Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-12

LATER.-One hundred and sixteen
towns gives Straw q ,623, Weston 19, 161,
Blackmer 10, Mason 336. The net loss
for Straw from last year is $40.
The Republicans think it probable
that "a Democratic congressman
has been elected from the third
district, and that there IS no elec-
tion of governor by the people. They
claim the senate and house, the former
by a small majority.
Election for United States Senator in
Massachusetts
FIRST DISPATCH.
Boston, March lion the second
ballot in the house Boutwell, received
I24 votes to go for Dawes, andl22 for all
the others. The senate baHOted four
times without a result, Dawes leading
on each ballot.
SECOND DISPATCH.
BOSTON, March 1I.-In the senate
this afternoon, the first ballot for
! United States senator, resulted in ten
votes for Boutwell,, eleven for Dawes,
nine for Loring, four for Hoar, and the
rest scattering, 80 or 40 votes being
! given in the house. Boutwell, had 10
votes, Dawes SO, Loring Is, Hoar Z,
| Whiting 9, Banks 8, and the rest scat
tering, 237 votes being given. The
! second ballot will be taken this after
noon.
THIRD DISPATCH.
BOSTON, March 1.-THE following is
the result of the second ballot in the
senate this evening: Dawes Is; Bout
well 10; Loring s. The legislature will
ballot in joint session tomorrow.
FOURTH DISPATCH.
BOSTON, March 1I.-There were four
ballots in the State senate this evening
| for senator 10 fill the vacancy caused by
! the resignation of Mr.. Wilson in the
| United States senate, and in conse-
! quence of the great pressure brought to
/ bear on the members there was no
choice on the part of that body. On
the second ballot Dawes had Is votes,
/ Boutwell, 10, LOring S, and scattering;
total 3S. On the third and fourth bal
/ lots Dawes had u, Boutwell, 9, Loring
| Sand S scattering. At this point the vot-
! ing was suspended. In the house the
second ballot resulted in the choice of
| Boutwell,, who received l24 votes out of
23S, Dawes getting 80, Loring 10, Whit
| ing 8, and the rest scattering. The re-
.
! Dawes, and tonight number of them
held a caucus and resolved to stick by
| their candidate. 1t was also announced
| that Whiting would probably withdraw
| in the convention tomorrow in favor of
| Dawes, but even then the full vote of
Whitney will not help Dawes; it is gen.
orally conceded here this evening that
Boutwell, will be elected in the first bal
lot of the two branches of the legislature
in the convention at noon tomorrow.
Miscellaneous.
The Atlantic cable of 1865 failed at
noon yesterday.
The reported illness of George William
Curtis is said to be the cause of over
work.
A thirty-six- x-thousand-dolla defalca-
ton has been developed at Staten
Island, New York.
The corporation of Dublin, last night,
adopted resolutions condemning the
Irish university bill.
Fred Douglass, colored lectured in
Philadelphia Monday night upon the
"reminiscences of slavery.
a run was made on a savings bank in
Washington city, yesterday, but the in
stitution proved equal to the emergency.
A Paris dispatch of yesterday says
that the court-martial at Versailles SEN
fenced communist Farades to be exc
cuted.
A blood-stained shirt has been discov-
cred at the clearinghouse of Wagner,
the woman-slayer, and identified as be-
longing to him.
The Falls City Tobacco bank in Louis
vile was robbed yesterday of about forty
five thousand dollars. The burglars en-
tered through the top of the building.
Recent reported kuklux outrages in
Laurens county, South Carolina, turn
out to be nothing but a drunken brawl
between two inebriated men, in which
no one else was concerned in any way.
Lent's Great Eastern circus-tent was
blown down in Louisville Monday.
Two lads were struck by the falling
poles, one of whom died in few min
utes; the other was only slightly in
jured.
BY the caving in of high bank at
Morristown, Pennsylvania, yesterday,
Oh the line of the Stony Creek railroad,
now being built, John Delahide was in
stantly killed and Pat Kelly seriously
injured.
Two wives of one man confronted
that individual in police court in Col
umbus, Ohio, yesterday. The spectators
were of the opinion that a whirlwind,
backed up by a streak of lightning, had
struck the building.
A dispatch from Berlin says the gov
ernment papers ridicule and sharply
criticize the inaugural address of Presi-
dent Grant. The papers ask whether
monarchical States ought to keep up di-
plomatic relations with power whose
executive thus insults them.
Osborne, convicted of the murder of
Mrs. Matthews, at Yates City, Illinois,
and sentenced to be hanged at Gales
burg on the fourteenth instant, will, it
is stated, be unable to procure either
new trial, communication or respite.
The New york Times and Hon. Viii
liam Orton, of the Western Union tele-
graph company, are strangely int crest
ing themselves in the interest of Fos-
ter, the car-hook murderer, by advocat-
ing strenuously the committing of his
sentence.
Rev. ]. F. Clarke was expelled the
Methodist church at a meeting of the
annual conference at Baltimore, yester-
day, for immoral conduct. The confer
ence has also under consideration the
case of DR.. Huston, who has become
somewhat notorious.
General Daniel BHtterfield, of New
York city, has submitted to the postmas-
ter-general an elaborate report upon the
local postal systems of collection and de-
livery of London and Paris, with sug-
gestiOns in reference to the adoption of
their best features in New York.
A st. Louis Democrat special from
Denison, Texas, dated Monday, says
that the last rail on the Texas Central
railroad was laid at five o'clock yester-
day evening, and at half-past five
special train came in from Galveston
so there is now unbroken rail communi-
cation between st. Louis and the Gulf.
As the night express going east from
st. Louis on the Ohio and Mississippi
railroad was passing Higginston, one
hundred and thirteen miles out, at
eleven o'clock Monday night, it ran into
two empty stock cars which had been
blown from the switch to the main track
by the high winds. The engine, bag
gage and one passenger car were ditched,
and William Day, engineer, and George
Day, fireman, were seriously, the latter
perhaps fatally, hurt.
The extensive ship-house at Messrs.
Wood, Dialogue & Co.'S shfp-yard, in
Philadelphia, was blown down yester-
day morning during q heavy gale.