Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-07-18

men Of all classes are swindled, in sums
ranging from SIS to 5000. TIL laborers
on the road near Pleasant Valley are high
" excited. The company, however, VIII
paythem their wages.
A performer on the flying trapeze,
named Farrell, and professionally known
as SignOr Becona, recently fell distance
| Of forty feet while performing at Welhng-
ton Music Hall, London, and was fatally
injured.
The first hearing in the suits brought
against street railways in Pittsburg for
| violation Of the Sunday laws was had on
Thursday. From present indications the
RAILWAYS will be convicted and fined; but
they viii undoubtedly appealto the high
\ est tribunal.
Mrs. John s. Thrasher, wife Of Col.
| John s. Thrasher, General Agent of the
Southern Press Association during the
war, died in New York on Friday last.
Mrs. Thrasher was 4 sister TO Mrs. T. r.
Bloom, of Macon, and the mother OF Mrs.
j. r. Bostwick, of Atlanta, Ga.
Gov. Bullock, of Georgia, seems de-
termined to give practical effect to the de-
cision OF the Supreme Court in favor Of
negro eligibility to office, He has ap-
pointed a negro notary public and ex-
Oficio justice Of the peace in one Of the
districts of Augusta.
The Columbus (Texas) Citizen of the
| Sth chronicles the death of Mr.. Harmon
Tracy, III of the oldest citizens, on Mon
/ dav last. Mr.. Tracy was a native OF South
| Carolina. but had resided in Texas up
/ wards of twenty-five years. He was
much esteemed as an honorable man.
A negro who enticed a white girl
| from her home, at Franklin, Pa, was fol-
| lowed and arrested at Youngstown, Ohio,
on Wednesday, at the instance Of the
| lady's father, who has been in pursuit OF
| tina couple for two weeks The girl Is only
fourteen years old, good looking and well
dressed.
The ROYAL Cork Yacht Club and the
| Reval Western Yacht Club of Ireland
| rendered their inequalities to the owner
| of the Dauntless and his friends during
their stay at Queenstown. The reception
| which the American visitors met was en-
| thusiastic.
A terrific storm ragged at Hunting
| ton. Pa, on Wednesday. Two men named
/ Barney Farrell and Cornelius Dare, Will
/ sitting under a schultz at the coal wharf, a
mile from the town, were stunned by the
lightning, and, falling forward into the
canal, were drowned.
The Horny County Is. c. Netrs
| saws: One of the most extensive fires ever
I known in this section has been raging for
| the last two weeks in All Saints parish.
It broke out near the upper end of Ocean
| bav. not far from the sea shore, and has
reached the Wilson estate lands, on the
/ Waccamaw, six miles above COnwaybOro',
/ having burned over a distance of nearly
twenty miles.
The Atlanta (Ga.) HateUigeRcer, of
| the 18th, saws: Mr. William II. Hill,
| one of the oldest citizens Of Atlanta, died
| of the disease of the heart, at his resi-
| denee, on Sunday afternoon, at six o'clock,
| after an illness Of four days. Mr.. Hill
| was eighty wears old last MAY. For forty
l wears he followed the business Of an Uc-
| t%ioneer. and has ever been esteemed an
honest. industrious and energetic man.
A Mr.. Merritt, of Elmira, n. Y,
I while travelling between Cheyenne and
/ Omaha last week, fell in with q counter
| feiter. who endeavOred to pass a $50 Oun
! tcffeit bili OF him. Merritt subsequently
obtained the confidence OF the operator,
and the result was the capture, near Mad
ison. Wis, of two cOunterfeiters and the
seizure OF a large quantity OF bank notes,
MATES. dies etc. The cOunterfelteFS ar
rested we're taken to Washington, and the
detectives are on the track of the rest of
the gang. The arrests and seizures are
said TO be the most important made for
several years.
A short time since the yestFymen of
Trinity Church, Chicago, invited the Rev.
DR.. Cummins, Associate Bishop of Ken
lucky, their old rector, to preach during
the temporary absence of their present
rector, Rev. Mr.. Sullivan. he accepted,
and Sunday before last preached an anti
ritualistic sermon. in which he is said to
have charged the present troubles in the
Episcopal church to the introduction Of
cathedral worship. This remark was con-
| sidered a reelection On the Bishop of that
| Diocese, and on Monday he called upon
Mr.. Wright, the Junior Warden, of Trim
ity, and advised him not to allow DR..
| Cummins 10 occupy the pulpit. The As
I sociate Bishop was telegraphed not TO
/ anunn