Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-21
TELEGRAPHIC MENTION.

Food is becoming scarce In Bengal,
/ and q famine is feared.
Howes & Macy, of New York, were
! yesterday declared bankrupts.
! Governor Booth was yesterday elected
United States senator from California.
The senate yesterday agreed to the
house resolution to adjourn till January 5th.
The steamer Ossipe, towing the Vir-
vinius, left 1ortugas at twelve o'clock Thurs
day night.
Barthold, of the French legation at
st. Petersburg, has been appointed minister
TO Washington.
Four hundred and fifteen thousand
hogs have been slaughtered in Cincinnati
since November lst.
The Dutch troops in Acheen are in
possession of all the country on the left bank
Of the Acheen river.
Steamship arrivals yesterday: At
New Yolk-Rhein, from Bremen. At London
Algeria and Egypt.
The experiment of getting the ice
hound Erie canal-boats through to uds-water
| is likely to prove successful.
The secretary Of war was before the
| house committee yesterday concerning his
charges against General Howard.
Express essenger Iugle was knocked
down and robbed of one thousand dollars, at
Owasso, Michigan, Thursday night.
Andrew J. Pertel, the negro who MUIR
dered his wife at Chicago in September, 1871,
was yesterday hanged at Joliet Illinois.
General Julius White, United States
minister to the Argentine Republic, arrived
at New York yesterday, from Rio Janeiro.
Internal revenue receipts for the
month were So 3O6, ,076. and for the fiscal year,
s45,lls567. Outstanding legal tenders, sS75, $685.,
The hearing Of the Tichborne case has
"a
on account of the Illness of the claimants
counsel.
Hiram Koerwing, who attempted to
murder his wife, has been sentenced to ten
years imprisonment IN the New Jersey peni-
lentiary.
Two trains collided near kpnnebunk,
New Hampshire, yesterday. whereby three
men were killed and the trains badly
wrecked.
The Brooklyn commissioners of char
tiles have been paying too much for the arti-
eles purchased by them, and are likely to be
prosecuted therefor.
Secretary Fish, on being questioned
as to the status of the Virginius survivors, re-
piled that 1t would be improper at this time to
say anything on the subject.
Commodore ScamberIine, Of the Bra
lillian navy, has reached New York, where he
has been sent by his government to examine
in o the organization Of our navy.
The following is the New York bank
statement: Loans, increase, s, ,67I 800; specie,
decrease, S5Sl, 800; legal-tenders, increase, 81,
507. 100; deposits, increase, s4062,500; ciTcula-
ton, decrease, s4l, 800.
United States Marshal Fisk has been
ordered to restore to Mr.. Lancaster, of Chica-
go, two hundred and eighty-five uncut dia-
monds, seized by custOm-hOuse officers On a
charge Of attempted smuggling.
A Santiago dispatch of the eighteenth
states that the surviving passengers and crew
OF the Ntrg1nius were that day delivered TO
commander Braine, OF the Juniata, which
vessel soon after left for New York.
Jim Turner, of New Orleans, and Ed.
NIcAulif, of Brooklyn, fought twenty-nfne
rounds, in ffty-eight minutes, on Long Is
land, yesterday, when Turner was declared
winner of the fight and five hundred dollars.
There is a rumOI afiOat, in Winon..,
that Captain Il. c. Mauker earpetbag post
In Montgomery county, at the late election,
has gone to parts unknown, carrying of with
him some eight or nine hundred dollars OF the
postofhce funds.
Secretary Delano warns Territorial or
other officers that absence from their posts
without special permission will be considered
as resignation, and says that any officer ask
ing leave OF absence Will accompany his re-
quest with statement of the cause Tor making
such request.
The postmaster general announces
that he will arrange a system by which
European mails shall be dispatched from
New York four times a week on vessels sail
Ing on any given Tuesday, Wednesday, Thurs
day or Saturday, which, according to past
record, best fulfills the conditions of speed,
security and certainty.
1t is announced, by telegraph, that
the transfer of the Pacific and Atlantic to the
Western Union telegraph company was conn
pleted yesterday. By this arrangement the
Western Union gets possession OF five thou
sand miles of line and ten thousand miles of
wire, and is TO pay four per cent. per aunum
on the capital stock of the Pacific and
Atlantic.
1t is reported that frauds have been
discovered in the cOroDer's Office OF Brooklyn;
that large numbers of fictitious inquests have
been made, the inquisition papers being made
out on physicians certificates and charged
Tor as If Inc uests had been held on the bodies,
and furthermore, that within three years six
hundred and twenty-three bogus cases OF
smallpox have been charged for.
The trestle-work of a bridge on the
Nicksburg and Meridian railroad, ten miles
east of Nicksburg, was partly destroyed by
locomotive last Thursday night. For a day
or two this interfered somewhat with freight
trains over the road, but 1t was repaired so
that all was right again Sunday. Passengers
were not detained, only put to the trouble OF
a transfer at the bridge.
The Knoxville Press and Herald SAYS
"The large and well-selected law library OF
Judge Nelson, containing about five hundred
Volumes was sold Yesterday afternoon at the
courthouse. All the bar, local and visiting,
seemed TO be present, and bidding was lively. |
The amount realized from the sale was two
thousand one hundred and two dollars and
eighty-five cents, many volumes selling above
tying to the friends of the family"