Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-06-24
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

The American pilgrims have left Ven
ice for Bavaria.
Milwaukee fred six thousand dollar
worth yesterday.
The District Of Columbia is to have
new form of government.
An excursion Of forty Georgians ar
rived at Omaha yesterday.
A case OF coup de sOliel occurred a
Cleveland, Ohio, yesterday.
Five companies OF the ninth Infantry
left Omaha yesterday for Fort Laramie
The great national sGRgerfest, a
Cleveland, Ohio, promises to be a greai
success.
A collision on the New York Central
railroad yesterday resulted in the death
/ OF two men.
The Maine State Democratic eOnven-
ton has nominated Joshua Titcombe for
/ governor.
Monday nights session Of both houses
! Of congress drew immense crowds of
! spectators.
Butler spread himself in the house
Monday during the evening session, on
the mOiety bill.
Burglars "went through" the Belgian,
English, and Austrian legations, in Ber-
lin, Saturday night.
Benjamin Moran, at present consul
general at London. is to no third assist
ant secretary Of state.
Monday nights session Of the senate
was prolonged to holf-Past one O'Clock
Tuesday morning.
A general jubilee took place in Per-
afaa Of ba IL
tiOn Of the Brazilian cable.
The ProhibitiOnists Of New York de-
clare that woman suffrage is vital to the
success of the temperance cause.
The American pilgrims, on Monday,
presented an album and collection of
valuable diamonds to the pope.
The last act of congress yesterday was
the removal of the political disabilities
OF James L. Pugh, Of Alabama.
Mrs. Audubon, widow of the eeiebrat-
ed naturalist, j0iIu J. Audubon, died in
Shelbyv'lle, Kentucky. Monday.
The President has Signed the currency
bill reported from the last committee Of
conference, and it is now the law.
An immense waterspOut formed in the
harbor at Havana Sunday, causing con-
siderable damage TO the shipping.
Six OF seven small buildings were
destroyed by fire in Louisville, Sunday.
Loss, twenty-five thousand dollars.
The United States senate prolonged
its Saturday evening session until half
past three O'Clock Sunday morning.
The reconcilia. ion at a grand banquet
next year Of all the West Point gradu-
ates is what IS most talked OF now.
Governor Allen and staff, and fifteen
singing societies, arrived at Cleveland,
Ohio, yesterday, to attend the saenger-
Jest.
Crusade prayer meetings by the wo-i
men OF the Christian temperance
union were held at Fort Wayne yes
terday.
The Protestant church in Rome is to
be completed. Parties interested are
raising money IN New York for that
purpose.
Two young men, named Louis Schu-
Ter and EDhFaim CaTuthers, were
drowned at Cincinpati--one trying to
save the other.
Sunday being the TIVE uty-eighth an
niversary Of the pope's accession to the
papacy, was celebrated in New York
Catholic circles.
Lyman K. Bass, representative in
congress from Buffalo, New York, has
been nominated for assistant secretary
Of the treasury.
An attempt was made at Westchester,
between New York an6 Boston, yester-
day, to ditch a train, supposed for the
purpose of robbery.
Many small operators ON Wall street
were caught mapping by the sudden up
ward Jump in stocks, il New York yes
terday.
The Roman Catholic conference Of
bishops of Prussia, meeting at Fulda,
will seek a compromise with the Prus-
sian government.
Joseph Paterson, g single man about
years of age, committed
arsenic in Evansville, Indiana, yester-
lay. Cause not stated.
Fifty-six singing societies, numbering
over one thousand me embers, have ar
lived in Cleveland, Ohio, to participate
u the coming sgRgeTJest.
G. P. Martins saw mill, at Mount
Vernon, Ohio, was burned by incen-
iiRries Friday. Loss three thousand
iOllsrs; no insurance.
Governor Dix, OF New York, has
Dsrdoned the great forger, Van Eeton,
who was sentenced in March, 1871, to !
nine years in Sing Sing.
Miss johnson, Of CsrbOndale, Mont |
gomery county, Tennessee, killed ne |
gro woman, who, with her husband, at !
.empted to kill her father.
The eoOper-shops of Frank Swenk- !
meyer and Mr.. SPengeman, in Cincin- |
lat, were burned yesterday morning. /
Loss two thousand dollars.
The internal revenue receipts at
he department at Washington, yester- /
lay, amounted to $3.50, So; total for the /
iscal year over 500, l65, 600.
VIM. TumblisOn, of BentOnville, Ohio, /
while hunting ground-hogs, Saturday
light, shot and killed his son, aged thir-
cen, whom he took for ground-hOg.
The steam er Edinburgh, laying the tel
graphic cable from Cape de Verde
stands to Brazil, has arrived of the
coast with the cable in good
rider.
The dead body of a well-dressedy young
nan was found in LyFayette park, st.
Iouis, yesterday, with n revolver lying
y his side, and builet-hole in his left
reast.
The customary messages Of thanks
living and congratuletion have passed
etween Portugal aud Brazil over the
Of telegraphic communi-
alton.
r. B. King is missing from Fort
Wayne, Indiana, and SIS he was known
o keep money about bis person, it is
cared that he has become victim to
Oul play.
Allen county, Indiana, was visited Oy
N unusually terrific rain, wind and
hunGer storm Sunday, which did great
lamage TO wheat fields. Loss great, but
Unknown.
Havana merchants have agreed to re-
eive the following foreign gold coins at
he annexed valuation: The pound ster-
ing, S5; louis dor, 81; American tweE.
y-dOllar piece, 81.
Frank Kuhlmeyer and Benjamin
aged about nineteen, were
lrowned while bathing in the Ohio, Op-
,osite Cincinnati, yesterday, through
heir inability to swim.
A negro named Randolph, was ar
ested in Haywood county, Tennessee,
asst Monday, charged with the murder
4 negroy BOY, by hanging him to the
limb Of a tree. He has been held for
rial.
A drunken brawl in the Sherwood
louse in Baltimore resulted in the fatal
tabbing of Berry Amos, q well-known
rambler, by Sam Mcdonald. The staO-
list is a son Of the former owner of Flora