Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-18
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Rev. Joshua Levitt, editor Of the In
dependent, died in Brooklyn, Wednes-
day night, Of apoplexy.
A boiler explosion on Wednesday,
on the Chattahoochie river, Florida,
killed two persons and wounded several
A starch laden canal-boat at Glen
Cove, Long Island, was sunk by ice
Thursday night. Loss twenty thousand
dollars.
Yesterday near Wells's Village Maine,
a construction train containing q gang
OF laborers was thrown off the track,
and twenty or thirty men were more or
less injured.
The epizootic has reached Cheyenne,
but in a mild form. Many of the cav
airy horses at Fort Russell are affected.
No cases are reported at Fort Laramie
or the Indian agency.
The Liberal Republican General Com
mittee at New York, Thursday night,
passed s resolution, giving the support
Vi lIt OlkdlllG0NAbl " -AAfOl law
myer, whose election it declared was 3
matter of congratulation.
4 fire panic raised "high- daddy in
and about the st. Dennis Hotel, New
York, night before last. The fire was
soon extinguished, however, and the
guests Of the hotel re-folded their ladders
and rope-escapes, and resumed their
slumbers.
Rev. w. c. Clark has been expelled
from the New York Conference Of the
Methodist Church, for carrying on
lottery, ostensibly for the benefit Of the
mission-house and free reading-room.
Clark continues TO serve a church of his
own in Brooklyn.
The levying of tonnage dues on ad-
ministration steamers running between
Bremen and the United States have been
dropped by Germany. The same course
was adopted at the New York Custom
house yesterday by order Of the Seere-
tary of the Treasury.
The Cheyenne, Iron Mountain and
Pacific railroad was reorganized at
Cheyenne, Wyoming, yesterday, with
DR.. II. Latham as President and Cover
nor J. A. Campbell as Nice-President.
The books of the company will be
opened in few days.
The Farmers Convention at Bloom
ington engaged yesterday in further
discussion Of the question of reducing
railroad freights as means of enhanc-
ing the value of farm products, but
without apparently reaching any rem
edy for present grievances.
A. ]. Perfect, a mulatto, who was con-
victed Of the murder of his wife in Chi
cago some months ago and sentenced TO
be hanged, but who secured new trial
and change Of venue to Wills cOun-
ty, was yesterday at Joliet second time
found guilty and sentenced to death by
the jury.
At Philadelphia yesterday William
Thomas, William Callaran and John
Roden were taken from the steamship
Taeus, from Liverpool, upon its arrival,
and locked up on the charge Of mutiny
while at sea. They assaulted the Cap
tain and other officers and beat them
violently.
Jones's dry goods establishment in
New York, valued at one hundred and
twenty-five thousand dollars, was con-
sumed by fire Wednesday night. In
surance companies suffer ninety thou
sand dollars of the loss. Sixty-five
persons are thrown out of employment
by the disaster.
4 Washington dispatch to the New
York Herald states that Congressman
consider the Samana Bay scheme i'm
practicable, and the Haytien Minister
thinks that American purchasers will
find that they have made bad specula-
tor, the bay being fit for nothing but
naval station.
The Secretary of the Samana Bay
Company says it is stipulated with the
Dominican Government that the COM
pany is to protect itself from outside in
reference, but the company counts upon
the sympathy and aid Of all foreign gov
ernments not in opposition. The COM
pany will first declare SANTANA Bay a
free port TO the whole rid.
At q meeting of the trustees of the
the First Congregational Church Thurs
day night, in Chicago. Immediately
after the destruction OF that edifice, it
was resolved te take immediate steps for
the rebuilding of the same. The entire
amount of insurance, il is stated, will
be one hundred and eighteen thousand
dollars. The walls of the church are all
left standing and are apparently quite
firm.
The five o'clock accommodation train
on the Little Miami railroad yesterday
morning jumped the track when in
about two miles Of Columbus Ohio.
Two cars containing passengers rolled
over twice, throwing the passengers
about promiscuously and compelling
- k,fr
windows. No one was seriously hurt.
Secretary of State Wikoff, Representa-
tives HOlderman, Shank and 0ran, and
Senator J. S. Smith and a lady were
all slightly bruised. A defective rail
was the cause Of the accident.
The First Congregational Church, cor
ner Of Washington and Ann streets,
Chicago, took fire yesterday evening
and was entirely consumed. 1t was one
of the finest stone structures in the coun-
try, costing one hundred and seventy
five thousand dollars. The last Of its
Indebtedness had just been paid of.
Great sympathy is felt for Rev. DR..
Goodwin, the pastor, who was very sue
eessful in his ministry. He was station
ed at Columbus, Ohio, for a number of
years. The parsonage adjoining was
abandoned to the flames.
In the Tweed case, now going on in
New York, Davidson, safe-man, testi-
fed to doing work for the city in 1870,
and presenting bills to Woodward. One
claim Of sixteen thousand nine hundred
and forty dollars was revised on the war
rant to three times that amount, but he
only got a check for the first-named
sum; he had no dealings with Tweed
and Garvey. The "ringp plasterer was
called fer the prosecution, when the
counsel for defendant asked the Clerk Of
the Court for "that indictment against
him.
At a meeting of the coRl-producers,
held in New York Thursday, measures
were taken for the total suppression of
the middlemen, who are charged with
accommodating and selling coal to the
prejudice not only of the producers, but
to the public. A tacit understanding
was reached that the large companies
shall cease to be active competitors, and
shall establish an average wholesale
price of shout five dollars for coal early
this year. Henceforth the principal
companies viii sell small quantities as
cheaply Us they will those Of thousand
tons. Nothing was done, however,
looking to q combination IN the trade.