Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-12
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The King of the cannibais was in
! Pittsburg yesterday.
A fifty ty-thousand-doilar fire occurred
at Darien, Georgia, yesterday
The Protestant Episcopal convention
met at Davenport Thursday.
Rev. II. c. Potter, of New York, has
/ been elected bishop OF the diocese Of
Iowa.
/ Philadelphians favor the three-sixty
/ five greenback bill of Mr.. Kelly, now
before congress.
The R0ckland shoe company Of Rock
/ land, Maine, mas suspended, the entire
capital having been absorbed.
a man named Park BEauib fell from
the roof OF a house in Omaha, Nebras-
ka, yesterday evening and died shortly
after.
/ The official returns from all the cOuu-
/ ties in Missouri give majority of two
hundred and eighty-three foT the eonsti-
/ tU,iOnal convention.
Patrick Ledwick, drayman, died at
/ Cincinnati. yesterday. from the effects
I of "A blow nom q gaspipe, while III
quarrel with Edward GOffney.
/ J.B Roderick's Touring mill, in Lex
/ ingtOu, Kentucky, was burned Sunday
night. Loss, twenty thousand dollars;
| insurance, five Thousand dollars.
The Presbyterian church AMI chapel
/ at Bridgeport, Connecticut, burned on
/ Wednesday night. Loss sixty thousand
/ dollars; insurance thirty-five thousand.
A council of the oranges o. SOUTH
western OLio, south western Indiana
and northern Kentucky was held at
| Greenwood hail, in Cincinnati, yester-
day.
4 man named William M'Daniels
was arrested at Omaha, Nebraska, last
Thursday night. He answers the de-
scripti0n of one Of the Muncie train /
robbers
The President has psrdOned two men |
convicted OF kuklux offanses, who we're
sentenced each to five years imprisOn-
ment in the Albany, New York, peni- |
! tentiary.
/ Judge M'Cue, in the city court of
Brooklyn yesterday ordered the bill OF
| particulars asked for by Beecher in the /
suit brought against him by TiltOn, PEE
! scTibing limitations.
Senator Morton occupied his seat in |
/ the senate Thursday. looking much bet !
( ter than for several years. He was warm |
/ ~ congratulated by senators on both !
/ sides Of the chamber.
A telegram from New Orleans !
/ Wednesday says that two men are
reported killed and four dangerously |
wounded by the explosion Of a boiler !
on Miliigan's plantation.
The trial of jesse POmeroy, the boy |
murderer, was concluded in Boston |
Thursday. The jury brought in ver-
dict Of murder in the first degIee, with |
| a recommendation TO mercy.
Matthew and James Torpinal were |
killed by Herman and James Mario at |
Magnolia Plantation, St. Bernard par
ish, Louisiana, yesterday. Cause of the |
difficulty not stated. The murdeTers es-
capped.
A fire at Charleston, West Virginia, !
Thursday night, destroyed ali the build /
ings on both sides of Kanawha street, |
from Court to Andersen street. The /
loss is estimated at two hundred thou
sand dollars.
A distinct shock of earthquake was
felt at ten and 3 half o'clock Thursday
night in the upper part of the city Of
New York. All along the Hudson river
families were reused from their beds,
croekery broken, etc.
The governor of Pennsylvania has
directed the discharge of Captain Bur-
cbard and the disbandment Of his COM
pany at Altoona, because their arms
were loaned during the recent disturb
ances on the Western division Of the
Pennsylvania railroad.
a fire in Cincinnati yesterday morn
ing consumed the planning mill Of James
Griffith & Son, corner of Hunt and
Broadway streets. Loss sixty thousand
dollars; insurance tWenty-siX thousand
dollars. The fire is supposed to have
been the work Of al incendiary.
w. w. DrummOnd, who claims to De
a brother Of Judge DrummOnd, OF Chi
cago, and says he WRs formerly Judge of
the United States district court OF Ore
gon, was arrested at 81. Louis, yesterday,
on 3 charge Of perjury, and IN default of
fifteen hundred dollars bond was COM
mitted to jail.
In the senate at Columbus, Ohio,
Tuesday, a resolution was adopted dj-
rectlng into inquiry into the alleged un-
Just Determinations Of fsst-fceight lines. |
A bill was introduced fixing the salary |
Of members OF the legislature at five
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tions for absence,
A few days since Mrs. Rosa Tresner |
died in Cincinnati under peculiar cir |
cumstauces, and a coroner's inquest was
held. The investigation was closed /
yesterday, after finding a verdict that |
| the woman died from the effect OF an I
abortion produced by DR.. n. Laaman |
The coroner issued an order for his ar
rest.
A fight occurred at the clearinghouse /
OF Mrs. Thomas in st. Louis Thursday, |
| in which two cOunteTfeiters named Rob-
ert l.. Wilmea and George Rankin, and /
q man named Watts, were the partici- |
pants. Watts was severely cut about
| the face, neck, head and breast, and
Wilmer was shot in the breast. Both of
/ the men were badly wounded.
The Iowa State grange, in session at
Desmoines yesterday, adopted resOlu.
/ tiOn recommending the removal and
I location Of the national range in the
Mississippi valley. The committee to
confer with the grasshOpper relief agents
reported i've thousand people suffering
/ ia each OF the States Of Kansas and Ne
brasks. Miss Julia A. Garretson was
elected State lecturer OF the grange, Uice
/ Mr.. Wilkinson, resigned.
A telegram from London Thursday,
says that the official acceptance, on the
/ mart Of Great Rritaiu Of tbe invitation