Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-04

derry conduct, were burned to death.
They were the sons of an old and re-
speeted citizen.
All the fire insurance eompanies of
Hartford, Connecticut, except two, now
that the Chicago authorities have taken
steps to secure better protection against
fire, viii probably resume writing poll
cies in that city.
The court of Alabama claims COM
missiOners assembled in Washington
yesterday. One of the points to be de-
termined is whether q British subject,
serving as a seaman ON board captured
vessel, is entitled to indemnity.
The interior department received
through the secretary OF state a tele-
gram from the Spanish government an
nOuncing that Spain has appointed a
board of commissioners, with CASTELAR,
as its president, to represent that coun-
try at our centennial exposition.
The governor Of Arkansas yesterday
sent a special message to the legislature
recommending the organization Of
Dureaux Of mining, manufacture, agri-
culture and immigration, all to be under
the superintendent OF the commission
er Of State lands.
Matters at the courthouse in Vieks-
burg, were quiet yesterday. The board
OF supervisors failed to meet, only two
members appearing. Judge Brown adj
iOurned the criminal court until Mon
day, or until such time as he can have
sheriff 10 perform the duties OF the
court.
General IsaRe F. Shepherd, late Unit
ed States appraiser of st. Louis, and re-
Gently appointed consul to Swatnw, Chi
ma, was given complimentary banquet
at the Lindell hotel, Wednesday, and
was made the recipient of very hand
some present by the importers of st.
Louis.
A bill has been introduced in the Ohio
legislature restricting the course of
study in the public schools to the
English alphabet, spelling, reading,
writing, arithmetic, grammar, geogra-
ply, composition, conversation and elO-
cution, and the ages Of pupils between
seven and sixteen years.
Attorney General Williams's report
shows that there were judgments during
the fiscal year in civil suits in favor Of
the United States of s., OBJ, 724; amount
actually realized, 1857, 1872. OF criminal
cases, 60l8 were terminated, including
1923 convictions, of which l02 Of 966
were under the enforcement acts.
The Jefferson fire insurance company,
and twelve others of New York, have
commenced suit in the United States
court, to recover from the government
the amount collected from them as reve-
nue. tax upon dividends declared upon
accrued earnings. The point taken is,
that the law OF 1850, with its subsequent
amendments, is unconstitutional.
In the Provincial lunatic asylum of
Toronto, Ontario, Tuesday, female pa
tent named Mrs. Newell, an English
emigTant, afflicted with the notion that
her five childrenis souls would not be
saved anless she herself died some ter
rible death, set fire to her clothing, and !
then knelt in devotion while enveloped
in flames. The fire was extinguished, |
but the patient died Wednesday after
great agony.
Charlie Butler, lad about twelve
years old, met with singular fatal acct
dent at AnOka Junction, Indiana, yes
terday. While playing ball, he STUN
bled and fell, one end OF his bat striking
in the ground. He fell with his full
weight upon the bat, which struck him
in the region of the heart. He went in
to the house to lie down on the sofa, and
his mother discovered him dead about
fifteen minutes afterwaTd.
About three hundred and sixty-five Of
the passengers of the steamship AbbOts-
ford who left on that vessel at Liver
pool before it was discovered she had
smallpox on board, embarked on the
Illinois for Philadelphia, but their final
factory, they were again landed, and are
now located temporarily in the Liver
pool wOrkhOuse. The Illinois will pro-
coed without steerage passengers.
A telegram from London yesterday
says that the steamer LsPiata, from
Gravesend for Rio Grande del Sud, char
tered by Aiemens Brothers to repair the
telegraph cable, foundered off Ushant
on the twenty-ninth of November. !
Sixty persons were drowned. Fourteen
survivors were rescued by the GaTelOek, |
of Glasgow, from a boat in which they /
had been floating twenty-three hours, |
and were transferred to the steamer Au |
Tenor, which arrived in the Thames /
last night. The loss of the steamer is |
attributed to the shifting of a heavy 1
graphing apparatus. or two hundred /
and fifty miles of cable ON board one
hundred and fifty had been paid out,
which had to be abandoned. Unavail- !
ing attempts were made to save the YES
sci by lighting. The captain, surgeon,
three other officers, an engineer, seven |
stewards and cooks, eleven stOkers, four /
teen seamen, and the whole OF the cable |
staff, numbering sixteen, including Mr.. |
Picketts, chief electrician, were drown
ed. The chief steward, who was saved, |
reports that the fires were all out by ten /
O'Clock on the morning Of the twenty
ninth, and heavy sea carried away
two of the boats. The ship gradually
settled by tine stern, and at half-past
twelve foundered, stern first. The cap
tain and doctor were on the bridge, and |
having failed to clear the patent life-raft,
went down with the crew. The decks
burst as the steamer sunk.