Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-24

Western Railroad Timetables.
LOUISVILLE, April 23.-The superin-
tendents of nearly all the western rail-
roads met here to-day and arranged their
summer timetables. About forty roads
were represented. No important changes
were made. The convention will prob
ably adjourn tomorrow.
Fort Scott, Kansas, on Fire.
Fort SCOTT, April pa terrific fire
has broken out on Market street,
in the central business part of
the city. Many buildings are already
where the cOnfagratiOn will end Great
CONSERVATION prevails, as there seems
To be no way to prevent the destruction
of large portion of the business part of
the city.
Suicide.
CHICAGO, April 23.-A singular case
of suicide occurred here this morning.
y man, whose name is supposed, from
papers found upon him, to be Christian
johnson, entered coal office on West
Adams street, and quietly asked the
clerk in attendance to lend him knife
for a moment. The clerk handed the
man his pocket-knife, which he took,
and opening one blade, drew it rapidly
across his throat, cutting it from ear to
ear, and died almost instantly.
Au Quiet in the eLavabeds-LiveIy Times
in ArfZOha.
SAN FRANCISCO, April 2S.-There is
no further news tonight from the Mo-
doc war. A dispatch from Portland to-
night says the Indians on the upper
Columbia, Snake and Lewis rivers are
well posted in MOdOc affairs They
indulge extravagantly in war paint and
war dances, and, by their conduct, are
menacing the troops of stern Oregon,
and will probably prevent md punish
any overt act. Some of the Toops are
making a vigorous war aga nst the
Apaches from Arizona, and expect to
diminish the number of depredations
materially.
DistI3guished PersOnages in Texas.
New ORLEANS, April ga Browns
vile dispatch states that Secretary of
War Belknapand General Phil Sheridan
aud party left Ringgold barracks, one
hundred and twenty miles above there,
for Brownsville, yesterday. They are
expected to arrive tomorrow, and the
city council have rendered them the
freedom of the city and appointed a
committee to meet and escort them into
town. Preparations are being made to
extend n hearty welcome to these dis
tnguished persons by the people gener-
ally, without distinction of party.
An Insane Mother, Murders Her OF.
spri~
NEW. YORK, April 23.-This evening,
a wO uan by the name of Mrs. Anne
Her essy, twenty-six years of age,
WI OF George Hennessy, respectable
emaker, residing in the tenement
ouse, No. 81 Third street, during fit
sf insanity, killed her two children,
George, aged three years, and
Fran IS, aged five months. On
ra .rning from work, her husband
found the room locked, and after con-
siderable trouble, gained admission,
when he saw tub standing in the GEN.
ter Of the room, in which the bodies Of
the children were lying. The mother,
who for some time had been afflicted
with religious mania, had choked the
children TO death, and then roasted the
bodies on stove. The poor creature
was sent to the hospital by the police.
Christianity in Japan.
BERLIN, April 23.-The Japanese am
bassadors have just returned, and have
had lengthy conference with an emil
nent German professor of jurisprudence
regarding the propriety of endeavoring
to establish christianity as the State
religion of Japan. The professor earn
estly dissuaded them from the project.
The ambassadors had already come to
regard the change as probable, and were
favorable to it. They listened very at
tentively and eagerly to the reasons of
the professor, who adduced facts
nom the history of christendom to show
that this religion cannot be enforced by
governments. He said itwas only vital
when II grows amongst the people and
from the people. he couDseled the
Qranting of full rellgious liberty as the