Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-22
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.

Washburne has left Paris for tour.
Chicago boasts Of four suicides in three
days
Gambetta wants a new Legislature
elected.
The bay Of Marquette is reported en-
tirely clear of ice.
The troubles in Berlin between the
working people continue.
John Jay Knox has been appointed
Comptroller of the Currency.
The presentation of Lady Twiss at
court in London has been effectually
cancelled.
Judge StJrgiss, one of the first settlers
of Michigan, died yesterday, aged
/ eighty-fOur years.
The receipts at the Homeopathic fair
/ in Boston for the first week were thirty
/ five thousand dollars.
Six prisoners from Spartansburg,
South Carolina, have pleaded guilty to
the charge of conspiracy.
A petition signed by over three thou
sand anti-admissiOnists, has been for
warded from Utah to Washington.
AT the Union depot, Pittsburg, forty
three passenger trains and six hundred
I passengers arrive and depart daily.
The Prussian papers show indications
/ that the occupation of French territory
viii be permanent by the spiked he'll
NETS.
! A Madrid dispatch says that Don Car
4 los has protested against the recent cleo
tiOns, and adjures his partisans not to
i take their seats in the Cortes.
The House Committee on Judiciary
| Saturday examined several witnesses in
regard to the charges against Judge De-
I lahay, the Kansas District Judge.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad en-
ploys sixteen thousand men, and pays
out for labor and material eight hun
dred thousand dollars per month.
Negotiations for sites for the new gov
eminent buildings at st. Louis are going
on lively. 1t is feared the sites viii be
selected by condemnation, according to
law.
The Louisiana State Democratic Con-
vention yesterday adjourned to the third
day of June, and have postponed the
nomination of the State ticket until that
time
Iwakura and twenty-eight Of the
japanese Embassy left Washington on
a government vessel Saturday, to visit
the tomb of Washington, at Mount
Vernon.
Immense quantities of ore is now be
ing transported by wagons from the Lit
tie Cottonwood mines TO Salt Lake. The
snow is reported still very deep, but is
melting fast.
/ A terrible disaster has occurred on the
/ Chinese coast, in which the French
/ steamer Arato collided with another
steamer, the latter of which went down,
with sixty persons on board.
! The Detroit river tunnel viii be eight
/ thousand five hundred and sixty-eight
! feet long, and will cost, when in passa-
] bic condition for trains, two million six
hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Elijah r. Sapaugh has been convicted
l of conspiracy and murder in the United
l States Court at Charleston, South Caro-
lima, and recommended to the mercy of
. the court and Governor of the State.
The American Atlantic Company
proposes 10 connect Milford Haven, in
( Wales, with Rye Beach, New Hamp-
shire, with their cable. Their rates are
/ estimated at about One-Jhlrd OF the
present eompany's charges.
/ The funeral of Miss COuldOck, the
actress. who died in Salt Lake on Friday
! last, took place in that city on Saturday,
and was particularly solemn and i'm
pressive. The entire dramatic corps, to-
/ Retber with many Ofthe most prominent
1 citizens Of salt Lake, were attendants.
( The New York Chamber Of Commerce
/ Is having prepared for the press a list Of
q - t-slr.t.--e - fha ffhipano Ralipf
/ Fund through that Chamber. The num-
/ her of subscribers is about twenty-five
! hundred, and the amount contributed
/ over million Of dollars.
The beast detected in New York re-
Gently dealing in obscene literature, has
| been convicted, and sentenced 70 t1ne
of five hundred dollars and one years
/ impFisonment. The sentence should
I have been TeYersed--One dollar, and five
hundred years in prison.
Missouri has i've narrov-gauge rail-
roads projected and partly commenced,
namely: st. Louis and LeayenYOrth,
| Kansas City and Independence Mem
1 phis and Northwestern, st. Louis cOHn-
I ty steam road, and one projected from
XIII Spring, Wayne county, southwest
wardiy.
In row in New Orleans yesterday,
! Joseph Angelo was killed BY a pistol
shotby his antagonist, and J. S. LoWdes,
| Customs Inspector, who was standing
! in the vicinity Of where ths row was oc-
curing, was killed by stray shot. Sew
eral Others were seriously wounded by
stray balls.
A special to the New York press says
that Governor Hoffman has gone TO that
city, il is understood, for the purpose of
consulting Charles OCOnnor and other
\ distinguished members Of the legal pro-
4 fessiOn in regard TO the constitution
ality of the New York charter. The
I OpiaiOn prevails that he viii veto it.
In letter to the Providence Journal,
| from the pen of William Beach Law
renee, relative TO the Geneva arbitra-
ton, that eminent pubheist expresses
| the belief that the claim for indirect
damages was Unwisely presented In the
/ first instance, and that msgnanimous
policy for the United States to adopt
would be to frankly say 80.
Rev. DIR. Huston, the Baltimore di-
vine who is now on trial in that city for
unbecomlng conduct, stands ia no very
enviOus position, Additional evidence
/ Of his meanness in different parts Of the
country where be has been called (?) TO
/ minister is being forwarded TO the Com
/ mittee of Investigation, pot fit for pub
| Lie print, which viii condemn him if
the present charges are not fully estab-
! lished.
| The Liberal Republicans Of Nashville
and vicinity have appointed strong
delegation for thai district to the Gin
cinnad National Reform Convention.
Among the delegates are Joseph s.
Fowler, late United States Senator; +.
II. East, ChanceliOTi g, p. Thurston,
late of General ThOmas's staff, ], w.
ParemOre, and John Ruhm, late Ssere-
tary of the Republican State Commit
tee.
A ST. Louis telegram Of yesterday
saws thai Joseph Brown, President Of.
the Missouri Pacific railroad, Francis y.
Hays, President Of the Atlantic and Pa
eific MilrO8d, representatives OF the
! Council, Merchants Exchange, Board Of
/ Trade, and other officers and stockhold-
ers of the sboye named railroads, len
1 here to-day for san Francisco, where
conference is to be held relative TO the
proposition made in California yith q
view to Fastening the completion Of the
I Atlantic and Pacific raiioad across the
continent. Several ladies and repre-
seRtat!yes Of the city press accompany
| the party.
4 Havana dispatch of yesterday says