Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-03-18
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The wife of General Sedgwick died
at New Albany yesterday.
Mr.. John Jay, United States min
lister to Austria, Is about to become
father-in-laW TO Lieutenant General
Won Sehweinitz, German ambassador.
The French authorities are said to
be encouraging emigration from Al
SAGE to AlgieTs. According to our
vernacular, the transition from all
sass to alljeers is very easy.
The San Francisco fur trade has
rapidly increased since the acquisition
of Alaska. Last year its importation
of raw iurs amounted to $1,000, 600,
the most of which were exported soon
after their arrival.
The Japanese Herald announces
that on the return of the jar anese
embassy, now in this country, his i'm
perial highness, the Mikado OF Japan,
will visit the United States. His
majesty is about twenty-One years of
age.
They have an efficient substitute
for divorce in Louisville, in q law
consigning common scolds" 10 dur
ance whenever they commit vituper
alton, which with the wife of the pc
riod is practically tantamOunt to i'm.
prisonment for life.
A ribbon mill has been started in
San Francisco, to produce ribbons of
all cOlors and widths. 1t is expected
that the silk cOeOOneries of California
will eventually supply the demand
for raw silk, which interest Is now
protected" by duty of sixty per
cent.
A meeting has been held, and a plan
Is under consideration, to establish in
ReW York bank, representative Of
the national banks of the country,
with a capital of from five to ten mil
lions of dollars. It is proposed to
make 1t a redeeming agency for na-
tional bank currency, and also to have
it do a general banking business, al
fordinG special facilities for moving
crops and produce. Representatives
Of national banks from several cities
were present at the meeting referred
to, and 1t is believed that the general
plan will be carried into effect.
Mining districts, where large num-
bers Of bold and reckless men congre-
gate, are especially liable to the pOpu
lar hurricane of lynch law. South
Africa. to which the famous diamond
mines have drawn thousands of men,
is lust now passing through the expe-
rience Of California and Australia in
the early days of the gold excitement.
Cane Colony Is full of laWless men.
and their depredatiOns and Outrages
have finally impelled the English
men, however much they have hith-
ertO attacked lynch law as an Amer
lean institution, to visit the offenders
with its swift and irregular justice.
The reign Of terror in the interests of
order VIII not, however, last long, as
a strong force of trained police is to be
Immediately sent from England to the
disturbed locality.
A bond robbery of the most unblush-
ing character has been unearthed in
Cass county, Missouri. In 1857 this
county voted to issue 500, 900 ten per
cent. bonds TO the Missouri Pacific
railroad, only $500 OF which were
put upon the market, the remainder
being placed for safety IN the Office of
the county treasurer. During the war
they came into the possession Of Gen
eral Schofeld, who, believing them to
he valid, turned them over to the
road. The company held them sever
al years, but finally waived the claim,
and the county court ordered their
destruction. They were not destroy
ed, however, and recently a ring was
formed of several judges Of the court,
merchants, and other men Of good
standing, who, In the absence of an
outside Judge, convened the court and
declared the bonds valid. An at
tempt vas made to get them on the
markets at New York and elsewhere,
but it failed; the culprits we're arrest
ed, and the sequel Of the affair Is the
suicide of one of them, heretofore
reputable merchant.