Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-12
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blubber. The survivors had been with
out fire for several days.
Miscellaneous.
Five prisoners escaped from the Iron
ton, Ohio, Jail Friday night.
Jay Gould's prosecutor, the lawyer
Marin, was Saturday fined two hun
dred dollars.
Cincinnati closed her great musical
effort Saturday. It is pronounced an I'M
mense success.
The official examination into the loss
| of the steamer Atlantic was begun in
Liverpool Saturday.
Several priests have been arrested in
Madeira, charged with giving aid to the
cause of Don Carlos.
HalIahan, the murderer of Mrs. Lam
nev iu Baltimore, was Saturday SEN
/ fenced to be hanged.
Dispatches from Rome say the pope
was too i'll Saturday to receive a party of
pilgrims from France.
Bidwell and Noyes, of bank of En-
gland notOriety, have announced their
desire to turn queens evidence.
Chief-Justice Chase attended the Me-
/ tropOlitan church, in Washington, of
which he was one Of the trustees.
James alias Pop Tighe was arrested
/ in New York Saturday, accused of being
connected with the Goodrich murder.
Policy-dealers get the penitentiary in
one year doses in New York, sand
wiched with five-thoussnd-dOllar fine.
-. EKT;1I;o,,, ,,-oe q -aI ,,,Do,, l,1r a
priest while reviewing troops at st.
Petersburg, the shot passing through
| his helmet and wounding an Sdjutant.
About one hundred and thirty MEM
bers of congress have accepted the invi-
tatiOn to attend the convention at st.
I Louis.
Samuel Smith, aged eighty years,
committed suicide at Cleveland, Ohio,
| Saturday, by shooting his brains out.
| No cause known.
Nixon, the New York murderer, will
be hung next Friday, as Judge Pratt
Saturday refused stay Of proceedings
on his application.
The reports from Spain Saturday were
of the most varied character, each of the
factions telling its story with due regard
to its own interests.
An extensive confiagratiOn has occur
red at Port t-au-Prince, by which six
lives were lost and one hundred and
fifty houses destroyed.
A Bayonne dispatch Ujd Paris, says
that the Spanish troops in the province
of Biscay have not been paid for some
time, and have mutinied.
The New Orleans opershouse was sold
yesterday by the sheriff for forty thou
sand dollars. 1t cost originally two hun
dred and twenty thousand dollars.
The city of New York was in high
/ fever of excitement over rumors of the
death of Governor Dix yesterday, which
proved unfounded as the governor was
found to be in his usual good health.
Brother-in-law Crane, of Copenhagen
fame, or Bingham of Ohio, now out OF
employment, will be sent to Russia. The
further they go the better for the cOun-
try.
| The extensive rOlling-mill of McDon-
aid & Brother, in st. Louis, were nearly
consumed by fire, Saturday, entailIng a
loss of about seventy-five thousand dol
lars.
Mr.. Hearne, painter, fell from lad
der in Edgefield, near Nashville, Satur-
dav, a distance of fifty feet, and re-
ceived injuries from which he died sOon
after.
The bar of Ohio held a meeting at Co.
lumbus, Saturday, and passed resolu'
tions in honor of the late Chief-Justic
Chase, as did also the Chicago bench
and bar.
The consul of Uruguay, Edwin c. B,
| Marcia, arrested in New York Friday,
in civil suit to recover about twelve
thousand dollars, was released on bail
Saturday.
At Cincinnati, Saturday, a meeting in
! the United States courtroom, in honor
of the late Chief-Justice Chase, was
largely attended, and resolutions apprO-
| pirate were adopted.
Henry WatteIson, of the Louisville
! Courier Journal, with his family,
sailed from New York Saturday for Eu-
rope. A large number of friends ae-
compan!ed Mr.. WattersOn to the
steamer.
The tOwboat COwan was burned al
Grand Tower, Missouri, Friday night
She was owned by w. II. Brown, and
cost sixty thousand dollars about two
wears ago. She is total loss, with nc
insurance.
A Boston dispatch says that in the
| superior court, Saturday forenoon, Judge
i Colt ordered a decree CfdivOrce absolute,
in the case Of Senator Charles Sumner
as. Alice NJ. Sumner, on the ground OF
five years desertion.
A dispatch from Washington says
that the news of the disaster to the PO-
laris affected the President deeply, as he
had hoped that the enterprise of the
government in this direction would re
dound to the national honor.
A duel occurred Friday afternoon a
l Richmond, Virginia, between John b
Mordecai and Page Mccarthy. Boil
were wounded, MOrdecai fatally. Tht
seconds have been arrested. The diff
Guilty occurred about lady.
On tomorrow the New York Centra
railroad company will pay, under pro
test, to Collector Bailey, four hundred
thousand dollars, the tax claimed by th'
government, and Immediately com
mence proceedings for its recovery.
Ten companies of the Fourth United
States infantry, about FIVE hundred
strong, under command of COlOne
, Flint, arrived at st. Louis Friday night
= from Little Rock, Arkansas, and left by
! the Missouri and Pacific railroad 70
Omaha. Colonel Flint is ordered to re
port to General Ord at Omaha, but it j
supposed his command is destined 70
the Modoc country.