Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-02
TELEGRAPHIG sIsCELLANY.
o,Rslanin Is in Little Rock.

/ O'Baldwin IL In Little Rock.
Revolution in Mexico has been tempo
rErily squelohed.
Evansville starts on an excursion to st.
| Louis to-day.
During October the public debt was re-
dueed g, $50, 490.
An Otaws lumosr-mill burned yesteT-
day. Loss, $4,000.
General Carey, Of Ohio, Is the latest
convert TO Tsmmsnyism.
The Cincinnati Enquirer Ia out tor Tom
| Scott for the presidency.
Boutwell, has called in another million
and half Of three per cents.
A boiler in Baltimore sugar refinery
burst yesterday and killed man.
Boston wants the republican national
convention in the Hob next year.
The Long Island sugar refining COM
psny Is reported s. on It's lass legs.
Oakey Hall is becoming virtuous. He
offers 8 reward of SlG00 Tor a convicted re-
peater.
The Hamburg snd-Bremen Insurance
company Is to establish an agency In
Chicago.
Fred Grant is to accompany General
Sherman on his tour of military inspec
| tion in Europe.
William NJ. Moore was shot dead in a
saloon at Santa Cruz. California, day be-
fore yesterday, by George Dennison.
Several insurance companies in Chicago
are being prosecuted for having done
business on too limited capital.
Lsngton, a town in Lancashire, Eng
lard, mas given 3 thousand pounds ster
ling 70 the Chicsgo sufferers.
A New York jury brought in verdict
of guilty az EinsE jackson, the counter
feiter, yesterday. Sentence reserved.
A rumor was current in Washington
last night that Grant hsd determined to
declare martial law throughout the entire
South.
Mr.. a. Cbapmsn, clerk OF the White
Pine, Nsvsds waterwOrks company, took
an overdose Of lsudsnum last Saturday
and died thereof.
Baron KslIsSpferg, formerly governor
Of Bohemia, hes been invited by EmP
Tor Francis Joseph TO make up the slate
for the new ministry.
Two lsborers engaged in tearing down
the walls Of the Chicago Tribune building
were instantly killed yesterday by falling
from the fourth story to tho basement.
The Garmsn exploring expedition 10
the Arctic seas has resChed latitude 79o
north, Longitude sSe east and reports
thst there Is q probability OF reaching the
open Polar sea-
Mrs. james Sullivan. Of Bay Point,
Contra Costa county, California, had q
little dispute with her brOther-in-lsw on
Tuesday, and gsttiDg the worst of the ar
gument, settled the question by blowing
the gentleman's head o1 with shotgun.
Hspless Jspan! General Geo. D. Will
liams, of Indiana, yester 'ay concluded an
engagement with the Japanese minister,
and will 20 to that country for the pur-
pose CT organizing an internal revenue
system there similar to our own.
The British msil steSmsr Venezuelan
took firs on her lsst passage from Liver
pool to the West Indies, bat was ruR into
Santa Martha, one Water-tight compart
msnt scuttled, sn1 the YES el and
cargo saved. Ths ship was on fire thirty
one hours.
Colonel Sidney D. Maxwell, for several
years connected with the Cincinnati Ga
zstte, was yesterday installed superinten-
dent of the Cincinnati chamber of COM
msrcs Vice William Smith resigned Mr..
Smith has been president of the chamber
for the past seventeen years.
The editor of the Sioux City, Iowa,
Herald iokingly slludsd to 8 Mr. Hsspers
IS ''first-clsss thief and nbidinous
sdultersr" but Hsspsrs couldn't see where
the laugh came in, and now sues the Her
aid for S25, 600, as the amount Of damage
done to his general reputation.
The consul-gensral OF Switzerland,
HiltZ, recsived letter from the president
OF that republic, stating that the people
express ths wsrmest sympathy with the
sufferers by the Chicago hre, and that lib
ersl subscriptions are bsing made for their
relief Under organized arrangements
the Swiss inhabitants OF this country viii,
on November I7Eh. celebrate the h55th
anniversary OF Independents. The Unit
ed States government is now paving q
pension to the widow Of william Tell,
| lineSl descendant of the Swiss hero of
that name. The husband OF the pension
81 served In the late war.
Assessor Shsttuck, Of Mississippi, re-
ports to the authorities ct Washington
that on the night OF the Esd instant an at
tempt was made to burn the assessors
Office at Okolona. but the FIRE was eKtiu-
guished before material dsmsgs was done.
The assessor thinks there 10 no doubt that
the deed was done by the friends of par
| ty of ku-klux, ave Of whom had been az
rested thst evening and confined IN his
house Threats were freely made against
the life of Mr.. Hall, the assessors clerk,
| for the part be took In the affair. Assessor
| shsttuck suggests that troops be stationed
there FOR the protection of government
property. Excitement runs high,