Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-02-01
TELEGRAMS.

IEEEunHMo,
The new Spanish King can't make
a Ministry.
In New Jersey criminals testify on
their own trials.
! Newspaper men are invited to the
! Carnival at Washington.
The Governor at Omaha is to be
impeached for corruption in Office.
The Senate INDUCED in much twad-
die yesterday about the Georgia cleo
ton.
There is great CONSERVATION at
, WilhelmshOhe about the terms Of the
armistice.
About sc, 600, 600 shad were Matched
and turned into the Connecticut river
the past summer.
Dispatches last night say the rebel
/ Caban Government is finally dissolved
and destroyed.
A. SamelsOn, a Louisville spiritual
/ ist, started himself for the first sphere
| yesterday, with a revolver.
Congress is still guarding the purity
| Of elections, and is arranging for
Grants reelection by force of arms.
Mrs. J. B. Merrill and four chfldres
were burned in hotel at Milwaukee
yesterday. The cook is also missing.
Thirty-One National banks Of New
York have been changed to State
banks, the latter being most popular.
The receipts of internal revenue in
Arkansas last year, as compared with
the year before, are Sl9O,OI4 20 in
crease.
Machinery for the manufacture of
the ramie plant fibre has been per
fected, and henceforth il will be the
great rival Of cotton.
Dispatches from all quarters of the !
country report great rejoicing among
the Germans over the success of the |
German arms in France.
The war steamers Shenandoah, of |
the United States, and the British |
HelicOn, had race in the haTbOr Of |
Havre. The Shenandoah won.
The Southern Investigation Con- /
gressiOual Committee are to use Sl5.-
600. This will furnish very good !
Robertson county fOr q several weeks !
tour.
An old claim is now before Congress
in the shape Of a petition of Maria |
Clemens, who asks for compensation |
for clothing furnished to Lafayette's
soldiers.
Roots, Of Arkansas, has introduced |
bill in Congress which extends
the time in which bankrupts paying
less than fifty per cent. may be dis
charged.
A young lawyer named D. r. Sher-
idan became insane from starvation,
last week. He Was a resident Of Jer-
sey City, and was supposed to have a
paying practice.
The nominations sent to the Senate !
yesterday were-J. B. AbercrOmbie, |
surveyor of customs, Burlington, Iowa;
j. II. Morrison, collector of customs, /
Colorado Territory.
A poor woman, by the name Of
Frances Carter, was frozen to death
near BOOnville, No, in a room where !
her husband and brother were enjoy
ing a drunken carnival.
A bill passed the House yesterday,
giving $40 acres Of land to one Schnell, |
who wants to introduce the cultiva-
tiOn Of tea and silk-wOrms by means
of the 'heathen Chinese"
Congress will put a Government
vessel at the disposal Of the people, to
be freighted at New York with sup
plies for the French. We commend
the deed but question the lawful
right.
Two Spanish women of Los An
geles, Cal, got into a fight the other |
day, when pistols and axes were used,
and one of the cOmbatants' arms was
split open from the elbow nearly to
the wrist
-Four persons were sufOcated in
Third avenue, New York, by gas from |
a pipe from which the landlord had
taken the burner and forgot to put the
zap on. A crowd talked Of Iynching
-he wretch.
Inc proceedings in the New Jersey !
legislature yesterday with prayer. I
bill was then introduced to make :
me public schools free to all. John !
Browns spirit s marching on.
The Farragut monumentalists met {
n New York yesterday. They want g
BOO, 600; have $1,000 already. The I
necessary books and papers and sub i
icriptiOn lists will be sent 10 the q
mayors Of all the cities. The mOnu-
nent is to be in New York.
The Lower House yesterday took a
lew departure and absolutely tackled J
he Senate because it violated the Con- 4
titutiOn in originating revenue bill. S
How charmingly sensitive and con- /
cientiOus are the rascals when their s
Dwn prerOgatives are invaded! a
Maynard is after that other ass, the c
English Captain Eyre. Yesterday the u
Naragansette reported a r
from the Committee on s
Ways and Means, instrUcting the q
Secretary OF the Navy to get full COM h
lensatiOn for the loss Of the War-slOOp -.
oneida, sunk in the bay of YeddO y
ago. Passed.
A bill passed the House Yesterday
or the benefit Of United States sol Il
Tiers and sailors. 1t provides that all =
lOnOrably discharged soldiers and ?
ailOrs who served ninety days in the e
ate rebellion, or their widows and Or e
,hans, can acquire hOmesteads on the Il
-ublic lands Of the United States; or, s.
. discharged on account Of wounds y
eceived or disability incurred in line
4 duty, their time served to be de- a
.ucted from the time heretofore re-
.Uired to perfect a title. e
One Camden, Of Philadelphia, ap- 7,
lies for United States army protec- *
ion against the Ku-Klux Klan who
nnoy his gold miners in York
Ounty, South Carolina. The reply of ~
herman is: "Our army is now too y
mall for the United States to under y
axe to protect individual men or q
heir interests, and / advise that this 7
nd all similar papers be referred to II
be Congressional Committee engaged | ~
q investigating the Outrages in the =
Outh that some immediate and ade- =
uate relief may be devised" =
A Washington letter writer says h
hat Colonel Horace Porter, the Presi- h
ent's Secretary, on being asked by a h
LeneraI Of the volunteer service, why sy
e, General Sherman and all the army 81
mcers, supported the San Domingo W