Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-01
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

NJ. T. Bailey was arrested in New
York yesterday for passing coun terfeit money.
Sir Sau7uel Baker and family sailed
from Alexandria, Egypt, yesterday, for Eng
land.
Parties arriving at Little Rock yester-
day reported the yellow.fever raging at Mar
shall, Texas.
A grand parade of the knights Tenn
plar took place at Philadelphia yesterday, and
was a most imposing affair.
A meeting of the creditors Of Clews,
Habieht & Co, in London, is called for, TO
take place on the tw6nty-thtrd OF November.
Peter AIcKenns took imprisonment
for life in the state prison for having STABBED
Michael Sunny 70 death in New York not long
ago.
John Bright, says London telegram,
yesterday received the seals Of duke OF Lam
caster, and was formally installed as a cabinet
officer
Mr.. Jack Eakin shot, and it is thought
mOrtaIly wounded, DR.. Fowler, of Franklin
county, Arkansas, near Greenwood, few
days ago.
A dispatch from Utica, New York,
says that HOratio Seymour will be chosen
permanent chairman of the Democratic con-
yention there to-day.
Lieutenant Hunter, of the United
States navy, died on board the steamer Wa
bash at Barcelona recently. He was son OF
MISUNDERSTANDING -of-State Hunter.
Admiral Winslow, of the United
States navy, who commanded the kearsage
when she sank the Alabama, died at his resi-.
dence in the Boston highlands Monday even
ing.
A number OF new cases of cholera
have made their appearance on ship which
arrived at Liverpool, bringing that disease
The vessel has been placed in close quaran'
tine.
The cornerstone of st. Paups Episeo-
/ pal cathedral, Newark, New Jersey, was laid
/ Monday by Bishop Odenheimer, with ap-
/ propriate solemuities, IN the presence Of &
/ large congregation.
A telegram received from Washing
/ ton at one o'clock yesterday morning stated
l that the city was flee from financial excite
ment-tO be naturally supposed from the facl
/ that every boty was presumed TO be asleep.
Jacob Fahnley, of FahBley, Kuhn
Co., propretors OF the western brewery a
I Evansville, Indiana, was accidentally
| drowned in bis Cistern yesterday morning. He
was also OF Fahnley, Forster q Co., OF Terr'
HEute-
At Quincy, Illinois, yesterday Willie
/ Fountain and John McAlister, colOred boys
I aged about ten years, were shooting birds with
/ revolvers, when the revolver in Fountain :
/ hands was accidentally discharged Instantly
| killing McAlister.
! The contract bureau of the pOstoffice
or their agents, drafts on the United states
/ treasury amounting to nearly three million
/ dollars, In payment for postal services during
/ the quarter ending yesterday.
A Brooklyn paper says an indictment
/ has been found by the grand jury against Rod
man, the defaulung assistant-treasurer, but
that a fiOUc prOSeqti will be entered in his case
/ and he be used as witness for the people
/ when Treasurer SpTague's trial comes up.
Thomas Coaley and Edward Upton
U war tod in prs hn Ei ~
/ instant, accused OF having endeavored to pass
] a forged one thousand-dOliar bond OF the Mis-
sissippi Valley railroad in Canada, and were
I yesterday committed by Judge Bowling IN
/ ten thousand dollars each, to answer at the
/ next term OF the circuit court.
In New York yesterday, Louis Ette
I photographer, 2l4 Bowery street, shot Jose pf
| HhooI,, seSiRg-maehlne agent, woundinI ns
I same building. They quarrslet about sigI
! belonging to WhoOis, and Elite knocked i
/ down. soon afterward Elite drew a pistol
/ and shot Whocls in the right breast, infictinG
a mortal wound. Elite fed.
The Little Rock Gazette Of Sunday
f5ays 5gysss,F hat eMlllis Anderson, the blonde II
/ horse at Jacksonport, and sentenced to th'
/ State prison for i've years, was pardOned bs
! the governor Saturday. A petition signed by
/ hundreds OF men and a large number o
/ ladies was sent TO the executive"
/ Civil proceedings were commenced il
| the United States district court at Pittsburg
| Pennsylvania, Monday, against John II
I Stewart, late postmaster, and his surettes OF
bis Official bond. The amount claimed Is no
! 70 exceed seventy-dye thousand dollars. Ih'
bond arrived from Washington yesterday
| with Instructions TO institute a civil suit.
The police commissioners of Cinein
| natl, Monday passed resolutions instr1ctinl
| all patrolmen TO arrest inmates of gambling
houses on their beats, without further orders
and making the statiOnhOuse officers respOus
ible for suppressing gambling in their dis
tricts. Also directing the superintendent o
Police 10 suppress all lotteries and games o
| chance in the city.
The trial of Norton, the forger, begaI
| al Louisville yesterday. Norton s confederate
who looked like him, is known to have goni
/ to Madison, Indiana, and STAYED sll night a
the hotel taere, and got of early in the morn
I ing. He is believed to have escaped nOrtl
through Indiana. He registered his name a
| :. Gates, Columbus, Indiana, at Madison. N
clue to him as yet.
A company was organized at Titus
vile, Pennsylvania, Monday evening, com
posed Of the most prominent men of that city
I under the name Of the Tttusville Trunk Pip
line company, with a capital stock Of two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars, and will pil
! coed Immediately 10 laying lines for the trans
! pOrtatiOn OF oil to Titusville from all the pro
ducing districts, including the Butler count
district.
1t was stated at the treasury depart
ment in Washington yesterday that the de
Dartment statement VIII exhibit fair reduC
tion IN the public debt, Notwithstanding tn
revenues OF the month have been compare
lively light. The treasury disbursements 70
the usual expenses of the government for tn
month ending to-day have been below tn
average expenses for the last three or fou
months.
A Fort Wayne special to the Cincin
natl Gazette, Monday, SAYS that two IN
known men violated the person Of Miss Lon
last saturday, whom they found alone AZ tn
! FARMHOUSE OF her father, a few miles north c
! hunfHrSfnWn. escNDed.
nearly dead with Injury and fright. Tn
neigh hborhood for miles around is aroused an
IN pursuit OF the men, whom they will Iync
II they are caught.
The latest news of the progress OF tn
Ashsntee war is satisfactory. The natives ar
in state Of semi starvation, and IL is SUP
posed they are waiting for the end OF tn
! rainy season, unable TIL then to make an
movement. An American vessel was discoy
cred IN the act OF selling them powder. an
has been seized by the British commando
A blockade Of the coast has been declared, {
prevent similar occurrence.
John D. Cause, charged with embez
element Of twenty-five thousand dollars fror
Lawrence Brothers, bankers, was befOr
Judge Brady, in New York yesterday, on az
phcation for n reduction Of the bail lrOT
! thirty thousand dollars, but the application
was denied. II wss stated that Lawrenc
Bros. had been offered the return Of IN
could better afford to lose the money than a
low the offense 10 go unpunished.
An accident occurred to the souther
express-train last Sunday morning on IN
/ Pennsylvania railroad, which caused III
death OF one man and the wounding OF al
other. The morning was very foggV, rendel
ing u impossible 10 see far ahead Near Boil
var station the express dashed into two {
three freight-cers, which became detache
from a train IN advance, which had run bac
on grade for several miles. CONSIDERABLE
force OF the collision was abated by promI
application OF the brakes. The engine an
first three passenger-cars were considerabl
damaged. In the wreck was found the dea
! body Of a cOlOred man, who had evidentl
been stealing a ride between two of the e1
oress-cars. Other passengers were slight
bruised, and but one was very seriously IL
jured.
ADDITIONAL RIVER NEWS.