Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-24

OuA hDeiIiesJ Auu threatening the de-
struetion Of our government"
In a difficulty between Michae! Car
roll and Mrs. Carey, a boardinghOuse
keeper at Fort Wayne, Indiana, yester-
day, the latter pushed the former down
a flight Of stairs, breaking his backbone,
causing death in few minutes.
The Rhode Island legislature is still
! hammering away at the work of choos
| ing United Safes senator, in which
! Burnside is still in the lead, but slightly
on the wane. George II. Brown was
yesterday elected ehief-justice of the su-
preme court OF the State.
Senator Schurz, In the discussion Of
the mouth of the Mississippi in the
senate Monday night, said that it is a
great scandal TO the American nation
that great water-route like the Missis-
sippi river had be en- left unprovided for
during quarter of century.
In an affray between two sets of hands
on the Sh0rt-line railroad, fifteen miles
from Parkersburg, Saturday last, Nc
DOwells, contractor, was badly beaten
by constable. Sunday McDoweils'
force, fully armed, attacked Wards par
ty and killed tive negroes.
Ex-United States Senator A. G. Cat
tell, New Jersey, William A. Dennison,
OF Ohio, x-postmsster-general and
Henry t. Blow, Of Missouri, are ap-
pointed commission to take charge of
the District of Columbia until the new
form of government shall have been
prepared and adopted.
The President has nominated Benja-
min Moran to be third assistant secretary
of state, George b. Chalmers to be sp-
pralser OF merchandise at Pittsbufg, and
Robert Nd. Douglas 20 be UEited States
marshal for the western district OF North
Carolina.
Clarke Evans, who recently murdered
Mr.. Holburt, in Green county, Illinois,
was taken from jail in Carrollton at two
O'Clock Sunday morning, by q large mob
Of disguised men, and hanged to a tree.
near the outskirts of the town. None of
the lynchers were recognized.
A Rome dispatch of Sunday says that
as the multitude were returning from
the grand Te DeuDl at st. Peters, the
pope was seen at one OF the windows of
the vatican. Hundreds OF people waved
their handkerchiefs, and some ex-pon-
tificai policemen shouted "Long live the
pope, our king" Several arrests were
made, and the troops cleared and took
possession of the streets.
AT Boston yesterday the dedica ton OF
the Harvard college memorial hall,
erected to commemorate the names of
the graduates who perished in the late
civil war, and also those who have other
wise won distinction in the services of
their country, took place. Charles Fran
els Adams delivered the oration, and
Oliver Wendell Holmes read a poem.
The cost of the building is about three
hundred thousand dollars.
George Z. Patton, sheriff of CLAW
county. Missouri, has fled libel suits in
the circuit court in st. Louis against the
Republican and Globe, of that city, for
publishing alleged defsmatory articles
in relation to the killing of Detective
White, of Chicago, while the latter was
attempting to arrest the James brothe =
for rObbing the Iron Mountain railroad
st Gasden Hill. The damages are laid
at fifty thousand dollars in each case.
While the International circus was
parading the streets at VanW Vert, Ohio,
yesterday morning, the tiger which was
riding on top Of wagon became en-
ragged at something and made q terrible
attack upon its keeper, MademOiselle De
badly laeerating her hand
and limbs and tearing her clothes in
shreds. She retained her presence OF
mind and succeeded in keeping the beast |
partly eowed until it was secured, when |
she tainted. Her injuries are not dam |
gerous.
Marshal Conchas, leader Of the repub- |
lican army in Spain, proposes now to |
defeat the Carlists by confining their Op- |
srations to narrow limits by means OF |
lines commencing at Loarcos, |
passing Estella, Puenta Ia Reina, and |
Pamplona, terminating at Avez. He |
it usoioss to employ hts army I
n continual engagements with the enc I
my who is without a definite plan Of the |
If feasible, his plans are GER
.ainiy most humane.
The President having approved of the |
1ill for the distribution Of the Geneva |
ward, nominated to the senate the fol- |
owing gentlemen to be judges of the !
court of commissioners of the Alabama |
claims: Hesekiah G.. Wells, of Michi- |
ysn; Martin Ryerson, of North Caro-
ina; Kenneth Raynor, of Mississippi; |
George Woodward, of Pennsylvania, !
and Caleb Baldwin, of Ohio; also, John |
Davis, OF Massachusetts, to be clerk Of |
he court of commission.
A London telegram states that the /
Dope has been presented with a copy of |
he address sent from the United States |
o Archbishop LeDochovski, of Herne.
The holy father, in replying, spoke most
Of America, and said: ''The |
United States is the only country where
am really pope in the eyes of the Pov-
.rnment. l am always afraid that
European governments shall oppose or
control my acts, whereas can freely
end pontifical documents to the United
States without fear Of opposition on the
)art OF its government