Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-04-15
TELEGRAPHlC BREVITY.

Boston, April ID: Arrived-Victoria, from
Liverpool.
New York, April 13: Arrived -Necker,
from Bremen.
liverpool, April IA: Acknowledgment,
from Boston.
New York. April IA: Arrived-City of
Berlin, from Liverpool.
Constantinople, April 13; Ii is denied that
tae sultan offered to depose the khedive
Berlin, April 13 General Manteuffel has
declined the governorship of Alsace aud
Lorraine.
London, April IA Trichinosis has APP
peared, for the first time in Italy, at Brescia
and Placenz
London. April IA; The steamships City of
Chester and ID. Stoinman, from New York,
have arrived out.
london, April Is; In the midland coun-
ties the master glass makers have accepted
the compromise offered by the men.
Charlottesville, Va, April IA: The ami
versary OF Thomas Jeiferson's birthday was
celebrated here today in an appropriate
manner.
Antwerp, April Is: Belgium Is considering
the advlsablll,y of customs union with
France In opposition to the German protect
i've system.
London, April b: A dispatch from Alex
andria says a great fire is raging in Cairo
and has destroyed blocks of buildings hun
dreds of yards long,
Doston, April IA: John P. Phair, who was
hanged in Vermont last Thursday, has left a
statement declaring his innocence, and that
justice was not done him.
Cincinnati, April Il: Slack & Degruytop's
brewery, at Charleston, West Virginia, has
burned. Loss, ten thousand doll lrs; lnsur-
auce, five thousand dollars.
fredericksburg, April ID: The statement
that the negroes along the Rappahannock
river had caught the emigration fever is
without the slightest foundation.
Scranton, Pa, April II: The directors of
the Scranton trust company and savings
bank have made an assignment to President
Fierce Tor the benefit of the creditors.
Wabasha, Mimi, April ID: A fire this
morning destroyed the Campbell house and
all the buildings in the block. Loss, ten
thousand dollars; insurance, seven thousand
dollars.
Richmond, Va, April IA: The grand jury
OF the United States circuit court adjourned
to- day sine die. No action was taken in the
matter OF ind!cting the county judges of this
county for not having mixed iuries.
Ohambarsburg, Pa, April IA: Hezekiah
Shatter, sentenced to be hanged Thursday
Id his legs and arms to-day with the wire of
broom handle. His recovery is doubtful.
Toronto, April Is: A fire to- night destroyed
L. Y. Aliens stationery store, r. B. Rut-
lands store and dwelling, and w. G.. Glib
sons printing office. Loss, thirty-five thou
sand dollars Insurance, fifteen thousand dol
lars.
New York, April IA: Madame Berger,
convicted of causing the death by malprac-
Nan llCE LaIN-
sentenced to twelve years confinement in the
State 8 prison. Her counsel will move for
new trial,
Lahore, April 10: Bad feeling is gro wing
against the British among all the tribes IL
terested in the kyber pass. They complain
that the british are acting as though they
intended to keep the pass in spying out the
hill Businesses
Watertown, N. Y, April -: A bnilding
at Cape Vincent, owned by the Rome, Water
town and Ogdensburg rallroad, occupied by
the customhouse, American express and tele,
graph offices, was burned last night. SIZES
not yet opened. Loss on building small.
Gambia, N. H.. April Is: Upon the repre-
Gentatlons OF the committee appointed to in
veshgate the affairs of Il. Il. ingalls,, late
town treasurer, who claimed that he had
been robbed oil three thousand seven hum
dred dollars on the fourth of March. the
for embezzlement.
London, April Is: The masters committee
at Durham has finally agreed to call gene
raj meeting Wednesday to discuss the pro-
posals of the miners, though the committee
first passed resolutions declaring that those
proposals had increased the difference be-
tween them. The men at about twenty
more collieries will strike to-day, many Of
them because of threats.
The Proposed Franco A M rIcnn Treaty
OF Commerce DIscu. sed.
ST. LOUIS April Am. Leon Choutteau.
the representative OF the commission to effect
treaty OF commerce between France and
the United States, addressed a considerable
number OF the members of the merchants
exchange this afternoon upon that subject.
and was attentivelY listened to. Emile Karst
the French consul OF this city, also made an
address on the present condition of trade be-
tween the United States and France The
following resolutions were then offered by Geo.
BAN and unanimously adopted:
Res0tDed, That it is of the greatest lmpor-
lance to the producers of the west that an I'M
numbered outlet for our exports be found for
them IN France, as we'll as IN other countries,
and that an equivalent concession in our
tariff may fairly be granted to France by our
government for that privilege,
RESOLVED, That treaty Of commerce with
France would greatly increfBe our commerce
with that country, and we especially urge
our senators and representative % II congress
to use their influence to accomplish this OBJ