Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-01
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5iin4 loss of eighty killed and two I
s,tafl,S.,5 taken prisoners. In their last I
Srss5etnaent before Bilboa, General
Prnsle Rivera was severely and Gen.
eraI Lana slightly wounded.
The war between the great railway
trunk Fines on the subject OF carrying
immierants is likely to prove Denenclai
to Immigrants, as it will result in q re-
dnctioS of rates as long as it lasts. Van
derbilt says if it is necessary to fight the
comhination he will carry immigrants
at one dollar head.
The Missouri legislature adjourned
Yesterday, after passing the bill author
ling the issue of one million dollars IN
funding bonds to meet the maturing IN
,debtedness of the State; also, oiii
authorizing the city Of st. Louis, II
Sanctioned by the people, to issue two
aud a half millions of street-paVlhg
bonds.
The notorious Tom Mcclellan was shot
in the head in Hamilton Ohio, last
night, it is supposed by John hoehler'
They were both drunk at the time. The
reason for the shooting does not appear.
NcGehan's wound is pronounced not
fatal. 1t will be remembered G. L. Val
faudigham lost his life while acting as
McGehsnIs lawyer in trial for murder.
4 Col. A. g, Ierrel who killed Harvey
Meyers in Coeington, Kentucky, sat
urday, states that Meyers seized him,
pushed him into the hall and TO the head
Of the stairs, and fearing he might push
him down stairs, he shot him IN self de-
tense, then fell from exhaustion. Coi.
I Terrell. saws Cincinnati telegram, IS
re a vr-nnnd inf1IRf-
Z ed by a knife from young Frances on
/ account of an article published by Ter
4 rel as the Covington reporter of the Gin
cinnati Commercial. He expresses re-
1 gret for the act.
Z Quite a sensation is looming up among
Z the Episcopalians in Newark, New
K Jersey, consequent on schism among
the congregation and vestry OF Grace
church. 1t appears the rector, Rev. Mr:
Harrison, and vestry, are IN favor OF
high church ritualism, whereas very
I considerable portion of the cOngrega-
tion are not. a communication, signed
by nearly one hundred members of the
church, has been addressed to Bishop
Odenheimer supplicating his interfer-
ence with the advanced ritualism in
vogue ct Grace church.
iDe mousse On 1BpAOtAANA-
! tions yesterday heard AttOrney-General
Williams in relation to his deficiency
estimate ofthree hundred and ten thou
sand dollars for expenses of the United
States courts, and Commissioner Drum
mond of the general land office in ad'
yocaey the appropriation of forty-hvC
thousand dollars to cover the deficiency
in the appropriations for rent OF Office;
and for surveying of public lands. TIT
deficiency bill viii be reported to th'
house on Wednesday or Thursday next
While about twenty persons were re
turning home from the CampbelitC
church six miles from CsrbOndale, Hi
nois, ,Saturdaynight,t they were fred upol
from ambush and Mrs. Stoweil ant
David Bulliner dangerously, perhaps
mortally wounded. 1t is not know
who the assailants were, but it is be
} lieved the affair grew out OF an oil
: grudge existing between the Buillne
2 family and some of their neighbors, an
was continuance of a tragedy Whic
p occurred three months ago in whic
young Bulliner's father was killed.
: A letter from Havana says that th
z incendiary torch is making great have
in the sugar plantations of the islanC
: The Spaniards call the perpetratol
e highwaymeB, and Cubans say that it
v the wofK0f ffl5grEents. The destTuctio
& of property is fearful, aud IN Theme
fertile part of the sugar-growing eOul
d try. On the eighteenth of March u
r village of Jaquayason, under the Juri
20 iiction of Remedies, and the whole su
a rounding country, were Illuminated
the burning cahe-fields of sugar. ~
i plantation of Madea, with about thr
=, hundrediacres Of sugar-cane were @
" stroyed, eighty-eight acres of which h
~ already been cut, ready for the mi
- Volunteers have been sent out in scar
of the incendiaries, and several ott
es detachments have been distribut
70 among the other estates fer their prot'
"a tiou. The patriot army in the cent
TO department now numbers over TWEEN
thousand men, and the whole arr
le, throughout the island is estimated
v near thirty-fve thousand. The impr
n sion is general that COncha viii ma
nd propositions of peace to the marquis
ue Santa Lueca, but no conditions Will
accepted except the unconditional
on render of the Spanisnds, and their
Ter partllre from the island.
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