Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-05
TELEGRAMS.

The lowlands about Kingston, New
York, are under water.
Captain May, of Philadelphia, died
Thursday, aged seventy-nine.
Thomas n. Moore, a well-known lee
turer, suicided in Salt Lake yesterday.
A man by the name of Albert Young
was hung at Austin, Mississippi, yester-
day.
The bill permitting women to hold
school offices has passed the Illinois leg
islatsre.
Elevated prices of beef at Key West,
| Florida, are about to create a collision
between consumers and venders.
Prince Charles, of Roumania, has
given assurance to supreme authority at
Constantinople that he will not appoint
a diplomatic agent at Washington.
The West Virginia legislature will adj
journ on Monday next, to meet again
October Goth. The bill to remove the
capital of West Virginia was laid on the
| table.
William Jordon was killed instantly
| in Baltimore yesterday, by the bursting
! of a centrifugal machine in a sugar re-
| finery. Two other persons were injured
at the same time.
The Knoxville and Charleston railroad
was offered for sale Thursday, and was
bought in by the State of Tennessee for
one hundred thousand dollars. There
was another bidder.
The proprietors of number of the
New York hotels announce that they
will entertain, free of charge, all pas
sengers of the Atlantic passing through
there to their destination.
Regulations were yesterday issued
from the treasury department for the
withdrawal of alcohol from bond for
scientific purposes, under the act ap-
proved February q, 1873.
Jacob Morris was arrested in st. Louis
yesterday, charged with absconding
from Memphis few weeks ago, with
thirty-thTee hundred dollars belonging
to Newburg & Bro, in whose employ he
was.
Miss Nettie w. Cronise, a young lady
who has been studying law in Tiffin,
Ohio, for the last two years, was admit
ted to the bar yesterday morning by
Judges Pillars, Latty and Jackson.
She will probably locate in that city.
The farewell reception of Miss Emily
Faithful took place in New York yesteT-
day, in Steinway hall. Rev. DIR. Bel
lows presided. On the platform were
many members of the sOrosis and friends
of the movement for the advancement
of women.
President Grant and family attended
the theater in New York yesterday even
ing, and after the performance were
banquetted at DelmOnicO's by Henry
Clews, to which a large number of
prominent citizens were invited.
The remains of Charles NJ. Barras, !
author of Black Crook, who was killed |
Sunday evening, was buried yesterday |
in Greenwood cemetery in New York. |
The funeral services took place in the |
Episcopal church at Greenwich, Con-
necticut.
A fire broke out at Oil City, Pennsyl- |
vania, yesterday morning, which de- |
strOyed five buildings ON Center street, |
the most prominent of which was Beers |
block and Stillwelps variety store. The |
loss is fifty thousand dollars, which is
partially covered by insurance.
The legislature of Texas have unani-
mOusly passed a concurrent resolution |
ply with the petition from Secretary De-
lano and President Grant for the pardon |
of the notorious Indian chiefs, Santanta
and Big Tree, who are now confined in
the Texas penitentiary.
Richard Schell and number Of Wall
street brokers propose to institute lega !
proceedings, it is said, against the gold
clique, to recover fifty millions of dollars
Il oil - L
ed by the city and county of New York
by the conspiracy with which the clique
is charged. An investigation will also
be made into the violation of the usury
laws by the officers of the national
banks and others.
Supervisor Perry, of Raleigh, North
Carolina, reports that a large quantity
Of tobacco, whisky and other property
has been seized for violation of the rev.
enue laws, during the ten days. raid
through the third district of North Caro-
lima. Warrants have been issued for
the arrest of the guilty persons. The
revenue officers making the raid were
by soldiers.
A Boston telegram yesterday said that
the emigrants saved from the wreck of
the Atlantic were expected to arrive
there from Portland this morning. The (
agents of the White Star line in that
city engaged Fanueil ball for the recep-
lion of the unfOrtunates, and prepara-
lions were being made to provide for ]
heir wants upon arrival. They will
remain in Boston all day and this even
Dg proceed to New York.
Another hanging entertainment is ad-
vertised to come off In New York on
he sixteenth of next month, in which
Nixon is the victim. The prison off
,ers say that from present indications,
( he does not die of fright, he will have
% be carried 70 the gallows. On reach
ng his cell after the sentence yesterday
he cried most bitterly, and subsequently
ne was found utterly unconscious. His
wife was refused permission TO see him.
General John w. Woody, formerly !
governor of the national military asy- I
um, died at the Newhall house, !
n Milwaukee, at five o'clock yester- /
lay morning, of neuralgia of the {
heart. The general had made many {
warm personal friends while in COM :
aand there, who feel this bereayement {
most painfully, and none more SO than
he inmates Of the asylum, to whose :
comfort and enjoyment the general was
exclusively devoted. =
Mary Thomas, aged nineteen, who I
eft her husband in New York because {
lf his drunkenness and abuse. died !
Yesterday in Bellevue hospital, whittier
NE was sent the day before from the +
Dolioo-stati1n, where she had given birth !
% a child. She informed the police !
,aptain that after leaving her husband
he found work, and entered the eiTls' !
in st. Marks Place but T
hat the matrOn obliged her to leave. i
she was near confinement.