Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-12

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| The Sunday liquor-laws win enter
largely into the Ohio canvass of next
fall.
The Mount Gents tunnel is success.
| Announcement is made that it has
been formally opened.
Russia is arming extensively and
has formed an alliance with France
against Germany and Austria.
ROundeIl Palmer has been appoint.
ed counsel and Earl Russell arbitrator
in the case Of the Alabama claims.
The Freensds1s (Catholic) Journal
says there viii not be any row on the
18th. The Italians will proceed un-
disturbed.
An order has been issued prohibit.
ing all professions in Londonderry on
the anniversary OF the seige OF that
city, in 1883.
Evergreen Cemetery, Long Island,
was sold yesterday at public auction,
and purchased by Sylvester W. Bird,
for s13O,OOO.
Four large stables, filed with hay,
were burned yesterday in Newark,
Ohio. Loss, thirty-fve thousand dol
lars; no insurance
Arthur II. Duncan, of Saltwater,
| Minnesota, while intoxicated Satur.
day last, drowned himself in Wood
river, near Taylor Falls.
Collector Murphy, of New York,
! has purchased the Irish .ReDu5lic
newspaper to run it as campaign pa
per in the interest of the Republican
| party.
Deputy United States Marshal Muir
ply, from st. Francis county, Arkan-
sas, was killed by being run over by
train OF cars on the Iron Mountain
railroad on Thursday.
Mine No. 6 of the Lehigh Naviga-
ton Coal Co., Pa, is on fire. Fears
are entertained that the destructive
element viii extend and embrace all
the contiguous mines.
The French Budget Commission
proposes a three per cent tax. ON all
bonded goods, except corn and coal.
The estimate yield therefrOm is 75,-
600, 900 francs per annum.
An appeal has been received at New
York, from BuenOs Ayres, setting
fourth the terrible ravages of the
yellow fever in that country and ask
ing donations to aid the sufferers.
It is authOritativeIy reported that
BelmOnt's Kingfisher has backed out
Of the race with H9rpers' LongfeIlOw
against LexingtOn's time, in case the
race with Kingisher proves a fizzle.
Charles Schultz, while attempting to
get ON a freight train on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy railroad, at
the Jefferson street crossing, Chicago,
yesterday, fell under the train and
was instantly killed.
The Kansas Central Railroad Com
pany heve made arrangements to ne
gotiate its bonds to the amout of 81
000, 200, which will insure the con-
structiOn Ofa nsrrOW-gauge road from
Kansas City to Denver.
P. IT. Barnum and General SchofieId
and brother have purchased thirty
thousand acres of land in Colorado.
They will stock it with one thousand
head of fine blooded cattle, and if
these prove profitable they will be
followed by larger installments.
VIM. K. Turner, Judge of the
County Court, of Davidson county,
died at his residence, near Nashville,
Thursday afternoon, of paralysis. He
was for many years Judge of the
Criminal Court of Davidson county
prior to the war, and citizen of ex-
alted worth.
A private letter from Hebron, South
America, says the diamond diggings
in that region do not pay. Every dol
lars worth found costs two. The Wri.
ter advises any one who is thinking of
embarking in the enterprise to stay
away, and to put his money in comic
newspapers or the peanut business.
TIE editorial excursion party were
entertained at a dinner yesterday at
st. Paul by the city government, Gov
ernOr Austin presiding. Addresses
were made by his excellency, Cover
nor Austin, General HaWley, Mr..
Dana, George Brass, General Han
cock, Mr.. Bromley, Mr.. Delano and
others.
The absorption of the California
Pacific Railroad Company into the
Central Pacific was completed yester-
day by the election in San Francisco
cific, as President; Milton s. Latham,
of California, as Treasurer, al i the
old board of the Central Pacific as Di-
rectOrs.
Lsst Saturday fatal affray occurred
at a picnic four miles north of Salem,
Indiana, in which nan named jack
son received wounds from a base ball
bat aud knife from which he died
on Tuesday. The blow with the bat
was inflicted by man named Benz
berling. Who did the stabbing is not
known.
At Hartford, Connecticut, yester-
day at meeting of the National
Real Estate Agents, Judge F. F. Kin
ney, of Nebraska, was elected Presi-
dent, J. M. Wing, of Chicago, Seere-
tary, and G. A. Lincoln, of Hartford,
Treasurer. Vice Presidents, repre-
senting twenty States, were also |
The next annual meeting |
will be held in Memphis, Tennessee, |
in October, 1872.
A Washington special says that the |
Secretary of the Interior has decided |
that a patent for the Ottawa trust |
lands must be delivered to the Board |
of Trustees in accordance with the |
ruling of the Attorney General. The |
question as to the boards having the |
of the school will not be |
decided until the case has been full y |
considered.
The convention of the Instructors of |
the Blind have adopted a resolution
that provides that for the proper or
ganizatiOn of the institutions for the /
blind three departments are essential |
with literary, musical and mechanical,
and that each department should af-
ford such facilities as will meet the
actual circumstances and requirements
Of the blind in the several schools.
The EceniRg Express, in an article
On the credit of New York city, says:
tThe credit of New York city is good
the persistent efforts
lf the Radical clique to break it
1own. The ROthchilds recently took
S3, 600, 600 of the city bonds, and offered
hem for sale in Frankfort. They
bids for 81, 900, 900 at an adj
vance of six per cent. upon the price
hey paid.
The apothecaries of New York are
lighting the Legislature provision
which took effect August LIST, regula-
ing the issuing of licenses to drug
lists clerks. The ApOthecaries Union
leld a meeting yesterday afternoon
md discussed the question of en-
dining, by legal steps, the doings of
he Board of Examiners, which pro-
yided the license law. They have set
IN foot a movement to repeal the OBJ
ectionable act.
e. s. Druss, Of Genessee, was Killed
It Firibault, Minnesota, yesterday,
~ being buried under q pile of earth.
In the convention of Instructors of
he Blind at st. Louis the COMMITTEES
.r,r,riv,&ad fSa ror1orf q ulon for q nation,