Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-10
TELEGRAPHIC MISCELLANY.

Burglars and house-breakars are max
ing times lively in and about Water Valley,
Mississippi
Gladstone will await the conclusion
OF the elections before deciding as 10 what
ucouJse the government will take.
The latest advices from Sumatra show
that the Achenese chiefs still hold out, and
are building forts in The interior.
Mr.. James Mcmillan was killed near
MOutevallO, Alabama. on the second instant,
by the accidental discharge OF his gun while
ouJ hunting birds.
A Wheeling, West Virginia, dispatch
saloon praying array have reached that city,
and begun their work yesterday.
Miss Duffy Wurkum was burned to
death in Cincinnati Saturday night, caused
bF dropping q bottle OF Iiniment containing
alcohol IN the IRE, the flames communicating
with her dress.
The steamship ambassador, laden
with section of the Brazi ian cable, broke
from her mOorlngs at Woolwich, England,
yesterday and fouling with thirty-two col
lers, sinking two, and damaging the remain
der. Several men on the colliers were severe
~ injured.
DR.. Henry Miller, president of the
Louisville medical college, died in Louisville
sunday afternoon, aged seventy-three years.
He was the author OF many standard medical
works, ana had been identified with several
years OF his life.
The New Orleans Times tells fearful
story OF depravlty, the burden of which is
that step-motner. for the sake Of keeping
her husband ia official employment, COM
PEELED her 1.-Two step-daugGters, sixteen and
seventeen years old, respectively, TO proSti-
t1te themselves 70 negro members Of the leg
islature.
Messrs. Savory & Moore, the London.
chemists, having an unsatisfed judgment
against the earl Of Winchelsea, applied TO
the Westminster county court recently for his
lordshps commlttal in default OF payment.
The magistrate decided that the privilege of
peerege prevented the earl's arrest, and the
MED.
The capstone of the Confederate mon
unent in the cemetery at Atlanta, Georgia,
weighing one thousand pounds was put up
on the thirty-first instant. The monument Is
sixty-hve feet nine inches high, and will not
Cost over four thousand dollars. 1t is made OF
Stoo mountain granite. Had il been put up
in other states IL would have cost from ten
thousand to twelve thousand dollars. The
tablet viii be placed in position in few days.
The Maruuise Maria Brignole-Sale
has presented the historical palace OF Palazzo
Rosa 10 the city OF Genoa, in which IL is stu
ated. The revenue Of the building, one OF the
most renowned in Europe, viii be applied to
the announcement Of literature and art, and
the purchase Of artistic treasures for the city.
The palace contains a very valuable collec-
ton OF paintings by Nandyke, Guido,
Tintoretto, Paul Neronase and others OF the
old masters.
The fatality which has attended the
English war against the Ashantees may be
judged Of by the fact that after a service Of
five months. but four marines and none of
The blue- sckets originally engaged remain,
the rest having either died or been 50 inca
pacitated from performing their duty by the
insidiOUs effects Of the climate as to necesSi- ]
tate their being sent home. A party Of one
hundred and one invalids arrived at Ascen- |
sion on the nineteenth ultimO.
A very ingenious system of bank rob-
berry mas been discovered at Copenhagen. One |
OF the tel iers of the national bank of that /
city, who was especially charged with the I
counting ana checking Of the old notes which |
manipulation 10 tear cut piece Of each note, /
in such manner that out of the fragments OF /
about ten notes he made whole one by guna-
ming the piece together. These notes he |
placed between the others, abstracting gen.
uine note for the false one substituted. The Il
fraud was discovered by accident, and the
teller arrested.
Near Holly Springs, Mississippi, on
the thirty-flIst UltimO, pistol in the hands of
Robert DeberTy was discharged aud It's con-
tents entered The body OF Anna Deberry, his
siep-daugnierr woundiug her perhaps fatally.
The following particulars OF the occurrence I
are given by the ReDO ter: "Ar. Deberry is
IN the habit of getting intoxicated, and on
saturday ne returned home in that condition,
and while examining old pistol supposed
10 be unloaded he accidentally discharged II,
the Dali taking cft=ct IN the side of his daugh-
Ter, as stated above. Mr.. Deberry is esteemed
a. a clever, kind man, and this severe trial
mas shocked him 70 his utmost endurance"
The Geographical society of Italy has
received from Alexandra, with the news
OF The death Of explorer Miami, and various
ethnological objects, two living individuals
whom he had forwarded OF the tribes Of the
AKA or I1kku Tiki, and whom the learned I
sI, TaNeler nsd bought OF the King MunzR.
THESE indlViduals-of one is eighteen wears Z
OLD and forty inches in hight, and the other I
sl1 M .eea ana thiIty-one inches high-are stated
by miami TO belong 70 the race OF dwRrfs de- I
scTl0eo py Herocotus, and recently rediscov-
cred by the German explorer Schweinfurtb /
NYho l, oescrloed them carefully. They are pot
bellleot very tnln llmbed, and knOck-kneed /
spherical and prognathous crania, very long
limbs, copper skins, anJ crisp, tow-like hair.
The Swedish diet was opened on th,
nineteenth ultimo by King Oscar, who in the
speech from the throne, made mention OF the /
friendly relations subsisting between Sweden I
aud foreign powers, and pointed 10 the recent |
visit of the imp rial crown prince of Gerrna-
ny as a proof OF that country S friendly senti-
ments. TIE most impOr ant measures an
nounced in the speech from the throne area
new bill relative to commerce and navigation
between Sweden and Norway, an increase of
the pay Of government officials in conse-
quence OF the dearness OF provisions the pros
ecution Of the works for the construction OF
state raj ways, and plan for a new Organiza-
ton OF the army and fleet. The question OF
the abolition Of theland tax, which is closely
connected with the proposal for army and
navy reform, is still under consideration, ana
viii not be brought before the diet this ses-
sion.
The cable announces the death of
Professor Anderson, the welt known conjurer,
proIesslonelly known as the " Wizard of the
y orin- lie was born in kfncsrdine-O'N Neil, !
ADef9s sensnlIe, and made his first appearance
IN puole IN 1850 with a travelling company of
actors. ne hrsJ appeared as a coDiurer ia Ed
~ nburgh, where he performed the magic feat
OF making a pudding in hat He came 10
America IN ISL, and opened at the Broadwsv ,
theater in New \ ork, and aftervsrd nIavaJ
at Castle Garden. His first appearance as the
: !, wizard OF the norm was at Tripler hall !
IN the early part OF the war PLAYED al the
Winter Garden theatSr. Professor Andarsor ,
Introduced the Indian basket trick into
England az the ypiian HsIi, Loncen, where
be achieved great success. As a cobjurer be ,
was probably unsurpassed, ho5gh he Dever !
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