Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-24
TELEGRAMS.

Bulwer Lytton will be buried at Kents
wood.
The Grand Duchess Helene Pauloona
Of Russia, is dead.
The Credit Mobilier scandal grows
I worse and more of it.
The San Francisco police yesterday
made raid Oh the faro dealers.
Sales of discount of the Bank of Eng
land have been reduced from to PEE
cent.
A dispatch from Geneva says thai
Rev. Boyer Pussey, d. D., is danger.
ously i'll.
Alex. Stephens has been nominated
for Congress and will, it is said, bf
elected.
Jones, of Nevada, says be is not cor.
rupt. We want the papers for that as
sertion.
Mrs. Wharton's trial for attempting
to poison Van Ness, of Baltimore, will
end in smoke.
Dion, of New York City, offers to play
Ubassy, of New Orleans, two billiard
matches, one in New Orleans, the Other
in Brooklyn.
There is extensive immigration TO the
United States among the Germans. One
hundred and twenty families left Ber-
sina yesterday.
Samuel y. Bell was yesterday renOm-
mated for Congress from the Second Dis
trict of New Hampshire, by the Demo-
cratic Convention.
Masses for the repose of ex-Emperor
Napoleon were celebrated in the
churches of Paris on Tuesday. Large
crowds attended.
Seven prisoners escaped from the Pat
erson, New jersey, Jail on Monday by
a cOllusiOn with the door-keeper, him
self being prisoner.
Anxiety is felt at Halifax, Nova Sco-
tia, for the safety of the trOop-ship Him.
elyaya. Nothing has been heard of her
since she left England.
VIM. Cassiday, of the Albany argus,
died at half past five o'clock yesterday
morning. He was Secretary of the
Democratic State Committee.
The Persian Minister to London au-
thorizes the contradiction Of the report
AlhE L EAoAd HAS uldlC a oCNAEl llCull :
ceding her territory to Russia.
Immediately on the receipt of writ
of reBlittttr from the Court of Appeals
in the Foster case, the District-Attorney
will move to have Foster resentenced,
a number of Polish exiles, in New
York on "Wednesday night, celebrated
the anniversary of the Polish revOlu-
ton by a meeting, at which patriotic
speeches were delivered.
A New York dispatch says ID at the
stores of FrakenbuTg & Schultz, lace
manufacturers, and of Alexander, i'm
porter OF fancy goods, on Call street,
were burned last night. Damage, twen-
ty thousand dollars.
The announcement of deaths to the
number of over fifty, from smallpox, in
Baltimore, causes some alarm there,
and the officials of the city are called
upon to take measures to prevent the
spread of the disease.
On Tuesday night burglars affected an
entrance into the store of Madame
Johanna Sewich, No. 40 Fourth street,
Cincinnati, robbing it of hair goods es-
timated to be worth three thousand dol
lars. There is no clue to. the perpetrators.
Wednesday evening an engine on the
North Pennsylvania railroad exploded
on the corner of American and Harris
streets, in Hamsbury. Adam RAIDER
house was instantly killed, and his son
wounded. The engineer was slightly
scalded.
At the evening session of the Prison
Congress, now holding at Baltimore, a
number of papers were read, including
one from Miss Linda Gilbert, of Chica-
go, on prison discipline; and another
from J. c. Walker, of Michigan, giving
q full account of the penal institutions
OF that State.
The Erie Company is about to bring
suit against the Boston, Hartford and
Erie railroad and the trustees under the
mortgage for default of eighteen months
interest. The Erie Company also
claims that the five millions of bonds of
the Boston, Hartford and Erie railroad
aud guaranteed by them, are peferred
lien.
1t is reported that Houston and Texas
Central railroad fiTst-mortgage seven
per cent bonds for one thousand dollars
each, numbered from six thousand two
hundred and seventy six to six thousand
three hundred, inclusive, were stolen
yesterday from the banking-honse of
VIM. L. Hatch & Sons, Wall street,
New York.
The sleeping car and rear coach of the
passenger train east on the Toledo, Wa
bash and Western railroad, were precip-
itated down an embankment ten feet
hfuh fIhraudarr safrrEf nh
bash, Indiana, and smashed to pieces
James Vail, conductor, and Mrs. JAM
lues, of Decatur, Illinois, were seriously
injured, and number of Others bruised.
In a case pending in Brooklyn,
wherein Mrs. SpiceT claims a large
amount Of money on the ground that
she is the wife of a dead /" sport" a
husband of the lady whom he aban-
doned thirty years before, yesterday ap-
peared on the stand, causing quite q SEN
satiOn. A record Of a bigam0us marri-
age to another husband also appears
against the claimant
Messrs. Forman, South, Maybe and
Mitchell, members of the State Return
ing Board, left New Orleans on Tuesday
for Washington, with official returns Of
the Dldlt clcCNlOA hElu III ANONEllDGI
last. These gentlemen have been sum
moned to testify before the House Judi
eiary Committee. MeEnery and Kel-
lOgg, of both Houses, have each ap-
pointed large number Of taX-assessOrs
aud collectors.
A COMMITTEES from the Council of Po-
litical Reform, of New York city, are to
visit Albany to urge the removal Of all
the justices In the Police Marine Court.
A member of the committee says that
some Of the police-justices are bad men,
aud without education. The committee
also represent that abuses have been dis
covered which will warrant the indict-
ment Of four or five prominent city Off
cials.
In the United States Court in New
York, on Wednesday, in the case Of
HOtchkiss, agent of the Tfadesmen's
National Bank and National Shoe and
Leather Bank of the City of New York,
and the Milwaukee and ST. Paul Rail.
road Company, ia which action was
brought to recover three thousand dol
lars worth Of bonds alleged to have been
stolen, Judge BlaekfOrd demurred to the
bill as to the banks, and as to the rail-
road company so far ss IL asks fDy the
issue of new certificates Of preferred
stock.