Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-02-03
TELEGRAPHIC CLIPPINGS.

They are proving Cardoza OF Missis-
sippi a thief.
Evarts gets twenty-five thousand dol
ars for defending Beecher.
There is a demand in New Zealandfor
skilled and unskilled labor.
The steamship Baltic, from New York,
arrived at Queenstown Monday.
The steamship Pomeranis, from New
York, arrived at Plymouth Sunday.
Jay Gould made one million dollars
out OF the Pacific Mail complications.
Mrs. Rousby, the English actress now
the rage in New York, has the diptheria.
Horace White, formerly OF the Chica-
go Tribune, goes to the New York Tribune.
Andrew Houck was killed by falling
under fy-wheel in Cleveland, Ohio, Mon
day.
A telegram from Lisbon says the
United states steamer Franklin arrived in the
Tagus Sunday.
"Canada Bill" the notorious three
card monte man, was arrested in Cleveland, +,
Ohio, yesterday.
The bighwaymen known as the
flames boys" are the particular special pets
of the Missouri press.
A telegram from London says many
reports are in circulation with regard to the
future liberal leadership.
The committee on ways and means
will resume the subsidy investigation ia
Washington to-day.
The federal council of Prussia has EN-.
powered Bismarck to conclude an extraditiOn
treaty with the United States.
The Pacific Mail steamer Colorado
sailed from San Francisco for Hong Kong by
way of Yokohama Monday.
The steamships Baltic, from Liver.
pool; KlapStock, from Hamburg; and Oder,
from Bremen, arrived at New York Monday
The Turner Brothers officially in
formed the New York stock exchange Mon
day that they had resumed active business.
The annexation of the Fiji Islands to
the British empire was celebrated at Sydney,
Australia, on the fifteenth ulttmo by ban
quet.
The steamers Vile de Paris, from
EavTe: the HelsatIs, from Hamburg, and the
Captalla, from Mediterranean ports, arrived at
New York Sunday.
A telegram from Washington says
that Archibald Williams has been appointed
storekeeper of internal revenue for the first
district of Tennessee.
Great Britain has declined to send a
representative to the st. Petersburg interna-
uenal code econference alleging that no pracu-
cal result can accrue.
The congressional committee was in
session at New Orleans yesterday, but the evil
dence did not materially differ f ON what has
already beep published.
A telegram from London says the
lockout in the coal mines of South Wales has
commenced, and one hundred and twenty
thousand miners are idle.
Inquiry is being made in New York
to ascertain from whence came a package of
genuine but mutilated national bank notes
found in rag warehouse in that city.
A fire in Chicago, Monday, destroyed
the house of the Good Shepherd and the asy
lum, on the corner of Market and Elm streets,
TO the amount OF ten thousand dollars.
The supreme court of Louisiana Mon
day, in the case OF the Crescent City gas
light company rs. the New Orleans gas-light
company, decided in favor OF the plaintiff.
a telegram from London says that the
amount of bullion Withdrawn from the bank
OF England on balance, Monday, was four
hundred and ten thousand pounds sterling.
RumOrs were circulated in st. Louis
Monday that the Peoples savings institute
of that city bad suspended, and that its cash.
Ter had ahsconded with large amount of
money.
A telegram from Omaha says that the
Nebraska State aid and relief society report
that their treasury is nearly empty. They
are feeding one thousand three hundred and
fifty people.
Wurpel's defalcatiOn in connection
with the Peoples saving bank in st. Louis,
is the absorbing theme in that city. The
amount involved is between forty and sixty
thousand dollars.
DR.. Henry Newman's answer to Glad
stone, just now engaging the attention OF the
English people, closes with the asseItiO that
the "only one oracle of God is the Catholic
churcn, and the pope is her head"
Thomas Burns, who attempted to get
on the front platform Of an Eighth avenue
car, in New York Saturday night, was thrown
violently OF by the driver, Richard Robin
son, and the wheels passed over his arm and
leg, causing death. Robinson was arrested.
Mr.. F. J. Wallaek, superintendent OF
the Western Union telegraph company, while
train at Cam bridge City and fell through the
bridge 10 the ice, distance OF thirty feet.
His right leg was fractured and his head
bruised.
A telegram from Little Rock saws
Governor Garland Monday sent a special
message to the legislature, earnestly recon-
mending the enactment OF proper measures
to insure Arkansas industries a representa-
ton at the centennial exhibition at Philadel-
phia in 1876. The message was appropriately
referred.
In Cincinnati Monday the authOri-
ties OF the Cincinnati Southern railway open.
ed thirteen bids for twenty. five thousand tons
of iron rails, the price ranging from forty
eight to sixty dollars; ana seven bids for
twenty-five thousand tons of Bessemer steel
rails, the price ranging from Eeventy-tWo TO
eighty-two dollars,
A telegram from Washington says
that the senate committee on railroads held
another meeting on Scott's Texas and Pacific
railroad bill, Monday, but took no final ac-
tion in regard TO any OF its features, or any OF
its proposed amendments. 1t is understood
that no action will he taken until Senator
Ramsey shall have arrived.
Saturday night James Lull, alias
slippery Jim, notorious thief who was con-
hned IN Cook county jail, at Chicago, Illinois,
as witness in recent case OF robbery, at
tempted to escape, and getting upon the roof
slipped and fell into the corridor, a distance
OF forty Ieefl mangling himself feartuily and
receiving injuries from which he died.
4 telegram from st. Louis says that
the Unite1 States district attorney, William
Patrick, Monday notided A. C. Buell. OF the
ReLubitcdn, that be had been ordered by the
department Of Justice at Washington to cause
his arrest and transfer to the District of CO.
lurnbta for trial on the charge OF libeling Sem
aUor Chandler, Of Michigan, last winter No
formal arrest was made.
About thousand persons visited the
chapel of the Ohio penitentiary at Columbus
Sunday, TO witness the marriage OF Thomas
Miles and Nancy Scott, two conViots whose
term OF service for burglary expired that day,