Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-21
NEW YORK.

General Summary OF News and Incl
dents Of Yesterday-The City of
Gotham and its Gossip.
New YORK, August 20.-Rio JaneirC
adyices state that the prospect of wal
between Brazil and the Argentine Con.
! federation being dissipated, a board O
engineers, splendidly equipped, left Rio
! for Parana Urna, to make a survey
across the southern section of Brazil, W
the north line to Paraguay, and perhaps
on to the Pacific. The intention is tC
/ mark out the course of a Brazilian rail
road to the Pacific. English capitalists
will furnish the funds.
A Port Jervis dispatch reports great
destruction of property and crops by
recent storms. A hurricane swept
through the towns of Wayway and Sui
livan, roofing up trees, and destroying
everything before it. AT Youngville, in
the same county, many fruit orchards
were destroyed. Stephen ThOrne's ma
chine works, at Stamford, were destroy
ed by lightning, together with four thou
sand dollars worth of property. Henry
Meade and family, six persons, were
prostrated by the shock, but none injured
fatally. Several houses were struck by
lightning, and persons injured, in Mont
gOmery county. Mill dams and bridges
were carried away in Chemung and
Delaware counties. The streams were
swollen to torrents in Delaware county.
The police captured three thousand
dollars worth of bronzes, fine clocks,
etc, and two thieves. Where the prop
erty was stolen is not yet known.
There were seventeen cases of sun
stroke, yesterday, in this city and
Brooklyn. The weather, this morning,
continues extremely hot, notWithstand-
ing heavy rain last night.
Mace and O'Baldwin left here last
night for some unknown place. Their
referee has not left, and the fight will not
come off for day or two. 1t is believed
that the fight will come off in the vicin-
ity of Niagara Falls, on the Canada
side.
Samuel Laird, proprietor of the Man.
sion House and the United States Ho-
tel, died at Long Branch, yesterday,
aged fifty-five years.
Five hundred manufacturers are rep
resented at the Newark exposition
which opens to-day.
The German Turner festival closed at
JOnes's Wood this morning, after keep
ing up the festival all night
A Paris dispatch states that Wash
buTne, in an interview with Thiers yes
terday, proposed that the postal treaty
with the United States be concluded at
once.
The officers of the frigate Shenandoah
are to be banqueted at Fonville, in a few
days, by the French naval officers.
Prince Augustus, of SAKE Coburg,
husband of the Princess Imperial Leo
pOldine of Brazil, arrived here yesterday
from Rio on a Western pleasure tour,
with six attendants.
The Board of Aldermen have refused
to allow sacred concerts in Central Park.
DR.. Howard, lately released by Spain,
arrived here to-day on the steamship
from Cadiz.
The Times Utica dispatch says that
Governor Morgan, General Dix and
Judge Robinson are the most prominent
candidates for the Governors nOmina-
ton. Lyman TTemaine vii be nomina-
ted forCOngress at large by acclamation.
Surveyor Cornell is named for Lieuten-
Greeley will deliver
three agricultural addresses during the
coming fair week.
West Virginia advices say that the
contest is growing very exciting as the
election draws near. The majority will
be less than two thousand either way.
Prince Philippe, of SAKE, brother of
the sOn-in-law to the Emperor of Brazil,
has arrived in Java, and Joins his
brother in a quiet tour to the United
States.
The new Grand Master of Odd Fellows
Of the State of New York is Mr.. William
Lacey, of Albany, a well-known jour
nalist.
Bergh's officers turned a large number
Of sick horses off the Boston express
train last night, and compelled them to
use others to drag the cars from Forty
second street to Twenty-seventh street. !
T Maggie Fritz, who was supposed TO |
have died from sunstroke, proves to |
have been murdered by John Goory, |
who struck her on the head with lager |
beer glass. Goory has been arrested.
The grain elevators at Fay's dock, on |
turman street, Brooklyn, are protected |
oy the police against the members of
he Long Shore Mems Society, some
Df whom threaten to drive the non-sO-
'iety men from work. The latter were
employed yesterday in the place of dis
charged society men. The police have
orders TO drive away any mob which
nay appear, and arrest all attempting
o interfere with the men at work.
Application will be made tomorrow
or the release on bail of George Wind
ey, brother of Mrs. Fanny Hyde, who
murdered George Watson. Windley
has been in Jail since April.
The steamers Java and Manhattan
IrTived from Liverpool.
A special dispatch from Saratoga
ays that many eyes were dimmed
With tears when the Impeachment vote
vas taken. Barnard's successor cannot
'e elected until next year, and a
emporary appointment will hold until
January first, 1874.
No new cases of yellow fever have oc-
urred on board the Numantia or the
ther ship anchored in the bay.
Professor Charles L. Balch, promi-
lent member of the Liberal CLUB, died
Iere yesterday, from the effects of an
of morphine, taken to relieve
General n. b. franklin and ChevaIier
)e Qulllinan arrived to-day on the Java.
Dr. Howard, who wassreleased from
.rlson at Madrid, was a passenger on
he steamer Alexandria, which arrived
O-day.