Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-27
Emperor Williams Health-Mar-
shal Bazaine's Departure into
Exile-Spanish War
News.
$40, 900 Fire at NaShVille-Wreck
of the Gipsey Queen-Thirty
Lives LOst-The Sean
Ian Murder.
Another Letter from the COmman'
der of the Vile de HaVre-Fae-
tories Resuming Work
Fearful Storm.
Fatal Results of Christmas FrOl-
icS-SeriOus Accidelats-Mur-
ders and MurderOus As.
saUlts-Etc.

ders and MurderOus As.
saultS-Etc.
Emperor william Better.
BERLIN, December 26.-The Emperor
William is much better this morning.
NarshaI RazaIne's Departure.
PARIS, December 26.-Marshal Ba'
zaine has left Paris for Ste. Marguerite,
sIekeIs's Resignation Accepted.
NEW YORK, December ga Herald
of General Sickels has been officially
accepted.
Too Much Christmas Liquids
LITTLE Rock, December 26.-During
a row on Christmas day, Policeman
Busby was shot in the hes.d and danger
ously wounded.
Killed In n Drunken Street BrawI.
| BOSTON, December 26.-Joseph Gal
win, aged twenty-seven, was killed yes
terday at Wakefield by John Doherty,
aged twenty-one, in a drunken street
fight.
] n AauEueFtE HUNG.
PETERBoRo, ONT, December 26.-
Brenton, alias Cox, was hanged to-day
for the murder of Mrs. Payne and the
boy Doughty, in the township of Dunn
mer, November, 1872.
Fearful storm.
WILMINGTON, n. c., December 26.-
A fearful snow-stOTm visited this sec
ton last night, blowing down a number
of small houses, uprooting trees, pros
| trating fences, etc.
John HOpkins's Funeral.
BALTIMORE, December 26.-AIl the
business houses in the principal part of
this city are closed in respect to the
memory of John Hopkins, whose funeral
takes place to-day.
Drunken Row, with FaIaI.kesuIIs.
DORCEsTER, ONT, December 26.-
During a drunken row yesterday, be-
tween cOlored and white men, one of
the latter, named Bell, was killed. Sew
eral of the rioters were arrested.
Attempt TO Kin His Wife.
NEW YORK, December 26.-James
Gallaher, of No. 80 Pearl street, while
drunk last night, attempted to kill his
wife by throwing her down stairs, and
Immediately afterward shot himself
BurEIaFized.
CINCINNATI, December 26.-The dry
goods store of Kennape d Brother, in
Springfield, was burglari,sed last night
of two thousand dollars worth of silks,
velvets, aud other fancy goods. No ar
rests.
Fatal Accident.
TERRE HAUTE, IND, December 26.-
IN, 10 off n rafGfpl in fha hand Cf a
boy named James Lowe was accident
ally discharged, shooting another boy,
William Stevenson in the arm. Steven
son will die.
Suspicion of FOuI Play.
EVANSVILLE, IND, December 26.-
Nathan Murx, traveller for Louis
Kahn. wholesale grocer, has disappear
ed from Preston, Kentucky, under cir
cumstances that create a belief that he
has been murdered.
DefauIting Cfty-TreH,urer Gage
CHICAGO, December 26.-The city
attorney has brought slit against the
bOndsmen of David A. Gage, the de-
faulting city-treasurer, and the States
attorney will bring Gage before the
grand jury for indictment for criminal
action.
President OrtOn Discusses the Postal
Telegraph Business.
NEW YORK, December 26.-To-mor-
rows papers will publish a letter from
Hon. William Orton, president of the
Western Union telegraph company to
the postmsster-general, reviewing the
recommendations of the latter in his an
nual report in favor of the postal-tele-
graph.
The Usage Ceded Lands.
ST. LOUIS, December 26.-Judge
Goaler, of the seventh judicial district
of Kansas, decided the test case involv-
ing the title Of the Usage ceded lands In
that State in favor of the settlers, hold
ing that railroads have no grant through
these lands. The case will probably be
appealed.
Must Pay Taxes.
NEW YORK, December 26.-The bank
of British North America, the bank of
Montreal, and the Canadian bank of
Commerce, having declined to pay the
State tax, Judge Bartlett to-day rem
dered decision that they, having all
the protection Of the laws of the State,
are liable to taxation, and directs the
tax-commissioner to collect.
Steamer Wrscked-Ehirty Lives Lost.
LONDON, ,Decem Der 26. AT five o'clock
this morning the steamer Gipsey Queen,
belong to the river Tyne Improvement
commissioners, struck q wreck OF sunk
en- lighters and went to the bottom in
five minutes. There were between fifty
and sixty wOrkmen on board the boat at
the time of the disaster; twenty OF them
were rescued, and the remainder, thirty
or more, were drowned.
Serious Accidents.
BUFFALO, n. Y, December 26.-The
second floor of a house of ill-fsme, on
Canal street, gave way last night, pre-
cipitating the inmates 70 the basement.
Jennie Griffin was killed, and several
Others injured.
An alarm Of fire last night caused a
panic in Keller's hall, Genessee street,
and in the haste to escape from the
building several persons jumped from
the windows of the second story, and
were seriously injured.
Too Much whisky, and "a Fearful
Tragedy.
CINCINNATI, December 26.-A special
| from DOdson, Montgomery county, Ohio,
says that at shooting-lnatch near there
yesterday, two brothers, John and Hen
nv Stone, quarrelled about the loading OF
a rifle, and John called Henry a liar,
when the latter drew a revolver and
shot and killed his brother. The spec
tatOrs, being very much exceted, caught
and hung Henry to tree. When taken
down his life was extinct. Too much
whisky caused it all.
Spanish War News.
MADRID, December 26.-Fourteen
| thousand republican troops, under Cen
eral Marion, have left San Sebastian by
sea- Their destination is not known.
General Iona, with a force of three
thousand government troops, remains in
the city. A desperate conflict between
band of Carlists and republican force
occurred yesterday before Bacayrente,
| in the province Of Valencia. The in
surgents were defeated with a heavy
loss in killed and wounded. The muni-
cipal authorities Of Madrid have been
suspended.
A Wayward Youth OVeFhauled.
ST. LOUIS, December 26.-J. Ruther-
ford, son of the late Colonel Rutherford
Of Alton, Illinois, and who has for the
past two or three years had charge o.
the flour depot of the commission house
of Craig, Alexander &; Co., of this city
absconded Monday with some five hun,
dred dollars of his employers money
He also purchased fifteen hundred dol
lars worth of -four from Sayers, Shaw
GO. on short time, and converted Il int,
cash and started for Sun Francisco Mon
day evening. Yesterday he was arrest
Cd at Cheyenne, and an officer will b