Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-13
BRIEF TELEGRAMs.

Colonel VIM. NJ. Grosvenor yesterda,
assumed the position of editor of the st
Louis Erening Dispatch.
Thirty thousand dollars damage by
fire was done to Vandyke's cabinet fac
: tory in New York on Monday night.
The cashier Of the Gold Exchange
Bank, in New York, can't balance his
books by about fifteen thousand dollars
Street-car lines in Cincinnati are be-
ing stopped by the horse disease, which
prevails to an alarming extent In that
city.
A Spaniard named Coggi was found
dead in Reperson street, Brooklyn, Mon
day night, with a bullet-wound in his
breast. @
The horse malady is reported almost
entirely abated in localities first at
tackled, and business is again resuming
activity.
The great calamity to Boston could
have been averted but for the preva-
lence Of the horse disease and its effects
in that city.
John Van Syckle has been accused by
a coroner's jury in New York, Of ad-
ministering arsenicked tea to his wife,
causing her death.
Senator Summer is visiting his friends
in the vicinity Of London, and viii sail
| for home tomorrow. His health is
somewhat improved.
Dispatches from Fort Gibson, Indian
Territory, says that Lewis Downing,
| the principal chief Of the Cherokee Ma
ton, died at Tallequah on Saturday last.
A. ]. White, a well-known pork mer-
chant Of Madison, Indiana, was thrown
from a load Of hay yesterday, by his
horses taking fright, and was instantly
| killed.
Cincinnati is experiencing the worst
features of "old eppy" at present. Oxen
and every other substitute for horse
power is being used for the transpOrta-
ton Of goods.
The Internal Revenue Collectors,
which branch Of the governments ma
chinery now numbers two hundred and
thirty, are TO be reduced to eighty by
the first Of January next.
One of the Adams Express cars was
burned at Newark, New jersey, yester-
day morning. The contents Of the car
were estimated at ten thousand dollars.
A large portion was saved.
The telegraph continues to furnish &C
counts Of meetings being held in all
parts Of the Union, expressive of SYM
pGthy for the unfortunate Bostonians,
and offering substantial relief.
The Centennial Commission have
issued circular, calling upon the peo-
pie in all parts of the National Union to
make preparation for the grand Centen-
nial Celebration, to take place in 1876.
The telegraph informs US that the Peo-
pies Insurance Company Of Worcester,
Massachusetts, loses over half q million
dollars by the Boston fire, and the direc-
tors have resolved TO discontinue busi-
ness.
The recent Boston disaster has had
the effect to institute a general "iook
into" the fire departments everywhere,
and render them as perfectly efficient
as the EXTREMIST circumstances may re-
quire.
Both political parties in Arkansas con-
tinue to claim the State. According to 1
the official returns Baxter is elected. !
Outside polls were held in a number of
counties, and counting these, Brooks is
elected.
RobinsOn's agency, for Smith & Wes-
sons pistols, ard the sewing-silk store
Of Good & Co., on Chambers street, New |
York, was robbed OF about three thousand |
dollars worth Of property by burglars,
Monday night.
The freight train on the Iron Noun
tain railroad, ran off the track about |
six miles from st. Louis, on Monday |
night, seriously injuring VIM. Saul, the
and Conductor Converse and |
Engineer NermillioR.
The warehouse OF the Citizens on Re
fnery, together with three hundred bar
rels of refined oil, was totally consumed |
by fire at Pittsburg on Monday evening. |
The fire originated from the explosion Of
a lamp in the warehouse refinery.
Bismarck has sent memorial to the
Emperor of all the German States advo-
eating the immediate reorganization |
Of the Upper House of the Prussian Diet, |
and it is stated semi-offlcially that the
suggestion will probably be adopted.
The funeral Of the late General Meade,
which took place in Philadelphia on
Monday, was Of the most solemn and |
character. Business generally
was suspended, and flags on public |
buildings were st half-mast during the
day.
The eGrandLodge oftheOrder of knights
Of Pythias Of Missouri, met in st. Louis
yesterday, largely represented. A pro-
cession OF about six hundred Knights
took place in the afternoon, which
terminated in addresses by leading lights
of the order.
A Mstamoras dispatch says that by
order Of the Supreme Government Of
Mexico, the tariff of 1856, for impOrta-
ton of merchandise to the interior, re-
mains in force until the thirty-frst Of
December, 1872, and that the privileges
of the Free Zone have been fully re-
stored.
A Little Rock telegram says that the
Metropolitan Hotel in that city yester-
day barely escaped destruction by fire. /
A small frame building attached to 1t |
caught fire about three o'clock, but for
tunRtely it was discovered in time to be
arrested before reaching the main build
ing.
A telegram from London says the
Mauritius has been lost in the North
Channel, Off Port Patrick. Scotland, and |
twenty-three persons Of those aboard
drowned. This may be either the ship
which cleared from Glasgow
in the latter part of October for Dema-
rara, or the steamship Mauritius, of
Dublin.
The Chronicles Youngstown, Ohio,
special Of yesterday says: "Two Of the
boilers set up in place Of those which ex-
plOded three months ago at Brown,
Brunnel & Company's Rolling Mill,
blew up yesterday afternoon, instantly
killing two firemen, Joseph Wallace and
0'Mallory, and fnjuring q num-
Der Of other persons. Three seriously.n
The insurance In London companies
upon property destroyed in the burnt
district in Boston is two million five
hundred thousand dollars. A London
dispatch says a commissioner Is to be
sent TO Boston by London companies to
the original cause and pro-
yress Of the confagration as subjects Of
general Importance to insurance inter-
ssts.
Secretary Boutwell, viii take no
action relative TO the financial complica-
ions which may grow out Of the Boston
ire, unless it shall be desmed necessary,
md be recommended by Assistant Sec
-etary Richardson and Comptroller Of
Currency Knox, who will examine into
he condition Of the Boston National
Banks. The Secretary does not antici-
pate any financial panics.
The New York World says great
osses in leather and wool in the Boston
ire viii affect the industries Of which
hey are raw materials, but very slightly. (
The arrangement viii be but very I
Few OF our wool or leather {
merchants are directly affected by the
destruction Ia our sister city, and most :
,f those who are win be abundantly
lble TO meet their Losses. u