Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-15
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

Two cotton Warehouses in Liverpool
burned yesterday morning.
The funeral of the late George n.
| Sanders, took place at New York yester-
day.
Thomas Quinn killed Peter Brown
with chair at Albany, New York,
| yesterday. Quinn was arrested.
A Philadelphia telegram states that
| the amount of rain which fell in that
section during the recent storm was
seven inches.
The colony Of Russians who are going
| to settle in Kansas viii bring with them,
it is said, from twelve to fifteen million
dollars in gold.
Mr.. G. F. Guefin, near Hot Springs,
| Arkansas, last week killed a rattlesnake
nearly six feet long, five inches in diam
eter, and carrying thirty-one rattles and
a button.
| During the unprecedented storm at
| Philadelphia day before yesterday, John
| S. Majors was drowned while attempt
| ing to rescue his horses from a stable,
which was flooded.
The British steam yacht Deerhound,
which landed a cargo of guns and am
munitiOn, recently, at Tartarabia, for
! the Cariists, has been captured by q
| Spanish man-of-war.
Over one hundred outbound vessels
of all classes are at anchor outside of the
bar at New York, waiting f0E the wealth
er to moderate. The wind is high, but
the rain has moderated.
| John Brown and George Thomas, two
young farmers living in Usage township,
Jackson county, Missouri, got into an
| alteration yesterday, and Brown stab
bed and killed Thomas.
The Legion Of St. Patrick and the
Knights Templar viii be allowed to pa
rade the streets Of New York with arms,
| by a resolution adopted yesterday by
the police commissioners.
Hon VIM. Stoddard, ex-member of
congress from Michigan, committed
suicide yesterday at Litchfield, Michi-
grn. Continued illness and affection Of
the brain is the reported cause.
The spirit Of the associated press re-
| ports yesterday was chronicles of muir
ders, robberies, suicide, fires, etc., the
details of which are of the usual chaTac-
/ ter, and for which this paragraph is sub
\ stituted.
Fort Wayne, Indiana, has an artesian
well in progress, which has already
reached the depth of two hundred feet,
and is going on down into the bowels Of
the earth at the rate of about forty feet
per day.
Colonel Cobb, member of congress
| from the WyandOtte district, IIi-nsas,
| has sued R. Z. Taylor, of the Wyan-
dotte Gazette, for defamation OF char
acter, claiming ten thousand dollars
damages.
The storm continued at New York
and the vicinity up to a late hour last
night, doing much damage TO property
in the city andin Brooklyn, but nothing
( serious is reported to have occurred to
the shipping in port or at sea.
At Alamo, Montgomery county, Indi-
ana, Wednesday, John Campbell while
drunk, had few words with John Lit
| tie, with whom he had heretofore been
good friends, and fatally stabbed him,
Little dying III about fifteen minutes.
Campbell was arrested.
Telegraphic adviees from Little Rock
report that General MeAnany having
resigned the position Of Acknowledgement,
General A. w. Bishop, a prominent
candidate for the Republican nominal
ton for governor against Governor Bax-
ter, has been appointed to ill the
vacancy.
At Louisville yesterday an old Ger
man woman named EichOld, recently
removed there from Cincinnati, while
bending overa stove her clothing caught
fire, and before help arrived was fatally
IL
eighty-two years of age, and has two
sons living in Cincinnati.
Paine's lumber-mill and steam salt
works, one of the largest on Saginaw
river, was destroyed by fire on Monday,
at Saginaw City, Michigan, and also
about two hundred thousand feet of Ium-
Der and one thousand barrels Of salt.
Loss, ninety-five thousand dollars; in-
suranee, fifty thousand dollars.
An accident occurred within one mile
of Sandusky, Ohio, about four O'clock
yesterday afternoon, by which q young
lady, aged fourteen years, was killed.
It seems that a small boy, while foOling
with gun, pulled the trigger, the con-
tent lodging in the young lady's head,
from the effects of which she died soon
after.
Within the past three days at New
York Twenty-Five vessels have been
chartered in the petroleum trade, with
a carrying capacity ofone hundred thou
sand barrels, and eighteen in the grain
trade, with a carrying capacity Of five
hundred thousand bushels. The grain
goes to Great Britain and the petroleum
to the continent.
A Shreveport telegram Of yesterday
says: "Fhe first bale of cotton was re-
ceived to-day. 1t was raised in the
neighborhOod Of Troupe, on the Inter-
national railroad, and shipped by Clapp
& Brown, Of Troupe, to Clapp Il Brey,
of New Orleans, and goes forward on
the Texas tonight. The first bale last
year was received on August 18th.
In consequence of the bursting Of a
portion of the Hartford tunnel at Balti-
more yesterday, by eaving in of the
walls Of buildings Nos 10 and T72
Broad street, destroying two back build
ings, all the kitchen and dining room
furniture was precipitateG into the
stream. The inmates barely escaped
with their lives.