Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-02
ELECTRIC BREVITIES.

The ironclads Mahapec and Ossipee
/ touched at savannah, Georgia, yesterday.
The Union Trust company, of New
York, has commenced paying depositors in
Andrew Suatton, aged twenty-one,
and his daughter, aged Two years, starved TO
death at BudgeIon, New Jersey.
Senator Sumner suffered the infiiction
Of a ssrenade in Washington last night. The
compliment was paid him by the colored
people.
1t was rumored in New York yester-
day afternoon that VIM. NJ Tweed dropped
dead while leaving his CELL on BlackwellS 5
Island yesterday morning.
A telegram from New Orleans an
nounces the completion Of the Mississippi
Central railroad TO Cairo, which is regarded a
great triumph for Colonel H. 5. McComb.
Captain Bradbury, now in California,
has resigned the office OF president of the Pa
sihe Mail steamship company, and Russell L.
l Sage has been elected to M the vacancy.
A fire at San Francisco yesterday
destroyed the Atlantic hotel, on Pacific
! street, IN which a guest named Charles Allen
was burned 20 death. Several other buildings
We're also consumed.
The number of hogs killed in Iadi-
anapolls, Indiana, in November was one
elghty-three, about sixty thousand more than
the same month last year
A young man named Henry Oberer
died OF deliTtula treneHs at a diSreputable
house, on Union Lane, Cleveland, Ohio,
saturday night. The inquest resulted in the
verdict OF death from excessive drinking.
A telegram from Cleveland, Ohio,
states that the residence Of Theodore HOcl1e,
No. SO Woodland, was almost destroyed by
hre Sunday morning. Los fve thousand dol
lars, covered by insurance.
e-Advocate-G General Holt pub
fishes long rejOinder 10 Ex-President John
son, in which he says Johnson is guilty of
gross perversiOn IN his statements OF what oc-
cuned at their interview Just previous 10 ths
execution Of Mrs. Surratt.
The mails and passengers ofthe steam
ship city OF Chester, which returned 10 Liv-
eTpool disabled by the loss OF one Of the blades
OF her screw, were transferred 10 the steam
ship city OF Brussels, which sailed rom
Queenstown for New York at midnight last
night
Near Eiko, Nevada, on Monday, John
Davis shot and instantly killed s. :. Hedge.
Thomas Brown, Davis brother-in-layy, a mere
boy, thereupOn drew a revolver and shot
Davis through the head, killing him instant
", and then made his escape. Domestic trOu-
bles IN Davis's family was the cause. Hedge
had tried to induce Mrs. Davis to leave her
husband and live with him.
The members Of Revs. Drs. Starts and
Buddington's COngre gatiOnal churches in
Brooklyn, have adopted resolutions providing
for the calling OF national council, 10 take
action uDOn the recent declaration Of the Ply
mouth church, Rev. Mr.. Beecher denying the
right Of one Congregational church 10 make
inquiry into the gov yeTnment, pOlity, belief or
department OF another. This is another phase
Of the BeecheT-BOWen-TigtOn scandal.
There is a very sad state of affairs in
Osceola county, Iowa. It's people are destitute
Of food, clothing, and fuel Twisted hay and
seed-grass Is all they have 10 burma fact
which may be noted by the advocates OF for
est-culture. Many persons, among them wO-
men in childbirth, have died Of exposure and
of "A a a s. 10 f,a
feared # relief II not given soon. 50 deplOra-
BILE a condition would seem much less strange
in the devastated fields OF Hungary or Poland
than in free and bountiful Iowa, and il is TO
be hoped that the appeal OF the Homesteaders'
protective association will be answered.
The Baltimore Sun of the twenty
fourth says: Col. 7. A. Scott, one Of the
Tsa5 inaSTie5S Of 5Re paper Of the T4 e3a
aud California railroad company, pro-
poses TO settle with the holders in payments
extending from two 70 twenty-four months.
He probably speaks for his co-indorsers, ex-
cept, perhaps, Mr.. Thomson and Mr. Houston,
VINO are, with the other three, on only about
one million seven hundred tnOusond dol
lars, all which amount OF paper, IL is
said, will be projected BY the payment a. il
natures. II is understood that Mr.. Thom-
sons liabilities in connection with these
Endorsements have been narrowed to
about nVe hundred thousand dol
lars, q sum quite within the means Of his pri-
vste fortune. SO that, while the Penpsylvania
railroad com pany is in no way ssspnected
with the losses Of the Texas ar slifornia
company, the president OF the 46sylNanfa
railroad even is likely 10 mai ~ 6is per-
sOnal credit unimpaired. Colonel Scott is
quite sangUine, II his creditors will extend to
him the credit he asks all will get their
money; il they should decline this, and press
for immediate payment, they must be satisfied
with what they can get. He expresses g1eat
confidence ia the belief That congress will
extend aid TO lis enterDrise, not by lnuorsiug
the company's bonds, but by lending to the
company government bonds, uOder such
guarantee OF payment by the company as ne
can show is scdicient.