Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-01
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

No deaths are reported in Philadel-
phia from the horse malady.
A dispatch from Troy, New York,
states that John A. Griswold is dead.
Syracuse reports the horse catarrhal
fever aDating. The favorable weather
is supposed to be the agent.
Dennis, Long & Co.'s pipe foundry in
Louisville was damaged twenty thou
sand dollars worth by fire yesterday.
Charles A. Leary, workman at the
lake tunnel at Chicago yesterday was
instantly killed BY falling distance Of
seventy feet.
Cable dispatches contain accounts .Of
an immense rise in the river Rhone,
and a considerable acreage Of French
territory is inundated.
Reports that the horse sickness had
made its appearance at Cincinnati
prove, upon minute investigation, to
be without foundation in fact.
In the event. of Grants reelection it
is whispered in Washington circles that
'Lum. Delano will run the Treasury
Department, in place Of Boutwell,
Washington city is uncertain as to
the existence of horse fever. Some Of
the papers report several cases, while
others say it has not made its appear
ance.
Two females named King and Pratt,
both physicians, appeared before the
Registration Commissioner at jersey
City yesterday, and demanded to be
registered.
A cable telegram announces that the
L.
ceived four hundred thousand sover-
eigns from the Bank Of Paris, and that
more is coming.
Edward E. Hendricks was caught in
New York yesterday in the act of sell
ing forty-eight hundred dollars in Uni
ted States bonds stolen in Massachusetts
in 1871. He was locked up.
Samuel A. Gaylord, of the banking
house of S. A. Gaylord, Of st. Louis, ac-
cidentally shot himself in the neck with
a derringer pistol yesterday, infhcting a
painful but not mortal wound.
The fatality from the horse disease in
Boston Is reported largely on the in
crease, averaging from thirty to forty
day. The disease, however, is thought
to be on the decline, as very few new
cases are reported.
The Julia struck a snag in Birds
Bend Wednesday night, breaking a
large number of her timbers. She man
aged to reach Cairo, where she is at
present leaking badly. Freight not
damaged, was reshipped.
Brutality toward patients in the
Wards Island Asylum continues to be
reported ia New York Another victim
Eon,nnon II tho rsaraa Of
the keeper who perpetrates the most
fiendish acts toward bis patients.
New York apprehends that the horse
disease will affect the result of the cleo
ton next Tuesday. 1t is hard to con-
lecture in what way, unless it will pre-
vent "repeaters" from visiting the diff
ferent voting-places as often as would be
desired.
At Providence, Rhode Island, yester-
day, convict Peek gagged a watchman
and then Liberated Cnas. Williams, an
other convict. They unsuccessfully
tried to liberate the alleged murderer,
Denneby. Burglar Peek and Williams
afterward rang the watchman's bell at
the usual time and subsequently es-
capped.
The fire at Grand Rapids, Michigan,
on Wednesday night destroyed three
blocks on Pearl and Canal streets. Loss,
about two hundred thousand dollars,
mostly insured. One million and half
feet oflumber, owned by jerome & Co.,
was burned at East Saginaw last night.
Loss, twenty thousand dollars. No in
surance.
About five thousand people were gath
cred at Hendersonville, North Carolina,
on the twenty-fifth instant, to witness
the neck-stretching operation TO be per-
formed on one Martin Bagland, but the
victim had escaped the evening pre-
vious in his wife's clothes. Bagland had
murdered Silas Weston and his three
children some time ago.
A special from Helena last night gave
the following result of the races at the
Fair yesterday: The running race on the
Fair Grounds was won by Village Black
smith, beating Quartermaster and jung
Ter. Time, 2:Ol, :49f. The trotting
race was won by SCOT Dillon, beating
Bay Jack. Time, 3:05. Pat Ring, Billy
Hoskinsand Brown Dick trot tomorrow.
The Vermont Legislature made the
following election Of State officers yes
terday Secretary of State, Geo. Nichols;
Auditor, w. G.. Fener; Quartermaster-
General, w. w. Lynch; Adjutant and
nspector-General, Jas. S. Peck; Judge
Advocated General, S. NJ. Southland;
Railroad ComDaissioner, M. Is. Bailey;
Directors Of State Prison, J. w. Hart
shaw and w. R. Speed.
Dispatches from Turin report no abate-
ment Of the floods in the river PO. Over
four thousand men are erecting barriers
to arrest the further progress of the
water. The damages to property and
crops are beyond calculation. In Ferra-
ra alone forty thousand persons are
homeless. Assistance is being rapidly
forwarded from all points to the suffer
ers.
A special to the Cincinnati Gazette
from Xenia says that on yesterday, one
mile north Of Erost's Station, in Green
county, William B. Ritchers0n laid wait
in fence corner with dOuble-barrel
shotgun and shot William Fogwell as
he passed along the road, wounding him
SO that he will certainly die. Both were
young neighboring farmers. Ritcherson
was arrested.
Five disguised men attempted to forci-
bly enter an old negro man 8 dwelling,
between Normandy and rullahOma, on
the Chattanooga and Nashville railroad,
Tuesday morning, but were repulsed By
the old man firing into the party as they
broke down his dec 4 One Of the party
was killed and was, herward recognized
and carried to bis home near Normandy.
His companions were not identified.
The Prussian Diet yesterday rejected
the country reform bill, ia the face Of
threat from the Minister that if the bill
was defeated the Diet would be dissolved
and 8 new one convoked. Immediately
on the rejection Of the bill the govern
ment made good its threat, and the
present session Of the Diet viii be closed
to-day, when q decree will be read dis
solving the body and ordering the elee-
tion Of new Diet, which is called 10