Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-05

dollar and twenty-five cents per day
from one dollar and fifty cents. A fall
ing off in the demand for ore is given as
the reason for this action.
The low pressure steamer Richmond,
was sold at st. Louis yesterday by the
United States marshal for ten thousand
Que hundred and twenty-five dollars 10
Nathan Coronna, who purchased It for
other, and ut present unknown, parties,
1t is surmised that she will run between
Memphis and New Orleans.
The congressional committee on com
merce yesterday had under considera-
tion the propriety OF extending the ju-
risdiction of the lighthouse board over
the Mississippi, Ohio aud Missouri riv-
ers, with view to the establishment of
beaeon-lights, buoys, etc., on them.
Advices from Spain state that Le-
guitas, maritime town in the province
OF Biseay, on the bay of BIscay, has
been bombaried by schooner belong
ing TO the Russian navy. The cause OF
the act was the admission into the port
OF foreign ship containing a cargo
contFaband OF war.
The lAnti-Seeret-SO convention,
in session at Syracuse, New York, yes
terday adopted a resolution declaring
that in all secret, oath-bOund ffaterDi-
ties, including grangers and secret tenn
perance societies, the convention recog-
nizes q conspiracy against all who do
not belong TO them, and standing in
menace 90 the religion of Jesus Christ.
At the general meeting of the National
medical association, at Detroit, Mich
igan, yesterday, DR.. Keller, of Louis
Vile, presented a resolution indorsiDg
the resolutions adopted at Danville,
Kentucky, relative to the erection of q
! mongment TO the late Ephraim Me-
Dowell, OF Danville, Kentucky.
David Jones, watchman on the steam
er United States, Wednesday night de-
| tected David James, a colOred man, rob-
bing deck passenger, ,and arrested him.
When the boat landed at Cincinnati
yesterday James broke aud run ashore.
| Jones pursued, shot and inflicted proba-
| bly, mortal wound. Jones was arrested
for shooting with intent to kill.
The returns from the Oregon election
so far give Williams, Republican, for
congress, 4O7S; Taden, Democrat, 1921;
Davenport, independent, 1900. Talman,
for governor, 455i; Grover, 4l9l; Camp
bell, 1862, with seven counties to hear
from. Chadwick, Democrat, will proba-
bly, be reelected secretary of state;
Clark, Republican, treasurer, and Row
land, Republican, superintendent of pub
lie instruction.
A special to the Courier Journal, says
that a fight occurred yesterday between
! a number of citizens of Burnside Point,
in Pulaski cOuntyKentucky, and laborers
on the Cincinnati Southern railroad.
The cause Of the trouble is not given, but
in the atfray one railroad man and two
citizens were badly wounded. The dis
patch says that further trouble is hourly
expected. Many of the citizen are in
arms, and declare that the railroad
men must leave the county. There is
! no telegraphic communication with the
| towns, aud the above facts were reported
at Danville by stage passengers.
At recent meeting of the friends OF
| temperance in London, John Bright
made speech, in which he said the
| friends asked for things to be done by
| parliament which they knew, and all
| knew at the present time, with the pre-
sent state of public opinion, were i'm
| possible to be done. If parliament were
| to pass such laws as those proposed by
! tue many friends of temperance legis-
| lation, the very next week they would
have to repeal them, and the whole city
| of London would be in riot, revolt and
insuTTectioD.
The committee on commerce has de-
cided TO recommend the insertion of an
item in the river and harbor appropria-
ton bill OF two hundred and fifty thou
sand dollars, for the removal of obstruc-
tions from the ChattahOOehee and Flint
rivers, in Georgia. Also to recommend
the passage of the house bill directing
the President of the United States to
cause to be prepared and presented to
CAPTAIN John Horn, jr., of Detroit, a
gold medal, in recognition Of his heroic
and humane efforts in rescuing, at diff
ferent times, and at the risk of his own
life, over one hundred men, women and
children from drowning in Detroit river.
At Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday, the
agricultural congress adopted resolutions
looking to the union of the cotton
States and a direct trade movement
without an expression of preference for
any port. The report of the committee
on emigration was adopted. 1t favors
landowners donating land TO actual set
tiers. A resolution was adopted urging
the refunding of the cotton tax to pro-
ducers. Masters of State oranges of the
cotton States appointed an execu-
tive committee, TO urge congress to re-
fund the cotton tax. The reports of both
meetings show large increase in the
acreage Of cereals, and decrease Of cot
ton.
The following is an extract from a pri-
vate letter from Havana, received by
prominent Cuban, and bearing date of
May 2Sth; "Bayonne has been in the
possession of the Cuban forces since the
twentieth instant. In the neighborhOod
of Cienfuegos the fight took place, when
Colonel Santalis, in charge Of the Span
ish forces, was killed, and his column
cut to pieces. The Cuban forces are at
the gates Of Manzaniilo, and will proba-
bly, soon attack that place. The Span
iards In Havana are much depressed,
but are angered against Concha, and say
he is making money out of the islands
misfoTtunes, but add that he shall not
leave the place alive"
James Lick, who resides in San Fran
cisco, and has more money than he can
possibly take with him into the other
world, has excited much public COM
ment upon the manner in which he dis
posed of his great wealth. He donates
500, 900 to the construction of the largest
ana OeSC telescope IN Jlle WOTlu, iOr tDe
observatory at Lake Tahoe; S420, 900 for
public monuments, $50, 600 for public
baths in that city, 500, 600 for home
for old ladies, $4,000 to the society for
Ihe protection of dumb animals, sos, 900
to the Ladies's protective relief society,
$4,000 to the Mechanics Protestant
orphan asylum library, S25,000 to the
CITY of San Jose for an orphan asylum,
Sl50,000 for the erection OF q bronze
monument to the author OF the Star
Spdngled BdnaeT in the Golden Gate
park, $500 600 for the endowment of
school of mechanical arts in California
The residue in excess of 81, $50, 600, he
donates to the Pioneers society. He
makes ample provision for his relatives,
and reserves q homestead and $4,000
a year for himself.