Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-10-26
NEWS OF THE MORNING

Prospect Park races are postponed un
til next Tuesday.
New York will observe November 2SC
ss q dsy Of thanksgiving.
Joshua Vanssndt, Democrat, has beer
elected mayor Of Baltimore.
Otis Field, a well-known New Yorh
sportiDg-m man, died yesterday.
Cunningham, ex-chief of the New Yorh
IRE department, died yesterday.
Guspo has been found in the Lobos
Islsuds, of the South American eosst.
The early-olosing movement for sstUr-
days Is to be extended during the year in
New York.
Americsn and English parties are
about to establish paper, In English, al
Lims, Peru.
Telszraphic communication in the
northwest is seriously interrupted by the
forest fires.
Nathaniel Sands resigned as sn officer
and member OF the citizens association
of New York.
Henry Dougherty, one of the victims of
the Broad way, New York, tower acci-
dent, died yesterday.
The Methodists of Cincinnati have re-
solved to sid the Msthodists OF Chicago to
the amount Of $50 600.
The new American party of New York
United Ststes Senator.
General Thomas W. Bennett, of Indi-
ana, has been appointed governor of
Idaho, vice Bowen resigned.
The bodies in Morsyisn cemetery, Or
ehsrd street, New York, will bs removed
to Staten Island December LIST.
Miss Rye sails from London to-day in
the steamer HISTORIAN with another cargo
OF girls for the Canadian market.
Naval officers attribute the delsy in the
arrival of the Russian d set to the fact that
1t Is making Its wsy hither under sail.
Fhs Societe Internati0Rdle Is busy on
the continent, meetings being held almost
daily throughout France, Belgium and
Switzerland.
The government now pays one-ffth of
one per cent. to transfer gold from San
Francisco to New York, instead OF three
fourths, as formerly.
TIE Occidental insurance company, of
San Francisco, resolved yesterday to re-
suus business, and are endeayoring to
make some arrangement.
The secretary of the interest department
Of the United States treasury has for some
time-psst been sending out checks for the
payment Of interest or the new bonds.
The Young Mems Christian Association
of the State of New York, now In session
In New York city, sends words Of symps-
thy to the sister organization in Chicago.
Treasurer Spinner snswerp the Rpplics-
ticn of party, who lost q small sum in
legal tender notes at the late Chicago fire,
thRt only the power OF congress can
afford relief.
The suspended Lamar insurance COM
psny are said 70 have enough assets to
meet the Chicsgo losses of $3.50, 900 and
lesve 500 600 over, and Will doubtless re-
sums with paid up capital.
The Order Of Egyptian Monks-what-
ever that is-are in session in New York, |
. awaiting the arrival of their brother |
Egvp. monk. the Grand Duke Alexis, q |
Russian member Of the order.
The race between the Livonis and |
Dapatless did not take place yesterday, |
in consequence of the stormy weather. |
Two men belonging TO the DEuntless were
washed overheard and drowned.
There is much suffering in San joaquin |
valley, where the crops have wholly |
failed for two seasons. One hundred per- |
sons are needing food. The citizens Of
san Francisco are raising funds for their |
relief.
The President has ordered the issue of |
lsn,5 patents due the Southern Pacific |
Feilro6d company, Lhe commissioners hsv- |
ing reported the second section of
twenty miles Of that company's railroad |
line completed.
At the monthly sale of Scranton coal in |
New York city yesterday, the following |
prices obtained: Lump, IS 50G4 90; |
steamer, g sO9S s751; gISte, 81 25Q4 S5i |
egg, s. 3594 50i stove, g So85 %; ches-
nut, s. sO9s s7H.
Rev. George Brown, D. D., editor of the |
Methodist Recorder, formerly president |
of the college st Uniontown, Pennsylya- |
nia, and a minister for more than nifty six |
IA 1cu AZ Errf
sged eighty years.
That fsnsticsl old scOundrel, Summer, |
has written TO the black vsgsb0nds now /
cursing Columbia with what they term q /
coloreo convention, TO insist upon being /
sllowed socisl equality with the white /
people Of the South.
There must have been lively time in /
Ls1ingt on, Missouri, last Monday. Henry
b Moore, an old and worthy citizen, shot 1
himself. snd William Meet, a printer, snd
a stranger whose name is unknown, at
tempted suicide by taking opium.
Tbs interior department recommends
thst the war department carry out the re- /
oues: Of Indian sgent Whsm, to expel all |
white men who are selling whisky 10 tne
Sioux Indians in the Platte valley, who 1
are Unauthorized, from the Indisn coun-
try.
A rather queer dispatch, dsted City Of /
Mexico, Ostobsr 7th," wss received last
night. Il Gays: "Clark, editor OF the |
Two Republics, who was sued for q hoei
here, for making charges against Simmons
a. Co, lottery dealers, was honorably ac-
quilted
Several doctors are trying TO mend the /
slit Patrick Kelly made ia his Wessanc i
with a razor night before last in the /
Toombs, New York. An objection to
answer for having uttered counterfeit
money Derved PatTick's arm for the L
deadly slssh,
Three young ruffiRns have bean ar
rested in Boston on suspicion of bEvtug i
murdered the servant-girl, whose body /
was found in the streets Of that city yes
terdsy morning. An investigation /
divulged the fact that the person Of the i
girl had been outraged.
The postofics department has issued |
orders for the conveyance OF the mails
from New Orleans to Havana, Cuba, and /
Bantander, Spain, by the Hamburg and /
American steamship packet company, |
from November 1st. This is the first es-
4sblishmsnt OF direct postal communica-
zion with Spain.
A for . arrsigned before a New York /
cout. sstsFdsy morning, attempted to
swa' y the forged oheck in evidence
az zst bin, but the strong grip of de-
tf dye's hsnd saved the trouble OF pump
lug the pulp out OF him, and brought the
damninR slip oil paper out OF It's vie TO-
cess IN tolerLble condition.
The secretary OF war has dismissed
from the military academy, for treating |
with violence and haraAsing the other ca
dets. cadets John ". Wilson, Dewitt
Clinton, Frazier Santiago, F. Hubbell,
and John L. Stiles. For the same cause /
be has ordered that cadets Miller and
Hammond be deprived of their furlOughs
and confined 10 the limits Of the plain un-
Eil next gear.
The riot st Los Angeles, California, was
xnops disgraceful than st first reported. i
The mob was composed mainly of native
Californians, and the dregs Of Roeiety.
All the Chinese hanged were frightfuLy /
beaten and maltrsated before the deed
was done. One was q child only eight or
nine years old. In addition TO tue sixteen
hanged, two men and one woman we're
found shot dead; smother was found 10
fail in a critical condition. Only one OF
these hsnged was identified as hsving
been engaged In the shooting OF the ON
GERS. The others are supposed TO be inno-
cent, the guilty one having escaped before
the mob assaulted their houses. The old
vigilance committee has been Feorganlzeo
20 prevent repetition of the rioting.
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