Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-05
NEW YORK.
News and Topics Of the Day ItemIzed and
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New YORK, December 4.-At the
meeting OF the Executive Committee,
at Apollo Hall, last night, resolutions
were offered declining all propositions to
eoalesce with TammRny Hall, and call
ing upon all Democrats to unite with
Apollo Hall and advising the election OF
only one delegate from each election dis
triet
A Berlin letter to the London Tsle-
graph says that the storm which passed
over the north of Europe on November
14th, last, ragged with a violence unprece-
dented within the memory of living
man. The local annals, indeed, of the
Baltic and Otsee coasts, contain no rec
ord Of so furious and destructive tenn
pest for nearly two hundred years past.
All the lines Of railway radiating to
different points of the compass from this
capitol are encumbered with broken or
Uprooted telegraph poles. All business
on the Bourse is al stand-still. The
sea-wslls are smashed into atoms, and
trains were swallowed UP in the
great waters. All accounts from
Bratzarnd, Kiel, Griefswald, Swine
munde, etc., read like the description of
the second deluge. On Wednesday the
greater part of Griefswald was under
water. The water in Ostsee stood five
feet deep in the streets Of that thriving
little town. The total number of crafts
fOundered at Stratzund is over eighty.
All the fishing boats belonging to Zingst,
Oars, and Hiddenso are gone to the bot
tom. Eight people were drowned at
Venvitz. All along the coast the in
habitants are ruined, and suffering from
want Of water, the sea having flooded
all the wells.
The Mayor has appointed Richard NJ
Blatchford Park Commissioner, in
place of the late Robert G.. Dillon, and
Rufus g. Beardsley as Deputy of Public
Instruction, in place Of Judge Van Wort
The Herald proposes a press fund for
the. endowment Of the children of the
late Mr.. Greeley. It offers one thousand
dollars as its own subscription.
The trial trip Of the new steamer Cap
ron, intended for the japanese govern
ment, was made yesterday.
The National Democratic Committee
have issued an address containing a
tribute TO the memory of Horace Gree
ley. Numerous clubs and organizations
yesterday evening passed resolutions ap-
propTiate to the event.
The lumber Of applicants for tickets
of admission to witness the funeral ser
vices at DR.. Chapin's church was enor-
nous. The church accommodates
eighteen hundred persons in all. Many
prominent persons had great difficulty in
procuring cards. Some persons offered
high prices for tickets, but found none.
Several prominent journalists arrived
last evening from Philadelphia and
other cities, among them Colonel For
ney, to take part in the obsequies.
The crowd that visited the City Hall
yesterday was estimated at about forty
thousand.
A dispatch from Washington states
that twenty Democratic members of
Congress LEFT that city last night to at
tend the funeral.
Senators FentOn, Upton, SchurZ and
Trumbull will be present.
Hon. Charles Sumner telegraphs that
his health prevents his attendance, but
that be will be present in soul.
At Boston last evening Wendell
Phillips delivered a lecture to a crowded
auditory, reviewing Froude, and charg-
ing him with Misrepresentation by his
historical lectures on the Irish question.
There were eleven offers for bonds to-
day, amounting to $3.50, 300, at 112.59G
1888. The Government advertised to
buy one million.
The stables of the Bushwiek Avenue
railroad, in Brooklyn, with fifty horses
and eighteen cars, were burned this
morning. Loss, fifty thousand dollars.