Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-18
TELEGRAMS.

Cincinnati was visited with a ten
thousand dollar fire yesterday.
Mary Jane johnson was found muir
dered in New York yesterday.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars worth of
lumber and mills were destroyed by fire
in Chicago yesterday.
A Jefferson City dispatch says the
funds in the State treasury of Missouri
are completely exhausted.
The President has appointed William
E. Davis assistant treasurer at Cincin-
natl, Mr.. Hayes declining.
Hon. John w. Foster, United States
minister to Mexico, arrived at New Or
leans Friday, en- route to Vera Cruz.
Another mysterious murder engaged
the attention of newspaper reporters
and police detectives in New York yes
terday.
Cincinnati was in ecstacies Friday on
receipt of the new postal-cards. Hot
cakes were a poor investment in COM
parison TO them.
A New York firm will lose fifty thOus-
and pounds sterling through the "irreg-
ularities" Of a Mobile correspondent and
cOttOn-speculator.
Cincinnati contemplates another mu-
steal festival, revised and improved, un-
der Theodore ThOmas's management, TO
occur about the last week Of the present
month.
A raid was made last night on a ne
gro den near Quincy, Illinois, and large
quantity of stolen jewelry and valuable
clothing captured. George Williams
was arrested.
Colonel John Nj. Hoberlein, editor OF
the Kansas Free Press, died at Leaven-
worth on Friday. The Free Press is the
only daily paper in the State printed in
the German language.
Rev. DIR. Paddock, of Brooklyn, was
officially informed yesterday of his elec-
ton to the office of bishop Of the Episco-
pal diocese of Massachusetts, and said
he would reply next week.
Work on one section of the bridge
tunnel at st. Louis was suspended yes
| terday owing to the strike of about one
hundred teamsteTs, who demand five
dollars day instead of four and a half
Chill has taken the international ex.
! hibition fever, and has devoted a quar-
! ter of a million dollars toward the con-
struction of building for the purpose
the first ever proposed in South Amer
lea.
An effort is making at Philadelphia tC
! erect q monument TO commemorate the
| virtues of Philip Embury, who emigra'
ted from Ireland in 1865, and the follow
ing year conducted the first Methodist
service on this continent.
Balance in the treasury at Washing.
ton yesterday: Currency, So, ,lSl ,63o
special deposit of legal tenders for the
redemption of certificates of deposit
SOS, 5l5, 600; coin, S74, ,063, ,Sl9, including
! S26, 2Ol 400 in coin certificates.
Several of the French journals have
been fined for publishing the letter o
Felix Pigat addressed to the president
and printed originally in the London
Times. The Peuple SOUeTida has beer
suppressed for publishing an editorial
criticism on the general assembly.
Judge John S. Dryden filed petition
in the United States district court al
st. Louis Friday, praying to have tht
st. Louis and Keokuk railroad company
adjudged bankrupt, the claim Of the
petitioning creditor amounting to two
hundred and sixty-six thousand tWC
hundred and fifty dollars.
The body of Godlieb Wolf, of St Jo
seph, Missouri, was found floating ID
White river, about three miles below
/. Indianapolis, by some fishermen, FRIDAY
afternoon. The body had evidently beef
in the water ten days. 1t is supposed h,
was accidentally drowned, as no marks
of violence were found on the body.
DIR. P. r. Baker, of Warren, Maine
. was found dead yesterday, shot through
the heart, at a house near Warren
About two o'clock an unmarried woman
: named Mink, called at a neighborinl
house, declaring that Or. Baker sho
> her, but as there were no wounds shi
was supposed to be delirious. Soon af
ter daylight DR.. Bakers carriage wa
discovered at the wOman's house, an'
the neighbors on entering found the doc
toss dead body.
A fire at Joliet, Illinois, at two o'clocl
Friday morning, destroyed eighteel
buildings on Bluff street. The heavies
! losers are Zenkie, marble-cutter; DAME
Herseh d Berger, wagon and carrlag
manufacturers; b. HarditeRgeT, furni
ture dealer; J. ID. Page, manufactures 9
mineral water; w. J. Harris, earriag
manufacturer; and II. w. Cape, harnes
. maker. The total loss is about fort,
thousand dollars; total insurance abou
ten thousand five hundred dollars. III
ARE was the work of an incendiRry,
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