Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-03

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matte operations at Brooklyn, New
York, yesterday.
The New York stock and gold ex-
/ changes will be closed to-day, on account
of Good Friday.
Eleven buildings were destroyed by
/ fire in Lancaster, GarTard county, Ken
lucky, yesterday.
The Philadelphia city coun0il yester-
| day took one million dollars stock in
the centennial of 1876.
Henry Coulter, the oarsman, chal-
I lenges the world for better to the tune
/ of one thousand dollars.
/ II appears that only twenty pilgrims,
( instead of one hundred and seventeen,
were lost overheard recently from the
( Mediterranean steamer.
4 A bill passed the New York senate
yesterday authorizing the executors of
the estate of Edwin Forrest to eompro-
mise with his widow.
Fears are entertained in New York
for the safety of the steamer Widding-
ton, of Newcastle. She was spoken
February 9Th, but has not been heard
of since.
The Roman Catholic bishop of Bo-
logne was arrested in Berlin yesterday,
for violating the ecclesiastical laws. The
arrest was made without any demonstra-
ton.
The bark Hiram, which arrived at
Liverpool yesterday, from Pensacola,
experienced very heavy weather and
lost several men overheard, including
the master.
A telegram from Queenstown says
that the bark OrellitO, from New York,
experienced tempestuOus weather, and
lost several men overheard, including
the captain.
The Tivoli knitting-mills at CahOes,
New York, were burned yesterday.
Loss, two hundred thousand dollars.
One thousand wOIkmen are thrown out
of employment.
The dishonesty of the abscondiDg
cashier and improper speculatiOns on
the part of one Of the officers are the
alleged causes of the closing of the Sc
curity bank in New York.
The trials of the former conductors
of the Pennsylvania railroad company,
charged with embezzling moneys, steal
ing tickets, etc, resulted in their convie-
ton in Phiia6eiphis yesterday.
At MiddIetOwn, Wisconsin, during
the closing exercises of a school, a coal
oil lamp exploded, setting fire to the
building, and in the confusion resulting
about forty persons were injured.
About five hundred operatives in the
hosiery mill and bleachery of the Bos-
ton manufacturing company, of Wal
than, Massachusetts, struck for an ad-
vance OF ten per cent. on their wages.
The Security bank, in New York, or
ganiZed in 1870, with capital of $780,
900, has decided to close business, after
losing $3.50 600. The stockholders will
pay off the depositOrs and pocket the
loss.
James B. johnson, a bookseller in ST.
Joseph, Missouri, was arrested and held
to bail in q bond of four hundred
dollars, charged with sending through
the mails postal-card bearing indecent
language.
A dispatch from Melbourne, Australia,
says that Rochefort and his companions
escaped from New Caledonia by slowing
themselves away in a vessel. They have
arrived at Sydney, and will proceed to
Europe direct.
The Sanborn Investigation is pro-
| crossing in Washington. Frederick A.
( Sawyer, the assistant secretary, gave his
! testimony yesterday. All this is waste
/ time, for there is no doubt that Sanborn
I defrauded the government.
A special from India says incendiary
/ fires are becoming alarmingly frequent
/ in the neighborhOod of Setamow, in the
/ Gwalcon district. Two large villages
are entirely destroyed. From Nepau
large numbers of the inhabitants are
emigrating in consequence Of famine.
General Sickles, late United States
minister to Spain, and Caleb Gushing
had an interview in Paris yesterday.
Cushing will leave for Madrid Friday.
Sickles will remain some time in Lon
don, in consequence of sickness in his
family.
Thomas Carr, wealthy old gentle
man, was killed yesterday in the Catho-
lie cemetery, in Dorchester, Massachu-
setts, by headstODe falling upon him.
He had recently buried three children,
and was removing the headstone pre-
paratOry TO erecting monument over
them.
The employees of Garnbrill & Sons
cOtton-factoTy, at Woodberry, Mary-
land, have struck to compel the reduc-
ton of working hours from twelve to
ten day. The employees number three
hundred and seventy five men, women
and children.
The Merchants national bank of st.
: Paul, Minnesota, was "fxedn yesterday
/ for over three thousand dollars on bo-
/ gus certified check, by man whose
name, unhappjly, ia not known. The
/ check purported to be in favor of w. F.
/ Coolbaugh d. Co.
/ Mr.. Disraeli proposes to recognize the
workingmen, and will appoint q royal
commission to prepare bill for the ad-
justment of conflicting claims of en-
I ployere and employed. Messrs. Nc
I Donald and Burt, workingmen, recently
elected to parliament, will be of this
commission.
A bill has passed the lower house OF
the Ohio legislature providing that q
putative father of an illegitimate child
shall be imprison ned for three months fol
not complying with the sentence of the
court, before he shall be entitled to the
benefits of the act for the relief OF in
solvent debtors.
Authentic advices to April 1st from
the scene of war before Bilboa show
that the republican troops have taken
no position held by the Carlists since
March 18th. Three days armistice, in
which Bilboa was not included, has
been agreed upon for burial of the dead
Meantime the bombardment OF the city
continues. General Caballero de Erodas
with five thousand men, is advancing
by forced marches to the assistance O.
Marshal SeTrano.
A large, heavy box, brought to New
York from London in February, wa
placed in the United States bondel
warehouse. The bill OF ladlng wa
dated London, February ?, 1874, snC
the merchandise, as marked, was con
signed to w. L. Rogers, Dixon, Illinois
, Upon removing the outside covering
. yesterday, pine coffin was revealed
within which was mahogany caske
containing human body.
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