Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-29
NEW YORK ITEMS.

l. NEW YORK, June ..
Seigel, arraigned for perjury to-day IL
the Tilden-Butler suit, was given until
tomorrow to obtain bail.
y John Conklin was to-day sentenced tC
twenty years in the State prison, fol
robbing Ida Ellet Of thirty-eight dollars
The Schutzen Corps sail tomorrow In
the steamer Deutschland for Europe, te
attend the great shooting festival IN
Hanover.
\ in Elbridge, Onondaga county, New
York, a Greeley and Brown club has
been formed, and has one hundred Re
publicans on its rolls.
10 The Cedar Rapids Republican wants
to know if the Waterloo Courier means
to include Anna Dickinson, in speaking
OF sfbarren I.iberais." E I ~ :
Negotiations LOOKING to obtaining the
assent Of the Orsngemen to parade in
citizens dress, on their anniversary,
have been unsuccessful.
General Bradley johnson considers
the Greeley ticket good for at least one
hundred and twenty of the electoral
votes of the Southern States.
A number of new men have taken the
Didtt VI NlAc ESdsDtt-AlCng aLlN
force of police is On guard at the stables
to prevent the strikers assaulting them
Rev. DR.. Nelligan, Eicar-General Of
the Diocese of the West Indies, and res
ident of Nassau, n. P, mysteriously
disappeared from Brooklyn last Thurs
day, where he was visiting.
The New Haven Register says there
will not be five hundred Democrats in
Connecticut -0ut Of nearly fifty thous-
and-who win bolt the Cincinnati ticket
if the Democratic National Convention
adopts it.
A Greeley and Brown flag was raised
at Delhi, New York, on Thursday, by
the Liberal Republicans. a committee
was organized, and measures were insti-
tuted for vigorous prosecution of the
campaign. sr aa. g.
The jury in the United States Circuit
Court found verdict Of four thousand
nine hundred and ninety dollars in gold
in favor of Horace ]. Fairchild, against
ex-COllector Barney, for excess of duties
imposed on imported goods.
In the contest yesterday for the cadet
ship to the Naval Academy, rendered to
members of schools in his district By
AOERICcSLldll INODCAOcf anu IDI
there were a large number Of entries,
the prize won by a ragged newsboy
named John O'Keene.
George Crouch is said to be the repre-
sentative of number of English capi-
talists who want to run the Erie road in
harmony with the present management.
it is also stated that the hcHenry Par
ty, after obtaining possession of the
Erie, viii issue reorganization bonds
amounting to about ten millions.
The Norfolk Journal takes the bull by
the horns in trusting that the Baltimore
Conventio will either openly and bold
ly reject Mr.. Greeley, or uDequivOeally
and emphatically adopt him. We hope,
it continues, "to have third candidate;
but if that be impossible, let the whole
power of our party be brought to bear
in favor of Greeley against Grant"
An ex-CoEfederate general told cor
respondent of the Tribune at Norfolk,
Virginia: " 1t was bitter pill for US to
swallow Greeley, but we've done it, aud
it has not made US sick either. In fact,
the more we think Of his nomination
the better we like it. Wenbelieve he is
an honest man, feels kindly toward the
South, and we know that the only
chance we have to beat Grant Is by sup
porting him."
In the Court of General Sessions, this
the case of John NJ. Meeker,
charged with selling obscene literature,
was taken up. Assistant District-At-
torney Fellows, in his opening remarks
to the jury, made the startling state
ment that the young ladies in the semi |
naries in this city and vicinity were ae-
tually flooded with books and pictures |
Of the most indecent kind, unsuspect- |
ably NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. hidden in |
bOquets of flowers, sometimes in parcels |
Of nuts and candy, by such men as the
prisoner.
The withdrawal Of Judge McCunn !
from his trial, at Albany, is subject of
interest among lawyers. McCmn has |
resumed his place on the bench of the \
Superior Court, and his counsel say that |
his case must be passed upon by the /
Court of Appeals If adversely decided at |
Albany. They claim that the extraor-
iinary rulings of the Senate obliged |
hem to retire. A letter of one of Nc
Cunn's receivers, very damaging to the
iefense, was found among certain pa
oers, the production of which is suppOs-
ID to have surprised McCunn and NOV
ed him to withdraw.
Gideon Frost and J. G. L. Booker.
members of the Brooklyn Committee of
Fifty, during an interview Of Mayor
Boswell, made serious charges against
he Commissioners of Charities aud the
Management Of the Flatbush Lunatic
Asylum. They claim that four-fifths
If the total expenses of the institu-
ion, or eighty-four thousand dol
ans, is either paid for the board
# the insane of other countries and for
he support of the insane of our own
country, whose friends and relations are
Unable to provide for them; or the
money, if collected from such, has been
appropriated in q manner, unknown
o the committee. The loss to the tax
'ayers Of Kings county, by whatever
ause occasioned, the committee believe
0 bel not less than forty thousand
lollars per annum.