Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1879-03-23
By Telegraph From All Parts Of the
WOrld-Matters Becoming More
than Ever Mixed at the Seat
of the AnglO-SaxOn
War in Africa.
Another Bloody Tragedy in Texas-The
German Parliament Still Discuss
ing the Proposed Autonomy
of Alsace and Lorraine
Chicago Social
ists-Etc.


New York, March 22.-The funeral of B..
c. Porter, the actor shot dead in Texas,
takes place on Wednesday next, from the
Little Church Around the Corner. The
actors AID managers arrange tomorrow for
a benefit for his widow and mother.
Rev York Bank statement,
New YoRK, March 22.-Bank statement
Loans, decrease. 50 484, 700; specie, increase,
SI.49I 800. leEal 5sader decrease, $4,000
tor. decrease, $44300; reserve, increase,
1898, ATS. The bank now hold 81, lbs, 45O
il excess Of legal requirements.
= TtG-JIIIe Race.
NEw YORK. March 22-In the running
matches tonight AZ Gi'more's, lonn Simp-
son, ROwell's trainer, won the ten-mlle race,
in one hour fifty and one quarter seconds.
IRE tw-pty-mile race vas won by Norman
Taylor, Of Vermont, IN two hours, nine
mi1utes and iIty-three and thSee-quafter
seconds
CINCINNATI, March 22-All the women
arrested on suspicion OF being implicated In
tie mu,dsr OF Harry Baldwin rave been re-
leased, there being no evidence against them.
The coroner has adjourned the ioquest to
await developments. At present every clue
has failed to lead to any satisfactory solution
of the mystery.
Another Bloody outrage ia Texas.
GALVESTON, March 22.-The Neios's spe-
cial from Sherman says: Houston Holt, a
desperado fr- m Denton county, struck one
Howell In a stable. He shortly after called
Howell into the Office and closed the door.
Three shots were heard. Holt then rode
awav unmo!ested Howell's body was found
in the off e, perforated W tn three bullets.
Missouri Politics.
ST. LOUIS March 22.-lIhe Democrats held
a convention this afternoon and nominated
SIX mem bers at large for the upper house of
the municipal assembly. Both parties now
have their tickets in the held-slx members
Of the council and one member from each
ward to the house of delegates. These are
a the Offices to be filed at the spring cleo
ton, to he held early in April.
The SVnr ia Zulu Lnnd.
CAPE Town, March 5.-The Bazuetta
chief, Morcasia. is in open rebe lion. Colonel
Sju,hey, commandin. the British forces, will
commence offensive operations as soon as re-
Inducements arrive. The b zuettas are gen.
eraly disaffected owing to the intention of
tie British t. d:sarln them, Int they do not
ope,ly support Mo:casia. Taere has been
no further lighting in Zulu Land.
RiOtIng Coal Miners Tried.
PITTsBURG, March 22.-Of the coal mi
uers arrested for riot along the upper Mo-
nongahtla some weeks ago, and whose trial
before the Washington county court was con-
cluded this week, seventeen were adIudged
guilty of simple riot and fifty acquitted.
The court simply sentenced the guilty ones
to pay costs, but warned them if again ar
rested they would have to suffer the extreme
penalty OF the law.
The LoUIsVEIse Democracy Instruct for
Blackburn for Governor.
LOUISVILLE, March % - The Democratic
district convection held here to-day to choose
- IL
held liz May, unanimously instructed for DIR.
L. P Blackburn for governor, James E.
Cantrell for Acknowledgements, r. A. Jones
for attorney general, and Fayette Hewitt
for auditor. The additional strength gained
by the candidates by to-day's instructions
insures their election.
The Cattle Disease Problem.
NEW YORK, March 22.-Private dispatches
pronounce as untrue the story that some OF
tue steamer Brazjlian's cattle had been
slaughtered because of the existence among
them of pleuro pneumonia. A number of
shippers continue to send live cattle abroad,
as they consider it much less expensive
manner of shipping than dead meat in re-
frigerators, and the meat commands much
better price on the other side than dead
meat.
From Versailles to Paris.
VERSAILLES, March 22.-The chamber of
deputies, by a vote Of three hundred and
thirty to one hundred and thirty-one, to-
day resolved that the senate and chamber
should meet in congress for the revision of
the constitution, enabling the legislature to
sit at Paris instead of Versailles. The
chamber afterward rejected Bonapartist' s
inquiry into the recent matter concerning the
FIVE per cent. rente. Leon Say, minister of
finance, defending himself, repealed the in
situations and Calumnles made against his
part OF the affair.
Private Dispatches to be Produced.
ST. LOUIS, March 22.-As predicted in
these dispatches last night, Prosecuting At
torney Beach this morning applied to the
criminal court for a subpoena duces tectni,
which was issued and served upon Mr..
Brown, manager of the Western Union tele-
graph office. The subpoena is returnable
Monday next, when the case will come up
for argument, and requires Mr.. Brown to
produce all dispatches which have passed be-
tween Governor Phelp and Messrs. Nidett
Ladd, Wakefield and M'Chesney during the
| several months past.
The Chicago Socialists.
CHICAGO, March 22.-The socialists had 6
| grand ball to- night to commemorate, as the
| programme expresses, the dawn of liberty o.
| 1848 and 187l-'the Paris commune" Some
| twenty-five thousand people, mostly of the
| cl ass known as communists, crowded into the
|
until the close of the proceedings. There
were no speeches, but liberal display o.
! suns was made. The number of military
was estimated at from five hundred to one
thousand. The object was said to be thu
raising of money to perfect their organiza
ton, military and political.
The Autonomy of Alsace and Lorraine
BERLIN, March 22.-In the debate in tht
German reichstag last night on Herr Schnei
| fol l1Ch &c n,
autonomous government in Alsace and Lor
raine, Schneigan pointed out that Bismarcl
was the responsible minister at present
Reichlanl lived too far away and the people
were exposed to countless grievances from
the complex bureaulstic system now preva
lent The presence Of the lord-lieutepan
and secretary of state did not divest Bis
marck of the responsibility, and official tric
tion is continual. They wanted the RICH
man in the right place; under the presen
81 stem they did not feel themselves citizen
of a well ordered State, but of an occupies
country. Give them but independence an,
til y would not become a bone of contention
but bonds of union between two civilize
people, the bridge by which the benefits @
both might be exchanged, and the means G
International reconciliation. Bismarck i
his reply said the remarks of Schueigan mad
a favorable impression upon him, whic
would have been better had not his perorl
ton contained an appeal to Paris which coul
find no echo in Berlin. and the appeal whic
pictured Alsace and Lorraine as a neutra
territory to which the claims of France woul
be as justifable as those of Germany. | onl
state what l have interceded; pulled dow
by the French and now propped up by Ger
many, it would regain its strength. Let U
see that it does, The speech was loudly ap
plauded.
miscellaneous kilograms.
New York, March %: Arrived-Oder
from Bremen.
Queenstown, March p: Arrived-Nevada
from New York.
Paris, March %: Mario, the ancient tenol
is said to be insane.
Baltimore, March %: Ez-Judge Giles die
to-day, aged segenty-tgo.
Paris, March %: Ffty-four more com
munists from New Caledonia have arrived.
Cincinnati, March %: AT the Democrat
convention, this afternoon, Lem A. Harm
was nominated for mayor.
London, March %: Amount of bullio
gone into the Bank of England on balanc
to-day, forty thousand pounds.
Bridgeport, March %: Edward Hoyt. fc
the murder of his father, has been sentence