Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-25
TELEGRAMS.

lu0 CIVIL APPROPRIATION Dill was 0lS
cussed in the Federal house last night.
: The clearinghouse of Hart, Caughey
q Co., Of Pittsburg, suspended yester
day.
A heavy snOw-storm, with a higf
wind, prevailed in st. Paul Tuesday
night.
The stockholders of the Chicago, Bur.
lington and Quincy railroad met at Chi
c2gO yesterday.
Daniel SchOck, an old hermit living
in a little frame shanty, in st. Louis
was found in his hut last night dead.
An old man named Donahue, seventy
years Of age, living in Kansas City. got
into an alteration with his son, Mon
day, about some corn, and cut his heart
out.
A telegram from Washington say
that the treasury department will to-day
commence the payment Of the interest
on ten-fOrties due March 1st without re-
bate.
Wintermute, of Yankton, Dacotah
Territory, yesterday secured the twenty
thousand dollars bail required by the
supreme court, and was discharged from
jail.
The National Sunday-scboOl union
begins its next meeting in Baltimore,
| May 11th. The session will last three
days, and delegates from different parts
of the world will be present.
1t is stated that Earl Derby has ac-
| cepted from Spain, as indemnity for the
| Virginius's outrage, five hundred pounds
| sterling for each white and three hun
dTed for each black man murdered.
A telegram from Lacrosse, Wisconsin,
| the home OF A. Cameron, senator elect,
| says that the understanding prevails
| there that he will not go into the Re-
publican caucus, but will act as an In
dependent.
The wOman's suffrage question came
up in the Massachusetts house yester-
day on q resolution to amend the con-
stitutiOn so as to give women the right
of suffrage. The resolution failed-yeas,
S5; nays, 120.
Prominent officers of the New York
associated coal companies say that they
intend to fix the price of coal during the
coming season as high as Providence
will permit, and as low as necessity
should compel them.
The trunkhouse of A. s. Baker & Co.,
26S Washington street, New York, has
failed. Liabilities less than one hum
dred thousand dollars. The firm hope
to present a favorable statement to
their creditors and resume business.
The house committee on the District
of Columbia has fixed the taxation of
property in that district at one and a
half per cent, and extended the time to
three months before an execution can be
issued to sell the property for delinquent
taxes.
A telegram from Washington says
that the house committee on approp-ia-
tions are engaged on the deficiency bill.
The last Of the series Of general appro-
priation bills will contain appropriations
to the extent Of about two and half
million dollars.
A fire at Emporium, Pennsylvania,
Monday, burned six buildings, cOmpris-
ing five stores, three hotels, billiard and
eating saloon, millinery store, photo
graph gallery, and two Iodge-roOms.
Loss estimated at seventy thousand dol
lars; insurance, twenty-five thousand.
A tornado passed over the town of
Haustonia, Pettis county, Missouri,
Tuesday afternoon, and blew down and
destroyed nineteen buildings, including
the railroad depot. No one killed, but
Sheriff w. Porter was mOrtally wound
ed and five other persons badly Injured.
In the Ohio senate yesterday, house
bills were passed to allow free banks to
withdraw securities from the State audi
tor; incorporating oranges by filing GER
tificates with county recorders, and pro-
viding for the examination of school
district finances upon any taxpayers
complaint.
The Arkansas senate yesterday passed
8 resolution for q recess of the general
assembly, commencing March 5th and
ending the first Monday in November.
1t is understood that the adjourned ses-
sion is for the purpose of arranging the
outstanding bonded Indebtedness Of the
State.
The regular monthly sale of Scranton
coal by the Delaware and Lockawana
company of New York did not take
place yesterday, and it is stated at the
Office of the company that the auction
sales are discontinued, and hereafter
coal will be disposed of only at private
sale.
A telegram from Washington says the
committee on contested elections pre-
sented a report to the house yesterday
declaring that George H Sheridan was
elected representative for the State at
large from Louisiana, the minority re-
port declaring he was not SO elected was
also made.
AT an adjourned meeting Of the Keo-
kuk Northern line packet company, in
st. Louis, Tuesday, VIM. f. Davidson
was elected president, John Sheather.
secretary, and p. s. Davidson, general
superintendent. Some Of the board do
not recognize the legality of this action,
and will hold a meeting to consult as to
the proper course to pursue in the mat
ter.
A telegram from st. Paul, Minnesota,
says that the snow blockade Of Tuesday
night was not as serious as was appre-
hended. The night train on the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad was stop
ned at Sparta, but will come through. Last
night the westward train was report
ed all right. So far the trains between st.
Paul and Sioux City were suspended.
Yesterday the Iowa division Of the Mil
waukee and st. Paul railroad was
blockaded. AS usual the other local
trains to an from that city are running.
A London telegram says that Glad
stone has published a pamphlet entitled
Vnticd1aiSIIl, replying to Newman and
Manning. He maintains his original
assertions; eulogizes Newman, whose
secession is the greatest loss to the Eng
lish church since Whatley's; acknOwl-
edges that the loyalty Of the masses OF
the Catholics is unchanged; refutes
Manning's assertion that the claims of
the Roman church are not changed by
the Vatican DEGREES, and points to de-
clarations repudiating the doctrines OF
papal infallibility and temporal power,
by means Of which the English and
Irish Catholics obtained full civil lib
erty.
4 letter from Prof. Watson, dated
Petino December 10Th, communicates
the information that he and his party
succeeded in observing the transit of
Vanua though the observations there