Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-14
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Boston, August 10: Base-ball-Indianapo
lis, seven; Bostons, SIX; eleven innings.
Newark, N. j., August Is: Noyes, the
convicted insurance officer, was taken to-day
to State prison.
Philadelphia, August -: The Nationals Of
the first congressional district have nomina-
ted Maxwell Stevenson.
Belfast, Ne, August -: The Democrats
of the fifth district to-day nominated Joseph
Il. Martin for congress.
Harrisburg Pa, August 10: The Nationals
Of the fourteenth district have nominated
d. S. Early for congress.
Washington, August -: The cabinet to-
day approved the universal postal treaty re-
Gently concluded at Paris.
London, August 10: The Oldham weavers
accept the five per cent. reduction of wages
demanded by the employers.
Newport, r. 1 August 13: Mrs. President
Hayes was elegantly entertained this morn
ing by j. S. Brice, Of New York.
White River Junction, VT, August 13:
The Republicans of the second congressional
district have nominated J. NJ. Tyler.
Manchester, Vt, August Is: Mrs. Prem
tiss, wife of Rev. DIR. Prentiss, and author
of Stepping HeaUena0ard, died this morning
Providence. R. l., August 10: Base-b ball
Chicago, 4; Providence, 4. Game called
after eleven innings, because of the dark
ness.
Plattsburg, n. Y, August 10: w. R..
Humphrey, the abscondIng cashier of the
New Rochelle savings bank, has been ar
rested.
st. Louis, August 13: Quiet regned in
East st. Louis to-day and the prospects are
that nothing will be done hereafter outside Of
purely legal proceedings.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y, August IS: The
family of President Raymond, of Vassar col
lege, have been summoned to his bedside, his
death being looked for hourly.
New York, August 13: Arrived-Steam-
ships Abyssinia, from liverpool; Pereire,
from Havre; Gilbert, from Hamburg, ard
State of Virginia, from Glasgow.
Chicago, August 10: A special from Elk
horn, Wisconsin, says that in The first district
the Republican congressional convention to-
day nominated Charles G. Williams.
New York, August 10: J. H. O'Neil and
Michael Curley, laborers, had fight, during
which O'Neil threw Curley down an embank-
ment twenty-seven feet high, killing him in
stantly.
Cincinnati, August Is: R. W. Booth & Co.
made an assignment to Howard Douglass to-
day. Hhe assets and liabilities are not giVep.
The assignee gave bond for one hundred
thousand dollars.
Simcoe, Ont, August -: A freight train
on the Great Western railroad ran off the
track to day near this station, preCipltating
eleven cars down au embankment, and the
whole became complete wreck.
Indianapolis, Ind, August 10: The Grand
Grove United Ancient Order of Drulds met
to-day. The proceedings consisted OF hear
ing reports A social entertainment will be
be given the brotherhood tonight.
Washington, August 10: Attorney General
ieft n
visit to Massachusetts. Postmaster-General
Key will begin his western trip next week,
probably extending it to California.
San Francisco, August ID: The Chinese
here profess to have had no intimatlon that
any of their countrymen were wanted in Chi
cago, and say the wages mentioned In the
press dispatches would be no inducement.
Chicago, August -: Charles F. Hume,
aged twenty-nine, Chicago agent for Bos-
ton manufacturers Of shade-rolers, put bull
let through his BRAIN this morning, his mother
and brother being in the room at the time.
He died some i've hours afterward.
Ottawa, Ills, August Is: A fire at two
o'clock this morning destroyed r. w. d n.
G. King S planning mill, valued at eighteen
thousand dollars and insured for eleven thou
sand FIVE hundred dollars, and other property
valued at twenty-five hundred dollars.
Deadwood, D. T., August ID: Edgar r.
Watson, travelling salesman for Peabody, Ly-
on & Co., St. Paul, died in this city early this
morning, from the effects of an overdose of
audanum. Domestic troubles and dissipa-
ton are assigned as the cause for the rash act.
New York, August %: John Shaw, aged
sixteen, who confesses to having left his pa
rents in Covington, Kentucky, on Tuesday
| last, taking with him fifteen hundred dollars
| OF bus fathers money, Is In custody here, and
will be held until his parents can be commu-
nicated with.
New Orleans, August Is: Mariana Granel
was found dead in bed. Carl Granel, her