Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-08-09
1'ELEGRAMS.

London, August s: Silver closed steady
at Sig
Troy, N. Y, August Z: Thermomete
ninety-eight in the shade.
New York, August Z: Hot weather
has returned-ninety- eight in the shade
NewYork, August: Arrived Steam
ship Hindoo, Hull; the Queen, from
Liverpool.
Berlin, August 8: ]. Bancroft Davis
the American minister, left last night fol
the United States.
London, August s: The Batavia, from
Boston, and Egypt and France, from
New York, arrived out.
Toronto, August s: Detroit won the
first inning in the cricket match yester.
day with the Toronto club.
Philadelphia, August Z: The heat is
again intense, and several csses of pros
tration are reported in the city.
Washington, August Z: The dry goods
firm of V. s. Quackenbush & Co. ha:
suspended. Liabilities and assets are
not stated.
New York, August z: Max Stadler 6
Co., wholesale and retail dealers in
clothing, have suspended, with liabili.
ties at half million dollars.
Maysville, N. Y, August s: James
Spicer and daughter, and John Fill.
more were drowned by the capsizing OF
boat in Chataeugay lake last evening.
Albany, August s.: E. D. Worce ster
contradicts the dispatch stating that the
Central railroad had given a mortga
of thirty-million dollars to w. II. Van
derbilt.
Washington, August s: The confer.
ence committee on the legislative, ex-
ecutive and judicial appropriation bill,
it is expected, will result in an agree
ment this evening.
Aurora, Ont, August z: A fire this
morning destroyed Joseph Fleury's ex-
tensive agricultural and sewing. machine
works. Loss about eighty Thousand dol
lars; no insurance.
New Orleans, August s.: E. A. Car
han, colorsd, wss shot dead by James P.
Guinault, in the civil courts building.
The difficulty was about law suit
Guinault was imprisoned.
Fairpoint, August z: Miss Cora A,
Brown, of Greenville, Pennsylvania,
and Mics Carrie SUIT, OF Warren, Ohio,
were drowned while bathing in the Ia Ike
to-day. Their bodies were recovered.
London, August s: By a collision
last night on the Somerset and Dorset
railroad, near Rodstock, between LON
don train and an empty excursion train,
twelve persons were killed and thirty
injured.
New Orleans, August 7: J. o. Bennett,
aged fifty.siX years, carpenter by oc.
cupation, was killed by falling from the
platform of an excursion train, near
Lees station. He leaves a wife and six
children.
Paris, August: A large sugar refinery
in Nsntee was destroyed by fire last Fri
day. One ms0 was killed, and severpI
were injured. The loss is not exactly
known, but it will amount to several
million francs.
Philadelphia, August z: Five Of the
seven firms of brokers who were driven
to suspension by the Hestonville COL
lapse were to day reinstated in the
board of brokers, having settled all the
claims against them.
Minneapolis, Mimi, August 7: Glib
son q Tyler, wooden manufacturers, of
this city, made an es5ignment for the
benefit of their creditors. Their liabili-
h. Blangdcn and II. T. Wells are the
assignees.
New Orleans, August 8: The cham
Der of congress to-day memorialized
congress, requesting that an sppropri-
alton for dredging the mouth of the
Mississippi be made, and continued SUBJ
Ject to the order Of the secretary Of war,
as heretofore.
Chicago, August Z: The pardon of
Alderman Cullerden, convicted for neg
lect Of duty while a gauger, and SEN
fenced to six months and to pay fine of
one thousand dollars, arrived from
Washington to-day. 1t RENTS the i'm
prisonment only.
Pittsburg, Pa, August z: At an early
hour this morning Wightman & Negley's
backing works, located on Negley,s
run, ninth ward, were destroyed BY fire,
Loss eighteen thousand dollars; insur-
ance eight Thousand dollars. The fire
was supposed to be the work of an in.
cendiary.
Washington, August s: The secretary
Of the treasury will probably sell about |
two million two hundred thousand dol. |
lars in gold early ne&t week. The pro-
ceeds OF the new five per cent, which |
he will sell Saturday for account of the |
Geneva award, he will award az for |
gold in sums not less than five hundred |
thousand dollars.
Leavenworth, August s: James Dun
ap, we'll known Washington lobbyist,
q charged with making false affidsvits
n connection with lands in the KaW
reserve. He was brought
lere yesterday in charge of Deputy
United States Marshal Kelly. Dunlap
8 said to have attempted to procure the
passage, by the senate, Of bill for the
eappraisement of these Kaw lands,
With himself az one of the commission