Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-02
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

| vicinity OF OuiAi1a, Nebraska, flaturday.
The public-debt statement shows a
reduction Of Iiearly four and half mill
lion dollars
Intelllgence has reached Paris tkat a
Communist colonel sent to New Caledo-
MIA has escaped.
The town of Hermann, in Spain, is
hard pressed by the Carlists. A big
| fight may he expected.
Bantields solicitor OF the United States
treasury, has resigned No name is
mentioned as bis successor.
Two deaths have occurred in Harris
burg, Pennsylvania, from frichiRd,
caused by eating raw ham.
Lsouisianians ia Washington say that
two million dollars win be necessary to
! repair the leYee5 in their State.
The nomination of Bristow for secre-
tary Of the treasury is favorably receiv-
ed by both parties IN congress.
The Illinois press excursioRists are do
| ing Washington and its attractions. Mt.
Vernon was visited yesterday.
Mollie Lawson, colored, was sent 10
iaii ~ Nashville yesterday, charged
With killing her infant by strangula-
! ton.
Five raftsmen were drowned by the
| breaking up Of their "Tun' on the rap
ids in st. Ann river, Michigan, yester-
/ day.
The large Touring and carding mill
| owned by Mr.. Casey, at Pennington,
/ Missouri, burned Saturday. Loss, twen-
/ ty-seven thousand dollars; no insurance.
Another dam burstup has occurred,
| this time in Connecticut, but doing
little damage compared with the recent
| occurrence on Mill river, Massachusetts,.
Sixteen houses were~burned on Royal
| street in New Orleans yesterday. Loss
near sixty thousand dollars. A man
named James Anderson was burned to
death.
A Spanish frigate has arrived at Oran,
AlgieTs, to take on board and carry to
Spain the convicts who escaped from
Cartagena at the time of the suppression
Of the intransigent insurrectiOn.
The President hss sent to the senate
the nomination OF Benjamin II. Bris-
tow, of Kentucky, to be secretary of the
treasury, and of William A. Richardson
to be judge OF the court of claims.
Senator Brown, Canadian commits
siOner at Washington, has sent partial
DRAFT of the proposed reciprocity treaty
to Ottawa, and that government APP
proves Of the general features thereof.
The vieeroy of India telegraphs that
rain has been general north Of the Gan
ges, and the portions of country south
Of that river have been visited with rain.
Fears of further distress are measurably
allayed.
A baseball match near Boston, Sun
day, resulted in five or six of theplay-
ers receiving various injuries, some Of
which are of quite serious nature. The
game played out before it was played
out, in nconsequence.
The ship British Admiral, from Liver
pool to Melbourne, went ashore on
Kings island, in Boss straits, q few days
ago, and went to pieces. She had forty
five passengers and a crew of thirty
eight, Of whom only nine were saved.
Marie Dana, young French woman
from New Orleans, committed suicide
in st. Louis yesterday by throwing her
self frem fillh=stoTy window. Disap-
pOiDtment in procuring a Situation fu
the grea, western metropolis is the sup
posed cau5, Of the a0t.
As Prince SAKE Weiman was leaving
his residence in London yesterday to at
tend g levee, he was fired at by an un-
known assassin, who escaped The
prince was Rpt hurt. lie had previous
~ received threatening letters, as has
also the Duke of Cambridge and Mr..
Disraeli.
A Paris letter says that Madame de
Noailles declined accompanying her
husband on his mission to Rome, be-
cause she knew the pap2l government
nd oil I
cline receiving q minister accredited to
the government of Victor Emanuel.
De NOailles has asked to be recalled.
A dispatch from Morocco says that
twelve thousand inhabitants of the eity
of Fez have risen in consequence of the
imposition Of a gate tax. All business
was stopped at last accounts. There
had been no fighting. It was hoped the
sultan would yield to the desires of the
people, and remove the Objectionable
tax.
- The house committee on appropria-
tons directed a section to be put into
the miscellaneous appropriation bill pro-
YldlnS Tor the payment TO the ChOctaw
nation OF Indians two millions three
hundred and thirty-two thousand dol
lars in settlement for land eeded to the
government in the State of Mississippi
by these Indians in 1880.
AT Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Satur-
Gag night, slight fire occurred in the
SIaIe lunatle asylum, the smuke filling
the main building. The inmates be-
came greatly excited, and broken win
dOWs and doors were thrown open, and
four hundred patients rushed out, twelve
of whom escaped from the grounds, and
six Of these are still al large.
4 painter named MeCulioch, while
working on the bridge at Three Sisters
island, Niagara Falls, fell off a scaffoId, |
was carried by the current near the falls,
where he caught on a rock, where he 1
was hanging yesterday. Great excite
ment prevailed. Later dispatches say
he was rescued by a man named Con-
nors, who attached q rope to his own
body and tlOated to the rock to which |
McCulloch was clinging.
In Paris yesterday the Catholic club
gave banquet to the American pilgrims.
Compte de Segur occupied the chair,
and proposed toasts to the POpe and |
American bishops, which were received
with great enthusiasm. Judge Iheard,
OF New Orleans, gave sentiment in
honor Of Catholic France, and in an
eloquent speech revived memories of
Rochambeau and Lafayette. Messrs. !
Forbes, SWanger and others made ap-
prOpriate remarks.
1t is doubtful if any single eongrega-
ton in the world can show such munifi- |
cent gifts during q similar period as
Grace church, New York, of which !
Rev. DR.. Potter is rector. During the past |
year there were contributed for the relig- !
ious and benevolent purposes of the |
parish, S2l5, ,3l4 %, and the collection at |
Easter was about S27, 900. In addition |
to this and to the usual annual eOntribu- !
tiOns, or parish work, Grace church has |
during the past five years contributed |
over $500, 600 for objects outside Of its own |
parish.
Crop reports from various points |
throughout the States of Illinois, Iowa, |
Wisconsin, Indiana, Missouri, Minneso- |
ia, and Kansas, from which it appears |
that on an average the acreage Of wheat |
in lows is much in excess of that of last |
year, and that the yield promises to be
quite Up to the average. la corn, oats |
and barley, fully an average amount of /
land has been seeded, and the crop will |
be large. Fruits Of all descriptions never
looked better, In several counties in /
Iowa, Kansas and Minnesota, grasshop-
pers and ehinchbugs have made their
appearance.
The ship Partuas, from Italy for New
York, sprung leak and sunk IN lati-
tude north 26, longitude 46. The cap
tain and crew took to boats. The boats
containing Captain Devries, John Will
son, carpenter; Henry Brown, sAilma-
ker; William Thompson, Peter Savage
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