Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-09-08
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

San Francisco has a new raee-trsck.
The Pacific mail steamer Arizona,
arrived in San Francisco Sunday.
Allegennin Marce, q welI-known ten
or, has been arrested al Venice.
The town of MakelumnehiIl, Califor-
nis, was totally destroyed by fire Friday
afternoon.
Robert NJ. Tindale, Of Mississippi, hiss
been appointed consul at Canton, in
China.
In q telegram from Bayonne, it is
stated that the Carlists are blockading
Pampeluna.
There was a nineteen thousand dollar
fire at Burlington, Racine county, Wis
cOnsin, Saturday.
The Count de Dourtal, member of the
French assembly from the department
Of the Seine ct Oise, is dead.
The mechanics and agricultural fair
OF Louisiana, will be held in New Or
leans during carnival week.
Henry Riedel killed bis uncle at
Evansville last May, and was yesterday
adjudged guilty Of manslaughter.
The delegates to the pork-packers'
convention at Louisville, yesterday, left
New York Saturday on special train.
Later accounts of the Austrian polar
expedition state that the explorers PEN
etrsted to the eighty-third degree of lat
itude.
John Wells killed Frederick Franks
near West Brookville, Sullivan county,
New York, Sunday night, in an alter
cation about rent.
The next meeting OF the national cot
ton exchange will be held at Greenbrier
White Sulphur Springs, in Virginia, on
the twentieth of July, 1875.
A telegram from New York says that
seventeen hundred dollars has been cou-
triDuted to the relief of Mrs. Tilton by
the members Of Plymouth church.
In Nashville a few days ago, in a
quarrel over negro girl, George Burns,
quiet negro man, was shot and killed
by another negro named Stephens.
The Arkansas constitutional cOnven-
ton, last Friday, refused, by a vote Of
ffry-seven to twenty, to submit the
proposition Of reputation to the peo-
pie.
The Democrats Of the twelfth Mis-.
souri, district nominated J. NJ. Glover
for reelection to congress. Two hun
dred and twenty-seven ballots were
taken.
The pine woods are on fire all around
Egg Harbor and HammontOn, New
jersey, and several thousand acres, in
Guiding some cranberry bOgs, have been
burned over.
A letter from Berlin to New York SAYS
not ha kal of In 81
the German navy, is regarded in Ger
many as triumph Of the naval over
the diplomatic service.
A telegram from Washington yester-
day says that Secretary BTistOw APP
proves the recommendation OF Solicitor
Wilson in regard to the secret service
division Of the treasury.
a A telegram from Berlin says that there
has been a large fire in Meiningen. The
loss on buildings alone is three million
thalers, and seven hundred families
have been made homeless.
Charles Jenson, a retired business
man, while viewing q menagerle IN
Central park, New York, had bis pocket
picked Of fifteen thousand dollars in
United States ami railroad bonds.
On Saturday afternoon the greater
iortion of the business section of Frost
wurg, Allegheny county, Maryland, was
4 H.urned. Loss, one hundred and forty
Five thousand dollars; insurance, seven
l2ly-five thousand dollars.
Two brutal policemen named George
md Michael Malone, of New York,
While drunk last Thursday night beat
Bernard Woods over the head with their
'evolvers and served Alexander Nc
dznight, a crippled ex-soldier, in the
anne way.
2 A telegram from New York yester-
., lay says: 'erhis afternoon a. q christen-
a,ng party were going through DevOe
\ ftreet, Brooklyn, German named
f3eOrge Lutz came out Of lager beer
'u'aloOn and, for the purpose of giving
hem salute, fired his pistol. The ball
passed through the the arm of lady