Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-07-30
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.
The report of General Crooks fight is

The report Of General Crooks fight i
contradicte6.
Jose Barzantllsna has been nomi
mated Spanish minister OF france.
The Cocheco cotton mills at Dover
New Hampshire, have shut down foi
thirty days.
TIE yacht Idler Won the Bennett cuI
in the yacht race concluded st New
York yesterday.
The Bank of Spain has b5eu instructed
to issue two aud half miliards reals In
mortgage bonds.
Mrs. Z. F. Murray died at Cleveland,
Ohio yesterday from the effects Of an
overdose of morphine.
The London fOrtnightly settlement
concluded yesterday with only two
moderately sized failures.
The Earl block, at Kent, Ohio, was
entirely destroyed by fire yesterday.
Loss, twenty. five thousand dollars.
The winners at Saratoga Yesterday
were Tom OchiltIee, in the first race;
Freebooter, in the second; PiccoiO, ia the
last.
A run was made on the Butchers and
Traders bank in st. Louis yesterday, but
the bank met all demands promptly,
and the run ceased.
AT Mulbury, Massachusetts, yester-
day, Lanhamis woolen-mills and two
bosrding.hOuseS were burned. Loss,
sixteen thousand dollars.
A Mrs. Long lost her life in burning
tenement in HaverhilI, Massachusetts,
yesterday. Two other persons ESCAPED
by jumping from window.
J. c. Corbin (colored), the nominee for
State school superintendent by the Ar
kansas Republican State convention
yesterday, declines the place.
YOGerhawn, q maritime town of
Sweden, vas slmost totally burned on
the twenty. second. Great distress pre-
vails. TIE damage wGs many millions
of crowns.
An order has been granted extending
for thirty days the time in which de-
fendent may file an answer in the suit
of Francis ID. MouIton against Henry
Ward Beecher.
Ex.Queen Isabella, on the eve of her
departure for Spain, has written q letter
to President Mac cMahon thanking him
for kindness shown her during her eight
years residence in France.
st. Louis was considerably stirred up
by thunderstorm yesterday morning.
A house was wrecked, and little girl
was killed. The damage to crops In the
country is reported to be
New York bank statement: Loans,
decrease, ST III, 100; specie, decrease,
81, 3S6 1000; legaI-tenders, increase, ST.
325, 200; deposits, decrease, 1915, 700; cir
decrease, $253, 100; reserve, in
crease, 81, ,15S, ,l75.
In a prize fight, yesterday, on the
Delaware river, near Trenton, between |
John Kesnan and Jas. Collins, ninety |
four rounds were fought, lasting one |
hour and thirty-eight minutes. keenan, |
was victor, knocking Collins out of |
time.
The action Of Dupac, French director |
Of the Jesuit college, and fifty.ive |
students against newspapers was de- |
3ided in Paris yesterday. Six neWsp9.
0ers, including The Repu6Jique PTCA-
,aiSe, Gamtetts's organ WeTo i :: Two
thousand francs each.
Lieutenant. Colonel Teodirrico Fiioo. |
i0rmerly secretary of Captain General |
Valmaseda, and Senior Trotcha, OF the
irm Of Arnan & Co., provision dealers
n Havana, have been cited to answer
he charges of defalcatiOn and misde-
neanor in the supply OF provisions to
he Spanish army. If they do not ap-
lear within thirty days, they will be de-
,lared culpable and sentenced by coult-
martial.