Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-01-29
TELEGRAMS.

Showing in Washington yesterday.
The Cuban rebellion is said to be on
its last legs.
Two steamers burned In Providence,
r. l., yesterday.
A car load Of japanese are coming
from San Francisco.
The Wisconsin legislature wants to
retain the income tax.
The Italian Capitol is to be remov-
ed to Rome the 20th June.
Steam tug exploded in New York
yesterday. One killed and seven
wounded.
The books for Prussian loans closed
with subscriptions largely in excess Of
the required amount.
A London dispatch of yesterday
says the flight Of the French to the
island OF Jersey is unabated.
A Mr.. Morrow has been successful,
at San Francisco, in the application Of
steam to prOpel an sereal vessel.
The question DO false answers
vitiate a life insurance pOlicyY IS
now being argued in the Kings
New York. County Court.
A. C. RatcliG, alias Chamberlain,
was sent to jail in default Of ten thou.
sand dollars bail. lie is the diamond
smuggler.
E, s. PeddicOrd and Benedict
Schue. a German, the latter stabbed
and the former shot, in Humboldt,
last Saturday, are recovering from
their wounds.
A telegram from Florence, Italy,
Yesterday says: Difficulties at Tunis,
between the Italian Consul and the
Government Of that country, have
been an1icably settled.
The Louisville Board Of Trade has
a committee to secure the completion
of the railroad to Knoxville and of
! the Nashville and Decatur road to
! Montgomery, Alabama. Memphis
merchants dOze over such questions.
The late Prefeet of the Seine, Baron
Haussman, is at Rome, in consultation
with the italian Government regard
ing the demolition Of old buildings
and reconstruction OF the city in con-
| f0rmity with the requirements OF the
/ future capital Of Italy.
A bill to suspend the collection of
/ taxes till the 3lst Of March on personal
property, and until the Both Of April
/ on real estate, was read third time,
on Wednesday last, in the Arkansas
/ House of Representatives, and passed
by vote Of SO yeas to II nays.
By the falling Of the roof of a shed
/ in the yard Of Lane & Bodley, engine
| builders, Of Cincinnati, on Thursday
I last, seven men were so severely in
| iured that one of them died in q few
minutes after, and it is feared two
! more will follow. The other four viii
/ recover.
Cincinnati is a good place. 1t out
/ rivals Memphis. Night before last
/ John Houston was attacked by three
robbers, near COvingtOn, Ky. They
| took from him, after shooting him
through the head, 500. The RAIDS
/ over in Cincinnati will now raise a
howl for the reconstruction Of Ken
lucky, and Morton will swear in the
Senate that the robbers were not from
/ Cincinnati.
Charles Jolly and John Armstrong,
the murderers of the Lapine family,
/ Eve ia number, near POtOsi, Nevada,
were publicly hung in Courthouse
1 Square, at POtosi, yesterday afternoon.
/ a very large crowd Of people were
! present, some of them having come q
i distance of twenty TO thirty miles, to
/ witness the execution. JOlly's head
was nearly severed from his body by
the rope. and Armstrong died by slow
/ stranqulation, on account Of some de.
I ranqenent Of the moose.
After the 9th prOximo Cincinnati
will charge only three cents wharfage
per ton on boats Of 100 tons; If les;
fban 100 tons, 81. The boat may bt
at wharf nine days, and afterwaTC
! two cents per ton per day, provided
wharfage be not less than 81 per day
] Any water craft lying at the whar
/ less than tWenty-f0UT hours and mor'
than two hours shall be charged ne
/ over s., and local boats landing ire
| quently for short periods and boat
stopping not more than two hours
! 81 f0r each landing.