Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-31
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

d Republican senators were in caucus il
Washington yesterday on Louisiana affairs.
Two policemen were shot at differen
times by disturbers of the peace in Cincin
natl yesterday.
Ninety-One thousand pounds in buIliOI
: were Withdrawn from the Bank of Englant
g on balance yesterday.
Archbishop Manning has issued s
PAM phIet OF two hundred pages in reply Il
Glsdstone's expOsiulation.
. A Quebec dispatch says the Beaufort
: female lunatic asylum was burned yesterday
in which three of the patients were burned tC
} death.
The machine shops of the Memphi,
and Little Rock railroad were burned at Ar,
4 genta, Arkansas, yesterday. Loss thirty thou.
sand dollars, with no insurance.
Preston and Irwin's mill at Philadel-
| p hia was burned yesterday morning. Besides
| Ia heavy loss to It's owners, three hundred
ha. lds are thrown out of employment.
O ueen Victoria has convened cabi-
net c, 'uncil at Osborn in order that the forth
comm royal message TO be submitted at the
openin z OF parliament may be discussed.
The congressional committee at New
Orleans continue the examination of wit
nesses. M Nor Head, of the Third infantry,
Judge Myel 8, Ex-Governor kellogg and others
were examil 1ed yesterday.
Members of the st. Louis cotton ex-
change gave a banquet at the Southern hotel
yesterday, to [ he press OF that city, in ac-
knowledgment Of its assistance in building
up the cotton trS de of st. Louis.
The Arkansas State board of finance
has published a cal to the holders of Arkan-
sas bonds, asking q correspondence, with a
view to the consoIid; Ition and settlement OF
the debt outstanding 'gainst the State.
The legislatures ,)f Wisconsin and
Minnesota have reached no result as yet in
the baliotings for United states senator. Car
penter leads in the former. md IN the latter no
change has taken place IN the work OF the
past several days.
Five masked men bounL' and gagged
the Waterman in the AmeTiCall express COM
pany's office in Utica, New York, yesterday
morning, and carried off the bag containing
the night Trains packages. The loss is not
supposed to be heavy.
An executive committee, appointed
at a meeting of the citizens of Sioux City,
Iowa, have issued an appeal for assista uce to
settlers in northern Nebraska, southern Da-
kota and northwestern Iowa, whose Lands
have been deSolated by graSShOppeTS.
Bernard Baucher, who was arrested
in Cleveland, Ohio, on charge of attempting
TO set fire TO the United States bonded ware
house on Thursday last, had n preliminary
examination yesterday He was bound over
to appear before the court of common pleas
In the sum of six thousand dollars.
The Minnesota legislature demands
that senator King recently elected to his seat
in congress, shall Immediately explain his
COln6CJlOn Win The Haclnc Mail subsidy
affair, and If guilty as is charged in evidence
before the examining committee, that his i'm
mediate resignation viii be in order.
A New York telegram announces
that the office of the Adams express company
in that city, was robbed Sunday last OF the
following bonds: Twenty seven South Caro-
lima consolidated bonds, dated January, |
1874, ,ot $1,000 each, numbered 1858 to 1921, in
elusive; 1910, l2ll and 1912; also two bonds, of
500 each, numbers 2S5 and G66; six consoli. |
dated Virginia bonds, $1,000 each, with the !
nr5t coupon, all July first, 1873, numbers H65O |
10 1853, inclusive; four coupons due January |
first, 1875, $50 each; four Missouri State bonds |
numbers 1923, 3725, 1926 and 5727.
James D. Smith, before the committee |
Of ways and means OF the house, who has |
been a director in the Pacific Mail company |
since 1871, cOntradicts Twins statement and |
denies all knowledge of money being received |
or expended by Irwin until months after /
ward. When StOckWeu presented to the /
executive committee authorizing the en-
plOyment of counsel, he remarked: "You |
cannot expect TO eXpeDd more than five thou /
sand dollars on this authority" and Stock /
well said il might he five or six thousand, but |
certainly would not exceed ten Thousand,
and this would be paid out for counsel fees,
statistics. 1t was with this understand
ing the directors ratified the statements,
all other expenditures being made without
thelrknOwl6dge or consent. Sergeant-at-Arms
Ordway stated that upon examination he
found that only two out of thirteen congress
men were credited with more than five nun
dred dollars during May and June, 1872 and
neither of these voted tor the Pacific Mail |
subsidy. During eleven years he has been in
office no money had been paid TO congress-
men, so far as he knew, to influence legisla-
ton.
Railway Collision.
PATTERSON, January ga freight
train on the Erie road, bound east, ran
into another standing on the track at
HOhokas, killing the firemen and iniur-
ing the engineer. Both trains took fire,
and the track was obstructed for some
hours.