Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-27
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

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by the efforts Of the crusaders.
The Irish members of the British par
lament have resolved to press the SUBJ
Ject OF home-rule during the present ses-
sion.
Cass Matlock, the Rock Creek muir
derer, was sentenced in Little Rock
Tuesday to be hanged on the twenty
sixth of May.
An extradition treaty between the
United States and Ecuador has been
officially proclaimed, and is to continue
for ten years.
A deputation of French royalists win
soon visit Count DeChambord and
make last effort to effect restoration
Of the monarchy.
The business portion of Red Creek,
Wayne county, New York, burned last
night. Loss thirty-five thousand dol
lars; partly insured. 80
Two dry goods stores, belonging to
Woodson and Fletcher, in Concordia,
Missouri, We're burned yesterday. Loss,
twenty-five thosand dollars.
English Journalists were delighted
Tuesday on their first ride in a Pullman
1 palsee-car, which have just been intro
duced on railways in England.
The Howard court of inquiry, during
its session Tuesday, heard the testimony
of General BabcOck on the subject of
paying bounties to colored soldiers.
Hon. William Orton, president of the
Western Union telegraph company,
sails from New York for Europe Satur-
day, under advice of bis physician.
An Indian mound, in Giles county,
| Tennessee, has been removed, in which
! was found three Indian skeletons, and
some trinkets peculiar to Indian fancy.
A London telegram says that it is re-
ported that Ralph Waldo Emerson will
receive the nomination for land rector
for the university of Glasgow, to sue
ceed Disreali.
At Laconia, New Hampshire, yester-
day, Blodgett, the wife-murderer, plead
guilty to murder in the second degree,
and was sentenced to thirty years i'm
! prisonment.
The meeting of the congregational
council in New York yesterday con-
/ sumed the entire day in discussing Ply
/ mouth church and the expulsion of Mr.
Tilton from its membership.
Two buildings were burned at Malt
haven, New York, last night, and in
one of them Mrs. Burns and her three
/ children were burned to death. Her
husband and two children escaped.
Plymouth church, in Brooklyn, New
York, yesterday protested against any
action by the Congregational council
in reference to the (PlymOuth) church,
declaring that it would be governed
alone by its own acts.
A number of gentlemen of New York
really and zealously in earnest in an ef-
fort to restore the practice of burning the
dead instead Of burying them, are con-
lemplating a large meeting or some
other form Of demonstration in public.
The passenger-train on the Jefferson
and Marshall road, ran off the track |
Tuesday, falling into Cypress bayou. !
Tony BOttO, the engineer, had an arm |
broken, and was otherwise injured. The |
fireman, who was severely injured, has |
since died. -. 1855.
In the Hudson county court, Jersey |
City, yesterday morning, AlOnzo E. !
Kimball was placed on trial, for the sec
ond time, for completely in the death of |
Ida w. Vail, the victim of malpractice. |
Mr.. Snetzler, already convicted, is the |
principal witness against him.
Chancellor Turner, at Selma, Ala
bama, on Tuesday, decreed the sale of |
the Selma, Rome and Dalton railway, /
and all the property of the company in /
cluding four hundred thousand acres OF /
public lands. The decree was ON the /
suit of Johnson and Stewart, trustees of |
the first-mortgage bonds.
A Cairo dispatch mixed things yester- |
day as follows: "Oliver r. COPELAND, a !
passenger from Memphis, died suddenly |
after taking a seat in the Chicago-Dound |
train. He was in feeble health, and the |
inquest showed that he died from natu- |
raj causes. The body will be sent to his |
friends in Mclean county"
The committee on elections has fin |
ished the examination OF the case of |
PiDchback against Sheridan, for a seat |
from Louisiana, and, it is understood, |
will report next week that the evidence |
on which both claimants rest their re-
spective cases has not enabled the COM
mittee to decide between them.
A BayOnne dispatch Tuesday night |
reported that the CaTlists are throwing
incendiaTy shells into Bilboa with terri
bic effect. The whole streets are report
ed to be in flames. A recent engage
ment before the city resulted in the Oe-
cupation by the besiegers of Abba, su-
burb on the left bank of Nervione.
At the Lincoln spring meeting yester-
day, says a London telegram, the race
for the Lincolnshire bindicap was won
by Tomahswk, Oxford Mixture second,
Shylock third. Thirty horses ran. The
betting at the start was twelve to one
against Tomahawk, forty to one against
Oxford Mixture, and fifty to one against
Shylock.
The real estate exchange association
of Indianapolis, Indiana, inaugurated
their new exchange building on Market
street, Tuesday night. Addresses were
made by Governor Hendricks, Prof.
Cox, State geologist; James Green,
editor of the Crop Reporter Of HiRoiS,
and other prominent gentlemen in the
city and State.
At Jacksonville, Indiana, on Monday
evening, some mischievous person
sprinkled pepper on the pavement in
front of saloon that was to be visited
by the ladies, and when the crusaders
began their work they were attacked
with such fit Of sneezing and cough
ing that they had to retire to some Sc
cluded spot and rearrange their back
hair, etc.
Yesterday morning between fifty and
sixty Italians went from New York to
Hob6ken for the purpose of working on
the new tunnel of the Delaware, Lacka-
wana and Great Western railroad.
When near the tunnel they were at
tackled by about one hundred strikers
who had been lying in wait, and put to
flight. The leader OF the Italians, it is
thought, is fatally wounded.
A conference of the Republican men,
bers Of the Massachusetts legislature was
held in Boston last night, and ia the
heat of the debate q letter from Mr..
Dawes was read, in which he refused TO
make any bargain, and expressed a
preference for ''death in the ODen field"
This created g sensation, and he reader
expressed regrets for having so suddenly
divulged the correspondence.
A telegram from Scott's bluffs, Ne
braska, Oid Fort Laramie, Wyoming,
states that on Sunday, the twenty
second instant, one white man was +
killed and all the horses at COad's rancho
We're stolen by Indian. John F. Coad,
who resides there, says that the Indians
have been~killing his cattle daily for the
past two months, and that he has tele-
praphed the governor of Nebraska ask
ing for protection.
a. w. Wheeling and Mrs. Rebecca
smith, who eloped together from Tren-
ton. New Jersey, some weeks since,
e,,,d In NaW Albany indiana