Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-16
TELEGRAMS.

The Indiana State editorial association
met i'm Indianapolis yesterday.
The senate approved the final action
Of congress on the salary question.
The authority of the Spanish govern
ment has been fully restored in Bar
celonR.
The house committee on military az
fairs will to-day again take up for action
the case Of General Howard.
A bill hiss been introduced in the Cali
fornia legislature to abolish the death
penalty for murder and treason.
The overdue steamer China, about
which much anxiety was felt, arrived at
San Francisco yesterday, coming in on
one wheel.
At Portland, Maine, "Wednesday
night, Thomas A. Pike brutally murder
ed his wife, aged nineteen years, in a
drinking den.
The patent-rights convention met in
Washington yesterday, with attendance
Of about two hundred delegates, repre-
senting eighteen States.
Mrs. Lula Terrence, wife of John T.
florence, Of the California Theater, in
San Francisco, committed suicide yes
terday. Cause not stated.
A national convention of bill-posters
was held in Chicago Wednesday, which
was attended by delegates from nearly
all the large cities OF the Union.
A young man named Olin committed
suicide st La Crosse, Wisconsin, yester-
day, by shooting himself through the
heart. Disappointed in love affairs,
A London dispatch says that Goodwin
Smith, In an address before the congress
oftrades unions at Sheffield last evening,
advised emigration to the United States.
The outstanding legal-tenders yester-
day amounted to three hundred and
eighty-One million, five hundred and
ninety-nine thousand three hundred
and fifteen dollars.
The national millers' convention at
Chicago was addressed by George w.
Pratt, Of Oberlin, Ohio, on the advan-
tages and neee ssity OF united action on
the part Of millers.
The sale Of the st. Louis and st. Jo-
seph railroad, which was TO have oc-
cured at New York yesterday, at pub
lie auction, was postponed TO the
eighteenth Of February.
Advices from Potlsville, Pennsylva-
MIA, say that the mining troubles in that
region are sssUning grave aspect. 4
general cessation Of work has been or
dered by the mining companies.
Vice-President Wilson says his health
Is much improved. He will not resume
his place in tie senate, but viii next
week return to Massachusetts, having
abandoned his trip to Florida.
The national bricklayers union in ses-
sion at Baltimore yesterday, rejected the
ritual Of the united order of American
brieklsyers. S. A. Carr. OF New York,
was elected president for the ensuing
year.
A collision occurred yesterday, be-
tween Indianapolis and Louisville,
between a passenger and freight train,
by which two men were severely
injured, and both engines were consid-
erably damaged.
The Georgia legislature met yesterday.
The governor, in his message, takes a
cheerful view OF public affairs. The
State debt is eight millions, and the
estimated value of taxable property is
two hundred and fifty millions.
In the Ticbborne case DR.. Kenally
yesterday concluded his closing speech
for the defense. He demanded a yer.
dict for the claimant, declaring that the
prsponderanee OF unshaken evidence in
his favor was overwhelming He main-
taiHed that the charges against the lady
beAdcllhs had been proved 10 he true.