Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-29
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY

The Empress Eugenie is to 60 to
Madrid. Trem endOus!
The ocean YACHT race at Sandy Hook
has been postponed to the I'd of OctO-
ber.1
Mrs. Lizzy Smith, formerly of AL
bany, suicided in San Francisco, on
Sunday.
The ships Typhoon and Keeling are
reported wrecked. Great number OF
lives lost.
A boy wha was stealing peaches in
Louisville yesterday, was shot at and
killed-almOst.
The King Amsdeusand the oldest
boy of Victor reviewed the Spanish
troops yesterday.
The reported alliance between Prus-
STA and Italy rests on a telegram to
the London Telegraph.
The reported appointment of Gen.
Menabrea as arbitrator in the Ala
bama claims is incorrect.
There was a colOred jury sworn in
New York yesterday 10 try white
man for assault and battery.
Charles Scribner, the well-known
publisher, died in Switzerland on
Saturday, of typhoid fever.
]. J. Knapp, recently appointed
pastofiice special agent to investigate
thefts in. Michigan, has ''vamosed the
ranch"
The Theirs Government will not
permit the proposed celebration of
the French Republic on the 14th of
September.
The king of Belgium is in London.
The kings of Denmark and Greece
are at Weisbaden, and yet they are
not happy.
Eighteen hundred members of the
Philadelphia Rife Club paraded yes
terday. They are going to celebrate
for four days.
A great storm visited Boston Sun
day night, overturning steeples and
drowning three men who were out in
boat. Loss $30, 900.
Andrew Zimmerman, a respectable
citizen Of Milwaukee, fell dead in
Brooklyn on Saturday. He had Just
returned from Europe.
The flour mills at Jackson, owned
by Bennett, knuckenbacken & Co.,
were burned yesterday. Loss, $780,
900; insured for $4,000.
The second annualNorthern Ohio
fair will be held in Cleveland from the
18th to the 10th inclusive; sl5, 900 will
be awarded in premiums.
Grant proposes to visit his father
and the Pennsylvania oil region at
the close Of the summer; the one for
pleasure, the other fOr-gifts.
The authorities of New York city
are almost unanimous in the resOlu-
ton to recover possession of the
"Old Brick Church" property in that
city.
Advices from Algeria report that
all the Yabra villages have been de-
strOyed, and the rebels are attacking
tribes faithful TO the French govern
ment.
The tempestuous weather is reported
to have damaged the shipping, espe-
cially on the Irish coast. Damage to
the Scotch crops Is also reported, from
the same cause.
Gen. POmeroy, Secretary of the
Interior, has extended the time for
payment upon the Usage Indian lands
for sixty days, TO wait for the proceeds
Of the crop of this year.
Hon. B. @. Cook, member of Con-
gress from the Sixth District of Illi-
nOis, rendered his resignation, to take
effect October lst. His successor is to
be elected at the November election.
Foreign papers state that on the
18th of August a train went through
the Mont Gents tunnel with perfect |
success. The opening OF the tunnel
will take place on the 18th OF Septem-
Der.
Returns from thirty FIVE counties in
West Virginia have been received. |
they give one thousand two hundred |
and sixty-fOur majority IN favor OF the |
call of a constitutional canon. The |
remaining nineteen counties will not |
materially alter the result.
New York city is fermenting over |
the discovery that several boilers of |
the Union Ferry Company have been |
in use for terms of eight, ten and |
eleven years; six years being the full /
term OF safety as stated by boiler
makers at the Westfield investiga-
ton.
On Yesterday Recorder Hackett, in
bis charge to the jury in the Westheld
case. called special attention to the re-
sponsibility of the various officials for
The loss of life, also to the frequency of
accidents recently, and to the import
ance of the subject at present in the
eyes OF the public, who are watching
the action Of the courts lE
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