Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-24


said to represent Lowndes county in the
Mississippi legislature, was arrested here
yesterday for stealing lot OF clothing
from q room in the Leclede hotel.
Gulf Steamer Ashore.
QUEBEC, August 23.-The gulf steam
er Merrimack for Quebec, with q large
number of passengers on board, struck
on a rock last night, and was run
ashore to prevent sinking. The passen-
gers all safe.
An Tnhuman Mother and Sister.
PHILADELPHIA, August 23.-Jose-
phine Rowland and her daughter Bap-
tiste have been held, in default of three
thousand dollars bail, to answer the
charge of cruelty beating and starving
her daughter.
Voluntary Starvation.
LACoNA, n. H, August 23.-Miss
Seavey,. of Belmont, aged sixty, died
Thursday, of voluntary starvation, hav-
ing refused food for twenty-eight days.
A sister of the deceased died in the
same way a few years ago.
A FIetitiOus-PayrOII Fferd.
NEW YORK, August 23.-Augustus
Stewart time-keeper, and VIM. a.
Champlain, train-dispatcher of Phillips
burg, New Jersey, have been arrested
on charge of defrauding the Central
railroad of fifty thousands dollars, by
adding ficticious names to the payroll.
Both gave bail.
Attempted Escape OF fhe English For
gers.
NEW YORK, August pa dispatch
from London says the plan, to effect the
escape of the English forger5, was ar
ranged in New York, and it was dis
covered by the intercepting of letters
that the wardens of NeWgate were
bribed with hundred ToInds each.
A story Considered Too Thin.
NEW YORK, August 23.-John T.
Robin, is Exchange place, yesterday
sent his clerk, Lofos FRANCIS, to the
Metropolitan bank to collect a gold
check for seven thousand seven hundred
and eighty-eight dollars. The paying
teller gave him gold certificates and
lightweight dollars in currency, but on
Francis returning to the Office he missed
his certificates and said he had either
been robbed or had lost them. He was
arrested.
DasIardIy Outrage.
NEW YORK, August 25.-As Waiter
Gibson, proprietor of the Harlem Local,
was entering his Office last evening an
unknown person flung cup of vitriol or
muriatic acid full in his face, probably
destroying the sight of one, if not both
eyes. The perpetratOr of the deed
jumped into buggy standing near, in
charge of a confederate, and disappeared.
Revenge for personal attacks by Gibson
in his paper is supposed to haveprompted
the attack.
PROBABLE Fatal ReeIdent-ssyste
Dead Body.
CLEVELAND, Ohio, August 23.-COn-
rad G.. Miller, a young man about
twenty-three years of age, was seriously
if not fatally injured at Painseller, Ohio,
last night. He attempted to get OF q
train while in motion.
The horrible mangled remains of one
ROdock were discovered lying on the
side of the track near Rockport, Ohio,
this morning by the local freight train,
which left this city about seven O'Clock
on the Cleveland and Indiana Central
railroad. The remains were taken to
Bedea. 1t is supposed he was killed by
some train last night.
Fearful Railroad CatastrOphe-TWenfy
Lives Lost.
LONDON, August ga collision oc-
CURED this morning on the Great North
ern railway at Retford, near Mating
ham, between a freight and excursion
train. Both were badly wrecked. The
reports thus far received say that twen-
ty persons were killed and large num-
Der injured. AS there is great excite
ment at Retford over the disaster this
account may be exaggerated. Later
and more accurate details from the
railroad collision at RetfoId place the
number of killed at four; but fifteen
persons were badly injured, several be-
yOnd hope of recovery.
Another Bloody Mystery.
ST. LOUIS, August 23.-A dispatch
from Payson, Illinois, says that on Fri
day of last week John Hancock, living
four miles from Payson, was discovered
hanging by the neck from an upper win
dow of his house by gentleman passing
by. He was dead. On entering the
house, Mrs. Hancock was found lying
on two chairs with Il terrible
wound in her head, from which
the brain and blood were oOZiDg.
The lady lived three days, but did not
return to consciousness. No eXplana-
ton of the matter could be obtained,
but it is supposed that Hancock, who,
for some time has shown symp-
toms of arrangement, struck his
wife with a hammer, one being
found near her covered with blood and
hair, and then hung himself. Hancock
was respected citizen of thirty years
standing and about sixty years old.