Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-08-09

Ahc HACatcu IN Otnbnh.
OMAHA, August $50 day was the hot
test of the season, the Thermometer ranging
over one hundred degrees. There were four
cases of prostration by heat; one probably
fatal.
Heavy storms in Canada.
TORONTO, August 8.-Belleville and Nor
wood were visited this afternoon by very
heavy storms, accompanied by thunder and
hail. Great damage was done TO the crops.
In Norwood, houses and barns were levelled
and several persons severely injured.
The Louisville BOdY-Snatchers.
LOUISVILLE, August 8.-The body of
Bishop WhIpple's son will remain here until
the arrival of his relatives. It was buried in
the potter's field. and upon preparing to ex-
hume it the officers found that the body
snatchers had preceded them, though they
simply broke the coffin and did not remove
the remains.
Trouble Threatened in the Mining Re
giOns.
DUNELLER, n. j., August SIN accord
ance with the programme of the Miners ma
tiOnal organization it has been agreed that a
general strike shall begin on or about the if
teenth instant. The trouble in the coal re-
gions of Pennsylvania will be started in all
probability in the Lehigh region The cause
Is operators refusing to raise wages.
Nominations by the Texas Green
DAckerSs
New ORLEANS, August S.-The Galveston
NeicS'S Waco special states that the Green
back convention made the following nomiua-
tons: Governor-W. H. Hammond; lieu
enant-governor-J. S. Raines; COMPTROLLER
H. A. Spencer; attorney general-Fred w.
Chandler; treasurer-G W. MILESTONE;
commissioner of the land offce-Jacob
Kauechler. The convention then adjourned
sine die.
Evidence OF a Disaster at Sea.
SAN Francisco, August S.-The schooner
Staghound, from Ounalaska, reports that on
the first of May news was received at Ouna.
laska that portions Of vessel were found at
Cook s inlet last year, supposed to be the
schooner San Diego, from the description of
portions of the wreck and the letter "D'' on
a piece of board. No tidings of the crew.
The schooner San Diego, Captain Bishop,
master, sailed hence for Sitka, March 81
1877.
A Panic at Port Eads.
New ORLEANS, August 8.-Seventeen
cases of fever have occurred at Port Eads.
OF these, one died, one recovered, and fifteen
are under treatment. Being seized with a
panic, the engineer and gangforeman took
a boat yesterday for Mobile, and the laborers
left, many of them coming to the city. Two
on arriving here were reported sick and were
admitted to Charity hospital Work at the
Jetties is reported entirely suspended. The
hghthouse-keeper, his wife and daughter, are
down with the fever.
a south Carolina Marshal Backs Down.
GREENvILLE, S. c., August 8 This even
ing United States Marshal Wallace went to
the Jail and made demand upon Sheriff Gil
rath for the prisoners Kane, Durham and
Moore, confined for the murder of Amos Ladd
The sheriff said: 81 shall offer no resistance,
but according to my conception of duty, l can
not give them up. There hang the keys. :"
The marshal took the keys and the prisoners
were then brought down stairs by the mar
shall who delivered them to the sheriff. The
sheriff thereupon took the prisoners in charge
and turned them over to the jaier, who re-
manded them to their cells. Shenff Gilrath
acted under instructions from the governor.
Warrington Items.
WASHINGTON, August 8.-The demand for
standard silver dollars has been steadily in
creasing within the present week. Banks
have called for three hundred thousand.
There is little demand for the certificates for
silver dollars, which have been printed to the
extent of nineteen million dollars.
Subscriptions to the four per cent loan to-
day, 81 ,428, 800.
The solicitor general, to whom the applica-
ton for the removal of Justice Bennett, of
Dakota, was referred, reports no case calling
for such action, and the attorney general
cOncurs.
Hostile Indians Surrendering.
SAN Francisco, August 8.-A Baker City,
Oregon, courier arrived at Wheaton's head
quarters with dispatch from Colonel NJ.
Miller, the commanding officer at the NAL
heur agency, stating that yesterday eighty
five hostile Snakes, twenty-eight warriors and
the balance women and children, came into
the agency and surregdered, and that Oils,
the leading spirit since Egan's death, was de-
sirous of surrendering himself and band
The courier states that shortly after leaving
the agency, he saw one hundred to one hun
dred and fifty going into the agency. which
was very probably Oils and his party, and, if
so, the present campaign IN that vicinity is
virtually at an end.
The south Carolina Republican State
Convention
COLUMBIA, August S.-The Republican
State convention was IN secret session the
greater part of to-day. The platform de-
clares that the principles of equal, civil and
political rights can only be enforced by the
Republican party. 1t reiterates the adherence
of violence, intimidation or frauds In cleo
tons; denounces the practice Of Democrats
attending Republican meetings; charges the
Democrats with being unfalthful to their
pledges of 1876; denouuces the Democrats
for frauds, violence and intimidation IN 1876,
for assasslnations and murders during that
campaign, and for the subsequent violent
SEIZURE Of the State governments denounces
the unseatiDg of certain Republican memters
OF the last Legislature; arraigns the Demo-
Gratis for abolishing or removing certain cleo
ton precincts; arraigps the so-called fraud
investigation; reaffirms the belief in the fair
election of Hayes aud Chamberlain, and
pledges the Republican party to the work Of
purifying the public service. The following
is the ninth article Of the platform: eve
doom Iuaxpad1apt n aarIidafaS
for governor and other State officers, because,
owing to the condition OF affairs 10 this State,
occasioned by rife club rule and two years
OF Democratic supremacy, IT is imposoibls for
Republican voters IN many counties, without
mourning great personal danger, to organize
for the campaign or to vote at the election
when held" A State executive committee
was elected, and the convention adjourned
until to morrow.
From All Points.
Rome, August s: It's stated that Cardinal
Deacon Lorenzo Niuo has been appointed
Papal secretary of state.
Ottawa, Ont, August s: Mccormack &
Son, millers, have made an assignment. Liza
bitities, seventy-fve thousand dollars.
Bucharest, August 8: By the explosion of
a Russian powder magazine yesterday fifty
five persons were killed and thirty-one in
jured.
Wytheville, Va, August 8: Colonel John
B. Richmond was nominated by the Conserv-
alive congressional convention of the ninth
district.
Detroit, August s: At the fifth district
Greenback convention, to-day, Charles Com
stock, of Grand Rapids, was renominated for
congress.
Boston, August 8: The Journal publishes
report that John G. Sinclair, of Bethlehem,
New Hampshire, is charged with forging in
dorsements and notes. Sinclair's embarrass-