Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-01
TELEGRAMS.

, Inc PRESIDENT mas approved Inc &C
a abolishing the franking privilege.
A "big talk" with the Modoc Indian
is the last on the tapis in the West.
The Ohio Legislature has abolishel
5 the office of State Gas Commissioner.
: The Michigan Legislators were "bum
ming round" the State all day Thurs
t day.
! The President vetoed the bill for tn,
, relief Of the East Tennessee Univer-
sity.
A spinning mill was destroyed by
fire IN Glasgow, Scotland, Thursday
) night.
Persons charged with being Interna
tiOnslists continue to be arrested il
Paris.
The other two of the Arrow Rock
Missouri, incendiaries were hung by {
mob yesterday.
The Liverpool Post believes that Eng
lands wheat crop for 1873 viii he tn,
poorest for years.
The Swiss Government has appointed
a secretary of second-class to the Lega
ton at Washington.
The Lehigh Coal Exchange of New
] L
month thirty-five per cent.
: At UxbIidge, Ontario, Thursday, the
Dominion Blockswas destroyed by fire
Loss, forty thousand dollars.
Reports from Madrid are to the effect
that the CaTlists have met with several
very heavy defeats recently.
A writer in the JetUish Chronicle cal
culates that in the year lSSO the nation
of Israel is to be restored to Palestine.
A boiler-explosion on the elevated
railway in New York yesterday, raised
" high-daddy" among the passengers.
Nobody hurt.
The Ne1U Endowment is the title of q
new daily to be started at Salt Lake
next month in the interest of the ad-
ministration.
The Deaf, Dumb and Blind Asylum of
Michigan contains one hundred and
siXty-fiye inmates-twenty-eight of
whom are blind.
Reports regarding diseased sheep in
New York are greatly exaggerated. The
sheep carried TO market are quite as
good as any previous year.
An explosion occurred in the Albion
/ print-wOrks at COnshOhocken, Pennsyl-
vania, yesterday, killing one and Sc
verely injuring three others.
Western North Carolina churches
have to be closed during the cold wealth
/ er, as they have no stoves, and the peO-
pie cannot afford to buy them.
/ A gas main exploded in Manchester,
New Hampshire, Thursday, with fear
/ ful result-siX persons being terribly
burned, and the building badly shat
| tered.
Society in Iowa smiles upon a wild
over who marries within ninety days
after his wife's funeral. but the widow
who does not wait year is socially os-
tracised.
An immense crowd gathered in the
courtroom in New York TO hear the
jury say they"could not possibly agreeu
in the Tweed case. The jury was dis
charged.
Senator Pomeroy appeared by coun-
sci before Judge Morton of the District
Court Of Missouri, yesterday, waving
examination, and gave bail to answer
at the June term.
The loss by fire in New Orleans, in
cluding ThompsOn's Refinery, amnunt-
ed to over fye hundred thousand dol
lars. Insurance about three hundred
thousand dollars.
The Pennsylvania State Senate has
instructed its representative in the
United States Senate 10 vote against the
purchase or control by the Government
of any telegraph lines.
One CT the Oneida community, who
embezzled two dollars, was put under
the pump for half an hour, his head
shaved, and he was then dismissed from
the neighborhood.
Joseph A. Moore was drowned yester-
day in attempting to cross the Ohio
river at OweRsbOTO. He was married
six months ago, and was only about
twenty-One years Of age.
The recent defeat Of the Carlists pro-
produced a most favorable impression
on the population of Spain. Many Car
lists are throwing down their arms aud
returning to their homes.
In the bottom of the Solomon river,
in Kansas, near its confluence with the
Smoky, have been discovered springs of
coal oil boiling up, and there is great eX-
citement in that section.
A Nicksburg hackman, who charged a
blind woman double fare, and then
cheated her again in making change,
has been invited to 60 to Niagara Falls
and take command there.
1t is reported that American bankers
Of London loaned Napoleon two hun
dred thousand dollars to facilitate a /
coup he was meditating, and that
since his death the money has been re- |
turned TO them.
In the lower house of the Spanish |
Cortes Wednesday a deputy moved |
that the bin for the abolition Of slavery |
be amended so as to take effect on the |
date of its passage instead of four
months thereafter.
There was rejoicing yesterday in Nor
folk, Virginia, over the completion of |
the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad. The |
event was celebrated by firing nation
al salute and by liberal display Of flags /
on the shipping in the harbor
A fire at Renfrew, Canada, yesterday, |
destroyed the building occupied by the |
Bank of North America and J. w. /
Tieraay as a drug store; also the two 4
adjoining buildings. McAdams and /
Ternay were burned to death.
1t seems that the annexation of the
Sandwich islands was favorlte scheme |
of Secretary Stewards, and that he once
tried to have Senator Anthony, Of
Rhode Island, go there in an unofficial /
character and work up the project.
The ship Peruvian, which arrived at
Halifax yesterday, experienced heavy
weather during the whole passage.
There were three feet of water in the
purser's room, and the cabin and state
rooms were partially covered with water.
1t has been asceTtained that it was the
Spanish steamer MarillO which ran
down the emigrant ship North Fleet in
the British channel recently. The Ma
rillO has arrived at Cadiz, where her
officers will be examined ia reference to
the disaster.
The Excelsior Coffin Works Of Ham,
iltOn, LenOX & Arnold, Allegheny City,
Pennsylvania, was partially consumed
by fire yesterday morning. The loss
viii not exceed thirty thousand dollars,
and insured for twenty-four thousand
seven hundred dollars.
Here is how coal was disposed Of at
the big sale in New York Wednesday:
"a 1904 so; crate, S425G4S5;
egg, 81 324G14 35; stove, S. 02ll15 lO:
s. S7l@3 IS. These prices are
in advance of those obtained at the sale
of last month. Seventy-fve thousand
tons were sold.
The failure of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company in New York to receive
news of the arrival of the Alaska at Yo-
kohama, is not regarded by the officials
as any indication of disaster TO the
as there are various reasons
why the company would not yet be ad-
vised about her movements.
The Boston Committee on Claims
have come to the conclusion that the
city is legally liable for the destruction
of property by the blowing down of