Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-01-04
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Emperor Wilhelm has conferred tn
order Of The Black Eagler upon Bis
marck.
New York city, yesterday, was envel
oped IN fog, and wallowed in slush a foo
deep. Delightful.
The bark Aurora, from Africa. wen
ashore in a fog, near Boston Yesterday
She went to pieces, but her crew wer
saved.
Mrs. Mary Anna Lampley, aged sew
enty-two years, was found dying in he
house in Baltimore last night, brutalIy
murdered.
The Erie Directory is pressing the ol,
suit instituted by Fisk against COmmo
dOre Vanderbilt, for the recovery of fou
and half million dollars.
The ice has closed all navigation on
the Hudson river. Ferriage is still
greatly delayedIat New York bv ice in
the East and North rivers.
The aggregate of internal revenue 70.
ceipts for the last quarter of the calendar
year 1872, is S26, $50, OPS, a decrease from
reports for the quarter ending Decem-
Der 81, 1871, of S,O32, ,522.
The New York Chamber of Com
merce, at a meeting yesterday. passed
resolutions urging the Legislature to en-
large the Erie and OswegO canals. and
also asking Congressional action on the
the same subject.
A telegram from Boston Yesterday
says that the body of Second-mate Hem
ry B. Ballard, and four other bodies from
the wrecked ship Peruvian, were washed
ashore yesterday. Some of the bodies
are badly disfigured.
At sales of Scranton coal in New
York yesterday, lump sold at So so.
steamboat 50 IS; CRATE SO 9OG.3 95; egg
81 O73(G4 10; stove "a 1904 80: Chestnut
50 55(G3 So Some of these figures are
a slight decline from November prices,
no sales having been made in Decem-
Der.
The Commissioner of the General
Land Office at Washington received
yesterday reporting that the
Land Office records at Lincoln, Ne
braska, were destroyed by the fire there.
also that all the recordso the Land Of
tice at Dardanelle, Arkansas, were con-
sumed in the fire which DESTROYED about
half that town about week ago.
In the State Senate Of Ohio Yesterday
a bill was introduced to repeal the fanoIis
BOesel railroad bill, which authorized
cities, counties and townships to vote a
AK to build railroads. The bill will not
Affect the action taken or the rights ac-
Iuired under said act. In the House
ill passed to make the promiscuOus dis |
T1butioA of pOisons about fields and
unlawful.
The steamship Erin yesterday brought /
N additional number of destitute Italian |
to New York. They conn
lain that they are unable to subsist in |
heir own country, and bad received IA
orabie Inducements for immigrating.
! special meeting of the Commissioners
f Immigration is to be held to consider
ghatH Duld be done as to the influx.
here were seven deaths on the Erin.
A st. Louis dispatch yesterday an
ounces that the last rail on the north
rn division of the Cairo and Fulton
abroad, connecting Little Rock, Arkan-
as, and st. Louis, was laid Thursday.
he southern division of the road ex-
ends from Little Rock to Northern
eXas, where connections will be made
18th the international railway, which
turn connects at Hearne, Texas. with
he system Of railroads extending to the
ulf of Mexico. When this division is
,mpleteG, which will be within the
resent year, st. Louis will have an
her direct connection, this one OiI the
on Mountain railroad with Texas and !
le Gulf of Mexico and also with the 3
'uthern Pacific road. {
Augustin DAILY, manager Of the late I
fth Avenue Theatre, has negotiated {
ith A. ]. Stewart, who places the rent a
nominal sum, for the Globe Theater. a
hich he viii shortly open. Meantime t
e stock company are to give perfor- q
ances in the county. The Treasurer b
the theater thinks the fire b
IS the result of incendiar- y
n. Days losses viii reach one {,
inbred thousand dollars. He loses 4
er fifteen thousand dollars in dresses o
0ne. At an investigation by the Fire s.
arshal yesterday, the testimonies of "
e Treasurer and Watchman were a
ken. Nothing was elected, however, {
lich is not already known. The Fire z
arshal addressed a Communication to b
3 morning papers, proposing, in view Il
differences of opinion on the subject, &
at public consultation be had to u
test the theories concerning L
z orlglnation Of fires by superbeated a
am-pipes. "