Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-09
HOME TELEGRAMS.

The Hawaiian king left San Francis
co yesterday for Washington.
Eight buildings burned in east New
York Sunday morning. Loss, sixty
thousand dollars.
A brewery burned at Dubuque, Iowa,
Sunday night. Loss estimated at thirty
thousand dollars.
The Hawaiian king exchanged COM
pliments with President Grant by tele-
graph fromsSan Francisco Monday.
The case of Tilton against Henry
Ward Beecher, in New York, was post
poned by Judge Wilson until next Mon
day.
The congressional election of Arksn-
sas has been changed from the first
Tuesday in November to the first Mon
day in September.
The body of Bernard Mahon, who
has been missing since November I'd,
from Toledo, Ohio, was found in the
river at that place yesterday.
A telegram from Washington says
that Commander William B. Cushing,
United States marines, was removed to
the Grove Hospital for the insane.
A fire at Fredericton, Ohio, Satur-
day night, destroyed fifteen thousand
dollars worth Of property. The insur-
ance amounted to seven thousand five
hundred dollars.
Mrs. Daniel Lyons, wife Of a wealthy
farmer of Montgomery, Ohio, weighing
two hundred and eighty pounds, was
instantly killed Thursday night by fall
ing out of bed and breaking her neek.i
The Cincinnati city council Monday
adopted q resolution instructiDg the
mayor to communicate with the family
of Chief-Justice Chase, requesting from
them his remains for interment in that
city.
In the appeal case of Henry Ward
Beecber against Theodore Tilton, in
Albany, New York, the court takes the
ground that the court below has the
right to order the bill Of particulars
asked by Beeeher.
A fire at 639 West Madison street,
New York, Sunday, damaged the car
riage factory of Benkopf Bros. three
thousand dollars and the dry goods stock
Of Tiffany & Co. three thousand dollars.
Insured in local companies.
Washington dispatches foreshadow an
early and favorable action on the house
bills for the admission of Colorado and
New Mexico with the object of adding
four Republican senators and two con-
gressmen to the present bodies.
In the house at Columbus, Ohio, yes
terdsy, bills were introduced to prohibit
express and railroad companies from car
rying game killed out Of season, and to
authorize insurance companies to insure
against losses other than by fire or light
ming.
A telegram from New York says that
the number OF immigrants landed at
Castle Garden from January 1st to De-
cember 1st Of the present year Is one
hundred and forty-five thousand three
hundred and sixty-two, showing heavy
decrease.
Contrary to general expectations, a
jury was promptly obtained for the trial
OF Coroner Croker, under indictment for
the murder Of James M'KennR, in New
York, on election day. There is pros
pect of a prompt trial OF this important
criminal suit.
Last Sunday, some boys playing on
Erie street, Chicago, in the north divi-
STOP, discovered in coal vault belonging
to large mansion which burned during
the great fire, the skeleton of a man
standing upright, shreds Of what evil
IDENTIFY had been fine clothing elinging
TO his bones.
Two men, giving their names as W.
U. Shoope and 81. B. Carroll, hav-
ing in their possession about two thOus-
and dollars worth of railroad. tickets,
supposed to be part of those recently
stolen from the Pennsylvania railroad
Office at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, were
arrested at st. Louis Friday.
The store of H. Il. Potter & Son, at
West Springfield, Pennsylvania, was
entered by burglars last Saturday night,
who, after securing five or ten thousand
dollars out Of the safe, set the building
on fire. The loss on the building and
stock was twelve thousand dollars; in
sured for four thousand dollars.
a terrible accident occurred yesterday
near Shades Ferry, Massachusetts, where
the Old Colony railroad company are
constructing bridge across the Taunton
river. While the wOrkmen were en-
gagged iD sinking the pneumatic cylin-
der which Is to form portion Of the
pier, the upper fange Of the air lock, to
which the lower was secured, together
with the cover, was blown off by the
pressure of the air In the cylinder. Eight
men were ON the cylinder at the time,
three Of whom were killed outright, one
fatally injured, one seriously, and three
escaped uninjuTed.