Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-11-04
NEW YORK IN SLICES.

NEW YORK, November 3.
The Governor is in the city, and will
remain over Tuesday, election day.
The Hartford sailed to-day to join the
Asiatic squadron. She goes by way OF
the Suez Canal.
Arrangements have been completed
for a series of lectures by Father Burke
in reply to Froude.
The National Democracy have with
drawn their candidates for local offices
in favor of Tammany.
The Mercury says that Mayor Hall has
charges prepared to begin suits against
the proprietOrs and editors of the Times,
and Harper Bros.
The managers Of the Brooklyn lying
in asylum, charged recently with dis
missing the resident physician because
he was a Catholic, have filled the va
cancy by the appointment Of Catholic.
Rev. George F. Pentecost, pastor OF
the Hanson Place Baptist Church, OF
Brooklyn, who caused a commotion in
the denomination by administering the
communion to nOn-Baptists, has re-
signed.
The Democratic and Liberal Republi-
can Executive Committee offers to pay
persons having been offered and refused
bribes to vote the Republican ticket,
double the amount offered for the con-
viction Of briber.
The London Telegraph of the twenty
first says: It is announced that the late
sir David Baxter has bequeathed the
enormous sum of five hundred thousand
pounds to the Free Church Of Scotland.
and fifty thousand pounds to the Uni
versity Of Edinburgh.
At the investigation of the circum-
stances connected with the death OF
Lewis G. Samuels in the Lunatic Asy-
lum on Wards Island, the physician in
charge, DIR. Eccheveria, testified that the
deceased had been outrageously treated
by the attendants, especially James Nc
Donald.
Arrived, steamer Wyanoke, from Nor
folk, with steamer Albemarle, from
same port, in tow. The Wyanoke
picked up the AIbemarle, with loss of
her rudder, off Hog Island, October 30th,
aud during a gale, while bringing her to
port, pulled out her bits, bowsprit and
foremost, parted her hawser several
times, and had great difficulty in max
ing the harbor
Dispatches announce the destruction
by fire al st. Thomas, on the first of No
vember, of the barks S. f. Holbrook
and Clara Lamb. The Holbrook sailed
from this port for Antwerp on the seven
teenth Of September, and put into st.
Thomas disabled, where she was con-
demned. She was transferring her cargo
Of naptha TO the Lamb when she burned.
The burned cargo was valued at twenty
thousand dollars.
In reference to reported suspension of
work on the st. Paul and Pacific rail-
road, the officers say that their road is
being built independently of the North
ern Pacific road, the latter company
having no financial responsibility for its
affairs, and that the temporary suspen-
sion Of work on the st. Vincent exten-
sion OF the st. Paul line was caused by q
misunderstanding with the company's
financial agents IN Amsterdam, by
whom all funds for construction are for
warded.
William l.. Brown, clerk In the Treas
ury Department at Washington, who
registered in Brooklyn, and whose name
subsequently was erased, has appealed
to the courts TO have il restored. Two
years ago Brown removed with his fam
lily TO Washington 10 accept an appoint
ment, but claims the right 10 vote under
the statute that ''no person shall be
deemed 20 have gained OF lost his resi-
dence while in the service Of the United
Statesn