Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-08-28
NEW YORK,
A Days Doings In Gotham Incidents,
Accidents, Gossip and General News,
Itemized and Conaeased.
NEw YoRk, August q.

NEW YoRk, August p.
YelloW-Fever Exeftene1t over.
DR.. Vanderpool s1lys all fear OF Yellow
fever is now iissipafed. AL the pa
4 tients, with the exception OF few of the
crew of the Numancia, at the Westbank
hospital, have recovered aud returned
to work.
How isThssS
A circular dated headquarters of the
National Grant Club, has been sent from
here to different partss Of the country,
requesting a remittance of three dollars
from each person to whom IT is sent, to
John 2. Hamilton, Secretary.
Wesaanaea EOoahun and Clnnin InsOI-
vent. k
Victoria Woodruff and her sister,
| Tennie Claflin, were examined to-day
on a judgment as debtors in suit
! brought against them by Brenkerho1f
Myers. Both testified that they did not
! own a dollars worth of property.
xorth Carolina In ForIt.
A Washington special says much law
1 lessness and violence prevail in Sauls-
bury, North Carolina, owing to political
| feeling running high. Deadly encOun-
tiers are expected between Henderson,
Internal Revenue Assessor, and H. II.
Helper, editor of the Greeley paper, and
their respective friends.
Police Difficulties.
The new Jersey City Police Commits
siOners have determined to bring the
question Of the legality of their appoint
ment before the Supreme Court, which
meets ON the sixth of November next.
The old Commissioners and members of
the police force have received no pay
since the first of August, and the Mayor
refuses to sign any more warrants for
the payment of their claims. .aIJt
Another Brute In Charge Of and Abus-
ing Helpless children.
Mayor West, Of Chambersburg, yes
terday caused the arrest Of II. PrObaseo,
steward of the Soldiers Orphans Home,
in New Jersey, whom he caught brutal
ly whipping one of the orphans. In the
course of examination it appeared that
the. help in charge of the orphans at
tended smore regularly to lager-beer
seances and pleasure excursions, than
to duties The children being allowed
to run about in rags and dirt. ProbaseoI
is held for trial. - EFfNt
The Country Flooded with Forged
Paper.
Dispatches received here this morning
state that forged drafts, purporting to
have been drawn by Kautz Brothers,
bankers of this city, have been pre-
sented to various banks throughout the
country, especially in the West Among
the forgeries was one draft for eight
thousand two hundred dollars, presented |
to the Real Estate Bank at Allegheny
City, Pennsylvania, and one for six !
thousand, presented at the Third Ma
tional Bank OF Chicago. The forger's |
name attached to the drafts Is John r. !
Hill. L az lA ste U.aW
An American Consul in a Dirty Hay
tfen Prison. M
A Port-au-Prince letter to the Herald
states that the American Consul Tee1
was arrested by the Haytien authorities |
at Miragas, on the trumped-up charge
of having cOunterfeited the paper-cur-
rency of that Republic, and he is now
in filthy prison. Minister Basset has
twice demanded his release, but was
peremptOrily refused. On being asked I
why he did not request the aid of Uni
ted States man-of-war, Basset said that |
such course was unnecessary, and be-
sides he (Bassetl did not wish to furnish |
the Greeley men with a sensational
speech.