Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1884-06-13
TELEGRAPH BREVITIES.

New York, June 12--The veterans of
the Army of the Potomac made an excur-
sion in the harbor to day.
Terre Haute, Ind, June l2.-Prof Lu-
Glen ]. Blake has accepted the professor
ship of physics in Rose Polytechnic In
stitute.
San Antonio, June 12.-Langdon, Green
lay Il Co, grOcers, assigned to night to
Milliam Prescott for the benefit of their
ere ditors. Liabilities aegreg tie $4,000.
Assets not stated.
San Francisco, June II Calhoun Ben
ham, prominent lawyer of this city, died
to day. In the famous duel between Judge
David Terry and Senator Broderick, Ben
ham acted as Terry's second.
Richmond, Va, June 12.-An accident
occurred to-day on the Chesapeake and
Ohio railroad. Engineer Alexander Hall
was killed and the fireman slightly sea ded.
The passengers we're uninjured.
Madison, Ind, June 12.-Hanover Col
lege commencement occurred to-day. The
past year has been the most successful in
its history. The degree OF LID. was con-
ierred upon the Hon. Benz. Harrison.
Lynchburg, Va, June 12.-Marietta
Ryan was convicted of murder in the first
degree at Roanoke, yesterday. Instgated
by an illegltimate lover, she poisoned her
husband, popular colored preacher, with
arsenic, last January.
Cairo, June l2-The Democratic Con-
gressional Convention held here this
afternoon nominated T. +. Albright, OF
Murphysboro, for Congress, and Thomas
Wilson, of Cairo, member of the State
Board of Equalization.
Richmond, Va, June 12.-Bishop George
| Of uit,ia
ried tonight in Henrico county, near this
| city, to Miss Marion NJ. Stewart, daughter
| Of John Stewart, one Of the wealthiest and
| most prominent citizens of Virginia.
Pittsburg, June 12.--The stove foundries
of Anschutz & Co. and Bisse.l & Co. have
resumed with apprentices and non-union
men. Other firms are making prepara-
| tions to start the same way. The strikers
| feel confident the manufacturers will! not
bs successful in starting all the works.
Pittsburg, June 12.-The International
Convention of Window Glass Workers,
which was to have met in Pittsburg in
| July, will be held at st. Helena, Ian
cashire, England, on the 18th instant.
| President Cline and Andrew Burt, of this
city, will represent the American Union.
Reading June l2.-He' ster Clymer died
here suddenly OF paralysis this morning.
aged niIy seven years. Inc GecS2Sed
served in the State Senate six years. He
was the Democratic candidate for Gov
ernor against Geary in 1856, and served in
Congress from the Berks district from 1873
| to 1891.
Louisville, June l2.-J. D. Johnson,
well known through his connection with
Louisville and Cincinnati papers, died to-
day os consumption. He was forty-two
years old, and was a drummer boy in tue
| Fonrth Kentucky Regiment at the battle
Of Shiloh. He was the original Of the
song, 1.-The Drummer of Shiloh"
Chicago, June 12.-The Executive Com
mittee of the orphans home at Louisville
has invited St. Bernard Commandery,
knights Templar, OF this city, to give an
exhibition drill in Louisville June oath,
| 81. Johns day. The commandery has ac-
copied the invitation and will leave here
Sunday night, June 22d, taking seventy
five Knights in line.
Louisville, June 12.-At a meeting of
the City Council to night resolution was
passed directing the appointment of a
receiver of the city's Louisville and
| Nashville stock. A resolution was
offered to appoint committee to investi-
gate the cause of the decline in stocks and
was referred to the Committee on Rail-
roads.