Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-05-15
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

A millien in gold went in New York
yesterday at 112.10.
The Prof. Swing heresy trial is still
progressing in Chicago.
The Car and Grand Duke Alexis ar
rived at Dover, England, yesterday.
The New York State editorial excur-
sionists were 'dOing" Cincinnati yester-
day.
The second general council OF the Re-
formed Episcopal church is in scssion at
New York.
Immense preparations are making in
London for the reception of the czar OF
Russia to-day.
A special session OF the cabinet was
called in Washington, yesterday, to con-
slider the Arkansas muddle.
A Berlin dispatch has it that the ar
rest of the Russian Grand Duke Nicho-
las was not due to political causes.
Henry Runner, who is accused of the
murder Of Fred II. Enesmp, in Cairo
Wednesday night, was arrested there
yesterday.
Washington, Baltimore, New York,
and other points esst and south, are to
set up summer refreshments for an edi-
toriai excursion from Indiana, who have
started on the rounds.
A fire at Clyde, Ohio, on Wednesday
night, destroyed one grocery store, one
sewing establishment and six saloons.
Loss, twenty thousand dollars. Insur-
ance fifteen thousand dollars.
A caucus of the southern members of
the house, representing eleven States,
was held in Washington yesterday to
perfect the bill for refunding the cotton
tax, amounting to thirty million dol
lars.
The schooner Pamlico, with a cargo of
twenty-five thousand bushels of corn,
sailed from the port of Chicago yester-
day for Cork, Island. The direct rate of
freight on the cargo is thirty cents per
bushel, gold.
A mob of burglars are working Co.
lumbus, Ohio. One was caught up a
twenty-fO0t ladder robbing q residence
with fishing-pole with hook and line
attached. He out.maneuvered his dis
coverers, however, and escaped.
A Cochran's distillery at Tippecanoe,
Ohio, was burned Tuesday night. Loss
forty thousand dollars and only twenty
thousand dollars insurance. William
Green's malthouse, adjoining, was de-
strOyed. Loss twenty thousand dollars.
Charles Calendar was again placed on
trial in the criminal branch of the
United States circuit court, in New
York, yesterday, ON the charge of hav-
ing received a bribe from the Ocean ma
tiOnal bank to influence his action as
bank examiner.
At New Orleans, Wednesday, the
Spanish consul, Don Carlos, General
BOdger, chief of police, and Detectives
Harris and Pearson, gave bond in twenty
thousand dollars each to appear for trial
upon the charge of robbery, preferred by
Captain Roderiques, the grand jury hav-
ing found true bills against them.
A collision occurred on the central
Ohio division of the Baltimore and Ohio
railroad, yesterday, four miles west of
Bellaire, Ohio, between a freight-train
bound east, and an extra train, carrying
emigrants, bound west. The firemen Of
both trains were killed, and some OF the
emigrants were slightly injured.
At a meeting OF the Congregational
board of education in London, Wednes-
day night, a paper was read by Sir
Charles Read, member of parliament,
in which the educational system of the
United States is warmly praised, and
the writer expresses hope that it will
be equaled, if not exceeded, in England
within the next two generations.