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ON TOP!
y March Is here, ana 80 arc onr Eer

sE March Is here, ara 80 are our sew
Goods. These we invite our patrons to see
To the small remnant of the population not in
cluded in the list of our customers, we say,
" COMET The caption of this advertisement
exactly describes relative position in this
Taxing-Distr.et. We are, in fact, head and
shoulders above competition. Our peculiar ad-
vantages of experience, taste and pardon the
egotism) gumption," have put us where we
are. Now don't misconstrue. When we say
:" On Top, we mean the first place in the gene
raj opinion for Offering the most desirable Goods
and exchanging the best value for a given sum-
We offer this week lovely New Goods and many
bargains, among which are:
New pure wool Ell Mahdi Cloth in the novel col
orinss-Soudan, El Kebir, Trinki,at, Tokar and
Suakim, at 81 %.
Splendid pure Silk Rhadames, at 81 90.
We have made an advantageous purchase OF over
100 pieces of fine Ottoman Sill. in new and sea-
sonable shades, and offer them Sy5c per yard.
NEW B0NNETS AND HATS!
Lovely New Flowers, in Bunches, SOC, T5c, 81 25,
s. 90.
Rubber-stem Roses, new and fresh, l5c, 2Oc.
New Ostrich Tip,, S5c bunch of S.
New Long Plumes, 81 90, S. 90.
New Straw Hats, Soc, 75c, 81 25, SO 90.
An immense assortment of New Sailor and
School Hats.
New Kid Gloves New Silk Gloves
The Robinson Crusoe Parasol.
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Southern Immigration Meeting.

Associated Press Report.l
NASHVILLE, March 12-The Southern
immigration Association met at II O'Clock
am, and was called to order by President
A. j. McWhirter. Gov. Bate delivered the
welcoming address and spoke eloquently
OF the resources OF Tennessee and the
South, and extended hearty invitation
to the men OF the North to help develop
them. The audience was large, including
many ladies. Letters were read from
Cows. Hubbard, of Texas, Proctor Knott,
OF Kentucky, and Jarvis, OF North Caro-
lima, and ExGov. Brown and others.
Gov. Crittenden, of Missouri, delivered
an effective speech. He said there was
nothing political in this immigra ion
movement. There was no politics in the
South when movements take hold OF the
people. In twenty years the South would
be the greatest manufacturing section Of
the whole country. The youths present
would live to see the fruits of this meet
ing. The West would join hands with the
South in this great work.
Col. Hooker, of Mississippi, was the
next speaker He eulogized American
inventive genius and enterprise and glo-
ried in the fact that Americans invented
the electric telegraph, steam navigation,
constructed the Mississippi jetties and the
st. Louis bridge. He said there ought to
be reunion of all the people of the Union.
Mississippi was heart and hand in the i'm
migration movement. The South was
destined to become great manufacturing
and agricultural region.
President New hirter then delivered a
formal welcome to the delegates and
membe of the association. He said the
present meeting was mere scaffolding OF
work to be performed hereafter
Adjourned to S O'Clock pm.
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THE fourth Annua. Report OF the Ten
nessee Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Animals and Children, very
handsomely arranged and printed, makes
a goodly display OF the names of members,
who represent all classes and creeds. No
organization in Memphis is more worthy
of public support than this, which is so
broad and generous in its civilizing in
financed
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The Fast Mail service 10 be extended.

