Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-27

has put down the return fare to New
York to fifteen dollars.
The Columbia CTennesseel Herald is
opposed to a Constitutional Convention.
The regulars are going from San
Francisco to reinforce Wheaton, in Ore
gon, against the Modocs.
The Missouri Legislative committee
on the Senatorial bribery case will eX-
onerate all hands save General Doris.
General Moriones is actively operating
against the Spanish Carlist insurgents
in Navarro and Bargue provinces of
Spain.
a destructive fire at Darien, Georgia,
occurred Saturday night in the court
house. The public records and other
property We're burned
The steamer Nick King, bound to
Florida, struck a snag and sunk near
Darien on Friday night. The passen-
gers and crew were saved.
Dowager Empress Amelia, of Brazil,
died in Lisbon yesterday, aged sixty-one
years. She was married to Emperor
Peter the First, of Brazil, in 1929.
A citizen of Contra Costa county,
California, disappeared mysteriously
gled body was found five miles from his
home.
J. c. Cummings wagon factory, at
HillsbOro, Illinois, was burned Satur-
day. Loss, about thirty thousand dol
lars; insurance, eighteen thousand dol
lars.
A London telegram says that Mr.. t.
Mitchell, Assistant Secretary of the
British Legation at st. Petersburg, has
just left London for that city. He is
the bearer of important dispatches to
Lord Lotus, British Ambassador.
1t is stated that some eleven hundred
suits are about to be entered against the
Missouri Pacific and Atlantic and Pa
citic railroads, by the citizens of War
rensburg, Sedalia, and other points on
the road, for unjust discrimination in
freight charges.
In the Circuit Court at Joliet,
Illinois, Saturday, a motion of the coun-
sci of a. ]. Perfect, the condemned wife
murderer, for new trial, was overruled,
and Perfect sentenced to be hanged on
the fourteenth of February next. 1t is
to be hoped the rope will be so stout that
in hanging Perfect won't part it.
Laura D. Fair lectured at Sacramento
Saturday night, in a lager beer saloon,
having been unable to obtain any public
hall. Subject: evolves in the Fold.n
Finding nobody had paid to enter the
cellar, she ordered the door thrown open
for free lecture, and the place was i'm
mediately filled. She then went upon
the platform and delivered her lecture.
A Lahore newspaper reports that Sir
do 1Vr1 lnh L
stigatiOn, captured Fort Hissar, a de-
ernOr of the place, a prisoner, to the
Russians. Hissar is a good starting
point for the Russians in any move
ment they may contemplate against
Afghan Turkestan.
The French legitimist journals report
the words of the Duke De NemOurs, an
nouncing that the union of the Orleans
branch with the eldest line of the house
of Bourbon is complete, and that seven
Princes Of the Orleans family have rec
ognized the Count De ChambOrd as
the rightful King of France.
In the Prussian Chamber of Deputies |
yesterday, after the speech of Prince
Bismarck, General Won Room made a |
statement as to the construction of the |
Prussian Cabinet. He said a ministry |
Of the majority in Prussia was impossi- |
ble-a Prussian Ministry must be a |
Royal Ministry, and the Imperial Cham
cellor must always be a Prussian.
The celebrated yacht Henrietta, in
which James Gordon Bennett, ir., won
the race across the Atlantic with the |
yachts Nesta and Fleetwing, in 1866, |
was lost on the sixteenth of December,
near BantOn, northwest of Cape Hon /
dHras. During a very heavy gale.
which was encountered soon after Ieav-
ing that port, she was driven ashore and
totally wrecked. All her crew were
saved. At the time of the disaster the
Henrietta was engaged in the fruit trade,
The Moulton (Alabama) Advertiser
Of the seventeenth instant contains the
following account of an atrocious MUIR
der committed recently: "Mr. j. w.
Turner, a citizen of this county but
formerly of Virginia, was brutally muir
iered by unknown parties near Lambs
Ferry, ON the Tennessee river, seven
miles north of CORTLAND, and, after te-
ng murdered, his body was thrown in
he river, at the above-named ferry.
The deed was committed on the evening
IF December 20, 1872. Old plows were
led TO the body and sunk in the river.
The river fell and left the dead man ex-
posed, and on the second of January the
Dody was found and carried to Courtland
ind inferred In the cemetery at that
place. 1t is hoped that the heartless
'coundrels that dyed their hands in the
lead mans blood may be ferreted out
lud brOught 10 iustice -