Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1871-11-09
THIS k0aNlsG'S NEWS.

Georgia has repealed her usury laws.
Compulsory grstuitous education Is IN vogue
in France.
Rochefort has been transferred TO Fort
BeQuart.
Strikes at Rouen, France, are prevalent in all
the trades
Won Beust is to represent Prussia at the
court OF st. James.
Count AndrosSy succeeds CouAssvon Beust
as premier OF Prussia.
The Little Rock Methodist Episcopal confer
ence adjourned Tuesday night.
The Louisiana State fair viii commence at
New Orleans on the iSth Instant
They had their first snow of the season at
hockland, Maine, Tuesday night.
Evansville opened a medical college on
Tuesday, after vacation OF ofeighteen years.
The statue OF Maximillian was unveiled in
Berlin on Iuesday with imposing ceremonies.
A mau nsmed Stack was killed in a politf-
cal alteration in New York yesterday morn
ing.
Colonel Gam. W. Williams has been re-elect-
ed grand master OF the grand lodge Of Masons
OF Arkansas.
Keyssr, one OF the refugee Tsmmanyites.
is ssld to be on his plsntatio U, near Aiken
south Carolina.
Reilly, who was shot by Dev.in, in .srook.
lynl Tuesday night, was reported dying yes
terday afternoon.
The Young Mems christian association of
Cincinnati celebrated its twenty-third anni-
yeTsary on Tuesday.
Cincinnati VIII grant the bridge company the
use of Ntlgour street, and thus probably get ria
of a suit Tor $4,000 damages.
Philadelphia had ave hundred and sixty
seven cases OF smallpox last week, of which
ninety-1ve terminated fatally.
Joshua L Jones, of san Francisco, settled q
Qusrrei with kis mother -in-laY yestertia
by shooting mis- faiher-in-laW.
Georgia's senate denies the existence of Ku-
klux in that state, ana demands of the ssmel-
ing COMMITTEES" proof 20 the contrary.
The White River, Arkansas, conference Of
the Methodist Episcopal church meets at De-
walls Blum on the 18th, bishop McTyerie pre-
siding.
The remains of General Robert Anderson,
who diedrecenty at Nice, will be brought 10
America In the United States steamer Guer-
riere.
The relief committee of Madison, Wisconsin,
say that they have now u sufficient supply Of
clothing for the relief OF the sufferers by Ore In
that State.
A destructive fire took place In Newcastle,
PennsylvanIs, on Monday night, consuming
Sl5,0oO worth of property, upon which tue in
surance was very Light.
AL cases continued at this term ofthe United
states supreme court will be placed at the foot
OF the calendar, and will hardly be reached
within the next tive years.
A banquet has been rendered to the Lord
Mayor By the leading men OF London in &C.
knowledsement OF his eminent services In
Frank Winslow of the Boston Journal
while stepping rom a car at Newton, Massa-
chusetts. Tuesday evening, was struck by an
other train and instantly killed
An enterpEising New York reporter aput a
headon" the paymaster OF the city chamber
lain yesterday, because the official told him
that he could not see Bradley"
A Dublin mob yesterday assaIled an escort OF
The military police, who were conducting Kelly
TO court, US ng stones and other missiles. One
Of the soldiers was wounded dangerously.
Satanta and Big-Tree, the Indian chiefs SEN
fenced to death, which sentence was atterward
cOmmuted 10 Imprisonment for life, are now
safe within the walls OF the Texas penftentiary.
WRESTLING Joe" whose name went the
rou nds Of the press some months ago as the
heir 10 an immense properly Ia Portland, Or
egon, is now in jail for perjury. He is de
clSred an impostor.
The mechanics and laborers employed in the
shipyard Of Messrs. Laird, ct Birkenhead,
England have held a meeting and unanimous.
ly resolved 70 insist upon a restoration OF a
days labor 70 nine hours.
The board OF directors of The LonRvisw
(Onio) Lunattc Asylum. yesterday resolved
to institute SUIT agsins. Or. Langdon, the
former superintendent, TO recover IN ads al
legged 70 have been mtsRpprOpriated.
In financial statement, Published yester-
day, the Chtcsgo relief COMMITTEES put their
actual cash recsipts at - 90 900: The amount
persons are yet dependent upon the commit
tee for Subsistence.
Mr.. Potter has written a letter TO the London
press, seeking 10 dissipate the impression that
the recent effort to establish an understand
ing between the lords and working classes had
a political object. He insists that the moYe-
ment was OF a social character.
An Indiana jury ON Tuesday refused to give
Mary Anne Hartel more than a hundred and
flfty dollars damages against Sylvester Taylor
who, in an unguarded moment, had promised
TO marry Mary Anne and then failed TO keep
his word
A negro woman OF a highly respectable char
aeteE has been arrested at Jacmsl, Jamaica,
upon the extraordinary charge Of cannibal-
ism. The accusation alleges that she had
killed and eaten twenty-six children whom
she had inveigled into her premises for the
purpose.
Eleven iremen were buried in the ruins
Of 8 burniDg plano factory, in Twelfth ave-
nue., New York yesterday. By the almost
superhuman efforts OF their comrades and
the police, the poor fellows were rescued
alive, though two OF Them, 1t Is feared, srs-
tanned fatal mi uries.
Those monstrosities in the disguise Of vo-
men-Woodhul and Olafltn-were bummtng
around the polls in New York all Of Tues
day, trying TO get chance OF showing a vote
into one Of the boxes. Failing in their en-
deavorR, they came out yesterday morning
with 8 long card IN the "a cTning papers, de-
nounclng the whole franchise business.