Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-01-17
MINOR TELEGRAMs.

The next session of the Spanish cor
tes opens on the 22d.
The italian parliament re-assem'
bled in Rome yesterday.
Governor Parker, of New Jersey,
was inaugurated yesterday.
Reading, Pennsylvania, was nearly
destroyed by fire yesterday.
The annual session OF the Masonic
grand lodge Of Wisconsin is being held
at Madison.
The sale OF the newspapers ConSti-
tlGtioael and GGLL0iS has been prOhib-
tied in Paris.
The Spanish ministry unanimously
resolved not to remove Count Valma.
zeda from Havana.
Thomas B. Curtis, one Of the oldest
merchants OF Boston, died ia Paris on
the 18th of December.
The International Telegraph con.
gress at Rome has adjourned, after
agreeing upon constitution.
All the States entitled to agricultu-
raj college land scrip have received the
same, except Arkansas and Florida.
One Of the Japanese princesses des-
tined for Vasser College is exquisitely
beautiful, and will make a sensation.
A company to run a line of steam
ships between Naples and New York
has been organized in the former city
Duke Alexis and suite arrived at
North Platte yesterday afternoon,
and started for Denver at ten O'Clock
last night.
Mat. Logan, of the firm of Logan q
Patterson, shot and killed Clarence
Johnson in an alteration last night
in New Orleans.
The rOUndhOuse Of the Lake Shore
and Michigan Southern railroad, al
Toledo, " as burned yesterday. EST
mated loss, 500, 600.
The steamer Britannia, from Glas.
gov for New York, has arrived at
Halifax, short Of coal, after being
tWenty-four days o0t.
A movement is on foot in England
to raise subscriptions for a monument
to Dr.. Jenner, the discoverer Of vac
cination, at the place of his birth.
During the election row in Phila.
delphia, last night, a man, named
Harry Waters, was shot and mOrtally
wounded. Others were more or les.
injured.
The second trial of Mcdonald Cheek
for the murder Of Thomas Harrison,
near Aurora, Indiana, in 5eptember,
1870, commenced at BrOOkVille, Indi
ana, yesterday.
The hostility to the imposition Of q
tax on raw material Is spreading
throughout France, and deputatlOnf
are daily arriving at Versailles tC
protest against the measure.
The sale of subscription tickets,
now progressing for NilssOn's second
season ia Cincinnati, has had no pre-,
cedent. The demand for seats IL
greater than when she first appeared
In Boston yesterday a child three
years old and 8 new born infant, chill.
dren Of a French Canadian named
BeliOrt, were burned to death early In
the morning, and their mother nearly
smothered by fire In the room they
occupied.
It is telegraphed from Washington
that there Is no foundation for the ru-
NOR that the officers on duty at the
executive mansion viii resign In con-
sequence of the statements growing
out of the customhOuse investigation
In New York.
The secretary nf war has asked con-
gress TO appropriate 81, 900 TO com.
plete the NJ 3rble statue Of Lieuten.
ant General Winfield Scott, with its
pediment, ETC., in accordance with
the unanimous Joint resolution OF con-
gress In 1867.
The evidence In the Wharton.
KetchUm trial was concluded yesteH.
day and the argument Of counsel
commenced. The court announced
that during its continuance no mani
festatiOns OF approval or dlsapprOba'
tioD in any manner whatever would
be permitted.
@. w. GanO, Esq, for more than
half q century Intimately connected
with the banking interests OF Cincin.
natl, died suddenly Sunday night al
his suburban residence near that city,
For the past thirty-fve years he bad
occupied the position OF cashier Of the
lafayette bank.
A delegation of prominent Nor
mons started east yesterday for Wash.
iDgton, where they will clamOr for
the admission of Utah into the Union,
and endeavor TO have the prosecution
stopped against Brigham Young and
others. The Gentiles are aroused, and
will protest against 1t.
A Panama letter states that the Co.
lombian government has refused to
deliver up the American steamer Viz
einia TO the commander OF the Span.
ish man-Of-WaE Tornado, but that the
latter vessel still continues at anchor
in the harbOr Of AspinWaH and keeps
q sharp lookout on the Virginia.
At a meeting OF the stockholders OF
the American Central Insurance COM
paDy yesterday, In st. Louis, at which
seven States were represented, reso-
luton was adopted requesting the
trus YES to increase the stock suhscrip.
ton ii the company to 50, 000, 600 IS
soon as It Is deemed axpedient by
them.
A Cincinnati diApatch says that
there was a ku-klux raid in Bald
KnC p-ecinet, near Frankfort, KEN
49, Aturday night last. Sew
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