Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-02
NEWS TELEGRAMS.

Eight companies have withdraw
from the Fire Underwriters' union o
| Boston.
Decoration ceremonies at the Lincoln
monument, in Brooklyn, took place
Sunday.
Great destitution is reported among
the farmers in the mountain counties o
| Kentucky.
The storm at Omaha, Nebraska, Mon
day night, did great damage to fruit anC
other crops.
The graves at Chalmette, Louisiana,
and Indianapolis, Indiana, were deco.
rated Sunday.
The acting-deDuty postmaster at Cor.
rinne, Utah, is under Indictment for rob.
bing the mails.
An official examination into the loss
OF the steamer Schiller began at Green
wich yesterday.
The secretary of the treasury hes is
sued call for ten millions of five-twen-
ty coupon bonds.
The blue and the gray having frater.
nized, Decoration day is hereafter to be
quietly observed.
The religious services inaugurated at
the Academy OF Music, in New Orleans,
Sunday, were a success.
A fire st Ogden yesterday destroyed
the DelmOnicO hotel, several stores, and
the old telegraph building.
The annual convention of the board OF
delegates Of the American Israelites met
in New York on Monday.
Saturday being Decoration day in
New York, was observed as q general
holiday in business circles.
Stephen Birds saw-mill, and lot of
lumber, opposite Cairo, Illinois, in Mis-
souri,, burned Monday night.
The business part Of Great Bend,
Pennsylvania, burned yesterday. Loss,
one hundred thousand dollars.
The rectifying establishment of w. II.
Marshall, in Cincinnati, wes seized by
the revenue officers yesterday.
Three Of Mr.. MaxweIl's children per-
ished in the flames OF his burning house
i'll Maxwell, Ontario, yesterday.
At POttsviile, Pennsylvania, yester-
day, number Of the striking miners
went to work at the reduced wages.
The Monitor, the Republican organ of
the State, calls for the impeachment OF
Governor Weston, of New Hampshire.
The eX-Federals ard ex-Confederates
most heartily joined in the decoration of
the soldiers graves in st. Louis Sunday.
Fifty male and female clerks will be
discharged from the pension department
at Washington on the thirtieth Of June.
Federal Decoration day was observed
III Raleigh, North Carolina, on Monday.
! here wes q union of the blue and the
gray.
The burial Of the victims Of the recent
dise ster in HOlyOke, Massachusetts, took
place Saturday with most impressive
ceremony.
The embalmed bodies of Henry Fer
lind and wife, of Milwaukee, arrived at
New York, yesterday, on the steamer
GermSnia.
The ,mails1Were~. yesterday transferred
at West Philadelphia from the Balti-
more and Ohio railway to the PennsyI-
vania road.
HammOnd's hat store, in Toronto, On
tariO, was burned Sunday. Mr.. and
Mrs. Nash, living over the store, were
burned to death.
A number Of persons from Washing
ton and neighbOrhOOd decorated the
graves of the Confederate dead at Ar
lingtOn yesterday.
The chsrred remains of some of the
victims of the terrible fire at the South
HOlyOke church arrived at Montreal,
Canada, yesterday.
The church Of Holy Communion at
Washington was denied permission to
organize by the Episcopal convention at
Baltimore Saturday.
Delegations from New York, Brook
lyn and Staten Island left New York
yesterday to attend the Brewers Ma
tiOnal convention in Cincinnati.
The cOnvicts attempted to escape from
the Ohio penitentiary, at Columbus, yes.
terday, and all Of them got pretty badly
shot and bruised up for their trouble.
The schooner George Adams took one
hundred and twenty-One thousand BUSH
els Of corn from Chicago yesterday-the
largest cargo ever taken from that port.
Forest fires have again broken out in
the mountains of Delaware and SulIi-
van counties, New York. A farmer
named VIM. Carbin WIS burned to
death.
New York revenue officers Saturday
seized in that city lots of whisky con-
signed to RindkOff Bros, in Wisconsin,
l.. Teuscher, in Missouri, and r. w.
Ulrich, OF st. Louis.
A large number of the stockholders of
the Columbus and Toledo railroad met
in Columbus, Ohio, yesterday, to can
vass the amount OF subscriptions made
for building the road.
Greenlees, Ransom & Cos. sash and
door factory in Cincinnati, Ohio, wqs
destroyed by fire Sunday. About a
dozen dwellings were damaged. Total
loss about seventy-tive thousand dol
lars.
The secretary of the treasury has in
structed the. a3sisJant-treasurer Of the
United States at New Yark to sell half
a million dollars gold each Thursday
during June. Total amount to be sold,
two million dollars.
The Young Mems Christian cOnven-
LiOn, in Richmond, Virginia, yesterday,
finished it. discussion on work among
destitute claC3C ,, ai.er which some rOu-
tine busine"I WIS transacted and the
adjourned.
The cOrn-packing factory Of G.. w.
Jones at Pride's bridge, in Portland,
Maine, was burned Sunday morning,
with the husking-shOps, an icehOuse, a |
and grocery store. Loss,
$40, 600; partially insured.
A terrific wind and rain storm passed
over Omaha, Nebraska, lost night, ac-
at intervals with hail, some
IF which measured two and a half and
.hree inches in diameter barn was
struck by lightning and burned to the
ground.
The fire in Portland, Maine, Frid~v
night, extended over more than twenty |
acres. Over eighty dwellings aud work |
shops were burned, turning many fami- |
lies out Of doors, and destroying proper |
~ valued at over two hundred and fifty |
thousand dOllaTs.
During the performance Of a couple # |
bast-ball clubs at Columbus, Ohio, yes !
terday, al old shed on top of which |
about one hundred men and boys were !
peTched as spectators, fell with terri |
Die crash, seriously iDjuring eight or ten,
and slightly bruising and scratching
twenty or thirty.
The annual convention Of the board Of
delegates Of the American Israelites met
Sunday in New York, Judge J. r. Joa-
cheim presiding. The executive com
rnittee reported fsvOrably on the condi-
ton Of the Isfaelites in Palestine. state
Of the Jews in ROumania and a PROPOSE |
ton TO aid them.
An order issued from the war depart |
ment announces that the appropriation |
made bY r rTFSs for fbe fiscal year