Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-28
TELEGRAMS.

The New York French Fair netted
81, 900.
Grant is sending provisions to the
| Indians.
/ Ole Bull win fiddle cut the rest Of
his days in Maine.
Judge Blatchford discharged Gen
eral Neil from custody.
Deery beat Dion badly yesterday in
San Francisco at billiards.
Fnpins was indicted at Albany yes
| terday for the express robbery.
Petitions food Congress against the
! Cincinnati bridge over the Ohio.
Kelly addressed empty benches yes
teTday on the San Domingo question.
The preachers ask Grant to make
Silas 3. butcher collector of New
York.
Colonel J. @. Young, Of the Buckeye
State, died yesterday at Columbus,
Ohio.
No dispatch has been received from
/ Washbnrne about the surrender Of
Paris.
The Sprague rebel blockade run
ming business will be Investigated by
a Senate committee.
The Cincinnati Board Of Aldermen
| asked Congress yesterday to blow up
| the new bridge scrOs5 the Ohio.
Fred Anderson was the only person
killed by an explosion Of the gas
works at Brooklyn. Loss, $500, 600. /,
One-third Of the agricultural land
scrip goes to the cOlored college in
Virginia, and tWO-thirds to the white.
The Brooklyn Life Insurance Com
pany was sued on the life policy of a
poor fellow who killed himself with
whisky. The jury gave a verdict
against the company.
1t is proposed in Congress to ex-
empt a widows dover from the Oper-
alton Of the Bankrupt act. Bowen
MOllOck Is appointed Merchandise
Appraiser at Cincinnati.
A great crowd at Sweeney's Hotel
last night forced their way in to see
the Fenians. Rosa and wife con-
Quoted the ceremonies, aud Burke and
Mulcahy were the lions.
The Brooklyn g1sOmeter exploded
yesterday. Two men missing Fred.
AndersOn's body was fearfully man.
gled. Loss $3.50, 600. This is the
third explosion there Of the same
sort.
Kate Cummings, cOlOred teacher,
recovered yesterday SlIOO damages
from Ohio and Atlantic railroad COM
pany, because, having a frst-class
ticket, she was made to ride in a
secOnd-claSs car.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the
following nominations: Commodore
W. r. Taylor, Rear Admiral; Cap
tain Napoleon CUmmins, Commodore;
Samuel A. Archard, Surveyor Of Gus
toms, Omaha; Jas. E. Galloway, Sec.
retary Of Montana; Jos. G. Clements,
Secretary of Washington Territory;
Reuben ElwOOd, Assessor Of Internal
Revenue Second district Of Illinois;
J. S. BOtsfOrd, U. S. Attorney General
Western district Of Missouri; A. L.
Arney, Indian Agent for New MeXi-
co; c. T. Brown, Surveyor General Of
Minnesota; 3. Herman, Receiver Of
Public Moneys, ROseburg, Oregon.
Stanton says that he didn't pay the
Alabama State bonds interest be
cause the Governor refused to recOg-
niZs the validity of bonds issued to
railroads. He saws further, that he
was offered in New York all the
money he wanted if Governor Lind
say would have promised even to ask
the Legislature to recognize the valid
ity Of the bonds, or to extend the
time of payment. Stanton asserts
that he has the money to finish his
road at once, and then he will have
no difficulty in paying everything, or
in borrowing all the money he-wants.
Senator Schurz, referring yesterday
to Grants weakness for his kin in fill
ing Offices, mentioned the case of a
Western applicant who, falling to Sc
cure a local and important office, was
recommended by the delegation from
his State for the Office of pension
agent, and after falling in that he TN
dertOOk his own case, and being a
man who must be provided for, he
was appointed by the President as
resident minister for q South Ameri-
can republic. That Office not being
high enough for that gentleman, he
succeeded in having himself nOmi-
mated minister plenipOtentiary, but
was defeated by the Senate. He was
then made Governor OF q Territory,
and all this within seven days.
SehUrz then offered as a substitute for
bill introduced by him at the last
session for a radical reform in the
civil service by system of cOmpeti-
tiOn examinations.