Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-29
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

/ Geld went in New York yesterday by
/ government at 1l2.19 to 1922
The Carlists are under the immediate
command of Don Carlos, and are threat
ening Hermann.
Latest developments establish the fact
that Costley is the murderer of Mrs.
Hawks in Boston.
The lArkaDsas legislature adjourned
yesterday at noon, to meet again on the
seventh Of December.
Flowers were strewn upon the grave
OF the late Professor Agassiz yesterday,
being the anniversary Of his birthday.
The last one of the burglars that have
been working" Omaha and vicinity
was captured there yesterday by the
sheriff.
The funeral of the late David 3. Mel
lish, representative in congress from the
ninth New York district, took place at
Auburn yesterday.
John Edgar Thompson, president of
the Pennsylvania railroad company.
died Wenesday night, after protracted
illness, at his residence in Philadelphia.
Hon. S. S. Cox lectured in New York
yesterday on american Hlt7nOr. The
Iroceeds-over two thousand dollars
were devoted to the sufferers by the Mis-
sisippi floods.
John Knight wound up his literature
peddling career in Fort Wayne, Indiana,
yesterday. with small dose of NOR
phine. Domestic troubles unsettled
Johns reason.
The law empowering the governor to
designate newspapers in which legal adj
vertisements shall be published was re-
pealed by the Arkansas legislature yes
terday morning.
Over five thousand persons visited the
notorious robber, Vasquez, during his
twenty-fOur hours incarceration ia San
Francisco, from which city ne was yes
terday removed to the jail of Salinas
county.
The trial of the women temperance
crusaders in Pitts5urg, before Judge
Stowe, resulted in a reversion of the
judgment of the mayor, and an order
was issued demanding a refunding of
the fines imposed.
The machine-shops of the st. Louis
and Southeastern railroad, located at
Mount Vernon, were totally destroyed
by fire last night, together with. three
locomotives and three passenger-cars.
Loss one hundred thousand dollars; no
insurance.
A midnight train of American Pull
man palace-cars will be run between
London and Leeds, says London tele-
gram, beginning next Monday, and a
similar train will be run from London
to Liverpool as soon as the Midland
road is opened to the latter city.
Al.
New Jersey, yesterday, Bishop Odon-
heimer made an address in which he al
luded to the secession of Bishop Cum
minis from the church, and said in refer
ence to it that it was an "ungodly, un-
churchly and ungenerous action"
A man named Bliss, or Beal. promi-
nent liquor-merchant of San Francisco,
became insane while en- route by rail to
Omaha, and threw all his money out of
the window of the coach, and then
threw himself headlong after it. He
was taken in charge by the sheriff at
Omaha.
The extensive mills of the Southern
bagging company at st. Louis, were
destroyed by fire yesterday afternoon.
Loss between one hundred and twenty
five and one hundred and fifty thousand
dollars. The Planters and Mississippi
Valley insurance companies, of Mem
phis, lose each twenty-five hundred
dollars.
A Paris letter says the Gre which oc-
CURED in the Fauburg st. Antoine was
more disastrous than at first supposed,
and more than five thousand persons
have been left destitute and suffering.
Relief committees have been promptly
organized, and journals are already
opening subscriptions. The full extent
of the property lost has not been stated.
1t is supposed that about thirty lives
were lost.
Dispatches received ip New York yes
terday announced the steamship State |
of Georgia had been run into by another |
vessel at Greenock, on the fourteenth of
May, and cut down to the waters edge,
but was able to proceed to Glasgow. The !
State of Georgia is one of the steamers |
of the State line, and plies regularly be-
tween New York city and Glasgow.
She is an iron steamer of about thirty /
five hundred tons, and was built on the
Clyde.