Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1885-12-23
TELEGRAPHIC BRIEFS

PLEUR9-PNEUMoN has broken out in
Lancaster county, Pa.
The mad dog scare in New jersey is un-
abat Another child was bitten at Blooming
ton yesterday.
SECRETARY LAMAR left Washington last
evening for his home at OK ford, Miss, where he
will spend the holidays.
IT Is said at the White-House that, with
two three exceptions all oi the recess appoint
ments have nov been sent TO the Senate for con-
frmation.
NJ. FRANCOIS MARIE THEODORE La
BRoUsTE, the we'll known French architect, is
dead. lie ~ss bora March q, 1879. In 1927 he
rried off the grand prize for architecture in the
School of Fine Arts.
Col. :. A MERRITT of Salt Lake City,
ex-de ega in Congress from Utah Territory,
h ID long u'eryiew with the Pres dent yesJer-
| day regarding MOrmonism, and the present trou-
| bic in that Territory.
| THE fate of the men in the Nanticoke
| Mine is sealed, and the only thing that remains
Is to recover the BODIES OF the y'samsI ana & re-
will be done as socn as possible.
| THE Washington Star saws that after
Senator Beck had made his speech in favor of the
Senator BvaTts, who had listened attentiyely
| throughout the whole speech, said: Beck is
right, and intend to make n spe 5ch in the same
| line. His arguments cannot be refu;ed.'
BY decree of Judge Holiday OF the
Peiopze VS.. The Richmond Viii Publishing
|
| pended after this date until further order of he
court, and lhs receivy Is authorized to sell the
| paper and its establishment, in whole or in par
| cells, privately, subject to confirmation by the
| Court. The Whig has been in continuous publi-
| cation since January, 1874, nearly sixty-two
| years.
| REPRESENTATIVES, BURNS of Missouri, who
is spoken of in connection With the chairman
ship of the Foreign Affairs Com nittes OF the
House, says that one of the most important duties
of that copmi tse this session is to complete the
laws regulating our consular and diplomatic
service. lie hiss been studying the question in
| connection with the consular and diplomatic ap-
preparation bill, and says that the laws are in 0
| most incomprehensibie condition. They are
vague and conflicting in many cases, and ore
scattered through forty volumes, SO that it il
almost impossib c to know which are in force ana
which are dead letters. All that are row il
operation, he says, could be contained ia foul
pages of the Revised Statutes, if properly com
piled.
ON the csll OF States for the introduction
of bills 10 the House Monday 9y7 bills and seven
joint resOlu ions were intruduct d, althousl
only eleven States iw re called. The Alabsm.
tiOus and Arkansas is credited with 16 bills, Cali
fornia got 50 bills, Colorado :, Connecticut As
| Florida >, Georgia SO, Illinois l6I, Indiana l5S
| lows "a, kansas l+S, Kentucky l43, Louis ana IL
| There were also l06 petitions presented by mem
bers from the different States. If this proportion
is kept up, 400 bills will be intr, duced oil
the first call of the session, which is rather unu
susl, as members generally wait until the frs
rush is over. Almost every gay new member
have "A big batch, and the call will consume a
. least two days when the HOu.e meets again.