Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-11
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The dirt in the Pomeroy case Is com.
ing out yet.
A woolen-mill at Mt. Vernon, Ohio,
was burned yesterday.
The excitement among the Mormons
Of Salt Lake has not abated.
Two jurors were obtained yesterday in
New York in the Scannel murder case.
The new Board of Trade rooms were
dedicated at Columbus, Ohio, yester-
day.
A large meeting of the Industrial Ex-
position people Of st. Louis was held
there last night.
Hon. Thomas Parsons, well known
! politician of Rochester, Kew York, died
there yesterday morning.
Three men were killed and several
wounded in q railroad accident at Scrub
Grass, Pennsylvania, yesterday.
The Surrogate OF Westchester county,
New York, yesterday admitted Horace
Greeley's viii of 1871 to probate.
Nevada wants one hundred thou
sand dollars Congressional money to
complete the survey Of that State.
1t is expected that Judge Davis will
render his decision on the application Of
Stokes for new trial, Wednesday.
Near Albany, New York, yesterday,
the Pacific Express train from New
York north ran of, causing temporary
delay. No one hurt.
The testimony In the JumeI will case
closed in New York yesterday, and was
summed up. 1t is expected to occupy
the remainder Of the week.
Five persons escaped from the jail at
Jscksonport, Arkansas, last Thursday
night, leaving only one, who was IL for
murder, and occupied different cell.
Mrs. Crittenden, widow of the late
Senator John J. Crittenden, of Ken
lucky, died at st. Louis Sunday at the
residence OF her son-in-law, John Nc
Kintry.
Colonel Andrew Derrone, a prominent
lumber merchant of Paterson, New Jer-
sey, failed yesterday, with liabilities
amounting to nearly two hundred thou
sand dollars.
A man named Turner, living near
Chatata, East Tennessee, in beastly
state Of intoxicstion, lay down on the
! railroad track, and was run over and
killed instantly. -
A train Of oil from TitugviIle yester-
day capeised at Scrubgrass, and killed a
number Of operatives, and spilled the
oil. Broken rail.
William n. Barker, q Virginia youth,
who nhot John D. SchAffsE, . playmate,
In New York, on Friday night, has been
committed to the Tombs, to await the
action Of the grand jury.
The malt house OF Welnhagen, HUI
nicke & Co., was damaged By fire to the
amount Of seven thousand dollars, at st.
Louis yesterday morning. Insured for
| three thousand dollars.
The dead body of a negro, supposed to
| have been murdered, was found early
yesterday forenoon fifteen miles from
| the city of St. Louis. Ne clue to the
perpetrators Of the deed.
Gaffney, whose sentence of death was
respited for one week in Buffalo on the
plea of insanity, has been pronounced
/ by medical experts as clear case OF
feig ned nOa conlpos D1entis.
The Public School, No. 45, on West
Twenty sixth street, New York, caught
on fire yesterday evening, and the top
/ lgOI h6o OAls lie tullQT61
were marched out in safety.
Frank B. Lord, formerly General
Ticket Agent of the Indianapolis Gin
cInnah and Louisville railroad, died of
consumption at bis residence near Gin
cinnati yesterday forenoon. @
Private sdvices from Aspinwall say
| that the steamer Henry Chancey did
not leave that port until the third in
slant, and will not reach New York
until the twelfth or thirteenth.
Recorder Hackett Informed the coun-
sci for ROsenzweig, in New York, yester-
| day, that il the present Indictment was
quashed, be would request the District
| Attorney 70 have Rosenzweig indicted
for murder in the first degree.
10 Brooklyn, yesterday, the coroner's
| jury In the case Of the boy John Fox,
rendered 8 verdict charging his father,
John Adam Fox, with causing bis
death. Fox was committed to await
the action Of the grand jury. q. sA
A Paris letter says that the truth
about the Objectionable play OF NJ. Lar
dan is, that It sought to attack the Re
public OF France by undertaking to
show the odious morals Of the people In
this the model American Republic.
The Produce Exchange os New York
yesterday adopted a resolution urging
the passage by the New YORK Legisle-
ture OF concurrent resolutions authoriz-
ing the Canal Board to fix the toll
sheet for 1873 on the basis Of 1871 and
1872.
Forest City, Arkansas, has o sensa-
ton in the shape of the attempted assas-
sination Of q dark-skinned damsel by
her husband. who, 1t wss thought, was
actuated by Jealousy. The woman was
terribly wounded, but not considered
fatally.
The funeral services of the late Wear
General Stars took place in New York
yesterday, al 81. Patrick's Cathedral,
! MULBERRY street. The church was
draped Ia black and cr0wded In every
part. Al pentldcial high MACS, with Mo-
sartis Gr0std RsqateBi, was celebrated
BY Archbishop McCloskey, and the fa-
neral sermon wss preached BY Bishop
Loughlin, Of Brooklyn. Delegates from
the Young Mems societies were present