Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-03

| be worth collectively two hundred and
/ twenty thousand dollars, nearly eight
| times the amount Of the bond.
Phillip Bullinger, a member of the
Lutheran Church, and a distributor
Of religious tracts, was arrested in st.
Louis Yesterday, charged with commit
| ting incest with his own daughter,
eighteen years old. The charge is made
by the daughter, but stOutly denied by
the father.
The Governor of Illinois has granted
a respite for thirty days in the case Of
Mcmillan, who killed his wife at Chilli
cothe, Illinois, and who was to have
been hanged at Peoria to-day. This
is IA allow his counsel to argue an appli-
cation for a writ Of swperSedids before
a majority of the Supreme Court.
A New York telegram states that the
schooner Louisa, from Hayti for Boston,
put in there last night with the loss of
her deck-lOad, and reports that on the
twentieth of December she saw an un-
known ship of thousand tons on fire,
but no crew or boats could be seen. 1t Is
believed that she was laden with Petro-
leum.
William Taylor, of Philadelphia, an
aged man who served forty-nine years
in the United States navy, and is now
a pensioner, was arrested in New York
yesterday for alleged drunkenness. The
officer who took him into custody bru-
tally dubbed him. 1t turned out that
the veteran was not drunk. The police
man was held for assault.
James L. Watson, a native Of Savan-
nah, Georgia, and Benjamin Crowder,
an Englishman, have been tried in Du-
Brugin, in Hungary, and the former
sentenced to six months imprisonment,
for remarks not considered compliment
aTy to the Emperor of Austria, and the
the latter to three months, for resisting
arrest on the same occasion.
The annual report of the commerce Of
Milwaukee for 1872 shows receipts and
shipments of various products as fol-
lows: Receipts-Flour, 2I5,9 barrels;
wheat, 13, ,275, 725 bushels; oats. ], sos, ,O48
bushels; corn, 2,051, ,lS6 bushels; rye,
4I0 133 bushels; barley, 1,447, ,569 bush
els. Shipments of wheat and flour re-
duced to wheat foot up Il, ,633, ,s21.
Advices from Hampstead, Texas, re-
port very heavy rains, causing the
BrazOs river to rise fifteen feet yesterday.
The center span of two hundred feet
railroad bridge five miles west of Hemp
stead, on the Austin branch railroad,
was carried away. This was a Tempo
rary structure while a new iron bridge
was being erected. Loss, several thou
sand dollars. Freight and travel west
ward Obstrucued.
Eight negroes were killed, ten or
twelve negroes and three whites injured,
and three cars and one engine wrecked,
by collision on the Macon and West
ern railroad, near Atlanta, Georgia, yes
terday morning. Carlotta Patti and
troupe were on board. Their wardrobe
and piano were destroyed. The MEM
bers of the troupe were unhurt. Patti
was active in giving relief to the wound
ed. The negroes were emigrating to
Mississippi.
A Washington telegram says that the
time for filing claims for additional
bounty, under the act of July 2S, 1866,
giving one hundred dollars to every sol
dieF who enlisted in the army of the
United States after the nineteenth of
April, 1851, for period of not less than
three years, and received an honorable
discharge, or fifty dollars for two years
enlistment after April IA, 1851, expires
on the thirty-first of the present month.
A telegram from Auburn, New York,
says that yesterday morning seven con-
victs succeeded in making their escape
from the State prison by digging through
the wall where a shaft ran through it
for the purpose of turning the machinery
in the prison. 1t is believed that the
convicts had assistance from the out
side, as they are all supposed to have
been provided with citizens clothes.
The escape was projected and led by
Dan Noble, the bond robber.
A Boston dispatch says that Governor
Washburne was inaugurated yesterday.
In his inaugural address he says that
while disaster caused commercial en-
barrassments the public finances are
gratifying. The funded debt has been
reduced two million dollars during the
past year. The total funded debt is now
about twenty-seven million seven hun
dred thousand dollars. He considered
the labor question as of the first inn
pOrtance.