Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-09-18

Me trial OF h2Ie SbO0lafu, acc USED
Of having murdered Charles w. Good
rich, will be commenced early in Octo-
Der.
Great preparations are making in
! pittsburg for the reunion Of the Army o.
| the Cumberland. which takes place
there to-day. ....-a
/ In Philadelphia 8 meeting Of the
merchants is called for to-day TO take
action toward contributing relief for the
/ Shreveport sufferers.
The schooner Three Brothers is sup
posed to have been lost in the recent
terrible gale off the coast She had 3
crew Of nine persons.
The seventh annual reunion of the
Army of the Cumberland took place at
Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, yesterday, and
was largely attended.
The directors Of the Canada Southern
railroad had an informal meeting in
New York yesterday, and decided tc
meet to-day for business.
The steamer James Howard, which
took fire and was seuttled at Commerce,
Missouri, on last Friday, has been raised
and is but little injured.
Heavy rains have swollen the riverI
and streams, causing foundations il
portions of Scotland, by which much
property has been destroyed.
A dispatch from London says that 6
lull-freighted schooner sunk in the Msr'
sey yesterday, carrying down all OF
board. No further Particulars.
One hundred tons of American bal
iron was sold at Liverpool yesterday, al
eleven pounds and ten shillings, thus
underselling the English market.
James Owen, middle-aged man, anC
a candy-maker by trade, was found dead
sitting at a table in beer-salOOn at Co
lumbus, Ohio, yesterday morning.
The Texas editorial excursion arrived
at St. Louis yesterday from Chicago, anc
INDUCED in peanuts, Weiss beer and
steamboat excursions during the day.
A feroclous riot took place at Tralee,
Ireland, yesterday, and several house:
gutted. The police were obliged tC
charge on the mob with fixeu bayonets
Henry Bouveril Weldam Brand
sneaker of tie British house OF com
( mons, and family, sail for the United
I states Saturday, to remain two months
/ The Mark Lane Express says the po-
! tato disease is spreading rapidly. The
same paper estimates that England
must import twelve million quarters o.
wheat this year. -la
7 Tie New York Times says the follow
ing is a correct statement of the earn
! ings OF the Erie railway from January
lst to October 81, 1872, So, ,367 ,246; 1873
/ 81, ,635, ,96I decrease.
A dispatch yesterday from Teherant
/ in Persia, says the shah has released
Fnis ,-rand vizier from imprisonment,a and
appoin ted him TO the minor position Of
Governor Of the town Of Reshd.
/ Addresses, signed by large numbers Of
I the Roman catholic clergy OF the
Z United States, have been received by
( German priests, approy7 ug Of their at
/ titude in opposition 30 the RUSSIAN gov
ernment.
VIM. Bernard, an old operator in the
] Cincinnati Office, of the Western Union
I telegraph of that city, yesterday offered
/ his services to the company to be sent TO
! Shreveport, and left for that place last
night.
A London telegram announces thai
4 the steamship Great Eastern arrived al
Portland yesterday. Her failure to re-
F. pair the cable of 1866 depresses its stock,
and il is said no further reduction o.
/ tolls is probable.
The election for directors Of the Lafay-
! cite, Mumic and Bloomington railroad
was held at Lafayette, Indiana, Tues
+ day. An entire new board was elected,
with o. w. Pesrce, president; John
: Green, vice-president, and John w.
Heath, treasurer.
/ Governor WOOdsOn, in a speech at the
I opening of the exposition at Kansa.
/ City, Tuesday, appealed to the grangert
/ to maintain their unity and harmony
and asked the press TO stand united upon
the general anti. monopoly issue, and
also upon the cheap-transpOrtatiOn ques
ton.
There was a violent storm on tht
J Black sea last week, which proved very
destructive to shipping. Seventy YES
sells were wrecked near the mouth OF
the Bosphorus, and nearly all on board
perished. At one point on the coast
two hundred and sixty-hve corpses have
been washed ashore. a
A special meeting Of the Northwestern
Asso dated Press association was held a
Rock Island, Illinois, yesterday, s
which resolutions eulOgistic Of the lifi
and character of the late w. H. White
of the Davenport Gazette, who was pres
idept of the association al the time 0
his death, were passed.
A Yankton, Dakotah, disp atch Of tb
fifteenth instant, says that p. P. Win
termute, the murderer Of General L. :
McCook, was brought up for examina
zion. which he waived, and was com
mittsd 10 the Territorial jail TO await hi
trial for murder, at the October term G
tbe United States court, over whicl
Judge Barnes viii preside.
From a a report lust issued it appear
hat the American i9ible society con
sists Of 2l25 life directors Shd A, w III
members. The receipts Of tne lsst 6- n-
cal year were ST37 ,83l, OF which S'oiof
remains. During the fifty-seven Yea
Of its existence il has published %, $50,
2l2 volumes In thirty-five dialects ana
languages.
A dispatch from Da.roit, Michigan
gives the following particulars Of rail
road accident, which occurred Monday
1.-THE mail train west last night, on th,
Detroit and Milwaukee railroad, rai
over q COW near Lowell, throwing of
several coaches, killing two passengers
named William Beaman and Calvin
Winchell, both Of Michigan. J. L. Blu S
haus, mail agent, and Daniel Birm
ingham, express messenger, were Sc
yeTely injured.
n The election in Bexar county, Texas
on the proposition to donate five hun
dred thousand dollars 70 Pierce's COlum
bus railroad, conditioned on It's compile
ton to San Antonio in twenty months
and a further donation Of fifty thOusan,
dollars for each month that may b
gained, the whole not to exceed eigh
hundred thousand dollars, was carries
by the city of Fan AntoniO's vote alone
{ giving the required two-thirds major
ity of registered voters. The count.
precincts to hear from will swell the ma
jority.
Al the Universalist convention nov
holding in Washington city, the repor
Of the treasurer was read yesterday, an
showed that the debt Of the convention
has been still further reduced thirty
eight hundred and fifty-three dollars ,,
receipt on account of special fund, am
now amounts, including the Murra.
fund OF ten thousand dollars, 10 twenty
two thousand four hundred and tifteel
dollars. The fund now amounts to on
hundred and twenty thousand nine hun
dred aad eigbty-nine dollars. A relic
fund of eight thousand dollars has beel
| Maid in and invested. One hundred an
, sixty-five parishes have responded {
the constitutional obligation in the mat
/ ter Of annual collection, and with ind
vidual contributions amounts TO thirty
eight thousand, six hundred and seven
ty dollars.
Rev. DR.. Fred. A. Ross, In writing
,ho knoxville Chronicle on the suhje'
of duellng, tells the following aneedots
"a hoy Twelve years old said 20 b
mother. a member of my church, HuRt
yille- Alabama, upon hearing Il res
tine lettef OF Mr.. Rule, declining % me'
2 otber narties at Dalton, Georgia6 ma
9 7 tske this TO DR. Ross? IL do be WI
ssv something about il in bis sermon
. He brought il to me after the mornln
I servic-, and the little fellow was fign
for urade it my text for the evenin
sermon. I also took occasion 10 ten 20
. people, with great pleasure ard prid
: Thai East Tennessee was the only pa
!. OF the south yhere the spirit OF dueiir
e has never prevailed; that l recolleett
4 but one such scene ~ G-s Vhoie exis
a ence Of that section, Territorial o. stas
A This Is high evidence Of the christs
training Of its Seoth-LriSh people"