Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-20
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Mrs. Marnes, Of Boston, died in
drunken fit yesterday. rr
A batch of disciples for Salt Lake
left Nashville yesterday.
Sam. A Way, Of Boston, a well
known financier, is dying.
The Senate at Albany passed the Nel
York registry law yesterday.
The new charter for New York cit
makes a clean sweep Of all city officer
James Costello, of New York city
charged with murder, has been &C
quilted.
Two million dollars I'm Japanese gol
have been received in San Francisco 70
recOinage- r
Ellis Ward and John Biglin are I
scull for one thousand dollars near -Nel
York soon.
The Sultan has placed a steam yach
at the disposal Of Sherman for trip 9
SevastOpOl.
The Arms Committee at Washington
are still working on the Franco Prussian
Sehurz feature.
The troops of Amadeus are measurin,
weapons with the Carlists in Spain
Nice excitement.
On March Sd, an explosion of maga
zine at Tientsin destroyed eighty houses
Many lives were lost
The civil service reform bill passed the
House yesterday by vote of ninety-fivs
yeas TO seventy-nine nays.
William Smith, who killed policeman
Starkey, Of Nashville, some time ago
has been arrested and Is In jail.
Rich placer mines have been discov.
cred on the Colorado river, two hundred
miles above Colleville, California.
James Maines, of Boston, tried yes.
teroay TO violate his brother Williams
wife. Not succeeding, he killed her.
He has been arrested, and is in jail.
Ryan, who killed Doyle at the Revere
House some months ago, escaped from
Camp Douglass on Thursday morning.
John Scarborough was shot through
the heart and killed in Wheeling, Nir-
ginia, yesterday, by George W. Robin
son.
Civilians attached to military expedi-
tons or camps, voluntarily or otherwise,
are hereafter 70 be amena5le 10 military
law.
The Port Huron and Lake Michigan
Railroad has been sued for ninety thou
sand dollars Of preferred stock for work
done.
The Illinois Tunnel Company struck
the drift Of the Emma mine, involving
more litigation, the Tunnel claiming to
be the Oldest location.
A woman on the East Tennessee and
and Georgia Road was run over and
killed Yesterday in attempting 10 save
little pig from such a fate.
In the Canadian Parliament the anna
teur statesmen are gushing about the
fisheries question and the Fenians. The
bantramis feathers are rufhed.
The Indianapolis Sabbath School gath
sring appointed committee on uni
formity, which is expected 10 make an
elaborate report At their leisure.
The naval investigation farce like
that into the sales Of arms drags its slow
length along. Robson never wiz be
convicted. Grant can't afford it.
The newly-eiected Mayor Of st. Paul,
Minnesota, is Liberal Republican, who
was turned out Of the pOstmastership a
while since, to make room for Grant
man.
The Japan and China line Of mail
steamers Is to be subsidized TO the extent
metro three hundred thousand dollars
per annUm.
The Sabbath School Convention at
indianapolis, yesterday, adopted reso-
iutiOn Inviting the Sabbath school peo-
pie Of the Dominion 10 send delegates 10
The next meeting.
1t is supposed that Bullock, late Gov
ernOr Of Georgia, has either left the
United States OF Is so securely secreted
that his whereabouts cannot, after dill
gent search, be ascertained. --.
Robert Step and Jsmes Hull, charged
with the murder OF man named Lewis
Hill, In Fentress county, Tennessee, on
ahe both of November, 1871, have been
arrested and lodged In Jail at Nashville.
The counties of Putnam, Jackson and
Smith, in this State, suffered almost ir-
repar2bly by food from the rain Of the
eighth. Houses, fences, barns and cattle
were washed away, and much of the
eGltivable land ruined.
San Gabriel placer mines, Los Ange-
los county, California, from whence gold
was sent 10 the PhiladeBhia mint in
1836-twenty-one years before Marshall's
discovery al CalamO-is about to be
worked BY hydraulics, and on a large
scale.
We are 70 have another public wash
ing Of the sOiled linen Of great author
and his family. 1t Is said that the
friends Of Mrs. Dickens propose, ia view
of statements made sbOnt her in Fosters
volume, TO publish the tTIe story Of the
separation.
For the year ending January /, 1872 /
Wells, Fargo 4 Co, Of Salt Lake, re- /
aeived three million one hundred and /
six thousand dollars worth of bullion /
frOIa Phoebe. During the last three /
months over one million dOllaE worth I
was sent east
4 dispatch from San Francisco says /
the hooks continue in 70 county. but /
are noC felt this side of the mountains. 4
a volcans e island is rising Ia Mono lake. 4
on Friday list Round Valley camp, in /
Yo county. was thrown down; the earth .
opened in many p aces; no lives lost.
It Is stated in Washington by Repub-
hcan members Of Congress that The
President is very anxious TO adopt an
aggressive policy toward Spali., and
that he is only held back from preclpi-
tating critical relations with that cOun-
Try by the more careful members Of the
Cabinet.
A man named Lomle was killed by q
fellow mechanic in Knoxville Wednes-
day. The two men had qusrreled about
Z die while et their work 8 few days be-
fore. Hammet was struck with mon
key-wrench on the back of the neck
and then he got q pistol and shot LOm-
lie in the forehead, making 8 deep ridge
which produced instant death.
One hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars worth Of improvement bonds Of the
city Of Cincinnati, sold in that city, on
Thursday, at one hundred and three and
One-sixteenth, being three and ons-siX-
teenth above par. These bonds draw
seven per cent interest and run twenty
years. They were taken by the First
National Bank OF Cincinnati
A fire in the brass foundry Of Miles,
Greenwood and Co., Cincinnati, at half
past seven yesterday morning, destroyed
and damaged the building and stock to
the extent Of ten thousand dollars. The /
FIRE or ginated from the ignition and ex-
plosion o. large can Of benzine. Two
gorknen, Movers and Englehart, were
severely burned BY the explosion.
The New York Sls:g publishes an ac-
count Of the poisoning o. the wife and !
three children Of David Tfbnef, eOlOred,
by John Henry Casper Hubert, q white
man and an inmate Of Timers house,
on East Long Island. The story Is based
on the afiidavit Of David Ti6neT, before
a justice of the peace. The bodies Of
the woman and children are to be sx-
humed for medical investigation.
Considerable excitement exists among
the sporting men Of the country over
the report that the famous English race
horse, Sterling, said to be the fastest in
the world, Is at last TO be shipped to this
country, and entered for the Monmouth
Gun ef Long Branch this season bis
COMPETITOR wiz be Mr.. Harper Long