Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-12-18
TELEGRAPHIC MENTION.

1t is reported in London that the king
of the Ashantees is dead.
The President has nominated H. w,
Hosleck for postmaster at Nashville.
A Aten-thousand-dollar fire occurred at
Griffin, Georgia, Saturday morning, in which
Lovick Traviss merchant mill was entirely
destroyed.
The department of State at Washing
| ton received information that the Nirginius
was released Tuesday morning, and sailed
from Sahia Honda in the afternoon.
A mission has been dispatched by the
| Chinese emperor TO Peru and Cuba to inquire
| into the coolie traffic and the treatment OF
coolies in those countries.
John E. Owens was seriously injured
during the performance OF "Toodles" Tues
day night at Newark, New Jersey, and is lying
| i'll at tue Continental hotel.
Charles Eggles, convicted of the muir
der of Ettie C0nklin at Auburn New York in
| May last, has been sentenced to be hanged on
Friday, the sixth of January.
The senate was in executive session
several hours yesterday on the nomination of
Williams TO the chief justiceship, and ad-
journed without arriving at result.
Spanish journals at Madrid reproach
| the government of the United States with per-
mitting meetings in New Orleans for the or
ganization OF expeditions against Cuba.
The boards of trade of Philadelphia
and Boston yesterday passed resolutions con-
| o tys
| so long as II continues TO be irredeemable in
specie.
The empress of Japan and her mother
were thrown from a carriage into pond OH
| the seventh of November. The ladies were
rescued uninjured, but the horses were
drowned.
A Key West dispatch says that the
Fortune and Ossippe sailed early yesterday.
| the latter having q schooner in tow ladened
| with coal, probably intended for the Nir-
ginius.
| A Paris correspondent of the London
| Times says Bazaine intended 10 put himself at
| the head of an Alphonsist insurrection in
spain If his sentence had been commuted 10
| Punishment.
The steamship Greece, reported stuck
| diScharging portion of her cargo, and re-
turned to the wharf at New York, yesterday.
She sustained no damage.
The senate committee on naval affairs
yesterday morning agreed 10 report without
| the amendment bill recently passed by the
house to Increase the enlisted force of the
| navy TO ten thousand men.
John A. Mitchner, in charge of the
dead-letter office at Washington, was arrested
| yesterday upon the allegation of having alb
| stracted money from letters. He was held TO
bail in five thousand dollars.
TheSwiss government has reimbursed
him rs member OF the Geneva court of arbl-
| tration, the count declining an honorarium
in the form of testimonials.
The estimated majority in Pennsyl-
| vania in favor of the constitution, based on
the returns already in, is 10000 OF total vote
of 2s2,692 Philadelphia gives 1854 majority
in favor of the constitution.
The trial of Harry Genet, another of
the ring cases, began in New York yesterday.
| He is charged with having secured the sigma
ture OF the Mayor Hall 10 q warrant for fve
thousand dollars by false representations.
Advices from Cape Coast Castle to the
| twenty-fourth ultimO report that General
Garnet Walsley had completely recovered his
health and resumed active duty. During
his illness the expedition was at a stand-still.
A San Francisco telegram says that
Governor Booth having received the nomina-
i tion from the assembly, and tied the vote in
| the senate, his election is deemed certain. MI.
| Hager, thus far, is ahead of all as candidate
for the short term.
The Kansas lawyers have asked the
| President not to appoint a successor to Judge
| Delahay, of the United States district court Of
| Kansas, until a choice of the bar of the State
Is made known through a meeting of the
State bar, which will be held in Topeka jan
uary 26th.
Soon after the night-workers were re-
| lieved by day-men, Tuesday, in the Brooklyn
nayy-yard, discovery was made OF two large
| Minnesota, The finest and Dearest-completed
| war-vessel in the repairers' hands. It Is the
generally accepted belief in the yard that the
| Kegs were nlle0 BFauutAiIs anu, DeluB Olu, es-
| capped particular notice. The Minnesota's
nearest neighbor is the Spanish frigate
Arapiles.
The New York wOman's suffrage So
| ciety held n mass-meeting in that city Tues
day evening In the Union League theater on
Twenty-sixth street ana Madison avenue, for
the purpose of protesting against the tyranny
of taxation without representation. Mrs. DR..
IOzier presided. Addresses were delivered by
Mrs, Lille Devereux Blake, Mrs. shepherd,
Mrs. Logan, and Susan b. Anthony, ths latter
OF whom reeounted her trial for illegal
representation is tyranny. Resolutions were
adopted.
A rumOr is current in Paris that in
consequence of the suece s of the republicans
] in the late supplementary elections, the right