Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-23


arose about the purchase of a pair OF
mules. Wise is still at large
Cheap Goods for Indians.
NEW York, April 22.-Bids were
opened to-day by the purchasing COM
mite of the board of Indian commits |
sioners for the annual supply of annuity |
goods. The prices were lower than ever
before offered the government.
The Centennial Board of Finance.
PHILADELPHIA, April ga meet |
ing was held to-day for the election OF
centennial board of finance. Among
the directors of the board elected are
BENJAMIN +. Allen, of Iowa, \. ID. Bull
lock, of Ohio, and c. c. Washburne, OF
Wisconsin.
The stOker's strike.
New YORK, April 22.-'lhe strike of
the stokers at the gas COM paDy was at
tended with no disturbance. From the
first the places of strikers have been
filled. 4 guard of fifteen to twenty po-
lice were stationed around the
works last night, to-day and tonight as
a precautionary measure.
Fatal ARRAY in Macon County, Tennes-
NASHVILLE, April 22.-Jesse Duke
killed a man named CraDks in Lafay-
cite, Macon county, this State, to-day,
while the circuit court was in session.
Duke assailed Cranks with stick,
when Cranks resisted with rocks. Duke
fred five times, killing Cranks, and then
made his escape, though hundred peo-
pie were on the street at the time.
Johnny Sullivan Goes 10 West Point.
ST. LOUIS, April 22.-The committee
appointed by Hon. William II. Stone,
representative from the third congress
sianal district of this city, to examine
| candidates for the West Point cadet
ship, presented their report to-day.
John D. Sullivan, aged eighteen,
was the successful competitor out OF
class of seventeen.
BeIknaD and sheridan.
WASHINGTON, April pa dispatch
received to-day from Secretary Bel
KNAPP mentions that he andGeneral Sher-
idan and party were at Ringgold bar
! racks, on the Rio Grande, and would
| leave tomorrow for Brownsville. All
are well. They will take steamer at
Brazos Santiago on the twenty-eight
instant for New Orleans.
Down on Lotteries.
CHICAGO, April 22.-The Post, this
evening, in an article denOunCing lot
teries and gift-enterprises, and urging
! the closing of all agencies for anything
of the kind in this city, and the punish
ment of agents, states that the agents
for the Kentucky library gift-concert
will be presented before the grand jury
of this county by the State's-attorney
The President and his st. Louis Friends
ST. LOUIS, April 22-It is stated thai
President Grant and party viii leave
here Thursday morning for Idaho
Springs, Colorado, In brief response
TO a toast at Henry 4. Blows, yesterday
the President said that while st. Louis
was one of the few places in which ht
had lived long enough to form close at
tachments, it was not probable that h'
would make that city his home.
CressweII and Cameron.
INDIANAPoIds,A April 22.-Postmaster
General Cresswell and Hon. Simon
Cameron arrived in this city this morn
ing. They spent the forenoon drivin:
about the city, and at two O'Clock me
the board of trade at their rooms, wher
they made short speeches and were in
/ troduced to many of those present
Hon. George NJ. Lane and General Go
! burn We're also present and addresses
the board.
Destructive COnnsgratIOn.
CINCINNATI, April pa Lexington
Kentucky, special of the above date I
the Gazette, reports an extensive fir
last night at Owingsville, Bath county
! in that State. The livery stables
; James Stone and ]. A. Lee; the DIR
! goods stores of w. II. Daugherty & Co
and G. w. Barnes; saddlery shops {
: Henry Scott and James Finklin; la
{ office of Nesbit & Judge, and sewers
dwellings were burned. The loss M
stated. Insurance light. 1t is though
:, :, to have been the work of an incendiar,
Milwaukee Elections.
MILWAUKEE, April 22.-'The speci
election held to-day to fill the vacanci
occasioned by the ineligibility of certa
candidates elected at the regular electiC
!, on the first of April, resulted in the ele
ton of Harrison Ludington, Republica
for mayor, over Levi H. Kellogg by II
majority, carrying nine of the twel
wards. Emil Walker, for city attOTne
and J. NJ. Whaling, for alderman fro
the seventh ward, had no oppositio
sr Mr.. Kellogg had a majority of $50 ov
l. Ludington at the regular election, b
u was ineligible on account of holding Z
Id Office of counsellor.
III Children Frozen fn Nebraska.
q ST. LOUIS, April 22.-The DeBlOcr
u' prints the following special from Lii
coin, Nebraska, dated April twent
lg first: "The train on the B. and NJ. ra
in road came in this morning, the fiji
e. time for week. The reports of
I'd late storm show it to have been the
al verest ever known here. Men were Fl
en- zen to death within two rods of tn
rs, houses, while trying to get to the stO
Ir- to feed them. Near Grafton, IN
e, | named Keeler attempted to reach
ty neighbours, scarcely half a mile ava
of accompanied by his wife and child, q
the two latter were frozen to deai
Mr. Marshall, near Hastings, perish
m while trying to reach the stock from
he house. The wife and child of Mr.. Be
NV near Red Cloud, froZe while attempt
r.. 10 reach q neighbours, after the hol
to was rendered duninhabitable. Their bod
n were found on Friday ten reds from
% house. Families were compelled
M take refuge in cellars OF keep their b'
for three days. Houses were bio
.fe down and filed with snow. The
X struction of cattle and horses was gre
"a Some lost all they had. One party !
m a whole herd of seventy-five head. q
lies on railways were filled with snow
hard as ice, and snow-plows We're U
a less.
do The congregational Church Of |
ue Northwest
III CHICAGO, April 22.-The fifth tri'
i NAL convention of the Congregation
Gu church of the interior and nOrthwt
nfI representing about one hundred soc
o ties. met here to-day in the Theologi
81 en seminary on Ashland avenue. Alb
SI three hundred delegates, lay and clI
- cal were In attendance.
M convention was organized by the el
tion of Rev. o. ID. Dean, of Michig
io iot nresident. Rev. NJ. X. Cross, OF Io'
ia' 10 and Charles Peabody, OF Missouri, vi
NJ presidents: Rev. w. L. HOlyOke,
Chicago, II. NJ. Case, Racine, and r
IL. B. Fairbank, of Indiana, secretar
OF The reports of Che various standing cC
Ity mittees were received, read and refer
1 ~ to subcommittee, appointed by
10 convention for examination. III
i, will be reported back tom
the row aud win then he discuss
lcii Important papers bearing upon the
al rious interests of the church win also
IN read tomorrow. Thereport Of the cC
ih- mittee ON the theological semin
on shows the institution to be in -four
ent ing condition financially and otherw
ort- although estimates of funds aggregai
two hundred and twenty-nine thous
ties dollars are submitted as needed for
DE further benefit Of the institution.
,r, shocking Murder I'm Chicago.
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