Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-19
SPARKLINGS.

Thiers leaves Paris to-day for briei
respite from his labors.
The horse disease is still raging to an
alarming extent in Canada.
The Prospect Park races at New York
yesterday were postponed on account oi
rain.
The telegraph wires in Great Britain
were all deranged yesterday by q severe
storm.
Ground was broken at Hartford, Con-
necticut, yesterday for the new State
house.
-Four inches Of snow fell on the west
branch Of the PenobseOt river, in Maine,
yesterday.
Heavy rains have fallen the past few
days in France, which caused immense
overtlows in all the rivers.
At San Francisco the trot between
Lucy and Occident has been postponed
till the twenty-sixth instant.
The Presbyterian Synod, in session al
Wilmington, Delaware, are discussing
the subject Of rotary Eldership."
A swindler with a half dozen aliases
was arrested at Capaka, Missouri, yes
terday, and carried to Keokuk, Iowa.
Coming from the Fair yesterday at
Little Rock, Mr.. Thomas Z. Thomas
was thrown from his horse and instantly
killed.
In view of the apathy Of the peo-
pie" Mr.. Havemeyer declines the use
of his name for Mayor Of New York
on the Reform ticket.
The cigar manufacturers of New
York are gradually acceding to the de-
mands Of their employees for five dollars
advance on the thousand.
Billy Tweed continues to dodge
around New York, eluding the vigilance
OF those interested in his appearance be-
fore the Court Of Oyer and Terminer.
a big cigar-smuggling scheme, from
Cuba TO the United States, which has
been carried on successfully for some
time, has been recently nipped in the
bud.
The State Fair of Arkansas closed
at Little Rock yesterday. The attend
ance throughout the week has been
larger than at any previous fair held in
the State.
Rev. George I. Chapman, DID, died
yesterday at his residence in Newbury.
port, Massachusetts,. He graduated at
Dartmouth in 1894, and was eighty-six
years old.
Two cases of goods valued at ten thou
sand dollars, stolen from the United
States Public Stores in New York in
September, have been recovered, and
the thief captured.
Right-Rev. Michael O'Connor, form
erly Bishop Of Pittsburg, died at Wood
stock College, near Baltimore, yester-
day. His funeral will take place on the
twenty-third instant.
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Asso-
citation, at New York yesterday, refused
to strike out the word ''Irish" from the
name of the Association by a vote of
eighty-tive to fifty-seven.
Michael Czwaski, q Polish General
who distinguished himself as Command
er-in-Chief Of the Ottoman Cossacks in
the Turkish service against Russia, has
been pardOned by the Gar.
George NJ. Smith, one Of the leading
Mormons at Salt Lake, has started on a
pilgrimage to Palestine and the Holy
City TO prove the connection of the
MOrmons with the lost tribes.
A dispatch from Helena, Montana,
says that the stage going south, three
miles north Of Pleasant Valley, was
stopped and tno passengers plundered Of
seven thousand dollars by "r0ad agents."
Two boys named Nelson and Purdv,
at Ogden, Utah, yesterday, were con-
victed Of manslaughter in the second
degree for the rape and murder of lit
tie girl in Harper City last summer, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for two
years.
Anotf er Cuban expedition of huge
proportions is on the tapis somewhere,
and it is reported that it will be under
the command and direction Of Ryan.
Ryan tells the story himself, but the
Cuban patriots in this country do not
credit ii.
Articles Of consolidation Of the st.
Louis and Southeastern, Evansville,
Henderson and Nashville, st. Louisand
Southeastern kentucky division), and
the Nashville, Chicago and st. Louis
railroads were filed at the Secretary of
States Office in Indianapolis, Indiana,
yesterday.
The st. Louis Globe, few DAYS ago,
published a dispatch furnished by the
American Press Association, in which
il was stated that one S. y. GOodle was
connected with the assassination Of
Charles Lane at Dorchester, Massachu-
sets, last Sunday. Now 0fOOdle seeks,
through the courts, one hundred thou
sand dollars worth Of satisfaction to his
wounded name and tarnished fame.
Due notice will be given of his success.