Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1878-06-29
AFTERNOON TELEGRAMS.

Buffalo, June %: John Lane killed his
father this afternoon while drunk.
Providence, June %: Mrs. Sarah Helen
Whitman, the poetess, died last evening OF
heart disease.
London, June %: The amount of bullion
withdrawn from the Bank of England on
balance to-day was thirty six thousand pounds.
Wheeling, June %: John A. Slatman.
prominent business man OF this city, was
stricken with apoplexy this morning, and
died in about two hours.
Rome, June %: The Italic states that the
pope will celebrate a solemn mass of requiem
in the Sistine chapel for the repose of the
soul of the queen of Spain.
London, June %: The town council of
Berlin is considering a resolution that the
grand historical painting be made at the ex-
pense of the town concentrating the meet
ing of the congress.
Vienna, June %: The Presse says that,
in consequence OF the violation of the frontier
near Liono by the Turkish troops, the frontier
town of Bilibrig has been occupied by the
Dalmatian landwehr.
London, June %: 1t is said orders have
been issued to reduce the force and expendi-
lures of the Portsmouth navy-yard, and it is
understood that the autumn maneuvers will
beabandoned this year to aid in the retrench
ment
Agram, June %: Military magazines are
being constructed at Agram, Hungary, and
the provision contractors have been ordered
to deliver at the Agram railroad station, by
the fifteenth of July, provisions for City thou
sand men, also forage for cavalry.
New York, June 2S: In Jacksonville, Flor
ida, yesterday, William Roots's -four and
grain store was burned, and the adjoining
property considerably damaged by an incen-
diary. Loss, thirty five hundred dollars; in
surance, twenty-eIght hundred dollars.
Free Hold, N. j., June %: The centen-
NAL celebration of the battle of Monmouth,
and the laying of the cornerstone for the
Jersey soldiers killed in the revolutionary
war, took place to-day, and were the occasion
for grand civic and military procession.
Fall River, Mass, June %: The Fall River
savings bank is restricted to paying ten per
cent. for the next six months, and like
amount for the succeeding six months. The
bank held about eighty thousand dollars of
the Border City mill paper, and sixty thou
sand dollars OF the Sycamore mills paper.
New York, June %: Henrietta B. Haines
and Camille DeJanon, who keep fashionable
young ladies school at No. 9 and 10 Gramer-
cy park, have filed a voluntary petition in
bankruptcy. Liabilities are one hundred and
forty-three thousand five hundred dollars, of
which one hundred and six thousand five
hundred dollars are secured.
Madrid, June %: King Alfonso has re-
ceived kilograms of coincidence from all the
European courts. All shops were closed yes
terday, the theaters have ceased playing, and
business on the exchange is suspended. 1t
has been decided that the body of the queen
shall lie in state three days. The funeral
will probbly take place next week.
New York, June %: A letter from Havana
says the campaign of the Spaniards against
the Cubans, without any battles, cost the for
mer eighty thousand men. The island is a
vast cemetery. Five steamers are reported
to be on the way from Spain to curry home
the troops. Martinez Compass has begun
reduction of government expenses on the
island, by giving up one-half of his own
salary as captain general.
Constantinople, June %: Count Itchy,
Austro- Hungarian ambassador to Constanti-
nople, visited the grand vIzier, Safvet Pasha,
at seven o'clock yesterday morning. An ex-
traordinary cabinet council was subsequently
held, the sultan presiding, and the question
of the Austrian occupation of Bosnia and
Herzegovina discussed. The result was an
order to the Turkish plenipotentiaries in the
Berlin congress to protest against such occu-
patton, without the period of its duration be-
ing previously fixed The council lasted the
whole day.