Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-11
TELEGRAPHIC MORSELS.

The Spotted Tail party left New Yorl
yesterday for St. Louis.
Joe Puereria stabbed Antoneili Coral
les in New Orleans yesterday, from
which he died soon after.
The leader OF the Irish Band has beer
arrested at Newark, for debt contracted
on fraudulent representation.
Efforts to compromise the Fitzpatrick
COMMISSIONING libel suit have fallen
The case, however, will not go to tria
until next term.
The Democrats held primary meet
| ings in st. Louis last night to elect dele.
gates to the State Convention to be held
on the twenty-flrst instant.
The report that the Car of Russia
/ gave the cold shoulder TO mis- Imperial
! Highness, Prince Freddy Grant j.
denied in letter from 81. Petersburg.
/ The steamer Bristol, with six hundred
passengers, on the Hudson river, was
run into by another vessel. The Bristol
sustained injuries compelling her to be
! beached. Her passengers were all saved.
The United States Commissioner al
! st. Louis, yesterday issued warrants foI
the arrest of six persons, charged with
completely in the whipping of Thomas
Lawson sometime since in Carter
county.
A large audience, composed mainly OF
| irish and Germans, gave enthusiastic
! cheers 10 w. u. Sanders and G.. w.
Hutton, two colOred men, who made
| Greeley speeches last evening at the
corner Of Fortieth street and Ninth
avenue, New York.
a shocking case Of child murder was
/ reported last night at Naples, Illinois.
I A man named Hale disappeared from
there few days since under suspicious
circumstances, and yesterday a new
made grave was discovered near his
house, in which was the body of little
nephew Of his, whom it is said he had
whipped to death.
A Deputy United States Marshal ar
rested nine men at TamarOra, Illinois,
yesterday, suspected Of being members
Of a gang of counterfeiters, whose oper-
atiOns in that neighborhoOd extend over
term Of several years. a considerable
amount of counterfeits was found on the
persons of the accused, and ii is thought
the evidence is sufficient TO convict
part if not all Of them.
The Treasury Department has adopt
ed regulations providing that hereafter
all appointments aud promotions i'm the
New NOrL olstOmhOuse will be made in
accordance with the results of public
competitive examinations, as prescribed
in the rules governing the civil service.
Local examining commissioners have
been appointed for the customhouse and
its several ranches in thatcity.
A dispatch from Chicago SAYS their ap-
pears 10 be little doubt that Osborne, the
man arrested III Peoria county for the
murder Of Mrs. Mathews a few days ago,
IS guilty. The proof is so strong that the
Sheriff and his posse experienced great
difficulty in keeping back the people,
who had gathered with the intention of
lynching him, long enough to get him
on the train to take him 10 jail.
The sale Of the St Louis, Kansas City
and Northern Railroad, better known as
the North Missouri Road, at public auc-
ton in st. Louis, on the eleventh of
September, will be announced Monday.
The sale was ordered by the United
States Court, on petition Of William
HOge, Of Philadelphia, and others, to
satisfy judgments against the road Oh
tained by them last fall, amounting to
over half a million dollars. The Rail-
road Company made no defense.
A Bangor, Maine, dispatch says that
John Bingham, Of Ohio, spoke there
last evening, declaring the struggle Of
to-day to be TO restore power 10 that body
of men who organized the rebellion, and
the question whether, ON cry for new
disposition OF offices, we shall turn our
backs on the man who has not been
found wanting. While Greeley's pri-
vate life was blameless, the speaker did
not think he would be safe as President
de thought the Cincinnati platform an
empty, meaningless affair.