Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-27

a reaI-eastate agent of that city, for
ten thousand dollars for the seduction
Of Eliza Oaks.
The Virginia legislature adjourned
yesterday and meets in extra session
to-day.
Henry Berry Lowery and Boss
Strong, the North Carolina despera-
does, are dead.
II the German troops are Withdrawn
from France the National assembly
will be dissolved.
1t is said in New York the South
ern Improvement company will
shortly be dissolved.
The Sultan will visit Lyons, France,
in May, to attend the exposition
there in that month.
A hOgshesd of tobacco yesterday
rolled over a Louisville negro and
crushed him to death.
Next Saturday and Mondsy will be
observed as holidays in England. No
business will be transacted.
Some members of the French assem-
bly, sccuse Washburne Of aiding Prus-
sian spies during the siege Of Paris.
a fire last night destroyed Sylvester
g. Riggs' block at Port Leyden, New
York. Loss, $S6, 600; insurance, $21,-
600.
A Dill passed the United States
senate, yesterday, granting the right
of way to the Mobile Grand Trunk
railway.
Two canal commissioners Of Seneca
county, New Jersey, were indicted by
the grand jury yesterday for official
delinquencies.
Bebsl Liebknecht, who was on trial
at Leipsig for high treason, has been
convicted and sentenced to two years
imprisonment.
A boiler explosion occurred in Brus-
sells yesterday morning, which is re-
ported to have killed eight persons
and injured many.
A Toronto dispatch says that all the
morning papers in that city appeared
regulsrly yesterday, Notwithstanding
the printers strike.
Two prominent citizens of Pitts
burg were robbed Of diamonds and
money yesterday in a sleeping coach
l.
The funeral Of Fort Sumter Ander-
son will take place in New York this
day week. Several Masonic bodies
have rendered their services for the
occasion.
james w. Johnson, a brakeman on
a freight train on the Nashville and
Chattanooga railroad, fell of the train
yesterday near Nashville, and YVES
instantly killed.
Sixty-siX railroads were represented
in the Railroad Ticket-Agents' con-
vention, held yesterday In Louisville,
and which adjourned TO September
25tb, TO meet in New York.
Rev. Mother Mary Rose Gauthre-
aux, superior vicar Of the western
province Order of the Sacred Heart,
died at her residence in the convent
Of Chicago yesterday, aged fOrty-seven
years.
William s. Huntingdon, cashier Of
the First National Bank, Washing
ton, died yesterday morning OF pneu-
mOnia after several hours sickness.
He was an esteemed and respected
citizen.
Hon. Samuel w. Hill, a member
Of the Michigan house Of representa-
tives, was charged in open house yes
terday afternoon by SWinefOTd, Of
Marquette, with selling his vote and
influence for money. The matter ere
ated q decided sensation. A commit
tee Of investigation was promptly ap-
pointed.
Frank P. Blair, G. A. Flnklenburg,
]. P. Hay and Erastus Wells, ap-
peared before the committee on Com
merce at Washington yesterday, to
urge an appropriation for harbor at
st. Louis and Alton, and on the Mis-
river between Alton and the
mouth of the Ohio, as recommended
by the board OF engineers Il thciz re-
port recently submitted TO congress.