Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-05
TELEGRAMS.

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Sixty deaths from smallpox in Boston
last week.
'Old Prob" prognostieates rain down
here to-day.
The Spanish troops in Cuba have
captured another rebel colonel.
Mayor Havemeyer, Of New York,
wants to be the head Of all departments
himself
-Four hundred and thirty-three thou
sand hogs have been slaughtered in Gin
cinnati since November.
The French Minister to Rome will
return. This indicates a rupture be-
tween Thiers and the Pope.
The President pardoned two kuklux
from North Carolina yesterday, and
they were let out of Albany peniten-
tiary.
The Isabella Hartley, from New
York for Antwerp, with cotton, Wa
abandoned al sea. Most of the crew
were saved.
Trains are delayed and travel gener-
ally impeded by heavy and continued
snow storms in the vicinity of Leaven-
worth, Kansas.
Chicago since November lst is six hun
dred and ninety-five thousand three
hundred and four.
Laura D. Fair procured a warrant yes
terday at San Francisco, for the arrest
of G. Thistleton for libel, which consists
in a series of caricatures of her trial.
The telegraph says that each party
will 90 through the ceremony of in
augurating its man in New Orleans, and
there is no disturbance apprehended.
There was an immense assemblage Of
the most influential and wealthy citi-
zeps of San Francisco last night to pro-
test against the passage Of the Goat
Island bill.
Five prisoners attempted to escape
from Wards Island yesterday in boat.
Two-women-were drowned, and the
other three, of the masculine persua-
sion, were captured.
The case of Catheart c. Taylor, city
editor of Forney's Philadelphia Press,
who was convicted of libel, has been
postponed until Friday next, when a
motion for new trial will be argued.
Henry Farwel, a prominent citizen Of
Sterling, Illinois, and father of Con-
gresham G. 3. Farwell and Honorable
John Farwell, of Chicago, died at his
residence in Sterling, yesterday, from
injuries received by a recent fall.
We have a long dispatch from Mime
apolis giving long-winded account Of
Hawaiian affairs. The King, Kane
hameha was buried. He weighed three
hundred himself, while the metallic case,
which was furnished sy Jack Walsh,
weighed nine hundred pounds.
In the Massachusetts Legislature yes
terday, bill was sOftered to annex to the
city of Boston all territory now COM
prised within the limits of West RoXbury,
Brookline, Brighton, Watertown, Bel
mont, Arlington, MedfOrd, Maiden
Everett, Charlestown, Cambridge, SOM
erville, Revere and Chelsea. 1t in
creases the board of Aldermen, and
Common Council, the number:wards of
being sixty.
At Nashville, Augustus Calvert,
twelve years of age, was acci-
dentally poisoned yesterday. He fell
down and his elbow struck in a parcel of
wet meal mixed with strychnine. The
boy was eating a piece Of bread at the
time and brushed OF the meal that ad-
hered to his sleeve, continuing his eat
ing, and was poisoned by the stTych
nine which got on his hand and was
communicated 70 his bread, from the
effects of which he died in the afternoon.
Governor Browns message TO the
Missouri Legislature shows that the
State revenue for 1872, exclusive of the
balance at the beginning Of the year,
amounted TO two million eight hundred
and siKty-siX thousand one hundred and
twenty-three dollars; disbursements,
three million forty-four thousand two
hundred and twenty dollars; leaving a
balance ia the tre reasuTy of five hundred
and ninety-four thousand five hundred
and twenty-nine dollars. He says edu-
cation in Missouri fiourisheth.
Thomas Allen, President of the Iron
Mountain railroad, and }. J. Walker,
Second Vice-President Of the Mobile
and Ohio railroad, held a consultation at
st. Louis yesterday in reference TO the
mutual exchange Of rolling stock, suffi-
eient to speedily and promptly transact
the business Of their roads. The project
of bridge to span the Mississippi river
between Belmont, Missouri, and Colum
bus, Kentucky, was also discussed, and
it was decided TO frame bills to be pre-
SentedfO 70 the Legislatures OF missouri ana
Kentucky, asking for the necessary
powers in the premises.
Some weeks since the police of Chica-
go made an extensive raid on the gam
bling-hOuses, captured the inmates and
seized all the gamblers implements, in
cluding the tables upon which the va
rious games were played, which We're
subsequently destroyed. Some Of the
prOPrietOrs' houses which We're raided
have brought suit in.replevin against
Superintendent of Police Washburn.
The cases were argued before Justice
Doggett yesterday, who rendered judg
ment for plsintiff, holding that the
Legislature had no right to delegate
power to the Common Council to ALL
thorize the seizure aud destruction Of
private property. An appeal was taken,
and the case will 20 20 the Supreme
Court 1t is said 70 be the FIRST time the
law has been tested.