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Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1882-12-23
CASE OF ATRESIA.
Life Prolonged for Years Under Cir
eumBfances Usually Fatal.

CINCINNATI, December GA case OF in
terest to the medical profession at large was
developed here few days ago. A young
lady died suddenly, and the circumstances OF
her death were of such a nature that it was
Thoughts best by the attending physicians 10
hold post-moffer, though the case did not
necessarily require coronisl inv estigation.
AT the p0st-Hlorte'n, held in the presence OF
several prominent medical men, very re-
markablc case of nalformation commonly
known to the profession as atresIa, WAS dis
covered to be the remote cause OF her death.
This peculiar freak of nature, of uncommon
occurrence, in the majority OF cases proves
fatal to those 60 unfortunately sffilcted, and
especially so in the male patient, few oil whom
ever live aud none as long as the person re-
ferred TO in this instance. Atresia is a Greek
word and an old term for the absence OF
any natural opening, or canal, either
from eongeDital malform ations or occiusion.
The case now referred to was atresia of the
archus,,t the bowel terminating nearly opposite
its natural position. OF the many congenital
imperfections and deficiencies to which the
body is liable there are few more fatal to The
life of al infant, or more distressing TO the
parents than those of the lower bowel. They
are varied in form, and the opportunities OF
observing them but seldom occur, and it is
surprising when it is said that a satisfactory
description of this deformity is rarely met
with in even the most extensive surgical
works; and even those who have been called
to operate have met with little success, only
afording temporary relief, az the majority of
such operations terminate fatally. This
malformation occurs more frequently IN
male children than in females. Eminent
authorities admit that one could attain TO
the age above referred to, but fail to sub
stantiate it by actual observation and record
of genuine cases. Strange as 1t may seem,
however, it is learned from good authority
that this person had never been operated
upon, but allowing nature to provide for
itself, lived for nineteen years in apparent
good health. She was fully developed.
Though this malformation was the remote
cause of death, il was not until an affection
of the heart arose that her general health
seemed 10 rapidly decline.
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ALL ROUND THE SOUTH.

