Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-29
TsLEcRAPHIc TRIPLES.

Alex. Ia In Detroit.
The Wharton trial still drags its slow length
along.
Haekett, the actor. died at jamaica plains
Long Island, Wednesday night.
Quebec's trunk-horror proves to be a astf~7
belonging 10 e medical mer.
Dispatches from Tucson, Arizona, say the
Pinsl silver mines are enormously rich.
New York measles. One hundred and MY
persons engaged In the sport during the past
week.
Five Of the worst Immigrant svin6lers were
arrested in New York yesterday and
" Iombed-"
A keeper Of s grocery, named Oakley, was
shot and killed at Fort smith. ArlZansas, on
the 2lst instant
Robert Hodge was stabbed and killed at q
on the 10Th instant
Of the treasury 20 examine the printi z
bureau report everything correct.
Rev. DeWoIf Howe was conSecrated, yester-
day morning IN Philadelphia, as bishop Of the
new central diocese Of Pennsylvania.
General Walkers report Of the ninth census
VIII be mailed TO prominent newspapers Of
the country to-day from " ashington-
Charles Piekard was hanged yesterday morn
ing at London, OntafrO, for the murder OF
Duncan McNannel, his employer, in april.
Adyices from the Kalamazoo reservation
represent the depredauons by the Indians di-
rect from that reservation as Of frequent Oc-
A sehool-house at Austin, Pulaski county,
Arkansas, was destroyed By ire Christmas
night. Loss, three thousand dollars. Cause
accidental
R. J. Foster, lata recorder Of Nashville and
prominent citizen, and who distinguished
himself IN the Mexican war, died In that city
"wednesday night
Miss Anna Belle Hamilton, OF st Louis
committed suicide Wednesday evening bv
taking cyanide Of potassium. A quarrel with
her lover led to the act she was only sixteen.
Further advices from sedslia confirm the
previous accounts Of the killing Of the negroes
In Saline county. II Is said that great excite
rneut exists there; that the negroes are panic
stricken, and efforts are being made 10 suppress
the facts in the case.
A dispatch from Scranton says that the low
price OF coal and stagnant condition Of the !
mar kef, as announced yesterday in the New
York market, though source Of great sur
prfs. 10 dealers there, Will not occasion auy
suspension Of work at the presentTates.
Chicago has rumor that Hon. J. Young /
SeammOn and others have purchased the |
Chicago Republican, and that II Will be placed /
under the editorial management Of Mr.. Sidney /
Howard Gay, some years since holding the same /
position on the New York Tribune. and for the Il
past four years on the Chicago Tribune
The latest horror comes from Paterson, New
Jersey. On "Wednesday an officer went 70 Il
serve warrant on Charles R. Burroughs, and 4
found him sitting IN a chair frozen stln. Fur
ther examination showed that Burroughs had /
poisoned himself on the lOih. and the body
had remained frozen as found since that time.
sud Indians for The killing Of the Apaches at |
Camp Grant, now in progress, has developed |
the Hct that the Indians were not upon their |
own reservation. and, although fed by the !
were engaged in direct hostilines |
against the settlers A verdict of aequ'taI is
fully expected.
Judge Gamble, OF Philadelphia, yesterday
granted 3 rule Of the court upon Bishop /
D. 0'Hara, OF Scranton, requiring him 70 appear
before him tGamble) on the Sd Of January |
next and show cause why he (O'Hara) should |
mr. is ~ Nh fRErf
.ast, and restore Father STACK to his pasJorate |
As he enjoyed it previous 70 that time.
A meeting OF about three hundred residents
1f Port Union, Butler county, Ohio, was held |
Wednesday night to give expression to their
feelings c. rnCerning the unexpected acuuttfal |
lf Tom Mcclellan Of the murder of Myers. j
Resolutions were adopted deeo1ncing the /
ury, Judge Mckenny and McGehan's attor- |
news, and also demanding that MeGehan shall /
cave the country.
A most horrible calamity is reported from |
Floris, in Davis county, Iowa. A few nights |
40 in a low, board shanty lived man. his | :
wife and four children. In the night the shanty
Ook fire and burned 20 the ground The next | !
morning the neighbors, none OF whom had
lsen aroused by the IRE, gathered around,
When the charred remains Of the entire family {
we're found in the asGes.
Letters received il New York 70 the Ist Of / {
december, nom Cairo, Egypt, mention that a ! 7
eUOrr was current there that SirSam Baker J
.loriIig Central Africa and the headwaters Of
he river Nile, died Of starvation One report / J
tEteS tnaL the men muf1n1ed and shot Baker. ] Z
mother report states that only Baker and his |
Tifs are left Of the expedition.
A JeddO Japan letter 70 the New York
ierald gives an account OF the audience Of / z
.dua lrRl Rogers aud other naval officers with / Z
ns MgkadO- They were finely entertained. / {
japanese mission OF i've diguitaries left for Z
he United States on the 22d Of December, TO :
ousuIt cur government relative 70 the reyis- /;
IN Of the TreEty. Minister Delany left az 4
be same time on the same mission.
Advices from Genevs. Switzerland, state
ns. the police there recently captured the 3
I'm OF Berthey & Co., which was running I
O-cSlled national bank, but which really was 5;
countsrfeiting concern on large scale.
AmOug the property seized were two hundred ,
certificates Of Erie railway :
haras snd one thousand shares OF the funded O
ebt OF the city Of lyons, together with q large '
lumber OF ltthographic plates. q
Brigham Young, trustee in trust Of the a
hErch Of Jesus Christ and Latter Day Saints, =
a. brought a case before the United States I
lpfsule cOurCwhich went against him there 4
q an account rendered against the DeSefet
rrigzting company Judgment beirg for some d
hing over ueE thousand dollars. TIE suit was | T
ased upon The ale alton that Young eonstl- =
lted the DesereJ Irrigat1ng company, and
lat the debt Of thai concern " as his OWL
he error claimed is that the court admitted
Of the compauy1s indebtedness 20
lafnttd, without first requiring Houngis con-
ection with II TO be sufficiently shown The
suse has just been put upon the docket, and Is =
OF likely 10 be reached for two or three years. ]
he name OF the plaintiff is one william
,Ohest. |