Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.


The New York colored will 90 for
Grant.
William the Good will soon 60 to Ems
to water for the summer.
Judge Curtis, of the New York Ad-
miralty Court, is to be impeached.
The press gang of New York State
will meet on the seventeenth instant.
The fire at Niblo's was caused by the
falling Of a chimney through the dome.
The Idaho and City of Brooklyn ar
rived in New York Tuesday with twelve
hundred immigrants each.
Ingerven, Canaga, was destroyed by
fire on Monday night. Loss, five
hundred thousand dollars.
Squires' opera house, in Grand Rapids,
Michigan, was burned yesterday. Loss,
seventy-five thousand dollars.
The Cincinnati Enquirer, a staunch
Democratic paper, is doing yeoman
service for Greeley and Brown.
Congress will have Federal and State
elections, both to occur in Louisiana on
the first Monday in November.
In Committee Ofthe Whole, the House
of Representatives struck cut of the
tariff bill duties on tea and coffee.
Archibald Calhoun, a well known
contractor, of New Orleans, was killed
on the Jackson railroad yesternay after
noon.
Three Cinnamon and several China
women, otherwise Chinese, We're burned
to death in a fire i'm San Francisco yes
terday.
The WcStlichc T'olksNadt, the Ger
man organ of Northwest Missouri, came
out yesterday in strong opposition to
Greeley.
Five hundred and eighty-three mem
bers of the medical profession are in
Philadelphia to attend national con-
ventiOn of the doctors.
The courthouse at Paris, Kentucky,
was burning at one O'Clock this morn
ing. The clerks offices will be burned.
The records are saved.
Two million five hundred thousand
dollars was withdrawn from the Bank
Of England yesterday. Rise in rate
of discount anticipated.
The National Convention of Photo
graphy at St. Louis, are succeeding first
rate in pleasing each other by showing
works of their chemical genius.
The AttOrney-General of New York
proposes to bring Stokes up for trial this
term if a jury can be found to sit in the
court of Oyer and Terminer of New
York.
Henry Howard of New York is said
I to have defrauded the government out
of ten thousand dollars by making false
returns Of his income. He viii be pun
ished.
About eighty members of different
l Schultzen Societies have organized a
party to attend the fourth National
/ SharpshOOters' festival in Germany this
summer. They will go by the Norfolk
1 line.
The splendid building now in course
| Of construction at st. Louis, and intend
/ ed to seat twenty thousand persons, will
be completed in June. The National
J Democratic Convention is to be held In
this building.
From January first 10 the sixth in
slant the total number of immigrants
arrived in New York was siXty-five
/ thousand seven hundred and eighty
/ three-twenty thousand mOne than fol-
the corresponding period last year.
! In New York the following delegates
were elected yesterday by the Typo
/ grahpicai Union, No. 6, 10 the Inter
national Convention at Richmond:
Charles II. Mcpherson, Thomas L. Cool
ey, +. b. Cogswell, and Stephen Balger.
The election Of a Board Of Directors
I for the Alabama Central railroad for the
ensuing year took place in Selma on
! "Wednesday. The following gentlemen
Il
! Jordan, H. II. Wibert, j. b. DumOnt,
James Hampton Robb, William l. La
nier, +. 5. Lyon, and w. J. Hardee.
A Baltimore dispatch gives the par
ticulars Of terrible butehery perpetra-
ted in that city on the 4th instant: A
young married woman, aged about
twenty-three, of handsome and COM
manding appearance, andmost engaging
manners, was literally hacked to pieces
! IN the bed where she sought rest and
protection by her husbands side. Will
no eye save that of his Maker to see him
! John W. b. Wilkinson, "a respectable man
residing at No. 50 McElderTy street, in
flicted at least twenty horrible wounds
upon his wife's head and person with 9
Butchers cleaYeT, almost any one Of
which would have produced instant
death, and then fed from the house
No time was allowed for preparation
not a moment for remOnstrance. The
poor, unfortunate creature was sent (
her last account before she could utter
one cry TO stay the hand Of the assassin
Her mother and her little daughter, whC
slept in the next room, were not even
aroused by the sounds Of strife, and not
until this morning did they discover tho
! frightful crime that had been committed
50 near, and the iHepaTable loss that ha'
Overtaken them.