CHICAGO, March 1e.-The fast mail ser
vice is to be extended to the Northwest as
far as Minneapolis and St. Paul, Post
master General Gresham to-day entering
into contract with the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul road to that effect. The
first train leaves here at o'clock to NOR
row morning reaching St. Paul at $3.50
tomorrow evening and Minneapolis at t
O'Clock, connecting with the night trains
out OF these cities. This brings through
mail service from New York to st. Paul
inside of forty-eight hours, and shortens
the running time between Chicago and St
Paul five and a half hours, and shortens
the through Eastern mail service about
fifteen hours. The contract between the
postal authorities and the railway COM
pany runs for one year. Owing to the fact
that the arrangement was consummated
this afternoon, the railway officials have
not outlined the details for running trains
beyond the limitation time between
Chicago and Minneapolis. The train will
consist of the engine and two postal cars,
and only imperative stops will be made.
Gen. Gresham, Assistant General Manager
Miller, of the st. Paul road, Mr.. Hatton
and number OF other postoffice officials
will be aboard the train on its initial run
and will go through to St. Paul. The
statement having been made that the
Chicago and Northwestern would put on
another fast train between this city and
st. Paul, the officials OF the latter road
hn
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A BILL is pending before the Legislature
of Kentucky directing the study of hygiene
in all the public schools OF the State, and
forbidding the granting of certificate to
any teacher who is not well-enough in
formed in hygienic science to teach the
same to the pupils in the common schools.
A good idea, and one that should be en-
forced by law in Tennessee.
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PRESIDENT MONTGOMERY, of the New
Memphis Jockey Club, to whose public
spirit and indefatigabie exertions the peo-
pie of Memphis are largely indebted for
spring and fall races, has completed all his
arrangements for the meeting which COM
mences on the 2Ist OF April next. 1t is
hoped the county authorities will put
the roads leading 70 the track in order and
that the people will continue to sustain
the club in a liberal and hearty manner.
The purses are, all of them, large and the
best horses in the country have been en-
tered
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GRAND RAPrps, MIcH.. March IA
fire started in the Stradons Woolen-Mills,
and DESTROYED that. the Novelty Manufac-
turing Company's works and Riehmond's
box factory. The flames then spread to
Comstock's saw-mill, Clark & Ockers SASH
door factory, Russel's mammoth carpet
sweeper factory, Hendley's belt factory
and the Felt Boot Company's works. The
carpet-syeeper factory's loss is $4,000;
partly insured. The Felt Boot Company's s
loss is $4,000; insurance, $500. The
other losses amount to total OF fully
100000. The wind was blowing gale at
the time.
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Sf9ckmen DO MOI Nt ed 3 seciai Iegisla.
fiNn.

MANHATTAN, Ks, March 12.-At meet
ing of the promin, Mt stock-raisers in this
city last night, resolutions we're passed
favoring a strict quarantine in districts in
fected with foot and mouth disease OF
Woodson county; that the Governor
should use every means in his power to
stamp out the disease; that the citizens OF
Riley county favor the prompt action OF
the Governor and other State officers in
their efforts to stop the oread OF the dis
ease; also one asking our Senators and
Representatives 10 favor such action as
will place funds at the disposition OF the
Commissioner of Agriculture to be used in
such emergencies. A committee of five
was appointed to call a mass-meeting
should further action be necessary. The
sentiment OF the meeting was against
a special session of the Legislature. The
cattle OF Riley county are healthy and no
one iS alarmed
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STORMS and blizzards still continue to
play havoc South as well as North. That
which prevailed along the line of the Can
ton, Aberdeen and Nashville railroad yes
terday YVES especially severe, as will be
seen from our special on the second page
Of this issue OF the APPEAL.
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AN ABLE WOMAN.
Very Promptly and Very Quietly RecO-
nfzed and Promoted.

Very Promptly and Very Quietly RecO--
Dfzei aud Promoted.
WASHINGTON, March 12.-One woman
here has obtained the right justly due her.
Miss Mary Van Vrauken, of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, has ben promoted to
a fourth-class, or $500 clerkship, in the
law Office OF that bureau. This promotion
is favorably commented upon throughout
the Treasury Department as one eminently
fit to be made. Miss Van Vrauken has
for many years discharged important du
ties under the Solicitor of Internal Reve-
nue. with great tact and good judgment.
Her mental equipment and business ca
pacity have long been admitted, and the
promotion therefore gives satisfaction to
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THE New Orleans Picdyune's Baton
Rouge special of last night says that 100
convicts have been sent to try to save the
Beaulieu levee. If it breaks several
parishes will be overf1owed. Another
break is reported in st. Charles parish.
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What the British Government Intend
To Do.

