Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-23
TELEGRAPHlC BREYITY.

Nous, April %: The strike of the coal
miners has extended to the district of Barin-
age.
Moscow, April %: In eonseq fence of the
foods, traffic on the Moscow, Smolensk and
Orenberg railway has been suspended.
Amsterdam, April %: The king and
queen of Holland entered the city yesterday
amid great rejoicings. The city was deco
rated.
London, April %: Intelligence has just
reached this city from South Africa, that
Ekowe was relieved on the fourth instant,
after severe fighting.
Constantinople, April %: Osmau Pasta,
minister of war, has promised Servia to send
troops to the frontier Immediately to check
the incursions of the Albanians.
New York, April %: w. Jaeger, one of
the oldest brokers of Wall street, aud father
of Bishop Jaeger, of southern Ohio, died
this morning In Flushing, aged seventy-three
years.
San Francisco, April %: A Port Town
send dispatch says that the United States
steamer Alaska leaves Victoria on Tuesday
for Sitka, to remain until relieved by the
jamestown.
Berlin, April %: The Frankfurter Zeitung
will again be prosecuted for insulting Bis
marck by publishing report of its last trial
for the same offense, including two speeches
for the defense.
Toledo, o, April %: Skidmore & Shack
er's stove works at Walbridge were destroyed
by FIRE this morning. Loss, two thous md
dollars. They were owned in this city, and
were fully Insured.
New York, April %: August Belmont was
badly, but not fatally, injured to day, by
being thrown from his carriage as he was
leaving the park, heavy road wagon having
come in collision with him.
Cincinnati, April %: Frederick Burker's
dwelling and George Stephens's brewery, at
Shelbyville, Indiana, were bu,ntd at a late
hour last night. Loss, Eve thousand dollars;
insured for one thousand dollars In the Royal
insurance company.
Upper Falls On. H., April %: Owing to a
heavy rise In the Connecticut river, several
hundred thousand feet OF lumber were washed
over the boom of Blood pond. The loss is be-
tween fifty and seventy-6ve thousand dollars
to the owners, Frye & Perry, of Maine.
Columbus, O., April %: A press telegram
from this point, last week, By some mistake
stated that Attorney General Pillars had de-
clared the law authorizing the appointment
of women as notaries public unconstitutional,
while the fact is he gave an opinion that the
law was perfectly constitutional.
Madrid, April %: Three liberal conserya-
rid. Among the deputies elected are nine
centrallsts, sixteen moderate democrats, thir-
teen democrats of the CASTELAR, group, and
four clerical moderates. Almost all the
chiefs of the different political parties have
been returned.
Havana, April p: Rains have relieved
the drouth, aggravated by terrible south
winds. Disastrous conhagrations have re-
suited from the drouth in cane-felds of the
districts of Colon, Matanzls and Cardenas
Over fifty plantations have suffered more or
less. On eight the crops and buildings were
entirely destroyed.
Madrid, April %: The coalition of the pro.
gressists, constitututionalists and friends of
CASTELAR, obtained for the three groups, re-
spectiveiy, eight, thirty-four and nine seats
in congress. Abstentions from voting were
more numerous than under universal suf-
frage. In Madrid seven thousand out of
twenty-one thousand electors voted, and in
Barcelona tEenty-four hundred out of eighty
two hundred.