Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-09
GENERAL NEWS.
New Yorkers Waat the MOiety Bill
Passed The Currency Bill-NtW
Hebrew Tabernacle.
The Louisiana sufferers-The Cholera
Mexican Matters-The Caban Point
Weary OF Life.
L Drunken Confessed Ineend ia
Ties-The New Cable-R Relief for
Louisiana, Etc,

TleS-lne New CaDIe-kellei Tor
Louisiana, Etc,
Steamship Arrivals.
New YORK, June S.-Arrived: Steam
ships Egypt and City OF Brussels, from
Liverpool, and Glamergsn from Cardiff.
The Rainy season in Bombay.
LONDON, June S.-A dispatch from
Bombay says the wet season has fairly
set in.
Relief for Louisiana.
PHILADELPHIA, June S.-The grand
lodge of Masons have contributed Que
thousand dollars for the relief Of the
Louisiana sufferers.
The Cable.
PORTSMOUTH, n. H., June S.-The
steamer Faraday has successfully laid
all her cable and buoyed it of Jaffrey's
ledge. There arenO tidings yet Of the
cable steamer Ambassador.
New Hebrew Tabernacle.
CINCIENATI, June s.-A special from
Fort Wayne, to the Gazette, reports the
laying Of the cornerstone Of the new
Hebrew tabernacle at that place to-day,
in which Rabbi Wise, Of this city Off
ciated.
MOT entity"
TOLEDO, OHIO, June S.-The trial of
Valentine Braun, ex-tressQrer OF Lucas
county, on the charge OF ENLIGHTENMENT
of the public funds while in office, ter
minated to-day with verdict of ''not
guilty"
REV ORLEANS, June s-Justice of
Peace Conners and Police Sergeant
Chipman were shot in st. Bernard par
ism yesterday, by Francis Artiets, with
dOuble-barTel shotgun, loaded with
buckshot. The wounds are dangerous.
= WbirIviuG.
KEMPIyILLE, ONT, June S.-A whirl-
wind passed over this place yesterday,
unroOfing a number of houses and level |
ing several buildings. A large amount
Of property was destroyed, and several
persons were injured, but no lives were
lost.
The Cholera.
YIESNA, June S.-An international
conference, TO discuss measures to pre-
vent the spread Of cholera, and for the
regulation of q quarantine, will meet
here on the fifteenth instant. All Euro
pesn powers have accepted invitations
to send delegates.
Confessed IneeDdlaTfes.
WILLIABIsPoRT, June S.-Five menu
bers of the voluntary fire department of
this place, arrested on suspicion OF being
incendiaries, have confessed to burning
nearly all the prOpe ty, amounting to
over orc million dollars, destroyed here
since the great fire Of August.
The Currency BHI
WASHINGTON, June S.-The commit
tee of conference on the currency bill
a three hours meeting this morning but
came to no final conclusion. There are
numerous conflicting rlmors as TO the
past and probable action of the confer
ence committee, but the members con-
tinue to decline to give any information
on the subject.
The MOiefy RIfI.
New YORK, June S.-The chamber of
commerce appointed committee to-day
to go to Washington and urge the pass
age Of the so-ealled moiety bill. One
speaker said IL the bill was not passed
there would be an indiscriminatese seizure
of the books and papers OF merchants
Immediately on the adjournment OF con-
gress.
aexIcan Matters.
MATAMORAs, June S.-The recent act
Of the Tamaulipas State congress re-es-
tablishinE capital punishment for muir
der and other crimes has been promul-
gated.
1t is understood that the Mexican
government will reform the customs
tariff under liberal terms, abolishing ex-
port duties on money and silver bullion.
TnOse CuRan BONDS.
New YORK, Iune neS.-Allegations hav-
ing been made recently that Cuban
bonds were placed in Washington for the
purpose Of corruption, Senior Aldermas,
tbs only agent in this country, and who
is authorized to pledge the credit Of the
republic Of Cuba by bonds or otherwise,
writes to say that he has always had too
high an opinion of the American con-
gress to attempt to sway its action in re-
gard to the beIligerency question by any
corrupt means.
Weary Of Life.
JEFFERSONVILLE, IND, June S-Last
night William Rick, . German shoe
maker, suicided in the middle Of the
Ohio river. When returning home from
Louisville on the eleven O'clock ferry
boat, he walked TO the stern of the boat
and, climbing upon the railing, Geliber-
ately jumped overheard. A life preserv.
er and several pIaliks were thrown to
him, which be declined 10 notice. After
8 few struggles he vent down. The body
has not been recovered.
An EaIl Lost i'm his Caps.
LONDON, June S.-The Earl Of Var
borough, who frequently gets as drunk
as q lord, is again missing, and the po-
lice are now making an earnest search
to find him. Tuesday last the earl was
in the house of lords, and deputy SER
geant alarms, thinking him in a worse
condition than usual, accompanied him
into one of the ante-roOms. A short
time afterward the deputy returned TO
the room, but the earl was not there, but
no one who knows him has seen him
since.
The Louisiana sunerers
NEW ORLEANS, June 8.-Governor
kellogg to-day sent the following mes
sage 20 General Belknap, secretary of.
war: The relief com mittee reports
/ that the suffering from the overflow re-
mains unabated in Atchafalaya, La
| Fourche, and 0uachita valleys, though
l there is some abatement ON the banks Of
the Mississippi. The committee are is
suing fully forty thousand ratiOns daily,
and In some districts are compelled to
restrict their relief to the women and
children, even where work is not attain
/ able for the able bodied. If the general
| government would order the issuance of
/ twenty thousand rations daily from the
first appropriation, it would avert much
suffering.