Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-25
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and returned to Portland, England,
for repairs.
The editor of the New York Turf,
Field and Farm has measured the
Milwaukee track and found it four.
teen feet over a mile. Goldsmith
Maids time Is, therefore, the best on
record.
The Tribune has found mares
next in Collector Murphy,s IS Office, and
for the time has turned its wrath from
Tammany to its own side. The fight
is becoming lively all round.
Rev. E. @. Mitchell, of Detroit,
whose wife some time ago disap-
peared and has since been missing,
has received information that she is
safe at a relatives in Boston, but in a
slightly demented state of mind.
The Wisconsin State Agricultural
Fair opens at Milwaukee this morn
ing. The entries are already very
large, and indications are that it will
be the most successful one ever held
in that State. The weather is fine.
Thursday night the safe OF the Mer-
chants bank, of Lita, New York, was
blown open and robbed of its con-
tents. The burglars were arrested
Friday at Levonia, and the stolen
money and bonds, amounting TO
$40, 900, were recovered.
Herr Won Arnim fled in behalf of
Germany an earnest protest against
the excesses committed by the French
p Ople of Lyons and its vicinity upon
the Germans resident in that city and
neighboThood, who, it is alleged have
been shamefully abused and NAL
treated.
A meeting of WoTkingmen in New
York last Saturday evening, decided |
on a general strike in most of the |
trades throughout the United States |
and Canadas early next spring, and |
measures were adopted for perma-
nent organization, to suS tain and rem
der it successful.
The committee of seventy are
working up an injunction to restrain
several persons from putting new
meters to water pipes in New York.
The committee have also issued
magnificent address, in which they
say, "b0th parties have suffered from
the corruption Of their leaders,"
A large meeting of the builders of
New York, was held at the Brevoort
House Saturday, to consider the frauds
and abuses IN the administration of
that department of the city govern
ment. Arrangements were made
for mass meeting on the subject at
Cooper Institute Wednesday evening.
The Washington newspapers speak
in d5nunciatOry terms Of the meeting
hnId 10 Of mn hr |
of the WOmen's Club, for the purpose
of effecting a reform in the matter of
the social evil-fraud and prOfigacy
being carried on under that guise. The
press demands that this shall be
stopped.
Judge Underwood, United States
District Judge for Virginia, has writ
ten letter in which he says he feels
very confident that the fourteenth and
fifteenth amendments to the United
States Constitution, together with the
act of May 31st, 1871,
have secured the right to vote to fe-
male citizens of Virginia as fully as it
is now exercised and enjoyed by male
The settlers in Southern Kansss
held a meeting a few days ago, in
which they resolved that the Govern
ment ought to revoke all grants made
to railroads; not to allow any one
more than one hundred and sixty
acres; ought to fix a tariff SO as to re.
move monOpOlies; to have one sort OF
for rich and poor; to abolish
The fourteenth amendment, as it en-
abIes the President to put his heel on
the neck of the people, and to favor
the immediate payment of the nation
al debt, according to the terms on
which it was contracted. Their heads
are level