Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-06
TELEoRAPHIc SUMMARY.

Omaha.
w.R. Mesny, of the Baltimore Press
died yesterday.
A timer was shot and killed In Glen
dale, near Cincinnati, yesterday.
Five apetroleuses''-P female in
cendiaries-are on trial in Paris.
Workmeu in Brussels are on q strike
for reduction of the hours of labor.
The trip from San Francisco to Liver
pool has been made in seventeen days.
Strikes occurred yesterday among the
workmen In Sheffield and Bradford, Eng
land.
G. W. Cabul, Of EIkton, Maryland, was
crushed by car wheel at Louisville yes
terdsy.
Hon. John A. Poor, prominent rail
road official, died at Portland, Me-, yes
terdsy.
The church organ mandatory was
burned at Springfield, Massaehusetts,yes.
terdsy.
General Wade Hampton is dangerously
sick and his wife is threatened with
paralysis. ., ,.-...,-..
A whole square of houses in Washing.
ton Court house, Ohio, were destroyed
yesterday.
The old board of officers of the Cinein-
natl and Roekport railroad werere-eleoted
yesterday.
The public printing of Mississippi cost
that State $3.50, $40 from June 1870, tc
| August 1871.
A terrible prison-ship has been fitted
| out TO take the condemned Communists tc
New Caledonis. -.--
L Vorghbet, editor Of q German paper
in Desmoines, Iowa, fell dead yesterday
from heart disease.
The inquest on the Eastern railroad
disaster was resumed at Boston yesterday
The end Is not yet.
The Association of Master Railway Me-
chanics sits on the 18th inst, in the Cali
House at Louisville.
A vast crowd from twenty States will
attend the Richmond, Virginia, pomo-
logical exhibition to-day.
A gravel bank at Knightstown, Ind.
caved in yesterday, killing N. Armstrong
and injuring two others.
The anniversary of the downful of the
French Empire passed of yesterday with.
out any troubles in Paris.
The crowned heads at Gastien have
agreed to leave the Roman Pontiff
troubles entirely to Italy.
Governor Leslie, of Kentucky, was in.
stalled IN Office yesterday, the venerable
Judge Robertson officiating.
Two men were killed on Cincinnati
railroads yesterdsy-One near Cummins.
Vile, the other near Marietta.
DR.. Karl Marx, the leading spirit of the
International Society, died Al London
yesterday in his ifty-third year.
The anniversary OF the occupation o.
Rome will be celebrated by troops march.
ing through the streets of Rome.
Davy Brown, a small boy. accidentally
shot his sister in play last night, in Nash
vile. She is not expected to live.
The ships Julia Curney, Duke of We'll
lington, Hornet, Westward, Douglas and
Hero, were lost in the late Cuban hurri-
cane.
The races at Lexington, Kentucky, next
week, will surpsss all previous years.
The preparations are on an immense
scale.
Tempestuous discussions in the Assem-
bly, at Versailles, yesterday, on q motion
to remove the seat Of government to
Paris.
A new and beautiful Episcopal church
(stone) was dedicated in the presence OF
an immense crowd at Salt Lake City,
Utah, yesterday.
A delegation of the Warmoth wing OF
Louisiana Republicans had an half hours
consultation with the President yester-
day morning at Long Branch.
The clop OF tobacco now being cut in
the Miami valley is the largest ever raised
probably As, 900 boxes, the crop last year
being 25, 900 boxes. The leaf is fine.
A young girl named Mary Russell, OF
Ridge street, New York, died last night
from the effects of an operation performed
on her by female sbOrtionist, who was
arrested.
The Tsmmany men say that the recent
meeting of indignation. held in New
York, will amount to nothing. It was
composed Of sore heads and disappointed
place hunters.
A steamer of unequsled splendor, i've
hundred feet long and twenty eight miles
an hour, is to run next year on the Hud-
son, to go to Albany and return to New
York in twelve hours.
An sdroit thief tried to steal drsy with
q load of linen goods, in Cincinnati, yes
terdGy. He got along so well as to be able
to prepare the linen for shipment by the
Dayton road to New Jersey.
A terrible wind and rain storm swept
over the town of Window, Minnesota,
Yesterday afternoon raising number of
buildings from the ground. Phillip
Jacobs was blown from q train and re-
ceived fatal injuries.
The demands of the New York plaster
ers for an increase of wages from s. so to
81 90 per day, and s decrease in the time
Of labor from ten hours to eight hours per
day, was generally scquiesced in by en-
ployers yesterday.
Grant and Boutwell, have nothing
against Barring Bros, but would have
American finances In Europe managed
bY Americans, for the reason, as we infer
from the financial success of Americans,
that these viii be enriched by 1t.
Judge Abell, of New Orleans, says the
officials of Louisiana have plundered that
State Of more money than all the thieves
and scoundrels tried in his Court during
the last quarter of a century. So much
for government Of the 'Koom-Posh."
The venerable Justice Robertson, of
Kentucky, st the conclusion of the cere-
mony incident to the installation of Gov
ernor Leslie, at Frankfort, announced in
q trem bling voice his resignation of the
Judgeship be has held 50 long and filed
30 ably.
A special to the Pittsburg Commercial
says that in Shsmburg, Pennsylvania, this
morning, two men, while applying ben
zine to the ceiling of the house for the pur-
pose of killing bedbugs, the benzine gas
exploded, burning the men, and burning
MIS-. SchralQer TO OeaLns
Miss Carrie DeBow, daughter Of the late
J. D. B. DeBow, while dressing for par
ty yesterday in Nashville, set her dress on
fire. DIR. ". L. Nicholson went to her
assistance and succeeded in eXtinguish-
ing the flames. but not until she was fear
fully burnt. 1t is spprehended that she
cannot survive.
Judge Robinson, of Kentucky,is is eighty
one years old, he has been twice In Con-
gress, thrice Speaker OF the House of Rep
reseDtatives In Kentucky, and Judge of
the High Court of Appeals since 1889. His
country and Europe. BE is an old Whig
and moderate Republican.
The London Times, the heavy organ of
the English aristocrscy, says the democ-
raey are in q fair way Of taxing posses
sion of the government. It regards as q
serious calamity the prospect OF the bal
lot being placed in the hands of the peo-
pie. It says that the recent doings of par
lament has tnaugurated 9 new era In
British history. Fesrfull
H.V Post, of Pekins, Post & Co., re-
plies to dispatches from Indianapolis,
which says that his company had asked
to be declared bankrupt, that the dis
patches were calculated to place them In
opposition to the settlement recently Of
fered to the company, whereas they are in
favor of the terms offered and urge their
reditors generally to accept the same.
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Helena and IrOH Mountain Read.
In the meeting of stockholders in
the Helena and Iron Mountain road,
at Wittsburg, adjourned Monday, 3O,-
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