Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-24
LIGHTNING CHRONICLES.


The st. Lawrence canal is rapidly
closing with ice.
A line of stockade has been construct
ed entirely across the Island Of Cuba.
James MeElhany, a Boston wife
murderer, has been sentenced TO be
hung.
/ Ten seamen were drowned yesterday
by the capsizing Of a vessel near the
English coast.
! A glycerine factory exploded yester-
day at Scrubgrass, Pennsylvania. kill
ing two men.
The New Brighton House, at Long
Island, was burned yesterday-forty
thousand dollars.
The Atlantic and Great Western
troubles, says New York telegram, are
over for the present.
Massachusetts, Maine and New
/ Hampshire were visited with a violent
snowstorm yesterday.
The Earl of Creithmess, of Scotland,
/ is making tour Of inspection of New
York municipal institutions.
The appearance eff William NJ. Tweed
at the COmptrOller's office in New York
yesterday, created quite a sensation.
! Wheeling, West Virginia, is now suf-
fering terribly from the effects of the
horse plague, which is rapidly increas'
ing.
Yesterday was municipal election day
in Londonderry, Ireland, and dispatch
received yesterday reported that trouble
was anticipated.
Frank Martin, a Spaniard and cigar
merchant of New York, yesterday fired
three shots at his wife, one of which
caused her death.
John Burke, a laborer on the /. G. &
l.. r. R., was run over and killed by a
freight train near the Indianapolis depot
yesterday morning.
A bill restoring to the Orleans family
their property, contiscated in 1852, has
passed a second reading in the French
National Assembly.
A telegram from New York announ-
ces that Henry NJ. Smiths records fail
to account for forty thousand shares of
Northwestern Common. Strange.
The steamer General Sedgwick, which
arrived at New York yesterday froIl
New Orleans, reports passing a lot of
wrecked stuff with two dead bodies at
tached, in latitude thirty-six, longitude
seventy-three.
Henry Porter Tension, charged with
too much matrimonial alliance, was ar
rested at Poughkeepsie, New York, yes
terday. His last exploit was the elope-
ment with daughter of a merchant
of that city, Mr.. Perry Mapes.
st. Louis denies the existence of ep-
pikatarrous in her limits, and denoun-
ces the author of the report to that eff
feet. Precautions have been taken and
thoroughly carried into effect, to which
is attributed the escape from an attack.
Mysterious disappearances and viO-
lent deaths are exciting the indignation
of the good people of Gotham, and yes
terday the aforesaid indignation culmi-
mated in the arraignment of the door
keeper of the Brooklyn police station
upon the charge of aiding burglars to es-
cape.
A man named Henry Bogart has
been representing himself in New York
as a reporter, and levying black mail, in
one instance ext rting one hundred and
fifty dollars from a bank President, I'M
der threat of publishing some scandalOus
statements. The gay Ogart is under
arrest.
A Nashville telegram received yester-
day says that the official vote of the
State has been received: Greeley 81, 2l9,
Grant 85,633; Greeley's majority 8576.
For GOvernOr-BrOwn 100, Freeman
SO, $50; Browns majority 1881. For
Congress-Maynard S0,S25, Cheatham
65,5 SIS, johnson $1,000; Maynard over
Cheatham Is, 247, over johnson 42, ,925.
A dastardly attempt at railroad
slaughter was made Friday night at
Wanague, on the Montclair railway,
fifteen miles north of Paterson, New
Jersey. A box car was run on the main
track, but the engineer of the up-train
seeing the obstruction, put on steam and
dashed into it, demOlishing the box car
and wrecking the locomotive, and
throwing the passenger car off the track
None Of the passengers were injured.
A New York telegram gives the fol-
lowing items Of yesterdays topics:
" Rogers, who is under sentence for kill
ing Officer DonohOe of Brooklyn, has
applied for a stay of proceedings. Vagt, |
who cannot be returned to Belgium on
the charge of murder, arson and rob-
berry, in the absence of the Extradition
Treaty, has applied for discharge from
arrest. Rosenweig, the convicted abor- |
zionist, and Dutch Henreich, the con-
victed bond robber, who have been
granted new trials, have applied for re-
lease on bail"