Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-28
GENERAL NEWS.
The Most Terrific Storm Of The
Century-The Country AbOut
Halifax Laid Waste-A
Hundred Wreeks.
Wife MHTder-NO Armed Police
Necessary-Mexican War Vet
erans-MissOuri Oranges
Fires, Etc.


an ExiOraiOnaGe AIderman Punished.
PHILADELPHIA, August 2z.-Alder-
man Nichols has been sentenced TO nine
months imprisonment, after a trial, for
extorting exorbitant fees.
PenffeniIary Destroyed by Fire.
LARAMIE CITY, August 27.-The Ter
ritorial penitentiary here took fire this
morning from a defective fue, and the
roof and woodwork are entirely de-
str0yed. The walls are uniDjured. Loss
probably forty thousand dollars. The
prisoners made no effort to escape.
Mexican War Veterans
ST. LOUIS, August 27.-Msjor G.. w.
GilsOn, of st. Louis, addressed the
Mexican war veterans. After which q
committee was appointed to prepare an
address to congress on the subject of pen
sions. The meeting was in shape. An
immense barbecue and a jolly good-time
was had.
Hife Murder a4d Attempt Rt SufcIde
NEW YORK, August 27.-EarIy this
morning Henry WesbTecht and wife,
who have been separated for some time,
met at No. 22l Central street, and the
former shot the latter five times, infict-
ing fatal wounds. He then shot himself
in the mouth, but it is supposed not
fatally.
Losses by Flood.
NEW YORK, August 27.-The losses
by the recent flood in the Della
ware river are estimated at $780,
600. of which $500, 600 may pos
sibly fall on the Delaware and Ches-
apeake canal, 500, 900 by vessels and
baFges stranded on the meadows, and
$50 900 by the Delaware railroad.
Italian COnyeztiOn.
ST. LOUIS, August .27.-The national
convention of the various Italian socie-
ties of the country commenced its an
nual session here to-day, but only pre-
liminary business was transacted. r.
P. Ghee, Of st. Louis, was elected tenn
porary president, and F. DefeIipPo, of
New York, secretary. Delegates were
present from New York, Philadelphia,
Cincinnati, Chicago, Louisville, Balti-
more, and Richmond, and others are
expected to arrive.
Miraculous Escape from Being Buried
Alive.
BALTIMORE, August ga dispatch
from Westminster, Maryland, says that
William ID. Matthias, aged twenty-five,
died, as was supposed, at three
O'Clock Sunday evening of brain
fever, and was placed on ice.
Yesterday, when the family as
sembled for funeral services, it was no
ticed the skin had assumed a natural
appearance, and an examination showed
that life was not extinct. Physicians
were called, and Matthias is recovering.
Several Residences Burned at NashviI Ie
NASHVILLE, August 27.-AbOut three
o'clock this morning a fire broke out in
the residence of ThOs. J. Miner, in
Edgefield, rapidly communicating to
and destroying the residences of T. G.
Roche, JnO. S. Wilkes, Fountain Spill
lers, George Raw, and a house occupied
by Edward Lawrence, belonging to Mrs.
Virginia G. Reeves, Of Macon, Georgia.
The value of the property destroyed is
about ten thousand dollars; insured for
about eight thousand two hundred dol
lars in the following companies:
Queens, two thousand; Imperial, three
thousand five hundred; Franklin, one
thousand five hundred; State, one thou
sand two hundred dollars.
The Police of New York will Not be
Armed.
NEW YORK, August Ex-Governor
Dix has addressed a letter to Mayor
Hayemeyer, in answer to a request of
the latter for rifles for the police, and
says even if means of granting his re-
quest were at his disposal, he should de-
cline, considering it very questionable
whether public order or security would
be promoted by the organization of
armed military bodies under the direc-
ton and control of municipal corpora
tiens, independent of military authority
of the State, and believing the existing
mode of putting down resistance on eX-
traordinary occasions is in all respects
the wisest and safest.
Missouri Oranges
ST. LOUIS, August 27.-An immense
meeting of the oranges was held to-day
at Sweet Springs, near Brownsville,
Missouri, nearly fifteen thousand people
of the surrounding country, many COM
ing q great distance, are said to have been
present. A good many prominent men,
including members of the legislature and
members of the press were also in at
tendance. Thomas r. Allen, master of
the State oranges, opened the. granger
part of the meeting with a speech, in
which he TidicUled the lack of interest
bestowed in the farmers movement at
the outset, but it had now become a
great power, and attracted attention
from all quarters and all parties. He
believed the farmers to be the noblest
class Of people in existence, and it was
time he had something to say about
public affairs. Oranges are growing,
and before January next there will be
twenty-four States prominent in the
movement. He warned mOnopOlies not
to crowd them, or they might make
them go too far.
Terrific Storm.
HALIFAX, August 27.-Dispatches
from Sydney, Cape Breton, state that
terrible storm, with wind and rain, has
been raging there since Monday, the
greatest ever known at Cape Breton
for wears. All the harbOrs are filed
with vessels which were driven
ashore. At Sidney, many buildings were
blown down and the crops throughout
the country were destroyed and bridges
washed away. The storm commenced
at noon on Monday, and blowing
fiercely from the southeast, the wind
changed suddenly to the east, sending
the tidal-waye ten feet high, sweep
ing toward the docks and
wharves. The wind was blowing
frightfully. Among the vessels ashore
at Sydney are the Valent, Matilda, B.
Hunter, Nancy, r. McRae, Maggie L.
Huntley, Euxine Zephire and Alpha.
These are total wrecks. The
bark Electra, dismantled, is on
the bar at the entrance to Sgd
ney harbor, flying a flag of dis
tress all day. Fifty vessels are at
Bombay, all ashore at Counard.
last Day at Monmouth Park.
Lone BRANCH, August 27.-This is
the last day of the extra meeting at
Monmouth park. The first race was a
hurdle-handicap for eight hundred dol
lars. two miles over eight hurdles. Vii
lace Blacksmith, Revenge and Impecu-
nious ran, and in that order went under
the string. Time, 1856.
Cofeejs lightning colt and Wheatley
were the only horses that ran in the
Jersey Jocky Club handicap. Distance,
two miles and q quarter. The former
won. Time, 4:27.
The third race was for a purse Of six
hundred dollars, the second horse to re-
ceive one hundred, all ages, mile heats,
maiden allowances. -Four horses started.
Warlike, carrying eighty-five pounds;
Utica, carrying ninety; Camden, carry
one hundred and two, and Hattie
O'Neil carrying one hundred and five.
! Utica sold at nearly two to one against
the field, and discounted his hackers
by coming in second to Warlike in the
first heat. Time, 1:47. Warlike also
won the second heat and the race. Cam
| den was second. Time, All.
! The consolation purse for beaten
horses, one mile and q half, was won by
Shyloek with Gerald second. Time,