Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-21
ELECTRIC CURRENTS.


The State senate of Maine YESTERDAY
voted, fourteen 10 ten, to abolish the dealt
penalty.
The assignee of Homes & Macy an
nOunces that he Will be able TO pay creditor
iorty-fve per cent about the second o
Mach.
Colonel Wyan c. Thomas, editor O
died yesterday.
The strike on the New Jersey
southern railway, which begun five weeks
ago, is al an end.
The veto power has been given the
governor OF Ohio by the constitutional con
VeDtion Of that State. p
James Johnston, a prominent whole
sale merchant Of Terrs Haute, Indiana, died
there yesterday Of apoplexy.
There is great excitement in Prince
ION, Indiana, over an attempt TO tnaugurate
she women's crusade in that place.
At Xenia, Ohio, yesterday, the eiti-
zens subscribed large fund to support the
w0man'S movement against the liquor sellers.
There arrived at New York yesterday
The steamships Russia, from Liverpool
Schiller, from Hamburg, and Olympia, from
Glasgow.
Beyyarts sale and exchange stables,
a. Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, together with
six valuable horses, were burned yesterday
afternoon.
dlAlCL a SdShOAAC BllE1l vi
ChilicOthe, Ohio. preached a temperance
sermon yesterday, but opposed the women's
movement.
Thomas Rodman, says an Albany,
New York, dispatch, has been appointed dis
trict attorney Of Kings county, in place of
Britton, removed.
Dio Lewis has called for a State con-
vention in Ohio, of the friends of the present
movement against the vending and man ufac-
lure Of stimulating liquids.
Right-Honorsble Edward Cardwell,
who was secretary Of war in GladstOue'S min
iSfry, is TO De elevated TO the peerage, with the
title Of NiscOunt Remington.
The following were the customs re-
ceipts for the week ending the fourteenth {:
New York, SZ,453rl6; Philadelphia, S2i6,iOo /;
Baltimore, SI5i,5 Boston, S355,s7S.
\ dispatch from Ripley. Ohio, states
thar tIcere is but one liquor establishment In
That pla &c, and its prOprietoT's name is Be-
reaw, ans DC is dangerously sick in bed.
The fine residence of r. J. Watson,
seven miles II pIn St. Louis, was burned early
Yesterday Inoru'tBg. Loss, forty thousand dol
lars; insured for NWenty-six thousand dollars.
General Sir CSarnett Walsely, COM
mander OF the Asha utee expedition, is a snf-
feTer TO large amount by the destruction OF
the PRutIchniton, in London, on Wednesday.
William Baker, a painter, fell from
scaffOld on Grace churo D, at Evansville, In
diana yesterday morning, ana was SO severe
ly injured that his life Is believed TO be IN
danger.
Judge Barlow, of Springfield, Ohio,
yesterday lined five saloon-keepers IN the
sums Of nom nifty to four hundred and fifty
dollars each, for selling liquor in violation OF
The Adair law.
Indications are that the senate COM
Inittee on appropriations will agree to the ac-
Iio- OF the house providing for a reduction OF
the rank and file OF the army 10 twenty-five
Thousand men by stopping recruiting.
Duke de Broglie, French minister Of
the interior, has sent a circular 10 the pre-
fects directing them TO keep watch upon cit
izeng who leave for Chiselhurst ON the Occa-
sion OF the prince imperial becoming of age.
A Philadelphia dispatch says that
five hundred men in Porter & Dickey's cotton
works, KensingtOn, have struck for an ad-
vance OF fifteen per cent. over The rates adopt
ed during the panic, and that troubles In the
shoe trade are threatened.
There was another strike on the New
York Midland railroad yesterday, owing TO
the failure OF the hands 10 realize on the scrip
=sso. The switches are spiked at Summit, and
u0 trains are allowed TO run.
The brewers of Cincinnati are holding
private meetings and taking action in
ref Nence 10 the temperance movement in
Tbe .Ntate One brewer states that Washing
Fon e gurthOuse, which took a hundred kegs
1f beer daily now takes none.
John Magar attended the ball at the
willard lHoGse, in Boston, on saturday last,
4
foOk a draug ght nom bottle which he
Thought conta ined liquor, but which proved
20 be poison. .Te died last night.
