Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-19
TELEGRAMS.

Slight rain at Little Rock Friday
, The Arkansas State fair, holding q
Little Rock the past week, closed yesterday.
4 The Mississippi Valley bank of New
Orleans resumed currency payment yesterday
Ex-President johnson was serenadeC
In Washington last night.
The bank of England has fixed thC
minimum rate Of interest at seven per cent.
One negro shot and killed another
near Little Rock yesterday. Jealousy.
A telegram from Washington says
the average OF the cotton crop has fallen of
from 50 70 7S11 since September.
A man was killed near Carbondale
Illinois, yesterday. by the overturning OF 8
wagon loaded with logs,
Little Rock has board of health, and
thro 4gh Il boasts that no yellow-fever exists
| In that city.
A lady and two children were
drowned Of Philadelphia yesterday by the
oyerturning OF a boat Their bodies were re-
| covered.
A State press association was organ.
lied in Little Rock, Thursday night, with ].
n. Smithee, OF The Gazette, as president.
Miss Agnes Ethel, favorite New
| York actress, was married yesterday TO Mr..
| Francis W. Tracy, OF Buffalo.
A fire was raised by an ineendlary in
Cincinnati yesterday, by which two build
lDBs were destroyed
Specie shipments from New York yes.
terday, one hundred and twenty thousand two
| hundred and nifty dollars ia silver bars.
Ninety-slx thousand pounds of bull
lion was shipped for New York yesterday,
| from London and southampton.
A shapty occupied by man named
Kelly was destroyed by fire at Toledo, Ohio,
yesterday morning, and Kelly, with his wife
and grsndehtld, perished in the flames.
A farmer named Herman Faxon, of
Whiteford, Michigan, walked of the dock
into Swan creek early yesterday morning,
| and was drowned.
Timothy B. Snow, a clerk IL the
Hestheid, Massachusetts, postoffice, has been
arrested, and confesses to stealing registered
letters from the western mail, which occa-
sionally remains over night in the Westheld
office.
George Francis Train, Immediately
on his arrival at New York day or two ago,
look his departure from this country forever.
he says he Is thoroughly disguised with the
politics and religion Of this country.
A Washington dispatch announces the
outstanding legal-tenders to be $3.50 s66 sSS; in
ternal revenue receipts yesterday, s2Ol ,355; for
the month, S3y9 ,s52; for the fiscal year, $780,
l6e,930.
Deputies in the French assembly nom
the department of the Seine, have signed a
manifesto protesting against the attempted
restoration OF royalty, and declaring that
they Will energetically resist all such
schemes.
The New York stock exchange yes
terday contributed one thousand four hun
dred dollars for the relief OF yellow-feYer suf-
ferers, and the produce exchange reports sub
scripuons amounting TO over eleven hundred.
dollars.
Shreveport's death-list: w. II. Will
llams, agrd 35 years; David Savage, aged a;
Rev. c. s. MoC1oud, aged 81; Dan Brown
(coloredl aged 2; Artour Thompson, aged IS;
j. b: Smith, aged lsi Mrs. V. ~. Hemmorty,
aged q; Martin Anderson tcolored), aged 40.
The President yesterday, on recon-
mendation Of Attorney-General Williams
pardoned Joseph Luckey OF South Carolina,
convicted of Kukluxism about two years ago
and sentenced TO eight years in Albany peni-
tentiary.
General Sam w. Mallory and Colonel
Arthur Hemingway, ex-members OF the Ar
kansas legislature, and more recently con-
nected with the Little Rock and Pine Bluff
railroad, died of yellow-fever at Pine Bluff
yesterday.
The New York Post yesterday &C.
knowledged the receipt of additional contrf-
buttons amounting to five hundred and twen-
ty-five dollars, for Memphis, and nifty dollars
for Shreveport making total receipts at that
office for both cities, eleven hundred and
twenty-five dollars.
The widow of Esquire Taylor, one of
the negroes hung by a mob at Charlestown,
indiana, two years ago, has commenced q suit
ASaihst y dttneW Clegg and John stewart, the
alleged principals IN the murder OF her hus-
band. The suit will take place in the United
States court at indianapolis, Indiana.
At st. Louis yesterday, In the circuit
court, Judge MadiIl refused 70 issue an order
TO restrain the st. Louis mutual life insurance
company from relnsurtnR its risks or dispos-
ing OF permanent assets. He decided however,
shat an examination as to the solvency of the
company, be held orthwith, before a re-
teree to be selected by the opposing counsel.
Hawkes., Camp & Co.'s hay-cutting
and baling establishment, on Thirteenth ave-
nue., New YORK, was burned early yesterday
morning. Loss on stock and building, fifty
five thousand dollars. When the flames had
been suppressed one Of the walls fell, killing
one man and probably fatally injurlng two
men and more or less severely wounding a
number OF Others
A dispatch from Bakersfield, Kern
rib!e ARRAY near that Place election day. J..
Watson asked n Gilman, who he had voted
for and upon receiving reply struck Gilman
with pistol, infiicting wound which resulted
in the death Of Gilman in a few minutes. X.
Peppardand others attempted to arrest Larry.
He drew knife and stabbed Peppard. Pep
pard got the knife away from W atson and stab
bed him, they then both fell and died within
two minutes OF each other.
A dispatch reporting an agreement
between Count de Chambord and the mon
archical parties in the assembly gives the fol-
lowing additional points OF the programme,
to be proclaimed at the opening of the session
1.-THE eligibility OF all persons to civil en-
ployment, universal suffrage, reasonable
liberty Of the press, and the tricolor 70 be
maintained as the flag OF France" This last
point, however, is open to mutual concessions.
called TO meet not later than the twenty y-sev-
enth instant.