LONDON, March l2.-Baron Carlingford,
Lord of the Privy Seal, gave an audience
this morning to the deputation, in which
he sought to learn the attitude OF the gov
ernment toward the amendment adopted
by the House of Lords to the contagious
diseases OF animals bill of 1873. Baron Car
lingford stated that the government hoped
to have it passed by the House of Com
mons. He stated, however, that the gov
ernment would prohibit the importation of
foreign cattle, if a necessity should arise
even in case of foot and mouth disease,
but he was anxious that this measure
should be resorted to only when positively
necessary. The contagious diseases of
animals bill of 1878 was directed more es-
pecially against the cattle plague and
pleuro-pneumonia, andit has been deemed
unwise to resort to the same extreme
measures in case of milder foot and mouth
disease.
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NOTHING that has occurred since the
yellow-fever epidemic of 1878 has SO well
proven the immense strides made by this
country in all matters affecting the health
of man or animals as the strenuous ei-
forts that are being made in Kansas and
elsewhere to prevent the spread OF the
foot and mouth disease. The people are
alive to the value OF sanitation and quar-
autine
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-13

THE Paducah NelCs is out for Gen. Han
cock for President, and thinks that if NOM
mated he will 20 into the Office of Chief
Magistrate with one of the heaviest ma
jorities ever given any man in the
United States. But he is not likely to be
r,nr.nirnnlcl
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BIRMINGHAM, ALA.
A white Woman Assaulted by a Negre
Man and Her House Robbed.

A white Woman Assaulted by Negro
Man and Her House Robbed.
Special to the Appeal
BIRAuNaHAM, March 12.-Mrs. Geo. W.
Blackwell, during the absence of her hus-
bend last night, was assaulted by an un-
known colored man, who by choking,
compelled her to give him the keys and
then opened a trunk and took from it
Sl5 in money and several articles OF cloth
ing. The burglar escaped leaving no clew.
The City Bank bought to day for Sl5,-
600 lot which is one fourth of a plat that
the owners paid $4,000 for just a year
ago. The new bank building gill be
erected on it at once.
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WILLIAM A. COOK
Continues His Evidence Before the
Springer Committee as TO the Star.
Reuters,


WASHINGTON, March 12.- William A.
Cook continued his testimony to-day be-
fore the Springer committee. He testified
that the government Star-Route case was
delayed by the absense fof counsel. Bliss
often returned to New York to attend to
private business. In his claim for expenses
he made charge for railroad fare from
Washington to New York and from New
York to Washington several times. / in
quired at one time what was to be allowed
Bliss, and was startled to learn that he was
to get 500 day Afterward, in the ex-
pense account, found charge for wash
ing. 1t is rather remarkable that an
attorney should charge in his expense ac-
count for washing his linen. Witness said
the compensation of Bliss was extravagant,
unjustifable and unearned in every re-
spect. Ample compensation for what Bliss
did, considering the condition in which he
found the cases, would have been $4,000.
The cases were improperly handled, The
appointment of Bliss was a wholly politi-
cal appointment. Witness referred to his
testimony of yesterday, and said that he
had omitted to say that before President
Garfield was shotthe Attorney General re-
ceiyed anonymous threatening letters.
Cook was excused until tomorrow.
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EXPLOSION In LONDON,
And One Man Blown 10 Pieces-Another
Dynamite Scare Imminent.

LONDON, March 12.-The explosion to-
night in hotel at Fulham, a suburb of
London, is believed to be another Fenian
outrage. A box containing four packages,
apparently cartridges, was found on the
premises. One man was blown to pieces.
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DIED.

STEPHENS-0n March l2, 1884. at the resi-
dence of his parents. on Dean avenue, GEoRGE
aged three months and eight days. Nashville
papers please copy.l
The funeral will take place this tTHURSDAY)
morning at 10 o'clock, at Elmwood. Friends Of
the family are invited.
H0PE-At the residences Of John NJ. Peters,
Gill Station, Wednesday morning, March IL,
1884, at o'clock, in the seventy sixth year of her
age, Mrs. MARY HoPE. baltimore (Md.) papers
please copy.l
Funeral will take place from residence this
(THURSDAY) afternoon at o'clock. Friends
are invited te attend. Carriages will leave
Holstss at o'clock n m
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AUSTIN. TEN.
The Assassination of Hen Thompson and
King Fisher still a Mystery.

