Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-09-05

this country 70 Germany has failed. Another
attempt win be made.
In New Orleans, Tuesday night, JUS
tin BordODny was murdered by Alexander
NewlOn, said 10 be unprOvoked.
Thomas A. Morris, senior bishop oi
the Methodist church, died in Springfield
Ohio, Tuesday, aged eighty years.
The steamer River Belle was burned
near New York Wednesday night. Loss seven
| ty-fve thousand dollars, but no lives.
The community of st. Paul, Mime
/ sofa, sutterly astounded at the developments Is
! OF corruption in McIlrath's official career.
Madame Agatha Orlsndini, the well
! known opera singer, died in New York
| Wednesday. She was native OF Dublin.
The election to ratify the new consti-
] tuition of Arkansas and the Officers under II
! will take place on the thirteenth OF October.
A Montpelier dispatch thinks that
/ Peck is elected governor Of Vermont by be-
/ tween twenty-one and twenty-thres thousand
/ majority.
A New York dispatch announced that
/ the directors Of the Western Union telegraph
company have declared quarterly dividend
of two per cent.
A telegram from Baltimore yesterday
says that VIM. Walsh was nominated for con
/ gress by the Democratic convention which
met at HagerstOwn.
A druggist at Detroit, Michigan, yes
| terd3y sod some poisonous substance in lieu
/ of qulnine TO John McNulty, who swallowed
] It and died soon after.
Seventy-three houses in the business
! part OF Greenville, Mississippi, were burned
I Wednesday morning. resulting in a loss an.
] proxlma1ng nYe hundred thousand dollars.
/ The Australian polar expedition,
which was supposed 10 have been lost, has
been heard from, They were shi ipNrecked,
but have finally reached Norwegian island.
State-AuditOr Charles McIlrath, of
/ Minnesota, and the late Governor Horner
] Austin.
/ operations, so 70 speak, to a very stupendous
/ extent.
The new State constitution of ATkan-
/ sas was Ompleted yesterday, with the except
I ion OF one or two changes 70 be made to-day
| and the convention VIII probably adjourn
Monday.
Simon Crimmins while on q pro-
| tracted spree, laid his body down on the rail
/ way track, near Gallatin, Tennessee, a few
days ago and wRs horribly mangled by pass
ing train.
Secretaries Fish and Bristow and
Postmaster General Jewell were the only
cabinet officers in Washington Tuesday.
! Truly. the government is running itself-we
do not say where.
Professor Kings balloon went up from
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday. Besides the pro-
fessor, the basket contained three or four
press reporters, and when last teen was trav-
ehug ia a northeasterly direction.
Indians are still making raids upon
Texas farms and numbering white Texans
Couldn't Attorney-General Williams run mp
10 Long Branch and consult with the Presi-
dent on the subject Of Indian depredationse
Later news from Australia state that
on July llth, near Bird Island, The American
bark Sierra Nevada and the brig George Fl.
Teak cOllided. The latter instantly sank, but
her officers and crew were rescued by tho
bark.
Senator Patterson, Judge Msckay and
Mr.. Baker, chairman Of the Republican COM
mittee OF Texas, called on President Grant at
n Nn
fairs.
The national board of steam navlga-
ton met in Bafalo, New York, Tuesday in Sc
eret session. Delegates were present nom sll
sections OF the United States. J. 7. Whiting,
OF Michigan president OF the board, in
the chair.
A committee has been appointed in
New York to receive the remains OF the late
Mark Smith on their arrival in that city.
The funeral services VIII be held IN the church
OF Rev. DR.. HOughtOn-" the little church
around the corner"
About fourteen hundred antiGuated
Philadelphians participated in an excursion
TO Rockland yesterday. There were centena-
rams, whose ages varied from Cne hundred
and.One to one hundred and eight, and no one
under sixty. Round dances were not in or
der.
