Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-03
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

The faces at Nashville begin Monday.
-Four races will be run at Lexington,
Kentucky, to-day.
The New York shipping-hOuse of
/ DeWOn q Co. has failed.
a disastrous fire occurred at Hunters
Point, Long Island, yesterday.
The Republicans Of st. Louis have put
/ new county-ticket N the field.
The President and Mrs. Grant leave
| Washington to-day for -. Louis.
The suspension Of work in the mills
| Of New Hampshire is not general.
The Csrlist junta in the province of
| Biscay demand a restoration Of peace.
The Methodist Episcopal conference
Of NebraskG began its session in Omaha yes
terday.
The marriage OF Lieutenant-C Colonel
Freddy Grant takes place at Chicago during
the present month.
Charles Summers estate has been ap-
praised, and is valued at nearly one hundred
and city thousand dollars.
In Stamford, Connecticut, yesterday,
BOgardus beat Payne in shooting-match,
thirty-nine against thirty-seven.
Commodore NJ. B. Woolsey, CON-
mandant at Pensacola navy yard, died OF yell
low-fever there yesterday morning.
The Eighth of January is to be desc
Pittsy ylNania Courthouse, Virginia
Louis Wagner, the Isle OF Shoals muir
dsrer, has beeu sentenced, In Boston. to be
hanged on the last Friday in January next.
A fire at Cucleville, Ohio, last even
ing, destroyed twenty thousand dollars worth
OF broom corn, owned by Edward smith; no
insurance. Three dwellings were also con-
sumed; loss not ascertsined.
A fire at Youngstown, Ohio, at three
O'Clock, yesterday morning, destroyed the fur
nlture store Of Childs, Or q 90, and damaged
Gatess dry goods store. Loss, seNenty-nve
Thousand dollars; insurance, thirty thousand
dollars.
At five O'Clock yesterday morning a
barge, lying in Regents canal, near the Zoo
logical Gardens, in London, loaded with
powder, exploded, kilnng.a number OF per
Sons, wounding many, and shatteriug all the
bridges In the vicinity.
A terrific cloud burst on the Hum
bOldt division Of the Central Pacific, Thurs
day night. The track was washed away and
an efnl grant train, drawn by two Locomotives
went into the chasm. BOJn engineers were
Instantly killed; no others injured.
Sherman & Northeross's saw and
planning mills and sash factory, with a stock
Of lumber, At Gleun's Falls New Yorg were
burned eaIly yesterday morning. Loss, thIfty
thousand dollars; no Insurance. One hundred |
men have been thrswn out Of ern ployment
Mrs. Julia Perkins, the woman who. |
last "wednesday, murdered her own child and /
then attempted suicide, IN Cincinnati made
another attempt on her own life Yesterday by /
stabDing herself in the throat with pair OF /
Scissors Her death may EOOn ensue now
Mystery gathers more thiclxly around the az 4
fair every day. Both parties were well con
nected IN that city, and each accuses the 9th
eS OF marital inhdelity. Ihe tragedy excites /
intense interest. The mystery envelorI1g IN /
and the mutual accusation OF each other by /
the parties, together with the conflicting NJ
mors, keep the public verdict messurabiy in /
suspense, while sympathy ig stronges for Nrs.
Perkins.
The typhOOn which visited the south.
ern part Of apan on The twentieth Of August
was one Of The severest ever experienced by
foreigners The steamer Ping, on the t4Oolo /
ana the German bark Hamburg, were driven
on the rocks at NRgasaki. The iron-clsd ram !
Stouewau was sunk Hundreds Of JapaDeSe
Junks were wrecked, and fully two hondred
lives lost at Nasasakt alone. stores ana I
houses were overthrowp, and the Governors
new house Is q heap OF ruins. Kobe also suf-
fered. y OF less than one thousand tunks we're
wrecked. Sagakau also came In for her share !
Of the iyphoon; SIX thousand houses Were de-
stroyed, ana one hundred lives lost; thou
sands OF cattle on the plantations were de- /
strOyed.