Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

In the assembly in Paris yesterday the
public powers bill was debated.
Waddy Thompson, in charge of Sher-
iff Anderson, left st. Louis for Memphis
yesterday.
A man named John Campbell was
drowned in the Wabash river, opposite
Logansport, Indiana, yesterday.
Fernando G. Willets, secretary Of the
American legation, died on the nine
teenth ultimO, at Erdaba, Mexico.
The steamers EIysis and State of In
dian, from Glasgow, and the Abyssinia,
from Liverpool, arrived in New York
yesterday.
Shang Han iitOn, who escaped from
Sing Sing short time since by seizing
locomotive, was arrested in New York
yesterday.
The Republicans of Wisconsin, in con-
vention at Madison, yesterday, DOmi-
mated Harrison Ludington, of MilWau-
kee, for governor.
The eastern editorial excursion was
driven through Omaha, Nebraska, yes
terday, in carriages, and was being hand
sOmely entertained.
Corn badly damaged by weeds or the
ports that come from south western and
northwestern Iowa.
The trial of Ex-Treasurer Parker, of
South Carolina, for frauds amounting to
near half million dollars, begun in
Charleston yesterday.
Recent rains in portions of Missouri
have been very damaging to crops and
railways. A heavy rise is coming ous of
the Missouri river in consequence.
Another man, who gave his name as
John Hagan, has been arrested for COM
plicity in the murder of the child Lizzie
Schmidt at O'FallOn, Missouri, Tuesday
night.
Shooting for cup, presented by the
mayor and citizens of Belfast, took place
in that city yesterday. Colonel Glider.
sleeve won the cup over twenty-four
opponents.
A Mr.. Schulenberg, on being attacked
by two men at CarsonviIle, Missouri,
yesterday, seized hoe and struck one
OF them blow on the head, from the
effects Of which he died soon after.
Governor Osborne, of Kansas; yester-
| day addressed a communication to the
President protesting against the concen-
the civilized ones in the Indian Terri
tory.
The cotton exchange of New Orleans
has appointed fourteen delegates, with
John Chaffe as chairman, to the Ma
tional cotton exchange convention to
be held at White Sulphur Springs, Vir-
ginia, July 2lst.
Recent heavy rains have so swollen
the rivers in southern Ohio that nine
bridges have been carried away on the
Portsmouth branch of the Marietta and
Cincinnati railroad, and the track is re-
ported to be badly injured.
All the parties interested in The late
sale of the Little Rock and Fort Smith
railroad filed bills in the United States
| circuit court, in Little Rock, Tuesday, to
reverse and set aside the sale, and for q
resale Of the whole property.
The warehouse OF the Langley manu-
featuring company, in Augusta, GeOr-
gia, containing three hundred bales of
| cotton and several bales OF manufactured
goods, was struck by lightning and
burned yesterday, Loss thirty thousand
! dollars; no insurance.
A telegram from Madrid, Spain, SAYS
that General DOrregary has met with a
repulse at BarbastrO, and has turned his
retreat toward Sierra Guara. The AL
fonsist troops are in close pursuit. Cen
eral Jovellar officially announces the
| capture by the forces under his COM
msnd of CANA Viejs, with its artillery
and entire garrison, two thousand strong.
An exciting match took place between
| the American and Irish rifle-teams yes
! terday on Lord Dufferin's grounds near
| Dublin. The match resulted in q tie,
| the second match to decide the first also
tie, the third match resulting in vic
tory for the Americans, Gildersleeve
making three bullseyes in succession.
! The enthusiasm for the Americans was
perfectly wild, and they were Jeted and
! feasted like lords in Dublin last night.