Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-11
TELEGRAPHIC BREYITIES.

The master car-builders association is
in session at Cincinnati.
Over one and a half inches of rain
fell at Omaha yesterday.
The Ohio editorial association con-
vened at ChilicOthe yesterday.
Miss Carrie Helm, burned by coal-oil
explosion in Cairo, Tuesday, died yes
terday.
A large fire occurred at Charlottesville
Indiana, yesterday. Damage thirty
thousand dollars.
General E. w. CAN'T, a prominent
lawyer, of Little Rock, died suddenly
there yesterday of aIoplexy.
Senator Mitchell, from Oregon, was
yesterday exonerated from certain
charges of indiscretions in early life.
Washington circles have become
stirred up on news received of threats of
Indian depradatiOns in northwestern
Texas.
The Illinois State farmers convention
was in session at Springfield yesterday
A large number of delegates are in at
tendance.
Antoine Shafer, butcher, residing at
Burnsville, Ohio, was drowned yester-
day, while bathing in mill-pOnd near
that place.
An indianapolis dispatch asserts that
a new party, to be styled the Farmers'
and Industrial Reform party, will be or
ganized in Indiana.
The Carlists are concentrating and en-
trenching in the vicinity of Puerta la
Reina, in northern Spain. The stormy
weather prevents battle.
San Francisco is looking up in the
suicide business. Two more occurred
yesterday, making an average of one
each day for the past eight days.
a joint committee of whites and
coloreds have called a convention in Pu-
laski county, Arkansas, to nominate
candidates for the constitutional conven-
ton.
The New York communists are wor-
rled about the appearance of estrange-
ment between Rochefort and his assO-
ciates in escape from the French penal
colony.
Colonel Thomas Steele, an old and
influential citizen of Louisville, died in
that city Tuesday, aged sixty-four
years. He was proprietor of the Louis
vile hotel for number of years.
The Arkansas State press association
met in Little Rock Tuesday. The dele
gates want to see st. Louis and die, and
will excurt UiG the Cairo and Fulton
and Iron Mountain railroads to-day to
the future city, etc.
A collision occurred between a pas
senger and freight train on the Louis
vile and Nashville railway, near Bel
mont station, Tuesday morning, by
which one man was cut to pieces, and
several freight-cars demolished.
The first locomotive, with three passen-
ger-coaches attached, passed over the
81. Louis bridge yesterday. There was
wine, and they talked over it, and all
felt so gay, that another trial will be had
at an early day on amuch grander scale.
A London telegram reports a terrific
steamboat accident on the Volga, by
which eighty-eight persons were injured
ard fifteen killed by the explosion of the
boiler Of racing steamer. The owner
of the vessel was among the fatally in
jured.
The Arkansas State press association
met at Little Rock yesterday, and elect
ed the following officers: S. n. Smithee,
president; James Torrans, vice-presi-
dent; Jacob Frolich, secretary. The
members OF the association left for st.
Louis last night on an excursion.
A dispatch from Prescott, Arizona,
states that on May 2Ist, Lieutenant King
and his soldiers attacked a band of
Apaches, camped on Mesa, near Drum
mOnd Butte, and killed nine of them.
Eighty-four more Apaches with three
chiefs, had surrendered at Camp Virde.
A hand.ball match for one thousand
dollars and the championship of Amer
lea has been arranged between Alder
man James Dunn and James Casey, of
Brooklyn, and James O'Brien and
James FarIon, of Chicago. They are
to play eleven games, tweDty-one
points up.