Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1875-11-30
1ELEGRMAS.

| There will be no sales OF treasury gold
ordered for December.
A severe storm prevailed along the
! lake latitude yesterday.
King Alphonso, OF Spain, celebrated
his eighteenth birthday Sunday.
Sixteen senators aud sixty representa-.
| tives have arrived In Washington.
Thermometers fell thhty- five degrees
| in the past twenty-four hours at Toronto,
! Canada.
Louis FehIenbach, native of Baden
| Baden, suicided with a rope at Louisville
4 sunday.
The schooner Exile was nearly de-
stroyed by fire at Cleveland, Ohio, sunday.
| Accidental.
James M'Donough has been elected
chief of police OF ST. Louis, Ufce Major Har-
| rington, resigned.
A gale blowing on Lake Huron all
| yesterday is thought to have been very dlsas-
| irous 10 shipping.
The secretsry Of the tressury's report,
| in process Of preparation, win not be COM
pleted before FriGay.
the tug Samson, lying on the deck
| at Cleveland, Ohio, burned yesterday. Los
| fifteen thousand dollars.
Mr. d. s. Tnbey, OF Boston, declines
the pO ition Of commissioner of Indian affairs
| rendered him by the President
Rev. w. e. M'Lsren, bishop-e!ect of
| Illinois, viii be consecrated at Chicago
| Wednesday morning, DecemberSth.
President Grant has not yet COM
! pIeted his message. Some portions Of it will
| be communicated TO his cabinet to-day.
A rubber-shoe factory at Maiden,
| Massachusetts,, was destroyed by fire yeSter-
| day morning. Loss six hundred thousand
| dollars.
Mr.. Samuel Wood, OF New York, pro
poses to establish in Central park a college of
| music, which he will endow with five million
| dollars.
A report is current in Ber,in that the
| senate of the State tribunal ruled that the
| charge or treason against Count Won Arnim
| is admissible.
A severe storm prevailed on Lake
Erie Sunday night, by which several sohOOn-
| ers, steamers ana other craft were blown
| ashore and otherwise damaged.
A very cold and heavy Wind storm SET
| in at Omaha sunday, which ragged with un
ceasing fury all yesterday, the thermometer
falling TO nine degrees below zero at daylight
| yesterday morning.
The secretary of the treasury yester-
| day ordered the retirement of S704, ,472 OF out
standing legal-iendsrs, that amount being
| eighty per cent. OF the national bank cIrcula-
| tion Issued during the month.
The signRl service observer at Mount
Washington reported the wind blowing at a
| velocity of one hundred and ntty-six miles
| per hour yesterday, with a temperature of
| twenty -four degrees below zero.
Wilhelmina Werk, q woman aged
forty years, was arrested at Buffalo, New York,
| Sunday, charged with murdeIins her step
| son, aged fourteen. He was il the way OF her
own child's Inheritance OF certain legacy.
II is stated that with a view to pres
venting Austrian intervention Montenegro
! has proposed 20 Servia an ofen-ive and de-
/ fensivs alliance in favor of Herzegovina,
and IL the offer is accepted both countries will
| take Joint action in April.
The Chauncey mine, near Wilkes
| barre, Pennsylvania, caved in few days ago
| with a terrific crash, causing a miniature
IN neTs were no Otifed OF the pending disaster
| just ia time TO escape the calamity.
The khedive of Egypt having ten
| dered the purchase OF the Suez canal to
! France and through some barriers set up by
! the Bank Of France tue opportunity was lost
| 10 france, and seized By England, mutual re-
| examinations are iadulged in among French
officials. and the Marquis Plouses is specially
| blamed.
A dispatch from Rangoou says that
large reinforcements of British troops from
| Hong Kong have arrived al Perak. Governor
! Jerrois has issued pacific proclamation pro-
claiming that hostillIies are suspended, pend
| ing 81 answer Of the native chiefs TO JEe
| British demands az ID the arrival Of reinforce
| ments from India.
