Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-18

has resolved 10 propose an alteration in the
/ suffrage law as will deprive four million per-
sons of the elective franchise.
The Picd5fltae newspaper was sold by
| the sheriff In New Orleans Tuesday for twenty
thousand dollars on tWelye-mpnths bond.
Judge Alexander Walker. of the Herald being
the purchaser. He is required TO carry out all
/ the advertiising contracts and unexpired sub
| scriptions.
At Fort Valley, Georgia, last Satur-
day, a young German named Sprintz about
| fourteen years old, playfully pointed gun st
| his cousin, a man about twenty-five years old,
when it accidentally went off, and shot the
elder Sprihtk in the head. The wound will
PROBABLY prove fatal.
A slight altercation, Tuesday night,
| between A. A, Lattefeil and Charles Hoch-
heimer, news agents on the railroads running
out Of East st. Louis, resulted In Lutierell
shooting HOchheimer in the breast, iniiietiDg
a dangerous wound. Lutterell was arrested
and Hochheimer sent TO the hospital.
The contest In Little Rock yesterday
over the election of directors of the Little
Rock and Fort Smith railroad resulted in
eleciing a board in the interests of Boston
capitalists, who have furnished means TO
finish one hundred miles of the road. This
Will result In the early completion OF the
entire line.
Francis Wardell, late circulator for
/ the Buffalo IN. W Express, has been arrested,
/ charged with the forgery OF several promis-
/ sorry notes, which he negOtldteQ Win lDe
members OF banks and other individuals, TO
| the amount OF about sixteen Thousand dollar.
He acknowledged his guilt to the officer who
| arrested him.
An enthusiastic meeting was held at
| Exeter hall, in London, Tuesday night, to
hear the report of the delegates 10 the Evan
| gelcal Alliance. Lord Ebury presided, and
| -peeches were made by Alfred Chureheil,
| Dean OF Canterbury, Rev. DIR. Parker, and
Others, who alluded with the utmost enthus-
iasm TO their splendid reception in Americe.
A large meeting of citizens was held
at the Exposition hall in Louisville, Tuesday
night, and organized a relief association TO
/ look after the large numbers of suffering poor
! this winter. Efforts will be made TO get the
| city to give labOrerS out Of employment
work, and pay a living rate. Committees
| were appointed and operations will COM
/ mence at once.
Sheffield, England, was visited yester-
/ day by terrible stO-m. A large number OF
buildings and chimueys were blown down.
and many persons killed. One immense
| chimney fell in, crushing boiler therein,
which exploded, killing and wounding
| several. In consequence of the great excite
/ ment and the crowds in the stI ests, but few
| details could be learned.
A considerable smash-up to a freight
train occurred near Knoxville a few days ago,
/ by which locomotive and several freight
| ears were knocked into smithereens. The
| train-hands escaped injury by jumping from
| the train before the collision, excepting the
/ engineer, who was considerably bruised by
| beng thrown IN his back in the attempt TO
leave the engine. His injuries are not serious.
Bills of indictment against the MEM
| bers Of Typographical Union No. Z, of Pitts
| Durg, were brought before the grand Jury OF
| the court of quarter sessions yesteI day. sew
| enty OF them were presented, and all have
| given bail The evidence against them is said
| 10 be such as will cause a true bill 10 be found
/ ag sinst all of them. This is regarded by the
| members of trades-unions throughout the
| State as test case.
Henry Walters, who has lived in
| New Albany for the past thirty years, threat
/ ened to kin his wife If she didn't go out of the
| house. She went out on porch, and looking
| through the window, saw him take a razor
| IN fifteen minutes, the room being deluged
| with his blood. He was thought to be labor
/ ing under a fit of insanity. He took drink
| OF whisky before committing the deed.
Thomas Francis, the young man who
| cut Colonel VIM. q. Tyrrell, the Covington
| and Newport reporter of the Cincinnati Com
/ Dlerctdl, is in Jail He used abusive Language
| to Colonel Tyrrell before making the assault,
| after first asking Midshipman Tyrrell If he
| wished to take up his fathers cause. Colonel
| Tyrrell is barely conscious, and his symptoms
4 at eleven O'Clock Tuesday night were favora-
ole. None OF the intestines were cut. The
| affair is very exciting in COvington and sym
pathy is reported in favor of Colonel Tyrrell.
The under graduates of Harvard col
| lege and the Boston Society of natural history
| have adopted resolutions appropriately notic-
/ ing the death of Professor Agassiz. The
| funeral has been appointed for two O'Clock
Thursday evening. In Appleton chapl few
/ seats Will be reserved for the immediate
1 friends of the deceased the remainder will be
free. Many scientific and other bodies OF
| which the late professor was member have
| expressed desire to take part in the funeral
| but it has been decided as mole comformq bic
| to what would have been his own wishes to
/ decline all such offers.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, sent
on the twenty-ninth of November, charging
/ 1 lot Of n
| funds of the Protection lie insurance com
pRny, OF Chicago, is not true. Mr.. Hess is q
man OF large and valuable property, and
| has been in business here for several years
| Perhaps the strongest evidence to be found
| that these grave charges of fraud are without
| proper foundation is best shown by the fact
| that, Immediately after the suit for alleged
| embezzlement was instituted, Mr.. Hess wa.
| elected a director of the Ohio life insurance
| company, of Cleveland.
A horrible accident occurred near Car
| tersville, Georgia, last Saturday. A lady by
the name of Mrs. Jane Beck came thereon
| visit on the eleven O'Clock morning train
| accompanied by her two children. shortly
| atterward she took dray TO go out to he
| brother-in-law, Mr.. Hiram Dobbs. On her way
| team which met them in the road became
| frightened at passing train, and dashed int
| the dray. The tongue of the wagon STRUCK
| Mrs. Beck in the left breast, and, ranging up
! ward, broke her neck. Drs. Hameter allC
Young arrived shortly afterward, and did al
| that could be done, but she died almost in
| stantly. She leaves two children, girl sever
years old and a boy five years old. Both chill
| dren were severely injured, but it is though
| they will recover.
Buck Bush and Bill Lewis, negroes
were hung at Macon on the twelfth instant
| at twelve O'Clock. They were to have been
hanged in September but the governor sus
penued the execution. Buck met his fatC
manfully. He had been sick. He said bu
little. He died almost instantly. Bill wa,
nervous, and talked and prayed fifteen oil
| twenty minutes. The knot Slipped to tn,
| back of his head. He struggled for abou
| twenty minutes after the trap fell. Thert
was a large turnout OF negroes, but not a,
many as there would have been had they
| known the execution would certainly TAX,
place at this time.
Owing to the death, at late hour OF
| Monday night, of Colonel Frederick Dent, th'
| father of Mrs Grant, there was no forma
| meeting of the cabinet yesterday, nor werI
| visitors received by the President. The de
| ceased was in his eighty-eigth yesI. He com
1 planned of being unwell on Sunday, but M
| alarming symptoms were apparent until
| short time before his death, which occurred
| without struggle. His remains will be de
posted in the family lot in StLouis cemetery
| They will be accompanied probably to-noi
| row byPresident Grant, General Dent, NJ Msrshal
Sharpe, Colonel J. A. Casey and other mem
bers Of the family, together with General Bah
| cock.