Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-17
NEW YORK.
A Compilation Of Incidents and Topics
Current among the GOthamites
Yesterday.

NEW YORK, August 16.-Attorney
4 General Barlow states that the repOr
I that the civil and criminal suits agains
Tweed, Sweeney and Others have beer
compromised or abandoned, is false
The friends of the defendants in Janu
airy last offered to compromise by the
] payment of certain sums, but Barlow
/ declined the proposition. The hearing
/ on demuTrers will be had in the latter
part Of September on the civil suits, and
I they will probably be tried before the
/ close Of the year; and the criminal suits
Z viii be brought before the courts as soon
as there is judge on the bench in whom
/ the public have confidence.
4 Washington dispatch says that
4 claims aggrecating one hundred and
seventeen millions five hundred thousand
dollars, have been filed before the mixed
/ American and English Commission,
/ from British sources, for damages sus-
/ tanned by seizure and cOnfiscation OF
blockade runners and their cargoes du-
ring the rebellion, by the American gov
eminent.
| The Republican primaries to elect del
/ egates 10 the State Convention, which
meets at Utica on the twenty-f first in
/ slant, We're held tonight in the Assem-
/ bly, districts of this city. Everything
7 passed of quietly. Among the delegates
elected were Thurlow Weed, from the
Seventh Assembly district, and Henry
Clews and Acknowledgement Barlow
| from the Sixth Assembly district.
Flannigan, who murdered his wife
last night, was a raving maniac. In
sanity was caused by recent sickness
and the extreme heat. He stabbed his
wife six or seven times, and furiously
kicked her head and body after death
ere he could be secured. He was carried
to the station, and is in the straight
jacket. He leaves eight children.
There was another heavy thunder
storm between one and two O'clock this
morning, with drenching rain. 1t has
been cloudy since sunrise, but very hot.
H. A. Wise will address the Demo
Gratis here soon, and then leave to attend
the Louisville Convention.
The damage by fire in the press and
paper room of the Christian Onion, last
night, aggregates over thirty thousand
dollars.
The Herald says of the cOlored meet
ing at Cooper Institute last night, that
Saunders a negro DemOcrat) met scant
comfort and no courtesy. but was called
liar, traitor, Judas, and it is evident from
last nights proceedings that Greeley
will encounter the opposition of the en-
tire cOlOred vote Of this State.
There We're thirteen eases Of sunstroke
yesterday, four of which were fatal.
The Helvetia, from London, and the
brig Seabird, from MaracaibO-the latter
with yellow fever on board-have ar
rived at quarantine. All the yellow fe-
yer patients but two on the Spanish ram
are cOnvalescent, and the ram will be
anchored outside the NarrOws to-day.
A letter is published to-day by Attor-
ney-General Barlow requesting Sheriff
Brennan not to arrest Andrew j. Garvey
on a civil process against Tweed, Inger-
soil and others.
Rain has fallen steadily since ten
O'Clock this morning, and continues this
evening. The storm continues at Wash
ington, and the races at Utica were post
pOned on account of the rain.
The international Association of Jour
neymen Tailors to-day elected Jacob
Moistold, of this city, President, James
Robinson, of Syracuse, Vice-President,
and o. G. HOugendOble, Of Philadel-
phia, Secretary. The convention ad-
journed to meet in Norfolk, Virginia,
on the second Monday in August, 1878.
The yacht Blossom was capsized in a
storm yesterday OFF Tar Rock. The
crew, numbering eleven, saved their
lives by clinging to the bottom of the
yacht, where they remained five hours
IN the storm. They finally righted the
yacht and beached her.
A convention of lager beer sellers and
liquor dealers met in this citv to-day.
for the purpose Of organizing a central
association to work for the election of
nOn-prOhibitOry men this fall.
William Page, the artist. was NOT
attacked by paralysis as reported yester-
day. He was overcome by exhaustion,
hut recovered to-day.