Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-26
GENERAL NEWS.

The French assembly has resolved to
adjourn on March 18th to May ID.
The German Catholic union on Mon
day evening, filled Cooper's Institute in
New York on the occasion of an enter
taiDment in aid of the pope. The main
feature of the programme was an ad-
dress by Rev. DIR. Schro Ter on Germa-
ny's future, which he held would be
Catholic and free.
A fire on Newark avenue, Jersey
City, yesterday morning, destroyed the
stores of d. +. Smith, hardware; Arm
strong, boots and shoes; Christy, hay
and feed and several horses, and Riiey's
crOckery store, also a brush store and
beer saloon. The total loss is estimated
at sOout fifty thousand dollars.
In accordance with resolutions passed
at he PASTORS meeting in New York
two weeks since, Sunday was devoted
in nearly all the churches to the subject
of temperance. The sermons delivered
during the day differed considerably in
their mode of discussing what consti-
tutes true temperance, the advocates of
intelligent temperance being about
equally divided.
The acting secretary of the interior
and commissioner of Indian affairs
urged, before the house committee on
appropriations Monday, the immediate
appropriation of two hundred million
dollars to provide subsistence for the
Sioux Indians now congregated at the
Red Cloud and White Stone agencies.
Can any powder factory furnish that
amount of the proper materially
A serious disturbance is reported in
the vicinity of Gowan, Montcalm cOun-
ty, Michigan, caused by the efforts of
the raftsmen TO destroy the dams on the
Flat river. The sheriff of MOntcalm
county has called on the State authori
ties for assistance to preserve the peace.
The governor has ordered company of
militia to be sent from Grand Rapids to
the scene of trouble, by special train.
A woman named Frank Smith went
to Columbus, Ohio, from Louisville
some months ago, and found employ
ment as sewing g-wOman az the Long
street house. She had quarTeled with
her husband and was seeking asdivorce.
Becoming discouraged by stories that
her husband had placed spies on her
track, and that stories were afioat de-
rOgSt0Ty 20 her character, she commits
ted suicide Tuesday morning by taking
morphine.
Major Henry Heiss, who has been
managing editor Of the st. Louis Tines,
for the past two years, has severed his
connection with that paper, and Will
take charge of the URtOn and American,
Nashville, Tennessee. The prOprietOrs,
editors and reporters Of the Times, and
3 number of personal friends, pre-
sented the major with a farewell testi-
mOnial in st. Louis, last evening, in the
shape of silver service and gold
headed cane
Rev. DR.. Porteus started his new
church Sunday in the Clinton Avenue
Congregational church, Brooklyn. In
his sermon he said he placed himself be-
fore the American public only as plain
man of commOn-sense. He stood before
them as q Chureh-Of- England clergy
man, having never declined allegiance
to nor broken away from the church. In
his own country the church grants hlm
great liberty; he should take the same
liberty here that he would on the other
side of the water.
The freight men of the Pennsylvania
Central railroad, who struck for an ad-
vance of wages, have returned TO wore
at seventeen and half cents an hour,
and a promise of an increase should
other companies make an advance.
The Erie railroad company has resolved
not to re.employ any men who Joined
in the recent strike. All laborers
wanted are Offering if protection at
work is guaranteed. The strikers
are eudeavoring to induce the callers
checkers and associates to join them.
Governor WoOdson sent a message tx
the Missouri legislature Monday, calling
attention to the fact that a band OF out
laws exists in the State of Missouri, wh'
ron and murder with impunity; that h'
has no adequate means TO bring thes'
desperadoes to justice, and asks tns
nroner LEGISLATION be had at once. DE
teetive Alien, of Chicago, VINO wa
wounded at Monegan Springs by Tn
Savage brothers, is net dead As reported
but Il now expected TO recover. hb
wife arrived at BOscoe q day or two ago
and is nuTsing him.
The Methodist ministers in their rega
lar meeting in New York have takei
strong grounds against Rev. Dr. OIoSoy
regarded as a special advocate or temp
erance, and have adopted the following
resolution: "ReSoyUed, That we mos
emphatieally assert our full belief IN th'
urinciple of total abstinence as the only
present safety, the only effective exam
ple. the ONLY basis for radical and per
inanently successful temperance move
ment.u They have also adopted resolu
tions favoring the suppression OF tipping
houses, wedding out from the ehurche
of drinking members and landlords 9
liquor saloons, and offer their hearty CO
operation to the women in anyth1n
that will drive out the Demon rum.