Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.


z Grasshoppers are playing the devil in
East Tennessee.
Chicago is investigating the manage
ment of her fire department.
The child-abduetion sensation con-
tinues at high fever in Philadelphia. No
clue yet.
ACaflist magazine exploded last week
at QuiZa. Thirty men were killed and
large number wounded.
In Sing Sing prison, Sunday morning,
VIM. West, convict, fatally stabbed VIM.
Bentley, another convict.
Agnes and HannGh Welch, sisters,
were drowned at Cumberland Mills,
Maine, Saturday, while bathing.
Teresa Fessler, wife of New York
salOon-keeper, was killed in that city
Sunday morning by John O'TOOle.
w. n. Reeves, a boy, was drowned in
a bathroom in Terre Haute, Sunday,
caused by escape Of gas into the room.
The city high-school building in IDdi-
annapolis was partially destroyed by fire
yesterday. Loss from ten to fifteen thou
sand dollars.
The national executive committee Of
the Union League of America will meet
at Philadelphia, on Thursday, the thiF-
tieth instant.
Robert ]. Watson was arrested in New
York yesterday, charged with attempt
ing TO pass forged United States bonds
on the sub-treasury.
On the twentieth instant, not far from
Jeffervilie, Kentucky, it is reported that
two brothers by the name of Ballard
quaueled and cut each other fatally.
McGrath, the owner of Tom Bowling,
says he has turned the horse out, and
will not run him again this year. He
still hopes he may ultimately recover.
John Jay, minister to Austria, who
recently returned to Vienna, is not ex-
pected to much longer occupy that posi-
ton, his family desiring him to resign.
The dead body of Miss Marietta N.
Hall, a schOOl-teacher, was found in the
woods near Rutland, Vermont, Sunday
evening, bearing evidence Of outrage
and murder.
The President has issued his prOcla-
nation, ratifying the extraditiOn treaty
with Peru; also a treaty of friendship
and commerce and navigation with the
same government.
Miss Shotwell shot General ROddy
amidships, and he is ineOnsOlable. He
could not secure her conviction for
theft, and everybody in New York be.
lieves they were married.
A London telegram announces the
serious illness of Prince Leopold. His
seventy-thousaud dollars annuity re-
Gently granted by parliament has had
bad effect physically.
Three ears and warehouse of the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern
railway-the latter containing two hum
dred barrels of Oil-weFe DESTROYED by
fire in Chicago Sunday afternoon.
Early Sunday morning a party of
drunken men broke into the saloon of
William Barnard, at Cumminsville,
n Massachusetts. Barnard, while attempt
ing to keep the party out, shot John
MeCOurts dead
The steamship Colon arrived at AS
pinwall, July 18th, from New York, and
brought sixteen of the crew of the City
of Guatemala, ashore on Walters is
land. The remainder Of the crew are
on the City of Guatemala, with the
captain, and are all well.
A terrible landslide occurred at
AlarO, in the province OF Navarro, in
Spain. An overhanging rock fell upon
and utterly destroyed the village. The
disaster was so sudden that few of the
inhabitants escaped. Two hundred
bodies have already been recovered.
Cotton eaterpillars have made their
appearance in force in Orangeburg cOun-
y, in the interior of the State of South
Carolina, as well as on the coast. The
unfavOrable weather and the lateness of
the crop make planters apprehensive
that the worm will do serious harm.
Westfield, Massachusetts, became
awfuily excited Sunday over eight hum
dred dollars worth of liquor, which
some government official was endeavor-
ing to capture, but the owners and their
sympRthizers were far too numerous,
and the cOntraband liquor was left mas
ter of the situation.
Some two years ago one of the most
respectable citizens Of Perry county was
shot and instantly killed by a man
named e. II. NIarbin, because, it is said,
the old gentleman refused Marbin the
hand of his daughter. The murderer
was arrested last week, and is now Sc
ourely lodged in the jail of Perry coun-
ty.
Louis NJ. Van Etten, who was par
dOned from the State prison OF New
York a short time ago, by Governor
Dix, for exposing frauds IN prison, has
been again arrested on the charge of
passing a ten thousand dollar United
States bond on the bank of California.
This bond was identified as one of those
stolen from a room occupied by Costello
del LazOgO, at the st. George hotel,
about three years ago.
1t was reported in Mount Sterling,
Kentucky, on Monday last, that most
horrible murder was committed Sstur-
day evening last on Slate creek, in the
vicinity OF, Jeffersonyille, in the country.
A Mrs. Stephens went to the house OF a
neighbOr-a woman-and literally cut
her TO pieces with an ak, from the effects
Of which the woman expired almost in-
stantly. The green-eyed monster was
at the bottom of the affair.
A Vicksburg telegram of Sunday has
the following: 1.-THE Times CRadicsD of
yesterday says there is no further appre-
hensiOn Of trouble, and no need for
troops. An officer of General EmeryIs
staff arrived here to-dey, and is inter-
viewing the leading members Of both
negro and white parties. The Herald
this morning contains a card, signed by
over three hundred Irishmen, repudiat-
ing Martin Keary, the candidate of the
negroes for mayor