Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-10
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

The Selma, Alabama, savings bank
has resumed business.
The Third national bank of Chicago
has resumed business.
The Union national bank of st. Louis
has decided 70 go into liquidation.
Stokes's trial was the attractive feature
Of the New York courts wednesday.
A battalion of Greeks have rendered
their services to the Spauish republic.
No yellow-fever deaths have occurred
at Montgomery, Alabama, since last Friday.
President Grant will visit Toledo,
Ohio, during the meeting Of the Army of the
Tennessee.
A negro laborer was run over and
killed at New Albany, Indiana, yesterday by
a locomotive.
Great preparations are making at
Toledo, Ohio, for the meeting of the Army of
Ten uessee next week.
A dispatch from Salt Lake says that a
German named Flocksom shot another named
Hale, at Bingham, Tuesday.
The attendance st the exposition at
Chicago, yesterday, was immense, including
many thousand from the country.
A square of buildings was destroyed
by fire in New Orleans, Wednesday, entailing
a loss of fifty thousand douars.
The first annual meeting of the ma
y
At Creedmore range, Long Island.
Brigham Young has been reelected
president of the church OF the Latter Day
Saints. The election was unanimous.
Work has resumed at the Pembroke
irOnworks, at Eastport, Maine, the strike
among the workmen having subsided.
The sixth annual convention of the rail-
road conductors life insurance society of the
United states and Canada was held at Boston,
Wednesday.
The steamer TallapOOss, with the Po-
laris survivors on board, arrived at Washing
ton Wednesday evening. No communication
was permitted with the survivors.
An old man, named Orison Wisbok,
was burned to death in the bagging factory OF
Richardson, Henry & Co, destroyed by fire at
Louisville, Tuesday. He left a wife and fos
children.
Elliott block, in Newton, Massachu-
sets owned by J. W. Bacon, was burnt last
lars; insured for twelve thousand. Other loss
es not stated.
Hon. Jefferson Davis, who has been
extremely i'll at the Gait house, Louisville, for
some weeks has recovered sufficiently TO drive
out, He talks OF going TO Europe for his
health this winter.
Busbong & Brothers, bankers, of Read
ing, Pennsylvania, suspended yesterday
morning. The bank will remain open for the
adj justment OF accounts. Its assets will meet
al its liabilities.
Annie Ward, the ballet-girl who COM
nitted suicide in st. Louis recently, is repSrt-
ed to have been the frst-love Of Stanley, the
African explorer, who discovered the where
abouts OF Livingstone.
The Irish agricultural labOrers' union,
in the event Of the government falling to
settle the question in regard TO waste-lands in
Ireland, have decided 10 emtgrate 10 the
United States en- HGsSs.
A brisk cannonading was kept up by
Cartagena. During the day many insurgents
deserted. A national squadron is momenta-
rily expected at Cartagena.
The governor of New York obtained
a verdict of twenty five thousand dollars last
Wednesday in action against Oscar King and
his bondsmen, to secure the payment OF in
ternal revenue taxes OF that amount.
Henry Amsul, awell-known and high
ly respectable young man, was shot in New
Orleans, Wednesday, by a, gambler named
Samuel Williams, because the former refused
to recognize the latter on the street.
A Washington special says that owing
10 the small receipts from revenue, the treas
ury officials say that IL will be necessary 10
issue eight or nine million dollars of the forty
four million reserve 10 meet the current ex-
penses Of the present month.
Delos Z. Culver, of Jersey City, one
of the wealthiest capitalists in New Jersey,
has been adjudged bankrupt. He was vice
president OF the New York and Oswego mid
land railway company. His Liabilities are
said 10 Ue eight million dollars.
Charges having been made in some
OF the city papers against r. NJ. Hough & Co.,
elevator owners in Chicago, OF irregularities,
pointDent OF committee OF investigation,
which request was complied with.
A Pais telegram states that Thiers
intends to publicly advocate The prolOngation
OF the term of Mcmahon as president, thus
depriving the monarchists of the support OF
the left center, and probably precl clpitating the
dissolution the monarchical coalition.
st. Louis was Illuminated to marvel
Gus brilliancy Wednesday night. The display
on Fourth street was magnificent. Fully
thirty thousand people thronged that avenue,
most of whom walked through the principal
dry goods, Jewelry and other stores which
were most lavishly decorated for the occasion.
The official examination of the case
of Captain Lopldge, commander of the Costa
Rico, which was run ashore at the entrance
OF the harbor at San Francisco, has been held,
but the officials positively refuse 10 make
pvblic any Of the facts ELECTED, 1t is known,
however, that Captain Lopidge has been sus-
pended.
The proclamation of Acting Mayor
Bond, requesting the observance Of yesterday
as a half-holiday, IL being the second ami
versary of the burning or the city Of Chicago,
was observed by the closing OF the board OF
trade, the city and county offices, and many
business places, and there was liberal dis
play OF flags from public and private build
ingS.
The brush-factory and residence ad
joining to Mr.. Wagner, of Morrisiana, New
York, was burned early yesterday morning
Loss, forty thousand dollars. The incendlary
was not arrested. White this and the Mount
Vernon fires were blazing, an incendiary
nred an unoccupied building in West Farms,
which was burned TO the ground.
Two miners were arrested by the po-
lice of Camborne, in Cornwall, England,
Wednesday. Toward evening mob OF sew
eral thousand miners attempted a rescue, and
attacked and brutally treated the police.
Some buildings were gutted and several per-
sons were injured and taken, insensible, to
the hospital. Quiet was not restored until