Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-18

washington TO answer Inc cnaTgeS pend
ing against them in connection with the
ring and safe burglary.
The jouneymEn tailOrs of this city
are on strike on account of the EN-.
ployers redVcing their wages.
John Kaiser, o. franklin, Ohio, ended
a drunken spree in Cincinnati Wednes.
day night by shootngh his wife, instantly
killing her, and then putting the pistO
TO his own head, fred two shots anC
died instantly.
Employees Of q circus company en-.
tieed two girls, aged ten and twelve
years, from Nicholson, Wyoming coun-
", Pennsylvania, lest week. Detective
are on the search FOR the children and
their ahdlctors.
At Straitsville, Ohio. Wednesday, two
striking rainers administered poison tC
q working miner in a bottle Of liquor
The men were arrested, and a riot being
imminent in consequence, they were
soon after released.
The loss Of the Erie railway company
by the fire at Weehawken can be re-
placed for from one hundred and fifty to
one hundred and seventy-five thousand
dollars. Insurance., one hundred and
two thousand dollars, distributed among
ten companies.
ALonCon telegram says the steam
ship Nevada, which arrived at Queens
town Sunday last from New York, came
in collision with an iceberg during a
fog, and received some damage. Apor-
ton of the iceberg became detached and
fell on her forecRstle.
As the night express, going north, on
the Richmond and Cincinnati road,
neared P,scry's station, two miles from
Richmond, Indiana, Wednesday night,
the train was ditched by a misplaced
switch, evidently for the purpose of rob-
berry. No one was seriously injured.
News has been received that the
French steamship company has dis
missed from its service Captains Ler-
nsiTe ard RoUssau, the former of the
steamer Europe, and the latter of the
steamer .Amerique. Both have been re-
moved fer abandoning their vessels.
At Crab Orchard, Kentucky, last Sat-
urday, boy named Smith cut man in
the wrist with knife, from which he
died the next day. The boy was selling
apples ard the man plsyfully grabbed at
the basket, when the boy struck at him
with the knife. An artery was severed.
The third national chess congress held
its closing meeting in Chicago Thurs
day. The score at the end Of the tour
nament stood: Mckenzie, 81; James
Hosmer, S; Judd, z; Book, 4; COngdon,
u; Perrin, l. Mckenzie therefore won
the first prize, two hundred and twenty
five dollars, and Hosmer the second
prize.
A cable dispatch announces the safe
arrival at Cork, Ireland, of the schooner
G. B. Benson, which sailed from To!e-
do, Ohio, in May lest, and from Montreal
June 4th, with cargo of twenty-fOur
thousand bushels of corn, and which, to-
gether with the PamlicO, of Chicago,
was recently reported lost off the coast
Of Newfoundland.
A large crowd witnessed the departure
of the steamship Ohio from Philadelphia
for Liverpool Thursday morning, with
the members of the Boston and Ath-
letic base ball clubs on their professional
tour in England. A number of friends
of both clubs accompanied them down
the river as far as Delaware City with
bands OF music.
The annual election for directors Of
the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad,
at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Thursday, re-
suited as follows: w. o. Hughart, Grand
Rapids; ]. G. Wait, Sturgis, Michigan;
p. II. Hoagland, 2. P. Randall, Fort
Wayne; VIM. Tallcott, Chicago; J. n.
McCulloch, Chas. q. Messler, Wm.
Shaw, PittsbHrg; Thoa. Scott, Geo. B.
Roberts, John z. Green, Philadelphia;
Robert B. Potter, New York; II. J. jew
EFT, Columbus, Chic.
At a meeting Of the stockholders Of
the Erie railroad company, President
Watson, who retires, was heartily in
dorsed, and the following board of di-
rectors elected: Hugh J. Jewett, Thos.
A. Scott, John King, jr., John Taylor
Johnston, NJ. o. Roberts, Frederick
Schuehardt, w. Butler Duncan, Edwin
d. Morgan, H. Baltzer, S. l.. NJ. Bar
low, L. II. Meyer, Henry G. Ste6bins,
r. Suydam Grant, Lueius Robinson,
john A. G. Grey, Courtland T. Parker,
Homer Ramsdell.
The treasurer has directed that all
national banks viii be permitted to make
good the amounts charged to the five
per cent. fund for the redemption of
their notes by the remittance OF national
bank notes, thus saving the expense Of
remitting legal-teu6er notes from the
treasury department IN return for bank
notes redeemed, and of the return of
legal-tenders by the banks to make good
the five per cent. The first deposit of
five per cent. must, however, be made
in legal-tenders in all eases.
The Democratic State convention Of
Indiana met at Indianapolis Wednes-
nd lar aNk
platform adopted arraigne the Republi-
can party for corruption and general IN
efficiency, and declares in favor of a
strict construction of the constitution
and the tariff for revenue. The resolu-
tions favor the redemption of the five
twenty bonds in green backs, the repeal
Of the national banking law and the
substitution of greenbacks, and a return
to specie payment as soon as business
interests will permit,
A bill has been introduced in the
house Of lords, by the Duke of Ricn-
mond for the virtual disestablishment
of the church Of Scotland. 1t provides
that all the liVings shall be turned over
to the finale cOmmunicantsn of each
parish, the government giving those it
holds for nothing, and the communi-
cants paying 10 the owners of the Others
one years purchase. The government
owns three hundred Ivings, worth four
hundred and fifty thousand pounds; the
remaining six hundred, held by private
individuals, are valued at about nine
hundred thousand pounds. 1t is thought
that the church will be made stronger
by this reform, and that q reunion be-
tween it and the free church, which sep
aratel from it many years ago on this
question Of State patronage, might then
be effected.
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