Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-12
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.


Edward w. Flint, of Massachusetts
suicided st Dubuque, Iowa, Tuesday.
New York specie shipments yesterday
SIX hundred thousand dollars in silve
hSrs.
The Goodrich inquest has been post
Qoned for few days at the request o
the New York police.
Prince Amadeus and wife have ar
rived in England, where they remain
during the sumner.
1t Is expected that the prosecution
against the TichbOrne claimants will bt
able TO rest their case next week.
A requiem mass was celebrated in
New York yesterday for the soul of Gen.
eral IgnaciO. The church was crowded
with CUbans.
The casket containing the body OF
the late Minister Orr was viewed by
over two thousand persons in New
York yesterday.
Van Buren's 3" irregularities - as q
commissioner TO Vienna have assumed
the more moderate shape of "incoyn-
potency" therefore, etc.
Several French officials have sent in
their designations in consequence of the
circular issued by the minister of the in
terror on the fourth instant.
The women suffragists of indiana are
making a hustle at Terre Haute. Their
first gathering yesterday was rather
slim. Susan b. viii perform on the
political status of woman to-day.
Two young ladies, named Brewer and
Mclaughlin, were drowned Tuesday
evening while battling in the river
about one mile beloW Independence,
Iowa. W
\ special to the London Daily NesVs
rom rome says that many of the monks
belonging TO the mOnastefies which are
20 De sup pressed viii go to Chill and
Bolivia.
81 Luis Is training-grOund for one of
tne Parties 10 a pTiZe-fight soon to take
place between Tom Allen and Mike Nc
cod. Cincinnati will put the other party
in trim.
@ Mark Twain's" suit against Benia-
min such, in New York, restraining the
latter from the publication of the for
meT's works, resulted in "TWain'sn IA
vOr yesterday.
Another match game Of French bill
lizards has been made between Ubassy
ani Bessenger at Chicago, the former
playing eight hundred points to Bessen-
gers five hundred.
The seventh annual convention of the
universal peace union is being held in
New York. Among the resolutions is
one thar king President Grant for his
Indian peace policy.
John Il. Keiger, an employe of the
star and Crescent mills of Chicago, was
dravgn INTO the machinery, yesterday,
by his clothing, and so injured that he
ID ed last evening.
The column of troops which mutinied
against the authority of General We
larde at Ignalida, Spain, has been reor-
ganized, and is now commanded by
General Cabrinety.
Whisky and debt caused a man named
BrittOn 20 commit suicide in Maury |
county, this State, Tuesday. He ac- |
complished the feat by hanging himself
10 a beam with his linen duster.
DIR. West, Of Dover, Delaware, who
so artistcally butchered a negro man in |
his office, and attempted to get away |
with the body by the basket-full, has |
been acquitted Of the charge of murder. |
A young man named Shuster, whose
skull was broken recently at German |
picnic, at indianapolis, by a stone
thrown by James Cullum, died Tuesday |
night. Cullum has been arrested, and
viii be tried for murder.
Eli Browne, a notorious western rob
Der and cOunterfeiter, was sentenced TO |
i've years Imprisonment in the State
prison in New York yesterday for steal
ing watch and fourteen hundred dol
lars in money from Thomas w. Fuller.
The reports Of the proceedings of the
board Of inquiry at Vienna, while they
do not impugn the honesty of Gene
raj Van Buren, show his incapacity for
the business placed in his charge, and
thence the irregularities which led 10
biz suspension.
Dr. West, Of Dover, Delaware, who
has so mirsculOusly escaped the gallows
for the murder Of the negro man, will
have 10 answer to the charge Of arson,
which is punishable with death in that
state, and his conviction on that charge
seems almost certain.
The remains of the late Minister Orr
were landed from the steamer at New
York at eleven o'clock yesterday morn
ing, and were escorted by the knights
Templar and a detachment Of the police
force, and taken 10 City hall, where they
lay in state in the governors room.
The question of cholera or no cholera
in Washington is agitating the medical
men. Drs. Cox and Bliss, Of the board
of health, affirm that it exists, and other
physicians treat the allegation with con-
tempt. That cases strongly resembling
cholera have occurred, is beyond ques-
ton.
The government at Washington has
been informed that a list Of the losses
made up by the commission appointed
TO examine into the condition Of affairs
along the Texan border, is greatly eXag-
geTsted and il many cases the loss is rep
resented ten times greater than the total
valuation Of the property destroyed.
Erred Becker, living in Decatur, Hi
nois, went home Tuesday evening after
a three-dsys' debauch, and was invited ,
to take a seat at the supper-table, by his /
mother, wheTeupOn he commenced abus- !
ing her with vulgar language. His father
and told him that he must
cease OF leave the house, at which he J
drew a revolver and shot his father in !
LAlE ldEES lnllltAlDE al ugly bAN hON
wound, and then fired ball .
into his own brain. At last accounts he Z
was in a dying condition. His last act I
was the most brilliant of his life.
A Cairo dispatch of the seventh says:
Mr.. Burrows, wife and child, of Leba-
non, tennessee, took passage on the Iy-
rome, at Nashville, and were en- route to
I ne wife's parents at Columbia, Missou-
D.. The wife was in poor health, and Z
soon after leaving Nashville she had 7
several severe hysterical fits. While I
lying at Paducah she seemed to have 9
her senses and retired to her c
room. The husband sat by the bedside {
her, and had the outside state
room door locked. About ten o'clock
she asked him to bring neT drink of 7
water. When he stepped into the cabin d
-or the water she sprang up, closed and u
Ocked the door behind him, unlocked v
he outside door, spTang overheard, +
md was drowned before help could b
each her. Il