Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-19
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One hundred persons died in Chicago
last week.
There is little chance Of abolishing the
franking privilege.
Miss Braddon is busily engaged upon a
new novel" Fenton's Quest"
SIX. King, of Owensboro, KY, busted
yesterday for Sl0O, 600. Who wouldn't?
There will be another boat race on the
Tyne next Monday between Kelly and
Renforth.
It is reported that Mr.. Dickens will
snand the next few months at Cannes, at
the villa Of Paul Feval.
The citv of Lawrence, Kansas, yester-
dav voted $4,000 in bonds TO secure the
Kansas Pacific machine shops.
Beni. q. Carrier, Of d. P. Jones & Co.,
Boston. swallowed a gill Of laudanum
Yesterday at the Parker House.
There Is revolt in the Reconstruction
Committee. Seven OF its members are
hostile to Buffers desperate measures
The buildings of the charcoal grinding
company, Cherry street, New York, were
destroyed by ire yesterday. Loss over
S1O0, coo.
Sam P. Broadweli shot and killed his
wife Yesterday in New York. she was
sGEN AllA AZ DaAaA
several children.
NJ. louis Blanc has written a history OF
the revolution of 1913, which is 10 be pub
lished IN the course Of next week at the
Librnirie TAterRGti0nGie in Paris.
q W. Stineman, in Philadelphia, was
Yesterday penitentisried twelve years lof
killing Jno. Force, which makes ouI p p
case Of '' Force-a able entry and detalnef.
The pbvsicians of Louisville thresten 20
refuse to render gratuito6s services 10 the
poor of that city, II its government insists
rpou the collection Of license iees from
them.
The daparture of the three hundred men
CubaD expedition from New ork, Is CON
irmed. Il is oficered by brave and ex-
perienced officers. We VIII shortly near
from Il. a"'
Think Of the degradation that Chicago
originates. A young girl VI niteen years
arrested for drunkenness yesterday, at
TAINTED TO hang herself in the cell OF the
station-house.
A magazine OF " choice selections from
the best American and Continental liter
ature. - has Just been started in London
with the title: The ABeTtcGH and C0Hti-
Mental A0ntAl}J.
Hon. Jas h. Bradley yesterday smashed
his cane in smashing Judge Fishers Read,
IN Washington. The Judge " got his head
in chancerv, " and the whole shebang was
hogged by the police.
Starring, United States Consular Agent
at Paris, and BigelOw, late minister, are
having pretty row over the l5YOOO francs
awarded as damages 70 the United States
Consulate at Paris.
An accident yesterday on the Leaven-
worth branch Of the Pacific railroad, re-
suited in the smashing of a freight train,
the wounding of two white men, ten col
ored, and the killing Of two White men.
A two-storv frame house on Dearborn
street. Chicago, being raised 70 grade, yes
rerday, fell over. burying q woman IN the
ruins. She can hardly recover from the
injuries sustained.
The New Orleans. Pine Bluff and Little
Rock railroad is being built with great
energy. It promises completion by the
Ist OF March, IS7I. Memphis is asleep
while her ueighbors on both sides Of her
New Orleans and st. LOuis-are steal
ing her thunder.
4 IRE at Oshkosh, Wis, yesterday de-
stroyed 800. 600 feet of lumber, two floor
ing mills and planning mill The cinders
were carried more than two miles, and
fires. as a consequence, broke out in more
than twenty places. The Congregational
Church was partially burned.
A dispatch from London says: The
third Yacht race was won to-day by
Sappho. The SapphO passed around the
mark vessel three minutes and forty sec
ouds ahead of Cambria. The yachts for
long time we're bscalmed by dense fog.
A steamer tOwed the Cambria in from a
dead calm.
The Fort Smith Ark Herald Of the
l4Gh saws: The laying of the corner
stone of the Masonic edifise, one mile east
of ChocOviIle, on the fve-acre lot 80
handsomely donated by Esquire Watts,
was celebrated by the Masonic fraternity
OF Reid Lodge, No. 1873, on Saturday, May
gth. 1t was attended by large cOucOurse
- Of persons, who came from all parts of
the country, to witness the celebration"
Notwithstanding the belief and prom
ises of President Grant, we are to have a
general Indian war. The red men are
collecting in large numbers in the neigh
bOrhOOd of the Kansas Pacific. Letters
from Lake Sibley and Solomon City are
10 this effect, and are urgent not only for
troops. but that the Government shall
take some earneat steps to put the In
dians down so they cannot, in the future,
so much as alarm the people OF The border
States and Territories.
A General Conference Of Christians, -
under the auspices of the several Evan
gelical Alliances throughout the world, is
Intended to be held in New York in Sep
tember and October next. This will be
the fifth gathering of the description that
has been held-the previous meetings
having been in London and Paris, in Ber-
lin, Geneva, and Amsterdam. At the
most recent meeting, held IN 1867, at Am
sterdam. an invitation was accepted from
New York TO hold the next conference in
New York, and, in accordance wnh that
invitation. the session will commence on
the 23d Of Septemb Der next and viii close
on the Sd Of October.
It was stated in Washington yesterday
that the recent special Cabinet meeting
related to the Red River question. The
application made by the British Minister
for permission for the passage OF govern
ment vessels through Sault st. Marie ca
nal was considered, and, upon written as
surancs Of the representative Of Great
Britain being received that the vessels
transported neither troops nor arms, but
only supplies, and that the troubles OF
the Winnepeg country had wholly
ceased, il was resolved that the request
should be granted, and orders were sent
BY telegraph 10 the officers in charge Of
the canal In accordance with that deci-
sion.