Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-18
TELEGRAMS.

G.. Bird Grinnell & Co. were de-
clared bankrupt in New York Thursday.
The women's congress in session in
/ New York attracts considerable attention.
The United States court at Louisville
has been engaged the past two or three days
on Kuklux cases.
The racehorse ''LOOk- Out" +" for which
six Thousand dollars had been refused, died in
/ New York Thursday night.
| The American house was burned at
| Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Thursday, and deaf
man peTished in the flames.
Several cases of yellOw-fever have oc-
Cured at Louisville, supposed 10 have origin
ated at Memphis or Shreveport.
One hundred and sixty-five thousand
pounds were Withdrawn from the bank Of
England yesterday for New York.
The river Neva, in Russia, has risen
ten feet beyond its usual hight causing great
damage in st. Petersburg and the adjacent
country.
Ex-President Johnson has made affi-
davit to his claim for seyeuty-three thousand
dollars against the First national bank in
Washington.
Sir Edward Thornton, provided his
government will allow, will accept the ten
Ger OF umpire Of the American and Mexican
claims commission.
At wedding in Baltimore yesterday,
Henry Heisler was killed by the accidental
d. charge OF pistol which Charles HultZ was
carvlessly handling.
The fight between the Brule-Sioux
and Panca Indians, on the fifteenth instant,
resulted, according to the latest reports, in
the killing of twenty.
General Jovellar, the newly appoint
ed captain-general of Cuba, left Spain Tor Ha-
vana yesterday. The government squadron
remains at Gibraltar.
A Salt Lake dispatch chronicles the
shooting Of A. Ii. Br6wn, chief-Of-pOlice, by a
TDumh named Harrison
wound is probably mortal.
The Saturday Evening Post, of BOs-
ton, was mulct out Of twenty-five dollars,
Thursday, Tor contempt OF court, in publish
ing trial
The eoroner's jury, in the case of NJ.
d. Leggett, student at Cornell university, who
was killed while being Initiated into the col
lege secret society, returned verdict OF &C
cidental death.
ALondOn telegram says that Ardra-
Tike castle, formerly the residence OF the Duke
Of Abercorn, has been burned. Many works
Of art, including numerous sketchings by
Landseer, were lost.
Stokes became indignant at the testi-
mony OF one Of the witnesses in his case yester-
day, and was only restrained from creating
scene in court by bis mother, who sat near
him in the prisoners box.
In the vicinity of Salt Lake, Utah,
the tremendous storm Of Tuesday aud
Wednesday did great damage TO fruit and
shade-trees, and broke down the Telegraph
wires in a number Of places.
At L. c. Dorsey's sale of Gold-Dust
colts in Louisville, Thursday, there was a
sold, averaging per head, $40 %, two stations
bringing Sl7O0 and $3.50 respectively.
The statement is made that Joe Co
burn will decline all challenges 10 fight. He
declared, after the match with Mace, not to
enter the ring as principal or second, and be
sides, during the past year has suffered from
fever aud sgue.
A San Francisco dispatch, yesterday, |
announces that later return indicate that
Mckenstery, independent candidate for the
supreme court, is elected by about five thou |
sand majority. The vote will not be material |
" changed by the returns to come.
The Albany and Brunswick railroad |
was sold at Augusta, Georgia, Thursday, at |
public sale at Brunswick, Tor five hundred /
and thirty thousa nd dollars 10 German bond /
holders, who hold over two million t1rst mort |
gage bonds Of the road.
Rev. Morgan Dix, of New York, 60
knowledges the receipt of eight hundred auu |
seventy-One dollars for the sick at Memphis. /
ne also gratefully mentions the kindness OF
the Adams express in sending the funds |
thither without charge
In San Francisco John Ryan MUIR
dered owen Gillen, Thursday, by choppng /
his head nearly Of with an ak. Ryan has |
been arrested. No cause is assigned. GilGn /
was asleep on bench in a bar-roOm when |
the deed was committed. Ryan is a mula TO. /
The Stokes trial, in which no new
testimony was ELECTED, was interrupted yes i
terday by the district attorney, who moved |
that the time be fixed for the trial OF William /
Nj. Tweed and others under what are known |
as the ring indictments. The court set down L
the Tweed case for trial Immediately on the /
terminal on Of the Stokes case.
At SaDemegides, Milkern county,
California, on the twelfth instant, an un-
known Mexican stabbed and severely |
wounded Fred Stillman, killed Cashier sui
man and severely wounded Mcdonald, engi-
peer at the mill. Ihe desperado ran away.
but was pursued and caught He made de-
perate resistance, but was finally killed.
On Thursday Bight, a stock train on
the Chicago and Alton railroad ran OF the /
switch at Normal, Illinois, The cab0Ose,
were ditched. Five men were injured; two
very severely, and one OF them, stock dealer
OF Kansas named Baker, 10 is feared fatally.
Twenty head OF cattle were killed.
At the final session Of the free religious
association in New York, Thursday night,
John Weiss read paper on work done in the
recent conference OF delegates from the Evan
gehcal Alllance. Aaron a PoWel was fuc-
cessi Vely hissed and applauded for saying
thai since the day John Brown was murdered
In Nirg MIA, he never felt more saddene1 than
on the day the MoCoc Indians were hanged.
One of the most extensive grain deal
ers in the country, said IN New York Thurs
day that exporters were taking every bushel /
Of grain they could obtain. HIS house alone
wheat each day, which is Immediately sent /
abroad. he thinks the produce exchange is /
Viriually outside OF Wall street influences,
and that any difficulty ia the money market Il
OccasiOned by stock speculati0ns Will not /
materially al CT dealers in produce; the /
people Of Europe want Dre ad and they viii /
get IL IL they are compelled 70 send gold here
Tor IL He concluded by 81 wing that the pros |
pect for a continued brisk trade was very /
good.
A dispatch from Matamoros, Mexico, /
saws that General Seapeta, the depOsed goyer- |
nor Of the state OF COahuila, left Saltillo for
Monclava, where the congress OF the state is
in session which recognized DR.. Saias as gov
ernor. An engagement IS reported between
General Seapeta and the partisans OF Dr.
Salas, near MonclRva. IN which Seapela is
SAID 70 have been defeated and retired TO-
ward Pied-as \ Naras on the Rio Grande,
while another account states that the action
was not decisive, and that both parties are
near MonclRva. Many OF the principle bust
ness houses have closed in SaltillO and report
the news hat actual Gghting had commenced,
fearing a proDunciafnento against Seppeta'5
fFisnds who stu ocenFg thet city