Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-19
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The small pOX is still raging in
Lowell, Massachusetts.
Boston suspended business yester-
day to- lay the cornerstone of a
Sailors and Soldiers monument.
The opening of the Buffalo Inter
national Industrial Exhibition hes
been postponed by the illness Of Gov
ernOr Hoffman.
The Germans held a festival at
Philadelphia yesterday to aid in the
raising of funds for the completion of
the Humboldt monument.
A negro named Anderson Hopkins
was knocked down and stabbed by
Richard Clay, a cOlOred brother, a
few days ago at Monticello, Arkansas.
The texas and a portion Of the
cabin of the steamer Commonwealth,
lying at the East st. Louis landing,
was burned yesterday morning. The
loss is not known.
A Chicago Mrs. Brown locked her
two children up in the kitchen, while
she attended church, last Sunday, and
found them smothered to death from
smoke when she returned.
The office of John Durand, general
superintendent of the Pittsburg, Gin
cinnati, st. Louis and Little Miami
railroad, has been removed from Co
lumbus, Ohio, to Cincinnati.
Sixty thousand Union torpedoes
were seized yesterday, in New York,
by the chief of the bureau of cOmbust-
ibles of the fire department, and
Opend and emptied into the Hudson
river.
The whole business portion of Pho.
che, Nevada, was destroyed by fire,
last Sunday. Five lives were lost and
many persons were wounded by the
explosion Of powder. The loss is es-
at $500, 600 to $500, 900.
The Board of Trustees of the Agri-
College of Arkansas met at
Little Rock, yesterday, for the pur-
pose Of receiving bids for the location
of the college. Nothing was done be-
yOnd an organization of the Board and
opening Of bids.
Colonel II. Yule stated at the Brit
ish Association meeting a short time
since, that the teak timbers which
bound the walls of the palace at Cesti-
phOn, in BabylOnia, dated from the
fifth or sixth century of our era, are
still undecayed.
The Chicago Tribune gravely de-
clares that the constitution of Illinois
fOrbids the dilutiOn of railroad stock,
and that, in the face of that dOcu-
ment, the Short Line Lake Shore
railroad had watered its stock to an
immense amount.
The Schleswig question is again
coming to the surface of European
politics. Bismarck promises it shall
be settled. The only settlement likely
to be favored by the willy dOdger Of
Prussia is that which will annex the
province in question to the blOated
dOminiOns Of his Royal Master VIII
liam.
Has the Tammany squabble sWal-
lowed up everything else in New
York? The telegraph says that the
viaduct railway enterprise has been
completely lost sight of since the eX-
pOsure Of the sO-styled "Tammany
tricks" The stockholders are natu-
rally anxious to ascertain just what is
the matter.
The spiritualists, doing business at
No. 145 Halstead street, Chicago, had
a nice little seance Sunday night, in
the course of which Mr.. Charles Ba-
ker shot Miss Carrie NJ. Sawyer and
Mr.. Benz. K. Mitchell. There seems |
10 have been some free love mixed up
with the affair, as Baker claimed to
be the husband of Miss Sawyer.
On Saturday night OF last week ten
masked men went to the house of
Anderson Moore, cOlOred, of Drew
county, Arkansas, and took another |
negro named John Keagle away. He
has not been heard of since, and it is |
thought that he was murdered. Kea-
gle had been living with a white wo-
man, to whom he was to have been |
on Sunday morning. 1t is |
thought that at least half the masked |
,rOwd were negroes. Several parties, |
white and black, have been already |
arrested.
Connolly, the deposed Comptroller |
Of New York, has given New York a |
sensation in his answer to Mayor
Hall. All day Sunday and last even |
ing the Mayor and his friends were
,lOseted in consultation, and the fight |
Is now between Hall and Connolly |
and their respective followers. Halls |
as is shown by his removal |
Of Connolly, and thus showing the |
power which he has already declared |
be did not possess, and the action of |
the chairman Of the Democratic State |
Committee aimed at the destruction |
Of tie ring, and the attempt to check |
mate him will probably result in q
,risis and Consideration which ii is |
to speculate upon.