Rev. DR.. Leonard Bacon has contrib
uted long document 10 the Brooklyn IN. "
Lt&cpcndeHt on the subject OF the BeecheT
friend" is past redempt ion, and that the re-
suit OF the Investigation is entirely satislac-
tory,
The citizens bank OF New Orleans has
suspended, with a balance due depositors OF
t27O,700. The Clearinghouse statement on Fri .
day showed for the bank, liabilities OF ST49-
2S5 n; assets 81 lS2 SSl %. Of the assets, how
ever, 81 1879 81 consisted OF items outside of
the portfolio,
John Mccoy, elected to q two wears
seat in the State prison for malicious stab
bing, from Morgan county, Tennessee, at
tempted to elude his guards while route to
Nashville, by jumping from the train. He
succeeded IN making the leap iOr liberty, but
was re-captured.
A special to the Terre Haute Ind.)
ETpreSs from Marshall, Illinois, says over
Paris and Louisville railroad, fell yesterday,
wOunding four persons, James Allen serious
ly, and John n. White, John Sears and Harri-
son White slightly.
All Germany celebrated with great
enthusiasm Tuesday the anniversary OF the
surrender of Sedan. Emperor William re-
viewed the Guards in the morning. In the
evening he gave a banquet, az which the
niiaries were present,
The collector Of customs at FL Paso,
Texas, in a letter 70 the chief OF the bureau
OF statistics at Washington says; T" We have
hot had drop OF rain in this vicinity in three
hundred and sixty-dve DAYS. Everything is
searching not and burning up, and many cat
Tie nave NieA OF hldINll4Ou-
The official report Of the commission
appointed 20 investigate the circumstances Of
the escape OF BaLalne, implicate the iailOTS
and state that they were instigated 10y Col
onel Vnlette, Bazaine's aid-de-eamp,t TO facin-
tate Tie prisoners fight, but acquitted the
garrison Of tue fort OF completely IN the affair.
A dispatch from Brownsville, Texas
says that on yesterday the French bark Coro-
mandel, OF Bordeaux, Captain France, went
ashore At Bagdad, Mexico, In gale and be-
q tn al k II n hos
two hours and the cargo drifting ashore. The
captain, first mate aud three seamen were
rescued, but eleven Of the crew are supposed
TO have perished. The storm still coutiuues
Brazos, on the American side, is several feet
under wa 'er, and the inhabitants are in con-
siderable danger.
A New York telegram says that the
delegates 10 The national cotton exchange
convention have adopted a standard Of CLASH
ficatiOns which are said 10 be unsati Sfactory
TO New 0rk dealers, being too low as COM
pared with the long usage OF that market
According TO the new types New York low
middling is but little better than the old fash
iohe0 strlct goou or1lnary. Ihe deiegeles Will
be treated 70 an excursion down the bay and
up the Hudson to day by the members OF the
New York cotton exchange.
At the session Of the insurance COM
missioners at Detrcit, Michigan, yesterday,
resolution was adopted 70 the effect that, ain
order 70 prevent the evils resulting from anna
gamatiou, IL Is the unanimous opinion Of the
members u this convention that the laws OF
company 10 insure any risk authorized g. be
taken by any other, should be so amended as
70 prohibit any such insurance after six
months nom the time such risk was first Ia
ken, except vita the written consent OF the
policy holder"
The full ticket nominated by the Pe0-
pies PARTY Ia Missouri is rs follows: Cow
ernOr, Wm. Go tntry, Pettis county Lieut. snant-
governor, S. ". II Headlee, Greene county; sec
retary Of state, W. Il. Lefelt, Marion county:
auditor, +. q. Hale, ClintOn county: treasurer.
John II. Fisse, 81. Louis county: attorneV-
general, y. ]. Twltchell, Jackson county; reg
fster OF lands, e. T. Quisee berry, Adrain
county; superintendent OF public Schools
John MOUtelth, Iron county; supreme Judge
- Howell, Monroe county. long term
Lewis HCuck, short term.
At Jacksonville, Indiana, Clark and
Lewis were yesterday arrested and luapris-
oDed. charged with the murder OF Gardner
who was found bound 10 the railway n ear maj
city, and was run over by train Of cars. m
] Is reported that the counsel Tor ue defendant
} will apply Tor "a hdbeGs corpus. should such
I an attempt 6e made, IL Is thought thst me
/ vigilance committees viii hang them. III thew
! attemH 10 take them from the CharlestOwf
1 jail Il Is most likely that fearful fight would
] follow, as IL Is said that the sheriff is deter
mined 20 protect his prisoners at all hazards.