Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-30
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

The ulinOls press excufsl0nlsts were IN
Cincinnati yesterday.
Kelly was yesterday reelected mayor
of Richmond, Virginia.
The steamer Circassian, from Quebec,
arrived at Liverpool yesterday.
The American Sunday-school union
jubileed in New York yesterday.
The steamer Pembroke arrived at Liv-
erpool from New York yesterday.
General Iona has assumed command
Of the republican forces in the north of
Spain.
The Illinois editors are consuming
"fy-timen in an excursion to eastern
cities.
The impeachment trial of Judge Story,
Of Arkansas, is progressing at Wash
ington.
A heavy wind-storm Thursday night
unroofed the roundhouse at Sherman
Wyoming.
Washington county, Nebraska, COM
plains of the destruction of crops by the
grasshoppers.
The funeral of the late John Edgar
Thompson will tske place at Philadel-
phia Monday.
George Betuer & Co.'s car-works, near
Pittsburg, burned yesterday-thirty
thousand dollars.
The Republicans were defeated in the
municipal elections at Petersburg, Vir-
ginia, yesterday.
The Ohio State editorial association met
at Columbus yesterday, Joshua Saiton,
of the Urbsna Citizen, presiding.
Chicago observes to-day as a holiday,
and all public offices will be closed
decorating graves of federal soldiers.
The house yesterday passed the army
bill, adding the section repeating the law
prohibiting promotions in the staff corps.
A couple of fires illuminated the
suburbs of Cincinnati Thursday night,
inhicting a loss Of near ten thousand
dollars.
Three frame buildings underwent the
process of cremation in Omaha Wednes-
day night. Loss and insurance not re-
ported.
President Baldwin, of the New Or
leans. national bank, has been elected
State fiscal agent of Louisiana, in place
Of J. H. Oglesby.
The rumor gains strength in Washing
ton that BristOw, of Kentucky, will
succeed Mr.. Richardson at the head of
the treasury department.
The sheriff Of Omaha, Nebraska, ad-
vertizes twenty acres of George Francis
Trains land, near that city, to be sold
for delinquent taxes and interest.
Rochef)rt arrived at Chicago Thurs
day afternoon. Two hours of Chicago
satisfied him, and he departed for New
York, whence he sails for Switzerland.
Appel & Rogers paint-shop, in Pitts
burg, together with several business
houses, were destroyed by fire yester-
day morning-twenty-five thousand
dollars.
Mr.. o. Walker, one of the oldest and
wealthiest citizens of Chicago, died at
his residence there Thursday. He leaves
an estate estimated at from three to four
millions.
About fifteen hundred visitors were
courteously received by the President at
the White House yesterday. This start
ling announcement is made in tele-
gram from Washington.
The Episcopal State convention of
Kentucky, in session at Louisville,
passed resolutions prohibiting fairs, lot
teries and theatrical performances for
raising money for the bene fit Of the
church.
The New York bank statement shows
loans decrease 81, ,256, 800; specie de-
crease, $504, 700; legal-tenders increase,
| $3.50, $50; deposits decrease, 81 ,839, 600;
circulation decrease S73, 400; reserve in
crease, 81, $40, 500.
| Rev. B. M. Palmer has rendered his
resignation as pastor of the First Pres
/ byterian church at New Orleans, and
| has accepted the chancellorship of the
| Southwestern Presbyterian university
at Clarksville, Tennessee.
Rev. Father Dupontavice, pastor of st.
Michael's Catholic church in Madison,
4 Indiana, for over a quarter of century,
died yesterday morning. His disease
was a complication of disorders, dys-
pepsia, gout, and diabetis.
A report was in circulation in London
/ yesterday, that thirty miners had been
| killed, and much larger number in
/ jured by an explosion IN a colliery at
! Clay Cross. Later advices say there is
/ no foundation for the report.
State Engineer Thompson, of Louis
| lana, has written letter TO Governor
Kellogg, stating that three thousand
/ cubic yards of levee are required to he
! DuliI W sdNS Nn6 ObAIC hOLll OhCllOW
next year; that the State can't pay for
the work, and that the government
should be applied to for aid.
Major Godfrey Weitzel, of the corps
of engineers, is appointed to proceed to
Louisville and confer with the president
and directors of the Louisville and Port
land canal company with a view to
making necessary arrangements for re-
ceiving and taking charge of the canal,
and all the property, real and personal,
of said canal company, and property OF
the United States. Major Weitzel is
empowered to agree with the canal COM
pany upon some day, subsequent to
thirty days, named in the act, for the
transfer of the canal to the United
States, and is authorized to take charge
of the same when it shall have been de-
livered into possession of the United
States.