Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-20

party, and on the same land as the first
I bale last year, which was received there
on the thirteenth of August-six days
earlier than the present one,
| General Deputy J. G. Abbott, Of the
Patrons Of Husbandry, yesterday ex-
plained to the merchants of Boston the
principles and purposes Of the farmers
oranges. M s.s
John II. Fairchild, vice-president of
| the Marine insurance company, and
president of the board Of underwriters
of st. Louis, died Monday night of
cerebro-spinal meningitis.
The conductors and brakemen of the
| freight trains on the western division. OF
the New York Central railread have
struck for advanced pay. No freight
trains are moving between Rochester
and Buffalo.
The widow OF Charles J. Cromwell, Of
Todd county, Kentucky,who was killed
last January in an accident on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad, has brought
suit in the Todd county circuit court
against the railroad company for twenty
thousand dollars damages.
At Little Rock last Saturday Billy
Ward fixed Butler in eleven rounds.
Ward challenges the world for five hum
dred dollars a side, If the world will
meet him on Arkansas soil. MarepgO
Joe is his backer. He's good man
that Marengo Joe.
The amount of United States moneys
and securities redeemed and destroyed
during the year ending June 30th, 1878,
shows a total of 81, ,473, ,962. Average
daily destruction Of fractional currency
over 100000. Amount of legal tenders
destroyed during the year Sc, sol ,067.
Attorney-General Williams yesterday
recommended to the President that par
dOns be granted to S. Hood, Of South
Carolina, and Adolphus Dupriest and
George Holland, of North CaraIina,
who are now serving out terms of inn
prisonment in the Albany penitentiary
for kukluX Outrages.
On Saturday last, the polls at Austin,
Texas, were opened in the steam-engine-
house, to take the sense of the citizens
as to whether they would take stock to
the amount of one hundred thousand
dollars in furnishing gas and water for
the two principal streets, which resulted
favorably by large majority.
A Vienna telegram says that the dis
tribution of prizes was very tame af
fair. There were only about three thou
sand persons present. Archduke Charles
Louis made congratuIatory address on
the successful termination of the exhi-
bition. After which a list of the sue
cessful competitors was read.
Fannie Bush, cOlored, convicted of the
murder of her infant child in Harrison
county, Kentucky, has been sentenced
to be hanged on the fourteenth of No
vember. 1t is stated that the woman
and children were starving, and the
mother, half-craZed, drowned one that
she might'provide for the rest.
The sub-treasury in New York city
contains something more than thirty
millions dollars in gold coin, besides ten
millions in gold bars, four hundred
thousand in silver and twenty-eight mil
lions in currency. Two coin experts
are now engaged in examining the gold
received from San Francisco Monday.
Lord, the missing Herald correspond
ent, drew g large amount of money on
the morning he left Shelbyville, Ken
tucky, from the bank. He told Mr..
Waterbury, agent for the Howe sewing
machine, that he would go to Cincin-
natl. He left his manuscript, clothing,
and some jewelry in his room. No rea-
son is assigned for his disappearance.
A special to the Galveston Commercial
of Saturday, from Richmond, Texas,
saws: "Wflliam Wade killed NJ. NJ.
HOotzell to-day with a pair of shears, in
this county, about twelve miles above
here. Wade is boy about fifteen years
old, and HootZell about twenty. His
relatives live in Mississippi. witness
to the killing except small boy. The
shears entered the heart"
The Sea-Cliff camp-meeting associs-
ton and Beulsh mission and home for
the aged, two institutions conducted by
members of the MethOdist-EpiscOp
church, in New York, are soon to go
into court to determine who was legally
wrong i'll a real-estate transaction be-
tween them. The Sea-Cliff camp
managers, it is asserted, played some
sharp practice upon the lady-managers
of the mission.
Late advices from Lima, Peru, report
that q serious accident occurred sixty
miles from that city. A body of earth,
estimated at ten million square yards,
fell from the side of mountain into the
valley below, severely injuring a num-
Der of persons and damming up a river,
the water of which had risen one hun
dred and nine feet above its usual hight.
a number of engineers were of the
opinion that the water would soon burst
its barriers, when it would rush toward
Lima, sweeping everything before it
and submerging the lower portion of
that city.
A telegram from New York yesterday
says: "The fight among the operators
in Pacific Mail and Panama railroad
is expected to eliminate to-day. It
seems the Panama railroad company
undertook recently the consideration of
proposition to loan five hundred
thousand dollars to the Pacific mail
steamship company, and take mort
gage on the new steamers now being
finished, was opposed by some of the
stockholders, who made public their
reasons why the loan should not be
granted, and new friends of the propo
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