Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-30
WAITS M STRAYS.

The AfchducneSs SOpnla, mOtnef OF
the Emperor Francis Joseph, died Tues
day morning of typhoid fever.
The National Baptist Educational
Convention is in session at Philadelphia,
in which twenty-four States are repre-
scented.
The French papers noun the
death Of Theodore Cogniard, in his
sixtieth year. He vas prominent as a
dramatist. sf.stF
a New York city shipping merchant
says the report about the Newfoundland
shipping disasters is exaggerated, and
almost without foundation.
The Orangemen of New York have
resolved TO parade on the twelfth Of
July, leaving the route of procession to
be decided by the police authorities.
A m~iddIe-sized boy, writing a compo-
sition on Extremes" remarked that
1--WE should endevOr to avoid extremes,
especially those of wasps and bees"
The trial Of Mrs. Hannah Ann Fowl
er, of Manhasset, Long Island, for the
alleged murder of her husband by poi
son, commenced in New York, yester-
day.
Charles Wooster was run over and
] klAAGG at GIAAeL > DAAlADlAt VII III VI
Wayne railroad, last night. He was in
tOXicated, and had fallen fast asleep on
the track.
John G. Heenan and Chris O'COnner
arrived at Fortress Monroe yesterday
morning. It is understood they are
selecting ground for the fight between
Mace and O'Baldwin in June.
Mrs. Evelina Emains, of Boston, at
whose house Miss Brown died, was held
in eight thousand dollars bail yesterday,
as an accomplice of DIR. Lynn, in hav-
ing caused Miss Browns death by abor-
ton.
Red Cloud and his crew were ushered
into the presence of his highness, the
President of the United States, yester-
day at the royal mansion-the White
House. There was a right royal pow
WOW.
One of those reckless and dangerous
sports known as "hurdle-races" was
brought suddenly tOa close in Chicago
yesterday, by the falling of of the
horses, seriously if not fatally injuring
the rider.
The loss by the burning of the factory
Of the American Papier-mache Com
pany in Springfield, yesterday morning,
will not exceed forty thousand dollars, of
which twenty-three thousand five hum
dred dollars is covered by insurance.
The city editor of the Jacksonville
Journal, in writing an obituary of a
'highly respectable citizen says she
has gone to that undiscovered burn"
The %sorrowing relations of the "highly
respectable are now looking for that
man.
As for the whole question of the abol-
ishing of capital punishment, says the
american Presbyterian, We agree cor
daily with a member of the French
Corps Legislatif, who said: Certainly,
certainly; only let Messiers, the muir
derers, set US the example,
The grand jury of the Criminal court,
in Chicago, yesterday found an indict-
ment against Mrs. Louisa BOyee for the
murder of a young man named Johnson,
of Buffalo, New York, who died at her
clearinghouse in that city under mys-
FERROUS circumstances some months ago.
a man whose nam was supposed to
be Peter Devine was killed by a loco
motive on the Lake Shore railroad, near
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday morning.
The deceased had a paper in his pocket
] DEGtILll2 NilG dAluICcc. JdLlC w anu tOD
South SangamOn street, Chicago, Hi
nOis.
Minor K. Kellogg, the artist, was yes
terday, in Washington, divorced from
his wife, Celia Logan kellogg. She is
to have the custody of their only child.
The petition charges abandonment of
her husband by the wife more than a
year ago. The case-is me of incOmpat-
ibility.
Emerson is giving conversations Oh
literature in Boston. He has no mercy
on the classical swells, and says he
should as soon think of swimming
across Charles river to get to the Club"
as Of reading works in the original when
he can find them translated into his
mother tongue.
In the Houston case, in Baltimore
yesterday, witnesses were introduced ON
the part of the defense to disprove the
statements Of Mary Driscoll, the school
girl. This testimony fatty c~ontradicts
the most important statements of the
girl; but, as heretofore stated, the inves-
legation is secret.
Three negroes named Edward Parker,
West hall and Cash Clay, got into a
fight last might at the Black Crook, a
l~ucICDuldDlG S4oOu anu ud~nCS-uOhSc dl
the corner of Fourth and Almond streets,
st. Louis. Parker was killed, Hall was
severely stabbed and had his skull frac-
tured, and Clay was seriously stabbed.
BY a private letter the Yorkville
South Carolina) Enquirer learns that
twenty-siX of the persons recently SEN
fenced at Charleston for violations of
the enforcement act,n will be removed
TO the penitentiary at Albany, New
York, about the first of June. They
will 90 by steamer to New York, under
charge of Marshal Wallace. 1t is UNI
derstoOd that all the prisoners from
York county VIII be sent to Albany eX-
cept SeapaUgh, who was not sentenced
in consequence of a motion for an ar
rest Of judgment in his case.
The reported wholesale destruction of
the Newfoundland whaling fleet is not
credited i'm Boston. A letter from st.
Johns, by the last mail, says that twelve
vessels in all are lost OF missing, but two
or three of the missing vessels have not
been out so long as to be given up for
lost. The crews of the missing vessels
known TO be destroyed We're all saved
except fOrty-fve. Out of sixty men on
the brig Huntsman, twenty-nine leave
widows, with about one hundred aud
fifty children. Subscriptions are being
taken up to obtain means for their sup
port.
Women with babies, says the Louis
vile COurier-JOUTRdL, ought not to stand
~ tho Uafa with 4bapn urban vorYpu MON