Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-09-16
TELEeRAPHIc SUMMARY.

: their speed to-day at Topeka.
q The courts of Turkey are to be re
formed by the Grand Vizier.
The hanging of Burkhart at Whit
Plains, New York, is postponed.
The fellow, Kluber, in the torpedo
business, is bound over for $4,000.
King Amadeus will execute thor
oughly the amnesty proclamation.
Az Peck, of the Naragansett In.
surance Company, died, yesterday.
Deuiker's accounts in the Philadel
phis mint are wrong. More stealing
All steamships that left England
yesterday, bring specie to New York,
A true bill has been found against
the old villain-ROsensWig, the abor-
zionist.
The Republican rings in New York
city will fuse in behalf Of municipal
reform.
Semmes, postmaster at Atlanta, is
charged with defalcatiOn to the
amount of $4,000.
The steamer Columbia took fire at
New York yesterday, but it was ex-
tinguished-big scare.
Hannah Roberts, colored, nearly
13O years old, was burned to death,
last night, at Philadelphia.
An immense cloth mill near Lon
don burned. Eight hundred men
thrown out of employment.
Van Epps, of the Valley Home In
stituti0n, was found guilty of cruel
ties to inmates of the asylum.
James Stephens is in New York
and goes sensibly into the wine trade.
| He is reputed an honest man.
James Law sues the North Missouri
railroad for 500 900. Many other
suits are started for smaller sums.
The death sentence of the Indian
chiefs, Santana and Big Tree, has been
commuted to imprisonment for life.
While Grant was in Pittsburg,
! Reeds jewelry store was robbed of
a large packet of watch movements.
The Algerines have destroyed a
large town, and their leaders have
been arrested and shot by the French.
Lieut.. Gov. Stanard and Hon. John
T. Phelps are Missouri delegates to
the Baltimore Commercial OOnven-
ton.
The police commissioners of Boston
are serving liquor dealers printed no
tices, to stop business, or incur prose
cution.
Pat. Logan, dismissed from the po.
lice force in New York for disgTaceful
conduct, has been nominated for the
Legislature.
D. Yeoman, q Well-knOwn cattle
dealer, died from a dose of cOrrOzive
sublimste taken by mistake, at Buf-
falo, yesterday.
Charles RittingeF, of Cincinnati,
cammitted suicide yesterday, near
indianapolis, cut his throat and arm
with pen-knile.
GaIlegos (DemOcEaD is elected to
Congress from New Mexico. He
never departed" though his name
is derived from gaJlJtS.
Jacob Vanderbilt, President of the
Staten Island Ferry Company, was
arraigned yesterday, on the charge of
manslaughter. lie pleaded not gull.
ty.
A Chicago sharper, named Sher-
man, palmed OFF bogus check for
$4,000 on the Commercial National
bank, yesterday, in Cincinnati. He
sloped.
The Secretary of War has sent the
Judge Advocate communication in
regard - Hodges defaIcation.
Charges fe to be preferred against
Hodge.
Good women of Washington will
build a college for the demi-monde
who propose to reform. Public
opinion divided as to the wisdom OF
tie scheme.
The messenger Of the North River
bank, of New York, has confessed to
the theft Of $4,000, in gold certificates
which he said he was robbed OF two
weeks ago.
The wages of the Pennsylvania coal /
miners are reduced one per cent. from
last months prices. This action Gre
ated much feeling, as it was expected |
that the price would advance.
There was a rich discussion yester-
day in the st. Louis Pharmaceutical |
Convention, about one Chicago NJ. D. |
stealing patent proctor" sort Of |
manskin we suppose, from another.
An italian society of New York has |
decided to celebrate, by procession,
the anniversary of the discovery OF |
Assience, on October 18th. The move |
ment against Organ-grinders has been |
abandoned.
ChateaUrenaud will be the French |
Minister at Washington instead of |
Jules Ferry. Choisend goes to Ber-
lin. Remusst and Won Arnim are rec
tifying-and payne tsx-On the bOun-
Diary of France.
The sureties upon the bonds of Col |
lectOrs Of Internal Revenue, against |
whom suits have been commenced for |
balances due the Government, are |
asking for a continuance of the suits. |
Commissioner Douglas declines to ac-
cede TO any requests Of this charac-
ter.
Juarez has q majority in the MeXi- |
can Congress Of 79 to 63-147 present. |
The majority withdrew, leaving no |
quorum The whole number of mem
bers is 227. Diaz is for peace. Later, |
il was said that JuarreZ is master of /
the situation. Forced loans are levied
in Zacatecas.
The World, disappointed because
the Tribune has no words of denunci- |
alton against the scandalous cOrrUp- |
tiOns which are discovered in the Fed |
eral service. thinks its attacks upon |
the New York officials are more for |
the purpose of cOndemning DemOc- |
racy than the dishonest men.
Supervisors Detcher, Tueton, Fry,
CorWin and Fulton are in consultation |
with Commissioner Douglas for the |
better enforcement of the tobacco tax |
and to secure a larger revenue from |
that source, and at the same time pro- |
tect the interests of honest dealers. |
Bah!
Secretary Boutwell, will investigate |
the implications on the Treasurer's |
Office in connection with the Hodge |
defaleatiOn. 1t is said by prominent |
officials that there is no way by which |
the Tressurer's Office could have |
known of the Irregularities and defal- |
cations of paymastens.
O'Brien's Circus and Menagerie,
which was to have performed last
night in Rawlings New Jersey, Gre
ated a riot. They robbed nearly
every house in the village. One citi- |
zen was killed and several wounded. |
The plundering was still going on at
two O'Clock this morning. Tne au-
thGrities have telegraphed to Dover
Plains for assistance.
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