Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1868-01-23


tLinlv attended. The Sentinel says 1
+" Seven o'clock was the hour for thS
meeting, but at hslf-past eight only some
twenty-five or thirty persons, ourselves
and other IUokers-on included, were pres.
ent. and the meeting was still morgan
lied. Halt az hour later, alter waiting
IN solemn stiffness, the number had in
creased TO some forty or fifty." Grant
stock is q heavy article thereabouts.
The Universalist Church at Colum-
bus, Ohio, was burned down on the after
noon Of the 18Th. L1ss, $1,000; insur-
ance, 5000.
The Ways and Means Committee has
decided to report an entirely new revenue
bill, aad makingit substitute for ali the
laws now in force, instead Of adhering
70 the previous practice Of reporting GER
tain anerGments to various sections Of
the old laws, thereby creating confusion
in the department. and among taxpayers.
king George, late Of Hanover, has
not come of 80 very badly after all. In
addition TO the l6,OO0, COO Of thalers from
Prussia, he has received 400O, 900 which
be had sent to London, making &C, 000. 600
in aII, or SIS, ,OOO, 600.
-Lizzl, the pianist and priest, is de-
scri6ed as having face livid and appa-
rentIy bare of flesh, lighted up with
strangely deep eyes, aud surrounded ty
long grizzly hair. His dress is that Of
the Catholic dignity which he holds,
COMPRISING a black robe reaching nearly
to his heels aud buttoning to his neck.
The late Right Rev. John Henry
Hopkins, d. D., LID, Episcopal Bishop
OF the diocese OF Vermont, and President
OF the House Of Bishops Of the EpiseO-
pacy Of the United States, will be sue
ceeCei In the latter Office by the Right
Rsv. Benjamin BosWOrth Smith, d. d,
LID, now Bishop CT the diocese of
kentucky. Both he and Bishop Nell
vsre. Of Ohio, were eonseersted at the
same time with Bishop hopkins, Octo-
Der 81, 1892. .ss- ~.
"A man named Ki3sr was found dead
In Jackson square, on the l4lh. He had
taken cyanide of potassium. He lost his
wife last summer by the epidemic, and
shot himself in the mouth, but recently
recovered, with the loss of a few teeth.
Since his recovery he has proposed mar
rage unsuceessfully to several girls, and
had been seen to kiss the picture Of bis
deceased wife to excess. This picture
was found on his dead body.
An explosion occurred Ia the cOnfec-
ticnary and fireworks establishment OF
Mess-s. Knab!e & SchIock, in Pittsburg,
on Saturday, by which Miss Nancy
Campbell and boy named Fred. Ram
sey were killed, and 8 son OF Mr. Schrock
received iniurieslikely to eause his death.
The premises were considerably damaged
by IRE.
A young woman, named Elizabeth
sfsng, was arrested in Chicago on Sat-
urday, for attempdng to poison her fam
| ily-mother, brother and two sisters-by
putting stFychnine in their coffee.
"A woman of the town, named Mag.
Gallagher, attempted suicide at Cincin-
natl on the 10Th, by taking laudanum
after al overdose of brandy. If she
had reversed the order she would have
succeeded. gEE rfb .
I Miss Catherine Mead, while descend
ing the steps OF ST. Aloysius Church,
/ Cincinnati, on Sunday last, slipped and
broke her leg above the ankle.
A baby was found in Cincinnati
| fozea in the snow, Oh Sunday morning,
/ that had been exposed there immedi
stely after its birth.
-Four young lads while skating back
Of Covlngton, Kentucky, on Ticking
river, brcke through the Ice on Saturday
last, and was rescued in an exhausted
condition.
On Sunday last some words having
passed between T. w. Davis and w.
Dougherly, at the room Of the latter, at
Tuscogee, Ga, where Dougherty struck
Davis, fractuTing his skull, causing his
death in few hours.
-" General " Humphreys, the famous
confidence Iasn Of Pittsaeld, Mass who
I eloped with Miss Kenyon, last summer,
to Cincinnati, has been sentenced at
| Sprinheld, tn ten years imprisonment.
Mrs. Margaret Simons tried to start
a fire with coal oil in Philadelphia on
Friday. Result, as usual In such cases,
an explosion and the woman burned to
desth.
In Sandusky, Ohio, on Friday,
Henry Shade, employed in a ssw-mlll,
got his clothing entangled in 8 shaft.
coupling, and before the machinery could
be stopped, was killed.
Frank Metzger, fifteen years old
broke through the ice at Fort Wayne
on Saturday, while skating, and wa
drowned.
: "A paper says that 4" in parting with
ths Duchess Of Gerolstein," the New
Workers no doubt expressed wish t.
see her a. Ofenbsch.5
1T has been learned, officially, tha
the President has decided not TO permi
: any orders to go from the War Depart
ment except in strict pursuance OF law
which, being literally followed, will pre-
! vent any orders from Secretary Stanton
aud compel every thing OF that charaete
to be issued by direction Of the President
AT st. Louis, on the 18th, a. Litter
man. a salesman on Main street, fell o.
the Ice and broke his leg In two places.
"A special telegram to the Cincinnati
!. Commercial says Burglariee are yer,
: frequent in al sections Of the city, an
the police force very much smaller tina
in Cincinnad;n which means that bug
: Rlaries are exactly in the same ratio wi
b the increase of a police force.
!. Meade t4Slescribed as polite, aff'
, bic. agreeaols old gentleman Of fifty hv'
who seems to know nothing in ths
ghole matter, but to act and to 4
according TO orders from higher at
thority.
Capt. John J. Hoff, Twentisl
United States Infantry, has been al
, pointed member Of the general cou
martial convened at Baton Rouge.
Rev. ]. w. Beckwith, Rector
= Trinity Church, has accepted the Epi
copal BishoPEle Of Georgia.