Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-16
Another Atlantic and Pacific InjuRe-
tiOn-A Deadly KnOek-DOwn-
Durant's Trunks - The
Japanese Students.
The Pacific Mail Steamship Company
and the Union Pacific Railroad
One Thousand More,
Brother Young.
Ex-senator Mills DrCTned-S150 900, :
900 to pay the City Debt-Other
Money GOssip-Miscel-
laneOus Topics.

New YORK, July 15.-Michael SWa
vel, aged seventy-fve, during a quarre
this evening with his sOn-in-law, JohI
Wetzel, was knocked down, and wheI
picked up was dead.
The government OF Japan has sen
orders for the return OF five of the sil
| students sent to this country by com
! pany in Osaka, who have been here two
years. These five are NJ. Tanabe anC
I ). Alta, Trenton, New Jersey; T. No
kuchi, Philadelphia; H. Okomato
Bridgeport, Connecticut; and Revakiti
of Rhinebeck, New York. The sixth il
permitted to remain at Lawrenceville
| New Jersey. The five mentioned ar
now in this city, and have purchased
| their tickets to Japan, and win star
homeward next week, going by rail t.
! San Francisco. None of them know
the reason they have been recalled, bu
all are hopeful they will be allowed t.
return in the course OF few months.
An injunction was, yesterday, served
on the Atlantic aud Pacific railroad
company restraining it from paying tht
dividend due to-day on the stock Of the
Pacific railroad of Missouri, which rOaC
it has leased in perpetuity.
Thirty-siX seized trunks and cases
belonging to Thomas c. Durant, ex
president of the Pacific railroad, anC
one of the credit-mobilier defendants
were released from custody yesterday
on bond being given for their appraised
value. 1t required three large trucks
to remove the goods from the custom
house to their owners mansion in
Brooklyn.
Peter Wilson, brother of Police Cap
tain Wilson, had a talk with Patrick
Cassels, of 241 Delaney street, last even
ing, and called him liar. Cassels i'm
mediately struck Wilson in the face, and
the latter fell, his head striking the curb
stone. At the time he was not thought
to be seriously injured, but at half past
five this evening he died. Cassels was
arrested.
The EUeHing Post says a thousand
newly-converted MOrmOns were landed
at this port to-day, and another large
company is expected.
The directors of the Pacific Mail
steamship company have authorized a
settlement with the Union Pacific rail-
road, and that the steamship Montana
be sold for sixty thousand dollars; also,
that some Of the steamers plying be-
LMCtA NEW VI &uu ASIblu All D6
sold. These steamers will probably
bring about thirty thousand dollars
each The president was also author
lied to borrow seven hundred thousand
dollars on the company's real estate in
San Francisco, TO meet immediate
wants. The following are the debts of
the company which have to be met
Immediately: One hundred and twenty
thousand dollars for city taxes in New
York; sixty thousand dollars for en-
gines building in Scotland, and six hun
dred and fifty thousand dollars to NJ
Roche for steamers now constructing.
The company also require about six
hundred thousand dollars to put their
steamers in a seaworthy condition.
Ex-senator E. 5. Mills, president of
the Brooklyn Trust company, was
drowned while bathing at Coney island
to-day. The body was soon after recov-
cred.
The board of exchange this evening
adopted a resolution that the building, or
surplus fund, with the interest accruing
thereon, be allowed to accumulate, to
meet future wants of tAe exchange, and
that this be considered its settled policy.
The meeting was called to consider the
proposition of Mr.. Histed, for an appro-
pristion of two hundred thousand dol
lars of the surplus fund, to be divided
equally among the members, in the
shape of a dividend.
James jackson, negro, who killed
Mary Jane Sullivan, his white mistress,
at 57A Thompson street, on the seven
teenth of May, pleaded guilty to man
slaughter in the fourth degree to-day,
and was sentenced to the State prison
for two years.
At meeting of the finance commit
tee of the board of aldermen to-day, it
was proposed to raise q consolidated
loan Of one hundred and fifty million
dollars, at five per cent. interest, where
with to cancel the present city debt,
being forty millions in excess of the
present debt. Leading city fnanciers,
1t is said, don't approve of the scheme.
Action upon the industrial exhihibition
loan of two and half millions was
postponed.
Editors representing thirty-eight ag-
ricultural papers in different parts of the
country started this morning on an ex-
tended tour through the south and west.