Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-06
TELEeRAeHIc SUMMARY.

The Iowa Senate has passed a strin-
gent liquor law.
Miners on Colorado river are said
to be earning from ten to twenty dol
lars per day.
Edwin Forrest has again been COM
PEELED to leave the stage from an al
tack Of lung fever.
The iOurneymen hOrseshoers OF st.
Louis have struck against all machine
made hOrse-shOes.
A wretch, named Lsekman, COM
milted rape on little girl fourteen
years old at Gold Hill, Nevada, Thurs
day.
The body OF man, name unknown,
was found in Cleveland yesterday,
supposed to have been smothered by
coal gas.
A machinist, named Mortey, COM
mitted suicide In Cleveland last night
by cutting his throat with a razor.
He had smallpox.
The telegraphers Of Nashville yes
terday held a meeting, and passed
resolutions appropriate TO the death
OF Professor Morse.
The watchman at the Knicker-
booker stables in Philadelphia, which
were burned last night, named Barnes,
was burned to death.
The Michigan Central railroad has
contracted for a double track between
Detroit and Ypsilanti, which is TO be
completed within sixty days.
The residence of Charles B. FOote,
ex-president Of the Commercial Bank
OF Cincinnati, was burned IN that city
yesterday. Loss not known.
A man named Clymer was bFutally
murdered by higbwaymen in John
son county, Illinois, Friday evening.
The murderers were not arrested.
George 81. Foley, who was arrested
in st. Louis for robbing the jewelry
store Of Crosby, Morse q Fass, Boston,
has been held in ten thousand dollars
bail.
A destructive fire occurred at Lou.
donyilIe, Ohio, yesterday, almost en-
tirely destroying block Of buildings.
The loss is heavy, but not yet ascer-
tanned.
Ten tons of ore from one of the
mines in Butterfeld canon netted
over ten thousand dollars in silver
and gold. The vein Of ore is said to
be seven feet thick.
Iron ore is said to be abundant in
the vicinity of the recently discovered
gold and silver mines in the West, and
Companies are being formed for work
ing the iron mines.
The legislature of the proposed
State of Dsseret met Thursday, and
elected presiding officers of both
houses. They viii to-day elect two
United States Senators.
A lad in Nashville, yesterday while
hunting pigeons in the new theater
building, was preGpitated from the
ceiling to the floor, distance Of
ahirty-five feet, and instantly killed.
Two lads under twelve years Of age,
got into a dispute in San Francisco,
recently, in which one gave the other
ttthe lie. - WheTeupOn the insulted dig
nifty shot the offender through the
head.
A San Francisco barber gave vent
90 his affections recently by shooting
and mOrtaIly wOunding a widow lady
fellow Is eaid to have killed his wife
In Pennsylvania, and broke Jail.
THE Touring mill of II. @. Yseger,
IN st. Louis, which was partially de-
strOyed night before last, was valued
at eighty-three thousand dollars, and
sustained damages to the amount OF
forty.five thousand dollars, which was
urettv well covered by insurance. Ii !
viii be rebuilt Immediately.
A fellow, named SmOOt, testified |
beLOre the French misunderstanding |
comlnittee yesterday that he was In |
the employ OF Remington, and that |
Remington was busily engaged dur
ing the FrancO-Prussian trOuble in /
trying TO drive profitable bargains. |
Two or three Others testified as point |
edly as EmOOt.
The fugitives, Mrs Tranmer and |
her daughter and VIM. Strong, who
eloped from Mr.. Tranmer few days
since, from Council Bluffs, Iowa,
carrying with them q good portion OF
Mr.. Trsnmer's hard earnings, were
captured at Rock Island, and on their
return the officers In charge fell
asleep, when the guilty parties made
their escape and went on their way
rejoicing.
The General Assembly of Virginia
has adjourned sine die. They passed
to-day a joint resolution providing for
the election Of s.n additional elector
for president and president Of the
United States, bill having heretofore
passed providing for the election OF
only ten electors. This is done by adj
vice Of Conservative congressman,
who claim that the State Is entitled to
eleven. The tax bin passed yesterday
is expected 10 pay three per cent. in
terest on the public debt, and imposes
a tax OF one-half per cent. on Virginia
bonds, to be deducted from the in
ferest.