Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-05
TELEGRAMS.

Thirty-One counties in Arkansas give
forty-Cne thousand majority for conven-
ton.
Telegrams from Baltimore say that
Bishop Wheeler cannot live through
the night.
Fourth of July in jNew Orleans was
knocked into a cocked-hat by stormy
weather.
Jacob Altonbury, a German, COM
mitted suicide in Terre Haute, yesteT-
day. Family trouble.
The people Of Arkansas have decided
in favor of State constitutional con-
vention by sixty thousand majority.
Two Cinnamon were arrested in san
Francisco yesterday, for numbering one
Of their countrymen at Stockton in 1870.
A Wheeling dispatch tells of an old
man, seventy years of age, being cut to
pieces by a railroad train there yester-
day.
The steamship Hutchinson, leaving
New Orleans yesterday for Galveston,
had to return on account of storm on
the gulf.
Two negro men while out blackberry
ing on Friday on the NOlensviHe turn
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rattlesnakes-One of them dying from
the injuries received.
An excursiOnist, riding on top Of
car, twelve miles from JeffersOnville,
Indiana, yesterday, was Instantly
killed by his head striking bridge. he
was from Louisville.
A colored thief named Mathes, Of
Dresden, Tennessee, while engaged in
difficulty with another Of his race, was
wounded in the hand and arm, but had
the satisfaction of killing his opponent.
Mr.. Thomas n. SeatOn, of Cedar
Springs, East Tennessee, committed
suicide last week by sta0bing himself
thirteen times with a knife, twice to the
heart. He previously attempted his
brothers. life.
The governor of Porto Rico has con-
ceded the use of the government land
lines for telegraphing the weather re-
ports from st. Thomas, Barbados and
Guadaloupe to Jamaica, and thence to
Washington for signal service.
A few days ago a little son Of Mr.
Thomas W. Morgan, living six miles
southwest OF Decaturville, Tennessee,
while playing with little brother near
gum spring, fell into it and was drown
g before has parents could reach him,
though within few yards of the house.
He was two years old.
Right Rev. Bishop James O'Gorman,
of the Roman Catholic church, died
suddenly in Omaha yesterday af ternOon,
at two O'Clock, of cholera mOrbCs, aged
sixty Years. There is general mourning
over his decease. All Catholic gatller-
/ ings we're Immediately dispersG. Inc
funeral will take place Tuesday next.
-Ehe committee to locate the Southern
BAPTIST university has been in session in
Nashville the past week, and received
bids from Chattanooga to the amount OF
| $50, coo; from MurfreesbOro Of S13e, 500;
from Jackson of $50, 600; from D1cMinn-
vile of 500, 900; and from Tuliahoma
of considerable quantity Of land. The
contest proved warmest betU cen Muir
freesbOro and Jackson. The claims OF
the former were earnestly urged by
| Hon. E, Fl. Ewing, General J. b. Pal
mer, z. D. Hancock, Esq, Prof. G. W.
| Jarman and ]. d. Richardson. No less
urgent appeals We're made in favor OF
| Jackson, by DR.. G. r. HendriclIsOn, DIR.
| A. =. Jones, Colonel Jackson, Hon. i. NJ.
| Tomlin, Hon. J. T. Hogan and Hon. +.
4 D. RGo- II - fANte+oAN t-AN~A ~AA1~-
Jackson or Murfreesboro will sceure the
coveted prize.
The Nashville Banner Of Friday says
that zone of the most exciting accidents
that has occurred recently tO,Jk place
this side of Springfield, on the South
eastern road, yesterday. When just
passing On a high trestle, the locomotive
attached to the train due here at twenty
minutes before two O'Clock in the after
noon was thrown from the rails and ran
for a distance of quarter of mile on
the erossties. The passengers, having
been seized with alarm, pTotruded their
heads out of the windows, and were
ready to lump out in the EVENT. the en-
gine went overheard, drawing the train
with it as an inevitable cons equenee.
But it happened to stop before o diretul
a catastrophe was brought ahO ut. The
passengers, thus becoming assured that
they were out of danger, Waited quietly
until the engine WAS again pylt on the
rails, and the train came on 70 NASH
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