Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-16
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.


NuStOuk8 AtCeARtAs
WASHINGTON, May l4.-The follow
ing are the customs receipts for the week
ending May ninth: Boston, 1881, ,769;
New York, S2,S95, SOS; Philadelphia,
S142, ga; Baltimore, 17S,082.
Suicide.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, May 15.-Jas.
Temple, an old citizen, committed sui
eide by shooting himself in the heart.
Cause, mental trouble, superinduced by
four months sickess and paralysis.
The PennsyIvgBia Legislature Ad-
journed.
HARRISBURG, Pa, May 15.-The leg
islature adjourned sine die. Senator
Cutler, of Erie, is elected speaker of the
senate. The Democrats voted for Sena-
tor Chalfsnt, of Montour.
The Ohio Constitutional Convention
Adjourned.
CINCINNATI, May 15.-The coDstitu-
tional convention adjourned sine die at
noon to-day. All the members present
have signed the constitution, and those
not present will have an opportunity, for
thirty days, to sign IN the Office of the
secretary of state at Columbus.
Railway NeWs-Death from Poison.
ST. PAUL, May 15.-Both the main
and branch lines of the st. Paul and
Pacific railroad, which have been
operated since 1871 by the Northern
Pacific company, under lease Of that
year, have been surrendered to the
stockholders of that company. The
Northern Pacific railroad now operates
no leased lines whatever.
The wife of John Radgland, of Scott
county, aged fifteen, and married hut
six weeks, died suddenly at her fathers
house in Glencoe, it is supposed from
the effect of poison to prOdace abortion.
She would have been mother in three
months. Her husband has been ar
rested as accessory to the alleged poison
ing.
ST. LOUIS, May 15.-The prison reform
congress met at ten o'clock, and after
the transaction Of some routine business,
copious extracts were read from reports
on preventive work as relates to chill
dren by Rev. G.. Brace, secretary of the
Children's aid society, New York, and
on preventive and FefoTmatOry work by
Rev. B. X. Pierce, formerly superiltend-
ent Of the girls industrial reform school
of Massachusetts, and chaplain of the
New York house of refuge. The dis
cussiOn of these reports will be the order
consisting of Alexander Nevins, Rice
Cordier, and Baine, was appointed to re-
port the feasibility of the free-labOr sys-
tenn in prisons. The idea being that Ia
Dor shall be optional with the prisoner,
and IL he does labor he shall receive re-
muneration therefor.
MIscellaneOus.
Doyle. the New York policeman, who
murdered Mary Lawler, was yesterday
sentenced to States prison for life.
A dispatch from the City of Mexico,
dated the twelfth, says that the assassins
of Rev. Mr.. Stephens had not been pur-
ished up to the eighth instant.
Daisey Breeze, whose trial at Vienna,
johnson county, Illinois, for the murder
of his brother, near Cairo, was concluded
yesterday, was found guilty of murder
in the first degree, and sentenced to the
penitentiary for life.
At Fort Madison, Iowa, Thursday M.
s. Chamberlain, watehman for the Gin
cinnati, Burlington and Quincy rail-
road, while on duty about three miles
north Of that place, discovered protrud-
ing from the edge Of the bank a human
bone. He commenced digging, and
found every bone in proper position,
until he came to the head, which was
setting perpendicular and the face at
right.angles with the body. 1t had evil
IDENTIFY been cut from the body and then
placed in the position found. The head
showed plainly that it had had vio-
lent blow across from the right side Of
the mouth toward the left eye. There
was found with the remains Masonic
gold pen. From all evidence it is sup
posed to be the body Of Mr.. Putnam,
who was missing some fifteen years
| since.