Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-18

cially designed TO get rid Of
senator Feuy's Fe-election was re,
eeiyed IN Lancaster, New York, Will
enthusiasm by the Liberal Republicans
Greeley and Brown flags were thrown
out salutes fired and procession took
I place. stElEIR
A committee of New York merchants
have presented a petition to the govern
ment for carrying cabin mails to the
| United States and establishing a regulaI
weekly line. The offer is likely to be
accepted.
At Muscatine, Iowa, yesterday even
ing, Mr.. Brown, an old and respected
citizen, and an employee Of the Chicago
and Rock Island railroad, was accidents
ally thrown under the morning train
and killed. Het (
An extensive fire is reported as having
occurred in Westford, Massachusetts,
yesterday, destroying a large quantity OF
cOrd-wOOd and oyerFuning large
wooded territory, preventing travel on
the highways.
A difficulty occurred at Roseville,
! Franklin county, Arkansas between two
| brothers named Mccoy and man
named William Harris, In which the
two former were killed and the latter Sc
verely wounded.
/ The Atalantas received the boat yes
/ terday in which they are to make the
I grand contest on the Thames. The
/ boat, however, was ruined on the voyage
| TO England, which will necessitate the
order of a new one.
The negotiations at Versailles between
tho L'rore.n
4 Minister, looking to the total evacuation
of the remaining French territory now
occupied by German troops, are reported
progressing favOrably. --
The Forty-second Annual General
Assembly of the Cumberland Presbyte-
riRn church is in session in Evansville,
Indiana, and is largely attended. Rev.
DIR. c. II. Bell, of Oxford, Mississippi,
was elected Moderator.
The Diocesan Convention of the
Protestant Episcopal Church in Cinein-
matt yesterday amended the canon for
the trial of a clergyman not a bishop so
as to require majority Of the court to
render a final judgment.
A dispatch from YolohOma, Japan,
dated the twenty-third of April, saws
that by an Imperial decree the Tenno of
Japan has abolished all edicts directed
against Christianity, which has been in
force over three centuries.
A report was current in New York
yesterday that the Cunard steamship
Tripol, from Liverpool for New York,
has been wrecked on the Irish coast, and
the vessel and cargo a total loss. The
passengers were safely landed.
A Toronto dispatch of Yesterday saws:
THE treaty bill was again discussed in
Parliament. HOlten said the most OBJ
jectionable clause was the cession of the
st. Lawrence without the consent of
Canada. A vote will be taken to-day"
In New York, yesterday morning.
Judge Ross Wilkins died, aged seventy
four years. He was appointed by Presi-
dent jackson in 1882, and held office
until two years ago, when he voluntarily
retired. He was universally respected.
A fire in the freight depot of the Bos-
ton, Hartford and Erie railroad at Nor
folk Massachusetts,, on Tuesday night,
destroyed thirty thousand dollars worth
of wool belonging to the Elliott Felting
Mills; insured for eighteen thousand dol
lars.
At the sale of pictures contributed by
foreign artists for the relief of the Chi
cago fire sufferers, which was begun in
New York yesterday, handsome prices
We're obtained. One painting alone real
lied one thousand three hundred and
fifty dollars.
II. w. Hendrick, United States Dep
uty Marshal of South Carolina, was in
dicted yesterday in the Fulton county, |
Georgia, Superior Court, for fraudulent
" altering a bench warrant, and was ar
rested and held to bail in the sum Of
four thousand dollars.
1t is remarked that the London crew
which is to row against the Atlantas in
the international race is by no means
the strongest which could have been Sc
lected. The London Echo of yesterday,
however, thinks it amply strong enough
to beat the American crew.
The interest in the Nashville Indus
trial Exposition increases daily. The
exhibition of articles is about complete,
and comprises a wonderful variety, rep
resenting all sections of the United
States. The crowds that attend are very
large and from all quarters.
AT Lansing, Illinois, ON Wednesday
last, a young man named McCracken
shot three times and fatally wounded
his father in family quarrel. The old
man was abusing his family, when the
son interfered; the father attacked him
with a fish-spear, when he retaliated
with a pistol. ..-.
Several hundred acres of wood land in
the vicinity of Boston, burned over
Wednesday and Thursday, endangering
many dwellings. The firemen and citi-
zens We're called out and fought the
flames nearly the whole of lastnight, so
far subduing the fire that no further dan
ger is anticipated. Et
The New Orleans Pcdyl01e's Houston
Texas special says the State Republi-
can Convention elected delegates to the
Philadelphia Convention with instTuc-
tions to vote for Grant and Governor
Davis. Judge l.. d, Evans and A. B.
Morton were nominated as candidates
for Congress at large.
At Chicago, Illinois, Thursday even |
ing, son Of Patrick Grady, lad of |
years, was struck by lightning /
and instantly killed. About the same |
hour little daughter Of Mr.. Webb, liv-
ing in a different part of the city, re
ceived lightning stroke, which COM |
pletely paralyzed her.
A mass meeting was held at Titus
vile yesterd ~ evening to express the |
indignation Of the citizens at the at |
tempt of the Oil Creek road in trying to |
prevent the Pennsylvania Petroleum |
road from crossing their track and enter /
ing the city. The road now has thou |
sand men at work, with sixty miles |
graded, and expected to be running be- /
tween Titusville and Erie by the first
Of August. E
A few days ago, in Washington cOun- |
ty, Kentucky, man named Lowell /
placed pistol in the hand of his little |
son, about seven years old, and ordered |
him to shoot a step-daughter, who was /
an idiot and had been much trouble to 1
care for and attend The boy shot, but /
missed the idiot sister and struck anoth- |
er sister, infiicting a mortal wound. /
Great excitement exists i'm the neighbOr- /
hood against Lowell, who has made his /
escape. .r /
The Democratic State Central Com
mittee met in Milwaukee yesterday. A |
full attendance. A call was issued for /
the Democratic State Convention, to be 1
lc4u al MlWduhct1 june 1Oill, at WHICH !
delegates to the Baltimore Convention /
will be chosen. No allusiOn TO the In
iorsement of Greeley was made in the /
official deliberations of the committee,
but feeling on the subject ran high, and
there was large attendance Of Demo
crats from all parts OF the State deeply /
interested in the question.
Captain Patty, of the schooner Flirt,
from Martinique, reports the massacre
Of family Of ten persons named Fon-
gier, ia the French settlement of st. Pc
ters on that island. The Fongier fam
lily inherited six million francs from re-
lations in France, and the massacre
was committed by Louis Berthemy, an
heir under the will, aided by two hired I
assassins accompanying him from
France, in order to obtain possession Of