Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-20
TELEGRAPHIC SUMMARY.

Twenty-Five thousand persons visited
the Cincinnati Exposition yesterday.
The Grand Lodge Of Odd-FeIlows Of
Maryland are still in session az Baltimore.
The Ohio River Improvement Con-
veution adjourned at Cincinnati yesterday.
Continued clear weather is announced
for this locality to-day by the weather reports
A great trotting-match will come of
ct the state Fair at Erie, Pennsylvania to-
day.
Edward About's wife was allowed to
visit him in his prison at strasbOurg yester-
day.
The State Fair of Minnesota, now
holding at 1t. Paul, is reported a grand sue
cess.
A negro boy was killed by lightning
at Waynes5Oro, Mississippi, on the ninth in
slant.
Long Branch advices say that Grant
viii go into winter quarters at Washington
next Wednesday.
The Pork-Packers' Convention ad-
jonrned in Cincinnati yesterday to meet in
Chicago in October, $50.
The man-of-war Portsmouth, now at
the Brooklyn navy-yard, Is fitting out for az
exploring expedition in the Pacific.
On account of mutiny among the
crew OF the bark City of Hamilton, that vessel
was compelled to put into Isle Of Wight.
At Erie, Pennsylvania, yesterday a
dredge exploded her boiler, instantly killing
one man and sersously fpJuring another.
A telegram received in London yes
terday, from Stockholm. announces the death
Of King Charles Of Sweden the day before.
Fifty children, in charge Of Miss
Rice, sailed from Liverpool for Quebec yester-
day where homes have been secured for them
It is reported that Assistant Treasurer
HinhOuse will be held responsible TO the gov
eminent for the amount Of Johnson's defalea'
ton.
Afearful hailstorm visited the vicinity
Of Halifax, Virginia, on the eleventh instant,
doing considerable damage to the tobacco
crops.
The Pork-packers' Convention reas-
sembled in Cincinnati yesterday, and adopted
a series OF regulations for that branch OF trade
IN future.
John Fore & Co., merchants of Lon
don, failed yesterday with liabilities to the
amount OF fve hundred thousand pounds
sterling.
Peacher's wOOlen mills, in MOntgOm-
/ cry county, Tennessee, are now in full blast
and turning out excellent qualities OF Jeans,
cassimereS, etc.
Charles O'COnOr, yesterday, posi-
lively declared that under no circumstances
would he allow the use Of his name for Mayor
OF New y Ork city.
The Tammany Committee yesterday,
in New York, struck from their rolls the
names Of one hundred men whose political
records are Objectionable.
Captain Charles Kinsey, a clerk in the
St Louis lastOffice, Was yesterday arrested,
charged with the embezZlement Of eleven
thousand dollars worth OF stamps.
Six million dollars is the cost of sink
ing the Vanderbilt railroad track in New
York city, which IS the most gigantic railroad
enterprise on the American continent.
Horace Greeley will be received at
Z Cincinnati to-day t'irE t'nuncil in q
BODY where he will arrive AT forty-fve min
utes after two o'clock in the evening.
The steamer Merrill, which burned at
Warsaw, Illinois, "Wednesday evening, was
in Cincinnati offices for forty thousand dol
lars.
a large tobacco barn belonging to Mr..
Allen I.yle, near Oak Grove. Middle Tenues-
together with ten thousand pounds Of tobacco
nearly cured.
The demonstration at WatertOwn,
Wisconsin. yesterday, on the occasion Of Carl
SchurZs visit TO that city, is reported 10 have
been the largest popular gathering ever assem-
bled in the state.
From nearly every part of the Union
the telegraph announces the holding OF Agri-
cultural and Mechanical Fairs, which are IN
variably attended with most satisfactory evil
dences Of success.
DOlive Deschamps and Desineville,
two Communists, were executed at Sartory,
France, yesterday. They died brayely; their
/ last words were: ''Nive Ia Repubhque! Down
with traitors"
The Directory of the Louisville Indus
| trial Exposition have rendered to all the edi-
tors I'm the United states, and their families
complimentary excursion TO the MahinoIh
/ Gave on next Tuesday.
