Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-21
CURRENT NEWS.
The Tennessee Grangers-AnOther New
Planet-IOWs Central Railroad
Taxation without Rep
resentatiOn.
The WaII-Street JOke-LimItatiOn Of the
New Orleans Debt-Hay and
Irish Potatoes in the
Northwest.

Progress of the War on John Barley.
cOrn-A WOuld-Be EditOr-SIayer
Fixed : Che Kansas
Grangers, Etc.
an Ex-United States Consul Dead.
HAVANA, February 20.-M. de Ia
! Relntree, formerly consul OF tbs United
4 States here, died yesterday.
Murder.
ATLANTA, February l9.-In q diff
| Guilty, this evening, James Chisholm shot and
| killed Penn Bedell. Both are gamblers.
Iowa Central Railroad,
BOSTON, February 19.-At an ad-
! journed meeting OF the bondholders of the
central railroad company OF lowe, to-day, II
! lease the road to the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
! company.
/ Another New Planet.
WASHINGTON, February 19.-Dr. Pc
tiers, OF Hamilton college, telegraphed to-day
! 70 Prof. Henry that he discovered planet in
cension, plus four degrees and twenty-five
minutes declination.
| Taxation without Representation.
| WORCESTER, MASS, February 49,
! Stephen and Abbie Kelley Foster, with Miss
! Sarah Wall and Marietta Fiagg, have refused
/ TO pay taxes because ladies cannot vote. Their
property is advertised for sale tomorrow. A
con gention TO protest against the law is in
session here.
japanese News.
YEDDO, February 20.-PolitieaI dis
turbapees are apprehended in Japan. Minis
ter Iwacur2 has rendered his resignation, but
the micadO refuses to accept It. The people
clamor for war against Correauz. This, or a
ton has broken out in the district. The Fizen
telegraph line has been destroyed.
MRS. Eliza GiIpin's VIII.
PHILADELPHIA, February 20.-The
Will OF Mrs. Eliza Gilpin has been probated.
IL makes provision to carry into effect the
will of her late husband, Henry P. GiIpin
who donated one hundred thousand dollars,
to be equally divided between the historical
society of Pennsy ylvania, the historical society
of Chicago, and the Pennsylvania academy of
fne arts.
The New Orleans Debt Limited,
New ORLEANS, February 20.-The
senate to-day passed joint resolution limit
ing the city debt and proli bitingthe issuance
or yVsTran1s or certjficstes. e2cenf a0ainsf
cash In the treasury. The bill drawn up
under the auspices Of the chamber of COM
merce and urged by the governor reducing
the city expenses half a million a year, were
also carried.
General AIOItke's Speech.
PARIS, February 19.-The journals
here reproduce in full General Moltke's speech
in the reichstag on the military bin, and COM
ment on the gravity of the situation.
The UTtOn has dispatch from Spain stat
ing that General Martens, finding the Carlist
pated, retired, and that Bilboa has sent dep
utation to the besiegers TO negotiate capitu-
lation.
Senate COnfrmatiOns.
WASHINGTON, February 20. - The
senate has confirmed the following nomina-
tioDs: j. W. Wright, receiver OF public moneys
at Phoebe, Nevada; J. &. Foster, register at
Pioche, Nevada. Consuls-James NJ. True, of
Illinois, at Kingston, Canada; Newton Crane,
marshals-Edward S. kearney, for Washing
ton Territory; Benz amin J. Spooner, for Indi-
ana. Postmaster-Sidney NJ. Cox, at Thorn
town, Indiana,
The Tennessee Grangers
NASHVILLE, February 2O-The State
grange OF Tennessee assembled at Gallatin
yesterday, the first annual session. Nearly
five hundred subordinate oranges were repre-
Sented, there being between five and six hun
dred representatives present, many ladies
being delegates. The question of establishing
plow and cotton mandatory at Nashville
was among the questions discussed. Great
harmony seems to prevail. The session will
probably last two days.
wOuId-be Editor Slayer Fixed.
NEW YORK, February 20.-Daly, the
communist who attempted TO kill Major
Pangborn, an editor, in Jersey City, some
time since, has been sent to the State prison
for one year.
Ex-Deputy sheriff Conklin, convicted of
tiicates from one Craft, of Virginia, while
the latter was Intoxicated, has been sent to
the State prison for i've years.
