Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-12
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The revolution in Venezuela is at an
end.
Large quantities of silver bullion are
arriving at Omaha daily.
San Domingo is preparing for another
fight with the Haytens.
-Four thousand people will visit the
great S@ngerfest from Cincinnati.
The President and family left WASH
ingtOn yesterday for Long Branch.
The Omaha Daily Bee office was
destroyed by fire yesterday morning.
The negroes of st. Louis yesterday
ratified the Philadelphia nominations.
A salute of five guns was fired at
West Point in honor Of the visit of the
Japanese bummers.
A freight-train conductor at Pittsburg
yesterday was caught between two cars
and crus he'd to death.
The cornerstone of the new court
house in indianapolis was laid yester-
day with imposing ceremonies.
Henry R.. Afterhoar, confined in the
Dubois, Indiana, county Jail for murder,
committed micide Sunday night.
A compan y has been chartered in In
dianapolis fcT the purpose of operating
Beach's lum ber-seasoning process.
Wilson's large cotton mills at Frank
ford, Pennsylvania, burned yesterday
evening. Loss sixty thousand dollars.
A drying-house connected with the
powder-milI at St Clair, Pennsylvania,
exploded yesterday, but no one was in
jured.
Mr.. A. C. BOtkin, associate editor of
the Chicago Times, was married to Miss
Hattie Sherman of Milwaukee, at noon
yesterday
Property to tn g amount of one hun
dTed thousand dollars was destroyed by
freshets yesterday near Concord, New
Hampshire.
A freight train on the Illinois Central
railroad ran off the track Monday night
near Makenda, ditching seventeen cars.
Nobody hurt.
The case of Tild en- against Ben Butler
in New York for false imprisonment
during the war, viii be taken up as soon
as Butler arrives.
The telegraph announces that many
of the late striking workmen and me
their laboTs on the ten-hour system.
The Medical Society Of Paterson,
New Jersey, lave pronounced Libbie
GaTrabraut, the poisOner now under
sentence ofdeath, in that eity,as insane.
The hotels of Indianapolis were yes
terday reported crowded with delegates
and distinguished Democratic leaders in
attendance to the Convention there to
day.
George Dunn, adroit swindler, who
has realized at letist fifty thousand dol
lars by his opera tions during the past
four years, has been arrested and commit
ted for trial in New York. His plan has
been to represent himself as a wealthy
landed proprietor in Columbia county,
anxious to purchase bloOded stock. AS
he is man of res )eetable appearance
and good address, Inc has, in almost ev-
cry instance, succee ded in inducing his
victims to accept his rates, payable in
one, two or three months after date, in
return for valuable hO rses and carriages.
A man called at the office of the City
Treasurer of Crown Point, Indiana, and
requested to be allowed to deposit a
small tin box, which he represented TO
contain valuables, in the safe. The
Treasurer placed the box in the safe, and
two hours afterward an explosion took
place, which blew off the door and
otherwise damaged the safe. A police
man went in the direction of the report,
and discovered and fired at man who
was creeping up to the safe. Examina-
ton proved that the box contained an
ingeniously contrived torpedo, and the
whole thing was concocted for robbery.
About nine o'clock on Saturday night,
as the mail train on the -Ateheson and
Nebraska railroad was crossing the
bridge between Iowa Point and the
high land, part of the bridge fell, let
ting the engine through, and burying
Major Firth, the superintendent Of the
road, and Mr.. Allen, his secretary, who
We're seated under the headlight of the
engine. Mr.. Allen was killed instantly,
and it was six hours before Major Firth
could be extricated from the wreck, he
being fastened between piece of tim
Der and the smol5e-arch and his body
partly buried in mud and water. He
has had one arm amputated above the
elbow, and his condition is regarded as
critical. Mr.. Aliens remains were sent
to his widowed mother at Boston.