Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-02-22
TELEGRAMS.

chistan have been checked.
The excitement in Utah is increasing
and the result is difficult OF conjecture,
It IS probable that a decree will soOu
be issued cOnvoking the Prussian Reichs'
dag.
New York and Philadelphia dispatch.
es give accounts OF snow storms IN those
localities.
"a little more cider SWEET has been
exempted from the restrictions Of the
Maine liquor Law.
Price, Of Congress, wants two hundred
and flty-fve thousand agricultural Re
ports Of 1872 printed.
Grand preparations sre made in New
York for the celebration Of Washing
toms birthday to-day.
A big swindle has been developed In
the manner in which some lots were solo
in the vicinity Of Chicago.
The Alabama river, at Selma yester.
day, was two inches above the Hood oi
July, aud was rising slowly.
A bill has passed the House at Wash.
inyton donating six bronze cannon for 6
statue Of General Philip Kesrney.
Two brothers, John and Henry Wag,
Der, were burned to death, by falling il
q sIsar-vat ia jersey City, yesterday.
Two more political offenders in Spain
who were condemned 10 death, yester.
day received conlmutation Of sentence
The Seventh United States Cavalry
has been trsufeTred from the Depart
ment Of the South TO that OF Dakotsh
The Jumel viii case-six million dol.
lars involved-was decided in New YorE
on Thursday, IN favor Of the defendants
Thirty miners were killed by an ex,
plosiOn at the Tslk-O'-the-Hill mines
IN Staffordshire, England, 4ast Tuesday.
The organization OF the new Govern
ment in Spain, by the election Of OH
GERS IN the different provinces, il going
on quietly.
Thirteen frst-class business houses
were destroyed by fire in Bridgeport,
Connecticut yesterday-three hundred
thousand dollars.
At Johnstown, New York, yesterday,
a seventy-five thousand dollar fire oc-
Cured, destroying several dwellings and
places OF business.
4 man named Noon was sentenced
% imprisonment for twenty years, al
Morristown, New Jersey, yesterday, fOr
the murder Of his wife.
The death Of ThOs. Speer, Of Georgia,
who died during the recess Of Congress,
was announced on Thursday. ApprO-
pirate eulogies were delivered.
A bill was reported from the Senate
Committee on Indian Affairs yesterday
providing FOR the creation of the Terri
tory Of OkOiOhOma, out West.
Congress, Thursday, ordered an inves
ugatiOn into the alleged corruption in
tie matter of the Pacific Mail Steam
ship subsidy of the last session.
M Wilson, Chairman Of the Select
Committee on Pacific Railroad and
Credit MObilier, made a report Thurs
day, which was ordered 70 be printed.
The Statue Of Washington has been
displaced from the Facade Of the town
ball Of Barcelona, 1t is reported that
"a fresh insuuectiOn has broken out in
Biscay.
The bill authorizing the construction
of a railroad bridge ACROSS the Aiississip-
pi river at ST. Louis passed the House
AT Washington yesterday by vote OF
1O0tO 80.
The Republicans at Saragossa, says a
Paris telegram, had a grand celebration
on the fifteenth instant, the city having
been practically delivered into the
hands Of the people.
At Barcelona, on the fifteenth, a cele-
bration, similar 10 the one at SaragOssa
wound up with less favorable results,
the inhabitants laying in stores Of pro-
visions preparatory to apprehended
troubles.
Ia the Senate, Robertson presented 8
resolution OF the Legislature OF South
Carolina, stating that the withdrawal o.
the United States troops from that State
would endanger the public peace. The
resolution was referred.
The Congressional Ways and Mean:
COmmiuee, in secret session, yesterday
took preliminary measures toward in.
quiring into the reports that money wa
Used 10 secure the subsidy for the Pacific
Mail Steamship Company.
The Grand Jury made presentment
TO the Court OF Oyer and Terminer, il
New York, Thursday, requiring the
court to use It's Influence with the STATE
Legislature 10 pass a law prohibiting
the carrying of conc sailed weapons.
Thos. Brougham, aged sixteen, wen
into a saloon in Newark, New jersey
last night, and called for drink, which
b=lng refused by the woman in attend
auce, BrJugham threw a tumb.er at her
striking her near the temple and fatally
iujunng her. BrOugham was arrested
Gerry i. Taylsr wss convicted Thurs
day, IN the United States Court al Iren-
ton, New Jersey Of having exacted illegal
fees for collection Of pensions. The pen
atty is five Years imprisonment and
heavy fiIe. Taylor has not yet beeI
sentenced.
At indianapolis, yesterday, the jury
in the case of fhos Brown CHARGED witt
the murder Of his wife, In December
last, after being out thirty-five hours,
returned verdict Of mabslaughter. ano
sentenced him 10 the penitentiary fol
tweuty-one years.
The Cotton Exchange Of New York
Thursday decided after the first o.
next september 10 include " ordinary
cotton iu contract delivery, and thaf
not more than twenty-five per cent. o
" ordinary aud strict ordinary" b,
delivered ia any contract for one hun
dre1 bales.
4 dispatch from Montgomery, Alsba-
na, says that Speaker Parsons and Rep
resentative Williams, both cOlOred, were
arrested on Thursday, charged with con
-piriug 10 prevent the election OF Uni
ted states Senator on the second Tues
day after organization Of the Legisla'
ture. Parties all Republicans. Parsons
aud Williams gave bail for trial, March
18th.
A telegram from Frankfort, Ken
tuGky, reports that a band OF forty dis
guised men called on Johu K. Newman
a mile from Frankfort, and demanded
his horses, for the alleged purpose oi
making q raid. Newman refused, aftel
which, failing in an sttempt TO force an
entrance into his stable, they left. New
man reports them coming well armed
from the direction OF Frankfort.
Ia addition to adopting the majority
report on the Senatorial Bribery Com
uittee, the Missouri House of Repre-
seulatives passed a resolution CON-
pletely generating senatOr-Elect Bogy
from any suspicion of having used any
corrupt means to secure his election, and
ordering a copy of The resolution to bf
sent TO each Of cur Senators In Con
gre,s, and to the President of the United
siates, with the request that it be laid
before that body.
One of StOkes's lawyers has returned
from recent absence from New York,
bringing newly-disc0yered evidence OF
a startling character. 1t is stated that g
woman has been found who picked up 8
pistol alleged - belong to Fisk, upon
the landing Of the ladies' entrance AZ
the Grand Central Hotel; that her pres
ence at the time can be corroborated.
It is slso said that other important liaks
in the chsin Of evidence, until now
missing, has been supplied, and that
Judge Davis was aware Of this import
ant fact when he granted 3 stay OF pro