Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-10-01
NEWS TELEGRAMS.

England has joined the postal union.
Crop reports from England are favor
Alderman Stone was Tuesday chosen
lord mayor of London.
Five vessels were sunk by the great
| typhoon at Hong Kong.
President Grant was in New York and
visited Wall street Monday.
! Booths theRter ia New York will be
sold on the NTH OF November.
A telegram from Rome says that
Mount Etna is still in a state OF agitation.
A report is current in Paris that Duke
de Broglie viii soon re-enter the ministry.
The German government intends es-
tablishing naval hospital at yokohama.
The fall meeting Of the Kentucky
trotting association began at Lexington Tues
: day.
Jay Gould has given twenty-five hun
dred dollars TO the grasshopper sufferers in
Nebraska
Ex-Mayor James L. Thomas. an old
and prominent citizen Of ST. Louis, died Sat
urday night.
The supreme court Of California ssha as
decided She local-Option law Of that State un-
constitutional.
Miss Nelson, the actress, sailed from
i Queenstown for New York Monday by the
steamer Russia.
Two hundred thousand dollars is tire
estimated total loss by the frs al Lennoxviile,
Canada, Monday.
Ann Eliza Young arrived at San
| Francisco saturday night, where She will lee
! ture on Mornonlsm.
Joseph Glenn, for many years one OF
! the pr0Drietors OF the Cincinnati Gazette gdied
| il that city Tuesday.
John Murray was shot dead in New
! Orleans Tuesday by John Vernon. apparent
/ ly without provOCanOn.
The twenty-third infantry recently
! arrived al Omaha from Arizona, under or
/ ders 10 60 20 New Orleans.
General W. W. Wiltshire has been
nominated for congress fnom the third eOn-
| gressiOnal district Of Arkansas.
The new LindelI hotel in st. Louis.
which has just been finished, was Illuminated
/ from bottom % top sunday night.
The friends OF =. W. VOgeldorf. a
stock broker of san Francisco who shot him
self, are unable 10 account for the act
A telegram from Havana Sunday says
that the Spanish column fought the rebels
SAUL day near The river LongOs Eborneal
II is probable that Duke de Maille, the
republican candidate, IS elected TO the French
assembly from the department OF Malne-et-
Loire.
Six missionaries to India and Egypt
under the auspices Of the United Presbyterian
terday.
A telegram from London. Monday,
says that tie bridge connecting st. Augustine
aud Lerida was destroyed by a flood, and a
great many lives lost.
The St. Paul fire and marine insur-
ance company viii not withdraw from Chi
cagO the first OF October, but will copfine
its risks to certain limits.
A man committed suicide on the Pan
handle railway Tuesday near Columbus,
an HHaN HHaaHH
'front.' Of passenger-train.
A Boston dispatch says that fears are
entertained for the safety OF a st. Johns
stea ner, which left Esstport Monday morn
ing and was due 10 Boston Tuesday.
w. q. Brewer died in New Orleans
Friday night from the effects OF a blow given
him by Robert J. Collins with loaded cane
on that day. Both were civil-righters.
In q municipal election in Nashville |
Monday Morton 3. Howell was elected may
or over hercneFaL by elghI hundred and ten /
majority, with Conservative board OF alder |
men and cOuncllmen.
PinkertOn, the great detective chief. |
says he will turn over the twenty thousand
dollars reward 10 any one who will furnish |
Charlie ROss and the capture OF his abductors. |
Captain Leech and others of the Irish |
team and party, expect TO leave New YORK on |
Saturday, TO be absent five or six weeks, visit |
ing Niagara Fails, Chicago, Cincinnati, and |
souri,.
A collision between a passenger and
gravel-train on the Utica and ChenangO Val
ley railroad, Tuesday morning, resulted in |
the killing Of three persons on the passenger
train, and the serious wounding OF several |
others.
Charleston, South Carolina, was Wis., |
tied tt esday with the most feal ful gale ever |
witnessed IN that city. Considerable damage /
WAS done by the tide, which was driven TO a "a 1
unprecedented hight. One life WAS reported /
lost on sullivans island.
