Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-16

New YORK, June l5-
Depositors in the Union Square Ma
tional Bank were paid final dividend
of fifty per cent. to-day. @
A. H. Reavy and George III. Thomas
were to-day acquitted Of the charge Of
forgery, for which they had been on trial
several days.
Senators Wilson, Of Massachusetts,
and Trumbull and Rice, are reported by
the World as visitors to the Liberal Re
publican headquarters. --. ....
A civil service commission, from
Washington, is here educating custom
house officials in reference to the exam
ination of office-seekers.
One Of the four-story grain ware
houses and an elevator at the Atlantic
docks, Brooklyn, were burned tonight.
Loss, forty-five thousand dollars. -
A vigilance committee has been
formed in East New York, with view to
bringing to punishment the incendiaries
who recently fired a number of build
ings.
General Franklin, General r. Haw-|
ley, Of Hartford, Sir Bache Cunard, Ole
Bull, and several delegates to the Inter
national Prison Congress, sailed to-day
for Europe.
At Jerome Park to-day the first race,
free handicap sweepstakes, one mile and
i've furlOngs, was won by MILDLY; beat
ing Mary Louise, second, by neck, and
Frank Hampton third. Time, S:06+.
A motion to quash recently found
whisky indictments of the United States
Grand jury was renewed to-day. After
listening to an argument of two hours,
Judge Shipman adjourned the court.
AT West Point, yesterday afternoon,
the ceremony Of awarding diplomas to
KNAPP delivered the speech, and made
an eloquent address. The graduates
viii be relieved from duty to-day.
The German military music corps of
Berlin destined for GilmOre's Jubilee, ar
rived this morning, and met with a cor
dial reception from their German friends.
Strauss, the well known Opera director,
and others, made speeches. They weut
to Boston tonight. @
An Oswego special states that a phe-
nomenon occurred in the lake on Thurs
day. The water rose two feet and then
fell, and continued this movement for
some time. Fish came to the surface,
and there were other indications OF 8
submarine earthquake.
It is reported here that General Sickles
is en- route to this country, after q sharp
search for Lagrave, the swinding mer-
chant. Detectives have concluded that,
he is not in this country, and that he
has carried away two hundred thousand
dollars in cash with him.
The sugar refners of New York and
Brooklyn have decided to suspend opera
tioDs, and have recalled all their avail
able stocks to keep the market from
corner. The manufactures at their
meeting to-day resolved to 60 into
lockout, which will deprive three thou
sand men Of work.
The race for the Monmouth cup, at
Long Branch, Tuesday, July 22d, for
which Harry Bassett and LOngfellOw
are entered, is exciting great interest
among sporting men and the public
Many thousand dollars are already bet
on the result, the odds being slightly in
favor of Bassett, who is a favorite with
Eastern men.
A deputation from the Iron and Metal
Workers League waited on Police Com |
missioner Smith to-day, and asked him
il the police had orders TO club inoffen- |
sive citizens. The Commissioned replied I
that at the present time the police had
a great responsibility on them in pro-
tecting those persons menaeed by the |
strikers, and that complaints should be |
made in the form of charges. -.
The Times declares that Sheriff Bren-
nan charges the county one dollar and
fifty cents for an arrest, when the law
allows but fifty cents. For commit |
ments, at fifty cents, the Sheriff 5 fees /
would amount 70 two hundred and fifty
seven thousand three hundred and thir- |
ty-three dollars, and for other fees and |
expenses, making a total Of one million |
five hundred and six thousand one hum I
dred and twenty-five dollars for 1871.
Tba damage by the hurricane yester- |
day was considerable. Many persons |
in both New York and Brooklyn were
injured, and in the latter place three /
persons were killed. AT Winfield, Long |
Island, a bell-tower fell on a train of
cars, demOlishing portion of the train;
no passengers were injured. AT Jersey i
City, the grain storehOuse of the Penn I
sylvania Central railroad was blown |
down, causing s loss of several thousand
dollars. a Essf o. /
A dispatch from Geneva, dated mid
night, says: One Of the Commissioners
has just informed me that nothing is at
present known as to what answer the /
arbitrators will give 60 the English de-
mand for adjournment II is probable
that an opportunity viii be given to
state the matters of the difference be-
fore the arbitrators. Neither side now
failure The time OF the
meeting of the arbitrators has been post
poned until the arrival Of the mail train
late in the afternoon. ~ f...f---t