Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-03
MORSELS OF LIGHTNING.

Father Burke delivered a lecture il
st. Louis last night.
The General Assembly of the State q
Vermont was convened yesterday.
General Banks addressed a Demo
cratic meeting at Columbus, Ohio, yes
terday.
Chicago is taking measures to suppress
the sale of intoxicating liquors on tn
Sabbath.
Springfield, Massachusetts had a brisl
fire yesterday. Loss about thirty thou
sand dollars.
The Democratic Convention was II
session at st. Louis yesterday, and ad
! journed to Saturday.
: J. Milton Turner, Minister to Liberia
was ovated extensively by the negroe:
in st. Louis yesterday.
Charles Mccormick was killed by
Policeman Bennett in New Orleans yes.
/ terday. No cause known.
A dispatch received at London from
Melbourne says that the Overland tele-
graph has been completed.
The New Haven railroad is to be
| prosecuted for carrying a dead body into
New York without permit.
The report that the japanese govern
ment is making backward steps is not
credited in Washington circles.
Forty thousand dollars were raised in
Cincinnati yesterday toward the Indus
trial Exposition for next year.
The Straightout Soreheads, falling in
their Louisville enterprise, are veering
over to Grant and his mOney-bags.
A Swede named Kreiser, at Chandler
vile, Illinois, yesterday blowed his wifeis
head of with shotgun. Jealousy.
A large number of excursionists,
among them many Of the editorial fra
ternity, reached Cincinnati yesterday.
Secretary Boutwell, spoke in Evans
vile, Indiana, yesterday, the financial
policy of the Administration his theme.
The Illinois Grand Lodge Of Masons
was in session at Chicago yesterday.
James A. Hawley was elected Grand
Master.
At Montreal yesterday several exten-
sive business houses were destroyed by
fire, amounting to a loss Of about two
hundred thousand dollars.
AAS tlty VI AaLaliaD, Mexico, was
captured on the thirteenth uItimo, and
General Flores and his men all taken
prisoners. They will probably be exc
cuted.
Two women have been arrested in
Brooklyn, charged with manufacturing
and passing counterfeit money, and
held in default OF ten thousand dollars
bail.
The DemOcrtic and Liberal Conven-
tions which met in st. Louis yesterday
failed 10 unite on q candidate for Gov
emor, and both adjourned to the twelfth
instant.
A subcommittee Of the Reformers at
New York has been appointed 10 wait
on VIM. F. Havermever next Monday
evening, and tender him the nomina-
ton for Mayor
A counterfeiter, sentenced to eight
years in the Albany, New York, peni-
tenuary, was yesterday pardoned by the
President. Wonder what part he will
take in the Presidential campaign?
The estoekholdersofthe Toledo. Wabash
and Western Railroad Company held a
meeting at Toledo, Ohio, yesterday, at
which directors for the ensuing wear
we're elected. A. BoOdy was elected
President Of the Board.
Mrs. Parish Duncan Carroll publishes
a card in the st. Louis ReDublicaa. in
which she says that she challenges any
woman IN the State of Missouri to give
as many votes for Grant as she will for
Greeley She adds that she controls
fourteen-her husband and thirteen SONS.
A sailor named James Low has lust
arrived at Toledo Ohio, who is the only
survivor of the brig Rapid, lost in the
gale on Lake Erie Friday night. There
were eight on board the iil-fated brig,
seven OF whom were lost. Low was in
the water sixty hours before assistance
reached him.