Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-01-12
The Prussian EIeetiOns-TrOuble Among
the COal.Miners-Ch Chicago Topics
A Famous Doctor in the Tolls
Trouble in Kentucky.
More Trouble in MexicO-Fire in New
York City-HOg-Packing in Chi
cagO-The National Board
OF Trade.
The Farmers or the NOrihWest-MOre
Testimony in the Notwithstanding
Business-Aeeidental Death
Etc., Etc, Etc.
saovement Of War HuIks.

New YORK, January 1.-THE United
States gunbost Frolic has been ordered
to Norfolk. The Dictator goes into COM
mission tomorrow.
Sudden Death OfJudge Dill.
WASHINGTON, January 10.-Judge
Dill, of Newark, Ohio, clerk in the in
ternal revenue bureau, dropped dead to-
night of appoplexy.
whisky Frauds.
SAN FRANCISCO, January 10.-Special
Agent Lyman and the United States
district attorney announces his inten-
ton to make searching investigation
into the alleged whisky frauds peTpe-
trated by the whisky ring of this city,
by which the government has been Sc
riously defrsuded.
Accidental Death.
CINCINNATI, January l1.-George
Rebman, q keeper of lager-beer
saloon and bOardinghouse, snapped a re-
volver twice at Nicholas KlOss, one of
his bOarders, as he says, in sport. The
second time the pistol was discharged,
the ball entering the head of Kloss,
from the effects of which he died to-day.
Rebmann then ran to the river and tried
to drown himself, but was arrested.
FiTe-Obsaining Money IrresuIRrIy.
NEW YORK, January IO-A fire oc-
CURED this evening in Herts Brothers
cabinet and furniture store, SOC and sos
Broadway, and damaged the stock to
the amount of fifty thousand dollars.
The basement of $40, occupied as an oil
cloth and carpet store, was damaged to
the amount of ten thousand dollars.
Damage to the building, ten thousand
dollars.
The famous DR.. Nephegyr has been
held in three thousand dollars bail on
the charge of obtaining money under
false pretenses.
Petition fn Bankruptcy Granted.
LOUISVILLE, January I0.-The petit
ton of the German savings bank, of
Louisville, in the United States district
court of Indiana, sitting at New Alba
nv, to throw the Louisville, New Alba
nv and st. Louis airline railroad into
bankruptcy, was heard by Judge Gresh-
am to-day. The Judge instructed the
counsel for the plaintiff that his charge
will necessarily be against them, as they
had failed to prove that the liabilities of
the company are in excess of their as
sets, whereupon the counsel Withdrew
the petition. The suit was for thirty
thousand dollars.
Affairs i'm Spain.
LONDON, January 1.-Dispatches
from Madrid report that SerranO will
not convoke the cOrtes for twelve
months. He will bend all his energies
to the suppression of insurrection and
the tranquiliZaticn of the country, and
not until those tasks are accomplished
will he summon the legislature. Gen.
eral Monrones has commenced opera
tions against the Carlists on the line of
the river EbrO.
MADRID, January ia decree has
been issued dissOlving all political asso-
Citations charged with conspiring against
the interests of the country or the integ-
rity of its rulers.
Prussian Election Notes.
BERLIN, January 11.-In the elections
for the members of the reisehstag yester-
day the Danish party carried all the
districts in north Sehleswig, in which
they were successful at the last and pre-
viOus election.
Partial returns of the elections show
that the number of national liberals
and prOgressionists returned, is about
even, the other parties falling far be-
hind. DanZic, Leipsig, Bremen, Lu-
beck and Munich, elected liberal men,
bers, and Berlin, KeOningberg and Bres-
lau progressiOnists. Candidates of the
clerical party are chosen in KTefeld, CO.
lOgne, Dusseldorf and Achen.
Trouble in the Mining Districts.
New YORK, January IA Potts
vile, Pennsylvania, special says the
miners rejected the proposition OF the
operators to reduce the wages on the
sIiding-scale gang as low as two dollars
and fifteen cents, and nine thousand
miners in that region alone are idle, and
all the great coal operations of that Sec
ton are stopped. The miners will not,
under any circumstances, submit to the
proposition of the operators, and, unless
the latter recede, there will be a pro-
longed struggle. the miners Of the
Columbia and Northumberland compa-
MES are affected directly by this action
OF the SchUylkil men, and all the re-
gion indirectly. They will be heard
from on Monday, and then the whole
region will have suspended within a few
days.
Chicago Walls.
CHICAGO, January l0-This evening
Charles Randolph, secretary Of the ma
tional board of trade, and the delegates
from the Chicago board Of trade, left for
Baltimore, where the national board
conyenes next week. The names OF the
delegates are as follows: Chas. d. CuI-
ver, w. n. Brainard, A. NJ. Wright, ].
c. Dore, Murry Nelson, s. H. MeCres,
and J. w. Preston.
The total number OF hogs packed in
this city since November lst is ], 1854, 488,
against 78S, 2l0 III the same time last
year. milwaukee reports 2lS, 4l5, against
IA, IS last year.
This forenoon, in the superior court,