Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-17
NEW YORK.
A Wife-AbHser KiIled-Iilicit Distille.
ries-IIlneSs of Viee-Presid ent
WilsOn-GOssip of the
Day.

A DRUNKEN BRAWL ENDS IN DEATH.
NEW YORK, June l6.-James Curtin,
while drunk early yesterday morning,
quarreled with his wife, when a young
and idiOtic brother of the latter inter-
fered and struck Curtin with an axe, fa-
tally wounding him.
ABOUT THE CAPTURE OF THOSE DIsTIL-
LERIES.
The reported seizure in Brooklyn yes
terday of fourteen copper stills, twenty
five thousand gallons of mash and other
articles for the manufacture of Illicit
whisky proves not to have been alto
gether correct. The revenue men
thought they could manage the affair
without the aid of the police, and made
the seizure, but the mob pelted them
with bricks and stones, and the Illicit
whisky distillers cOOlly procured a cart
and drove off triumphantly with the
stills and other property worth preserv-
ing. Meanwhile one of the revenue Of
ficers made his way to the police sta
ton, asking that his associates, then
confined in the abandoned distillery, be
rescued.
MEXICAN BORDER COMMISSION.
- w dHl4ll2Npu HDCCldl says Tie hGAl-
can border investigation committee have
returned to that city to prepare their re-
port. They have been engaged con-
stantly since January 10th, and have
heard evidence in four hundred cases,
and have received in addition thirteen
hundred eI pdrte affidavits. Several
women and children who had escaped
from the Indians appeared before the
commission and told the story OF
their terrible sufferings. The Comanehes
are said TO be mainly engaged in the
business of stealing and selling children
and women of white settlers, while the
KickapOos and Lipans and Mexicans
disguised as such chiefly confine
themselves to cattle stealing. The raids
of these people are so frequent that stock
raising within two hundred miles of the
Rio Grande has been well nigh aban-
dOned.
vICE-PRESIDENT WILSON'S ILLNESS.
The Boston letter of the Springfield
Republican says there has been much
anxiety during the past week among
the few who have known the facts con-
cerning the alarming illness of Vice
President Wilson. His attack was fol-
lowed by partial deafness and partial
blindness, and the general character OF
his symptoms was such as to threaten
the loss of his power and activity. if not
of his life. He is now improving, but is
by no means out of danger. He has
been sojourning in Boston for some
weeks under the care of DIR. E. II. Clark,
and has seen very few of his friends.
His labors in the last election, followed,
by the strain and anxiety of last winter
and accompanied by q good deal Of work
ON his auti-slavery history, are regarded
as the immediate occasion of his present
illness.
BILLIARDS.
Ubassy, the celebrated French bill
liardist, arrived to-day from Chicago, to
join in the grand international billiard
tournament, which begins at Irving hall
on the twenty-third instant. The game
to be played is the three-ball carom
game, the CollendeT bevel table being
the one TO be used. Several rIch prizes
are offer d, and all the billiard experts
in the country are expected TO take part,
including Maurice Daley, Cyrille Dion,
Albert GARNER and John Deery.
GARMAE SOCIETIES.
The Turnfest will send delegation to
the Bundis funniest of the North Amer
lean Turner union, soon to be held in
Cincinnati.
MISCELLANEOUS.
Edward Kirkland, who fatally stabbed
James Duffy in the Porter house last
night, was arrested early this morning
He Is q car conductor, and claims tC
have done the stabbing in self-defense
The trial of William ]. Sharkey fol
the murder of Robert s. Dunn, in 6
saloon, the first of last September, was
begun to-day.
A Washington dispatch last nigh
says: Intelligence has been received
here from New Orleans that on the
tenth instant United States Commits
sioaer John B. Weller, formerly cover
nor Of California, was lying dangerously
ill-almOst hopelessly-at his residencI
near that city.n
Jas. w. Miller, deputy United State.
commissioner Of fisheries, who arrived
at ChicsgO Saturday with twenty-fiy,
: Thousand live shad and quantity O
sels, to be planted in Calumet river, sue
7 essfully completed the task yesterday