Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-03
CONDENSED TELEGRAMS.
A heavy gale prevailed at Chicago
last night.

n neaNy gaze pTeNalieu ~ CHICaS'
/ last night.
Governor Perham was inaugurated a
Augusta, Maine, yesterday.
Bangor, Maine, complains Of the cold
est weather for thirty years.
A lawyer named Morris blew out hi
brains in Brooklyn yesterday.
BoutwelPs election to the Senate i
scarcely questioned in Congress.
Nashville fired up twenty or thirty
thousand dollars worth last night.
It is rumored that a large Russian
loan is soon to be put on the market.
A young man of Dubuque, Iowa, ha:
become a victim to religious insanity
The epizOotic has at last made its ap
pearance in Texas, and horses are suffer
ing.
Senator Schurz was guest of Cover
nor Jewell yesterday at Hartford, Con
necticut.
Members Of the Legislature, to con
vene next Monday, are arriving al
Nashville.
Eighteen hundred emigrants arrived
at New York neutrality-suspicious.
for the season.
Stokes's trial is the big thing before
the New York courts, and will probably
extend during the present week.
The receipts from internal revenue
during the present fiscal year to January
Ist are over one million of dollars.
Immigrants are pouring into Texas
Partially improved lands sell readily fol
twenty-five to forty dollars per acre.
The new municipal officers of New
York City were sworn in and entered
upon their duties on the first instant.
Louis F'ithke was yesterday sentenced
in Milwaukee to imprisonment tor life
for the murder of his wife last fall.
At Columbus, Ohio, night before last
w. b. Berthoff wound up his Christina.
frolie by falling dead on the streets.
A Washington telegram yesterday
says that Senator Sumner passed a baC
night, but was better yesterday morn
ing.
Governor NOyes yesterday trans.
mitted his annual message to the Ohio
Legislature, which convened at Colum.
bus.
The scheme for a rapid transit road
through the city of New York is esti.
mated to cost about twenty millions o.
dollars.
A railroad accident occurred at Lon
don, near Indianapolis, yesterday morn
ing, in which Mike Hannah, fireman,
was killed.
''Five cents to Central Parkr is the
basis upon which any new process OF
rapid transit through New York City
will be acceptable.
New York wants some genius to come
to the front with a new and more con-
venient plan for getting away with the
snow blockade of the streets.
The New York Center street ruins
continue to yield up its victims. The
remains of a bog named Bivins were
exhumed yesterday morning.
Two policemen went on a skylark, at
Savannah, Georgia, which resulted in a
dispute between them, when one delib-
erately shot the other to death.
The public debt statement shows an
increase during December of one mill
ion six hundred and eighty-fOur thou
sand three hundred and seven dollars.
The steamer Minnesota, which ar
rived at London Tuesday, lost one hun
dred and fifty bales of cotton by fire
when five days out from New York.
The guests of the st. James Hotel in
Boston came near being frightened out
of their wits night before last by a gas
in the building. No damage.
The works of the Northwestern Fer
tilizing Company, at Ainsworth, Illi-
nois, were burned yesterday. Loss one
hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Seven bodies were exhumed from the
Debris of the Center street fire in New
York, which constitutes the number
supposed to have perished by the dis
aster.
The bark Columbus, from Bremen,
arrived at New York yesterday, and re-
ports twenty-five deaths on the voyage.
Twenty of them were children. There
were also two births.
The revenue rates of Great Britain for
the quarter ending December 31st
amounted TO ninty-eight millions OF
dOllars-an increase of five millions over
the preceding quarter.
In the case of Judge John J. Freed
man, Of the New York Superior Court,
Judge Shipman has decided that the
salaries of Judges of State courts cannot
be taxed by the United States.
\ telegram from Halifax says that
the brig Brittania was wrecked in Low
Bay, but her crew saved; also that the
schooner Annie Laurie was lost near
Point Aconie and her crew saved.
Secretary Columbus Delano has tele-
graphed to Washington that his health
is quite restored, and that he expects to
leave Havana on the eighth instant,
and reach that city by the fifteenth.
Colonel c. w. IIoulton, who was
burned while attempting to smother
the flames from a servants clothing at
Cincinnati about ten days ago, has so
far recovered as TO resume his business.
A correspondent at Bray's station,
says the construction of the Ell Paso rail-
road is progressing rapidly. The work
is let in small contracts, and five hum
dred miles of it will be completed by
June next.
4 pigeon-match on Long Island, be-
tween ira Paine and Willie Parks re-
suited in a tie, each killing thirty-seven
birds. 1t was then agreed to shoot at
five more pair, when Paine won by
three birds.
A letter received at Boston yesterday
reports the loss of the ship Bennington,
Of Boston, off the Canary Islands, on
the twenty-ninth of November. The
captain and eight of her crew were lost
with the vessel.
A Chicago telegram states that it
raining there shortly after
midnight night before last, and still
continues. The rain freezes OD the tele-
graph wires, which are PROSTATE in near
ly every direction.
A gas-meter exploded in Powers's
chemical works, Maiden Lane, New
York, Tuesday morning, creating great
excitement, but no serious damage re-
suited except the smashing Of all the
glass in the building.
At Springfield, Ohio, Tuesday night
Nancy Harrington, forty years of age,
was brutally murdered by her husband.
Her body was terribly cut, and her skull
crushed. Whisky is supposed to have
been the cause of the deed. a
A dispatch to the Pacific Mail Steam
ship Company at New York, received
morning, states that on De-
cenber 10th the Costarico broke the
axle of her propeller in the Gulf Mexi-
co, which disabled the steamer.
A woman namedssM Jane Wells, in
Albany, New York, last night, shot
Thomas ]. Connors, while he was at
to force an entrance into her
house. Connors's wound is a serious
one. The woman is in custody.
A Chicago telegram says that it ap-
pears that William and Thomas Clark
SOP, who were found dead in their house,
near Pittsfeld, Illinois, the other day,
were frozen to death, instead of being
as was at first surmised.
John A. Brown, one of the oldest
bankers and brokers in Philadelphia,
died yesterday at the age of eighty-five
years. In 1871 Mr.. Brown donated