Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-14
TELEGRANS.

| a gold medal to Paul Boynton.
, President Grant will leave Washing
ton tomorrow for New York.
EThe Kansas editorial excursion ar
rived in Galveston, Texas, Monday.
A telegram from Toronto, Canada,
says the harbOr is open for navigation.
The steamship Springfield. from New
York arrived a. San Francisco Monday.
David P Louie, the recently appointed
chief-justice Of Utah, has arrived at Salt
Lake.
An impression prevails in Pottsville,
Pennsylvania, that the miners strike is
nearly ended.
The steamer Odor, from New York,
and Atlas, from Boston, arrived at Lon.
don yesterday.
A telegram from Madrid SAYS that the
Carlists have been defeated at Tolosa,
with one hundred killed.
A telegram from London says that
Boynton has determined to repeat his
swim across the channel.
James D. Potter has been appointed
internal revenue storekeeper for the
eighth district of Kentucky.
The Interstate tournament for the
northern, western and southern States
begun in Chicago Monday night.
Commander Leroy Fitch, of the
| United States navy, died at his residence
in LOganspOrt, Indiana, yesterday.
There was a large meeting in New
York Sunday night to pay tribute of
respect to the memory Of John Mitchell.
The annual meeting Of the stockhold-
ers Of the Allegheny Valley railroad
company was held in Pittsburg yester-
day.
An unknown white man was run over
and killed by the cars near the union
depot in Indianapolis, Indiana, Mon
day.
The ship Airey Force, from Sydney,
for San Francisco, has been lost at Gam
bis island. The officers and crew were
saved.
The Berlin Post states that its article
of the ninth instant, indicating the possi-
bility Of war, was not inspired by the
government.
The funeral ceremonies ofRev. Father
Hamilton, Of st. Mary's church, La
Fayette, Indiana, was very largely at
tended yesterday.
A Shanghai dispatch says that two
steamers engaged in the local trade
came in collision, and the sudden sink
ing Of one caused a great loss of life.
Treasurer Spinner received an auto
graph letter from the President, in
Washington, Monday, accepting his |
resignation as treasurer Of the United |
States.
The proprietors of the Mystic Park, in
Boston, announce purse Of ten thou |
sand dollars for the second annual stall |
lion race, open to all, Canada and the |
United States.
The grocery store of Alden Thayer, |
in Clinton, Massachusetts, was destroyed |
by fire Monday, and Mrs. G. w. Dins- |
more and her father, who occupied rooms |
over the store, were burned to death.
James F. Aycklin, formerly citizen
Of New Orleans, was shot and killed at |
Lake Providence, Louisiana, by a man |
named Thurell. The murderer attempt
Ell to escape to Mississippi, but was cap
tured and lodged in Jail.
a fire early Sunday morning at the |
John-street car stables, Harrison avenue,
Cincinnati, consumed the stables, TWEEN.
ty-three street-cars, sixteen mules and
one horse. Loss about thirty thousand |
dollars, partially insured.
Alex. White, ex-cOngressman from
Alabama, and author Of the force bill
introduced last season, expects Grant
will reward him with the office of assist
ant attorney-general, vacated few days
since by Hill, of Massachusetts.
A telegram from New Orleans Mon
day night says that in compliance with
the call of Speaker Wilt, some sixty
Conservative members of the legislature
met in caucus Monday afternoon to con-
slider the proposed withdrawal Of Wiltz.
Detectives Rowe and Frank, OF Cleve-
land, who were accused Of receiving
bribes from criminals, rendered their
designations yesterday, and they were
accepted. The investigation of the
charges made against the police depart
ment is still going on.
John Johnhatter, Peter Johnhatter,
George Orr and Peter Adams, while en-
gagged in sinking coal-shaft near Mas
sillon, Ohio, Monday, were killed by the
earth caving in upon them. Anthony
Howells had both legs broken, and was
rescued with great difficulty.
Hon. w. J. Fitzgerald, who was the
Democratic candidate for judge of the
police court in Cincinnati, Ohio, at the
recent election, was on Monday elected
president of the city council, receiving
thlrty-five votes to forty-eight. The
new board is largely Democratic.
The solicitor OF the treasury depart.
ment, to whom the subject was referred,
has decided that the commissioner of
internal revenue has the right to exam
inc bank checks Of any bank, to ascer-
tain whether the law is violated respect
ing affixing stamps to such checks.
In M'CracBen county, Kentucky, last
Friday, two negroes named Harrison,
brothers, became engaged in quarrel,
which ended by one of the brothers
striking the other upon the head with
heavy hickory stick, inflicting fatal
wound. The murderer was arrested.
A meeting Of the steel-rail gold bond
holders, which issue of bonds is con-
trOlled by a limited number of persons,
has been held in Philadelphia, and
committee appointed with view of be-
ginning the foreclosure of proceedings
against the Toledo, Wabash and West
ern railroad.
The diplomatic conference upon the
metrical system Of weights and meas
ures met in Paris Monday. The govern
ments of Brazil, the United States, Ven-
ezuela, and,the Argentine Republic were
represented. 1t was resolved to estab-
lish an international bureau of weights
and measures.
A telegram from Salt Lake says that
the trial of John d. Lee and w. II.
Dame, for their connection with the
Mountain Meadow massacre, will not
take place this term Of fcourt. They were
arraigned and plead guilty, their counsel
asking for immediate trial, but the prose-
cution was not ready.
The air and climate Of Tennessee are
no longer healthy for the Maynards.
The father goes to swelter at Constanti-
nople, while the son, Lieutenant Wash
burn Maynard, goes to frigid Alaska.
Between the two extremes it is to be
hoped that one or the other may find a
climate more to his liking.
At an early hour yesterday morning,
Adam Mickbach, a German, while at
tending ball in one of the Louisville
SUBURBS, had his throat cut in q quarrel,
and died in few minutes after. Henry
Jost, who was arrested yesterday as the
supposed murderer, was badly beaten
about the head and face by other parties.
Bids were opened at the treasury de-
partment in Washington yesterday
morning for furnishing the department
and its bureaus with stationery for the