Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-20
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

= The Alabama legislative embroglic
continues.
Peter Schwab, of Cincinnati, is s
bankrupt by telegraph.
A silk manufacturing company was
organized in San Francisco on Saturday
last.
The commercial travellers Of Cincin-
: natl want to hold a national convention
Of their guild.
A play that satirizes American man.
ners has come under the ban of the dra-
matte censor of Paris.
George Heursques, late Vice-Presi-
dent of the New York Stock Exchange,
died yesterday morning.
The compositors on the Montgomery
Advertiser have agreed to devote one
hours work, on the third of February, to
the Greeley monument fund.
a number Of eX- Union soldiers of Phil
adelphia want Congress to colonize them
on one of the Pacific railroads.
Judge Blatchford has decided in New
FORK that all compromises between
creditors and bankrupts must be open.
The veterans of the war of Mexico are
ing in Pittsburg Saturday, to that effect.
The couns i of Stokes filed the bill of
exceptions in his case Saturday Judge
Boardman will give his decision thereon
Thursday.
G.. F. Dunuing, of the New York
! United States Assay office, wss arrested
yesterday for embezzling funds of office.
Held in twenty thousand dollars bonds.
The ship Charles I'll. Marshall, from
/ Liverpool, reports having experienced
heavy weather during the entire pas
sage. Three men were washed over
board and lost.
John w. SOuthwell pleaded guilty
| Saturday to the crime of having passed
a cheque for fOrty-five thousand dollars
on the First National Bank of San
| Francisco.
Mayor Medill, of Chicago, Hon. VIM.
Orton and Wells, of New York, write
letters and documents favorable to the
assumption of the telegraph system by
the Government.
The Turner Hall, of Chicago. which
cost one hundred and twenty-five thou
sand dollars, was dedicated yesterday
with immense pomp. -Four thousand
people attended.
The whole number of hogs slaughtered
in Cincinnati for the past week was
thirty-nine thousand; the whole num-
Der since November lst was five hundred
and twenty-eight thousand.
The Russian Minister or agent
SchOnvaloff has returned to st. Peters
burg from England, having failed in
his mission to England to interest that
power in Russian plans in Asia.
At POtsdam, in Prussia, they had
grand religious, self-gratulatory and
military display in the church. Eighty
six flags captured from the French
served to decorate the sacred edifice.
The people of Fort Scott, Kansas, had
meeting Saturday night at which
they resolved that il was the almost
unanimous sentiment Of the people that
POmerOy ought not be sent back to the
Senate.
The Directors of the New York Cen |
tral Railroad Company have ordered the |
issuance offorty million dollars in bonds |
and ten million dollars in sterling, the |
proceeds Of which viii be expended in |
laying two additional tracks, making |
four in all. That's enterprise.
The work on the trestle-work of the
Texas and Pacific road, through the /
Trinity bottom, and the bridge over the
Trinity river, near Dallas, Texas, is pro-
crossing well, nearly all the piles for the
bridge piers and the trestle-work fouD-
dation being down.
Over one hundred thousand dollars, /
worth Of property in the new Merchants
Exchange block, st. Louis, was trans
rad TO NxrCla -,
the building was sold. Preparations for
the erection of the new Exchange are
being made, and the building will be
at once.
The will of Mr.. Pike, of Cincinnati,
has been admitted to probate, and is
dated November 18th, 1856, amounting
to three millions of dollars. He leaves
TO his brother, S. NJ. Pike, ten thousand
dollars, and thirteen thousand dollars
in payment of a debt to his brother
Henry.
A Fort Wayne tIndiana) special
says: The Catholic priest of that
city has received a present from the
Emperor Napoleon III of a magini-
ticent gold and silver chalice, to be used
in the church of that city, and en-
graved thereon in four colors is the
of the Emperor.
Josephine Mansfield, through her
counsel, attached the property of Ma
than Appleton, at Newport, Rhode
Island, fer the amount of twenty thou
sand dollars for losses sustained, twelve
thousand five hundred dollars Of which
she deposited with Bowles Brothers just
before their failure. A hearing of the
case will be had in April. Appleton
sang "It's not for Joe."
Nearly all the members of Congress
present m Washington from the cotton
states, in conference on Saturday, :
have agreed on the new bill to return
The cotton-tax, which they will press in
Congress this session, instead of the ;
House bill, 1892, hitherto introduced by /
Mckee. The provisions Of the latter :
are materially changed 50 as to carefully |
look after the interests Of planters and I
Ireedmsn, insuring to them absolutely :
he return Of the cotton-tax that they ;
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