Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-18

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The strike of the cabinet-makers il
New York has failed, the men resuming
work on the old basis.
MahlOn Anderson was arrested in New
York yesterday for the embezzlement o
public funds in Sweden.
Several cases of sunstroke occurred il
New York yesteTday-the thermOmete
reaching ninety-three in the shade.
Gratz Brown, for the first time since
his serious attack, visited the Libera
headquarters to-day in New York.
The German Democratic Union, 0
New York, at a meeting on Tuesday
night, unanimously indorsed Greeley
and Brown.
Cornwall, who assisted in the abduc
ton of DR.. Bratton, was found guilty
and sentenced to three years in the pen
itentiary.
The American Consul at Aspinwall
has received instructions to retain the
steamer Edgar Stewart at that port unit
further orders.
Preliminaries for the formal opening
of the campaign on the part Of Tam
many are to be arranged at a meeting
to be held to-day.
! Slight earthquakes were felt at Santi
ago, and other points in the vicinity, OF
the twenty-sixth of June, and on tht
eighth Of June at Valparaiso.
It is decreed that in all Roman CathO
lie cemeteries in Chill a portion of the
ground is to set apart hereafter for the
interment of the Protestant dead.
A wealthy lady by the name of Fred
ericks, twenty-five years Of age, drowned
herself at Hackensack Sunday from
grief over the loss of her brother.
At the Grant banner-raising, Tuesday
evening, on Twenty-third street anC
/ Ninth avenue, a speech was made by
| Senator Cragin, Of New Hampshire.
Thirty-nine Capuchian friars have
been elected from their convent at Qua.
| tamala under a military escort, and theil
property cenfiscated by the govern
UUent.
Chairman Cochrane, of the Liberal
Republican Committee in New York
announces that an early call will be
made for the Liberal Republican State
Convention.
The United States exploring party in
South America, have nearly completed
{ Allt sui hEN VI LAAt lDukE AoA AAAC 4lLcl-
! Oceanic canal by way Of the Sapoa river,
and will return to the United States
/ soon.
Julius Chambers, who undertook tC
paddle his canoe dolly Warden" from
Lake Itoska to New Orleans, reached
Quincy, Illinois, yesterday, and shipped
his canoe to st. Louis on the steamer
Rob Roy.
At Quebec, yesterday, the commander
/ of the bark RivOli, in defending his crew
! from crimps," accidentally struck
James Dillon with an AK, nearly sever.
/ ing his head from his body, causing in.
slant death.
! The Times, in commenting on the
! Stokes trial, says that the bottom O
what we call the miscarriage of justice
/ is that indifference Americans feel fol
violent crimes in which both the mur.
derer and victim are rowdies.
The residence Of DR.. KirkwOOd, il
/ Little Rock, was stricken by lightning
yesterday evening. A room which the
! family had vacated a few minutes pre-
viously was turned tOpsy-turvey. DR.
KirkwOOd was slightly stunned.
The differences between the Argentine
Republic and Bolivia on the boundary
/ question are increasing, and the Bolivian
forces are about to occupy Chaco, ATgen-
the. Brazil is believed to be at the bot
tom of the whole Of the mischief.
/ No canal route has yet been decided
/ on in Nicaragua. Three officers of the
/ expedition are to wait at San Juan tC
continue observations during the fouI
months absence of the corps, which
is to make observations at La Virgin.
The Apollo Hall Democracy, Of New
York, has not Yet signified its course aS
/ to the Baltimore nomination. The
/ Tribune accuses Senator O'Brien, who
/ is foreman of that organization, of try
/ ing TO carry it over to the Grant party.
Lima dates to June 9th state that a
grand parade of seven thousand troops,
armed with Winchester rifles, was made
on the fifteenth of June, as an intima-
/ ton from the government that they
were prepared for a revolt of any mag
nitude.
Leaders of the Liberal movement in
/ New York have secured the cO-Opera-
/ ton of all organizations for the Greeley
| ticket. At meetings held yesterday
! by committees representing three Oi
] NLEll OIBAlALAAlDA5t u aEN4lAEltlIE " tdllN
out their object was agreed upon.
Hon. Andrew Stewart died at Pitts
burg on Tuesday morning, aged eighty
1 two years. He was the only surviving
member of the Seventeenth Congress,
and was intimately associated with Clay,
| Webster, and Others. He had a nation
al as well as a local reputation.
The rumor is current in New York
that an effort will be made as soon as
possible to have Thomas aud Patrick
/ Hart, and John Remand, witnesses for
! the prosecution in the Stokes trial, ad-
mitted to bail until the next trial. They
have been confined since the shooting
of Fisk.
There were twenty offers of bonds in
New York, yesterday, amounting to
about two million seven hundred and
/ fifty-five thousand five hundred and
| fifty dollars, at from ll4.39. TO ll4.79.
/ The amount advertised for purchase was
one million dollars, and if bOught,i it will
go at from ll4,39. to ll4432.
Two men, named respectively, Mike
| Hickey and Joseph Carlett, employed
in making an excavation for a gas tank
in Cleveland, Ohio, Tuesday, were buried
by the caying in of the earth and were
smothered to death before they could be
rescued. The caving in of the earth
was caused by the heavy rains of Tues
day morning.
At Alexandra, Egypt, the military
commission to inquire into the recent
fracas of Consul General Butler and
Others, is now in session, and is COM
posed Of General Stone, Colonel Purdy
and aav-aroI native officers of the FUVp-
tian army. Buffers destination is not
certainly known, but II Is reported that
he has gone to the United States.
A Wheeling dispatch Of yesterday
says that heavy showers have done
great injury to property in that city.
The grading of the Cincinnati, Wheel
ing and Kentucky railroad, at the foot
OF Jefferson street, WAS badly damaged,
cutting away about a hundred feet OF
Jefferson street; the cut down TO the
depth of twenty feet was carried out into
the river. The streets were Overiiowed,
and some are blocked with debris.
A Washington dispatch says that
Secretary Fish arrived yesterday, and is
very much annoyed over the publica-
ton of Catacazy's defense. When the
original document was first announced.
Fish tried TO obtain a cOpy-frOm Chief
Justice Chase, but failed. Since Cata-
eazy's return to Europe he maintained
silence until his successor, Baron Often
berg, was received by the President
The President, In his reply, alluded to
Catacazy's matter, which was regarded
by the Russian government as uncalied
for. Ii was this that caused Catacazy to
make his stOBy public.