Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-20

now on her way to New York.
Miscellaneous.
The cure of Santa Cruz has escaped
into France.
Unusually cold weather prevails
throughout New Mexico.
The French assembly yesterday in
| creased President McMahon's salary.
Messrs. Jones and TURNKEY, of the In
dian bureau, passed through Chicago yester-
I day on their way home. .eH
/ All extra work at the ChaTlestOwn
navy-yard has been ordered discontinued,
4 and many of the workmen will be discharged
/ The King of DohOmey has Joined the
| Ashantees The fever continues among the
/ British soldiers, aud the invalids are being
/ sent TO st. Helena.
/ The preliminary examination of Vir-
| tue, who killed WolQuest at Walkerton, Indi-
ana, on Thursday, resulted in q verdict OF
| justinable homicide.
The jury in the case of Genett, charg-
/ ed with fraudulent practices in connection
rendered a verdict of guilty, bat sentence was
/ withheld until bill of exceptions could De
filed.
| 1t is reported that f. A. Woodward,
! county auditor under the ring, IS now in New
/ York, and that he has.agreed to turn state $
| evidence on the promise of i'm munity from
! prison. His whereabouts cannot be aseer-
tained, but it is confidently stated that he viii
I
A call is being numerously signed by
members OF congress, headed by represent
| atives McNulta, of Illinois, and Harris, OF
| Virginia, looking 20 a union OF the members
| from the northwest and the south for the pur-
! poe of uniting those sections on the question
| OF cheap transportation from the west TO the
| Atlantic seaboard. A meeting Will De held IN
| the house of representatives the f1rst Satur-
/ day after the recess.
| There was panic on a small scale on
| tie New York stock exchange yesterday.
| Wabash opened at AZ and fell 10 7054; Pacific
Mail dropped from 8]s to Sl34; Northwest
| Common nom So to 5j19. At one time there
was an advance all round from One-hat TO
! one per cent. y number of weak parties
| were forced to sell on account OF the decHne
/ and great many stop-orders were IN the
market, which, of course helped along the
| decline.
The United States senate yesterday
| confirmed the following nominations: VIII
1 liam +. Wheeler, marshal for Montana; JO-
! SeUh Wright, agent for the Indians OF the
| Crow agency; Hiram Iddings, pension agent
| at Fort Wayne, Indiana; John J, Saviller
agent tor the Indians of Red Cloud agency.
| P0stmaster-Julius L. Barber, Coldwater,
Michigan; Norris II. Merrill, Buc chanan, Mich
igan; Joseph K. Moore, st. Peters, Minnesota /;
| Edward {. Webster, LaSalie, illinois; Egbert
c. Reese, Pana, Illinois; Z. West, Milwaukee,
wisconsin, Ansel 7. Bailey; Deeorsh, Iowa;
| Robert X. Bruce, Elkhorn, Maryland.
The Louisville Courier-JotrRdlO of last
Thursday says: The friends OF constitutional
reform achieved a victory in the Kentucky
Iaoisfafflre Yesterday which is of the first sig
niticance. The inltiatory step for the calling
OF a convention TO revise our organic law was
adopted in the senate by vote of twenty
three to eleven, and In the house by a vote OF
ffty-eight 10 thirty -nine-a mai jority Of Demo-
crats voting for the measure. 1t will be seen
that in the house seven votes more than was
necessary were cast for the bill, and of those
present there was a majority OF eighteen
This resuk gives promise OF new and bright
career for Kentucky. Those who argued and
labored for the measure deserve the highesl
praise.
A srecial to the St. Louis Democrat
ceived there to-day that farmer living near
: Cambridge, Saline county, sold lot of hogs IN
, that town yesterday, receiving therefor
! | about one thousand dollars, and that while
2 ! returning home he was oyertaken on the road
by e-men, headed by a desperate named
Stanton, who shot and killed him, and then
robbed the body of the money. Shortly aftei
! the tragedy a gentleman, residing near by dis
covered the body lying In the road, and near
ing angry alteration in an adjacent thlcket
7 com pretended the situation at once, lie
auietlv raised a number of neighbOrs, ca p
tured three OF the murderers anu hangeu y, me @ u
to a tree. They then started in pursuit OF the
other two, but at last accounts II was no
known whether they had been captured"
The st. Louis Democrat of yesterday
makes a lengthy expose of a discovery made
. day before yesterday, that Henry Losey, al
: employe of the Western Union telegraph
! company, and also cipher-translator OF th'
, Western associated press. has been surrepii
|, tiously furnishing the Globe newspaper o
= that city with commercial reports that be
I IOnged to the associated press. The Gt06e l
! not member Of the associated press, and j
q has for a long time, been suspected of obtain
: ing more or less OF the associations news II
u | an illegitimate way; but this Is the nrSt TIM
$ | the detection has been made. As the fact l
: | estabIisbed the local board of the ASSOCIATE e,
! ! press will hold a meeting to-day, TO cons1de
q what action shall be taken in the matter
: | Losey was promptly dismissed from the ser
, vice Of both the telegraph company and Tn
! assoc iated press.