Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-31
TELEGRAPHIC ErITOKE.

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Indiana, Wednesday.
Hon. John Sherman has started ON a
canvassing tour through Iowa, Kansas
and other western States.
The Portuguese authorities have taken
active measures to prevent violation of
the frontier by the Carlists.
A young child of Francis Howard was
run over and killed by railway car in
Columbus, Ohio, Wednesday.
Two persons, Harry Wolf and E. p.
Dunbar, were drowned at Milwaukee
yesterday, by the capsizing Of a fishing
boat.
Between fifty and sixty postoffiee
commissions were sent to President
Grant at Long Branch yesterday for
bis signature.
A big fire occurred at Marshall, Texas,
on the twenty-tbird instant, consuming
over one hundred thousand dollars
worth of property.
Reports from all sections of Nebraska
indicate that the corn crop will not yield
enough for seed next planting time, from
the effects of grasshoppers.
Thomas A. Scott and Commodore
| Vanderbilt were said to be present at
| private conference of well-known rail-
road men in Saratoga Wednesday,
a rain-storm began Sunday at Bur-
| lington, Vermont, and continued up to
| midnight Tuesday night. The rainfall
was four inches. The telegraph wires are
down.
A fire in Joliet, Illinois, yesterday
morning destroyed a number of wooden
buildings, occupied as stores. Loss,
seventeen thousand dollars; insurance,
ten thousand dollars.
1t was TmOred in Philadelphia yes
terday that the missing caild, Charlie
Ross, had been discovered in Reading,
Pennsylvania, but subsequent telegraph
ic advices contradicted the rumor.
a Joint stock company, with capital
of twenty thousand dollars, has been
formed in Columbus, Ohio, to change
the Weekly Statesman of that city to a
daily evening Democratic journal.
Henry Prindle, agent in New York of
the Atlantic and Pacific insurance COM
pany, and the suspended Fire insurance
company of Philadelphia is wanted in
New York, on account Of deficiencies in
his accounts.
An explosion at POttsville, Pennsyl-
vania, Wednesday, in the magazine and
dying-hOuse of Welby & Co. 8 powder
mill, killed three men and probably
fatally injured boy. The men leave |
large families.
In New York yesterday the stock ex-
change committee on securities placed |
the st. Louis, Iron Mountain and South |
ern railway shares on the regular call in |
place of the old st. Louis and Iron /
Mountain stock.
Eighty hands were thrown out of en-
ployment by the burning CT Long d |
Barnhili's steam saw-milI, at Marble |
Cove, New Brunswick, yesterday, be-
sides entailiDg a loss on the owners of |
thirty thousand dollars.
Rumors prevailed on the streets of /
New York yesterday that one of the |
largest metal houses in the city had fail
ed TO meet its paper, and would have to
su-pend, which event would seriously
effect several smaller houses.
James Ramsey, an employe OF Mont
gomery Queens circus, was attacked by
"hoodluus " in San Francisco Tuesday !
last and beaten in such terrible man
ner that he died Saturday. Three of
the gang have been arrested for his muir
der.
Captain James B. Eads left st. Louis
Monday night for Europe to thoroughly
examine the jetties at the mouth of the
Danube, Rhine, and other rivers, pre-
psratory to laying his proposition for re-
lieving The lower Mississippi before
congress.
Forty seven thousand five hundred
dollars Of national bank currency was
received at the treasury in Washington
Wednesday, for redemption, making
total received Of nine million three hum
nd 1,pn a nd !, Fkr
nine dollars.
A committee composed of one dele
gate from each State represented in the
Brussels international congress has been
appointed TO prepare, under the presi-
denCy Of Baron Jomini, a report upon
the programme which is to be followed
in the proceedings of that body.
While an examination was being
made for LEAK, Wednesday, in the gas
pipe in Babb, Cox & Co.'s shoe factory,
sion took place, and G.. Babb, his son
Willie, F. II. Bickel and H. A. Berry
were seriously burned. Willie Bsbb has
since died.
The provincial correspondence express
ses the hope that the visit of the German
squadron TO the coast of Spain will ef-
feet a happy change in Spanish affairs.
The North German Gazette states that
tue squadron will leave British waters
about the beginning of August for its
new station.
Nicholas Staader was arrested and
bsiled in Chicago Monday on the
charge of arson; yesterday he was re-
arrested on the charge Of attempted
murder, and he now lies in prison,
waiting for some one to risk fourteen
thousand dollars on his appearance be-
fore the courts.
The house of an old German farmer,
named Dickman, three miles from
Terre Haute, Indiana, was entered by
masked Tuffians Tuesday night. Dick
man was brutally assaulted, and himself,
wife and two daughters tied while the
robbers Tansacked the premises and
secured valuables.
George Rust, of The Chicago Liue
Stock Journal, and several members of
the ShrCp5hire family, of Kentucky,
engaged in difficulty, near Sumer-
vile Wednesday, growing from severe
reflections in that journal on the
latter. Sticks, knives and pistols were
used, but no one was injured.
In regard to the new United States
five per cent. bond negotiation, says a
New York telegram, there is nothing
new except that to-lay the secreta-
ry of the treasury will i-sue a call for
twenty-five million dollars, tie interest
to cease i'll ninety days hence. This in
formation comes from the syndicate.
There was a serious strike of the opera
tives of the flax-mills at Belfast, Ire
land, yesterday. The striking work
people were making threatening de-
last night. The crowds
there were perading the streets, and at.
tackled several bakeries. The magis-
trates called for four hundred additional
policemen.
A Montreal dispatch says: "The east
ern train, leaving Montreal at ten
o'clock Wednesday night ran into a
freight train near Soixan.e and was bad
ly wrecked. Two engines, Pullman
car, mail-car and brakeman were con-
iderably smashed. The conductor and
several other persons were injured, but
none were killed"
A dispatch from Chicago yesterday
says: "In McHenry, Illinois, early yes
terday morning Richard Bishops agri-
cultural works, with the machinery and
entire stock, were destroyed by fire, sus.
tanning loss OF thirty five thousand
dollars The fire was undoubtedly the