Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-08
TELEGRAMS.

The Russians in New York celebrated
Christmas on Monday last.
Napoleon is reported more restless
since the operation was performed.
\ man named Wright was killed by
his mistress at Cedar Falls, Iowa, on
last Monday.
Tom Scott was made President of the
Toledo, Tiffin and Eastern railroad on
Monday last.
Light rains over Tennessee and
Kentucky" is the dish prepared for US
to-day by Old PrOb.n
the Lebanon, Pennsylvania, Manu-
featuring Works were burned yesterday.
Loss seventy-five hundred dollars.
Judge Daley, Of New York, decided
that Bergh had no right to arrest drivers
who were working diseased horses.
Mayor Havemeyer, of New York, in
his message recommends that the city
and county goyernmentSbec consolidated.
A large number of Communists will
shortly arrive ia New York from Paris.
Their friends viii give them reception.
A London telegram. says that Louis
Napoleon had a second surgical opera
tion performed Monday with favorable
results.
Judge Charles G. Lane, a wealthy
and influential citizen of HagerstOwn,
Maryland, committed suicide Saturday
10y hanging.
The Chicago municipal authorities
have not YET succeeded in recOnciling
the Sunday liquor law. The matter has
been postponed for week.
Tremendous shocks of earthquakes
were felt Sat Oregon on the fourteenth
ulumo. The clocks and watches of the
Inhabitants stopped 'ieking."
New York had no telegraphic COM
municatiOn except with Washington
city on account Of ice and snow pros
trating the wires in every direction.
J. Z. Slaughter, q prominent insur-
ance agent Of Louisville, was run over
and instantly killed by a locomotive at
Shelbyville, Kentucky on Monday last.
A Louisville dispatch says that Frank
Lessims, brakeman ON the Nashville
railroad, fell from a freight train near
Cave City, Kentucky, Sunday morning,
and was horribly mangled.
Cleveland, Ohio, on Monday refused
10 issue one million dollars in bonds for
the construction Of the Valley railroad,
which it was claimed would give that
city another route to the cOalfelds.
Cable dispatches from London say
Chat the condition of Napoleon yester-
day was favorable. His pains the pre-
viOUs night were diminished, and he
rested quietly. His case is no longer
regarded critical.
The United States Senate Monday
Of
in the regular army during recess; also
the appointments of all cadets at the
last graduating class at West Point be
secoud lieutensnts.
A bill is before the Ohio Legislature,
requiring murderers who plead insanity,
TO be confined in the insane ASYLUM
for the same term of years that their
crime would have given them in the
State prison. Good document.
In the Senate Monday Senator Sher-
man brought up his bill creating a COM
mittee to investigate the Presidential
election in the States of Arkansas and
Louisiana, but no action was taken, and
the matter came up again on yesterday.
Julius Wade, a prominent colored
Radical Of Nazoo City, Mississippi, was
shot dead in that place on the twenty
eighth dltimO, by another negro named
Lewis Wright, under circumstances
which make it premeditated murder.
The town of Carlyle, Kentucky, was
nearly destroyed by fire Saturday night,
The fire begun i'm the Masonic block,
spreading with fearful rapidity. The
loss aggregated one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars, which is covered with
very little insurance. The Office of the
1Nerc,g-y was among the damaged build
ings.
Agent Hazen, of the Express Com
pauy arrived at Washington with the
express safe taken from the wreck of
the Louisville and Nashville railroad dis
aster at Boiling Green. The safe con-
tains the charred remains Of two hum
dred thousand dollars in United States
bonds, which will be examined by the
Treasury for redemption.
In the court ofOyer aud Terminer in
New York yesterday, notwithstanding
the urgent endeavors Of counsel for a
further pOstpOnement, Judge Davis re-
fused TO entertain such motions, and or
dered that the criminal trial Of Tweed,
IN which he Is implicated with Connally
for frauds, be proceeded with. His coun-
-OTy arguments at some length.
A caucus Of Republican members of
the New York Assembly Monday even
ing unanimously selected A. B. Cornell,
Of New York, for Speaker, and John
O'Donnell for Clerk. Resolutions were
passed rejoicing over the Republican
victory of last fall, declaring that the
choice Of United States Senator would
be made with unanimity. The eighth
of January was fixed for the selection
OF United States Senator.
A Matamoras dispatch received yes
terday states that commerce Is in a fear
ful muddle at present. A recent order
OF the Secretary Gf the Treasury direct
ing the collection of four and eleven
nundreths per cent. additiona Ito the
present duty OF one and thirty-seveD-
hundreths per cent. of import on tariff.
A heavy loss to merchants was involved,
there being 10 District Judge the Col
lector Of Customs is by the Treasury
regulations invested with almost unlim-
tied power iB the premises, to seize, en-
barge and exercise magisterial fnnc-
ti0ns, which he is doing to the intense
disgust Of everybody.
a New York telegram states that
stokes, when sent back to the tonbs,
was assigned TO the murderer cell. He
stated 10 a reporter last night that
Inoney had secured the verdict; that the
bows, Redmond and Hart, had been
bribed. and their testimony had con-
victed him. He had expected al entire
acauitt~i. lie declares he was a victim
of excited public sentiment; that the
iurv had their minds made upto convict
him before any testimony was given,
that at their selection the jurors all
stated they had their opinions. He was
confident however, that his counsel
would obtain stay OF the proceedings
and then insure him another trial
At Washington City the Committee
on Inauguration Ceremonies have sub
saitted the following to the adjourned
public meeting, which has been adopt
ed: First, that the Governor Of the Dis
trict Of Columbia be requested to call a
meeting Of the Legislature and recon-
mend appropriations to defray the ex-
penses Of the Inauguration ceremonies.
Second, civil and military procession Of
fireworks and illumination of Pennzyl-
vania avenue from the capital to Sew
enteenth street. Third, appoint
mept of General James H. Wilson
Chief Marshal Fourth, appoint
snent Of conference and various olber
committees TO control all arrangements.