Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-22
TtLEGRANS.

Two editors were wounded in a due
in Paris Monday,
II. Winter was elected mayor OF Cal
70, Illinois, Tuesday.
The iron-mills OF Newburg, Ohio, re
sumed work Tuesday.
Jacob Byers, cigar maker, suicided IL
Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday.
The woman suffragists in New Yorh
celebrated the Concord centennial.
John Kelly was yesterday elected
sachem of Tammany in New York.
Sir James Hswley, well known In
connection with the British turf, is
dead.
The propeller Alpona from Toledo,
Ohio, arrived at Erie, Pennsylvania
Sunday.
The steamers Republic and Egypt,
from Liverpool, arrived at New York
Monday.
The conservation of Rev. DR.. O'Brlen
as bishop Of Kingston, Ontario, took
place Sunday.
The Pacific mail steamer China sailed
from San Francisco for Yokohama,
Sunday.
Orlando Cutter, one OF the oldest citi-
zens of Cleveland, Ohio, died Sunday,
aged seventy-six.
There was killing frost on Sunday
night, doing serious injury, in Georgia
and South Carolina.
The grand commandery knights
Templar of the State of Mississippi are
in session at Vicksburg.
General P. II. Sheridan and staff
passed through Little Rock, Arkansas,
Monday en- route to Chicago.
Five miles of the track of the Union
Pacific railroad, near Weber, Utah, has
gone entirely in one place.
There was a severe storm on Lake
Michigan Monday night which DAM
aged some Of the vessels, but not serious
ly.
The large steam barge owned by
Ryan, johnson & Co., and ]. G. Estes,
Of Sandusky, Ohio, was launched last
Saturday.
Two men, while attempting Saturday
night to force an entrance into the Bush
tavern, at Wales, Massachusetts, were
shot dead.
A telegram from Cleveland, Ohio,
says that the cold weather for the past
few days did great damage to fruit
throughout that section.
Rev. J. L. M'Keon has withdrawn
from the Methodist Episcopal diocese
In Chicago, and will connect himself
with that Of New Jersey.
Accounts from the country along the
coast of South Carolina represent great
damage to Sea-island cotton and early
vegetables by the late frosts.
Measures are being pushed by New
York theatricals to make the benefit for
the family of the late Dan Bryant a
complete success financially,
The Liverpool chamber of commerce
gave a dinner yesterday evening in
honor of its guest, M. Michel Chevalier,
the celebrated French economist.
A dispatch from Santa Barbara re-
ports large steamer on fire and the
firing of minute guns about ten miles
off shore. No particulars yet obtained.
John Mclaughlin, in drunken fit in
Chicago Sunday night, kicked his wife,
who was in state Of pregnancy, so Sc
verelY that she will die. He was ar
rested.
In the billiard tournament in Chicago
last night Sweman beat Honing 200
to 130; Gallager beat Miller 200 to 80;
winners average, 10. Rhenes beat
M'Afee 200 to 135.
Wright & Hunts leather store and
ThOmss's meat market, in Janesville,
Illinois, burned Monday night. Loss
thirteen thousand dollars; Insurance.
six thousand dollars.
The sheriff of Lucerne county, Penn
sylvania, after conference with the
governor, decided it inexpedient to
withdraw the troops from Hazelton and
vicinity. The governor concurs.
The Adventists assembled in Chicago
on Monday night, in private way, and
waited till near morning with their
white robe in readiness for the expected
coming of Christ. They finally dispersed
quietly.
Among later rumors of cabinet changes
is one to the effect that Attorney Gen.
eral Williams will soon retire from his
position. He does not absolutely deny
the truth Of the report, but admits it is
probable.
A telegram from Little Rock says
that J. E. Redfield, of Connecticut, has
been appointed by the United States
court receiver of the Pine Bluff and
Chicot, and Mississippi, Ouachits and
Red River railroads.
A telegram from Evansville, Indiana,
says that the fruit-grOwers think the Sc
we're freeze Of the past few nights has
killed the peaches and most of the small
fruits in that section. All the tobacco
plants in Kentucky are killed.
The Brion factory, Chattanooga coun-
ty, Georgia, was burned Saturday night.
Loss one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars; insurance thirty-five thousand
dollars Three hundred and fifty work.
men have been thrown out Of work,
A telegram from London says the DC.
cidental and Oriental steamship line
has chartered tfe White Star line
steamers Belgic, Celtic and Oceanic for
service between San Francisco, China
and Japan. The Oceanic has already
sailed for Hong Kong, by way Of the
Suez canal.
A telegram from Washington says:
In view of the retirement of General
Spinner from Office on the first of July
it has been determined tO}assess upon the
several banks the expense of redeeming
and asserting their national bank re-
demption agency on the first of May in
stead of the first OF July as originally in
tended"
A Montevideo dispatch Of March I'd
reports the discovery Of conspiracy for
the assassination OF the president and
his ministers. and the arrest of many Of
the most influential members of the
conservative party, fifty Of whom, in
Guiding several leading journalists, have
embarked on the national bark PUG for
Punishment to Havana, but who, it is
generally thought, would go to the
United States for an asylum.
A meeting of the executive board Of
the miners and laborers benevolent as
sociatiOn has beel called to convene at
Pottsville, Pennsylvania, to-day, when
the question will be discussed and voted
on whether to continue the strike or not.
1t is impossible to predict the result st
this time, though it is generally con-
ceded that il LEFT to a direct vote of the
miners there would be resumption Of
work at every colliery Immediately.
The people OF the Nueces coun-
try, Texas, despairing of receiv-
ing any aid or protection from
the government, have determined
to protect themselves from the
raids OF the Mexican bsnditti. Several
parties have organized to follow the out
laws to their hiding places; and 1t is pre-
dicted that the pursuers will not stop at
boundary lines, but following the ex-
ample of General Mackenzie, will pur-