Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-31

Knocked down in his Office and his safI
robbed Of about ten thousand dollars.
Bridge Hurrsd-Eighs Persons KIlIeC
1n a Mine EEpiOsiOH-
SALT LAKE, December SO.-A bridg'
burned between Evanston and Greer
river yesterday, Decessitating q change
of csrs.
An explosion in a coal mine neal
Evanston, Wyoming, resulted in tht
death Of eight persons.
sore TroubIe smDnE the Miners.
LOUISVILLE, December 50.-Muct
trouble is expected at the Render Goa
mines in Ohio county, Ke lucky. Somt
weeks since the miners employed strucE
for higher wages and the company pro
cured from Louisville an entirely new
set Of men. The new employees have
been frequently threatened by the strik-
ems, and yesterday ABOUT one hundred o.
the latter, some OF them armed, appear
ed at the mines and demanded that
work be suspended. The president o.
the company has applied to the COVER
nor for aid, but no answer has yet beeu
Disastrous Fire.
CORRY, PA, Dscember 30.-This
morning at hsn past two o'clock fire
10 a small alley between
the United States hotel and the Capital
opposite Cory depot, and
swept q block Of buildings from Center
street TO Gufferg's hotel, including the
United States hotel, Capital Senate ho-
tel, American hotel, JacksOn's candy
factory aud French & Webber's billiard
@asuH stE
thousand dollars. Another fire broke
out tonight at fOrty-fve minutes past
ten o'clock in the cooper shop Of How
lett, Berdwell & Co Tue buildings were
Owned by A. f. Kent, consuming the
entire shops and a vacant bOIse near
by. Loss about seven thousand dollars.
suIcsde-se1teueet 10 be HauEed-A
Rsptsf sent Up Eif.ceo Years.
CLEVELAND, o., December 30.-Hor-
ace f. Andrews, a young man well
known in this city, committed suicide
st an early hour this morning by shoot
ing himself at the rssldence OF his moth
er on Huntington street. The deceased
left a note for the coroner in which he
said the cause that led him to commit
the act can't be asceTtained by investi-
CATION. Be also left letters in which he
Of every article OF his property.
Judge Caldwell to-day sentenced John
Johnson the murderer of Andrew John
son, to be hanged on April 2S, 1875.
a young man, named George Randall,
convicted OF rape, was sentenced to the
for fifteen years.
spencer PetaIs Wants a Pardsz.
New York World.l
D1-r-r.- Sr
stood that the governor and council OF
Massachusetts, have been graveIy con-
the subject Of granting an un-
conditional pardon 10 Spencer Pettis,
who is now serving a term st Charles
town for implication in the BOlles
forgery case, by which the firm Of
Mathew BOlles q Co, Of this city, was
5windled out Of ten Thousand dollars.
The effort to pardon Pettis is influenced
oy q Number Of New York and Boston
capitalists. who need him to testify
against Gleason and Roberts, who, it is
aid, are implicated in forging railway
ponds 20 a large amount. Pettis knows
! good deal about this case, and il is al
eyed that Roberts is willing TO spend
WeDty thousand dollars to keep Pettis
n prison. Respecting the BOlles case,
Pettis now says that ne has been wrong
ully convicted of any crime in the mat
er, but that he wss tried on a charge of
orgeTy for nineteen thousand dollars
SIX years pre- siously, and
)ut Of which several detectives received
/ percentage. On this charge Pettis was
and further says that the at
empt 70 convict on this charge was an
lrrfFqUa on an innopnnt man
sfuFder VIII OHt.
Reading pa Times, December llthl
A startling story OF murder most foul
md unnatural comes to us from cOrre-
pOndent residing at Lebanon. He writes
o US yesterday as follows: "On Friday
asst 2 hotel-keeper living a short dis
ance west Of Lebanon appeared vOlun-
ariiy before Sheriff Francis H. Eb1r,
md said there was something pTeyiDg
lpon his mind, aud then made the fol-
owing confession: About sixteen years
lgO a sister Of the hotel-keepef's wife
made s visit to bis house in Annville,
Lebanon county, wh9reupon the hotel
keeper and bis wife went out into the
table to catch q chicken for dinner, aud
While thus engaged difficulty arose be-
.weeu them which ended in the commits
non of the horrible crime Of murder. 1t
appears, according to the confession, that
10 struck bis wife 3 blow which sent her
lnder the heels OF the horse, aud that the
mimal subsequently kicked her, causing
ler death. At the time of the occurrence
very body thought that the death had
esulted from the kick OF the horse, and
{ was so stated by the husband. A few
srssubsequently ths hOtel-keeper mar
led a second wife, and to her he made
. full confession OF the crime, and TO no
me else, until few days ago, when he
lao made the confession to his son, re-
iding in Philadelphia. The hotel keep
r is said to be sober man, and has
.iwsys borne a good reputation in the
where be resided. But the
errible weight on his mind, snd gosd-
d conscience, compelled him TO make
he confession.
Fires in Arkansas.
White River Journal, 25t1.l
From Colonel Hughes, who came up
N the Augusta on Thursday, we learn
bat a fire broke out ia Judge Kerr's
about three O'Clock Thursday
morning, destroying the house and con-
ents, and the adjoining store Of Wheel
OK. and a saloon. Kerr lost all Of his
'Oods, books, etc, and two Thousand
.ollars ia money is said to have burned.
The WheelOcss did net lose mucn out
ide OF their buildings. The origin Of
he fire is unknown. This Is the. second
,isitaiiOn OF the fire fieDd in our sister
0Sn within q few months.
On AOndey lsst the residence OF Rob
ut and Mike Gillespie, two miles north
vest Of Devalls Bluff, was destroyed by
Ire, together With all their household
fleets. Mr.. Robert Gillespie iafOrms us
haf no one was about the house when
be fire occurred, but II is supposed to
ave originated from the careiess1ess Of
hired man, who had Been Ct the house
0 get dinner, aud built fire for the GER
'Ose al warming coffee, and the fire
oiled dow1 en- the floor, which caused
he conf sgration. The loss is estimated
{ seven hundred doDsTS, which falls
.eayily upon the Gillespie brothers.
Ssisfae frSns shame.
hieagO Trlbunel
WAsHINeToN, D. c., December 27-.
lev. j. n. COoms, pastor Of the West
m PTesbytaTisn church OF this city,
6mmitted suiside here this morning
Inder extraerdinary circumstances. A
Iunday paper eontsined the following
sTagraph: HFor many months the
tore of s prominent bookseller has been
-isited by msn veil on 10 yesrs, and
Ieatly dressed, after the .rshion OF
niD.ster Of The gospel. he would wE,s
round the store, examining books, read
pg passages, bat never making q pur-
hsse. Lately our stationsT has missed