Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-10-18
SPARKLINGS.

The Grand Lodge Of F. and A. NJ. o.
/ Ohio are in session at Columbus.
The British Parliament will reassem-
bic on the nineteenth of December.
Five hundred cigar-makers struck in
New York yesterday for an increase Of
wages.
| Mark Flanagan, on trial in New York
for killing his wife and children, plead
insanity.
Sir Frederick Arrow says our fog sig
nails are the best, but the English light
| houses superior to ours.
The Democrats of the Nashville dis
| trict yesterday nominated 3olliday for
reelection to Congress.
Upto the first Of October five thousand
FIVE hundred exiles have arrived in this
country from Alsace and Lorraine.
A Wall street firm went under yester-
day for seventy-ive or one hundred
thousand dOllsrs-names not given.
The st. Andrews Episcopal Church, at
Richmond, Staten Island, was burned
yesterday-twenty thousand dollars.
The Suaightouts of Pennsylvania
have concluded that there is no necessi-
ty for an electoral ticket in that State.
tCleveland, Ohio. yesterday, a young
mannamed Catlin was instantly killed
by falling over a stair-railing a distance
Of forty feet.
Caleb Cushing expresses himself as
highly satisfied with the decision of the
Geneva Arbitrators, not so much for the
money! !)-principal %.
a drug store in Lagrange, Kentucky,
together with five other buildings, were
burned yesterday. Most Of the houses
were private residences.
The reported troubles at the Naval
Academy, on the part Of the whites to-
ward the colored cadet are discredited at
the War Department.
The residences of William Saffell and
DR.. Sneed, Of Frankfort, Kentucky,
were burned yesterday. Loss twelve
thousand dOllars-fully insured.
The owners Of the Dean Richmond
are censured for the recent accident to
her, in not having her boilers inspected
before putting her into service.
Mail advices received at New York
say that Alsace and Lorraine are almost
entirely depopulated by the exodus Of
citizens to the French territory.
The Irish Catholic Benevolent Union
Convention, in session at Philadelphia
yesterday, discussed measures looking
to the protection Of Catholic Immigrants
70 this country.
A complimentary concert was given
to the delegates to the Irish Catholic
Benevolent Union at Philadelphia Tues
day evening by the Catholic Philopatrian
Literary Institute.
A passenger train yesterday ran off
the track near Chelmsford, England,
precipitating the ears down a high en-
bankment, dashing them to pieces.
Casualties not reported.
The steamers Nero, from Liverpool
for Bombay, and Parthia, from New
York for Liverpool, collided yesterday
in st. Georges Channel. The latter
was slightly damaged.
The Mayor and Postmaster of Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, have been arrested,
charged with ballOt-box stuffing. Sew
eral minor officials have also been ar
rested on the same charge.
Joseph B. Conrad, of Boston, Georgia,
was held TO bail at Savannah in the sum
Of hve thousand dollars, charged with
kukluxing. 1t is the first case in that
city under the kuklux law.
Mrs. George W. Neasker, at Cleve-
land, Ohio, yesterday morning mistOok
oXalic acid for EPSON salts, and admin
istered a dose 10 her husband, which
caused his death in a few hours.
A Paris communist, who has surren-
dered himself 10 the authorities at Brus-
sells, confesses himself to have been an
accomplice Of Trappman, who MUIR
dered an entire family near Paris.
The Rio Grande Commissioners report
that the truth of the disorders on the
Texas frontier has not half been told,
and that Mexico is in every instance the
aggressOr. The Mexican Commissioners c
report the contrary.
The New York Chamber Of Commerce
yesterday gave a grand excursion to the
members Of the National Board of
Trade, which was concluded with a
grand feast, at which wine, wit and
sentiment were marked features.
A Washington special TO New York
intimates that AttOmey-General Will
liams will retire from the cabinet after
the election, and that he will be sue
ceeded by General BristOw, of Kentucky,
the present SOlicitor-General.
On Wednesday in New York there
were 3903S persons registered, against
6S,0SO on the second day Of last year,
and 9246 in 1865. The total registration
aggregates thus far 81, ,5l7, against 81, ,Sl6
the same period in lf7l, and 1869
i'm 1865.
Intelligence is received from all parts
Of Pennsylvania, daily, Of the arrests of
parties-generally appOintees Of the
Washington gOvernment-charge with
ballot-bOx stuffing, bribery, and all man.
ner Of corruptions, during the recent
elections.
A party Of striking longshorement
while attempting TO board some barges
at New Orleans yesterday, 10 induce the
laborers to join the strikers, were fired
at by J. w. Barnes, a contractor, in
charge Of the barges. ThereupOn one Of
the longshoremen struck Barnes over
the head with a stone and killed him.
Among those charged with corrup-
tiOns and ballOt-boX stuffing during the
recent elections in Pennsylvania, are
lnternal-Revenue Collector Hoyt, L. d.
Shoemaker, a candidate for Congress in
the Wilkesbarre district, and Revenue
Collector Gains, of Pittston. One of
their pet schemes was bribing voters.