Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-22

ago, is in q dying condition. The coro-
ner's jury has not rendered a verdict in
the case, but Judge Buckhardt and At
| torney- General Ewing are prosecuting q
vigorous investigation ofthe matter, and
it is probable that in a few days the
guilty parties will be known.
The subcommittee of the Cincinnati
| industrial exposition reported to the
committee, Wednesday, that owing to
recent arrivals Of works Of art and un-
expected applications for space in the
art hall, the enlargement of that build
ing would be necessary. The committee
was empowered to confer with the park
commissioners for permission to enlarge
the hall in Washington park. .f Is =
The six countTymen engaged in the
riot at Nashville, Wednesday night,
with the police were all captured yester-
day morning at one O'Clock, and held in
bonds of. five hundred dollars each for
their appearance next Saturday. Only
two of the party were able to give bond !
the Others are in jail. The negro and
two policemen who were wounded are
doing well, and will all likely recover.
Keanely Reading, counsel of defense
in the trial of the Tichborne claimant,
in London, concluded his address to the
jury yesterday. Keanley commenced TO
speak on the twenty second of July, and
has occupied the attention of the court
every day since, with the exception OF
the usual adjournment from Saturday to
Monday and an extra adjournment from
the thirty-frst of July to the fourth of
August, in consequence of the illness of
one of the jurors.
On Monday last, owing to the heavy
rain which prevailed during the day, a
sewer and tunnel caved in in Mentgom-
cry, Alabama, in both instances bury
ing four men, and still, singular to re-
late, resulting in the death of a neglO at
each place. DR.. Thad. Weatherly the
night of the same day, while on his way
home, fell from the sidewalk, corner of
Mildred and Holcombe streets, a hight
of ten feet, and broke his left leg above
and below the knee.
Messrs. FreibeTg & WOrkum, prOmi-
nent liquOr-dealers of Cincinnati, were
yesterday, by unanimous vote of the
board. expelled from membership of the
chamber of commerce and merchants
exchange OF that city, for contempt to-
ward the association i'll denying and re-
fusing to recognize the authority of its
board of officers to try charges of un-
mercantile conduct preferred against
them by Mills, Johnson & Co.
The vote in Wheeling, West Virginia,
on Tuesday, on the additional subscrip-
ton by the county to the Pittsburg,
Wheeling and Kentucky railroad, stood
eleven hundred and fourteen for, and
eighty-nine against subscription. This
will carry the county, if all the other
districts vote negatively. The compile
ton of this road, which has been delay
ed for want of this additional subscrip-
ton, will now be pushed rapidly to this
point.
The funeral of William M. Meredith
took place at Philadelphia, yesterday.
The remains were conveyed from his
residence to the church, the following
gentlemen acting as pall-bearers:
Judges Reed, Stroud, Cadwallader. and
Ludlow, J. J. Barclay, William Darling
ton, Peter Mccall, and H. ]. Williams.
The carriages were few in number, only
containing the pall-bearers, members of
family and household servants. The
church was filled with friends and ac-
quaintances of the deceased. The ser
vices were conducted by Rev. Drs. Fogg
and Hodges, and the interment took
place in the family vault in the old
burial ground.