Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-02
ESTABLISHED 1910.
TELEGRAMS.

The 6rSt annual MeJnOulst OOlleEetice
in Arkansas sat at Little Rock last
week.
Tbe first f?l saowstorm of the season
in London wss reported yesterday by
cable.
WoYk is rapidly progressing on the
New Orleans, Little Rock and st. Louis
railroad.
The fist train over the Chesapeake
railroad arrived at Richmond, Virginia,
yesterday.
Four hundred thousand dollars is the
e7tinsted loss by the fire on Broadway,
NeF York, yesterday.
The employees on the railroads in POr-
tugaI are on a strike-nO freight trains
running IL consequence
Judge Davis yesterday morning re-
fused to grant a motion for immediate
retiial in the Tweed case.
The official census returns show that
there are two hundred and sixty-nine
thousand slaves in the island OF Cuba
The public debt increased during the
past month four hundred and six thou
sand two hundred and forty three dol
lars.
Dodge. Chief Engineer, left Marshall,
Texas, for Washington on Wednesday
10 testify before the Credit MObiiier
committee.
The Governor Of Massachusetts has
decided not TO interfere in the case Of
ATcEInsney, sentenced 10 death for
wife murder.
A man was murded near Elysed
fields, New York, on Thursday evening,
name unknown. -Four bullet wounds
and a knife cut were found on his body.
A Convention on Direct Trade and
Emigration, 10 which delegates from
the West are invited, is TO be held at
Augusta, Georgia, on the eleventh in
staUt.
A fire Yesterday in the Central Block
Of the royal military building, at Wool
wich. destroyed the entire block. Total
loss, two hundred and fifty thousand
dollars.
A'dispatch from Berlin says that the
library Of the Royal Military Academy
aJ WOOlwich was burned Friday night,
and sls0 part Of the clOck-tOwer. The
loss Is not stated.
The dweIliDg-house Of Henry Carmes,
near Jefferson, Iowa, was burned last
night, and Henry, with two Of his chill
iren and his brother Alexander, per-
ished in the flames.
Pine Buff Arkansas, suffered to the
amount Of twenty-five thousand dollars
by FIRE last Thursday week, in which
the telegraph and express companies
were considerable losers.
Peter Keh0e was arrested in New
York on Friday charged with having
fifty cents Of fractional currency in his
possession bearing the signature of HOr-
ace Greeley instead Of Spinner.
It Is stated that Bismarck has de-
ICauded an explanation from the Rus
sian authorities concerning the shooting
Of q Prussian by certain custOmhOuse
officials of Russia in Upper Silesia.
There has been an attempt TO create an
instruction in Hayti in order to prevent
the election for President. The demon
-tration was soon suppressed, sixty of
the ringleGders arrested and five exc
cuted.
A resolution was offered in the Ohio
Legislature yesterday instructing the
Ohio Senators 10 use their influence to
prucure the passage Of a law TO reduce
the duties on railroad iron to two dollars
Per ton.
The New York bank statement for
the week IS as follows: Loans, increase,
SA72. 05O; specie, decrease, S1,759, 800;
legal tender, decrease, S171, 800; depos-
It's, increase, Si79, 200; circulation, de-
crease, S3S, zee.
Arrangements have been completed
for the construction Of the Canada and
Pacific railroad; charter issued. Ottawa
subscribed for ten million dollars stock
stock books VIII be opened in each of
the provinces.
At Lowell, Massachusetts, several
female employees in a Merrimac street
dollar store have been made sick by
eating cake, given them by young
women recently discharged. The cake
was found to contain arsenic.
Examination was made on Friday
into charges Of ill-treatment preferred
by the passengers, German emigrants,
ui the ship Aragon. They complain
that steerage passengers were cruelty
treated and wanted for food.
Commodore Van Nome, President Of a
defunct savings bank, is in jail in New
York, in default of four thousand dol
lars to recover bonds of that institution,
alleged 10 have been misappropristed by
him, lest the case be made known.
Three Isborers on the new Milwaukee
aud st. Paul railroad were buried yester-
Gay 10y the csving IN of the gravel bank,
about twelve miles north of Chicago.
Their appearance when disinterred iDdi-
Gated that al three were killed in
SANITY.
Hon. Nehemiah Bushnell, one Of the
Oldest and most prominent citizens and
lawyers OF Southern Illinois, and Chair
man Of the House Judiciary Committee
OF the Illinois General Assembly, died
at his home in Quincy Friday evening,
aged dfty-nine years.
Conkling, the defaulting Secretary Of
the Market Savings Bank, is 70 return
from Montreal, on condition tnat he
VIII be guaranteed immunity, and tes-
lily concerning the misappTOpriatiOn
Oi the hanks finds in the suit against
President Van Nome.
Renner d Co.'s cabinet and chair
mandatory at Allegheny City, Penn
sylvania, was totally consumed by fire
on Friday last The loss will aggregate
eleven thousand dollars. Insurance five
thousand dollars. Supposed to be the
work Of an incendiary.
The counsel in the Stokes case. in
event Of failure 10 obtain an order for
new trial from Judge Bosrdman, viii
apply for a stay Of proceedings. and
thereby secure a review Of the case by a /
full bench OF the Supreme Court, and
on failure they will go to the Court Of
Appeals.
Ia the Arkansas Legislature yesterday
the House bill confirming certain acts
done under the so-called Chapter Of Di-
gest, passed. It new goes TO the Gov
ernOr. A bill passed the House ceding
jurisdiction 10 the United States Of a
certain block Of ground selected as the
site Tor the United States postOffice and
courthouse.
TIA the Chamber Of Deputies at Berlin,
Friday, a bill TO amend the clauses Of the I
constitution regulating the relations Of
Church and State, was passed to a second
reading by q large majority. DR.. Faik,
Minister Of Eeclesiastic Affairs, made a
strong speech in support Of the meas
ure, declaring that il was justified by
tie attitude assumed toward the country /
by the heads Of the Roman Church.
On the twenty-eighth of January the |
revenue steamer Stevens rendered as
sistance to the inmates of the Brant /
Island lighthouse, in the center Of Pam |
licO Sound. The principal keeper had /
been absent twenly-four days with the |
only boat belonging to the lighthouse.
The assistant-keeper and small boy
We're alone and IN a starving condition.
having been five days without food.
The Attorney-Generala at Washington
has received a dispatch from Lieutenant
Clark, IN Texas, stating that VIM. Weber
aud " other raiders on Villa Nuevo,
Mexico, had been arrested, and are now
being conKeNed 70 Austin. The Aftor-