Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-28
onlr prgperty they can find has Been

only property they can find has beer
attached.
The proposition made by Phelps
Dodge 4 Co. to the Secretary of the
Treasury to compromise their ease
which was rejected, has again beer
brought TO the attention of the Seere.
tary, but in more favorable terms to the
Government, and will, it is thought, be
accepted.
The first regular passenger train over
the Dakota and Southern railroad ar
rived at Dakota from Sioux City yester-
day. The citizens intend to express
1 their qualification in q few days by g
grand demonstration and ball. and ex-
tend an invitation to the outside world
to go and see them.
In Cairo, Illinois, yesterday, while
Jno. Hunt, colored, was engaged in
slaughtering hogs, he placed the butt OF
a rifle on the ground with the muzzle
leaning against his breast, when his
powder horn fell on the hammer in such
q manner as to discharge the piece,
killing him instantly.
Letters sent to the Internal Revenue
Office from North Carolina show that
4 oOAA4C feAAtAC1 III AAldt kJLGAbC eaAE
in the business of falsely representing
( themselves to be in authority as Reve-
nue. officials, even to the extent of issu-
ing bogus commissions and letters of
instructions TO people unWary enough to
be their dupes.
Two coaches of the day express train
OH the East Michigan Central, on SatuT-
day evening, were thrown from the
| track at Chelsea. Several passengers
were injured, including Mr.. Capreal, of
| Toronto, cut about the head and face,
and Mr.. Bradley, of New York, who
had his ribs broken. He is at the Rus
sell House depot. The accident was
caused by a broken brake dropping
down under the coach.
An incendiaIy fire at Lapee, Michi-
gan, Sunday morning, destroyed the
drug store of Vincent & Carey, with all
the contents; also the American Ex-
press and Western Union Telegraph
offices, with large amount of express
goods. From the jewelry store of ID.
w. Kineman and the drug store of Can
non d Bristol the stocks were mostly
removed. Total loss, twenty thousand
dollars; insurance, seven thousand dol
lars.
On Friday, at Piney Branch Station,
ROckcastle county, Kentucky, Geo. w.
Murray, manager of the tramway con-
nected with the cOal-mine, quareled
with young man named w. BledsOe,
and knocked him off the tramway.
BiedsOe's step-father, Lee Arnold, ae-
costed Murray a few minutes later,
when the latter drew pistol, but threw
it down, and the two commenced fight
ing. Finding Arnold was OverpOwering
him, Murray reached for his pistol and
shot his adversary in the stomach, in
fiicting a mortal wound. Arnold sprung
up, and seiZing a handspike, literally
beat out Murray's brains, killing him
instantly. Arnold is stin alive, but the
physicians say he can'tlive. Both were
married men and have families.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
there is nothing new from General
Wheaton's camp in the ModOc region,
California. Troops are en- route from
this city to the scene of action, under
command of Colonel Throckmorton,
fifty miles from Redding. A company
from Portland, Oregon, command
ed by Captain Miller, is at
Grove Creek over most part of the road.
General Gillin, who sUpersedes General
Wharton, will arrive at Yreka to-mOr-
row by stage. The notorious thief, rob
ber and murderer, Charles Mortimer,
cOnfesses to having robbed the treasury
in Santa Cruze county, for which Offense
the former treasurer of that cOun-
ty, $. W. Blakely, is now on
trial. After the confession, Mortimer
and wife were taken from the Jail in
Sacramento to Santa Cruz, for that pur-
pose. The testimony of Mortimer i'm
plicates another man whose name has
not yet been given to the public.
The newly-discoverod tin mines near
San Diego, reported very rich. Several
hundred pounds of ore were brought to
this city for assay. AS the work pro-
crosses the ledge increases in thickness
and the ore in richness.