Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-29
Wales FROM THE WIRES.

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Massachusetts will not have a tenn
| perance candidate for Governor thi
\ election. 5A15sAA4 EAaGuuUEA
1t is announced by telegraph tina
President Grant visited Washington
yesterday. ,---r s- pa.
Jacob Moore. aged one hundred anc
eight years, died in Clay county, Indi
ana, yesterday. -G'1 - ..-E o..
1 By a boiler explosion at Cleveland
Ohio, yesterday four persons were in
stantly killed. r
The French Government will begiT
the payment of another installment oi
! their war debt next week.
tBlaaton Duncan is going to print 4;
new evening paper in Louisville, en-
titled the True Democrat. ~
-Four more of the alleged kuklux con
victs, now confined in the Albany Pen
itentiary, are soon to be pardoned.
Strenuous efforts are being made by
/ the North Carolina Republican Con.
gressmen to have Supervisor Cobb re
/ tained. ra H.
The third annual meeting of the
Northern Ohio Fair will be on the tenth
of September and hold till the four
/ teenth. "a 7, ~ .l-t .sih- ss
1.-The Directors Of the Louisville Expos.
| ition pOstively, assert that that institu.
ton viii positively open on the third O
Septenber. W A d h&- -a sa|4
The Alumni of the Ohio Institution
for Deaf and Dumb are holding a re-
union at Columbus, Ohio. Nearly two
hundred are present.
The preference for Charles OConor
for Governor of New York increases
daily, and it is thought be win be nom-
mated by acclamatiOn. -A
Ex-Governor Curtin, was yesterday
nominated by the Republican Conven-
ton at Bellefonte, Carter county, Penn
sylvania, as candidate for Congress.
A convention composed of the Demo-
cratic soldiers and sailors was held at
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, yesterday.
The Louisville movement was not men
toned.
A Little Rock dispatch. yesterday an
nounced that reports from all sections of
the State say that the present drouth
has injured the cotton crop at least one
third.
The CUBAN war vessel Pioneer has
been adjudged by Judge Knowles, in
the United States Supreme Court at
Providence, Rhode Island, as confiscat-
ed to the United States. -..
A. E. Smith has recovered twenty
thousand dollars from the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad Company, damages
for injuries received by him in collision
which occurred years ago. g.. a u- --.
AM adjourned produceris meeting, re-
lativea to decreasing the production of
petroleum, convened at Parker's Land
ing, Pennsylvania, yesterday, was large
ly attended, but failed in accomplishing
anything definite. They adjourned un-
til Friday.
Block No. l29 in the city of st. Louis
has been settled upon by the Secretary
of the Treasury as a site for the public
buildings to be erected in that city. It
has heen appropriated at 1896, $50, or
S196, $50 more than the appropriation
made by Congress-. The purchase will
be made, provided the citizens Of st.
Louis will make up the overplus.
The first hearing in the suit of w. A.
Woodward against Ezra Cornell, founder
Of Cornell University, to recover one
and seventeen thousand dollars
for locating government lands granted
to the University, was had at Newbury,
New York, yesterday, before referees.
case will probably continue several
The plaintiff was examined
yesterday.
The London evening papers of yester-
day mention the rumor that Colonel
of the insurgent army in Cuba has ar
rived there, with instructions from the
provisional government to negotiate a
loan of twenty million pounds, the
amount to-be rendered to Spain for the
of Cuba; that although
the provisional government have little
hope that Spain win consent, they be-
lieve The offer viii strengthen the insur-
gent cause among foreign powers.