Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1874-02-04
TELEGRAPHTC EPITOME.

DR.. Mayo, Baron Rothschild's physi-
clan, announces that he is improving.
| Eight small houses were burned in
! New Orleans yesterday. Loss, twenty thou
sand dollars.
A joint select committee is authorized
! by congress TO investigate affairs In the Dis
| trict of Columbia.
A fire at Constantinople Monday
/ night destroyed over one hundred houses, in
/ Guiding the residence of the grand vizier.
A sixty-thousand-dollar fire occurred
| at Fratsburg, Maryland, yesterday, upon
| which there was an insurance of only about
nine thousand dollars.
Articles of impeachment against
Judge Busteed, of Alabama, were presented
in congress yesterday, and referred 10 the
| house judiciary committee.
Baron Reuter- denies in toto the state
ment in the London Daily Post to the effect
that he asked six months grace of the shah
before beginning work under his Persian con-
cession.
A dispatch from Dublin SAYS that in
spite OF the short time allowed for the prepa-
ration of parliamentary elections, many home
in ireland.
Mr.. Samuel g. Brown, and old citi-
zen of EOckport, Indiana, well and favorably
known throughout southern Indiana, died
suddenly yesterday morning at his house in
that city.
n NADbaNCD llOLll 1O1I6 1UUfdIa.
announces that Colonel r. n. Hudson has pur-
chased the one-hslf interest of James b. Ed.
munds In the Morning Journal. Mr. Edmunds
has been an editor here for twenty-four years.
Colonel Hudson was formerly editor Of the
Express, and also of the Gazette.
A Philadelphia telegram says that the
ship-carpenters on strike there propose to
take contracts to build and repair vessels.
They guarantee that all work shall be done in
hrst-clsSs manner, and wages to be four dol
lars per day, the same as owners now pay
firms; material used only to be charged for.
Representative Meyers, of Pennsylvs-
MIA, introduced a bill IN the house of repre-
Sentat1Yes yesterday, to amend the bankrupt
law by enforcing settlement of the claims
against a debtor, whenever an aereement for
fourth of the number and amount of the
creditors.
Robert Horas, a colored Nashvillian,
was arrested in that city yesterday, and
bound over to the criminal court in bond of
two thousand dollars, for the alleged crime of
burning 10 death, last Friday evening, his
adopted child, aged eighteen months, with a
red-hot poker. Failing to give bond, he was
sent to Jail.
The Missouri State senate has passed
a concurrent resolution, which was previous
~ passed by the house, calling upon congress
to consider and rectify the unjust Illegal dis
elimination of the Union Pacific railroad
against the Kansas Pacific road. The house
also passed a concurrent resolution asking
congress to provide means for the repairing OF
the Lower Mississippi river levees.
Dates to January twenty-second have
been received from Central and South Amer
lea. The United States steamer Wyoming
sailed from AspinwaH January l4th, having
in charge the alleged hllibustering steamer
General sherman, sent to the United States
for libel. United states Minister Scriggs, for
refusing to take of his hat while religious
procession in the capital of Columbia was
passing, was subjected to some offensive treat
ment by boys in the crowd, who regarded Mr.
Seriggs's refusal as deliberate insult to their
religion.
In reply to protest of the Louisiana
bondholders, published in the New York pa
pers, against the funding scheme, Governor
Kellogg makes the statement that four mil
lions of bonds, mostly held by the Signers of
this protest, were issued by his predecessor to
the Chattanooga railroad, without adequate
consideration to the State, and that two and a
half millions of these bonds were issued in
the night, and hurried out of the State on q
special train, there being no record of them
in any office of the State. He claims that
many holders of merltortpus b9nds have Sig
nified their acceptance of the scheme.
The Franklin savings fund closed its
doors in Philadelphia yesterday morning
displaying a placard as follows: "Closed by
order OF the United States court" A large
number of poor persons had money in the in
stitution, as it allowed larger rate of interest
than most other banks. The church OF Holy
Trinity institution for the blind and large
number of children had funds In the institu-
tion, and it was in the interest of the last
mentioned that suit was brought about. On
the first of October the board of directors
adopted a resolution enforcing the bylaw
which provides for q notice of three months
for The withdrawal of sums of money exceed
ing three hundred dollars. DepOsitors who
were unable to obtain funds, and were COM
PEELED to again give notice, and now win be
delayed by the institution being In bank
ruptcy.