Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-22
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOXE.

The governor of California has ap-
proved the lOcal-option bill.
The saloonists of San Francisco are
organizing to oppose the temperance move
ment.
The Michigan legislature adopted the
new constitution, as revised, yesterday, and
adjourned sine die.
Ten stores were destroyed by fire in
Dallas, Texas, yesterday. Loss about eighty
thousand dollars, fully insured.
General Sir Garnet Woolesley disem-
barked at Portsmouth, England, yesterday,
and was greeted by a large assemblage.
The general ticket and passenger
agents convention adjourned yesterday in
Nashville, to meet in Louisville tomorrow
morning.
Durean Mcintyre, a prominent resi-
dent of Harrisviile, Michigan, hung himself
yesterday. Cause, arrangement on account of
sickness.
= Rev. Meili, Catholic priest in Crest
line, Ohio, yesterday renounced Catholicism,
and declared his intention OF uniting with
the Presbyterian church.
The Tucker manufacturing company's
shops in the State prison at Charlesto " n,
Massachusetts,, were burned yesterday. Loss
two hundred thousand dollars.
Mr.. Abner June, a highly-respecte d
citizen OF the town of Bedford, near Battle
Creek, Michigan, was burned to death yester-
day. His clothes caught fire while kindling a
fire.
DIR. Max F. A. Hoffman, late secre-
tary OF State of Indiana, and for the last three
months county physician of Vanderberg
county, died at Evansville yesterday OF small
pox.
The New York bank statement shows
loans increase, Sl49 l00 specie decrease, 81 ,2lS
800; legal-tenders decrease, 81 46S, 200; deposits
decrease, So, ,A1s 400; circulation decrease,
$500; decrease in reserve, 81, 1850.
S. Behler, banker and agent of Euro
psan steamships, was shot, and il is supposed
fatally wounded by some unknown party
while on his way TO his residence In the
suburbs OF Cincinnati late Friday night.
Peter Navarro, one of the pioneers of
the Maumee valley, scout under General
Harrison during the war OF 1917, and one of
the survivors OF the massacre on the Raisin,
died at East Toledo, Ohio, Friday, aged eighty
nine years.
A Pottsyille, Pennsylvania, dispatch
saws that on yesterday, by the breaking OF a
rope in the cofliery at Phoenix park, ten men
were precipitated to the bottom Oh smart.
Three were killed instantly, and the Others
cut and bruised.
About three hundred and twenty-five
feet. of a temporary wooden bridge, at
College Rapids, near Watervllle, Maine, where
the Maine Central is putting new IRON
carving down one span of the iron bridge
with it TO the bottom OF the river.
Two sons of the Siamese twins left
Philadelphia last night for their home in
North Carolina with the remains OF their pa
rents. They deny that the family intend TO
exhibit the remains, and say they are to be at
once deeently inferred. The sons have OBJ
tanned IRON the physicians a statement deny
ing that the bodies were given TO them for an
autopsy as the result of a pecuniary arrange
ment
A st. Louis telegram Of yesterday says
that the latest advices regarding the fight at
Monegan Springs are that Allen, the Chicago
detective, died at two O'Clock yesterday morn
ing at Roscoe, and that the st. Louis detective
who escaped was not named Mugnt, put
BuekWOrth, who resigned from the detective
force in that city some weeks ago, but who Is
believed 70 have been in Pinkerton's service.
Three Of the Congregational churches
of Chicago have taken action relative 10 the
Invitation of DrE. Storr's and Buddington S
CONGREGATIONAL council of New York, 10 In
yestigate certain charges against Plymouth
church. The First church OF chicago mas &C
cepted the invitation, and appointed Dr. Mm.
Patton to attend, while the Union Park
church and Plymouth church have declined.
These claim that the council is Improperly
called and is e1 pare.
The latest information received in st.
Louis from the scene Of the fight between the
notorious Younger brothers and the detectives
near Monegow springs, is that the detectives
engaged were Allen, OF ChlcSgo, anu mIsns'
of st. Louis. The former Is still at Roscoe,
mortally wounded. The latter escaped. 1t is
further stated that James Younger was
wounded in the ARRAY and his captors expect
tha north Just after the murder of Whtcher
aoar ependence which leads to the belief
tbaf thew n ed hand in the murder OF that
gentleman,
A London telegl Sm reports mat the
extraordinary rise in the ibHsS i'a.S Iss Wa
caused by the great drainage in A.. she ~
Rotherhethe. The sewers burst, anu H.e
floors OF many houses were forced up, drown
Ing several children and horses. At Wrapping,
fhe lower stories of the houses were Iilled
with water, and business on the wharves was
snsDended Numerous families were COM
naIfed TO abandon their houses at Wool wich.
The fires in the gun-factories We're exunguish-
hsnlrments have been erected TO prevent the
renafition OF the inuhdation apprehended to-
day.