Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-20
TELEGRAMS.

at I0e SESSION OF Ine senate yesterday,
apparently in usual health.
A London dispatch announces the ar
rival of the Fusiliers at Portsmouth,
from the Gold Coast.
Prince Kalskina has been elected
king of Hawaii, to succeed Lunalilo.
The election was quiet.
Johann Heinrich Noedler, a distin-
guished German astronomer, is dead,
aged seventy-nine years.
The Roman Catholic bishops in Aus
tria threaten to withdraw if tie passage
Of ecclesiastical bills is pressed.
a San Francisco dispatch says the
snow blockade has again been raised,
and trsins are running each way.
General Spinner, whose autograph we
used to see and admire occasionally,
has resumed his duties, greatly improv-
ed in health.
Queen Victoria has expressed her
highest admiration and warmest thanks
for the gallantry displayed by the troops
in the Ashsntee wal.
a white = woman, wife of James
Freeman, colOTed (all in Hartford, Con-
necticut), killed her sister yesterday be-
cause Of her jealousy.
Two policemen were committed to
prison in New York yesterday, without
bail, on charges Of committing murder
ous assaults on citizens.
Frederick A. Bailey, a New York
bOok-keeper, and one hundred and
sixty thousand dollars of his employers
money, are wanted in that city.
a London dispatch says that Gener-
81 WOolseley will go to Malta, or Alden,
TO meet the remains of DR.. Livingstone,
and accompany them to England.
John r. Mclean, the Cincinnati En-
Oh, irer editor imprisoned a few days ago
for contempt of court, was released yes
terday on paying fine of fifty dollars.
H. A, Holmes, for many years sales
man of BAN berger, Bloom & Co., in
Louisville, shot himself through the
head Tuesday, and will die. Cause,
family troubles.
At Providence, Rhode Island, George
r. Downing, agent Adams express
company, stGcided Tuesday evening in
his private office, by shooting himself
through the head.
On SUNDAY q passenger train on the
Cincinnati, Ham, ton and indianapolis
railroad was wreck,ad near MorristOwn,
Indiana. The engineer was seriously
hurt. No one else injured.
George Lavine, q farmer residing five
miles below Toledo, Ohio, while on his
way home Monday night, drove his
team over an embankulent, fifty feet
high, and was instantly KILLED.
Rev. DR.. Daniel Elliott Emeritus, the
last living moderator of the original
Presbyterian general assembly before
the division, died at Allegheny City,
Wednesday, aged eighty-seven years.
The steamship City of Pekin, says a
telegram from Chester, Pennsylvania,
OF the Pacific Mail steamship company,
was successfully launched there Wednes-
day in presence of very large number
Of people.
Senator Stewart has declined to serve
as chairman of the District of Columbia
iuvs stigating committee; Senator Thur
man also declined; Senator Allison
c0uldu I see it, and now comes the song
Of The J'dcaHt Chair.
In a pc rsOnal alteration yesterday at
LewisburC, in Conway county, Ar
kansas, ProsecUting-Attorney G. G.
Reid. shot and killed another lawyer,
named Hill. The dispute arose in the
courtroom over the trial of case. The
coroner's inquest discharged Reid, re-
turning a verdict Of justifable homicide.
A Washington telegram says that "a
committee from New Orleans on Tues
day presented President Grant with
picture of himself on horseback, heroic
size Senator West made the presen-
tation speech in presence of the cabinet
and the Presidents household, and sub.
sequently they all partook of lunch with
the President.
About three o'clock yesterday morn
ING the Argus and Radical newspaper
bUiIo jog, in Beaver, Pennsylvania, thir-
ty miles from Pittsburg, was destroyed
bv fire. The building hsd several Occu-
pants. TTh e estimated loss is twenty-five
fbousand dollars; insurance, about fif-
teen tbou @ md dollars. This will cause
a Suspension Of the Argus and Radical
for a week or Wo.
In New Orlea Us, Tuesdays in the case
of the Grant "a. -ish prisoners, the jury
brouObt i'm p Terdsict of "not guilty. as
To Alfred G. Lewis. and announced that
there was no possibih ty of agreement as
to the others. The jm y was discharged
by the Judge, and the p rlsoneIs were re-
manded on the statemen I OF tne dlstTlct-
attorney, who announce that there
were other indictments ag. thst them..
A special dispatch receiv, I'd in New
York from Salisbury, North CaIoIlhs,
saws that one report from b,;ienl nc
sources states that the internal noises
heard IN Bald Mountain resemble those
heard in Mount Etns, preparatory to
volcanic eruptiOns. Throughout the an
tire county, and for a distance Of AZ
teen miles, extending into adjoining
counties, these sounds are heard, and a
trembling and reverberation of the earth .
is perceptibly felt. No signs of fire or
lava have yet been discovered.
Ticket agents of the Erie railroad /
have for a long time suspected that /
system of fraud was practiced by con- /
ductOrs by which the company was los |
ing large sums, and last week four con- 4
iuctors of the Delaware division and /
three residents of Port Jersey were ar
rested and put under bonds on suspicion
Of being implicated. 1t is said that the
practice has been for certain conductors
TO return, without punching, a portion of
the tickets collected by them, and to
deliver them to persons outside, who
sold them to be used again.
The TEMPERANCE ladies of Chicago are
concentrating their efforts in the cause
on the city council. A petition was
presented asking rejection OF the
pending ordinance legalizing the open
ing ofsalOOns on the Sabbath. The city
fathers regretted the circumstance of
their having Deen elected 10 their seats
o1 the promise to pass the ordinance
"a npIained of, and upheld the dignity
- the positions so obtained by passing
the ordinance in the face of the prayer
fuI petition, bedewed with women's
teanB.
Governor Baxter, Of Arkansas, hss
,syiften 8 letter to the president OF the
srEansas Central railway company, de-
Lining TO issue further State-aid bonds
10 tbaf or any other railroad company,
and Giving il as his opinion that the
Low Under which State bonds were here
tofora issued to railroaes in that State is
a military law, and the bonds were ille-
gallv issued. The governors Ietter Is
lengthy, but is based on examination py
himself and legal advice. The ROAD
upon whose application the governor
bases his letter, is the one OF wnlcp oen-
.ltor Dorsey was formerly president.
An oil-tank, containing several thou
sand barrels OF oil, was struck by llgnt-
ming at Modoc City, Pennsylvania,
Wednesday, and was set on nre' a
considerable quantity of the oil was
saved by pumping it out. AT one
o'clock yesterday morning the tank
burst, the flames spreading in all dlrec-