Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-23

GERS to repurchRse IN the market for the
purpose OF caneelling large number of
the shares of said com pany heretofore
issued by and under the approval of said
Gould, but which, for the purpose ofsaid
application, were admitted to be Illegal
ly issued and of doubtful validity, end
that in the consummation of such fraud
said Gould caused one hundred and
| twenty-one Thousand and four hundred
shares Of said stock TO be charged against
the Erie Company on the books OF, said
| firm, on the fifth Of August. so, at average
| price of 81 47-l00 per share, amounting
in the aggregate to S74, go, $50; and the
assumed cost Of said shares was on
that day charged to the Erie Company,
on the books of the firm, in the NOM
inal satisfaction of moneys belonging to
said Railroad Company in the hands OF
! Smith, Gould & Co.; that these shares
were only worth the sum of Uwenty-nine
dollars per share, and that large trans
actions were made in the market at that
rate.
A depopulation of the penitentiary is
threatened under the decision of Fanch-
er, in the Supreme Court yesterday, dis
charging a convict on the ground of
imperfect commitment papers.
Two striking" silk weavers in Pat
erson, New Jersey, have been arrested
on charge of conspiracy. This action
causes an excitement among the strik-
eTs.
Harry Hicken and Bryan Campbell, |
Pennsylvanians, are matched TO fight in
West Virginia, March 4, 1873, for one
thousand dollars side.
The American Free Religious Associ- |
alton, which opened session in Phila- |
delphia Tuesday, resumed its sittings in |
Brooklyn on the twenty-first. The As |
soclatlOn has no creed TO limit fellow |
ship, but is established on the principle |
OF Truth Seeking, not Truth Found" |
and includes spiritualists, and Jews as |
well as Christians. Among the officers |
are Rev. o. B. rockingham, Ralph |
Waldo Emerson, Gerritt Smith, f. B. |
Ward, of Michigan; f. S. Patt, of Cali |
fornia, and Rabbi Wise, of Ohio.
The National Board of Fire Under
writers, in session here, are discussing |
the advancement of rates throughout |
the country. The SecretaTy's report |
states that the average profit of late |
years does not average ten per cent. |
The losses by the burning of the tobacco |
warehouses in Jersey City, Wednesday
evening, will be reduced by salvage to |
ILAEG nuAuIeu llOubduu uOlidrS.
The apportionment has been made |
among the different conferences of the
Methodist Episcopal Church of sums to /
be raised for missionary purposes. Crn-
einnati is assessed $50, 900, Colorado
$500, DesmOines $1,000, Detroit $4,000,
Chicago, German, $1,000, Illinois S25, 600,
Indiana $4,000, Iowa S13, 900, Kansas
$1,000, Pittsburg S36, 900, Kentucky $500,
Lexington, $500, Michigan, $3.50
Minnesota $1,000, Mississippi $1,000. Mis-
souri, $4,000, Nebraska $500, Nevada
500, North Indiana $4,000, North
Ohio $4,000, Northwest Indiana S13, 900,
Northwest Iowa $500, Ohio S2s, 900,
Oregon $1,000, Upper Iowa S10,0 900, West
Virginia S6500, West Wisconsin $500,
Wyoming Sl6,000 Rock River SO, 900,
Rocky Mountains $1,000, st. Louis
5000, Southeastern Indiana $4,000
Southern Illinois $4,000, Southwest
German, $1,000, Tennessee, $500, Wis
cOnsin, Sll 900.
General Cluseret has turned up in
Geneva, where he is living in retire
ment. He escaped from Paris in the
disguise of a priest in May and came to
the United States.
Mayor Hall recommends the Common
Council to give Stanley, the discoverer
Of Livingstone, public reception.
Judge Blatchford, of the United States /,
District Court, to-day, on q motion to ]
set aside an adjudication of bankruptcy {
in the case of VIM. Butler on the ground I
that he was minor, decided that bank {
ruptcy statutes took no cognizance of !
and accordingly denied the '
notion
The silk manufacturers of Paterson
rnEnApn Tn no NJ |
lire strikers at any price unless they re-
urn and work this week. The strikers 7
'efuse, and there is no prospect of settle
nent. {
A jury has awarded Mrs. Putnam five :
thousand dollars damages for the loss of '
ler husband, who was killed by Foster t
IN a Seventh avenue car. t
At last the new Erie directors are able
o act, and this evening at sunset p. H.
Watson, President of the Erie railway.
md Jay Gould were arrested. The
was issued by Judge Fancher,
# the Supreme Court, and is based on
n affidavit which charges Jay Gould T
With wrongfully taking to his own use, b
While in control of the Erie railway, {
line millions and a half of dollars of b
money belonging to the Erie stock v
folders. The sureties in the order of ar
est are VIM. Butler, Duncan and VIM. q
Z. Travers. At forty minutes past three c
his safternOOnIGOuld entered the Sherif7s u
ffice and gave bail. S
Colonel Blood was again arrested to- I
ay in the civil suit brought by Challis, il
nd in default of three thousand dollars
,ail was lodged in Ludlow street prison.
lie had just given bail in another suit
vhen arrested.
The property of the absent Thomas c. I
fields was attached by order Of Judge I
'ancher, to await the issue Of a suit to
ecover pay for the publication of a .
ketch Of his life. {
At a meeting of the National Board of =
fire Underwriters to-day the Committee 3
N Rates presented lengthy report re- \
ommending the adoption Of the tariffs
4 1866 and 1867. They also suggested
hat in all cities having not over fifty !
hOusand population that at least thirty L L
'er cent. be added to the present rates, 8
md not less than fifty per cent. in all
,laces having population in excess of
he amount above named. The report
vas adopted, with an amendatOry reso- g
ution, that all agents represented in To- u
al boards take immediate steps to ad- 9
'ance the rate of premium. The board ,
resolved unanimously TO n
harge an advance of fifty per cent. on o
II Mansard roofs, except those con- v
tTucted of fire-proOf material.
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