Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-26

' they reproduce N. De Cassagnac'ss s speech TO III
BonapaItlsts OF Belleville. Proceedings hav
aIreaoy oeen taken against the lie GduhOfs, an
yesterusy evening the lie Pays was seized.
A young boy named Laselle, abor
eight years old, while performing at tn
Theaier Conique, in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesda
ttIgHrE tntlgnE n, MADE De leaP from the trapeze an
In some way the carpet slipped from thei
hands, throwing the boy on the stage and :.
severely irj Srtng him that he is not expected
to live.
The American residents Of Berlir
celebrated Thanksgiving day in that city yes
terdey. The sermon was preached by Rev
| DR.. Thompson. AT the conclusion of the re.
ltgious, services, the congregation adopted
death OF Viee-Prestdeni wilson, and direetins
| that a telegram of coincidence be sent tC
America.
Telegrsphic intelligence received at
quebec states that four vessels. bound for the
| MagdalepS Islands, with supplies, are LOST
with many lives, and it is feared the rest OF
! the feet has suffered the sameIfate. The tele.
gram ASKS the governor to dispatch steamer
otherwise large portion of the Inhabitants
will be in state of starvation.
Precisely two mouths ago Jacob Rem
ter, of New Albany, Indiana, tried to burn
his wife 10 death but failed. He then muir
dered her and severed his own windpipe. He
fingered on the verge of death several weeks,
then improvtd and finally, 1t was supposed,
ne recovered. yesterday he eDO9aVOTed to
show the doctor there was a hole in his throat
the size of nickel, and fell over dead.
Early Tuesday mornings q fire occurred
at M'keesport. Pennsylvania, which destroy
ed nVe buildings on Market street,
Auebrand and Z. Schooller & Brothers,
booksellers. Schoeller & Brothers loss on the
building and stock is seven thousand dollars;
insurance, forty-five hundred dollars. The
total loss is estimated at thirteen thousand
dollars; insurance about nine thousand dol
lars.
A meeting Of the first-mOrtgsge bond
holders of the eastern and western divisions
OF the Toledo, Peoria and Warsaw railway,
was held in New YorK, Tuesday. The plan
lately submitted, providing for the recognition
of the securities issued after the first mortgage
cooperation among holders of those s5curi-
ties, and Ii was resolved to proceed at once to
foreclose the mortgages, on both divisions, for
the benefit of the 1rst.mortgage bOndholdeTs
only.
Between eight hundred and one thou
sand employees of the various manufactures
of woolen goods in Amsterdam, New York,
are on strike against a reduction of ten per
cent. of their wages. A similar reduction was
made a lew weeks ago. The mill owners say
that are unable to continue business in the
present state of the market unless a second
reduction is accepted. Some of the mill own.
eIS have shut down, and may not open az lin
this week. Quite number of female opera
uVes are on strike for wages claimed for
overwork.
Indian-Agent Alexander Irvine tele-
graphs Commissioner Smith that in an alter
cation which recently occurred at Ama-rOn
agency. New Mexico, he was wounded in the
hand by an Indian, and that the latter in at
tempting to escape was shot by a guard, and
hoStilities might be looked for at any moment.
He recommends that the control of affairs be
placed in charge of the military authorities.
In reply, the commissioner telegraphs as fol.
lows: Put military authorities in full con-
troll, and give them hearty cooperation in
bringing the Indians to subjection."
Washington advices state that Enoch |
hoag, superintendent of the Indians, and |
Agent Gibson, of the Osages, are both to be |
1t Is charged on good authority that |
a ring of specuators have been systematically |
1efrauding the Pottawatamie Indians, who |
until recently occupied a reservation near |
Topeka. The principal charges are that GER |
tain members of the tribe living in the In |
and their estates were administered upon and |
,he proceeds epocketed by the ring. The |
amount realized by the scheme is estimated |
1t twenty thousand dollars.
Postmaster. General Jewell, had con-
erence Tuesday in New York with several
in Informally disc lnSSA the cues
ion OF the repeal Ofth law nnrsssiug adouble
ate of postage on third-class natl matter
aid: He supposed all publ Es were inter
sted in having the postage on books put back
It the old rate, or at least that he would con.
ider the matter and give his opinion respect
ng 1t in a communication he was preparing |
or congress. The postmaster-general said he
lad heard great deal of talk about the de-
arlments charging more for sending matter
o Chicago than it charged for sending such |
natter to Liverpool or Russia, but that he did
lot think 1t was generally known that it cost
more TO send mail matter to Chicago than il
id to send it to Liverpool or Russia. The eX-
enses ofhis department were thirty-five mil
ion dollars a year, while the receipts were
My twenty-seven million dollars, and with a
OF eight million dollars staring
hem in the face, he doubted If congress would
box favorably uron the proposition to re-
uce the present rate of postage on magazines
nd books.