Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-17
z ILEGBANS.

Governor Beveridge was in Chicago
Sunday.
Baron Brunnew, a Russian diplomat,
is dead.
The funeral of Dan Bryant took place
in New York Wednesday.
Four crowded revival-meetings were
held in LOndln yesterday.
Wagner's brewery, at Sparta, WiscOn-
sin, was destroyed by fire Tuesday.
The steamer Prussian, from Portland,
arrived at MOville Wednesday.
The steamer Russia, from Liverpool,
arrived at New York Wednesday.
The steamer Spain, from New York,
arrived al Queenstown yesterday.
The steamer Schiller, from Hamburg,
arrived at New York Wednesday.
The steamship Luevina, from Ham
burg, arrived at New York yesterday.
The steamer Colima, from Panama,
arrived at San Francisco yesterday.
The steamer Amerique, from New
York, arrived at Havre Wednesday.
Ten inches OF snow fell at Boston
Wednesday, and fifteen inches at Fall
River.
Delegates to the general assembly Of
the Presbyterian church were elected in
Cincinnati yesterday.
Trains on the Union Pacific railroad
have been detained near Green river on
account OF the washOut.
Eight negroes were drowned by an
Oyster-boat capsizing during squall
near Norfolk, Virginia, Tuesday night.
At the Newmarket handicap in En-
gland Wednesday, st. Leger won, Peep
ing Tom second, ana Lord GOurmsnd
third.
John Greary was arrested in Little
Rock, Arkansas, Wednesday, charged
with being one of the Hot Springs stage
robbers.
The lower house of the Louisiana leg
islature was organized yesterday by the
election Cf Estilette, compromise con-
seTyative, as speaker.
In the upper house Of the Prussian
diet, in Berlin, yesterday, the bill with
drawing State grants from the Roman
Catholic clergy was under debate.
All of the clerks in the postoffice de-
partment in Washington, implicated in
the recent mail contract frauds, have
been dismissed by the pOstmaster-gen-
e'al.
Fifty pudding furnaces were started
in J. Painter d Sons mills in Pittsburg
Wednesday morning, the puddlers re-
suming work at the fifty.fve-cents
scale.
Three thousand bales Of cotton were
destroyed by fire in Charlotte, North
Carolina, yesterday, together with a
number Of private residences. Loss a
quarter Of million dollars.
The second trial in Providence, Rhode
Island, to elect a senator and nine rep
resentstives in the general assembly re-
suited in the choice of the regular Re-
publican ticket, supported by the liquor
interest, by three hundred and fifty ma
jority.
George Reynolds, sentenced for one
years imprisonment and three hundred
dollars fine Cor polygamy,was before the
court in Salt Lake yesterday, ..and bonds |
were accepted for his appearance before !
the supreme court, to which the case has |
been appealed.
The success Of the revival mission Of
Pearsall Smith in Berlin and other |
towns in Germany is increasing. IE2- |
meuse crowds attend the meetings, anu |
members of the nobility ;cupy seats on !
the platform. The empress of Austria !
has given private audience to Smith. |
The centennial celebration of the or
ganiZation Of the anti-slaVery society |
was commenced at Concert hall in Phil !
adelphis Wednesday. Vice President
Wilson called the assembly to order,
and in short address stated the object
of the meeting and gave history of
the society. After prayer and singing
by Mr.. Hutchinson and family, DR.. El- |
der delivered sr eloquent review of the
career OF the society since its Organiza-
tiOn.
Yesterday Mrs. c. L Irwin, a highly
respectable young widow of Hannibal,
Mo , tied clothes line around herself
and her little girl six years Did, fastened
the other end to a s.aAe in the ground,
then took the child in her arms and
deliberately walked into Bear creek.
Both were drowned. Financial embar-
rassments and disappointment in love
are understood to be the causes of the
act.
In the British house OF commons last
night there was an acrimonious debate
on the question of summOning before
the bar the printers OF the Times and
NeU8 for breach Of privilege, for pub
fishing the documents IN the hands OF
the select committee on foreign loans.
Disrseli moved 8 resolution that the Sc
lect COMMITTEES be Instructed to investi-
gate the affair and report how the press
obtained the documents in question.
The resolution Was carried and the order
summoDiug the printers was revoked.
1t has transpiged that the Illinois and
st. Louie bridge, crossing the Mississippi
river at st. Louis, has been transferred
to Morgan, Humphreys d Co, under the
fourth mortgage bonds, aud that a
change will be made in the manage
ment. The transfer, it is said, was an
smicable one, and the bridge will here
after be in charge Of Mr.. Newall, form
erly of the Illinois Central and Cnicago
aud Alton railroads. But little is known
OF the matter yet, but the bridge authori-
ties promise TO make statement Of the
affair.
A telegram from Kearney, Missouri,
Gays that on Monday night last about
eleven O'clock a. other terrible tragedy
was committed near the home OF the
James boys. Coroner NoTval immedi-
ately went out and found the dead body
Of Daniel Askew, with three bullet holes
in his head. An inquest WIS held Tues
day, and the following facts were elicit
ed On Monday night Mrs. Askew heard
three gunshots, and, going outside, she
found her husband lying on the ground
within ten yards Of his door. The alarm
was at once given, and parties were sent
out In search Of the perpetrators OF the
murder, but with no success.