Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-12-09
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY,

J Ross Browne died in Oakland,
California, yesterday,
Ahrens CO.. the sugar refiners OF
Bailimore, recently failed, have been ad
Toe cathedral o; the holy Co.'S, one
OF the largest Catholic ediflces in the country
"a9 o. oleated Boston in yesterday.
ihe East India squadron If the
al z,i, ish fleet, ordered 10 the Mediterranean,
VIII pass through the Susz canal soon.
Toe crooked whisky Investigations In
the several cities, seats OF the most glarIpg
frauds on the government, continus TO make
startling Developments =
General n. S Van Antwerp, of the
United states army, aged sixty-eight died al
tne residence OF his daughter, near Upper
Marlboro, Prince George county, Maryland,
yesterday.
Tue Arkansas senate yesterday passed
a DILL transferring the blind institute from
Llttle h0ck TO Arkadelphia. A bin also passed
ooln houses Incorporating a charity hospital
4 81 Hot springs.
A telegram from Okla, an Indian viii
laZe on the Ottawa river, says that the Pro-
te-tant Indian church OF that place Was COM
pletely wrecked by s crowd Of french Cana
dian Roman Htholies yesterday.
Much unessiness was felt ST San Fran
cisco Yesterday about the safety Of the steam
.er os Angeles. now six days overdue at Vic.
|oria-a violent storm having prevailed since
her departure from San Francisco.
Lake navigation was closed at Chica-
. go yesterday. All the vessels have arrived
here which were reported as having left for
/ hst port, with the exception of q few, which
have laid up at other points for the winter.
A report submitted at a meeting of
he Western Union telegraph company In
New YORK yesterday, shows the net pronfs OF
ne last SIX months OF $50 al 81 z52,7S2. A quat-
: erly dividend o. two per cent was declsred.
Toe salaries OF all Officers and empl, YES
bove six hundred dollars per snnum we're
educed on a sliding scale OF frem twenty-five
+ o i've pei cent. E.#-|
Thee men were Killed in the man
centennial building iE Fhiladelphia yester-
ay Oy he fall OF n sca1Old upon which they
FeTe working Almost Immediately there
fter another scauJld pendant from the roof
ave way with two men on IL, who saved
.hemselvez by clinRing to a beam, where they
Bsched by their fellow-workmen.
/ Captain Leonard Buell. was fatally
5hC' oB board his vessel al New York yestef-
+ Esy unuer he following circumstan ees: II
+ BE Us mat eas = Saturday morning. thieves
oar Ell the craft, bu9 were driven or by the
a. ria ing the sffair 70 friend, when the
ewsrd entered the canln and was asked 70
] What he knew about IL. Nhie illnztrat-
y MS story with pistol, The weapon was
sch rsed and the captain fell back fatally
lou nded.
At Patterson, New Jersey, early yes.
az morning. q Ore broke out In the Rar-
ony mills, owned by h and II. Adams,
4 az ufacturers OF fnrsquH netting, and N an
bur the two brick Daildings, each about
Fenty I've by eighty leet, and four stories
4 gin we g burned, together with the stock
Il hi machinery. A nsv brick building, forty
u forty tsst, tour stories hisn, belonging 70 the
<hobiK nanufs cturtns company, and niled
Ia six naschinery, was nesrly dest oy6d.
.he Aalge tSo story brick puIldiI &, rhiffy
#aht by ore hundred ard twenty Ieet, and N
s rear, occupied as rnsrhfue and EifE
svlug stOI. vas also Destroyed. Loss about
hty thCuand dollar. Tao hundred hands
Il thrown out OF employ msnt.