Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-03-28
TELEGRAPHIC BREVLTIEs.

Omaha announces the death of the
temperance movement in that city.
V. ]. Sinclair killed Conrad Schultz,
in Louisville, Thursday, with a dray-
pin.
One million dollars in gold was award
ed in New York thursday at 81 to
1927.
The black men of Chicago will erect a
monument to the "white soul" of Sum-
ner.
The Missouri State senate, Thursday,
passed another socisl-evil regulating
scheme.
Dispatches from Berlin report Prince
Bismarck's health in a state of great
prostratiOn.
The New Jersey senate, Thursday,
passed the compulsory education bill by
a vote of thirteen to six.
The charity performances of five thea
tiers in New York, Thursday, netted, it
is estimated, forty thousand dollars.
Two milkmen in Lexington, Ken
lucky, pistoliZed each other, from the
effects Of which one will probably die.
At negro ball in New York yester-
day evening, the ticket. taker threw a
man downstairs, killing him instantly.
The Temperance people in Brooklyn,
New York, held a rOusing meeting yes
terday, at which Dio Lewis was lionized.
One man was killed aud three others
seriously injured, by the explosion of
gas in street-sewer in Baltimore, yes
Ierday.
The st. Louis board Of trade is consid-
ering the question of establishing a
Mississippi Valley and Brazil steamship
company.
The California State senate enter
tanned the question of regulating fares
and freights on railway lines in that
State yesterday.
Havana is now in the midst Of
financial crisis. Gold is quoted at two
fifty, and the banks refuse to discount
commercial paper.
Dispatches from Carlist sources, dated
Durango, yesterday, claim successes for
the insurgents in the two days fighting
with Marshal Serano.
Telegraphic advices from the vicinity
of Bald mountain, in North Carolina,
Thursday, report the subterranean dis
turbances increasing in violence.
The customs receipts for the week end
ing March 2lst were as follows: New
York, 81, sos, 654; Boston, 1921, ,0S6; Bal
timOre, Sl9S. 635; Philadelphia, $176, ,I59.
The survivors OF the tow-boat Cres-
cent City, which exploded near Helena
a few days ago, arrived in st. Louis yes
terday, but nothing new was obtained
from them.
The remains of the late Judge Lewis
-
st. Louis Thursday, where the funeral
took place, attended by a large con-
course of citizens.
Dio Lewis stimulates the contribution
fever in temperance assemblages in call
ing Tor money ITO aid in the good
work." by heading the list with hum
dred-dollar note from his own pocket
book.
A large and enthusiastic mass-meet-
ing, IN the interest of the temperance
movement, was held in the Central
Presbyterian church in Allegheny,
Thursday night, many hundreds being
turned away for want Of room.
Rev. Father Powers, who found crazy
woman, named Mrs. Brown, in st. Pat
rick's church in San Francisco, and
borsewhipped her, knocked her down,
and kicked and threw her out of the
church, was arrested Thursday evening.
The Massachusetts legislature had
two more joint-ballots, Thursday, for
United States senator, in both of which
Dawes and Hoar were ahead, the former
receiving ninety-two and the latter
eighty-one and eighty-two. No election
yet.
The large wooden factory and ware
house Of GOodhull & Udener, and the
residence of VIM. Pollock, at Kittan-
ming, Pennsylvania, were DESTROYED by
fire Thursday morning. The loss is esti-
mated at one hundred thousand dollars,
principally covered by insurance.
Marshal Serano, in a dispatch to the
war Office in Madrid, says that his losses
in the engagement yesterday, were one
hundred and eighty-eight killed and
wounded. His troops maintained all
the positions they captured from the
Carlists. The insurgents having mass
ed, he relinQuished his intention of car
rying the town of Pedro Abante till the
movement now being performed by his
right wing is completed.
A dispatch from Madrid says that
fighting before BilbOa, between the Re-
n1bIicans and Carlists, was renewed
early Yesterday, lasted all day, and
closed with decided advantages to the
national forces. Marshal Serano tele-
graphed to the minister of war that his
troops had driven back the Carlist lines,
capturing st the point of the bayonet
several villages occupied by the insur-
gents, Several Of the Carlist batteries
have also besn hlenced,