Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-06
ELECTRIC CHONICLES.

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Monday.
San Francisco adviees report more
murders by the Indians.
A stable was burned in Boston yester.
day, in which eighteen horses perished
Little Rock complains that Old Ep. is
worse, and that all the stables are closed
General o. c. Maxwell yesterday
committee suicide in Dayton, Ohio, by
shooting himself.
Several serious disasters are reported
| on Lake Superior by the recent gales, in
which many lives were lost.
Ice in Lake Erie is becoming quite a
formidable impediment to the progress
of steamers and other crafts.
A cattle-drOver yesterday, in Chicago,
was relieved of some eighteen hundred
dollars by an adroit pick pocket.
A violent storm swept over Naples,
Italy, night before last, doing much
damage to the shipping in the harbOr.
The river Pc in Italy has again over
/ flowed its banks, and at last advices was
spreading over the adjacent country.
st. Louis is seriously afflicted with the
] herse complaint, which is "taking inn
The temperance people of Pennsyl-
vania contemplate memOrializing the
State Legislature in the interest of their
cause.
The gas works at Newport, Mon
mouthshire, England, yesterday ex-
ploded, killing and wOunding several
people.
Committees from both branches of the
Alabama Legislature are in Washing
ton, seeking to lay their grievances be-
| fore the Executive.
The Philadelphia police, night before
last, raided the gambling establishments
in that city, and captured thirteen men
and their gambling apparatus.
Governor WarmOth, of Louisiana,
yesterday proclaimed the result of the
election in that State, and warned the
citizens of the State to respect the same.
Kinsler, half-breed Sioux, has been
convicted of murder at Cheyenne, Wyo-
ming, and was sentenced yesterday, by
Chief-Justice Fisher, to be hung Janu-
airy I'd.
A man named Griffith, in Salt Lake,
yesterday shot and mOrtally wounded
| his wife, who had left him because of
/ his brutal treatment, and then killed him
self.
The Ohio State Dental Association
yesterday passed measures looking to
/ the prosecution of "tooth-earpenters'
plying their avoeatiOn in the State con-
trary to law.
Both parties in Arkansas continue to
claim the election of their tickets, and
it is reported that each viii attempt to
occupy the positions to which they
claim to be elected.
Two of the members elect to the Ala
bama Legislature have died since the
recent meeting of that body, and before
il has been determined which of the two
bodies is the legal one.
A Cincinnati dispatch represents the
horse malady on the increase, but of a
mild character. The tranquil Except in
fiy-time) OK is doing good service toward
expediting transportation.
One of the parties engaged in the re-
cent diamond swindles in California has
made "clean breastn of how the whole
affair was conducted, which reveals one
of the most diabolical swindles of the
age.
notions ia Utah are much ANNOYED at
that portion Of the Presidents message
in relation TO the state of affairs and
course to be pursued by the Government
| in Utah.
Two more human bodies have been
discovered in the debris of the burnt
district in DISCRIMINATING six bodies
| that have been taken out from one par
ticulaT locality, and the laborers are dig
ging for more.
The Arkansas Electoral College cast
the Greeley vote for b. Gratz Brown for
| President and n. p. Banks for Vice
President The college also passed reso-
luti0ns Of respect TO the memory Of
Horace Greeley.
A terrible railroad accident occurred
about fifty miles from Harrisburg, Penn
I sylvania, on the Pennsylvania Central
I railroad, in which five persons We're in
stantly killed and many others wounded.
Reckless careiessness.
Another watch robbery has occurred
at Chicago, similar to the one reported
in that city some month OF two since.
I Sixteen thousand dollars Is the reported
value Of the "little tickers" puTloined
fr0Ia an unsOphisticated agent.
A PittsbuFg telegram announces that
the Western Iron Association, at meet
/ ing in that city, have reduced the price
Of iron twelve dollars per ton, and of
nails, fifty cents per keg, which re-
duetion was brought about by the re-
daced price Of pig-iron.