Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-28
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITY.


its sessions in Cleveland, Ohio, Sunday.
The piano-makers of New York are on the
eve of strike against a proposed reduction
of wages.
A London dispatch reports the failure of
w. * A. Laycock, lumber merchants, Tor SIX
hundred thousand pounds.
DIR. Lindsay, veteran sporting reporter,
connected with the New York press, died
Sunday night at Staten Island.
Representative Potter will deliver the ora
ton before the literary societies of Roanoke
college, Virginia, on the twelfth of June.
Jones & Schuyler, of New York, are report
ed in bankruptcy, and Edward Haight & Co.
failed to meet their engagements Saturday.
Two men were killed and three others Sc
verely shocked and burned by lightning, near
Providence, Rhode Island, Sunday evening.
Jacob Musguard's brewery, at Ridgewood,
Long Island, burned Saturday. Loss, twenty
thousand dollars;i one-half covered by in
surance.
The trunk mandatory of Pritchard &
Likely, at Rochester, New York, burned Sat-
urday. Loss, fifteen thousand dollars; six
thousand insured.
The Russian government has decided to
abolish jury trials in cases of attempted as
sassInation for political motives and acts of
violence against officials.
At Port Eads, mouth of the Mississippi,
Sunday, a sailor named Thomas Borden fell
from the mainmast of the schooner John II.
Keanz, and was instantly killed.
A Berlin dispatch from ST. Petersburg says
that Count de Pahlen, minister of justice, by
whose advice the case of Vera Sassulitch was
submitted to jury, seems resolved to re-
sign.
Calcutta dispatch says that virulent
cholera has appeared at Movar OF forty-one
Europeans attacked, thirty died. One hum
bred cases among the native population are
reported.
Admiral Sir Ashley Cooper Key left Halifax
on train Saturday evening to take the Eng
lish mail steamer at Rimouski, having been
summoned with all haste to take command,
it is said, OF Baltic feet.
Vice-President Wheeler, Mrs. Hayes, Miss
Fannie Hayes, and a large party of ladies
and gentlemen, are at Saranac lake, catching
trout by the score. Mrs. Hayes and her
daughter have hooked several twenty-pound-
ers.
Not few members of congress are hope
full of adjournment by the end of June, and
are working to that end. The Potter lnves-
hgating committee would not interfere with
such result, as it has power to sit during
recess.
The Spanish government has decided to
authorize the return of Captain General Jo-
Tellar from Cuba, leaving General Martinez
Campos N supreme military and civil COM
;nand, with power to execute the promised
reforms.
In Philadelphia, Sunday, James S. Muller,
living with his son, William, who is married,
went home intoxicated. An alteration en-
sued, and the father stabbed the son IN the
abdomen, infiictin9 q fatal wound. The
father gave himself into custody.
The bark J. S. Wright left Philadelphia,
for Belfast, Friday night, and on her way
down the river mutiny broke out. The crew
| refused to obey the officers who tried to re-
| press the disorder. The boatswain, Robert
Armstrong, was killed. A revenue-cutter
started for the vessel.
1t is rumored that the Russian imperial
bank is so heavily indebted that the govern
ment dare not continue the publication of its
| weekly returns. The banks affairs are in an
almost hopeless condition. A continued issue
OF paper money to cover deficits will be neces-
sary if the bank is to 90 on.
A dispatch from Winnipeg says: ''In view
of the approaching provincial elections, the
Irish Bishop Tache has issued lengthy pas
toral letter regulating the doctrine that the
| priests should not interest themselves in poll
tics, and warning the electors of the impor-
lance OF the privilege of suffrage.
Sunday afternoon a car loaded with kerr
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on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad, near
Cooks mills, jumped the track and was
| wrecked. The oil ignited and burned up
four other cars, in all two hundred and fifty
barrels. The track was torn up for over one
hundred feet
Frederick Clarke. book-keeper for Vernon
Brothers d Co, paper manufacturers al
Northampton, Massachusetts,, with a ware.
house in New York, has been suspended after
confessing that he had been stealing money
from the company eight or nine years, by
classifying the pay-rolls. Clarke is prominent
in religious circles.
New York telegram of Sunday tells
about how the family of VIM. B. Astor has
been annoyed for months by a man named
Charles Busch, aged ffty.6v years, who il
evidently crazy and imagines Miss Astor in
love with him. He has been placed on Black.
wells Island already for one year for loiter.
ing around the house and accosting the young
lady. Latterly he has taken to writing notes
to her proposing marriage, and following hel
to church and lettering around the house fol-
hours. Busch is held for medical examina
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