Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-04
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The city of Milwaukee rejoiced last
night over the completion OF its waterworks.
The municipal elections take place in
| Chicago to-day.
The Illinois authorities are after The
/ prize-hghting mob in earnest.
/ The continental banks, says London
/ dispatch, have raised the rates OF discount.
| The international bridge at Fort Erie,
Canada, was formally opened for traffic yes
/ terday.
/ The steamship Helsatia sailed from
Southampton on Saturday for New York, took
out sl42l00O gold.
Mike McCOol was imprisoned in St.
/ Louis, yesterday, charged with numbering
J Patsey Manly last week.
Governor Noyes, of Ohio, has pro-
claimed the twenty-seventh Of November a
day OF thanksgiving for that State.
Little Rockers, of the Republican per-
suasion, torch-lighted immensely last nfght,
preparatory TO the vote-early-and-often exer-
cises there to-day.
Captain Clark, of the ship Sunrise,
was convicted yesterday OF cruel and inhu-
man treatment to sailors. Sentence was re-
served, pending amotion for new trial.
There was another pow-wow between
the red men OF the forest and their great
father At Washington, yesterday, at which
there was much talk that will result as usual.
-Four hundred men left Cadiz on Satur-
day, for Havana, 10 reinforce the Spanish
Il loops operating against the Cuban Insurgents
Several CaTlists bands were scattered BY the
republican troops on Saturday and Sunday
Edward Lane, a brakesman employed
in the yard OF the Baltimore and Ohio rail-
road, at Columbus, Ohio, was run over by a
freight train Thursday morning, and instantly
killed.
Employees on the East Tennessee and
Virginia railroad struck yesterday on account
of a reduction OF wages. Their places were
soon supplied, however, and but little delay
TO trains occurred.
It is said over three hundred English
mechanics Of Paterson, New Jersey, have
bought tickets from the European steamship
agents in that city this week, there being no
prospect Of work this winter this side Of the
Atlantic.
Donald Mckay, a deputy in the office
Of the clerk Of the criminal court OF Chicago,
was arrested yesterday and taken before
United states commissioner Hoyne and held
70 bail in five thousand dollars, for fraudu-
lently issuing naturalization papers.
Thomas Kennedy atlas Conners,
Michael Hays, and Miles Sweeney, all hailing
fram New York, are under arrest in Boston
charged with committing burglaries in Lynn,
somerville, and other neighboring towns,
and goods valued at thousand dollars, have
been discovered.
A telegram from Cartagena to the
London Times says the insurgents have ar
rested "A Prussian subject named Gierand, and
refused to surrender him on demand of the
German consul, declaring that he is a spy
from Madrid. Serious complications with the
German government are probable.
The payments made from the treasury
department by warrants in October were,
civil and miscellaneous, 003 S33 wal, 81 jS2 230
navy, S22B, IA; interior, pensions and Indi-
ans s9Sl ,lS5: total, sl4, ,S32 S5S. The above does
not include payments on account of the inte-
rest or principal OF the public debt of the
( United States
A dispatch from Buffalo, New York,
says: "Rumors OF marine disasters on the
lake by the recent gale are flying about The
only disaster in this locality Yet reported is
the loss Of the schooner Ellington, with a
cargo Of blackstone, valued at twenty three
( thousand dollars, and bound for Erie, Pennsyl-
vania, which eDcountering a southwest gale,
put back 70 this city, and sunk on the break
water. The crew escaped"