Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-24
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.
The Texas delegation arrived in st.
Louis yesterday.
Andrew Lusk, lo-d-mayor of London,
has been created a baronet.
One million gold awarded in New York
Yesterday, at from IG9. .65 to 1881.
Hon. John Jay sailed yesterday for
Liverpool OF his way back to Vienna
President Grant, accompanied by Sec
retary RObeson, returned to Long Branch
yesterday.
The races at HarrodsbUrg, Kentucky,
are exciting much interest, and large
crowds are in attendance.
It is rumored in Paris that the Bona
psrtists will introduce motion to dis
solve the French assembly.
Grasshoppers are reported doing much
damage to crops in the middle and
northern counties of Nebraska.
Six men were drowned yesterday on
the Wabash river, near Grand Chain,
Illinois, by the capsizing OF boat.
The Spanish steamship Minerva ex-
ploded her boilers in the harbor at Ha-
wOunding sixteen others.
The az ount of national bank notes re-
eceived N Washington yesterday for
redemption was S256, ,69S, making the to-
tai amount to date IS, ,S52. 446.
DisraeIi's motion for an annual grant
of seventy-five thousand dollars to
Prince Leopold, passed the British house
of commons yesterday almost unsLi-
mOusly.
The prefect Of CUenca announces that
thirty-four bodies of republicans, muir
dered by Carlists, have been found in a
house in that town, mutilated so horEi-
bly, as to be unrecogniZable.
A Nashville telegram announces that
"the workingmen Of the State met yes
terday and nominated B. F. G. Brooks,
of the Independent W0TkingnaGrl, as
their candidate for governor.
A London letter says that RochefOrt
| is still IN London, and that he has never
/ Quilted that city since his first arrival.
| The story of his going to Geneva was
set afiOat to mislead the enemy.
A Madrid telegram says that Don
| Carlos invited Cabrera to accept a posi-
| ton in his army, and that Cabrera re-
| piled he would never make common
cause with cannibals and fanatics.
Secretary Bristuw left Washington for
/ Long Branch last night, where he and
! the President will put their heads to-
| gether on the subject Of the new five per
/ cents. "Two heads are better than one" F"
etc.
The mayor of Philadelphia has issued
a proclamation Offering a reward OF
/ twenty thousand dollars for the capture
of the abductors of the child Charley
Brewster Ross, and the restoration Of
the child.
The celebrated trOtter, Clark Chief,
sold at Harrodsburg, Kentucky, yester-
day, for six thoHsand dollars. His pur-
chaser, Mr.. West, started with him inn
mediately for Cleveland, Ohio, and Buff
falo, New York.
George Hoffman attempted to mur-
der his wife, and succeeded in killing
himself in Philadelphia yesterday. The
| dispatch does not state the manner in
! which George embarked on the journey
beyond the river.
A couple OF irregular financiers-
! Charles b. Davis, dealing in forged Buf-
/ falo and Erie bonds, and Charles Hud-
son, under indictment for swindling
]
/ New York Tuesday.
The North German Gazette says in
reference to the recent outrages by the
| Carlist yeomanry: "In behalf OF out
ragged European civilization, we will seek
and find means to teach the Carlists that
the murder Of captured Germans shall
not go unpunished."
The InapureiGI says that Senior Co
i I 4, ,F haa
informed the council Of ministers that
he has sufficient funds on hand to arm
one hundred and twenty-five thousand
reserves, and 10 meet the ordinary re-
quirements Of stste until September
next.
Schnitzer's jewelry store in Newport,
Rhode Island, was robbed on Tuesday
night of thirty y-seven gold watches, sew
ersl silver watches and other jewelry
The pIoprietors were sleeping within
two feet of the showcase and lost ninety
q liars and a watch from their clothes
Thirteen empty watch-cases were founC
on the streets yesterday.
Advices from Ute creek, New Mexico
July 18th, say that twenty-One per
sons-six Americans and fifteen Mexi
cans-were killed by the Indians be
Il
tains no to the present time, and tina
four hundred horses were driven out o
the Territory. A company Of the eight
cavalry left Fort Union July 18th for thu
scenv of the Indian outrages.
Edward Lange, who was convicted IL
New York last October of stealing UniteC
States mail-bags, and sentenced by
Judge Benedict 20 pay fine of TIVE
hundred dollars and be imprisoned ont
year, was subsequently re sentenced Il
be imprisoned alone, the first sentenct
being contrary to the statute. The sec
ond sentence was declared invalid by
the supreme court, and Lange was dis
charged. He now has begun suit agains
Judge Benedict for false imprisonment
claiming fifty thousand dollars damages
and his costs.
Intelligence has been received tina
the celebrated Gurbord case has been de
cided before the privy council in Eng
land, in favor of the widow OF the de
ceased. The case arose from the refusa
of the Catholic bishops to allow Cur
bord to be buried in consecrsted ground
because he was s member of the blStt
ttIte CdnndieIl, an interdicted society
|, The plea was that GuroOrd, owning
lot in a Catholic cemetery, had civi
right to be buried in it. The case ha
: been taken through court in Montres
and finally to England, where the de
3 cisiOn on the appeal has just been ren
dered.
The New York produce exchange ws
surprised several weeks ago by the al
5 nouncemeDt that grave charges ha
: been prepared against member, Hel
5 man Crohen, growing out of transa,
}, tions in the importations of barle,
. Charges were prepared by the agents
Z a Russian, Friedlander, who con
d planned that be had not rendered trI
'e statements Of accounts. The commit,
[. Of the exchange say they have decld,
/ that Crohen shall pay Friedland
le zine thousand and eighteen dollars al
10 sixty-seven cents in gold, and the CO