Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-09-25
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The Irish team Of pTize-shOotists were
doing New YORK and environs yesterday.
TIE recent glorious accounts from the
Black Hills country prove to be magnificent
hoax.
James H Lay is the Peoples noni-
nee for congress from the seventh Missouri
| district.
| ers seriously injured by boiler explosion at
Taunton, Massachusetts. yesterday.
At Glasgow, Kentucky, yesterday,
Miliken was renominated for congress by the
Democracy Of the third district.
d. Hastings, delegate to the Nevada
Republican State convention, died yesterday
at Minnemucca, suddenly, Of heart disease.
TIE annual meeting Of the Western
Associated Press viii take place at Kelley 5
Island, and not Put-in-Bay, as heretofore
stated.
Destructive fires occurred at Joliet
and Arlington, Illinois, yesterday. The en-
lire business portion OF the latter place was
destroyed.
The most exciting regatta ever rowed
in the Ohio river took place at Cincinnati
yesterday, between Cincinnati, Pittsburg and
Toledo clubs.
Oscar Warwick, a gambler, was shot
and instantly killed by Antonio Esquiano, in
New Orleans, yesterday. They quarrelsd
about game Of monte.
A mutiny took place on board the
AmSrican ship s. v. Herzy yesterday directly
after leaving London, in which two or three
seamen We're killed by the captain.
An engagement in the province of
Blscay, between the Republicans aud Carlists
resulted in the route OF the latter. Many OF
for amnesty.
The board OF army officers will meet
to-day in Washington City 10 examine and
report on the qualifications of such persons
ss may be brought before 10 for appointment
as superintendents OF national cemeteries.
Samuel A. Briggs, vice-president of
the defunct Franklin savings bank of Chies-
go, recently arrested In New York, was taken
before Judge Daniels, in the supreme court in
that city, and discharged by consent of coun-
The postmaster general will doubtless
adopt the recommendation OF Thir1-Assistant
Barbour and A. d. Hazen, chief of the stamp
division, that newspaper postage. under the
uary, be paid by stamps affixed to the memo
randum ~ mailing, the stamps to be OF de-
nominations from two cents to sixty dollars,
to be Cancelled by perforation.
The executive committee Of the ma
tiOnal board of underwriters of New York
have resolved "that the authorities of Chi
cagO, having failed 10 comply with the sug-
gestions put forth by the national board on
the twenty fourth OF July last, this commit
tee now recommend that al companies be-
longing to the national board discontinue the
business OF nfe-lnSurance IN the city OF Cn1-
cagO, either by new policies or renewals after
the first of October, 1s74."
A Selma, Alabama, dispatch says
that at daybreak yesterday morning the
southern bound train Of six cars, on the Sell
ma, Rome and Dalton road, went through a
bridge on WaXah stchie creek, falling sixty
feet. The train is total wreck. The en-
Rineer, fireman and several passengers were
killed and nearly all the remaining passen-
gers were wOunded-many dangerously.
Among the xii ed is Vim. Boyd, ex-iudge Of
the supreme court OF Alabama.
The assistant United States district
attorney who went to Europe last spring TO
obtain evidence against importers in cases of
impOrtatiOns at alleged undervaluations, has
returned to New York. He says he found the
German government greatly ineensed against
this government because, as was thought, 1t
h had issued commissions 10 its cOnsuls in Eu-
rope authorizing them to cite importers be-
fore them for the purpose OF extorting infor-
nation respecting invoices made out in Eu-
rope. Acting upon that suppOsition, the Ger
man government had informed the American
legation in Berlin that il the consuls of this
government attempted TO exercise these COM
missions, their exequatttrS would be revoked.