Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

master-general, was in Berlin, Prussis
yesterday.
Theodore Thomas will be musics
director Of the next musical festival 4
Cincinnati.
The delegation Of merchants from
Dallas and jefferson, Texas, arrived il
Little Rock Tuesday.
-Four steamers of the White Star lin
steamship company will be run betweel
Philadelphia and Liverpool.
The sixth annual regatta Of the North
western amateur boating association be
gan at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday.
Chicago suffered by fire yesterdal
about q quarter of a million dollars
pretty well covered by insurance.
Jesse r.. PomerOy, accused Of the mur
der of Katie Curran, in Boston, mad,
full confession of the deed Tuesday.
John Schnyck, an escaped hundred.
thOusand-doilar forger from Germany,
was arrested in New York yesterday.
Near Bridgeport, Connecticut, yester
day, woman was beaten to death by s
4 party consisting Of a woman and three
men.
The State grange OF patrons of hus-
! bandry commenced a session at Spring
field. Ohio, on Tuesday. Attendance
! small.
J. P. Jones (colored), from DeSha
/ county, was seated Tuesday as a men,
/ Der OF the Arkansas constitutional con-
1 vention.
A reunion of the Grand Army Of the
Republic took place at Paterson, New
Jersey, yesterday. President Grant was
on hand.
The tournament OF the Cincinnati
shoOting-club opened Tuesday, with a
fair attendance. The sport will con-
tinue four days.
Hon. Milton J. Southland was renOmi-
mated for congress Tuesday by the DEM
OcIats of the thirteenth Ohio district, in
convention at Newark.
A dispatch from Kingston, Jamaica,
says that General Grenada and staff, of
the Cuban army, have arrived there.
Their destination is unknown.
Rosa Jennings, on account of her
fathers brutality toward his family, at
tempted suicide in Louisville yesterday
by drinking pint OF spirits Of ammo
MIA.
In public sale of Kentucky cattle
yesterday in Louisville, bulls averaged
two hundred and thiTty-One dollars
each, and heifers seven hundred and
twenty dollars.
A negro tried to get away with a
"peeler" who had pulled him, in Louis
vile Tuesday, by rszoring him with a
cash extending from his aural append
age to his hash demOlisher.
The union compositors of the Cincin-
natl Times, hearing they were to be dis
missed Saturday, and their places filed
with DOn-uniOn men, left their cases in
a body yesterday morning.
James Dunning, who is charged with
having grabbed about six thousand dol
lars from the Atlanta, Georgia, postoffice
while his father was postmaster, was ar
rested in st. Louis yesterday.
The Algerian papers fear that trouble
with the natives Is impending. They
have heard that ten thousand muskeJs
and five hundred pounds OF powder are
imported across the Tuniscan frontier
weekly.
A telegram from Havana says the
death sentence pronounced against
DOckery has been cOmmuted to ten
years Imprisonment, by President Ser
rsnO, at the instance OF Captain G General
COncha.
A suspicious-looking box was received
by Mrs. Charles o. Herring in Philadel-
phia Tuesday, which, on being carefully
opened, proved TO be full OF powder,
with several matches ingeniously fixed
to cause explosion when opened ordina-
rily.
Highwaymen abound in the vicinity
Of Louisville. Two Of the fOOt-pads al |
lacked produce peddler about four |
miles from that city Monday night, Sc
-iOusly wOundiDg him with a pistOl-shot,
1ut failed to get away with the granger's I
Taluables.
The nOn-union printers engaged on l
he Cincinnati Gazette, got sick from 4
thinking medicated coffee at the low
welve lunch Monday night, and the
lniOn printers, who recently lost their
cases " on that journal, are charged
With "doctoring" it for their express
leneflt.
The commission appointed by the
resident 10 devise some plan for the re-
and preservation Of overflow
ng lands along the lower Mississippi |
liver, met in Newport, Rhode Island,
tuesday, and held an informal meeting
Or consultation. All the members were
PRESENT.
By an accident to a freight train on
he Bost on, Hartford and Erie railroad 1
Monday night, one hundred feet Of the 1
rack was torn up, and twelve cars de- /
nolished. The damage to the freight /
rain is about ten thousand dollars. |
The amount of damage to the freight |
s not yet known.
A telegram from Carthage, Missouri, |
sys the smelling works OF o. S. Picher, |
lear Joplin, were blown up and burned /
.arly yesterday morning. Loss, perhaps /
i've thousand dollars. The destruction |
If the works is said to have been done |
ly miners, who bsve had a difficulty |
With Pieher regarding royalty charged 4
)y him on ore raised on his lands.
On Wednesday morning, says Little /
Rock telegram, William Wallace and /
MS brother, Robert Wallace-cOusins Of !
Sid. Wallace, recently hung at Clarks-
7ille-were shot from the bush, near
in johnson county, the
Ormer mortally wounded and the latter
;illed. This is a continuation OF the
Wallace vendetta, which has existed in
ohnsOn county for two years.
In response to the application by tele-
raph Of the acting governor Of Mis-
issippi, the secretary Of war yesterday
lorning ordered that two companies Of
avalry be sent from Jackson to Vicks-
urg to assist IN the administration Of
he civil authority. Later in the day a
rotest was telegraphed by the mayor
nd postmaster Of the latter city against
le troops being sent there, whereupOn
he secretary Of war cOuntermanded the
'der until q detail of the circumstances
IN be heard from the acting governor.
Don Carlos has issued a manifesto
religious liberation and en-
aging not to disturb the sales Of church
roperty at present completed; prOmis-
lg representation, but not a revolution
~ government; undertaking to restore
ne finance OF the country and insuring
berty so far as 1t is connected with or
er. The manifesto concludes as follows:
IL the rebellion continues We shall sti-
9 with cannon those who reject our
roffers Of Cancellation to-day, and will
e compelled 10 submit to the law of the
onquerOr Tomorrow
On Saturday night, in Talbot county,
Iaryland, a Mr.. Whitman and wife,
nortly after leaving store, We're at
aeked in the woods by two negroes,
AIMED George Wheeler and Hines.
Irs. Whitman was killed by blow from
club, and her husband dangerously
wounded and knocked senseless on the
Whitman, on recovering, gavean
.lsrm, and the people IN the neighbor-
loOd turned out, and on Sunday morn
ng discovered Wheeler, who had at