The work Of revising the Bible is to
| be entered upon Immediately by a number OF
American and English divines, under the di-
rectlon OF Rev. DR.. Philip Schah, Secretary OF
/ the Evangelical Alliance.
| At Stoneham, Massachusetts,, on the
sixth Instant young giri opers5ye s, IN a, shoe no.,
/ machinery by her hair, tearing her scalp
completely from her head.
The Machinists' and Blacksmiths' In
| tcrnatiOnal Convention succeeded in effecting
an organization al Albany, New YORK, yester,
/ day. Twenty-four States and Territories and
/ the Canadas were represented.
The City Council Of Louisville, last
1 night, passed resolutions looking to a grand
reception TO be given to Horace Greeley by
| the city Of Louisville. Judge W. +. Bullock
/ will deliver the address Of welcome.
At Howell's Station, on the Vieksburg
{ and Meridian railroad, one day last week, by
] some derangement OF the switch train was
thrown from the track, by which Colonel b.
| II. Polk and Nj. Seay1 express agent, were Sc
| riOusly injured.
Hon. 5. 5. Cox made a speech in New
| York on last Tuesday night, IN which he al
/ been pilaged and impoverished by the carpet
baggers and official thieves, appointed Tor the
purpose by Grant
Saturday-night street-car riding in
/ New York city Is described by the Tribune as
perilous in the extreme, the cars being crowd
ed with roughs and thieves, who are most OBJ
sceEe and insulting toward themselves and
! everybody else.
I Il is estimated that the amount Of
/ James J. JOhnson's defalcation in the stamp
/ department In the Assistant Treasurer 3 OIflce,
will not exceed one hundred and eighty-hve
thousand dollars II j. not known now the
! fraud was accomplished.
A vote, taken in Enterprise, Mis-
/ sisippi on the twelfth instant, an favor OF is
| suing one hundred thousand dollars in city
4 bonds for the New Orleans and Meridian rail-
road, resulted in ninety-eight for and one
against the proposition
] The total number of troops stationed
| In the southern states is seven thousand eight
hundred and seventy y-nine, OF which the
! largest number-One thousand and nGlY-slN-
| is IN south Carolina, and the smallest number
-sixty-three-is in Arkansas.
One of the amusements INDUCED in
/ by the GRANTEES at Savannah, Georgia, IS TO
get a squad o. negroes together ana lhen
ind Greeley man, and by Insult and
abuse provoke MIN 10 strike, when the whole
crew Pounce upon the unfortunate victim.
The Straight-out Democratic Disorgan-
i fzers' State Convention OF Indiana met at In
dianaPOlis yesterday, and proceeded 10 the
y
was headed by the nomination Of General A.
p Edgarton for Governor, and Green Durbln
for Lieutenant-GOvernor.
Grant told a reporter at Long Branch,
Yesterday that he was delighted with the re-
suit OF the Alabama claims arbitration; that
the contest was not, in his opinion, for dollars
and cents but a preservation OF amity be-
! tween the two countries. with a full and nrm
. l maintenance Of our national dignity 81; and
that. these things having been achieved. we
ought 10 be satisfied.
The standing boast Of the ballOt-bOx
manipulatOrs in the interest OF Grant
is that, awe VIII beat yous because We have
the money to do IL with" 1t is pretty nearly
p | estimated that the amount Of money spent in
/ all the Presidential elections heretofore, and
| by both sides in each, viii not equal the sum
that IS being poured out In the Interest OF the
present administration.
In 1871 a man named Ruth died from
the effects Of poison, At Garnett station, on
the Meridian and Selma railroad, and Dr
| MedlicOtt and Mrs. Ruth were charged with
The crime. DR.. MedlicOu was arrested, and
thrown Into prison 20 await trial. which Oe-
CURED last week and resulted in hls acqulttal
and release from prison where ne had been
| confined for seventeen months
At Meridian, Mississippi, last week a
I negro man died suddenly, and his wife was
chsreed with getting away with her nege IN
e,r,,e7 -, vsferiOusly foul manner. An inquest
SSas held however the verdict of which was
maj ne died OF congestion. Dr. Ed. Lipscomb
eolored. represenfed as a root and Wlteheratt