Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-06
TELEGRAMS.

Minister Schenck gave grand bali
quet in London Friday night.
Bountiful rains have blessed the Pa
cific slope-sO reported by telegraph.
President Grant ard Henry Clews
DelmOnicoed till two O'Clock yesterday
morning.
The senatebf Alabama has. voted to
remove the capital of that State from
Montgomery to Mobile.
The Cairo and Fulton railroad will
place locomotive on the road south of
Little Rock tomorrow.
William Harper, mate of the steamer
y. J. Bigley, died at Pittsburg yester-
day morning, of heart disease.
Five persons We're arraigned in Nash
Vile Thursday before the court Of ihves-
tigation into the murder of Mrs.
HOusden.
The old capitol buildingOf Mississippi,
located in the vicinity OF Washington,
near Natchez, was blown down by the
recent storm.
The orchards and vineyards in por-
tions of California have been seriously
damaged recently by cold weather, hail
storms and frOsts.
The principal portion of the village Of
Wardsville, Ontario, was destroyed by
fire yesterday, entailing a loss of fifty
thousand dollars.
Edward DOran, of No. S07 Greenwich
treet, New York, died yesterday morn
Ing from injuries received in a fight with
Robert Smith, the other evening.
An explosion Of fire-damp in a coal
mine, near Abertillery, Monmouth,
England, yesterday, caused the death of
five miners and woundiug many Others.
Miss Burnham's plea that the term
freeman in the constitution meant
men and women, was defeated in the
supreme court Of Pennsylvania at Phil
adelphia, yesterday.
It is positively denied by knowing
ones in Water Valley, Mississippi, that
the railroad shops are to be removed
from that locality to McComb City, as
was for time rumored.
Captain Jack is still delaying mill
taTy operations against him by promises
TO come out and "have a talk" 1t is
TumOred that five tribes of Indians are
preparing to take sides with the artful
chief.
The municipal election of Selma,
Alabama, took place last Tuesday, and
passed off quietly. The result is not
known, but it is said the "colored troops
fought nO5ly," by voting early and
often.
The coroner Of st. Clair county
Illinois, made information of man
slaughter against John Tanning, Esq,
Of the gravel-train which caused the ac-
cident in French Village on Thurs
day last.
William G. Farnam detected burglars
in his store in Newtown, Long Island,
yesterday morning. A rapid exchange
of pistol shots followed, and Farnam
was wounded twice slightly and one of
the burglars fatally.
President Grant will attend the anni-
versary festival of the army of the PO-
tomac, at New Haven, on the sixteenth
instant. Next day he viii visit Cover
nor Newell, in Hartford, and on the
eighteenth, viii probably go to ST.
Louis.
The counsel for Nixon, under sentence
of death in New York, is preparing a
bill of exceptions to obtain stay of pro-
ceedings and writ Of error. Nixon says
hs had a row with Clark, one of the |
jurors, some time ago, and the latter was
puejudiced against him.
On last Monday the community of
Greenwood, LAHORE county, Mississippi, !
was terribly shocked by the suicide of
AIr. Samuel Outlaw. This young gem
tleman blew his brains ont with pistol, |
with the greatest GOODNESS and delibera-
ton, without any known cause, or pre-
determination.
The United States commissioner of
internal revenue announces that the
law abolishing The offices of assessor and
assistant-assessor of internal revenue
VIII 20 into operation on the twentieth
of May next, when the service of all
assessors, two hundred and thirty in
number, and their assistants, about
twelve hundred, will be dispensed with. |
1t is supposed that during the terrible
storm that passed over Canton, Missis- |
sippi, last week, Mr.. Howcott's residence |
was struck by lightning, or a meteoric |
ball Of fire. The building was discovered |
10 be in flames as soon as it fell, and |
Mrs, HOwcott was only rescued from the |
debris, in time to escape a terrible death, /
by the heroic exertions Of colOred man. /
The new directors chosen In New |
York, Friday evening, for the Samana |
Bay company have purchased new
steamer for the Samana waters. 1t is |
proposed TO construct thirteen wharves, /
one mile long and seven hundred feet 1
wide, capable of accommodating in a /
basin thus formed twenty large steam
ers. A number Of warehouses are to be
also erected.
II was rumored in New York yester-
day that President Williamson, of the |
Bulls Head bank, had been arrested on
indictments found by the grand jury. |
The receiver reports that after the de-
positors being paid, there viii remain
about forty thousand dollars out of over
two hundred and fifty thousand dollars,
TO represent the capital and surplus of
the bank. The receiver says the money
was taken by some one in the bank
who had access to the bank.
During the passage Of the Great
Eastern circus along the streets of To-
ledo, Ohio, yesterday, some parties un-
known entered the First National bank
and Ketchum q Niotz's hardware store
by the rear doors. From the vault of
the former they distracted some six
hundred dollars IN currency and two
boxes OF valuable papers, and from the
safe Of the latter two hundred dollars in
currency, checks and certificates of de-
posit. No arrests have been made.