Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1870-02-26
THE NEWS.

THE NEWS.
The Alumni Association of Dickinson
College held their first reunion in New
York city al the Aston House last evening.
A dispatch from Havana says eighteen
members of the Cuban JuDta at Santiago,
were arrested some time ago, mi all e1-
ecuted. The Captain General has issued
a decree freeing about two thousand ne
groes.
a New York dispatch received yester-
day saws the Tammany Thester collapsed
on Thursday. The managers are out Of
town, the company are unpaid, and the
doors are closed. This makes the third
fasco in the amusement business this
week.
John Francis Klarenasr, one Of the pro-
prietors of the VoEksfreund Of Cincinnati,
died suddenly yesterday ,between1I and Il
O'Clock, at the age Of sixty-two. He had
been-connected with this paper sixteen
years, and was a prominent and excellent
German citizen.
The United States Court of Claims has
rendered judgment in the case Of Ber-
shiemer Bros, of New York, Geo. TaY-
Tor, counsel, for SIS, 900 against the United
States for proceeds of cotton taken at Sa-
vannsh. This is b largest judgment
ever awarded in that court.
The Legislature of Virginia is engaged
perfecting a bill legalizing the acts of
military appointees performed since the
admission Of the State, and providing,
through appointments by the Govern
ment, for filing the places Of military sP-
p0inuees as o o as possible.
A dispatch received yesterday from
Denver City says that Dubois, who killed
Kennel near Burlington yesterday, was
overtaken by a party Of citizens early this
morning, in the mountains fifteen miles
below Burlington, and this evening shot,
being pierced by thirty bullets.
It is said that the officers of the Brook
Ign New York; Navy Yard have invited
Captain Commerel and the officers of her
Britanic Msjesty's steamer Monarch to a
grand ball and supper, to be given within
the precincts Of the Brooklyn Navy Yard,
and that Captain Commerel and his Off
GERS have accepted.
Orders nave been received from the
Spanish Minister of Marine refusing the
return 10 the Peninsula Of the men-of-waT
Victoria, ScataIa, Havasde, Toxka, Cut
dad, Decodiz, S~anquintin, Yasco, Hanez,
Debalboa, and UIloa. They are to return
in February as the Delsmeter gunbosts.
Under the presence Of these large yes
sells, unnecessary in the waters Of the
Island Of Cuba, the Spanish m~an-of-war
Ealapta was taken in the Brooklyn Navy
Yard yesterday.
A special received yesterday, from st.
Paul, Minnesota, says: "The bill, which
recently passed the Minnesota House Of
Representatives, providing for submit
ting TO the people of the State an amend
ment to the constitution on the question
of woman suffrage, and on which no man
should be allowed to vote, was to-day con-
CURED in by the Senate, by a vote Of Il to
g. The bill provides that women's votes
shall be taken in separate boxes. 1t is
understood that Governor Austin will
sign the bill"
AaNls DE0mh " AAAA1F Aheb " AAE =
army, who arrived in st. Paul, MINI,
Yesterday, from Fort Williams, says that
the Indians throughout the region OF
Lake Superior are starving to death. Fish
are not TO be found in shallow water, and
partridges, hsres and reindeer were never
before known to be so scarce. He heard
of several deaths from starvation. The
Chief Warden Of the Hudson Bay Com
pany, at Fort Williams, has sent trains
Of provisions to Dog Lake for the Indians,
but many must die before relief reaches
them. The country is covered with five
feet of snow, and the weather is very cold
The following citizens Of Memphis have
been relieved Of their political disabilities
by Congress: D. K. McRea, A. Wright,
W. T. Avery, Joseph Barbiere, T. D. Ed
ridge, J. T.. Ray, Henry Graft, c. Kor-
trecht, If. j. Wright, and George Dixon.
1t is stated that the Erie Railway Com
pany have offered 5000, 900 for the ground
on which the Protestant Episcopal Theo-
logical Seminary stands, on Ninth avenue,
with a view TO create a mammoth railroad
depot on the property. The Erie cars, it
is stated, are also intended to cross the
river from Jersey City by running under
the bed of the river in q gigantic tunnel.
Jay Gould, W. II. Vanderbilt, Horace
F. Clarke and others were before the Leg
islative Railroad Committee Of the New
York Legislature on Thursday to give tes-
timony in relation to the sleeping and
drawing room car business. Vanderbilt
testified that he had no interest in these
cars. and that no efforts were made by the |
Company to induce passengers to ride in
them. He regarded them as an injury TO
the road, on account of their great weight
in proportion to the number Of passen-
gers they carried, but that they were
forced to permit them on the Central and
Hudson railroads, in order to compete
with the Pennsylvania Central and other
roads. jay Gould testified that the pal
ace cars on the Erie road were run by an
independent company having no connee-
ton with the Erie Railroad Company, and
whose President he did not even know
by name.
A Washington telegram dated y~ester-
day saws the Committee on Military AT
fairs were to-day engaged examining the
case of Representative GolIiday, charged
with selling cadetships. Whittemore, IN
his remarks prepared for delivery in the
House, expressed tine belief that a large
number Of cases are TO be discovered
where corrupt motives and causes infiu-
enced appointments, and that the eager
ness of the press to find sensational mat
ter would bring it TO public gaze. He de-
MED that in the appointments he had
made that he was actuated by any ether
than the most correct motives; but admit
TED that be had been injudicious, and ask
ed that the intention might be considered
as wen as the act. he had been reported
by a committee upon which there
were those whose skirts were not clean Of
accusation, or whose consciences were