Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-27
CURRENT NEWS.
The Scheme Of Resuming Silver
Payment Rather Shaky-NeW
York and Washington.
Adjournment Of the National
Board Of Trade-YellOW-Fever
at Various Points.
Snow in the NOrthWest-The Chi
eagO Exp0sitiOn-Accident-
Crime-Fire-Etc., Etc.

Characteristic, Etc.
snow.
OMAHA, NEB., October 26.-Light
snowfall here this morning.
Immense shipment of Tea.
OMAHA, October 26.-Fifty-one cars
Of tea went east over the Rock Island
road yesterday.
wealthy Manufacturer Dead.
BOSTON, October % Cyrus Wake
/ field, a wealthy manufacturer of cane
and wicket work, died to-day.
Specie Shipments.
LONDON, October 25.-Nearly three
hundred thousand dollars in specie was
shipped from South Hampton to day.
Installation OF Old Catholic Cures.
GENEVA, October 26.-The cures re-
Gently chosen by the Old Catholics of
this city were formally installed to-day.
Registration In New York.
NEW YORK, October 25.-The regis
I tration to-day was %, ,562, making a
total of l23, 10 against las, ,0l0 in 1872
and l52, ,592 in 1S71.
Charged with Forgery.
BALTIMORE, October 25.-Alexander
T. Holmes, bOOk-keeper with Hardy
Bros, commission merchants, has been
arrested on charge of forgery.
A wife murderer TO be Hanged.
HALIFAX, October %. AT tLunnenberg
to-day, Peter Malmain was sentenced to
be hanged on the thirtieth of Decem-
Der for the murder of his wife.
Collision Between q Schooner and an
Unknown Vessel.
SHEBOYGAN, MICH, October 25.-
The schooner Pulaski cOllided with an
unknown vessel in the Straits last night,
and is leaking badly, and is otherwise
damaged.
Fsur Hundred Persons Out OF Employ.
ment.
NEwBURGH, n. Y, October 25.-The
Newburgh steam mills, owned by Gar
throwing four hundred persons out Of
employment.
Murderer Indicted.
BELFAST, Me, October 25.-JOhn +.
Gordon, was indicted to-day for the muir
der of Almon G., Emma A., and Willie
Gordon, at ThOrndyke, on the sixteenth
of June last.
Amnesty TO Fenians.
LONDON, October 16.-A meeting was
held st Black Heath to-day in favor of
amnesty to the Fenian cOnvicts. Six
thousand persons were present. The
affair passed of quietly.
Everybody Elected.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, October 25.-Official
returns have been received from all but
one county, and they insure the election
of all the candidates on the Republican
State ticket, except governor.
ManufaetOries Closed.
COHOEs, n. Y, October 25.-Har-
mOny cOttOn-mills, the largest of the
kind in the world, will close tonight
indefinitely. 1t is probable that the
wooden manufactures will soon follow.
MIL and Grain Burned.
NEW ORLEANS, October 26.-The
TagliaferrO rice-mill, near Poverty
Point, was burned, with nine thousand
eight hundred sacks of rough rice
Loss not stated; insurance, twelve thou
sand dollars.
Crushed to Death.
MILWAUKEE, October ga special
to the Daily Sentinel tonight, from
Oconomawoc says Mr.. Z. Waite, son
OF Rev. d. Waite, of this city, was
crushed to death while attempting to
board a passing freight train this morn
ing.
Probable Fatal Cutting Anray.
EVANSVILLE, IND, October 26.-Jehn
Walteridges was cut in the abb
domen 5y Peter Dashbach, at
saloon, to-day. The wound is pro-
nounced fatal by the surgeons. Wal
teridges lives in Louisville, Kentucky.
Dashbach is still at large.
SuOH-SiOrms.
MILWAUKEE, October 25.-Reports
from various points in central and west
ern Wisconsin and Minnesota say that
snow commenced falling about noon to-
day and still continues. At eleven o clock
at night the average depthwas about four
inches. The weather moderated to-day,
but is growing colder tonight. 1t is
raining here.
Increased Postal Service.
WASHINGTON, October 25.-Since the
thirtieth Of June last two thousand one
hundred and fOrty-seven miles of new
railway postal service have been put in
operation, making q total of slxty-five
NilUuEdAu El0 hAuuaCA anu ClkhNY-ElA
miles Of such service in the United
States.
French Items.
PARIS, October 25.-In the Bazaine
trial to-day, Captain Young testified
that on the eighteenth of August, the
accused, upon seeing his troops aban-
doning their positions exclaimed, "What
can be done with such troOps?n
Tho arTihaTnl of axxraral 9th nffi fifaay-
was heard, but it was unimportant and
contradictory.
Man and Child Drowned.
FORREST, ONT, October 25.-A man,
woman, and child, with tickets from
Chicago to BrOckville, got OFF the train
here yesterday, alleging that parties on
board wanted to kill them. They went
to the hotel, and later the three jumped
into deep part of the water. The man
and child were drO Sned, and the wo-
man rescued.
FrightfuI Scenes al KhiVa.
ST. PETERSBURG, October 25.-A dis
patch from Central Asia brings the in
telligence Of frightful scenes at Khiva
Upon the evacuation of that city by the
Russian troops, the Goumeds revolted,
and plundered and destroyed the town
In addition to these eXcesses. the Us
beks slaughtered sixteen hundred of the
emancipated Russians. The khan sent
to General kaufman asking assistance
to restore order, but IT is not known
what answer was made.
Pieked Up at Sea.
HAVANA, October 26.-The brig Cas-
tageller has arrived at Sagua. She re-
ports having picked up on the ninth in
slant a man who is the sole survivor of
the crew Of the English brig Gamay,
from Fortune Island for Boston, laden
with salt, which foundered at sea.
The captain and crew of the British
bark CarOna have arrived here. The
vessel was lost in a storm off Tabasco.
Double Murder.
SAN FRANCISCO, October 26.- A dis
patch from Albany, Oregon, tonight,
says: yesterday, two meD, Vanerson
and Shirtz got into q quarrel over
shooting at Salon, Sweet Home |
valley, which resulted in the death of
both parties. Nanerson stabbed Shirt |
in the breast, killing him, when Shirts |
brother struck Vanerson on the back of
his neck and breaking it, which caused |
instant death. The sheriff is in pursuit |
of the murderer.