Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-26
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New YORK, September ga special Lon.
don dispatch says that King Johannese, OF
/ Abysinnia, has sent messenger TO England
with letters foT the Queen, asking the inter
vention Of England against Egypt The same
messenger has letters frOLI France, Russia and
/ Germany.
The steamers Holland and Java have ar
rived from Liverpool
The convention Of General Railroad Ticket
Agents finished its labOrs and adjourned last
evening. Changes in the schedule are Tor the
present withheld from publication, but il is
ascertalned they are mainly on Southern rail-
roads. Several OF them have already gone
into effect, the action OF the convention sim
ply making them authoritative. The pro-
ceedings otherwise have been mostly OF pri-
Yate nature.
At meeting of the Bar Association last
evening, resolutions were adopted providing
a new building for the wants OF the AssOcia-
ton. After a few remarks by T. J. 1ilden and
others upon the recent judicial investigation,
a report was adopted thanking both branches
OF the Legislature for their action. A resolu-
ton was also carried providing for the selec-
ton Of suitable candidates for Judgeships at
the coming election, and for the punishment
Of any of the profession implicated by the in
YesIigatiOn of last winter.
A suit has been begun by the Erie Railway
Company for the recovery Of the Grand Opera
house from Jay Gould and Mrs Fisk.
At meeting OF the Commissioners of I'm
migration, yesterday, an 1nVeStl legation was
ordered into the Insane Asylum at Wards
Island.
The Free Labor Bureau, Soldiers Retreat,
Ambulance Bureau and Inebriate Asylum, on
Wards Island, are to be closed October LIST,
owing 10 a lack Of funds in the Department of
Charities and Correction.
The National Council of the Order of United
American Mechanics, in their session this
morning, transacted business OF no public
Importance.
Specie shipments by the steamer Strausburg
to-day amounted to one hundred and forty
thousand dollars.
In the stock Board to-day Erie declined TO
4g5z, afterward advancing TO 81 regular and 81
cash.
Panama papers OF the thirteenth instant, re-
ceived, state that the steamer NeniedOr eX-
plOded her boilers on Magdalen river, in
GOgala, on the seventh instant, killing three
persons and severely scalding nine others.
Captain BrandfOrd, an American, was blown
into the water, but saved.
sales Of Scranton coal were made to-day as
follows: Lump, $1,000 tons at S3 % to SSG7;
steamboat 5000 tons AT 81 to 81 ~; CRATE,
2lOoO tons at g S21 70 s. %; egg, l999O tons at
s. TO 81 10; stove, 1000 tons at 81 ~ 10 s. s.;
chestnut 1900 tons at s. 20 to $ s21Z. These
prices are an advance on last month.
George VIM. Curtis declines the position of
Presidential ElectOr, fearing he may be ineli4
gible, owing TO his holding office as Civil Ser
vice Commissioner. John \. King is substi-
1t is stated that an editor of the Croaesta
a Spanish paper here, and a Cuban have gone
TO Niagara Falls, where they nght a duel to-
day. growing out OF charge made by the for
mer against revolutionary Cubans They are
accompanied by seconds and surgeons.
The Sun publishes the details OF an atfray At
"
dred and fifty blacks, mostly from Virginia,
and over three hundred whites, who were al
work on the tunnel Of the new railroad from
Perth AmbOy TO the coal mines last Saturday
night. a party of whites who had been
drinking, assailed party OF the negroes, who
had been out serenading, and were repulsed.
They, however, procured reinfOrcements and
resumed the attack, only TO be repulsed a
second time. About midnight the whites ral-
He'd in considerable numbers and attacked
the negroes and burned their buildings. Both
sides were armed with pick-aXes and other
implements. Charles Coll, a white labOrer
was killed during the hight. The Overseer
quelled the riot Most Of the negroes fed to
tAe interior. The whites then, 10 seek ven
geance for the death OF one OF their number,
made an organized attack upon the negroes
and butchered three OF them IN the most hOr-
nble manner. The people in hunterdOn
county are greatly excited. The murderers
and their fellow-wOrkmen have banded
themselves together and resolved 10 resist at
tempts to arrest them, while the sheriff
seems undecided in his operations. Many OF
the negroes have He'd the place.
KrOnheim, q sOn-in-laW OF Johnson s, is also
a defaulter in the sub-treasury, and il has been
sb6Wu that he used in stock speculatiOnS
over one hundred and fifty thousand dollars
of government money, and instead of being
as a witness, he will be tried for the
crime.
steamer gives a detailed account OF the horrors |
Of over-crOwding, bad food, and Outrages Suf- /
fered in a recent voyage.
The official report OF the investigation OF 4
the Mefis disaster results in revoking the licen
ces of the Captain, and first and second pilots. /
The report states that the responsibility Of /
the disaster rests upon Captain Burton and |
the two pilots, and some blame IS attached to /
Deane, the first mate.
Forester is reported to have said yesterday 4
that If he was pardoncd from the Illinois |
prison, he will divulge who is the real mur-
ierer Of Nathan.
There were fourteen oit5Is maze for bonds
to-day, amounting TO e3,5 $40, % at lii.g00ll3.
The amount advertise s- one million dol
aTs, and was sold al illtl1s. i-It