Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-04-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
The New Captain-General of Ha-
Eana He Promises Big
Things as Usual.
The MOdOcs not yet Exterminated
Armed Police Installing
Kellogg Officers.
The Late Railroad Horror to be
Investigated - Fires, Acct
dents, RObbeTies, Etc.


ELECTION Of Catholic Bishops.
BoNN, April 2I.-At meeting of the
old Catholics in this city, to-day, it was
resolved to proceed to the election OF
bishops at Cologne on the fourth OF
June.
Funeral Of Baron LiebiS.
4 MUNICH, April 2I.-The funeral OF
Baron Leibig took place here Sunday,
Fand was attended by large numbers OF
distinguished persons, including DR..
DOllinger.
British Parliament.
LONDON, April 2f.-Parliament reas-
a sembled to-day. In the house of COM
mons, Mr. Fawcett's bill abolishing re-
lligious tests in the university Of Dublin
passed its second reading.
The sroaIngtOn Horror 20 be Investf-
gated
j. Providence, April 21.-The railroad
commissioners have ordered an investi-
CATION relative to the late railroad disas-
i ter to be commenced next Wednesday,
at the railroad station here.
Peaes-POIIey DeIanO on Indian Affair s.
r WASHINGTON, April 2I.-In conver-
sation to-day, Secretary Delano said
that should the Modocs escape from the
lava beds he didinOt believe that they
would form coalitions with other bands
for hostile purposes, as there are no un-
friendly Indians in that neighb0rhOOd.
StrangEed in a Mud-bOIe.
i COHoEs, n. Y, April 2I.-Mary CAT
fiery, while returning home from a fu-
neral Sunday night, fell down an en-
I baukment on Eighth street and becOm-
ing so mixed in the mUd that she could
not extricate herself, was in this way
strangled to death.
1 The Fifteenth Amendment.
RICHMOND, VA, April 21.-The an
niversary of the proclamation of the
fifteenth amendment was celebrated
here to-day with more than usual pomp
by the colOred people. The procession
was the longest ever witnessed in Rich
mOnd on any occasion, the line extend
ing about a mile and hall.
Gold Weather an Ontario.
PORT COLBORNE, ONT, April 21.-The
propeller Oswegstchie arrived from
! Cleveland last night, and reports large
/ fields of ice from Port Stanley down,
J but that there is a clear channel on the
north shore. Vessels here will leave on
the first favorable wind. The Welland
canal was opened for navigation to-day.
Opening Of the Grain Season.
! ERIE, Pa, April 2l.-The propeller
Yosemite, with eighteen thousand
/ bushels Of wheat, entered the harbor
| this morning. She cleared from Toledo
! the nineteenth instant, encountering
considerable ice on her passage. This is
| the first grain movement and the first
arrival Of the season.
Professional Murdersrs and Jail Break :
erS.
CAIRO, April 2I.-MOon and McCur-
/ lock, confined in the GOleOnda jail, on
charge Of murder, escaped Friday
night 1t is rumOred that Moon is also
wanted in Iowa on charge of murder,
committed four years ago. This is the
second time within a month these men
have broken Jail.
Robbery Of Cars
PHILADELPHIA, April q. = Eight
freight cars, laden with -four, tobacco
and miscellaneous goods, on their way
| to New York from the west, were broken
open here last night and robbed. Seve-
/ raj rolls of OiI-clOth were dropped on the
/ track. In the absence of the manifest
Fthe amount Of property taken IS not
! known.
TammaBy.
New YORK, April 2l.-The Tammany
4 society tonight elected the following
sacbems for the ensuing year: John
/ Kelly, John w. Chanler, Samuel J.
| Tilden, John Fox, Thomas Dunlap,
| Nathaniel Jarvis, jr., AbTam S. Hewitt,
/ Abraham r. Lawrence, William c. Con-
ner, Miles B. Andrews, Edward S. Don
nelly, James B. Nicholson and W. H.
I Wickham.
sanfsnta aud Big Tree.
WAsHINGroN, April 2I.-At the con-
ference here last fall with the Kiowas,
/ the government promised to exercise its
/ good Offices with the governor of Texas,
\ for the release of Santants and Big
/ Tree; but owing to the MOdOc massacre,
! and the excitement consequent, their
release is not now advised. The Presi-
dent and secretary of the interior have
\ control Of the matter.
A strike for Higher Wages.
II CINCINNATI, April 2l.-Thirty-nine
of the forty-three stokers employed by
the Cincinnati gas-light ard coke COM
/ pany, struck for higher wages and less
/ working time to-day. They have been
getting two dollars and a half and de-
mand three dollars per cay. Only six
men struck during the day and nothing
was thought of the matter. The places
of the men striking have been supplied
by others.
Arrest of n CurbstOne Broker
NEW YORK, April IA curbstone
broker, named Charles q. Hampton,
was arrested to-day for having in his
possession fifty thousand dollars IN
! Pennsylvania and Western railroal Sc
4 curities said to have been stolen. Hamp-
ton was arrested while offering portion
of the bonds to Fitch, Otis & Co., Pine
street, which were stolen from a Pitts
burg merchant.
HIgn water az 81. Anthony.
MILwAUKEE, April 2l.-The high
water in the Mississippi river several
days ago carried away the cofier-dam at
the falls of St. Anthony, built to prevent
the falls from washing out through the
tunnel, which broke three years ago.
A large number of men have since been
at work day aud night to restore the cof-
feT-dam. As the water has apparently
reached its hight for the present, 1t !.
now believed that further damage viii
epreyented and the water-poWer saved.
Aeefaent-Ffrs-Sul
Il CHICAGO, April IA fatal accident
occurred at Palner's new hotel, on the
corner OF State and Monroe streets, 70.
day. A platform upon which two men
, were at work, near the top Of the build.
ing, gave away aud precipitated them
to The first hOof. One Of them, ID. Otis
was instantly killed. The other had
both legs broken.
The Exchange hotel, at New Hart.
ford, Pa, burned last night. Loss,
5000; insurance, S2700.
II At Moline, yesterday, Frederick Suf-
|. fieg, a well-knOwn citizen, committed
suicide by blowing his brains out with a
musket.
The Situation in Louisiana.
WAsHINGToS, April Ex-Governor
! kellogg informs the attorney-ge general
: that matters are quiet in Louisiana ex-
cept in four or i've parishes, aud his re-
Guest for troops to be sent thither was to
prevent a possible outbreak. He denies
that he sent commissions TO the fusion
! officers in Grant parish or any other
than those first commissioned. Take:
are being collected rapidly. During the
first quarter Of the present year the
, amount collected was two hundred and
! fifty-fOur thousand collars, against Ons
hundred and thirty-three thousand dol
lars the corresponding time last year.
! ANTE, La, April 2l.--AbOut on,
{ hundred metropolitan police from New
Orleans, armed with Winchester rifles
arrived here last night and installed 1
Kellogg recorder and parish judge FOL
this parish to-day. Forty metropolitan
90 10 eireensburg tomorrow.
How fne Washington (Pa.l Prisene11
4, Esoaped.