Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-30
NEW YORK.
New York Delegates TO Baltimore In
structed to Vote for Greeley
Yesterdays Events.


New YORK, May ga large brick
building, occupied by Faber & Co. as a
pencil mandatory, took fire this
morning, and, together with some
squatters' shanties, the occupants Oi
which had to flee for their lives, was
totally consumed, with a loss of over
one hundred thousand dollars. IT is
supposed to be insured.
A large number of bidders, from all
parts of the country, were present yes
terday at the meeting of the Indian
Commission, and five bids were received.
The bids for twenty-seven million
pounds Of beef on the hOof ranged from
one dollar and eighty-four cents to four
dollars per hundred pounds. The
awards will be made at from one dollar
and eighty-four cents to two dollars and
sixty cents. The bids for seven and a
half million pounds of -four ranged from
two dollars and eighty-five cents to four
dollars per hundred pounds.
A Democratic organization, under the
leadership of Ben. Wood, last evening,
adopted resolution to cooperate with
the Liberal Republicans at the mass
meeting to be held next Monday night.
A motion tOinstruct the New York dele
vote for Horace Greeley was unani-
mously carried.
Yesterday was the fRst day of the
spring meeting at Prospect Park Fair
Grounds. The race for the Association
purse No. /, mile heats, best three in
five, to harness, was won by T. Rawl-
ings' b. g. George; time, 2;34, 2'S63 and
1864. Purse No. ., mile heats, best
three in five, to harness, was won by
Honest Dutchman; time, 2:2Si, 2:274
and 2:264.
James Gordon Bennett, of the Herald,
is i'll.
The Herolds dispatches from Wash
ingtOn say that the protocol indonsed by
the Senate is said to be so arranged as
to be a declaration of principle, instead
of a final surrender of the demand for
consequential damages, and that there
is a probability, in consequence of the
on the part of Great Brit
ain, that the whole subject may again
be made the occasion for further diplO-
matte correspondence. Secretary Fish
thinks the Administration has won a
victory, and the President
says he won't recede any further.
A telegram from Madrid says the fol-
lowing is the state of the cricis in the
cabinet: On presentation of the budget
it was discovered that twenty million
dollars had been taken from the colo
NAL fund and used in the internal
service. 1t transpired that it had really
been used in the police spy system. The
result of the expenditures which Sa-
gosa was forced to display were facts
which compromise every person of
connected with the Spanish
SerranO is said to be en-
gagged in plot to place the reigning son
Of EX-Queen Isabella on the throne.
COstellar is implicated in a plot to seize
all the coin in the bank of Spain. King
Amedeus is distrustful of all his advis-
ers and is asking his fathers advice
about the expediency of calling on Prus-
sia for aid.
Colonel Stebbins has resigned as Pres
ident of the Department of Public
Parks, H. L. Olmstead was appointed
in his place.
In the Methodist General Conference,
.O-day, another ballot was taken for ed
tor of the Ladies' Repository.
A report was made from the Commit
zee on Episeopacy relative to the admin
of the Bishops in the Book
Concern investigation. The report ap-
proved of the concurrent relation the
Bishops sustained to the Book Concern
Turing the Investigation, and recon-
nended that their action be indOrsed,
which was agreed to. 1t was then
that no one was
yet elected editor of the Ladies
on the fourth ballot. |
IN the fifth ballot DIR. E. Went
worth, of Troy, was elected editor of the
ladies' Repository. DIR. Cherry, was
hen elected editor of the New York
Christian Advocate, receiving. two hun
lred and five votes. The other candi- |
late was the Rev. DR.. Fowler. The
ON the state of the church re-
ported in favor of inserting a clause in
he discipline forbidding the drinking of |
pirituous liquors, theater going, and the !
lse of sinful words or the display of bad !
emper. A warm debate ensued on this !
question. Professor +. S. HOyt, of Ohio, |
vas elected editor of the Western
Christian AdUOcdte, and Arthur Ed
wards of the Northwestern Christian
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