Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-04
TEhEGRAMS.

The steamer Scotia has arrived IN 1
New York from Liverpool.
The steamer Randall, from New York,
arrived in London yester day.
The Chinese prisoners in San Fran
cisco object to having their heads
shaved.
Three Iowa Convicts escaped from |
their guard at the State quarry Monday |
afternoon.
Official reports from General Davis
confirm the press reports Of the capture
of Captain Jack.
The Carlist thieves are still operating |
in Spain. The republic ought to stop |
all work until they are cleaned out.
The Mt. Marion hotel, Hudson river
summer resort, near Saugertes, just
opened for the season, was burned last
night.
An extensive lumber mill was de- |
stroyed by fire st Toledo, Ohio, yester-
day ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS thousand |
dollars.
A very large FIRE was raging at Phila- |
delphia at two O'Clock this morning-so |
announced by telegraph, but too late to
give particulars.
Ten murders have been reported from |
the State of Virginia during the past |
two weeks, and the summer season has
not yet fairly set in.
A strike in England of employees of
the Western railway company COM
menced yesterday. Some eight hun |
dred of the men quit work.
Asiatic cholera has appeared in two |
villages in west Prussia, having been |
from Russian Poland. A |
rigid quarantine of the infected districts |
has been established.
The Spanish government has received
numerous dispatches form the provinces
cOngratulating it on the speech made by |
President Figueras ct the opening of the |
constitutional assembly.
Senator Mitchell publishes q full de-
fense of himself in the Oregon papers
and denies all the ISLANDERS cast upon
him, and appeals to the judgement OF
the people upon his character.
A Liverpool dispatch says the steam
sbips Halsatia, Adriatic, Calaleria City, |
washington and Wyoming from New
York. SarmatiOn from Quebec, and |
from Montreal, arrived out. /
A farmer named Henry Valentine, |
living near PendletOn, Indiana, while |
sitting on the railroad track, was struck |
Inv the express train on the Belle Fon- |
tsine road last night and died soon
after.
J. +. Savage, late cashier Of the
Teehmere bank at Cambridge, was yes
terday. sentenced in Boston TO five years
in the Lowell iail for making false and
fraudulent entries in the books of the
bank.
An indianapolis telegram says:
Westlev George, a fireman on the Van
dalia roilrOad, fell in mont OF ms engine
to-day while changing q switch, and
was run over by the train and fatally IN
jured.
The night express train on the Great
Western railroad ran OF the track at a
switch at Capetown, Ontario, yesterday.
Twenty-Five passengers were injured,
seventeen of whom proceeded on their
Journey, and eight remained at the ho-
tel.
A saloon-keeper named Charles Last
killed Thomas Sullivan in Chicago,
Monday night. Sullivan had been con-
cerned in 8 row in the saloon, for which
he was elected, when he commenced
throwing stones at the windows, which
resulted ss stated.
During a row at picnic near Louis
vile, Monday evening, a young man
named Louis Freking received bullet
wound which will result fatally. The
wounded man was twenty yards from
the scene of the row, and was not in any
way concerned in it.
Arrived yesterday at New York
steamships Vile de Harre, from Brest
and Samaria, from Liverpool. The
steamship Vile de HARE, while coming
up the lower bay to-day, ran into the
bark Curacao, sinking the bark imme'
diately. No lives lost.
En- extensive wooden mill in john
ston, owned by Charles III. Whipple,
and run by f. S. Farewell, at Provi-
dence, Rhode Island, bas burned yester-
day morning. Loss eighty-seyen thou
sand dollars; mostly covered by lnsur-
ance in eastern companies.
1t was reported in New York yester-
dav that Macdonnell, the bank Of Eng
land forger, was taken direct from the
limited States district court to Fort Co
lumbus, so as to avoid the service of any
writ his counselrnn obtain. He will,
| it is stated, be tsken to England to-day.
Frank Fl. Walworth, aged nineteen
wears. shot and killed bis father, Mans
! field It. WalwOrth, In New York, yes
/ terday morning. The father was living
ayay from his family, Occasloned by
/ family difficulties. The young man I'M
medistely delivered himself into the
custody Of the police.
A dispatch from Shanghai, giving full
particulars of the capture by the chinese
forces Of L2lee-FoO, in the province oi
! Yunnan, southwestern China. 1t says
! the victorious forces fell upon their cap
| tives and massacred thirty thousand.
The sultan poisoned himself rather than
fall into the hands Of the enemy.
The fall Of wal at the fire in How
/ ard street, New York, caused serious in-
! iuries to Martin Welsh and Edward
lWithelm, fOremen of the engine CON-
panies, and a number Of the other fire.
I men. TIE losses by the fire amOuated
to thirty-seven thousand five hundred
and fifty collars. Partly insured.
Seven persons, including three men
named Simmons, Underwood and Tan
ner q Miss Powers, and Mrs. Tanner
and her two children, were struck by
.
den. Tepuessee, last Sunday week, each
more or less stunned, but from the ef-
fects of which all are recovering. A
mule in the yard was instantly killed.
President MacMahon has issued ;
proclamation to the army, in which h'
. saws: "The choice of the president Q
the republic from your ranks shows th'
confidence Of the national assembly IL
your LOYALTY" The president has ais
f issued an osder appointing Genera
IpAdmirault, now military governor o
Paris, to the command Of the army Q
Versailles.
J The twenty-sixth session and thirtietl
! anniversary Of the American Institut
: of Homeopathy, the Oldest national med
! icaI society in the United States, is nov
! being held in Cincinnati, Ohio. A larg
number Of delegates and members from
! an parts of the United States, are pres
, ent. Nearly every State IN the Unio
. is Ieing represented. Prof. n. +. Small
. Of Chicago, president Of the institution
, delivered an address st the opening G
the session.