Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-05-10
TELEGRAPHIC NOTES.

Marshall Bazaine has surrendered
himself to be tried by eourt-martiai-
Colonel w. c. Cameron has resigned
editorial connection with the Petersburg
Progress.
COlfax publishesa sweet little letter to
Bred Douglass in which he asserts the
necessitv for the enactment Of Summers
social equality bill.
The latest news received i'm Paris on
the eighth instant, represent that Don
Carlos Is in Biscay, with from seven to
eight thousand well armed and prOvi-
stoned men.
Returns from one hundred and sixty
two towns in Virginia show taat fifty
three are in favor OF licensing the sale OF
ale, beer, etc, and one hundred and
are for prohibiting il.
Reports from the sugar crop on the
Island of Cuba are quite favorable Ii
is now thought that the yield will be
much larger than was expected in the
earliar part Of the season.
Jonathan Barnes, aged sixty-two, of
the firm of Hopkins q Barnes, tanners,
in Louisville, committed suicide yester-
day morning, while in bath, by cut
ting his throat with razor. No known
cause.
The Great Western Telegraph Com
pany, who propose laying cable from
New York TO England by way of Bur
muda, have paid the first installment of
one hundred thousand dollars 10 the
manufacturers of theiI cable.
George Chamberlain amused himself
10y shooting five times at George Taltem
in Chicago Wednesday. Two of the
hs
other in the body of the victim, the lat
ter wound dangerous. The shOOtist was
arrested.
A destructive fire broke out in Somer-
set, Pennsylvania yesterday afternoon.
The telegraph was office among the first
buildings to burn. The operator opened
a Temporary Office in the street, and re-
ported twO-thiris Of the town destroyed,
and before he could give the particulars
the fire drove him away.
At meeting Of the Ohio Republican
State Central Committee held in Column
bus yesterday, one of the cOlOred ora
tons remarked that if the National Dem
ocratic Convention indOrsed the CIncin-
matt nominations, many of the Demo
Gratis in the South would go for Grant;
and that he had been South, and found
the negroes a unit for Grant
Gov. Parker, of New Jersey, issued
a proclamation on the fishery question,
claimed jurisdiction over that part of
the Delaware river between the States
of Delaware and New jersey, to the
easterly middle line of said river, de-
declaring that all citizens Of New
jersey have the right to fish on the
eastern side of the river without terms
from any other State.
The London EcI0 thus speaks of the
ATLANTA Boat Club now in training on
the Thames for the coming national
contest: "Their peTfoTmances are ex-
ceedingly good, Their action fine, and
their time and feathering are simply
perfect They are nevertheless some
what deficient in dash and power, there
being a disposition TO hang at the finish
Of the stroke, and they do not pick out
the blades cleanly and promptly. Prae-
tice, however, will TeCtify these faults.
The London bOatmen all regard the
New Workers as a fine and able crew,
whose appearance upon the river Is
very snowy and elicits the admiration
of the spectators. a great struggle is
certain on the tenth Of June"
In the Dominion Parliament on the
eighth instant Sir o. T. Hencla said
= Att-h aAEo lA lAl4AAltlL u liAAdnEAul cittlt-
ment he anticipated the possibility of
having TO max change in the cOndi-
ton of the tauiffon account of the tariff
changes in the United States. The gov
ernment had learned,that on last night /
the President had signed bill making 4
important tariff changes to operate from |
the first of July next, repeating the /
duties on tea and coffee. The Canadian
government therefore proposed that
nom the first of July next the duties on
tea and coffee imported into the DOmin-
ION should be repealed. He gave notice
that on Friday next he would move for
Il permission to do so. Grave incOn-
venience had followed. Uncertainty
prevailed for months in the United
States as to what would be done with
regard to those articles, but the Can
sdian government designed to prevent
anything Of the kind. Here and hence
the prOmptitude Of the governments de-
cisiOn Of its policy,