Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The mails of the lost steamship Amer
ique have been recovered.
The whisky crusade was begun in
Manchester, England, Monday.
Augustus Bradley suicided in Cincin-
natl, with pistol, Tuesday. Cause not
known.
Ottawa, Ontario, suffered one hundred
thousand dollars worth by fire Monday
morning.
The Orangemen will celebrate the
twelfth of July in New York with grand
professions.
Mrs. Glenn, of Indianapolis, has sue
ceeded, after five trials, in being acquit-
ted of murder.
A heavy snowstOrm prevailed at Lam
caster, New Hampshire, yesterday.
Snow fell foot deep.
Three children perished in the flames
Of burning building at Harrisburg,
Pennsylvania, Tuesday.
Two hotels and several storehouses
were destroyed by fire in st. Johns,
New Brunswick, Monday.
Three workmen fell from the steam
ship Ocean Queen in New York harbor
yesterday and were drowned.
Three buildings in Newgate street,
London, fell yesterday, killing and
manning number of persons.
The New York produce exchange
committee on contributions yesterday
collected over two thousand dollars
The braRch of the Freedmen's saving
bank in New York requires sixty days
notice on demands exceeding five dol
lars.
A brute, named O'Reilley, beat his
crippled wife 10 death with one of ber
crutches, in Ottawa, Ontario, Monday
night.
A kerosine oil refinery, with Sc eVeral
thousand gallons Of material, was de-
stroyed by fire at Jersey City, New Jer-
sey, Wednesday.
Obadiah Bovine, congressman from
the second district of New York in 1857,
committed suicide in Staten Island, New
York, Monday night.
Martin L. Mclean shot twice and
killed Thad. Pope last Saturday near
Medon, in Madison county, this State.
1t was all about negro who refused to
work for the former, and engaged to the
latter. Mclean was arrested.
At jackson, Tennessee, last Sunday
two locomotives attempted to pass each
other on q single track of the Mobile
and Ohio railway. Result: Two eng
neers badly shaken, and the remains of
two engines had to be swept up, 50 to
speak.
Charles Warner and wife, arrested
Monday in Columbus, Ohio, charged with
assault on the crusaders, appeared before
ha ms rad inn
ton, and were bound over TO court to
answer the charge, in the sum of one
hundred dollars each.
Two nk-and-disorderlies came to
grief in Port Jervis, New York, Wednes-
day, by attempting to "bully" couple
Of strangers, the latter tapping the row.
dies whisky-stuffed hides vigorously
with their pocket-kniges. Moral: Don't
get drunk; but if you will get drunk, be-
have yourself
The wholesale liquor-dealers of San
Francisco have perfected their organiZa-
ton for the purpose of protecting their
customers in the interior from the cru
saders and operative local oppression.
They will raise a large fund to defrsy
the expense of fighting both in the
courts.
w. d. Harrison, lessee of the Globe
theater, lately bnrned in Chicago, who
was arrested on charge of arson, was
honorably discharged yesterday by JUS
tice Scutly. There was no evidence
against the gentleman, and his arrest
without warrant seems TO have been
a gross outrage.
A London dispatch gives the follow
ing particulars of the EPSON spring
meeting, which commenced Monday:
The race for the city and suburban
handicap was won by Aldrich, Minister
second, and Oxford Mixture third. The
final betting was thirty-three to one
against Aldrich, fourteen to one against
Minister, and ten to one against Oxford
Mixture. There were nineteen starters.
An old mannsmed Bratton, aged about
sixty years, and Wiley Williamson,
much younger, got into a difficulty at
Clarendon, Arkansas, last Friday, du-
ring which one "damlied" the other,
when each mounted his horse, and made
at the other in fearful combat, result
ing in the old man being knocked from
his horse, his head coming in On'act
with the corner of a step, causing in
stant death.
VIM. H. Harrison, late treasurer Of
the Globe theateT, in Chicago, which
was burned early Monday morning, was
in that city ON the charge
of having set fire to the building. He
asserts his ability to prove his inno-
cence. He has borne good character
heretofore. The owners Of the theater
claim that it was worth eighteen thou
sand dollars, while the insurance was
only ten thousand dollars.
Shepherd & DeWolf, of New Orleans,
have made a proposition to the st.
Louis merchants that il sufficient freight
Is guaranteed by them to Justify the
venture, they will put on line of steam
ers between New Orleans and Rio
JRneirO, touching at all the important
immediate points. They also propose
to make advances on shipments and ar
range for investment of the proceeds in
coffee OF other products of that country,
If desired.
Early yesterday morning the house of
John Hamnet, near Homestead. abOBt
six miles from Pittsburg, was DESTROYED
by fire, and the entire family, consisting
OF Hamnet, his wife, two children. a
hired man, and boy whom they were
raising, six persons in all, were burned
to death. But two recognizable bodies
were found. A special to the Pittsburg
Chronicle says il is almost certain that
the entire family were murdered. and
suspicion rests upon a man EMPLOYED
on the place. One of the bodies found
among the ruins showed that the throat
had been cut.
J. Keen was killed in Kentucky.
above Cairo, Monday morning, by a
shot from a revolver iu the hands Of ].
Hswes. Both are young men, of about
eighteen, and have lived neighbors for
some years, near the scene ofthe tragedy.
The origin Of the difficulty was that
Keen, on last Thursday, was drifting
down the river with the current, in a
skiff, he lying down, and HaW es think
ing the skiff adrift without an occupant,
attempted to capture it, when Keen rose
and laughed. Hawes vowed vengeance.
and their meeting Monday morning re-
suited in the tragedy above recorded.
Hawes is under arrest at Cairo.