Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-16
HEws OF THE mORHIHa.


Lord Lisgar meets Grant at Port
land with private bottle.
A terrible storm yesterday In Nova
Scotia.
There is no hope for the future Of the
Stuyvesant bank.
The New York commissioners are
after emigration swindlers. :
Germany and France have at last
concluded commercial treaty.
Jewish churches in New York gave
literally TO Chicago, and so with ho-
tel-keepers.
Life insurance companies extend
time for payment on policies in Chi
cago one year.
The city council OF Pittsburgh is go
ing on bender to Baltimore. Can't
Grant go along?
Incendiaries are active In London.
The big fire at Chicago has stimulated
these knaves everywhere.
The public schools in New York
city gave $1,000 to Chicago. One
school in Memphis $50.
Twenty-eight American emigrants
to Brazil reached New York yesterday
on government steamer.
Portland, Maine, gives $1,000 to suf.
ferels by fire in Wisconsin and Michf-
gBn, and so 900 to Chicago.
Chicago charities are to be continued
throughout the winter. Thousands are
helpless and shelterless.
A million and a half treasury notes
will be issued for those burned at Chi
cago.
The ku-klUx fellows from Congress
meet in Knoxville on the 18th,
Brownlow will be hanged %.
A. T. Stewart, of New York, sent a
check for $4,000 to the Ch .cago suf-
ferers.
The st. Louis ladies are sending
clothing, food and medicine to Chi
csgO.
The Illinois Legislature has made
the tour of the burned commercial
capital of their State.
Twenty Sussex county, New York
farmers are about removing to and
forming a colony in Nebraska.
Father Savier, of Chicago, is in New
York asking aid for the Chicago or
phans.
The president of the Empire City
company reported yesterday a loss Of
quarter Of a million of dollars.
The Odd-Fellows of New York have
raised forty thousand dollars for the
Chicago sufferers.
The secretary of the treasury is a
jokist and says the pressure OF busi-
ness wont let go him bObbing round to
Boston with Grant.
New York is sending money to suf.
ferers by fire in Michigan and Wis.
cOnsin. New York has vices, but is
pardonable for its generosity.
John Stone, California banker, died
leaving 500, 600 collected for Chicago.
San Francisco will give S25, 600 more.
Chinese, unsolicited, gave $500.
Hamilton county, Ohio, sends five
Democrats and FIVE Radicals to the
legislature. Young, Republican, is
elected to the senate.
The stockholders of the National In
surance company, OF Boston, have
subscribed enough to reimburse their
Chicago losses.
Several prominent New York mill
iOnaires offered to repeat all order to
Chicago customers, since September
lst free of charge.
1t was reported yesterday that the
Western Union telegraph had ef-
feeted loan In Europe and will cam
eel four million dollars of stock.
The Illinois State Register, of
Springfield, offers to publish business
cards for Chicago merchants free for
one month, to enable merchants to
communicate with their patrons.
The Stats Zeitung is publishing
handsome sheet. The proprietors OF
the Cincinnati Volksfreund has offer.
ed to print the issue of the weekly
Zeitung till business facility Is resum-
ed.
The Eastern insurance companies
and those of the West are busy pre-
pairing reports as to the real losses by
the Chicago fire and the immense
cOnhagrations in Minnesota, Wiscon-
sin and Michigan.
The continued rain In Chicago has
saved thousands of tons of coal distrib-
uted along the river and which had
caught fire from the surrounding burn
ing buildings The drenching rain of
yesterday has put out all remaining
flames.
The jury in the case of Mrs. Glenn,
charged with the murder of Mr.. and
Mrs. Young, at Indianapolis, disa-
greed Saturday night. This was Mrs.
Clem's third hearing. Men will deal
gently with the softer sex.
The council of political reform, of
New York, last night elected VIM.
M. Evarts president, and Eugene
Kelly, VIM. 81. Aspinwall, Jas. W.
Beekman and Oscar Zollicoffer, vice
presidents.
Mr.. Douglass, OF the yacht Sappho,
has challenged Samuels, of the Dread
naught, to race of twenty-five miles,
windward and back, in q ten knot
breeze. Benefits Dauntless offers the
Dreadnaught similar match.
The international industrial expo
sition, of Buffalo, was brought to q
close Saturday evening, but all the
exhibitors decided to let their articles
remain over till Monday Ito day), and
devote the proceeds of the day TO the
Chleago sufferers.
The Manhattan insurance company,
Of New York, has resolved to suspend
business. Its losses are estimated at
q million and quarter of dollars.
The company possesses large surplus
besides their capital. 1t is not ex-
pected that any loss will be sustained
by the assured.
Grant onH As1 .x,;ko o-1 --~sGo o.-1
Porter and Cre5well are entertained at
the st. James Hotel, New York.
Grant attended the thea ters and opera
for the benefit of Chicago. He was
dead-head, you bet! Yesterday he
went to DIR. Palmer's church-seats
free.
The union stoC k yards of the Nation
al Bank, located at Union Stock Yard,
Chicago, was not disturbed by the fire,
and have had no interruption of their
business. Their customers are all live
stock men who have not suffered to
any extent by the great calamity, the
bank pays all its obligations In cur
rency or New York exchange.
The trial Of DR.. Mendicott, at Gar
rett, Kansas, for poisoning Isaac Ruth,
progresses slowing. The prosecution
expect,to prove criminal intimacy be-
tween Mrs. Ruth and MendicOtt, and
that the latter was in Ruth's room
when he died and removed the evil
dence of the death struggle by straight
ening the body, arranging the bed
clothes, etc.
The general convention of the Epis-
copal church is still in session in Bal
timore. Yesterday they had under
consideration an amendment to the
canon on prayer books, by which 1t Is
sought to force the use OF the prayer
book strictly as the rubrics direct;
also, canon for pastoral supervision
of dioceses deprived of bishops by sick
ness or otherwise.
Geo. w. Wood, assistant superin-
tendent Railway Mail service, in an
order issued from Chicago yesterday
says: All mails are ordered to be sent
the same as previous to said order.
Sufficient postal cars with postal clerks
are now at work In this city to dis
tribute all mails as heretofore distrib-
uted at this Office without delay.
The United States supreme court
at Washington sits to-day on the con-