Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-28
TELEGRAkS.


The Indiana temperance bill has been
signed by the Governor, and is now law.
Hon. Simon Brown, editor of the Ne1O
England FIrnler, died at Boston yester-
day.
A heavy snowstorm prevailed
throughout Wisconsin and Minnesota
yesterday.
The bill abolishing slavery in Porto
Rico and other colonies Of Spain has not
yet passed.
The Dispatches from Dubuque, Iowa,
report very serious effects OF the late
storm in that region.
In the Virginia State Senate yesterday
bill passed providing for the payment
Of the interest on certain bonds Of the
State.
AtCharles City, Iowa, yesterday, Fred.
Seibert was sentenced TO the penitentia-
~ for eighteen years for the murder of
Marshal Page.
Alexander H. Stephens has been elect
ed to Congress from the Eighth Georgia
District A small vote was polled, there
being no opposition.
The steamer Thomas s. Hard yester-
day struck an obstruction four miles be-
low Savannah, Georgia, and sunk. Six
persons were reported drowned.
The King Of Portugal and Amadeus
yesterday visited the iron-clad Minatour,
the flagship of the British squadron,
and lunched with Admiral Hornby.
The National House livery stable,
in Bloomington, Indiana, containing
nine horses, was destroyed by fire last
night. Loss estimated at sixteen thou
sand dollars.
Wendell Phillips lectured in Chicago
last night to an immense audience.
The lecture was a criticism on the re-
cent lectures in this country Of the Eng
lish historian, Froude.
Reports were current in Boston yes
terday Of heavy embezzlement from a
National Bank in East Cambridge,
Massachusetts, consisting of United
States and other bonds.
Robert K. Hubbard was sentenced at
Philadelphia yesterday to the peniten-
tiary for five years, for forgery, having
been convicted of forging his fathers
name on a draft for five hundred dol
lars.
The enginehouse of the Indianapolis,
Bloomington and Western railroad at
indianapolis was destroyed by fire
Wednesday, together with two engines.
A fireman was seriously burned before
he could be rescued from the building.
Five or six women at Vienna, Missou-
ri, INDUCED in village hair-pulling last
Tuesday, which began with brOomsticks
and ended with a butcher-knife, with
which Mrs. Brown was instantly killed
by Mrs. Bowler. The murderess was
arrested.
A fire in Alton, Illinois, on Tuesday
night, destroyed the shoe store of Smi-
ley Brothers, the dry goods store of
Richard Flagg and the drug store of II.
w. Chamberlain. Loss from forty
thousand to fifty thousand dollars,
mostly insured.
The Kansas City, st. Joseph and
Conncil Bluffs railroad has been mort
gagged for eight million dollars, to pro-
vide for fund for the better equipment
of the road, and procure additional
grounds to pay the floating Liabilities,
and provide for contingencies.
w. E. Mckee was arrested for embez-
zling over five hundred dollars from the
United States Express Company, while
acting as messenger between Columbus
and Chicago, recently. He plead guilty
yesterday, at Columbus, and was sem
fenced to two years in the Ohio peniten-
tiary.
Early yesterday morning, Governor
Hendricks, in coming out Of his resi-
dence at Indianapolis, Indiana, slipped
and fell, striking his head upon the
stone step with such force as to infiict
III, vrA1 Lob mill tot
from business for few days. He was
resting quietly last night, and his physi-
clans anticipate no serious results.
The London Telegraph of the four
teenth says lamentable loss Of life oc-
Cured in Liverpool the day previous.
A fire broke out In the packing-rooms Of
a seed and rice merchant. In the room
adjoining seven women were employed,
two of whom escaped by the staircase.
The other five, in consequence of their
terror, rushed toward the packing-room,
became suffoested and were burnt to
death.
A resolution was offered IN the Ohio
Legislature yesterday recitiDg impor-
tance to the commercial interest of
Ohio and other States Of ship canal to
connect the Ohio river with the James
river in Virginia, and requesting the
Legislature OF West Virginia and Ken
lucky to confer with the General AS
sembly of Ohio with reference TO the
best means of securing such canal. The
resolution was referred to the FEEDER al
Relations Committee.
At the National Convention in New
York, yesterday in favor of a religious
amendment to the constitute n, the re-
port of the Executive Committee was
received, recommending an application
to Congress in behalf of such an amend
ment to the constitution as will reeog-
nize God Almighty as the source of all
authority in civil government. A reso-
luton was adopted calling upOnkhe wo-
men Of the United States to aid in the
work of the Convention.
In March, 1888, the American Express
Company's messenger was robbed, near
Cincinnati, Of nearly twenty thousand
dollars by Lew Dolman. Subsequently
Dolman went TO st. Louis, and wkile at
tempting to rob house in the suburbs,
was shot and killed by detective. Dol
man left considerable property, and the
Express Company brought suit against
the public administrator to recover the
loss. The suit was decided on Monday
by Judge Krum, giving judgment in fa-
vor of the plaintiff for twenty-four
thousand dsllars.
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At RalaiOh North Carolina Tuesday