Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-21

There ere y aety-eight Protestant
churches In Mexico. Five years age
there were less than six.
Hon. X. J. Randall, of DeSha county,
has resigned his seat as delegate TO the
Arkansas constitutional convention.
The Fourth of July was celebrated in
the City of Mexico by a grand banquet,
attended by all the Mexican officials.
The recent raids made by the Indians
lead to the opinion IN the minds OF those
familiar with Indian matters, that gem
eral Indian war is imminent.
THE queen sent a message to the Brit
ish parliament yesterday asking for q
grant for Prince Leopold, who attained
his majority on the seventh Of last
April.
A battery of three boilers exploded at
Madison, Indiana, yesterday morning,
fatally injuring shree men, and seriously
scaldiDg several others. The building
was demolished.
"A Carlist telegram from Bayone de-
| ciares that Don AlphonZO entered Cuen-
eea on the sixteenth and levied a contri-
button of thirty-twO Thousand pounds
sterling, and captured two thousand
| prisoners.
The subcommittee, Taylor and Ward,
Of the congressional Arkansas investiga-
tion committee, commenced taking
! testimony in Little Rock on Saturday.
About dozen with ssses have been eX-
amined so far.
The cornerstone of the new Catholic
/ cathedral was laid n Chicago Sunday
with imposing ceremonies. When COM
/ pleted it will be one Of the largest struc-
/ lures in the west.
In Fort Smith, Arkansas, la SatuT-
day afternoon, Mr.. G. Johnson vas ac-
/ cidentally killed with pist (, in a
! friendly scuffle for the weapon ietween
himself and Mr.. Joe Swift.
A Brussels telegram says that the gov
eminent at Washington has given no.
tice to terminate the treaty of COM
merce and navigation with Belgium on
the first of July, 1875.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
Horatio Ghassey, secretary of the Com
mercial life insurance company, was
drowned Sunday ia Lake PellarcitOs, in
San Matio county, California.
G. E. Smith, who erected for the late
Prof Morse the first line of telegraph
poles in this country, between Washing
ten and Baltimore, in 1874, died at his
residence, in Newfeld, Maine, a few days
ago.
Mary J. Dsynnon, g highly respected
young lady of Fort Wayne, Indiana,
committed suicide in Forrest Grove, a
village about ten miles distant from
that city, last Saturday. An affair of
the heart.
Bread riots occurred at Pisa, and sew
eral other towns Of the ROmaqua, in
consequence Of bakers having made no
material reduction in the price of bread,
Notwithstanding the recent considerable
fall in flour.
Marshall Jewell, the American minis
ter at st. Petersburg, left that city yes
terday on his return to the United States
to assume the duties of postmaster-gen-
eral. He will sail from Liverpool on the !
first Of August.
A Madrid dispatch announces a fare |
well dinner given Saturday by Minister |
Cushing in honor of Senior MantiIa, the |
neWly-appointed ambassador to Wash |
ington, who is about to embark for the |
United States.
The book trade convention which |
commences to-day at PGt-in-Bay, /
promises to be an immense gathering of |
the trade. All the leading houses of |
New York, Philadelphia, Boston and
the western cities will be represented.
4 Berlin dispatch says the Prussian
government has increased the stringen.
CIV of the regulations restricting the
ultramontane agitation clubs, and the
clerical press will De closely watched
and vigorously dealt with for dislOyal or /
illegal manifestations.
The superintendent of the mounted
recruiting service Is ordered to forward
one hundred recruits TO Austin, Texas,
for the fourth cavalry, and all dispOsa-
bIecolored recruits TO the same place, fer
asssgnment to the ninth cavalry; also,
eighty recruits to Fort Dodge, Kansas,
for the sixth cavalry.
8 A proclamation has been issued sup
Elementary to the decree establishing
state of siege in Spain. 1t declares
that the charges of sedition or cOnspila-
cy against the State shall be tried 10y
courtmartial. All persons convicted of
interfering with the operations of rail-
way and te- 5graph shall suffer death.
A disgraceful row between rival fac
tions of the coIored Methodist church
occurred at Fort Wayne, Indiana, Sun
day, the participats being mostly
women. The fight was attended with
no more serious consequences than hair
pulling, scratching, and gouging with
parasols. About a dozen of Che most
boisteTous were arrested.
George Simpson, planter residing
fifteen miles from Shreveport, Louisi-
ana, was murdered by negro Saturday
evening. Mr.. Simpson was about sew
enty years Of age, and was alone and
asleep when the negro slipped into his
house, seized Simpsons gun, and shot
him dead. The negro was pursued, cap
tured, and when within six miles of the
city was taken from his captOrs and
killed.
A Washington telegram says that the
grand jury OF the District criminal
court found true bills against Attorney
Underwood, a member Of the late Dis
trict legislature, and also engaged as
messenger in the District comptrOller's
office, and Thomas 3. Warwick, a street
broker and clerk in the same Office,
both charged with forgery and utGfing
forged orders for certificates of pay of
police.
A dispatch from Dayton, Ohio, Sum
day, furnishes the following items:
saturday evening Henry Thomas, a
musician, and Simon Spring, machin-
ist, were upset into the Miami river
from a skiff, and drowned. Johnny
Ryan, aged about ten, was probably fa-
tally hurt, Saturday, by being mashed
by pile of timber which fell on him
from a wagon. Mrs. William Ramsey
was attacked by large monkey this af-
ternoon, that was roaming about, and
was badly hurt"
A cable dispatch from Madrid an
nounces that DEGREES have been issued
declaring all Spain in state of siege
sequestrating the property Of Carl
lists, whose estates will be held liable to
a heavy penalty to the relatives of Re-
publicans slain, and finally creating a
special reserve of one hundred and
twenty-five thousand men. The gov
eminent announces in its official orders
that it will not permit the shooting OF
prisoners in retaliation for Carlist atrOci-
ties. The EpocG denies that Ex-Queen
Isabella intends to revoke her act OF alb
dication.
A young man, named George Gray,
was out hunting the other day, in Dor
sey county, Arkansas, and ia attempt
ing to get over q fence, his gun was ac-
cidentally discharged, killing him in
stantly. His father was with him at the
time.
At Summit Mississippi, Sunday
morning, incendiaries fired the rear of