Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-05

room was crowded at the time, and three
hundred persons were precipitated q dis
tance of thirty or forty fest. The number
of those killed is unknown. Some thirty
are badly injured, most of them fatally.
A passenger on the North Missouri
rsilrosd jumped from the cars on Monday,
near st. CHARLES, snd fell beneath the
wheels. He was instantly killed, his
head being completely severed from the
body. Cgsh and notes amounting to
81, 600 are said TO have been found upon
the person of the deceased, but his name
could rot be sscsrtsined.
COLUMBIA, 8. Gin the United States
court, this morning, ten more prisoners
from Spartsnsburg county plead guilty,
and told the story of their crimes in open
court. Among them was an old man, who
was discharged upon his own recogniz-
sncs. A youth named Armstrong plead
guilty of robblng the mail, and was SEN
tencsd to five years in the Detroit house
of correction.
RICHMOND, Virginia, January Sin
Prince Edward county, Virginia, negro
took by force from her mo.hsr's house q
respectable young Whits girl, sged thir-
teen years, and committed upon her
person aendish outTage. he made his
escsPe, but party Of gentlenen are pur-
suing with every prospect Of capturing
him. II he Is captured lynch law will
probably be enforced.
PITTsBURa, January "A Commercial
special says that q young man named
Sutherland was shot and killed st Free
msn's Landing, st noon yesterday. He
was invited to enter 3 bost used as q
Photographic gallery by Mr.. Miller, the
proprietor, and, the door being fastened,
was requested to kick it open, which be
did, when Miller fired q revolver, shoot
Sutherland through the lungs.
LOUISVILLE, KENTUCKY, January g.
Yesterday morning man was discovered
by The engineer of train on the New
Albany and Chicago railroad, putting
obstructions on the track in the wsy OF the
train between Bainbridge and Carpenter
vile, Indisns. The man was captured.
He wss throwing his arms wildly sbout,
and acting and talking strangely. He is
German, but refused to give his nsme.
He was sent to Greencsstle, Indiana, this
morning.
RKW ORLEANS, January Sat Msts- |
morss troops were placed in the fortiflcs- |
tions around the city to repair and |
the works, in anticipation of |
an attack by the revolutionists. It was |
that large force of insurgents |
from the interior Of the State were sd- |
vsncing to take the place. General Car |
at Camargo, hss received ammunition to |
repulse a threatened attack of the rebels, |
Who are ct Mier, thirty miles distant from |
that pla0e,
HARTFORD, January 3.-The triple muir
der at Windsor, on Tuesday, proves to /
have been q most horrible affair, The
victims Wsrs Timothy Billings and his |
wife, keepers Of q notorious brothel sbout |
two miles from the village, and julia
Bays, slias Gowdy, q young woman,
IN inmate of the house. On visiting the /
house, the bodies Of Billings and the two
women were found covered with ghsstly
wounds from the butt of gun. An at
.emDt had been made to fire the house.
Several persons are under arrest,
WASHINGTON, January s.-Yesterday a
man presented st the savings bank in
his city five United States bonds, OF the
denomination Of $lO0e each, for sale,
which the clerk recognized ag part of the
Us. 900 stolen in December last from gem
lemsn at the corner of Liberty street and
Broadway, New York, and which have
)een extensively advertised. Detectives
we're called, and the man, who gave his
lame as Horace Carp, was arrested. he
isserts that he purchased the bonds in
Sew York, and offers to return with off,
ers to that city and establish his good
haracter.
FORT WAYNE, Indiana, Jan. 4-Ohisf
f Police Patrick McGss wss shot here
his morning st ten O'Clock by Dr.. J. N,
hacker. McGee attacked Thscker in q
ivery stable, and struck him once with 8
egvy cane, when Thacker drew a revol.
or and fred at him, one shot taking
feet IN the heart, killing MrGee in
tsntly. Thscksr Is now in Jail, having
iven himself up at once Justifisbl9
I'd rir ha Enl 4 Of . 1
be prisoner. II is said that some private
ifnculty between the two was the Gauss
( the sffray.
LOUISVILLE, January A little girl, |
even years old, daughter of VIM. Daniel
romwen, Of Ohio county, Kentucky, !
Tss instantly killed by lightning in her ]
ather's house on Sunday. The electricity |
anne down the chimney. The little sirl $
TODD by the jam, and near bed where
er mother was lying sick. The fash
truck the left side OF the girls head, {
urning of the hair, and pesling in crisps
'om many places on the face, neck, chest
nd lower limbs, leaving the flesh of q
luish-ltved color. A little dog lying at 8
he girls feet was killed by she same 6
ash. Her mother and two other children 9
ere knocked senseless by the shock. :
be mantle over the fire was torn into i
1linters. Chimney uninjured. e
ST. LOUIS, January "A young man !
AIMED 4. ID. O'Connor Was found on va
INT lot IN this city Tuesday with pistol
Tot in the head. he was taken to the r
Ospital, where he has Eincs died. Il was +
opposed that he committed suicide, and F
ssterday a letter was found on him con-
rming the suspicion. The letter states i
lst he lived in Leavenworth, Kansas; 3
lat In August, 1870, he was struck on the .
zoe with q rock without provocstion,
noe when he has been q great sufferer,
i'd his life miserable. In November he d
.me here to consult surgeons, but OBJ I
lining no relisf, he concluded to die.
70 was book-kseper by aYocztion, and &
Is relatives reside in Leavenworth.
LoUIsvILLB, January 4.-An engine =
Id freight train on the Louisville and s
ashville railroad, coming north, explod-
her boiler early this morning, while
inning near Buck Lodge station, throw
q eight cars of coal and three empty cars .
7 the track, and instantly killing O.
lmison, the engineer. The fireman, !
eel, and the brakeman, Preston, were s.
riously scalded. The engine Was /.
3w one, and no cause for the explosion
known The track was cleared, and
aims passed in the after noon as usual. =
Ohio, January 4.-The presi-
.nt, vice president and other officers of
e Pennsylvania Central railroad have =
zen in the city yesterday and to-day en-
lged in holding q conference with the :
rectOrs and representatives of the
oledo, Tiffin and Mansfeld, the Pierre
srQuette and the Toledo and Ann Arbor
ilroads in reference to union Of these
sds at this point, upon the completion
which arrangements they will be op- O
gted together, In pursuance of these n
the Pierre Marquette rail- .,
ad Is TO construct an independent track | ,
T its own use from Monroe, Michigan,
this city and the Toledo and Ann Q
rbor road is to be immediately put
lder contract and pushed forward to | ]
mpletiOn. The Pellnsyivania Central, Z