Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-03-30
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

The river is rising rapidly at Wilkes
barre, Pennsylvania.
Wall street, says a New York tele-
gram, was excited yesterday.
AT Omaha, Nebraska, the ice in tie
river is rapidly breaking up.
An immense meeting was held in
London yesterday fsvOring the release
of Tichborne.
An outbI eak has occurred among the
miners at Buck mountain and several
othor cnllieries in Pennsylvania.
Fernand P. Dupart, fourteen years Of
age, mysteriously disappeared from his
home in New Orleans last Saturday.
A fire broke out in the State prison at
Jacksonville, Indiana, yesterday, re-
sulting in a loss Of not over ten thousand
dollars.
Three men perished in the flames OF
burning building at Benicia, California,
yesterday. Several were injured escap-
ing from windows.
Dick johnson shot and fatally
wounded Fred Crisp at Webb's grocery,
in Clarksville, Arkansas, last Thursday.
johnson was arrested.
On the morning of the fifteenth in-
stant a young man named William
Webb was struck by lightning and in
stantly killed, in Meigs county, Ohio.
United States Treasurer Spinner has
resigned, to take effect on the first of
July. 1t is understood in Washington
that the resignation was pressed on the
President.
The New York police are after three
men with q sharp stick. They sWindled
the German-Amerlcan bank of that city
out of twelve hundred dollars by means
of forged checks.
The incarceration of Wilbur F. Storey,
of the Chicago Times, for editorial
structures upon the actions of grand
jury, is regarded as a high-handed and
dangerous exercise of judicial power.
Mr.. D. L. Love, the editor of the
West Point Citizen, shot and killed Col
onel Middleton, editor of the Times, in
front of the Citizen Office last Friday.
The difficulty had its origin in a para
graph in the Times intended as joke at
the expense of Mr.. Love.
The trial of John M'Fadden, for the
murder of George BlOckard, ended yes
terday before Esquire Champion, in
Clarksville, Arkansas, and he was
convicted of manslaughter. VIM. Bod
kin, who was arrested on suspicion Of
being accessory to the murder, has been
released.
Last Saturday evening an unknown
man was found dead in a room in the
rear of the building No. 16S TchOupi-
toulas street, New Orleans, owned by
Thos. Malloy. The body was found in
a state of decomposition, and from all
appearances the deceased must have
died several days ago.
Last Thursday three negroes stole a
skiff about two miles below the mouth
of the Cadron, on the Arkansas river.
Friday they were pursued, being COM
! PEELED to abandon the skiff, and follow
ed the road down the river within two
miles of Palarm, Arkansas, where they
were Overtaken by three white men,
who commanded them to halt, but the
negroes fired upon them, killing Mr..
! Ware, who was one of the pursueTs.
Two of the negroes have been captured.
Last Saturday a little boy three years
! old, named Henry Wrenn, whose parents
reside at No. ITO st. Charles street, New
! Orleans, fell from the third-stOry back
gallery down into the yard, and injured
| himself severely about the head and
transom light over door upon the
first floor had been swung out to obtain
air in the room, and the fall was partly
broken thereby. The head of the child
/ struck the glass light ana went through ;
the weight of the body, however,
wrenched the sash off its hinges, carry
| ing it to the ground. The little unfor-
tunate was picked up senseless. He is
severely injured, but, it is hoped, not
fatally.
A dispatch from Morehead City, North
Carolina, says that Lawyer Bryan, sent
enced to be hung Friday last, for the
murder of Michael T. Langley, in April,
1874. in Onslow county, has been res
pited by the governor until September
next. This was occasioned By the resig-
nation Of the sheriff and all the other
county officers who were in any degree
responsibie for the execution Of the
sentence. The reason given by these
officials for the non. execution of the
death penalty Is that the negro criminal
belonged in Onslow county and not in
their lCsrterel) county, whittier his cast
has been renewed and tried. The gov.
ernor had, Oh this account, TO postpone
the execution to the third Of Septemb Der
when q new Sheriff and other county
/ officars will ba alopfed