Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-10
IN NEW YORK.
The WorkIngmen's DemonstratiOn-O One
Hundred Thousand Mechanics In
the MOFemeHt-GeR
Features.
The Times on the Methodist Con-
cern ImbrOgliO-Br. Lana
hams Statement.
A $5sO,O00 SWindIe Developed in
4 Brooklyn-ss000 Reward for
Hurderers.
DR.. Huston win Go for the Baltimore
Ameriean-Yaeht Sports.

! NEW York, June 9.-The features ci
| the great strike in this city remain
nearly the same, although progressive
movement on the part of the strikers
still continues. Great preparations are
making for the demonstration to-
morrow. The Executive Committee ot
| the Eight Hours' Ieague state that if the
day is fine one hundred thousand work
ing men will participate in 1t, and re-
presentatives Of trades will take part il
! it from many other cities. Bands have
been engaged TO head all trades enrolled
| in the League, and there will be great
display of banners and transparencies
bearing mOttoes of the various Trades
Unions. The leaders predict a magni-
tude Of demonstration, which viii
greatly aid the cause.
The Brooklyn masons have struck
for eight hours, and have passed resOlu-
lions that any of the society men work.
ing after the strike be fined fifty dollars,
and shall be considered ineligible to
re-enter the organization.
Francis Mead, well-known thief, at
tackled John Geary, a peaceable laborer,
on Whitehall street, when the latter
drew a knife and stabbed Mead fatally.
The Times has the following: CDR.
Lanahan, in conversation yesterday,
said he felt satisfied that his arrest was
the result of q combination between DIR.
Carlton, DR.. Curry and Mr.. Depuy, who,
he feels sure, induced Goodenough to
swear out warrant. He also says that
Abram Nelson, now in prison at the
suit Of Phelps, Dodge & Co., received
large quantity of valuable morocco
leather, fraud which, when diseov-
cred, led to Nelson's arrest, though for
some reason the case was subsequently
allowed to drop. Lanahan says he
shall take no further steps in regard
to the Book Concern, though he has
been assured that not one-half of the
frauds perpetrated in it have been dis
closed; but he believes the church has
now received a sufficient warning to
take care Of its own interests. The
present Book Committee, heGhinks, is
composed Of honest men, and he is
cOntented 10 know that the fight has
not been entirely in vain"
The World has private letter from
an officer of the United States steamer
Kansas, from GreytOn, stating that
Lieutenant-COmmander White, ON the
fifth instant, caused the death of a sea-
man, David II. Cady, by suffocatiOn,
brought about by White holding one of
the large deck swabs to Cady's mouth.
At the time of his death he was in dou-
bic irons for drunkenness, and this treat
ment was resorted to in order to make
him stop noise, which he had been
ordered to do, but refused.
The Brooklyn Committee of Fifty re-
port that tie people have been swindled
out of five hundred and eighty thousand
dollars in patent pavement contracts
alone. Mr.. BOwsteel, one of the con-
tractors, it is said, testified on oath, that
in order to get the Clinton street con-
tract, he had been compelled to purchase
the influence of VIM. G. Kingsley with
the ring, by the payment Of one hum
dred and fifty thousand dollars.
On Monday Governor Jewell, of Con-
neetieut, viii offer further reward of
two thousand dollars for the detection
Of the murderers- of Captain CaIveresses.
ses. A man giving the name of Sam.
Lanks, was arrested in Jersey City last
evening as having been connected with
the murder He had been lately re-
leased from prison in Bridgeport, which
is supposed to have been the case with
the murderer.
Aspecial dispatch says, now that DIR.
Huston has been acquitted he will
press his suit for libel against the Balti-
more american.
The annual regatta Of the New York
Yacht club will take place on the twen-
tieth Of June, and that of the Brooklyn
Yacht Club on the twenty-second in
slant, and the Atalanta Club race will
be sailed on the eighteenth. Pools on
the international boat race are selling
at the rate Of one hundred to fifty dol
lars in favor of the English crew.