Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-23

REVENUE COLLECTOR SHOT.
JACKSONVILLE, July % E. G. John
son, deputy collector OF internal revenue,
and member OF the Florida legislature,
was shot dead last night, at Stillhouse,
about ten miles from Fernando. The
assassins are unknown.
FREIGHT TRAIN WRECKED.
LITTLE Rock, July ia freight train
bound south, aud cattle train going
north, collided on the Iron Mountain
railroad in Missouri, last night, kiln g
eighty cattle and wrecking several cars.
The passenger trains were delayed
twelve hours.
WEARY OF LIFE.
CINCINNATI, July % August Halser,
saloon keeper, attempted to commit
suicide near the grave of his wife in the
Carthage road cemetery last evering
He fired two bullets into his left side,
but neither perforated vital parts, and it
is thought he will recover. Financial
trouble is said to be the motive.
DISASTROUS CONFEDERATION.
MILBRooK, ONT, July pa fire
! yesterday destroyed large portion of
this village, Including the stores occu-
| pied by Mundell & MOOTe's, Wood &
!
people were burned out. The loss Is es-
| timRted at one hundred Thousand dol
lars, insurance, fitty-four thousand dol.
las.
A COUPLE OF FORGERs ARRESTED.
NEWARK, N. J., July 22.-Jacob 1.
Barber, of Worcester, and William
Young, of Brooklyn, were arrested here
to-day, one having forged checks to the
amount Of forty thousand dollars, and
| the other, three checks of fourteen thou
sand dollars each, with which they had
been attempting to swindle the German
national bank and varnish manufac-
| turers.
RUMORED ABSTRACTION OF IMPoR-
TANT BOOKS.
ALBANY, July 22.-Rumors are in cir
culation here of the disappearance Of
important records from the Office of di-
vision and resident engineers, eastern
division Of canal, relating specially to
some of the contracts Of Mr.. II. D. Deni-
son, who is now in contempt for refus-
ing to produce his books before the Ca
nal investigating committee.
ATTEMPTED wIFE-MURDER.
New Orleans Picayune, 2Oth.
At one o'clock this morning Officer
CLOWN, of the third precinct. heard the
cries of "watch and murder" ina house
on Exchange alley, between st. Louis
and Cont streets. The officer immedi-
ately broke open the door, rushed up
stairs, and upon entering the room
whence the cries were heard, found a
man named James Gamer attempting
to kill his wife, Annie M. Gamer. He
had cut her several times in the face
and head, and would probably have
killed her but for the timely arrival of
the officer, who arrested him and locked
him up in the third precinct station.
The wounded woman was taken to the
Charity hospital, where her wounds
were dressed and pronounced serious but
not necessarily dangerous. She was af-
terward sent to her residence. 1t ap.
pears that the assault made by Gamer
upon his vie was caused by jealousy.
AsOUTHERN l1aONAUT.
Mons Chevalier, Of New Orleans, the
daring ie :onsut. who made balloon
ascension Sunday, and met with dis
aster in consequence, is fast recover
ing from his injuries, and will probably
be out again in a day or two. He is no
wise discouraged by his recent unhappy
experience, and instead of lettering
him from further similar adventures, it
has nerved him to determination to
make another ascent at the earliest OPP
portunity, when, il fortune favOrs him
SIS she should, if well behaved, he will
achieve as brilliant triumph as his
latest experiment has proved disastrous. |
In his varied and animated experience,
involving numerous journeys heaven !
ward, Mons. CheYalier has passed |
through many startling episodes, and on
more than one occasion has been brought |
face to face with death, but he has pluck |
lily pressed through the sea of misfor- |
tunes, and promises fate that that will be |
dire calamity which sees him con-
Quered in his purpose or thwarted in his |
ambition to pursue the study OF clouds, |
currents and temperature. The balloon, |
which descended to the earth near the |
Metairie cemetery, directly after the |
exodus of Mr.. Chevalier, was subse- |
quently captured, and upon being con- |
veyed to the city, on Monday morning, |
was found to be uniDjured. Within u
week, perhaps, Mr.. Chevslier will again |
undertake an ascent, and it is likely, /
will draw out great many curious peo-
pie, who will be anxious to see the hero |
of the recent perilous incident.
THE MOUNTAIN MEADOW MASSACRE.
BEAVER, UTAH, July 22.-Lee's trial
for the Mountain Meadow massacre be-
gan to-day. The court was crowded.
The defense skirmished on every point.
The jury found, was as follows, Upto two
o'clock: JOsephus Wade, Gentle, native,
two years a resident of the Territory; |
j. @. Hustler, Gentle, native, two years
resident; David Rogers, Mormon, ma
tive, fourteen years resident; Isaac Duff
fin, Mormon, naturalized, ten years; j.
p. Chichester, Mormon, native, twelve
wears; ]. &. Robinson, Mormon, native,
eighteen years; G. J. Arthur, Mormon,
native, twenty years, son-in-laW to
Haight, who gave the order to fire on
the emigrants, but has no opinion;
Joseph Knight, Mormon, native twenty
years Paul Price, Mormon, native, six
years; g. T. Jarvis, Mormon, natural
lied, fifteen years; Robert HeybOrne,
Mormon, naturalized, seventeen years,
a California step son to Uric, who was
engaged in the massacre, has been on
the ground, but knows nothing Of it;
John Brewer, Gentle, native, ten
years, q Californian. The following |
were challenged and excused for cause:
James Gibson, Gentilei }. w. Hunt,
Mormon; William Thomson, apostate;
GltldD 11uH-
ter, Gentle; John F. Halter, Gentle;
Henry Halling, Gentilei F. L. SessiDg-
er, GENTLE. The def-nse goes after
the Gentle jurors, but easily passes the
Mormons. The jury will bs secured to-
day. Each tide has forty.tve peremp-
tory challenges. The MOTmOns ex-
ahmed as Jurors would swear that they
had lived ten to fifteen years in the re-
giOn Of the massacre, yet they never
heard the massacre TALKED OF, and had
40 opinions about it. This subject was
much open to comment and bitter feel.
ing.
TEN MURDERS IN TWO WEEKS.
Cbetopa (Kan.) Advance. l5th.l
There have been no less than eight or
ten murders reported within the last two
weeks. Judge Busheyhead, an uncle of
the treasurer, was murdered on the road
TO the courthouse, in Illinois district, and
his head cut off and hid, and has not yet
been found. One week ago last Sabbath
night, Richard Fields, prominent mer-
chant Of TahleqGab. ana auditor of the
Nation, was shot while sitting il church.