Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-07
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The sale of phOtogra phs of Count de
Chambord in Paris, is prohibited.
Bailey & Co.'s rope mandatory, in
Philadelphia, was burned Thursday.
Loss, twenty-five thousand dollars.
One million dollars in gold sold in
New York Thursday at III S7391l1.95.
George Mason, an old convict, COM
mitted suicide in San Francisco Thurs
day night. He cut his head nearly off
with a razor.
Telegraphic reports we've burdened
yesterday with the doings of the women
in the great movement toward sup
pressing the traffic in alcohol.
The Boston merchants were before the
ways and means committee of the house
yesterday, and characterized the present
customs laws as Odious in their opera
ton.
The committee of congress to inquire
into the alleged violation of the eight
hour law, on the work of the new post
office building, began its sessions in New
York yesterday.
In London extensive preparations
have been made for the reception of the
duke and duchess of Edinburgh, who
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will be observed as holiday.
A San Francisco dispatch says it is re-
ported that the notorious brigand, I'll
burcio VasqueZ, and part of his gang,
sailed for Mexico on the steamer Con-
stitution, yesterday. 1t is not believed
by the police.
A letter from Havana says that since
the late DEGREES were promulgated the
natives among the Spanish volunteers
are constantly deserting to the insur-
gents, and that whole families are flee
ing 10 the mountains.
The snow storm on the Sierre noun
taiRs continues, and trains are delayed by
the drift snow. Trains report constantly
employed breaking through of the
banks. 1t is the severest storm ever
known in that part of the country.
Hillsdale college edifice, at Hillsdale,
Michigan, was destroyed by fire yester-
day morning. The east hall was saved,
together with much furniture, library
and musical instruments, etc. Loss,
seventy-five thousand dollars; insurance,
fifty thousand.
The bill of the social evil featurein the
city charter of st. Louis, has been in
formally laid over in the Missouri State
senate on motion of its most prominent
friends. Another bill was introduced
yesterday which is Auch more Oppress-
i've in its nature.
A telegram at the Indian Office in
London says that the government will
be obliged to maintain three millions of
people for three months, and that the
expenditures on account of the Indian
famine till February last are estimated
at over seven million pounds.
The senate committee on commerce
has agreed to recommend the passage of
a bill allowing aliens who have declared
their intention of becoming citizens to
be employed as engineers or pilots of
steam-vessels. The law now limits
such employment to Americans.
At Buffalo, New York, yesterday, the
carpenters, painters, track-hands and
freighthOuse employees Of the Erie rail-
way struck, to compel the company to
pay alleged back wages due, it is said,
since the first of January. The ma
chinists and blacksmiths are not en-
gagged in the strike.
From the evidence given by Comp
troller George Z. Baker, Thursday, be-
fore the District of Columbia investigat-
ing committee in Washington, in re-
gard to the amounts disbursed for school
purposes, it appears that the school fund
is Overdrawn, more money being paid
out than the total taxes collected for the
purpose.
During the absence of Anthony Cogs-
well, Of ChapmOnville, Pennsylvania,
bis wife died and was buried. On re-
turning, he had the coffin opened, and
it was found that the body had turned
in its place, indicating that the woman
was only in trance when inferred. The
discovery so affected the husband that
he is now raving maniac.
Charles w. Adams, an old negro near
sixty years Of age, shot and killed, and
then beat out the brains of Joseph Mos
by, another negro, aged twenty-one, in
the Columbian bottom, some sixteen
miles from st. Louis, Thursday. Both
were paying addresses to a young mu-
lattO girl, and jealousy was the cause of
the crime. Adams surrendered to the
officers.
The supreme council of the United
Sons of Temperance is now ia annual
session at New Orleans, at which eight
grand councils are represented, em brac-
ing six hundred and twenty-five subOr-
dinate councils, with a membership of
forty-tWo thousand five hundred and
tWenty-eight. They passed resolutions,
Yesterday, indorsing the wOmen's move
ment n'Ohio.
The civil service committee has
agreed to report the following bill to the
house, with favorable recommendations;
liThat no officer of the United States
shall. directly or indirectly, receive or
be paid to OF for his own use or beneht
any money or property whatever OF the
fixed bv law, and that no public proper
ty shall be used by officials or by any
persons for private purposes; that this
act shall not be so construed as to pre-
vent payment from the treasury OF the
actual and necessary travelling expenses
of United States officials when perform
Ing legitimate and necessary duties per-
tanning to their Offices"