Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-09-26
TELEGRAPHIC BR sVITIES.

BOSTON, September 2i.-Arrived: Steamer
Marathon, from Liverpool
SAVANNAH, Septemb Der q -Interments to-
day twenty three, eighteen OF which were
yellow-Iever.
SAN FRANCE SEQ, September 24.-Lord and
Lady DufferIn arrived on her British maj es
t. S ship Amethyst to-day.
NEW YORK, September 24.-Five students
have withdrawn from Princeton college,
rather than sit with neg Q,
LONDON, September 25-Bulliou with
drawn ON bank of England on balance to-
day, fiity five thousand pounds.
EVANSVILLE .ptemb-r "a. - General
Carey had large meeting esterdsy and last
night, with a II g tor chlight procession.
ST. LOUIS, September . The Republicans
of the eighth district in this State have nomi
mated Colonel ID. s. Twitchell, of Kansas City,
for congress.
NEW YORK, September "a The rains yes
terd V and last night and the threatening
weather this morning, have caused a further
Park races.
MELBOURNE, September 25.-The Dar-
den ugh, from Melbourne to Sidney, fOun-
dered near Jervis bay during hurricane on
the eleventh instant. SiXty of the crew and
passengers were drowned.
LONDON, September 25.-The British ship
LammermoOr, bound from Calcutta to DEM
erara, is posted at Loyd's as missing 1t is be-
lieved she was ioundeFed with all her hands
ana three hundred coolies.
FORT LARAMIE, Septemb mber 24.-The Sioux
commission arrived at Spotted Tail agen"y
this evening from Rei-Cloud, after having
cOnsummated a treaty there, the last sigma
ture having been obtained this morning.
LONDON, September 25.- Sir Garnet Wolse-
ly and sir Shepstone, intrusted with special
powers TO represent Great Britain in the
Transvasl republic, sailed for South Africa
wednesday In steamer especially chartered, ,
LOUI SVILLE, KY. September 24-AIbert
z. Willis was nominated for congress by the
Democrats, Mr.. Watterson who is now repre-
EpniinQ short 9I
Parsons death, having positively declined
reelection.
ST. LOUIS, September 24.-A rowing match
for the ch piOnshtp of the Mississi ppi river
came of this afternoon betwC en- the st Louis
rowing club and the Western club, and was
won by the latter. Four Dared sh ellis, thirty
feet long, were used,
ST. LOUIS, September 25.-The Democrats
of the fist and third districts of this city nom
mated, this morning, E. G. Kehr and K. G.
Frost Tor congress Kehr's is a denomination,
and Frost taxes the place of W. II. Stone,
tae present Incumbent.
PHILAD ELPHIA, September 2i.-During
the first week of October the exhibition will
be visited by the Pnpils of the public schools
OF Pittsburg, by whom separate excursions 10
the grounds, numbering fifteen hundred chi!-
dren each, will b. made.
NEW YORK, September 24.-The Lehigh
Valley railroad has reduced wages between
ten and twenty per cent. in all its LABOR de-
pIrtments. 1t is repOr. ed that ali the coal
mining and transportation com panies will
make similar reduction on Monday.
EVANSTON, ILL., September 24.-Edwin
Elvandorf was killed in Yager's saloon at Rose
Hill to-day, by man supposed to be John
Khe. Elvandorf had made i'm pro per p roposals
to a young girl who TO * refuge in the sa DON
and was there defended by some occupants
WASHINGTON, September 24.-The evi.
dence for the prosecution in the babcock case
will close Wednesday, when the counsel for
Babcock will move the court to direct the
jury to render a verdict OF not guilty; this
falling, the evidence Tor the defense viii be-
sin.
ST LOUIS, September 2i.-Preparations for
the sixteenth annual fair of the St. Louis Ag-
riculLural and Mechanical association, which
will open on the second of October and con-
unue one week, are almost completed, and
the indications are that the exhibition will
exceed in all departments any OF its predeces
sors.
CHICAGO, September 2i.-During a drunk
en- brawl in a saloon on Halstead street early
this morning, Thomas Sexton, notorious
brutser and rough, struck James H. smith on
the head with billiard cue, infiicung a
wound which. later in the day, proved fatal.
Both men are young, al d Smith has hereto
fore borne CONF parative,y good character.
ST. JOHNS, N. F.. septem ber 25.-The steam
ship German, nom HaVre for New York, car
rled away her rndder head on the seventeenth
instant. Four days subSS quently the sJeam-
ship England, from Liverpool for New
York, fell in with a disabled steamer one
hundred and ninety miles east of st. Johns,
EN- barked her passengers and mails, and took
the vessel in tow and brought her into this
port safety.
MADRID, September &-The two Spanish
revenue ofdc ers taken prisoners by the boats
of the British man.Of-war Samaring, on the
sixteenth instant, at the time of the recap
ture ofthe trading ship which had been taken
by the Spanish cutter in Gibraltar harbor,
have been released by the British authoIi les
in consequence Of the warm protests OF the
Spanish consul.
NEW YORK, September Pa dispatch has
been received here reporting tnat the steam
ship 81. German. Captain Riculam, from
HaVre, September 9th, for New York, has been
towed in ct. Johns, Newfoundland, by the
steam ship England, from Liverpool for New
York The st. Germ ain lost her ruader in a
hurricane. , he England sailed on sunday
morning Tor New York with the st Germ ain 8
passengers and mails. The st. German will
be repaired at St. Johns and proceed to New
York.
OMAHA, NEB., september 25 Right Rev.
James O'Connor, who was lately c0nsecraUed
bisn"p of this Catholic diocese, arrived here
saturday night. All the public Catholic in
situations were Illuminated, Oells were ruug,
and many other manifestations of welcome
and joy. Bishop O'COnnor was yesterday in
stslleu in the cathedral; Immense crowds
thronged the building, and outside priests
from all parts of the diocese were pre- ent.
Bishop Ryan, Of st. Louis, conducted the ser
vices.