4 dispatch t'uom Florida Bay, dated
,he nineteenth. s. ays the steamer Dispatch,
S[lT,eb Ieft Havana 'Cuesdsy, reports thar Con-
s1I-SEeneral Han had been forced 10 ny from
a spanish mob in Havana and take refuge on
board OF British iron sIad-
An investigation into the accounts Of
state Treasurer Hays, OF Kansas, has found
gross irregularities in his management, and a
TSesoIrffcsII has been offered recommending his
iuapeachment. 1t is said the state VIII not lose
anything, as Hayss Donosihen AIeEespons1oIe
foT a. liabilities $500
A party of cosl-miners, of st. Clair
county, Illinois, who are on a strike, went 10
the mine of Robert -Leman, near Freepurg,
Yesterday 6reye OF a party of negro miners
whom Leman had employed, and robbed
their shanties OF their clothing, reyolYers,
watches, etc.
As a feature of the memorial to Prof.
Agassiz, il is proposed that the teachers ana
pupils Of The whole country take part IN II,
and that ON the anniversary OF his birthday
MAY 2sthl they shall each contribute some
thing, however small, to the teachers and pu-
pills memorial fund.
The Touring mill owned by Mrs.
s2ockstrav, at Rockford, Indiana, was de-
str0yed by fire this morning: loss twenty-five
70 e1irty thousand collars, no insurance. Inc
man named Red1ngers have been arrested ac-
cused OF setting the mill on IRE.
A valuable letter, mailed from New
York twenty-five years ago, was reclaimed at
tine dead letter bureau OF the postofhce yes
feIday- T'be letter was addressed 10 the care
OF ne United states consul at Liverpool, and
is supposed TO have been recently discovered
among old papers In the consulate.
The IawIessuess reported in Lincoln
n ,unty Missouri, a few weeks since, contin-
ne 5 Seven murders had been committed
M, re in ten days previous 10 the cate OF the
left er. The outlaws hreaten 70 XII some OF
frNn - V.
Nan y farmers have left the county and more
are &c follow.
A Philadelphia dispatch says prepara-
ions a. e making in that city for great reli-
he inter est OF temperance, in which all the
syaueelie al churches will engage. The pope
mas sent letter 70 the Massachusetts Cathollc
1emperauc,s Union encouraging the members
In their work.
Caetaiu Morton, of the steamship
Moro castle. from Havana, reports that in an
engagement about February lst column. OF
spanish troops aDoqt twelNe hundfed strong
ring loss in xii 'ed, wounded and prisoners OF
six hundred men,, Intelligence that Captain
Morton, regarded rs trustworthy, represented
the SpaniaTds as We 'rsed IN every engagement.
a dispatch from Davenport, Iowa,
vells the following startling story; "Mrs.
s wealthy farmer Of this county, vas brutaliy
lnur1eEed, BY some man unknowlis IN hef
"A dOubie-barreled shotgun, and died instant
~ Her youngest child. four years old, vRs
also shot. There is no cine to the murderers,
and their objects are unknown, although il is
thought hey were intent OF robbery"
The st. Louis Repu5lican's cores |
poBdent at Santa Fe, New Mexico, SAYS that |
me supreme court OF that Territory has de- /
ridsd tsat the Pueblo Indians Of New Mexi- 4
"a, are citizens OF the United States, under 4
sTeaty of the Guadalupe Hidalgo, with power /
seii and dispose Of their lands like other /
o -zeng This decision Will add about four /
~ - sand votes to the population of that Ter
= nou - and relieve the government of the ne |
iIy, and expense OF supporting Pueblo |
eelts :. nd distributing farming implements !
aTnong tfIs m.
TTbe Tautson Times says the new min
-. = =, r,It ows: Benjamin Disraeli, first I
NJ s - fi,a fTea suary; Baron Calrnes, lord
o. y Nss,sncellor: Earl Derby, secretary OF the
iig- ", deDartment. Duke OF Hlcnlhohu, Sec SEC
Oreis - -rsr. M NarauiS Of salisbury, secretary
sLaTg ta Earl OF CatTnaIooi fTs Ef,,,,f ,1
or Inno-, al department.; George WsIu W51l hu.lt,
he colon the home Department. Oatnorns
-eorelary s IOf ID Of adm1raltyi ST StaIIofn
Harry, nIst 10 >~elior OF exchequer. Inc
Norlhcetet ehano Lennox viii be eornmis-
tiseS sios sl1ss S9 Losc -sidingsi Captain stan
lev. under-secretary of wa stralfy- and Tyord 1
Hay, secretary TO the adm. =. Sil, foreign de- 4
under-secretary fol
partment -.
A. ID. C.. Mckay, q speculatOr sa SSfv |
in New York, IS reported TO have ma sen. /
thousand dollars owing to forged letters size
10 the stock exchange Tuesday, but he say = j
only made seven thousand. He Appeared b.
lore the governing committee yesterday. He u