Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-08

June oUlD, states Ilat Tne health OF tn
whole command was good. The Indi
ans were offering no serious resistanc,
to the location of the railroad through
their hunting grounds. An abundance
OF coal of good quality has been fount
twenty-seven miles west of the Misiour
river on the surveyed line of the road
The country thus far traced by the expe
dictionary force is excellent, being wei
grassed and watered.
Dexter Park, Chicago, Races.
LAST DAYS SPORT.
CHICAGO, July To-day was tn,
last of the Dexter park summer meet
ing, and about four thousand peOpl,
were present. The weather was CLOUDY
and cool, but without rain. Tn,
tracks were in better condition thar
on any previous day of the meeting
THE FIRST RACE.
Half-mile dash. match for 500 a sid,
Detween r. and J. Rowett's C. C. Uncle
Hark, and J. G. Simmons's b. C. Thre,
Cheers, and though the latter came in
three lengths ahead, the race was giver
to Uncle Hark on account of foul riding
by the Three Cheers's jockey. The time
was not taken.
IdE hACE.
was the free-for-all trotting race for q
purse Of $4,000; $500 to the first, SI2OC
to the second, $500 to the third and S4OC
to the fourth. There were six entries,
but Bashaw, Jr., and Fred. Hooper
were drawn, leaving American Girl,
] Sensation, Henry Todd and J. w. Con-
ley to start. American Girl was the
| favOrite in the pools previous to the start
at rate of 500 to SIS and 500 to $50.
The first heat was a very uDinterest-
| ing one. American Girl led from the
start, and came in winner in 2:29, Sen
| sation second, Todd third, and ConIey
| fourth.
In the second heat American Girl
| again led at the score with Sensation at
her heels, Todd next, and two lengths
behind Sensation. Conley acted very
badly, and was left in the rear. Sense
! ton came up to the American Girls
quarter at the half-mile pole, Todd
keeping about three lengths ahead, and
COnley doing nothing but breaking.
These positions were unchanged, until
coming down on the hOme-stTetch. Sen
satiOn was Judged ahead, and came un-
der the string a neck ahead in 2:264,
American Girl second, Todd third, Con-
ley distanced.
Sensation was now the favOrite by
500 to 500 in the field. In the third
heat Sensation led to the turn, where
American Girl caught him, and at the
quarter-pOle led slightly, but broke
going up the far side, letting Sensation
come alongside. Meanwhile, Todd was
ten lengths behind and was doing no
trOtting at all. At the half-miIe pole
Sensation led, and Todd settled down
to work. At the three-quarter pole the
Girl came alOngGide Sensation again,
and they came into the hOme-stretch to-
gether, Todd rapidly closing the gap be-
tween him, and trotting at a fearful pace
at distance flag. Sensation came to the
front and passed the score a neck ahead
of the girl in 2:255.
Todd at the close Of the third heat
trOtted the last half mile in :O4I.
In the fourth heat Sensation led to the
quarter, with the Girl at his wheel and
Todd five lengths in the rear, and the
horses came home in this order, Todd
coming up at the finish within a length
OF Girl, who was short length behind
Sensation, who was winner of the heat
and race in 2:2S.
SUaHdTy.-American Girl, 1, ,, ., 2;
Sensation, 2, l, l, l Henry Todd, 3, 8,
3, 3; J. w. COnley, formerly Beppo, 4
dis. Time: 2:29, 2:26f, 2:25I, 2:28.
Miscellaneous.
VIM. Cornelius was killed at Albany.
New York, Saturday night, while re-
sisting an officer.
The remainder ofthe Confederate dead
of Gettysburg have been removed TO |
and re-interred in Holly /
wood cemetery.
Anthony Sullivan died at PhiIadeI-
phia yesterday from a fracture of the |
skull caused, it is said, by John Shane, |
who has been arrested.
a telegram from Mt. Carmel, Illinois,
says that two-stOry house fell in that |
town yesterday. Three persons were in
jured, it is feared fatally.
Frank Delano, of Terre Haute, acci. |
dentaly shot himself at Henderson,
Kentucky, yesterday. The ball pene- |
trated his abdomen, and it is feared he
viii die.
Harvey West, an estimable man, was
SlDt dead in the most unprovOked man
ger in billisrd-rOOm, Friday night, at |
Massachusetts, by john |
\. DutfIis, youth of eighteen.
Or. Fontaine, of Spencer, Massaehu-
sets, was held in two thousand dollars
bonds yesterday for manslaughter, in
causing the death of a child by using
smallpox viris for vaccination, instead
matter.
Amos Wescott, a dental surgeon of
Syracuse, New York, committed suicide
there yesterday morning by shooting
himself. He was classed at the head Of
his profession, and for the past two or
three years has been suffering from hyp-
OchOndria.
jeremiah 5. Remington has been ar
rested and held to bail in the sum of five
thousand dollars to answer the charge of
setting fire to the premises of Remming-
-On d Perkins, in the Phoenix block, at
Rhode Island, on the night
If the twenty-eighth ultimo, with in
.eDt to defraud.
Yesterday afternoon the body Of a Ger
nan named Carl Kustrer was found float
ng in the river at New York. The DO.
ice are satisfied that he had been robbed
md murdered. He was travelling agent
or a firm in Stettin, and arrived in New
York June 10th. He was the guest of a
lOtel in HObOken.
The steamship City of Washington,
If the lnman line, went ashore in a
iense fog at two o'clock Saturday after
lOOn, on Gull Rock bar, seventy miles
.ast of Sambro. All the passengers,
rev, baggage, and spare stores were d,
afely landed. The vessel is tight, ex-
ept that the water runs in and out of
he engine-rOom at high tide. Details !
elaVn1 hV Storm ON the felecrar,h Inns