Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-05
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

The general assembly of Ohio meets
to-day.
The duke OF Edinburgh has arrived at
st. Petersburg.
The situation in railroad circles at
Louisville remains unchanged.
A famine prevails in five districts of
the Russian province of Ssmara.
The engineers strike at Columbus,
Ohio, has completely played out.
The United States and Mexican claims
commission has resumed business.
A Vienna dispatch says that naviga-
ton on the Danube is closed by ice.
The funeral of General b. J. Sweet
will take place to-day, at Lombard, llli-
nois.
A heavy snOwstOrm, accompanied by
a northwest gale, prevailed at Chicago
yesterday.
The southern claims commission has
claims before it TO the amount of twenty
million dollars.
Isaac NJ. Weaver was hanged at Red
Bluff, California, Saturday, for the MUIR
der OF A. Warner.
Anthony Evans fatally stabbed his
wife and slightly cut himself at Phila-
delphia on Saturday.
4 Baptist chr~-'i in = zion was dam
aged sixty thoa-aut dollars by fire yes
terdsy. Defective tue.
Forty-five persons were confirmed in
Chicago yesterday by Bishop Cheney, Of
the Reformed Episcopal church.
The twelve British survivors Of the
Virginius massacre have been taken
charge Of by the British consul in New
York.
The bark Polly, from Pensacola to
Liverpool, was lost during the hurri-
cane of the twenty-siXth of December,
and nine Of her crew were drowned.
At st. Louis Saturday night the mer-
curry fell from sixty-twO to several de-
grees below freezing-pOint. An inch of
snow fell there yesterday.
A man named Brown shot and killed
a druggist named Long at Forsythe,
Missouri, last Thursday, for advising q
young lady to discard him (BrowD) as a
lover.
The board Of trade of Keokuk, Iowa,
have passed resolutions denouncing the
st. Louis bridge as an obstruction to
navigation, and calling on congress to
abate the nuisance.
Official advices confirm the main fea-
lures OF the Madrid dispatches. 1t ap-
pears that PAWN is to be court-mar-
tailed for rebellion, and that his sup
porters have been disarmed.
At Buffalo, New York, Friday night,
Anthony Oswald and John Peters, two
teamsters, cuarreled about a girl, in
which the former was instantly killed
by the latter striking him over the head
with a chair.
1t Is reported in Washington that, ex-
cept Boutwell, and possibly Anthony,
the New England congressional dclega-
CATION will oppose the confirmation of
Williams appointment to the chief
justiceship.
The French admiralty court has pro-
'noI;nced the commander of the Vile de
Havre blameless, and holds the Loch-
Earne responsible for the recent horrible
marine disaster. The court eulOgiZes
Captain Surmont.
Congress will be esked to issue coin
notes OF small denomination for the pur-
chase of bullion at the mints in the
Territories. It's represented that it will
enable the government 10 save large
sums in the coinage Of bullion.
4 late dispatch from Madrid yester-
day evening states that all strategic
points OF the city were occupied by the
military. No disturbance was reported
I from any quarter. The transmission ol
private kilograms has been temporarily
suspended.
John Ross, late secretary, and w. II
Kennedy, civil engineer Of the Pittsbure