Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-27
TELEGRAMS OF LAST NIGHT.

The Egyptian bones are at premium
ia London.
The Fifteenth Amendment paraded in
Pittsburg yesterday.
A war is pending in France between
capitalists and laborers.
The Great Eastern is leased for five
years to lay ocean kilograms.
The crops of Ohio promise large yield,
both from stand ana account in acreage.
One Appleton was confirmed Judge of
the United States Court of Eastern Texas.
The bill to re-Organige the navy has
been accepted by the COMMITTEES on Naval
Affairs.
The Congress, yesterday, was still dis
cussing that everlasting iniquity, the
tariff bill.
All Kentucky and Tennessee papers re-
port the tobacco crop vigorous and of un-
usually fine growth.
French newspapers say that screw
steamers pass through the SueZ Canal
with great difficulty.
Congress was yesterday discussing the
tariff on hemp. Because most interested
in the article Congress should protect
hemp.
The construction of a two and half
n. c., has been awarded to builder of
that city.
They want an United States mint or
ASSAY office at Helena, away out west
and have raised row in Congress
about It.
Honora township, Ohio, has agreed to
grant the right of way and to take $4,000
stock il the projected Baltimore, Pitts
burg and Continental Railroad.
J. NJ. Morgan, of New Orleans. son-iB-
law of George l.. Trenholm, of Charles
ton, S. c., has become an artillery officer
in the army Of the Pacha of Egypt.
The first number of the New York
Standard, by John Russell Young, will be
issued en- Saturday morning next. The
new daily will be the size of the Sun.
Gov. Merrill, of Iowa, and Fairchilds,
OF Wisconsin, addressed a committee of
Congress yesterday in behalf of a ship
canal from the lakes to the Mississippi.
Spence. the illustrious Spence from
MurfreesbOrO, BrOwnlow's bower, made
a speech yesterday before the Recon-
structiOn Committee. He begged for
troops and reconstruction,
From Lebanon, Indiana, we learn that
the wheat prospects are quite as good as
those of last year. The rains have re-
stored the frozen roots. The fruit crops
have not been injured more than one
third of termination.
The great flood in the Upper Missis-
sippi, bV which much of the country, and
many Of the towns along the banks OF the
Illinois, Iowa, Wisconsin and Minnesota,
have been inundated. has commenced &c
subside. 1t fell eighteen inches from
Saturday to Monday evening.
The farmers of Central Minnesota have
got their wheat in. Many of them are
now sowing oats, and q large proportion
have commenced plowing for corn. The
work is ahead ofathe season, and the sea-
son is not late. The best horticulturists
of the vicinity say that the recent hard
frost didn't harm the fruit of that section
at all. We learn also, from Northernl
Iowa, that the farmersIn that section arr
putting in very heavy crops of wheat.
Ex-Judge Abraham D. Russell, of
York, while sitting yesterday inNoR
basement of his residence, about two Raj
minutes after ten, fell "fronfs
his chair insensible. Before medical at
tendance was procured life was extinct.
He was in usual health during the day.
The cause of his death is supposed to be
apoplexy. He was for many years very
successful criminal lawyer and achieved
a reputation for successfully defending
persons charged with crime, equal 10 any
lawyer that has ever pursued the same
line of practice. Cky judge was the
only important office he ever heidi He
was noted for his extreme severity with
which he treated those whom he had
been accustomed to defend.