Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-04-01

toOaccO manufacturing company hsy
discharged their hands, numbering fiv
hundred, as the market Is ovelStockeC
The Press RxeurnIOnista.
CHATTANOOGA, March 3l.-Fift.
gentlemen aud thirty ladies, represent
ing the Indiana press association, AZ
rived from Atlanta this evening. The.
have made a hasty trip to nearly every
important city in the south. After Wis
iting Lookout mountain tomorrow
they will start FOR Nashville.
Prisoners Escaptd.
COLUMBUS, OHIO, March 3l.-Wm
BOOkey aud James Parker, two prison
ers being brought from Toledo to thu
penitenlisry under sentence for burg,
larry, jumped from the train while go
ing at the rate Of thirty miles al hour,
near Orange station, fourteen miles from
this city, to-day, and escaped. Up &c
this hour neither of the convicts have
been heard from.
Railroad Seized by iIre AheriH-COnsoI
idaIfon of WoFkInxmsn's UutOns-
READING, PA, March 3l.-The sher-
/ iff has seized the Wilmington and
! Reading railroad. The sale takes place
! April 22d.
The Eagle says that the announce
ment Of the coalition of the two
unions is hailed with JOY by the miners
! and suspended railroad employees. Jol-
| lification meetings are being held in
Schuylkill county, and Presidents Sino-
ry and Rhodes will issue proclamation.
Internal Revenue Matters.
WAsHIEGToN, March 3I.-It seems
to be generally believed that Mr.. Doug
! lass will soon retire from his position as
! internal revenue commissioner, but it is
! thought he will not retire from public
service.
The internal revenue receipts for the
month ending to-day are SIS, ,234, 554 I;
the receipts for March, 1874, were
81, ,7Sl 600. The customs receipts for the
week ending March 9th, were: Balti-
more, Sl2S 924; Philadelphia, Sl9l 1864 !;
Boston, S344, ,s63; from New Odeans,
from the month ending March, g. 09O,-
567.
Pound Dead-S25, 900 Fire,
ST. LOUIS, March 3l.-J. L. Jones,
lately of Washington City, and well
known in the different departments
there as an inventor and bridge builder,
was found dead IN his bed at the Laclede
hotel TO day. He had been drinking
freely since his arrival here, and was
much depressed in spirits owing to the
failure of congress to pass upon claim
for three hundred thousand dollars he
had against the navy department for
work done under Commodore Porter
during the war. Death was probably
caused by congestion of the brain, the
result of hard drinking.
Six small business houses in East ST.
Louis were burned early this morning,
involving loss of twenty-five thousand
dollars. Insured for ten thousand dol
lars, but the offices are not reported.
YeIIOw.Fever at Key West, Fla.
New York, March 3l.-A dispatch
from Washington says telegram from
Key West announces that the yellow
fever mad greatly increased within a few
days; that all naval vessels were quar-
anIined, and soldiers garrisOning forts
would leave Immediately for colder
quarters; that the epidemic was spread
ing, and that deaths were occurring in
Key West. Instructions have been
sent to the surgeons at Pensacola, Mo-
bile, New Orleans aud Galveston, to be
on the lookout for yellow-jack, and
promptly report its appearance. The
United States steamer Dispatch, sent to
convey the senatorial party to Mexico,
was at Key West when the fever broke
out. There is increasing solicitude in
Washington, not only for the naval off
GERS, but for the prominent persons COM
posing the excursion psrty.
WASHINGTON, March 31.-Captain
Ransom, of the United States steamer
Colorado, reports yellow-fever epidemic
at Havana.
Nebraska State TeacherA' Convention
Severe storm.
OMAHA, NEB March 3I.-The State
teachers convention is in session here.
The average number OF scholars in the
State is forty eight thousand. Total
valuation OF school property in the
State, one million eight hundred and
seventy-three thousand nine hundred
and twenty-siX dollars. The amount
paid to teachers as salaries in 1874 was
three hundred aud twenty-three thou.
sand dollars six hundred and thirty
three dollars.
The most severe storm that has pre-
vailed east Of the North Platte occurred
here to-day. There were very high winds,
and fall OF six or more inches of wet
snow. Travel has been suspended on
several Of the State railroads. To-day
the Union Pacific train was seven hours
late.
COunterfeIters Pulled.
RICHMOND, VA, March 31.-A spe-
cial dispatch says that the officers of the
United States secret service made raid
into the counties of Scott, Wise, Rus
sell, Buchanan, Smythe and Montgom-
cry, in this State, and arrested nine man
ufacturers of counterfeit money. A
large amount of counterfeit coin, bills,
dials, plates, etc, was captured. The
leader Of the gang, Joe Mullins, made a
desperate resistance, attempting to shoot
his captors. The prisoners were brought
to Abingdon and committed to jail.
Three other squads of mounted officers
are to be heard from, and they are hour
ly expected to come in with about twen-
ty more prisoners. The United States
officers are under the direction OF Chief
Wash burn. Government detectives
have been On the track of these counter
feiters for the last eight years.
Daniel Drew
New YORK, March 3I.-Speaking of
the commOtiOn on Wall street yesterday
and its causes, the Times says: at ap-
pears that Daniel Drew for some time |
past has been selling privileges, chiefly !
calls and straddles on stocks and puts on
gold. A recent large advance in stocks |
induced some of the holders to present |
their privileges for liquidation, and up |
to yesterday calls presented were duly |
hOnOred. The handsome profits accruing |
from the heavy advance OF Monday in |
duced others to demand the delivery Of !
stock called for in their privileges. The |
large decline in gold has caused holders |
Of puts to ask for place to put gold, but |
Drew did not put in an appearance, and |
anxious inquirers were biandly assured |
by the brokers that Mr.. Drew was |
i'll and unable to leave his residence /
to attend to business. This was q great |
and not few were un-
courteous enough to express doubts as to |
the illness Of Drew. The first effect on |
the stock market of DTew's absence |
from the street was to depress prices and |
generally unsettle values, but as soon as
It was understood that any permanent
default on his part would place num-
Der OF speculatOrs operating on his calls
short OF stocks the feeling changed and |
prices began to advance just as the stock
exchange was closing for the day. The
effect in the gold room was even more
decided than in the stock exchange,
and the operations there were generally
interpreted as meaning a disruption of
the clique lately manipulating the mar
ket for rise and TO distress merchants
and make money stringent
There was an improved feeling in
financial circles to-day aud general re.
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