Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-11-22
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

Tic 0EACuSC VI LAAGA anu OHA4Ca
Don AIphonso, brother of Don Carlos,
has been appointed generalissimo Of the
CarlIst forces.
John Irwin. of Nathan-murder nOtO-
riety, has been committed to the Tombs
for trial On a charge of burglary.
At Washington yesterday a patent
was granted Ex-President Andrew
johnson for a'combination plane.
Two thousand dollars reward is offered,
in New York, for the arrest of Sharkey,
the condemned and escaped murderer.
Ingersoll, on trial in New York, on
the "ring" indictments, has been COM
mitted to prison, being unable to give
bail
A block of stores on Sussex street, at
Clarence, Ontario, burned yesterday
morning. Loss seventy-five thousand
dollars.
1t is the general opinion in London
that the rate of discount of the Bank of
England will be lowered on or before
Wednesday next.
Intelligence has been received that
four hundred of the republicans in the
province of Almira were all killed or
captured by the Carlists.
The State senate of West Virginia
passed 3 house resolution yesterday,
urging the duty Of the government to
recognize the independence of Cuba.
James Linen, a frequent contributor
to the Raicker6Ocker Magazine, and
writer of Scottish verse, died in New
York city yesterday, aged sixty years.
He passed many years in California.
An Omaha dispatch says that Eagan
paid over to Hogan one thousand dollars
Thursday, and yesterday the suits
against him were withdrawn and he
lett for st. Louis. Hogan is still here
Meyerburg, Pran & Co., prominent
silk manufacturers of Paterson, New
Jersey, are announced as failed, says a
New York telegram, with liabilities
amounting to one hundred thousand
dollars.
A boy named Thomas NJ. johnson,
from Highland county, Ohio, pupil at
! the deaf and dumb asylum in Columbus,
fell from a swing yesterday and broke
| both his legs. He was in critical con-
dition last night.
| An Albany, New York, dispatch says
that the canal officials are doing all in
their power to assist navigation, but are
meeting with great difficulty. The
canal is thoroughly closed and the prop
erty locked in is enormous.
Returns to the pork-psckers' associa-
| ton, made out this date from the first of
| November. among operators in the pork
! business in Louisville, show 46, 4lS hogs
killed, against LIS, $50 killed up to the
corresponding period last season.
Stephen Albert Smith was arrested in
New York yesterday for forgeries COM
mitted in London. He was found in a
| Front-street house, where he had OBJ
1 tanned employment through the agency
of the Young Mems christian associa-
ton.
Fritz Poebler, aged tWenty-seven
years, shot Mary Bose while ia an oys-
! ter saloon at Providence, Rhode Island,
Yesterday evening, and then shot him.
self. They had been keeping company
! for some time, and Mary had informed
| Poehler that she was about to enter a
convent.
! The standing-committee Of the diocese
of kentucky, have forwarded to Bishop
! Smith, at Hoboken, New jersey, the
certificate of Bishop Cummins's with
drawal from the Protestant Episcopal
church. The next step is formal de-
position Of Cummins from Episcopal
functions.
The trial of John OMAN, in the
Owen county circuit court, charged with
raiding with the kuklux and burning
the house of a negro named Wilson, last
July, was concluded yesterday in the
acquittal of Oman on the charge oi
murder, but he is still held to answer
the charge Of arson.
i Colonel Thomas Scott, president
of the Pennsylvania Central railroad,
says that the road, since the action of
the directors, in the way of declaring q
scrip dividend, was in a condition to go
on without any trouble, and would un-
doubtedly meet its obligations as they
became due. He had no fears for the
future.
While a nurse in the city hospital al
Boston was suffering from poison taken
with the view of ending her life, Arthur
Foster, young physician, was called tC
attend her, and prescribed for hysteria.
Learning afterward that the woman had
taken poison, and died from its effects,
he became so chagrined that he killed
himself.
The experiments by the government
commission at Pittsburg, yesterday,
were made upon the dOuble-riveted iron
boiler, which was subjected to pressure
of three hundred and sixty pounds, but,
in consequence of the packing not
standing the strain, the experiment was
abandoned. The tests will be renewed
to-day, and will probably be concluded
, Tuesday next.
At a meeting of the Typographical
union in Pittsburg last week resolu-
: ton was passed providing that in case
any union Office should be taken out Ol
their control, they would inauguTate 8
, strike in the rest. Last evening tn
Leader discharged its old hands, where
upon the compositors Of the Dispatch
Commercial, EUeRing Telegraph, and
: Chronicle struck. These offices are now
being run by non-union men, so that a.
present all the Newspaper offices in thai
city are independent of the union,
2 Chamberlain, the owner Of True Blue
: having telegraphed the statement thai
> his horse was cut down by joe Daniels
e in the great four-mile race at San Fran
, cisco, George Treat, the owner Of Thad
: Stevens, publishes card In reply, OIL
9 the authority of the judges and ths
I rider of True Blue, and the rider him
/ self says that at the time hia horse wa
D hurt Daniels and Stevens were boil
3 ahead Of him. Treat offers to mattel
/ Stevens against any horse that can s'
q bought for the SUM Of twenty-five thou