Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-16

Silver Is Ia demand at L0ndoDi ana |
bars vary from fifty-three and one~hall
pence per ounce.
The ice harvest OF Hudson, Michigan,
lost ended, yields in excess of four hum
bred thousand tons.
The Apdersonville survivors will hold
their next annual meeting at Norwich.
Connecticut, April 18th.
Fl. MAGE, treasurer of Ottsws county,
Ohio, is charged with being short In his
accounts.
The bodies of the two men buried in
the snow.slIde at Opher, Tuesday, have
been recovered.
Mrs, A. II. Bowman, sister Of Mrs.
General Balknap, died at Harrodsburg,
Kentucky, Monday.
The President has nominated RicharA
p d rickson collector Of internal reVe-
nue. for the district OF Illinois.
Secretary Bristow don't know any
thing about the reported stupendous
frauds in San Francisco revenue clr-
cles.
DIR. Miner, of Cincinnati, has arrived
at Montreal, and is stopping with Csleb
P. Marsh, at the 81. Lawrence Hall
hotel,
Jacob Randall, q saloon keeper hard
drinker and wife bester, blew his brains
out at st. Louis Tuesday. A happy rid
dance.
1t now believed that fourteen old
people persisted by the burning OF the
almshou5e at Norwich, Connecticut,
Sunday.
Kilbourne refuses to answer certain
questions proposed by the committee in
Vestigating the District of Columbia real
estate pool.
Michael Mcconnell was hung at Ham
ilton, Ontario, Tuesday, for the murder
of Nelson Mills. Mcconnell protested
his innOceDce.
Hugh MulholIand, mail agent on the
Richmond and Louisville route, has
been arrested, charged with robbiDg the
United States mails Of money.
The interest on the IS District Of
Columbia bonds were paid yesterday.
The amount is said 10 be about two hun
bred and fifty thousand dollars.
Fanny A Fsrvis was found dead in
her bed at Quincy, Illinois, Tuesday,
with her head pounded to Jelly. Geo.
| Adams is suspected as the murderer.
The Republican members of the gen.
eral assembly, of OHIO, in caucus Tues
day night, adopted resolutions to adj
journ on the THRU of April until Deem
Der 5, 1875.
The whisky cases which were to have
been tried in Chicago Tuesday, through
respect to the memory of the late Gen
eral J. d. Wess.er, have bsen postponed
until Friday.
DistrictoAttorney Dyer. Of s.. Louis,
yesterday file1 several additi )nal stfi
dsvits in tie United States circuit
| court in the matter o. new trial Ter
VIM. M. Nike.
Cincinnati has voted in favor Of issu-
| ing six millions more OF bonds in addi-
| ton to the ten millions already issued
| toward the construction. of the CinclL.
natl Southern railway. aT ..
An Independent State convention ia
| called to meet at Jackson, Michigan, Oil
| May 81, to elect delegates to the national
| convention at Indianapolis. The call Is
| sigued by Moses W. Field.
Great damage was caused ia New
York state by the foods in ID ler and
| Streigs rivers. The water was higher
| than ever before known, carrying away
| III ~ AllltSi eAAN
A New York dispatch OF Tuesday an
nounces the finding Of the missing
| SpanialG, who was supposed to have
been kidnapped for his money he
was living in a seclu led part OF the city
under an assumed name.
In the Cheap Transportation associa'
ton convention at New 10rk, during
the session Tuesday, a report wss read
showing the re cent acton Of the Freight
agents. convention 10 eqIal zing flights
from the west to the seaDoar'.
JuJge Kreke!, of tie United S ates
district ur5 at ] effarson CT y, has ex'
smined afiidav t. fled in that court
| against Bx-Asg stant D strict Attorney
johnson, and announced that they are
not sufficient to debsr him from prac'
tice.
A Bosom dispatch OF Tuesday says
that George w. Tisdale, tie weli-knoTn
| insu ance agent OF that city, was arrest
| ed at Brighton on that day and gave
bail in fifteen thousand dollars on the
charge Of irregular financial transac-
tio11s.
Miss Emma Morris Smith, sister q
D. w. Smith, broker of PHILADELPHIA,
| committed suicide in that city on Tues
day, by shooting herself through the
breast while lsboring under state OF
melancholy. She was thirty. five years
of age.
The new marshal for Utah, William
| Nelson, arrived at Salt Lake Tuesday.
The warden of the penitentiary came
in town to see him, and on his return to
the penitentisry was knocked down and
eight persons escaped. None OF them
have as yet, been arrested.
A snow-slide at Salt Lake City Tues
day carried away the clearinghouse OF
poor man, burying with 1t VIM. Hig-
| gins, Joseph Higginson and Thomas
Binch. No hopes of recovering their
bodies. The snow-storm is yet raging
and it is feared loss Of life and property
will follow.
A special from Galveston says that
Parrot with his command reached
Mstamoras on the night Of the third,
and his horses were completely tired
| down. He had no encounter with Rev.
| ma. who is said TO be at Charco and Can
didc, on the Monterey road, about seven
ty-fve miles from MstamGras and forty
miles from the river, where he awaits
other bands of insurgents from the in
terror. a
The annual meeting of the stockh6ld'
ers of the Pennsylvania railroad was
held at Philadelphia, Tuesday, with
Mayor Stockley ia the chair. Reading
| of the Presidents report was dispensed
with, as the report had been published
and all had read it. Resolutions wese
Ia sed thanking the officials of the road
Tor tie economical manner in which
business had been conducted during the
wear, The meeting then adjourned after
8 session of only nine minutes duration
The election OF directors will take place
ten days from date.
The completion of the survey of the
harbor at Galveston by Lieutenant
Quinn, shows that the western point
where ia June, 1875, there was five feel
of water, has entirely disappeared, and
soundings at that particular spot show q
| deuth OF fourteen feet. The western
channel, formerly used in crossing the
inner bar, is entirely closed, and the
| deep water OF Galveston hsrOor has
united with the deep water at the opposite
end Of the jetty, and lacks only seven
hundred and fifty feet OF uniting with
tine deep water OF Bolivar channel
When this connection is made there
will be a depth of over eighteen feet OF
| fba fnupr haT The QAbiODs In the / city