Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-09
BRIEF TELEeRAMs.


Charles Kingsley, deputy naval
officer at New York, is dead.
Fx Senator Grimes, of Iowa, died
Wednesday evening Of heart disease.
The weather in California is re-
ported very favorable to the growing
crops.
The case Of Mrs. Fair is to be taken
to the supreme court OF California for
q rehearing.
An aged man has been allowed TO
starve to death by the authorities OF
New York city.
Nineteen cases and seven deaths
from smallpox were reported in New
York yesterday.
A Philadelphia lawyer named
Tsmie has disappeared, leaving be-
hind him liabilities amounting to
$1,000.
Chicago dispatches report that an
other Of the aldermen OF that virtu-
Gus city is being hauled over the Goals
for bribery.
1t is stated that the indictment
against Hall is for conspiring with
Tweed, Sweeney and Connolly in get
ting fraudulent city claims passed.
General Fisk, acting for the ST.
Louis board of trade, is in Washing
ton trying to have bill passed terri
tOrializing the Indian reservations.
A basis of compromise has been
agreed to by Austria by which certain
concessions toward self-government
are granted the province Of Galicia.
New Jersey thinks she has been
swindled in her printing contracts,
and the legislature yesterday set a
committee TO work investigating the
matter.
Thomas K. Cree, of PittsbUrg, Penn
svlyania, has been appointed secre-
fary of the board of Indian commits
sioners, vice Vincent COllyer, re-
signed.
Minister Washburne is about to le-
turn to the United States from Paris
on temporary leave OF absence. Sec
retary Hoffman will act as charge
d'affaires.
The treasurer OF the province Of On
tariO, in a statement presented to the
legislature, shows the amount of rev.
enue TO be 81, 3S3, ,179, and expendi-
turss, s., SIG, ,S67.
The senate postal committee yester-
day agreed TO report favOrably on the
bill doubling the mail service subsidy
for the Pacific Mail company's line
between the United States and China.
The keepers Of the "dives," or un-
derground concert saloons, lately ar
rested in New York, were yesterday
discharged, the testimony against
them beiIg insufficient for a cOnvic-
ton.
The clerk arrested in the Boston
postoffice cOnfesses TO having com
mitted heavy depredstiOns upon the
mail Of E. c. Allen & Co., Of Augusta,
Maine. Their losses are estimated at
$50,
The two Englishmen, William and
George knight, arrested a few days
since in New York on their arrival
from England, were yesterday dis
charged on account Of their crime be-
ing embezzlement and not coming
under the eXtraditiOn treaty.
At Baltimore yesterday, in the case
of Grabenhurst, Chapman q Spicer,
charged with conspiring to deiraud
the government out of ten thousand
dollars worth Of whisky tax in 1855,
the Jury rendered verdict OF not
guilty for Spicer and disagreed on the
others.
Mr.. James Brooks desires that any
balance remaining of the Chinese in
demnity fund be appropriated TO the
education OF Americans to serve as in
ferpreters in diplomatic and CONNER
ciaf intercourse with the Children OF
the Sun. The sum asked for amounts
to $4,000.
A fellow in san Francisc0-One
Northumberland with Outraging
the person Of little girl in hack, on
Market street in that city, was yester-
dsy sent to jail in default Of $40. 900
bail. His companion and owner Of
the hack. named Murray, wss held ia
default OF $4,000.
Up to the fifth instant the sums
awarded TO Americans by the JOINT
United States and Mexican commits
sion, amounted to $575, 900; the
amount claimed in the aggregate was
SIl. 100000. The awards to the MeXi-
cans amounted to only S36, 600; the
aggregate claimed was SIS 100000.
The bishop of SrasbOuTg having
notified the cabinet at Berlin that the
Holy See no longer recognizes the
OoncOrddt as applying TO Alsace and
Lorraine, Bismarck replied that the
Emperor OF Germany will understand,
INDEPENDENTLY of such measure, the
church government Of those provinces.
San Francisc0 is suffering sorely in
the loss Of her public men. A dis /
patch SAYS: "The funeral of the late
Hon. Charles Mcmillan took place
yesterday, and the funeral OF Fire
Commissioner Joseph II. Reynolds Is
now taking place. EX-Dlstrlct-At-
torney II. H. Byrne is reported in a
dying condition Of Brights disease of
the Kidneys"
Mr.. Gross, a reporter for the Chlca-
90 Times, had head put on him by
Mr.. Charles Hauske the other day,
and yesterday Mr. 81. was fined $40
therefor. Hauske is a salOon-keeper,
and Mr.. Gross was in his rum-shOp
for the purpose OF reporting the pro-
ceedings Of the TeutOnia insurance
company, which held its meetings in
Hsuske's saloon. Mr.. Gross also
brings suit for civil damages.
On Wednesday morning, Mr.. VIM.
Kline, a b1Ok-keeper in Chicago,
attempted to commit suicide by tax
Sng laudaum and chlOrOfOrm. His
c0pditiOn was asCertained in time to
administer antidOtes. BE was taken
TO the county hospital. During the
night he cOntrived to obtain more
poIson, which he swallowed, and yes
terday morning he was found dead
IN his bed with a bottle OF laudanum
by his side
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