Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-22
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st. Louis begins work to-day on tn
new customhOuse.
The fire in Drummond colliery ha
been eXtinguished.
connecticut is to havesbut one Stat
capital, and that will be Hartford.
The State Medical Association o
Illinois met at Bloomington on Tuesday
a London telegram says that tn,
French Atlantic cable has been repaired
A varnish factory was burned at Phil
adelphia Tuesday; loss twenty thousan,
dollars.
Two carloads Of recruits for regiment
on duty in the Indian country, left st
Louis last night.
The widow and daughters of the lat,
Prof. Morse sailed from New York fo
Europe yesterday.
A French paper announces the aban
donment of the proposed French expedi
ton against Morocco.
Smith, the murderer of Sackett a
Westfield, Massachusetts,, will be huns
the last Friday in June.
Henry Blsckman was yesterday ap
pointed postmaster at Rrookhaven, Mis-.
sissippi, by the President.
Several army officials left Washing.
ton yesterday for Indianapolis to attend
the funeral of General Candy.
The bridge and tunnel at st. Louis
was interviewed yesterday by a delega-
tiOn Of government engineers.
The governor has vetoed the local.
option bill, and the veto was sustained
by the assembly of New York.
A ScOtchman named William Bett-
man was run over and killed by a car in
the switching-yard at Toledo, Ohio.
An attempt was made to throw pas
senger train from the track on the New
York Central railroad Tuesday. The
scheme failed.
Riddles cOttcn-mill, near Philadel-
phia, "Went upn in flames yesterday,
a loss of thirty thousand dOllars-tO
insurance companies.
An important movement among rail-
rOadeTs is in contemplation in Chicago,
bat the nature is not yet sufficiently de,
veloped to give publicity.
l. is reported, says a Madrid dispatch,
that the Spanish government viii pro.
pose that the president of the republic
be elected by plebiscitum.
AT Bloomington, Illinois, yesterday,
before the medical association in session
DriTan nf
a paper on galvanic thOTaXeutics.
The grand lodge of ODD Fellows OF
Indiana was convened at indianapolis
yesterday, at which there We're in at.
tendance large number of delegates.
A dispatch from Padang announces
that the army of Battahs and Atchines
ten thousand strong, is marching Oh
Deli, State on the north coast of the
Island of Sumatra.
A dispatch from Rome, gja Brussels
says that the pope has had several severe
attacks, and is in danger OF suffocation,
The cardinals are in the vatican, ready
for any emergency.
Prospect mill, at Halifax, England,
was burned on the ninth instant, throw.
ing four hundred persons out of employ
ment, and entailing a loss of over q
quarter of a million dollars.
The annual session OF the American
institute of mining engineers began in
Philadelphia yesterday evening, r. w.
Raymond, United States commissioner
OF mining statistics, presiding.
Maurice DeffOsse, minister resident
from Belgium, having been promoted
minister plenipotentiary, presented bis
credentials yesterday to The President.
Mr.. Bradlaugh, while on his way to
Madrid, TO present the English resolu-
tions cOngratulating Spain on the es.
tablishment of a republic, was taken
prisoner by Carlists, but soon afterward
released.
Grant +. Smith, a festive Illinois EN-.
beZzler to the amount of ten thousand
dollars, was arrested in Boston yesteT-
day, and given over to the tender care
of Illinois officials, who were close on
his track.
The Central railroad repair works, at
Niagara Falls, were burned night before
last, resulting IN loss Of one hundred
thousand dollars. About one hundred
and iilty employees were thrown out OF
work.
The Baptist convention, in session at
Albany, New York, have determined to
increase the missionary force of India
by sending out ten additional ministers.
Collections are to be taken in all the
throughout the country for the
purpose.
Governor DiX's veto of the local on
ton bill has created a stir in the fem
peTance ranks, and a call has been is
sued 10 all Temperance organizations
throughout the State of New York for
a meeting to be held at Albany. when
the matter will be taken under con-
The gun store of BourOE, foreigner
Of New Orleans, was gCtted by a mob
on March fifth. He sCed the city for
thousand dollars damages.
Judge Durell has decided that the city
had no police under its control, and Is
therefore not responsible.
General SchofeId has yielded to the
request Of the Governor of California to
raise a company Of fsharp-shooters from
citizens of the State who are familiar
with the Indian mode of warfare, and
we may expect IN rev Gays to receive
gratifying intelligence from that quar-
ter.
A notorious rough at Virginia City
got his back up over a game of
cards, and deliberately shot and killed
two of the bystanders, whose only Of
tense was being witnesses to his bad run
Of luck. A stray bali, however, found
is way TO the Villains heart. and q
irst-class hanging scrape was thus an
-icipated.
Lymon Utter, a merchant of Litch-
field, Montgomery county, Illinois, left
ais home few weeks ago to go to Gin
.innati, with a considerable amount of
money on bis person. The whole
country has been secured, but no traces
If him could be found. It is believed
hat he has been murdered, and his
lOdy concealed. He was a well known
man of southern Illinois.