Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1876-01-11
TELEGRkPHIC BREVITIES.

l. 4SG SL. LOUIS yesterday IHuUlSSQ III
! five thOusand-dOllar fire.
Very severe Geld weather aIl along
the Central Pacific railroad.
The steamships Germania and Erin,
arrived at London yesterday.
The steamship NederIand, from Phila-
delphis, has arrived at Antwerp.
The steamship City OF Bristol arrived
at Philadelphia yesterday, from Liver
pool.
Florence, the commedian, and his
wife, are to sail for Europe after their
western tour.
The direct United States cable hes
been repaired and communication with
Europe re-estatlished.
The steamship Adriatic, from Liver
pool, and the Herman, from Bremen,
have arrived at New York.
Burgess, colored, confined in toe Baton
Rouge jail for killing a white man, was
hung by mob Friday night.
The senate, in executive session, con-
firmed H L. Waldo chief iustics Of the
supreme court of New Mexico.
Moody and Sankey are doing -four
ishing business In Philadelphia. Thou
sands attend their meetings daily:
DIR. Samuel q. Howe, founder of the
institute for the blind, died in Boston
yesterday, sged seventy-four years.
A very rich deposit of gold has bsen
struck in the Centennial lode near Lara.
mie City, at a depth Of one hundred feet.
The supreme court of Utah LJet yes
terdsy. The appealed case Of hynald,
polygamist, will not come before them
this term.
The examination of Captain Sawyer,
at San Francisco, On tie charge Of
Wrecklng the Orpheus, resulted in his
discharge.
G. P. Leverich, president Of the bank
Of New York, died suddenly, yesterday
morning, at his house in New York, Of
congestion of the lun gs.
The President yesterday sent to the
senate the nomination Of Edward G.
Billings for United States district judge
for Louisiana, Uice Durell.
Charles LSbre, a painter, fell from
scaffold at the Academy Of the Sacred
Heart, New Orleans, yesterday morn
ing, and died from injuries received.
The Utah legislature met in the city
hall ia Salt Lske City yesterday, and
notified the governor of their oTganiZa-
tion. His message will be delivered to
them to-day.
T. l.. Phillips was shot and instantly
killed on Wednesday night, a short dis
tance from Moss Lake landing, in Boli-
var county, Mississippi, by some un-
known person.
The Globe Democrat has a special
from st Joseph, Missouri, which says
that ST, p3 are being taken there to file
an application in court to have q re-
ceiver appointed fer the Hannibal and
st. Joseph railroad.
Ex-Judge Val Cott has heard from all
the churches invited to the mutual coQn-
Gil, and all to whum invitations were
sent have aeceptad- The list includes
some Of the most celebrated cIergymen
in the denominations.
The Montans Legislature met at Hele.
ma January Sd. The principal question
of inteIest before them Is giving bonds
for railroads. Representatives Of the
Northern Pacific snG the Utah Northern
roads are there, urging the claims Of
their respective roads.
The fife at Little Rock on Sunday
morning destroyed two buildings be-
longing to the Sisters OF Mercy. Loss
two thousand dollars. Insured for
twelve hundred dollars, in the Triumph,
of Cincinnati. Loss to tenants, one thou
sand dollars. Insured for five hundred
dollars.
At meeting of the grangers of Wis
consin, held al Milwaukee on Saturday,
resolutions were adopted calling for a
law to limit the national banks to six
per cent. interest, and for the repeal of
the act Increasing the rate Of postage on
Transient printed matter, SEED, meEchan- |
dise, etc.
A special to the New York Evening
Post, yesterday, from White Plains,
Gays that Surrogate Coffin had de- |
ciGed in the Sirg5r will csse that Mrs. !
Isabella Energie Singer, named in the |
viii, propounded lady whose character |
is in DO way impugaed by or involved
in the matter, and which we are bound |
to consider above reproach Is the widow
Of deceased, and her children his legiti- |
mate offsprings. The application OF
Mrs. Mary Ann Singer, Miss Foster and !
the second wife, who claimed she was
entitled to the widows dover is denied. !
The senatorial committee met in San
Francisco yesterday to investigate the
alleged fraudulent conveyance OF the
Mission creek tide-lsnds owned by the
city to Geo. w. Ellis by the late board
Of tide-lsud commissioners. The evil
deuca OF Ex-Governor Pacteco aud Ex.
Comptroller Green, members OF the late
bard of commissioners, showed q neglect
on their part to sufficiently inform them.
selves as to ths nature nf the desds to
Ellis signed by them. They claim that
they intended to convey Only small,
frsgmentsry pieces, OF little value after
the other awards had been made. Many
other witnesses were examined as to the
validity Of Ellis's claim and tie manner
in which 1t had been pushed. The in.
vestigation will be continued to-day.