Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-09

Louisville yesterday with his Deiee,
leaving wife and children destitute.
The crop news from Arkansas is very
/ encouraging, though in some sections
there are fears GO almost total destrue-
ton.
The postal congress is TO be held IN
! Berne on the fifteenth of September.
| France and Denmark will be repre-
sented.
Mason and Davis, negro boys, the lat
| ter nineteen and the former fourteen,
were drowned in Brushy lake, Mississip-
pi, few days:since.
The official and estimated returns from
the recent election in Arkansas, show
majority of seventy thousand for the
constitutional convention.
Albert Jones, colOred, made himself
famous in Evansville, Indiana, yester-
day, V bursting his wife's head open
with an AK. He was taken in.
Messrs. Cresswell, Leopold and Pur-
Wis have accepted the appointment as
commissioners to wind up the Freed
mems savings hank at Washington.
Near Little Rock Saturday, colored
constable, named Humphreys, was shot
and killed during q personal difficulty
a Z
DIR. ]. P. Jennings, prominent ply
sician of Nashville, committed suicide
at Providence, Rhode Island, yesterday
His niece, "a daughter of Ex-Governor
Wise, of Virginia, was with him at the
time.
DIR. Guy r. Smith, of Austin, Missis-
ippi, shot and killed negro boy named
Andrew Whitaker, on the third instant.
1t was an unprovoked and inexcusable
murder.
Ex-Governor Shepherd was before the
grand jury in Washington, yesterday,
endeavoring to procure an Indictment
against Charles A. Dana, for an alleged
libel against him.
A telegram was received in WASH
ington, last night, announcing the
death at Santa Fe, New Mexico, Of
Colonel Frederick A. Meyers, of the
United States army.
After two days work, the fourteenth
district congressional convention CT
Ohio, at Bucyrus, yesterday nominated
John Gown, of Finland county, on the
two hundred and fiftieth ballot.
A man was arrested at Three Rivers,
Michigan, yesterday, supposed to be the
companion of the express robber killed
on a Michigan Central train on the night
of May 2Sth. Detectives say positively
that he is the man. He gives his name
as Andrew Mills.
The encouragement has decided that
under section nineteen of the bankrupt
law, United States marshals and regis
tiers in bankruptcy are not required to
make returns therein provided for till
they are furnished with tabular forms
and directions in respect thereto, by the
judge of the supreme court OF the United
States.
A Paris dispatch says the right and
left center have agreed upon an order Of
the day declaring that the assembly will
defend MaeMahon's powers from every
attack of their opponents. The cabinet
still has majority in the assembly, but
the BOnapartists and q portion of the
moderate right, who are able to turn the
scale, are wavering. If the government
is defeated the dissolution Of the assem-
bly, is inevitable.
At Hamilton, Ontario, yesterday,
Henry Lewis was brought before Judge
Ambrose, for extiadition on the charge
of murder by running a train off the
track on the Little Miami railroad in
Ohio. After the examination OF wit
nesses, the judge decided that a suffi-
cient cause had been made out, and the
papers were sent to the governOr-gener-
al for approval.