Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-15
BRIEF TELEGRAMS.

Parepa Rosa gave birth to son in
London on Christmas day-stillborn.
Judge t. w. Otto. Of Illinois, is sug-
gested as ''nextn for the vacant chief
justiceship.
San Francisco is shivering over q
| "cold snap" which has continued there
for several days.
The national bricklayer's union, at
Baltimore, Tuesday rejected the propo-
sition to admit colored men of the craft.
A disastrous fire occurred at Alton, H.
linOis, yesterday morning, causing loss
estimated at over one hundred thousand
dollars.
Omaha experienced a rapid lowering
of temperature, falling eighteen degrees
in few hours, to few degrees below
| "cairo."
The Spanish frigate, Arapiles, went
ashore at the foot Of Bridge street,
Brooklyn; yesterday, while leaving the
navy-yard.
The bedding warehouse of James
Flanagan, Chstham square, New York,
burned Tuesday night. Loss thirty
thousand dollars.
A Berlin dispatch states that later re-
turns from Bavaria show that twenty
one liberals and twenty-eight netra-
montairies have been elected to Reich
stag from that kingdom.
Two Swedish seamen quarrelled over
a game of cards in their boarding house,
| In BROOKLYN, yesterday morning, and
one of them, Peter Severson, literally
carved the other to death.
l rofY
stated Mr. Bell, editor and reporter fol
the San francisco Post, expelled some
time ago for publishing the corruption
in the late senatorial election
Charles A. MeCutchen, recorder ol
Justice of the police court, at Evansville,
Indiana, has sued w. II. King, publish.
er of the Herald, for libel, claiming
damages to the amount of thirty thou.
sand dollars. H--s
A Tuesdays telegram from Albany,
New York, says that Elk Senator Gra-
ham, the defaulting president of the
Waikiki national bank, was sentenced
to ten years imprisonment in the Al
bany penitentiaTy.
Dispatches from Cape Coast Castle re-
port that General Woisley and staff, with
two hundred seamen, started for the
river Prah on December 9th, and that
his scouts had gone several miles beyond
without encountering the enemy.
A drover named Calvin, from Peoria,
Illinois, was fieeced out of q draft drawn
bv the Penn bank, of Pittsburg, on New
! York, for four thousand three hundred
and eighty-nine dollars, by party Oi
three.card-monte players, on railroad
train going into Indianapolis yesterday.
Ex-senator Frank P. Blair was con-
firmed State superintendent Of Missouri
Yesterday by a vote of twenty against
eleven in the Missouri State senate
Democrats and Republicans voting fol
him. The opposition to him was based
upon his support of the salary grab.
i At Wheeling, West Virginia, Tues
dav. q boiler connected with the plumb
| inc establishment of Thompson d Hub
herd, exploded at eight o'clock in the
1 morning, tearing the shed to atoms.
4 Cause, plenty of water and absence oi
! the fireman and-engineer. No person
injured.
| Duke de Broglie has informed the
committee on the electoral bill that tbs
Government accepts twenty-five yea |
of age and three years residence as the
ulaiifications for voter, and is In favol
Of the sppoiutment OF a senator by th'
J government or the council general, II
the event OF the creation OF all uppe
house.