Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-05-16
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hama.
The annual meeting of the Tennessee
Orphan Society will be held at the NJ. Z.
Church, Clarksville.
Gustave Flourens, ehsgrined because
there is no popular demonstration in his
honor, has left London.
The woman suffrage bill in the British
House Of Commons has been virtually
defeated by large majority.
In the boat race, at COwes, the yacht
SspphO was declared winner-her COM
petitors declined to make the race.
The Shelbyville, TENN Rescue hoists
the name OF Capt. c. A. ShsafO for Con-
gress. Capt. SheafO was legally elected.
There has been shipped, up TO the 18th
of May, nine thousand five hundred bales
Of cotton from Crystal Springs. Missis-
sippi
The distinguished surgeon, DIR. Paul F.
Eve, has accepted a professorship in the
Medical University, of Nashville, Ten
nesse.
Sylvan Smith, of Brooklyn, y. Y, shot
Mrs. Belts on Saturday and then very
properly shot himself Jealousy was the
csuse.
Five hundred or six hundred additional
cOlored voters VIII be registered in New
York city. The process is quietly con-
dncted.
The Mississippi Baptist State Conven-
tion will be held al West Point on Thurs
dsy before the first Lords day in June
next.
Gen. Patterson, one of the oldest citi-
zens Of Fayette county, Tenn, died in
Sonerville few days since, aged seven
ry-nine years.
Bolton and Park, the two young men ar
I EuFm for irnsr
womsns apparel, were committed for trial,
the crowd hooting them.
The Tammany Committee, Tweed pre-
siding, have nominated candidet-- for
local and municipal Offices, and the war
now begins in New York in earnest.
The Legislature of Mississippi and all
the state dignitaries will assist at the Gel
ebratioh Of the passage of the Fifteenth
Amendment, at Nicksburg, on Monday.
General George ". Gibbs, one of the
Oldest citizens Of West Tennessee, died at
Union City, Tenn, on Wednesday last,
at the advanced age OF eighty-tWo years.
On Tuesday, May l., the Norwegians
of Brooklyn celebrate the anniversary of
their independence at Joseph's House,
Eighth street, between Third and Fourth
avenues, South Brooklyn.
The loss by the fire in Fincastle, Yir-
ginia, is upward OF three hundred thou
sand dollars. Every mercantile establish
ment in the town, and, indeed, every bus
ness house, vent down in a common ruin.
VIleneuve and Regnauit, editors of the
Marsellaise newspaper, who we're arrested
for coInplicity in the alleged plot against
the Emperor, were liberated Saturday.
Forty-nine psrsons were condemned as
PGrticipes cTimiSsis.
The Petersburg (Yirginia) Express of
81 hra
been spending several days at Lower
Brandon, on the James river. We are
pleased 10 learn that his health has been
much improved by his trip South.
FIT. Backus, Of Cleveland, Ohio, died
Saturday He was the leading lawyer of
central Ohio, a member of the Peace Con-
sress Of 1851, and Of the Philadelphia
Convention Of 1866, and Democratic can
didaIe for Congress in 1865. He leaves
wife and no children.
The volume containing a complete his
tory of McFarland's trial Outsells any
book ever thrust upon New York. Nc
Farland is the lion OF the hour, and looks
"a Young and fresh and vigorous as ever.
He will publish few more letters of his
wife-to vindicste himself, as he says.
The Jackson Miss Pilot of Wednesday
saws: " The Governor yesterday nomi-
mated Mr.. Harmon, of Coahoma, Chan
cellor of the Fifteenth district, composed
of the counties of Tuniea, Coahoma. Boil
var, and Washington; John D. Moore,
Sheriff Of Lincoln county, and other ofti-
GERS"
A grand concert, under the direction
and management of Miss Juliet Levy,
will be given on the oath proXimO, at lr-
wing Hall, New York, in aid of the fund
for the relief of Jewish refugees from
Russia The affair promises to be brill
liant entertainment, pecnniarily as well
as srtistically.
The Springfield MO- Leader says: We
are informed by Mr. Hayden, Secretary
of the Confederate Dead Association, that
two hundred and sixty-tbree bodies have
been taken up and decently reinterred in
the Confederate cemetery This COM
plstes the work OF reinterment in and
around Springfield.
Jpips Van DYKE, of East Tennessee, Is
anuoUncsd as a candidate for Supreme
Judge. He was formerly Chancellor OF
the Eastern Division of the State, man
of great legal ability, of uncompromising
Integrity, for which, we are informed, he
served in a Federal prison; man who
loved and suffered for his native South.
The Huntsville (Alabama) Democrat Of
Wednesday saws the decoration OF Confed-
crate graves in our City Cemetery, took
place on Yesterday afternoon The weather
was stormy, and prevented so large an at
tendance as usual. Nevertheless the
graves were beautifully, some of them
very elaborstely, decorated, as was due
the heroic dead.
Ths Tuscaloosa (Ala.) Observer says:
1--WE are glad to feel that all doubts about
the early completion of the Alabama and
Chattanooga Railroad are vanishing be-
fore the enterprise and energy of Messrs.
stanton & Co. The work Is going on rap
idlv at both ends, and has fairly COM
mencsd here, In the middle, nom which
point work can go on both ways"
J. Broas, No. 100 BroOme street, New
York, was committed to Jail on Saturday,
charged by his three daughters, Caths-
rine, aged fourteen, Sarah, aged eighteen,
and Mary, aged twenty, with incest.
From the statements made by the prose-
cntors. it appears that for many years he
was accustomed 10 outrage their persons,
and they were afraid to divulgs on ac-
count OF threats to kill them.
At q meeting of the Jackson Typo
graphical Union, 10. 81, held on Monday,
last, says the Jackson (Miss.) Pilot, Mr..
.John McGin Was elected delegate TO rep
resent the Union in the Typographical
Convention, which meets in Cincinnati
on the first Monday in June. Mr. McGhl
fs foreman Of the Pilot job-office, is gen.
tleman OF lne attainments, and will re-
fleet credit upon the Mon which be rep
Tssents.
The Meridian tMiss.) Gazeae of Friday
saws; 81. c. Stanton, General Snperin-
fendent, Major Wheeler, Assistant Super
inteudent Of the A. and G. r. r., and
Thos. Rigly, Esq, Vice President of the
V. and Nj. r. r., went out to Jones' Bluff
Yesterday morning to see Major wilkins
swing the draw OF the Tombigbee bridge
round TO its place. Track laying will be
pushed forward now vigorously in the d.
rectiOn Of Eutaw."
The Jackson Miss Pilot of Thursday
has the following items: The nOmina-
tom Of Judges Brown, Orr and Vance,
have been confirmed; also the county
officers Of Lincoln county. The Governor
nominated, and the Senate confirmed yes
terday. Judge Orlando Davis for the
Tenth Circuit Court district, and Judge
Boone for the Ninth. Judge Smiley was
nominated for the Second district; also
county officers for COshOma county"
Six millions 70 one, respond the people
of France TO their emperor. Whereupon
the ST. Louis Tunes inquiries: VIII the
American Journalists, who affect 10 see
in every movement Of Napoleon a con-
spiracv against the liberties Of bis people,
have the goodness 10 inform their readers
1lpou what occasion in the last ten years
The people Of the United States have had
a asitnilar opportunity to vote directly up
on Important notifications Of their ma
tional constitution?
The Arkansas Militia Surpassed.
FoRF SCOTT, May lS.--An account o.
- ~ fta most diabolical affairs ever re.