aberdeen, Mics, wants wagon factory
Frsnklin, Tenn, is in telephone eommu
nicaiion with Nashville.
A bank in Nashville has received thiI
week $85, 900 State securities for refunding
A little Oxford Miss boy wants to know
whether the Freemasons' wiVes.nix the NOR
tar for them.
Rockville paper reports twelve cases Of
smallpox at Noisy Greek, Tenn. The
schools have been closed.
A correspondent of the Nashville Banner
has sent it specimens of leather tanned by no
other aid than dog fennel.
The newly appointed Chattanooga police
force includes nine negroes; the white police
allowed 80 many criminals to escape last
year.
The country papers are not yet through
imparting left-hand blessings 10 the matri-
monial societies. Some of the villages caught
il bad.
The Chattanooga Times accuess Knoxville
of having twenty five cases of smallpox. The
Knoxville Tribune owns up to only two cases,
one of which wss imported from Chattanooga.
A Christmas present for poor family is q
chrome at Fort Smith, Ark. The subject OF
The chrome is the picture OF the IS bill, the
receiving family TO do its own cutting out If
ii wants the engraving framed.
Franklin, Tenn, is still troubled with
smallpox. Why do people have that dis
ease? Is there not trouble enough in the
world without voluntarily increasing the
amount by emitting vaccinati ton?
In order that the police and other en-
pleyes Of the city of Little Rock might have
The means of enjoying their Christmas, Mayor
Kramer negotiated loan and paid them this
week. Well done, good and faithful.
Knoxville is in rage. Now the muddy
weather has come the waterwork folks have
torn the sireeta up, and the ladies have to do
their Christmas shopping in the mud, and
they cay lis just ike mems way of doing
things.
The country papers are telling heartbreak.
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that rate doubled on unwashed and trpleo
on secured, which nearly doubles the duty
in the State in which it is usually imported
There is also another doubling or two Of the
proposed duty, so that the poor mans coal
must cost him az extravagantly az ever. Or
old iron rails the duty is lowered little
provided their length is not over twenty-foar
inches. These exceptions betrsy the game
which is to appear to lower, but
really TO impose restrictions so as 10
reautraliEe the concession. Tagger's
iron, duty more than doubled; cotton
velvet and braids, twenty five cents duty
raised to forty cents; wooden cloths, if cost
ing 81 a pound, duty thirty-fve per cent. and
forty per cent. on the value besides-another
attack on the poor mans coat. A striking
instance is given by correspondent of the
Boston AdUertiseT, of the mean cheating
with which the committee are preparing 10
throw dust into the eyes of the people. He
says: "Crucible steel Is pretendedly favored
by a lessened tax, but is really punished by
an decreased duty Of half cent per pound,
or Sl1 20 per ton--ehected by adroit altera-
tions in the classification of foreign steel,
based on intimate knowledge OF lis coat at
place OF manufacture-by which new CLASH
fcation the reduced rates proposed cannot
be availed Of, while enhanced rates apply 10
yearly all (say upward Of eighty per cent?
OF the steel ordinarily imported for Aperi-
can consumption. Steel enters into the con-
struction OF edge-tools, shovels, saws and
hundred other things etssniisl TO the VANS
OF The people, and, 10 some extent, for
eign steels must and will be used," The
duty on books, periodicals., engravings,
and similar articles has always been deemed
a discreditable tax on knowledge; for recent
publications fifteen per cent duty is pre-
posed, when printed ten year., or single
copies for use, not for sale, free. The change
of duty from twenty five to fifteen per cent.
will be of no practical value. B)okP have
no business TO be subject to cuelomhouse vex-
aiions. Another obnoxious duty IL retained,
that on works Of art, under pretence of fos-
tering American art. That this is another
protection dodge" lie evident by the fact
that artists oils and colors are highly taxed,
their brushes thirty per cent, their pencils
thirty per cent, and their sundries fare no
better. There is the commissioners encour-
agement TO American art The people want
a reform OF the tariff. If they will not accept
a sham, fraud, deception, they must take
steps 10 let Congress know that this commit
tees fraudulent practices and hypocritical
eatings will not do to make into United
States law.
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kuAmrARIEE REEoRm

The protectionists are apparently falling
inaHith the national will for reform of the
tariff, and quietly awaiting the action of
Congress. Never was appearance further
form reality, for the protectionists were never
more active than now, and their activity is
never more likely to prove mischievous more
than when it is carried on, not openly, bat
in cautious attempts to impose upon the
people changes in the form OF the tariff
while scheming to retain the substance. In
carrying out this willy policy they are aided
by the fact that the Ways and Means CON-
mittee of Congress, which is charged with
getting up bill for the action of that body,
is composed Of nine ardent protectionisis,
with one moderate aud three thorough tariff
reformers. This gives poor chance for
anything more than colorado
reform. The donkey may carry his
burden nearer the head or nearer
the tail, but the burden he must
carry. The reader naturally asks what facts
there are TO justify this assertion? Uniortu-
nately the facts are only too plenty. Taking
first matter of local interest, the Washing
ton telegram in the New York Post Of Mon
say has the following: "The duty on cot
tou-ties has been largely increased (by the
committee) as is the duty on corrugated iron
for roofing" We felt sure the indefatigable
iron manufacturers, who have 50 long been
striving to raise the duly on iron ties from
thirty-6ve to seventy per cent, would not
relax their efforts on the present occasion,
and here we see our expectations July real |
lied. From the same source as the above we |
see that the tax on earthenware, or CHINA, Is |
advanced for the sole purpose OF protection; |
an increase on glassware is also proposed;
the seventy five cents on window-giass Is 10 /
be retained; tiu-plate is advanced from one
tenth OF a cent pound to two cents, which |
is iuiauitous, for the tin-tax comes mostly
supou the farmers on the tin used in canning /
meats, fruits, vegetables, also upon the
fisherman, in canning fish and oysters,
upon petroleum, and heavily upon buildings
and domestic utensils; the duty will be ad-
vauced from twenty eight to over fifty per
cent Further proposals by the committee
to advance are orange mineral from twenty
ave per cent. to two and a half cents per
pound, more than double; glycerine from
from thirty per cent. to Eve cents pound,
more than double; wool, while reduced, has
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Rigamtst eby ,he E.ernar.,