That Joke on wall Street.
NEW YORK, February 2O.-The in
vestigation into the recent forgeries on the
y-Rh 10 hl
which the communication, purporting to
have been made by Orton was written, was
presidents room, and that the Toledo,
Wabash and Western letter was not written
upon the regular paper of the company. II is
thought that some printer was employed to
print the headlines.
The Kansas State Grange.
Topeka, February 19.-At a meeting
of the State grange to-day resolutions were
adopted requesting the Kansas legislature TO
pass prohiDitory liquor law, and declaring
that no person who retails liquor shall be adj
mitted TO the order, and also declaring that
the greatest good and highest happiness Of an
enlightened and virtuous community are the
leoffimafe reSulfs az a thoron0h and 11racficsI
education diifused among the masses In the
afternoon Hon. NJ. E. Hudson was elected
master OF the State grange. The evening ses-
sion was devoted TO the Installation of officers
and the conferring OF the nth degree,
sOufh Carolina Tsx-Payers' Convention.
COLUMBIA, S. c., February 19.-The
taxpayers convention to. day adopted a me-
moriaIto congress reciting the miserable con-
dition or the State under the resent govern
ment, and asking for redress and relief.
The taxpayers convention adjourned to-
day, after four days session. A report was
adopted instruct1ng the executive committee
TO prepare a constitution and bylaws for the
county organizations, to be known as aTex
Unions" and TO be established in every coun-
ty OF the State. All c itiZens, white and black,
who pay taxes, are to be admitted to mem
berShip. The object is to prosecute the crimi-
nal and dishonest Officials and endeavor to
relieve the burden Of taxation.
Ohio Legislature.
COLUMBUS, February 20.-In the sem
ate to-day bills were introduced to authorize
the removal of property and estates belonging
to non-residents IN the same; 10 abolish the
office of State gas-inspector; TO amend the
Act Of MAY 5, 1873, authorizing an increase of
fue capital stock OF railroad companies, 50 as
TO restore the law as IL stood prior
hills were introduced providing Tor and
regulating the publication of applications for
local or special legislatlon % exempt from
kocIatfons for the families OF deceased mem
bers A bill was also introd duced TO appOTtion
the State into con ngresslonal alssficis y! me
into and report upon that part Of the taX-law
having reference TO taxing proper
y ,lor 10 request the Temperance committee
Id reDoFt back, on next Tuesday, q Dill
now In +beir hands, amending the Adatr law,
was laid or bu6 tdbtc. 1oatSy tof nays o..
strike al the KensiBgten Cotton Mills.
PHILADELPHIA, February l9.-The
employees OF the Ksfisipgfon cettOn- mills are !
on strike. The estabushments OF Messrs
Porter & Dickey, James Long y Bro.s John
Dallas q ErO., Joseph Welsh & son, ThoInton 1
q Smith, Irwin & Stipson, and other large !
mills, are being closed. At least two thousand I
hands are out of employment by the strike. l
Most of the employees Of the Kensington /
mills are women, and 1t is said that after con-
eerted action had been decided upon, they 4
marched from mill TO mill and induced 9TH /
ers TO stop work. The women allege that the /
average wages paid them before the panic I
pair OF looms, and this was reduced fifteen I
per cent. They now demand the Old prices, !
saying that they are unable TO live on the 4
wages received. They also allege that their I
employers are obtaining as high prices for 1
their goods as they did before the panic and !
can afford TO go back TO the old rates The !
employers say they will probably 90 back I'd ]
Meeting Of the strikers wan be held to-morrnx1
morning. There is no trouble here in the shoe I
trade. skee
Hay, wheat, and Irish Potatoes.
IAcKsONvn.LE, ILL, February 20
a,.,a N,,fio,aal Crop Reporter will publish to-
,--1..r estiu,ates in relation to the per cent
S-rSs,f the hav ard Irish potato crops of 1873
J. y ,515ucersS hands February lst, in ths
n y ,f Illinois. Iowa, kansas Minnesota,
stalt stal I'd WISCONSIN The tU.toWlpg Is an ex-
JIG , the main features presef. ee. od ne ne
! IaSs 49, =, ed produced, last year, over D. sNVCOv
-ase 9S.sees "a bav OF wheat, there was on ham,
ehrnaYv isi little over forty eight per cent,