Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-04
nEWs OF The aOs.IAG.

The merchants of Montgomery
Alabama, have organized board of trade
The wire product of California viii
be Immense this season,
Asbury's (English) yacht Is attract
ing much attention in New York.
Senior Rivero will probably preside
over the Spanish Cortes.
One hundred political prisoners will
be released by King Amedeus of Spain.
Commodore Asbury arrived at New
York in the Java yesterday morning.
An unpaid whisky bill cost Chicago
a citizsn yesterday.
Sotheru, the actor, sailed for Yer
sailles from london yesterday.
One of the party of Fenians ar
rested in Cork the other day, for illegal
drilliag, has baen committed for trial.
The ship James Booth fouudered
last week IN tbs Bay of Biscsy. Nins5een
men went down with the vessel.
The Republicans have elected q
M. j0rity of The municipal officers of Hart.
ford, Connecticut.
General James Totten, late Of the
United States army, died at Sedslis, Mis-
souri,, on Monday.
The new customs treaty between
Germany and France has been agreed
upon.
Chevalier Nigra, late italian am
basssdOr to Paris, will represent his gov
ernment at the court of st. James.
The editor of the Rappel (Paris) has
had to pay heavy fine for publishing
false news.
A French man Of-war is ashore of
the coast of Jamaica, and will probably
become total wreck.
Christine Nilsson had happy time
on board the Swedish man-of war Joseph
inc, in New York harbor, yesterday.
Ford's new opera house in Balti-
more was opened for the first time last
night.
The bridge over the Mohawk river,
at Cohoes, New York, was burned last
night.
The negro porter of the st. Charles
hotel, Cairo, stabbed and killed negro
drsyman last night.
A telegram from North Carolina
says that Judge Bond refused yesterday
to continue the ku-klux cases.
Four deaths from yellow fever in
Charleston during the last twenty-four
hours.
Tea from China for New York is
passing through San Francisco in large
quantities.
Salvage to the amount Of $35, 900 has
been awarded to tbs wrecke.s OF che
steamship Mississippi by court Of sdni-
rally at Key West.
In the Brooklyn courts twenty suits
are pending agaiH5 the Staten Island fer
rv company for damages received in the
Westfeld explosion.
The secretary of the treasury yes
terdsy called in 81, 500 000 three per cent
upon which the iateress ceases on the lst
proximo.
A tow boat engineer named Purdy
shot and killed two ruftisns on board bis
boat in New York hsrbor. They had gone
on board and assaulted aim.
The abusive treatment Of Germans
resident in Lyons is still the subjscg of
correspondence between the German am
bssssdor and the French government.
The women are taking part in the
strikes in England. Four hundred OF
them, employed in ths d mills Of Bos-
ton, "struck work" yesterday.
The leading politicians Of Washing
ton, of both parties, are sending vast guam
titles of political documents to Indiana,
Ohio and PennEylvaris,
The American Board of Foreign
Missions con meuced their annual confer
euce at Salem, Massachusetts,, yesterday
DIR. Post, of st. Louis, preached the ar
pual sermon.
George Bolts, who murdered "Pet"
Halstssd, in Newark, New Jersey, last
summer, was arraigned yesterday and
pleaded not guilty. Trial is set for the
18th instant.
Hon. w. II. Seward arrived in New
York Yesterday from Europe, and left
Immediately for Peekskill, on the Hud-
son. His friends received him very cor
daily.
A negro named Jerry Dixey died
in the Rochester, New York, jail yester-
day. He had an unsigned death-warrant
hanging over his head for eleven years,
but death relieved the hsDgman of his
duty.
The ranchemen of Nevada are
hanging the fellows who broke out of the
penitentiary st Carson City the other
on" yesterday IN ten minutes after cap
ture.
Henry Howard, agent for British
ola ms, has issued q notice requesting
subjects of Grsst Britain 10 send aim par
ticuIars Of claims which they may have
upon the United States government, aris-
ing out of acts committed against their
persons or property during the period be-
tween April 18th, 1861 and the 9th OF
April, 1866. inclusive.