Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-09-02
TELEGgAPHEC BRIEFS.

e TELEGRAPHEC BRIEFS.
: Reports from Arizona say that the In
! dians continue their depredations.
) Kellogg, Rubenstein, and Lucca sailed
! ! for America from London Saturday.
Governor-GenersI Grant, Of Jamaica,
4 arrived in New York, from Kingston,
Saturday.
E Three thousand persons listened to
Andrew Johnson at Gallatin Saturday.
? He spoke three hours. g.
f: The disaster TO the Metis In Long
e Island Sound is to be Investigated by the
I government officials.
Senator West Rep.), of Louisiana,
has left New Orleans to take the stump
in Pennsylvania for Greeley
. At Brentville, Virginia, Saturday, a
brother Of Miss Jewell shot her seducer
/ through the bars Of his cell. "a r-
The telegram received in New York
= Friday night, announcing the loss Of
J the yacht Dauntless, proves 10 be IN
, true.
: Ben wood has bet ten thousand dollars
: with General Hillyer, formerly of
Grants staff, that Greeley will be elect
The Republican Convention, at Cam
den, Arkansas, has burst up, and each
wing has nominated a candidate for
Congress.
4 E. W. Pau, