Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-11-20
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

Smallpox is raging at Brownsville,
Texas.
Building associations have been de-
clared unconstitutional in Ohio.
, The steamer Java, from Liverpool,
arrived at New York yesterday.
Lieutenant Colonel Fred Grant and
lady were in Washington Friday.
The IOngshOremen of New York are on
a strike, and trouble is spprehended.
Tom Ballard, the notorious counter
feiter, is in jail at Auburn, New York.
Daniel n. Haskel, the veteran editor
Of the Transcript, died il Boston Fri
day,
7 The steamship Pomerania, from
Hamburg, arrived at New York yester-
day.
The Louisiana Teturning-bOard is still
hammering away at the election re-
turns.
/ A rumor has reached New York that
additional troops are en- route to New
Orleans.
The grand encampment Of I. o. o. +.
Of Indiana, convened at indianapolis
yesterday.
I Greeley's grave is marked by a plain
( slab, bearing his name and date Of birth
and death.
Workmen have reached the seventh
story Of the Palace hotel building in
4 San Francisco.
! The TiltOn-Beecher trial has again
/ been postponed, this time to the first
Monday in December.
I The President signed the commission
Of Mrs. Louisa f. Ewing as pOstmistress
at LOganspOrt, Indiana.
Navigation on the canals in the State
OF New York viii be closed for the sea- I
son on the fifth prOximo.
The American health association will
hold its next annual convention at Bal /
timore, IN November, 1875.
The local authorities on the border
complain that the Spsnisrds do not at
tempt to guard the frontier.
Porkpaekers are very active in Oma-
ha, and the weather is reported quite
favorable for their operations.
B. x. Phunoyer was caught by the
I betting in FRsrster's rice-mill, in New
Orleans, and crushed TO death.
Allen Miller, white, shot and killed
a suspected negro thief at Veto, Ala
bama, on the eleventh instant.
Simon Richter fell from the top Of a
freight-train in Indianapolis, Indiana, 4
Monday, and was fatally injured.
The lower coast steamer Hunter col /
hded with an unknown vessel, near /
New Orleans, and sunk. No lives were
lost.
A man named MGrath was run over
and killed near Conway, on the Little 1
Rock and Fort Smith railway Tues I
day.
Count Won Arnim is confined in his
own house in Berlin, and not in a cell .
at the police station, as has been re-
ported.
A London telegram reports the arrival
OF the steamships Neeksr, from New
York, and Pennsylvania, from Phila-
delphia.
Moree, supposed to be one of the
American express robbers, was arrested
in indianapolis Monday and returned to
Cincinnati.
Mary Harvey, who was horribly
burned by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp in Cheyenne Sunday, died Mon
day morning.
The buildings Of Hall & COnkling's
wO0dworks, ia Cincinnati, were dam
aged twenty-five thousand dollars worth
by fire Tuesday.
1t is said that Count Won Beust Aus
tro, the Hungarian minister in London,
has been recalled to Vienna, to he rein
stated as premier.
Catue-stealing on the Texas frontier
is on the increase. Large droves have
been recently crossed over the Rio
Grand into Mexico.
The steamship Oceanic, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown, and the
steamer Mas, from Rotterdam, arrived
at New York Monday.
The express cOmpany's Office at Gin
cinuati was robbed Of seventy-fve thou
sand dollars, instead Of five thousand
dollars, Is first reported.
The medical officers at the Pensacola
navy-yard report 10 the navy depart
ment that all danger from yellOW-iever
at that place has passed.
The rumOred difficulty between the
Russian government and the Grant To- 4,
connective works has been adjusted, and
work has been resumed on the contract.
The dwelling Of Alex. Johnston, in
California, ten miles above Cincinnati,
on the Ohio, was destroyed by fire Fri
day afternoon. Loss forty thousand dol
lars.
The insuTgent leaders, Zaballs, Iris
t&nY aud MiTet, have entered Barcelona. /
Rasas, and other points in Corona, are
threatened by the Carlists and are being
fortified.
An unknown man was found dead
near Surrounded Hill, Arkansas, Tues
day afternoon, by the Memphis and =
Little Rock railway employees. Cause,
exposure.
ID. d. Williams, charged with the |
Of funds from the First
national bank Of COnnautyille, Pennsyl-
vania was found guilty in Pittsburg
court Monday.
The Chicago extension Of the BRiti-
more and Ohio railroad, having been
regular trains between Chi
eago and Baltimore commenced run
ming Monday.
All the men concerned in the robbery
Df the American express company at / {
few days ago, have been
arrested, but all the property has not yet
been recovered.
President Grant and family and ,
several members of the cabinet with
their families will attend DR.. Tiffany's
lecture at Masonic hall IN Baltimore,
night.
Indians are raiding in Kerr county. y
Texas, stealing horses and cattle. When
last beard from hey were on JObnsOn's =