Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-16
MINOR TELEGRAMS.

The Jury in the Fore murder case, in
St. Louis, a. was predicted, gave YER
dict Of acquittal.
James B. Skinner, Of Rockfort, Illi-
nois, the noted plow-manufacturer, died
yesterday Of spotted Sever.
Jerome B. Fellows, & gentleman Of
great wealth, has been rendered the
Coloneley Of the Ninth regiment.
The Rev. Father John Flanagan, pas
tor OF St. Patrick's Church, died In New
Orleans yesterday aged sixty-four.
A man named johnson met hoFri-
bic death yesterday in Chicago, by be-
ing caught in the betting Of planning
mill.
The Terre Haute Express newspaper
was sold to-day by General Charles
Craft TO c. H. Allen, o. J. Smith and s.
r. Henderson.
The Louisville Chamber Of Commerce
to-day adopted a resolution heartily in
doFsing the action Of the Committee on
Ways and Means In adopting the tax
on tobacco.
The Philadelphia grand jury yester-
day morning indicted Charles A. Dana
for libel against State Treasurer KEN
bic. In an article in the Sun relative 10
the Evans fraud.
A Scranton dispatch reports the seri-
oRs caving-in Of an embankment three
miles from that city on the Lackawana
and Bloomsbury Railroad, caused by
late freshets.
John J. Chandler, President Of the
Evansville Gas Company, Horse-Rail-
road Company, and the Lake Erie,
= Evansville and Southwestern Railroad
Company, died in that city yesterday.
One Pearce, shot through the window
of house Of iil-fame in San Francisco,
yesterday, killing Nettie Brooks and
wounding a man with her named Per-
kins, who in turn shot Pearee dead and
was arrested.
II is said that wOrkmen, in removing
the debris in the burnt district in Chica-
90, preparatory 10 rebuilding, frequently
find the fire not yet eXtinguished, and
when it comes in contact with the air
bursts ont IN flame.
Delegates from the various trades Pr
CARNATIONS in New York have consSii-
idated by the formation of the working
men assembly. IntenatiOnais were re-
jected on the ground that they were
political association.
A Halifax telegram says the steam
ship Tiger, from Newfoundland, brings
newspapers to the 10th instant. One
hun6red and forty-iive vessels had
cleared from different ports for the seal
fishery, and six steamers had returned
with MY thousand skins.
A Columbia, South Carolina, dispatch
SAYS that the striking stone-cutteTs on
the Government work there, we're rein
stated last Tuesday, but three OF the
strikers discharged. The wages were
reduced, thus leaving the sight-hour
question where Il was before.
TSe seventh anniversary Of the assas- !
sinSti0a Of President Lincoln was no /
Gcsd 10 Boston yesterday BY the faQs !
on ali the public and On many private /
buildings bSsng displayed ct balf-mast. /
AT Cowell and other places the event
was similarly com memorated-
The liquor dealers Of Lexington
yesterday held a meespg and ap-
pointed q committee Of nye 70 60
to Washington and protest against
the law allowing the continuous distsl-
lation Of wheat. They say Il ruins theH
business.
Mrs. Mason, IN her testimony befcte
the Arms Committee, sad that she told
General Dyer that she was an agent Of
Gambefta, and bis reply 10 her was that
he recognized Gnly Remington - the
aaenf Of the French government,
- could sell the a1r11au4oe esq