Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-21
ELECTRIC SCINTILLATIONS.

The ice gorges are breaking up in
Pennsylvania.
Old Prob" prognosticates clear
weather here to-day.
They had a thirty thousand dollar fire
in Montreal yesterday.
VIM. \. Pile, Minister to Venezuela,
has arrived in New York.
The Wilson Committee did not exam.
Inc any witnesses yesterday.
OskallOosN Illinois, had fOrty-five
thousand dollar fire yesterday.
1t is stated that pool exists to create
a corner in Western Union stock.
The fire at Ottumwa, Iowa, yesterday,
cost one hundred and fifty-thousand
dollars.
The Alabama House of Representa-
tives still refuse to acknowledge the
Senate.
The people Of New York have deter
mined to prove that hanging is not
played out.
light liquor-dealers were arrested in
Brooklyn Sunday for violation of the
excise law.
A Havana letter states that a cargo OF
seven hundred coolies arrived there on
the tenth instant. They command six
hundred dollars per head.
The cOld-speu commenced again yes-
terday in New York. The freezing has
stayed the freshets, which would other
wise have occurred up the Hudson.
The schooner Henrietta, formerly
Benefits yacht, was lost on the six
teenth of December. She was driven
ashore near Honduras, and was totally
wrecked. The crew Were saved.
1t is reported in Havana that a large
expedition OF the friends of the Cuban
revOlutionists, with arms and ammuni-
tion, had landed safely near Guanta-
narmO.
A new county courthouse was fin
ished at Milwaukee yesterday. The
contractor wined the officials. The
building cost five hundred thousand
dollars.
On Saturday a fire broke out at Rip
pliers colliery, Pennsylvania. and is
still burning, although it was thought at
one time that it was out; il is said that
1t Will require weeks to extinguish it.
The Western Union Telegraph Com
pany have made a reduction of twen-
ty-tive per cent. in their rates from this
city to points between Chattanooga, At
lanta, New Orleans and Vieksburg. The
other telegraph lines will follow suit.
The people of Wisconsin are petition
ing the Legislature to be taxed and
have no exemptions. The trustees of
the Emanuel Presbyterian Church, the
largest Protestant society of the State,
have sent petition to the Legislature
to have their property taxed.
The Little Rock dispatch of yesterday
says that in the Senate to-day a memo
rial TO Congress was passed, by strict
party vote, asking the passage of a civil
rights bill similar to that of Summers.
\ bill passed the House abolishing the
State Board of Education.
The smallpox epidemic is creating
grave apprehensiOns in Boston and
vicinity. Three thousand cases are now
reported to exist in the city, and the
percentage of deaths is much larger than
by all other causes combined. Nearly
all burials are made in the night. The
epidemic has had "a serious effect upon
commercial interests generally.
In the Fusion Legislature at New Or
leans the ballot for Senator was unsuc-
cessful. In the Kellogg Legislature,
Senators jerks, Swords and Worrall,
who withdrew on the tenth, taking
seats with the FusiOnists, were expelled.
The resolutions Introduced eXpelling
members of the House on similar
grounds were postponed until to-day.
Horana's government advices deny
that any tillibustering. expedition from
san Domingo has landed at Caney.
Cubans, nevertheless, assert that their
friends i'm the interior have received a
fresh supply of war material. The Cap
tain-General has been authorized to
purchase a large quantity of rifles in
the United States. The political aspects
of the island are assuming a more
threatening attitude.
A dispatch from Havre de Grace says:
Ice has gone from below the railroad
bridge; for about one mile above, on
the eastern side, ice extends nearly down
to the bridge; ice is gorged between the
Island and Port Deposit, and back water
Hoods Port Deposit; there is five feet
water between the depot aud the street;
many families have been taken from
submerged dwelling windows ice in
river immense.
On Sunday evening, at Shelby City,
in Boyle county, Kentucky, desperate
named Bill Wilson went into the drug
store of Colonel Williamson, and in cold
blood shot and killed the latter's son.
Wilson was accompanied by another
desperate named Dry. Both made their
escape on horses. There is great excite
ment at Shelby City over the bloody
deed. Wilson has killed four men and
is nov evRding reward Offered by the
State.