Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-18
TELEGRAPHIC WAITS.

Columbus, Ohio, grieves over the ap-
pearance Of epihippic.
General Beauregard is elected Admin
istrator Of Improvements in Louisiana.
The Mount Morris, New York, Shak-
ers are about to split up on the question
of marriage.
Greeley's net majority in Louisiana, as
far as heard from, is six thousand seven
hundred and ven.
Cincinnatians yesterday drew the fire.
engines to a fire in almost rs quick time
as is usually done by horses.
At Troy, New York, the dropsy has
attacked the sick horses, and the dis
ease is reported growing worse.
The business Nrtion of Abbeville,
South Carolina, wAS destroyed 10y fire
yesterday, involving a loss of fifty thOus-
and dollars.
A Newark, New jersey, physician ad-
ministered an overdose of chloroiOrm
to Mrs. Joseph Whettman, Saturday,
/ causing her death.
The officers of the New York Fire
Department are to be subjected to rigid
examination as to their finess for the
positions they hold.
Telegraphic advices from Paterson,
New Jersey, represent the silk-weaveTs'
strike at an end, all the employers, ex-
cept one, having conceded the old
wages.
At Bloomfield, New Jersey. on Thurs
day and Friday last, four children of
Patrick Cunningham died suddenly,
leaving the impression that they were
poisoned.
The Mixed Commission on American
and British claims have made four
! thousand dollars additional awards
against the United States in favor Of
British subjects.
Forty-four citizens of Cass county,
Missouri, have been indicted by the
Grand Jury, for being implicated in the
bloody affairs which transpiTed in that
vicinity last April.
The steam canal-propeller William
Baxter, with two hundred tons of corn,
arrived at New York Saturday, having
made the run from Buffalo in five days
and seventeen hours.
The New York concert saloons were
raided by the police Saturday night,
and their proprietors and one hundred
and sixty waiter girls arrested and held
Captain E. D. Dix, "a prominent steam
| bOatman of st. Louis, shot Mr.. Robert
| W. Estlin, Of New Orleans, in the for
mer city yesterday, particulars of which
may be seen in our river column.
In New York, Saturday, testimony
was given before the commissioner ap-
pointed by the Supreme Court that over
/ ten million dollars worth of property had
| been given for nothing in franchises to
/ street railroads.
/ The indications are that the attend
ance at the meeting of the Army of
/ the Cumberland, TO take place at Day.
ton, Ohio, Wednesday next, will be
large, and many prominent army Off
GERS Will be present.
More than twenty thousand families
/ have been rendered homeless by the re-
cent floods in Italy, and the whole coun-
/ try presents a fearful scene of devasta-
! ton. The extent Of suffering aud priva-
ton which will result is beyond eompre-
/ hension.
At Raleigh, North Carolina, the
j charges against Mrs. Smith and Mrs.
! Mann, the wife and daughter of Rev.
DIR. Brinton Smith, Of poisoning
/ him TO death, have been dismissed by
Judge Watts, there not being the slight
/ est evidence against them.
Among the weli-knOwn trotters who
have died Of the horse disease in New
York are Western New York, @. l..
/ Foxes Goulay, LOTTERY, and VOORHEES,
l Abdallah. No noted running horses
have died, though many have been at
J tackled, but are nov doing well.
II is decided by experienced gentlemen
/ that the use Of gunpOwder explosions
I is injudicious for preventing cOnfiagTa-
/ tiOns, but recommend the use of "dual-
/ inc" and giai t-powder, which cuts off
| the building close TO its foundations,
without scattering the burning frag-
| ments in every direction.
Messrs. Morgan, Kimbro and Mcneil,
4 Conservatives, G elected to the Alabama
4 Legislature, have been arrested by the
1 United States Marshal, charged with
violations of the election laws. This
! changes the political complexion of the
/ Legislature, which is supposed TO be the
principal stimulus to the arrest.
In the United States Circnit Court in
I New York Saturday, Judge Shipman
decided against the Government In the
suit to recover twenty-five thousand
dollars from Benjamin J. Cahoon, the
alleged defaulting Paymaster of the
/ NAVY, aud his securities, holding that
I Cahoon was a lunatie and unable at the
time Of entering into his bond 10 make
any contract whatever.
A New York telegram says that a
/ fiendish attempt was made on Friday
night, by depOsiting three heavy cross
/ ties across the track at WilliamsbTidge,
. -. 20 h. Tho