Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-14

war IN France.
President Grant arrived at New York
yesterday evening, and left soon after for the
cottage by the sea-"
Mr.. Craigh, wife and daughter were
drowned in Otter-Tan lake, in Minnesota,
while out sailing last Saturday.
The suspension Of J. d. Mckenzie &
Co, tea merchants of Front street, New York,
was announced by telegraph yesterday.
A California juror is making away
with the jury that convicted him. He has
already got two. Pleasant news for the bal
ance.
J. G. A. Thompson, well known as
newspaper correspondent in New York, was
run over and killed yesterday by tram Of
| cars.
! Private advices received at New York
state that Thiers was rather cool toward the
Prince Of Wales during his recent visit 10
Paris.
A ball in the California penitentary,
at st. Quentin, Is the latest novelty. The pro-
eeeds are to go to supply the library Of the
prison.
Joe Jefferson yesterday, in Baltimore,
said that his eyes we're entirely cured, but he
deemed it prudent TO retire from the stage till
next season.
A lion has taken possession of the
woods near Pleasant View, Missouri, and
children are required by their anxious mothers
to stay indoors.
The recent excavations in the upper
part of the city of New York have resulted in
the prevalence OF feyers, many cases of which
have proved fatal.
Delegations from the KiOwas, Conan
che, ArrapahOe, Cheyenne and Wachita
tribes OF Indians have consented 70 visit
washington soon-
Various points in Minnesota have
within the past few days been visited with
destructive rain-storms which have proved
ruinOus TO the crops.
The spike and nail manufacturers of
the Atlantic states, at a meeting in New York
yesterday, agreed 10 advance prices about
twenty-five cents per keg.
The kerosene oil works of Lincoln &
Co., in East Cambridge, MASSACHUSETTS,, were
destroyed by fire yesterday. Loss estimated
at fifty to sixty thousand dollars.
Judge r. J. Vanderpool, in open court
yesterday in New York, delivered eulogy on
the late Judge Hodgeboom, after which court
adjourned in respect TO his memory.
The ex-Union soldiers held a meeting
at Richmond, Virginia, yesterday, az which
General Wells presided. Delegates were ap-
1 pointed to the Pittsburg Convention.
NJ. r. Levison, the man who assisted
Mrs. Vieles in obtaining her child at Lake
Mahope not long since, has been arrested and
will answer to the charge of kidnapping
John o. Whitehouse was yesterday
nominated to Congress from the Thirteenth
New York district by the Liberal and Demo-
I
| Japanese goods enter the United States
free of duty, and Utce verso United States
manufactures enter Japan free. Good We
would like to see all cUstomhouses abolished.
Greeley was at st. Johnsbury, Yer
mont, Thursday, and visited the Vermont
State Fair being held at that place, where he
made short address upon agricultural mat
/ ters.
The War Department at Washington
yesterday issued an order announcing the
death Of General Thayer and directing the
usual salUtes to be fred in honor Of the de-
| ceased.
| VIM. OBrien was sent to Sing-Sing
] prison for term Of ten years yesterday in
| New York, for making a murderous assault
on an officer who was in the act Of arresting
another party.
| A Kingston, Jamaica, dispatch re-
/ ports great destruction 10 shipping and
Wharves and the loss OF many lives by a hur-
ricane which visited that and neighboring
! islands recently.
A New York telegram says that it is
wei authenticated that Ex-Governor Curtin
will accep1 the nomination by the Liberal
/ Republicans as delegate 10 the Constitutional
Convention in Pennsylvania.
Chicago is still holding meetings de-
mandatory of the state Of morals in that
city. She demands the prompt execution OF
/ murderers and punishment of criminals.
Never too late 10 do good deed.
The Masonic Lodge at Corydon, Iowa,
/ together with all the lodge property and
jeWelry, was destroyed by hre Thursday night.
/ Five business houses were also destroyed.
/ Loss about dfteen thousand dollars.
The Chattanooga people are all agog.
/ The formal opening Of the campaign by Gen
/ eral CheathaIn, Andy Johnson and Maynard
/ is an honor they did not bargain for. The
| APPEAL OF tomorrow will contain full re-
/ ports Of the speeches.
Mr.. Alfred Dommett, besung by
/ Browning in "Waring," has really brought
back from his thirty years voluntary exile
poem OF twenty thousand lines. Il is TO be
published soon, under the title, "RanOlf and
Amohie; a South-Sea Dream"
! Thursday was "Black Friday" in
Baltimore, as failures occurred amounting In
| the aggregate to three million dollars. The
failures We're the result OF the reduction in the
tariff and attributable to the legitimate losses
on grocers' trade and coffee.
Honolulu advices received at San Fran
| cisco give full particulars of the massacre of
solomon Islands, which goes 20 show that it
was done In retaliation for the kidnapping of
| the natives by the whites. IL is reported to
have been terrible affair.
| A dispatch from Rome states that
| Cardinal Antonelli had communication from
| the Papal Merciato at Vienna, that the EN-
/ perors in conference agreed to request the
/ Pope to break from the Jesuits, the Emperors
| promising to intercede with Italy in behalf of
/ foreign religious corporations at Rome.
| Five Massachusetts, convicts, in the
/ employ Of the Tucker Manufacturing Com
/ pany at CharlestOwn, yesterday attempted 70
/ escape. When discovered they We're armed
/ with clubs and knives, and provisions for a
/ fortnight. One Of the conyicts informed one
of the watchmen, which led to the discovery.
Mrs. Lamb, of Trimbella, Wisconsin,
| takes all the honors as the first OF modern
Borgias, if she does not outstrip the original.
/ She poisoned her husband, his first wife, then
two sons and a daughter, and three Of her
/ SON She tried IL on fifteen, but it only tOok
/ on eight.
! Suits have been entered, at Boston,
/ in theUnited states District Court, against the
firm Of White, Browne & Co., imhorteTs of
/ dry goods, for deirAuaing the government on
/ eustqmbouse duties to The amount OF one
/ hundred thousand dollars. The alleged
frauds extend from August, 1867, 10 Noyem-
Der, 1863.
General Banks, in his speech at New
/ York Thursday, claimed for Greeley the
States OF New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, ms
diana, Illinois, Missouri West Virginia. 0ld
Virginia, Tennessee apa Afksnsas, and that
/ licah vote OF Vermont had been cut down
over six thousand.
It is thought at the Indian Bureau at
Washington that there is no danger Of an In-
dian war-in the face OF official aayices re.
ceiyed daily 70 the effect teal tl9ulles are ex-
peated all alang the whole line Of the Indian
border. The Executive attention Is absorbed
] IN the second term business too much 70 be ate
| tracted by the wall Of victims Of the murder
Gus devils who are devastating the Western
border. -
A Berne dispatch says the Board Of
Arbitration, accompanied by the Diplomatic
Corpse, and escorted hy the Swiss Fedkerai
| Council, visited Intertachen yesterday,' re-
/ turning t9 Berae at noon yesterday, where q
banquet was given them in the evening. Pres=
/ ident Bruner, 9f the Federal Council, ex-
/ pressed his gratiieation,in behalf Of the Swiss
| government, that a Swiss city was selected Tor
I the meeting of the court. sehloper responded,
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