Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-24
PULYERIZED LIGHTNING.

/ Snow fell at Sheffield, England, Yes
/ tenday.
General Benning spoke in Savannah,
! Georgia, yesterday.
Mr.. Greeley made a lengthy speech
at the Statehouse in indianapolis last night.
! Governor Jacobs, of West Virginia,
/ who has just been reelected, viii undoubtedly
support Greeley.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth
| OF lumber was destroyed at Osceola, Pennsyl-
I vania, yesterday.
Hon. Caleb Cushion, yesterday left
/ Nice for Bordeaux, and viii sail from Hayre
! for America soon.
] A Richmond firm recently shipped to
/ Australia one hundred and sixteen thousand
/ dollars worth OF tobacco.
A lad named William Gillian acci-
[ dentally shot and killed himself, near Kings
I ton, Geargia, last saturday.
A young blacksmith, named Brecker,
/ shot himself through the head in Evansville
/ last night. No work and depressed spirits.
/ At Atlanta a "bust-up" has occurred
among the ADMINISTRATORS which has re-
suited in the suspension of the Atlanta Flag.
A negro horse-thief was taken from
| the officers who had captured him, near New
/ Orleans, Indiana, yesterday, and hung to a
tree.
The prohibiting of the celebration in
France Of the anniversary Of the 4 rst republic
is aoout to result in trouble in many local
lilies.
A gentleman named J. T. Turner fell
dead In the courtroom at Atlanta. Thursday.
He was sixty years old, and formerly from
Alabama.
Hon. Julian Hartridge addressed an
immense audience in Savannah, Georgia last
Thursday, and the Greeley enthusiasm was
unboiInded.
A negro named Ben Gibson was
drowned BY the upsetting Of a sailboat be-
tween savannah and Skidaway, Georgia, one
day last week.
Mrs. BelOa A. Lockwood, agent of
prize offered for the best lady orator at the
Dalton Georgia. fair.
Governor Smith will be reelected by
majority Of at least fifty thousand. Dawse
Walker is his opponent, and is said 10 be
dead duck" in the canvass.
Policeman Thomas CaIlaghan, of Au-
gusta, Georgia, was shot and mortally wound
ed in that city one day last week by a man
named Costello. Arrested.
The carpenters all struck for four dol
lars per day in Chicago yesterday, and no
work was done during the entire day, except
where the bosses yielded to the demand.
The independents Of Georgia are
banking heavily on promises made to them
by 'NOld spotted Horse" Blount, who assumes
TO carry the Radical vote on the tip Of his
tongue.
1t is rumOred in Berlin that the EN-
perOr contennplates a great reduction Of the
army occupying French territory after the
payment Of the second instalment Of the war
Indemnity.
The troubles impending over the Yer
mont Central railroad eliminated Saturday,
by the notes Of the company going TO protest.
which caused considerable excitement in
financial circles.
The Charleston NelCs man is in pos
session Of a dOuble-headed snake, of the
groUnd-rattlesnake species, which was cap
tured in CalletOn county, South Carolina, a
few days since. What viii he do with it?
A ship canal across the peninsula of
Florida has been pronounced practicable and
Of vast use 70 the government, as well as
great aid to home and foreign commerce. It is
thought that Congress will aid the enterprise.
A steam canal boat arrived at New
York from Buffalo, with a full freight cargo,
by way OF the Erie canal, in four days less
than BY the usual horsepower. II is the first
steam canal boat that has thus made afull
trip.
Our White House at Washington, in
the hands of its present tenant, costs the gov
eminent in actual figures siXtv-Seven thou
sand nve hundred and forty dollars per an
mum. Nothing said Of what Is not expressed
IN the bill.
Miss Mollie, daughter Of Colonel John
Netherland, OF Rogersville, East Tennessee,
died last Friday from the effects of injuries
received py IalliuE rom Der morse and being
dragged some distance by the infuriaJed
animal.
The heaviest rainstorm ever witnessed
in that locality fen in the vicinity Of Mil
waukee, Wisconsin, yesterday. Considerable
damage was done 10 cellars in the city. Sew
eral barns were struck by lightning and
burned, and three persons at different points
were killed by lightning.
A fire broke out in Little Rock, Sun
day morning, on the corner of Center and
Tenth streets, destroying property to the
amount Of eight thousand dollars. Insured 70
the amOunt OF twenry-six hundred dollars in
the Aetna and I'VE hundred in the Arkansas
Home Insurance Company. The property de-
strOyed belonged 70 George o. Watkins.
Advices received from Toronto, On
tario, from Fort Garry, indicate the return of
ali the government candidates There has
been serious and popular disturbances here
snd the troops were called out. The printing
Office Of Manitoba, Metis q Gazette, was
gutted by the mob. Engineers Of the Cana
dian boundary survey arrived at Pembina.
ssThe incendiary and infiammatOry teach
Ings Of the ADMINISTRATORS are developing
70 an alarming extent IN many Of the North
ern cities, may be seen from the daily ac-
counts received by telegraph OF mobs, riots
and Sfreet-hghts INDUCED in on the occasion
OF colored demonstrations. In nearly every
instance the causes and instigations are traced
20 the beguiled negro.