Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-22
ELEcTRIc WAIFS.

rived at New York yesterday
The Presbyterian General Assembly
at Detroit, Michigan. Is well attended.
We get about twenty pages Of tcle-
graph every night detailing the base re
suits Of base bali contests.
The boss eabinet-makers briek-makers
and stone-masons have yielded to the
strikers in New York.
The philanthropists Of Louisville held
a meeting Monday to establish a home
for newsbOys and boOtblacks.
Whitmonday was very generally cele-
brated by the Germans of New York
yesterday. The entire TegtOnic popuia-
ton participated.
The total reduction in the tariff aud
internal revenue by the bill which
four million dollars.
At the boat-race on the Sehuylkill
Monday evening the Biglin boys wen
by ten or twelve lengths. Great crowds
witnessed the contest.
Extensive preparations are making fol
a Greeley and Brown ratification meet
ing in Union Square, New York, on the
tw~enty-eighth instant.
A Louisville policeman chased tive
suspicious men Whom he found In an
clubhouse, and shot one that offered re-
sistance. he died shortly afterward.
The Illinois Republican State Conven-
ton meets at Springfield to-day. A full
State ticket will be nominated, and dele
gates selected to the Philadelphia Con-
vention.
The New York Tribune has created a
sensation by the astounding revelation
that near eight thousand quarts more Of
milk are sold daily in that city than is
brought to market.
The Baltimore and Ohio railroad has
reduced the fare from Cincinnati to
Philadelphia and return, to the Repub-
lican National Convention, to ten dol
lars, with the privilege of visiting Wash
ington on the same ticket.
A dispatch received at Madrid, Spain.
from Biscay, report of the Carlist organi-
cation that the province has been COM
pleteiy annihilated. Five thousand in
surgents surrendered to the loyal forces
en- Sunday last. Order is now restored
through the entire province.
A dispatch from Washington says
that although the House passed the Sen
ate resolution to adjourn ON the twenty
ninth Of May, some members, together
with several Senators, say that the time
viii be extended in order that the Senate
mey transact its necessary business.
A special from Dubuque to the ST.
Louis Democrat says that two boys were
drowned there Saturday night, and that
a man and two young women shared
the same fate Sunday. The cause in
both instances was the upsetting of the
skiffs in which they were in. Nc names
given.
A railroad contractor named Robert
White was shot, it is supposed fatally,
by Franklin Norton, st Rockaway,
Long Island, yesterday. The difficulty
grew out of the disputed right of way of
the South Side Railroad Company. The
latter having been successful in the
courts, had contracted with. White to
commence operations on NOrton's farm.
The telegraph says that the strike of
the variouH trade organizations for the
enforcement of the eight-hour law is
virtually over, and has been attended
with complete success. The brieklayers
resume work tomorrow. The boss ear
penters, at a meeting Monday night, en-
deavOred to compromise on nine hours,
but the men held out, and finally eight
hours was conceded.
The Could Gordon case came up again
in New York yesterday before Judge
Leonard in the Supreme Court cham
bers. On the motion to punish Gordon
contempt of court in failing to ap-
pear and be examined in the suit now
pending between him and Jay Gould,
Judge Leonard decided that he would
issue an attachment unless Gordon APP
peared tomorrow to testify.
The National Christian Association,
opposed to secret societies, held a prayer
meeting at Oberlin, Ohio, yesterday
morning at the Second Congregational
Church, where its sessions are to be held.
A large number of delegates are present.
delegates declare it to be
their belief that the association viii
make a nominee for the Presidency.
The probable candidates are Carpenter,
Of Chicago, and ]. blanchard, of Whea-
ton, Illinois.
A singular attempt at triple muir
der was made in Chicago Monday
about twelve o'clock neal the cor
of Harrison street and Fifth avenue.
Three men, who had been drinking to-
in a beer saloon, started home
about that hour, when a man, whom
hey all deny having ever seen before,
suddenly sprang upon them, and with
large knife stabbed each of them, in |
serious wounds. 1t is thought
hat n of the victims will die. The
nan was subsequently arrested, and
confessed having committed the deed,
1ut gave no reason for it.
A Washington special says the For
,ign Relations Committee on Equity are |
in investigating the cireum-
connected with the premature
of the Washington Treaty
correspondence. Experienced has proved
he fudlity of IN attempt to get inform
ItiOn from newspaper correspondents, /
the committee have hit upon the
lOvel plan of investigating the Senate
They began with the members of
he committee, and will soon examine
ach member of the Senate, requiring
ach one to produce his copy of the cor
espondence or prove that he has it in
lis possession.
A special from Houghton, Michigan, |
the Daily Wisconsin says sever pris-
ners were arrested on Saturday night
nd lodged in Jail. While the arrests
7ere being made the leaders gave three
roans for the Sheriff and the officers of
be mine and three cheers for the sol
iers. No resistance was made by those
rFested. Bail to the amount of twenty
housand dollars has been offered for
heir release, but not accepted. 1t is
that by Wednesday the Calu-
let and Heela mines will be at work
gain. MIR. Agassiz, President Of these
lines, arrived at HOughton yesterday,
nd will either start the miners to work
eject them from their houses at once.
hould the latter be the case, it is hard
} say what the result would be with the
Their mines, as all those now at work
re waiting the issue of the Calumet and
Iecla strike. The strikers resumed their !
.bors with.the understanding that they
lould receive whatever was agreedupOn /.
Y the Calumet and Hecla mines. The
at the Calumet reports every
ling quiet there, except some few sol
iers and Irishmen slightly under the
lfluence of ardent spirits.