Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-04
TELEGRAPHLC SUMMARY.

E. L. Sloan, editor of the Salt LAX
Herald, die0 yesterday.
A ten-thousand-dollar was report
ed in Jackson, Ohio, yesterday.
The CarIists are reported to have sho
the canon Of the diocese Of Vittoria.
Yesterday was 8 general holiday in
England for bankers aud business folk.
Small raiding parties of Indians ars
reported operating in Wyoming Terri
tory.
The Spanish government is about tC
dispatch twelve thousand troops &c
/ Cubs.
The Massachusetts State Democratic
/ convention will be held on the ninth Of
| September.
Two colored men lost their lives hy
foul air in a well at Columbia, Tennes'
see, Saturday.
Hon. William CASTOR viii probably be
the Democratic nominee for governor OF
Mas ;schusetts.
The Paris police are again searching
the residences Of Bonapartists, and selz.
ing documents.
Our public debt was decreased during
the past month over a million and q
quarter dollars.
Ten thousand people attended camp
meeting near Dayton, Ohio, Sunday.
No casualties reported.
Prince Bismarck, whose health is re-
ported greatly improving, will leave
klssengen in a fortnight.
A tenement in Danvers, Massachu-
sets, was burned Sunday night, and an
occupant perished in the flames.
Captain David White, formerly q
prominent pork-packer Of Madison, In
diana, died at Keokuk yesterday.
Steamship arrivals yesterday: Vile
de Paris, Scandinavian, Har armonia, at
Liverpool; City Of Paris at New York.
The Redstockings defeated the Ath-
letics in a game Of baseball, in London,
yesterday by score of twenty-four to
seven.
Ritchie's steam saw-mill was burned
up at Newcastle, New Brunswick, yes
terday, and one Of the employees perished
in the flames.
All the warehouses of the London and
Port Stanley railway, in Ontario, to-
gether with a private dwelling, were de-
stroyed by fire yesterday.
The British Mediterranean squadron
leaves Malta for Barcelona to-day. An
Italian frigste has been ordered to the
northern coast Of Spain.
Allen Harris, who was stabbed Satur-
day night at the seventh-wArd polling
place, New Orleans, has since died. The
murderers have been arrested.
The Indians in Nebraska have been
HI 4 80. nj
the telegraph informs US that Vessels
company are after the Indians.
A square of small houses between
Music, Morales, Spain and UrquhaTt
streets, in New Orleans, burned Sun
day. Loss fifteen thousand dollars.
The North German Gazette declares
that the object of sending "A German
squadron into Spanish waters is merely
to protect German residents in Spain.
A hundred ed-thousand-dollar fire Oc-
CURED at Salem, Indiana, Saturday.
The loss would have been much greater
but for the heavy rainstOrm prevailing.
A Lexington dispatch says the cleo
tion passed of quietly in Kentucky yes
terday. The Democratic candidates
were elected ia nearly every town and
county.
It was rumored in Cincinnati yester-
day that a robbery OF fourteen thousand
dollars in bonds had occurred, and q fire
started for the purpose Of covering up
the deed.
The American baseball clubs arrived
in London yesterday. They will take
part in a game Of cricket tomorrow, at
Lords, against one Of the famous Eng
lish clubs.
A young man, supposed TO be L. Reed
Thompson, having friends or relatives
in East Cornwall, Connecticut, commit
ted suicide at st. Joseph, Missouri, yes
terday, by shooting.
a dispatch from Fort Geary gays that
the reports from all sections OF ManitO-
ba indicate that the grssshOpper ravages
are not so bad as first reported. Fully
half q crop is expected.
-Four women and one man were
drowned in England Saturday by the
capsizing Of an overloaded boat. The
bostman was charged by the jury Of in
quest with manslaughter.
Another body was found among the
ruins on Butchers run, at Pittsburg,
Sunday-that Of a female child, found
III AAAE NEAA&A VI a A4DA1Ig "hNAg ~ AAeN
been washed by the water.
The colored Methodist church, large
tobacco warehouse, and several smaller
buildings, we're demolished by wind
storm at Brunswick, Missouri, Friday
night. The storm also did much dam
age 10 orchards and fields.
Advices from Brussels report that
Spanish delegates to the international
have been instructed from Mad
rid not 10 participate in deliberations,
because the government is yet unrecOg-
nized by the European powers.
Lord Gordon shot himself Saturday,
at his residence at Hedingby, Manitoba.
Two English detectives arrested him,
and he promised TO 90 quietly home
with them IL they did not come through
the United States. While in his room
preparing for the journey be blew out his
brains.
The London Standard says that re-
ports that England, Germany and
Italy have agreed TO watch the Spanish
coast are denied. Germany has not pro-
posed Intervention to Austria. but
the latter is ready TO join the other pow
ers In the acknowledgment Of the Span
ish republic.
Suit was brought Saturday in the
Campbell county, Kentucky, court at
Newport, by the Newport and Cipcin-
natl railroad bridge company. against
the Louisville short-line railroad, To re-
cover thirty-thOusand dollars arrears in
rents for bridge, and asking that a re-
ceiver be appointed for the road.
The payments made from the treasury
department in Washington, during Jn-
/ ly, were as follows: Civil and miscel-
laneous, S7.665, ,672; war, S3, I73, ,93o
navy, 50, 72S, ,276; interior pensions and
Indians, S2,94S, ,490; total, SIG, ,5l6 374
! The above is exclusive Of payments OF
account Of the principal and interest o
the public debt.
A violent scene occurred in the Frencl
assembly Saturday, caused by Bona
partist member remarking that the re
/ public had succumbed before the scorI
/ of honest men. The president of thi
assembly was unable TO restore order 70
the confusion that ensued, and the sit