Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-06-29
THE DAYS DOINGS.
Cholera Reports from Nashville and
Cincinnati-SmallpOx at San
Francisco - The Credit
MObilier Suit.
Pistol Success Of a Justice of the Peace
"A Fatal Cigar-PTOgress of the
Missouri, Kansas and
Pacific Railroad.
Cincinnati CHOLERA Report.

Cincinnati Cholera Report.
CINCINNATI, June 28.-Fourteen
deaths from cholera to-day, including
that of DR.. c. P. Divan.
AZ Nashville.
NASHVILLE, June 2S.-Eight deaths
from cholera to-day-four whites and
four colored. Scarcely any new cases
are reported.
Turf SPOrts-Mrrder.
NEW ALBANY, IND, June 2S.-The
trotting race at Driving park this even
ing was won by Tom Roach in three
straight heats. Time: 1891, 2:404 and
2:37. Track heavy.
w. II. Thompson, a justice of the
peace, shot and killed Peter Reybolt, at
Greenville to-day. Thompson is on ten
thousand dollars bail.
San Francisco Items.
SAN FRANCISCO, July 28.-Several
more cases of smallpox were reported
yesterday.
The special committee appointed by
the governor to investigate the charges
against W. Wilkinson, principal of the
State asylum for the deaf, dumb and
blind, have fled report acquitting him.
The committee find, however, that on
several occasions he employed coarse,
insulting language 70 the female pupils,
but that his general department was
kind and courteous.
The Missouri. Kansas and Texas
Railroad.
| PARSONS, Ks, June 28.-Through
and close connections are now made be-
I l.
son, Texas, over the Missouri, Kansas
and Texas railroad, and this company
now own and are operating seven hun
dred and eighty-four miles of road, all of
| which has been built since August, 1863.
The wheat crop is nearly all harvest
| ed in this part of Kansas, and is saved
in good order. LaBelle county alone
will raise half a million bushels OF
wheat this year, against two hundred
! thousand last year.
| A Premature Fourth Of July Explosion
with Fatal Results.
COLUMBUS. June 2S.-David Webb, a
passenger agent of the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad at this point, and Mr..
HouseRlan last night purchased large
quantity of fireworks for the fourth oi
i July. While taking them into the cOun-
4 try in hack lighted cigar fell into the
package, exploding the whole lot, blow.
ing the carriage top of, ond throwing
Webb into a neighbOring ditch. He wa:
badly burned, and can scarcely recover
Houseman is also badly hurt.
LATER-David Webb, who was Sc
badly burned by fireworks last night
died at noon in great agony.
About the Credit MObiIfer Suit.
WASHINGTON, June 2S.-Statement
+ having been published that the Credi
! Mobilier suit is likely 10 result in fail
ure, owing to an alleged movement t.
unite all the forces of the Union Pacift
railroad company against the govern
: ment, and to other causes, the attorney
general says that the name of Horace +
Clark was not cited in the bill of equitl
: with the understanding that he and tn
company would remain neutral, ant
that the death of Clark will have n,
; other effect than to cause delay unit
the name of the new president Of tn
company can be substituted. The attoT
pey-general sees no reason whatever t,
! change his belief that the proceeding
instituted will be successful.
Miscellaneous.
: A twenty thousand-dollar fire occurre
4 in New Orleans drugstore yesterday.
e Mrs, Francis G. White has been al
4 pointed postmistress at Water Valley
: Mississippi.
The German Turner'S at Cincinnai
! Yesterday INDUCED in swimming an
, other contests for prizes.
= Edward Matson shot himself j
: Washington yesterday while his parent
: were attending funeral.
e A party of men, supposed to be Wae
Y ner, the escaped Isle-of-Shoals murder
b er, and his accOmpliees, was seen yes
:. terday at Springfield, Massachusetts.
The cornerstone of the Mount Verno
# academy at Washington Hights, on
e of the suburbs of Chicago, was laid ye:
a terday with the usual ceremonies.
An election for member of the hous
of commons took place. in BeTwick
. shire, Scotland, yesterday, and resulte
U in the return of Mr.. Miller, the liberi
, candidate, by majority of fourteen
z Pedro Martinez, from Havana, pa
senger on the steamer Havana, viii
n Iaboring under a fit of insanity, jumpe
: overheard at the quarantine station ne;
, New Orleans yesterday, and WI
I'll drowned.
,e The common council of Chicago la
e night appropriated seven hundred thoI
, sand dollars for the construction of add
l. tional sewers in the city, and two hun
If dred thousand dollars for cleaning OF
d the old ones.
If An attempt was made Friday nigl
le to throw the southern-bound train {
'e the Illinois Central railroad off Il
E track about four miles south of Ere
le port, by placing ties across the trac
g but it proved unsuccessful
p In the criminal court at Baltimol
y Yesterday morning james West, CO
~ ored, was convicted of the murder
Anna Gibson, and Levin Palmer, CO
= ored, of rape on white girl. Bot
were sentenced to be hanged.
m The proprietors of the Chicago Int
Ocean yesterday gave free steambo
ri excursion to about five hundred ch
IN dren Of the city, and, the day being
M beautiful one, and everything being pr
10 vided for the pleasure and comfort
6 the young ones, the affair was decid
g and pleasant success.
s, A dispatch from Kenang says tE
g, the Dutch government, with view
DS. terminating hostilities with AcheeI
ne has offered the sultan to nay the {
its penses thus far incurred by the war,
On rebuilC the mosque bHrned by
IA, Dutch troops, acknowledge the in'
he Dendence of the sultan, and to abSts
he from interference with Mohamedanis
ers In return Holland asks that eerts
ay privileges be granted the Dutch t
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