The AssassinatiOn of Hen Thompson and
king Fisher still a Mystery.
Special TO the Appeal
AUSTIN, March 12.-It has not yet been
ascertained who killed Thompson and
Fisher at San Antonio last night. Fors-
ter's leg has been amputated, and it is
said that he will die. Ben Thompson shot
and killed Jack Harris, proprietor of the
theater, in the same place, some time ago,
and it is supposed that he and
his friend were assassinated by gam
blers who frequent the place. Ben
Thompson was desperate and had the
reputation of being a brave, fearless man.
King Fisher was of the same character and
was a member of Builems gang. Both
have the reputation of killing many men.
King Fishers friends and Bill Thompson,
another desperate, brother OF Ben, threaten
vengeance, and more trouble is expected.
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BRITISH OFFICERS

Making Timely and Valuable Sugges-
tiOns Touching the Greedy search Ex-
peditiOn-
WASHINGTON, March 12-The Secretary
of the Navy received a communication
from Capt. G. S. Mares, r. N, embodying
the views OF himself, Maj. H. w. Fielden,
H. NJ. A, and Capt. A. II. Markham, R-N.,
making suggestions for the conduct of the
expedition to be sent to the relief of the
Greely party. The opinion is expressed
that the chances are very good that the
party will be found and brought away in
safety
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THE FAST-MAIL SERVICE
Proves 10 be "A Great success, and Is Il
be Extended to
The NOrthwest-Why Not to the South
and the Southwest?

MILWAUKEE, March ia fast mail
train service has been arranged with the
Milwaukee and st. Paul road, the train
leaving Chicago at 3 o'clock am, reaching
Milwaukee at $40 o'clock and Ninneap-
oils at 80 o'clock in the afternoon.
Postmaster General Gresham and First
Assistant Hatton and officers of the Rail
way Mail Service arrived here at nocn
and held a conference with Alexander
Mitchell, president of the st. Paul road,
who needed no argument to be convinced
of the value fast mail would be to the
Northwest. He at once issued orders for
the train tomorrow morning
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APPEAL SPECIALS.
Particulars OF the Recent Assassination
at San Antonio, Tex.-Spence, the
Murderer Of Wheat,
Proposes TO Leave His Case In the Hands
OF the COurt-A White Woman
Assaulted by Negro.
Important Railroad Decision In the United
States Court at Helena, Ark.-The
Mississippi Legislature.
NASHVILLE, TENN.

Spence. the Murderer of wheat, Pro-
poses to Leave xzfs Case tn the Hands
of the COurt.
Special to the Appeal
NASHVILLE, March 12.-Col. William
Spence, who shot and killed his son in
law, Col. Ed w. Wheat, ex-United States
marshal, yesterday, will be formally ar
raigned before the Criminal Court Satur-
day and required to plead. He says he
will engage counsel to defend him, who
will simply read statement, written be-
fore the murder, to the encouragement
and judge and leave the matter entirely in
their hands.
The Hanifin case will be given to the
jury to-day, and it is expected that he will
come out in flying colors.
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THE Merchants Association, OF Milwau-
kee, yesterday passed resolution calling
for the suspension OF silver coinage. 1t is
expected that the Chamber of Commerce
will act on the same resolution at an early
dav
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CHATTANOOGA.


CHATTANOOGA, March l2.-The conven-
ton to memorialize Congress to complete
the work on the Muscle Shoals met to. day.
Gov. O'Neal, of Alabama, presided Over
500 delegates were present, representing
every town in the interior OF the Tennes-
see Valley. This convention is the most
influential river convention ever held in
this section. The convention appointed .
committee OF 100 to present their claims
to Congress, and adopted very strong reso-
lutions urging the necessity of immediate
anDropriations
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BISMARCK is sick, almost unto death.
He is haunted by Lasker's ghost, and has
a spasm of pain whenever he hears the
name OF the deceased Liberal mentioned.
1t is always thus with tyrants and bullies.
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How the Disease was Brought to This
Country.

WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE Treasury
Department is in receipt of telegram
from j. H. Sanders, secretary of the Treas
ury Cattle Commission, dated Chicago,
the cattle disease now prevailing in Kan
sas was carried in clothing by two Scotch
men direct from the injected herd in
Scotland.
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Death of Dr. YandeII. Of Loui.virre.

LOUISVILLE, March 12.-Dr. Lunsford p
Yandell, who has national reputation as
a physician and medical author, died sud-
denly here to night of neuralgia of the
heart. He vas a native of Tennessee and
was forty-seven years old. He was the
originator of the theory that all skin dis
eases were the result of malaria, a
theory that created great stir both at
home and abroad
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One Hour More Can be saved.

