Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-25
NEW YORK ITEMS.

NEW YORK, June q.
President Grant arrived here to-day,
and goes to Boston tomorrow.
| Judge Lyman Tremain appeared as
one of Stokes's counsel to-day.
A Philadelphia telegram says that the
cabinet-makers' strike has ended, the
men returning to work under the old
system.
George Bowling and W. Middleton,
two of the House of Refuge revolters,
escaped from the ToOmbs last night, and
are still at large. ates E
The United States Treasury will COM
mence to prepay the July interest on
"Wednesday, a considerable portion of
which is due to Europe.
John w. Avery will be hanged Fri
day next, for the murder of Jacob Erb,
at Creeskill, the Court of Pardons hav-
ing refused to commute his sentence.
The yachts Peerless, Foam, Magic,
Tidal Wave, Madeline and Resolute
started from Sandy Hook at one o'clock
to-day on race for the Wallack cup.
Aman named Price is charged with
swindling jersey farmers by selling hats
at Communipaw, not his own. 1t is
said he realized seventy-five thousand
dollars in this manner.
The trial of Van Wirgle Bogert, the
lover and alleged accomplice of Lizzie
Garrabault in the murder of Ransom f.
Burroughs, at Patterson, has been post
poned until September.
Out of the sixth panel of one hundred
jurors ordered in the Stokes trial only
one juror was obtained to-day, making
the tenth-John A. Lefferts, an enamel
er, Of West Twenty-secOnd street.
The New jersey Court of Pardons has
decided to grant the petition of the peo-
pie of Patterson and vicinity, and COM
mute the sentence of Libby Garabrandt
to Imprisonment for life.
The Fire Marshal finished his investi-
CATION to-day into the causes of the dis
astrous explosion in Liberty street on
Saturday night. and has decided that it
was caused by igniting vapor from nj
trOus ether from gas jet.
Mrs. Mary Meyer has brought action
to recover twenty thousand dollars dam
ages from the Central Park North and
East River Company, for injuries sus-
tanned six months ago by being thrown
to the ground by car starting suddenly.
The piano-makers have resolved to
form strong association to resist the
demands of the strikers. The Brooklyn
hack-drivers, who are on strike, threat
en- to interceptal. funerals going TO Flat
bush and Calvary cemeteries.
The works of the Pond Rette Compa-
ny, ON Hackensack river, were burned
last evening. The value of the property
destroyed is estimated at seventy-tiye
thousand dollars. The fire is believed 10
be the work Of an incendiary.
The funeral of General John A. Green
was attended to-day with military
honors. 1t is estimated that fifteen
thousand people turned out. The pro-
cession was one mile and half long.
Among the pall-bearers was ex-Gover-
nor Seymour. -
A telegram from Albany says that
Thomas Quinlan, aged seven, Charles
Walter, aged eight, and Thomas and
James Keehan, aged twelve and thir-
teen, were drowned in the river this
afternoon while bathing. The bodies
have been recovered. ~ r 6
Judge BIatehford has granted an order
for J. A. Heath & Co., of which firm
James II. Ingersoll, the Tammany chair
maker, is principle partner, to
show cause why they should not be de-
clared bankrupt and their estate divided
pro rata among the creditors.
The will of James Scott, clothier, who
bequeathed two hundred thousand dol
lars to Julia Scott, his reputed wife, and
Margaret Kellis, a servant, is contested
by Caroline Scott, who claims she mar
ried the testatOr many years ago, and
never was divorced from him.
The grand trot of the season was ar
ranged to-day, to take place at the Pros
pect Park Fair Grounds on THURSDAY
next, for five thousand dollars, free 10
all, mile heats, best three in i've, for
which Goldsmith Maid, Lucy, American
Girl end Henry have been entered.
1t is believed that a serious question
will arise before the Geneva Board, in
reference to the indirect claims. Adams
holds that the indirect claims are within
the treaty, and that the tribunal should
pasi on the question Of their admissible
ity, while Sir Alexander COckburn
maintains an opposite opinion.
The BARRIERS of seventeen hundred
shops struck this morning for reduced
hours of labor, from seven o'ciock in the
morning TO eight O'Clock in the even
ing, with an hour for dinner. Twelve
hundred shops acceded to the demands
Of the men Immediately. The other
shops still hold out. The strikers re-
ceive assistance from the Eight-HOur
League.
A Buffalo dispatch gives information
that strike is imminent among the
trade organizations. The President of
the international Society, with several
representatives of the strikers in New
York and Jersey City are in the city.
Two lodges of machinists will hold pri-
vate meetings tonight, and public de
mOnstratiOn at the operahouse Is talked
of for tomorrow night.
A Washington special says that the
State Department has received dis
patches from George Holt, our Consul
at Gaspe Bass, Canada, to the effect that
the Captain of the Dominion cutter
Stella Marie, captured the American
schooner James bliss, for alleged viola
tions of the Dominion's laws, and
brought her into port, with the Domin
ion flag at the peak over the American
flag, which was the union down. Our
Consul protested against the insult, but
1t was repeated; and it is understood the
action was sanctioned by the highest
Dominion authorities