Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-19
TELEGRAMS.

Slight fall of snow at Kansas CITY
yesterday.
The cure of Santa Cruz is to be tried
by court martial.
Samuel Dellauer committed suicide
near Fremont, Ohio, yesterday.
Our minister to Japan, Mr.. DeLOng
arrived AT San Francisco yesterday.
WinterbOtham, formerly a member
of the British parliament, is dead.
The number of Carlist insurrection lists
are decreasing, says a Madrid dispatch.
Severe shocks of earthquake We're felt
at Yokahoma on the fifteenth of November.
The steamship Kenilworth, from
Philadelphia, arrived at Queenstown yester-
day.
The President has withdrawn the
nomination Of Henry Kessler as postmaster al
Cincinnati,
The Dutch troops have had an engag, :
a victory.
Outstanding loan certificates in New
York banks amount to four and half mil
lion dollars.
Ex-Congressman Edmunds died at
| Raleigh, North Carolina, yesterday, aged
eighty years.
The official journal of the Carlists at
Bayonne announces that the royaIists have
captured Berga. ~
A box factory at New Albany, Indi-
ana, burned yesterday, causing loss or about
| ten thousand dollars.
| The German government has sub
| scribed for twenty-fOur million marks of the
/ new Hungarian loan.
The owners of the steamship Ismalia,
| from New York for Glasgow. have given un
! all hope OF her safety.
The weather round about London yes
teruaE was very tPfuupxtuOus Much da mace
10 shipping IS reported.
Official investigation as to the cause
OF the Vile de HaYre disaster will commence
| at Greenwich on the thirtieth instant.
Dispatches from Paris represent that
the conservatives aIe dismayed at the success
OF the republicans IN the last elections.
A London telegram announces the
loss OF the steamer Beckton, together with
twenty-five lives, in the MEDITERRANEAN.
David a. Gage, ex-city-treasurer of
Chicago, fails 70 account for something like
five hundred thousand dollars. He'll do. a I
The Spanish authorities st Mannilla
nave released Mr.. Field, supeIcargo Of the
Marie Louise, captared'by them recently.
The steamships Pomeranfa, from
Hamburg, and the City of New York, from
Liverpool, arrived at New York yesterday
The officers of the engineering bnreau
have reported in favor of dedicating the
island of Mackinaw TO public use as a park
IA dispatch from Lincoln, Nebraska,
says the meeting OF the State grange promise
u be a ueeess. over two hundred farmers are
present.
The greater portion of the town of
Hutsonville, Illinois, was destroyed by fire
yesterday, and but little of the property was
insured.
The receiver of the National bank of
the Commonwealth of New York commenced
the payment of dividend OF thirty per cent
yesterday.
A fire at Fort Madison, Indiana,
Wednesday destroyed the grocery store OF
RetPohl q speeding, and the harness shop Of
ElZhorn & Co.
Stephen Hood, colored, was yesterday
iound guilty of murder in the first degree for
Killing his stepson at Cleveland, Ohio, some
months since.
1t is reported that the Nirginus will
be taken Ia Washington, where an investi ga
ton VIII be had as 10 her right to carry the
American flag. .----
w. 7. Havens, chief book-keeper of
nitted suicide yesterday by shooting himself |
through the head.
At the annual meeting of the Chesa-
peake and Ohio railroad company, held at /
Rchmopd yesterday, the old board or direct |
tors were reelected.
John Piles, Sherd Piles and William |
smItn, three notorious mGrderers, escaped |
from the jail at J Jtrutowp, EentresS county, in |
this state, a few days ago. E rr5iT |
John Z. Owens, the comedian, is |
lying dangerously III at Newark, New Jersey, |
"roodles" Monday evening.
Minister Sickles informs Secretary |
Fish OF the settlement of conflicting Interests
in the SOanish Cortes, and tine establishment /
OF the CASTELAR, governments rrVv a 1
William Hamilton & Sons, proprie--I
tors of the st. Lawrence fouutirv Toronto I
{ Y nN.
ceeding two hundred thousand dollars.
Nearly a thousand dollars We're sub |
Scribed at the meeting OF the Evangelican Al
lance, on Sunday, for the families OF PronieT |
and CarrascO, lost on the Vile de Havre.
The king of the Sandwich Islands has |
Withdrawn his proposition for a reciprocity /
treaty with the United States. His subjects !
thought reciprocity meant annexation. FH
The Dayton hotel, at Dayton, Ne |
yada, was destroyed by fire "Wednesday night |
l.. ID. Gould, ThoS. Young, John Norton H. /
Nash and NJ. Ciyster were burned death. = I
A Singapore dispatch contrsdicts the |
report that the Atchinese surprised the Dutch,
and claims that the latter captured the Atchi- /
nese fortress, losing only six men in the as |
sault. - E-T -
The house committee on military af- |
fairs made no progress with tie case of Gen
eral Howard yesterday; they are waiting to |
hear from thesecretaFyof W ar, who made the
charges affecting his integrity.
By the explosion of boiler in the In
dependent coal mine Contra Costa county
California, Wednesday night, John HAYES |
and James Daily were instantly killed, and |
David Williams supposed TO be fatally in |
jured.
In the first congressional district of |
Tennessee, Representative Buffers "salary- 4
grab" speech is not fancied by his cOnstitu- |
ents, and the Greenyille Uni0R thinks there is |
probability of Major Edwin Henry succeed !
ing MIN at the next election. .-s
oh lao,
morning, awhile man named Saunders Killed /
negro man who had sworn out a States 1
warrant against him, and was going with the /
marshal 10 arrest him. After shooting the
negro, Saunders frightened the marshal and |
escaped.
Wight d TilliDghast, New York dry |
goods and commission merchants, notified |
their creditors yesterday Of their inability to |
meet maturing obligations. Their suspension |
was caused by loes Of credit, occasioned by the |
failure of y. w. Sprague 4 Co., of Providence, |
Mr.. w. Sprague, OF the latter firm, being |
special partner in the firm OF Wight & Til /
lfnghast.
The report of the Indianapolis real |
estate exchange for the year has just been |
published, showing most remarkable state |
debt is only aOeut one and one-half per cent. |
of the taxable property. The entire tax |
levied for all purposes for 1873 is one and I
three-fourths per cent. Twenty-four new fac |
tories, three pack1ng-hOUSeS, and one elevator 1
have been located in and about the city dur
ing the past twelve months. Stone-coai can 4
now be furnished at seven and eight cents per /
bushel. The lumber trade Tor 1878 is more |
than three hundred per cent. greater than l
that of 1870. The estimated cost of the build |
ings completed, and in course of erection. |
during the year, is nearly five and a half |
million dollars. 1t is estimated |
that nearly iOrty-five miles of improved |
streets have been made. The published report |
OF real estate transactions for last week states
them TO be greater than the corresponding |
slaughtered three hundred and ninety four |
thousand hogs during the year ending No
vember lst. The Belt railroad and Union !
stock yards will undoubtedly be completed |
during the coming year.
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AGASSIZ.