Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-21

ner's hardware store, and DIR. Tiff.
/ To al loss estimated at one hundred
| thousand dollars; Insured for about six
/ ty thousand dollars. The publication
| OF the Commonwealth will not be inter-
iipted.
A QUARREL between John Hall and
Patrick Cullen, members of the sixth
cavalry, at Fort Hays, Kansas, Friday
last, resulted in the killing of Cullen by
Hall.
From the Nashville Bauner.l
All the principal hotels have agreed
to board the representatives at reduced
rates.
From the official record we gather the
following interesting statistics for the
past fiscal year, ending at this date:
Initiation during the year, 775; adj
missions by card, III; reinstatements,
116; total admissions, zoos.
COntra-Withdrawn by card, 247;
suspensions, 365; expulsions, 80; deaths,
81 total demissions, 706; net gain in
membership, 302.
Number of lodges, 1870; number con-
tributing members, 4542; amount of re-
ceipts, S3S, 9l1 20; cash ON hand, and
invested in halls, furniture, etc., $751;,
220 IS; number of brothers relieved,
357; number widowed families relieved
6S.
Amount paid for relief of brothers,
S620l "A; amount paid for relief of
widowed families, $3.50 56; amount
paid for educating orphans, S5l5 IA;
amount paid for burying the dead,
S2533 81; total relief, Sll $40 SO.
Temperance Reform
HOMER, LA, October 20.-The Tenn
perance Reform convention, consisting
of twenty-four councils, concluded their
labors with a torch-light procession,
participated in by the two colleges and
by almost every lady and citizen of the
place. d. B. Hayes, President, Secre-
tary Bryan and District Attorney
Vaughn Harmon, Paurert Borden Will
cox, Bartlett Tambla, represented the
church and press as delegates. A reso-
luton to consolidate the thirty-seven
councils of the tSate was adopted. Re
tirns show an average crop in this
parish. The fair at this place takes
place on the twenty-ninth.
Arkansas Items.
LITTLE Rock, October GA heavy
frost this morning.
The quarantine between this city and
Argenta was raised to-day.
In a personal difficulty between a
white man, named Glenn. Watkins, and a
colored man, near this city Saturday
night, the latter was shot and killed.
J. NJ. Harker, a railroad agent at Ar
kadelphia, died yesterday from wound
received by a safe falling on and crush
ing one of his limbs few days ago.
Ohio Election News.
CINCINNATI, October 20.-The official
count of the Hamilton cOnnty vote, just
completed, shows SO, 756 votes. Noyes
received 16, OIL; Allen, 1874; Collins,
1872. Aliens majority over NOyes is
753. The Senators are: Worthington
and Wallace, Democrats, and Burton,
The members of the gene
raj assembly are eight Democrats:
Sster, Miller, BOyee, Gordon, Pattison,
Newell, Archer and Huston, and two
Haven and Glenn.
Seizure of Franciscan , OnVents.
ROME, October 20.-The committee Of
liquidation of ecclesiastical property,
appointed under the law for the aboli-
tion of religious corporations, to-day
took possession of six cLnvents. The
rectOrs read a protest, which the COM
mittee accepted, and then handed to
each inmate a certificate for his future
income. The United States and Portu-
guese consuls also protested against the
seizure of certain portions Of the Fran
ciscan converts, on the ground that they
were the property of the citizens of their
respective countries.
odd Fellows OF Tennessee.
NASHVILLE, October 20.-The rgand
of Odd Fellows met here
to- day. There was very full stten-
dance. Grand Lodge l. o. o. F. will !
assemble in this city Wednesday morn
inu