Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-31
ESTABLISHED 1910.

them In a stocksde on an island in the Platt,
river near Fort Mcpherson,
Reports of the storm on Lake Michi.
gan give no disasters q set1ous nature. The
> ;hoOner Monitor No. .. laden with corn from
Chicago, encoNrtered the storm near Manton
and came near foundering. She reports BET ng
Ia company with a three-masfer at the lower
end of the lake Sesterday morning, which
suddenly disappeared, and fears are enter
tained thet She went down with all on boards
Persons arranging for a race at
san Francisco. for twenty thousand dollars,
| between California and eastern horses, have
determined TO make the race at the Ocean,
! House track, this side of the bay, on the
niteenth OF November, as they could not
] make satisfactory arrangement with the
! Central Pacific road FOR the transportation
! Of passengers 20 the Almedia course across
the bay.
Josiah Quincy, president of the Amer
I lean cheap transportation society, has issued
q lengthy address, setting forth the sugges-
lions which he made congress for legislation
/ upon, the incoming session, in relation 10
transportation. and calling a meeting Of the
above association at Washington on January
18th next, al which delegations from an kin
dred state organizations are invited TO Rp-
pear.
The Crow Indians want their reserva-
Ton IN Montana enlarged, and Commissioner
smith promised 10 recommend to congress the
extension OF lis boundaries. They demand
e1 10 be paid. on account of money expended
Dy them while in Washington. one hundred
uoAars, but finally compromised on fifty.
They particularly Insisted that their former
I agent shoald be reinstated, but this demand
was positively refused.
The delegation of Crow Indian chiefs,
who have been in Washington for several
DAYS had final pow-wow Wednesday with
the commissioner OF Indian affairs, and, aftel
considerable talk and objection, 'ceded 10
ms proposition. They mentioned as one Of
their reasons for preferrtng their former agent
that he used TO give them flour by the barrel,
shovel.
General Philip st. George Cook, COM
lnanding the department OF the hikes, has
been placed on the retired list and Lieuten-
ant-Colonel George Crook, OF the department
genera, The department OF the lakes and
department Of TIE east have been abolished,
anu the command is now the military divis-
ION OF the Atlantic, commanded ~ General
Hancock.
The temporary suspension OF G. Mill
mann, schmidt & Co., OF New York, has taken
place. The frm is in the produce and export
trade The suspension is said to be not of a
serious nature. as a great amount OF goods
and grain had been sent over to Europe
against which a draft was drawn, as II was
impossible TO obtain money on them, and
consequently il became necessary for the firm
10 suspend payment,
A dispatch from New Orleans saws il |
is reported there that on Monday a marty of
u, lesToe5 vent on board the steamer Pargoud, |
AT NoOdnchsS landing, demanding social |
equality. They were driven of by tile officers
and crew OF the boat. The negroes dispatched
a messenger for reinfOrcements with arms |
Before they arrived the boat backed out hui |
many shots were fired at her by the mob on |
shore. Nobody was hurt.
John Edwards, residing at 3OS Hop |
Elns street, Cincinnati, was fatally wounded /
ueSuay Dy MS eldest son. II seems that the |
father came home Intoxicated and, as usual /
commenced to abuse his family, when the son /
seized a pistol and fired at him, the ball tax
ing effect IN the abdomen of his father |
hlchard, the son, was arraigned before the /
police court, and his trial fixed Tor November
EdwardS was butcher, and leaves a wife and /
four children
The Pacific express on the Chicago
and Northwestern railway. that left Omaha |
W Mednesday night with eleven of the direc-
Us ABOARD, was run into in the rear by a 1
lirelght lraln, TINS siCe OF Cedar Rapids, yester
Gay morning. J. 3. Watkins, superintendent |
OF the Iowa division, who was standing on the
platform, was caught between the directors
car and the Pullman car, and killed. No one
else was injured and no cars were thrown
from the track.
Maud Ensign, aged twenty months,
died at Michigan City, yesterday, and the |
coroner's jury decides that she died from
the jury. Suspicion rests upon Lewis Jackson,
colOred, who is but recently out of the north
I eIh INDIANA penltentlary. The poison was
administered IN Tea at breakfast yesterday
and there are now wing sick in the
house, Dan. Smith, Colored, and wife; Mrs |
Ott and daughter, white, mother Of the de-
ceased child.
A firm of contractors, who claim over
iorty thousand dollars due them for work on
The Mississippi Central railroad extension, has
attacked the property OF the southern railroad
insoclatOn, IN Ballard county, Kentucky, and
work on the road stopped on Wednesday. The
lJtachment, IL seems, is TO force the Southern
abroad assoc iation, which is non resident
corporation, and is building the Mississippi
Central extension 70 Cairo, Illinois, 10 give Sc
,urlty in the county where the work was
lone. The suspension Of work will probably
De only temporary.
The Louisville Miss Banner of the
wenty-fifth had the following under the sig
lidcant caption Bullv:" " III was currently
epOrttd on our streets last saturday that a !
ollision had occurred between AlcOrn and
Ames somewhere on the Mississippi river, and
hat both were severely, II not fatally vOuuGed
that Ames was shot through the lungs aud
AlcOrn through the shoulder. This news was
90 good to be true so but little credence was :
-tVen to 10. As we have seen no mention OF il !
n any OF our exchanges, we are led 10 believe l
hat the report was a grapevine dispatch"
In the Bszaine trial Tuesday NJ. Fla /
iut, a messenger, testified that, under fear Of !
apture, he swallowed "A dispatch which he | l
vas carrying from ThiOnvllle 10 Metz. The !
llspatch was afterward re, overed and deliver !
d TO officers at headquarters in Metz, on the !
Wenty-ninth of August, but was by them l
brown into the fire unread. Lieutenant No
ues SWOre that be frultlesSly Y attempted To de- |
iver to Bazaine a dispatch lntrusted 10 him on
he twenty-third OF August by the empress. |
lie admitted, after much prevaricaticn, that
.
iOurbaki. The president of the court severe
y censured this witness for attempting 10 !
Once8l these facts.
The Shreveport Daily Telegram of the
wenty-second says: "The telegraph Office at : :
his place is certainly in the hands Of exper.-
need, skIllful and careful operators, and
business is dispatched with entire satisfaction
o all concerned. The following gentlemen .
compose The efficient corps nov on duty in | l
his place: Mr.. VIM. Bernard, manager; Mr.. /
:. b. Smith, Mr.. +. Z. Stansburg, and Mr.. Geo. l
!. Logan. The laSt-named gentleman is the l
My one leftOf the operators in the employ OF !
he Western Union telegraph company here !
I the time Of the breaking out OF the cpl 1
emic, and he had a very severe and protract- ]
d spell Of fever. We sincerely trust that the j
entlemen named above may escape, and be 1
etained in their present positions"
A meeting of coal miners took place
esterday at McKeesport, Pennsylvania,
Which was called for the purpose of cOnsiuer-
ng the present condition of affairs al the river Il
mines. 1t was reported that all the river min h
Is were stoutly holding out tor a recognition l.
I the nut-cosl, except four banks where they I,
ave 10 go to work at the Old rates. 4 resolu- n
lon was adopted to the effect that they would Il
OF dig any more coal until nut-coal is recOg- /,
lied and paid for. A resolution was also n
assed TO hold delegate meeting in Pitts /,
urg next Monday, at ten O'Clock, at which 1.
II the pits, both railroad and river y i'll b. n
spresented. for tue purpose of taking into IS