Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-04
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOHE.

A cotton exchange was organized at
Atlanta, Georgia, yesterday.
Misery, want and crime are reported
existing to q great extent in Havana.
The President and Mrs. Grant left
Washington yesterday for Long Branch.
The supposed lost steamer Farraday
has been heard from, and reports having
been delayed by continuous fog. Other
wise she is al right.
Matthew L Roberts, on trial in New
York charged with forging railroad
bonds, has been admitted to bail in if
teen thousand dollars.
The district commissioners have taken
the OATH Of office and fled their bonds
Of fifty thousand dollars each with the
secretary Of the treasury.
At Philadelphia, yesterday morning,
a sewing-mGchine factory cremated.
Loss, sixty thousand dollars-forty thou
sand covered By insurance.
The attorney general has decided that
the State Of Nebraska is not entitled to
five per cent. upon the value of reseTva-
tiOns for Indian tribes in that State.
Governor Moses, OF South Carolina,
yesterday pardOoed the county commits
vieted Of malfeasaBce in Office, and sem
fenced to Imprisonment.
The appointment Of Minister Jewell
as pOstmaster-general is received with
favor in Washington, but surprise is
felt that the President should recall
minister to ill the position.
The tunnel passing from the west end
Of the bridge to Poplar and Eighth
streets in st. Louis was so far completed
yesterday that q train Of cars ps ssed
through the entire length.
George Ferguson, jr., of Lawrence
burg, Indiana, was tarrsd and featnered
by the people Of that place yesterday
afternoon, because Of using, as was al
legged, indecent language 20 two little
girls.
Two Old peOple-McGsughey and his
Wife-Were fatally beaten in Brooklyn
yesterday by a uilkman named Pierce.
The old people had protested against the
noise made by Pierce in hitching up his
team.
A dispatch from Calcutta says that
reports from The famine districts state
that crops are in excellent condition.
The number employed at the relief
works has decreased to two hundred and
fifty thousand, and only four thousand
are being fed by the government.
The governor Of Porto Rico has con-
ce6ed the use Of the government land
lines for telegrsphing the weather re-
ports frOaa ST. Thomas, BarOadoes and
Guadalupe to Jamaica, and thence to
Washington for signal service.
The designation OF commissioners
made by the Freedmen's savings bank
and trust company has been approved
by the secretary OF the treasury. They
are Postmaster General Cresswell, DR..
DR.. c. B. Psrvis and L. II. LEOPOLD.
a dispatch from Cadiz says that the
customs authorities are exacting tonnage
dues Of two pias1es per ton upon vessels
clearing for America. and one piasta per
ton on vessels sailing for European ports
only. Notice given that these dues
would be imposed was 10y a decree pub
lished ia the official gazette.
A late dispatch from Washington
states that Mr.. Jewell, minister at 81.
Petersburg, has accepted, by cable, the
postmaster generalship rendered him
yesterday morning. Mr.. Marshall, first
assistant postmaster general, will be APP
pointed to serve until the arrival of Mr..
IesEell
There is reason to believe, says a
Washington telegram, that the Pres
ident designs appointing q New Eng
lander to the OH e OF postmaster. gem
eral. Ii is known that telegram has
been sent TO Europe rendering the posi-
tiOn to a gentleman now there, and al
though the name is not authentcally
mentioned, Minister Jewell, at st. |
Petersburg, is supposed to be the persoh:
A dispatch from Little Rock says that
the official vote Of thirty counties gives /
thirty-One thousand two hundred and /
hfty-seven majority for a convention. |
The remaining fOrty-four counties, il is /
will swell the majority for a /
to siZly-hve thousand. With 1
the exception OF two or three counties, |
Democrats are elected delegates. The /
majority of the latter in the convention /
will be overwhelming.
The verdict of the coroners Jury in /
the Mil River disaster investigation is 1
published. 1t censures the legislature
for inadequate and defective legislation /
on the subject OF reservoirs; the mill /
owners for their paTsimoDiOus disregard /
Of life and property; the engineers for
tgsEItAAD anu AAeAAAAAtNhN aN-tt
tions, the contractors for manifest de-
ard want Of th0roughness
Ia their work, and, finally, the county
for accepting a dam as
shsbbily built, when they bad the
power to osder an entire reconstruction.
A Salt Lake dispatch yesterday says
that four masked men robbed the Nom |
tana stage five miles south Of Pleasant 7
Valley. The south coach was stopped
Ezst eud run into the brush, and held |
until the north coach came. s. G. Jack |
son and a passenger named Billings lost
three hundred and sixty dollars. The
robbers recognized jackson and returned /
him his money. Passenger Jones, on |
the south coach, was robbed OF sixty I
dollars. The treasuFe-boX Of Wells, Far /
90 d 90. was broken open, and every
thing Of value taken. Their loss Is not |
known.