CINCINNATI, December 2Z.-The people in
the vicinity of 172 Plum street were consid-
erably iorn mp yesterday over the discovery
that one Jackson, who had married his third
wife and had been keeping boardinghouse
at the above number, had abandoned his wife
some time previous, and eloped with widow
named Augusta Decker, about thirty years
of age, dressmsker, carrying on business in
the West End. Six months ago Mrs God
frey, a widow, rented the house 172 Plum
street, and fitted il up elegantly as board
iEghouse. About four weeks ago, Andrew
Jackson, cadaverous, giant-framed indi-
vidual, claiming 10 be direct descendant of
by the Eternal" appeared on the scene,
having heard that Mrs. Godfrey wanted 10
dispose Of her property. He represented that
he had several thousand dollars invested in
mortgages, was out OF business and had
nothing special to do. He said he was
widower, having several grown-up children,
all of whom were married He was tired OF
single blessedness, and intended soon
to marry again. He thought il
would be nice TO keep a boarding
house, and alter negotiations had been car
ried en- for some time, he purchased Mrs.
Godfrey's furniture, gave her note for 800,
house. Meanwhile jackson had been paying
his attentions to Mrs. Decker, who had two
children, and two weeks ago they were mar
ried at the clearinghouse in the presence of
her brother and mother, the Rev. DR.. Bus
hong performing the marriage ceremony. |
When Jackson obtained the marriage license |
it was noticed that the license clerk had |
written the name of "Becker" ln- |
stead of Decker" but the correc- |
tion was not made, and nothing more was |
thought of the matter. The newt made |
couple ran the clearinghouse together APP |
parently in very successful manner until l
Tuesday afternoon, when they disappeared. |
Jackson enforced an inhexible rule of re-
curing his boarders 10 pay in advance, and /
on Monday he collected a weeks board in
advance from all the boarders, amounting TO
a bout $50. Tuesday afternoon, when nearly
all the boarders were absent, Jackson packed
his trunks and quietly stole away, taking his
fourth wife and her children along. In
he evening when the boarders assembled
for supper no provisions had been
made for the meal, and the colored servant
impaired the cheerful information that there
was nothing in the house to eat, no coal in
he cellar, and no money to buy anything
With. He did not know where Jackson was,
,ut he supposed that he had skipped. The
1oarders, among whom were several
married people, then dubbed together and
obtained in market enough for good cup
Der. Yesterday morning good breakfast
vas gotten up 10 the same way, and Mrs.
iodfrey, learning of the situation, took pos
ession again of the property. 1t was
earned yesterday morning that Jackson's
bird wife was after him with warrant for
'igamy. Bis last wife lives with ner mother
lear Brighton.
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TERMS
dEkPMlN APPEAL
SATURDAY, :: DECEMBER %, 1852
RELIEF FOE AMERICAN sHIPpINa

L
At length the discreditable position Of
American shipping is receiving attention in
Congress. A bill has been introduced TO
relieve from taxation all dutiable articles,
whether American or foreign, used in con-
struggling ships. The bill ought to be enti-
tied, "a bill to protect shipping inter-
ests from protection" AS many other in
terests would be benefited by protection of
1he same nature, our cotton planters ought
to petition Congress to protect them from the
protection that is extended 10 the cottou-tie
makers, on the ground that one American
Interest should not make another American
Interest its prey by levying tribute upon it.
A release of shipping from the fatal grasp
of protection has become necessary, because
our manufactures are beginning 10 produce
more than there is a home demand for, and
an outlet must be had in foreign countries.
We can establish branch houses in foreign
lands only when Ee-haxe American
owned ships, whose owners depend for
their profits upon American trade, and such
a trads has become a necessity to both our
agricultural and our manufacturing inter-
eds. The proposed relief of the shipping
interest from the incubus of the protective
system is an unequivocal acknowledgment
that shipping interests have been suffocated
and destroyed by the baIeful effects of the
protective system, and the time is not far of
when other smothered interests will de-
msnd that they, too, be delivered from the
deleterIous influences OF protection.
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HENDRICKS
Is Not Dead; Only sIeepinx-He VIII Not
serve Any other Mans Term

