Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-28
Gotham ia Brief.

The Brazilian Princes visited West
Point, yesterday.
President Grant leaves Long Branch
for Washington, on Wednesday.
The ToOmbs physician states that
Stokes is again showing sickness.
The Fenian Brotherhood held a secret
convention last week in this city.
Sixteen hundred poor children en-
jOyed their fifteenth free picnic, yes
terday.
Ex-President Duelas, of San Salvador,
was taken i'll here Saturday and is now
dying.
/ The Committee of Seventy ask for the
appointment of ten hundred and thirty
six inspectors of election.
ThurloW Weed publishes a card say
ing that General Dix's nomination
meets with Judge Robertson's hearty
approval. --
The Stal's Washington correspondent
reaffirms the statement that a truce has
been arranged between Forney and
Cameron.
The proprietors of the several gam
blinghOuses and faro-banks on Broad
way and Amity street, were arrested
and locked up last night. " SO
John Hart, the boy shot at the Ex-
press Office by James Corrigan, another
boy, this morning, will die, the bullet
entered under the left eye.
Three thousand negroes were present at
a Grant meeting in The Twentieth ward
last night. Speeches were made by
Garrett Butler, Francis s. Clay and
others. .UCs
The excursion of the veterans of the
war of 1912 to Staten Island, yesterday,
was quite an extensive affair. Nearly
three thousand persons accompanied
them. -,.
1t is reported that leading Democrats
have agreed TO propose Charles O'Con-
nor as candidate for Governor of this
State at the Democratic Convention at
Syracuse. -4AAr
Greeley leaves for another Eastern
tour on September lst, passing through
! Rhode Island, and delivering the open
| ing address of the Vermont State Fair
on the twentieth. rriE 5zs
Letters, uia Copenhagen, from r. w.
1 Bryan, astronomer Of the Polaris expe-
| dition, say the health of all on board is
/ good, and they are confident Of reach
ing the pole sOOR.1 RI r'[FTrTF .r1
GuideOD, a custOmhouse broker, was
arrested and held in three thousand dol
lars bail on the charge of making false
atfidavits, on damaged goods, to defraud
the customhouse. -. ...-..'
A locomotive and two freight cars
laden with whisky were smashed, and
the whisky burned, at Jersey City, by a
collision with another train-,. Loss, one
hundred and fOrty-one thousand dollars.
The Worlds White Sulphur Springs
special claims that the result Of the
West Virginia election is still in doubt.
The eastern counties have given unex-
peetedly large majOrities for the consti-
The property of the Staten Island
Railroad Company, at auction, was sold
10 George Law for three hundred and
ninety-nine thousand dollars, The
steamer Westfield was sold separately,
bringing forty-s thousand dollars.
Arrangements have been completed
for furnishing half-rate tickets to the j
Louisville Convention from New York, !
Boston and Philadelphia. A special |
train Of palace-cars viii leave Jersey
City on Friday evening at seven o'clock.
n newspaper reporter, naNlnR 1elgned |
lunacy, was sent 10 the Bloomingdale
asylum, where he remained two weeks >
On writ Of hu6eas corpus being issued |
for him he was discharged by the Super
intendent, in order to eYade investiga-
ton.
Excursion tickets from Boston to
Louisville and return, are issued at
twenty-seven dollars, and from New
York 20 the same place and return for
twenty-four dollars, and good from Au-
gust 18th to September 18th, over the |
Erie route. AZ ..,l
Comptroller Green refuses to pay the
increase in the salary of the Justices Of
District Courts, from hvetO ten thousand
dollars, on the ground that such increase |
was illegal. He viii pay but five
thousand dollars Annually, aud suits for |
the remainder are to follow. = 9
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