Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-16
YESTERDAYS WIRE-WORKS


The nomination of Greeley and
Brown was ratified by the people of
Petersburg, Virginia, in mass meeting
assembled on Monday. Several promi-
nent Nirginians made speeches.
Mrs. Tennie Claflin wants to get into
| the boots left vacant by dead Jennie
York. She don't want the breeches.
They are ga world too wide for her
shrumken shanks.n
Extensive and complete ARRANGE
ments for the reception of members of
the press attending the Boston Peace
Jubilee have been made. A cordial in
vitation has been extended to all
throughout the country.
Marshal Bazine it is though will be
put under arrest, but will be allowed to
remain at home. Guards have been
placed in the grounds surrounding his
residence, to prevent outsiders from
communicating with him.
A schooner arrived at Copenhagen
from Iceland reports a series of violent
earthquake shocks at Hasvoick on
April 10th, 18th and 18th. Twenty
houses were destroyed and severel per-
sons injured, but no lives lost.
Hon. Alfred Huger, a weIl-knOwn
Charlestonian, and conspicuous in the
days of notification and secession, died
in Charleston yesterday, aged eighty
four. He was postmaster of Charleston
from the time of President Jackson un-
til 1865.
Great rejoicing was had at Galveston
yesterday on the seating of Giddings in
=, A I'll
LITIGATION meeting in honor of the event
will be held at Brenham on Monday.
At Manuel guns were fired in honor of
the event.
A clever way to cover up murder is
that practiced in Indiana. First club
your victim to death, then put his body
across a railroad track to be mangled
by the cars. This was tried near Jeffer-
son on Tuesday, but failed. No clue to
the perpetrators.
A telegram from Scranton, Pennsyl-
vania, says: "The fires in the woods in
this vicinity are still raging in many
quarters, destroying a vast amount of
lumber and timber. A number ofbarns,
small houses, etc, have been destroyed
in the vicinity of Moscow and Lehigh
Falls"
The civil authorities of Cass county,
Missouri, having failed to bring to justice
the murderers of Stephenson, Kline and
Duto at Gum City, that county on April
oath, issued a. proclamation yesterday
offering three hundred dollars reward
cash, for the persons engaged in that
crime.
a young tailor named Matthew
Sailik, in Chicago, has beeh missing
some two weeks, and night before last
his body was found in the river near
the city, with a bullet wound in his
breast. 1t is believed lie was muir
dered and robbed, and his body thrown
into the river.
Mr.. Brooks, of New York, in Con-
gress yesterday, deplored the terms
of Grants message as calculated to
destroy immigration and repel all
Europeans, just as heavy taxa
railroads out of Tennessee. Ben. Butler
said he was happy to know that Grant
wanted to make the foreigners the
''wards of the nation" The negroes on
the floor saw at once that they were to
to be cheated out of their places at the
cOuntry's breast, and there was much
perspiratiOn. The thing was referred.
The Marshalltown Iowa Times says
that Messrs. Boardmann and Woodbury.
viii visit New York soon in the interest
Of Rev. Joel Edwards, looking after the
eighty-two million dollar estate, which
is located mostly in New York city and
was originally leased for ninety.nine
years, which has just expired, by Robert
Edwards, the grandfather of our friend
Joel. The vast estate, equal to a princi-
pality, falls TO Joel and thirty-four other
heirs. 1t is the opinion of those ac-
quainted with the facts in the case that
it is only a question of time as to its re-
alization by the heirs. If compromise
is effected Joel viii soon have his three
million.