Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-30
TELEGRAPHIC RPITOME.

A heavy rainstOrm passed over Little
Rock Tuesday.
Considerable rain fell at Cleveland,
Ohio, Tuesday afternoon.
The Boston and Athletic baseball
clubs arrived IN Liverpool Tuesday.
The congressional Arkansas investi-
cation committee will adjourn on
Wednesday,
Wall street, New York, continues to
complain of the dulIness OF the stock
market.
The new five-per-cent. loan occupies
the entire attention of the treasury de-
partment.
The Democratic State central commit
tee Of Illinois held meeting at Chicago
yesterday.
Captain W. r. Porter, an old river
man, died in Evansville Tuesday, aged
sixty-tive years.
A physician states that a system of
baby-iarming prevails In New York city
to an alarming extent.
The centennial commission has issued
an address to the people Of the United
States, calling for additional funds.
The king Of the Ashantees has ponied
Britain toward The war indemnity.
Little Rock complained OF clear and
pleasant weather yesterday, with the
thermometer shrunk to eighty-fve.
The eighth annual convention Of the
Southern dental association is ia session
at ST. Louis, with good attendance.
A. G. Underwood, cashier Of the na-
tionsl bank of Milford, Massachusetts,
has been discharged for Irregularities.
Several houses were blown down at
Lewisburg, Conway county, Arkansas,
during the storm. which prevailed Mon
day.
Regardless is the name OF the winner
Of the Alabama stake at Saratoga Tues
day, in 2:004, with heavy track. Dis
tance, one mile and an eighth.
Colonel Dan O'Sullivan has been elect /
ed to fill the vacancy in the Arkansas
constitutional convention caused by the
resignation Of General Fagan.
Several well-defined attempts at in
cendisrism have been developed iu Chi
cago during the past few days. A little
hemp IL much needed in that locality.
About fifty Kiowas AMI Comanche
Indians killed five men near the mouth
OF Ute creek, eighty miles south OF Fort
BascOm, on the twenty-first instant.
No particulars.
4 dispatch from Worcester, Massa-
chu-etts, states on authority that Geo.
F. HOar is not and has not been open to
offers for nomination for governor Of
Msssaehus etts.
The Madrid papers state that the
Spanish government has sent a strongly
rFas1r - 81
ment on the subject of the CaTlist viola
tions on the frontier.
An iDcendiary scheme was nipped in
the bud in Chicago yesterday, and the
schemer, who was heavily insured in
the North British merehantile insurance
company, was arrested. 3
The first meeting of the great Qdadri-
lateral trotting union took place at
Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday afternoon,
with a large attendance, but weather
rather unfavOfable.
A dispatch was received in Washing
ton yesterday, from Livingston, Ala
bama, stating that the Republican con-
ventiOn OF the fourth district of that
State had nominated Hays for congress
by aeclamation.
A party of six Indians ran off herd
OF seVenty-nVe horses from Medicine
Bow, Wyoming, at six o'clock Sunday
evening. The horses belonged to man
from Oregon, who was on his way east.
A party went out from Catibon station
Tuesday morning in pursuit.
Wm. Reed, conductor on the Pitts
burg railway, was arrested at Fort
Wayne, Indiana, Tuesday, charged with
shooting with intent to kill Charles Ba-
ker. "A girl was st the bottom of
the dispute, and it took two Thousand
dollars to keep the .shOOtist out Of Jail.
The Peoples fire insurance company
of Philadelphia has suspended a card
on the door Tuesday saying: ''lnforms-
ton having been received that the man
sger and treasurer of this company has
left for parts unknown, it is deemed sd-
visable to suspend all further business"
The great Princes loeh loading
stages at Liverpool have been entirely
destroyed. All ferry traffic between that
city and Birkenhead is temporarily sus-
pended. The fire, which originated
from the upsetting of kettle of boiling
lard, will cause much ineon yenience as
well IS heavy loss.