Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-13
TELEGRAPHIC BUBBLES.

President Wilson's health is re-
ported improving.
-Four convicts escaped from Sing-Sing
prison last night.
The first bale of new hops was received
at New York yesterday.
The Chinese horror is Occupying the
courts of San Francisco.
A squadron of Austrian war vessels
have been ordered to Spain.
One fatal case of cholera was reported
at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday.
The President, accompanied by his
family, arrived at Boston yesterday.
Sixteen hundred and fifty-six emf
grants arrived at New York Monday.
Wilmington, Ohio, was lighted with
gas for the first time Monday night
last.
Wesley Lindsay, colored man, was
shot and killed Sunday near Little
Rock.
Champagne, Illinois, day before yes
terday, cOnhsgrated to the amount of
six thousand dollars.
Many strangers are leaving Vienna,
and the number of visitors to the expo
sition decreases daily.
A break in the Erie canal at Eagle
Harbor makes a necessary stoppage of
boats for two or three days.
The witnesses in the Stokes case, con-
fined in the house of detention at New
York, were released yesterday.
Ninety-one registered letters were
stolen from the postoffice at Toronto,
Canada, on Monday, by robbers.
Eight new petroleum wells in Penn
sylvania are yielding the average amount
of five hundred barrels of oil per day.
: Baltimore officials made a raid on
liquor-dealers yesterday. Large quanti-
ties of rejuvenating elixir were seized.
John Conrad has been appointed
gauger for the sixth Ohio district and
Rufus Kirk for the third district of Hi
nois.
A laborer named Ben McEwen COM
mitted suicide at Berea, Ohio, Sunday
night, by hanging himself. Cause un-
known.
The steamer MonOngahela will sail
about the twenty-fifth instant to rein
force the American fleet in Spanish
waters.
VIM. M. Richardson, president of the
Union insurance company, of CinciD-
natl, died there on the eleventh instant,
from paralysis.
Governor Baxter has pardOned Rich
ard Stivens, colored, sentenced to three
years in the Arkansas penitentiary from
Phillips county.
DIR. L. r. Vanhoosen, late of Albany,
New York, committed suicide at Oma-
ha, day before yesterday, by cutting his
throat with a razor.
The National hotel and several stores
at Cableskill, New York, were burned
last night. Loss estimated at seventy
five thousand dollars.
Brigham Young's seventeenth wife's
suit for marital severance was concluded
in the Salt Lake courts Monday, but the
judge reserved his decision.
At San Francisco, on the eleventh in
slant, John Curtin shot and fatally
wounded man named Johnson, the Sc
ducer of the formers daughter.
A young lady fell from a skiff in the
river at little Rock, Monday, and would
have been drowned but fer the heroism
of a young gentleman, who rescued her.
A cable dispatch yesterday says that
a desperate fight took place on the bor-
ough of the Currogh of Kildare, between
two Irish regiments. Several were killed
and many seriously wounded.
Vienna advices state that the medal
of merit in group twenty-six, Educa-
ton, Teaching and Instruction" has
been awarded to the collection of the
Periodical Literature of America.
A telegram from Lexington, Ken
tucky, states that the trotting stallion
Sentinel, was found dead in the stables
at Ash Grove farm yesterday morning.
His owner Edwin Thorne, of New
York, recently refused thirty thousand
dollars for him.
At Louisville yesterday, a negress
named Fannie Bust, was convicted of
murder in the first degree, having killed
her child in Harrison county, Kentucky.
1t is stated that she first cut out its
tongue and otherwise brutally mutilated
it, and then drowned it.
In New York during the past three
weeks nearly five hundred painters have
been on a strike, and have managed to
keep the matter q secret until now.
The strike was declared in consequence |
of the bosses attempting to return to the |
ten-hour system. Already several shops |
have been cleaned out by the strikers.
In translation, published in New
York, the papal ALLEGATION, delivered on |
the twenty-fifth of July, denouncing the
recent law enacted by the Italian parlia-
ment for the disposal of church property, |
to all concerned in the execution of the
law, or who purchase property under it,
his holiness says that what they have
done, or will do, is worthless, nun and Il
void, and that they have incurred the
major excommunication and other con-
sumes, and that they are in manifest
danger Of eternal damnation,