Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-06-11
IELEGRAMS.

General Spinner writes from Lon
don that he will shortly return to
America.
The colliers on a strike in Wales
propose to submit their demands to
arbitration.
The Masonic Grand Lodge at New
York elected John II. Anthem Most
WOrshipful Grand Master.
The Missouri State Board of Agri-
culture we've handsomely entertained
at Leavenworth, Kansas, yesterday.
Late advices from the Cane of Good
Hope say that the accounts from the
diamond fields are still encouraging.
DelanO viii probably go from the
South to his home in Ohio, and not
return to Washington for several
weeks.
Many prominent OhiOans IN Wash
ingtOn will go to Columbus to attend
the State Convention to be held there
July lst.
The Edinburg Scotsman says it has
positive information that ROssell is
in London, and discredits the report
of his arrest in Paris.
There are now ten applicants for the
Office Of Commander of Customs, the.
principle contestants being from New
Hampshire and Pennsylvania.
A vote in the English House of
COmmOnsOn a subject connected with
the sale of military commissions
showed that the Government has a
majority Of III for abolition.
The Iowa Editorial excursion, mum.
bering one hundred and seventy-gve
ink.slingers, reached st, Paul yester-
day evening. They were greeted
enthusiastically along the route.
The Superintendents of the Insane
Asylums of the United States are in
convention in Toronto. The Synod
of the Presbyterian Church in Canada
is also in session in the same place.
Edward Wells killed his wife yes
terday morning, in New York, stab
bing her four times in the abdomen
with a pocket knife, while she was
asleep in bed. Mrs. Wells was gashed
in a fearful manner.
Thomas ellsworth, in a difficulty
about the division of some money, at
the Upper Ten mine, in Dakota, on
Friday, shot Patrick Mclaughlin and
mOrtally wounded McLaughlin's son.
He afterWard gave himself up.
Mrs. Annie LOeter, of Brooklyn,
n. Y, obtained a verdict Of So, 600 in
the city court yesterday against
Phypps, Evans d Co., brewers, for the
loss Of her husband, who was killed
in a brewery by falling through
hatchway.
The county commissioners, McGee
and Neely, who plead guilty to receiv-
ing brides for granting liquor licenses,
were sentenced to pay fine Of two
thousand dollars each and imprisOn-
ment for one year in the Workhouse,
at Pittsburg.
One thousand additional head of
niged cattle, and two thousand
beeves, arrived at Abilene, Kansas,
yesterday. A close calculation shows
that one hundred and thirty-tWO
thousand head of Texan cattle are
now within a radius Of twenty-five
miles of Abilene.
The examination of the accounts Of
F. A. MacDartney, late disbursing
officer Of the post-office department
is not yet completed, but the post
master general is satisfied that there
is a deficiency of not more than $780,
600. The assignments and sureties
will fully satisfy the Government.
The Peoples Savings Bank, Of Chill
llcOthe, Missouri, was sWindled on
Wednesday by draft for $40 being
raised to $4,000, and a draft for $40 80
raised to S., 900. The Hamilton (Mo.)
Bank also lost $11 900 by a similar
operation. One of the scoundrels was
arrested, and detectives are tracking
the others.
Official statements were made in
both houses of parliament yesterday
Of the circumstances Of the i'm prison
ment and killing of certain British
subjects in Paris during the recent In
surrectiOn. The House of Commons
has passed the Westmeath bill, en-
larging the powers Of the government
for the repression Of violence in Ire
land,
The examination Of the graduating
class of cadets was concluded yester-
day. All were successful in passing.
President Grant and party will go to
Newburgon Sunday to visit the studio
OF Brown, the sculptor who is engaged
on the statue Of General Scott, and will
return in the afternoon. General
Meade, who is to deliver the diplomas
on Tuesday, will arrive on Monday.
The President and suite leave the
same day.
The committee appointed by the
/ President under the recent act of
Congress, to make inquiries and sug-
gest system Of Improvement in the
civil service OF the Government, have
been assigned to apartments In the
Interior Department. The first meet
ing win be held on the 10th. Col.
Cox, of the Interior Department, Mr..
/ Elliott, Of the Treasury, and Mr..
BIackford, of the POstofhce Depatr-
ment, have accepted their appoint
ment on the committee. 1t Is not vet
| known outside Of the State Depart
ment whether George William Curtis,
ex-senator Cattell, of New Jersey,
and Joseph Medill, of Chicago, have
accepted or not. It Is understood
that Curtis win be President Of the
commission, and Elliott or Cox Secyo-