Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-04-24
NEWS IN BRIEF.

New York, April 2S.-Jno. H. Doane
| filed an assignment, giving preferences
amounting to about $780, 900.
Litchfeld, Conn, April 23.-The cotton
mills owned by Providence company
burned this morning. Loss over 500, 600.
| Bozeman, Mont, April 23.-Dr. H. B.
BARLEY, an old resident of Rardersburg,
was found murdered dear Townsend to-
| day. Nd clew.
st. Paul, Mimi, April % Mayo & Clark;
| wholesale hardware dealers, have sus-
pended payments. Liabilities, SlS5, 5,0O0; ;
| assets, $l55,000.
Louisville, April 23.-Charles Anderson,
| brakeman, was run over and killed by the
Louisville and Nashville train to-day, near
| Bardstown Junction.
Cincinnati, April 23.-The Legislative
| Committee to Investigate the Cincinnati
| Government adjourned this morning SUBJ
| ject to the call of the chairman.
| Cincinnati; April 23-The aggregate
receipts from the auction sale of seats for
the May Musical Festival amount to $1l,-
600. The sale by auction is closed.
Pittsburg, April 23-A.:colnmittee of the
/ Window-glass Workers Association left
this evening for Europe. The object of
the mission is to investigate the strike.
Troy, N. Y, April 23.-The stove manu-
| facturers of Troy and Albany have formed
a permanent association, and agreed to re-
| duce the average cost of mounting twenty
per cent.
South Coventry, Conn.,, April 23.-The
Washington Flannel-Mill at South Gov.
entry is burned. Insurance, $l35, 900.
| Two hundred hands are deprived of en-
| ployment.
| Denver, April 23.-Large crowds are
hourly leaving the Golden Valley district.
Many pronounce it a stupendous fraud,
and the faith of the most sanguine is be-
coming shaken.
| Gloucester, N. J., April 23.-John Nc
Elmert and George Gilpin, neighbors,
have disputed for years over some prop
erty. To-day Gilpin shot McElmert and
then himself. Both may die.
Columbia, S. c., April 23.-Mill No.
of Camp Brown Cotton Factory, at Green
vile, employing 100 operatives, will shut
down to morrow. 1t is impossible to Sc
cure supply of cotton for coarse yarns.
There is great scarcity of cotton-seed for
planting
New Orleans, April 23.-Mayor Behan
has published in the Picayune an address
to the people of New Orleans ex pressing
condemnation of the proceeding and man
ner in which the election was conducted.
The Picayune editorially calls for public
meeting.
Pittsburg, April 23-Coal operators Of
the foorth pool met Friday to consider the
advisability of ordering a reduction of
one fourth of cent per bushel in the
mems wages. The miners declare that a
general strike will be inaugurated if the
reduction is insisted upon.
Burlington, Ia, April 23.-Nearly all
the delegates to the Democratic State Con-
vention, which meets here tomorrow,
have arrived. Over three-fourths of them
express preference for Tilden for Presi-
dental candidate. 1t is not probable that
the delegates will be instructed
| Chillicothe, Mo, April pa dispatch
from Townsend Mont, announces the
killing of II. X. Barkley, formerly resi-
dent here. No particulars are given. The
deceased was distinguished surgeon in
the Confederate army, and brother OF G
C. Barkley, editor of the Chillicothe Con-
stitution.
Chicago, April 23.-The National Com.
mittee of the Prohibition Home Protec
ton party announces its National Conven
ton, which was to have been held al
Pittsburg May 21st, postponed till July
23d. The Illinois State Convention OF the
same party will be held at Bloomington
on June 18th.
New York, April 23.-Bishops Beck
with, Georgia; Dudley, Kentucky; Peter
kin, West Virginia, and Harris, Michigan
arrived this morning to take part in the
, deliberations of the House of Bishops
, Twenty-eight bishops are now present, bu
| thirty-two are necessary to make a quorum
The delegates held an informal meetini
| to-day.
II Pittsburg, April 23.-The anti-music fac
: | ton met at the Presbyterian church to- da,
and decided to ask the General Assembl,
: j to declare the use of instrumental musi,
: unlawful on the ground that the the ques
/ ton was not properly submitted to th'
| presbyteries. A renewed fight over the
question at the meeting of the General As
| sembly next month is predicted.