Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-24
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

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{ 1t Is believed that Secretary Bristo
o Will be appointed to the attOrney-gene
e aIship vacated by Williams.
: A resolution suspending Auditor Clil
] ton passed second reading in the Louis
5 ana State senate Thursday.
The miners at Hillsmsn's mines, nes
Wilkesbarre, PennsS lvanis, THURSDAY
: voted against going to-WOrk.
! The miners at Pottsville, Pennsylv.
MIA, yesterday, resolved almost unan
mously to continue the strike.
Secretary Brlstow left Washingto
yesterday evening for New York, sn
will be absent three or four days.
Arrangements have been complete
for meeting OF the driving psrk asso
citation June Sth, 9Th, 10th and 18th.
John Burke shot and killed BiI
Johnson in Hart County, Kentucky
yesterday, in q quarrel about hors
trade.
The committee of the State senat
appointed to inquire into the charge
for handling gram met in Chicago yes
terday.
A dangerous counterfeit five-dolla
note of the First national bank of Pax
ton, Illinois, has been discovered il
Washington.
A Detroit dispatch says that the ice i!
broken up from Old Point, MackinaW
river, to Lake Michigan, but has no
yet moved out.
s ate-Tressurer Parker, Of South Car
Olina, has been committed to the Co
lumbia Jail in default Of two hundred
and fifty thousand dollars.
GeneraF w. T. Sherman and wife
were in Cincinnati Thursday in attend
ance on the wedding Of Mr.. Charles
Seaman and Miss Phillips.
There has been an unusual increase oi
deD1entiG among the inmates of the
Liverpool wOrkhGuse, which is sttribu-
ted to religious excitement.
The police authorities OF Posen noti-
fled all Ursuline sisters in that district,
who are not natives of Germany, that
they must leave the country within two
months.
The examination into the DHchesne
conspiracy against Prince Bismarck
began at BRUSSELS Thursday. Ddchesne,
the prisoner, refused to give the names
of his accomplices.
George Miller, an employee, was
thrown under passing train on the
Cincinnati, Hamilton and Dayton rail-
way, in Cincinnati, Thursday, and his
head severed from his body.
The presbytery of st. Louis, at a re-
cent meeting at ROlla, Missouri, adopt
ed an overture to the general assembly
to meet at Cleveland in May, to con-
slider the matter of class relations.
General Garfield, of Ohio; Governor
M'COOk, Of Colorado, and q number of
others leave Chicago for San Francisco
this morHing, VjG the Chicago, Bur-
lington and Quincy railroad on special
car.
The steamer Nederland, from Ant
werp, arrived at Philadelphia yesterday;
the steamer State of Louisiana, from
New York, arrived at London; and the
steamer California, from Glasgow, ar
rived at New YOIk.
The commanding officer at Fort Fred
Steele, Wyoming, reports that seven
teen Indians ran off all the stock at
Ferris's mines on the twentieth. The
news is relisble. These mines are forty
miles from Rawlins, Wyoming.
President Firich, Of the geographical
society in Paris, has handed to Minister
Washburn a gold medal, presented by
the society to the family OF the late
Captain Ball, in commemoratiOn OF the
exploits Of the Arctic explorer.
Captain Alonzo B. st. John, treasurer
of the Peoples line of Hudson river
steamers, committed suicide in New
York, yesterday, by shooting himself
while sitting in the barber er.shop ON
board the steamer named after him.
A test, made at st. Louis, yesterday,
of Johnson county (Arkansas) sDthra-
cite coal on the steamer Robert Semple,
resulted in the opinion OF competent
judges thatjOne ton Of the Arkansas coal
was equal to two tons Of best PitIsburg.
An unofficial report was In circuls-
ton in Havana yesterday that severe
fight had taken place at Los Cruces, on
the Cienfuegos railway, headquarters of
Captain General Valmsseda; that sew
enty rebels we're killed aud their entire
force routed.
Two colored murderers, named Bunch
and Hardee, who were to have been
hung IN Charleston, South Carolina,
yesterday, were respited at noon by the
cclOTed lIeutenant-gOvernOr in the alb
sence Of Governor Chamberlain from
the State.
At Hszelton, Pennsylvania, yester-
day evening, party of miners made
an attack upon the house Of J, MOrri-
son. F. Lauderburm, who was stop
ping with Morrison, fired upon the at
tackiDg party, killing one Of them in
stsntly, when the raiders dispersed.
Reports from Missouri represent that
about three-fourths of the fall wheat has
been destroyed by frost, and that one
half will be plowed up and planted in
corn. There is only about one-hslf the
usual acreage of oats. The peach crop
in Missouri and Arkansas is nearly de-
strOyed, but apples and pears are not
injured.
At a meeting of the board ofdirectors
of the Northern Pacific railroad, in New
York, yesterday, the resignation of
George w. Cass, president, was &C.
cepted. An election was at once held to
fill the vacancy, and Charles B. Wright,
Of Philadelphia, was chosen unani-
mously. Mr.. Wright has been director
for four years of the Northern Pacific
railroad and chairman Of its finance
committee.
Patrick Andrews, supposed to be a
stranger in the city, cut his throat in
st. Louis in front of the Southern Hotel,
about one o'clock yesterday mOrAing.
He then walked to saloon more than
a block away, where he offered to make
q statement, but being rebuffed by the
bartender, he lay down in a corner Of
the room and died before medical aid
could be rendered. He had long scar
on his neck just below where he cut it,
indicating that he had attempted sui
eide at some previous time.
The investigation Of mail contract
frauds is still in progress at Washington
by the post ostnaster-general and Second
Assistant-Po Postmaster General Tyner,
who yesterday morning discovered a
fraudulent bid among those for mail
routes in Louisiana. About six clerks
have already been discharged for com.
picity in the frauds, and it is under
stood that at least dozen more are i'm
plicated. JUDGE Tyuer states hat he
is determined to make s thorough in
Vestigation if 1t takes all summer.
In Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday in the
libel suit Of J. F. Young against the
PdindedteT verdict was rendered in
the United States circuit court award
ing the plaintiff two thousand two hum
dred and fifty dollars damages.
Young sued for twenty thousand dollars,
In consequence Of articles published In
the Pldinded'er in April, 1874, charging
him with having robbed his own store
for the purpose OF defrauding his partner
and creditors. The Piaindeoler's In