Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-08
TELEGKAPHIC SUMMARY.

| IL LAUhAA AAS OOAAA~As
The empress Of Austria arrived in
London, Monday.
New Orleans is threatened with Gre
vase above CarroltOD.
John Butler was fatally stabbed in
Baltimore on Saturday night.
Fessenden (Republicsn) was yester-
| day elected mayor of Portland.
The Egyptian plague has appeared
| along the banks Of the Euphrstes.
Caleb P. Marsh, the informant against
| Belknap, was in Montreal Sunday.
Ed. Deal, supposed xpress-robber,
was arrested near Cincinnati Saturday.
Three young men persisted in the snow
near st. Johns, New Brunswick, last
week.
The French elections held on Sunday
were generally favorable to the Repub-
licsns.
Baron Albert Grant, OF London, is
coming over to testify for his friend
| Schenck.
Rev. Mr.. Winslow, the Boston forger,
will be sent home by the English au-
| thorities on the twenty-first.
Omaha had rain, thunder and light
ming, followed by storm Of sleet and
snow, and heavy gale Sunday.
The President has nominated Rich.
ard II. Dana jr., Of Massachusetts, to
take Schenck's place in London.
Alfonso is to enter Madrid on the IF.
tenth instant in triumph, with all the
trophies he won from the Carlists.
By an explosion in quarry, at Belle
view, Delaware, on Saturday, Robert
Meeker and Richard Andrews were
killed.
The postmaster at Cookville, Tennes-
see, and his assistant, were arrested Sat-
urdsy charged with robbing registered
| letters.
The first trsin Of cars passed over the
Delaware and Boundbrook railroad,
from Philadelphia to New York, Monday
morning.
Fearful weather in the neighborhood
of Fort Fetterman. Heavy SHOWS, and
WatercOurges swollen so as to carry away
all bridges.
Charles H North & Co., pork-packers,
D. NJ. Oliver & Co., provision dealers,
and E. c. Hapgood, wool dealer, of Bcs-
ton, have failed.
G. P. Larkin, a merchant of Mount
Vernon, Indiana, travelling for health,
died suddenly in his chair, Monday
| night, On the Arkansas Belle.
Charles J. Brent, the New York bank
check forger, was arrested at Queenstown
Monday, and will be returned to this
country as soon rs proper measures can
| be taken.
King Victor Emanuel opened the
sessions of parliament on Monday. His
speech treated Of the prosperous condi-
lions of the country and its perfectly
friendly relations with foreign States.
J. D. Pitts, county collector of Hick-
DRY county, Missouri, assconded with
about twenty thousand dollars Of public
and private funds The forgery of notes
in his private business, for large sums,
has been also discovered.
w D Hardeman, shot in New Or
leans Saturday night by j. s. Prestidga,
both of the firm of Presiidge, Graham &
Co., Of tina city, died Sunday at noon.
The difficulty was about business mat
tiers, and occurred in their Office.
Heavy and damaging snow-storms
are reported on the line of the Pacific
railway. Snow-sheds are crushed for
y a
| freight train is wrecked, and cut off
from relief by snow.slides and broken
track and sheds.
Baron Radich, on the part Of Austria,
has informed the HeTzegovlnian in
surgents that their conditions were in
| admissible; that Austria would MAIN
tain a complete neutrality; strictly
guard the frontier, and cease to relieve
refugees at the end OF March.
On an order Of the secretary of the
| treasury, Captain CIeig ard G. w. Bry-
| ant, of Missouri, were arrested Monday
on a charge OF conspiracy to defraud the
government out Of tWenty-six thousand
dollars, on the alleged loss of train
while transporting government freight
between Lesvenworth and Fort Yuma.
A dispatch from Pesth says that the
Danube is again rising and houses are
falling. The new Pesth gas-works were
undermined and destroyed. The dura-
ton Of the food il unprecedented, and
some OF the suburbs have been sub
merged twelve days. The rivers Waag,
Gran Marova and Eipel also overlooked
their banks.
Judge Black appeared, Monday, be.
investigate the Washington raj estate
pool, and stated that as counsel for Hal.
lett Kilbourn he would, Wednesday,
pTcsent q brief. quoting authorities to
show that the committee had no right
to call for the production OF KilbouFn's
books showing his general real estate
transactions.
In the house Of commons MOnday,
Mr.. Cartwright asked what were the In
tentlons OF the government in the mat
ter OF the new Egyptian bank. Mr.
Dlsraeli replied that England had re-
fused the khedive's request to appoint q
com missioner, because such an appoint.
ment would appear to involve the COM
mercial relation between the British
government and the Dstional Egyptian
pank. ntbe request had been FOR the
appointment Of q commissioner to col
iect revenues and apply them to the re-
demption Of the debt, the request might
have been entertained.
In Philadelphia, Monday, the Jones
burial case was decided in the supreme
court The authorities Of Mount Mo-
nan cemetery, last autumn, refused to
allow the body Of Henry Jones, a col |
oreU man, to be buried in the cemetery.
although his widow owned q lot there, |
The matter was taken into court and |
the authorities were ordered TO permit /
the burisl. They appealed from the de. |
cision and carried the case TO the gu. |
pTeme court. The decision Of the SUI. |
preme court to-day affirms the finding |
OF tue lower court, and orders the burial |
TO be made in the cemetery.