Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-04-17
THE NEWS.


Relapsing fever prevails in certain part
of Philadelphia.
Rochefort, the French editor in prison
gets two hundred letters OF sympathy PEI
day.
The Cuban insurgents are getting along
finely. Jordan IS still in command of thu
army
At New Haven, Ind, yesterday, a mar
named Foster attempted to get oil a traiE
and was instantly killed.
A court martial is in session in Louis
Vile for the trial of Brigadier Genera
TJtten.
The new law assailing the liberty Of thu
press in Ireland meets with universal
condemnation.
Judge Grier, late of the United States
Supreme Court, Will resume his residence
in Philadelphia.
It is said that hitelaw Reid, managing
editor of the New York Tribune, receives
a salary Of 5000 a year.
A fire at Medina, Ohio, on the 18th inst,
burned down the bank and all the BUSH
ness houses. Loss over Sl50,0O o
Beast Butler is working away at the
San Domingo annexation scheme. Where
the carcass is, there Will the buzzards
gather.
A negro woman named Martha Smith
j. under indictment in COvingtOn, KY,
for throwing her newborn infant into a
privy vault.
An old lady in Cincinnati tried to kin
die n fire with coal oil OF Friday. Result,
a blow-up and fire, from which she was
mutilated for life.
The Livingston manor Of 20OO acres, in
Taghksnsie, n. Y, is being sold in par
GELS, the present. tenants generally being
the purchasers.
4 doctor, who declares a certain cos
metic is composed of pulverized marble,
saws the ladies whiten their faces with
ground gravestones.
Professor Agassiz is said to be seriously
i'll. He was born in 1907, n as the
Swiss are a lOng-lived race, he may be
called still a young man.
Mary Shelby. a servant in the Laclede
Hotel, ST. Louis, fell from the elevator
the other day, a distance of several stO-
ries. and was so injured that her life is de-
SPARED of.
Willie HYDE, a boy stolen from his Wild
owed mother, residing in Philadelphia,
has been taken from the prOprieter Of the
River Circus, and restored TO his only sur
viving parent.
Two boys convicted of stealing a keg Of
gunpowder in Covington, KY, were sem
fenced, n to receive % lashes on the bare
back, and the other to one year in the
p~enitentiary.
The Alexandria boots lately introduced
in fashionable circles are wonderfully
and fearfully made The right boot has
a high heel and thick sole, the left nc heel
and paper sole.
A dispatch received on Friday, from
Troy, New York, SAYS Mrs. Emma Viii
lard, founder Of the Troy Female Semi
nary, died at her residence in hat city on
the 10th inst, aged eighty-four years.
A train on the Short Line road, between
Richmond mi Louisville Junction, ran
of the track Friday night. A brakeman
had his leg and the conductor his arm
broken. No passengers were injured.
New York bankers interested in the
Grant-Baez Job in relation to San DOmin-
90, are offering the latter another loan of
twenty-five thousand dollars in gold ''tO
carry him alOnguntilthe fate of thetreaty
is decided"
Friends Of the vote by ballot in Eng
land are pressing its acceptance upon Mr..
Gladstone with great earnestness. Wheth-
er il will be adopted as a part Of the Min
~isterial programme or otherwise is not
known at this time.
Despite the negro vote, the Democrats
elected their candidate for Mayor in Tren-
ton, y. J., on Monday last, by nearly four
hundred majority. This shows that all
the white men in that town are not pre-
pared to worship the ebony idol.
New Mexico's appeal for admission as a
state is to be fdvOrably reported on.
When admitted she will make the thirty
eighth State in he Union. While the
States have been trebling in number they
have increased ten times in population.
The OswegO papers are rejoicing over a
new hearse, which one of them saws sis
plain, with round orner and oval glass
plates. and is a better one than can be
found anywhere else in this section. The
trimmings are elegant, though simple"
They shoot and kill negroes in the abo-
litiOn city known as Cincinnati. A case
in point occurred on Friday, when a Iv-
ery-stable keeper named Rogers made a
poor inOfensive fifteenth amendment fly,
with ever SO many bullets following
afUer him.
At the New England Methodist Confer
ence. at Springfield, Mass, last week, the
application of Mrs. Van Colt, the revival
ist, for admission on trial, was refused,
and a resolution commencing her Chris
tian worth and rejoicing in her success,
was tabled without debate.
A movement il started in New York by
the Democracy to nominate William NJ.
Tweed for Governor. Some Of the Young
Democracy, who recently opposed him,
promise to support him for Governor in
preference 30 Hoffman. The latter has
his eve on the Presidency, and does not
wish TO run for another State office.
A dispatch from jacksonville, Ill, re-
ceived yesterday, says: The express train
going north over the Jacksonville di-
vision Of the Chicago and Alton railroad.
when four miles south of J~erseyville was
Yesterday evening thrown from the track
and the passenger cars we're pretty gen
orally wrecked. The passengers escaped
uninjured.
A washington dispatch says the Mayor
Of Washington, on Monday last, officially
published an approval Of an ordinance Of
the CITY Council, allowing all colored per
sons to visit theaters, be entertained at
ali hotels and restaurants, the same as
white persons. and all persons refusing
them such entertainment are Liable 20 ar
rest and heavyhne.
A new election law has been passed by
the present Legislature lDr the city Of
New York. 1t fixes the regular elections
in November: continues The arrangement
of boxes, adding One for inspectors OF
electiOn. preserves the present order OF
canyassine; and provides for keeping the /
polls omen from six O'Clock in the morn
ing until five in the afternoon.
Several weeks ago a teacher named
Robertson, for numerically whipping a
child in one Of the public schools OF san
Francisco, was tried before the police
Judge, Sawyer, found guilty Of the charge
of cruelty, and sentenced 70 four months
imprisonment. From this he has been
released by the County Court, whereof
the press is greatly incensed.
Mr.. susisky, the defaulting Treasurer
Of St. Louis, went 70 that city a few years
ago from Buffalo, where he was known
as a violinist and orchestral leader. he
at first was a drummer in a regimentsl
band at st. Louis, then a reporter on the
WestLiche Post, and by turns a politician,
o~ficehOlder and defaulter. Thus, step by
step, did he sink lower and lower. 4
The people Of Texas are agreeably dis
appointed in their new Governor. He
was chosen as a Radical, and his speeches
during the canvass and the military sup
port given him by the district commander
did not promise much for an equitable
administration by him; but he has Won
golden opinions since his inauguration by
his prudent n liberal policy and his al
stinence from partisan conduct.
A dispatch IRON Cleveland, Ohio. saws Z
on Friday last Lizzie Stiles. aged
nine, was enticed into a piece of woods
near TO the river and railroad.