Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-23
TELEGRAPHIG CLIPPINGS.

New York, August %: The United
States minister to Germany, Bancroft
DAVIS, arrived on the steamer Russia.
New YorE, August %: Henry Rhodes
and VIM. Bell, aged twenty-one and
| twenty.three, were drowned this morn
ing by the upsettiDg Of boat in Harlem
| river.
Washington, August %: Secretary
| Morrill, was in his Office to-day in col.
| sultatiOn with the representatives of sew
eraI prominent banking firms regarding
| the new loan,
Boston, August %: The tsnnery OF
| B axe & Higbee, at Woodburn, burned
| to-day. The loss is estimated at forty
| thousand dollars. Insurance, twenty
one thousand dollars.
Ottaws, August %: It is stated that
the government has decided to allow
American vessels free navigation Of Ca
madam waters for the remainder OF the
season.
Chicago, August q: Charters were
taken for 964 900 bushels Of grain to-day,
| of which SS6, 900 are corn. This is the
heaviest days shipping business for
many months.
Salenica, August %: The officers i'm
! plicated in the murder OF the foreign
| consuls were formally degraded to- day
before the public, and salutes were ex-
| changed between the forts and foreign
men. of-war,
Poughkeepsie, August %: Four thou
sand persons attended the first days
races. Governor Sprague won the first
race. Time, 2:264, 2:204, 2:24i; 2:2l4.
Maybird won the second. Time, 2:234,
1921, 2:224i 2:244.
Cleveland, August %: The body of
Simon Mand .lbourg, of Detroit, who
fell overheard from the steamer North.
west, while on her passage from Detroit
to this city, about three months SGD, was
washed ashore at Vermillion, OHIO, last
night.
Saratoga, N. Y, August %: To.day's
attendance st the races was good. The
first race, dash of one mile, was won
easily by Matte A, Waco second, Moor
her third; time, l AS. The mile and
half dash was won by Big Sandy, Pres
ton second, Gray Ffiar third. Time,
2:443.
San Francisco, August %: A Victoria
dispatch says: There is much excite.
ment in this city on the railroad ques-
ton. Lord Dufferin remarked to a pop
ular deputation, that the Island railway
was about to be abandoned, and that the
only point to be considered was the ques-
ton Of compensation.
Chicago, August %: The sec ~etary OF
the Pork Packers association Of the
United States will issue call in few
days for the holding of the annual con.
ventiop, at Indianapolis, Wednesd
October 4.h, the majority Of the board
of managers having voted to accept the
invitation Of the Pork Packers associs.
ton TO hold the session in that city.
New York, August %: A dispatch |
from Port Richmond, Pennsylvania,
states that two miners, james Martin |
and Peter M'Csffery, were attacked by
a crowd OF Molly Maguires yesterday |
evening. They were beaten with blud-
geons, stabbed with knives and treated |
to shower of bullets. M'Cafery was |
killed outright, and Martin was go terri |
bly, injured that he died in short time. |
ST. Louis, August %: Advices from |
Robinson, Crawford county, Kansas, !
say that man named Osborn, in jail |
there on an indictment for murder, as
saulted Sheriff Henderson last Friday, |
infiicting wounds believed to be mortal, |
his head being mashed in by blows with |
q large iron link. That night mob of |
masked men entered the jail, took o.
born cut, and hung him to the nearest |
tree.
Philadelphia, August %: This morn
ing the supreme lodge Of the world of
knights OF Pythias convened in indie
pendence hall, s. s. Davis, OF Nashua,
New Hampshire, supreme chancellor,
presiding, assisted by the following off.
GERS: d. B. Woodruff, of Macon, Geor-
r5, nj nh0nnolInrs 4 "nnd.
house, Of Hartford, Connecticut, SUI
preme prelste; John B. Stump, Of In
dianapolis, Indiana, supreme master of
exchequer; Joseph Dundell, of Column
bus, Ohio, supreme knight Of records and
seals; Hugh Latham, Of Alexandria,
Virginia, supreme master Of arms, and
w. II. Moystou, of Memphis, Tennes-
see, supreme outer-guard.
PottsviIle, Pa, August q: The dis
ruption of the great coal cOmbina'
ton has caused considerable excitement
in this vicinity, and a great deal Of uneas-
ipess is manifested in the mines as to the
ultimate result. 1t is generally con-
ceded that there will be q decline in the
price of coal and q corresponding reduc.
ton in the miners wages. They have
latterly been making only half time,
and in some instances only one-third
time, and with the near approach Of
winter there is presented a gloomy cut
look. Individual coal operators will
suffer severely, and it is predicted that
they will not be able to continue bust
ness should the price Of coal decline be-
low that maintained by the combina-
ton.
Pittsburg, August %: The main build
ing of the soldiers orphans school, at
Beaver county, twenty
five miles down the Ohio river, was to-
tally destroyed by fire at noon to-day.
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