Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-23
TELEGRAPHIC BREVEPIEs.


cred Of a daughter.
The board Of health, and other author
tiles of Chicago, are preparing to license
the social evil in that city.
| Corn is worth sixty cents per bushel
shelled, sacked and delivered at the de,
pot at Shelby vile, Tennessee.
French authorities on the Spanish
frontier have arrested the cure of Santa
Cruz, and carried him to Bayonne.
Disraeh refused, on Saturday, to re-
ceive the deputatiOn which came to ask
the release of the Fenian prisoners.
The temperance ladies of Cleveland,
/ Ohio, take hope in the success of their
cause from the recent message of the
mayor.
Emperor William has determined to
maintain the present strength of the
Prussian army, and thus secure peace to
Emope.
DR.. Lewis Brady, well known as a
large manufacturer of patent medicines,
died IN Louisville, Kentucky, yesterday
morning.
The British parliament, on Saturday,
appropriated five million dollars to de-
fray the expenses of the Ashantee ex-
pCOlb4Ous
John Webb is on trial at Knoxville,
East Tennessee, charged with the muir
der of Richard Reynolds near there some
time ago.
A dispatch from Vienna says that the
appointment Of Baron Schwartz PEN
born to be Austrian minister at Wash
ington is gazetted.
One Of the principal hotels IN Wash
ington city has been notified that it will
be visited to-day by detachment of
womenin the interest of the temperance
movement.
George Miller Afford, colored, con-
yicted of the murder of DIR. Granville
Afford, in Washington county, Ken
lucky, has been sentenced to be hanged
on the first of May.
c. B. Berthuman, a noted Kentucky
desperate and fugitive from Justice, was
shot and killed in his mountain recess, a
few days since, by party Of officers at
tempting bis arrest.
An excursion party composed of prom
inent citizens OF st. Paul and Mime
ap0lis, Minnesota, visited Chicago yes
terdaY, and viii make q two or three
days sojOurn in that city.
A Catholic mob,on the Right of March
7th, attacked a Protestant chapel in Pue-
bio, Mexico, and smashed the windows
and furniture, destroyed the Bibles and
stoned the preacher, Rev. Antonio Coral.
A petition from one thousand mer-
chants of New York will be presented
in congress to-day, asking that the vol
ume of legal-tenders be fixed at four
hundred million dollars, and for the
passage Of free-banking law.
Joseph Booth fell under the cars at
Virginia, Nevada, yesterday, and had
both of his legs cut off. A young man
who witnessed the accident Sainted and
bis bair, which was jet black, turned in
stantly grey. Both probably cannot
survive.
Yesterday was field-day in temper
ance circles in localities visited bv the
Ohio demonstration. Churches re-
sounded with the voices of advocates of
the movement, and the ladies prayer
meetings were held, attended by large
numbers of new workers in the cause.
Alps well than ends well.
Arthur Bell, New York book-keeper,
adds his name to the long list of thoee
who have gone before, as defaulter, his
irregularities figuring up about thirty
thousand dollars. He was bead-scribe |
IN h U. Macdonald q Co.'s patent med
lcine concern of that city. He was ar
rested, and made confession of his guilt |
The bridge over Red river at Fulton |
was finished Saturday, and trains over |
the Cairo and Fulton road will hereaf- |
ter run to Texarkana without change. |
The river is nearly bank full from |
to the mouth, with a steady |
rain every day, A heavy rise is report
ed from above, and an overflow is appre-
hended.
A New Orleans telegram of yesterday
says that the printers union passed a
resolution reducing the price Of compo-
'1tion to sixty cents per thousand ems,
Out the prOprietOTs will adhere to their
resolution to pay only fifty cents, from
and after March 23d. Indications are
hat all the printers belonging to the
lnion will strike to-day.
The Erie railway company are sup
plying the places of the recsnt strikers
With Italians, which came near result
ng in a riot in New York, Saturday. A
arge number of strikers gathered around
be work, when the Italians scattered
q all directions. A detachment of DO
ice was obtained, and soon after num-
'er OF Germans were put on the work.
A Chicago dispatch says that it is
believed there that the detect
We, Allen, who was shot in fight with
he notorious Younger brothers, near
dOnegan Springs, Missouri, on Tuesday
asst, and who died of his WOUNDS on
saturday, st Rasco, Missouri, was Louis
!. Luil, of Pinkerton's detective police,
nd recently captain of police ia Chi
ago.
John B. Cough, in a speech at tenn
erance meeting at Columbus, Ohio, on
aturday, said that while he did not be-
eve prayer on the streets was all in all,
ut only the beginning of this wonder
ii work, still he would not put straw
4 the way of street-prayer, but rather
7ould say, pray on while you can. To
be women he would say, hold up the
ands of these ladies by sympathy and
1ith money.
Mrs. William Scance, wife OF a we'll
DIDO farmer in Scott county, Kentucky,
Dficted frightful wounds upon two of
er children, aged nine and two years,
nd then cut her own throat, Saturday.
he tragedy occurred early in the morn
1g. Mrs. s. dressed herself carefully,
Ook one of her husbands razors, and
rent into the childTen's room, where
ne tragedy was enacted. Mrs. Scance
dead, but the children may recover.
he was laboring under hysteria.