Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-27
MINOR TELEeRAMs.

Tsmarsck swamp, New York, Is
still: Burning.
The sres near Albion, New York,
have been subdued.
England's coIt buttons to Chicago
continue TO be large.
Yesterday morning broke on New
York rainy and foggy.
Ten thousand Communists have
been released by the Paris courts.
Several more Of the New York in
sursnce companies are said TO be tottering
to the grave.
Coal a instead OF her father, the
c~oroneris iurv say, killed the Jersey City
lady, Mary Pullman.
The sipecnrists of the New York
municipal government are being kicked
out as fast as discovered.
Eighteen citizens of Rock county,
South Carolina, were arrested on Wednes-
day on the charge Of ku-kiuxism.
Chss. O'COnnor gives ii as his opin-
ion that s., 500 600 csn be recovered from
Bihltuede, the KohinooT of Tsmmsny.
Baron Won Beust is preparing a
note regarding the international society.
to be addressed to sl the governments Of
Europe
The Prussian government will pro-
pose to the Reichsrsth g law in reference
to ire international society. An eminent
jurist aud specisl functionsry sre charged
with the dusy Of drafting the law.
A Philadelphia corOner's jury, in
the csse of Levi Baldell, shot in the riots
in that city on election day, gave q YER
dict of death by a %gunshot wound at the
hands Of police sergeant James Duffy.
That snivelling, sneaking, sancti-
monious, swiudliDg dead-beat. General o.
o Howard. is in Hartford, Connecticut,
asking the cooperation of the American
Missionary association in his work Of rob-
biug the negro snd the government.
General E. NJ. Lee, late acting gov
ernor of Wyoming, is delivering q purse
oftWelve lyceum lectures in the principal
cities of Michigan, for the bsneft of tie
sufferers by the late fires. Tit audiences
are large snd enthusiastic, and the lee
lures E complete success.
Denton, a bowling dervish of the
an~ti-popsry stripe, who has bsen annoy
ing Scranton, Pennsylvania, for some
time, came near recsiving the crown Of
msrtyrdom in thst llage on Wednesday.
He had advertised & lecture for the even
ing, and, to while swsy the day, thrust
himself into q large public school and
opsnsd his theological batteries upon the
defenseless pupils, and kept up the fire
until the superintendent of the school
was forced to chuck him q of q window
70 allow scholastic exercises to be re-
sumsd. About the time his lecture was
TO have commenced, he found q large and
enthusiastic audience of Irishmen, who
had prepared an ovation in the shape OF a
barrel OF cosl-tsr, but, after conference
with the chief of police, his modesty for
bade the acceptance Of the compliment,
and he took q night-ride to the next vii
lsge.
A bill heretofore filed and with
drawn. in the United States district court,
for the eastern district of Virginia, at
Lynchburg, wss relied yesterday, pray
ing for an Injunction to restrain the Vir-
giniR and Tennessee railroad, and William
Malone, president, from carrying out
the provisions OF an act of the Virginiat
legislature. consolidating that road with
the Norfolk and Petersburg road snd the
South Side road, under the title Of the At
Isntic and NJ ississippi railroad, having its
termini at Norfolk, Virginia, and Bris-
toll, Tennessee. Further, thRs the Vtr-
ginis and Tennessee railroad be restrained
from issuing any bonds under the act OF
the Virginia legislature In furthersnce of
the interests of the Atlantic and Missis-
sippi railroad, which act, it is alleged, is
Unconstitutional, and that they be en-
Joined from negotiating q loan for eight
millions of bonds of this amount which
have been executed and attempted to be
sold at q discount OF twenty-five cents,
and tbs the defendants be eDjoined from
constructing the Cumberland Gap rail
road or in any way fostering the roads by
the use of the funds of the Virginia and
Tennessee railrosd.