Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-21
IELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

Columbus DelanO arrived at Havana
yesterday.
st. Louis shivered in three inches OF
snow yesterday.
The Spanish Senate has definitely APP
proved the clergy's donation.
Kansas City suffered about twenty
thousand dollars worth by fire yester-
day.
Specie in the Bank of France has de-
creased five hundred thousand francs per
week.
The New Hampshire State Republi-
| can Convention will be held at Concord
on the fourteenth of January.
Alice Moore, charged with the murder
Of Jesse Funk, at Circleville, Ohio, was
acquitted by the jury yesterday.
A banquet was given Chief-Justice
Thomson, Thursday evening, at Phila-
delphia, on his retirement from the
Bench.
A gale of unprecedented violence
swept over Naples, Italy, Thursday.
Much damage was done to property and
shipping.
The Board of Mayor and Aldermen Of
Boston have refused a license to Mes
DANES Woodruff & Clafiin to lecture in
the Music Hall.
Dispatches from all parts of the coun-
try give details of storm-heavy SHOWS
in the North and violent gales and rain
storms in the South.
The coal-miners in the immediate vi
cinity of Springfield, Illinois, are on
strike for an advance Of twenty-five per
cent. on present wages.
At Lawrence, Kansas, yesterday
morning the thermometer stood at eigh-
teen degrees below ZeTO-the lowest dur
ing the past five years.
Rome, Italy, advices announce that
Victor Emanuel is suffering with an
attack of rheumatic fever. His illness
is not considered serious by his physi-
clans.
A Chicago dispatch last night deals
pretty roughly with the Signal Bureau
for not predicting the severe snOwstorm
that has prevailed for the past forty
eight hours.
The funeral of Viscountess Beacons-
field took place at London yesterday,
in the Churchyard of Hughenden. The
obsequies were strictly private and of
touching simplicity.
The election at Gallon, Ohio, yester-
day, for a railroad tax for ninety-five
thousand dollars, resulted in a vote of
seven hundred and sixty for, and two
hundred and thirteen against.
John L. Bixley, a clerk in some de-
partment of the Red Star Union Freight
Line at Chicago, was reported non est
yesterday morning, as was also large
amount of the company's funds.
The counting in" dodge has been ex-
ercised in Boston in the Mayoralty cleo
ton, where a recount of the votes has
resulted in a majority of seventy-nine
votes in favor of Henry L. Pierce.
About ten O'Clock, Thursday night,
two freight trains came in collision be-
tween Bardentown and Trenton, New
Jersey, nine cars Ibeing completely
demolished and one person slightly in
jured.
Through negligence of a switch-ten-
der yesterday, at Westerly, Rhode
Island, a passenger train from Stoning-
ton for Providence collided with some
freight cars on the turnout, disabling
the engine and damaging the cars. No
lives lost.
A dispatch from Liverpool says that
four hundred and forty-nine persons, ill.,
GLIDING the passengers, are said to have
persisted by marine disasters the past ten
days. Thirty persons were lost by the
sinking of the ship Matchless, of North
cumberland county.
A Salt Lake dispatch says there have
been heavy storms in the mountains
and a snow-slide at Alta and Little
Cottonwood. Buildings of Emily mine
were carried away; two men were Sc
verely cut and bruised, and two others
carried down in the slide but not seri-
ously injured.
A Montgomery, Alabama, telegram
says: "The House was permanently or
ganized to-day by the election of L. c.
Parsons, Speaker; Robert Barber, Clerk;
r. Whitaker (colored), Doorkeeper; w.
V, Turner, Assistant Clerk-all being
Republicans. In the election for Door
keeper there were more votes cast than
members present. The Senate didnoth-
ing"