Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-07-03
TELEGRAPHIC ErITOxE.

Omaha complains Of hot weather.
The Massachusetts, Legislature sd.
jJurned Wednesday.
The cable steamer Farraday is report.
ed lost No particulars.
The public debt statement shows a de-
crease Of two million dollars.
Government gold was awarded in New
! York yesterday at ll0.5i 10 Hoes.
The Iowa State Republican oonven-
] ton met at DesMoines Wednesday.
Thieves, in attendance on the races,
are working" Columbus, Ohio.
Leicester square, in london, was for
msliy opened to the public yesterday.
Mr.. Hale has declined the appoint
ment Of postmaster-general, on account
Of ill-health.
Francis Tiernan aud E J. Thorn, Of
Springfield, Ohio, are charged with
heavy forgeIies.
Judge Wallace, Of New York, has de-
cided that railway interest certificates
are not taxable.
The Little Rock Gazette estimates the
msj0rity for q convention in Arkan-
sas AZ sixty thousand.
Charles F. COnant, of New Hamp-
shire, has been appointed assistant sec
retsry OF the treasury.
1t is rumored in Berlin that German
squadron will be dispatched immedi-
ately to Spanish ports.
The funeral of the late General
COncha took plsce, with imposing cere-
monies, in Madrid yesterday.
COnant took the oath and entered upon
the duties Of the Office OF assistant sec
retary Of the treasury yesterday.
A printer, bitten in New York two
weeks ago by a dog, died in q hospital
there yesterday Of supposed hydrophc-
bia.
At Fonda, New York, yesterday three
men were struck by lghtning-One
killed instantly, and the other two fatal
ly injured.
Wintermute, who murdered M'Cook,
was Wednesday, at Yankton, Daeotah
Territory, sentenced to ten years i'm
pris0nment.
The summer meeting Of the COlum- |
bus. Ohio, driving association COM
menced Wednesday under most favOra- |
bic promise.
Ex Postmaster-GeneraI Cresswell has J
agreed to continue at the head of the l
pOstoffiee department until hIs success /
sor is appointed.
". A. Stafford, a telegraph operator, /
was fatally shot in fracas at Julesburg, !
Nebraska, yesterday, by Clifton, a
sslo0n-keeper.
A negro woman was arrested at Win 4
chester, Kentucky, last Sunday for 4
poisoning three children. Two Cf the 4
victims have died.
Twenty-Five policemen were dis
charged from the force IN Pittsburg yes
teEday, owing 10 the inefiiciency Of the 4
fund. !
The republicans in Spain are erecting
in accordance with Gen
eral Concha's plans, to eOnfiue the Carl
ists to the Basque provinces.
The aldermen and ceunciImen and 4
about fifty otherwise distinguished citi- 4
zens Of Nashville attended the races in
q body at Evansville yesterday.
Governor Kemper, Of Virginia, has
prepared for publication long letter in /
reply to charges that he will support 4
General Grant for a third term.
The removal Of army headquarters
from Washington TO st. Louis has oc-
a Correspondence between Gene
raj Sherman and Secretary Belknap.
A horse owned by J. Mcmahon, of |
Mississippi, won 3 two-best- i
ir-three, mile beats, at Fort Wayne, I
Indiana, yesterday, in l:54} and l :53l. 4
DR.. John Chambers, much respected
was shot in the head as be was leaving 4
his Office Tuesday in Lawrenceburg,
Kentucky, by man named Wither-
spoon.
At the Democratic convention Of the
ninth district Of Indiana yesterday, w.
HOlmsn Hamilton was nominated for
congress by majority Of One-balf of
vote.
A London dispatch announces that
he Atlantic and Great Western railway /
yesterday declined TO receive
md pay cDupOBs on the first-mOrtgage
ponds.
Two servant girls undertook to aid
combustion in a vapOT stove in Cleve-
and, Ohio, yesterday, by the use Of coal
Ill, resulting in a couple Of funerals
here to-day.
At Milford, New Hampshire, yester-
lay, Major George Daniels and his
grandson, were fatally injured, and his
n
rack In front Of an approaching train.
+. Y. S. Strove, United States consul
It Quebec, died Wednesday evening,
he last day Of his term Of Office, and on
he eve Of his sailing for Leghorn, to
which place he had been appointed
.onsul.
A London dispatch chronicles great
at Corfu in consequence of /
he election to take place the next Sun
lay. There was q conflict on Tuesday
n which about thirty citizens were
wounded.
Goldsmith Maid, Judge Fullerton and
Red Cloud are entered and will trot for
! FIVE thousand dollar purse at the In
Annapolis nesting, July 10th, notwith-
standing the report from Evansville to
he contrary.
The July meeting of the Evansville
-Urf association begun yesterday with
be race between Judge Fullerton and
Maid, in which the latter
Fon in three straight heats; time, 2:25},
,:20l and 2:2l4.
A report has reached London that an
accidental fire in two houses near Es-
ella, in Spain, was made a pretext by
be Carlists for massacreing ali the |
V0Unced republicans who fell into their
iands at the battle OF NurO.
A billiard match Of four hundred
POINTS for a purse Of five hundred dollars
vas played IN PHILADELPHIA Tuesday
light between VIM. DOdds, Of Pitts
,urg, and Z. II. Nelns, Of Philadel-
lhia, the latter won by eight points.
In the trial of Ex-Postofice Official
Norton, in New York city, accused Of /
about one hundred thousand I
.0Iars, the defense put in the plea that
ne indictment is invalid because a GER
ain law affecting the case originated IN I
be senate instead o. the house Of repre-
entaiives.
The Union Pacific and Central Pacific
always have re-estabiished the second
lass fares that were taken of two years /
90. The price by the second-class ex-
fess train from Omaha to San Francis
o, Sacramento. Stockton, Marysvile
nd Lathrop is SIS; to Cheyenne, S25;
o Ogden, $50; to Salt Lake, 262.
In Washington, yesterday, the grand
lry Of the criminal court returned
rue bill n indictment against A. c. !
Ball, correspondent Of the Detroit Free
Prose, for Libel, in publishing a state
Bent 20 the effect that Senator Char
Her had been drunk in the senate. The