Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-10
PELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

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list general Tristany has died Of consumption.
At the Nashville races Thursday, the
favOrites, orphan Girl, Elkhorn and Egypt,
won.
The Workingmen's convention have
nominated Charles A. Dana for Mayor OF New
York.
The eighteenth infantry in the Oma-
ha district has been ordered south immedi-
aJely.
The loss ocessioned by the typhoon at
HOng Kong is estimated at one million pounds
sterling.
The Masonic grand lodge Of Illinois
installed the newly-elected officers in Chicago
Thursday.
The CGrlists have been defeated in an
attack on Igualada. They lost many killed
and wounded.
It is reported that war has been de-
elared between China and Japan. The report
is not confirmed.
The BraHilian government has issued
a loan Of twenty-five million dollars at six
per cent interest.
The navy department at Washington
has issued an order relative 20 the death OF
Commodore WoOlsey.
Thompson Burnam has been appoint
ed internal-revenue gauger for the eighth dis
trict Of Kentucky.
The redempGOn bureau will not re-
sumo the redemption OF national bank-notes
until the twentieth.
The Episcopal convention Of New
YORK has elected Rev. James Craig, DID, OF
Kentucky, president
The general convention of the Protest
ant Episcopal church resumed its session in
New York Thursday.
The Nile is falling at Cairo, aud twen-
ty thousand hsnds are strengthening the
river embankmeDt.
The tTiennial session OF Free-Will Bap-
tistE Is being held in Roger Williams church,
Plovidence, Rhode Island
The Democratic convention at Bir-
mtnghampton, New York, nominated r kty-
born ior congress Thursday.
Don Carlos is in good health, aud at
the head Of his army. General DOrregsray
is away on a health furiough.
The case Of the Sumter county pris-
oners is still pending before the United states
commissioner, IN Mobile, Alabama.
The New York Tribune publishes a
Hamburg letter concerning the reception Of
the returned Austrian Artic explorers.
The Republicans Of the fifth district
OF wisconsin, at FOn du Lac, nominated Colo
mel John CochTsne for congress Wednesday.
J. L. Mills, boOk-keeper for the lum-
Der agency OF Ogesway springs, was found
drowned in the rive7 at Toledo, Ohio, Thurs
day.
Right Hon. William Edward For
ester, member Of parliament, and Sir Fowel
BextOn, Of England, have srriS ed In New
York.
a telegram from Berlin Thursday says
that the budget Of the minister OF war for 1875
VIII call for one hundred and ten million
thaleTs.
The Berlin Danish minister is in
structed TO complain 70 the German govern
ment relative 70 The expulsion OF Danes from
schleswig.
John w. Carter, accused of being one
Of a gang Of ccunterIeiters, was arrested by
one OF PinkertOn's detectives in Broollyn
Thursday.
The hands in the machine shops and
seWing-machlne factories, etc, in Toronto,
are being discharged in consequence OF the
dull trade.
A few miles below the city of Little
Rock Thursday, one colored man was shot
and instantly killed BY another in personal
rencounter.
Baylis & Co.'s willow and wooden
ware store, New YORK, was damaged by fire
night before last 70 the sum OF fOrty-nve thou
sand dollars
Goldsmith Maid trotted against
time at he Dexter park in Chicago, Wednes-
day. The finst heat was trotted in 2:l9 and the
second in Z:l7.
A telegram from Paris says the muni-
pal elections will be held throughout France
previous 20 the meeting OF the assembly, but
the date ia unhxed.
In Paris, each party claims a victory
In the elections. The Order estimates the
number Of Bonapartists returned at one hun
dred and forty-f0ur.
Judge h'Keon, Of Salt Lake City,
has called the attention Of the grand jury 20
the acts OF the past Legislature IN unlaWfully
diaposing Of valuable lands, etc.
A telegram from SsntsDds, yester-
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Figuerss is hiding in that city, aud that a
warrant has been Issued for her arrest.
