Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-27
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

Viee-President Wilson left Washing
ton yesterday for Boston, where he will re-
main three or four weeks.
The house committee on the Pacific
railroad yesterday agreed TO report fayOrably
on the trans-eontinental bill.
In Newark, New Jersey, yesterday,
two men were killed while assisting an en-.
gine, on its way to a fire, out of a rut.
A German carpenter, named Denny,
jumped OF ferry boat while in the middle
OF the river at Louisville, yesterday, and
drowned. Supposed to be insane.
The citizens of Chelmsford, Massachu-
setts, report the shock of an earthquake,
which shook the buildings at that place sun
day noon, causing considerable alarm.
1t is understood that the physicians of
Boston, New York, Philadelphia and other
cities, have combined to secure the bodies of
the Siamese twins at any price, for autopsy.
The Ohio Falls car company, of Jeffer-
sonviIle, Indiana,whic suffered by the panic,
recently perfected satisfactory arrangements
with its creditors, and is prepared 10 resume
work.
On Wednesday last, about six o'clock,
Shannon Felker, a worthy farmer on Boyd's
creek, Sewer county, was killed by a man
named Jacob Cummings, who has been in his
employ for some time.
w. II. Dunberry, of the firm of Dun
berry Co.. steamboat builders of Wheeling,
died yesterday OF typhoid pneumonia Mr..
Dun berry is the last or the original members
OF this well known firm.
Some articles Of jewelry stolen from a
store in Brooklyn have been found in the safe
OF Trinity church, among the sacred utensils,
where they were left for safety. The alleged
thief, however, claims the jewelry as his own.
Owing to the reduction Of wages from
three dollars and half to three dollars, the
ship-carpenters OF Philadelphia and Camden
are on a strike. A general strike among the
ship-csrpenters of New Jersey is apprehend-
ed, according to dispatches.
The grand jury of Nashville yesterday
found true bill of murder in the first degree
against Albert Powers for the murder of
Maurice Eagan, Saturday evening last.
Joseph Cox was also indicted and held in a
bond OF 1ve thousand dollars as an accessory
thereto.
The sub. committee of the house COM
mittee on commerce have agreed to the bill
known as the steamboat bill, which passed
the house at the last congress, and failed in
the senate. They VIII report 1t TO the full
committee to-day.
In the Ohio legislature yesterdays bill
was introduced to provide that State, county,
township and village treasuTers shall not be
obliged to give bond; that all violations of
said trusts shall be considered misdemeanors,
and that the counties, townships and villages
shall be held responsible for all defalcations.
The chamber of commerce of Cincir-
natl adopted the report of its RAILROAD COM
mittee yesterday, advising the trustees of the
Southern railroad to make terms, II favorable
ones were offered, for the use of the Newport
and Cincinnati railroad bridge over the Ohio
at that point, instead OF building d new
bridge.
A New York telegram announces that
suit has been begun against the official board
and Ex-Postmaster Jones, of this city, on the
ground that the late postmaster Is responsible
for the alleged defAlcatiOn, of more than one
hundred thousand dollars, Ly John W. Nor
ton, ex-superintendent of the money-order
department.
The President has issued an Executive
all
est In all the departments at Washington be
collected for the coming cen tennial exhibition
In 1876 Some Of the members OF congress and
heads OF departments would be regarded with
considerable curiosity by visitors on that i'm
portant occasion.
The trustees of the Southern railroad
company commenced opening bids at Cincin-
bSid w. ISr gFauIng, nunnenng spd
south OF Danville to near Chitwood's, on the
State line, distance of eighty-ive miles.
There were over three hundred bidders. The
results cannot be announced for two weeks.
A telegram from Springfield, Ohio,
reports horrible outrage Sunday night by
John Norwood, colored, twenty-five years old,
" " utsle ~ sLi " seven years oIu, the daughter
OF respectable Citizen Norwood was cap
tured after desperate fight to-day and
lodged in jail. The Indignation Of the people
is so great that it is believed he VIII be taken
from Jail and lynched tonight.
A telegram from Chicago says the
second session of B'nat Birth attracted even
more attention than the one of the preceding
day. A proposition was entertained to en-.
courage Jewish seminary; also, recognizing
the Cincinnati union Of congregations; ; to erect
a horne for antiquated brethren, etc. Mr.. A. e.
Frankland made speech before the session,
which was heartily spplauded.
A motion was entered yesterday, be-
fore the house committee on elections, pro-
viding that the contest OF Pinckback, for a
stopped from further proceedings. The COM
mittee dedided TO postpone action on the mo-
ton, with the understanding that the case
would be taken up, in regular order, on its
pose Of prtDld IGeie cases.
The indications are that the internal
revenue receipts for this month will foot up
nine million i've hundred thousand dollars,
of which one million, it is estimated, will
come from the semi-annual tax on banks
other than national banks, leaving the bal
snce OF the months COLLECTIONS at about the
average Of monthly collections during this
fiscal year previous to the panic.
A young man named Perrine, of New
York, on his way home, died on the Union
Pacific train, which arrived at Omaha on
young man named P. F. Davenport, a native
of Massachusetts,, and brother-in-law of Ex-
Governor Clafin, Of that State, died of the
on Sunday. The two were intimate friends
and had been travelling in California for their
health.
Lieutenant General Sheridan was be-
yesterday. He expressed the opinion that the
reduction Of the army would imperil the
peace OF the frontier settlements He ridi-
culed the idea OF influencing the Indians by
moral snasiOn, and thought the present peace
policy OF the government to be most eff
ciently and cheaply administered by the war
department.
A Springfield, Massachusetts, dispatch
says that the Amherst College boating associa-
tion has unanimously resolved that The hold
ing OF the regatta at Saratoga would be hostile
to the welfare Of the rowing associations of
colleges in general, and of Amherst college in
particular, and that Amherst will not row in
Saratoga water. A Boston dispatch says It is |
thought that neither Harvard nor BoWdoin |
viii be represented in the college regatta of !
next season at Saratoga.
DR.. William Smith, of Pittsburg, was !
arrested yesterday, charged with poisoning, |
having caused the severe illness of James /
McDchald, q citizen OF TemperanceVIlle, /
and subsequently of his granddaughter, a 4
child about eight years Of age, which resulted /
IN her death. A p0st-Bl0TteB examination of /
the latter revealed the presence of arsenic in |
large quantities. Smith has been the family |
physician OF the McDonalds for number OF /
years. The affair has created much ex- |
and called to mind the |
many sudden deaths that have oc- |
CURED during the past eight or nin9 I
years, OF which It is now supposed Smith is /
the author. He was convicted OF passing |
money, and sentenced to the pen- !