Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-09
TELEGRAPHIC MISCELLANY.

The Central Pacific railroad is still
blockaded with snow.
SiXty-five thousand troops are opera
ting in the north of Spain against the
Carlists.
Hon. A. H. Stephens is still confined
to bed in Washington, and in very
feeble condition.
Tennyson's poem on the marriage of
the Duke of Edinburgh was published
in London yesterday.
The Kansas legislature has passed a
bill authorizing the railroad companies
of that State to issue preferred stock.
The California assembly has passed
bill, by vote of thirty to thirty-one,
making women eligible to educational
offices.
Madame Anna Bishop was passen-
ger on the steamer City of Melbourne,
which sailed from San Francisco Satur-
day for Sydney, Australia.
A London dispatch says a transport
has arrived at st. Vincent, with the first
detachment of troops from the Ashantee
expedition, returning to England.
The Philadelphia saloon keepers
closed frOnt-dOOrs yesterday, but it is
estimated that the usual amount of
stimulants were taken in at the back
doors.
Mr.. Joseph LOngworth, of Cincinnati,
has donated fifty thousand dollars in
government bonds as an endowment
for the art department of the Cincinnati
university.
The postmastership OF Boston is about
to be given to State Senator Bailey, one
of Ben. Buffers most ardent supporters
in both his attempts to run for governor
of Massachusetts.
Merchandise arriving at Detroit, des-
tined for British Columbia, by way of
San Francisco, will be allowed to go
forward under combined entry for trans
portation and expectation.
Eleven ministers preached in Cincin-
natl yesterday on the subject of the
woman's temperance movement. If
the scheme do not succeed it may be
safely charged that it was talked to
death.
A fireman named Sweeney died sud-
denly at Pittsburg yesterday, supposed
to be from the effects of a blow received
some days since with a poker in the
hands of a brother fireman named
Wunderlieck.
A dispatch from Halifax, received
Saturday, says that no American mails
have been received in that city for three
days, the storm of Wednesday having
washed away the bridges, preventing
the running of trains. The flood is more
destructive than experienced for twenty
years.
During riot in Wheeling, West Vir-
ginia, Saturday evening, man named
Blattner received two pistol-balls
through the lungs. He still lives, but
there is no hope of his recovery. Two
other persons were severely injured.
The disturbance arose from certain evil
dence given in court on Friday.
A fire broke cut in the Western hotel
in the twenty-first ward in Pittsburg
which, together with two adjoin-
ing frame buildings, was entirely de-
stroyed. Loss about ten thousand dol
lars, with five thousand dollars InsuT-
ance. A man named Warren T.
BridgefOrth was burned to death.
Mr.. r. T. Scowden, of the Cincinnati
waterworks company, was arrested in
that city Saturday on the warrant of
Quinn, charging him with pro-
curing the publication of libel in the
Enquirer, accusing Quinn and Judge
HOeffer with attempting to form a
waterworks ring to swindle the city.
1t is said that the owners of the New
York San newspaper have commenced
an action in the supreme court against
the Tribune association to recover a
large amount of damages for encroach-
ing twenty-five inches on the property
OF the Sun in erecting their new build
ing. 1t is also stated that the counsel of
the Tribune association have been
granted an extension of time to prepare
an answer, which will embrace recent
surveys of the ground.
Captain Deaken, of the steamship
City of New York, when about twelve
miles out from Havana, put back to
that city to give up to the authorities
three stow-a-ways just discovered on
board. The men are represented to have
declared that they were sympathisers
with Cuba Libre, and did not want to
be drafted in Havana to go and fight
against Cuba Libre, and that they
would pay their passage money upon
the arrival of the vessel in New York.
lHltINIOWS ny a Ols LOUIS OtOOG cor
respondent with several railroad officials
reveal the fact that it is the pretty gene
raj opinion in railroad circles that the
brotherhood of locomotive engineers
will very soon make formal demand
for q restoration of the rate of wages
prevailing before the paric, and if this
Is not acceded to, that P. Arthur, the
new chief of that order, will at once de-
clare a strike, and require all members
to refuse to work until the railroad
companies surrender.
The report of the killing of the Cuban
Ex-Presfdent Cespedes is confirmed by
a Havana dispatch of Saturday. The
dispatch says that on the twenty-sev-
enth of February the troops captured
negro, who was ordered to be shot. He
promised if his life was spared to lead
his captoIs to Cespedes. The proposition
was accepted, and the ex-president was
discovered with a few friends five
leagues from Ascerrados. His compan-
ions fled, Uut he was unable to escape,
and fired upon the troops led by sar-
geant, who returned the fire, and Ces-
pedes received the bullets in his head
and breast, causing instant death, His
body was brought to Santiago de Cuba
and buried on the first instant,