Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-13
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.


will leave New Orleans for their homes
O-dsy.
A telegram from Ottawa, Ontario,
says that the fur trade this season is
very dull.
Cairo, Illinois, was in a Democratic
blaze last night over the great political
triumph.
The convention of the temperance
women of Massachusetts opened yester-
day at Boston.
The fourth annual session of the North
] American beekeepers' association COM
menced at Pittsburg Wednesday.
Snow fell in the southern counties of
England, Wednesday, and the weather
there yesterday was pronounced unusu-
ally cold.
i The Hebrew orphan asylum at Balti-
more burned yesterday morning. Loss
| about twenty-five thousand dollars; in
surance twelve thousand.
A telegram from Toledo, Ohio, says
! that a sWitchman named Michael Muir
nhv was run over and killed in the Penn
syivania yards Wednesday night.
A telegram from Washington, yester-
day, SAYS that Philip Wadsworth, has
enue for the first district of Illinois.
The second fire at the Reform farm
school at Lancaster, Ohio, the other
day, resulted in the destruction of
barn and its contents, valued at fifteen
hundred dollars.
4 General Baldy, chief of the police of
New Orleans, has resigned, and Lieu
tenant Murdoch appointed to the va
cancy temporarily, until the recovery OF
General Badger.
Students of the school of medicine in
Paris persist in creating disturbances
whenever Professor Chafferd attempted
to lecture. All lectures have been sus-
pended for one month.
In Syracuse, New York, yesterday,
Mr., J. T. Carter was burned to death in
the cellar of his residence, where he had
gone to try to save valuables during the
burning of the building.
A telegram from Chicago says: "The
| Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railroad
company has, it is stated. abandoned
! the Iowa division Of its road and moved
all the rolling stock thereon into Hi
nOis."
| The race for the Liverpool cup, the
event of the Liverpool autumn meeting,
took place there yesterday, and was won
by Louise Victoria; Thunder second and
Pagenot third. Twenty-one horses
started.
A telegram from New Orleans says
that the repairs are completed, and the
mint will be ready to commence coin
ing as soon as an assayer is appointed
and the necessary appropriation made
by congress.
Six acres of wood at Fort Washing
| ton, on the Hudson river, five miles
| from the City hall Of New York, was
burned Sunday evening. The fire start
ed from the sparks of a passing locOmo-
! tive on the Hudson River railroad.
Official returns from one hundred
counties in Illinois give Ridgeway, Re-
publican, for State treasurer, "A, 600 ma
jOrity over Carroll, and Etter, Demo-
crat, for superintendent of public
instruction, 1000 majority over Powell.
! An important feature of the inquest
on the remains of Herman Schitling, at
! Cincinnati, Wednesday, was the dis
| cOvery of q key in the ashes of the
! furnace where his body was burned. The
| KEY has been identified as one which
Schitling used that night.
Hon, d. Lee, now in prison at Beaver,
| Utah, charged with being connected
with the Mountain Meadow massacre of
! 1857, when one hundred and twenty
femigrants were murdered, it is said will
give true history of the whole affair,
and the names of parties interested.
A telegram from Madrid, yesterday,
saws: "The losses of the Carlists in the
/ engagements near Irun were heavy.
] They succeeded in carrying off their
guns. 1t is believed they viii retreat to
Estelle. The government has received
intelligence that General Lazerna has
entered ITun.
The general missionary committee of
the Methodist Episcopal church, in ses-
sion in New York, yesterday voted
| tWenty-four thousand four hundred dol
| lars to Germany and Switzerland, seven
| thousand dollars to Denmark, twelve
| thousand dollars to Norway, and thirty
| two thousand dollars to Sweden.
The trial for impeachment of Police
| Justice M. R. Cullen, in st. Louis, which
| had been in progress before the city coun-
/ Gil for months past, terminated at late
hour Thursday night by acquittal of
| the accused ON all charges and speci-
| fications. Resolutions of censure were
| introduced after the trial, but was voted
down.
! The managers of st. Johns guild say
| that at least ten thousand men and wo-
men are out of employment in New York
city, and that whole families are with
| out the necessaries of life. Hundreds
gather at the guild doors daily, clamOr-
! ing for food, and the treasury of the
guild, even to its reserve fund, is ex-
| hausted.
A dispatch from Camp Supply, Indian
| territory, dated November Sth, tells the
story Of a fight on Mcclellan creek the
previous day, between twenty-eight men
of the eighth cavalry, under Captain j.
II. Farnsworth, and one hundred Chey-
ennes. The United States troops lost
one killed and four wounded, and the
Indians lost fifteen killed.
O'Mara and Irving, for the murder Of
Mrs. Margaret O'Mara and her daugh-
ter, were hanged at MontrOse, Pennsyl-
vania, yesterday; UGderzOok was also
hanged at Westchester, Pennsylvania.
The latter made no confession, but said
to his attending clergyman: "Al L
| have to say is, l am a sinner saved by
grace, and am accepted of God"
There is considerable gossip circulate
ing through the streetsof New York city
on the subject of double insurance Of
wooden ships in the Pacific Mail COM
+panyis service. One OF the officers OF
| the company had caused the ships to be
insured, and one of the directors had
procured the same insurance. AS the
company did not require double lnsur-
ance, there was a dispute between the
officer and the director as to which con-
tract should be recognized, it being re-
ported that the latter had threatened to
resign unless the insurance effected by
him should be recognized.
In the third district court in Salt Lake
yesterday, George @. Cannon gave bail
in five thousand dollars to answer from
day to day on charge Of polygamy, the
indictment against him having been
found under the Territorial law for las
civious cohabitatiOn. Thos, e. KICKS,
now in the penitentiary there under In
dietments for lascivious cohabitatlon
and murder, made an effort to get re-
leased on bail yesterday, but unsuecess-
fully, 1t will be remembered that KICKS
was member of the grand-jury.
The Louisiana returning-board met
in New Orleans yesterday and adjourn
/ ed to await the appointment of the COM
mittee by the Conservatives to be pre-
sent during the count. Governor Kel-
legg has addressed communication
to the returning board In which he says:
"When the senate elected the present
returning board during the session OF
1872 and 1878 presume it was intended
that the provisions dissection two, OF act
ninety-eight, OF 1872, known as the cleo
ton law, requiring the members OF the
returning board to be elected from All
political parties should be complied with.
Inasmnch, however, as it is now claimed
that the party during the recent election