Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-14
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| yesterday.
Nothing new before the customs In.
vestigating committee at Washington
yesterday.
The consolidation Of the Erie and
Atlantic and Great Western railroads
Is talked of.
Clark, juror in Mayor HALLS case,
Is eX9ected to die. A new trial VIII
be the result.
Excitement In Dakota over the sup.
posed discovery Of gold in the Black
Hills district.
A tremendous landslide in Portugal
buried railroad under mountains Of
dirt and rocks,
Work was begun yesterday on the
Psrkersburg and Charlestown (Vir-
ginis) railroad.
Leet & Stocking are still doing
h0Urishing business in the same old
villainous way.
The new irop-clad Rupert was
launched from the dockyard at Chat
ham on Tuesday.
Victor Emmanuel and Won Moltke
will review the italian troops at
Rome next week.
Five hundred apostate Mormons
sign a memorial to congress against
making Utah State.
TitusvilIe, with all its Oil, threatens
to cook Tom Scott's goose by building
a direct road to Erie.
Miss Van Lew, the postmaster at
Richmond, is so tyrannical that her
clerks have revolted.
Sickles denies that ne holds the
Erie road in the interest Of the Allan
tic and Great Western.
The London Times says the new
election of Erie directors win restore
confidence in England.
The Camden and Amboy railroad
employees struck yesterday because of
non-payment of wages.
Colonel A. 7. Brown, notary and
high-born gentleman of Quebec, has
ab3conded with 500, 900.
On the 18th of MAY next the Swiss
cantons Will vote on the adoption OF
the modified constitution.
Matt. Shannahsn will be hung for
murder on the 18th of April. S0says
the governor of Kentucky.
The Pittsburg conference of the
Methodist Episcopal church COM
menced in Allegheny yesterday.
Work on the Indiana and Illinois
Central railroad is now being rapidly
put under the contractors control.
Queen Victoria has approved of a
pension to the widow OF Marx Le-
man, for long time editor Of Punch.
Washouts are not apDrehended on
the Union Pacific road till May. Then
comes the June food Of the Missis-
sippi.
A schooner was found floating in
Puget Sound recently with all hands
murdered. Indians had been on
board.
The Radicals of Wisconsin, in
State convention, held at Madison on
yesterday, endorsed Grants admins
tratiOn.
A resolution indOrsing Grant and
his administration was laid on the Ia
BILE by the New Jersey legislature |
yesterday.
A law is before the Albany Iegisla.
tUre providing that all future direct
Ors OF Erie must be residents of the |
United States.
The railroad companies between
New York and Philadelphia have /
been consolidated by act OF the New
Jersey legislature.
Freeman Cornish wss arrested in
New York charged with poisoning |
four eOlOred children. He is an Atri- |
can and not q FIJI.
W. II. RittenhOuse, a conductor on |
the Belleville and Northern Illinois |
railroad, was run over and killed at |
Belleville yesterday.
Ugly frauds in the public printing
business have been uBeaTthed at Al |
bany, New York. One Montayne,
now down South, is involved.
The Radicals of Kentucky passed a |
resolution 10 the effect that negroes |
are as much entitled to Office as white |
men. They go the whole hog.
Judge Busted, in the United States |
district court at Montgomery, Ala /
bsma, ordered the Chattanooga and /
Alabama road to be sold yesterday.
The iron bridge over the Missouri
at Omaha was tested yesterday by |
passing over it a train Of ten cars,
loaded with thirty tons Of stone each.
Result satisfactory.
There was q rOusing meeting at
Cincinnati yesterday, by which Re
publicans and Democrats were urged .
to participate in the coming Reform
convention Of May.
Lady Traverse TWiss a witness in
case Ia which Solicitor Chaffers Sras |
on trial for impugning her virtue, /
yesterday left London and has not /
since been heard of.
The man who suicided by throw
ing himself under the train in New
Albany, Monday, was identified yes
terday as A. B. Chase, a well known
citizen Of Salem, Indiana.
The Radicals in Middle Tennessee
are making capital for use in the presi-
dentisl election. They sent us by
telegraph last night batch Of kuklux
yarns not one of them worthy of
belief
A California lawyer sued the San
Francisco Alta California for $50, 900
for having called him a ''shysteF."
The jury could not see that the term
was misspplied and gave q verdict Tor
the newspaper.
The Radicals OF Kentucky assem-
bled in convention at Louisville yes
terday and heartily endorsed Grants
administration, berating the Demo-
cracy for differing with them. Thiev-
ing is the thing In their estimation.
A witness swore yesterday in New
York that customhOuse Murphy had
said to his employees that all of them
should work as a unit in New York
local elections. Murphy further said
that rich men should be put in the
who could pay for the
honor Of going into State cOnven-
tons. WOodfOrd was Grants candi-
date for governor.
The legislature OF Michigan assem-
bled at Lansing yesterday. Cover
nor Baldwin read his message which
& recital of facts gratifying to the
State pride of all Michiganders. 1t
sets forth the growth and present con-
dition OF the State, its taxable, educa-
tIonal, agricultural and other resour-
ees, and is altogether a document Of
merit. We congratulate our friends
Of the Peninsular State.
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