Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-29
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

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Six new indictments were found
against Tweed in New York yesterday.
One hundred and seventy-four vessels
have arrived at Chicago since last
Saturday.
William Thomas was shot at Shoe
makers colliery, Mahoney City, yester-
day, by party Of roughs.
Preparations are going on at Dublin
for the coming shooting match between
the Irish and American teams.
The Watson bridgeworks at Paterson,
New Jersey, were in flames at the close
of telegraphic reports this morning.
The grain shovellers in Buffalo, New
York, are on strike against the steam
| shovellers, and the grain business is at
stand still.
One man and i've women, all cOlored.
were drowned by the oapsiZing Of skiff
on HiIl's lake, near Little Rock, Arkan-
sRs, yesterday.
The French assembly yesterday voted
three hundred and ninety-eight thou
sand dollars for the sufferers by the re-
cent inundatiOn at Toulouse.
A Madrid dispatch says that the Span
ish frigate Vitoria has bOmbarded, with
destructive effect, the ports of MatTico
and Deya on the GuipuZCoan coast, held
by the Carlists.
The foundry and machine-shops of J.
B. Crowell & Co., at Greencastle, Penn
sylvanis, burned Saturday evening
Loss sixty thousand dollars, lightly GOV.
cred by insurance.
The lumber and grist mills of L. N.
Granger, and the store of L. G.. Cooley,
at North Hadley, Missouri, burned Sun
day night. Loss thirty thousand dol
lars; insurance seven thousand fv3 hun
dred dollars.
The government yesterday entered
nOlle pros in the three remaining cases
against Jerome J. Kinds, charged with
completely in the mail-contract frauds,
he having previously been acquitted OF
similar charges.
The secretary Of the treasury has di-
rected the notwithstanding in New
York to sell one million dollars in gold
coin on each Thursday in the month of
July. There being five Thursdays in
July, five million dollars will be sold.
The steamers City OF Berlin, Gilbert
and State of Georgia, from New York.
arrived at London yesterday, and the
City of Brussels, Wisconsin and Egypt,
from Liverpool, and State of Louisiana,
from Glasgow, arrived at New York.
At Pomeroy, Ohio, Saturday, Jacob
Ronshier attempted to kill his wife with
a pistol, but the ball passed through her
ear without further injury. He then
shot himself through the head, dying
instantly. No cause is known for the
act.
The Washington national monument
society requests the churches and Sab
bath-schools Of the country to take up
collection on Sunday, July 4th, to aid to
complete the monument; contributions
to be forwarded to J. B II. Smith, treas
urer of the society, at Washington.
Latest intelligence from all parts of
Nebrasks give, in the main, very en-
c0uraging reports of the condition and
prospect of crops. The grasshOppers
have almost entirely disappeared, and
also quit flying. The recent rains, which
have been bountiful, have done great
good.
The steamer Pandora sailed from
Portsmouth, England, for the Arctic re-
gions Sunday. Esquimau Joe, who act
ed as interpreter to Captain Hall on the
Polaris, goes out with the Pandora. The
Pandora will only touch land once on
her outward voyage; this will be at
Disca, Greenland.
1t is officially reported in Havana that
on the twenty-fOurth instant band Of
insurgents, commanded by MulIata,
burned four plantations, besides COM
mitting various robberies. Troops pur-
sued and dispersed the band. Seventy
five were captured and shot at Esperan-
"a. Loss twelve killed and wounded.
A destructive tornado passed over the
State of Michigan, in the vicinity Of De-
troit, Sunday evening, by which four
persons are known to have been killed,
and thirty or forty houses blown down.
Several persons besides those killed were
seriously injured, and property damaged
to the amount Of twenty-five thousand
dollars.
The London Times has received intel.
ilgence that over nine hundred persons
perished in the food at Toulouse alone,
and siT hundred houses have been swept
away in the town and vicinity. The
damage is estimated from two to five
million pounds sterling. The DGity
Ne1CS estimates the total loss Of life at
two thousand persona.
AtYellow Springs, Ohio, Sunday even
ing, Clement J. Acton, formerly a
member of the firm of Acton, Clark &
Co., OF Cincinnati, attempted to COM
NIT suicide by cutting his throat with
razor. His wife attempted to wrench
the razor from him, and was cut severe
ly on the hand. Her screams brought
Colonel w. P. Anderson to her aid, and
he disarmed Acton. The wound is Sc
we're, but not necessarily fatal, as no az
teries were severed. 1t is reported that
Acton lost heavily in railroad specula-
tions, causing temporary arrangement
OF his mind,