Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-22
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

The Urugusyan government intends
issuing four million dollars Of paper currency.
A gale on the coast of the north Of
England last night caused much loss Of life
and property.
New Albany, Indiana, has elected a
Democratic mayor. Another spike in the
civil rights colin
The coast wrecking cOmpany's steam !
er, A. Winants, is reported lost with all on
board-hfteen persons.
The navy department reports three
new cases OF yellow-fever at The Pensacola |
navy yard, one fatal-Edward, a fireman.
Morgan & Sons, of San Francisco, |
have failed, with Liabilities in excess of assets
Of over three hundred and ifty thousand dol |
lars.
The excitement in election matters in |
Nevada continues. The parties are 50 divided |
and mixed up it is difficult 10 predict the re-
suit.
Phelps, the New York State treasury
official, convicted OF embezzlemeut, has beer |
senteHenced TO fifteen years in the state
prison.
John Steiner, at Logansport, Indiana,
Tuesday, in a az Of mental alteration, fell Into !
a mill-race and was drowned. His body was
recovered.
A general reorganization of the Union
League Of America was had at baltimore
Tuesday, with view, Of course, to The thirh-
Advices from Berlin represent an in
creasing public sympathy with Count Won
Arnim on account Of the harshness with
which he is treated.
Wendelin Schmidt, a German cabi-
net-maker, arrested for abusing MS family in
Cincinnati Tuesday night, hung himself Win
a leather strap in his cell
A girl named Mary Lsrehet was MUIR
dered in Lancaster, New York tuesday.
Five hundred dollars reward is offered for the
murderer, who Is not known.
A Paris telegram says that the mayor
Of Nice has been removed for recommending
ing the separation OF Nice from France.
During the Democratic hilarity at JEFF
fersonville, Indiana, Tuesday night, Edward
Tobin, enc of the gunners, was fatally injured
by the premature discharge OF cannon.
A. Welwin X Co.'s dry goods store,
corner OF Federal street and North alley, AL
lsgheny city, was entered by burglars Tues,
d8y Night and robbed Of about eight thousand
dollars worth OF silks.
A letter from Havana, dated October
18th. says that LOrenza Jiminesa was con- |
demned TO death, but ciaincI American citl- |
zenship, and had his sentence committed. He |
left yesterday for spain.
Lieutenant-C Colonel Fred. Grant and /
Miss Ida Maria Honore were united in matri- /
mony at three o'clock Tuesday afternoon in /
Chicago. The occasion drew very large au- /
dieuce and was success.
]. b. Martin, notorious confidence
man, was arrested in Louisville, yesterday, BY |
Detective Bligh. Martin is wanted in several /
cities in the union, and has bafiied the efforts |
of detectives tor several years past.
The steam-boilers of a porkbOuse in |
New Albany, Indiana, exploded Tuesday /
with terrible force, killing one man, sertou'ly |
mi uring three others, and completely wreck /
ing the b1ilding and surroundings.
The representative assent bly, proposed |
for Alsace and Lorraine VIII at first poss IS
only deiiberative character and It's Iunc- |
lions Will be to advise government on ali sub |
iecfs Of local LEGISLATION, and to examine the /
budget fer those provinces.
The annual breakfast Of the alumni Of
the theological seminary of the Episcopal \
church took place in New York yesterday I
Bishop Potter presided. Among the one hun /
dred and thirty present, we're the bishops OF |
Oregon, Mississippi and Missouri.
The Democracy of Jacksonville, In
diana, are on q hign-daddy over the result Of 4
Kerr addressed the ove1Joyed multitude Tues
day night while cannOns doomed, and the /
city was altaglOw with fireworks.
The Ogden house, in Council Bluffs, |
Iowa, one OF the finest hotels IN the west, was 1
destroyed by IRE yesterday morning. The fire. /
alarm was Sounded at three o'clock. Total |
loss eighty thousand dollars. ms 1rsnc e about 1
thirty-three thousand dollars, in ten eompa- |
MES.
Advices from BuenOs AyTes state an |
engagement between the troops and the in. |
suTgeDis. The latter were defeated, and their /
commander taken prisoner Large rewards !
are offered for the capture OF rebel steamers. |
One has left Montevideo towing a vessel laden |
with arms and ammunition.
The Souhegan national bank at Mil
ford, New Hampshire, was robbed Monday /
night by masked men CT one hundred thou
sand dollars in currency and bonds. The rob-
bers previously visited the residence Of the
cashier, and compelled him to accompany
them TO the bank and open the safe.
There were only twenty-seven dele
yates n attendance on the national-capltal-
moving convention in Louisville Tuesday.
They represented the States Of Missouri, Iii
nois. Kentucky and Indiana. resolutions
were passed favofing the scheme, commit
tee appointed to memOrlalizs congress, and
the convention adjourned sine ole.
The boiler in the rolliDg-mill of George
Goats * Brothers, at Locust Point, Maryland,
exploded early yesterday morning, GemoLs1-
ing the boilerhouse, solid brick structure,
and the chimney, seventy five feet high. Five
men were severely wounded, two probably IA
tally. Several hundred men are thrown out
OF employ until the damage is repaired.
AS. Louis dispatch says that it has
lust transpired that the steambOatmen's con-
vention. recently assembled IN that city,
passed resolutions strongly iavoring the con-
struction OF the Fort st. Phillips canal with
sufficient depth OF water for the passage OF
vessels drawing twenty-siX feet as the best
and most feasible outlet OF the MISSISSIPPI
valley 10 the sea-
JOuu "a AA1HOAf NHBA1aAa Va AAAt
schooner Kate Winslow, was found in his
cabin in an insensible condition, Monday
forenoon, at Cleveland, Ohio, and died that
night. From appearances IL would seem that
he had been fonily dealt with, although moth
ing as yet has been divuiged. Captain carson
sal led the lakes for years, and was one OF the
most trustworthy masters on those walters.
J. W. Haley, cattle trader OF Texas,
is represented 70 have recently obtained ten
thousand dollars from Rogers, Powers & Goa
a stock firm OF Kansas CITY, on the representa-
ton that he owned large drove Of cattle.
He also Obtained i've thousand dollars from
Barse a Snyder. and various sums from otner
firms after inch he sold his cattle for forty
Thousand dollars and absconded, and has not
since been heard Of.
The following are the officially an
nounced entries in the great wenty-hve-thOu-
send-dollar running race, to be gwen in san
Francisco. Novem DeT 18Th, under the auspices
of the Pacific jockey club: Thad stevens
Joe Daniels, Katie Pease, Hubbard, Henry,
Alpha Hooking, and Hardwood. Otner par
ties In the east ana in Oregon send entries and
money by mail and express; names OF horse 5
NOT known. there is extensive betting al
really Commercial Cliff offered three thou
I sand dollars for the right 10 sell the pools.
No efficial information has been re-
eeIved by our government, or by representa-
/ lives Of foreign govern meats al Washington,
/ coulrInatory % The newspaper accounts that
/ spain mas paid an indemnify 10 Great Britain
/ Ia satisfactiOu OF damages In the Nlrginius