senate" No. So Van Houten street. Paterson
N. j.. which came proving fatal to q number Of
people who had not yet left their beds. Two chill
dren-one belonging to the proprietor. Campbell
Wilson. the other to his brother-were very nearly
sufocated when rescued The fire penetrated through
the partition to No. 81, The Shuttle Board. where,
also the dodgers. and especially several children,
were barely saved from the flames and smoke. The
Are could not be controlled at FIRST owing to the fact
that most of the hyrants in that neghborhood were
frozen. Not much was saved from the two houses.
but the progress of the FIRE stayed The build
ings belonged to J. A. Lozicr, of Hackensack, and
we're insured for 1900 each. The loss about
al 900 The origin of the fire Is mystery, but lttlo
doubt Is entertained that it the work Of an in
ceudiary
The New York herald., 1879-03-07

RorrEsD,x. Fob lsIn port. bark sIrrah Nor,. Hal
vorsen. for New York.
SwArow Jan SIN port. barks Julia Brown. Nicker-
son. aud Thos Fletcher. Pendieton, unc
SixcAPoNE Jan Is-Sniled. bark Kate Carnie (Br,
WILSON, Boston: o3d. ship Chas Luing Ger, wicks Xsw
York; bark Mohicsn. Berry. do.
SYDNEY, NSW. Jan 6-Arrived. barks Gladstone (Br)
Jackson San Francisco 10th, Victoria (CR. Hopp,
rard Inlet.
Arrived Jan IL. bark EvanelI, STOCKTON. Boston;
Sailed Jan 4, bark Remo Rob. Howard San Francisco
In port Jan 81 bark Malay. Love- for San Francisco d
Sr Lucia Feb lO-Arrived schr Anna A Booth, Bayles
New York.
ST PIERRE Mart, Fob lEIn port, schr Timothy Field
Leland ready to sail for Trinidad de Cuba
sr Jons B., March 3-Arrived, bark Fannie OBp,
Cleared iish ship Herbert Booeh CBr Clements, Liver.
pool.
TOGGO ISLANDS, Jan LIN port bark Jason Ger for SAP
Francisco, to sail day.