Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-08-15
BY MAIL AND TELEGRAPH.

week.
Horatio Seymour is out in strong
terms against the Introduction of the
Chinese.
Twenty-one German surgeons left
New York last week for service in the
Prnssian army.
United States Treasurer Spinner,
has been prostrated by over-work, but
is better to-day.
Two Italians and two Irishmen
were killed in riot at Mam0raneck,
N. Y, yesterday.
Ole Bull is to marry Miss Thorpe,
daughter of Hon. j. G.. Thorpe, OF
Madison, Wisconsin.
A dispatch from New York says a
young thief is under arrest charged
with knowledge of the Nathan mur-
der.
A dispatch from Washington says
an imposing Masonic funeral was
given to the late 3. B. French, to-
day.
NJ. Olivier, late Prime Minister of
France, denies that France had any
thing to do with the origin of the Sc
cret treaty.
Holden, of North Carolina, cowed
by the recent elections, is going to sur
render tie prisoners he has unjustly
held at Xanceville.
The Morristown CTenn) Gazette
hoists the name of General w. B.
Bate, for Governor. General Bate has
already withdrawn from the race.
Edwards, the lightweight champi-
on, goes into training at Cypress Hill,
Long Island tO-marrOw, for his fight
with COllyer at st. Louis, September
9th.
Mexico must be pleasant place to
travel in. Under Jaurez the banditti
have increased to such an extent as
to be regarded in the light of credi-
table profession.
The Clarksville Tobacco Leaf runs
up the names of General William A.
Quarles for Governor, and ID. B..
Thomas for Congress, subject to the
action of a Democratic Convention"
Archbishop Purcell says the doc
trine of Papal infallibility cannot be
officially promulgated until it is Off
cially assented to by the signatures of
all the bishops of the Qcumenical
Council.
The burning well, some fifteen miles
from Oil City, is one of the greatest Gu
riOsities of the oil region. Itwas bored
in 1866, and since then has yielded a
stream of gas large enough to supply
city of half million.
White Mans Clubs are being organ
lied throughout Mississippi, on a
basis of uncompromising opposition
to the social and political equality of
the white and negro races, and to all
measures tending theretOe
Chang and Eng, the Siamese twins,
have arrived in New York. The for
meF is parslysed, and singular to say,
the latter is not disturbed, and will
hold out Napoleon is "grit" to the
last. He will conquer or die.
The surviving members of the Fif
teenth Mississippi regiment met last
week at Water Valley, Miss. The
main purpose OF this reunion was to
devise means for the erection of a
monument to the dead of that gallant
regiment. $3.50 was subscribed.
The Aberdeen, Miss, Examiner
says: The Reporter and the COpSerUd-
tire, of Holly Springs, have been con-
solidated. This will be a happy
union. The consolidated paper will
bear the time-honored name of the
Reporter, with that noble champion,
Col. Kinloch FalcOner, still at the
helm.
The Nashville Banner is strongly
partisan against General Quarles. a
day or two since it produced this par
agraph: With General Quarles at
the helm,' the Clarksviile Tobacco
Leaf says it could lie down in peace
and Sleep Under these conditions
the chances are that the Tobacco Leaf
will most likely sit up and smoke"
The race of the New York yachts
from New London to Newport yester-
day was won by Tidal Wave, though
the Palmer, which arrived two min
utes later, protested, on account of
flying short by the Wave. White
Cap won the prize for slOops. The
Cambria, Dauntless, Magic, SaphO,
FIeetwing and Phantom did not COM
pete.
A dispatch from Portsmouth New
last night, says that Ad-
miraI Farragut died to-day, very
peacefully, at II O'Clock precisely,
surrounded by his family and friends,
at the residence of Commodore Pen
mock, at the Navy Yard. His remains
will be deposited temporarily in the
vault here, until a final resting place
is decided upon.
The Secretary of the Navy has Off
cially announced the death Of Adj
miral Farragut, with the remark, the
record Of his deeds are written on the
noblest page of history, and his death
win be mOurned by the whole people,
who loved, while they honOred him.
He will be buried from st. Johns
Church, Portsmouth, New Hamp-
shire, on the 18th.
Murat Halstead writes that this is
the way it is about the war :. "Both
nations wanted war long ago. 1t is
necessary to know which is the pre-
eminent military power. The militia
ry systems of France and Prussia are
to be tested in the combat. 1t is a
duel of giants, and the talk of the per-
sonai responsibility Of Napoleon or of
Bismarck are all twaddle.
The Knoxville Wing of the 10th
says of General John Q. Brown:
" Since we unfurled his name from
our masthead as a candidate for Gov
ernor, we have never known a more
unanimous response of appreciation to
come from the people. He is evil
IDENTIFY the almost universal choice of
the Conservative party of Knox
county, and we believe also of very
decided majority of East Tennessee" /"