Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-23
NEW YORK.
Gossip OF the GOthamltes Yesterdays
Incidents, Accidents and Topics
Done Up In Brief.

New YORK, August 22.-The ApOll
Hall Democrats have decided TO hOl'
elections in all the Congressional dis
tricts of this city, to elect delegates Z
/, the Louisville Convention. The EXecu
tive Committee will meet for that pur
pose this week; also to recommend th'
4 support of General Dix.
The New Jersey streight-Out Demo
crats meet in Convention at Trenton on
Saturday, to elect delegates to the Lou
isville Convention, and to choose STATE
Electors. Addresses will be made by
Samuel J. Bayard and Judge Flanders
Colonel Mosby writes that Grant will
carry Virginia, unless O'COnOr is nOmi.
mated, who will then carry it by twenty.
five thousand majority.
Copies of BlantOn Duncan's circular
/ calling for the election Of delegates tC
the Louisville Convention, were sent
/ from Washington yesterday.
A Washington special says it is re-
/ ported that Judge Bond has arranged tC
/ have the enforcement act, as amended
/ by the last session of Congress, put in
/ force i'm North Carolina during the
coming Presidential election.
! The World says the resolution of the
J State Republican Convention yesterday
inviting Democratic votes, and the nom-
| ination of General Dix a their candidate
| for Governor, amounts to an abject ap-
| peal for Democratic assistance, and that
/ there was never a worse beaten ticket
/ than this one will be, headed by Dix on
/ the pretense that he is a Democrat.
/ The Times considers the ticket the
strongest that could be made. OF the
| platform. it SAYS that il pledges the Re
4 publican party to continue reform, and
invites honest Democrats to assist in the
work. The Tribune and Herald think
General Dix the very strongest nomina-
ton that could have been made by the
Republicans. ThurlOw Weed influenced
the convention to take this course.
Prince Sunalis, of the Sandwich
Islands, arrived yesterday, and proceed
ed to Washington.
The Spanish frigate Numancia has
been condemned by the health officers
as plague-ship. She is undoubtedly
an old, infected ship. Fumigation is
useless, and new cases of malignant dis
eases break out daily. The applications
of her commander for divers to clean
her bottom, and for coal, have been de-
MED.
An engraver named Cunningham was
arrested here for manufacturing bogus
warrants of the State of Mississippi, of
which it is said fifty thousand dollars
were paid at the Auditors Office of that
State.
The recent collapse of the wheat "cor-
ner'' at Chicago does not affect parties
here, as dealers at the New York Pro-
duce Exchange held aloof.
A Steubenville dispatch says Mace
and O'Baldwin, with some two hundred
friends, were left all night in the woods
at Golfers Station, as the train would
not stop there to take them to Steuben-
vile. The quibbling aboSt a referee
occupied so much time after the ring
was set that night came on without any
one having been agreed upon. The
affair thoroughly disgusted every one,
and this second failure to have fight
was so impOtent as to be unworthy of
the notice of the meanest prize-fighter
in the country.
There were twenty-seven bids for gold
to-day, amounting to s., 793, 600 at Il3 to
ia. The amount for sale was 3, 200, coo.
If sold it viii go from ia to 1l410.
A delegation Of politicians from the
Assembly District left last
evening for Saratoga, to ascertain wheth-
er Senator o 'Brien viii accept the nOm-
inatiOn for Mayor of this city.
Tne Prince of SAKE COburg and broth
er, Prince PHILIPPE, visited Wall street
to-day.
A Washington special says DR..
whose second trial for the muir
der of Miss Steinnecke begins at Carlisle, |
Pennsylvania, next week, is very conf |
dent of an acquittal, on the ground that |
some of the most important witnesses |
at the previous trial viii not be present. |
He says he has been recently offered q
large amount Of money and discharge
from prison If he would withdraw his
claim against the estate of Miss Stein
necke.
The R.sW. Grand Lodge of Odd Eel !
lows met again this morning. The reSo- /
luton to compel subordinates to pay one
dollar per week was lost. 1t was re-
solved not to appoints Grand Instructor |
At the afternoon session a long debate /
was had on the question of assessing /
each member twenty cents, but no de- |
cision was reached. The Grand Lodge /
will finish its labOrs to-day.
The Walter Scott monument to be
erected by the Scotch residents of this |
;ity in Central Park, is expected in a
ew days from Edinburgh, where it has /
Deen modelled after the original Scotch |
tatue in GTOOvenor Square.
a five-mile rowing match for five
hundred dollars aside, has been arranged /
between John Biglon and Files Ward, (
o take place at Nyack, on September
he nineteenth.