Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-07
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.
Another European Balloon Excursion
Comes 20 Grief-NO Lives Lost
Frost, Hall and Rain.
More Financial TrOubles-The st. Louis
KatuRl Life Insurance Company
EnjOIned-Murder In Ohio.
Quarantine to be Raised at Little Rock
The Polaris SurTiYOrs-Wash-
jhgtOn Items-Etc, Etc.
$4,000 Fire.

$4,000 Fire.
RUTLAND, VT, October 6.-The store
house and other property of the Bran
don manufacturing company, burned
last night. Loss forty thousand dollars
Suicide.
CAIRO, October 6.-Fred Blanken
burg, well known saloOnkeeper, com
mitted suicide this morning by shooting
himself through the head with a re
volver. No cause is assigned for thi
deed.
Washington News.
WASHINGTON, October 6.-The Presi
dent to-day appointed P. d. Barker col
lector of internal revenue for the secon(
district of Alabama, vice Widmer, al.
legged defaulter, suspended.
Outstanding legal-tenders, So, ,S64,
490,8S.
A Proposal 10 Restore the French Mon
archy.
PARIS, October 6.-The Paris Journal
q mOnarchical newspaper, says that {
proposal for the restoration of the mon
archy on the basis of the charter Of 1914
in a modified form, will be presented in
the assembly on the opening day of tbs
session. syz-
Bank CIOsed-Man Murdered.
CINCINNATI, October ga Daytor
dispatch says that Hartman & German
bankers in that city closed to-day
neither paying out nor receiving.
A dispatch from Milford Centre, Ohio
says that John Reed killed Samue
Griffith, at York Centre, Union county
last Friday night, stsbbing him in tht
abdomen Reed was arrested. Botf
parties were drunk and quarreling.
Closing Day at Dexter Park.
CHICAGO, October 6.-The closing
races at Dexter park occurred to-day
The first race was for a purse Of $1,000
The following were the entries: Gold
smith Maid, Gloster ana Basham, jr
The former won in three straight heats
Time 2:235, 2:20a, 2:26, Gloster second
The sWeepstake running race, mile
heats, for a llurse OF 1875, was won by
Lady Fairfield, ia 1:474, she distancinG
Buekshot snd Prairie Boy.
ola Claisss Being Paid.
WASHINGTON, October 6.-The treas
ury department is now paying persons
who We employ In taking the United
States census in the southern States in
1850, just previous to the breaking out o
the rebellion, and who were deprived O
their money on that account. Already
sixty-seven thousand, six hundred AM
nineteen dollars has been paid to sucf
employees in sums ranging from fifty tC
two hundred dollars.
The POlaris Survivors Locked For.
WASHINGTON, October g. Th,
steamer Tallapoosa is hourly expected
at Washington navy-yard with the sur
vivoTs of the Polaris ON board. Fn,
Navy department allow members o
families Of the Polaris crew to go OF
board, but the public will not be ad
mitted to her. Secretary Robson will
be here on Wednesday, and will i'm.
mediately make arrangements to go OF
with the investigation commenced BY
him some months ago, when the TysoI
party was here.
Election Rraud-FataI Accident.
CHARLESTON, s. c., October ga
noon te-dsy a largely attended publ,
meeting of citizens formally declared
the recent municipal election to be null
anu NO4u, anu Cd1iEu NDt
mayor and aldermen to retain thei
offices until their successors be legally
elected.
During furious rain here this even
ing, the freight depot of the Northeast
ern railroad was unroofed, and John nj
Miller and A. Reid were killed, and sew
eral others severely injured.
FI5anciaI.
CINCINNATI, October 6.-The direct
OTIS of the board of trade to-day adopted
resolutions favOring the repeal of al
usury lOans-seven per cent. interes
in the absence of a contract and tn,
modification of the national banking
law, so as to allow every association
having fifty thousand dollars of govern
ment bonds the right to deposit th'
same and receive national bank notes
under no restriction, rendering the bill
holder as secure as under the presen
system.
-HailsfOFm-Lisht FrOst-Quaranfine
RaIEed.
LITTLE Rock, October GA sever,
hailstorm passed over the northern par
Of this State about four o'clock las
-veDing. About nine o'clock last nigh
a severe storm of wind accompanied By
a slight rain passed over this city ant
the ermometer fell from eighty-tw'
to sixty degrees.
A light frost was discernable thi
morning. Itwas clear and cool through
out the day. More frost is expected to
night.
Owing to the change in the weathe
the quarantine established on SAturda,
will probably be raised tomorrow.
international Postal Arrangements.
WASHINGTON, October 6.-Some tim
ago the postOffice department invites
the postal authorities of England ant
Germany to open negotiations with thi
country for the interchange of pOsta
cards on the basis of the twO-cent rate
England declined the proposition, bu
negotiations are now in progress wit
the German postal union, includin
Austria, and there is every probabilit,
that they will be brought to a successful
issue by the first of next December. /
draft OF an additional postal convention
for this purpose is now being propose
by the superintendent of foreign mails
and will be forwarded in few days 70
the signature of the German authOritie
A New Freach Cabinet Proposed.
PARIS, October 6.-At a meeting c
the deputies of the right to-day the fol
lowing cabinet was decided upon in tn
event of a change in the government 8
the opening of the assembly: Due d
Cazzes, minister of foreign affairs; M
Boeher, minister of the interior; M. d
Chesnelong, minister of finance; NJ. d
Peyre, minister of justice; NJ. Grevart
minister Of public works; M. Dupyon
minister or commerce; NJ. Des Jardins
minister of public instruction; Marqui
de Montague, minister of marine, an,
General Changsriner, minister of wal
Catholic UufOs Meeting
NEW YORK, October 6.-The annus
meeting Of the Catholic Union of tn
United States was held in the hall @
st. FIR ncis Xavier church, this even
ing. J. Edmund Burk, of Buffalo, de
livered an elaborate address upon tn
condition and future of the union. Ad
dresses were also made by DR.. Andrews
Judge Quinn and others. Mr.. Charlie
NJ. Morse read an address of the Cath
Ole union Of Ireland TO the people O
Ireland. The union now comprise
eighteen parishes, with a membershil