Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-07-28
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

The Cleveland, Ohio, club races open
ed yesterday.
Yesterday was the second day Of the
races at Saratoga, New York.
A telegram from st. Petersburg says
the official crop reports represent wheat
good average.
Jarvis J. Cady, of Covington, Ken
| lucky, was found dead in mis- bed at a
hotel in Maysville, Kentucky, yester-
day.
The steamships Perriere, Havre, Rus
! STA, from Liverpool, and August Andre,
! from Antwerp, arrived at New York,
/ yesterday.
John M'Iver, one of the proprietors of
the CunaTd steamship line, who retired
! from business sometime ago, died in
| London yesterday.
! In the house Of commons in London
yesterday evening DisraeIi, in reply to
DIlwyn, refused to give precedence to
the shipping bill.
The steamships Spain and Adriatic,
from New York; Batavia, from Boston,
and Ssrmatian, from Montreal, arrived
at London yesterday.
The ships Ocean King and Daniel
Murray, from New York, and the steam
ship COlima, from Panama, arrived st
San Francisco yesterday.
A mixed train of twenty-five cars fell
| through the bridge across the Mississippi
river at BraineTj, Minnesota, Monday
night. Four persons were killed.
The knights of Pythias, representing
all the lodges in New York and Brook
Ign, together with the country delega-
lions, held parade in New York yes
terday.
A heavy rain, lasting from one o'clock
until six yesterday morning, fell in the
vicinity OF Omaha, Nebraska, and west
ern Iowa, and did much damage to
grain.
AT Versailles, yesterday, the assem-
bly,, by large majority, decided to pro-
coed to the third reading of the bill
organizing Me senate, the final debate
on which is fixed for Monday next.
The failure of Duncan, Sherman &
Co., reported in Philadelphia about
noon yesterday, caused intense excite
ment. Gold jumped at once to 1861; it
had at half-past twelve o'clock fallen
to ia.
The express train, which left Indian
apOlis, Indiana, Monday night, at mid
night, run over COW, near Jamestown,
and the engine and baggage-car were
wrecked, and Thomas w. Hams was
instantly killed.
By an explosion at the Penn gas-coal
cOmpany's shaft near Irwin's station,
Pennsylvania, yesterday morning, John
| Humphreys was burned to death and
five others badly injured. The works
were but slightly damaged.
The express train east on the Marietta
and Cincinnati railroad, early yesterday
morning, when near Zslisko, ran through
a culvert which had been washed out by
rain, killing James Powell, fireman, and
breaking thigh and arm Of Engineer
Cutler. No passengers injured.
English capitalists who have been ex-
amining the line Of the Kansas City
and KeOkuk railroad, left Kansas City,
Missouri, yesterday, well satisfied with
the looks of things. There has been al
ready eleven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars put in the road, which is partly
completed.
The centennial board Of finance, in
Philadelphia, announce that in addition
TO collections and subscriptions already
made, one million dollars will be re-
quired for building purposes alonein the
last four months Of this year, and make
further appeal for aid to the citizens of
Philadelphia and the country at large.
A New Orleans dispatch says riot is
apprehended at East Feliciana, where
the negroes have assumed the offensive,
and are collecting and arming through
The parish for the supposed purpose OF
capturing the town Of Clarion. Great
excitement prevails throughout the
parish. 4 number OF whites, armed, are
oOngregated to protect the town. Bad
feeling has existed between the races in
that parish for some time.