Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-22
TELEGRkMS.
The war in Venezuela is ended.

The war in Venezuela is ended.
Mrs. McGee's funeral was well at
tended in Toronto yesterday.
Judge W. P. Chiffon, of Alabama,
died in Montgomery, yesterday.
The marble statute of the late Gov
! ernOr Andrews arrived from Italy.
General F'aidherbe is at st. Qentin,
and is about 10 march on Scissors.
The Snyder paper mills, at Dayton,
/ Ohio, were partially burned yester-
day.
Gambetta has ordered that enlist
ments tor corps of guerrillas shall
cease
The American edition of Tenny-
SON poems are forbidden to be sold in
England.
A man at Decatur, Ind, got caught
under log which TOlled of his
| wagon. Killed.
The Government of Servia dis
I patched a semi official representative
I TO the London Conference.
1t is said the Pennsylvania Central
| Railroad Company have obtained a
controlling infuencein the Union Pa
cifc.
o. c. Perry, an official of Drake
| county, Ohio, shot fellow who er-
! tered his office intoxicated and used
| obscene language.
Stantield, member of the English
/ Parliament, announces his intention
of introducing a bill to give the ballot
| to English voters. The present sys-
TEN is rirU COce.
Captain Kerr, Of the Royal Navy,
/ thinks the cable cannot be repaired
before spring. The steamer Robert
| Lowe was driven away by the great
fields Of floating ice.
A raid with mounted troops Just
made in the mountain region of Ten
nessee, resulted in the destruction OF
/ seven illicit distilleries and about
1000 gallons of mash.
In New York yesterday Colonel
Clark was convicted of having in his
/ possession a quantity of counterfeit
money, and was sentenced to the Al
bany penitentiary for five years.
Nero Lowe, an old Baptist clergy
man of Wilson county, committed
suicide Thursday, by drowning in the
Cumberland river near his farm. He
was a man of ability, culture and
wealth.
Mr.. Otway, NJ. p, made a speech
at Chatham, England, Friday night,
in which be expressed the belief that
the new United States minister to
England would settle the Alabama
claims.
In Buffers speech on common hon
esty he took occasion to sneer at the
present impoverished condition of
Chief Justice Taney's family in such
a way as to disgust the respectable
members Of the House.
The franking system for six months
in last year cost the POstOffice Depart
ment S9l6,OOO. over five million
letters and two million pounds of
other matter were sent under the Con-
gressiCnal frank, and not a third of
the pOstOnices Of the country reported.
The Common Council OF Dubuque
has instructed the City Attorney to
commence suits against resident hold
ers of SEO0,000 worth of city bonds,
purchased in New y urk at > cents on
the dollar, 10 compel them to surren-
der the bonds at the price paid and 10
per cent. interest.
A Minneapolis dispatch says the
suit of the st. Anthony Falls Water
Power vs.. the Miilers' Association,
for damages caused by the breaking
Of water into the tunnel, laid at quar-
ter Of a million dollars, has been de-
cided for the defendants.
The Chattanooga Board OF Trade, at
a meeting last night, passed a verbose
resolution eUlOgistic Of the Cincinnati
and Southern railroad (which is to
be, and calling on Kentucky to give
the Cincinnatians all the privileges
they ask, i'm order that the read may
be built.
On Monday a boiler in a saw-min
near TaylOrville, Illinois, exploded,
instantly killing Bernard johnson,
the owner, AIcCluskie, sawyer and
Harris, assistants; and dangerously
iDjuring a young man named Nichol-
son. Johnson was blown more than
80 feet and the boiler 80 yards.