Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-25
GENERAL NEWS.
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go, 600 Factory Hands Idle - The
ScOurge in Texas Gamblers
and the Police Of YeH
York. N
Huri icane at Jacmel-Death at White
Lead W0rks-The Union League
? ew Yellow Fever inrRga
New York.
The Hog Crop of the West-AfIaIrs ia
France Official Frauds in New
YOrk-Panic and People,
ETC., Etc.
Sudden Death.

f Sudden Death.
EVANSVILLE, October 4.-George
WaIflin, a member of the last legisla-
tnre, and former sheriff of Vanderburg
county, died suddenly this evening Of
heart disease.
More lake Disasters.
MILWAUKEE, October 24.-The steam
barge Vienna, with grain from Duluth
TO Buffalo, sunk on Lake Superior sew
eral days since. The schooner Loydian
is ashore on Sister reef, off Big Sister
bayou, Green bay. Her position is such
as to render her probably a total wreck
National Union League.
PHILADELPHIA, October 22.-The
national council OF the Union league of
America, met to-day. Ex-Governor
Newell, of New Jersey, in the chair.
There was a large attendance. The
business was of a private character, re-
ferring entirely to the forthcoming
election.
10000 Factory Hands Idle.
New YORK, October 24.-The World
says that a gentleman recently returned
from Connecticut represents the manu-.
featuring interests of that State as in a
deplOrable condition. From fifteen to
twenty thousand operatives and factory
hands have already been thrown out Of
employment.
Collision.
MACON, GA, October PA freight
and passenger train collided near Seago
station, on the Southwestern railroad.
this morning J. w. Chick, express
messenger; William Miller, mail-agent,
and one colored passenger, name un-
known, were fatally, and two of the
train hands were severely hurt. Both
trains were wrecked.
Effects of the Panic ON Working PeO-
pie.
BUFFALO, October 24.-It is under
stood thst after the first of November
the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railway will reduce the wages of its en-
piUyees fifteen to twenty per cent. Also
the New York Central and Hudson
River railway have concluded to reduce
ten per cent. or discharge a portion of
its help. 1t is understood that since the
financial panic from eight to ten thou
saEd persons have been thrown out of
here.
A Memphis Victim I'm New York.
NEW YORK, October 22.-Patrick
Hehey, reported sick with yeilow-fever,
at No. 73 Washington street, is in
dying condition. He had been in the
house since Monday. He came from
Memphis, and last night three other
men lodged in the same room with
him. The doctors are anxiOusly search
lug for these men, as they are afraid
that they may carry the seeds of the
disease about with them. DR.. Jones
and DR.. Harris, of the health depart
ment, visited the house to-day, and
pronounced the disease yellow-fever.
Gamblers and the Police.
NEW YORK, October 23.-The police
con- missiOneTs met at late hour this
afternoon and received a letter from
Captain Irving, of the detective force,
asking for an investigation of the
charges made against him in the daily
papers of this city. The chief clerk
was ordered to prepare the charges,
which will be tried on Tuesday next at
eleven o'clock in the morning. A letter
was also received from the grand jury,
asking for list of all the gambling
houses of this city. The superintendent
was ordered to furnish the desired in
formation without delay.
Hurricane at JaemeI.
HAVANA, October 23.-Advices from
st. Thomas to the seventeenth instant,
have been received.
The Danish government has granted
a concession for the laying of telegraph
cables from st. Thomas to st. Croix,
Para, Bermudas and New York.
Jacmel papers of the tenth instant re-
port that the hurricane of the twenty
eighth ultimO was very destructive, and
that great many lives were lost and
five hundred houses were blown down.
Goods arriving by steamers could not
be landed, as there were no lighters left
in port.
Death ut white Lead Works.
PHILADELPHIA, PA, October 23-To-
day Jean Frey, aged forty years, fell
into a vat at the Westboro white lead
works, corner of Fifteenth street and
avenue. He uttered cry
for help, and four companions attempted
to rescue him, but the fumes were so
heavy as to PROSTATE all of them, and
they were compelled to seek their own
safety. So overpOwered were they that
three coHld scarcely drag themselves
away, while the fourth, Jacob Snider,
had to be dragged off by another work.
man, who came TO his aid. Frey was
taken out dead. Snider
was taken to the hospital, where he lies
in critical condition.
the Fever Rt Little Rock.
LITTLE Rock, October 24.-Dr. J. NJ.
Bohemier, a prominent physician Of
this city, died to-day of what is gener-
ally believed to be yellow-fever. Mr..
f. 81. Moody, another old and promi-
nent citizen, is down with the same dis
ease, and is not expected to recover.
Both these gentlemen had charge of the
quarantine between this city and Ar
genta, and it is supposed they contract
ed the disease while examining fleeing
parties from Memphis. There was an-
other heavy frost this morning. There
Is considerable excitement over the
fever, though no fears are entertained
that it will spread.
The weather is clear and cool, with
the Thermometer at fifty-four degrees
this evening. .-
The ScOurEe in Texas.
New ORLEANS, October 23.-The
Picdylale'S special says: Galveston j.
full of refugees from Bryant, Calvert
and Columbus, and more are coming in
by each train. kilograms from Column
ous report the fever increasing fast and
of very malignant type, -Four deaths
have occurred in twelve hours. Hon.
George w. Smith and J. w. Harcourt
are among the victims. The place il
almost depOpulated. A special relief
train was forwarded to-day with ply
sicians from Galveston. Calvert tele-
grams report nine deaths in twenty
i0ur hours. The disease continues very
viole t. In Bryant there were two
deaths and seven new cases in the past
twenty-four hours. Business is almost
entirely suspended.
A PenitsutfaFy Bird "squealfng.'
SPRINGFIELD, ILL, October 2S.-The
State Journal this morning contains dis
closures made to its reporter by Nose
Williams, sentenced to the penitentiary
for larceny this term, concerning the
murder on April 20, 1871, of Hon. Shar-
ron Tyndal, ex-secretary-of-sta and
which has remained a mystery ever
since it's commission. Williams affirms
his ability and willingness to point
out the murderers, whom, he says, there
were four, provided, in case of their
conviction, he Is pardoned for his present
offense. He claims that in "squeaIing''
he also revenges himself upon a gang
who helped his last conviction, because
he knew too much. Williams, though