CINCIENATI, December 22.-The Commere
eidPs indianapolis correspondent telegraphs
that Gov. Hendricks IL not dead, snd does
not propose to b. politically buried-that is,
not by his party friends. A few days ago q
report was telegrs pied from Washington
that Mrs. Hendricks had written 10 friend
there that her husband was in training for
governor in 1884, TO aid Mcdonald TO carry
this State, and in return therefor was to be
secretary of state when "Old lronsides"
should be president. Mr.. Hendricks reads
the papers regularly, even if he don't go
down town and raise racket with the boys,
aud when he read that Paragraph he was
about as mad as a gentleman of his quiet
disposition can b.; and he at once had pre-
pared an authoritative denial of the inVeu-
tioo, which he concluded with the following
significant declarations:
at is not agreeable to be misstated to pro-
mote the fortunes OF anyone"
That, Of course, Is direct kick at Melon
add and an open proclamsti that no mat
Ter who may be behind the Mcdonald boom,
Thomas A. Hendricks is not one of the
crowd. He does not propose 10 be used 10
promote the political fortunes of anyone,
and particularly Mcdonald.
The public have not forgotten the incl
dents of the Campaign of 1880, and Gov.
Hendricks seems 10 remember them also, but
their lesson he has not read. EVERYBODY re-
members that Mcdonald went to Cincinnati
ito promote the fortunes" of Mr.. Hendricks,
and that the efforts of all OF the friends of
the latter did not succeed in making Mr..
Hendricks the candidate of the convention.
But Mr.. Mcdonald did his best to promote
the fortunes of Hendricks, yet the latter
failed to see it in that light, hence the ex-
preston quoted above.
Mr.. Hendricks is afflicted now with the
same political blindness which affected him
in 1880. He did not muster an sfmy of
with banners then, and he can not
do it in 1884, or any other year. He has
ce ssed to be (if he ever was) a political pos
sibility in the line of the presidency. He is
a great and pure man-perhaps too great to
be selected for the presidency. He has gone
so far away from political prominence that
be ia no longer the body and sotil OF his party
in his own State, and he ought to see the
fact. He can not secure the prize himself,
but he has a chance to make his choice be-
tween men who are possibilities. If any man
from Indiana can be the nominee of the next
Democratic Convention, that man is Nc
Donald. He can poll the whole regular
Democratic vote, and all of that dissatisfied
Republican vote which is opposed to meas
lres rather than men, and Mr.. Hendricks
can not do more. As to the stand ng of the
TWO men outside of Indiana, the incidents of
he last Cincinnati Convention illustrate
which wss the stronger then. I am not
writing anything which have not said to
Gov. Hendricks, whom l would rejoice to
zee in the Office of president
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OXFORD, MISS.
Tise United States Court sim in session
Personal Mention.
Regular Correspondence of the Appeal

