Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-29

The mill Of the Norton steam power
company, at Norton, Massachusetts,
was burned on Saturday night. Loss
forty thousand dollars; partly insured.
The damage by the large fire Sunday
at Crosby and Spring streets, New York,
at the furniture manufactory Of Warren
Ward q Co., is estimated at one hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
Miles Q. Townsend, charged with
stabbing a man in Little Rock a few
days ago, was placed under twenty-five
hundred dollars bonds in that city last
night. His victim will recover.
The jewelry store of George w. Dear
ing & Co., OF Boston, Massachusetts,
was robbed of twelve thousand dollars
in valuables some time between Satur-
day night and Monday morning.
The furniture store of Ward, " arren
& Company, corner Spring and Crosby
streets, New YorE, was burned yester-
day. Loss one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars; insurance not ascertained:
incendisry.
Captain General Concha has Issued
orders to the officers commanding the
Spanish troops to act leniently toward
captured or surrendered Insurgents, out
to execute all incendiaries and fiilibust-
ers who may be taken.
Advices from San Sebastian are to
the effect that the steamer Gustave is
deeply imbedded in mud, and that the
Carlists are busily engaged in unloading
her. The captain of the Gustave was
slightly wounded by the Carlisis.
A telegram from Washington says
that four hundred men and women were
discharged Saturday from the engrav-
ing and printing bureau of the treasury,
in consequence Of the work OF the bu-
reau having been transferred to New
York.
Rev. Mr.. GIendenning, Of Jersey City,
who entered an appeal from the deei-
sion of the presbytery in the Mary Pome-
roy case, has addressed a letter TO his
congregation, and says that he will not
proceed until his case is disposed Of by
the synod.
J. B. Spratt, an old and wealthy
citizen of Dekalb, Buchanan county,
Missouri, was fatally shot by Mr..
Brown, on Christmas day, and the latter
was severely wounded by q son ofSpratt,
fourteen years old. The affair grew out
of an old feud.
A telegram from New York says that
the argument on appeal from the order
of Judge M'Cue, granting a bin Of par
ticulars in the Tilton-Beeeher case, was
begun yesterday before Judges Nelson
and Reynolds. The argument will be
continued to-day.
The emigrsnt ship Cospatrik burned
November 18th in latitude thirty-seven,
north longitude twelve, by which, 1t is
reported, four hundred and sixty-fiye
lives were lost. Three OF the crew have
arrived ct st. Helena. She was bound
from London to New York.
A young man named Peters was found
in 8 stable at Clewes, Ohio, Sunday
morning. lying among the horses with
his skull fractured in several places, and
insensible. He will probably die. 1t
is supposed to be an attempted murder,
and the body placed there to convey the
that he had been injured by
the horses.
Rev. J. n. Combs, for the past twelve
years pastor of the Western Presbyterian
church of Washington, and formerly q
member of the Baltimore Methodist
Episcopal conference, committed sui.
eide Sunday morning by cutting his
throat with razor. The cause assigned
for the act is domestic troubles, his wife
having been insane some years.
Last week q party of patrelmen who
were guarding UniOntown, Kentucky,
against suspected incendisrism on the
part of negroes, took a colored woman
and hung her three times 10 extort 8
as to the suspected plot. She
was lett insensible and almost dead, but
a ter restoFatives were applied.
The town is in much excitement, and is
being strictly guarded.
A telegram from New York yesterday
says the return of William NJ. Tweed's
writ OF certiordTi, consisting of the rec
ord OF the bill of exceptions and all the
proceedings on hdbeds corpus, was set
tied yesterday by Judge Barrett, in the
court OF oyer and terminer. 1t now only
to be signed by the clerk, in or
der to be laid before the general term of
the supreme court, December 3lst.
By the explosion of spirit lamp on
night, at the residence Of Her.
man Baur, No. 1870 Linn street, st.
Louis, Mrs. Baur and infant, eight days
old, a servant girl, name Adele Klenek,
and Mr.. Bickerdt, were frightfully
burned. The latter's injuries were re-
ceiyed in extinguishing the flames which
were roastisg the woman and babe alive,
and in which he succeeded in doing.
The following information was re-
ceived at army headquarters in st. Louis
"Captain Keyes, of the Tenth
cavalry, reports that he followed up the
Cheyenne train from Carris creek, on
eighty miles distant, and
captured the band, consisting of fifty
two Cheyennes with seventy ponies.
They all belong to the bands OF Medicine
Water and Medicine Arrow"
At Washington, yesterday, the COM
missioner of Indian affairs received an
urgent petition from Red Cloud to be
to come on there with some forty
Sioux adherents, and settle up all trou-
b!es about the Black Hills reservation
and hunting on the Platte river, etc :,
but Commissioner Smith replie,i, on Rc-
count Of want of funds to pay the ex-
penses OF the would-be negotiators, that
their proposition must be declined.
A horrible and atrocious murder was
perpetrated in Pittsburg about seven
O'clock Saturday night. Cathsrine
Harmon, q widow, midwife by profess
sion, was found dead in a gutter at nine
O'clock just outside a low groggery,
called the Franklin house. The inquest
has not been concluded, but there Is no
doubt but that the woman was murder
ed at or after an attempt at rape by Jno.
Ranly, proprietor of the house. Hanly
is sixty years of age.
A New Orleans dispatch Of Sund ay
that the Times Of that city con-
tanned special dated twenty sixth, from
Washington, to the effect that General
Sheridan had been ordered to New Or
leans to take command and remain
there until the arrival of General Terry.
A Washington dispatch of the twenty
seventh says the story is without founda-
ton, and Chicago dispatch Of the same
date says that General Sheridan is in
that city, and knows nothing of the
affair.
A telegram from Ithaca, New York,
contains the following: "The barns OF H.
A. Ensign, milk dealer, one mile south
Of this place, were set on fire ST an early
hour this morning, and destroyed.
Twenty cows were burned. About four
weeks ago another dealer lost fifteen
cows in the same manDer. Yesterday
an unoccupied house on Wheat
efrsaf yyss 6-ad and last uiOht fnrr ar