Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-06
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

Outstanding legal tenders, $685., 900, 900.
Labott's brewery, at London, Ontario,
was burned yesterday. Loss, fifty thou
sand dollars.
The old frigate Constitution was
taken into the dry-dOck at Philadelphia,
yesterday, where she Is to be rebuilt.
1t is stated in q London dispatch that
after the assembling of parliament, it
will adjourn until the nineteenth instant.
In the cases of Woodruff, Clafiin and
Blood, on trial in New York for libel,
yesterday application for bail was re-
fused, and the prisoners remanded to
the Tombs.
Charles Pelham, charged with at
tempting to kill Richard G. Busteed, a
nephew of Judge Busted, of Alabama,
was held to bail in Washington, We'd
nesday, in the sum Of fifty thousand
dollars. The case viii be called to-
morrow.
The liquor-dealers of Columbus, Ohio,
have taken a rather decided stand
against the wOmen's movement, but the
latter continue their appeals, and feel
encouraged in the fact that no indignity
has yet been offered, and everywhere
they go, they are met in most respect
fm manner.
The women Of Columbus, Ohio, re-
newed their temperance work yesterday,
their courage being increased previous to
beginning their march by the news that
Mr.. Upton, proprietor of the Zeetler
house, who, it was declared, would do
all he could in opposition to the move-
ment, had, without being asked, taken
down his bar and stopped the sale of
liquor.
A Londen telegram says that dis
patches have at last arrived from Gold
Coast, fully confirming previous reports
of the victory, and dispelling the fears
which were entertained for the safety of
the expedition. The Ashantee king
finally surrendered himself into the
hands Of the British troops, and was
prisoner at General Wolsely's head.
quarters.
A convention of delegates from the
States and Territories along the fortieth
parallel Of latitude, met in Springfield,
Illinois, Monday, to consider the sub
ject Of the national railway along that
parallel. Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Mis-
souri,, Kansas and Colorado Territory
were represented. Speeches were made
and series of resolutions adopted, all
strongly fayoring the scheme. i
The Washington manufacturing COM
pany of Gloucester, New Jersey, dis
charged, yesterday, about seven hundred
Of its employees, who had insisted upon
an increase OF wages. Soon the wives
and children of the men discharged sur
rounded the superintendent's Office,
threatening the destruction of himself
and family. They were soon, however,
sent to their homes by the authorities.
Intelligence has reached the DEPART
ment OF state in Washington, that on
the sixteenth instant, the act of the
Canadian parliament will come in ope-
ration prohibiting the transportation of
goods or passengers, by water, from any
port in Canada to another, except in
British ships, and imposing heavy pen
alties if any goods or passengers are car
ried contrary to the provisions Of the
act.
The house of q colored man named
Sears. living nine miles from Indianap-
oils. indians, was destroyed by fire on
Tuesday, and two children aged re-
spectively three and four years, were
burned TO death. The parents were
temporarily absent, and had left the
children alone in the house, with the
doors locked. 1t is supposed the chill
dren We're playing with the fire, which
was communicated to the bed, resulting
in the terrible calamity.