Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-20
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again
Martha Garley yesterday committed
suicide in New York by setting fire to he
clothing.
A sonora paper says that work on the
Guayamas and FL Paso railroad will sOor
be commenced.
The Young man Morton, carried ovel
the falls at Louisville, was drowned. ID
was from New York.
The new and large railroad bridge across
the Ohio al Cincinnati is TO be pushed Il
rapid completion.
Preparations for the National saenger
fest At Cincinnati have been completed
1t viii be grand affair.
Il is reported that McFarlaud's counse
have advised him 10 leave the country
Il is the last thing he is likely to do.
A heavy shock Of earthquake was fell
in the city of Mexico on the llth instant
but no particulars have been received.
The Grand Lodge OF the order of Druids
for the state Of Indiana, adjourned aItel
q short session, parade SUD picnic.
Prim is in favor Of Serrsno being
created King of Spain. So ends the
dream Of Spanish liberty ana freedom.
An unfortunate eyprisn, of Louisville
in shooting st her lover, put ball into
wound indicted
Grant has signed the commission Of d
c. Humphreys. Of Huntsville, Ala, 70 bf
Associate Justice of the supreme 6Courl
Of The District Of Columbia.
The presidsnt and superintendent oi
the Pacific and Atlantic Telegraph Com
pauv are now in New Orleans arranging
for the immediate extension Of their lines
10 that point.
An excursion party, consisting OF 9
number Of male and female teachers, viii
leave the Pacific coast for an Eastern toui
on the 18th inst. They viii reach Chicago
on or about the Sd prON.
DeHaven, the baIlOonist, was spilled
from his machine yesterday and fell
through the roof Of a summer house, sus-
tanning internal injuries. " Up in ba-
loon, boys, up in balloon"
The London Times denOunces the Erie
railway ring Of America, saying il is
worse than that Of the Greek brigands
aud that it entirely stops the outflow OF
British capital TO the United States.
The managers Of the Eangsrfest have
decided TO comply with the req uest of the
citizens of Cincinnati, and arrange fes-
rfvities so as to close the exercises on
Saturday instead of Sunday, as intended.
NJ. Williams, an American engineer
and a government commissioner have lefi
the civ for the purpose OF inspecting the
proposed route for tRa Iehuantepec rail-
road They will also report on the pros
poets OF the ship canal project.
Thomas Pratt. who altered and hypoth-
ecated state bonds 10 the amount of S3IO,-
OJ0 and then fed from an Office on Broad
street, some months si2ce, was arrested
in New York yesterday. His partner,
Wm. f. Gray, is still at large.
Over 400 working girls lose from $50 to
slnN each bv the failure of George B. HaW-
kius, a New York bOnnet-frame manu-
Tacturer His liabilities are about $40, 600
and are not worth much over thirty cents
on the dollar. The scOundrei should be
hung.
The Mexicans residing In San Francisco
celebrated, a few days ago, the anniver-
sarv OF the victory Of the Mexican army
over the French at the battle OfPuebla. in
1852. Salutes were fired at sunrise, noon
and sunset, and in the evening bang uet
was held.
The bill before Congress, ami discussed
Yesterday in the Senate, is intended 70
rive Congress supreme control over elec-
Tions in the States. For this reason II
was condemned in unmeasured terms,
even BY Republicans, and yet majority
favOrs IL.
A correspondent saws: 4" II makes the
WinnIpeRgers very mad to be so called,
and that TO avoid il they changed the
name 20 an Indian One-NesteWeyane,
pronounced Nest -tee-wee- -yanny. So now
they will be called Nest-tee-wee-annya ans,
or for short, NastYuns."
A Vermont journal states that the ques-
ton OF the next Goveruorship OF the State
hinges almost wholly on which side o.
the mountains shall furnish the candi-
date. II The west, he viii DO John W.
Stewart. of Middlebury; if the east, Fred
erick Billings, Of Woodstock.
Wednesday afternoon a man named
Simon Griffin jumped or fell into the
river south of Polk street, Chicago. lie
gas rescued, taken to the armOry and
placed in a cell. He took OF his boots
and was about to put on dry clothing
when hs fell down and expired without q
struggle.
PuIlman's train Of eight palace cars, just
completed, started yesterday from Chica
20 for Boston, TO receive the great eXcur-
sion party for California. The train i:
most elegantly built. A daily paper vii
be printed during the trip, and billiard
table VIII b8 one OF the means Of enjoy
msnJ.
A legal decision has been recently m adt
in Boston in which the Second Nationa
Bank Of that CITY contests its liability on
where the drawer had no funds 10 NEE
il. Judge Bradley, before whom the cast
came up, decided against the bank, which
proposes to take the case 10 the y. 5. Su
Prsms Court.
Yesterdays noon dispatch from New
York saws: Dispatches last night pu
Feigar. the Republican candidate for As
sOciate Judge, ahead in she state. Ii i
difficult 10 decide whether Andrews Ol
"a sffsr
jority in the State is certainly 10000; il
the CITY, nearly 60,0O0."
Orders have been transmitted to tn,
military posts Of Ambercombie and Penn
bina 10 stop and turn back any party O
EeniAns who may be on their way 70 Ret
river The military have carefully traced
the report Of the Fenian expedition
Under strict orders from Washington, th'
military viii keep a sharp lookout tina
10 assistance goes 20 Riel from th'
United States.
A call, signed by prominet merchant
OF Richmond, appears in the Virginia pa
pers. asking the commercial men OF Nor
folk. Petersburg and Lynchburg, 10 unit
with them in meeting the merchants an,
planters OF Southwest Virginia and Eas
Tennessee in a social and friendly cOnven
ton, TO be held at Montgomery Whit
Sulphur Springs on the 2lst Of June. III
object is 20 Insu Zurate more intimat
business relations between Southwes
Virgiuiz and East Tennessee, and th
Virginia cities.
The following call. signed by a larg
number OF men and women Of Illinois
Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Indiana
Minnesota and Ohio, has been issued II
Chicago: "Ihe friends Of woman sutfrag
in the Northwesi ern States are invited d
meet al EarWsn Hall, in Chicago, Ol
Wednesday and Thursday, 25th and 26tl
davs OF May, 10 organize the Northwest
ern Women's Franchise Association, an,
adopt measures for the canvass Of thos
States in behalf Of wOmen's suffrage"
This spring secs the establishment il
Denmark Of line Of passenger steam
ships from Copenhagen 10 New York q
furnish direct transport 10 the thOusand
who annually abandon the Lares Of theil
old Morse homes TO seek more ample free
dom, more easily acquired wealth in tn,
United States; this new line offers 10 thi
Scandinavian emigrant cheaper snd NOR
convenient means Of reaching this CONT
ueut than has been hitherto within hi
reach, and supersedes for him the Germal
and English routes via Bremen or Liver
pool.
A Washington dispatch OF Monday says
" A passenger from the South reports a.
extraordinary hail storm on Thursday
about noon, at point seven or eight mile
north OF Wilmington, n. c. During thi
storm, hail IN the shape of large an
heavy icicles, fell with great force an
rapiditV over an extent Of country abOu
mile and a hslf in width from the coas
well into the interior. Fruits, vegetables
crops, IN its wake, were Of course com
pietely cut down and destroyed. SDOS
and ice lay on the ground for more thai
twsnty-lOur hOus-"
The musical festival, now in prepare
Ion IN Now York niLN- will snrnaEa b