Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-18
TELEGRAMS.

TELEGRAMS.
| Cholera is prevailing to an alarming
extent in Gerard county, Kentucky.
One of the vessels of the Spanish
blockading- fleet has been disabled by q
shell.
Once more it is Geographically an.
nounced that peace prevails throughout
the land of the MOntezumas. Let il
prevail.
At Louisville yesterday a man named
! G.. Seybrook got himself into trouble by
representing himself a United States
revenue officer.
In Louisville yesterday morning an
Irishman died of cholera, and in the
! afternoon his daughter fell victim to
the same disease.
Mr.. L. Rodman, late of theBroOklyn
trust company, has returned to New
! York. He went to IrvingtOn, New
York, for his health.
A brakeman named Smith, while
coupling cars on the Ohio and Msssis-
| sippi railway at Lebanon, Illinois, was
crushed to death yesterday.
A Louisville telegram says that three
! fatal accidents occurred on the Louis
vile and Nashville railroad yesterday
| all the result of "benZine.n
The Carlists in the vicinity of Balbao
have fired upon the Spanish, French
and English vessels. Several men on
board We're killed and wounded.
The board of Indian commissioners
have made arrangements for holding a
! conference with the Ute Indians some
time during the present month.
Many coal-pits in Leicestershire, Eng
land, have been closed, several thousand
miners having struck in consequence of
! dissatisfaction with the weighing system.
/ City of Mexico advices say that the
commerce of that country has increased
forty per cent. during the first part of
this year over that of the same time last
year.
Lieutenant-C Commander A. P. Smell
has been detached from temporary ord
nance duty and ordered to the New
York naYy-yaTd in charge Of the navi-
CATION department.
The czarOwitch and family are visiting
the king of Denmark at FredensbOrg
The Crown Prince Frederick William, of
German has arrived at Malmie, on his
way to FredensbOrg.
London telegraphic advices of yester-
day say that Gladstone has been legally
ad vised that his reelection to parlia-
ment is not required by his assumption
Of the chancellorship Of the exchequer.
The fire at Kalamazoo, Michigan, yes
terday morning destroyed the vinegar
works and adjoining hOuse-property of
J. Dietz d Co. Loss, twelve thousand
dollars; insurance, seven thousand dol
lars.
Hon. w. NJ. Meredith died at Phila-
delphia yesterday, aged seventy-seven.
He was a very prominent lawyer; was
secretary of the treasury under Presi-
dent Taylor, and president of the pres
ent and last constitutional conventions
of this State.
At the Vienna show in the machinery
department diplomas of honor have
been awarded to New York and Phila-
deiphia. Twenty-six United States ex-
hibitors receive medals for progress,
nineteen medals of merit, and eighteen
certificates of excellence.
The great foot-race, one hundred and
fifty yards for one thousand dollars, be-
tween Henry Crandall, of Niles, Michi-
gan, and Joseph StrattOn, of Fall river,
Massachusetts, took place at Providence,
Rhode Island, Saturday. Crandall won
easily in twenty seconds.
The New York Herald, in speaking of
the recent custOmhouse troubles, saws
there is a disposition manifest on the
part of the authorities to shield the mag
mates in the custOmhOuse department at
the expense of subOrdinates, by throw
ing the blame on inspectors.
1t is officially stated that the entire
Carlist force in Spain does not exceed
two thousand six hundred infantry,
three hundred and fifty cavalry, and
seventeen pieces of artillery. The in
surgents OF CaTtagena have released
and armed eighteen hundred cOnvicts.
Cloud, the rOwist, made extra exer-
tiOns to be on hand at Cincinnati Satur-
day night, where ne expected a theatri-
cal benefit. He was sOrely disappointed
on arrival, however, to find that the
gentlemen of the theatrical persuasion
had all managed to respond fnot in"
and the Cloud returned to hIs little boat
Further advices about the lynching of
Peter Kessler at Fulton, Galloway
COubLJf hiSSOuit, Il Iluhy, say IudJ toD6E-
iff Low was shot in the spine by the
mob and mOrtally wounded, and that
John Watson and young Dunbar were
also, it is feared, fatally hurt. Kessler
was the only one in the carriage not
wounded.
The comptroller Of currency has ad-
dressed a circular to all the national
banks which have neglected to deposit
United States bonds, as required by law, |
stating that the circulation assigned
them viii be distributed to other appli-
cants II the bonds are not deposited and
applied for during the next
thirty days.
A Washington dispatch states that
the internal revenue department is in q
dilemma. Under the State temperance
law of Massachusetts, manufacturers of
liquors have had their property seized |
and coniscated, upon which the United |
States has demanded and received tax |
es. A number of letters have been |
written by brewers, asking if there is |
no federal authority to protect them af-
ter they have complied with the inter- |
nal revenue law. Upon the reassem-
bling of congress the dealers will ask |
that the federal taxes, seized and de-
stroyed by State authority, be refunded. |
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