Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-06
TELEGRAMS.


TELEGRAMS.
Fires continue to rage in the forests of
Nova Scotia.
!, The Masonic grand lodge of New York
yesterday reelected their old officers.
} Don Alphonso has levied one years
tax upon the town of Mouistenal de
Menzerret.
Alonzo Child, prominent merchant
of st. Louis, died at Hot Springs. Ar
kansas, last Tuesday.
The first reception of President Nc
Mahon took place at Paris yesterday
evening, and was brilliant affair.
Fannie Marblay, f'woman of the
town." committed suicide at Little
Rock yesterday by taking an overdose
of morphine.
Governor kellogg, as trustee of the
State of Louisiana, has enjoined the
sale of the New Orleans, Mobile and
Texas railroad.
Charles r. Henderson, on trial at
Baltimore for the murder of DR.. Merri-
man Cole, January 8, 1872, has been de-
clared not guilty.
| The Pal Mall Gazette. of Yesterday
afternoon, publishes an appeal of the
Empress Eugenie to the people of
France in favor of her son.
John Valkbartt, aged fifty-seven, was
killed by the caving in of trench on
Prairie street, in Milwaukee, yesterday.
The deceased has children living at Du-
buque.
A Rome telegram says that Ratazzi
died at nine O'Clock yesterday at Teno-
sinone. LOuza, president of the council
and minister of the interior, was with
! him at the time.
Secretary Delano, General Sherman
and the President had q long consulta-
tion yesterday morning in Washington,
to settle the disposition to be made of
the Modoc prisoners.
A rumOr prevailed in New York that
the court of appeals had given deci-
sion adverse TO the application of
Stokes, convicted OF the murder of Jas
Fisk, for new trial.
The steamer Frolic, with the MEM
bers Of the Polaris expedition on board,
was intercepted off Sandy Hook by a
government boat, and ordered to pro-
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Judge Sutherland states that he has
seen a telegram announcing that the
court of appeals had given decision
in the case of Stokes, affirming the
judgment Of the supreme court.
A small party of Usage Indians at
taxed some herders of cattle on the new
Ellsworth trail, in Kansas, last Satur-
day, and killed and seal ped man
named Chambers. One Indian was
killed.
John Wilson, packing-box manufac-
turer, has absco1ded from Philadelphia,
after borrowing twenty thousand dol
lars from his friends. He had fallen
into his difficulties from a mania for
gambling.
The jury in the Harrison case, Mound
| City, Illinois, returned verdict yester-
day evening of guilty of murder. He
was sentenced to fourteen years in the
penitentiary. A motion was entered for
a new trial.
a tornado at Winnemacca, Nevada, |
yesterday, blew down the tents of the
New York and New Orleans circus,
causing a great panic. Several men
and women were severely injured, but
none mOrtally.
The regatta of the New York yacht |
club was postponed till to-day. Twenty
yachts started in the race yesterday, but |
lack of wind and unfavorable tide pre- |
vented them from making the race in |
the stipulated time.
The body of J. Behrens, German,
was found floating in the river at the |
foot of Freeman street, Cincinnati, |
Wednesday. From note found on his |
person, it appears he committed suicide |
on account of poverty.
Governor Straw, of New Hampshire. |
was inaugurated at Concord yesterday. |
He recommends the local option law as |
the best method of restraining intem-
perance. One-third of the population |
Of the State are depositors in savings |
banks.
]. w. Jones, q. NJ. Barber, and S. o. |
Griswold were nominated yesterday by |
the Republicans of Cleveland, Ohio, as |
candidates for judges of the new supe-
rior court about to be organized there |
under a recent act of the Ohio legis-
lature.
The steamship Cordillera, from Rio /
Janeiro May 18th, arrived at Lisbon, /
Portugal, yesterday. Yellow fever had |
entirely disappeared from Rio Janeiro
and cities on the Rio de la Plata. The
number of cases at Bahia was also grow
ing less.
Charles BaUgert, aged eleven years.
and his mother were arrested in New /
York, yesterday, aud the boy testified
that he had repeatedly attempted 70 poi
son his father at the instigation of his
mother. The father and mother belong
to Brooklyn, but have not lived to-
gether for some time
Chicago is filled with strangers in at
tendance upon the jubilee, and the sue
cess of the affair is regarded certain.
The Gilmore band arrived Wednesday
night, and the musical forces are fully
organized. The first concert took place
yesterday evening.
By the falling of a scaffold in the de-
pot-building of the Chicago and Rock
Island railroad, at Chicago, now being
used for the jubilee concerts, two paint
ers, John Olsen and William Gully, were
thrown from the roof to the floor below,
and both killed.
United States Indian commissioner
Grossman telegraphs the Associated
Press agent at Chicago that none Of the
Yankton Indians have left their reser-
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per Missouri as reported lately by Gen
eral Custar. The Yanktons are all at
home attending to their business.
In the city court of Brooklyn, New
York, yesterday, Mrs. Mary Lee recov-
cred verdict of forty-one thousand
eight hundred and twenty-three dollars
against William Young and others.
The action was brought to recover
money loaned the wholesale clothing
house of William Young d Co., doing
business in New York and st. Louis.
The firm became bankrupt few years
ago. Mrs. Lees husband was member
OF the firm, and the defendants claimed
that the money she said she loaned the
firm was put in as his share of the cap
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