Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-22
TELEGRAMS.

! Mn. Harrison Gray Otis died in Bos.
/ ton yesterday morning.
Right Hon. Stephen Lushington, NJ.
c., died in London Monday.
Prince Napoleon and his wife, Prin.
cess Clothilde, visited the Queen of Eng
land Monday.
Thirty-tive applications for space at
the Vienna Exposition have been filed
with the Commissioners at Cincinnati.
Mrs. A. X. Storey, wife of ID. J. Sto-
rey, editor of the Chicago Times, died
at her residence in that city yesterday.
The Missouri State Senate, yesterday,
passed a concurrent resoluting, favoring
the opening OF the Indian Territory to
settlement.
Mrs. Snyder, living in Jefferson CITY,
Missouri, chopped the head Off of her
six weeks old infant, yesterday morn
ing, while temporarily insane.
A passenger train on the Erie railway
ran of yesterday morning at Nunda.
Three cars were thrown into a ditch. A
few persons were little bruised.
In the case of Foster, the New York
car-hOOk murderer, the Court of Ap-
peals has affirmed the Judgment of the
court below, and ordered that court to
effectuate its sentence.
a special from Brussels contradiets the
statement that Count SchOurelof failed
in his mission to secure the cooperation
of the British Government in the meas
ures contemplated by Russia and Central
Asia.
An engineer of the in-coming train at
Cairo, Monday night, was shot at twice
by unknown parties in the upper paFt
OF that city. The company offer five
hundred dollars for the arrest of the
parties.
The Illinois Legislature, in joint ses-
sion, yesterday, elected Governor Rich
ard J. Oglesby United States Senator.
The Democrats voted for Lyman Trum-
bull; the vote standing, Oglesby, 50;
Trumbull, 90.
David Langes was instantly killed by
falling between two coaches on the Ohio
and Mississippi railroad, just after
leaving Caseyville, Illinois. eight miles
east Of St. Louis, Monday This is the
third husband Mrs. Langes has lost in
a similar way.
The committee appointed by the Ar
kansas Reform Convention lately issued
an address yesterday, setting forth
frauds ia the late election, contend
ing that the Reform State ticket was
elected, and demanding a thorough in
vestigation by Congress.
The commencement exercises of the
Law College of the Kentucky Uniyersi-
ty was held at Lexington, Yesterday, at
Morrison chapel. The graduating class
numbered fifteen. The salutatory was
given by j. Marion Tanner, of Kene,
Kentucky, aud the valedictory by Jas.
Glare, of Boards Station, Kentucky.
Hon. Nj. c. johnson is President.
The Grand Officers Of the B'nai Birth.
of Evansville, Indiana, elected yester-
day, are: B. A. Tieneman, Kansas City,
NJ. G. Y. A; S. j. LoOewenstein,. Evans
vile. G.. A; s. Ullman, Louisville, G.
T.; j. KOpelick, st. Louis, G.. S.; b.
Benjamin, Cincinnati, G. B. II. The
Grand Lodge adjourned to meet at Louis
vile on the third Sunday in January,
1874.
The vote taken 10 the two houses of
the Illinois General Assembly yester-
day morning for United States Senator,
to fill the place now occupied by Sena-
tor Trumbull, resulted as follows: In
the Senate, Oglesby thirty-twO; Trum-
bull, sixteen; Coolbaugh, two. In the
House, Oglesby, eighty-three; Trum-
bull, sixty. The two houses viii meet
in joint session to-day, and declare the
result.
A man whose name was not ascer-
aimed, was riding a horse up Chatham
Square, IN New York, yesterday, when
Michael Nixon, bill-poster, was driv-
ing his wagen in the opposite direction.
Some words took place between the two
men, when Nixon drew his revolver and
shot the unknown man, causing his
death in an hour. Nixon was arrested.
He says the man struck him with a
whiifietree, and that he fired in seIf-de-
fense.