Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17


and violated. AMER committing the
hellish crime the Villain battered hel
with bricks about the head until life was
apparently extinct. John Hobart, sup
posed to be the guilty party, was arrested
the same night. The child is too i'll to
identify him, and doubts of her recovery
are very strong.
A dispatch yesterday from London
vile, Ohio, says two sons of s. b. Coul-
ter, aged five and nine years, while at
play in a grain loft attached to their
fathers warehouse, were precipitated into
the chute of the bin by the gate giving
way and buried, by several hundred
bushels of wheat which were let down IN
consequence. Before found, both had
died of suffocation.
A dispatch OF Friday from C~ovingtonr
XIV. SAYS that a vicious horse attached to
a street car while en- route, kicked the
driver and knocked him of the platform.
The driver continued to hold the reins and
the horses started to run, dragging the
man under the car. The passengers be-
came alarmed, and in jumping on, sus-
tanned serious injuries. One lady broke
her collar bone, and others suffered severe
confusion. The driver was severely man
gIed, his legs were dressed, q hopes are
entertained of his recovery.
The New York Tribune OF the 1lthinst,
SAYS of the legal tender case: It was
understood that it was TO be argued be
fore a full bench, but there are reasons
for believing that Judge Bradley Will de-
cline to sit. II, as reported, he is a large
stakeholder in the Camden and Amboy
] Railroad, of which corporation he was
lately the legal adviser, il would be mani
testify improper fo- him to hear a case in
which that road, like many others, is
largely Interested" Notwithstanding
this manifest imprOpriety," Bradley has
determined to sit in the case.
A dispatch from Cincinnati yesterday
saws: 1.-THE Commission of Industrial
Exposition is to open here on September
Dist next. They have issued a general
circular, stating that arrangements are
being made by the erection of a large
building for the supply of steam power
and every necessary exhibition. Trans
pOrtation companies will reduce the rate
of fare and freight, and especial care will
be taken to induce contributions from all
sections, and to give to the EXPOSE
ton national Importance. The weather
changed abruptly from clear, and a tenn
perature of 79' yesterday, to a severe
cold storm of rain and snow."
On the 18th of March, a transport of $50
Russian Jews, from Western Russia, ar
| rived at Berlin. They were from those
provinces which, for the last two years,
had so severely suffered from the want
of food. The Alliance Israelite, of Paris,
| succeeded in extricating them out of a
really terrible condition, and their ap-
pearance in the streets OF Berlin is de-
scribed as horribly distressing. They
looked sickly and despondent; their
clothes were dirty and ragged, and their
features expressed despair and privatiOn.
They have been cared for, and are on their
way to the United States.
The new Roman Catholic Bishop of Sa-
vannah is named PersicO. He was born
in Italy, at what time We do not know,
but he was consecrated Bishop of Agra,
in India, about tWenty-six years ago. He
remained in India sixteen years, whence
he was driven by the Sepoy mutiny. He
went to Naples, where he remained eight
years, and about two years ago came to
South Carolina at the request of Bishop
Lynch, where ever since he has had charge
of the missions of that State. He is said
10 be a fluent and eloquent preacher, with
just a sufficient foreign accent to max
him interesting.
President Grant, while on his trip to
Troy to attend the funeral obseQuies of
General Thomas, was asked for his
fare by the railroad conductor, who
insisted that be did not know
him from "sny other man." and must
obey orders-he must either ave the fare
or a ticket. or he would put the President
and his party off at the first station. The
matter was finally adjusted by the Super
intendent (whO was appealed toy permit
ting the party to pass on free. How hui
miliating-the President dragged down
from his imperial top-loftical style by a
railroad conductor.
Don Francisco SolRno Lopez, President
of Paraguay, whose death at the hands of
the Brazilian troops was announced by
our dispatches recently, was the son of
Don Carlos Lopez. and born in 1927. Hav-
ing received a European education, he
was sent abroad bv the Paraguayan Gov
ernment in 1858, to ratify commercial
treaties between that country and Eng
land, France and Sardinia. He succeeded
his father as President October Is, 1862,
and one of his first acts was to encourage
a great extension of the cultivation of
cotton. In 1865 he declared war against
Brazil, commanded his troops in person,
and the hostilities then commenced nave
continued with little intermission ever
since.