Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-19
TELEGRAPHIC RIPPLES.

The second trial Of Stokes, the Fisk
murderer, began in New York yester-
day.
Zachariah A. Snow shot and killed
Nicholas G. Garden, at Benton, Arkan-
sas, on Monday.
Little Rock grUmbles because it rained
all day Tuesday, and was clear during
the whole of yesterday.
A ParG cablegram says the river Seine
continues TO swell, and in many places
the country is being overlooked.
Jesse Turner. Receiver Of public lands
at Grand DOland, Nebraska, accidental
~ shot and killed himself yesterday,
while cleaning gun.
The International Convention, to Sc
cure uniformity Of coinage, has been
signed by the governments of Denmark,
Sweden snd Norway.
The French ship Leone, with a cargo
Of cotton, from New Orleans to Bor-
deaux, was wrecked yesterday, while
going into Key West, Florida.
Adam LOnthier, a German citizen,
who was run over by a fire engine, in
Nashville, the other day, which he was
pulling as a volunteer fireman, died
yesterday.
A freight train from Boston was
wrecked near DOdgeville, Rhode Island,
Tuesday night. Eighteen cars We're
completely smashed, and an unknown
man was killed.
William Clark, the Indianapolis wife
murderer, who was to have been hung
on the twentieth tomorrow, has been
reprieved by the Governor Of Indiana,
until Friday, the third day of January.
A Detroit, Michigan, dispatch says
that yesterday morning a coach of an
express train on the Grand Rapids and
Indiana railroad, was thrown from the
track by a broken rail, near Reynold.
Among twenty Of the passengers, five
men and three women were injured.
One man viii probably die.
Several barns fun Of grain and farm
ing implements, at Miamisburg, Ohio,
we're set on fire Tuesday night by some
one unknown, and totally destroyed
Loss twenty-five hundred dollars-in-
sured for eight hundred dollars. The
barns were owned by Mrs. Caskey.
Twelve large barns have been destroyed
in that vicinity in the past few weeks.
A Washington telegram says that
Postmaster Eastman, Of Chicago, has
rendered his resignation, to take effect
on the fourteenth of February next.
Senator Logan and Congressman Far
well have asked the appOintmentof Cen
eral Macarthur as his successor, and his
appointment will probably be made.
ChiefClerk Squires is well recommend
ed for the position.
The New Hampshire State Temper
ance Convention, held at Concord, yes
terday, renOminated Rev. Jno. Black
man for Governor, and Asa S. Kendall
for Railroad Commissioner. PrOhibi-
tory resolutions were adopted. The
convention subsequently resolved itself
into q district convention, and NOM
mated candidates for Congress as fol-
lows: First district, Rev. A. G.. Corn
ing; Second district, J. NJ. Fletcher:
Third district, A. c. Hardy.
Charles S. p. Bowles, Of the Paris
banking house Of Bowles Bros, was
arrested in Ingleside, six miles from
Springfield, Massachusetts, Tuesday, at
the suit OF John II. Huber, Of Spring
field, for six thousand nine hundred aud
eighty-6ve dollars, funds deposited with
the firm. Nathan Appleton, of Boston,
special partner, Gordon Bowles, Bea-
mans, Of New York, counsel, and two
clerks OF the firm, were there in con-
sultatiOn with Charles $. p. Bowles.
The ease was heard before the Master
in ahancery yesterday.