A man named Long, head sawyer in |
David Smiths sawmill. IN Toledo, Ohio, was /
instantly killed yesterday. BE was hling a 1
large circular saw, when the belt caught on /
tue wheel and started the saw, drawing Long
forward on lt and cutting him in Two.
A fire in Chico, California, yesterday,
destroyed considerable portion OF the town.
The loss Is over eighty thousand dollars, in
surance light. Furfy-lVe Valuable horses
were burned in Shearer d Evanss stable
The 1re was the work Of an incendiary.
Senator Logan sounded his cOnch-shelIt |
at indianapolis, Indiana, Tuesday. John
4. Is probably Of the opinion that his name
viii hgure IN the next Presidential contest.
ces OF becoming dumb-mute before that
event
A Washington telegraphic paragraph
says that between three and four hundred !
employees, principally women, viii be dis
cnarBel from the treasury prinung-bureau,
owing 70 the printing OF internal revenue
stamps from the treasury 10 the New York
bank-nOie company.
Larkin @. Mead, an American sculp-
tor, who designed and executed an elaborate
10 Lincoln, erected over his grave
81 Springfield, Illinois, mas just arrived in
New York, from Florence, and will proceed
70 Sprinsteld 20 attend the inaugural cere-
monies Of bis great work.
A NicksbuTg telegram says that Joe
Ashton, mate Of the steamer Big Sunfower
who was struck on the head with brick bY a
died al eleven yesterday morning from the
ELECTS OF the injury. AshbOn's skull was
fractured ana coiiar-bone biokeB.
The protrietOrs OF several prominent (
obb.ng and commission houses in New York
expressed their opinion last Tuesday TO a re-
porter concerning The recent action OF the
NeH York underV riters IN reference 20 in
iurance risks in Chicago. The several opin-
ons seemed 10 be that more noise ana gDecu-
alton had been created over this matter than
q deserved.
The New York Tribune has a cOpy of
senator Carpenters letter 70 Governor Kel- '
oggs OF Louisiana, taken by its correspondent 4
rom fhe original. a great deal Of dihlCulty
vas found IA obtaining IL, owing % the I'M '
~. -lngness OF tome Of tue conservative lead {
~ 20 use lt against carpenter. II Is as foi-
oWs; " avn desperately short. Can't YOU /.
emo me a thousand dollars. II 80, It wouId be 1
A dispatch from Steubenville, Ohio, c
iays that about two o'clock yesterday morn :
hg lle Golden Gate distillery and FIGURING q
nlii on south Fourth street, owned by Tbos
4etLa, together with cooper shop, stat le and %
eEeIal Jtheinent houses, were destroyed By q
IIei supposed 70 be The work Of an fncendi- =
ny, as lhe olstllery has not been Ia operR- ,
900 Tor iWo years. The loss is estimated al
me hpndHed thousand dOIlars. and fnsurapce Il
hifty-two Thousand dollars d
The Nevada Democratic State conven-
1on, at Carson, adopted platform onrosfng
nassed capital, Subsidies, and a third TERM 4,
'ondeHnlng the back-sslary grab: opposipe I,
yhlnese nlgTaiou; favOring laws for rseIi. =
atlng fares and freights: indOrslng the elg6t g
iour ,,' lay aIralgning the admlnistration for U
tOuse OF power demanding the repeal of m.
'ul1on tax and c0ndemuing the acts al ,,in- Il
snce perpetraie1 In the south. i
At meeting Of the depOsitors Of the =
,reedInen's banli, in Washington. Tuesdas-
tobert berFls, colOred, one Of the comuais
loneTs appointed 10 wind up its affair. said !
nat ne would, - an salOurned melting
nsEe q STA cement OF It's affairs, which would =
lOt probably be as favorable as that hitherto I
nor would & be 10 bad - thaf zen,
essnied BY those who, in connection wien IN
aa taken advantage OF the fears and neces- / Il
iues OF depOsitOrs, who have sold fheir de. =
osits al heavy discounts.