Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-04-19
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I AhS NaNAl investigating Commit
! tee are at work in Washington.
The National Sunday-sehool Conven
tlon met at indianapolis yesterday.
Mexican Buchanan died at Denve
Clty yesterday evening, of apoplexy.
vaccination has been discontinued il
New York, as smallpox is disappearing
The Republican State Convention
Of Virginia, met in Richmond yester.
r day.
The Nova Scotia Legislature was pro.
rogued yesterday, with the usual formal.
tiles.
The law makers at Columbus, Ohio,
are IA ferment about temperance and
tOddy.
The official vote Of Connecticut shows
majority for Jewel Of twenty-eight
over all.
The steam excavatOr at Council Bluffs,
Iowa, in reducing the bluffs there, is eX-
huming human bones.
Three of the crew Of a vessel were
arrested yesterday in Philadelphia, for
mutiny on the high seas
4 The London Telegraph's story of i'm
pending complications between France
The Republican State Convention Of
North Carolina have nominated Gov
ernor Caldwell for reelection.
A boy in Council Bluffs, Iowa, had
1 his arm crushed, so as to necessitate am
I putation, in trying to couple cars.
The inhabitants of BayOnne, at the
/ foot Of the Pyrannes, in France are &C.
eused Of favoring the Carlists in Spain.
The Marquis Of Salisbury said in
/ speech at Liverpool that unsectarian
public schools had proved q failure in
England.
Charles Reade is going to prosecute
five journals in England for libel be-
cause they called one OF his plays 3shIl-
ly-shaly-stuff.i'
fiHbusters are operating extensively
in Spain. They entered the town OF
ManchO the other day and stole three
thousand reals.
The Collector Of Customs at Burling-
ton, Vermont, being unable To balance
his books by about thirty-six thousand
dollars, has resigned.
The gubernatorial difficulties in Flor
ida viii be heard on the twentv-third
Instant before the Legislature which has
been called for that purpose.
Information has been received at Lon
don that Spanish steamer boarded an
English vessel bound TO BiIboa, and dis
covered arms and powder on board
The mysterious Mrs. Mason, who had
50 much 70 do with the sales Of arms to
France, Is a Virginia lady, noted for her
devotion 70 the South. during the civil
war
The committee appointed by the
French Assembly 70 inquire into the
cause of the surrender Of Metz have
concluded their labOrs. The results will /
be kept secret for time
The grape crop of California has been
damaged one-fifth or one-sixth by the /
late frost. Peaches, hgs, apricots, aim 1
OndS, nectarines and walnuts are also I
badly damaged in some localities.
The German bark Lutchen, loaded 4
with lumber for Matanza, took fire at .
the pier at East river yesterday and was 1
scuttled. The damage done BY the fire [
amounts to about twenty thousand dol /
lars.
The largest pool sold in New OEleans
since the war took place there for the .
second race Of Wednesday. The sales
were as follows: MOOre's, $500: Ken
ning's, S2300; CottrelPs, S575; Rlce's,
$50; Foley's, S295; Buford's, 500; Bah
cocks, Sl60-tOtal, S73lO.
A suit for thirty thousand dollars
damages has been brought against the
Horse Railroad Company.
in Boston, for cutting of the leg of a
boy who fell in jumping of the cars.
The defense claims that the accident Oc-
CURED from the defendants careless
ness.
Rose Helen Darlington is the princi-
pal party of another English scandal
She was formerly a glglnl0he C}U pare, and
was rescued from life of shame and
married by wealthy astronomer,
named Darlington, who, together with
her, has been black-mailed by a former
lover. 1t is fearful tale.
The War Department received a dis
patch from Charleston, dated the seven
teenth instant, stating that on Friday
last Miner PAYS, indicted for kukluX
murders, was shot and killed BY the
troops acting as posse for the United
States Marshal, while endeavOring TO ar
resi- him on a bench-warrent from the
Circuit Court.
Rev Theo. l. Cayler, Of Brooklyn,
sailed from New y ork for Europe la the
China yesterday. He goes as a delegate
from the General Assembly Of the Pres
byteFian Church of tha United States to
the General Assem- blies of the Old Kirk
OF Scotland, Free Church of Scotland,
Church Of Ireland, and
United Presbyterian Church Of Great
Britain.
During the trial Of Lydia Sherman
Yesterday, in Hartford, Connecticut,
charged with poisoning her husband,
the mother of Mr.. Sherman testified
Her testimony was damaging TO the de
'ence. She noticed that after deceased
had drank a cup of tea which the prison
sr had prepared and given him, he was /
seized with intense burning ia his stom- {
aeh, and tainted. K
A Boston special says the revenue
officers ia Boston have seized a stock of
liquors from the store Of Lew A. Torrey
{ Co. valued at twenty thousand dollars.
The cause Of the seizure is a refusal to
produce the books of the firm on q sum-
mons Of the Revenue Supervisor. The
irm's counsel desire TO testthe constitu-
.ionality Of that portion Of the revenue +,
Net requiring The production Of the busi-
less books Of firm.
The steamer Edgar Stuart, with .
.argo Of war materials and flying under
American colors, supposed 70 belong
o the Cuba reyolutionlsts, arrived at q
Halifax ia distress yesterday, and was J
.eized BY the Commodore commanding !
It that port as legal prize steamer, not .
,efng provided with clearance papers-
The American Consul protests against :
his seizure, and foFEsrds documents la
he case to Washington to-day,
The Nebraska Delegates had a consul 2
alton yesterday, in St Louis, with the
directors Of the Missouri Pacific railroad L
egarding the construction ef the pro- 1
,osed new road from Omaha south,
long the west bank Of the Missouri q
fver, to connect with the Missouri Pa s
ific at AtchisOD, Kansas, but no def h
lite arrangement was agreed upon. 1t e
) probable, however, that the counties
bfough which i IS proposed to run the f
DAD will grade ang tie the road-bed, and 1
be Missouri Pacific viii hon and stock /,
POLITICAL.
NEEE VORK