Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-27
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

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One hundred and eight recruits have
been ordered to Fort Leavenwertb, tC
be assigned to the sixth cavalry.
Two hundred and fifty thousand dol
lars in bullion was shipped from South
hampton for New York yesterday.
The steamship Samaritan has beer
chartered by the British government tC
convey regiment to the gold coast.
The associated banks of New York
yesterday held S35, 200, coo of legal-ten.
ders, an increase of $Sl5, 900 over the
day previous.
Treasurer SpinneT's bad health does
not permit him to attend to his official
duties. He is suffering from malarial
| fever and chills.
Martin Desney was stabbed, it is
thought fatally, by James Mccall, in q
| fight yesterday afternoon in Cincinnati.
Both are teamsters.
The heavy livestock farm of J. B.
Hunter & Co., of Kansas City, Missouri,
failed Monday for one hundred and
eighty thousand dollars.
Sir John Duke Coleridge, lord chief
Justice of the court Ct common pleas, ii
to be raised to the peerage. He will be-
come Baron Coleridge.
A Toronto dispatch says that Alexan-
der Mckenzie, premier Of the Dominion,
has been elected by acclamation to rep
resent the county Of Lambton.
The United States cartridge company
commence this week to run their works
day and night. They have pressing
orders for several million cartridges
from the war and navy department.
Among the passengers by the bark
Jasper, which sails for Liberia the latter
part of the present week, will be several
colored men from the south, who are
assisted by the American colonization
society.
A member of the New York firm of
Tiffanny & Co., reports that they have
been robbed by a salesman of a large
quantity OF valuable diamonds. Up to
noon the police had made little progress
in the case.
The city clerk of Columbus, Ohio,
yesterday forwarded twenty-four thou
sand nine hundred and twenty dollars
to the Park bank at New York to pay
the interest now due on the bonded debt
of that city.
AT Poughkeepsie, New York, the
river is filed with floating ice, and at
Stuyvesant the river is frozen over. The
steamer Thomas Powell passed there
yesterday morning, and the weather
was very cold.
Tweed is to be kept in the Toombs for
several days to allow him to settle his
hrrc.sf1ar.u NNf11iarN, NJ
is reported to have been added to his
counsel, and he will apply for stay of
proceedings.
A Glasgow dispatch says that small
boat, made from the POlaris, and which
Buddington and his party were in when
rescued by the whaler Ravenscraig, will
be forwarded to the Smithsonian insti-
tute at Washington.
The superintendent Of the New York
produce exchange received a telegram
from the canal-collector at Utica, stating
that canal-nsvigatiOn was closed at that
place, and that five hundred canaI-boats
were frozen up in that vicinity.
In Cincinnati, ON Tuesday, in a quar-
rel between two cartmen, James
Michael and Martin Duffey, the latter
was horribly cut and mangled with a
knife in the hands of the former, and
will undoubtedly die from his wounds.
John t. Irving, the seIf-accused muir
derer of Mr.. Nathan, pleaded not guilty
in New York yesterday to the indict-
ment charging him with burglary at the
pawn-shop in the Bowery, and stealing
two hundred thousand dollars worth of
property.
The anniversary of the massacre of
the medical students of the University
of Havana, which took place three
wears ago, will be suitably observed in
the church of Santiago de Cuba, in New
York, to-day. The massacre of the
men seized on board of the Virginius
will also be cOmmemorated.
Lieutenant General Sheridsn left Chi
cago for Washington last night by the
ten o'clock train. 1t is understood that
he goes in obedience to an official sum-
mons, to confer in regard to the mill
tary affairs. In case of war with
Spain, General Sheridan would have
the chief command in the field.
A Washington special to the New
York press says the government at
Madrid declares that il is willing and
lEeDANEO " AISbOAC AlAG anu
Weld the other claims of the United
States, the only request now being that
the fact shall be first established that
the Virginius was entitled to the prOtec-
ton of the American nag.
A convention of the colored men Of
Kentucky met at Frankfort, Tuesday,
and appointed delegates to the national
convention of their color, which assem-
bles at Washington, December 9th.
Many resolutions of an Independent
character were passed, among them one
asserting their right to an equal division
of the Offices with the white population
of the Republican party, and if not
granted they would act with any party
in the future which would best secure
that recognition. They also assert their
right to sit as jurymen.
J. p. Dunn and young man named
Clarke called at the house of farmer
named Mercer, about seven miles from
Lexington, Missouri, Monday afternoon,
and commenced insulting the ladies OF
the house. Mercer and his Son-in-laY
demonstrated, and were assaulted and
badly beaten. In the melee Mercer and
his sOn-in-law obtained possession of a
shotgun and a musket and fired upon
tbs assailants. Clarke was killed almost
instantly, and Dunn died during the
Gight. The eofoner's jury rendered a
verdict Of justifiabls homicide.
AtCook's shingle-mill, in Burlington,
Iowa, yesterday morning, the boiler eK-
ploded, killing Henry Prorast, one of
the hands, end injuring seven or eight
others, two or three seriously, but it is
thought not fatally. RichSzd Mppin-
colt, one Of the proprietors of the nail,
was knocked down, bruised and scalded,
but was able to assist in the rescue OF
the others. The explosion was caused
by q lack OF water 80 the boiler. One
man was blown Fifty feet Through an
opening ia the mill on TO q pile Of logs.
Another was blown still further.
at an auction ssIe OF Scranton coaI
in New York yesterday seventy thoU-
sand tons were sold at the following
prices and compared with the previous
sale: Steamboat, nine thousand tons,
November 2eth, 81 s694 90; October
Goth, 81 S0(d)4 S5. Crate, fourteen thou
sand tons. November 18th 81 975tS,5 90;
October 18th, IS. Egg, nine Elonsand
tons: November Goth, So S0;' October
aeth, SIS 30G5 So. Stove, thirty thousand
tons: November 18th, So 42k95 so; &C.
tober 18th, S. 90G6 45. Chestnut, eight
thousand tons; November 26th, 81 52l
ta,4 SIT; October 10Th, S4 55.