A telegram from Rome says that
Monsieur LesdOH has been released by the
brigands who had captured him, upon the
payment Of a ransom OF ten thousand dollars.
A telegram nom Columbus, Ohio,
Thursday says that Gentemensengagedfn ag-
riculture, who have been travelling through
Ohio, report the crops in favorable condi-
ton.
A rumor prevails 10 London that the
French government, IS a compensation for
nRn-Of-wsr Kleber or Osted a. the pope's
disposal,
A telegram from San Francisco Thurs
day says that J. NJ. Eckfeldt, superintendent
OF the construction Of the now branch mint,
shot himself through the head at Oakland on
that day.
Marshal Bszaine has written to Ro-
man journal, II EzercitO, declaring that the
moment 70 SPEAK plainly has not yet arrived
but he viii tell the truth LATER although with
reluctance.
A telegram from Madrid Thursday
says that the spanish government has re-
newed its complaints TO France in relation q
the lack Of vigilance by the French officials
on the frontier.
A Rome telegram says Monsignol
Lesdon, a Cignitsry Of high rank, connected
with the Va lear, has been captured near Fras'
fmnaa The nTlEqugs who uHmuEQ a ran
som Of thirty thousand dollars.
George Sayler, ssWitchman employed
at the Hooking Valley depot, ohios while al
work, Wednesday night caught his foot IN Z
frog and kell in front Of q locomotive, which
passed over him, killing him instantly.
John Kelly, chairman of the New
YORK Tamma6y general committee. has be
gun suits for slander against Mayor have
never and Nelson Waterbury, laying The
damages in each case at nifty thousand dol
lars.
The trial Of Phelps, treasury official,
Indicted for embezzlement, was concluded II
Albany, New York, yesterday, and after M
teen minutes deiiberation the jury rendered {
verdict Of guilty. The sentence was post
poned.
A telegram from Rocktalls, Michigan
wednesday says the steam barge aricEl, ano
the Tow barge NJ. Q. Warner, bound up light
went ashore enc mile south Of that place
at ten o'clock Wednesday night, and the wind
DiQNAuH Atc7u AtA tiaStt7s ue1 NV a Wy ANf -
sea.
The election for One-thlrd Of the di
rectors OF the Toledo, Wabash and Westerr
railroad Thursday at Toledo, resulted In tht
selection OF J. O, Seney, A. b. Bayles, anc
Daniel Drew, Of New York; A NJ, White, o
Brooklyn, and c. NJ Smith, Of Sprinheld. Mas
sachusetts.
The Massachusetts Republican STATE
convention at Worcester, Thursday. made ths
following nominations: Talbot for COVER.
nor; HoTatio O. knight, lieutenRnt-gOveTn
Oliver Warner, secretary; Chas. r. Frain, at
/ t0rney-genersI; General Chas. Endioott, audi
tor; Chas. Adams, IT,, treasurer.
A collision occurred Thursday morn
| Ing al the intersection OF the Connecticut apc
| S0rth PennEy ylvania railroad, between q coal
train on the former and way-train on tbs
latter road. The engine Of the coal-traiI
struck the paEseDger-train between the bag
/ zage-csT and the first passengeT-car. No LIVE
were lost.
According to an analysis Of the state
ment Of Dr. Purvis, one OF the commissioner
/ appointed to settle the affairs Of the Freed.
| mems savings bank, there Will be loss o.
from three 70 four hundred thousand dollau
on insufficient securities and loans, which, IN
! the oouTss Of long time, may yield seventy
I I'VE per cent. 70 depositofs.
At a regular meeting OF the stock.
holders OF the Louisville and Nashville rail
4 road, held at Louisville on the seventh In
l stsot, 2. D. Stanford, II, V. NeWcomb and W
I b. Caldwell were elected dlrectors. The salarl
I Of tho pres dent WA reduced to sSvsn thou
SAND ave hundred dollarH per EDnun, abt
that OF the vice-prssldent abolished,