Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-06-22

! Altoona Saturday. The Alaska left
Hamburg Saturday to join the Frank
lin.
A naval force, with steam launches,
will be ordered to the mouth Of the Rio
! Grande to look after our interests and
I cooperate with the land forces against
| the Mexican thieves.
A young lighthouse-keeper at Past
| pass, below Apalachicols, Florida,
/ named Arad Williams, was killed by
/ the falling Of ladder while white
washing his house last Monday.
A telegram from Washington says
| it is reported that there is defalcation
/ of sixty-siX thousand dollars in the &C"
counts Of the United States naval pay
master, stationed at foreign port.
A telegram from Galveston says that
| the published report OF the penitentisry
investigating committee fully sustain
| the charges OF cruel and inhumsn punish
ment Of the cOnvicts in various forms.
A disastrous fire occurred in Grand
Rapids, Michigan, Saturday evening,
involving a loss Of about one hundred
! and fifty thousand dollars, and destroy
ing the entire business portion Of West
Bridge street.
William FTeienburg was fatally beat
en- over the head with an unknown
weapon, in the hands of an unknown
person, while asleep in his store in In
disnapolis, Saturday night, and robbed
of fifteen dollars.
d. w. Whittle, an evangelist from
Chicago, Illinois, assisted by the clergy
of Little Rock, have been holding series
OF interesting religious meetings in the
latter city. Great interest is manifested
in these meetings.
Hsydock, the English pedestrian,
walked one hundred miles in little
over tWenty-three hours in Boston Sat
urday, winning three hundred dollars
and the championship Of New England,
over his competitors, Gushing and Avery.
John q. Daniels shot his wife twice
in the head, in Lowell, Massachusetts,
Saturday, and then fired two balls into
his own head. Both are alive, but are
not expected to recover. Jealousy and
drink on the part Of the husband Were
the causes.
The following was the bank statement
in New York Saturday: Loans, de-
crease, 2,620, 800; specie, increased,
SS45, 100; legal-tenders, increase, S2,077,-
700; deposits, increase, SS99, 400; circu-
lation, decrease, 1924 800; reserve, in
crease, g, 697, 300.
Philip Schafer, convicted Of the muir
der of Peter Van Valkenberg and
to be hanged June 25th, has been grant
ed new trial by the supreme court in
Salt Lake City, Utah, for the reason that
two Of the jurors, when drawn, were not
nsturalized citizens.
A telegram from Austin, Texas, says
that Deputy United States Marshals AL
len and Blood have been indicted and
arrested for voluntarily and corruptly
allowing Mccartney, the counterfeiter,
to escape. They have given bond and
will be- tried next week.
AS a book-keeper of Balback & Son
drew two thousand dollars from bank to
pay hands in Newark, New Jersey, a
well dressed man called his attention. to
three or four bills he had dropped, and
on the book-keeper STOPPING to pick
them up the stranger seized the package
and escaped.
A ship which arrived in New York,
Saturday, from Manila, reported that
on June 4th, in latitude nineteen de-
grees sixteen minutes north, longitude
ffty-seven degrees fifty-twO minutes,
SIG lSlL lilS SuOCh dDU HSdIu Iu6 lOlSS Oh
an earthquake, which lasted about ten
minutes. 1t began in smooth water and
the ship pitched feariully under the Gre
ated disturbance.
On Wednesday night five men made |
an unsuccessful attempt to rob the office
of the Texas express company at Willis |
station, Texas. Willis is citation on the !
main line Of the International and Great |
Northern railway. -Four of the despera.
does were captured, one escaping. |
Among the party was Charles Els |
worth, General Morgan's telegraph OPP
orator during the war.
Two Little Miami excursion cars,
while crossing Park street, in Columbus, |
Ohio, Saturday morning, cOllided with |
a horse and buggy occupied by General |
s. w. Andrews. David Allen, formerly |
a feight conductor, jumped from the car
and seized the horse, but was carried un- |
der the car, and had one leg mangled SO
that it had to be amputated. The horse |
was killed and the buggy smashed, but |
General Andrews was only slightly in
iured.