Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-03-13

Suicide. /.
SCRANTON, March 12.-August Nav
ford, miner at the central shaft, sui
cided yesterday by preeipitating himself
down shaft four hundred feet. He was
crushed into a shapeless mass.
Gladstone Resigned.
LONDON, March y, p.n.-Glad-
stone waited on the queen at noon to
| tender his resignation. Probably Dis
raeli will be summoned to form a new
ministry.
where the Peoples Money Gees.
CINCINNATI, March IA. J. Rey-
nOlds, sheriff of Athens county, Ohio,
is reported to be defaulter in the sum
of seven thousand dollars. The money
is supposed to have been used in paying
his election expenses.
FIGURING Ein Burned.
ST. LOUIS, March l2.-The Touring
mill of Barnard, Smucker & Co, on
Eighth street, between Cass snd Cham
bers streets, was burned at two o'clock
this morning. Loss, fifteen to twenty
thousand dollars; insurance not ascer-
tanned.
Boutwell, Elected.
DOoAONf 4haltD l--.-AUEOEEb. d I1OuL-
well was elected United States senator
to-day In a convention Of the two hous-
ca. The vote was as follows: Boutwell,
l52, Dawes ll5, Loring ?, ]. r. Tsrbox
>, w. NJ. Whiting 2, c. @. Greene 2,
making 275 votes in all.
Se5 600 smashup.
BOSTON, March I2.-On the Vermont
Central railroad yesterday, near Bossett,
Vermont, the breaking Of the journal Of
a locomotive threw eleven freight ears
of the track, demolishing a bridge and
smashing the cars, causing a loss of
twenty-five thousand dollars.
SPapssh Items.
MADRID, March 12.-The assembly
yesterday definitely sanctioned the bill
introduced by the government suspend
ing the sittings, and cOnvOking the con-
stitutiOnal cOrtes on the first of May.
Montos, president of the assembly, and
Lopez, secretary, resigned. The debate
on the Porto Rico abolishing bill was
resumed.
An Escaped CounGerfeiter Recaptured.
PITTsBURG, March l2.-John Ogle, a
convicted counterfeiter, who escaped
from United States officer at the Relay
house, on the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, on the sixth instant, while en- route
from Cairo, Illinois, to Baltimore. Mary
land, was Tecaptured in this city this
morning by flanagan, chief of the
United States secret service at Chicago.
Important Jury Reforms.
NEW YORK, March 12.-The bar asso-
citation at its meeting last evening, dis
eussed the question of q change in the
law 80 as to have juries constituted of a
less number than twelve. A resolution
passed for an amendment to the State
constitution, providing for special juries
of five to try questions of sanity, and
that in civil cases, and in cases not pun
ishable by death, a vote of nine Jurors
constitute a verdict.
Prom the MOdOes.
SAN FRANCISCO, March ia cou-
rier who arrived from Yreka last night
SAYS that on Monday he went to Steel
Point Rocks, near the KlamOth lake, to
bring Jack and his party to headquar-
ters. He waited four hours, found no
Indians, ana returned without accom-
plishing the object for which he went. |
A force Of cavalry will recOnnoiter the
lava bed tomorrow. Applegate, one of
the peace commissioners, has gone
away disgusted Last night Jack ma
neuvered to get into the country east Of
the seat Of war, where for & hundred |
miles no cavalry could follow; and if he
escapes to the Pitt river country he will |
find plenty Of feed for his cattle.
Two WOman-slayeFs 60 be Hanged.
CHICAGO, March 12.-Application was
made yesterday by the counsel for Os-
borne, murderer Of Mrs. Matthews, of
Yates City, Illinois, to Chief-justiee Law |
renee and Justice Walker, of the supreme
court, for writ of supersedeas in the
case. The application was refused, so
that unless executive clemency inter
venes, Osborne will be hanged on Fri
day next. The execution viii take place
at Knoxville, instead of Galesbure. as
previously stated. Osborne is greatly
by the failure Of his counsel to
obtain a stay Of proceedings, and it is
thought will make confession.
William Driver, the wife-murderer,
who was to be hanged here on Friday,
though at first terribly agitated at find
lug that the news Of his having been
granted a supeTsedsas was untrue, ap-
pears now 20 take the matter quite cool