Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-25
WAITS FROM THE WIRES,

Jacksonville, Alabama, Is experiment
ing with the Swedes as labOrers.
NJ. ]. Keating, a Catholic priest, dieC
in hospital in st. Louis, yesterday.
! TaIlapoosa county, Alabama, has tc
buy grain and meat from up the country,
or starve.
The United States Senate was in ses-
sion on the treaty question last night till
twelve o'clock.
! Demopolis, Alabama, invites circuses
and shows to her dominion by reducing
/ licenses One-half.
The Atalanta and London boat-cluh
crews have agreed on the tenth of June
as the day for the great boat race.
General Greaves, who was present at
| the battle of New Orleans with General
Paekenham, died in London yesterday.
An old gentleman named Cook com,
mitted suicide near Opelike, Alabama
few days since by hanging himself.
One thousand teachers and pupils of
the Madison, Indiana, Sunday-schOols
are on an excursion to Louisville to-
day.
Amos d. Wood was shot in Pittsburg
this morning while attempting to enter
Browns lumber Office. He will prOba-
bly, die of his wounds.
The Gadsden (Alabama) Times says
that Stanton's agents continue to sell
the lands belonging to the Alabama
and Chattanooga railroad.
Montgomery, Alabama, is to have a
new Masonic Temple. for the eOnstruc-
ton Of which one hundred thousand dol
lars are already subscribed
Henry Spaulding, manager of Dan
Rice's circus, was shot and seriously
wounded at Baxter Springs, Kansas,
yesterday. No particulars. rs.f
A terrific tornado passed over several
counties on the Mississippi river in the
central portion of Eastern Iowa and
Western Illinois, last evening.
In Providence, Rhode Island, yester-
day, Julia E. Vallett, aged twenty-five,
obtained verdict for sixteen thousand
dollars for breach Of promise against
Thomas Green, aged sixty-nine.
A Cincinnati Chronicle special says
the business portion of The village of
Hayesville, eight miles south of Ash
land, Ohio, was destroyed by fire last
night. The fire originated in the drug
store of S. X. Black. The loss is esti-
mated at thirty thousand dollars, with
light insurance.
Patrick CaIlaghan was arrested in
Chicago by the police yesterday, on the
charge OF having committed a murder
in WinOna county, Minnesota, about
seven years ago. 1t is claimed that at
that time the accused was farmer, and |
that his land adjoined that of a man
n rAd q Nnr,Tr, EfoFTnrrl,,,.Tr
cattle broke through Yoreman's fence, |
and some difficulty arose about it. One
day FOREMAN was found dead in a field. |
his life having been taken with a scythe. |
CallaghRn disappeared, and suspicion |
upon him. He viii be held /
here until the Minnesota officials call for /
him.
A Pittsburg Commercial special from
Ohio, says a man by the
name Of @. Tyler, and a partner of the
notorious counterfeiters of Fort Wayne, |
was this evening discovered by the |
United States detectives near Wells
Vile on the river bank. Tyler drew a |
revolver and fired, the ball passing /
through the coat of one of the officers;
the other officer returned the fire, shoot |
ing one of the men through the hand, /
Tyler then made for the river, jumped I
in and was drowned, leaving his coat on .
the bank, which contained eleven hun
dred dollars in counterfeit twenties, le-
gal tenders. The other man fed to the !
hills.
A New York telegram yesterday an
that the Board of Indian Com
missiOners were awarded contracts to
the amount Of half a million dollars.
Among those receiving large contracts
were II. B. Clafiin, Buckley, yelling &
Co., Enas, Brown & Co., and John Dob
son. There were sixty-seven bidders in
all. The following appointments were
made for official visitations during the
coming summer: To Montana and Up
per Missouri agencies, Shoshone, Ban
mock and Ute reservations, Commits
iioners BrunOt, Stewart and Toby. This
has the work of arranging
/ council with the warlike Sioux on the
lpper Missouri, locking to permanent
Deace to the Chippewa reservations in
and for arranging the sale
II their reservations. Commissioners
9arwell, Tourney, Bishop and Toby are
o attend the Ocmulgee council in the
indian Territory, in June. Commis-
toners Campbell, Farwell, Long and
Bishop contract for beef flour and bacon
0 very large amount; for carrying
reight will be awarded next week.