Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVlTY.

New York, August 81: Four boys
wrre drowned yesterday in the North
river, the boat ia which they were
rowing being run down by a steamboat.
New York, August 81: Four colOred
persons attending the camp meeting at
Red Bank, New jersey, were drowned
by the overturning of a boat in the
Shrewsbury river.
Cheyenne, August 81: Captain Fitz-
gerald, OF tie Ninth infantry, wss scci-
dentslly shot by Lieutenant Baldwin,
at Camp Robinson. 1t is feared the lImO
will have TO be ampu!ated.
Wheeling, W. Va, August 81: John
Mills, an employe in the Baltimore and
Ohio railroad yards at Bellaire, OHIO,
fell from freight car yesterday ard was
horribly msngied, dying shortly after.
Brussels, Olt., August 81: a fire last
night destroyed almost the entire busi-
ness portion of this town, together with
a number Of dwellings. LOss, one hun
dred thousand dollars; partially insured.
Paris, August 81: The emperor OF Mo-
rocco has declared his inability to send
his customary subsidy to the sultan Of
Turkey, owing to the heavy drain on his
resources caused by the REFRESHING OF
disturbances in his own dominions.
st. Louis, August 81: A swimming
match for two hundred dollars aside,
bstween Frank Prince, Of st. Louis, and
Tom Sutcliffs, Of England, took pisce in
the Mississippi river 10 day, Pdnce being
the victor.
AtchesJn, Kansas, August 81: r 1poTts
from the country west OF this city say
that great damage was done by the
storm Saturday lat. Bridges we're
swept away, fences blown down and
several buildings overturned. Growing
corn was much injured.
Wheeling, w. Va, August 81: 1t is
stated here this evening that school
mistress was wsylaid a few days since
st Glencoe, Ohio, and outraged, after
which the rutfisns cut her tongue cut
and otherwise msltfested her person.
No names and no arrests ss yet.
Dayton, o, August 81: Governor
Hayes, in a dispatch to the sheriff, re-
ceived to-day, declines to interfere in
the case Of Murphy, sentenced 10 be
hanged Friday for the N urder Of Como.
mel Dawson l&st Septempber. Murphy
will be banged on the twenty. fifth in-
slant.
Cleveland, August q: Joshua A. Har-
rIs, an old and respected citizen and for
many years the publisher Cf the Cleve-
land Herald. and at enc time mayor of
this city, died to-day from the effects of
a series of paralytic strokes which have
attacked him during the past three
years. Deceased was siXty-eight years
of age.
Cheyenne. August 81: All huttwenty-
one Of the Utss who left for FetteImsp,
after having been feasted and armed,
and having INDUCED in numerous war
dances, deserted at Cheyenne river Fri
day last, taking with them ths arms
which were furnished them to fight the
Sioux.
New York, August Il: The employees
of the New York and NV Jersey rail.
road have struck, ana traffic over that
road is suspended. Tbs cause of the
strike is the nonpsyment Of wages for
the past four months, snd protesting Of
notes given for the previous four months
wages.
Constantiuople, August 81: I a conss-
quencs of the Turkish strategy in
marching back to Grumada pass, and
ar u I'D north 1esterly to the rear of
Alexinstz, the great Ssrvisn army at
Blu a pass is useless. Ali Ssib attacked
the Servian intreDchments on the FROM
Tier, and the Sertians fed toward Alex
iuaiz. The Bashi. .Bsz zOurks are firing the
villages behind them.
London, August 81: A dispatch from
AIexinstz reports that after driving in
the SaIvian outposts on Saturday, Ali
Ssib pressed toward Tesics. The can
nOnadiDg was heavy and the fighting
obstinate. The SeTvisns withstOOd the
assault, and the Turks began their re-
treat In the afternoon. The Sarvians
followed them acre So the frontier.
CIncinn4tfJ august z1: Two young
rnen, Henry Smith and Squire Ham
mond, who were in jail at Owenton,
Owen county, Kentucky, for the muir
der of highly respected citizen OF Owen
county, Robert Martin, were taken from
jail about ten O'Clock Saturday night
last, by masked band OF abuHt forty
men, and hung upon q tree near the
town.
London, August 81: An Athens dis.
patch announces that sn insurrec.ion
has broken out at Retimo, III Crete.
A dispatch fr lm AIexsndris, Egypt,
says that reports have bean received
fIOm Abyssinis that Walda Mikel, the
iusuIgent chief, has defeated the Abys-
sinisns at ZAksTgs, and that fifteen hun
dTed women and children have been
N assacred.
Rochester, August 81: Last night a
dsstardly attempt was msde TO wreck
the st. Louis xpress few miles east Of
here, near the Lincoln creek bridge.
The embsnkmeut at this point is seven-
ty-fve feet, and rail- was placed in
such manner as 10 make it absolutely
certain that the whole train would go
over it. Fortunately a man walking on
the track discovered the men at work,
and he notified farmer near by named
Wright, who succeeded in stopping the
train just in time by swinging q lantern.
About one hundred passengers we're on
board the train.
Cincinnati, Angus. q: The Enquirer's
Huntingdon, West Virginia, special
says: "L2st Wednesday evening Sam
Camden, q negro, raped an eiRht year
old daughter OF Policeman Hsifisld
The negro was arrested, and Hatfield
tried to shoot him IN the magistrates
office, when the prisoner was removed
to the Barbourville Jail. Thirty masked
men visited the Jail early this morning,
overpowered tue guards, and took the
negro out. He made 3 full confession,
and was left hanging TO tTte The
body had not been cut down at nine
o'clock this morning."