Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-19
A Jailer Murdered by Prisoners
Horrible Butchery by Drunken
Men-Arrest of Supposed
FOrgers.
A Son Charged with the Murder
of his Father-ShOrt Shrift
for a Woman Murderer.
Heavy Robbery of a Railroad
COmpany-Details Of Crime,
Accident and Fire,
Etc., Etc., Etc.
Tine Chattanooga Postmastership.


WASHINGTON, March 1S.-The nomi-
nation Of w. G. Sharp as postmaster at
Chattanooga has been Withdrawn by the
President, and Kendrick, the present
incumbent, renominated.
A Man Ground 20 Powder.
CINCINNATI, March lS.-William
Hefford, "a laborerin Barrett's -four mills,
near Spring Valley, Ohio, was yester-
day literally ground up by being caught
in cog-wheel.
JaIIer Killed by R<isOner.
AUBURN, March 1S.-Jailer Fields,
who was struck with bar of iron by
Perry, who, with three others, escaped
from Jail in this city, on Friday last,
died this morning. Perry is still at
large.
susan B. Anthony and Fhirteea Other
UTICA, n. Y, March 1S.-The case
of the Rochester inspectors of election,
indicted for receiving the votes of Su-
san B. Anthony and thirteen other wo-
men, was to-day postponed until the
May term.
Political.
&. PROVIDENCE, March l0.-The resOlu-
tions of the Democratic State conven-
tion to-day denOunce the congressional
salary bill and the credit mobilier, and
express sympathy with the people of
Louisiana.
Relief 10 Fire Sufferers.
LOUISVILLE, March 1S.-The citizens
of Frankfort subscribed over a thousand
dollars forthe sufferers by the Lawrence
ht,rrv A y,,aaff,,cr of tho oitfvor1z rc-
quested the city council to appropriate
a thousand more.
Convicted of ArsOn-Ten Years.
EVANSVILLE, IND, March ls.-John
B. Simpson was to-day convicted of set
ting fire to Wiltshire & Kreipke's coop
er-shop, on the morning of the eleventh
of February, and sentenced to the peni-
tentiary for ten years.
Saved.
HALIFAX, March IS.-Bermuda ad-
vices of the twelfth report that the cap
tain and twelve of the crew of the bark
Anna, which foundered at sea on the
of February, arrived there on
the sixth instant in an open boat.
Another Murderer TO be Hung.
LOUISVILLE, March lS.-The governor
has declined to pardon Thomas Smith,
convicted by the circuit court of this
county of killing Joseph Breden, ON
May 10, 1871, and sentenced to be hung
on the twenty eighth instant.
Probable Fatal Accident.
BOSTON, March 1S.-At Cambridge
yesterday, during the procession, four
horses attached to a barouche became
and dashed through the
crowd, wounding a dozen persons. One
of the injured is not expected to recover.
burned TO Death.
LOUISVILLE, March 18.-On Sunday
night last boy and girl (colOred chill
drenl, named Reed, were burned to
death in a house two miles from New
Albany, Indiana, in the absence of
their father. An older boy escaped from
the burning building.
Shot His BrOfher.fn-LaW.
LOUISVILLE, March 1S.-Lohsbrough,
the young man who shot his brother-in-
law, Mike Laffy, last night, while the
latter was threatening his wife, surren-
dered himself 20 the authorities to-day,
and was sent to jail without bail, as Laf-
fy's condition is critical.
Casey AppOfatment Earnestly Opposed
WASHINGTON, March IS.- Colonel
confirmation as collector st New
Orleans is earnestly opposed. Senator
West is against him, but more, he says,
in the interest of the State of Louisiana
than with any hope OF defeating him.
1t is said the vote VIII be close.
Arrest OF Supposed Rorgers.
LONDON, March 1S.-Three shabbily
dressed men, believed to be Americans,
were arrested in Cork this morning
while attempting TO deposit twelve
thousand dollars in bank. They are
to be the parties who recently
frauds on the bank of Eng
land.
France Paying Her War Debt.
VERSAILLES, March 1S.-The annual
budget was presented in the national
yesterday. 1t shows most
gratifying condition of public funds.
There is now In the treasury one-half Of
the sum due to Germany. No loan will
be required to complete the payments
of the war indemnity at the date desig-
mated.
Threatened Labor Riots
New YORK, March lS.-The Irish Ia
borers lately employed on the boulevard
Yesterday determined to clean out the
Italian labOrers who replaced them at
less wages. To-day large force of riot
ers marched to where the Italians were
working, but the police drove them
away. 1t is feared that there will be
trouble in Brooklyn tomorrow.
Schooner and Crew Lost.
New YORK, March 1S.-The fishing
Joseph Garland, which is re-
ported lost in a Portsmouth dispatch,
had crew of twelve men. No tidings
have been heard of the Garland since
February twenty-third, but a portion of
the wreck is supposed to have been seen
by a steamer on February twenty-sixth.
A Son suspected of the MurSier OF his
Father.
INDIANAPOLIS, March 1.-THE body
of John Snyder, the expressman who
disappeared on the first Of
January last, WAS found in White river,
near this city, yesterday. A post D7Ortena
examination and inquest We're held to-
day, but the jury have not reported. A
son of Snyder has been arrested and
held 70 await the report Of the coroner's
jury.
Insurance Matters
ST. LOUIS, March I6.-1nformatlOn
has been fled in the court OF criminal
correction against Charles H. Peck,
and other officers of the st.
Louis Mutual life insurance company,
for falling and refusing TO furnish a
sworn statement of the business and
condition Of affairs of said company to
the insurance commissioner Of the
State, as required by law.
Completion of the Housson and Texas
Central Raflroad.
GALVESTON, March l6.-Superintend-
ent Durand announces the completion
of the Houston and Texas Central rail-
road to Red River City, connecting with
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas road.
Through trains viii run from Galveston.
Houston and st. Louis, commencing on
the twenty fourth.
sISS,Oeo In Bonds stolen.
NEW YoRK, March ls.-A robbery OF
bonds, amounting to one hundred and
sixty-eight thousand dollars, was conn
mitted at the office OF the president of
the Pennsylvania Western railroad on
1t is reported that the