Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-29

the absence of Mr.. Gladstone, on ac-
count Of indispositi0n, the consideration
of the message be postponed until to-
morrow. Tie motion was agreed to.
Herald Reporter Drowned.
New YORK, July 2S.-On Wednesday
last, James NJ. Coulson, reporter of the
Herald. was assigned to visit the new
steamer City of Chester, lying in North
river, since which time he had not been
heard of until to-day, when intelligence
was received that his body had been
found in East river. COulson was for
merly connected with the Chicago
Times.
Completion Of an Important Railroad
Line.
CHICAGO, July 2S.-A dispatch from
Gibson, Knox county, Illinois, an
nounces that the last rail connecting the
Streator and Windsor division of the
Chicago and Paducah railroad was laid
on Saturday morning fourteen miles
south of this place, making one hundred
and twenty-eight miles of the road COM
pleted south of Streator. 1t is expected
that through trains from Chicago will be
put on to-day, in connection with the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy and
Chicago, Alton and st. Louis roads.
This road passes through the thriving
towns of Streator Fairburg, Gibson,
Mansfield, Monticello, Bement, Sulli-
van and Windsor, its present southern
terminus,
Brigham YOUng's Wife, No. I7-SaIt
Lake Items.
SALT LAKE, July 2S.-The complaint
and aflidavits in the case of Ann Eliza
Webb, seventeenth wife of Brigham
Young, were filed to-day in the clerks
office of the third district court. The
complainant sues for two hundred
thousand dollars damages and alimony,
pending the suit, OF one thousand dollars
per month, and twenty thousand dollars
counsel fees. The case will probably be
before Judge Emerson Judge McRean
being absent for his health on the fifth
of August on preliminary points. Other
suits of like nature will be begun soon.
Butcher and unknown persons were
found guilty by a coroner's jury of kill
ing the Cotton family. A good deal of
excitement was created, and there was
a talk of lynching, but peace was pre-
served. No one knows when the trial
of any murderer can take place, in con-
sequence of the peculiar condition of
the laws.
More about GOrdOn-GOrdOn.
MINNEAPOLIS, MINI, July 28.-A
special to the Tribune this evening from
Fort Garry says: "Public feeling is so
shocked by the refusal to bail the prison.
ers in the Gordon case, that two of the
most prominent citizens of Manitoba be-
came bail for Merriam to-day, viz: Hon.
J. Mckay, president of the legislative
council, from whose residence, at Deer
Lodge, Gordon was taken by Ker-
gan, and Andrew McDermot, the
Manitoba director Of the Canada
Pacific railroad, the oldest and wealth.
lest merchant of the county. Clark
was astounded when these names were
presented. The circumstance show that
the days of the attorney-general are
Merriam was arrested at
the suit of Mckenzie, late partner of
Clark, who was the English barrister
that Gordon had not retained, and was
therefore reluctantly engaged by Consul
Taylor. He exacted five hundred dol
lars, which was supposed as ample, even
an excessive fee, but he now has the ef-
frOntery to bring suit for fifty dollars
day, or an additional sum of five hun
dred and fifty dollars. This demand
ICSiSJGhg Wucu u IE-dIIGSb Ddll WAS
promptly given. When Fletcher and
Merriam were arrested, twenty-five
thousand dollars in money and securities
were taken from them, which Eugene |
under power Of attorney,
mas endeavored to recover. He OBJ. |
-ained one order Of court to de-
liver the money, but Clark re-
1ected and refused to disgoIge. |
Wilson and Merriam expect to leave TO-
but there may be a cloud of |
,ivil suits by Gordon and his blackmail- |
ng crowd Of attorneys, although Cor
Ion has frequently said there was not a |
little of evidence against Merriam; such |
nOckery Of justice prevails in Manitoba. |