Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-21

| TOLEDO, March 20.-A saw-mill be
! longing to B. Amsden at Amsden Sta
ton, Ohio, was destroyed by fire thi
morning, together with one hundred
and fifty thousand feet of lumber. Los
seven thousand dollars; insurance twt
thousand dollars. The fire caught from
the engine.
CAIRO, March 20.-A fire at dayIigh
this morning destroyed the brick build
ing owned by DR.. Woods and occupied
| by William Scott, cOlored, as a billiard
saloon. The loss on the building anC
stock is about three thousand five hun
| dred dollars. No insurance. This il
the second time that Scott has beeI
burned out in six months, both cases I'm
doubtedly the work of an incendiary. A
negro named Thompson has been ar
rested on suspicion.
NEW YORK, March 20.-Last nigh
the harness trimming factory of Viii
liam Waldron, and the neighborins
buildings, on Beekman street, werC
burned. Losses about two Thousand
three hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous.
The Wisconsin legislature adjourned
sine die yesterday.
The strike on the st. Louis, Kansas
City and Northern railroad is practically
ended.
Trouble is beginning in Cuba, two ol
three skirmishes are reported as having
occurred recently.
Gladstone announced in the British
house of commons yesterday that be
would resume his position in the govern.
ment.
A collision occurred on the Cleveland
Ohio, yesterday, by which several per.
sons were injured.
Saturday William Potter stabbed and
killed George Sheets in q dispute grow
ing out of debt of twenty-five cents, al
Stsunton, Virginia.
The dead body of Mary House was
found in her front yard in New Orleans
yesterday morning, supposed to have
been murdered and robbed.
Senators SchurZ and COnkling in
dulged in a wordy set-to in the senate
yesterday, in which the ellie" was fre-
quently expressed.
Edward Donnelly was sentenced in
New Orleans yesterday to be hung. He
murdered Dennis Kallagher on the
twenty-seventh of September, 1870.
The United States senate consumed
nearly the entire session yesterday In
the discussion of the Caldwell bribery
case, and adjourned without result.
Mrs. Solan, of Monmouth, Illinois,
walked off the platform of passenger
coach near Otterville, on the Pacific
railroad, yesterday, and was instantly
killed.
The remains of an unknown man were
taken from the de6ria of the st. James
hotel, at Montreal, Canada, yesterday.
They were identified as those of Mr..
Hyatt.
The arrest was made yesterday of some
passengers on an incoming steamer to
New York, who are suspected of being
the perpetrators Of the late forgeries on
the bank of England.
All efforts in behalf of Foster, in New
York, who murdered q man not long
ago with a car-hook, have been aband-
oned, and that mans doom Is apparent
ly sealed.
Late advices from Rio Janeiro and st.
Thomas report the cholera raging at a
fearful rate. Yellow fever Ia also report
ed broken out on board of vessels in
waters contiguous.
A man named George Mcdonald was
in New York yesterday, as one
of the bank of England forgers. Goods,
jewelry, etc., TO the amount of thirty
five thousand dollars were found and
seized.
A Richmond, Virginia, dispatch says
there Is great Indignation in southwest
ern Virginia over the arrest in Patrick
county BY United States officials of the
county judge, sheriff and others
upon the complaint of fugitive negro.
An investigation by the United States
senate into the charges against Senator
Bogy will depend upon the action of
that body in the Caldwell case. If the
senate decide that Caldwell is entitled
to his seat, no further action will be had
as regards Senator BOgy.
Lake Village, Chicago county, Ar
kansas, was visited with a most de-
structive conflagration on the night of
the fourteenth instant, thought to be the
work Of an incendiary. The loss is esti-
mated at near thirty-five thousand dol
lars.