OMAHA, March 12.-The people of Ne
braska, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah and
Idaho are greatly delighted over the fast
mail service and want more. Twenty-four
hours time is now saved from New York
to all points reached rja the Union Pa
cific. If trains from Chicago would
quicken time one hour, SO that Omaha
could receive the mail in time for the
earlier evening delivery, it would benefit
City. The Union Pacific could then leave
Omaha at o'clock pm. instead OF S
O'Clock as now. This could be followed
by additional fast service over the Central
Pacific and thus make the scheme corn
plete
Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-03-13

MATTHEW ARNOLD before leaving New
York last Saturday on his homeward trip
across the Atlantic, declared in very posi-
tive terms that he did not intend to write
a book about America
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"DEEPER than e'er plummet sounded"
some peoples coughs seem to come from.
yet bottle OF DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup
VIII cure them. 1t goes away down to
the bottom OF matters and works wonders
Pleasant to take and good for coughs,
colds, Group, bronchitis, etc.
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ESTABLISHED 1910.

The Boynton-Keifer Investigation drags
its slow length along, and threatens to be
interminable. So far the burden of proof
is with Boynton, who has Keifer in very
had box
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Arrival of ThOmpson's Remains at Aus


ain.
Special to the Appeal
AUSTIN, Ten, March 12.--Ben Thomp-
sons body arrived here to-day in charge
of his brother Bill. and was met at the
station by the Knights of Pythias and a
crowd of citizens, and conveyed to his
residence. Bill Thompson says that both
men were killed by double barreled gun
loaded with buckshot, fired by concealed
assassin, and the wounds prove this.
Thompson was very popular here, and
leaves a one armed wife and two children.
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THE EXCLUSION

SJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER,
Acknowledgement Il,
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LUNDBoRG's Perfume, Edenia.
Lundborg's Perfume, Marechal Mel
Rose.
Lundborg's Perfume, Alpine Violet. !.
LANDLORDS Perfume, Lily of the Valley.

MADRID, March l2.-The Progress was
seized FOR saying that Canovas del Castillo, the
leader of the Conservative party is trying to In
nnence the army TO support a reactionary policy
The opposition editors will hold a.meeting and
protest against the governments action.
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NOTICE.

A LII persons owning and holding Judgment
n Certificates, coupons thereon maturing
August ], 1884, issued BY Upton county under
Tennessee, approved December q. 1881, in oom-
promise of judgments rendered in the Circuit
Court of the United Stases FOR the Western Dis
led 10 present said Judgment Certificates and
coupons and detached coupons, for payment. to
Memphis, Tenn, on or before the 18th day of
March, ID. 1854, when and where the same
tons of the said Judgment Certificates and COM
promise agreement entered into between Upton
county and her said creditors. This 14th day of
February, 1884. A. W. SMITH,
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MARRIED.

SHARPE-RIDDICK-Ms II, 1884, Mr.. T.
A. SHARPE and Mrs. ELLEN NJ. RipDIck, by the
Rev. II, A. Jones, at the parsonage, both of wis
city. No cards.
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THE DYNAMITERs.

Brewster Calls the
Attention of the United States Mar
shals TO Their Franks.
WASHINGTON, March 1.-THE following
circular has been sent to all United States
attorneys and marshals:
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE, J
WAsHINGToS, March II, 1884.
To District Attorneys and Marshals of the United
States:
By direction of the President have to infsrm
you that it is reported that certain persons are
aiding in the prosecution of heinous crimes by
shipping to foreign parts explosives dangerous in
the highest degree to life and property. No
proof has been addueed that this rumor is found
ed upon fact. and the Pres dent cannot believe in
its truth. The honor of this nation, however. re-
quires that it should not be open to imputation,
unfodnded though it be, of the slightest appear
anee of toerating such crimes, whether TO be
committed against people those of other
countries. Your attention is therefore called to
sections 1858, 1854, 1855, 427S and 1919 of the Re
vised statutes of the United States, which regu-
late the shipment of explosives and the punish
ment of those who infringe their provisions. and
you are instructed to be diligent IN your efforts
to prevent the ohenses described, and to detect
and prosecute those who have may commit
them. Very respectfully,
BENJAMIN HARRIS BREWSTER.