Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-04-11
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.


/ of commons at Ottawa.
! The nomination of B. P. Avery as
minister to China is approved by the
leading business men and city officials
1 of San Francisco.
A dispatch from Nashville saws that
/ young Anderson, who killed J. r.
Breckinndge, at Lebanon, Thursday,
made his escape.
/ The Victor Emanuel, with invalid SOL
! diers from Gold Coast, arrived at Ports
mouth, England, yesterday. Nineteen
men died on the passage.
/ A man named z. w. Burnham and
! his son have been arrested at Omaha,
/ charged with the murder of Mrs. Burn.
! ham, the wife and mother.
! Frost was reported as far down as
Houston and many points in central
/ Texas yesterday morning. The extent
( OF the damage is not ascertained.
1 Madrid dispatches say that Serano
will.return to that city, and that Concha
will succeed him in command before
Bilbao.
There is no foundation for the report
telegraphed from Berlin of conserva-
tive and ultramOntane intrigue to sup
plant BismaTcs by General Manteuffel.
Charles Mills, the noted baseball
catcher of the Mutuals, and several 9th
er clubs, died in New York Thursday
night, of consumption. He was thirty
years old.
The Prussian military bill has been so
modified as to limit the total strength of
the army to four hundred and one thou
sand men, and the period of service to
seven years.
The baliottings in the Massachusetts
legislature for United States senator con-
tinue, with but little likelihood of a
final result with the present names in
nomination.
During a gale last Wednesday boat
containing nine fishermen, who were
setting seines in the lake, about fifteen
miles south of Chicago, was capsiZed
and seven of the men drowned.
A dispatch from San Diego saws
Lieutenant Boche had attacked an
Apache camp at Penal mountains, Ari-
zona, and killed twenty-five warriors
and captured about fifty women.
Captain Brown, witness for the claim
ant in the Tichborne trial, has been
found guilty of perjury. He and Luie
were then sentenced to five and seven
years penal servitude, respectively.
Young Lowenstine, convicted of the
murder of the one-armed peddler at AL
bany, New ) Ork, was hung in that city
yesterday. he maintained to the last
that he was innocent of the murder.
Julius Spero, convicted in Jersey CITY
of receiving stolen goods, was sent anced
in that city yesterday to seven years in
the State prison, upon the first charge.
and three years upon each of fifteen
others; total, tifty-two years.
A dispatch from 81. Johns, Newfound-
land, says the steamer Tigress, OF the
Polaris expedition, while seal-fshing,
exploded her boiler. Two engineers
and twenty of the crew were killed.
The ship is under sail for st. Johns.
Prague Bryant, colored, was hung at
Pulaski, Tennessee, yesterday, for the
murder Of Alexander Steel some two
years ago. He made a confession on
the gallOws, and the hanging was wit
messed by an immense crowd Of colored
people.
A rumor prevails at Toronto that at
the expiration of the term of Office of
Lord Duhries as governor general Of
Canada, the duke of Edinburgh will be
apBOihtCN teo lAo GuCCCSSOIs lie 1OTuHLO
Globe says it is among the category of
impracticable things.
The official count of the vote in Gin
cinnati gives Ysple, for Judge of the su-
periOr court on both tickets, %, 2S9; Ben
der (DemOcrat), for police court clerk,
5943 majority; Bowman (Democrat) for
water-wOrks trustee, 66S6 majority;
LichteDfeld Democrat, for director of
city infirmary, 65lS.
The steam boiler of factory in Ham
ilton, near Glasgow, Scotland, explod-
ed Wednesday, with terrible effect. A
large portion of the boiler was driven
several hundred feet through and
crushed in . schoolhouse full of chill
dren, three of whom were instantly kill
ed and about thirty are reported to be
more or less injured.
The New York EUening Post of yes
terday says that the train which left
Vanderbilts landing, Staten Island, at
seven O'Clock last evening was stopped
about two miles out by q baud of Ital-
ians, who tore up the track. The par
ticulars Of the outrage have not yet been
received, save that the robbers secured
the cash-box on the train, but were
themselves soon after arrested, and are
now in the hands of the law.
An old man, supposed to be Bender, of
Kansas, who was arrested in the southern
portion of Utah Territory, some weeks
ago, arrived at Salt Lake Wednesday
night, and is now in jail at that place.
Some parties there, who claim to have
known him, identity him as Bender, of
Kansas. A young man supposed to be
his son is in custody at Salt creek, and
will also be carried to Salt Lake.
About half-pas eight O. clock on Thurs
day evening the Cincinnati express ran
into the rear of frelght-train at Graf
ton, Ohio. The engine, baggage and ex-
press cars of the passengeI-train, and
several cars of the freight-train were
considerably damaged. Mrs. Bland, of
Gallon, Ohio, who was in the caboOse of
the freignt-train, was seriously injured.
No others were hurt. The heavy snow
storm prevented the engineer of the
express-train from seeing the lights on
the caboose.
Representatives of the Panama, Union
Pacific, and Pacific Mail corporations
held a meeting in New York on Thurs
day and outlined their proposed agree
ment. The Union Pacific directors
wished the rates of freight on tea to be
raised to the former standard of five
cents a pound. This is opposed by the
Pacific Mail and Panama directors, who
think there is more money in carrying
tea at four cents a pound, as by that
rate traffic will be attracted. There are
( to be still further conferences before any
agreement is signed.
h. K. Myers, at one time manager Of
! the Pacific and Atlantic telegraph office
! in Chicago, and more recently employed
as an operator in the Western Union
Office there, was found dead in bed at
the Central aotel, yesterday afternoon.
He was lying on his back, with his
hands folded across his breast. 1t was at