Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-02
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

The French expedition, to be held in
1875, is a private enterprise.
The Carlists, says Bayonne dispatch,
| have occupied the city OF ColosSa.
Philadelphia was very warm on the
| subject of temperance, yesterday.
Thomas G. Chisholm, a Chicago grain
merchant, committed suicide there yesterday
| by drowning.
The New York churches yesterday
entertained their congregations with temper
| ance diseourses.
The first Reformed Episcopal Church
| was organized in Brooklyn, New York, yester-
| day, by Bishop Cummins.
Louisville, Kentucky, proposes to
submit to a vote of the city a law prohibiting
| the sale Of liquor in that city.
Two brothers named Munnally were
| killed at Clover Hill coal mine, near Rich
| earth.
The Pittsburg and Fort Wayne rail-
road depot at Valparaiso, Indiana, was burned
Saturday night, and with it a large lot OF grain
and valuable merchandise.
Mrs. Ward, the Greeneville, Tepnes-
| see, saloon-keeper, remains unconquered, the
raiders having nearly exhausted their pa
tienee and powers on the incorrigible vender
OF stimulants.
The ladies of Chattanooga are con-
templatiDg a crusade against the beverage
two meetings have been held in the In tereSt
of the movement.
A London dispatch says that five hun
dred and seventy casks of refined petroleum
have come ashore on the Suffock coast, sup
posed to be 9 portion OF the cargo of the bark
Brilliant, from Philadelphia, which was
wrecked of Long Sand.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says it is
reported that the Chinese government has
notified the foreign ministers at Pekin that
1t cannot guarantee safety to foreigners at
Tientsin, and the naval authorities have been
notified to send war vessels TO that city.
The California assembly has adopted
q resolution to appoint a committee of five
to ascertain il the Central Pacific railroad has
complied with the conditions of the act by
which the state guaranteed the interest on
one and a half million dollars of its bonds.
II is claimed that the company has utterly
failed to comply, except III one instance. The
committee has not yet been designated.
AT Rochester, New York, Saturday, a
the second story stairs in public schOOlhOuse
No. H. The flames were discovered in time 10
permit their suppression before much damage
was done. Three hundred children in the up
per rooms would have been cut off from all
escape, except by the windows, If the flames
had progressed far. Public schoolhouse No.
was set on fire Tuesday.
The Massachusetts senate has passed
the ten-hour bill to engrossment, by vote of
eighteen TO fourteen. 1t makes no provision
for the hours of labor for men, but provides
tlaJ women, ana cnflQfen uQuer eighteen,
shall not be employed in establishments for
the manufacture of textile fabrics, threads,
yarns, or worsteds, more than sixty hours per
week, or an average of ten hours per day.
Each violation is punishable by fine of fifty
dollars.
A dispatch from Fort Sully, Dakota
Territory, says that the Nukapapas Indians
made raid on the herds near Grand river
agency, on the twenty-Second ultimo, killing
Private Collins, of the seventeenth infantry,
and stealing several horses. They were fol-
lowed in the direction of Standing Rock, by
party of soldiers, but the trail was lost. The
same dispatch states that the Indians intend
to concentrate at the foot of Black Hills by
the first of April, preparatory to general war
upon the whites during the summer.
Ex-President Thiers was presented
Saturday with an album sent by French resi-
dents Of New York. Thiers, in expressing
thanks for the gift said; "This gift is a strong
testimony of the esteem of the Frenchmen
residing in the several American cities, whom
distance preserves from the political pas
sions prevailing here, and who represent the
impartial judgment of posterity. The noble
example of Washington should be a model
for ALI of US. Those who govern France will
be fortunate IL unitedly they succeed in ac-
complishing the work God gave Washington
10 achieve aione."