Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-24
WAITS OF THE WIRES.

Evansville has packed 1880 hogs
the present season.
The Reese river district is again eX-
cited over the discovery OF gold.
The gas works at Richmond, Indi-
ana, blew up last night. No lives lost.
Colonel Washington, editor Of the
San Francisco Examiner, died last
night.
A Scranton dispatch reports several
failures there, consequent on long sUs-
pension.
The Liverpool chamber of CON-
merce ask a reduction OF Atlantic ca
bic tolls.
Rev. John Selby Watson, the Eng
lish vile murderer under sentence Of
death, has been respited.
A deserter from Fort Pembina was
found frozen to death eight miles
north Of that post few days ago.
The Wisconsin legislature in joint
session yesterday adopted a resolution
favOring the pOstal-telegTaph system.
The trial OF Louis Watson yester-
day, at Evansville, for the murder of
james p. ShryOck-WhOSe mysterious
burial at Cincinnati some three weeks
ago excited some suspiciOn-resUlted
In ecquittai.
The rag warehouse Of Rlamber,
Jacobs d Co, in the southern part OF
st. Louis, consisting mainly of num-
Der Of wooden sheds, was burned on
Monday night, with a loss of SO, 600;
insurance, $1,000.
In Manchester, New Hampshire,
yesterday, Dennis Shea struck his
wife with fiat iron, probably fatally
frseluriRg her skull. He then cut his
throat from ear to ear, dying almost
instantly. No cause is assigned.
At Erie, Pennsylvania, yesterday,
the celebrated Story oil-iarm case was
decided IN favor OF Story, plaintiff.
The judge Immediately set aside the
verdict as not being in accordance
with his charge to the jury, and or
dered new trial.
General B. s. EWell Is still seriously
III at his residence in Maury county
In this State. His wife died yesterday
of pneumonia. She was a daughter
of Judge Campbell, minister to Rus
STA under General Jackson, and was
born in ST. Petersburg.
About five hundred dollars in an
cient gold coin was unearthed yes |
terday in Philadelphia by labOrers |
engaged in making an excavation for |
the bed OF q new boiler at the back |
part Of a house on north Third street. !
Some Of the coin are very ancient.
The body Of August Ruter-a Ger
man seventy-tWO years old, and miss |
ing from home sin the 10th of De |
cember-Wss found hanging on tree |
near Medina, Wisconsin, yesterday. |
It is supposed that the body had been
hanging where found since he was |
drst missed.
a The Trenton IN. j. banking COM
pany have offered a reward OF $4,000 |
for the arrest aud conviction Of /
the burglars who entered the bank /
Sunday night, or three thousand dol
lars for any one Of them. The whole
amount stolen was about thirty thous-
and dollars.
Argument 10 the Wharton -Retch-
um case was closed yesterday after
noon. The Judge concluded his charge
With-+Gentlemen OF the jary, your
verdict viii be either guilty or not /
guilty OF murder in the first degree"
The jury then, at five minutes past
two O'Clock, retired to their room.
The Tichborne case continues to at
tract much attention In London. The
chance is evidently weak
9ned by tne opening argument for the
defense. The cOG-f is daily crowded
by spectators Of higa rank. The de-
tense say they have tree hundred
witnesses. Revelations Of al exciting
character are looked fOr.
A Columbus (SOuth CarOlina) dis
patch says that twenty-five OF the ku-
kIux prisoners who we're sentenced to
terms exceeding one year, were trans
ported from the State yesterday, as
the marshal had discovered a plan
10 rescue the prisoners, If conveyed
through the State. He concluded to
take them by steamer 'front.' Charleston.
Bagdad, town on the Mexi-
can SIDE, e mouth OF the Rio
Monday night pillaged
By thir forty outlaws. They
claim tC blutiOnists, but are only
robbers Il Juan Partaga and
were refugees ia Texas
until a lev days since, when they
crossed the Rio Grande at Ranehita.
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