Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1867-09-24
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; are estimated at 1900, most of whom
are under the sway of Red Cloud.
The treasury department has COM
menced payment Of the great cotton
claims, amounting TO some two millions,
sometime since sanctioned by judgment
, OF the court of claims.
! "A state constable OF Massachusetts
/ attempted to seize some whisky at the
3 military encampment in SwRmpscot,
Thursday night, when he was placed
Astride rail and ridden of the ground.
: The tobacco manufacturers OF New
; York and other cities intend presenting
q petition TO the secretary of the treasury
for the repeal OF certain obnoxious regu-
In the report Of the committee of the
spirituslists' convention at Cleveland on
"spiritual phenomena the opinion Is
reached that the identity Of spirit pres
ence is very uncertain.
AT the dedication Of the Antletam
cemetery, Gov. GeSry and bis Pennsyl-
vania friends took exceptions to the
programme - and 80 the former made
speech which was not included therein.
The Maine election having turned
largely on "cider" prohibition, the
Massachusetts, republicans have resolved
not to make Temperance an issue in
their approaching election.
The papers In the case Of Fitz John
Porter will be submitted TO Attorney
General Stanberry, and on his opinion
win depend whether or not the case will
be reOpened.
About 2, 700 of the negro votes polled
in Richmond at the election for the sub
Iscription to the Chesapeake and Ohio rail-
road, were thrown out, from the fact that
the voters had forgotten the names under
which they were registered, and substi-
ted others.
Buffalo, was destroyed by fire Friday
narrow escapes.
Sir Frederick Bruce, British minis |
ter to the United States, died suddenly
Thursday morning, at the fremont |
| House, Boston, OF heart disease.
The Indian commissioners have ar |
rived at the North Platte, and council |
was to have been held on Wednesday. |
/ Two hundred Indians are there.
| The oyster trade is resumed with the |
/ advent Of September, and is very active. |
| Philadelphia sends out no less than six |
| to seven hundred vessels.
-Banditti infest Chautauqua county, |
| n. Y. 10 the forest near Westfield there |
| is an organized band of armed robbers |
who enter houses by day and night,
pistol iu hand.
-Advices from New Orleans state that |
the rs-opening of the boards of registra-
| ton, in Louisiana, began last Friday.
The reconstruction set authorizes five
days for revision. None coming under
! the presidents recent amnesty procla-
nation have, as yet, applied for registra-
ton.
"A telegram from Bombay announces
that the first steamer Of the Abyssinian
expedition had left for India to explore
the coast and find suitable places for
landing. The steamers chartered by the
government have sailed from England
for India, where they transport troops
and munitions of war TO Abyssinnia.
The London Saturday RerietO COM
ments on the remarkable fact that no
sooner had the emperor of the French
returned from Salzburg than he began TO
take measures 10 reassure Europe. His
speeches, however, have not had the eff
feet which was manifestly intended. The
general feeling in Europe is not one of q
pacific character.
The grand lodge Of Odd Fellows on
Thursday rejected the motion to admit
non-beneficihry members, appointed a
committee to revise the German trsnslA-
ton of the work Of the order, granted
/
cred state grand bodies to resuscitate de-
fuuct lodges on the application of five
members.
The retirement of Count Wyden-
bruck, the Austrian minister, whose sue
cessor is named by the cable, is In pursu- ,
anee Of q resolve made by him immedi-
ateIy after the execution OF MsximiliAn,
10 the effect that he would forsake his [
country forever. He therefore asked to {
be relieved, and has just disposed Of his ]
residence and household effects at auc- i
tion.
The English papers are laughing at [
a story in the Paris journals that the late {
Duke Of Northumberland had an annual !
income of four million pounds sterling, '
and that his brother refused to accept !
payment Of one hundred thousand &
pounds voted him for having acted as S
am basssdor of England at the coronation I
of Charles Y, but had the order for the s
sum framed and glszed, and kept IL so I
till his death, thereby losing both the {
money and the interest on it.
A party Of some twenty-six young i
men plsying base ball, near Troy, n. Y, !
last Saturday afternoon dispatched one I
Of their number to procure quantity Of 9
milk. and all psrtook Of it. In few /
minutes every one Of them was taken t
anu severely All- AOAEAt y
cramps, purging and vomiting ensued,
and the lives of three were saved only 8
by the most prompt and skillful medical 6
It now transpiTes that cro- {
ton oil was introduced into the milk by j
some persons among the party for
joke.
-GOvarnor Orr, OF South Carolina, has '
written to General sickles, expressing '
decided approval Of the famous order No. j
10, arresting the seizure and sale Of pro- d
perty for debts incurred before the war y
the same order the Generals adherence y
to which led TO his decapitation. r
General Pope has ordered an election 2
in Georgia, Alabama and Florida, to con-
tinue three days, commencing October {
18th, on the question Of holding state con- 9
venti0ns, under the reconstruction laws, s
and for delegates to the conventions, in )
case the decisions shall be in its favor. Il
The editor Of the Houston Record &
has recently made q trip through the y
Drairies of Chickasaw and Monroe eoUn- s.
lies, and reports that the yield Of corn y
gill be larger than he ever recollects to 81
have seen In the South. The cotton crop n
nss not done so well, aud is variOusly Y
sstIuated at from one fourth TO three v
'ourths OF full yield. Il
Max StraekOscb has organized P
.roupe for opera, concerts and oratorios, q
which ne styles the " La Grange and Il
Brignoli Combination" and with which P
ne proposes visiting all the principal 81
titles In the country. Madam La Grange q
md SignOr Brignoli are very good lead g
Dg cards, aud the Combination " will b
doubtless be a success. o
"A New York paper states that at a
,arty on Fifth avenue, the other even q
no. a beautiful young lady was oOmpli- l
Rented hy a gentleman on the simplicity y
md good taste of her dress. am so 8
lad YOU like it," the lady replied, 81 n
made it all myself, and it cost just seven a
IoIars." 81
The Boston Post is responsible for a
his: At printers festival recently held Il
n Lowell, Mass, the following toast was
resented: "The Printer--T'be master Of
N trades-he beats the farmer With his
Hoe. the carpenter with his rules, and n
he mason with setting up tall columns 8
~ surrasses the lawyer and the doctor
a attending 70 bis cases, and beats the a
arson in the management Of the fl
devil'n m
Col. E. Bucks and overseer, Mfr. Ian al
aster. Of Camp Pickens, Charlton county, OF
IA had a difficulty with a negro work. o,
no on the place, which resulted 10 shoot n
nd, the negro In the thigh. Next day q,
Sundsy) two armed negroes weBt to the W
ouse TO demand satisfaction OF Lancas- ii
pr Several shots were exchanged, and Ia
ne negro was killed and the other
rounded, Lancaster wss badly wounded
nd had A horse killed. Lancaster and Al
IN. Nugazer left Monday for st. Msry's. al
In armed band Of thirty negroes seized a.
hem. Nugazer escaped by swimming CT