Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-15
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIEs.

The strike of the New York shoe
makers has ended.
A London dispatch announces the
/ death OF the dowager OF Richmond.
! Countess Brunnon, wife of the Rus
sian ambassador$t London, died yesterday.
/ A New York telegram announces the
/ suspension of the Mccullough lead company.
Omaha is to have waterworks-at
least the question will be submitted to-a vote
at an early day.
Outstanding legal-tenders Saturday
SSS2,OO0,0 600; internal revenue receipts for the
month, s3,74102S.
A passenger train was ditched en- the
Pacific railroad, yesterday, by which several
persons were injured.
The retail grocers Of San Francisco
have organized for vigorous opposition to
the women's movement.
About fifty ladies held q preliminary
temperance meeting at Evansville yesterday.
They are opposed to beleagUering the saloons.
The temperance excitement at Jeffer-
sonville, Indiana, has somewhat abated, but
the women continue their visits to the sa-
looms
In POughkeepsie, New York, yester-
day, James Waltg was found guilty of the
murder of Harmon Aulchen, the scissors
grinder, and sentenced to be hanged on the
first of May.
4AC ANOn UdEk SIaLGDl6IlI SHOWS
a decrease in leans of s., ,000, 100; specie de-
crease, Sl59, 800; Iegal-tenders decrease, $500;
decrease in deposits, S9G0, 500; ecrease in cir
culatiOn, SlS6,9O0.
At New Orleans, yesterday, the ship
A1lsa took fire and was scuttled. i he loss Is
estimated at one hundred thousand dollars
on the cargo and five thousand on the vessel
insured in foreign offices.
The jury in the Woodruff and Ciafin
libel suit, in New York, yest erday, retained q
n pr1yIf Ifx~ =,
characterized the verdict as one of the most
outrageous he had ever heard.
The grand jury of Pomeroy, Ohio,
seems TO be inspired with the enthusiasm at
tending the women's movement, as they
closed their labOrs on over two hundred in
dietments against Hquor-seuers.
The news received from Havana states
that train from Neuvitas, with volunteers
ior the dlsaneeted districts, was fired into by
killed, and a large number wounded.
At WilliamspoTt, PENNSYLVANIA, YES
terday morning, ladies stationed themselves
at the doors of the liquor saloons to take the
names OF those entering. The saloon keepers
closed.
At New Haven, Connecticut, yester-
day, the office OF the Adams express company
was robbed Of the messengers safe, which
qs nsd arrived from New York In the morning
The safe was found open some distance from
the office. Loss not known.
AT meeting of the Missionary So
ciety in New York yesterday, Bishop James
after the reading of a resolution passed at the
ministers meeting Thursday, said there was
nothing left to hope for in this temperance
cause but the conversion of liquor sellers
themselves.
A dispatch from Berlin says that the
reiehstag has defeated the government
proposition of fixing the strength of the army
AZ Tour hundred and one thousand SIX hun
dred and hfty-nine men. The national liberals
propose 70 FIX the minimum strength of the
army at three hundred and sixty thousand.
Stephen Preston, minister pleripoten-
tiary, now in New York, of the republic of
haytl 70 this country, has received dispatch
nom his government, directing him to assist
at the reception of the remains of Senator
sumner, and to accompany them to Boston,
city.
The secretary of the interior has asked
that troops be sent to the Ute reservation in
colorado, with instructions to notify all un-
authorized white persons that no one will be
permitted 10 go upon the reservation, and
that those who are now trespassing must
abandon ii Immediately or be forcibly re-
moved.
The only action taken in San Fran
cisco relative to the death of Mr.. Sumner has
been by the colored citizens. They held a.
meeting last night, and adopted resolutions OF
respect and coincidence. iheir churches will
be draped ia mourning for thirty days, and
the people will wear Grape for the same length
A dispatch from Cape Coast, dated
February I'D, received in London, says that
all the troops, except the H1ghlanders, have
embarked for home. General WoolseIey was
TO have LETT ON the seventh CT March Captaip
Glover, with one thousand men, entered
Coomassie two days after Sir Woolseley occu-
pied the town.
When the German mails, by the
steamship Mosel, were opened at the postoffiee
IN New York, yesterday, it was found that at
least forty packages, each containing from
two to three hundred letters, were broken and
IN ruinous state. Nearly all the damaged
letters were inclOSed in thin, f1imsy envelops,
and the packages were tied up in weak, brown
paper.
A man by the name of VanHorn, and
his son, living near NewtOnville, Cltmont
county, Ohio, while on their way home, be-
tween eight and nine o'clock Friday night,
were stopped and robbed. After they had de-
uEered there money, ETC., to the robbers. the
elder anHorn died, which must have been
caused by the shock. as a careful investiga-
tioR showed no marks of violence that would
cause death.
The letter of the pope to the Catholic
bishops OF Austria, eXhorting them to combat
the pending ecclesiastical bills in the reich
rath, Is dated the seventh instant. His holi-
ness says that these measures are calculated
to place the church in ruinous servitude, and
the rupture of the concord. The poDe has
written 10 Emperor Francis Joseph, adjuring
him TO protect the church within his do
mintOn,