Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-23
GENERAL NEWS.
The Cholera Playing Havoc In Missouri
Towns DepopuIated-Particulars.
Carl YOgt, the Belgian Murderer-A
City's Records StOlen-NegrO
Emmissaries.
Two Attempts at Suieide-MysteriOus
Story OF POisOning-Death Of q
~ Merchant, Etc. e.
Cincinnati Cholera Report.

Ctaeinnati Cholera Report.
CINCINNATI, July 22.-Three deaths
were reported from cholera to-day, one
a colored man atsthe Good Samaritan
hospital, which makes the fifth case at
that institution within the week. The
weather has been quite cool. The health
officer reported several dangerous chol-
era-mOrbus cases from eating smoked
fish. The health-board prohibited the
sale of fish.
City's Records Stolen.
YPsILANTE, MICH, July 22.-On
Sunday night the office of the city clerk
and justice of the peace was entered and
all the city records, files of eleven hun
dred chattel-mortgages, police dockets,
and the papers and books belonging to
the Office, were taken. a prohibition
war is being waged here with considera-
ble success, and the guilty parties are
doubtless those opposed to the efforts
being made to close the saloons.
Towns in Missouri Almost DeDOpuIafed
by Cholera.
ST. LouIs, July 22.-Further advices
from Louisiana, Missouri, says that the
cholera has abated there, but that some
fifty persons altogether have died with
it since it first broke out, including some
of the most prominent citizens 10 Prai-
rieville and Troy. The scOurge ragged
fearfully, the towns being almost de-
populated either by the disease or the
people fleeing from their homes. Out of
one family of nine persons in the former
place, all of whom were well last Fri
day, only two remain to bury their dead.
The disease also prevails in other towns
near by. Business is almost suspended,
and most of those who are able are fee
ing from the infected places.
Accident on the Memphis and Little
Reck RaiIrOad-TwO Attempts at Sui
eide.
LITTLE Rock, July 22.-The engine
and tender of the passenger train on the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad, just
starting out, ran off the track
and was precipitated down an en-
bankment. Nobody hurt.
Matte Whitney, a woman Of the
town, from st. Louis, and who is deaf
and dumb, attempted to commit suicide
here yesterday by taking an overdose
of morphine. Medical assistance was
rendered, and she was saved. She
jumped into the river this evening with
the same object, but was rescued before
being drowned.
Death Of a WeII-knOWn Merchant.
CHICAGO, July 22.-Henry Milward,
Esq, a well-known provision merchant,
and for many years connected with the
business of pOrk-packing in Cincinnati,
Louisville, and Chicago, died at his res
idence here last night of Inflammation
of the stomach. He was held in high
as man and as merchant,
and the board of trade this morning
adopted 3 series of resolutions express
i've of their sorrow at his death and
sympathy with his family. Similar
were also adopted at meet
ing of the pOrk-packers' association, of
which the deceased was a member, and
for long time president.
4 Fearfuiiy Hatcbed Up story 10 be
Poured into Ihe Northern Ear.
NEW ORLEANS, July 22,-The Repltb-
5icdn says Hon. J. Henry Burch left for
the north last evening by way of the
Jackson railroad, as dUdnt courier of the
committee of cOlored men appointed to
visit the north to explain to the people
the events of the last election in this
state. Mr.. BuTch is announced to
speak in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, on
the first day of August. Messrs. Ingra-
ham, Chester, and Lewis will follow Mr..
Burch in week or two, and the party
will rendezvous at Saratoga on the sixth
of August. At meeting of the COM
mittee of cOlOred men in this city yes
terday it was agreed to Ocall convention
of cOlored men some time in November
to meet in New Orleans.
PrTTsBURG, July 22.-On Friday
last, John Snyder and two of
bis children, living in Springdale, iTI
the borough Of Butler, were taken i'll
with all the symptoms of having been
poisoned. They continued to improve
until Saturday evening, when Snyder
was suddenly taken i'll again with the
same symptoms. The physicians were
again summoned, and pronounced it
another case of poisoning by arsenic;
but as in the previous attempt, an over
dose had been given, and the violent
vomiting saved his life. A party by
the name of Foreman, suspected Of
the poison, was arrested
and lodged in jail. Mrs. Snyder was al
80 arrested yesterday at noon, and COM
mitted to Jail. The parties viii have a
hearing to-day.
earl VOgt, the Belgian Murderer.
WASHINGTON, July 22.-Attorney-
General Williams has given an adverse
opinion in the case of Carl Vogt, a Prus-
sian subject, charged with murder, ar
son, and robbery in Belgium, and whose
extradition is sought under the treaty
with Prussia, concluding as follows: al
have carefully read the als hOrata oniT
ion of Judge BlatchfOrd upholding the
of this case, but, with diff
1ence and regret, am compelled to dis
sent from his views. They do not ap-
pear to me to be sound in principle or
sustained by authority. Able writers
have cOntended that there were reeipro-
,al obligations upon nations to surren-
ler tugitives from justice, though now
t seems to be generally agreed that this
8 a matter of courtesy; but it is to be
presumed, when there are treaties on the
subject, that fugitives are to be surren-
iered only in cases and upon terms