Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-01
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II LATEST TELEGRAMs.
Z The wabash was sigusllsd of villa
Franco hsrbor on Friday.
, The Marquis of Lorne and Princess
Louise have gone 20 the continent.
Monroe, Louisiana. was almost COM
plstely destroyed By fire last night.
The State Agricultural convention of
Ohio meets at Columbus on Wednesday.
BoTmsn's irOn-works, Milwaukee,
we're burned yesterday morning; loss,
$1,000.
The Black and Caspian seas are to be
connected by q canal which viii be $40
miles long and cost $50, 900, 600.
San Francisco's contested will case has
been settled, and the widow Of Howe is to
administer upon the estate.
Mary Shea, who killed policeman Doyle
in Washington on Friday, is in Jail 20
await the sction of the grand jury.
The city district savings banks Of Mon
tresl ksve msde their annual distrib button
OF six thousand dollars for the poor Of the
city,
The funeral OF Rev. DR.. R J. Breeksn-
ridge, st Lexington, Kentucky, Satur-
| AAgs - 80 ~ "--~- "N7 -1- ~
| tended.
During the past year "A 679 emigrsuts
| passed Columbus, Ohio, for the ives. and
northwest. The total in seven years Is
2l2 S6s.
The Eenal- annual meeting of the board
| OF appeals 0f the National Trotting szsO-
| cistion is to be held in Providence, Rhode
Island, on the second Tuesday in January
| nsXs.
Ths Cherokee national council has dis
I solved, after rejecting the OckmulEee
| cOnstii uttOa. Tbs tEO-thirds vote necss-
| ssry to its adoption cannot, therefore, be
| obtsinsd.
/ The storm in California, Oregon and Ne
vsds is undated, It raining almost ip0sss-
| sntly. Rivers everywhere are over hOE-
| ing, and mails, telegraph and travel are
interrupted.
The Uniou Pacific is still snOw-biocked
west OF Laramie. A person who went
on horseback west from Cheyenne, re-
ports snow eight feet dsep in cnts that
have tWics been shoveled ont.
Advjcss from South Csrolins state that
among the convicted for ku-klUxism at
Columbia, Friday, was Samuel Brown,
a prominent citizsn and owner Of large
estates and st one time justice Of the
peace.
The l9sh of January, the anniversary OF
the birthday of General R. E Lee, will be |
c0mmenCrsted 81 Washington and Lee
university, At Lexington, Virgins, when
General Jubal a. Early viii deliver q
memorial address,
InEtesd of being dead, or nearly 90, ex-
Governor Seward is engaged in writing |
the history OF bis tour around the world, |
sn0, according to report, cOntemplstes |
next summer visiting the extreme north |
ern portions Of Norway and Sweden.
A, Elsvsns dispatch says that sevs raj |
engagements have lately taken place be-
tweer the spanish troops and the rebels /
under Modesco Disz a telegram from /
the cticer in charge of the Spanish forces
announces that t6irty Cubsns we're killed.
The secretary o. the treasury has su-
thOrizsd the assistant treasurer Of New
York 10 sell one million dollars OF gold
on the second and fourth Thursdays, and
TO purchase one million dollars Of bonds
on the first and third Thursdays during
this month.
Church people viii be glad to know that
the last Episcopal convention sdopsSd 8
new hymnsl service, which viii be used /
in all Episcopal churches on snd after /
Epiphany SUNDAY, January 65h. TIE |
new hymns will not oe bound with the
prayer book, IS their use is in q manner
experimental.
- Z
ports Two hundred and twenty three
deaths by smallpox last week snd one
Thousand eight hundred and seVsnty-nina |
during the year. The new remedy ,sulph-
ats ENC and digitais, SIS reported Is being
used with success.
Trustworthy information received at
Lssven worth, Kansas, from the Indian
Territory, ststsssthat Louis CbOteau, 3
prominent half. breed Indian trader, WIS
uta hhnn and kfNfa-i FvTa q MI a Last I
Thursday. ChOtesu was reckonsd one Of
the leading men Of the territory.
