Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-25
THE WORLD BY TELsGRsPa.

The Baltimore races commenced yester-
day.
The census report Is completed and in
press.
Erie railway employees gave $500 to
Chicago.
Prince Napoleon has resigned from the
council.
The fires near Rochester are raging with
undated fury.
The Episcopal cOnv ention is still in
session at Baltimore.
Several shipwrecks are reported from
Halifax, Novs Scotia.
The Bonspsrtist party wers defeated In
Corsica by q vote OF 2l TO q.
Harry Young. s noted forger, was ar
rested in New York, yesterday.
Yellow fever still rsvages Charleston.
Four deaths were announced yesterday.il
Ten person were instantly killed yester-
day by boiler explosion in Roubaix,
France.
The mountains in Pennsylvania are on
hre, spreading destruction for miles
around.
From all parts of New York come re-
ports OF disastrous fires in the woods and
mountains.
The storehouss Of the Troy, New York,
gas company burned yesterday, involving
loss Of $4,000.
owing to fog over New York harbor,
the DsUntless and Ssppbo did not sail
their race yesterday.
A lot of Kansas editors start on an ex
oursicn, from Lawrence TO Fort Gibson,
by rail, his morning.
The United States treasurer will, to-
morrow, commence payment Of the No
vembsr interest, without rebate.
A FIRE a. D1ylestown, Pennsylvania,
Yesterday, destroyed barn and twenty
i've head of horses ior Mr.. Holmes.
stephen g. Gehmel was sentenced to be
hanged, yesterday, in Buffalo, New York.
He Is said to have murdered his cousin.
A cabinet meeting wss held yesterday,
bat nothing of Importance trRnspired
Boutwell, and AkermGn were not present.
The annual report of the chamber of
commerce, Of Cincinnati, published yes
terday, shows very excellent years busi-
ness for the city.
The telegraph brings the astonishing in
teiIgonce that the State Republican COM
mittee Of Massachusetts indorses the sd-
ministrstiun Of General Grant.
Philadelphia has had 942 cases and Isl
deaths from smallpox in the last three
weeks The disease has now almost en-
firely disappeared from the city.
Secretary Delsno has gone to Hart
ford, Connecticut, to deliver an address on
the Indian policy of the administration
before the American Missionary Associs-
tion.
The grand jury Of the court OF criminal
correction, New York, yesterday con-
sidersd the propriety of indicting Mayor
Hall for mslfesssnce in office. But he
isn't yet indicted.
The city of Darmstadt, Germany, is
burning. with prospect of being nearly |
completely destroyed. The thester has
been destroyed, and the arsenal is in great |
danger Of being blown up.
Henry Ward Bseeher, DR.. John Hall |
snd others, of New York, have issued an |
appeal to the Sunday schools Of America |
for contributions TO erect new building |
for the Illinois street mission, Chicago.
It is feared thst Professor J. T. Hodge, /
OF Plymouth. Massachusetts, was lost in /
the steamer P. G. Colburn. BE was on |
his way home from Lake Superior, where |
he hsd been engaged in geological explo-
rstions.
The London Times suggests that, In the |
event of sBy complications arising be-
tween the commissioners appointed un-
der the Treaty of Washington, that an |
impartial commission Of three-selected
from foreign nations-to smooth over the
difficulty.
The seizure Of the schooner Horton by |
a crew Of D0wn-East fishermen from the /
Dominion authorities at the port Of Guys
borough, and OF which 1t was tried to /
make a good-sizsd row, has simmered |
down to a simple violation Of the customs /
regulations.
Yesterday, in the Senegambrian pow
WOW being held a. Columbia, South /
CRroli1s, q malspropos moke, from Ar
kansas, offered q resolution favoring the /
renominstiOn of Grant, but be was choked
of, the other cOlOred statesmen present
not being disposed to commit themselves
TO any one. as there is no telling how the
black cat viii jump between now and the
time for nominating candidate for the
race.
A dispatch from Atlanta, Georgia, says
that parties are seizing the rolling stock
and other property of the Brunswick and
Albany railroad for debt President KIM
balls inability to pay is ssid to be the re-
suit Of losses At the Chicago IRE. There
are runors Of the reputation of the State
bonds hypOthecsted by him. Governor
Bull )ck has seized the road and placed It
in the hands Of Colonel John Screven, OF
Savannah.
No Just conception can be formed by
those abroad OF the terrible deVsstations
by nre in n chigsn and Wisconsin. On
the night which ragged so furiously the
flames consuming Chicago, two thousand
people on the'eastern shore OF Lake Michl-
gan, and treble the number on the west
or shore of Lake Huron, were fleeing
through ths trsckiess forest before the
fire. Houses, crops, horses, cattle food
upplies-syerythiDg necessary to the
support of q eOmmunity-sweptf from the
face of the earth. The sufferings of this
people are even greater than those of Chi
csgO. from the fact that large section OF
country has 70 be gone over to seek out
those unable 10 reach assistance. An ap-
peal is made by the Michigan State relief
committee for aid, and IL should be /
promptly met by substantial contribu-
ticrs.