Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-03
Associated Press Dispatches.l
CHICAGO Lumber Trade.

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| ply is very large, and the market is dull
Prices are dropping, with sales at thir-
| teen and a half TO fourteen dollars;
I lath, two dollars and fly cents. Prices
at the yard are lower.
! The judicial election in this city and
county to-day resulted in the election OF
all the present circuit judges.
The woods in portions of Maine are
on fire, and large quantities of valuable
timber are being destroyed.
The kaiser Puts Hfs Finger Down.
LONDON, May 2-The Times this
morning publishes a special from Berlin
saying the German government is dis
satisfied with President McMahOn's ad-
dress to the French assembly, and viii
not enter into regular diplomatic rela-
tions with his government until satisfied
that France will faithfully adhere to the
treaty of Frankfurt.
Murder aud Robbery.
RICHMOND, Va, June "A special
from Suffolk, NansemOnd county, Viz
ginia, states that Mrs. Dempsey Jones
and her sister, Mrs. DOzier, living nine
miles from that place, were murdered
Yesterday, and the house plundered,
while Mr.. Jones and his children were
at Sunday-schoOl. There is no clue to
the murderers, and citizens are hunting
them.
Railroad Damaged for killing a Man.
BURLINGTON, Iowa, June I'm the
district court here to-day the jury re-
turned verdict for six thousand eight
hundred and fifty dollars damages
against the Burlington and Missouri
River railroad, and in favor of the es-
tate of young HOuX, who was killed by a
switch engine, in the street, last fall. The
attorney for the railroad filed motion
for a new trial, and falling in that viii
carry the case to the supreme court.
Railroad officials of Illinois are con-
templating the entire abOlishing of the
free pass system.
Accurate Losses Of Insurance by the
Boston Fire.
Boston, June 2.-The following is as
correct a list as can be ascertained until
adjustments are made on the insurance
losses of companies doing business in
Boston by agencies ON the fire Of Fri
day last: Foreign offices, $40 600: New
I York, $4,000; Pennsylvania, $3.50, 600;
Hartford, S77 600; Providence, $4,000;
/ Bangor, Sl3, 900; ;Miscellaoeous,S $50, 600
/ Mal,n Ifleent Church Edifiee In Prospect
CINCINNATI, June 1.-The friends OF
Rev. Henry D. Moore, who lately retired
from the pastOrate of the Vine street
Congregational church, and has since
been preaching in RobinsOn's opera
house, have a project on foot to erect
for him a church, TO cost two hundIe
thousand dollars, having the largest au-
ditOrium in the city. One man offers
ffty thousand dollars. 1t is understood
that the members of the Masonic order
are active in the movement.
spanish War News.
MADRID, June IA severe engage
ment took place Saturday last in the
province of Barcelona between force
Of republicans and bands commanded
by Finstany and Don AlfOnzO. After q
stubborn fight the insurgents fed. They
were pursued as far as Monistral De Cal
| ders
All the federal republican factions in
Barcelona have united in opposition to
| the monarchists.
A dispatch has been received from
General NOuvillas stating that, with
twelve thousand men, he holds all the
mountain passes in the province of Bis
cay, and Is driving the Carlists toward
the coast.
The New Jerusalem Church.
CINCINNATI, June AT the morn
ing session OF the ministerial conference
of the New Jerusalem church, a resolu-
ton was adopted to publish the journal
of the proceedings Of the conference in
two papers. Read by George n. Smith,
of Richmond, lndiana-first, an order Of
the church, being consideration of the
consummation OF the old church and the
beginning of the new; second, an order
of the heavens. In the afternoon a paper
was read by Rev. Lewis Carrier, of St.
Louis, on the proper age for confirma-
ton. The remainder of the time was
spent discussing the papers Of the fore
noon, and then adjourned till Wednes-
day.
chicago invests 100000 in COnfIagra-
CHICAGO, June IA fire broke out
about one o'clock this afternoon in the
extensive furniture mandatory and
wsrerooms of Paller, King q Co., Nos.
234, 2ss aud 2S8, in Otis block, Wabash
avenue, ana spreading rapidly, soon en-
tirely destroyed the entire stock, tOgeth-
er with the tools, etc. J. Libenstein d
Co, upholsterers and dealers ia Gurled
| hair mattresses, etc, occupied the Lowell
doors, and their loss in stock will be en-
tire, West d Co., importers Of and
dealers ia fancy goods, occupied the up
per floors of no. 282, aud lost heavily by
wafer The Methodist book concern
oecupv the premises 10 the rear, and 90
far have escaped, and the fire is nov
thouoht TO be under control. II. B.Van-
eeft Il Go, jewellers, occupy the remain
inc store in the block, No. $50, and the
fire viii not reach them. The loss can
moi be correctly estimated at present
hut II will not be less than tWG hundred
thousand dollars Cn the building and
stock.
Losses by the fire ia 0tis's block on
Wabash avenue to-day, foot up Sll9, 500,
ON which there is about $4,000 insur-
anea. The losses aud insurance are as
follows: J, E. Otis, on building S29,oOO,