Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-28

10 each Otner TIL WITHIN lew yards
and the speed was not checked. The
baggage car was telescOped with the
smoking car. All but a few OF the
passengers in the two ears were in
jUred.
An official investigation showed
that the accident was caused by the
neglect Of the conductor and engineer
Of the mail train to obey the order
given them not to pass WestpOrt un
til this specified freight train
had arrived. Their copy Of the Ordel
was found in q pocket of the engineers
who was believed to be fatally in
jured. Later intelligence, however
reports him to be improving, though
still unable to converse.
CRIMES AND CASUALTIES.
Neat Little fire.
LOUISVILLE, August 27.-The resi-.
dence of b. F. Moore, some thirteen
miles from the city, with its contents,
including the clothing of the family,
was destroyed by fire late Friday
night, the family barely escaping
with their lives. The fire originated
in the kitchen. The loss is about
5000.
Resisting Revenue OfFCars.
WASHINGTON, ID. c., August o.
Supervisor Perry reports, from North
Carolina, that revenue officers there
met with resistance from Illicit distiI-
ler5 in the exec ItiOn of their official
duties, and the offending parties will
be arrested.
The WestfeId Explosion.
NEW YORK, August 27.-The Core
ner of Brooklyn says that he will not
issue warrants for the arrest of Presi-
dent Vanderbilt and others of the
West6elG, who are held responsible
by the cOToneT's jury, unless he is adj
vised 20 do so by the District AttOr-
ney and the County District Attorney,
who are now absent.
Drowned while ResGuihg others
Providence, r. l., August o.
harIes Lindsey, aged twenty-One
e8r@, was drowned in attempting to
ave two boys who were thrown from
A n Bristol haTbOr yesterday.
H m with one boy to the shore
bu returning with the other his
str failed and he sank.
Arrest Of Couhterfsiters.
NEW YORK, August 27.-Arrests
were made this afternoon of Il gang
of gwindIers, on Ann street. The
premises were flooded with circulars,
offering counterfeit money for sale.
They contained innumera bic boxes
filled with saw dust together with
letters about the stuff, directed to all
parts Of the State.
A Family Drowned
NKw YORK, August 27.-It is re-
ported that the propeller Annie, of
Arlington, Del, ran down a canal
boat on Raritan river Tuesday during
the dense fog. The canal boat was
struck amidship and sunk in few
minutes. Captain Q. Thurman, his
two sons, and a daughter is said to
have been drowned.
Fire in the West ladies'.
NEW YORK, August H.-Latest
advicas from the West Indies state
that fire which recently visited
POint-a Pitre, capitol OF the island Of
destroyed nearly the
whole of the town, including the
Bank, the Treasury and the Custom
house. Sixteen blocks were con-
sumed, consisting Of the entire north
EAST portion of the city, known as La
Petite Terre. 1t was totally devasted,
but the church, the Court house, the
HOSPITAL and the Theatre were saved.
The safes Of the bank were found.
Murder at Evansville.
EVANSVILLE, IND, August H.-l
An unprovoked murder was commit
ed about two o'clock to-day. Ell
ward TohiIl, a cartman was stabbed
)v Eugene Sullivan, a fiatbOatman,
with a pocket knife in the armpit cut
ing of the auxiliary artery and vein |
rom which he bled to death in three |
Sullivan ran and was caught |
bout six squares from the courthouse |
where the murder was committed. |
sullivan has once been in the peniten- |
iary in Missouri for killing cOmr3de |
q the army. Tohill leaves a wife and |
i've children.
Abortion
New YORK, August 27.-This morn
ng Coroner Herman made a post /
a0rtenl examination on the body Of
n unknown female, discovered on /
saturday in trunk left at the Hud-
on River Railroad depot for Chicago.
'he verdict was that the cause of /
eath was Inflammation OF the bowels,
rought on by abortion. The corpse
J evidently Of a young woman of
bout Is or 19 years of age. The fea-
1res are pleasing, hair light and hight
feet = inches. Mehtard Trap, truck
river, has been arrested on suspicion,
aving taken the trunk to the depot.
NEW YORK, August ga trunk
the body of femal' eOut
years old, who ID Gitd
-om abortion, was left at the Hudson
liver railroad depot, New YOIk, yes
srdav. A respectable looking woman
resented a ticket and had the trunk
hecked for Chicago. No arrest has
cen made, although it is thought
hat the parties who brought the
runk 10 the depot will be appre-
ended. No clue has been Obi3ined
b the identity of the woman VINO
9ft the trunk containing the rem 4lns
I the victim of the abortion al The
hudson River railroad depot. The
ruekman and the driver OF the couple
which brought the woman to the de-
OF, who had been arrested on suspi-
ion, have been discharged, there
eing no evidence against them. The
alter states that he does not know
,ho the woman was, and that he