AT franklin, louisiana, on Saturday
last, Charles Atkinson, colored, aged twenty
years, raLed little white girl, ageu five years,
| daughter of a respectable widow lady liV ng
there. The cegrO was captured ana lodged IN
! Jail. Yesterday morning he was taken from
! ihe custody Of the sherif a4d hanged to q tree
| IN front OF the courthouse.
A telegram from Belmont, Ohio, an.
| nouuces the dssth or Isaac Welsh, treasurer
OF that State at his home, near 81. ClairsVille,
| Ohio, yesterday morning, OF dropsy. Ar.
| Welsh was sixty-fve years old, and has been
| fgVorably known in politics for years. he
was a man of ability, farmer by profession,
| .v,A nrfy q TpGDapfpN
| political parties.
The British iron tuFret ship Monarch,
| OF the channel feet, came in collision Sunday
| with the Holden from Pensacola for London.
| The Holden was bad Y damaged, her bow
| being smashed. The man-oT-war was also
| seriously injured, and both vessels put into
/ Plymouth harbOr. The Holdens ofncers
/ assert that tae Monarch tried TO cross their
| bow and after the collision steamed away with
/ out Offering assistance.
Articles OF impeach meDt against John
/ :. Burdett, treasurer OF West Virginia, were
| adopted Saturday night by the house OF dele
| gates OF that State. His case will now go TO
| Gue senate tor trial. Articles of impeachment
! acainHt r. A. Bennett, State auditor, were
voted On yesterday. The charges against the
| gentlemen consists H. sbusing the powers OF
| their offices, and perverting tie influence OF
their official position TO tleir private interest,
| The master builders of New York sp.
| pointed by Governor Tilden to examine the
| construction. OF the new capitol building re-
| port that the n anBEemGnt ana matter OF lJa
| construction evince degree OF negligence OF
| want OF competent skill 10 an extent without
| parallel in The history OF their observation
| and that continuance OF the work VIII In
| yolye the necessity Of tearing down and re.
| constructing extensive portions OF the slruc-
/ tnre at very great loss.
Rev. DIR. Burlington, OF Brooklyn,
! SAYS there Is no EOssib ibility OF q mutual coun-
| Gil between Mrs. MOulton and Plymouth
! church. II the church aud Mrs. Moulton
| could agree upon raising OF any scandal issue
l the matter would be inquired into by the
coSucil; but there was nc possibility OF a mn.
| mai coSncil, II the parties interested could
/ not agree upon questions TO be submitted
/ tsSv Ijr. Scudder said he did not see how the
| scaEdsI matter could be or929ght up IN any any
! he iif not zee how that body couId toneh MT
/ Beecher, a. it vas ques,!Hn % uIsglP Pi,l tne
| which rested entirely b6tWeen Mrs' Mou4ton
and Plymouth church.
lie Nord, a Russian oTgSn, beileves
| that however great the consequences OF Eng
| lands purchase of canal shares may be, the
! transaction cannot anger the peace oi
! Europe, The purchase effects countries Dor
! deriug on the Mediterranean sea, eSpecis LILY
| TO be com pleted without an International a.
| rRngemeni. II would amount TO sheer confi5-
! cation for England TO undertake the manage
| ment OF the canal. II IL he LOT desired thai
/ the civiliZiug work Of the canal become a
| mere instrument OF trade, arrangement Is
| must be made 20 render The cnange compad'
| ble with the Interests OF the world and the
means Of solid guarantees.
The commissioners appointed to In
/ quire into the route fcr the proposed ship
| canal 10 cOnaeat the AtlSanc ana Pacinc
I oceans, report that they are OF IS opinion
/ alter fun investigation, that Nicaragua is
| the best, and estimate that the work from the
| harbor OF Baltimore, on the Pacific, 10 Grey
/ town, on the Atlantic, can be constructed at a
total cost not exceeding sixty-siX million
! dollars. From this investment the commits.
| sioners claim that an enormous return would
! be made, especially In the shipment to Europe
| and 70 American ports on the Atlantic OF Cal
! ifornia products. 1t Is regarded as OF the
/ highest Importance that the United States
/ take some action at once 10 carry out the
| mans Of the ship-canRl, in order " prevent
! Frsnce or England from reaping the honCl
| and pront of the great enterprise.