Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-20
ELECTRIC SCINTILLATIONS.

To-day viii be observed in London as
a holiday, and as a consequence all busi-
ness viii be suspended.
r1he whereabouts of Don Carlos re-
mains a mystery, but that he has es-
capped from Spain is certain.
LANES Carroll killed Wilkes Boduin
on the Ievee in New Orleans yesterday,
by stri king him over the head with a
billet Ga wood
A man named John J. Crapeau was
Saturday sentenced in Boston to ten
years in the State prison for a feloniOus
assault upon little girl.
AdoIph Penemin. aged thirty, COM
mitted suicide by shooting himself, i'm
New Orleans yesterday. He leaves a
dependent wife and four children.
The st. James Hotel, in Kansas City,
is TO be sold at public Outcry to-day.
Several Chicago and St. Louis gentle
men are in the city, and viii bid for the
property.
Abov named John Hunter Arm
strong. sixteen years old, died Saturday
night in Louisville, Of hydrophObia, Oc-
casioned by the bite of a dog in Feb
ruary last.
Another large and enthusiastic Greeley
AID Brown meeting was held in Kansas
CITY Saturday night Colonel Wilson,
Iate Speaker Of the lower house of the
Kansas Legislature Democrat-made
a speech.
A dispatch from Kansas City says no
clue has been obtained leading to the
Identification Of the assassins Of Colonel
Brown. who was murdered in his own
ward last Thursday night. bis remains
nave been sent TO Ohio for interment
The Spanish Cortes, Saturday, after
an animated discussion, rejected a resO-
luton introduced by Deputy Argullo,
censIring the government for declaring
Navarro, Lerida, Biscay and Catalonia
in a state Of seige during the recent
movements Of the Carlists in those
provinces.
The storm at Leavenworth, Kansas,
Thursday night was one Of great sever
ity. The town Of Easton, IN the valley
OF Dawson creek, was flooded to the
depth of three feet. -Four persons
were drowned. There have been no
trains running on the Leayenworth
branch of the Kansas Pacific road since
Thursday night. The Missouri Pacific
trains are still delayed.
Young McCracken, VINO shot and
killed his father near Thornton, Illinois,
Wednesday last, was carried to Chicago
on Saturday and placed in jail, the cor
oner's jury having returned a verdict
that the killing was Willtul. BIC
Cracken freely admits having shot his
father. but alleges that il was done in
.self-defense, as the old man was en-
,deavOring to kill him, statement
verified by other members Of the fam
iIy who witnessed the affray.
On account Of repeated rObberies and
murders IN the vicinity Of Oak Lake
ana other frontier settlement Of Mime
sota BY pnowling bands Of Indians,
Governor Austin has caused to be dis
fributed arms among the white inhab-
itants. Ii is now believed that the muir
,derers of Cooks family were pillaging
Indians, as a bundle of skins left at
cooks bv a trapper named Franks hay-
ing been Offered by them at the railroad
station for sale.
In the United States Circuit Court at
Boston Saturday, Samuel A, Way ap-
1,o,,red and paid the government seven
thousand dollars, being the unpaid
balance of one hundred thousand dollars
-,ssessad on tobacco iTTegularly imported.
MI Way has yet to pay the costs,
amounting to about two thousand dol
iars. Other suits, based on Information
attained from his books, are being
,,ressed against him. One OF these Is Tor
thirty thousand dollars, which he is en-
sieavoring to compound with the gov
ernment.