Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-03
The Brewers and the Temperance Party
-R0ehefOrt Again-ShOcking EHr-
der Distinguished Arrivals
Etc ETC., Z
PREPARATIoas FoR rHE PIANErARY
EXPEDITION.

K PREPARATIONS FOR THE PLANETARY
j EXPEDITION.
NEW YORK, June 9 = The United
I States war vessel Gettysburg arrived at
j the navy-ysrd yesterday, with instru-
ments and appliances for the scientific
corps engaged 10 make observations Of
the transit of Venus. Everything was
| speedily transferred TO the Swatora.
| The stores contain five sets of houses
] and teuts, besides the scientific instru-
ments, which include five splendid
clocks, each worth nearly fourteen hun
dred dollars. The value OF tlle entire
usaterisi is said 10 be about fifty thou
sand dollars. The officers Of the Swa-
tora and the corps OF scientific gentle
men who are among the outfit for the
expedition, have supplied sectional
houses for HobartOwn, q place of fifty
thousand Inhabitants. The scientific
party numbering twenty-six In all, are
ordered on board the Swatora Wednes-
day.
PARTICULARS OF THE DROWNING or
THE AMERICANS IN SWITZERLAND.
Private letters TO the friends of one
OF the American students drowned st
Lzuscerne, Switzerland, give some OF
the details OF the accident. One of the
Crone brothers was found setting upright
in the boat, nearly submerged, wrapped
ia a sail, and frozen stiff, bis hands
clutching the sides OF the boat 50 hard
that the skin was torn from his fingers.
As the two days intervening between
the departure of the boys and the dis
covery Of this body had been stormy
ard cold, il is supposed the I
fIta ar1s =
storm, and attempting 10 lower the sail
the smaller one Of the Crone brothers
fell overheard, and that William Wood I
bury, who was an excellent swimmer,
spraRg overheard TO save him, but that
both were drowned. The remaining
boy, it is supposed, wrapped himself in
the sail for projections but became
drenehed, and froze 70 death in the long
continued storm.
ROCHEFORT.
RochehOTt has declined banquet, and !
has consented to deliver lecture Fri |
day evening at the Academy OF Music, |
taking for his subject, 'France, from the 4
overthrow of the empire to the present |
time" The proceeds will be applied to /
the relief of eXiles at New Caledonia, 4
their destitute wives and children, and /
the widows and children of COMMUNISTS 4
Killed during the war.
BREWERS ASSOCIATION.
The United States brewers associa-
tion, to meet in Boston Thursday. will I
endeavOT TO form a temperance party,
the initial work thus far planned being
the organization Of leagues OF freedom
throughout the country. An address Is
ia which the necessity for
opposition 10 the temperance movement,
that which takes the form Of
women crusaders, Is vehementiy urged.
HAILED.
Charles Contender, ex-bank examiner,
has been hailed in fifteen thousand dol
lars 10 appear for third trial when call
ed upon. ~ @
SHOCKING MURDER.
Soon after the family OF Michael De-
vine of No. SO North Eighth street, ,
Brooklyn, and consisting of himself,
wife and three children, aged seven, four
and two years, arose this morning, his
wife stepped behind her husband and
struck him on the head with a cooper's
adze. He wrested the weapon from her
and ran 10 the ststionhouse TO have his /
wounds dressed. Officers were sent TO {
secure the woman, and on arriving at |
he residence found the children living {
N the floor dead, their beads beaten 10 I
. Jelly with a iat-iron. The woman, on
leing asked why she had killed the I
children, answered: ''She was gong 10 !
20 to heaven, and wanted them,tO go be- I
ore her" The fatbef's wounds are (
houghtt0 be fatal. Deyine is 8 cooper, !
md has been on the strike for week S
'ast. and thinks that led 10 his wife's 1
insanity. 70 {
DISTINGUISHED ARRIVALS.
President Grant, accompanied by Sec !
etaries Richardson and Robeson, and
ieneral Babeoek, arrived this morning I
Jr the purpose Of attending the cere- : :
monies OF laying the cornerstone OF the
iuseum of Natural History in Central !
ark. = - \
MRS. JAMES FISK.
In the case of Lucie ID. Fisk, execu- \
riK of the late James Fisk, ir., TO de- ,
ermine her right as, stOekhOlder in the :
Union Pacific railroad company 10 the !
mount of twenty thousand shares, /
udge Blatchford gave 8 decision to-day !
the demurrer, and stating | !
hat the bill was properly framed, and /
hat sl the parties are proper parties TO /
he suit. -- :
HE TAX ON GOLD AND STOCK SALES. s
The governing committee Of the stock I
will hold meeting to-day 70 ;
axe action iE regard To the proposed tax !
n the sales OF gold and stocks. J
Gypsy LEADER KILLS ONE OF HIS
TBIBE.
A gipsy fortune-teller, encamped with /
is tribe q few miles from Brooklyn, I
4. l.. - I
and. He struck her, and her son, a I
0y, knocked him down. The leader +
red several shots at the boy. The lat q
sr, who was hit, staggered toward the 4
satier and stabbed him in the arm. The y
5ader then shot the boy through the =
cart. The body was thrown into one =
{ the wagons, and the hand hastily left. r
m armed party has gone in pursuit. o
THE LABOR STRIKE. s,
The strike Of the laborers vino attend u
n bricklayers brought woi K TO stand "
i'll to-day on many buildings. New a
zen were obtained in some cases, and A
be large contractor has decided 10 OBJ Il
lin Italians instead OF the Iaborers re- q
.ntly in his employ. pl
ELIEF FoR THE OVERFLOW SUI y, "
FERERS. ~
The president of the produce ex- lv
lange forwarded to-day 70 the Howard ~
sOciatiOB, at New Orleans, twenty On
ge hundred dollars for the relief OF the -
Ifierers by the Mississippi overflow. ~
oUR RECIPROCITY WITH CANADA. hi
The committee TO visit Washington VI
the purpose Of urging the govern "a
ent TO renew the reciprocity treaty 10
ith Canada left this affarnoou- 4 Dr
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Another Min River Victim. -
SPRINGFIELD, MASS, June 2.-The ~
'dy Of boy, drowned in the Mil river Ar
ssster, has been recovered bv the la- di