Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-04
TELEGRAMS.

Inc OnlteQ states supreme court Ie-
sumed its sessions in Washington yes
terday.
A destructivefireo occurred in st. Louis,
Monday night, destroying J. NJ. Law
toms dollar store.
The senate yesterday confirmed the
nomination of Sam Bard as postmaster
at Atlanta, Georgia.
The Peabody trustees report their eX-
penditures for the year 1878 at ore hun
dred and ninety-five thousand dollars.
A dispatch from st. Jean de Luse says
the CarIists have kept up steady bonn
bardment Of Bilboa for thelast six days.
Judge William T. Brown, of Illinois,
suicided yesterday morning by jumping
into a well on his farm, near Edwards
vile.
The condition of Ex-President Fill
more, says dispatch from Buffalo,
New York, late last night, is un-
changed.
A row among the negroes at distil-
lery near Platte City, Missouri, resulted
in killing one man and fatally wound
ing several others.
The Davenport brothers played their
"4ast engagement in America" at New
Orleans Thursday night, which is ridi-
culed by the PicdyaGne.
August Madison, of Jersey City, at
tended a masquerade last night with
a young lady to whom he was engaged.
Jealous of attentions paid her by for
mer lover, he went to an undertaker's
office, where he was employed, and shot
himself.
The public debt statement shows a
decrease during February of S2, $50, 0S7;
coin in the treasury, SIS, ,58S, ,222; coin
certificates, SAC, ,569, 500; currency bal
ance, So, 727, ,754; special deposits of le-
gal-tendeIs, $50, 1850, 900; outstanding le-
gal-tenders, 1882 600, 900.
Garrett Dunn, shoemaker, and Will
liam Sullivan, hOrse-shOer, young men
recently from Cincinnati, got into an
alteration in the shoe-shop over No.
sis Morgan street, in st. Louis, last
evening, and Sullivan thrust a shoe
knife into Dunn's left side, inflicting a
mortal wound. Sullivan escaped. Both
men had been drinking hard for s. week
past.
A dispatch from Dry Tortugas, Flori-
da, states that a steamer, just arrived
from Havana, reported great excite
ment In that city, owing to the alleged
departure from Baltimore of the steam
er Edgar Stuart on fillibustering expe-
dition, and that the Spanish naval Off
GERS had determined to sink her, with
all on board, if found near the Cuban
coast.
Dispatches from Tucson, Arizona,
state that the Cassadoras band Of
Apaches has surrendered to Lieutenant
Bache. Cochise is reported as saying
he will not leave his reservation, and
will do all in his power to prevent 9TH
ers from doing so. This is taken as an
indication that the desire for war is by
no means unanimous among the
Apaches.
The CouSier-JOlH7lal of yesterday
morning has report of bloody homi-
eide in Mercer county, Kentucky, Sun
day night. John Brooks found George
Anderson occupying the same bed with
his (Brooks's) wife, and asleep. Brooks
got an AK, and returning, struck Ander-
son in the neck, severing his head from
his body. Brooks fled, and has not been
apprehended.
Governor Bramlett publishes a card
in the Louisville papers, asking distant
ticket-holders in the public library gift
concert to send delegates to the meeting
here on the twentieth of March, to ar
range for fair and satisfactory drawing
on the thirty-first of March. A million
and a half dollars will be distributed.
A remarkable interest, felt in the re-
suit, is already developed throughout
the country.
Little Rock got through with last
Sunday with only one fatal shooting
affray-that of Tom Watts who killed
Jack Nettles (both colored), in front of
the colored Methodist church Just as the
congregation was being dismissed. The
combatants INDUCED in four shots in the
midst of the crowd, but, miraculous to
state, no one was hurt but Nettles. A
woman's Inconsistency was the prime
cause of the affair.
A Bayonne dispatch of yesterday says
that five thousand republicans, en-
camped near Somorostro, fifteen miles
northwest of BilbOa, were surprised by
Carlists, and bloody engagement took
place, in which one thousand of the for
mer were killed. The remainder took
to flight, closely pursued by the royal
lists, and all were either captured or
drowned in the attempt to cross 8 river
in the way of retreat.
A Wilkesbarre dispatch states that
the miners, who have been for the past
two months fighting fire at the Empire
mine, have ceased work, and yesterday
evening a most extensive cave-in of
the mine occurred, exceeding in extent
the fall of the Baltimore mine q short
time since. Great CONSERVATION pre-
walls in the neighborhood, and families
are preparing to leave. The fire has
now free scope, and threatens to ruin
utterly one of the most valuable possess
siOns of the newly formed Wilkesbarre
and Lehigh coal company.
At London at midnight last night no
news had been received from. the Gold
Coast of later datelthan General VOLS
ley's'd dispatch. All kinds of rumors are
in circulation, and grave fears are felt
that some disaster may have occurred to
the expeditionary force on its march
back to the coast. The anxiety in the
War-office is such that Gothorne Hardy
stays there until late hour, and clerks
remain on duty all night. A steamer
from Cape Coast Castle with dispatches
was due at Lisbon on the twenty-eiehth
ultimo. 1t is possible she may not in
tend 10 stop at Lisbon and be coming to
England direct, but such course would
be contrary to rule.
At the annual meeting of the stock
holders of the Memphis, Carthage and
Northwestern railroad company, held
at Carthage, Missouri, yesterday, Joseph
r. Baker, r. w. Wright, E. Miller. "A.
Talmadge, C. w. Rogers, ]. Sellgman,
], M. Brown, w. s. Tower and ]. M,
HYDE were elected directors; Judge Bs-
ker was chosen president, Mr.. Wright
vice-president, and Mr.. Miller secretary
and treasurer. Messrs. Seligman, Brown
and HYDE are known capitalists in New
York; Messrs. Baker, Talmadge and
Rogers are connected with the Atlantic
and Pacific railroad, and tae other gem