Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-21
TELEGRAMS.

The steamship Othello Hull arrived q
New York yesterday.
Senator Carpenter occupied his sea
in the senate yesterday.
The City Of Feking left San Fran
cisco yesterday for Hong Kong.
The steamship Spain, from New York
arrived st Liverpool yesterday.
The stock exchange in London yes
terday was closed, repairs being made
The steamers Bolivia, from Glasgow
and Deutschland, from Bremen, arrived
at New York yesterday.
A dispatch from Augusta, Georgia
Gays Ike Hooper was executed there
Friday for the murder of Howard.
Ex-CouDty Treasurer John F. w
Thorn committed suicide at his resi-
dence in Wyandotte, Michigan, yester.
day.
The report that complications have
arisen between Germany and Spain in
regard to the Gustav affair is denied.
On the contrary it is asserted that their
relations are OF cordial nature.
Willie Oakley, aged seventeen, son OF
w. H. Oakley, of Cairo, Illinois, was
run oyer by the cars at Mount Carmel,
yesterday. One leg was crushed below
the knee, but the injury is not cOnsid-
cred fatal.
New York bank settlement yesterday !:
Loans-increase, 81, ,738, 800; specie
crease, S3,240, 100; legal-tenders-de-
crease, s., ,254, 800: depOsits-decrease,
81, SOS, 800; observation-disclosures, $685.
600; reserve-decrease, s., ,S42. 575.
A verdict was given against the New
York and New Haven railroad, in New
York yesterday, in favor OF man who
was robbed of sixteen thousand dollars
in one of the company's cars. 1t was
held that the company must protect its
patrons.
A collision occurred yesterday after
noon in the Erie railroad tunnel at Ber-
gen, New Jersey, between several coal
cars and a passenger train, by which
brakeman on the coal cars named Pat
rick Savage was killed, and some cars
demolished.
Various States OF the empire OF Ger
many are Investigating the causes OF
emigration. To remove them, it is pro-
posed to facilitate the requirement of
small estates, and to oppose the action
of emigration agents paid by trans-At-
lantic governments.
The Investigations which have been
in progress, in Omaha, for several days
past, into the management of the peni-
tentiary, show that prisoners have been
subjected to extremely cruel treatment,
and clothed and fed miserably. The
investigation committee will report a
change in the officers.
The POliticO asserts that the indem-
nifty to be paid by the Spanish gov
eminent to the relatives Of the Ameri-
can victims Of the Virginius affair has
been fixed at eighty-four thousand dol
lars, and that the convention will be
signed Immediately on Cushing's pre-
senting his credentials to the new gov
eminent.
a telegram from Boston says tnat the
Lehigh and Eastern railroad company,
Of Pennsylvania, has petitioned the
legislature to guarantee fifty thousand
dollars of its first mortgage, on condi-
ton that it will carry all coal destined
for Massachusetts at rate not over one
and half cents per ton per mile.
Two burglars were killed last Sunday
night, near MOoreville, Hooking cOun-
ty, Ohio, by Mr.. Mohr and a pedler who
was staying at his house. One of the |
burglars was killed instantly, and the |
other wounded, escaped, and was
tracked, and discovered to be Mohr's |
He died Monday mora |
ing.
A telegram from Montreal says that |
owing to the accumulation OF ice at the |
rapids, the water has risen about two |
feet over the lock Of the Beauhornois |
canal, flooding several houses and COM
pelling the inmates to leave The island
Of Aux Cheroux is completely submerg- |
ed. Meanwhile the mills aud factories |
Of Valleyield are stopped for want of
the river.
In the senate in Columbus, Ohio, yes |
terday, a bill was introduced to allow |
suits to be brought against railway di-
rectOrs who buy bonds and stocks of |
their own roads below their par values |
and to provide for recovery in such case,
in favor of the party aggrieved, In the |
house resolution was adopted asking |
the United States senate to pass the bill |
now before them for the equalization of
bOunties.
Yesterday afternoon, daughter of
Valentine Meyer, visiting an upstairs |
room in her fathers house, $50 Main ,
street, Cincinnati, discovered a closet |
broken open and tin-can taken there |
rom, and its cOntents-two thousand |
five hundred dollars-carried away. |
Two persons, Geo. Bailey and Margaret |
George, were arrested on suspicion, but |
he money was not found on them.