Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-12-21
NEW YORK.
TammaBy DIsapprOVes Of the City Char
ter-The Dartmouth College Dinner
The New Jury Law.
The Brewers Of New York, New Jersey,
Pennsylvania, Connecticut and Mas
sachusetts Organizing Against
0nerOus Taxes.
Burning of a Quarantine Steamer-The
RditOrshIp OF the Tribune-0rr, OF
South Carolina, Gets His
Mess Of POttage.
A PsstOfice Robber Arrested-The An.
dersOn Poisoning Case-Miscellane-
Gus Events Of the Day.

NEW YORK, December 20.-The Tam
many Hall General Committee last
evening passed resolutions declaring it,
disapproval of the present charter of the
/ city, passed in 1870.
The annual dinner of the Dartmouth
College alumni, last evening, drew to-
gether many prominent graduates Oftht
! institution. President Smith, Professor
! Ordronaux, Hon. Daniel G.. Rollins, jr.,
and others, responded to the toasts OF
| the evening. Governor Noyes, of Ohio,
sent letter regretting his inability to
be present.
The new jury law, known as the Judd
/ bill. which allows the selection OF q
juror who has expressed an opinion, is
working to advantage in the Stokes
case, as thus far eight jurors have been
selected.
The brewers of New York, New Jer-
sey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut and
Massachusetts met here yesterday, and
resolved to form organizations in their
several States to oppose the additional
tax of three and One-half cents per bar
rel, and to secure State legislation IN
their favor.
The steamboat Andrew Fletcher, be-
longing to the quarantine department,
was burned early this morning while
lying at the Government dock at quar-
antine. Loss twenty-five thousand dol
lars; cause unknown.
Hon. VIM. Orion stated to-day that
George William Curtis had not been APP
preached on the subject of the editorship
of the Tribune.
Judge Orr, of South Carolina, accepts
the Russian mission, and expects to sail
for Europe about the middle of January,
though ne prefers not to encounter the
rigors of st. Petersburg climate until the
middle of March.
No additional jurors have been secured
in the Stokes case.
The special commissioners appointed
to investigate the BloOmingdale and
other Asylum Outrages, began investl-
alton of the management Of Wards
Island Insane Asylum, to-day. Dr.
Echeverria and others, were examined.
The new trial of Dutch Heinrich is
appointed for January sixth.
Richard BrannOn has been arrested
for robbing the pOstoffice of twenty
eight thousand mail bags. He confessed
his guilt and said he had no accom-
plices, when he was committed for
trial.
In the Anderson poisoning case to-
day, the accused, DIR. Irish, was admit
ted to the witness stand, and testified
that he never had any improper rela-
tions with. Mrs. Anderson; also, rela-
tive TO the facts of her husbands illness
and death, and confirmatory u the
statement that arsenic was bought at his
(witness) store, by the desire of Ander-
son himself.
George Palmer Putnam,a wen-known
publisher in this city, died suddenly
this evening.
The American Geographical Society
have undertaken to collect for the vi
emma Exposition a mass of photographs
of scenery, geographical and other re-
ports, and information which best rep
resents the true condition of the coun-
try, and to make collections and to ex-
port articles at their own expense.