Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-12-22
TELEGRAPHIc ITEMS.

Virginia las ceased funding hsr debt.
The Ohio river ct Evansville Is closed
by ice.
Grant perdoned Miller, the Boston for
ger, yesterday.
The celebrated Tiehborne case has besn
again pes tp0ned.
Trains on she Hudson river were de-
lsysd by extreme cold yesterday.
The parliament Of Ontario is still
wrsngllDg over The formation Of q new
cs5inst.
Tas police are hoOplng-up the gamblers
wers al locked up and the lsy-outs taken
In.
Cincinnati Thermometers zsroed ysster.
day, while those Of Boston seen that and
went from hftesn TO twenty degrees
worse.
Fred Hsuzle, q young German, was
found on the street in IndisnEpohs yester-
dsy morning 40 badly frozsn that his lite
Is dsspsIred Ct
The weather throughout Canada for the
pass thirty-siX hours has been intensely
cod, vary ing, according 20 locality, from
16a % A. 0sluw z3rO.
n Little Rock, yestsrdsy morning, q
Tagsoo1d negro was roasted to death by
Elg 0LEnlLE DL an CuL-IullQllE In WHICH
had crswlsd TO spend she night,
Little Rock holds q meeting this morn
ing 70 consider the Chicot troubles. Ci IT,
zsns Of ali shades OF political opinion
unite Ia the cSll for the meeting.
II wss the British ship Windsor Castle
which ran down the French bark Costa
Rica, OF the Isle Of Wight. Her officers
deny inst Ihey heard cries Of distress from
tbs Costa.
The stssHlsr Delaware, Preston master,
which sailed shis week from Liverpool for
CzlcRsts, was totally loss Wednesday, of
Scilly Isisnds All On board are supposed
60 have psrished.
Ii ihe ku klux trials yesterday ct Co.
l1mbis, S0uEh Carolina, the defense in
trOducsd testimony to show that threats
Of whipping sud burning of whites pre-
cedsd the OUtrsBes upon negroes.
The house met iu committee of the
who . for general debate on ths state of
the Unign yesterday. But few members
we're present, most Of them having left
for boEl5 70 spend the Christmas holidays.
Ksyes Dsnforth, a5jubsnt general Of
tbs hisck my rmid0ns called the militia Of
Arkansas, has been sent by Hgdlsy to
ClicOt county 10 set mzttsrs straight In
thss disturbed section. What compro-
MISE he vii effScs with the negroes Is not
known.
B1ston is sristocratic; New York and
Philsselphis demOcrsEie; B2ltimore pa
triarchicsl, and Chicago cOummunistie
Wbsrei0re2 Because, IN Boston society,
sccOruing 10 the New York Mail, every
body srubs every body else; in New
York society everybody gossips abOnt
every b1dy elss; in Baltimore society
every body frsternizss with every body
else, ard in Chicago society usb At pres
ens everybody is borrowing from every
body else.
A dispatch from Matamorss, Mexico,
Says thsE both a that place and Browns
vile, Texzs, American Intervention in the
Mexican civil war is confidently anticl-
psged. Texas representatives in congress
are requested 70 favor it. QQiogs is at
Csrslv0 th5es5eni3g Mier. C0rtins was
recently in consultation with FslRiries,
with whom be Is Ostensioiy in accord, and
Is now moving toward Mier, with four
Thousand mon, al the available govern
msnt forces, 70 Uset Q1iogs. His sllegt.
anes 10 Jusrez is doubtful A govern
ment steamer, with funds, is hourly ex-
pscts6 from EsmpieO. URless it arrives
soon pronuocismeD-O Is imminsnt.
TIE president sent q message 10 con-
gress reclting facts affecting our relations
with Spsin. He says that be began 10
urge ths abolition Of slavery in Cuba In
1870 Ths Spanish minister Of foreign af-
fsirs then ssssnted 70 gradual system Of
patton which had been slowly and
smpe-fsctly put In opsrstion- Ths msdl- |
csl students pubehersd by Cuban suthOr- |
lilies hsd only desscrsted the grave of /
CssLsnO by scratching glass plate en-
closing the niche in which the body Of /
Castsno reposss. The government was |
pOwerless against the mob Of soldiers thsb |
put the students 10 death The youths /
were suffered 20 be sacrificed 70 prevent |
more serious troubles. The pEeGi /
deus furnishes copies Of his in /
structious TO Admiral Hof to protect |
American citizsns and ships, and avoid |
violation Of strict neutrality. Hoff was /
20 surrender to Spsnish sathOrity no per
son who escaped to bis feet without in
strncticus from Washington. Similar in
structioDs were given Admiral Poor at /
Santisgo &c Cuba. Fugitives from the |
islsnd vera 20 bs received by Poor, but be /
was not TO In erfere with affairs on the /
Island. Rssr Admiral LOe received simi-
lar instructions ~ Port an Prince. When /
began that ended IN the bar
Dsrous execution Of the students, every /
proper order was issued TO naval officers |
10 secure the safety Of all American citi-
zsnS.