Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-08
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A man named Evans. bitten b,,
raold dog ten days since, died Yesterday
at warsaw, Indiana, Of hydrophobia.
Corti:ia has been reinstated as mavor
OF Matamoros, Mexico. Considerable
excitement exists at Brownsville, Texas.
in consequence.
A congress of bOok-pubishers and
booksellers of the United States will be
held at Put-in-Bay, beginning on the
twenty-first instant.
Carrie Ostrander, another victim Of
| the Baptist church catastrophe at Byra-
euse, New York, died there yesterday
/ Of injuries received.
The Rochester tumbler companyis
works, at Rochester, Pennsylvania, were
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss about
sixty thousand dollars.
General William Unckeles, of the
Confederate army, and residing at
Rutherford Park, New Jersey, for the
past six years, committed suicide there
Monday.
At Yellow Springs, Ohio, Monday,
William Johnston, under arrest for bur
glary, murderously assaulted Town
Marshal Hommelin, who, in self-de-
Tense, shot Johnston dead.
And here we have the old story of a
coal-Oil fire kinder. Norah Madden, a
servant-girl at Springfield, Ohio, yester-
day tried the experiment, and succeeded
as usual-in making material for fu-
neral.
Large numbers of small contributions
are being received by the New York
IFt6ai1aes 20 be used as an income in his
old age by Hans Anderson, the famous
Danish author and children's story.
writer.
The Michigan Central railway-dep0t
and freight-house at Grand Rapids,
Michigan, was totally destroyed by fire
yesterday evening. The loss includes
several valuable pianos, and is estimat-
ed at fifteen thousand dollars.
Thomas Kemp, of New Brunswick,
New Jersey, took his three children to
the canal, yesterday, and pitched them
in, jumping in himself afterward. The
Oldest child, a girl, was drowned, but
the father and the other children were
rescued. -
At st. GATHERINGS, Ontario, yesterday
a schooner tore down the lock gates and
ran into another schooner, disabling the
latter and leaving the locks SO encum-
bered with the crippled vessel that great
delay and trouble will be caused in clear
ing them away.
AStLouis dispatch has the following:
"Advices from northern Texas say the
crops are very fine in that section, and
travel to that State is very heavy, es-
pecially over the st. Leuis, Iron Noun
tain and Southern railroad, which is
now running through trains from st.
Louis to Houston, distance, eight hum
dred and twenty miles, in forty hours"
The residence of Hon. William Chase,
in Providence, Rhode Island, was bur-
glarized Saturday night. The burglar
entered the room Of Abbott Eddy, BROTH
er of Mrs. Chase. OH hearing the bur
glar Mr.. Eddy raised an outcry, when
he was attacked and fatally injured.
Mrs. Chase heard the outcry, and being
greatly alarmed, died Immediately,
either from rupture of blood vessel or
disease of the heart. She was daugh-
ter of the late Judge Eddy, and was sew
enty-one years Of age. The burglar es-
capped.
A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia,
yesterday, says that IN response to let |
ter from a number of citizens, Alex. II. |
not to be a candidate for reelection to
congress, OF account of falling health. |
If he does not improve during the sum-
mer, he will resign his seat in the pres
ent congress in time for the unexpIred
term to be filed at the same time the
election shall be held for member to
the district in the next con-
gress. Mr.. Stephens is so feeble from
that he has been but twice
out of doors in six weeks.
At Dallas, Texas, on the thirtieth
uItimo, as we see by dispatch TO the
Houston Telegraph, E. G. McGee,
formerly a resident of Sardis, Missis- |
sippi, met an individual named Robert |
81. Strauss, alias Fred. II. Barringer,
whom he recognized as the man who is |
charged with having blown open a |
safe in Sardis and abstIacted therefrom |
about three thousand dollars. McGee |
swore out the requisite warrant and an
was made to arrest Strauss at
the house where he was staying. The
house was surrounded by the police.
Strauss became convinced that escape
was impossible, at once shot himself
through the head and died instantly.