Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-06
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPIsGS.

The miners of Day county, Indiana,
struck Tuesday.
The election in Nevada was conducted
| quietly.
Two fires broke out st Montgomery,
Alabama. Wednesday.
The Cherokee national council met
Wednesday at Tallaquah, Cherokee Nation.
The Democrats of Columbus, Ohio,
had an impromtu jolliheation Wednesday
night.
] -Four persons were killed by the explo-
sion OF gunpowdec at Hounslow, England,
| Wednesday.
A torehIight demonstration prevailed
to fearful extent at ClarksyiIle, Tennessee,
last night.
At Norwood, Massachusetts, Tuesday,
Georze Durham killed his wife, and then cut
his own throat.
A telegram from Berlin Wednesday
says that the reichstag has ratified the postal
treaty with Chilli.
The residence of II. Barrett, at Dem
nison, Ohio,wss burned Tuesday. Loss, twelve
thousand dollars; uninsured.
The schooner Pamlico, which sailed
from New Castle, September Sd, for Chicago,
has put back 10 Queenstown leaky.
A telegram from Washington says
| that Joseph Z. Knowlton has been appointed
receiver of public moneys at Duluth.
The Democrats Of Washington, Dis
trfet Of Columbia, serenaded Senator Thur
man at his residence in that city last Wednes-
day. 4f- . Ef
A telegram from Madrid, yesterday,
says that General Moriones and Lozerne win
make demonstration upon Estella while the
Carlists are bestegtng Irun.
A fire at Fremont, Nebraska, yester-
day morning destroyed wagon shop, and the
| City Hall building was considerably damaged.
No insurance. IncenciaTy.
The house of Allen Mouser, New Hol-
land, Ohio, was burned last THURSDAY, and
desk were consumed with 1t.
| Last Tuesday (third Instant, was the
/ eightieth birthday anniversary of William
Cullen Bryant, yhich was Ss appropriately OBJ
The French government has Fixed
upon November 18th as the date for elections
| for vacant seats in the ascent bly,, and for the
renewal OF the municipal councils.
A fire, Wednesday night, in the fur
niture factory OF ]. & Al. Norre, on Eggles-
twenty thousand dollars on the house and
stock.
Barney Mahon, detective at the
/ Union depot of Toledo, Ohio, mysteriousIy
/ disappeared Monday night. A man named
Mullen has been arrested, on suspicion OF
numbering him.
The convention ofthe Protestant Epis-
copal church, which has been In session In
| New York for some time past, adjourned last
Tuesday night, and Will hold its next session
at Boston in ISL.
At three o'clock yesterday morning
| the sawrnill and lumber adjoining Livesay &
Co, Newport, Kentucky, were destroyed BY
are. Loss sixty Thousand dollars insured for
eight thousand dollars
n. A, Ballentine & Co. 5 sswn1ill,
two miles below East Saginsw Michigan,
was totally destroyed by tre A jesday night.
Loss, thirty-six thousand dollsr rs Insured for
twenty-five thousand dollars.
A telegram from Shanghai, yester-
/ day. saws: An amicable settlement OF the
Fornosan difficulty between China and Japan
stiI appears doubtful, Notwithstanding the
more pacific tone Of recent advices.'
/ Edward Creighton, a well-knOwn and
prominent citizen OF Omaha, Nebraska,
had paralytic stroke Tuesday afternoon. He
IS sT5eeehless, and cannot use bis right side.
I Hopes, however, are entertained OF his TecoV-
cry.
A brakeman on the Pacific Central
and St Louis railroad, named Zach Rhodes,
was run over by a locomotive in the yard in
| LoQsnsport Indiana, Wednesday morning,
and Instantly killed. He was horribly
mangled.
A telegram from Montreal, yesterday,
says: "On the steamship Prussia reaching the
dock, yesterday, man was arrested on board,
in connection with some very heavy frauds
Committed in Paris, amounting to half mill
lion francs"
|
through Omaha, Nebraska, yesterday, in
charge OF a sheriff, on the way TO Nebraska
city, where he Is to be tried for the murder OF
German year ago last summer he was
captured in Oregon.
A telegram from Cincinnati Wednes-
day says river men report that on the banks
OF the Ohio, between 1rOnton and Marietta,
a distance OF one hundred miles, the forests
are on IRE, and the smoke IS so dense thai
navigation is impossible.
The French government has issued
orders expellipg all Span1ards from the from
tier towns, to prevent them from paruclpat-
Ing in the expected attack on run oy DOE
Carlos. Five thousand Spantards are 70 be
! sent to the relief of Iran by the spanish gov
eminent.
A telegram from Jefferson, Texas
says fire Tuesday night consumed the block
%%ssSPisd any ~ y6aesi me T9 loss se es
mated at sixty thousand dollars; insurance
, forty thousand. 1t is supposed 10 be the Wors
: Of an incendiary.
A telegram from London Wednesday
! saws that the Mark Lane Express Of this week
| says th at the wheat trade Is again getting In
! ak. The damp atmosphere Is probaoly the
cause. Occasionally there has been shliilns
rise, but more markets show an equal decline
Wheat remains the worst paid gram grown
this season.
United States Commissioner Z. d.
Craig yesterday sent before the United StateI
circuit court, at New Orleans, Mary johnson
and Joseph MilbrOugh, both colorsd, charged
with Violating the kuKlux act In cOnspirinl
with others and breaking up meeting OF :
| colored Democratic club. This is the mrs
commitment OF colored persons under this &C
IN Louisiana.
From 1854 to 1870, General o. O.
Z Howard invested over three hundred thou
sand dollars in government bonds and useC
/: the interest received from such bonds in pay
meat of bona tide claims, in order TO make NJ
the deficit in the pubic funds caused BY thu
payment of fraudulent claims Attorney
General williams, to whom was suomtttet
certain questions in regard to the response
bility of Generals Howard and bullock 10
such use of public moneys, states that q Grim
tnaI prosecution against them is not barreC
BY limitations imposed by the statutes, gu
they still remain civiliy liable, snd suits may
be begun against them to recover Whatevel
money may be recovered should be turned
into the treasury in the same manner as u
money recovered from delinquent officers II
1 other cases.