Whig and tribune. [volume] (Jackson, Tenn.) 1870-1877, 1874-06-20
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
The Sioux are on the war-path.
The St. Louis police arc raiding
on the Faro banks of that city.
The Brazilian cable works salts
faetorily.
Ground has been broken for the
St. Louis Union depot.
The suspension of Turner &
Bros. and r. w. Berry, Wall street
brokers, Is announced.
Hon. Jefferson Davis landed at
New York Sunday, and left for
Memphis.
John Cradle, carpenter, was cut
and fatally wounded by a prosti-
tute named Josephine Brown Tues
day morning at Louisville.
Fully one-third of the State of
Louisiana is still under water from
one to two feet deep. 10000 to So
600 people are now in destitute cir
cumstances.
Geo. ". Grayson, Sheriff of Clay
ton county, Ark, arrested in St.
Louis charged with absconding with
$4,000 public funds, has been taken
back for trial. He charges that
the whole matter is persecution.
The Senate Appropriation Com
mittco unanimously agreed 10 re-
port back and recommend the pas
sage of the House bill without
amendment approPriating $780,
900 for the relief Of the sufferers by
the overflow of the Mississippi river.
DIR. S. j. Crittenden was killed
by young Hall, in Conway county,
Ark, few days ago. Hall resisted
a sheriff's posse, killed one member
and wounded another, but was
himself wounded and captured.
DIR. Uhling, for trying to de-
fraud the Merchants Insurance
Company by interring a coffin filled
with bricks instead of dead body,
yesterday received, in a New York
court, an Is months sentence to
prison.
Prattsyi!le, Greene county, n. Y,
has been visited by a great flood,
which carried away houses and de-
stroyed other property. A similar
disaster is reported from Canada.
The Pennsylvania State Grange
adjourned Saturday, after an ex-
tended session. The Master in his
closing speech said that the State
would have 1000 oranges next
January.
The following Consuls were
nominated by the President Tues
day; General Thomas B. Van Ba-
rem, of New Jersey, at Kanagswa;
George Pornutz, Iowa, st. Peters
burg; P. Sidney Post, Illinois,
Vienna; Herman Kreismann, Hi
nois, Berlin; Pat Jones, Ohio, San
Domingo; W. II. Young, Ohio
Mannheim.
At a fire in Port Jervis, Pa,
Monday morning, after all the per-
sons were removed from the burn
ing building, Widow Odell became
possessed Of the erroneous idea that
her child was still In the house,
rushed in through the smoke and
flame, and was burned TO death.
Miss Farratt, who lives near
Westport, KY, was so severely
burned by the explosion of a coal
oil lamp on the 10th that she only
fingered a few hours. She was in
the act of blowing out the lamp
waen it exploded. In attempting
to save her, her father burned his
arm so badly that it is feared am
putation will be necessary.
Specials to the Cincinatti En-
quirer and Gazette from Lawrence
burg, report a horrible and mystic
rious murder near Lawrenceburg,
Ind, discovered late Monday after
noon. In a country tenement, two
miles form LawreEceburg, we're
found the bodies of Mrs. Mary T..
Bradley and her two daughters,
aged 10 and u years, dead and hor-
ribly mutilated. Mrs. Bradley
DO wells were cut open and the Wis
cera exposed. The faces OF the
daughters we're beaten into a Jelly.
The family was poor and had no
money. Mr.. Bradley was labor
ing on a farm at Chilo, Ohio. No
clue TO the motive or the persons
of the murderers.
A dispatch from Washington
states that General Butler is earn
ing many forcible abjurgations.
At least from the principal advo
Gates of the mixed school provision
of the civil rights bill, who declare
that the General has betrayed them.
Thomas W. Conway, formerly of
Louisiana, stated to-day tina. But
Ter told General Sheridan, Pinch
backs opponent for Congressman
at large in Louisiana, that he should
allow q motion to strike out the OBJ
noxious provision, If the bill
should be taken from the table
during the remaining ten days.
Mr.. Conway asked Mr. Butler if
this was true as Sheridan stated,
and the General replied that it was.
All this has greatly chagrined
Downing and others who arc work
ing with him, and Batter is q great
ly denounced as heretofore he has
been praised. There is q slight
possibility of the bill being taken
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