Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-03-24
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITY.

The announcement is made that Bay
ard Taylor is to be the Centennial poet.
Chicago court3 are still engaged in
the trial Of crooked whisky msnipu-
lators.
It is estimated that Servia will have
thirty Thousand men a. her disp0sal in
case Of war.
1t is expected that the Spanish gov
ernmenJ will send an energetic reply to
the pope's protest against the religious
| toleIa,iOn clauses.
The Bank Of Camden County, st Uti-
ca, New Ycrk, closed doors yesterday
on seventy-five thousand dollsrs in liza
bilities, with fifty or fifty-fiye th0usand
dollars assets accounted for.
A fire at Jackson, Louisiana, Wednes-
day night, destroyed the greater portion
OF the business part OF the town. Loss
estimated at fif = to seventy thousand
dollars; insurance only eight thOusand
dollsr5.
After an animated debate IN the
British house o. commons yesterday the
royal titles bill, making Queen Victoria
empress OF India, passed iss third rad
ing. The vote was 209 for tue bill and
134 against it.
Bar silver is very fiat in conse-
quence Of the reduction in Indian ex-
changes; Gales were made yesterday at
at tlftY-t1O and half pence, which,
according to the London Times, is the
lowest quota ion every touched.
A dispatch from Berlin reports the i'm
peIia! powers exchanging cOn1munica-
tions, with the view OF assisting Turkey
out Of her financial embarrassment, and
designating some expert western states
man to take charge OF the Ottoman
finances.
The Sunbmy and Lewiston railway
was sold at Philadelphia yesterday to J.
K. Valentine, sttOrDey for number of
parties who intend running the road, for
one hundred and sixty-CHe Thousand
dollsrs-one hundred and fifty thousand
down in cash.
William X. Welt, membar OF the
British parliament, wants to know
whether it is true that the government
OF the United States, after paying the
Alabama claims, mas q surplus Of from
one to two million pounds sterling, fOS
which it is unable to find legitimate
claimant.
General Sherman left st. Louis for
Washington Wednesday night, in re-
spOnse to the invitation from the secre-
tary Of war Tai. ], who desires to con-
suit with the general Of the army. 1t is
thought there Is possibility CT the re-
moval OF the army headquarters back to
Washington.
The steamer Professor Morse, owned
by the Western Union telegraph COM
paDy, sailed from New York for Havana
Vid Key West yesterday, carrying an
electrician and resistant, who are to
select q route for the new telegraph
cable. President Orton, Vice-President
Green, and several others were passen-
gerS. They srs to be absent about six
weeks.
Richard Bonner Oakley, under exam
ination before the lord mayor of Lon
don, to answer the charge OF having,
SO proprietor and manager Of the Co.
operative company credit bank, obtain
ed, by false pretenses, various lsrge sums
ofmoney, valuables and securities from
trustees and depOsitOrs, with intent to
defTaud, was committed 10 Nevgste
yesterday for trial at the May sessions.
The lord mayCr said he would sccept
twenty-five thousand dcl,ars bsil, in
Guiding the price Of his own rec0gni-
Zance for five thousand dollars, and two
Euret'es for ten thousand dollars esch.
Bail was not offered.