Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-06-20
MEN PEIIs, TENN, TUESDAY, JUNE 20. 1876.

Guiding two women and an infant, in
the ruins. Four were considerably in
jured, the remainder escaping with
slight bruises.
Night and day sessions of congress
will be necessary to get through the ap-
preparation bills necessary to relieve the
financial embarrassment of the govern
ment, making allowance for the delay in
the proceedings by the convention at st.
Louis.
The czar has cordially accepted the
Invitation for Rn interview with the en-
peror Of Austria at the castle of Reich
stRdt. The cZar will arrive at Reichstadt
On the twenty-fourth instant Count
Andrsssy is expected to accompany the
Emperor Francis Joseph.
A Philadelphia dispatch reports that
very dangerous counterfeit has just made
Its appearance there, and is being freely
circulated. It lie five dollar note coun-
terfeiting the issus Of the First national
bank of Northampton, Massachusetts,
and i5 an excellent imitation.
A dispatch from Hudson, New York,
reports the burning Of the White Ele-
phant depot and four hundred loaded
cars. The propeller John Taylor, where
the fire originated, was SlsO burned, to-
gether with two canal.boats. Loss e..
timated at one million dollars.
The entries for the July trottIng meet
ing at Chester park, at Cincinnati, with
the exception of the frse-tor-all anu two
twenty-five classes, have closed, with a
large number of entries, some Of the
finest stock in the country. The two
classes mentioned above not filing, they
will be kept open until July Sd.
A telegram from Huntingdon, Penn
syIvsnis, yesterday, hiss the following:
''Early this morning q family, consist
ing of David Reed, his wife and two
sons, were compelled to leave their house
at Coslmont, which was flooded by the
late rain, and in attempting to cross a
swollen mountain stream, were all
drowned"
Deputy-Sheriff Smith, OF Dawson
county, Nebraska, In company with an
other man, attempted TO arrest one
Howell, at his homestead, Saturday,
when upon entering the house Howell
instantly killed Smith, and seriously
wounded Smiths. companion. Howell
was taken to Plum creek jail and hung,
the same night, by mob.
The New York S1In is authority for
the statement that Henry Screiber, late
assistant cashier of the New York
branch of the Methodist book concern,
has been lodged in Ludlow street jail in
that city, On charges of defalcation. 1t
is alleged that ScTeiber distracted from
the cafe Of that concern bonds amount
ing to fifteen Thousand dollars.
The Atlantic and Great Western rail-
road announce q further reduction Of
five dollars each on round trip tickets
from Chicago to New York or Philadel-
phia, making the Eate fnr the round trip
to New York twenty-five dollars, and
round trip to Philadelphia tWenty-four
dollars, with the usual stop over privi-
Ieges. Tickets good f.r sixty days.
Almost the entire crop on French
broad river, in East Tennessee, has been
destroyed by the recent freshet. Twen-
ty.five feet rise was reported at Knox
vile up to Saturday night. A decline
set in Sunday morning, and further
rise was anticipated. Some Of the farm
ers will have to replspt corn. Below
Knoxville the farmers will lose about
one-fOurth of their crops.