Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-19

with blgamy &Iu tOGk hlm 10 MIchlSdu
for trial.
Ata conference Of the friends OF W.
d. Wsshburue III 81. Paul, Minnesota,
Wednesday night, his name was with
drawn as 4 candidate Tor United States
senator.
Ward, OF Colfax no OTiety, represent
ing Grant parish, in the Louisiana ieeis
Iature, was expelled yesterday for dis
orderly conducf Wednesday 10y vote Of
forty-nine to nine.
Geo. D. Kennedy, of st. Louis, was
arrested in Omaha, yesterday, ON te!e-
gram, charged with embeZzlement. He
admits having embezZled one thousand
dollars. False whiskers and wig were
found in his tiunk.
The President yesterday approved the
Joint resolution Of congress authorizing
Thomas A. Fitch, engineer Of the navy,
TO accept of wedding present from the
khedive OF Egypt to his wife, Mrs. Min
ME Sherman Fitch.
Two men M Tly of Omaha, named
Decavaliar :. al ,A'Intosh, were irezen
to death during the severe storm OF three
weeks ago on the plains near Sidney,
Nebraska. Their bodies We're only found
Wednesday and taken to Cheyenne.
By a recent decision of the United
States supreme court at Washington as
to the right of counties TO tax subsidized
railroads in Nebraska, some three hum
dred thousand dollars will be paid over
to the various county treasures on Mon
day next.
A telegram from Omaha says that the
local rates OF freight eastward by the
Union Pacific railroad are such that
parties there have been shipping freight
TO San Francisco, where meeting COM
petitive rates, it is again shipped by rail
to New York or Boston.
A telegram from Chicago says lhst
two wOrkmen, named John knelly and
Jacob Morrow, were killed yesterday
morning while shoveliDg coal in Dyer's
cOaI-yard. A bank Of coal fell on them,
and they were smothered to death be-
lore they could be extricated,
The bullion Of the Bank OF England
increased one hundred and ten thousand
pounds sterling during the past week.
The proportion Of the bank reserve to
liability which last week was forty-two
andIfye-eighths per cent, Is now forty
one and three, eighths per cent.
In the house, in Columbus. Ohio, yes
terdav afternoon, bills were introduced
to compel railroad companies annually
to exterminate noXious weeds on lands
owned by them; to permit all persons
to practise law who are of good moral
character, and will take oath to faith
fully discharge their duties, without any
examination.
The bill introduced in the assembly at
Albany, New York, by Mr.. Thomas
Costigsn, the member from New York,
giving to the mayor of that city power
to remove heads OF departments and
other officers without the consent OF the
governor, and power to appoint officers,
the board of aldermen to confirm,
passed the house yesterday.
A telegram from Fort Garry says that
Luxton, the editor of the Free Press,
was before Chiel-Justice Wool yester-
day, at the court OF queens bench, fOr
contempt OF court in publishing some
structures on WO0a's action i'll the
Schultz perjury case. IuxtOp refused TO
retract or apologize amid the cheers and
applause from crowded courtroom.
Luxton was fined two hundred dollars,
or imprisonment until paid. The fine
was made up by subscription immedi-
| stely.
| The ways and means committee re-
/ sumed the Pacific mail investigation in
/ Washington yesterday, and examined
! George Il. KTimOhOar OF Philadelphia,
! treasurer OF She California and Texas
railway construction company, who
! cOrrob0rated the statement OF Mr..
/ Whiting made several days ago as to
! the character of the check for eighteen
! thousand five hundred dollars given to
Senator Cole as the agent OF Whiting
for the payment Of instailment on the
stock of the company TO which Whiting
had subscribed.
A long letter has been received from
! William S King, addressed to the Mini
nesota legislature, in response to the
resolution requesting him to explain his
connection wlth the Pacific Mail busi-
ness or resign as a member-eleCt Of the
next congress. Mr.. King denies the
right Of the legislature to inquire into
his private affairs, to undertake to CEN
sure or to demand his resignation, de-
nounces as a legislative lie (which epi-
thets he puts in italics) the assumption
that be had done anything wrong, and
then adds: Under what arrangement
[ did receive large sum of money
about the time of the passage Of the Pa
ciGc Mail subsidy bill is matter which
| do not propose 10 disclose to the world
except in my own good time nor until
evidence which | am unable 10 reach
can be secured, TO the end that the exact
facts in the case can be presented to the
public, which will bring to me the full
est and most complete vindication
against The falsehOods which you have
specified upon your respective journals"