Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-12-15
TELEGRAES.

Two vessels have been wrecked OF
SantAnder, Spain, and eight lives have
been lost.
A telegram from London says that the
parliament will reassemble on the fifth
of February.
The steamship Mongsl, from Shsng.
mai lof New York. has been wrecked,
ana sixteen persons persisted.
a telegram from New York SAYS tha;
Coroner Croker has been admitted to
bail IN fifteen thousand dollars.
A telegram from Washington saws
that King kslakana was better yester-
day. de will call on the President to-
day.
The steamships City of Montreal and
Suesia, from New York, and Indiana
nom Philadelphia, arrived at London
yesterday.
a man was arrested at Philadelphia,
eFdnday, having in his possession thirty
one fine revOlvers supposed TO be stolen
in the west.
A telegram from London yesterday,
says that the Bishop OF London has
prohibited Bishop Colenso from preach
ing in that diocese.
Richard ID. Irwin, regarded as the inn
portant witness in ihe Pacific Mail
steamship inquiry, left New York for
Washington yesterday.
A telegram from New York says that
the steamship August Andre, from Ant
werp, went ashore on the ROnier shoals,
and lies in dangerous position.
A telegram from Panama, dated De-
cember 9TH, says that the revolution at
CsjamATca, Peru, was quelled after
loss of twenty-thFee killed and forty
wounded.
w. Ii. Jones, OF Somerville, Massa-
ehusetts, killed Mrs. o. r. Barry, at her
residence in Chsrlestown, Massachu.
sets, Sunday evening, and then cut his
own throat.
Martin J.. Keith d Co.'s shoe factor ?.
at Campbell, Massachusetts. was burned
Saturday night. LOss, one hundred and
fifteen Thousand dollars; insurance, sew
enty-five thousand dollars.
A large iron tank in the purifvinV
house OF the gas light company OF ST
Louis, exploded on Sunday afternoon,
and instantly killed Thomas Pratt,
chief engineer of the works.
The five children of John Dotterich.
/
were drowned Sunday while amusing
themselves with sled on a pond near
their parents residence, at BTeakness,
New Jersey.
The governor Of Arkansas, yesterday,
signed the act fOTbidding State officers
from receiving levee bonds in payment
for State taxes, also q memorial to con-
gress asking repeal Of the tax on leaf
tobacco.
A disastrous fire broke out in Boston,
about eleven o'clock last night, by
which ten buildings were destroy ed on
Warehouse street. A strong wind was
blowing, and another conflagration
seemed imminent.
William Mescher and Joseph Doug
lass, burglars, were shot in Fort HamiI-
ton, Long Island, Saturday night.
Douglass, before dying declared that
Mescher knew all about Charlie Ross, |
the child that was stolen from Philadel. /
phis.
A Washington dispatch saws that
John M'ATthuT, OF Philadelphia, de- |
clining the Office of supervising srebi- |
tect, the position will be rendered 10 |
Mr.. Walsh, Of st. Louis, now superin- |
tending the construction Of the new
postOffice in that city.
A Washington dispatch states that
the commission sent TO Europe TO exam |
inc into the jetty system at the mouth |
OF the Danube and other rivers, with a |
view 10 as sertain whether il could be /
adopted ~ deepening the mouth OF the 4
Mississippi, are now at the Southwest /
Pass.
The capitol building at Washington |
caught on fire last Thursday afternoon, 1
aud but for the prompt measures taken I
by Z. X Culver, Of Arkansas, and d. |
w. 6tOckstill, Of Ohio, who first dis
covered the fire and extiDgulshed ID, /
there would have been q disastrous con-
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