Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-14
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.
New York City has become afflicted
with the temperance fever.
Four hundred ladies have enlisted in
the cause of temperance In Xenia, Ohio.
Mary Evans committed suicide in Co
lGmbus Ohio, yesterday, by taking laudanum
Two lumbermen were killed at Ridg-
way, Pennsylvania, yesterday by a slide Of
logs.
Emperor Francis Joseph, of Austria,
is visiting the car Of Russia, at st. Peters
Dio Lewis was performing in the
new temperance movement at Lebanon, Ohio,
yesterday.
A Rome dispatch announces that Car
dinsls Antoneli, Capalti, and Tarquine, are
seriously i'll.
Clair county, Illinois, opposite st. Louis, is
now in progress.
Jules Tillipetti, travelling actor, was
fOund dead in bed, in the Atlantic hotel, New
York, yesterday.
The telegraphic advices from the west
report the Indians becoming troublesome in
many localities.
The anniversary Of Abraham Lin
coins birthday was celebrated in Buffalo,
New York, on Thursday.
A London telegram announces that
the bark C6rdross has been lost at sea, and
many persons drowned.
Chief-Justi Waite will take his seat
on the reassem bling of the supreme court on
the Sirst Monday - March.
Four of the finest business houses in
AtchisOn, Kansas, were burned yesterday.
Loss thirty-hye thousand dollars.
An unknown man threw himself un-
der railroad train near Belleville, Illinois,
yesterday, and was instantly killed.
A jury was secured 10 New York,
Thursday, for the trial of John E. Simmons,
indicted for the murder OF n. w. Duryea.
The Great Western railway freight
sheds, with their contents, at st. GATHERINGS,
were burned yesterday. Loss not known.
The President yesterday approved the
toint resolution authorizing special court Of
inquiry concerning General .. o. Howard.
T. A. Howard, United States Indian
agent telsrraphed from the Whets tone agency
10 the war department for military protection.
Telegraph;c advices from London an
lnounce that there is considerable speculation
whether Disrseu or Earl Derby win become
premier.
John NJ. Morton, son of Senator Nor
ton. was married in Washington Thursday to
Miss Brown, daughter Of L. T. Brown, OF
Washington.
The war department at Washington,
Thursday, received official accounts OF the
murder Of lieutenant Robinson and a private
soldier by the Indians.
The priptesrs' strike in the Louisville
C5urjer-sJ0urTlag is at an end. The strikers re-
sumed work in body Wednesday evening
on the proprietor's terms.
Sir Garnet Wolsley, with his white
yr,Dops will leave the Gold Coast for home
aSout the FIRST of March, the war with the
Aslantees being at an end
u. w. c. Root, s saloon-keeper sui
clded at Colorado Springs, Colorado, Thurs
day evening by pistol shot through the
head. Cause, financial troubles
Major-General James B. Steedman
wa yesterday elected to fill the vacancy In
Ibe. Ohio constitutional convention made by
the " -ithdrawal Of Chief-S ustiee Waite.
Rev. Charles Kingsley, author, and
one OF ne chaplains in the ordinary 10 her
Majesty queen Victoria, arrived In New
York Thl lrsday, ON visit 10 tue Unlteo
states.
The graU,i lodge of knights of Pythias
convened in Nashville at ten clock on tues
day morning, q. rand chancellor I. ;. Jukes,
presiding, and ". B. Thompson acting as
grand scribe.
A London telegram states that the
bark Pulcinello, from New York for Bristol,
coasf, and twelve % her crew drowned, by tue
gale OF last Wednesday.
Charles Sumner is finally relieved Of
the Odium OF censure for his battle-hag
scheme, a resolution TO that effect passing the
Massachusetts legislature by an almost unan.
imous vote, on Wednesday.
A New Orleans telegram says that
Stern Brothers, of London, holders OF three
millions Of leyee bonds 1iled bill OF equity
In the United States court, ASKING iof an IN
junction against the funding Dill
The board of navigation commission
ers At Washington, have adopted resolutions
favOring the opening up and Improvement OF
the great water lines, and denounelng what
they term a false cry OF economy.
The house committee on banks and
han King has authorized the appointment OF
sub-c, ,Dmmittee 10 investigate the affairs OF the
snce WI tn a resolution OF the house.
An Atwater, Minnesota, dispatch says
thst tbts house OF Mr.. A. P. Suisb, OF Lake
lillian vSs burned on Wednesday evening
last HIS two little children pe1shed IN the
flames. ny. Suish and wife were absent at
the time.
A fire at Marietta, Ohio, Tuesday
night deSfroved the Marietta chair factory.
The loss is esti mated at forty-nVe tnogsanI1
dollars; insured Tor nitee9 rss snonSsiiG, o,,t Of
employment.
The President has signed the act to
provide for the removal OF the tlatheao anu
other Indian tribes from Bltter-hoot Naueyi
in Montana. Also, the act IN relatloh c 70 tne
monument erected to the memory OF CheNA-
1ler de Iurney.
Owing to the presence Of William M.
.Tspsed and Thomas C. Fields on the commits
10 represent New 1OTk AZ Tic CNllbChutoA
convention 70 be held IN Ph1ladeipnla, the
New York assembly yesterday abolished lne
whole commission.
A Boston telegram announces the ar
rest OF George A.WIliams, charged with mur-
der in Calhoun county, ARKANSAS, February
10, lS72, where he forfeited bail and escaped,
aud also with mail robberies. He viii be Ia
ken 10 Arkansas Tor trial.
The press reporter at Ripley, Ohio, has
"gOi il bad D." on the temperance question.
His press reports are full OF burning words,
seemingly fresh from the lips of the ardent
suppliants in the cause-in fact, his enthugi-
ssm may be styled immense.
General Sheridan has been ordered by
General Sherman to take vigorous measures
agAl nst the Sioux Indians engaged in the re-
cent marauding expeditions and murders
give th EN- lesson long merited.
acknowledgement Cresswell, while
,,,aiore fhe house committee on appropria-
Fions, yesterday adyoeated the stabhshment
1raiI-train, to be run at high rate of speed,
. TTEe sole purpose OF transmitting mail mat
Ter. Eew York DGily Nea0s of
The ~. says that it is reported on good
Mednesd. ~S3sf James Gordon Bennett has
authority ss5ssnd dollals for the relief of
given nty or t ns staonn8uSgS dnnfs rom SnS %hie
ginehouses are 70 = be Distributed.
iooG %, ana soup az o,,o. 0ittee on approprla-
The house coIlh commend a reduction
f o5a hnndr and TWEEN, Ys Yss Iii annually
different departments, Wns !, sudreA and nifty
save the government one nj 1'-sneuf WilI fall
thousand dollars. The retrench Sffiee'
heaviest on the surgeOn-generals 5 >
The temperance movement mas shont
root in Jeffersopyiile Indiana, where d S"VuS
two hundred ladies yesterday lnaug AZ Az.
The onslaught upon the saloons. lne eolOot
of the Evening NeiCs and NottOndl Democrat
made q speech in favor of the movement
which is headed by Mrs. Sallie Jackson.
1t may be of interest to the powers
that be in Memphis to know that q recent
rasit-sfeamer, from South America, reports
1hef the yellow-tever continues undated in
Pto and that the cholera is raging with great
I-fofence in Buenos Ayres and Montevideo.
Tboassnds Of people have fed from those
secretary Fish is emphatic in de-
,opnctDg As untrue the statement of the
Paris PIfTfe that sharply woIdeo notes have
recently been exchanged between the gov
srnmeIts OF Germany and the y nlted States.
Nor is the German minister aware OF any
cOuntries.