Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-13
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

Washington yesterday.
All Iowa roads are reported open
sgain and trains on time.
The steamer Italy, from LIVERPOOL.
arrived AZ New York yesterday.
The national association Of stove
makers met again at Chicago yesterday.
Edward Kendall, an American theatri.
London Thursday.
A fire st KeOkuk last night DESTROYED
cooper Graham's stove store and f. c.
round egg-pscking establishment.
A telegram from Madrid says that a
-IeeLee - ms b-en is,ped calling out seventy
thousand men Tor The army OF Span.
Representative Beck had his wrist
broken by fall on the ice in Washington
yesterday, end is confined 10 his house.
Albaui made her first appearance in
Slnclnpati Thursday night, TO a crowded
house, and had an enthusiastic reception.
The vote in joint convention in the
MID Dnesoista legislature yesterday, for sena-
toF' stood; Ramsey, U: Lochran, IS; Davis, 33.
The railroads leading into New York
arc generally closed. Freight trains are,of, an d
the Others are running without regard to time
tables.
Mrs, Sophia Cowan and Mrs. Mills
were burned TO death in Cincinnati, Ohio,
yesterday, by their dresses catching IRE from
A telegram from st. Petersburg an
nounces that the Khan of Khiva has paid the
lasi lnstallmeut Of the war indemnity TO
Russia.
The steamship Illinois, from Philadel-
phia, arrived al Queenstown Yesterday: the
York.
A telegram from Berlin says that the
state council has determined TO prohibit the
importation OF American potatoes into Ger
A feIe cyrar,o F-r,,, N-zx- Norlw ,.o,,z a. a
the AdalIia e1I ress company has declared the
usual quarterly dividend OF two dollars per
John Hesd, one of the night guards
OF the ST. Louis jail, is under arrest, impli-
eggs"
A Berlin dispatch says Bismarck has
glVe'l no intlmation that ne intends TO resign,
Suo Is likely 10 remain IN office as long as his
hsslth permits
The vote OF the joint session of the
legislature a Charleston, West Virginia, yes
ierday stood; Camden, q; Walker, a; Piice,
Is; scattering s.
The jury in the lanyard murder case
IN tlnclnnati, yesterday noon, brought in a
verdict 81 mu.uer IN the first degree against
George huieE for killing Herman SchiIling.
A fire al Meadville, Pennsylvania,
Thursday, destroyed Sherwood d Co.'S plan
ing NIL, and PeHdleton q sherwoods cheese
IacJHry. Loss twenty-five thousand dollars;
The Kansas legislature yesterday
passed resolution thanking congress for the
recent appropriation Of one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars TO aid the destitute people
On the from ier.
Rev. Thomas A. Jugger, ID. d., rector
OF the church OF Holy Triuity, in Philadel-
phla' has announced his acceptance of bishop
ot southern Ohio, to which he was elected on
the ,enth of January.
At Boston yesterday the supreme court
sHn~ 80. Fv I
fomerOy, the boy murderer, oveTruling ex-
Cepuons aud ordering judgment on the ver-
DICT. Pomeroy viii, therefore, be sentenced
The Dublin Irishnadn says that the
home-rule members OF the British parliament
propose 20 formally submit demand for the
repeal Of the act OF union, and on It's rejection
they will withdraw in body from the impe-
Tlat parliament.
While the Little Rock express train
on the ~. Louis, Iron Mountain and Southern
railroad was passing point near Bismarck
Thursday, rail broke over a culvert. The
mail, baggage aud Eecoud-class cars and a
passenger cOach were thrown from the track.
There was a rumor in San Fran ncisco
Thursday hat the Pacific Mail company had
sold their wharyeS, wharf franchise, lots,
warehouses and other buildings, and i'm
prOVements on the water front, u haRgin x
Ieyis for four hundred and fifty thousand
doDars.
The national grange, in session at
Charleston, has adopted the report OF the
committee on the annual address Of Master
Adams, indorSing his recommendation that
subordinate oranges be fostered by the na-
tlonsl grange, ana that manufactures In the
south be encouraged.
a telegram from Brooklyn states that
on the opening Of the city court yesterday
morning an announcement was made thAt
VIM Eyarts, chief counsel for the defendant
an the IitDD-B -BeecheT trial, could not reach
fhe city owing 10 ice in East river. The Gaze
was adjourned I'll two o'clock.
I l.. a -
ments against the business managers Of the
morning and evening daily papers in Chicago
Tor publishing lottery advertisements. II Is
understood that the papers will contest the
indictments on the ground that the advertise
menis referred 70 are notlotteties.
John Hsriland & Co., importers and
dealers in fruits, al - Washington street,
New York have suspended. No statement
has been made, but persons outside the house
place fue Liabilities at from two to four
hundred thousand dollars. The cause OF the
suspension is attributed TO deterioration in
the quality and prices Of fruits and bad debts
4 telegram from New York says
that al least one railroad line running from
that city TO Chicago has made contracts 10
carry freight west at The rate OF fifteen cents
per hundred pounds. Contract rates Tor
freight from Baltimore TO Chicago were fixed
a week 40 BIZ the Saratoga cont inatiou tx
ing the rate al one dollar per hundred pounds.
A young man named VIII Randall, a
neignbur, and a man named W Walenhorsir an
rested Iu Omaha on suspicion OF being her
murderers. Bloody snoe-tracks were traced
in the snow from Kleinbergs TO Randall.s
bloody snow thereon, the same size as the
tracks, were found IN the house.
A dispatch from Shanghai says that
a feeling OF uncertainty prevails with regard
10 the succession % the i'm peTial throne. Al
though the son OF Prince Chun has been
elected, under the uue OF kwang Seu, II is
thought posi- bic that this arr Ggemeut may
be disturbed. The TumOrs that the empress,
q Lon Te. committed suicide after the death
oT the emperor, were Uufoundsd. she IS re-
son. he viii be the legitimate heir. In the
event of his accession 70 the throne, the en-
press mother aud the empress dOwager
would be appointed Joint regents during his
minority.
4 petition was yesterday telegraphed
from I ogi-vILle 20 the Kentucky representa-
i've In congress, representing a. the unani-
nous -eutiTuguts Ot the tobacco trade OF Lou
affftE1uaE tax would be a calamity 70 the
state a. well as 10 the west. The petition
claims. ursf. that stability m law, all things
being equal. b. tne talng most desired by al
who work uder it. second thai The trade Is
Greatly Ll-InrssL by the sudden and unuar-
aucIll advance lu ths price OF The leaf, caused
by tie failure gf the CT. , IN s7A, aud a change
-roulf teHH % destroy confidence In the mar
EG-. rlIryI that an advance iu the tax would
-ana 10 diminish the consumption: fourth,
fnaT Tue lax under the existing law is isith-
sauy and fully collected.