Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-14

ticket agencies-in fact, TO abolish all
beyond the regular Offices established by
the companies.
Little Rock was visited with another
grsnger's delight yesterday in The shape
Of good rain.
The celebration Of the twelfth Of July
in New York yesterday by the Orange
men passed Off quietly.
a Madrid dispatch says the Tepubli-
cans have defeated the Cariists In an
engagement near Bilbao.
A btseballist OF Hartford, C0nnecti-
cut, caught a fly ia his eye yesterday,
aud was disabled thereby.
Two convicts, James Wilson and
Charles Shrumm, escaped from the
Ohio penitentiary yesterday.
President Grant, Mrs. Grant, and
Vice President Wilson, LETT Long
Branch yesterday for Saratoga.
The procession OF the Orangemen in
Toronto, Ontario, yesterday, was one OF
the most imposing for many years.
New York specie shipments Saturday
embraced sixty thousand dollars in gold,
and one hundred thousand IN silver.
Captain James Wood, the champion
base-ballist OF the Chicago Mines -
had his leg amputated Saturday in that
city.
Chicago is philanthropicaliy insugu-
rating series Of picnics for the poor
the expenses to be paid by public dona-
ton.
The Indian chiefs Ssntanta, Big-Tree
and Lone-WOlf are in cOlIusi0n against
the whites, and serious troubles may be
expected.
An entire block Of buildings was de-
strOyed by fire at StreatOT, Illinois, sun
day. Loss, one hundred and fifty thoC-
sand dollars.
Levi Harrison and his wife and daugh-
ter were killed by lightning during a
thunderstorm at Bridgeport, Connecti-
cut, Saturday.
Dooley, an aspirant for pedestrian
glory, has undertaken tO walk one hum
dred miles in one hundred consecutive
hours in Chicago.
The Omaha Bee has been sued for
libei to the amount Of twenty thousand
dollars by w. W. {. Grain, an insurance
agent Of that city.
In consequence OF the death Of Gov
ernor Caldwell, Of North Carolina, Lieu.
teHant-G0vernor Brogden has assumed
the duties OF governor.
Mrs. DWyer, who killed her three
children in Brooklyn, New York, few
weeks ago, has been committed 70 the
POughkeepsie asylum.
New Orleans captured tie first bale Of
of lew cotton yesterday. The dispatch
states states that the first bale last year
was received three days earlier.
Toledo, Ohio, is much enthUsed over
the races to occur there on the fifteenth,
sixteenth and seventeenth instant.
Many no.ed horses have a,resdy arrived.
MeGrath, the owner Of Tom Bowling,
says that his horse broke down at Long
Branch Friday morning, having Tup-
tured one Of the tendOns Of his left fore
leg.
a Boston telegram last Saturday
night says the report from Washington
Of the intended resignation of Vice
President Wilson, has no foundation in
fact.
TIE twelfth anniversary Of the battle
Of AntieJam is to be celebrated on the
seventeenth aud eighteenth days Of Sep
tember by q national soldiers reunion
near Caldwell, Ohio.
The city Of Chattanooga, Saturday, by
a vote of one thousand four hundred
and fifty against siXty-twc, donated one
hundred thousand dollars TO the Cincin-
natl Southern railway.
The New York bank statement shows:
Loans decrease, $3.50, 500; specie IL
crease, s., AL, Zoe; legal tenders decrease,
8, 326 400; deposits increase, s. USl, 100;
increase, S59, $50; reserve in
crease, 8. .595,675.
The remains Of the late Governor
Caldwell were carried from Hillsboro,
North Carolina, Sunday, and remained
in state at the capitol during yesterday.
They viii be taken to MorgantOWn to-
day for iuterment.
A special to the APPEAL from Ssrdis,
Missis sippi, Saturday, chTonicled q SEN
satiOn in that town caused by a man
moving his family, consisting Of a wife
and three children, from New Orleans
to st. Louis, in a common WheelbarrOw.
The official returns from al the coun-
ties in Arkansas show 50, 259 for and S607
against the convention. OF the ninety
one delegates elected over seventy are
Democrats and Conservatives. Nearly
al the delegates had arrived az Little
Rock no to yesterday afternoon. Gen
aral Grandson D. Roy Of Hemp
stead eOuDty-a member of the c0nyen-
ton OF lS36-will be nominated for presi-
dent of the convention.
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