Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-10
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A steady rain fell all day yesterday at
Little Rock.
Pittsb5rg is to have ten additional
| letter carriers.
The rain-belt yesterday included Fort
Wayne, Indiana.
A fatal boiler explosion occurred at
Terre Hsute, Indiana, yesterday.
Quite a distinct shock Of earthquake
was felt at Cairo at four o'clock yester-
day afternoon.
A sash and blind factory was burned
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, yesterday
| fifteen thousand dollars.
Reports Of Indian depredations in the
northwest are confirmed by official cor
respondence received at Washington.
In Allegheny City, Pennsylvania,
yesterday, man was fatally injured by
the falling of chimney Of school.
house.
The death of Tracy B. johnson, one of
the oldest members of the Chicago board
of trade, was announced in that body
yesterday morning, and appropriate res
olutions were passed in respect to his
memory.
| Springs leaving the main line of the
Cairo and Fulton, thirty-one miles south
of Little Rock, has just been completed
by the st. Louis Iron Mountain and
Southern railway company.
Seven boys, standing at the gate of the
trotting-park in Indianapolis, were
struck by lightning yosterday-one kill
| ed instantly, and the others severely but
| not fatally injured. TIE boys were i'm
mediately beneath the telegraph wires.
"Wednesday evening about four o'clock
the westwsTd-bOund freight train on the
Memphis and Little Rock railroad, four
miles east of Brinkley, fell through a
trestle, wreeking nine freight ears. No.
/ body hurt. No trains left Little Rock
for Memphis yesterday.
A mail and e4press-car was entirely
consumed by fire yesterday, nine miles
from Petersburg, Virginia. The express
and mail agents barely ESCAPED with
their lives, and were seriously burned
about their faces and arms ia attempt
ing 10 save vaIuaDIe mall and express
matter.
A letter from Havana says Manuel
Calva has again gone to Spain. He is
deputed to arrange, if he can, for the
reOpening of the port of Macas to the
coolie trade. Another errand Of Calva,
it is said, is to pave the way for the new
captain-general, and it is also reported
that he is TO use his influence in Madrid
toward getting ten thousand soldiers
sent out.
Telegraphic adyices from Fort Lara
mic state that reports received from
Spotted Tail's agency, say that seventy
five lodges of Ogal.ayas, under Black
Twin, are moving toward that place;
that the Imcapapas and Minnecongoas
are moving across the Yellowstone river.
The ArrapahOes and Cheyennes are
camped on the head waters of the Big
Horn river, near the Big Horn noun
tains.
The Sidney Herald of June fifth gives
the particulars of the loss of the iron
clippership British Admiral, on tlse west
side OF Kings island. Out Of eighty
eight persons only nine survived to tell
the tale of the awful disaster. The
British Admiral is the eighteenth vessel
wrecked OFF Kings island since 1910,
and over eight hundred persons have
perished on its shores. The captain and
principal officers of the ship were lost.
In New York Wednesday while work.
men were demolishing the Nathan
mansion, on Twenty-third street, they
discovered q night-shirt covered with
blood seereted behind the dumb-waiter.
II was taken TO the police central office
this morning, having been claimed by
the police authorities. The nsme of
Nathan can be distinguished underneath
the COLLAR though covered with q large
blotch Of blood. Many persons visited
the scene Of the discovery during the
! day.
A New York Sunday paper says that
J behind the present aspect Of the Beech