Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-17
TELEGRAMS.

Seventy-three thousand pounds left
Liverpool for New York per steamer yeste''
day.
The Augusta, Georgia, cotton ex-
change has conformed its cotton clsssifica-
tiOn 10 that of New York
The New York produce exchange
yesterday forwarded eleven hundred dollars
for the relief Of Memphis.
Private dispatches received at New
Orleans from Calvert, Texas, say that the fever
is worse there than at Shreveport.
Groton mills, at Providence, Rhode
Island, viii soon be run on half time, other
manufacturers are considering the proposition
to that effect.
Joe Coburn says he will fight Tom
Allen, in West Virginia or In Canada. in four
months, for from twenty-five hundred to fve
thousand dollars.
Taylor Adams, we'll known all over
the Western Union telegraph lines, and one
of the finest OF operators, died at New Orleans
yesterday morning, aged twenty-fonr.
The common and select council OF
Norfolk, Virginia, have appropriated fifteen
hundred dollars for the Memphis sufferers,
and recommend the people to make indi-
vidual contributions.
A deputation which met Count de
ChamboTd at SALISBURY, on the twelfth in
stant, were expected at Paris yesterday. De-
tails Of the conference are unknown, but IL is
believed the negotiations failed.
Advices from South America report
that the insurgents of Eutrerias have been
signally defeated. A whole battalion mu-
tinted against the rebel leader, Lopez Jordan,
and submitted to the federal authority.
Michael Donahue was sentenced YES
terdsy morning, at AubuTn, New York, 10 be
hanged on the tenth OF December next for the
murder Of a fellow convict at Auburn STATE
prison on the twenty-seeond OF May last.
The O'Connor Don, in an address tc
his constituents at Dublin, Ireland last night
favored the home rule and denounced the
fed sral plan. He declared that the federated
states of North America were only kept to-
gether by force Of arms.
The invitation to the Evangelical AL.
lance 10 a formal reception in Baltimore, was
declined for want Of time. Several delegates
accepted the invitation Of the German Pro-
testants, and on Wednesday night made ad-
dresses at st. Mathew Evangelical Lutheran
church
Charles Mellon, son of William T.
Mellon, sugar refiner OF New York, died at
Irvington Wednesday, from injuries received
AT White Plains, during row growing out OF
a dispute about horse race. Several other.
were seriously injured by hamme rs, spade,
and clubs used in the tight.
The Shreveport mortuary report, re-
ceived by telegraph yesterday, is as follows
Laura Jones (cOioredl, age SIX years; Alice
forty eight years; Anna b. B.McClOud, age eleven
years; kobt. Cain, age ffty-eight; Urlck
Marsh, age twenty-five years"
Judge Friedman and jury, in the
superior court IN New York, yesterday, tried
the suit of Charlotte Gilbert, colored, against
the New York and Charleston steamship
company, claiming ten thousand dollars
damages, for being excluded from state
room on the steamer Manhatten in 1870.
The plaintiff obtained a verdict in her favor
ior seventy five dollars.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that the
official returns show the following ajorifieS
in that city: Gordon, for judge, se2Si Maekey,
for state treasurer, 55,4ll; Elliot, for sheriff,
lS,ss7; WideneT, for city treasurer, 20 .63s- La
mOns's majority for the senate in the On irl
district over Nagle, Democrat, is S6i. The
total vote IS an increase OF 7S,7l0; majority in
favor OF the measure, S2,494.
A San Francisco dispatch says that
the total vote of that city is only fifteen
thousand seven hundred and eighty-fiYe. In
the judicial election on Wednesday, the ma
jOrlty for Mckinstry, independent, fcI The SUI
preme court, over Mckee, Democrat, Is one
ihou, and one hundred and eighty-fOur. Ne
kinstry carries Sacramento, san Jose, and
stockton by large majorities. He is elected
by large msjority ia the State. The vote ey-
erywhere Is light.
At Evanston, Illinois, "Wednesday
ALt 1uucDu nlDtks OlC VI the nfcl III
the town, was entirely destroyed by FIRE, and
the stores Of NJ. B. Jott, furniture, HoSkin
Bros. dry goods, HuntOn & Gamble. grocer
les, j. B. Lambkin, boots and shoes, the pho
tagraph gallery OF Slessla, and the offices OF
DeMann and DeGurnSey. The aggregate loss
viii be about twenty five thousand dollars.
Partly insured, but in what companies cannot
be ascertaiDed.
A notorious prostitute, named Jose
Phlne Brown, stabbed hack-driver nam d
Nike hehler, in Louisville, Wednesday night,
in front OF saloon on Lafayette street, iu-
nietiug two probably fatal wounds. Kehler
threate1ed her life before. He went into the
saloon with the intention OF carving out his
threats aud gett ng heron the sidewalk struck
her first, when She drew knife and Stable a
him. Brown was arrested,
At Louisville, yesterday, terrific
explosion occurred, at seven O'Clock in the
city hall, from foul sewerage gas and lsaky
gas-pipes, upheaVing immense nag-StOpeS.
eighteen feet long, all around the building,
shaking il as II By an earthquake. PAVING
was at Intervals thrown up Several detect
ives. pciicemen and reporters in police heal
quarters ia the city hall wete thrown seve-
raj feet and stunned. Fortunately no
one was seriously injured. Great excitement
was crested ny the explosion, thousands OF
people rushing 10 the sPot1n wild alarm. ! .
Is feared that the foundations OF the city hail
are injured.
A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio, says
that the figures made az midnight by bOtli
parties are exceedingly close. The heavy re-
ported loss in Ashtabula county is one OF the
things that reduces the majority claimed for
Noyes to-day. The latest figures are TO the ef-
feet thst the Democratic gam in the ten Cr
eleven counties which have only been
heard froTn through rumors, Will not be
- large as the average gain. II Allen
should be elected by a majority OF less than
i've hundred there will still be doubt on the
balance Of he State ticket. The m.ager re
q Thg Efafs4 nd fraaHaafa
TIE Republican candidate for governor raH
q httle behind his ticket.