Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-05
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James B. Greene was inaugurated
g Jvernor of Maryland, yesterday.
The attempt to organize the temper
ance crusade in Chicago has been VIZ
tually abandoned.
The Litchfield house, at Thompson,
Minnesota, burned last evening. Loss
twelve thousand dollars.
Erie railway employees express dis
satisfaction at the irregular manner in
which they are receiving their pay.
In the Prussian reichstag q motion is
under discussion to deprive the governor
Of Alsace OF the power to declare state
ofsiege. w a w y
Indianapolis merchants discussed the
currency question in a body, Monday.
Resolutions were adopted .favoring an
increaseln the volume.
The Ohio legislature Tuesday passed
q bill authorizing the commissioners in
each county to remove the drift and
timber from the rivers.
The report that Count de Chamborll is
i'll is without foundation. A Vienna
dispatch last night reports him in that
city in perfect health.
The steamship Abbotsford, from Phil
adelphis, arrived at Liverpool yester-
day, and reports having experienced
fearful hurricane at sea.
A London telegram says that a con-
ference of horne-rulers was held 10
Dublin, Tuesday, at which the lord
mayor of the city presided.
The election held in Paducah Tues
day, on the question of licensing sa-
looms, resulted in favor of license by
majority of about forty votes.
A London cable dispatch says that it
has been finally settled that Brandt,
speaker of the last house of commons,
shall be reelected unanimously in the
new house.
"A fire at Kansas City, Tuesday,
burned four buildings, including the
Continental hotel saloon and restaurant
and Laclede hotel. Loss twenty thou
sand dollars.
A Madrid dispatch says that the off,
cial reports OF the battle on the nights
of Somorostro, admit that the govern
ment troops~lOst eight hundred killed
and wounded.
A dispatch dated Nagasaki, third in
slant, says that the insurgent force
which appeared before that city, has
been totally defeated by the govern
ment troops.
A Havana dispatch has the follow
ing: "Telegrsms report the killing of
Ex-President Cespedes by San Quintin's
battalion, and the burial.of the body in
Santiago de Cuba"
The esaloon-keeperso of Columbus, Ohio,
were prayed at for the first time Tues
day. The efforts of the women were not
successful, but they express determina-
ton to keep up the warfare.
The municipal authorities of Column
bus, Ohio, are besought by resolution
and otherwise, to pass an ordinance for
bidding the sale Of intoxicating liquors
within the corporate limits.
A Berlin telegram says that Mr.. Ban
croft, United States minister, issued in
vitations for a grand banquet, yester-
day, in celebration of the anniversary of
President Grants Inauguration.
The special correspondent of the Lon
don NelCs, in India, telegraphs that the
villagers of Eastern Tirhoot are slowly
starving to death, and the future of 9TH
er districts looks terribly ominous.
A destructive fire occurred in Boston
yesterday, caused by the breaking of a
carboy Of vitriol ia the Eastern railway
freight-sheds. The loss win reach about
one hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars.
Horace Venable, ,colored, was sentenced
to De hanged, in Richmond, Virginia,
next Friday, for the murder of Mary
Homes last May. His sentence is COM
muted to eighteen years in the peni-
tentiary.
The saloon-keepers of Jefferson City,
Missouri, have been notified by COM
mittee of ladies that if they do not
close their saloons by Wednesday, they
will be visited and prayed for in the
Ohio style.
The first of the saloon-keepers be-
sieged by the crusaders in Columbus,
Ohio, Tuesday, positively refused to
''sign," but proposed to sell out at
slight advance on first cost his entire
stock and fixtures.
After six days labor a jury was OBJ
tanned in the case of J. G. King, on trial
in New York charged. with the murder
of Frank O'Neill some months ago, and
the prosecution opened the case with an
address by the district-attorney.
A New York telegram says that the
Catholic pilgrimage committee give no.
tice that the time originally appointed
for the departure of pilgrims for Rome,
which viii not be called until the mid
die of May, will be adhered to.
There is now on exhibition in New
York city, by the manufacturers, q solid
silver tea-service, intended for presenta-
ton to Captain Urquhart, of the ship
Tri-Mountain, by the survivors of the
wrecked steamship Vile de Havre.
A conference of the leading working
men, representing eighty thousand Of
their class in the west of England, was
held at Bristol Monday night, and a
resolution was adopted favoring the
settling by arbitration of all interna-
tional disputes.
The failure of Charles Zapatu, cotton
and commission merchant, is reported
by telegraph from New Orleans, by
which sterling exchange buyers are
mulcted about one hundred and twenty
five thousand dollars worth, with no
cotton shipped to cover bills drawn.
The will Of the late James w. Girard,
was admitted to probate in New York
Tuesday. All his children and children
Dy his DrOtnerS ana sisters ana servants,
are remembered, and in four codicils
additions are made to nearly every
legacy. The estate is valued at mil
lion dollars.
Rev. N. Balkom ID. White, while rid
ing in Lewiston, Maine, yesterday
morning, was thrown from horse and
killed. He was for many years pastor
of the Pine street church, that city, and
at the time of his death professor of logic
and christian evidence in Bates coll
lege.
The court of inquiry in the case of
the General Freedman's Bureau o. o. I
Howard, held its first session in Wash
ington, Tuesday, all the members of the
court being present except General
Mcdowell, Iwho was indisposed. The
court adjourned to the tenth of March,
at the request of the judge-adyocste.
A London telegram says that the |
stress of weather forced the steamships
Herder and Silesia, from Hamburg for
New York, to put into Queenstown,
both leaking, and the former with loss |