Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-12
FAILURES And DEFAI,cAroNs

FAILURES AND DEFALCATONs.
NEW YORK, November 1.-THE te,
nrm that failed to-day was Battenhal
q Co-i whose transactions, says tn,
I5l6lulei generally aggregated miIllol
dollars per annum- At meeting Of tn,
aldermen Of Brooklyn this evening
resolution was adopted placing sfxfaer
thousand dollars to the account Of s+raat
repairing, to enable the board ,,f city
works TO Immediately EMPLOY the re-
Gently discharged me.I on the streets
Ihe bank defaieatiOn referred to in :
previous dispatch, proved to be on
lne security bank, No. 3I4 BOwgrv,
henry ID Sornes, the cashier, has no:
peen seen since a week ago. He had
appropriated twenty thousand dollars in
current funds, and it is alleged has
e1oped with woman, leaving 8 wife
aud child in Brooklyn. An investiga-
tioa into the affairs Of the bank shows the
other funds of the institution untouched.
THE PANAMA RAILROAD COMPANY.
There is a proposition to make a
change in the presidency Of the Panama
railroad company at the next meeting
on Thursday.
MRS. CAPTAIN HALL.
A1rs. Captain Hall to-day paid a visit
% the steamer Tigress. She was shown
her deceased husbands prsysrbook.
picked up by a correspondent ut cann
RolsTls, which she wished TO obtain pos
session OF. but when she was told that
Colonel james Lupton, formerly pay
master "a the United States army, whe
gave captain Hall the book on the eve
Of his departure, wished to obtain if. RI
ever found, as a relic carried through
our civil war, she relinquished tbe
claim. Mrs. Hall was visipIv AFFECTED
when she saw the much-worn volume
The old inscriptions made bv Pavmastar
LuptOn on the fiy-leaf, "I,ookout
Mountain, Stone River. y 1.-THE
Bloody Field Of Chieamauga,' J, uOp the
march to Atlanta etc, can stiIl be
easily read.
A WAR SOUVENIR.
The suit Of @. B. Lamar, of Savau-
man, Georgia, sgsinst Charles A. Dana.
Tor alleged false Imprisonment, while
the latter was assistant-seeretary of war.
was arguef in the United States circuit
court Today. Dana's defense is that
tns arrest was made in good faith under
TERRIFIC ExPLosIoN-sEvEN PERSONS
KILLED.
A boiler exploded st four O'Clock this
afternoon at the corner of Fourth avanue
and One Hundred and Twentv-ei0hfb
street, used by Coyne & Been1er. con- |
tractors on fine FOurth-avepue irnprove- |
ments, by which seven persons were in
stantly killed and several wounded. AMI
OF the killed had either the whole or a
portion OF their heads blown of. The !
following are the names Of the killed /
John Gibson, John Foley, Philip Miller, |
George Becker, Louisa Bsssford, aged |
eighteen; William Birth. a schOolbov. /
who was passing over the temporary 1
bridge to the track, aged fourteen, and /
Irene BeGetaine, aged twelve.
along the upper section of Fourth 1
avenue, the New York Central and 4
hudson river railroad company is en-
gagged IN extending the street, for the 1
purpose OF sinking tracks below the
present le vel. Numerous hoisting ma
chlnesi worked by steam-pOwer from
mOvAb. e engines, are used on the work
OF excavation, and it was the boiler Of
o0e OF these engines which exploded
this afternoon. The boiler was an up-
right, high pressure, Of the tubular sort.
II was IN charge Of John Barnum, who
nad Intrusted It to boy thirteen years
OF age, who mad been allowed to act as
engineer, to the imminent peril of
scores of lives. The boiler exploded
with terrible noise, and moment after,
as the dust and smoke cleared away, the
ground was seen to be literally strewn
with the bodies of the dead and
wounded, most horribly torn and mu-
tilated.
fHE HOBOKEN SAVINGS BANKS TO RE-
sUME.
The officials of the Hoboken Savings
bank, which institution has been sus-
pended nearly ten weeks, report that Il
FISK nd Hatch intend soon to resume
payment, when the Savings bank will
aga open for business.
PUBLIC IMPROVEMENTS RESUMED.
In response to appeals from the labor
erssof Brooklyn, the board Of city works
on Saturday set four hundred and fifty
men to wo.k on public Improvements.
POLL-CONTRIr- r--TTONs FOR MEMPHIS. !
The total amoust contributed to the
relief Of Memphis sufferers, on election
day, was seven thousand eight hundred l
and thirty-six dollars. 6
REDUCTION OF WAGES. 3
The employing and working tailors
have agreed upon 8 five per cent. redue- s
ton in wages on the old prices, to be re-
stored as trade reYives. II
Loss or THE IsAIALIA CONFIRMED.
A'he loss Of the Ismalia is fully cred
tied at the ship news exchange. She /
sailed tOr the Mediterranean on the c
twenty-ninth of September with
heavy load Of freight, but carried no
passengers. The last seen of her was on l
lhe second ultimO, when sne was stopped e
Of the coast Of Nova Scotia by a sailing {
vessel, short Of provisions. The vessel
and cargo were valued at nearly half a E
million dollars.
ANOTHER MISSIONARY BALE OF COT 8
TON SOLD.
The Boston bale Of cotton was to-day
,Old for the Memphis sufferers for three n
hundred dollars.
HEALTH ASSOCIATION ORGANIZED. /.
The American health association held 2
preliminary meeting at noon to-day, o
Il the Union League club, for the pur-
)Ose of organization, with Stephen NJ | y
smith. NJ. D., president. Among the a
present were Dr. Jones, Of =
Evansville, Indiana, DR.. Reeves, Of q
West Virginia. and DR.. Ben. Q
:. Miller, Of Chicago. Reports were
cad on the following subjects: ''On
he influence of the existing systems :,
lpon health and longevity" by p
francis Bacon, NJ. D.; "The power E
# the hoasekeeper over, and :.
Ter responsibility for, the health Of b
be family" by Edward Jarvis, NJ. d.
The physical and moral causes Of bad 81
leslth ia American wOmen,r by James g
:. Reeves, M. d. A paper upon "Per- 3
ectiOn Of structure and function of nous q
e as a leading element Of hygiene y a
vas then read by Nathan Allen, 81. d, r =
4 Chicago, who delivered an es- IA
sy on "The relation OF climate to 4,
and the relation of Phthi- I"
is TO other diseases. The afternoon ses-
ion concluded with a paper upon the y
Relation Of race and nationality to -
mortality In the United States, - which 70
vas read by the author, General Francis 7,
Walker. =
The association RESUMED It's session ia -
he hall Of the Union League club this q
'vening. The business transacted was r.
he presentation OF a summary Of evil Is