Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1869-11-30
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

grams this morning is accounted for
by the following note from the office Of
the W. Z. Tel. Co., received at am.
+" Eds. appeal: In consequence of the
weather, the lines East were working
badly last night, and no more report was
received up to the hour of closing the
Office"
c. d. Richardson Is dying.
Governor McLavish is very low.
Murphy kicked Mcconnell to death
In New York last Sunday.
A fatal case of hydrophobia culmi.
mated in New York, yesterday.
More drawback frauds coming to
light In the New York CustOmhouse.
Governor MeDougall is still at
Pembins, despite the row kicked up
by the half-breeds.
Joe Coburn challenges Tom Allen
to fight for $4,000, and not less than
$500, he to pay Aliens travelling ex-
penses to California.
At two o'clock yesterday afternoon
the ball was extracted from Albert
Richardson. His condition is more
precarious than ever.
r. Totten & Co., New York sharpers,
have been swindling laborers by sell
ing tickets to New Orleans for s. each.
On Saturday, the day of sailing, their
Office was closed.
The n. Y. Times urges the transfer
OF the negotiations relative to the Al
ALBANIA claims to Washington. 1t
doubts the report that negotiations
have been reopened by Motley.
Congressman are congregating at
Washington. The Ways and Means
Committee had quorum yesterday.
The House will demand a report on
the Tariff on the 18th prox.
Paymaster W, G. Marcy, of Mare
Island (CaI.) Navy Yard, estimated
as defaulting $4,000, has turned his
property over to the Government. 1t
will by no means cover the defalca-
cation.
4 mysterious murder, OF which a
German named StahI was the victim,
was perpetrated in Newark, n. J.,
Sunday morning. Five persons are
in custody, but the supposed real
murderer escaped.
Charles Thomas, a Cleveland (Ohio)
merchant, was terribly assaulted yes
terday in his store by a man named
James, alias Babbitt, and robbed of
near $500. Thomas lies in a critical /.
condition. Babbitt has been arrested. /
Yesterday morning the Western /
bound train on the Burlington and 4
Missouri Railroad ran into a wood .
train, eight miles west Of Mt. Pleas.
ant, Iowa, killing one person and in
juring four Others. The cars of both |
trains were badly smashed.
w. H. Wise, an express messenger
on the Cleveland and Pittsburg Rail-
road, shot himself through the head
yesterday afternoon as the train en-
tered the Cleveland Depot. He left a
q note stating that whisky and fiends
were the cause of the deed.
A special received at Toronto,
Canada, from st. Paul, says that let
ter received from Pembina states that
Ihe insurgents are arranging to hold a
council OF representatives from the
different districts to consider the state
Of the country, and to determine as to
the mature Of action.
a young man named Joseph VIII
iams, formerly from Tennessee, was
knocked down last night, at st. JO-
'eph, Mo-, while going from the depot
10 a hotel, and robbed of $4,000. He
had just received the money at Leav-
enworth, from his fathers estate.
There is no clue to the robbers.
1t is stated that the French Govern
nent, which refused to negotiate
new postal treaty with Senator Ram
;ey on a more liberal basis, has asked
hat the present treaty, which expires ,
N the first Of February, 1870, be re-
lewed for one year. This request our
Government has positively declined.
The n. Y. Tribune says that in spite
# the representations Of the Captain
Generals questionable organ, it is re-
that the Spanish Admiral
Aalcomo did intend reprisals upon
American commerce in a conceivable
went, and that Minister Roberts has
lot changed the demOnstrative tone
If his diplomacy.
There was a reunion yesterday Of
he French Senate and Corps Legisla-
if. The Emperor was present, and
made an important speech. He said
hat between him and those who
would grant nothing, a glorious course
night be chosen. HeannOunced him
elf ready to grant a reform, and in
.losing, complimented the United
States.