Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-03
TELEGRAMS.

Sixty thousand smuggled cigars We're
seized in New York on Saturday.
Vice-PresidentC Colfax delivered tenn
perance lecture in Baltimore yesterday
evening.
A juror in the Tweed trial says the
jury was eight for acquittal, three for
conviction, and one blank.
Geographic advices from San Fran
cisco last night represent that farmers
prospects i'll California were never better.
A block of sculptured marble, do
mated by Philadelphia to the Washing
ton National Monument, will be for
warded to Washington.
The Nevada Legislature has passed a
law requiring foreign insurance compa-
MES doing business in the State to de-
posit fifty thousand dollars.
At Carson, Nevada, a squad of China
men INDUCED in a fight with knives and
pistols, yesterday, resulting in three
killed and several wounded.
The body of a man was found mur-
dered in the Elysian Fields, HOboken,
the other evening, and is supposed to be
that of Henry Brook, of Philadelphia.
The property-owners in favor of the
annexation of New York and Brooklyn
have had a meeting, and discussed the
bill to be introduced in the Legislature.
Laura d. Fair has secured a hall in
Stockton, California, and will infiict
her lecture on the people o; that city on
WolUes an the Fold some day this week.
Winnie Ream's model statue of Far
ragut fell from the wagon while on the
way to the Capitol in Washington, yes
terday morning, and was considerably
damaged.
In Boston, yesterday afternoon,
man named Alfred o. Love shot his
daughter Grace, aged four, then killed
himself. Domestic trouble was the
cause of the tragedy.
The mill and forge building of the
Lake Erie Company at Cleveland,
Ohio, was destroyed by fire yesterday.
No. 1 warehouse and office were saved.
The fire originated in the engine-roOm.
Loss not estimated, but heavy; probably
insured.
The Dutchess County, New York,
Mutual Insurance Company has OBJ
tanned judgment for six thousand and
fifty dollars against Hatch, Fields q Co.,
brokers, who bought bonds amounting
to five thousand dollars, which were
stolen from the insurance company in
1863.
The captain of an American vessel
having left one of his crew in destitu-
ton in foreign port, the Collector Of
New Orleans has been instructed by the
Secretary of the Treasury not to clear
the vessel without deposits of three
months extra wages for the disabled
sailor.
The st. Louis Republican yesterday
had a special from Kirksville, Missouri,
stating that fire broke out there at two
O'Clock Saturday morning, and con-
sumed twelve frame business houses.
Most of the goods were removed. The
loss ON the honses is five thousand dol
lars. No insurance.
a fire, yesterday morning, in building
No. 20, Fulton street, Brooklyn, New
York, damaged property to the amount
of thirty thousand dollars. Z. S. Furst,
occupant of the building, has been ar
rested charged with arson. Four sisters
living ON the fourth floor narrowly es-
capped with their lives.
The counsel for Ambrose Z. Lynch,
now under sentence of death at Pitts
burg for the murder OF Deputy-SheriH
William Hatfield, have formally given
notice of their intention to carry the case
to the Supreme Court for review. Their
hopes of a reversal are based on techni-
cal points.
The Cuban Anti-SIavery Committee
in New York, of which s. r. Settron is
Chairman and Rev. II. III. Garrett is
Secretary, issued an address to the Presi-
dent and people of the United States,
asking their support in the movement
for the abolition of slavery in Cuba. The
gentlemen mentioned will visit the
principal cities, and propose holding
Cuban anti-slavery meetings, and per-
sonally urge the attention of the matter
upon the President.