Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-04
GENERAL NEWS.
Best Five-Mile fret on Reeord-GoOd
Friday In New York City-PrOm-
inent Citizens OF New Orr
leans Dead.
Ninth Ballot for United States Senator
by the Massachusetts, LegisIa.
tUre-SeYeral Fires-Fa-
tai Accldents-Sui-
cides, Etc.
Death Of n PrOminent Citizen Of New

Death Of Prominent Citizen Of New
Orleans.
NEW ORLEANS, March 3.-The death
of the following prominent citizens has
been announced in twenty-four hours:
w. T. K. Ffnlay, aged forty-six; Charles
Briggs, aged seventy-nine, and Colonel
James Wingfeld, aged forty-seven.
The Ninth Ballot for the Massachusetts,
seEafOrsksfp.
BOSTON, April 3.-The legislature to-
day had the ninth ballot for United
States senator, as follows: Whole num-
Der of votes, 262; necessary to choice,
1872; Dawes received 81; Hoar, IS; Cur
tis, 20; Adams, IS; Banks, 5; Pierce, 2;
Washburn, Whittier and Phillips, 1
each.
Best FIve-MIIe Time on Record.
SAN FRANCISCO, April Sat the
Oakland park yesterday, the California
mare Lady Mac made what is said to be
the best time recorded in a five-mile
trotting race. She trotted against Je-
rome and Omahall, and sold in the pools
at two dollars against their twenty and
sixty dollars, aud finally won the race;
time, thirteen minutes.
CAIRO, ILL, April 3.-This afternoon
a young man named Ernst Petit was
riding on horseback in the outskirts of
the city, when the fOre-legs of the horse
suddenly sunk into deep hole, causing
him to turn a complete sOmersault and
fall upon Petit, who received serious,
perhaps fatal, injuries. The horses neck
was broken by the fall.
Destroyed by Fire.
MILWAUKEE, April 3.-About mid
night last night, the Masonic block at
Appleton, Wisconsin, was destroyed by
fire. 1t was occupied by Louis BenOit
as a drugstore; Koffend & Fischer, books
and stationery; +. Goff, real-estate
agent; B. A. Douglass, dentist, and
Rhine lodge also occupied part Of the
building. Loss sixteen thousand dol
lars; insurance ten thousand.
100000 Lost by Fire.
CoHoEs, n. y, March 3.-The burn
ing Of the TivOli mills, owned by J. q.
Roots & Sons, caused loss of two hun
dred thousand dollars; insured for twen-
ty-eight thousand dollars, OF which
there is twenty-five hundred dollars in
the Clay, of Newport, Kentucky, and
like amount in the Sun, of Cleveland.
The loss on two other mills was twenty
five thousand dollars; insured for If
teen thousand.
Fatal Accident
CINCINNATI, April 3.-Last night
about nine o'clock, Laurence Ferry, a
clerk in the rail mill, Covington, while
endeaYOring to ascertain the cause of an
accident to the machinery, fell into
narrow pit alongside the fiy-wheel,
which was running very rapidly at the
time, and being caught by the cogs of
the wheel was literally cut into pieces.
He was the son of Francis Ferry, of Gin
cinnati, a well-known insurance man.
A Newspaper Correspondents Arrested.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-To-night,
Detective Sargent, of this city, arrested
Mr.. Buell., correspondent of the St.
Louis Republican and Detroit Free
Press, on a charge of criminal libel, on
a warrant sworn out by Senator
Chandler, of Michigan. Mr.. Buell.
was taken to the residence of
Judge Smell, the police court being
closed, and gave bonds in the sum Of
five thousand dollars, Don Pistt being
bondsman. The bond is for his appear
ance before the police court tomorrow
morning.
Coed Friday I'm GOtbans,
New YORK, April 3.-As the stock ex-
change, produce exchange, cotton ex-
change, and all the courts except United
States cOuIts, are closed to-day, unusual
quiet prevailed down town this morn
ing. The greater number of stores re-
mained open, but comparatively little
business was transacted. The banks,
corporate and private, are open, the law
not authorising them to close, but they
are doing little or no business. Services
were held in all the Protestant Episco-
pal and Catholic churches, and good
congregations were present.
A Decided Case of suicide.
LOUISVILLE, KY, April 3.--The
autopsy in the case Of Adolph Hammers,
late tax-collector of this city, was con-
cluded yesterday, and to-day the ad-
jOurned meeting of inquest was held.
1t will be remem bered that Ramnlers's
accounts with the city are behind nearly
sixty thousand dollars, and that few
months before his death he secured poll
cies on his life in various insurance
companies, amounting in the aggregate
to nearly one hundred and forty thou
sand dollars. The companies demanded
an autopsy, and the evidence before the
Jury to-day showed sufficient morphine
in the stomach to cause death. The jury
brought in a verdict to that effect.
The SouIh Carolina Business Coming TO
a Focus.
WASHINGTON, April 3.-The case Of
South Carolina was considered to-day
by the judiciary committee of the house,
who appointed a sub-cOmmittee--con
sisting of Messrs. Tremaine, Eldridge,
and White-to hear both sides. Next
morning is appointed as
the time for hearing the taxpayers.
The delegation sappointedP Porter. Ker-
shaw, Butler, Elliott, Lathers and 7. G..
Silons a subcommittee to conduct their
ease. The rest of the delegation return
nome tomorrow. The point aimed ats to
induce the judiciary committee to re-
an Investigating committee,
50 that congress may become officially
3Ognizant of the condition of South Car
Dlina. This is considered an indispens-
able preliminary to congressional action.