Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-04
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Cholera is reported at Union Hill, New
Jersey.
The Texas cattle fever is playing fear
ful havoc in Missouri.
Thirteen deaths have occurred at Car.
mi, Illinois, since its first appearance
General Sickles, our minister to Mad.
lid, interviewed General Salmeron yes
terday.
Forty thousand slaves have been sci
free by the capture of Khiva by the
Russians.
| Twenty-three thousand three hundred
emigrants arrived at the port of New
York last week.
The Carlists are reported increasing in
numbers in the provinces of Navarro
and Catalonia.
The first rain of any consequence at
Santa Fe, New Mexico, this season, fell
Saturday night.
A brakeman named Bodick was killed
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Saturday,
while coupling cars.
A slight shock of earthquake was felt
at Santa Fe, New Mexico, about one
O'clock Saturday afternoon.
The victims of the gallows at Balti-
more Friday, Nicholson and Halla-
han, wers buried there yesterday.
Dayton, Ohio, reported four fatal cases
of cholera, one Of cholera-morbus, and
three of cholera-infantum during the
past week.
Vienna was bored yesterday with the
arrival of the shah b and his fiunkies.
They will be on exhibition at the show
to-day.
J. h. Ripley, clerk in the postoffice
department at Washington, committed
suicide Saturday evening. No cause re-
ported.
A white woman named Mrs. Moore
was outraged by q negro, near Clifton,
Tennessee, last Wednesday. The tiend
escaped.
The Spanish cortes has under conside-
ration, and seems to view favOrably, a
scheme for the division of Spain into
forty-nine cantOns.
The police of Providence, Rhode
Island, was assaulted Saturday night by
rOughs, during which five of the latter
were more or less wounded.
Chambers did the business for Seddons
in fourteen rounds yesterday. The fight
took place about five miles from Brook
lyn, New York, Oh the Coney Island
road.
a boy named Archer, while assisting
his father at work in a mill at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, Saturday, was caught
in the machinery and fearfully mapgled, |
instant death.
The authorities of Worcester, Massl-
chusetts, seized all the beer they could |
lay hands on Saturday, but the prOprie- |
tors of saloons, being mostly Germans,
soon re-stOcked their cellars, and beer |
flowed freely all day yesterday.
The lightning struck the residence of
Mr.. Thomas Walker, near McMinn-
vile, Tennessee, twenty-seventh ultimo,
by which several members of his fami-
ly were severely but not fatally injured. |
The building was considerably dam
aged.
At Louisville yesterday man named
George Sengg fired on party of boys
who were ''irregularizing' his water
melons. One of the boys, John Handy,
was hit with four buckshot, and serious
" but not fatally wounded. Sengg was
4 dispatch received yesterday from
Santa Fe, New Mexico, says the South
ern Apaches have left their reservation
)n account of one of their chiefs being
arrested for theft, but that the troops are
after them, and will soon return them to
heir reservation.
a great earthquake was felt at Val
Daraiso on the eighth of July, during
which the shocks were worse than those
If 1887. Much damage was done to
houses, and some few lives were lost by
alling walls. One lady died from fear.
N Santiago the shocks were also very
evere.
A considerable row, the offspring of
'OpiOus pOtations Of villainous "pine-
OPP" occurred at village called Mar
in, near Dresden, Tennessee, Saturday,
ultimO, during which fists,
'lubs, knives, ETC., were freely displayed,
md a man named Wilson was severely
tabled. The stabbist fled.
An ordinance providing for the sub
cription of five hundred thousand dol I
ars on the part of the eastern districts
# Louisville, to aid in the construction !
# the second bridge across the Ohio /
iver at that point, was accepted by the ,
louisville city council Saturday night. !
he question will be submitted to the i
eople. c
The city fathers of Philadelphia have 3
their western tour to Denver, I
which city they reported from
y telegraph yesterday morning. They j
7ill take in Brigham Young's domin-
)ns, ard on their return to the city of
road-brims will be able to express how b
ne old thing works in the realm of po- a
1gamy.
The secretary of the treasury has di- t
ecte1 the assistant-treasurer at New :,
'ork to buy half a million dollars worth
bonds on the second Wednesday and
I'll half million dollars worth of gold
ach Thursday during the month Of
.ugust. In all, to sell six million dol
Irs in gold and buy half a million dol
Irs' worth of bonds. ,
At Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday morn .
g, young man named s. P. Dorsey, p
IN OF IL. IL. Dorsey, jr., of Eden Farm,
-entucky, jumped from a window of
le Forest City hotel to the ground,
stance of about fifty feet, and was in =
red so that he died in few minutes,
Oung Dorsey was theFe attending the
ICES with his father, and, it is said, had
zen drinking hard. 1t is supposed that
e was delirious when he took the leap.
A telegram from Louisville last night 4
.ys the COl1'ier-JOuTRdJ publishes crop n
ports from twenty-five representative
'unties of Kentucky. The recent rains
ave brought out the corn and tobacco !,
ops in eastern Kentucky finely, and N
9TH promise well. In the bluegrass re-
on, corn and wheat are in good eondi- te
on. Through the central counties of
uthern Kentucky, wheat and corn :
ok well. In western Kentucky not
ore than two-thirds of ordinary crops
corn and tobacco are expected, though
Ie recent rains have improved the I
ospects somewhat. The Colorado no. 4
to-bug has done great damage in the =,
unties adjoining Louisville. m
The Wesleyan mission at Cape Coast. CO
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