Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-11-08

In New OK city rs, ,UJO voters nave
/ been registered, and in Brooklyn 81 204
-Cuthbert Bullitt declines the Office o.
! Sheriff of New Orleans, offered him by
the District Commander.
The total losses by fire in Chicago
for the past six months are 81, III, 600
upon which the insurance companies los.
over s., 600 600.
On one day of last month the Lon.
don Clearing House did a business oi
thirteen millions sterling, and over one
hundred thousand entries were made by
one hundred clerks. The accounts were
all examined, a balance struck and found
correct by II O'Clock the next day.
-O'Brien McCoOle's second in thelate
prize fight, was arrested in st. Louis YES
terday, with four others, suspected of the
late robbng of the Merchants Union
Express Office there.
"A dispatch received from COpenha-
gen, SAYS that the Danish West Indies
have been sold to the United States for
Si4 900, 900 in gold, and that an agent of
of the King OF Denmark is soon TO cross
the Atlantic for the purpose Of cOmplet-
ing the transfer of tke property.
1t is reported that Mrs. Lincoln Is
actually preparing 10 publish book.
Miss Olive Logan, the New York actress
and writer, who is now in Chicago, is
said to have been engaged to assist her
in the literary labor.
The gentlemen of the French Lega-
ton in Washington DO not credit the
dispatch which stated that Prussia would
interfere in the Roman difficulty, to pre-
serve the peace Of Europe. They believe
that serious troubles will arise from the
movement of Italian troops across the
frontiers Of the Pontifical territories.
Major John A. DeRussy, a native
OF New York, and for thirty-two years q
citizen of Louisiana, died in Baton Rouge
on the 2sth ult., aged siXty-five years
The Advocate speaks of him in the high
est terms. He was the brother of the
late Col. r. +. DeRussy, of the United
States army, and Gen. L. q. DeRussy,
of the Confederate army.
1t is understood that the Union Re-
publican Congressional Committee in
Washington, which has been distributing
documents and sending speakers
throughout the South, will, without any
change in the present organization, be
united with the Republican National
Committee TO conduct the Presidential
campaign.
"A court martial will be called in the
u
Va, who was discharged at the election.
He was guilty of unsOldieTly conduct,
drunkenness while on duty, and intimi-
dating white voters at the polls, some of
whom were driven away at the point of
the bsyOnet.
"A letter from the interior of South
Carolina says that the most abundant
corn crop is now harvesting which has
been known for many years. 1t is selling
at fifty cents bushel, out there is little
sale for it, IS but few have money to pur-
chase. There is much alarm among the
whites of that part Of the State at the
threats uttered by some negroes.
On the I'd instant Judge Shackleford,
Of the Supreme Court, now in session at
Knoxville, passed sentence Of death on
John Nance, Of Granger county, and
Joseph HOugb, ts negro) Of Hamilton
county, both for murder. As the last
words fell from the Judges lips, the
negro prisoner, who was standing up,
bowed his head and said, thank you,
sir"
Hon. F. Ochitree, of Texas, now so.
iourning in London, writes to the Plea
ytne q letter in which he urges that II
every person would put into each stock
ing every morning, about half a tea
spoonful Of pulverized charcoal, they
would be exempt from attack. A dose
taken internally, Immediately on the
attack of fever, viii cure the disease, and
taken in advance will prevent it. Be
sides he advises the free use of charcoal
about the sick room, and collins to be
filed with it.
The Washington correspondent of
the Cincinnati Enquirer says in his dis
patch of November l 4" John II. Gil
mer, a prominent citizen of Richmond,
Virginia, had sn interview with the
President to-day, concerning the affairs
of that State. He declined furnishing
particular information touching the in
teTview, but said there is enough III the
Constitution TO save the country pro-
vided firm and judiciOus use is made OF
it's powers by the Executive, in the right
quarter; and this use, added Mr. G., may
be expected and relied on. II is surmised
that he referred to very important mat
ters closely connected with the immedi-
ate future Of Virginia. He further states
that the whites in Virginia have power
to vote down the proposed negro eOnsti-
tuition and now that the issue of white
or black supremacy is distinctly made,
thousand whites, hitherto considered Re-
the adoption of the Constitution. Many
negroes were averse to voting for the
but Hunnicutt, through his
secret league, forced them to the polls
under threats of desth.n
A cable dispatch announces the
death, in his sixty-eighth year, Of VIM.
Earl Of ROsse. Lord Rosse was
born in the city Of York; educated in
College, Oxford, graduating in
1922, with a " first class - in mathe-
MATES; sat in the House of Commons as
a representative of an Irish borough for
the next twelve years; became Earl in
1S4l, and four years after entered the
House Of Lords as an Irish peer. He
voted constantly with the Liberals, but
did not achieve, as indeed, he had no
to achieve, a Parliamentary
His ambition was to become
an astronomer. He was strongly
attracted TO the study of this
science at very early age,
and at Oxford his prediction was
and confirmed. -Four years
after his graduation, he built private
observatory near his residence of Birr
Castle, King county, Ireland. The in
struments for this observatory were
selected with the greatest care. Among
them was the rejecting telescope Of
which every sehOOl-bOy has read, and
which has been very seryiceable to
science, not only in correcting errors for
meTly held by astronomers Of the highest
authority. but also in making new dis
eOveries. 1t has been especially useful
in the resolution of Debul8 and the study
of the moons surface. For several years
Lord Rose pesided over the Royal