Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-25
TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.
They are having unusual heavy thun-
! der storms in Salt Lake.
Brigham, our new minister to Japan,
was at Salt Lake yesterday.
The President was serenaded at Long
Branch on his return last night.
A man named Slattery fell from the
railroad bridge at st. Louis yesterday
and was killed.
Mrs. johnson, of Little Rock, died on
Saturday of hydrophobia, produced by
| the bite of cat.
Martha LaEsour was beaten to death
by her husband in Little Rock, on Sat
urday. Whisky again.
A destructive fire occurred at Eaton,
Ohio, yesterday, entailing loss of six
ty or seventy thousand dollars.
Constable Ward, of Clarksville, Ar
kansas, was shot and killed on We'd
nesday by an unknown assassin.
Mails are discontinued to Perry S.a-
ton, Arkansas, because ofthe inability OF
the postmaster to prevent robbery.
A colored man named Wade, in Little
| urday with coal-Oil and was buried yes
terday.
Frank Winstead was drowned near
Terry's Landing, Arkansas river, on
Saturday week, while trying to cross
the river. He was intoxicated.
Mr.. Miller, of Conway county, Arkan-
sas, is in Little Rock demanding the
protection Of the governor, asserting
that he was driven from his home by
his political opponents.
Brigham Young's seventeenth wife,
who is suing for divOre and alUminy has
published a card charging Rev. Mr..
Stratton, a Methodist minister, with
being a liar and having been bought
by Brigham.
A Knoxville, Tennessee, dispatch of
yesterday says that Judge Thomas A. r.
Nelson, judge of the supreme court, died
at his residence there at six o'clock yes
terday evening of cholera, after an ILL
ness of two days.
Sheriff Law, of Galloway county, who
was so seriously wounded by the mob
that lynched Peter Kessler, died Satur-
day afternoon. He was unable to make
any statement previous to his death r.
garding the lynching, or who were to
his knowledge engaged in it.
On Saturday last, at Douglassville,
Georgia, Mr.. William Brown was Sc
verely stabbed by a young man-in fact,
mere boy-named Watson, but the
wounds are not thought to be fatal. He
was stabbed in the breast, and had his
right hand severely cut.
A Vienna dispatch says that cholera
rather increases than abates, there being
fifty-fOur deaths in the cholera hospital
alone since July 14tb; the deaths in the
town and suburbs this month are about
three hundred, nearly half of the total
number of cases having resulted fatally.
A Berlin letter to the London Times
says that the Bishop of Posen having
declined to defend himself against the
charge of comforting living without
the government sanction, viii be fined
between one and two thousand thalers,
his absence being taken for admission of
guilt.
The people of Douglassville, Georgia,
turned out the other day in pursuit OF
two noted despersdoes, murderers and
hOrse-thieves, named James aud Robert
Seals, and succeeded in capturing and
lodging them in Jail. One Of them, Rob
ert, is supposed to be an escaped murder
er from North Carolina.
VIM. ]. Lewis, president of the St.
Louis Life insurance company, has is
sued an address to the policy-holders of
that company in which he saws the new
a n = -.
tain the condition of the company in
detail, to determine its wants, to rectify
what errors may have been committed,
to institute an economical administra-
ton Of its business, and in all things to
place its affairs in plain showing before
all parties interested.
George Fader, at Dayton, Ohio, Sat
urday afternoon stabbed Michael Jen-
nings to the heart with a butcher
knife. They had had some dispute
about a mOneyed transaction at the
slaughterhOuse of Joseph links. Jen-
nings became excited and raised q
chair to strike Fader, whereupon the
latter seized a butcherknife and plunged
it into his antagonist, who died in ten
minutes. Fader gave himself up imme-
diately to the sheriff, who placed him in
Jail.
John Hanifin, the little son of Timo-
thy Hanifin, a compositor in the Nash
vile Banner office, was accidentally
drowned opposite the Edgefield bucket
factory, at half-psst four O'clock Thurs
day afternoon. He was standing at the
time on treacherous log, lying between
two other logs. Hardly before he was
aware of it, the log suddenly turned
over, throwing him into the water, and
closing up the space between it and the
opposite log, thus cutting off all hopes
of his coming again to the surface. -Four
of the employees dived after and succeed
ed in finding his body within half an
hour after the accident.
A New York telegram furnishes the
following, but fails to enlighten the pub
lie as to what caused all the mischief
chronicled: "a Wilmington, Delaware,
dispatch states that the damage to the
vessels and canal-harges in the Chesa-
peake and Delaware canal includes
eleven schOoners and eighteen barges
hopelessly wrecked, while twenty-eight
schOoners, thiTty-seven barges, two tugs
and one screw propeller are hOpelessly
stranded, and most of them more or less
injured. One vessel lies four hundred
yards from the canal. All the craft east
Of st. Georges escaped serious injury.
The canal authorities hope to get them
out in fortnight. Those at st. George
may be released in month. Many Of
the schooners and most of the barges are
loaded with coal"
The Louisville Courjer-Journd1 this
morning contains another long letter
from its special correspondent sent into
the kuklux counties to investigate the
outrages. The correspondent gives a list
of eighty-six outrages committed in
Henry, Owen and Franklin counties
since 1870, varying from simple warm
ings to property-holders not to emLioy
negroes, to arsons, Tapes, whippings,
pillages and murders. Governor Leslie,
some time since, offered reward of five
hundred dollars each for the apprehen-
sion of the kuklux concerned in the
murder of the negro Wilson. on the
Knox Brown plantation, but since the
proclamation several outrages have been
committed, and the outlaws laugh ct all
attempts TO secure theG conviction.