Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-05-28
MEMPHIS. TENN WEDNESDAY. MAY as, 1873.

a better presentation of their case to thu
. people Of the whole country. Lieuten
ant-GOvernor Antoine presided, anC
Governor Kellogg and several of hi
prominent State officials were on the
= platform. Speeches were made by the
leading colOred orators of the State, anC
resolutions were adopted asserting that
Kellogg was legally elected, and thai
his supporters were shamelessly abused
and deprived of their rights last fall
also, providing for the appointment of 8
committee whose duty it shall be tC
send north some of their ablest coloreC
orators, and organize in every parish o.
the State committee for the collection
of evidence and selection of witnesses
and to do everything that is necessary
to remove misapprehension in the north
of the state of affairs in Louisiana; and
to present Kellogg's case in the strong
est light before congress next December
A GrOundless Indian Scare.
VIRGINIA CITY, New, May 27.-Dis-
: patches from Humboldt Wells report the
recent Indian scare at Spruce Mountain
groundless. The violent Indian demon
stration was caused by whisky. The
orders warning the citizens to leave OF
be killed was fabrication. The Indians
have returned from the Deep Greek
council to their settlements, and have
resumed their usual avocations. All is
quiet again.
Two Fatal Accidents.
EVANSVILLE, May 27.-A special to
the Journal says q son of Seth Fair
child, thirteen years old, was accident
ally shot dead three miles south of Pa
toka to-day. The boy placed his gun in
i the fork of tree and went home for
caps, and returning took down the gun
by the muzzle when the hammer caught
and the load exploded and lodged in his
abdomen.
THE Journal has advices that a boiler
in the sawmill of Captain James Rouse,
two miles from OwensbOrO, Kentucky,
exploded yesterday, killing two men
and wOunding one fatally.
PamIicO Races.
BALTIMORE, May 27.-At the Pamlico
races the hurdle-race of two miles was
won by LOchiel, beating Stockwood,
who bOlted at the third hurdle; time
4:l9. The Preakness stake for three
year Old's, mile and half: Survivor l,
John Buckden 2, Artist 8, Catesby 4,
latter fourth, time 2:43. Handicap
stakes, mile heats: Business 6, l, l, True
Blue l, 3, 2, Buckden 2, 9, Naut PEN
socks bay colt 3, 4, 0, Shylock 5, 5, O,
Jennie Patterson 4, distanced; time IA,
l :452 and :4S9. Purse seven hundred
| dollars, three miles, for all ages: Merri-
man was followed by Lucy Jackson,
Gays and Edwin; time 5:464.
The POpe's Prayers for France-Othe-
Items from Rome.
ROME, May 27.-The pope, in a speech
yesterday, declared that he had ever
prayed for France, but that he would
now pray with greater confidence, for
the election of Marshal Mcmahon to the
head of the country is a guaranty of
order and justice, and to civilization,
which was menaced on all sides.
The chamber of deputies has finally
passed the bill for the abolition of re-
ligious corporations.
Parliament has adjourned as a mark
of respect to the memory of the late
Count Mazoni. The royal princes and
members of both houses have gone to
Florence to attend the poets funeral.
The ceremonies will be of the most i'm
posing character.
Boy ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Office Burned
A COI0nfztOR Scheme.
ST. LOUIS, May 27.-Willie Collier,
son of Alexander Collier, wholesale
grocer at KeOkuk, Iowa, was drowned
in the canal near that city to-day.
A portion of the Courier building at
Hannibal, Missouri, burned this forenoon.
Loss twenty-five thousand dollars. The
fire originated in the bindery depart
ment.
The Susquehanna and Billings Land
Company, composed of capitalists of st.
Louis, Philadelphia and Lancaster,
Pennsylvania, have just purchased
tract of more than three thousand acres
of land from the Atlantic and Pacific
railroad company, including the town
of Billings on the road, two hundred
and sixty miles from this city. The
company propose to coloniZe farmers
from the older States on this tract.
From the Wreck OF the Atlantic.
HALIFAX, May 27.-Three bodies,
two male and one female, were recOv-
cred from the Atlantic wreck Wednes-
day. On Tuesday a body was seen
wedged in between the debris of the
wreck, supposed to be that of Mr.. !
Fisher, of Vermont. Efforts are being |
made to recover if. The schooner An |
ME Brown, chartered by the New York |
wreeking company to carry a cargo of
goods from the wreck, has been seized |
by order of the vice admiralty court at |
the suit of Edward Ryan, James Con- |
leu, and others, of Prospect, who claim |
eight thousand dollars as compensation |
for saving life and property at the time
of the wreck.
HTtufna Trouhles a, panusvIvanta
PoTTSvILLE, May 27.-The Philadel- !
phia coal and iron company having is
sued an order compelling the employees |
of their collieries to enter the mines be-
fore seven o'clock in the morning and /
remain therein until half-past five
o'clock in the evening, the men held |
meeting and resolved that, as the order
was issued for the purpose of forcing
the miners to strike in order to relieve
the company of the odium OF stopping,
that they should refuse to strike at the |
present time, but gave notica that at |
the first feasible opportunity they would
resist the rules in body. A resolution
was also passed that the law laid down
in the ventilation act must be strictly
adhered to, and upon any infringement |
of said law the immediate attention of
the inspector be demanded. 1t is under
stood that the miners at the Indian
Ridge cOlliery have struck, and at an
other cOlliery have turned out for an in
crease of wages.
The Alabama Claims Discussed in the
British Parliament.
LONDON, May 27.-The house of
commons tonight, while in committee
of supply, took up the item for payment |
of the Alabama awards. Mr.. Bentick de-
clared the government policy on this
question had been humiliating and de-
grading. The government should have
broken off negotiations at the time when
no sense of shame would have been left /
England. This arbitration was the great
est monument of human folly, and could
not be considered otherwise than as a
national degradation.
Sir Stafford NorthcOte admitted that
during the negotiation Of the treaty he
did not infinitely examine the conse-
quence for the British subjects of fixing
the end of the war at General Lees sur
render.
Gladstone said the advancement of
the indirect claims by the American
government was gigantic error. In all
other respects he defended the course the
arbitration had taken.
The debate here closed, and the item
was agreed to.
Supposed Murder DiHaD-
pearRRee-Graud Musical Festival.