Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-06-01
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.

| The trial of Chateau, for setting fire
1 to the Tuilleries, Paris, terminated
Wednesday with a verdict of guilty,
and the prisoner was sentenced to be
shot
| At a meeting of the Bar Associa-
| tion of New York, on Wednesday
| evening, Samuel j. Tilden made an
address recounting the services of the
association in the cause of reform. He
| did not think Barnard's trial would be
| favorable to the accused. The managers
| had as their counsel two of the ablest Oi
| lawyers, Judges COmstock and Van
Cott. 1t was announced that the man
ayers of the assembly had invited adj
ditional aid from the association.
The Japanese young ladies who are
now in this country, have taken to the
American style of dress as kindly as
could be eXpected-only sometimes they
are apt TO appear with their Dolly Var
dens upside down or wrong side out,
which is, however, a trivial circum-
stance. They play crOquet, speak Eng
lis tolerably well for such a short resi-
dence, dislike the staring of the Amer
leans, and think this country has a WON
derful lot of people by the name of
Charley. .......
The excitement over Serano's gem
erOus treatment to the Spanish
insurgents is very great, and the
stormy scenes in the COrtes have served
to intensity it. 1t is probable that the
Marshal with other Minister who have
accepted positions in the new Cabinet
will resign should the King insist on
making Serano premier, as it is rumOred
he is disposed to do, in reward for his
distinguished services in quelling the
Carlist insurrectiOn. Grave cOnse-
quenees are feared.
A special to the Age from Reading
says that Pendleton, in a contiden-
tial letter to Bar, states that while
doing justice to the personal integ
rity of Horace Greeley, and ap-
proving the Cincinnati platform and
letter of acceptance of Greeley, he
recognizes fully the difficulty of seeur-
ing TO such lifelong Antagonist of the
Democratic party the support of a ma
jority of its voters in the North, and
views with apprehension, if an adj
voeate of undOubted strength is not
at Baltimore, the possibility
of the election Ofa President being left to
the House of Representatives
A special to the Chronicle, from
Sparta, Kentucky, says: "The mar,
John Branham, who murdered his
wife, yesterday, by splitting her
head open with an axe, was hung
last night by a party Of about one
hundred men who collected in front of
the Owenton Jail at about one o'clock,
and demanded the keys from the jailor,
which were reluctantly given. They
then demanded the prisoner, John Bran
ham, took him from the jail, carried
him about half a-mile out of town and
hung him to tree. None of the town
were aware of the demon
stration. His wife was buried on
Wednesday. They leave two children.
No cause is known for his killing his
wife. So
The forthcoming annual report of the
State Insurance Department shows that
are seventy life insurance COM
aanies now doing business in Ohio; also,
that during 1871 there were issued II, ,906
policies on the lives of citizens of Ohio,
to S3S, 925, 48l; that the
whole number of policies issued on the
lives of citizens in force December 3,
1871, was 37,642, amounting in the ag-
gregate to $50, 4O3, ,267. Total premiums
taken in Ohio during the year was SS,
$50, ,236, and total losses paid for the
same time was 81, ,0O7, ,113. The above
is not a full exhibit, as some of the
failed to make full reports.
In view of this, the Insurance Commits
sioner estimates that the total amount
of life policies now in force in Ohio, to
be about 0,000, 900.