Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-12-17
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

Cambridge, Nd, December 16.-The
Protestant Episcopal Convention Of the diocese
Of Easton, was held here to-day, and the Rev.
chosen bishop of the diocese.
Pittsburg, Pa, Decen Der l6. - Scarlet
fever of a nslignant type, has broken out at the
city. There eighty-fve children in the Home,
and the situation is alarming.
New York, December 16.-The state
ment of the Houston and Texas Central railroad
decrease in net earnings of sSI5.li6, compared
with the same months OF last year.
Piitsburg, Pa, December 16.-The New
castle faction of the Harlem commons New York;
cause of dissatisfaction with the management,
and will prosecute their claims Independently.
New Orleans, La, December l6.-A
Starkyille (Mss.) dispatch to the Picaygne says
and locked the door, his three children being in
side. The house caught fire and the children
Terishei.
Hagerstown, Md, December l6.-Joshua
Troup, "A wealthy farmer, living in the Clear
Springs district OF Washington county, commit.
,sa soeide , inns oy sn9otng ninsei,
to have unsettled his mind.
Nav York, December Is - The Times
has the following from Nuevo Laredo, SeT., De-
cembcr 18th: Now that the Federal government
has assumed the management of affairs IN the
State of Nueyo Leon, further trouble is autici-
paied at present and general feeling of relief is
experienced.
PIt5sburg, Pa December 16-At the jCint
inference of the coal operators and miners OF
the United states to-day resolution was adopted
providing for an early convention of coal oP-
orators to consider a scale of prices TO be sub
| mitted by The miners, and to suggest changes il
| the sclle was not satisfactory.
Pottsville, Pa, December 16.-Ths rob-
bing of pilla in the lover lit of Fowlers Col
liery at atesville brought down the surface dur
| ing Monday night, including a large portion ei
over area of 500 yards, and the breach is quite
| deep, the bottom not being visible.
New York, December "a dispatch
| from New Orleans says John C. Brown OF st.
| Louis has been appointed receiver of the Texas
| Pacific RliiNay by Judge Pardee of this city.
| The judge reserves the right TO appoint core
/ ceiVer The appointment is in the interest of the
| bondholders, to.put the road on paying basis.
| Hszleton, Pa, December l6.-fhe water
| from the Black creek continues to pour into the
tt2-.eigh several mines through the large breach
4 in the surface made by the recent collapse Five
hundred men are now digging a new channel
for the creek, Both coleries will be idle all win
4 ter, throwing {, men out of work. The loss sus
| tanned will reach sS0O,OOO,and may greatly exceed
! that figure.
| Wheeling, W. Va, December I6,-Sec
! retary Wise's weekly report to the Western Mai
| Association shows 100 machines at work in th'
| mills of the West at the manufacturers scale, al
increase of nineteen over the last weeks report
increases the scale to eighteen cents for en-pen
| nies, and in the same proportion throughout.
Hillsboro, ILL.,, December 16-Mis
| Mildred Rutledge, a young school teacher of thi
| city, has been indicted by the grand jury o
Christian county for administering severe pun
ishment to one of her pupils. Miss Rutledss hs
been teaching at Morrisonville, about twent.
miles north of here, and i. is alleged that sh
hide, giving him 6fty or sixty lashes with sucl
force as to draw blood.