Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-25

/ will reach Seventy-hVe thousand dol
lars. The insurance is not over ten OF
twenty thousand dollars. The fire
ragged with violence for two OF three
hours, but was stayed in every direction
on reaching the brick buildings.
More Indian HostIIIssez.
ST.. LOUIS, April 24.-The Democrat
has a special from Denison, Texas
which says that report Is in circuIa-
ton there, which is believed, that a
train with government supplies for Fort
Griffin, hence from there on the thir-
| teenth instant, and consisting of four
mule wagons, was captured By the In
dians at Cole creek, sixty-five miles
from here. Four of the eight men with
the train are said to have been killed
and two wounded.
SAN FRANCISCO, April A.-The In
dians have stolen thirteen hundred cat
tie. William Wells, of Yakima valley,
Oregon, and three families arrived al
Dallas from Klickitat, report the In
dians SO very surly and insolent that
they did not think it safe to remain.
General Jefferson G. Davis leaves for the
seat of the MOdoe war tomorrow, and
General Hardie, from the iDspector-gen-
erals department, accompanies him.
OhellE ana btOWen.
HAVANA, April 23.-Bidwell, the al
legged bank of England forger, has been
delivered over to the English consul on
the order of Captain-Genefal Pieltain,
and will probably be sent toEngland in
man-of-war. Several of the confederates
of Bidwell, including Wilson, are still
in Havana. The captain-general has
informed the English consul that the
trial of O'Kelly must continue. If
O'Kelly's guilt is established,s the cap
tain-general will exercise Genaency, but
he cannot stop the course of the law.
The captsin-general has given strict or
ders to treat O'Kelly with the utmost
kindness, and see that nothing is want
ing to insure his comfort. 2he- British
consul-geneial has telegraphed to the
British consul at ManZanillo, asking
him to do all he possibly can for O'Kel-
ly, and informing him that the mo-
ment the tribunal decides Captain
General Pieltain will act.
CincInnaIi Business Statistics.
CINCINNATI, April 24.-The annual
report of Captain II. H. Tatem, secreta-
ry of the board of trade, Is published.
From this it appears that the total value
of the manufactures of the city for the
year 1872 was one hundred and forty
three millions four hundred thousand
dollars, a gain over the preceding
year of seven and a half mil
lions. The manufacturers of iron
reached twenty-five and three-quar-
er millions; liquors, twenty-one and q
half millions; food, seventeen millions
and three-quarters wood, fifteen millions
and quarter; clothing, thirteen mill
ions; leather, eight millions; tobacco,
five and half millions; soap, candles
and oils, eight millions and half.
All these departments show an increase
over the preceding year, with the ex-
ceptiOn of tobacco. The heaviest in
crease is in iron manufactures, which is
three and half millions. The number
Of hands employed in manufactures,
fifty-elght thousand and five hundred.
Suicides and Robbery.
CHICAGO, April PA. Dibelloy,
member of the board of trade, shot him
self in the head tonight. He will die.
He was French marquis, and at tWen-
ty-one received three hundred thousand
dollars in gold. He squandered it in
Europe in two years, and then came to
Chicago and went to work for N. K.
Fairbanks, lard manufacturer, for one
dollar and seventy-five cents per day.
Mr.. Fairbanks gave him three thousand
dollars, and told him to go into the
commission business on change. He
lost all in corners, and, becoming de-
spOndent, he had threatened to take his
life several times, and attempted it last
Monday, but the revolver was knocked
out of his hand.
The F. w. Fuller who was robbed in
New York by Hosier Brown, is Tim
Fuller, q swindler, now under indiet-
ment here for conspiracy te defraud the
same man who, with Rainforth, at
tempted to recover the insurance on
Rai9fOrth's Rain life by claiming that he was
Honore Kettel, aged twenty-six, COM
mitted suicide this morning by taking
aconite. She was dissipated, and her
husband broke up housekeeping and
took her children.
Michigan Legislature.
LANSING, April 24-The house bill
to abolish the present and adOBt the
county system of taxation failed in the
senate, wanting two votes of the re-
quired majority. The senate passed
the house bill to provide that, in case of
the separation of parents, the mother
olAtah DC Cll4NlCO " NllC ttuu Gli5LOuN
of the children under two years of age,
unless a court of competent jurisdiction
shall otherwise decree. The house
passed the following senate bills: to
provide for taxation on licensed State
homestead lands after five years. To
provide for the custody and safe keeping
of persons tried for murder and ac-
quilted on the ground of insunity; to
ra 1ArnUi aiOna for tbo ocfo hIiSh
Of State house of correction. To-mor-
row the legislature ceases to transact
business, and the members and officers
will disperse, excepting those who
must finish engrossing and signing
of bills. This session has continued
for one hundred and fifteen days, and
the day of the final adjournment next
week Wednesday will make one hun
dred and twenty-one days, being seven
teen days longer than the session two
years ago. A smaller number OF acts
has been passed, however, than at any
session for the last six years.