Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-29
NEWS OF THE DAY.
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; The census OF Baltimore, Just com
pleted1 shows the population OF that city
Milton Malone, condemned to b
hanged yesterday at Atlanta, Georgia, too
morphine Thursday night and died yesterda
morning.
Tweed ate his ThanksgiviDg-dinne
I in the ToombS with bis family. General Blu
Ter is the last person whom sumner has sdde
to Tweed's counsel. rr
r Senator T. O. Howe, OF Wisconsin
authorizes the statement that he is not car
didate for the chief justiceship, and could nc
aceeptn appointed.
The Union bank, of Philadelphis
| which suspended during the panic, has re
) sumed business, and has ncreased its capita
t to seven hundred thousand dollars.
2 Roundsman John Morris, in NeV
: York, was on trial yesterday. for burglarizin
the residence of citizen, and carrying of
considerable amount Of jewelry, etc.
A Little Rock telegram yesterda,
says that two spans Of the false work, abou
: two hundred and fifty feet, Of the Cairo an
: Fulton Railroad bridge, across Red rivel
washed away Thursday night. The river
still rising.
The case of William j. Sharky, con
demned for murder, who lately escaped from
the Toom lbs in New York, and who had beel
granted new trial, was called yesterday il
IOb supreme COURT ana an OFutI GuGtI6Nt NJ
appearance.
The execution of John Tefee anC
George Williams, which was to have takeI
place at Pinckneysvllle, Illinois, yesterday
for the murder OF VIM. Mstson, last Septem
Der, has been indefinitely postponed.
1t is said that Judge Fourche, of New
York, has granted an eIpdFte order TO show
cause why there should not be a stay of pro
ceedings in the case of Ingersoll and Earring
ton, convicted OF forgery. Harrington wa
sentenced TO the penitentiary.
John w. Morris, executive clerk o
tile United States senate and formerly edito
of the Charleston RepUblfcda, and the ChrORi
4 Gle of Washington city, sdied at his residenci
in Washington Thursday night, of consump
ton, in the thirty-seventh year of his age.
j Henry Young, alias Charles Williams
ayoung colored man, convicted of the murder
in March last, of Frank Hahn, a Virgini;
drOver; was hanged in the jail-yaTd, at Wash
ingtOn, yesterday, to which but few persons
besides strong police force, were admitted.
Ann Smith, widow aged ffty-eight
died in New York Thursday evening, IL il
| supposed, from the effects OF cruel treatmen
! at the hands of Patrick Clark, aged fifty-nve
and his son, aged eighteen, both Of whom
boarded with Mrs. Smith. The men hav,
been arrested.
A New York telegram yesterday says
that sheriff Brennan has received a lette
| from Attorney-General Barlow, earnestly re
monstrating AGAINST the indulgence showI
/
when he should, according to requirements o
law, be sent to the penitentiary.
James H. Ingersoll, convicted il
| New York, Wednesday, Of forgery upon tbs
| county during the rtng-rule, was sentenced
hard labor. John d. Harrington, jr., con
yicted at the same time of the same O1fenss
was sentenced to eighteen months imprisOn
ment.
The thild trial of Christopher Raffer.
/ Of fv,
Chicago, was concluded at w Waukegan yester
Il day, and to-day the jury rendered verdict o
/ affixed the penalty of death. This is Raffer
/ tvs third conviction, with similar sentence
The steamship k9ning Wilhelm
/ from New York, which arrived at SOuthamp.
ton on the twenty-iourth, and proceeded for
Bremen, has gone ashore near Niewe dep
on the coast of Holland. The passengers are
/ all safe. Two tugs are trying TO haul her of
/ II is expected that she will have to be unload.
ed before she is got afioat.
The typographical union OF Chicago
yesterday decided 70 suspend the present
\ ton at forty-five cents for day and fifty cents
| for night-wOrk. They also voted TO discon-
! tinue the dOuble-rataS heretofore charged fOI
| holiday-work. Morgan p. Mills was elected
president OF the uuion, rice Richard Camp
bell, deceased.
A man, woman and boy, living in an
/ alley on Herman street, in Montreal, died
/ Thursday night, by drinking from a bottle
| which they thought contained whisky. Five
more are suffering, some of whom will moi
| live. The woman was dissolute character
and the house where the tragedy occurred
/ was one OF the lowest in the city.
