Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-26
TELEGRAPHIC .BREVITIES.

~ CdU1c u1opdlCh lIOlu 4OANNCA
that Adam Black is dead.
The new British parliament will rs
semble on the fifth of March.
Three boys were drowned while skat-
ing In Brooklyn, New York. yesterday.
The cornerstone of the new Tribune
building was laid in New York yesterday.
One thousand men have been dis
charged nom the New York navy-yard in the
past week.
The publication of the LgRalidad
newspaper in Madrid has again been suspend
ed for month.
The French assembly has appointed
q committee to iQuidate the civil list Of the
late Emperor Napoleon.
Jennie Defreese, q woman of the
town, committed suicide at ROCKVILLE, last
Thursday, by taking opium.
A telegram from Washington says 1t
is expected the judges Of the supreme court
will soon take recess. The new ehief-justice
will take his seat on the reassembltng OF the
court.
Page McCarty was fined five hundred
dollars in Richmond, Saturday, for killing
John B. Mordecai in duel near that city last
May-the jury finding the prisoner guilty OF
Involuntary granddaughter.
One Of those dangerous nuisances in
the shape OF a signboard suspended across the
pavement, fell on a colored woman named
Emaltne Bronson, in Knoxville, last Wedues-
It is stated, says a London dispatch,
that the fine imposed upon Mr.. Whalley, the
member Of parliament, for contempt Of court
in insisting that the evidence OF one Of the
Ttchborne witnesses was true, has been paid
by his sister.
An engine and eight cars were ditched
on the southern division Of the Cairo and
Fulton railroad, twenty miles from Little
Rock, Friday night. The brakeman was sert-
ously injured. The accident was caused by
the washing out OF a culvert by light rain.
A Mr.. Land, living near Atlanta, CAL
houn county, Mississippi, has mysteriously
disappeared, under circumstances that lead to
the Impression that he was murdered for the
home from Grenada, where he had been to
dispose Of his cotton.
A Washington telegram says that
General Humphrey, chief OF the engineer
will generally be In favor Of the feasibility
and utility of the st. Phillip ship canal near
the mouth Of the Mississippi. General Bar
nard's report will favor the system OF jetties.
A telegram from Pottsville, Pennsyl-
vania, says that while Andrew Bradley, Of
Forestyille, was at supper Saturday night, he
was shot dead by one Farrell, who then cut
an air-hole OF deep mine convenient. Brad
ley's wife gave the alarm, and the murderer
was arrested.
A Bayonne dispatch says that the Car
lists report that Santsndor and Portaguslite,
on the twenty-second instant, and that the
entire SecQuovia battalion, G number of
artillerymen and engineers, twelve hundred
and two cannon fell into their hands.
Captain Ed. F. Dix, an old and
prominent steam boatman OF st. Louis, has
been missing since Thursday afternoon, and
his friends are beginning to feel alarmed for
his safety. Captain DIX lost son by death
about two months ago, since when he has
been greatly depressed in spirits, and it is sup
m have Wandarad N ahhara-
ton Of mind, or committed suicide in some
out-of-the-wRy place.
Last Wednesday, at Fredericksburg,
Virginia, the northern bound freight train on
the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac
railroad, ran of the track on the Rappahan-
mock river bridge. The train had almost
crossed the bridge when truck-pin of the
third car from the rear OF the train broke,
throwing 1t and another car of the track,
breaking them considerably. The bridge was
also badly damaged. No one hurt.
The North Carolina State senate, Sat
urday, passed the usnry bill. The penalty
fixed for charging any rate OF interest exceed
ing eight per cent. is forfeiture of the claim.
The congressman from North Carolina we're
fixing uniform rate of interest throughout
the country. Resolutions of Impeachment
were introduced in the house against s. A.
office.
A suit involving one hundred and
nifty thousand dollars is pending in New York
city, before q referee. The nLigantS are Ten
Brock, a race-horse owner, and NJ. Clark, Jr.,
q Louisville banker, and Blanton Duncan.
Ten Brooks wife, who was married in Rome,
died two years ago in Kentucky, leaving all
her property, valued at one hundred and
fifty thousand dollars, to her husband. The
object is TO impeach deeds as made by Mrs.
Ten Brock. Suborning witnesses is one Of the
charges. Ten Brock and counsel, and counsel
from Kentucky for the other Htigants, are In
New York.
The latest news from Eagle Pass is,
that on Friday morning, the ninth instant,
near Newton, Mexico, a boy was chased by
Indians. The Mexican citizens started at
once, under arms, and succeeded in striking
them about one and half miles from that
town. The Indians took refuge in a ravine,
killing two horses for breatworks, and the
fight proceeded. The engagement lasted eight
hours. Nine Indians and one sQuaW, who
composed the entire party, were Killed, and
two Mexicans wounded. The Mexicans think
the Indians were Camanches, and that they
came from the reservation.
The following is an exhibit of the pro-
ceedings in bankruptcy in the United States
courts, with statement of the cases In bank
ruptcy in said courts and their dispositions
from March, 1857, TO December 81, 1872: Num-
Der of petitions nled in 1857 1885, in 1888, o 559
in 1899 SOIL in 1870 1901; in ISL, 745S; in 1872,
e074; total, 5S8lS; number Of discharges
granted, 3S747; fees and expenses Of assignees,
81 Oo3 0z2; fees and expenses Of clerks, 1927
fees and expenses of marshals, 81 ,00l ,S54; fees
and expenses OF registers, 81 755,S53; miscella-
neous expenses, Sl05, ,66S; total expenses - S3l
7si; number OF cases pending January ],
1873, l5i2.