Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-24
TELEGRAMS.

The secretary of the treasury has di-
rected that the interest due the first of
September, amounting to about five
millions of dollars, he paid on and after
the twenty-tifth, without rebate.
A dispatch from Rome says it is an
nOunced that the pope mas intimated
his desire for a reconciliation with Ger
many, ON condition of Germany not in
terfering in Italian complications.
Mary Henderson, a cOlored female, in
Nashville, Thursday night, undertook
the journey to "that bourne whence no
traveller" etc, by the hanging process,
which she managed in such bungling
way it unfortunately failed of its object.
1t is officially announced that the Mo-
doc captives, Captain Jack, SchOnchin,
Black Jim, Boston Charley, One-eyed
Jim, and company, are to be hanged
October Sd for the murder OF General
Candy and Peace Commissioner
Thomas.
A young man named G. r. Phelps,
was assaulted by five drunken men
few days ago at Blue Springs mills in
Cheatham county, Tennessee, and near
ly cut to pieces, from the effects Ofwhich
Ac VIII Ute Ohc VI AAo eAoodlAahlo was
arrested.
AtHickman, Kentucky, last Wsdnes-
day three negroes named Warner
Thomas, Frank Stubb and Isaac Bow
den were murdered on their way to
conference of the COlOred Methodist
church in session near that place.
Thomas was a colored preacher.
A gentleman just from the Indian
Territory says the Kiowa chief, ,Santan-
ia and Big-Tree, had arrived at Fort
Gibson, where they will remain until
the meeting of the grand council of
Kiowas and Camanches in October,
when they will be taken to Fort Sill
and formally released from captivity.
Catherine Cedary, colored, living at
Hickman, Kentucky, last week went
crazy on politics and hied herself away
TO the woods to mediate upon their
ever varying phases. Though harmless
she became great bugbear to the
neighbOrhoOd, and everyone appeared
to be afraid of her approach. She will
be placed in the asylum at Lexington.
A reckless spirit named James Cal
vert, last Thursday frightened Nash
Williams almost out of their wits and
completely out of one years growth by
firing a pistol within the corporate limits
Of the city. As soon as il was ascer-
tained that the weapon was discharged
by accident, and not in malice, half the
town gave chase to the poor fellow, cap
tgred him, and, OF course, there was an
item for the recorder.
James G. Allen, son of DR.. w. NJ.
Allen, of Middleton, accidentally shot
himself with pistol in Baldwin, Mis-
sissippi, on the fifteenth instant, and
died from the effects of the wound thus
received in twenty minutes. The ur-
fortunate young man, in playful moooI
picked up q pistol which he thought
was unloaded, put the weapon against
his breast and pulled the trigger. The
pistol was loaded the night previous by
one of his companions.
A London telegram Of yesterday says
the Dublin ITiSbnlda publishes the new
nrogramme of the home-Tule party. 1t
includes the establishment of a new
paper in Dublin, called the FdUgt-Gs
BdLaoh, which is to be the official
journal of the party, and to agitate for
iord. I lieutenant, anu .lhs .hs substitution Of .
sezsrain, to be elected by univesS.ei sui-
frage, ane to have the nominal title OF
king, for triennial parlisments, and for
law authorizing the cOnflscation OF the
estates of absentees.