Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-05-23
IN BRIEF.

Typhus fever is raging in New South
Wales
St. Paul, Minnesota, is a victim to an or
ganized band of incendiaries.
The annual decoration of soldiers graves
at st. Louis will take place next Sunday.
George S. Wilson, United States deputy
marshal, has disappeared from Portland
| Maine, defaulter.
The German government has not yet mott
| fed or advised with Denmark about the clos
ing of the Baltic against England.
Trickett, the champion sculer, lost two
fingers of his left hand in Sydney, handling
cask of beer, stopping his rowing.
A heavy earthquake at lama, New He
brides, is reported. The land rose twenty
feet. seriously impairing the harbor.
w. w. Long, master of the grangers in
Texas, has announced himself an independ-
ent candidate for governor of that State.
The National reenback-Labor party of
Indiana held its convention and put State
ticket in the field at Indianapolis yesterday.
The Sunday school children of Brooklyn
were out in annual parade yesterday. The
city was put in gala day trim for the occa-
sion.
NIGH, sentenced to death for the murder
of Mary Kelly, was granted a new hearing
by the supreme court of Ohio DIT Columbus
yesterday.
The large tobacco manufacturing estab-
lishment of Buchanan & Lyall, at Brooklyn,
was seized yesterday on the charge of de-
frauding the revenue.
The seventh annual convention of the
Passenger Conductors life insurance compa-
ny began in Philadelphia yesterday morning.
Delegates were present from every State in
the Union.
The members of the national liberal party
in Germany held meeting in Berlin yester
day, and resolved to vote against the gov
eminent bill for the prevention of social do
mestic excuses.
The senate of Minnesota yesterday assem-
bled as high court of impeachment for the
trial of Judge Sherman Page, of the tenth
Judicial circuit, impeached by the house OF
representatives for official misconduct.
The general conference of the Southern
Methodists at Atlanta yesterday adopted the
report on the Nashville Methodist publishing
house, looking TO the payment OF all its
debts and the continuation of the concern.
Her maiesty's iron steamship Triumph, ar
NOR plated, sixty-six hundred and sixty tons
and carrying fourteen guns, has sailed from
Portsmouth for TIE Pacific ocean to rellve the
Shah, six thousand and forty tons and TWEEN
ty-six guns.
At Dubuque, Iowa, yesterday, three chill
dren of farmer named Warnekey we're SUIT
located by burning sticks thrown into
a wood.box Warnekey and wife had
locked the children in room and gone to
work III the cornfeld.
Nineteen business houses were destroyed
By fire in GAINESVILLE, Texas, yesterday The
principal victims were Baker & Bro, $12, 600;
J. P. Dale, 10000: Z. H. BrlttoD, $4,000;
$4,000; Statler, $4,000; Steinlein, $4,000.
A dca1 bodv uoo ,aor
Ohio, yesterday, lying on his right side with
a revolver in his hand and a bullet hole in
his right temple. He was well-dressed, wore
full chin whiskers and a mustache, and was
of good appearance. The body awaits identi-
hcatlon.
A popular vote in the canton of Zurich,
Switzerland, has rejected the scheme for the
road by large majority. Other cantons will
probably do likewise, so that the railroad
will have to be completed by Germany and
Italy or remain unfinished.
A sudden rise. in the creeks near Dead
wood, Dakota, yesterday, did considerable
damage in the town. One or two houses
were washed away and two or three persons
narrowly escaped drowning. The entire
damage is already estimated at fifty thousand
dollars, and the water is reported still rising.
The Russian government, through its
agent, Captain Guppenburg, has opened ne
EQUATIONS with a Boston iron company for
the manufacture of heavy ordnance, and
special price-list, with full particulars as to
the capacity of the works as at present run,
or under the highest pressure, has been SUBJ
mitted at the request of the Russian agent.
At the Cumberland Presbyterian assembly
at Lebanon, this State, yesterday, the report
OF the committee on education was submit
ted, showing that the institutions were in
hourishing condition. Fraternal greetings
were exchanged with the representatives of
Evangelical union of Scotland and the Pres
byterian church of the United States of
America.