Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-09
TELEGRAPHIC RRIEFS.

The Maryland legislature adjourned
yesterday sine die.
Steamers are having tough times with
the ice on Lake Erie.
The London Post denies the story
about Disraeli's marriage.
The duke and duchess of Edinburgh
Will soon pay visit to Ireland.
The sovereignty of the Fiji islands has
been formally rendered TO Great Britain.
The temperance crusaders continue
| their work in Wheeling, West Virginia.
Jerry William, an Ohio penitentiary
convict, escaped from his keeper yester-
day.
The workingmen of New York are
making preparations to strike against
the ten-hOur-a-day demand of the mas
ter-builders.
The British government will defray
the expenses of DR.. Livingston's fu-
neral, which will take place at West
minister abbey.
Margaret Merritt and Isabella White,
| the former sick of rheumatic fever, and
! the lattersan attendant, were suffocated
in burning building in Cambridge,
Massachusetts, yesterday.
| In San Francisco yesterday a man
named Macy shot another named
Caldwell through the head, then shot
himself in the region of the heart No
cause is known for the preparation of
the deed.
The twelfth and thirteenth ballots for
United States senator were had in the
Massachusetts legislature yesterday,
with but little change in the result, ex-
cept that in the thirteenth ballot But
Ter received one vote.
At Providence, Rhode Island, yester-
day morning, in the United States dis
trict court, the proceedings in bankrupt
cy against the A. and w. Sprague man
ufacturiDg company were discontinued,
and the case dismissed.
A London dispatch says there are re-
ports from PORTUGUESE Territory, West
Africa, of the utter failure of the second
exploring expedition. Grandy was left
with only seven men, and his brother
and party were returning to the coast.
A Madrid dispatch of yesterday says
that Marshal SeTrano has begun a fu- |
rious cannOnade at the Carlist faction |
before Bilboa. His fire is not returned. |
A large number of Carlists are deserting. |
1t is expected that Serrano will make
SraDu aSSauIJ very soon.
Yesterday morning Dooney Harris, !
well-known pugilist, while in Clark's
saloon, at the corner of Amity street
and South Fifth avenue, in New York,
had qvarrel with William ClOugh, son
Of Professor ClOugh, and was probably
fatally shot. ClOugh escaped.
After a seven weeks campaign of the
temperance crusaders in JeffersOnville,
Indiana, out Of thiTty-three saloons, one
has been induced to close doors. There
is now an average of about thirty wo-
men engaged in the work, who meet |
daily and go through the programme.
The Chicago board of trade yesterday
adopted resolutions asking congress not |
to adopt any legislation which will re- !
suit to increase the volume of paper |
currency. and appealing to the Presi- /
dent, in case such legislation shall be /
adopted by congress, to interpose his |
veto.
Dispatches from Melbourne regarding |
the escape Of Rochefort and his COM /
paniOns, state that they had permission |
from the authorities of New Caledonia |
to go on fishing excursion when they |
succeeded in boarding bark and stow /
ing themselves away until the vessel |
put to sea.
Mclean, of the Enquirer, was sent to |
Jail again in Cincinnati yesterday be-
cause he refused to answer the question |
as to who beside Scowden, the defend |
ant on trial charged with procuring a |
ibelOus publication in the Enquirer,
gave him information on which to /
ground the article.
Telegraphic advices from the City of
Maxiaa 70 he -
Leonidios Garcia, local Judge in the
town where the Boston missionary, Rev.
Mr. Stephens, was murdered by mob,
has fled from the country. The soldiers
who took part in or connived at the out
rage have been imprisoned.
The New England conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church, in its sew
enty-fifth annual session at Boston, yes
terday, adopted a protest against the re-
peal or mutilatiOn of the prohibition
law, and also against the enactment of
hcense-law to sustain in any wise the
traffic in intoxicating liquors.
A special to the Milwaukee Sentinel
yesterday says that two fishing boats
capsized off KenOsha yesterday af- /
ternoon. -Four men were aboard each;
one was seen lashed to the boat, the |
others were all lost. A terrible gale on |
the lake. Hailes house at Kenosha and .
three buildings adjoining were destroyed
by fire Tuesday night. Loss eight thou
sand dollars.
Governor Dix has sent a message to /
the New York legislature in which he |
says: "In view of the purpose indicated |
by congress to enlarge the volume of /
legal tender notes and national bank |
paper and to repudiate all attempts to |
re-establish the standard of specie,
policy sincerely believe fraught with /
widespread ruin to the industry of the 1
country and with imminent danger to /
its credit, invoke your interposition to |
contribute all in your power to prevent /
its adoption"
At three O'clock yesterday morning, a /
fire broke out in a three-stOry brick |
house, on Sycamore street, in Evans
Vile, Indiana, while the inmates were
all asleep. Mrs. Rother, widow, and .
her son Louis, aged thirteen; were |
smothered, and Charlie Rcther, aged /
eleven, jumped from the third story, and
escaped with bad cut. Another man 1
Jumped from the third story, and was
not badly hurt. The burnt bodies of |
Mrs. Rother and her son were discov- /
cred after the fire was subdued.
A Havana letter says that the insur- |
gent chief, Carlos Garcia, had narrow |
escape from capture. 1t seems he came |
into town with some compatriots to
meet a friend and was tracked to
rancho in the Calseda del Monte, where
ali were surrounded by band of civil
guards. Garcia and companions, with
Tevolvers in hand, dashed Through the
line Of guards, and cleared the fence
amid a yolley of musketry, when they
made for the bush and escaped under
cover of night Garcia was wounded by
the volley, and Gonzale, his lieutenant,
was killed.