Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-21
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

O1lluc COOuIJ1 1uOldIdf Is ON6TTuu
with robbers and highwaymen.
In Madrid the publication of other
than official war news is forbidden.
The bombardment of the Spanish city
Of Bilboa, by the Carlists, continues.
The New Jersey legislature is going
| back on its million-dollar appropriation
to the centennial show.
The spring-factory of ingalls, d Dow
cry, at Philadelphia, was burned yester-
day morning. Loss thirty-five thousand
dollars.
Beadeau, Lockwood & Co., fruit-deal-
ers, Of New York, have suspended busi-
ness, on account Of fifty-thousand de-
falcation by the book-keeper.
A counterfeit Of the new hfty-cent
! note has been received at the treasury
department at Washington. 1t is rep
resented to be a poor imitation of the
original.
In London, yesterday, the waters of
the Thames rose rapidly, and oyerfiowed
the embsnkments in the city, flooding
the adjacent streets, and the warehouses
in Putney were inundated.
Shaw's block, in Biddeford, Maine,
containing fifteen stores, a billiard hall
and a number OF offices, was burned
yesterday morning, during which fall
ing wall crushed an adjoining building
Loss not stated. arE
James T. Franklin, charged in New
York only fifty times with irregularities,
was yesterday arrested on the additional
charge of being concerned In extensive
forgeries of railroad bonds. The fifty
first charge cooked his goose
New Jersey wants to see five million
dollars appropriated from all sources to-
ward the centennial exhibition, before
she will consent to the million-dollar
contribution recently rushed through
her legislature, hut afterward repealed.
The importers and grOcers board of
trade Of New York has adoDted a reso-
luton recommending that fixed salaries
be subjected for moieties in payment of
government officers, and that all persons
accused of violating the revenue laws
shall be brought to trial.
P. Harris, who was indicted in New
Orleans in 1871 for counterfeiting
gold coin Of the United States in 1870,
has been convicted and sentenced to the
penitentiary for three years, and fined
fifty dollars. Harris has been at liberty
oAhCC OA0AOng AStAI uhIAA LIS SOANAOOAOA
yesterday.
Telegraphic advices from Lafayette,
Indiana, yesterday, say that the More
house mystery is yet unsolved. Parties
have been dragging the river all day,
bus without finding the body. A large
party was organized yesterday to scour
the woods near where the supposed
murder was committed.
The Carlist military agent in London
has received dispatch from the Carlist
junta in Bayonne, saying that General
Palacios Is marching In the direction of
Madrid with twelve thousand men, after
defeating, with great loss, the republican
column under Callego, near Menglanil-
Ia, four miles southeast of Cuenca.
Daniel A. Dwight, as trustee, in Gin
cinnati yesterday sued the Cincinnati
and Indiana and the Indianapolis, Gin
oinnati and Lafayette railroads, and
Judge Hoadley, trustee, for half q mil
lion dollars alleged tohave been received
In the last seven years to secure two mil
lion dollars in bonds of these roads.
! AT Elizabeth, New Jersey, last Sun
day, the Germans induSged IN demoD-
stretion against the Sunday saloon
laws, and yesterday an indignation
| meeting wes held denunelatory of the
/ German demonstration. The indigna-
tlon meeting Is reported as the largest
J demonstration ever held In that city.