Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-30
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Death of the Presidents Father
Cholera Reports from
Nashville and
Cincinnati.
Fearful Destruction in Italy BY
Earthquakes-GOld to be
SOId by the Govern
ment in July.
Decrease in Tobacco Revenue
Van Buren's Business Again
The German Turner's
at Cincinnati.
Eighteen Pauper Infants Mysteri-
Ously EARNED Out-$l,-
100000 Libel Suit
News in Brief.


News in Brief.
New PafrfOt Commander.
HAVANA, June 29.-It is rumored
that General Fuesada has landed in
Cuba add taken command of the insHr-
gent forces.
Cholera Increasing in Cincinnati
CINCINNATI, June 29.-Seven deaths
from cholera were reported to the health
Office to-day. The Office was open only
two hours.
Cholera Report from Nashville.
NASHVILLE, June 29.-Ten deaths
of cholera reported to-day. The change
of diet for the past three weeks has pro-
duced great deal of fiux.
The Vienna Exposition Building
Flooded
VIENNA, June ga violent thunder
storm tonight flooded the exhibition
grounds, and did much injury to the
American department. The German
gallery was badly damaged. The roof
of the Chicago restaurant was driven in,
and the building and contents ruined.
Race News.
COLUMBUS, o., June 29.-The races
for the coming week, beginning on
Wednesday, promise to be a success.
Horses are coming from this and other
States, and large numbers of fine horses
are now here. Special arrangements
have been made for carrying visitors
over the railroads at reduced rates.
CINCINNATI, June 29.-Hon. Jesse
E. Grant father of President Grant,
of Covington, Kentucky, died of gen
eral debility at seven O'clock tonight.
The president, though expected on
special train, had not arrived at the
time of his death. His death had been
hourly expected for several days.
The Tobacco Revenue.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Last year
when the tobacco tax was consolidated
to twenty cents, it was thought that the
internal revenue receipts from this
source for the fiscal year now closing
would show a decrease of at least five or
six millions, as compared with former
years. But instead of that amount, the
figures show that the decrease is only
about eight hundred thousand dollars.
Mysterious Disappearance.
CHICAGO, June 29.-Four weeks ago
Mr.. S. d. Cozzens, a well-known patent
lawer of New YORK., left there to come
to this city for the purpose of arguing
the case of Sykes Us. the Northwestern
road, in relation to the Tanner brake,
which has been running twelve years.
He has not yet arrived here, and his
relatives in New Y York, who have only
recently learned that fact, are anxious
to know his whereabouts.
Boy MysteriOusIy Shot.
BALTIMORE, June 29.-Charles Ba-
ker, aged fourteen, was shot dead this
afternoon at the residence of Henry
Schellhous, No. 40 Leadenhall street.
Schellhous and his son, George, aged
fourteen, were arrested. The two boys
had been playing together, and il is
probable that Baker was accidentally
shot. The pistol was found in the cellar
of the house.
Railroad Items.
ST. LOUIS, June 29.-J. w. McCul-
Tough, general manager of the Pennsyl-
vania Central railroad, with a number
of other officials of the same road arrived
in Springfield, Illinois, Friday evening.
The Gilman, Clinton and Springfield
railroad will be formally transferred to
the control of the Pennsylvania Central
company on the first of July, Large
additions will be at once made to the
equipment OF the line, and an extension
is to be built from Springfield to Litch-
field, giving the former city competing
route to st. Louis.
n a --asa oF sa,o RFost VtIIafnoua Rau.
deRer of the Age.
PORTLAND, Me-, June 25.-Lewis II.
Wagner, the Isle of Shoals murderer,
was arrested by Mr.. Farmer in Farming
ton, New Hampshire, about thirty miles
from Alfred, Maine, on Saturday eve
ming. He called at the house of w. P.
Farmer, and asked for something to
eat, saying he had eaten nothing for
several days but few plums and ber-
ries, which he found in the woods. He
was foot-sore and weary. While he
was eating supper Farmer, supecting
him, Immediately went out and called
some of the neighbors to assist in ar
resting him. When he returned Wag-
ner had finished eating, and had start
ed off into the woods again, but was
pursued and captured. He will be taken
to Alfred tomorrow.
ImPOrtnnt from Mexico
SAN FRANCISCO, 0id SAN DIEGO,
June z9.-The latest Mexican dates per
steamship Arizona say: President
Lerdo has given most ample guarantees
that he would very soon forward to the
United States government the basis of a
treaty in relation to an important under
standing of the Tehuantepec canal and
railroad. The Official Gazette, of Costa
Rica, publishes a communication adj
dressed to the government by General
Corresso, as minister to Central Amer
lea, asking if it is willing to join with
Columbia and other republics in begging
Spain to leave the Cubans alone. The
reply was that, Costa Rica being small
the United States silent on the subject.
and Spain now being a republic, it is
better to wait awhile
Gold Sales for JuIy-PresIdent's PrOcla-
nation.
WASHINGTON, June 29.-Secretary
Richardson has directed the assistant
| treasurer at New York to give notice
| that during the month of July he will
sell one million dollars gold on the first,
second, fourth and fifth Thursdays OF
each week, and one and half million
on the third Thursday, and that he Will
purchase a half million dollars of bonds
on the third Wednesday of the month.
In all, he will sell five million five hun
dred thousand dollars in gold, and buy
| five hundred thousand dollars in bonds.
The Presidents proclamation has been
prepared to be issued by the first of July,
announcing the going into effect on that
day of articles from eighteen to twenty
! five, inclusive, Of the treaty of Washing
ton. Necessary legislation having been
adopted on the part of the imperial par
| lament of the Great Britain legislature.
Canada and Prince Edwards island on
one side and by congress of the United
States on the other.
Secretary Fish will leave Washington
tomorrow night for New York.
A Compile OF Incend5Rries.
Providence, r. l., June 29.-Two in
cendiary fires were kindled simultane-
ously in the Phoenix building Saturday
evening. One was extinguished by the
police, but the other, in the fifth story,
gained some headway. The fire was
confined to the upper part, though almost
the whole great building was drenohed
/ with water. The total loss reached one
/ hundred thousand dollars, fully covered
| by insurance. The building was
owned by the heirs OF George How
ard.
Insurance, fifty thousand dollars, in for
eiQn companies. The other losses, chiefly
/ by water, are; Remington & Perkins,
wholesale millinery goods; Farnum q
EEhermanl Butler, Brown q Co., leather
| and manufacturing supplies; ]. Rich