Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-26
MINOR T~ELEeRAMs.

The RosenweIg trial has commenced
in New York.
New Hampshire gives thanks on
the 30th OF November.
Senator Morton, Of Indiana, left
San Francisco for home last night.
The bank clerks of New York gave
$1,000 to relieve the wants OF their fellow
clerks in Chicago.
The Emperor Of Brazil has named
the arbitrator 70 be appointed by him I'M
der the treaty Of Washington.
The case of Mrs. Fair was called up
in the supreme court of California, yester-
day, and set for hearing November nth.
Kate Leon, a s~ervant-girl, vas mys-
~teriOusiy murdered in Boston yesterday.
The police have no clus to the murderer.
Joe Mulcahy was sentenced to i'm
prlsonment for life yesterday, at Wheel
ing, West Virginia, for having murdered
one Sullivan, lsst December.
Judge LedWith's nomination for the
position OF Judge Of the superior court OF
New York city does not meet the approval
of the committee of seventy.
The New York Tribune, with won
dertul csndor, says that it would prefer
the election of honest Democrats to that
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The London Morning Post pro-
nOunces the rumor of the establishment
of 3 regency in consequences of the queens
prolonged illness without foundation.
Rev. Carlos Martyr, of st. Louis, is
invited by the Congregational church Of
Portsmouth, New Hampshire. to minister
to their spiritual wants the coming year.
The egro banditti infesting a pOr-
lion OF North Carolina still hold out
against the authorities, and refuse to sur
render except upon the promise of an IN
conditional pardon.
The British heart is ever open to
the sppesls of the distressed. Thus far
contributions to the Mansion house fun
for the Chicago sufferers amount 70 tlS,-
800. The Glasgow subscriptions reached
$3.50.
Brooklyn Is in agony over the re-
pssted revelation of frauds in thai city
equal to these of Tammsny. The books
show An Indebtedness of eight millions,
while It is known that thirty millions will
not cover it.
The tWenty-ffth annual meeting Of
the American Missionary Association was
commenced at Hartford, Connecticut, yes
terdsy. The report of the executive viii
be given, snd addresses are expected from
eminent gentlemen during the sessions of
the two following days.
Bill Russell, one of the cOnvicts
lately escaped from the Nevada State
prison, was caught in San Francisco yes
tsrdsy evening while attempting to ship
in r vessel for a foreign port. The sweet
William was committed, and will soOn be
installed In his old quarters.
Special dispatches from Mexico, re.
osived from New York yesterday, report
that the anti Juarezist revolt continues
Z.aAwsaA- DHaww AN IN
force at different points along the Rio
Grsnde. At various places in the interior
the telegraph wires have been cut, mails
robbed, and United States Consul Monte
rev has been mulcsed in forced losns.
Dispatches received at Savannah,
Georgia, yesterday, from Button, South
Carolina, state that three men, named
Msntollin, Kent and Slicsr, were
wounded and captured by negroes on
NontoIiin's plantation. They are held
prisoners by MOntollin. Their offense
was an attempt TO recover his lands and
collect his rents from the negro tenants.
George O'COnnor, a leading Nor
mon, is now in San Francisco taking cOun-
ssl as 20 the prosecutions being had
sgsinst Brigham Young, Hawkins, and
others Of the prominent members of the
sect, He says that If convictions ensue
from the trials and the penalty threatened
is attempted to be inflicted, the Nor
mons will burn everything they have and
make another hegirs, as they did from
NsuvoO.
There was considerable excitement
in New York, on Monday over the jail
delivery order Of Judge Barnard In refer
ence TO Ludlow street prisen. Consider
able sums Of money were distributed
among the released prisoners and their
hungry wives and children. One poor
fellow had be9n incsrcerated for some
time for non payment of fines u to
volunteer regiment Of which he was ass
enough to bs a msmbsr. His first act
after release was 20 a k an oath against
all SIGH" The humane order of Judge
Barnard gives general satisfaction
throughout the city.
The real estate operations ofTWeed,
Connolly Sweeney and Hall, as pub
Hshed from official records, show that
Connolly, when sued in 1865 for debt,
sEore that he owned nothing, but that
since that time he has bought real estate
bonds to the amount ofS2. 300, 69I. Tweed,
who was bankrupt in 1851, has bought
and sold real estate since 1865 to the
amount OF 4,473 954, with other Irregular
transactions TO the amount Of $3.50 600
more. Sweeneyis purchases amounted in
the last three years to Sl,479. 736. The
mayors purchases amounted 70 $3.50, GOO.
George NJ. Pullman, treasurer, re-
ports the following as the receipts for
the relief Of the Chicago sufferers: Cash
received in direct remittsnces, i've hun
dred and nine thousand two hundred and
seventy-siX dollars; total amount for
which drafts have boon drawn and to be
forwarded for collection ETC., amount to
eight hundred and ninety-six thousand
seven hundred and nine dollars. Aggre-
gate recsipts, n million four hundred
and eighty-siX thousand nine hundred
and niHhFU civ hnlIQrl OF ThtQ Enm /
thirty-fouT thousand tour hundred and
ninety dollars have been distributed, the
balance remsing on hand. The commit
tee estimate that they will require one
million nine hundred and seventy-fve
thousand dollars for the next thirty days.
The New York Herald's special
from Niagara Falls states that the woods
in Tsmsrsck swamp, seven miles south
est OF Lockport, have been burning since
Monday. Numbers of houses, fences,
crops and stock nave been destroyed. 1t
Is feared the IRE will spread to BolRris.
Farmers are fleeing with their stock and
furniture. The Gre in East Albion is re-
ported 70 be subdued, but another broke
out a few miles north Of that place. The
loss since Sunday at Albion amounts to
$50 900. Ten houses, two -four mills, ami
fifteen hundred cords OF wood were
burned there. A special from Washing
ton states that Information received there
reports large nrts IN the WOoQs rhQlaLiQEl
in all directions from Cumberland. The
mountains are ~envelOped in smoke. ,
South Kittsting and other mountain
rsnges in LhstBection are subject to fire.
quent fires which often do immense dam
age. The bituminous coal fields are
Threatened.
The Chinese in California take kind /
ly to the manners of the country in which
they have cast their lot. Yesterday an I
officer of Los Angeles, named Bilderaine, 9
penetrated the Chinese quarter Of the
town to arrest one Of their number for
shooting another. he was accompanied
by g citizen named Thompson, whom he
had summoned to aid him. After they ,
had progressed far enough into the dirty, I
narrow street to render escape almost inn {
possible, the Chinese opened fire from the
houses on both sides of the street, in
stsntly killing Thompson and severely
Wounding the officer, who escaped by
mounting a horse and running another {
gauntlet Of bull8tg. A Mexican boy /,
named Jose Mandero was shot through !
the leg in the melee. A mob soon collect 5
90, and attacked the Chinese, and though /
stoutly resisted by the Johns, succeeded !
in hanging fifteen OF them, and driving :
the remainder out of town. The houses 4
fro 7hich the bullets came in greatest 4
quaint ss were fired, but the flames were J
extinguished before any buildings besides 1
these were burned. A number Of Chinese :