Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-17
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

In view of the crowded state of busi-
ness in Congress, both Houses will meet
earlier in the day than heretofore.
Some Frenchmen have been con-
victed in Paris of the crime of rape, and
sentenced to twenty years hard labor.
John NJ. Hoggs, a Wall street broker,
fell down a stairway in his residence in
New York, Friday night, breaking his
neck.
A man named Essex was arrested at
Newport, New York, yesterday, charged
with the horrible crime of incest with
his own daughter.
The fire chiefs of Pittsburg were in
New York yesterday taking lessons in
squirting water, at which the firemen OF
Gotham are supposed to be expert.
The donkey-boiler of the tow-boat
Mary Alice blew up at New Orleans
yesterday, slightly iniuring two men,
but doing little damage otherwise.
A telegram from San Francisco, Sat
urday, reported all quiet at General Gill
lem's headquarters, at Dorris's Rancho,
where he is awaiting the result of the
peace conference with the ModOes.
Six conductors and eleven "outsiders''
are implicated in plundering the Pan
Handle railroad by re-selling tickets.
William Russell was yesterday de-
tected in that act, and arrested.
Several roughs have undertook to
''do" the towns of Sergeant, and
Dodge City, Kansas, but failed to the
extent of two of their number being
killed in each plaee-a very bad job.
The burning of the steamer Erie, at
sea, caused the loss of three hundred
and fifty thousand dollars on the vessel
and five hundred thousand dollars on
the cargo. Both only partially insured.
At meeting Of the citizens of Jersey
City, Saturday evening, Ex-Mayor
Vannipen presiding, it was resolved to
pay no more taxes TO the State until the
law )exempting railroads from taxation
is repealed.
Edward Mechan was fatally stabbed
by Ed. Percy, a mechanic in San Fran
cisco Saturday night. He was trying to
put Percy out of his saloon, when the
latter drew knife and plunged it into
the left side of Mechan. Percy is under
arrest.
A private letter to the st. Louis Dem
Ocrdt says that Bismarck's continued
illness is caused by poisonous letters he
has received. His wife is said also to be
affected in the same manner-she hav-
ing read for her husband all his cor
respondenee since his extreme illness.
A dispatch from Toronto says that
Engineer Kelly was thrown fifty feet
into the air and killed last night, near
Barraventine station, by the explosion
of his engine. A fireman was badly
scalded, and a woman, standing near,
was fatally injured.
a negro named Harvey Johnson, rid
ing out Third street, Louisville, yester-
day, was accosted tyS another named
Archy Johnson, who Asked Harvey to
let him ride. The latter refused, when
Archy suddenly seized him, and pulling
him from his horse, cut him across the
abdomen with knife, inflicting a fear
full wound, which the physicians say
viii prove fatal. Archy fled
THE New York Tribune almost loses
its breath at the proposition that Con-
gress shall assume in the name OF the
United States the State debts of the
Southern carpetbag Governments. But,
ii we mistake not, the Tribune kept its
breath pretty well when Congress as
sumed the Office of setting up those
State Governments, and of Indirectly
creating those debts. The aggregate Is
only about two hundred million dollars.
But If the work of Congress in which it
was Incurred was good work, the as
sumption of its cost ought surely to be
q good investment for the nation.