Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-22
WAITS FROM THE WIRES.

The new French loan is issued at the
official price of 84f. SOC.
General Sherman will return to the
United States in September.
No passengers We're killed In the re-
recent railroad disaster in France.
General Wilson and Lieutenant Fred.
Grant arrived at New York yesterday.
The New York State Camp-meeting
was attended by twelve thousand people
yesterday.
The Evansville Democracy ratified
the Baltimore nominees and platform
Saturday night.
The soldiers had an annual reunion at
Farmersburg yesterday, which was
largely attended.
The slander suit against Rabbi Brown,
at Evansville, Indiana, has been salts
factOrily adjusted.
The French band gave two sacred
concerts in Chicago yesterday, which
We're largely attended.
! In drunken row in a saloon in Cleve-
land, Ohio, Saturday night, August Reed
was shot and instantly killed by John
| A. Beach. Beach was arrested and is in
jail.
The Fifth Annual Exposition of
| WOolen Manufactures at Chicago has
been postponed to next year, by request
of the manufacturers throughout the
country.
The American and Spanish Mixed
Commission makes slow progress, owing
to the difficulty and length of time re-
quired in obtaining proof in support of
claims.
Mr.. McAbee, City Marshal of the
| town of Marshall, Illinois, was fatally
shot by drunken fellow, named Patsy
Madigan, whom he was trying to arrest.
Madigan was arrested.
Mr.. Moore, an English newspaper cor
respondent, was murdered and robbed of
seven hundred francs at Geneva yester-
day. A greater part Of the money was
recovered, but the murderers escaped.
A Washington telegram says that the
American and Mexican Mixed Commits
sion haYe done but little business since
Palacies took General Cushing's place
as the representative of the Mexican
government.
The investigation into the charges
against the officers in charge of the st.
Louis House of Refuge, of brutality in
the disciple of that Institution, is going
on, and has revealed some of the most
revolving cruelties.
The London Observers correspondent
at Geneva writes that if the award of
damages made by the Board of ArbitTa-
ton is substantial and liberal, England
and the United States will be friends.
If trivial, dangerous state of ill-feeling
in America will be the result.
There are great rejoicings in Italian
cities at the escape of the King and
Queen of Spain from assassination.
Rome was covered with flags, and man.
ifestatiOns of sympathy and joy were
made yesterday in front Of the Spanish
Legation.
By advice of counsel, the Erie Rail
way Company have decided to repudi-
ate the two hundred and ninety-five
thousand dollars of scrip awarded in
1869 to the holders of preferred stock in
lieu of the accumulated interest then
due on their certificates.
A performance of RdQd BaS at Mar
seilles, in France, caused such tre-
mendOus uprOar in the theater that the
police had to clear pit and gallery, af-
ter which an excited crowd collected on
the outside of the building, and had to
be dispersed by the cavalry. About fifty
persons We're arrested, among whom
were two editors.
John Miller, formerly an attache of
the sub-treasury at Butterfield, and who
some time ago was bailed for forging
a twenty thousand dollar check on a
banking firm, was arrested in New York,
Saturday night, on the charge of forge
ries to large amount on some twelve
different firms, besides forging checks
on several army officers.
A Madrid dispatch says that three of
the wOuld-be assassins of the King and
twenty-seven alleged accomplices have
been arrested. Admiral Tompete has
warned the authorities against the dam
gerous demonstrations. The escape of
the King was narrow one. One of
the horses attached to the royal carriage
received seven pistol shots.
Terre Haute's Sunday record shows a
horrible state of morals in that city. One
man had his skull fractured by blow
from rolling-pin in the hands of a
prostitute, from the effects of which he
died soon after. Another man also had
his skull stove in with a two-pound
weight, in an affray in a drinking-sa-
loon. At late hour Saturday night, an
unknown man committed rape on the
person of young woman from Illinois.
The brute attacked her while she was
passing from one station to another, and
dragged her into vacant building, and
fOrcibly compelled her to remain there
several hours.