Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-12
TELEGRAMS.

Greeley is going to Long Branch.
Commencement at Amherst yester-
day.
It is reported that the IllteRdeTte of
Cuba has been removed.
A six thousand dollar fire in Oshkosh,
Wisconsin, yesterday.
Heavy rains have damaged much
property in Cincinnati.
Samuel F. Coyey, of Cincinnati, has
gone stumping for Greeley in North
Carolina.
The average yield of wheat in MauTy
county will be more than twenty BUSH
els to the acre,
Watson, President of Erie, thinks the
Atlantic and Great Western road will be
made narrOw-gauge.
Miss Chace and married sister, while
bathing, were drowned in Walnut creek,
Kansas, yesterday.
Shocks of an earthquake were felt at
several places on the north shore Of Long
Island yesterday morning.
One hundred guns were fired at Bata-
via, New York, on receipt of the news
Of the Baltimore nominations.
There is no apprehension whatever of
any interference with the Orange cele-
bration in New York, to-day.
General st. John B. L. Spencer died
al Washington yesterday morning Of
paralysis, aged seventy-tive.
The laborers employed on the East
river bridge, in New York, struck yes
terday for an increase of wages.
Probability telegraphs us that we are
rafF do fr- h.
ing breezes from the snOw-clads, and all
that
The Cincinnati Stove-manufacturers
Convention adjourned yesterday TO
meet at Pittsburg the second week in
January.
Of the fifteen hundred and sixty-nine
deaths in New York city last week, one
hundred and ninety-six were caused di-
rectly by heat.
News from Pope county, Arkansas, is
still exciting. 1t is said the militia are
disarming everybody, and a state of I'M
easiuess and terror prevails.
The grand jury Of Franklin, Louisi
ana. has found a true bill for assault and
robbery against District Attorney w. b.
Merchant. The accused gave bail.
The stove manufacturers are in con-
yeu.ion at Cincinnati. Among matters
to receive attention will be the cost Of
stoves, freights, Improvements in man
ufacture and raw material.
During an engagement between the
Cubans and the Spanish troops near
Holquin, recently, the Spanish Colonel
Huerta, the Governor of HOlquin and
two soldiers were killed by the Cubans.
The case of Rev. S. J. Brown, Of Gin
cinnati, who killed the boy Schick, last
Sunday, came up before Judge Straub
Yesterday, and he was held TO bail in
fifty thousand dollars TO answer TO the
charge Of IA urder in the second degree.
Charles D. Ebarbis was arrested at
Indianapolis yesterday on a charge Of
robbing the Meridian National, Bank in
that city, sometime ago, of twenty-five
thousand dollars. In default of twenty
thousand dollars bail, he was committed
TO Jail.
Madison, Indiana, had a sensation
Yesterday, caused by q lighted lamp be-
ing carried into a cellar filed with es-
caped gas. The result was the death of
a negro child, the severe burning Of a
negro man, and the building almost
wrecked.
A
pierville, Illinois, Wednesday. Frank
Hewes. a bow of fifteen, was throWn
from moving machine, by the horses
running away, and, falling on the from
blades, was so mangIed that he died in a
few hours.
The large brewery firms OF Widen
meyer & Sons, and Phillip Brock OF
Newark, are reported TO have failed.
Nasat.sN r farnEa
hundred and fifty thousand dollars, and
the latter one hundred and eighty thou
sand dollars.
8fThe total amount of property as re-
turned by the several boards of the
counties to the Auditor of Ohio, for 1872,
is S6o, ,l72, 300. The total amount as
equalized by the State Board of Equali-
zation, is Sos, ,3l2, 046. The increase over
the equalization OF 1871, is So, 1884.
John H. Lane, Of Illinois, committed |
suicide at Ditehfield, Kentucky, Tues
day evening by taking morphine. On
a slip Of paper were written the words, |
sold Death, / salute theenp The words
were evidently written by deceased. His
remains were embalmed and sent home.
A special dispatch from Madrid says
that Houard is free. An order from
Madrid offered him his release as an act
CT pardon, TO which Houard demurred,
as his acceptance might appear an ac-
knowledgment Of guilt and waive his
right TO compensation. He was turned
OF forced out. He called Wednesday on
the Cadiz correspondent Immediately
after bis release.
We learn that Mr.. John Moffat, on
Cumberland Mountain, in this State,
has raised this year, on land that cost
sixty cents an acre, twenty-six bushels
of oats 10 the acre, and that corn grow
ing on some Of his sixty cents an acre
land will yield twenty bushels to the
acre. He finds a ready market at his
saw-mill, and at the Sewanee coal
mines, for all the supplies that he can
raise.