Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-07-28
IELEGRAMS.

The reported illness of Archbishop
Bailey, at Newport, is denied.
The Tigress sailed from St. Johns, il
search Of the Polaris, yesterday after
noon.
: Petitions are being signed asking par
don Of Governor Dix for young Wal.
worth.
: Cholera has appeared in indianapolis,
) lndiana-tbree fatal cases being report.
ed yesterday.
: Judge w. B. Caldwell, of Cincinnati,
has declined gubernatorial honors at the
hands Of either Of the parties in Ohio.
The two policemen, accused of and
tried for completely in a recent bank
robbery in New York, were acquitted
Saturday.
One Of the children reported drowned
by the accident to the Jennie Howell,
was afterward found safe in one Of the
st2teroOms.
A young girl, aged twelve years, in
the attempt to kindle fire with coal
oil, was burned to death at Auburn,
Indiana, yesterday.
J. J. Simpson & Co.'s dry goods store,
in New York, was destroyed by fire yes
terdsy. Loss on stock and building,
| siXty-siX thousand dollars.
The forest fires on Long Island have
| burned over an area of at least fifty
| square miles. A German settlement was
| completely swept away and three child
rem perished in the flames.
John Lockbergn, a saIoon-keeper, fell
from the second story of his residence in
Cairo Saturday night, frscturing his
skull, and receiving other injuries,
which will probably prove fatal.
J. D. Whitaker shot and killed his
frst-cOusin, Charles Dean, at Wirth-
vile, Kentucky, the latter having made
murderOus demonstration toward the
f'rmer with cOupling-pin and drawn
knife.
A New York Herald special from Liv-
erpOOl says that MOnsignOr Kristappy,
one of the prelates of the pOpe's domes-
tic household, now in that city, has been
travelling in the United States incOq.,
for fifteen months, looking after the in
terests of his holiness in this benighted
hemisphere.
The Masonic temple at Macon City,
Missouri, was seriously damaged by
wind during a severe storm which
passed over that city last Friday. Sew
eral small buildings, consisting of busi-
ness-hOuses and dwellings, were COM
pletely demolished. One person was in
stantIy killed, and lady, named Mrs
Montgomery, was fatally, and several
others slightly injured.
The commissioner of internal revenue
has announced that he will take no
present action on the patent cigar-box
question proposed to him by the delega-
tiOn Of cigar-makers last week, and has
asked dealers to consider and suggest to
him some plan by which revenue can
more strictly be collected, and his subor-
dinate officers in the bureau have been
instructed to give their attention to the
subject, 80 that, having the views of
both sides, he may come to an intelligent
conclusion during the coming month.
Peter Kester and his two sons, George
and August, were arrested Saturday at
st. Louis, charged with stealing mules
ia Galway county, Missouri. A search |
of their residence resulted in the discov- |
cry of large quanty of iewelry, con-
sisting of watches and chains, earrings, |
breastpins, bracelets, rings-a general |
assortment Of jewelry-together with |
implements Of burglsrious shape. The |
old man, it is said, has already served two |
terms on Estate work. and one of his |
sons has just completed one term. The !
stolen mules were also recovered.
Weite & Ulman's shoe store, at Nor
folk, Virginia, near the starting point of
the disastrous conhagration last Satur-
day morning, was discovered yesterday
in flames, which, together with the ad-
joining building, was entirely consumed. |
About half an hour afterward another
fire broke out about a square off, cen
suming two other buildings. The last
fire was the fifth that had broken out
within the preceding twenty-four hours,
which created the impression that
regularly organized plan was on foot for
the entire destruction of the city, in the |
discussion of which theory much excite
ment prevailed.