Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-09
NEW YORK.
BIrd's-Eye View Of Yesterdays Events
and Topics in the City Of Gotham.

New YORK, August s.-General
Banks delivers an address in Wall
| street next Tuesday. a
/ A Boston special says that General
/ Butler states be will make no particular
effort to secure the nomination for Gov
ernor, but if the Labor Reform party see
/ fit to nominate him he viii not decline.
All the specials from North Carolina
confirm the news that Caldwell is elect
ed by from one thousand to two thou
sand majority.
AT a meeting of the Marble Manufac-
tlrers' Association last evening it was
announced that the worfmen, after
three months of useless struggle after
the eight-hOur regulation, had returned
to work on the old system.
Foreign mail adviees say that the
Pope has instructed the Catholic Bish-
ops of England and Rome to protest
against the determination OF the Brit
! ish Government to prosecute the priests
concerned in the Galway election pro-
| ceedings.
1t is said that Napoleon, with Eu-
genie, win visit Scotland the eighteenth
of August.
The Worlds special says the North
Carolina Legislature will probably stand
twenty Democratic majority on joint
ballot. Friday night the Conservatives
of Raleigh will celebrate their victory
over Senator Paul by a torchlight pro-
cession. r.
The committee appointed at meeting
of the Governors of the New York Hos
pital, to investigate the charges against
the Bloomingdale Insane Asylum, re-
port the charges of violence to patients
unfounded.
a Saratoga special to the Sun says
there is authority for the statement that
the Republicans mediate the nomina-
ton for Governor a prominent Demo-
crat, with a view of checkmating the
Liberal Republican movement.
Superintendent KelsO has Offered q re-
ward of two thousand dollars for Cap
tain Steiner, Treasurer of the French
band concerts at Chicago.
The Police Commissioners have de-
cided to commence suit against anti
cruelty Bergh for causing the blocking
up of the streets by stopping wagons,
cars, etc.
In the United States Court to-day the
case of United States Paymaster Ca
hoon, against whose bOndsmen suit was
begun by the government in ISL, for
| the recovery Of a deficit of thirty thou
sand dollars, came up, on the motion OF
| his counsel to overrule the demurrer OF
the government TO the second and third
counts. His plea was on the grounds
that he was an imbecile at the time OF
the execution OF the bonds and the Oc-
currence of the defalcatiOn. The mo-
ton was granted.
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gold at lis 26-1O0-all taken by one
clique.
The CorOner's jury eXOnerated Charles
Regan from blame in killing Richard
Coleman, the evidence showing that il
was done in self-defense.
Six young Germans, returning from
the HobOken Sehutzenfest, were injured
by the upsetting of their carriage, last
night, one seriously.
Twenty-seven bids for gold were made
to-day, amounting to So, So, 600, from
SO 10 1925. If the government sells
the $1,000, 900 as advertised, it will go at
1926.
A mad bull that was being chased
through Brooklyn to-day turned several
times on his pursuers, injuring a boy
named George DOnahue and then a man
LEHEA 4lGOEAAngAl- AAC wa
shot. One of the stray balls fired at the
animal penetrated the back of +. d.
Chapel, Superintendent of the ROOse-
welt street ferry. The wound is probably
fatal. Chapel was himself shooting the
animal at the time.
A copy of the indictment for libeling
General kirkpatrick, against the editor
Of the Times, was sent TO the District
Attorney to-day.
The auction sale of the Stadt Theatre
property was stopped to-day by an in
junction.
A call has been issued by the Republi-
can Executive Committee for a State
Convention Of New York veterans, at
Utica, on the twentieth instant. The
call is signed by Generals g. A. Sharpe,
p. A. Jones, Stewart D. WoOdford, James
Jourian, Denis f. Burke, Max Oeber,
Charles Carter etc.
John Thompson who, in company
with another man not in custody, com
mitted burglary, in May last, at Char
les II. Phelps, jeweler, in Sixth Avenue,
and shot Phelps in the breast, and fired
at another man but missed him, was
convicted Of burglary in the first degree,
to-day, and sentenced by Judge Bedford
to twenty years hard labor iR the State
prison.