Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-29
BRIEF TELEeRAMs.

Oespedes has sore eyes.
Tom Scott Is In New Orleans.
Pittsburg has haunted house.
Smallpox Is ravaging Havana.
Cincinnati Is almost rid OF small
pox.
The investigating committee has
reached New Orleans.
Cerebro-spinal meningitis Is killing
horses in New York.
st. Louis is to issue water-works
bonds to the amount of 81 885, 900.
The Boys House of Refuge was
burned in New Orleans yesterday.
Minister Washburne gave banquet
to General Sheridan at Nice, Italy.
War against u L'Lnternationale is now
the cue with the European powers.
The Southern railroad bill passed
the Kentucky legislature by one vote.
A party leaves Cincinnati TODAY for
Louisville to kidnap the Grand Duke.
Mcdonald Cheek has been convicted
Of murder and sentenced to be hanged.
The Beaufort lunatic asylum, near
Quebec, was burned night before last.
New York chronicles twenty six
deaths from smallpox for the past
week.
A New York paper denies that Miss
Mansfield was rufhaniEed at Boston
on Friday.
New York insists that Vanderbilt
shall put his fourth avenue railroad
under ground.
France is said to be on the eve OF
another revolution. Bismarck Is said
to be ready for 1t.
North Carolina offers a reward of
$500 600 for the capture Of the outlaw
Lowrey and his gang.
A committee OF the Italian chamber
OF deputies have agreed to report In
favor OF loan 300, 600, 900 lire
Refunding the cotton tax is the sub
iect of memorial from the Galveston
chamber OF commerce to congress.
On the 25th instant two men were
drowned in Galveston bay by the cap.
sizing Of the schooner William Tell.
Caleb Cushing speaks hopefully of
satisfactory solution of the Alabama
claims question by the Geneva arbi-
traitors.
Her Majesty Queen Victoria will
not, as has been stated, open the sp-
preaching session Of parliament In
person,
SteVs have been taken for the esta-
blishment of a mammoth fire insur-
ance company at St. Louis. The paid
up capital Is $500 900.
Saddle Wilkinson sued "Brick"
Pomeroy, last Saturday, for twenty
ive Thousand dollars for breach of
promise. Don't she wish she may get
itS
A new religious Journal has been
established at Rome, which will sup
port the dogma of infallibility. Pere
Hyscinthe is to be one OF its cOntri-
butors.
At leagues station, on the TenDes.
see Central railroad, the other night,
one negro chopped Of the heads Of
two others, because they won his
money at seven up.
The Spanish Bourbons have agreed
10 support AltOnEO, son of ex- Queen !
Isabella, for the IhrOne-the Duke Of
MOntpensier to assume the regency
until the Prince attains MS msi siJrity. |
The trustees of the Peabody fund |
have let out five hundred houses with |
planted ground attached, in Bristol,
England, to small families, in accOT- |
dance with the direction Of the late
George Peabody.
A messenger left the English for
eign office on Saturday, with impor- |
tand dispa ches for Lord Lyons, the |
British ambassador to France. These |
dispatches state definitely the attitude |
of the English government with re-
gard to the commercial treaty between |
the two nations, and are intended to |
rectify the misapprehensiOns of Eng
land on the subject.
The Prince of Wales contemplates
q sea voyage as soon as pleasant |
weather sets in. The royal yacht |
Victoria and Albert, is now being re-
fitted for the Princes convenience,
and during the month of April His
RoyaI Highness will embark for q
cruise In the Mediterranean and to
Madeira island.
The Duke of Newcastle declares
that the Conservatives in England
look upon Gladstone with diSlrust,
because he il believed to be in favor OF
the abolition of the house of lords and
dallies with the dangerous principles,
OF Sir Charles Dixie and other dis
turbers of the constitutional order Of
things.
4 report is current at Havana that
the captain OF the steamer Hornet
bored holes in her bottom in the har-
Dor of Port sn-t rince, and sunk her,
In preference to having her taken to
the United States by the United States
steamer Congress; but a dispa ch from
Baltimore says that the Hornet ar
rived there last night, and that she
will probably be libelled by the State
department for violation of maritime
law. And still another report comes
from Washington that the Hornet is
about to be dismantled there, on her
trip 1rom Port au- Prince, There was
no Spanish vessel there at the time
of her departure.