A dispatch to San Francisco from San
BernzrdinO says the Arizona AD8ches |
have len the Verde snd Camp Mcdowell
reservations, and dsunand a camp at old
Fort Reno. We msy look for Indian wsr
il Arizona. The people have bsen too
much oppressed TO Listen now to any
COllyer policy.
Louisville foOts up her years business
ss follows: Tho total number OF fires dur
the past year il 1853; total losses by same,
s2s4 42S; total insurance, 81, 100; total
number of hogs packed around the falls
during the year, S0S $50, and a few more
are yes 70 be killed; tossl numbsr Of in
quests held, 222.
Judge Cochrsne, late chief justice OF
Georgia and oD6 Of the most prominent Of
Southern Republics czns, had 9 long inter-
says that the admins trstion win not in
terfere in the gubernstOrisl affairs Of
Georgia, and IS Governor COnley person
ally cares nothing for the ofice there will
be no contest between him ard the gov
ernOr elect concerning it.
South American advices OF November
a b, nom LimR, state that ex-Presidsnt |
Metgsrsgo, OF Bolivis, YVES asssssinsssd
by SsnOr l. owen OF that city, both eX1les.
...... There were three more earthquake |
shocks in Arequipss on the l0sh and 2lst
of NOVem bsr ...... Chilli is about sending q |
military commission to Europe to pur- | !
chase arms and other military material.
A dispatch from San Francisco says
that the storm still continues, and that | !
over nineteen inches OF rain has already !
fallen. A band OF armed men, disguised,
cut the Butler creek leyes, near Marys- I
vile, this morning. Five hundred feet |
Of the levee WAS washed away. A large | !
session OF the country is flooded, and !
theFs Is fear of food at Msrysville. 1t | ,
q still raining. Tho thermometer. is !
Eanging from 68 to 2 degrees.
A Richmond, Virginia, dispatch SAYS I
that on Tuesday last, the Clover Hill coal {
mines, in Chesterfield county, took hrs, {
and still continue to burn. No persons
we're in tle shaft at the time The hre os-
CURED. Seven mules were In the pit ard /
burned. The Midlothian coal pit. in the
same .Vioinity, is also on IRE, and, in (
q coal fsLsine is threatened
there. The mouths OF the shafts on FIRE 2
have been closed.
The revolution in Mexico is advancing
into the State of Tamaulipas. General
Q ninToga with the insurgent force sp-
pssrsd before Myer IN considerable num- \
oers, when General Cortins's troops, who |
occupied the place, fell back en- Csmsrgo,
thirty miles distant, where tt Is supposed
they viii ontreBch and fight. The occU
patton Of Myer by the rebels gives them
4 port Of entry on the frontier TO obtain
supplies.
The death of L. D. ShryOck, of Evans !
vile, Indiana, on steamer st Louisville, !
shout the 18Th inst, and burial At Ci1ciE-
natl shortly sfterwsrd Is exciting cora :
msnt on account OF an allegation that It !
was in consequences Of being shot ct
Evansville by Watson. The suspicion Is I
hat the Journey of the deceased TO Cincin- 7
1atf and his burial there was intended TO Z
be secret. The matter viii probably re- J
ceive investigation
The New York Worlds correspondent, /
writing from Hsvsns December 23d, says
Vslms zsda, captain general OF Cuba, hes
lust decreed the practical enslsveBsnt of
tie whole Chinese population of the :
island OF Cuba, numbering 35,oO0. The !
decree orders the l0O0e or IS 900 free :
Chinese Immediately to enroll themselves
under the tutelage OF government tutors,
and work in government WorkshOps, re- ,
ceiving for their labor only foaT dollars
per month, and ordering that all Chinese
who are now working under contracts :
shall be rs5adeDtured on the expiration ct !
their terms, or be sent 70 jEil
IL was determiI.sa at Chicsgo
that the long ttiked !