The Fall River, Massachusetts, manu-
facturers' board OF trade have decided from
and after December lst to run their mills
eight hours per day on five days, and seven
hours on Saturdays. Should the times con
tnue TO improve as they have done during
| the past two or three weeks, it is believed
that January will see all the mills running on
/ fun time.
Charles ]. Hess, general-agent fol
Ohio ofsthe Protection life insurance com.
pany of Chicago, was removed from his posi-.
| ton at Columbus Ohio, Thursday, and suit
| brought before the common pleas court to re
| cover from him eleven thousand seven hun
dred and forty-seven dollars belonging
| to the company, which, IL is alleged, he has
appropriated TO his own use. All agents will
hereafter forward then collections direct to
| Chicago.
| James Mason has been appointed reg.
lister In the Jay Cooke bankruptcy case. Judge
| CaIdweller has issued an order giving in
structions to the receiver TO bave bankrupts
| forthwith account with him for all their
property, real or personal, moneys, rights, for
/ feits and effects, the account to be taken from
the commencement OF he proceedings, on the
| twenty-fifth OF September last, and from such
earlier period or periods, il any, as may as 10
any item or items be necessary.
The report of the secretary of the in-
terror com mprises, besides various other mat
ters, the annual statistical reports Of all rail-
roads in which the government Is interested.
The secretary also refers 10 the Yellowstone
national park, urging congress 70 take early
steps to protect the park from vandalism of
visitors, and ays It's boundaries should be
properly surveyed and located, as many per-
sons desire to settle upon the public lands
contiguous thereto.
Cartagena was bombarded eight hours
wednesday by the land batteries. The town
md ma ManHpZ and Nnnpfanfp "a
piled with vigor. The outlying fort, Don
Julian, was silenced by the fire OF the besiegerS
and It'll reported that its commandant and
several other officers were killed. The in
surgent fleet in the harbor got up steam
Thursday for what purpose has not yet
been developed. The rebel leaders, through
the admirals of the foreign squadrons, have
requested a truce of two hours. 1t Is believed
that propositions for the surrender OF the city
will soon be made.
A Chicago telegram of Thursday says
that on Wednesday Thomas \. Scott, OF Penn
sylvania, and Judge H.J. Jewett, Of Colum bus,
Ohio, trustees for the bondholders of the Gill
man, Clinton and Springfield railroad, took
possess on of the road and placed IL in charge
OF Assistant-Superintend Shepherd. In
the meantime Colonel K. p. Morgan, late rail-
road and warehouse commissioner, had been
OF Judge Upton, and il is stated that Shep-
herd will undoubtedly refuse to surrender
the road to him, which will again take the
matter into court.
EA-OulIeu oLaleS senator tNlcQaru
Yates, OF Illinois, died suddenly at Barnum s
hotel, in st. Louis at nine O'Clock Thursday
night. Mr.. Yates had been to Fulton, Arkan-
sas, as United states commissioners 10 exam
inc the lower end of the Cairo and Fulton
rail road, and returned there last Sunday
sight, since when he has been quite feeble,
and on Wednesday he was very sick. He re-
vived Thursday, however, and in the evening
while busying himself with preparations for
starting home, he suddenly fell backward and
died in five minutes. His family have been
adx vi nj his death and RNnpCtaH
to-day.
The commissioners appointed to in
spect the Cairo and Fulton railroad have lust
returned TO 81 Louis, and have agreed ON a
favorable report of their examination, which
will be forwarded TO the secretary of the in
terror. The report is accompanied by a map
and profile of the section just completed, and
equipped as required by law, under the dlrec.
tion OF James H. Morley, chief engineer. The
profile is on a scale OF one thousand feet to
one inch. There is also scale of the eleVa-
tions above tide-water of the gulf of Mexico
the elevation varying from one hundred and
feet. On the acceptance Of the report patents
will be issued for the balance of the two mil
completion OF the road. Already about three
thousand applications for the purchase OF
land have been received, mostly from actual
settlers.
A special to the Louisville Courier
Journal from Danville, Kentucky YES the
following particulars OF a tragedy which oc-
CURED at HarrodsbuTg on Thursnay evening
The trial of lawsuit, in which p D. Thorn-
son, ST., was the principal on one side, and
Theo. Daviss, sr, on the other, was in Trogress,
and each principal Y as attended during the
whole trial by his sons, fully armed Al the
conclusion OF the testimony, and while the
lawyers were preparing the instructions pre-
psratory to commencing the argument a son
of Thomson and son OF Daviss moved to-