Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-08-08
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The Communists are on trial.
There will be Cabinet meeting in
Washington to-day.
Governor Hoffman will not pardon
Wessner. He will hang on Friday.
The Geneva and Ithaca railroad,
New York, is to be built Immediately.
Detective Walter a. Smith, of But
falo, has been elected Chief OF Police OF
] Erie, n. Y.
The Italians of New York have de-
| dermined to make their parade on the
18th a grand success.
A white girl, residing near Salt
river road, KY, fell intoa well yester-
day and was drowned.
The merchants of New York, will
to-day investigate the sO-called frauds
upon the city treasury.
Edwin w. Corning, son of Erastus
Corning, died suddenly this morning
at st. Catharines, G. W.
Grant has given Jubilee Gilmore a
letter to our foreign ministers, and
hopes the great musical jubilee will
be successful.
Seven vessels have arrived at the
lower quarantine, New York, in the
past few days, with cases of yellow
fever on board.
The New Workers are preparing for
cholera. Yesterday the streets were
sprinkIed with lime. The quarantine
is to be vigorously enforced.
Geo, G. Ticke, cashier of w. A.
Klobbe & Co., 81 Leonard street, New
York, was yesterday committed, in de-
fault of $4,000 bail, for embezzlement.
A fire at Catskill, New York, yes.
terday, destroyed the Catskill House,
Baptist church, Clark's blacksmith's
shop and q dwelling. Loss, $33 600;
insurance, 81 900.
The steamer Robert Ingraham, from
Sidney, G. b., with cargo of coal,
while proceeding up the East river,
New York, yesterday, struck reef
of Sixteenth street and sunk.
Ashbury's new yacht, Lavinia, dis
appointed her owner in her late con-
tests, and will not come to America to
compete for the Queens Cup. The
Cambria will be Tefitted to take her
place.
DIR. Dollinger has been interviewed
by New York World correspondence,
and says he has no idea of becoming a
Protestant, does not want to play the
role OF Martin Lurther, and will die a
Catholics.
Early on Sunday morning, a Ger
man girl, sixteen years old, in SOM
nambulistic At, fell or walked out
from the attic of a house in New
York, and, striking the pavement,
was killed.
"a miss is as good as A mile." A
train on the Erie railrOrd, yesterday,
came within an ace of falling into a
chasm one hundred feet deep. 1t ran
of the track within half mile OF it.
Nobody hurt.
At Palmyra, Wis, on the 18th ult.,
a daughter of David Chatfield, twelve
years of age, was burned to death
while making fire for the purpose of
getting supper. The family were ab.
sent at the time.
Captain John 3. Weaver, for the
past twenty-five years prominently
identified with the steamboat interest
of st. Louis, and one of the lessees of
the Linden Hotel when it burned
down, died yesterday; aged fifty
seven.
There is great interest manifested in
the fOur-mile race which comes of at
Saratoga on the 18th inst. The ar
rangements made are extensive, and
efforts are being made to increase the
interest. Turfmen have arrived from
all quarters.
Several negroes, yesterday, took
possession OF some cars attached to
train on the Seaboard and Skidaway
railroad, in Georgia. and uncoupling
several cars, commenced an indiscrim-
mate fight which resulted in the death
of several of the rufians.
Opdyke, Vice President of the New
York Chamber of Commerce, will
answer the letter of the Mayor and
Comptroller, to-day, giving his ideas
in regard to the manner in which the
accounts of the city and county should
be examined and discussed in the in
terests OF the public.
Michael Colourn, brother OF the bru-
tai boxer, with John Saunders, was
yesterday arrested in New York city
for murderOus assault upon an inof-
lcuSlNS Iull uSdAcE uhIloA bEuHOT,
who is not expected to live. 1t would
be safe, in the interest of society, to
imprisOn every brute and bully be-
cause he is such.
The New York Nautical Gazette
says, in an article on the Westfield
catastrophe, that they shall ask the
coroner to take the testimony of a
gentleman who refused a certificate to
the Westfleld's boiler not two years
ago, and who told Jacob II. Wander
bilt if he did not obtain a competent
superintendent, some terrible accident
would befall his boat.
At theAmerican Jockey Club restau-
rant, in New York yesterday evening,
pools for the Buffalo races sold as fol-
lows: For three minutes purse, Young
Thorn, so; HIIntress, 20; Willie Col
dust, 10; Field, AZ. For the 2:27
purse: Harry Harley, 60; Western
Girl, q; field, 80. For the 2:A purse:
Judge Fullerton, 55: ]. ID. Burke, 20;
Aold 20 Batting vvaa IiUalu and "a