Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-02
NEW YORK.

NEW YORK, November ], I7S2.
! Arrived, steamer Arrogan, from Bris
/ ton, England.
The Scott monument viii be unveiled
/ In Central Park tomorrow.
A. Perry, of Canton, Missouri, wa,
found dead in his bed last night at tn,
Prescott House.
Chief Of Police McWilliams, of JERSEY
City, was this morning bailed in twenty,
one thousand dollars.
Amtells is reported by the examining
physician to have died from exhaustion
not from i'll treatment at Wards Island
as is alleged.
Business is comparatively at a stand
still in Jersey City, consequent upon the
prevalence Of the horse disease. Thirty.
three horses have died.
Marshal Sharpe has decided to ap.
point additional special deputies for ser
vice on election day in those districts
where trouble is apprehended.
An Elmyra dispatch reports the arrest
Of John r. Woodward for an attempt to
bribe electors. He gave bail in one
thousand dollars. Others are suspected.
About three O'Clock this morning, the
st. James Hotel at Rockaway, Long
Island, was totally burned The fire
spread so rapidly that the occupants
scarcely escaped. Loss one hundred
thousand dollars.
Gustave Z. Kirdt, alias Marshall, an
escaped Sing Sing convict, was arrested
in Haekensack, New Jersey, yesterday,
for recent robbery Of a Hackensack
jewelry mandatory, stealing eight
thousand dollars worth Of jewelry.
The funeral of Mrs. Greeley took
place to-day from Dr. Chapin's Church.
The plate on the coffin bore the inscrip-
ton, MARY Y. G. Greeley.n The SER
vices were simple and read by DIR.
Chaplin, who delivered a short address
on the virtues Of the deceased and her
cOnstancy under her sufferings. Her re-
mains were taken TO Greenwood Gene
terry.
Charles O'Conor, VIM. NJ. Evarts,
Joshua NJ. Van Colt, John +. Parsons
and others unite in card advising their
fellOw-citizens TO vote for an amend
ment to the Constitution extending the
term OF the office of Commissioner of
Appeals for two years. The adoption of
the amendment, they believe, would
prevent ruinOus delays Of justice.
The jury in the Hall case disa.reed,
ana were discharged. One report
says they stood seven. for convic-
ton and five against. After the
discharge Of the jury in the Hall
case, the Court adjourned to Novem-
Der 18th, when the prosecution will
ask for the trial Of Tweed. Mayor Hall
remarked on leaving the court, that the
result Of his trial was the greatest disap-
pointment he had experienced in forty
six years.
William Cullen Bryant applied for an
Injunction restraining 'ga working OF all
opposition lines in the United States,
claiming that the operation Of such lines
under the present system, is a violation
on the patent Improvements, which are
claimed to be included in the Morse sys-
tenn. The Western Union Telegraph
Company and the opposition to-day ad-
vanced the rates from this city to New
Haven, Hartford Bridgeford and Phiia-
delphia five cents per ten words.
A special from Washington SAYS Act
ing-Secretary Richardson said to-day
that the use Of the foUr-milliOn green
back reserve was caused chiefly by the
rapid redemption of the three per cent.
certificates during the last few months,
Of which there has been called in about
forty millions, leaving about five mil
lions cut. It is the intention of the
Secretary to reduce, within the next two
weeks, the currency to the lowest author
lied by law-twO hundred and ffty-six
million dollars-and this will, of course,
necessitate the restoration OF the four
million greenbacks issued last month to
the reserve fund again.
At a banquet on board the pioneer
steamer Germaogan, Of the North South
Wales Steamer Company, toasts were
given TO the President Of the United
States and the Queen of England and
the success Of the South Wales Steamer
Company. The latte was responded to
by Archibald Baxter, agent, who in his
remaks 10 the great advantages Of the
line, said il Vas in close connection
with the great railroads on both sides.
They now had on board seal-skins
shipped from from Alaska and San
Francisco, and they would deliver them
i'm London without a cent for carriage.
Archibald is British Consul here and
proposed to trade in New York, and the
head commercial prosperity, he be-
lieved the city was destined to become
the commercial centre Of the world.