Regular Correspondence OF the Appeal
OXFORD, MISS, December 22.-The United
States Court is still in session and workins
diligently, but nothing Of great importance
has been done during the week. The United
States grand jury adjourned this morning
sine die.
Prof. Ed Davidson, OF the university. after
several days of severe illness, is up and
about again.
Mrs. Boone, OF our city, is reported very
i'll, and cannot live but few days longer.
Mr.. james Meddirs died here last Sunday
night of consumption.
Strebig's Grand Dramatic Constellation
gives an entertainment at the City Hall to-
MORROW evening.
A large number of he students of the
university will go home to enjoy the Christ
mas holidays. =--.a-.ss
The Rev. Mr.. Sullivan has been appointed
to I'LL the pulpit of the Methodist Episcopal
church OF our city for the ensuing twelve
months.
Bishop Green is expected and will perhaps
spend he Christmas holidays with his MANY
warm friends in Oxford.
Our streets were crowded with country
people and wagons loaded wi cotton TO-DAY.
Every house seemed to be busy selling fam
lily supplies and Christmas trieks for the
children.
From the bes. information we can gather
the heavy wind and rain on Tuesday did the
cotton Remaining in the fields but little dam
age, the greater portion of il having been
gathered and housed.
We learn that Mr.. Blakely, of College
Hill, formerly Of the firm of Blakely &
Moss, OF Oxford, is very sick and not ex-
pected 10 live c.
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sIs stofsnUus<s- rasa.. !, snuDu,a,

Special to the Appeal
sHuBuTA, December zz.--A O'Clock this
morning ire broke esi = the s+vr
occupied by W. B. Dickens, and destroyed
it, together with six adioi1ieg houses. The
losser, as near az can b gsihsred, are as fol-
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AYERS CATHARTIC PILLS.
By Universal Accord,

AYERS CATHAgTIc PILLS are the best
of all purgatives for family use. They
are the product of long, laborious, and
successful chemical investigation, and
their extensive use, by physicians in
their practice, and by all civilized ma
tions, proves them the best and most
efectual purgative Pill that medical
science can devise. Being purely veg
etable no harm can arise from their
use, and being sugar-coated, they are
pleasant to take. In. intrinsic value
and curative powers no other Pills
can be compared with them; and every
person, knowing their virtues, will
employ them, when needed. They
keep the system in perfect order, and
maintain in healthy action the whole
machinery of life. Mild, searching and
efectual, they are especially adapted
to the needs of the digestive apparatus,
arrangements of which they prevent
and cure, if timely taken. They are
the best and safest physic to employ
for children and weakened constitu-
tions, where a mild but efectual
cathartic is required.
For Saleeby all druggists
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THE PILGRlM FATHERS.
s.FOrefafhers Day. Celebrated at Ply.
mouth notwithstanding Services.

PLYMOUTH, MAss., December 22.-"Fore-
fathers day" is a general holiday here, and
was ushered in by display of hsgs, salutes
and the ringing of bells. The Plymouth
band, the S,andish Guards and CollingRood
Post, Grand Army of the Republic, marched
TO Pilgrim Hall, where the invited guests
were received. The march was then re-
sumed to The -ock on which the Pilgrims
landed, where volley was fired by the mil
iiary escort, and those present sang hymn,
America" Thence the procession marched
to the church OF the First Parish, which was
filed TO OVERLOOKING. The exercises COM
menced by "deaconipg" line by liue the
hymn, "Let Children Hear the Mighty
Deeds their Sires Achieved Of DID, which
was sung TO the tune "St. Martins" by the
congregation. Other hymns appropriate TO
the day were sung, selections from Scripture
read, and the Rev. George A. Tewksbury
gave an historical address upon the subject
OF the day, the exercises concluding with
the singing OF hymn written by Gov. Long
for the occasion. Upon the conclusion Of
the services in the church the procession
formed and marched 10 Davis Hall, where
plates were laid for large number of guests,
and where the further exercises Of the day
fook Mace
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New YORK, December 22-Ernest Du-
bourque, the Frenchman who on the after
noon OF October 10th ran through Fourteenth
street, between Fifth and Sixth avenues,
stabbing number of women, was arraigned
in the Court of General Sessions to day for
trial on the charge of murder in the FIRST
degree. Although several of his victims had
been severely wounded, only one. Mrs. Han
ley, wife of the police officer, died. Medical
experts testified that Dubourque was insane,
and the jury, under the direction of the
court, gave a verdict OF not guilty because of
insanity. The prisoner was then sent to the
State lunatic ASYLUM.