Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

At St Louis, Saturday, the thermom-
eter fell fourteen degrees.
People crossed the Ohio river at Lou
isville on the ice all day yesterday.
The French Assembly have voted to
continue the tobacco monopoly ten
years.
Benjamin B. Cameron got drunk and
froze TO death IN Cincinnati saturday
night.
Nearly every teIegraphic report last
nAght gave accounts Of the extreme cold
weather.
A. n. Stewart leI on the steps Of his
residence in New York yesterday, break
ing one Of his legs.
GambetIa predicts a serious parlia-
mentary crisis at the meeting in Janu-
ary Of the French Assembly.
Five buildings were destroyed by the
cAloric wave yesterday in Oregon, llll-
noLS-ffteen thousand dollars.
Tie engineer and fireman on an ice
bound locomotive. on a Michigan rail-
road, froze 10 death Saturday night.
The Baptist Church at Providence,
Rhode Island, caught fire yesterday, but
was extinguished before much damage
was done.
President Grant was in COvingtOn,
kentucky, yesterday, and solourned
with his father, and viii leave for Wash
ingOn tO-llay.
a large body Of the destitute Italians,
recently arrived al New York, have
gone TO Richmond, Virginia, where
they are employed to work on railroads.
The frost caused the bursting Of a
tweny-four inch water-pipe in Lowell,
Massachusetts, yesterday, which flooded
"a number Of cellars in the vicinity,
doing immense damage
The Second Presbyterian Tabernacle,
at BROOKLYN, New York, containing the
largest organ In the country, was de-
str0yed by fire yesterday Estimated
loss, uinety-fve thousand dollars.
A fire broke out in st. Johns Episco-
pal Church at Cincinnati yesterday just
as the people had assembled for worship,
.3ut was extinguished before damage eX-
seeding one Thousand dollars had Oc-
CURED.
The Hercules pOwder-mill, near San
Francisco, exploded Saturday, killing
two Chinese labOreTs, and seriously in
turing Wm. Clark, the foreman. The
expl0sion is said 10 have been caused by
Clark's being drunk.
4 ST. Joseph, Missouri, dispatch says
that a most fearful storm has swept over
all the western part of the State during
the uast two davs-the worst in depth Of
snow, high winds, and intense cold that
mas occurred for a number Of years.
From Cleveland, Ohio, we have an
other account Of q ilitchen-range eXplO-
sion. and still another at the Great
Western Hotel in Cincinnau-in the
former 40 one was injured, but in the
latter Mrs. Hoes, the prOprietor's wife,
was slightly scalded and otherwise in
iured by a fragment of the pipe.
TIE United states and Spanish Gov
slrments hsve concluded an agreement
for Jointly taking testimony in Cuba, TO
De used by the Commission holding its
session in Washington for the adiudica-
ton of the claims Of United States ci1-
zens growing out Of the present rebel
lion.
Kitchen ranges seems to have been on
a regular A" tare yesterday. In another
ulace IS given an account Of one In Gin
cinnah doing fearful damage, and now
We have from Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
that Mrs. Samuel Knox was killed yes
teniay morning by the explosion OF
sitchen-range water-pipes which were
trozen up.
The New York Herald of yesterday
saws thai number Of the present
stockholders in the nion Pacific rail-
road have written 10 Horace r. Clarke,
now President OF the road, asking him
10 commence suit for the recovery OF
s,i0ht million dollars, said to have
i,een token by and divided among
those engaged in Credit MObiher trans
actions. The Herald says the suit viii
compel fun developments Of all the
facts. for Oakes Ames, with his fortune
al stake. will not be willing 70 stand IN
the capacity Of "a trustee before the par
ties whose interests he represents, and
hopes that the suit will not be cOmpro-
Enised, and that the secret history of
The Credit MObilier may be brought TO
light for the good Of the country. The
Herald reporter says that Ga 6e admits
being asked by the stockholders to com
mence the suit, and the directors, az
the meeting next week, will take action
in the matter.