Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-21
TELEGRAPHIC MELANGE.

TELEGRAPHIC AELANGE.
/ The Masonic grand lodge of Ohio as
sembled In Colum bus yesterday.
A London dispatch says that Captain
! Mayne Reid, the novelist, is dangerously III.
Mrs. General Sherman, son and daugh.
ter arrived IN New York Monday night e7
r0uts TO st. Louis.
A compr0miss has been effected in
4 jefferson parish, Louisiana, between the Con,
servaiives and Republicans.
Two more companies Of Federal troops
passed through omaha Saturday en- route foi
New Orleans.
Monday was the sixty-fifth ami.
yersary Of the New York Bible society, of The
| Episcopal church.
A telegram from Lond n says that
Won Arnim Is kept in close confinement,
awaiting his trial.
The fifth congressional district Demo
cratic convention met at Boston Monday
but made no nomination.
The American electrical society viii
mold meeting for organization at the Pal
mer house, Chicago, this evening.
The Cincinnati May musical festival
for 1875 Will be grand success. Thomas aud
his orchestra will be the main attraction.
Major Henry Earkin, recently of the
san Freneisco P1sf, was killed BY f. I. MAY :
bridge at Colestgo, California, Saturday night.
A dispatch from Omaha states that,
though defeated, Savage, the Democratic can.
didate for governor OF Nebraska, made good
run.
A Chicago stTeet-car driver named
James 1inuoana, murdered a saloon boarding
house keeper named Mathew Ryan, Satur-
day.
B. F. Howard, secretary Of the ma
tional pork-packe1s convention, met with an
day.
1t is reported at Berlin that the last
domiciliary visit to the residence OF Count
Won Arnlm was made for the purpose Of de-
laying his trial.
The New York Herdld's Washington
special says the German government has posi-
lively diselaimed any intention of purchasing
naval station In Costa Rica.
The store-house of the Danvers carpet
company, at Danvers, Massachusetts, was
burned Saturday night. Loss, fifty thousand
dollars; insurance, ten thousand dollars.
At mSss meeting of cOlored people,
held at Jackson, Indiana; called at the insti-
CATION Of E. 5. Wedder, Breaux and Low, a
not took place and several men were killed.
The schooner Halstead, from Erie,
laden with coal TOR Chicago, collided with the
schooner City of Painesville, loaded with grain
for Buffalo, on Lake Michigan Sunday morn
ing.
A Guatemala paper says the victims
OF the earthquake Of September Sd number
two hundred. The losses suffered IN the de-
partment are estimated az twenty-five thou
sand dollars.
American Girl and Copper Bottom
trotted Monday at Deerfoot park, in NeT
York, for purse OF one thousand dollars
Copper Bottom tooK the first heat in 2;-1S, Cir
next three and race in 2:2754, 2-2612 and 2;2S
A st. Louis dispatch yesterday says
that Captain Joe Kinney has sold 10 his son,
J. b. Kinney, the steamer Kate kinney ana
the barge Noble for twenty thousand dollars.
She viii be put in the southern trade at once.
John Coulson, a white deekhsnd on
the steamer City OF Vicksburg, was shot three
times and instantly killed aE Nioksburg yes
terday by Judd Clayton, colored roustabout
on the came boat The murderer was cap
tured.
The stores of John M'ArIhur Il Son
and DeLisle Brothers, and the NJ MGlllem stone
damaged by fre Monday morning 10 the
amount OF two hundred and nfty thousand
dollars.
At row between some Texas herd
ers and the citizens Of Kearney Junction, Ne
brsska, Saturday night, two OF the citizens
were killed and then the Texans retreatsd to
an island in the Platte river and fortified
themselves
Saturday night, in an sffrsy on the
bark K. H. Kingsman, from Baltimore, John
Peter Defan, a slevedore on the vessel. Whit
man is in custody. He claims TO have acted
in seIf-defense.
The Masonic grand lodge of Arkansas
assembled at Little Rock yesterday and elect
ed the following officers for the ensuing year
NJ. L. Belt, grand master; George Z. Dodge,
de eputy- y-grand-master; George TbOrDburg
grand orator; l. Z. Barber, grand secretary.
The board of officers OF the Cincin-
natl chamber of commerce Monday adopt
cd rf1Ia a nfFFr n hnrrpitRl DDrk
were amended by the recent national conyen-
tion Of PORK packers and provision dealers,
held at Louisville,
A telegram from Paris Monday says:
"Full returns of elections yesterday for va
cAncies in the assembly show that Nj .aDellisse
I rgrande, Bonaparust, heads the polls in
Pas de Calais, but as he fails OF majority
new election Will be necessary
The Baltimore express, due at Cincin-
natl sunday morning at six o'clock, met with
an accident al ObanyOn bridge, east o. Love
land, Ohio, wrecking the locomotive and ten
der. The engineer, Dan Plead and fireman.
Jas. Aren't, both o. Chillicothe, were killed
instantly.
Two construction trains cOilided Mon
day morning near Deerneld, on the Detroit
and Adrian branch or the Lake shore and
Michigan southern railroad. Both trains
were completely wrecked. Charles kramer,
an, was instantly killed, and six others
injured
Francis Jerrard, 8 representative Of
the EngH-h Carlist committee, and Cyril
Buckland, q correspondent Of the New York
Time, started from BsyoDne, Monday, Tor
the Carlist headq uarters, and from reports al
hand 1t Is believed that both have been scot
by the Republicans.
The supreme court at Washington
took up the case OF WOSdsOn IS.
Murdoek and others, involving the question
)f the right of the state Of Missouri TO sell |
he property Of the Pacific railroad 20 satisfy |
1 lien OF the state for advances made toward |
he completion OF the road.
On Saturday night the British |
schooner, Cecilia Jeffrey, bound from Cleve- /
and, Ohio, for Canada, encountered storm, /
and in attempting TO return to port for |
Il Is thought that the vessel and cargo can be |
without much damage.
A telegram from Washington Mon |
iay SAYS that Acknowledgement Williams de. |
eided that the auditing board under the act OF
Columbia, must allow six per cent. interest |
per anum on liquidated and overdue indebt- /
edness Of the late board OF public works.
An important suit was filed in the
Louisville chsneeTy 0;9 so1rt on ssa1nFG9S gy
Of Rhode Island, for the recovery OF large
amount OF property In the west END OF the
city, alleged 10 have been illegally sold by an
agent. The value OF the property sued for is
about one million dollars.
The Dresden Democrat learns that
little boy, step-son Of Mr.. W. r. Turner, living
near Ralston station, Weakley county, while
dri wing a wagon loaded with cOrnstalks, was
thrown out and killed. Tue mules attached
to the wagon became unmanageable and ran
away, throwing him 10 the ground, when the
whet Is passed over his head, crushing il.
A New Orleans telegram says that
the Coneordia parish grand jury, conn posed of 1
two whites and the balance colored, found a /
bill against Dave Young, cOlored, member OF /
the legislature, for embezzltng thirty thou /
sand dollars belonging TO the parish; also, /
found a true bill against owen stewart for I
property under false pretenses-
1t is estimated that there are one thou I
sand men and three thousand women in an /
" no practice polygamy and profess lis doe I
trInes, and thai the cost OF prosecuting them l
will amount TO over two million dollars. be- /
sides, the courts would be beleagueTed wi b I
three thousand weeping widows and nine 1
blubberiDg children during the /
progress OF the prosecution.
Motion was made yesterday by the |
for Rev. Henry Ward Beecher in the |
n7fr- RI in lyTl The0ftDTn