Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-06-09
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Inc new v andaIla road has been OpeneI
in Indiana.
The Indiana Episcopal State Convei
ton will number 275 delegates. =
The Eclectic Medical Convention Of In
diana was very poorly attended.
a weII-dressed thief yesterday robbed
New York jewelry store Of 5000 worth o
During last week SI22, 600 in gold wa
RENTED overland to New York, from
San francisco.
A hackman, named George Harty, wa
killed by lightning in Pittsburg yester
day morning during a very severe storm
Nearly one. million pounds of straw
berries AVE been received in Chicagl
from Southern Illinois since the sessOI
opened.
Samples of new white wheat we've upor
the Nashville market IN Saturday last
and the highest offer made was one dOlai
per bushel for delivery within the mex
few days.
The Pulaski Citizen of the Sd inst. saws
The farmers throughout the country re
port an abundance of rain, and everything
looks encouraging for a fine crop of cotton
and grain.
Colonel William F. Durson, a veteran
of the war of 1872, and who was also il
the Mexican war, died in Louisville, OF
Tuesday, aged se~venty-ive. h
had been a resident of Kentucky seventy,
n years.
The Jackson Wing faYors the holding o
a State Convention in Nashville on tbs
first Monday in July, to nominate candi.
dates for the Judges of the Supreme
Court. The Paris IRteHideRcer favors the
convention, but suggests the second Mon.
day as the time for holding it.
The refreshing rains that have fallen re-
Gently in Fayette county, say the SOmer-
vile Falcon, have had a salutary effect
upon the crops. Both corn and cotton
looks well, and are growing rapidly. The
prospects for good crops were never better
or more promising b they are this
season.
A Chicago contracting firm have per-
formed a remarkable feat of rebuilding
in one week the bridge burned down on
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati md st. Louis
Railroad. 1t has three spans in all, 555
feet long, and was seventy-four feet above
the water. Two hundred and Twenty-Five
men were employed, and used 800, 600 feet
of lumber. r l.I
The Knoxville Press and Herald OF
Sunday says: We learn that General J..
G. Brown being unable to be present at
the decoration ceremonies on the 10th
instant, an invitation has been sent to
General Robert Toombs, OF Georgia
General ToOmbs has complied with the
request of the Memorial Association, and
will deliver the Grafton at the cemetery
on Tuesday Governor Gearv, of
Pennsylvania, issued an address
bearing date yesterday, calling upon the
freenen of Pennsylvania to maintain the
inviOlability of the sinking fund, by which
the public debt of the commonwealth is
to be redeemed from year to wear, and
finally extinguished. The message was
unexpected and has created considerable
sensation in political circles.
Two votes in the United States Senate
one to appropriate $500, 900 for building a
new State Department, which passed by
a vote of Al to 10 nays-and another for
the purchase of two lots to enlarge the
Capitol grounds, to cost $500, 900, which
passed without a division-would indicate.
that Congress had settled the question of
the removal of the National Capitol, and
that it was permanently fixed in Wash
ington City.
In Louisville on Tuesday night a man
Mike Cronan and his wife got into
a difficulty with another man named
Hart and his wife, In which Cronan,
armed with an AK, and his wife, armed
with a Ratchet, attacked Hart and his
Mllbs GuLNAhk thOAA III a HAAtIAAlE AA1AAIGAa
Hartis not expected TO live through the
night. Mrs. Hart was dangerously in
jured. Oronan and his wife were, arrested.
The New Orleans ChHrchmaaa( EpiscopaT
drops the following gentle hint, like Oil
upon the troubled waters. We commend
it to the brethren in the faith: "My de-
eidA conviction is, that harmony and
peace would reign in all the Southern
country, If political adventures, having
no abiding place in the South-supported
by the bayonet-would withdraw and
the field to the ministers of the
gospel of Christ, Of our own and other de-
nominations sF7h p
An important decision has been rem
dered by the Court of Appeals in the.case
of Swift Il Co. rs. NeWpGrt, KY. Swlft
brought suit TO recover back Sl050 tax,
levied on his rolling mill, claiming that
premises were not within the city
The court decides that his mill
and grounds we're legally Incorporated
and the tax lawfully assessed. The city
now has a right to feel that her hands are
strengthened for future efforts to increase
her corporate limits. . -reTr atr
There was a large attendance at
Jerome Park, New York, on Tuesday, The
race was a steepleehase handicap fer
all ages; premium, $1,000, of which $3.50
went to the owner of the second horse.
For this race there were several entries,
of which Oysterman, jr., Bohemian and
Bacon were, most prominent Bohemian
won bv half a head, Oysterman coming
in second and Bacon third-time, 4:4lZ,
The second was a sweepstakes for all ages
2H miles, for which there were seventeen
Helmbold was winner by five
lenpths; Vesperious second, and Glenly
third. Time, ALL. ..r u..a
The railroad war between Van
darbilt and Gould and Fisk has been
renewed. and will be fercer
ever. Both sales.--future they will not
eompromise. Vanderbilt says he will
twenty millions to defeat the Erie;
and Gould and Fisk swear they viii beg
par themselves before they will submit TO
Inc Commodore's dictation. The great
object now ongboth sideseis 70 secure the
entire control of the routes to the West.
Other roads will enter into the combina-
and present appearances indicative
a general revolution in railway matters.
More than $500, Geo, 000 are said TO be rep
resented in The present and prospective
coalitions. auf 81 fI masf q-rfe -
The, New York papers give the particu-
lars Of al remarkable, case of disease, re-
semhlipg, in many particulars, hydropho-
bia. A young man, nineteen years OF
an e1grazer, was attacked by a re-
paroxysm, barking st times
ike a dog, foaming at the mouth, snap
ping at persons as If he wanted 70 bite
hem, and WAS only preveptfdfrom in-
Iuring himself and others I'd J
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