Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-21
LIGHTNING BRIEFS.

Smallpox prevails in many localities
IN Utah Territory.
London is anticipating a decline in
the price Of coal.
\ convention of shOrt-horned cattle
met IN Lexington yesterday. esr-
4 Rome, Italy, telegram announces
The death OF the POpes eldest brother.
Another party of English capitalists
are inspecting the mining districts Of the
The interest coupons due in Novem-
ber viii be paid on the twenty-frst instant
upon rebate.
President Grant was at Newark, New
Jersey yesterday morning, going through the
Exposition.
Edmund Thompson has given-a fifty
thQgsand dollars indowment in land to the
SallioFnia state University.
\ thirty thousand dollar fire occurred
~ Grand Rapids, Michigan, yesterday, de-
stroying the National Hotel.
At Cleveland, Tennessee, a few days
ago. two trains eollided and were completely
smashed up. No one injured.
a. I. Stewart declines 10 allow the
use OF his name in connection with the can
dldacy for Mayor OF New York.
The failure of G.. d. Monroe & Co,
oi New York, was announced yesterday. I've
other failures were also announced.
Wall street, yesterday morning,
Nhowed quite contrast with the two days
previous being quiet IN al departments.
George Alfred Townsend Of the New
York Herald was in Little Rock Yesterday.
and left for Pope county in the evening.
The Straight-out Dem-Oralizers Of
Missouri have called State Convention 10
meet az Jefferson City, october fourth next
The jOurneymen carpenters Of Chica-
60 have made a peremptory demand for four
dollars naK after the rWQnfV-flrEf instant
Little Rock has no advices for several
days from Pope county, which leads 10
the opinion thai the disturbances there have
The authorities have decided that ali
E,s,iliasSers are required 10 register free all
letters addressed 10 the Treasurer containing
currency 10 be redeemed.
a trs occurred at Wrentham, Massa-
cnuseilA, yesterday, destroying a bank and
olhef bGlldlngs- amounting to a loss OF TWEEN
ty-one thousand dollars.
The. American citizens resident in
~ faris ,,s are preparing TO give grand banquet
10 the American representatives OF the Ge-
neNa Board OF Arbitration.
Mr. Greeley arrived at Columbus,
1hlos yesterday morning at ten O'Clock. when
ne was received By an immense crowd. 10
whom he delivered brief address
There We're thirty-five bids for gold
Yesterday Ia New York, amounting 10 sl6.6Io,-
90, q li223 % ll1.0l. The amount advertised
was sitHo,ooo, which sold AZ llaO0t to Hs.0i.
During a very severe storm at Rock
dale, England, yesIesterday, several persous
were killed by lightning. The storm was eIs1o
very damaging 70 the crops in that locality.
lt has been reported to the parent
government al Madrid that the number ~
armed lnsllrge nts aFraYed against the Govern
lnent OF Cuba Is -FOUR thousand fiye hundred
Secretary Delano, who has been de-
tailed 70 duty in the campaign in the state of
Ohio, le.t yesterday for the field Of his labors
where he viii soon engage IN the work Of his
master.
The Democratic and Liberal Republic
can Conventions al Little Rock failed to CO.
alesce, and the result viii be nominations
by each convention for county and district
officers
A couple of bold highWaymen are
operating in East Tennessee, IN the vicinity Of
Knoxville, 70 the terror OF the citizens. Sew
eral daring rObberieS are reported during the
past week
During q severe storm at LittlebOr-
ough, Lancashire, England, yesterday, the
lightning struck a mill, killing four women
and seriously injuring several Others OF the
operatives
The meeting in opposition to the Oc-
cupstion Of Rome, which has been advertised