Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-29
TELEGRAMS.

Two skaters drowned near Boston
! yesterday.
The Emperor Of Austria will soon
I visit Rome
Charles Bradlaugh sailed for England
/ yesterday.
! Mr.. Gladstone has not been summoned
before the court OF queens bench.
Klasser, of Wisconsin, beat Wade, of
Omaha, at billiards, in Omaha Tuesday even
/ ing.
David White, aged twelve years,
hanged himself with his book strap, in New
! York, yesterday.
Hon. Rufus King, of Cincinnati, was
/ yesterday elected president OF the Ohio con-
stitutionRl convention.
The Cincinnati board Of trade protest
against stopping work on the government
/ buildings in Cincinnati.
! George Arnold, a Pittsburg STEEL
smelter, was yesterday found dead, with a
| penknife sticking in his jugular artery. Sup
/ posed suicide.
The Democrats Of Philadelphia decline
] to make a nomination for mayor, and declare
in favor of A. X. Mcclure, the citizens eonsti-
/ tutiOnal candidate.
The Carlists demand a considerable
| sum OF money from the corporation OF San
tander, and threaten to lombard the town If
/ the money is not paid.
The United States senate yesterday
confirmed the nominations of James w. Dam
iels as Indian inspector, and Fielding Lowry
as postmaster at Dayton, Chic.
The old board of directors of the Little
Miami railroad were reelected yesterday,
with the addition of A. D. Bullock and r. A.
Holden TO I'LL vacancies.
GARNER and Ubassy play a match
game OF billiards, for two thousand dollars
and the championship OF the three-ball game,
at New York, Friday evening.
A personal difficulty between S. B.
Armstrong and Washington Butler in Nash
vile yesterday, resulted in Armstrong being
slightly stabbed IN the abdomen and face.
o. B. Smart, formerly conductor on
the Louisville short-line railroad, was run
over by freight train, near Newport, Ken
tucky, Tuesday evening, and died yesterday
morning.
BuffaIos, according to a Cheyenne
letter Just received, were plentiful on the
plains in the latter part OF December, and the
Indians were successful IN their hunting ex-
petitions.
The Brooklyn Presbyterian pronounc-
es worthy OF grave disapprobation the act OF
two Presbyterian churches, permitting Rev.
Sarah Smiley to preach TO promiscuous con-
gregations.
The sexton OF Trinity church, New
York, has been arrested and held TO bail in
three thousand dollars for alleged completely
in number Of thefts committed by one Nc
kee, Of Brooklyn.
The Kansas legislature, in joint ses-
sion, yesterday balloted for United States SEN
ator, with the following result: Phillips, "a;
Plumb, q; Harvey, Is; Osborne, II; the re-
mainder Of the votes Being scattering.
VIM. Lambert, q printer Of Cincin-
natl, well-knOwn throughout the west, who
fell down an elevator from the fifth story TO
distance of about eighty feet, Tuesday night, !
died yesterday evening.
The Louisville and Nashville railroad,
in conjunction with the Pullman palace car |
company, have recently leased the Mammoth |
cave property, and will build branch road |
from the Glasgow junction to a point near the /
cave. Extensive improvements are also pro- /
jectet.
General La MarmOra has published a |
letter maintaining the truth of the state |
ment in regard to the negotiations at one time /
for the cessiOn Of German territory TO France, |
in which, he says, Prince Bismarck paTttci- |
pSted. The letter is reply to Prince Bis |
msrck's denial Of the whole story In the Prus- /
sian LdRdtdg,
st. Bridget's church, opposite Tomp-
kins square, New York, was fired in two /
places, Tuesday. The pastor, Rev. Father |
Mooney, does not believe the incendiaries /
were enemies OF the church, but that their |
knowing that the large congregation would |
be tolerably SURE to rebuild at once.
Buildings 70 and so Gravier and So
and IS Magazine streets, New Orleans, occu-
pied by q. NJ. Hogan, painter and stencil-cut-
ter; Hart Helburn, wholesale saddlers, and
DR.. ID. n. Logan S mineral-water depot, burned
yesterday. Loss estimated at fifty thousand
dollars. Five small frame houses on Cypress
street, near Johnson, were also burned. Loss
seven thousand dollars.
Mr.. Joseph Thompson, an American
resident OF Berlin, was one of the speakers at
a recent meeting in st. James hall, London.
He traced the history OF religious dissensions
In Germany, and praised the American syS- |
TEN OF secular education, which he declared
was the most effective means Of combating
The Times Rlludes to Mr..
Thompson's speech in terms of high com
mendation. Mr.. Chinguy, OF Illinois, also
spoke at the same meeting.
A Courier Journal special says a street
fight occurred In Liberty, Casey county, Ken
lucky, yesterday between the Napiers, MOores
and Rays in which Levy Napier was killed
ana James Napier badly wounded. One of |
the Moores was also wsunded, but the Rays es-
caped unhurt. Woods, the town marshal while |
TO quell the disturbances, had his
leg broken. There were thirty five shots fired
in all. The fight was the result OF an old
grudge between the parties.
A letter from Cheyenne Camp. Indian
territory, dated the nineteenth instant saws |
that the son of Lone Wolf, chief OF his tribe.
was recently killed while raiding in Texas.
This news occasioned much excitement
among the kiowaS. Lone Wolf showed his
grief by cutting himself frightfully with q
knife. He killed his horses and burnt his
wagon and lodge. Some OF the KiowaS talk
Of going to Texas to avenge the death OF Lone /
VOLTS son when the grass comes. Reports
have been received of their having killed
white man between Camp supply and the
cheyenne agency, burning his body 10 pre-
vent detection.
Chief-Justice James Thompson, of the
supreme court, fell dead in the
supreme courtroom yesterday morning. The
deceased was argEing before the supreme
court In a case of tax-titles. He had spoken
but about five minutes. An opposing lawyer
had said that udge Elwen was better Judge
On tax-tttles than he. Here he made the re-
mark that it was amusing that the opposite
counsel should remark this, and then went on
to refer TO the fact that that decision was not
made by himself Judge Thompson was going
ON with his argument, and was leaning over
The table, when he dropped down, and in i've
minutes ceased to live. The court immedi-
ately adjourned.
Charles Bradlaugh has written let
Ter concerning the prospects of the Radicals /
IN the coming general election in England. |
He says: at is probable there will be more Con-
ierVattyeS elected, and fewer Wings, but that
he Conservatives will have to promise some (
very radical measures in order 10 get returned.
The next parliament Will show a sturdy Rad
cal look Tor the first time in English history.
The working miners viii probably be repre- |
iented in the house of commons; they have at !
east three efficient candidates, Mcdonald, |
Burt and Crawford. There is now a Radical
PARTY growing and believe this party which !
las mustered gallant little band even in the
Just slaughtered, will be strength
med so materially in the parliament about to
,e elected that it will not only be strong {
,nough TO prevent the Conservatives from re-
aiming Office for any long term, even suppoS-
ne they should win IL, but will be able SO
materially to omodify the liberal programme
hat Whigism of the Granville type might as
veil perform hdrS-kdTi."
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