Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-03

Edgerton is q prominent member Of tn,
Methodist church.
Political affairs ere fearfilly muddied
in California.
The Cincinnati exposition win be
formally opened tonight.
b The New England agricultural fair
| opened at Boston yesterday.
A couple Of fhorse-thieves were lynched
day.
The cattle-thieves have begun opera
uons on the Texas border with in
4 creased vigor.
Quarantine has been established at
I Galveston, Texas, ~ q preventative
( against yellow fever.s
Louisville's second grand exposition
Z opened last night with a grand display.
Fifteen thousand people were present.
General James E. Harrihon. Of Waco,
Texas, was seized with paralysis a couple
9i DAYS sliiee. He is in precarious con-
ditOn.
I Only two cases Of yellow fever are re-
ported IN New Orleans-One in hospital
and one in private house two miles
( above the business section.
A fire Of considerable proportions oc-
Cured at Newcastle, Pennsylvania, on
Monday night-supposed work OF an
I incendiaTy.
Captain Anton Huebler has been as
signed TO duty as chief Of police ct st.
Louis, pending the investigation Of the
charges against Chief MeDonough.
Richard Medloek shot, and It is
thought, fatally wounded Edward Jen-
kins, his stepfather, at Little Rock yes
day. because Of the neglect Of his
mother by jenkins.
The mayor of Montgomery, Alabama,
has issued a proclamation to prevent
parties coming from Pensacola, where
yellow fever now exists, from entering
the city.
The registered letters stolen from the
Toronto pOst0ffice, some weeks since,
have been found hidden in the woods.
All the letters containing checks and
drafts were recovered, but no money.
Stephen Jones, a brakeman on the
Mobile and Ohio railroad, was crushed
to death between two cars while at
tempting TO leap on a moving train, at
Citronelle, on Saturday.
The courthouse and hotel at Pasca-
gOula, Pennsylvania, were destroyed by
fire on Friday. The loss will amount to |
twenty thousand dollars. The fire was
the work Of an incendisry,
TheDemocratic senatorial convention,
at Ottawa, Ohio, yesterday, nominated |
J Judge Z. ID. Potter, Of Lucas, and Alex. |
Wessler, Of Henry county, TO the State /
A lunatic named William Knightly, |
killed his sister Adelaide, and his |
nephew, Louis Stobbs, on Sunday, and I
,losed the tragedy by firing the house /
md killing himself, at Sedalia, Missouri. |
George Smith, owner of the mare
Belle Berkley, the winner at the Pitts |
burg races, Saturday, was robbed Of |
hundred dollars at Pitts |
burg, on Monday, being the total |
amount of his winnings at the race.
An old man, a stranger, sixty years |
DID, named Henry SWEET, was arrested !
At TitUsville, Pennsylvania yesterday 1
for passing one of the new counterfeit /
ive-hundred dollar greenbaeks. He was
released on three thousand dollars bail,
IN amount which he deposited as seeu-
-ity for his bondsmen.
An excursion train of the Great West
I'm railroad, OF Canada employees, ran
nto a freight-train at Townsville,
sbOut seventy-five miles east Of Detroit,
IN Saturday morning. Many persons
we're seriously injured, and several have
ince died from their injuries. The rail-
Dad officials are reported 70 be very ret
cent in regard TO the accident.
A physician named Joseph Clarence
;howalter cut his wife's throat with
azor, producing instant death, in Bal
imore, on Saturday, and then tried to
.ut an end to his own life with the
anne instrument. Showalter is a native
{ Selma, Alabama, and served as an
ssistant surgeon in the Confederate
rmy during the war.
The result of the investigation into
be Wawassett disaster at Washington !
7as made public yesterday, and clc.-sd
v recommending that the p potousc
suy company be vigorous, . prosecuted
,r violating the stea .nbost law. and
aptain J. r. wood and his mate,
io0ert w. Gravott, for acting in such
apacitses without license. The report
a.. oeen referred to the solicitor-general
1r his action.
The following officers Of the "liberat-
ng army Of CiIbap are ordered TO report
Dr. duty on the island without delay:
francisco Nagulsro, wee president;
Iamon Cespedes, minister to the United
tates; w. a. c. Ryan, general and
hief Of cavalry; b. Verona, brigadier
eneral Of infantry: Rafael Quesada,
olOnel of infantry; Michor Agura,
olonel of infantry, and L. G. Bailey,
and abide camp.