Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-12
THE WORLD IN SLICES.

The San Francisco Monitor, a Catholic
organ, editorially favors the Cincinnati
nominations
The whites and blacks of Charleston,
South Carolina, have been ratifying
Greeley and Cincinnati.
The revoIutiOnists are concentrating
all available forces, preparatory foran at
tack on the City of Mexico.
Resolutions We're passed indorsing
Governor Campbell and President
Grant, and i~nstructing the delegates to.
vote for Grant at Philadelphia
The people Of Los Angeles and South
Barbara counties are holding meetings
to offer inducements for the Thirty-Fifth
Parallel road to pass through their cOun-
ties.
J. d. Smith, formerly of Louisville,
fell from the scaffolding a hydraulic
at Harrison, Ohio, ON Friday evening,
which work he has been experimenting,
and received injuries from which he soon
died.
The strike of the carpenters i'm Brook
Iyn continues. The bosses have held a
meeting, and decided TO agree to the
eight-hour system, TO take effect Sep
TENDER first, but this concession is msat-
isfactOry.
Richard Christie, aged thirteen, was
tried in Brooklyn Thursday, for the
murder of William Wells, a playmate.
The evidence. showed the killing Of
Wells to be an accident. The jury re-
turned a verdict of not guilty.
The Methodist Conference, in session
in New York city, have appointed al
investigating committee to take in hand
the alleged irregularities in the affairs of
the Book Concern. The committee is
composed of forty laymen and twenty
seven ministers.
At Rawlings, Wyoming, on last Fri
day night the Republican Territorial
Convention met to select delegates to
the Philadelphia Convention. J. A.
Campbell and j. w. Donellan were
chosen delegates, and G.. w. Corey and
G.. w. Haynes alternates.
Mr.. Joshua Dye, of Abingdon, In
diana, was almost instantly killed at
Richmond, Indiana, by being knocked
down in a drunken fight at Bennet's
livery stable in Indianapolis, yesterday
evening, by a colored hOstler named Sol
Davis, who was arrested and is now in
Jail.
a convention of Radical Reformers
was held in New York on Wednesday,
for the purpose of adopting a platform
and considering nominations for the
Presidency and Vice-Presidency. 1t
was decided that candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice-President may be chosen
from either sex.
At Buffalo on Thursday evening, the
~tug-steamer Compound, the largest YES
sci of the kind on the lakes, exploded
her boilers while towing a schooner out
of the harbor, and sunk instantly. Geo
Barge, the cook, was badly scalded and
is not expected to live. The rest of the
crew escaped with slight injuries.
The Fulton missouri Telegraph calls
for a National Convention of editors
and printers, to be held in St. Louis,
July Fourth, to ratify the nominations
of Greeley and Brown, one a lifelong
printer anR journalist, and the other,
one of the founders and for several years
editor of an influential western paper.
Fifteen hundred IONS of railroad iron
are on the way from the East for the
Southern railroad. An immense force
of IabOrers are on this road, working day
and night. They viii reach Utah Lake
about six weeks hence. The branch to
East Cork and American Fork mines, ]
it is expected, will have sixtymiles COM
pleted by August next.
Gov. Parker, of New Jersey, issued a
a proclamation on the fishery question,
jurisdiction over that part of
the Delaware river between the States
Of Delaware and New Jersey, to the
easteTly middle line of said river, de
declaring that all citizens of New
Jersey have the right to fish on the !
side of the river without terms {
from any other State. Il
A railroad delegation arrived at Salt !
Lake Friday evening, from San Fran :
cisco, and it is understood they will re-
main till Monday. Brigham Young, :
A. Smith, Dan H. Wells, and I
high church dignitaries at once Z
,alled upon the party at the Townsend
House with cordial greetings. Owing y
the illness of Judge Strickland, the .
United States Court for this district adj |
burned to July 1st. '
ALondon special says the downfall y
# the Spanish ministry is imminent. :
has become unpopular with all 4
and there is a strong influence y
It work to effect his removal. All his y
PRESENT colleagues will give place to the =,
nlAINolCIldA GOuiUiIdllOI AS SOOu d.
IS the Carlist revolt is suppressed, Mar y
hal Serrano will return to Madrid and =
.hoose members of the new Cabinet, of .
which he viii be President. :
The term 'ultramontane," at present Il
o much used, is n of those words o.
from representing a locality, has {
ONE to represent a religious belief and t.
political party. Ultramontane literally a.
means beyond the mountains. When II
sed as a political term it refers to Italy fo
nd the political and religious tenets of I"
he Church of Rome. Ultramontanism il
f the Pope and the union of the church in
nth the State. Representative of these sc
rinciples, in whatever nation of Europe p,
hey are found, are called Ultramon- g
lnes. CT
An amendment to the enforcement &C
ct has been introduced in the Senate, p
yhich provides that a Supervisor of N
Elections shall be appointed in every 10
citing precinct in each Congressional Ia
when a request is made for such III
Y ttCO citizens, and the appointee shall u
e subject to the approval of the repre- oil
.entative in Congress from such district. IA
uch attempts 10 manipulate the ballot 81
OK are but the best evidence of the Oh
opelessness which is now pervading IN
ne Radical minds as to the result of the "
)ming Presidential election and the U
operation to which the Great Gift al
lker viii resort to make a show of re- pa
to the mighty wave of reform TO
nat is now gathering strength, and nc
hich the people win hurl against him &c
nd his cohorts in the approaching con- yG
st. In this they have invented a WI
.heme which will be powerful in its XII
lfiuence and mighty in its results; and an
lere remains but one course to be pur- Ia
led by the friends of reform and con- Pc
%itutional liberty, to successfully meet u
nd overthrow this browning act of the III
rty combination, and that course is OF
ainly marked out in the action of the pl'
incinnati Convention. II
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