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Show Mid nig rrr Maracdehs. A gentle- j man yesterday uttered the following j sententious remark : " 1 think it will be cheaper for the city to protect the inhabitants than to bury the dead and try the murderers, should present indications in-dications continue." Which he supplemented sup-plemented with the subjoined statement state-ment : t Yesterday morning about three o'clock o'-clock a loud knocking was heard at a ; door in the 8th ward, which awakened ' a young lady sleeping in a front apart-i apart-i ment. She called to the master of the ! house, in an adjoining room, who arose ! and opened the front door in time to see the person leaviotr, having evidently evident-ly been moved from a previously designed de-signed purpose by tho lady ciiling oe the gentleman to rise. Twice again during the early morning was the 6a me residence thuj disturbed, and it was not until the marauder saw the owner of the houie, who unfortunately had no fire-arms, that he disappeared. An-i An-i other residence close by was also disturbed dis-turbed by two fellows, who were distinctly seen by a young lady of the house from an up-stairs window. win-dow. They rang tho front door bell, kicked the door, and pretended they wanted matches; , and did not leave until they found there were some men in tho bouse. Evidently sill these scamps had thievish or worse designs de-signs in view, and it is possible that someoftheso nights they may meet with somebody that will serve them as Dutch Charley was served, unless they adopt another course of procedure. An ox tended patrol of the officers might not be amiss in certain directions. |