Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-12-11
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS.

New York, December 10: Arrived-Steam-
ship Leasing from Hamburg.
Richmond, December 10: A perilous food
| IN James river is probable.
London, December 10: Arrived-Steamer
Italy, from New York,
San Francisco, December 10: Cleared
Ship Harvey Mills. for Liverpool.
Louisville, KY, December 10: Governor
N'Creary has ordered a part Of the State
militia to Breathitt county.
Philadelphia, December 10: George II.
Baker was chosen president of the Union
League. The contest was spirited.
New York, December 10: A private cable
dispatch states that Henry Wells, of Wells,
Fargo d Co. g express, Is lying at the point
of death in Glasgow.
Lock Haven, Pa, December 10: The west
branch is rising rapidly, and a serious food
is feared. The Bald Eagle creek has over
flowed its banks and is flooding the lower
part of the city.
New Orleans, December 10: The fiscal
agent Of the State declines to comply witt
the resolution of the funding board request .
| ing him TO pay the January coupons on Sta
consols.
Chicago. December 10: J. P. Harris, al
speoted engineer en- the Chicago, Rock L..
land and Pacific railroad, shot himself, fatal
ly, through the head this mcrning. Cause,
depression of spirits.
Boston, December 10: The Nantucket in
stitutlon for savings is restrained from pay
ing more than ten per cent. of deposits each
six months for the coming year. Imprudent
real estate loans is the cause.
Edinburgh, December 10: VIM. johnson,
the CLERK OF the Saline County bank, of Mar
shall, Missouri, recently arrested IN Scot
land, was examined to-day on a charge of
forgery, and held for extradition.
New York, December 10: The Jury in
the case of DIR. Orlando z. Bradford, charged
with causing tie death CT Sarah Victoria
Corners by Criminal malpractice, found him
guilty, and he was remanded for sentence.
San Francisco, December 10: The yhalers
lately arrived from the arctic regions, report
that ship, believed to be the largest of the
two vessels of the Swedish polar expediti IN,
is blocked IN tae ice above East Cape.
Chicago, December 10: a fire at Gales
burg. Illinois, this morning, destroyed the
broom corn warehouse Of G. N. Sheldon,
with considerable stock. Loss, twenty-five
thousand dollars; partially insured.
Boston, December 10: The following Is
the vote of this city to-day for MAYOR:
Prince, Democrat, 1888; Codmal, Republi-
can. 1909; King, Workjngmen's c-.oo,date
1912. ''ii"io@'e'
Lynn, Mass, December 10: The election
20. mayor resulted in the choice of George
+, SAnderson, the Workingmen's candidate.
66y tive thousand plurality. The whole ticket
is elected
Poughkeepsie, n. Y, December 10: A
heavy rain has prevailed along the Hudson
river since yesterday and many places on the
track of the Hudson river railroad are sub
merged, and forty feet Of track were washed
away near Highland station.
Nashville, December &c: Spain, Hawkins
q Co. and VIII. Allen & Co., doing busi-
ness as one firm as lumbermen, failed to-day
for about twenty thousand dollars. The
creditors reside In Nashville. G. w. Swee-
ney & Co., carriage and wazonmakers, also
failed. Liabilities, three thousand five hun
dred and fifty dollars; assets, two thousand
two hundred and sixty-four dollars. ~