Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-16
TELEGRAMS.

The steamer Adriatic, from Liverpool
arrived at New York yesterday.
The steamer Ssmaria, from Boston
arrived at Queenstown yesterday.
The steamer Nederland, from Phila
delphia, arrived at Antwerp Sunday.
The steamship Helsstia, from New
York, arrived at Plymouth yesterday.
Brevet- General George n. Macy die
at his residence in Boston Saturda,
night.
The ways and means committee ar
still looking after the Pacific Mail sub
sidy swindle.
Nine buildings were destroyed by fir
at Pnomaso, Iowa, Sunday. Loss, tifteeI
thousand dollars.
David Goss shot and killed DAME
Manley, at Carson, Missouri, about tel
miles from st. Louis, Saturday.
The American steam navigation com.
pany's steamer City Of Melbourne ar
rived at San Francisco Sunday.
Karl Blind, Liberal German politi'
clan has been seriously injured by 8
German fanatic who assaulted him.
The lampblack works of Charles
| Eneu johnson & Co., on Penrose ferry
road, near Philadelphia, burned Sun.
| day.
The Minnesota legislature INDUCED in
three Tesultless tilts at the senatorial
problem yesterday. LOchren was
| ahead.
Walter Gould, aged thirteen years,
was accidentally shot and killed in New
Orleans yesterday by eOmrade aged
| fourteen.
No one to whom President MacMa-
hon has applied to form cabinet is will
ling to undertake the task until a con-
stIIution and laws are decided upon.
Mrs. Wells and her child, aged four
years, were burned to death early yes
terdsy morning by a fire in a tenement
house on East Ninth street, New York.
A telegram from Paris says that it is
believed that no new cabinet will be
formed until final decision is reached
in the assembly on the constitutional
bills.
Ex-Marshsl Bazaine left Santander
for Madrid Saturday night. The police
were obliged to occupy the railway sta
ton to protect him from violence and
insult.
A telegram from London says that
Prince Gortschakoff has replied to Eng
land refusal to participate in the in
ternational code conference at st. Pc
tersburg.
A telegram from Singapore reports
that the revolt of the Chinese prisoners
in jail there was not suppressed before
sixty-seven persons were killed and iL-
jured, including sixteen wardens.
The "Hsve-Nothings," a secret or
gaDization, celebrated st. Valentines
day in mask in New Albany, Indiana,
and created quite sensation. at night
the affair wound up with grand mask
ball.
The Pacific Mail directors have ap-
proved the action of Rufus Hatch in or
dering the institution of suits against
the parties alleged to have received SUBJ
sidy money. About thilty persons will
be involved.
A telegram from Paris says that Gen.
eral MOriones is separated rom the
army in the north of Spain, and is
blOckaded in Pampeluna, which place
is in a worse condition than before it re-
ceived relief.
A telegram from Madrid says that
the Marquis de Moline, minister of ma.
rine, has been appointed ambassador to
France. Senor Canovas del Castillo
takes charge of the marine department
dd interim.
The steamship Leipsig, from Bremen
and Southampton for Baltimore, ran
aground Sunday off the point at
Plymouth, Massachusetts, in a dense
fog. Her passenger5 and mails have
been landed.
A telegram from Paris says that all
the ministers except Chaband and La.
Tour have acceded to President Mac
Mahon's request to remain in Office un-
til the end of the crisis on the constitu-
tiOnal question.
A fire at Darien, Georgia, Sunday
night, destroyed a large Dumber of
stores, together with the Gazette Office.
Loss about one hundred thousand dol
lars, about one-tenth of which being
covered by insurance.
The receipts by the government at
Washington yesterday from internal
revenue and customs sources aggregated
over two million dollars, the coin re-
ceipts being nearly three quarters of
million-the total the heaviest receipts
since the panic of 1873.
AS Henry Duchar, colored, was re-
turning from church with two friends in
New Orleans Sunday evening, he was
assaulted by party Of drunken soldiers,
who pursued Duchar into his residence,
near by. The latter seized a musket,
fired, and killed Private Warren Hicks,
company D, third United States in
fantTy.
The Sidney Herald, of January 18Th,
gives an account of the massacre of the
captain, officers, and crew of the brig
James Birnie by the natives of HOwe's
Island. The party consisted of fifty
two souls, OF whom only seventeen es-
capped in a boat, and were picked up af-
ter being five day. without food or water,
by the American Whaler Benjamin
Cummings.
Hansen A. Dane has published a
memorandum which was conveyed to
Bismarck from France in 1855. 1t pro-
poses the erection of the Prussisn terri
tory on the left bank of the Rhine into
a neutral State under a member Of the
Hohenzollern family. The object was
to avoid contact and rivalry between
France and Prussia in view of the i'm
mense increase OF the latter's powers.
Major Leech, of the Irish International
rife team, has written a letter stating
that the annual match for the all Ire
land or Leech challenge, heretofore
open to Irish clubs only, is now open to
American clubs also, but to no other
nationality. The ranges are one thou
sand and eleven hundred yards, each
team to consist of four men, and the
shield to remain in the country of the
winning team until the next match.
The Brooklyn city courtroom con-
tanned the usual complement Of specta-
tors yesterday morning. All the coun-
Sci were in their places when Judge
Nelson ascended the bench. Mrs. Til
ton was accompanied into the court
room by Mrs. Field and her counsel,
Ira B. Wheeler. Mr.. Beecher and wife
hustled in a few minutes before the
proceedings commenced. Mr.. Tilton
resumed his place on the witness stand,
and his cross-examination was contin-
ued by Mr.. Evarts.