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


route east.
\ Look out for r. J. Andrews, a noto-
rious abortionist, who has recently fed
the city of Toronto, Canada.
1t is stated that Observation-Disclosures
eral Holt has approved the proceedings
of the ModOc military commission.
The Baltimore american celebrated
its one-hundredth anniversary, Wednes-
day. The office was profusely decorated
with flags, etc.
The monotony of the hour was relieved
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Wednesday,
by the occurrence of fire destroying IF
teen thousand dollars worth Of property.
The break on the Delaware canal
swept fourteen boats into the meadows,
and undermined several houses, from
which the occupants were rescued with
difficulty.
A man named Tanner, supposed to
live at WatertOwn, Wisconsin, was run
over and killed by freight-train at the
Milwaukee and st. Paul depot, in Mil
waukee, yesterday.
Hortense Elder, living in the suburbs
of st. Louis, attempted to increase her
kitchen fire with coal-Oil Wednesday
night. Her funeral yesterday was nu-
merously attended.
General Burnside and Governor How
ard, of Rhode Island, were severely
bruised at Martha's Vineyard, Rhode
Island, on Tuesday evening, by being
thrown from carriage.
A rainstorm Wednesday night carried
away the feeder of the Delaware and
Chesapeake canal, together with part of
/ IL nol1 hriH CfO
ping traffic for the present.
The jury In the case of Emma King,
killed on Monday in Cincinnati by
passing locomotive, found, as their YER
dict, that she came to her death from
criminal negligence of the engineer.
Bombay dispatches report that de-
structive floods have recently afflicted the
province of Agra, and that thirty-five
| hundred native houses had been swept
away. There had been some loss of
| life.
George T. Keller, reporter of the
Brooklyn Union, and George p. Howe,
reporter of the New York Times, were
both drowned while bathing Wednes-
day morning at Center Moriches, Long
Island.
At an inquest over the body of Simon
George, yesterday, at Paterson, New
| Jersey, the testimony showed that he
was beaten and stoned to death, because
he was a Frenchman by drunken Irish
laborers. No arrests.
A meeting of the stockholders of the
Covington and Lexington railroad was
held in Paris, Kentucky, Wednesday,
at which were in attendance twenty
persons, representing million and a
quarter dollars in stock.
The italian government has received
intelligence of the destruction of the
noted band of robbers who have for a
long time operated in the vicinity of
Salerno. Six of the brigands were
killed and the rest captured.
1t is stated that the Mennonites who
have just gone west Brought with them
to this country three hundred and forty
thousand dollars in gold, of which sum
one man, Peter Isaac, owns one hundred
and forty thousand dollars.
Moses Taylor, an old citizen of Spen-
Ger, Indiana, was gored to death by an
OK Monday night. While leading the
animal from the lot into the road it
rushed upon him, iDjuring him so badly
as to cause death in twenty minutes.
NIL Vi
has handed over to a trust, which is to
be called the Baird trust, no less a sum
than four hundred thousand pounds, TO
be devoted TO religious education in con-
neetion with the church of Scotland.
The secretary of war has issued cir
cular in which he suggests that in all
cases where an officer recommends ad-
vertising of any official matter, only to
No hot OrI
circulation, are apt to do greatest service
to the department.
The board of fire underwriters of New
York established additional charges on
Wednesday for insuring hotels, and re-
solved that the roofs must be of metal or
slate, with metal or brick cornices, and
that mansard roo's must be of iron or
slate, the latter to be fastened on iron
lathing.
The Cuban league met and reorgan-
lied in New York, Wednesday, by elect
ing Vice-President of the United States
Wilson as president. Resolutions were
adopted urging earnest exertions on the
part of the friends of Cuban independ-
ence toward freeing the country from
Spanish rule.
John Yaeger, residing corner Clai-
borne and Sixth streets, New Orleans,
upon returning home Monday evening
from carpenter work, found his wife,
Catherine, aged twenty-five years, lying
dead in the yard, with eight buckshot-
wounds in her breast ana left arm. No
clue to the assassin.
A number of gentlemen from Eng
land and Scotland started for Kansas
from New York Wednesday in company
with George Grant, of London, who has
purchased a county in that State for the
purpose Of founding colony. The
main purpose of the project will be agri-
cultural; the principal feature, stock
raising.
A number of gentlemen, mostly grain
merchants of Boston, have organized a
grange of the order of patrons of hus-
bandry. John B. Bartlett was elected
master, and Herbert Radcliffe secretary.
The full number of charter members
was obtained. 1t is proposed to form
oranges in all the grain ports on the At
lantic coast.
A telegram from San Francisco
Wednesday, says the eastern-bound eX-
press train ran off the track ten miles
east of Truckee. No one was hurt. The
locomotive, express, mail and baggage
from the track. The train could not
proceed until three o'clock in the even
ing.
A report from the vessel on which
Henri RochefOrt was shipped for New
Caledonia says that his fellow convicts,
considering his course as reasonable to
the commune, made an attempt to
| lynch him. The officers of the ship
were obliged to assign him quarters
apart from and protected against the
communist exiles.
| A board of engineer officers has been
appointed by the secretary of war to
meet at st. Louis, the second of Septem-
Der, to examine the construction of the
| st. Louis and Illinois bridge, and report
whether the bridge will prove a serious
obstruction to navigation of the Missis-
sippi; and If so in what manner its con-
struciion can be modified.
Mrs. Schmidt, of Long Island City,
Wednesday pleaded "guilty" to an in
dictment which charges her with at
| tempting to starve to death child that
had been placed in her care, and for
whose maintenance she was paid ten
dollars per month. The sentence i'm
posed was one hundred and twenty-five
dollars or six months imprisonment.
The Atlantic and Pacific railroad
company relaid their track along Pop
lar street to the river front at st. Louis
on Wednesday, restoring their com
municatiOn with the leyee elevators,
lumber yards, etc. A motion to dissolve
the Injunction against the city was
granted by Judge Knight, which will be
argued before the circuit court Septem-
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