Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-28
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A general court-martial meets at LOU
isville, Kentucky, July 5th.
A fifty thousand dollar fire visited La
fayette, Indiana, yesterday.
Lace goods Is being smuggled through
the custOmhOuse in milkcans.
A notorious gambler named Dalsin
was shot at salt Lake yesterday.
The Evening Journal, a new Gentle
paper, has made It's appearance in salt
Lake.
A man named Bovinskey was killed
in Milwaukee yesterday by the caving
of a bank Of earth.
Three hundred and twenty Mormon
eolonists sailed from Liverpool yester-
day for New York.
Twenty-Five thousand persons at
tended the grand ball al the Coliseum
in Boston, Wednesday.
In Prussia the law prescribing the
Order cI Jesuits has passed, and its pro-
visions win soon be carried out.
Pittsburg is making most extensive
preparations 70 give an Old-fashiOned
rouser 70 the Fourth of July.
The firm of Baldwin, Rice & Co.,
straw goods importers in New York,
have failed to the tune OF one million
dollars
NJ. Bolass, Greek Consul at New York
in behalf Of his government officially
denies that convicts are to be sent TO
New Orleans.
The Mormons and miners are srming
for protection against the Indians, who
are making trouble in the mining dis
tricts Of Utah.
w. F. Storey, editor Of the Chicago
Tribune, yesterday, in attempting TO get
On a sIeeping-oOach, broke his right leg
Just above the ankle.
The commissioners for the improve
meut of the Ohio river, appointed by
the Governors of the States adjacent,
were in session at Cincinnati yesterday.
The Citizens National Bank of Man
katO, Minnesota, with capital Of sew
enty thousand dollars, is officially recog-
nized
Laura Fairs trial has been postponed
until the first Monday in September
next, on application Of the defense, on
the ground Of inability 70 obtain wit
nesses.
The Jury in the Stokes case has been
completed, and we may now expect
some interesting developments connect
ed with the lives of Fisk, Mansfield and
Stokes.
Frank Milton, aged sixteen years, fell
of7a log as he was going into the Wa
hash river at Terre Haute 10 batbe last
night. and was drowned before aid could
reach him.
At Cleveland, Ohio, Wednesday, a
man attempted to murder his wife with
a rolling-pin, and then cut his own
throat with a butcher-knife, all in fit
of drunkenness.
A little boy named Gallie Miller, aged
eleven years, son of 3. K. Miller, OF the
law firm of Finch, Linde 4 Miller, of
Milwaukee,, was drowned yesterday
afternoon while bathing in the river.
One hundred thousand tons Of Scran-
ton coal sold yesterday in New York.
Lump sold at average Of s. 2Ss per ten
steamboat, 50 IS; CRATE, 50 46t; egg,
81 53t; stove, S3 963, and chestnut, - o5.
In California the harvest laborers de-
mand three dollars and half per day,
and the hop raisers of Sacramento VAL
ley are sending to Nevada for Piure In
dians as pickers. The grain crop Of
Oregon is unusually light.
The reconstruction of the Linden bO-
tel at st. Louis, is now fixed fact The
articles of association of the hotel COM
pany have been properly filed, and 8
board of directors elected, and the erec-
ton of the hotel is to be commenced at
once.
In the testimony before the Senate to-
day, Mr.. Larogue testified that Judge
McCunn had appointed Mr.. Carr the
receiver of sixteen thousand dollars IN
gold belonging to the Feniaas, which |
had been deposited with Belmont, and
no one now knew where the money had
gone 10.
Diehps pyrotechnic works on Mount
Adams were burned yesterday st
haif-past three O'Clock. Loss, fifty |
thousand dollars. The magazines were
saved. Only one person sustained an
injury, and this was slight. There were
a few minor explosions, but no serious
damage was done therefrOm.
An insurrection broke out yesterday
among the convicts in the State prison
al Auburn. Two hundred were locked
up. and nine hundred remained loose,
refusing to obey orders. Two companies
of the Forty-Ninth regiment were or
dered TO the prison TO quell the rebellion,
which was finally suppressed.
At Erie. Pennsylvania, the State Edi-
toriaI Association took an excursion on
the lake, on the steamer China, on
"wednesday. They hanquetted at the
Raed House. Several tOasts were Of
tered and happily responded TO. After
the banquet the party adjourned to
WAYNE Hall, where brilliant ball was
fn nrogress. The party left for Titus
vile early yesterday morning
The body Of an unknown man about
twentv-fonf years of age, black coat and
nants and check shirt, weighing. one
hundred and fifty pounds. was found
floating in the Ohio river at cineinnaa
Yesterday. with an ugly bullet hole IL
ihe head and the left-hand eaasping
number of cartridges. There Is nothing
10 show who the man is. The case Is
now undergoing investigation