Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-09


King Humbert Visits GarIbaIdl.
ROME, April 8.-The pope has contribu &c
four thousand pounds to the Catholic schoo
fund. King Humbeft to-day paid a visit t.
General Garibaldi.
The ROumeIIa Mixed OCCUPATION
scheme.
ST. PETERSBURG, April S.-The Agenc,
RuSSe, referring to the reports that the mixeC
occupation scheme has been abandoned, says
that European ca binets continue Its discussion
with the view of aiding the present scheme
or substituting another.
An Ocean Steamer Probably Lost.
LONDON. April 8.-The steamer Surbiton
from New York, February 18th, for Rotter
dam, is reported probably lest.
Thirty thousand Durham miners are on &
strike. The iron masters have in many in,
stances provided extra stocks of fuel. 1t il
believed that the Cleveland district can run
fortnight longer without a fresh supply.
The Policy of England France toward
Egypt.
PARIS, April S.-The Journal deS Debats
says, edltorially, that England and France
should be prepared to adopt Joint resolution
with regard to the khedlve, which will cause
their dignity to be respected. The khedive
will beware of the END OF the comedy he i:
playing.
The Temps publishes an article to the same
effect.
President Grevy has signed the pardons Of
two hundred and thirtY-two more commu-
nists.
Silver Coinage In Germany.
BERLIN, April 8.-The rumor that Ger
many intended to largely increase her silver
coinage Is denied. The government esti-
mates the revenue from the new protective
duties at one hundred thousand marks Ii Is
understood that Bismarck has abandoned the
sur tax on foreign maritime flags, and pro-
poses instead a sur tax of one-and-one-hali
marks per hundredweight on trans-marine
goods. 1t will be heavier on goods not
shipped direct from the country wherein il
Is produced.
Another Letter from the Pope.
ROME, April S.-A letter of the pope tc
the cardinal vicar is published, in which be
announces that as the success Of the move
ment for increasing and improving Catholic
schools will greatly depend upon pecuniary
means, he proposes to contribute annually as
large an amount Of money as his private
means will permit, and, as the conservation
OF the faith III Rome Is connected with the
interests OF the Catholic world, he will al q
devote to the Romans as much of Peters
pence as the needs of the universal church
will permit.
Egyptian Cabinet.
CAIRO, April 8.-Mr, Rivers Wilson, NM
lister of finance, and II. de BGgnieres, minis
ter OF public works, refuse to vacate their
posts, unless authorized to do so by the Brit
lsh and French governments respectively.
An official statement, explaining toe action
OF the khedive, declares that, complying
with the daily growing national feeling, the
khedlve has decided to form truly Egyp-
tim cabinet. A new minjstery has, there
fore, been formed under the presidency of
Cherif Pasha, whose members will be respon-
sibie to the council Of delegates. The latter
will be invested with full powers on the
model of European legislatures. The national
financial scheme, already com nunicated by
the khedive to the foreign consuls- general,
has been elaborated by the Egyptian notabIes
and dIgnitaries, and will be scrupulously
carried out.
British Wheat Prospects.
LONDON, April 8-The Marx Lane E7c
press says that in the south the wheat and
barley sowing is rapidly completing. The
condition of the autumn sown cereals IN va
rlous parts of the kingdom Is more favorable
and the supplies Of wheat at the provincial
markets were lighter, and the trade firm. At
Mark Lane the offerings of English wheat
were light, with restricted demand. The i'm
ports OF foreign wheat into London were mod
crate. Fridays returns showing the arrival
of fourteen thousand quarters from America
and Germany contributed the bulk Of the sup
ply. but the unusually large shipment from
proportion of Russian. Business in foreign
wheat during the past week was very quiet,
the visible supply Of twenty million bushels at
the various grain centers Of America Grip
ping speculation Sales of English wheat
last week Is, sos quarters. at forty shillngs
and eleven pence. against 81 AIS quarters, at
fifty shllilngs, corresponding week the pregi-
zfr
for the week ending March 295h, Gil 500
hundr edweights of wheat; 124, 745 hundred
weights of flour.
The ZHIus Capture a Supply Train.
CAPE Town, VIA CAPE ST. VINCENT,
March Pa convoy O. supplies proceeding
from Derby to LupeDurg, and escorted by
ore hundred and four men of the Eighth
regiment, was attacked at daybreak on the
twelfth of March on the banks of the In
tombe river, by four thousand Zulus, under
UmbelInl. Owing to a previous alarm the
British were under arms, but were over
whelmed by the enormously superior force of
the enemy. Captain Moriarty and forty men
were killed and twenty missing. The fate OF
the wagon drivers is unknown. Lieutenant
Harwood, with forty men, succeeded in
reaching Luneburg. One hundred and fifty
men OF the Eighth regiment subsequently,
proceeded to the scene of the fight and re-
covered quantity OF rockets and ammuni-
ton, and buried the dead. Twenty wagons
containing supplies were lost. The relief
column for Ekowe will start March Goth. A
party of volunteers have visited the battle
field OF Isandula, and found that the Zulus
had left one hundred wagons there, but had
removed their guns and ammunition. A
great meeting of Beers has commenced.
Their proceedings have so far been quietly
conducted. A battalion of the Twenty first
regiment, the army reserve corps, the engin~
GERS ami the Ninety fourth regiment have ar
rived at Cape Town.
LONDON, April 8-A Standards dispatch
from Cape Town says the convey from Derby
was obliged to encamp on the banks Of the
Intombeas river. The river was too full to
cross. Lieutenant Harvard and the sur
vivors were encamped on the Lueberg side of
the river. Although there has been some
previous alarms, the surprise was com
plete. The sentry only saw the Zuius
when they were within fifteen PAGES.
Lieutenant Harward's men poured a steady
fire across the river. The Zulus lost heavily,
but were undaunted. Only one hundred and
fifty Of Captain Moriarty's men escaped
across the river They were sleeping on the
wagons when they were attacked, and the
sentry was the only one who had time to fire.
The scene of the surprise is a hollow, sur
rounded by long grass and weeds. The re-
lief column for Ekowe numbers FIVE thousand
men.
A BOnaPartist Victory Almost Assured.
PARIS, April S.-The Bonapartists are
elated at the almost certain triumph of Co
dell, Bonapartist candidate for the chamber
of deputies In the district of the Champs
Elysees, on the second ballot.
NJ. Paul de Cassagnac was bauqueted last
night by one hundred and eighty students of
the Latin quarter. la the course of a conf
dental speech he related a conversation be-
tween himself and the prince imperial. in
which the latter said: my fathers misfor-
tune was to mistrust his health. so he wished
to play two reigns simultaneously, namely,
his own, which was autoritare, and mine,
which might be liberal. He lost both. am,