Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-05-26
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

A telegram from Rome says that the
pope is seriously i'll.
New Jersey, Sunday.
The fire in the Pennsylvania forests
has broken out again.
The Samaritan, from Liverpool, ar.
rived at Quebec yesterday.
Walter Blake, aged forty, committed
suicide in Omaha, Nebraska, Saturday.
Twenty-Five buildings were DESTROYED
by fire in Lexington, Kentucky, Mon
day.
The Black Hills geographical survey
ing expedition left Fort Laramie yester-
day.
The steamships Algeria and Celtic,
from New York, arrived at Queenstown
Monday.
The decoration of the soldiers graves
takes place in Greencastle, Indiana,
next Monday.
The assembly in Paris, yesterday,
elected thirteen members OF the new
committee OF thirty.
The President will have an interview
with the Indians at the White House in
Washington, to-day.
Charles Lee (colored) fell dead on the
streets OF Little Rock, Arkansas, Mon
day, Of heart disease.
The formal laying Of the cornerstone
OF the grand Masonic temple took place
in Indianapolis Monday.
Three members OF a family named
Finley, living in Cooper county, Mis-
souri,, died Of starvation last week.
Mabel n. Young, aged five years, was
murdered in Boston, Sunday. A man
named Piper has been arrested on sus-
| picion,
The President has signrd the commits
| sion Of John H. LigbtneT IS collector Of
internal revenue for the first district OF
| Missouri.
The annual concIsve Of the Grand
commandery Of the K Nights TempIar OF
Pennsylvania, takes place in Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania, this week.
Nine-tenths OF the town of Osceola,
Pennsylvania, has been destroyed, leav-
ing scarcely enough eshes to mark the
spot where the houses stood.
The federal troops in Mexico are re-
ported to have lost forty killed and one
hundred and fifty taken prisoners, in an
engagement with the insurgents.
A great many Of the captured Black
HillssexpeditiOners are at YanktOn, De-
cOtah, awaiting the signing of the treaty
opening up that country to immigra-
ton.
Mrs. 4. G. Gillespie, of PhiIadelphis,
president Of the ladies' centennial ex-
ecutive committee, is travelling in the
west in the interest Of the big show Of
1876.
A telegram from Boston says that re-
cent estimates of the defalcation of
Abraham Jackson, missing lawyer,
swell the amount to over seven hundred
thousand dollars.
AS religious procession was passing
through the streets of Brussels, Sunday
evening, it was ssssiled by the populace
and its ranks broken up. The police ar
rested ten Of the rioters.
The officials of tie treasury depart
ment at Washington are very well
pleased with the progress made in con-
verting the United States six per cent.
into four per cent. bonds.
The lumber yards OF Gaines, Cook & |
Co, and Petit, Robinson & Co., in Min |
neapolis, Minnesota, burned Sunday |
night. Loss siXty-siX thousand, and |
five hundred thousand dollars.
The general assembly, in grand COM
mittee, in Providence, Rhode Island, |
yesterday, elected Henry Lippett gov |
ernor, and Henry T. Sisson lieutenant |
governor. The officers were sworn in |
and the election completed.
The New York Times says: "All the |
stock jobbing operations on one side or
the other cannot save the Erie railway |
from passing into the hands of a re-
ceiver. The exposure of two years ago
clearly foreshadOwed that result"
John Gallagher, while in an intoxi-
Gated state, crawled under one OF the
cars in the yard OF the P. G. and l.. rail-
road, at LOganspOrt, Indiana, Sunday
evening, and went to sleep. The cars,
when moved, crushed his left hand and
right foot.
The schooner Mary and Eliza, while
on its way from Savannah to Damsri-
sofia, was wrecked, and all on board
lost, except the captain and seaman
named William Griffin, who were
picked up at sea while floating on
piece OF their wrecked vessel.
The Knoxville and Charleston railroad
has changed ownership, Major O'Con-
nor becoming the purchaser. The road
is now under his sole control. Major
OCOnnor will at once have trestle
bridge replace the structure swept away
by the April flood, so that trains may
run over the entire road.
Lieutenant John L. Glenn, of the
United States srmy, once familiarly
known as the Little Drummer Boy of
and Miss Aneti r. Baylor,
of General William B. French,
Of Fort M'Henry, were
married at St. Luke's Episcopal church,
in Baltimore, Maryland, Monday. A
large and brilliant assemblage witnessed
the ceremony.
At Charleston, South Carolina, on the
thirteenth instant, occurred the eighty
fifth annual convention of the Profess
taut Episcopal diocese of South Caro-
lima. 1t included thirty-six clergy and
lay delegates, and for two
days discussed the application of st.
Marks church, of ChaIle=ton, a respect
able cOlored congregation with white
ppstor, for admission to representation
in the convention The issue IS made
upon a motion to refer the application
10 a special committee, with instruc-
tiOns to report next year.
General r. H. Chiffon, who wes Gen
ersl Lees distinguished adjutsnt-gen-
eral, hes not yet been relieved Of his pc
litiCal difficulties. A few days ago he
was summoned rs juror in a court at
Columbus, Georgia, Shen the general
plead that he had no civil rights under
the government-thus occupying the po-
sition of foreigner. The judge excused
him, saying in substance: "If you have
no interest in the country, tHe country
can have none in you" General Chill
ton, in answer, replied: MAY itplease
the court, I have as much interest in the
and especially in the south, as
any man." and left.