Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-01-20
TELEGRAPHIC EPITOME.

w. H. Aspinwall, of New York, died
Monday night.
A telegram from London says Canon
Kingsley is dying.
Governor Beedle, of New Jersey, was
inaugurated at Trenton yesterday.
The election for United States senator
from Nebraska took place yesterday.
The steamer Adriatic, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown Sunday.
The steamship Montreal, from New
York, arrived at Queenstown Monday.
The balloting for United States sena.
tor from Tennessee began at Nashville
yesterday.
George T. Paddock & Co.'s bank at
Watertown, New York, suspended Mon
day.
Preparations are being made for the
execution of Heilderblat at Philadelphia
to-day.
Representative Fagan, of the legisls-
ture, died at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania,
Monday.
The steamship City of Brooklyn, for
New York, put in at st. Johns, New
Brunswick, Sunday, short of coal.
The deaf, dumb and blind asylum at
Oakland, near San Francisco, CalifOr-
mia, burned Sunday evening.
King Alfonso, Monday, received sew
eraI generals of the Spanish army who
were conspicuous Republicans.
There was a heavy snow storm st
Fort Laramie, Nebraska, Sunday, the
thermometer being forty degrees below
zero.
The fire-slsrm telegraph erected by
Gamewell & Co., was inspected and re-
ceived by the Nashville authorities Mon
day.
NThe conservation of Rev. f. N. Ad-
ans, bishop-elect of New Mexico and
Arizona, took place in New Orleans
Sunday.
A large and enthusiastic meeting was
held at Evansville, Indiana, Saturday
night in behalf Of the improving the
Ohio river.
A telegram from Madrid says that
King Alfonso will assume the chief COM
mand of the army in the northern part
of Spain.
The High Rock hosiery mill OF Har-
din & Son, at Philmont, Pennsylvania,
burned Monday morning. Insured for
thirty-two thousand dollars.
The shah of Persia has granted a rail-
way concession to Russian General Fai-
kenhagen, Notwithstanding his existing
concession to Baron Reuter-.
A boy named John O'Brien was killed
in New Orleans Sunday, while ringing
the Catholic church bell, by a piece of
iron which fell from the bell tower.
Eleven bids for the construction of an
iron railway bridge across the Ohio river
at Cincinnati, were opened by the Gin
cinnati and Southern railroad Monday.
Advices have been received at Vienna
that a conflict impends between the
Turks and Montenegrims, growing out
of the recent Outrages committed by the
Turks in Albania.
The residence of Thomas w. Holiday
in Cairo, Illinois, was partially destroyed
by fire Sunday afternoon. Loss, thou
sand or fifteen hundred dollars, fully
covered by insurance.
The seminary of the society Of
Friends, located at Mount Pleasant,
Ohio, was totally destroyed by fire Sun
day morning. Loss about five thousand
dollars; no insurance.
The election Monday for members of
the Ontario legislature was by ballot, for
eighty five members returned forty
seven are Ministerial, thirty-six OppOsi-
ton and two Independent. Three dis |
tricts remain to be heard from.
A telegram from Macon City, Mis-
souri,, says that cattle train on the
Hannibal and st. Joseph railroad ran
through bridge at Eureka City Sun
day, destroying the bridge, smashing the
kZii nr
10, inning all the cattle in them. Dam
age, twenty thousand dollars.
Senator Carpenter and Governor
Washburne have been invited to ad-
dress the members Of the legislature of
Wisconsin on the condition OF affairs in
the south. Carpenter mas accepted. |
Washburne's intentions are not known. |
Wednesday evening is the time selected |
for the addresses.
In the house at Columbus, Ohio, yes
teTday, bills were introduced to punish |
vagrants and common beggars by fine |
of fifty dollars and imprisonment in the |
county jail at hard labor until paid; to
abolish the use Of seals for legal instru-
ments; to allow the appointment Of per-
sons connected with banks as notaries !
public.
a revolt occurred IN Ine penlteOllary /
at Jefferson City, Missouri, Monday. !
Nearly three hundred men quit work |
in the shoe shops and armed themselves |
with hammers, knives, pixies, etc. For |
a time they were masters of the situa- |
ton, but were at length forced to go to |
their cells.
Two months ago portion Of one of |
Murrillo's pictures in the cathedral of !
Seville, containing the picture of st. !
Anthony OF Psdua, was cut out OF the !
canvas and stolen. 1t was supposed the
fragment was taken to America. This !
turns out to be true. An art dealer on
Broadway, New York, was recently Of
tered, by two Spaniards, the missing
picture, and, after Identifying it, pur-
chased il for two hundred and fifty dol
lars. He has voluntarily and uncondi-
tionally placed the work of art, which is
badly damaged, at the disposition OF the
Spanish government, through Senor &c
Wriarte, It's consul in New York.
Supposed Loss OF a Steamer.
LONDON, January l9.-The British
steamer Bexar, from Odessa for Cardiff,
is supposed to have fouDdeTed with all
on board, twenty in number,