Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-06
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Gambetta is well.
The proceedings Of Congress We're IN
interesting yesterday.
New York made fifteen thousand dol
lars by her charity ball.
The Russian fleet, now in the Baltic,
will soon sail for the Mediterranean.
1t is a foregone conclusion with the
Spanish Congress to free the slaves in
Cuba.
The letter-carTiers salaries will not be
increased. So says the House Of Repre-
sentatives.
The Chicago, Huntingdon and Day
ton railroad is the newest undertaking
in the Northwest.
The cholera has again broken out in a
viTulent manner in several places in
Russia and Hungary.
The Caldwell election fraud case was
closed in Washington yesterday, and
the argument will be given Monday.
The Wilson Union Pacific Fraud In
vestigation Committee adjourned yester-
day without business, as no witness was
present.
William Schaffer, who murdered his
wife in an assignatiOn house, and then
cut his own throat, died at the Bellevue
Hospital.
The Vice Chancellor OF New Jersey
yesterday granted an injunction re-
straining the National Railroad Com
pany, on the ground of fraud.
The New York Legislature yesterday
ayr eed upon Charles Francis Adams as
the most appropriate orator to eulogiEe
the memory Of w. II. Seward.
The offers of bonds in New York yes
terday amounted to about S952, $50 at
1921 and 1874. The Government only
bought S5lS, $50 at 1922 and 1922.
The local Parliament of Quebec will
be convened Immediately, to enact the
necessary legislation for obviating the
evils caused by the burning of the court
house and records.
Two boys, aged twelve and fourteen,
sons Of Samuel Bishop, farmer living
near Mt. Vernon, Ohio, were drowned
while attempting to cross a creek run
ming through the farm.
A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia.
yesterday says: The British sloop-of- war
Bazelsk has seized three vessels which
were engaged in kidnapping POlynese-
ans TO be sold in slavery.
In the Senate of New York yesterday
the resolution requesting the Represent
atives and Senators in Congress to op-
pose the purchase blythe Government of
the telegraph lines was lost by vote Of
20 to o.
A dispatch from Athens, Greece, says
that the earthquake shocks on the Island
SawOs, which caused so great destruction
to property aud loss of life, has con-
tinued four days. 1t has not yet been
aseertained how many persons have per-
ished.
Both Houses Of the Illinois Legisla-
ture yesterday adopted resolutions for
an investigation into the accounts of the
Ex-Secretary of State, Rummel, who is
charged with Irregularities in connection
with the copying OF the journals and
laws Of the last Legislature.
A st. Louis telegram yesterday says:
William Davis, eX-policeman Of Waver-
ly, Missouri, attempted to force admit
tance into the private room of Mrs. Pat
ton, a milliner of that town, about two
o'clock yesterday morning. She warned
him 10 desist. He then threatened to
burst in the door, whereupOn she shot
and killed him instantly, the ball pene-
trating his heart. The coroners jury ex-
honerated Mrs. Patton.
A Pittsburg dispatch of yesterday
says the Coroner's jury in the case of
the workmen killed by the explosion at
the American Iron Works, rendered a
verdict to-day. The jury stated that
the testimony showed conclusively that
there was full supply Of water in the
boilers ten or fifteen minutes before the
explosion, and that it was also equally
evident that the explosion resulted from
an over pressure upon the boilers, but
the cause Of that Oyerpressure they had
been unable 10 determine.
The O1icial Gazette, of ST. Petersburg,
in an article on the movements of Rus
STA in Central Asia, contrasts the indif-
ference with which Great Britain views
the growth of the United States Of North
America with the jealousy with which
she watches the growth OF Russia. The
Gazette says the British journalists are
simply beside themselves with anger,
aud concludes its article by advising the
British Government TO take no more
notice of the progress of Russia than she
does that Of the United States.
The steamship Murillo is yet at Cadiz,
where she has remained since her first
arrival. The British Consul has de-
manded the issue Of q writ of attach
ment against her. The Captain Of the
MurillO and the officers on watch at the
time of the disaster to the Northfieet are
held as prisoners on a Spanish man-of-
war, pending the investigation. The
crew are under guard and not allowed TO
go ashore. The Spanish authorities who
examined the MurillO declare that she
shows no signs of having been i'm a col
lislon, and il il their belief that she is
guiltless.