Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-17

date, and that A. G. Hammer is the duly
nominated Republican candidate.
Rev. A. L. P. Green died at Nashville
yesterday.
The Panama railroads. to replace iron
with steel rails.
Julia Armstrong, widow, hanged her
self in San Francisco.
A Milwaukee dispatch gives the grain
crop news as rather above the average.
A disastrous storm and hurricane oc-
CURED at Lowell, Massachusetts, yester-
day.
The bOat-race to have come off at Sar-
stoga yesterday was postponed to to-
day.
The loss by the fire in Oshkosh, Wis
cousin, is accurately stated at eight hum
dred thousand dollars.
The Iowa Central railroad company is
hopelessly bankrupt, and will be turned
over TO the bondholders.
Up to last nights accounts, seven per-
soEs are known to have perished in the
big fire at Chicago Tuesday night.
The bay was rough and lumpy and it
was doubtful about the international re-
gatta coming off at Toronto yesterday.
Twenty thousand people assembled
on the lake at Saratoga yesterday to
witness the bOat-race that didn't come
Off
General Garfield denies, through the
Cleveland Ohio Leader, that his pri-
vate secretary is paid by the govern
ment.
The second assault on the works at
Puycerda satisfied the Carlists that the
siege was frJlitless, and it was absn-
dOned.
Many fatal cases OF vomito' have oc-
CURED on shipboard in the harbor at
Havana, and few cases are reported in
the city.
A barn was struck by lightning and
the building and its contents entirely
destroyed near Huntingdon, Indiana,
yesterday.
The railroad accident on the jackson
railroad last Friday resulted in the death
Of four persons and the wounding of
four others.
A Washington telegram announces
the death of three negro women, caused
by the suspension of the Freedmen's
savings institution.
The question of the legal separation of
Mr.. and Mrs. Tilton is in the hands of
Mr.. n. B. Morse, formerly Judge Of the
New York court of appeals.
Governor Davis, Of Minnesota, yes
terday received a draft for one thousand
dollars for the relief of the grasshopper
sufferers in that State and Iowa.
Rebuilding in the burnt district in
Chicago has already begun, and con.
tracts have been made for fine structures
to replace the shanties destroyed.
A dispatch from Portsmouth, New
Hampshire, announces the successful
landing of the shore-end of the Atlantic
cable from the steamer Ambassador.
Governor Dix has vetoed the act to
incorporate the New York warehouse
and railroad company, and to improve
the commercial facilities Of New York.
a band of thirty Indians attacked J.
Q. LOring's rancho, fifteen miles from
Lost Valley, on the fourteenth, says a
Galveston dispatch, and were repulsed.
One white man was killed.
A lumber train on The Airline railway,
says sn Atlanta dispatch, fell through
the tTestlewOrk of Peach-Tree creek
bridge i've miles from that city Wednes-
day, killing one negro and wounding
six others.
AT the Council of American Hebrews,
at Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday, the COM
mittee on a theological institute report
ed full set Of laws for the organization
and government of an institution of
learning to be styled the Hebrew Union
college, to be permanently located at
Cincinnati. The following were elected
officers of the board: President, NJ. Lath;
vice-president, Julius Freiburg; secre-
tary, Lipman Levi; treasurer, NJ. Hell
man.