Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-08-01
TELEGRAPHIC CHRONICLES.

The Chinese government is about es-
tablishing consulate in San Francisco.
Advices by telegraph from st. Paul,
Minnesota, say that the grasshoppers are
rapidly moving eastward.
The Conservative convention at Fort
Worth, Texas, yesterday nominated J.
w. ThrockmOrtor for congress.
1t was rumored in Albany, New York,
yesterday that several persons had been
killed by an accident on the So que
hanna railway.
IA heavy fire was raging last night in
East st. Louis, but telegrs puic eommu-
nicstion was cut Cf, anu particulars
could not be obtained.
The Southern dental sOciltiOp, in ses-
sion at st. Leu 5, adj Jurned yes eTdsy
afternoon, to meet IN this ciTy during
Msrdi-Gras week next yeGr.
Petitions are circulating at Wtnches-
ter, Pennsylvania, praying a commuta-
ton Of the sentence of d ath to impris-
onment for life of U1de;ZJok, the insur-
ance swindler ard murderer.
Great numbers of grsssh0ppers have
appeared in Western AMI Sou western
Kansas AID are destroying everything
b fore them in the way Of crops. Much
damage and distress are apprehend d.
CarlOtta F. Shotwell, or Mrs. General
ROddy, as she claims 10 be, wa dts
charged from the Tombs 10 New York,
Thursday, on her parole, aud, il is saii
a nOlle PrOScqui will be entered on Mon
day.
Among the individual accounts, with
the First national bank of Washington
that were Overdrawn at the closing up Of
the concern was that Of U. 5. Grant, to
the amount Of fraction over two hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
A London telegram says that the in-
terest in the exhibition of American
base ball players is Increasing, and the
Midland railroad will run special excur-
sion trains with Pullman cars to all
points on its line where the clubs play.
Yesterday was celebrated in Northum-
berland, Pennsylvania, as the one hun
dredth anniversary of the discovery OF
oxygen by James Priestly, whose rt-
mains are buried in that city. The
event drew together a vast number OF
chemists.
A special to the APPEAL last night
from Sardis, Mississippi, announced that
Governor Ames had revoked the ap-
pointment OF Hon. J. +. Simmons as
chancellor Of the tenth Mississippi cham
cery district. Judge Simmons was ap-
pointed by Lieutenant-Governor Davis
recently.
A vigilance committee of about one
hundred men has been formed at We'll
lington and other points in Kansas, for
hanging horse thieves. Three men,
named Chas. Brook, Bill Brook and
Charlie Smith were hung near Yelling
ion Thursday night. They made con-
fessions involving twenty other parties.
Henrietta Waibel, aged fifteen, a New
York nurse, has developed morbid de-
sire to burn something, and not long ago
was only prevented from setting tire to
a baby in her charge by the timely
laugh of the cherub. She was arrested
Yesterday for making three attempts to
set fire to a hotel, under the same I'M
pulse.
A Dublin letter received in New YORK
says that William Berry and Doctors
Mehan and Sheedy, oI Killmallock ana
Burft, county Of Limerick, were founo
guilty Of an attempt to defraud the New
York life insurance company. Barry,
the company's agent, was sentenced 70
imprisonment at hard labor for eighteen
months, and Meehan and Sheedy at
hard labor for twelve months each. The
indictment charged them with atte mpt-
ing to defraud the company by fraudu-
lently preparing applications and medl-
J cal reports.