Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-07
MINOR M%AGNETICS.

The Republicans have carried Oregon.
Josie Mansfield is making a sensation
in Columbus, Ohio.
The general Synod of the Reformed
Church in America, met in Brooklyn
Tuesday.
While others are striking for eight
hours, the BARRIERS Of New York insist
upon twelve.
The Vanderbilt ticket wa reelected
in the Hudson River railroad meeting
at Albany yesterday.
Isaac Plat, editor and proprietor Of
the ~POukeepsie New York Eagle,
died yesterday, aged sixty-nine.
The French musicians arrived at New
York yesterday, en- route to Boston, to
participate in the great musical festival.
Three sea-lions, largest eighteen thou
sand pounds weight, will be forwarded
TO Cincinnati from San Francisco to-day.
A coal train being precipitated down
a bank or the Erie road at Port Jarvis
yesterday, caused the death of a fire
man.
Yesterday morning the north side of
the public square in Pulaski, Tennessee,
WAS burned. Loss twenty thousand dol
lars.
The schooner Euola f., Of Gloucester,
Massachusetts,, has been seized at Trim
ity Bay, for the violatiQR Of the fisheries
laws.
The people Of the Third Congressional
District in North Carolina want the
Baltimore Convention to indOrse
Greeley.
The House bill to grant the right of
way TO the New Mexico and Gulf rail-
road was read and passed in the Senate
yesterday.
A fire at Newcastle, Indiana, Monday
night, burned twenty-five thousand dol
lars worth Of property, insured in the
Phoenix, of New York.
The Turkish'government have exhib-
tied most remarkable liberality toward
the Antioch sufferers, as also the native
communities in Syria.
Hon. L. c. GTier, Judge of the Eigh-
teenth Judicial Circuit Court, of Michi-
gan, died in Bay City last night of con-
sumption. Age thirty-nine years.
The Labor Reformers in Philadelphia
have rejOiced in the triumph of the
eight-hOur wrinkle ia New York. They |
recommend all hands to work for SINH
lar results everywhere.
The National Reform Uuniou Of Man
chester, England, at a meeting last
night, adopted resolutions supporting
the policy of the government in the re-
cent Alabama negotiations.
The workingmen's strike in New
York Is assuming troublOus shape.
Tho ralfaa f.raa nor, Eln laV,lTH -. he ]
ferent parts Of the city all day yester-
day to prevent the outbreaks that We're
apparent.
Advices from Rome state that there
has been a great in~undatiOn of the river
Pc near Ferrara, causing widespread
desOlatiOn and terrible suffering. I'm
mense tracts of land are under water,
foTty-thOusand people are h0useless
A dispatch from Liverpool says the
the Band Of Grenadier Guards will
not sail for America. An objection in
the House Of Lords last Monday even
ing to the action of the government au-
thOrizing the departure OF the band has
led to its recall.
Captain -CalvOcOresses, who was muir
dered in Bridgeport on Monday night,
had one hundred and eighty-five thou
sand dollars insurance on his life, fifty
seven thousand five hundred dollars
being in Hartford offices, and the Con-
neetieut Mutual having Twenty-Five
thousand dollars.
Two burglars who hired a room in the
building adjoining the First National
Bank on Montgomery street, Jersey
City, succeeded in cutting through the
last night, but were captured be- Z
they had committed the robbery of !
the vaults. They pursued exactly the J
plan that was 50 successful in the BOyls- 9
on robbery in Boston.
Marquis LansdOwn, one of the Lords I
II the Treasury, addressed a public E
Meeting az Bath, England, yesterday {
in which he declared that the !,
peech recently made by D'Israeli at I
Manchester, and by Earl Russell in the =
House Of Lords, for the withdrawal from !
negotiations, were distractions to an o
.micable settlement Of differences with .
he United States.
Montreal has been designated as the /
lace of the next annual meeting Of the !
International typographical Union. .
meeting at Richmond Tuesday
a resolution cOndemning the Z
iractice Of making any religious or Do A
ItIcal qualification in members. A res u
luton was also adopted admitting fe- +
males into the Union. The time of ap- \
Tenuees was fixed at four years. h
The following report Of the Joint Com Il
nittees Of the Reform and Democratic =
artIes was adopted at New Orleans YES =
arday: First-That neither party will {
elinquish its separate organization. C
the difficulties In the way z
I joint action by the two conventions =
2 common, are insUperable. Third j
hat cooperation must either be aban- p
oned, or must be Te-committed to the v,
ommittees Of the respective conven- :
.ons. 4
The convention Of Civil Engineers a
ret IN Chicago yesterday. Z. S. Ches- 4
foug, Of Chicago, was elected President z
II the ensuing year, and f.. p. Boiler, q
New York, Assistant-Secretary They :
an annual banquet in the fremont (
ouse IN n evening. Delegates were n
nom Kentucky, Massachusetts,, :
mode Island, Pennsylvania, Missouri \
Connecticut, New Jersey, Michigan and al
Wisconsin. CT
Washington specials say hat the 9
Government, Fronting nv The J
Kample set by the British Government y
dealing with the United States in re-
ard to indirect claims, have notified its !,
linister here that the only condition on /
'hich DIR. HOUard can be Immediately ii
eleased, is, that the United States ask =
n IL as a favor, and not on the ground
lat he is an American citizen. II the =
nited States should persist in declaring
lat DR.. HOuard is an American citizen.
le Spanish Government will be COM
alled to enter into AN investigation ia
lspose Of that claim, meanwhile to re-
in DIR. Houard as a prisoner. A mem. {
r of the Committee on Foreign Affairs II
iys this is the first fruits of our new b
policy. ~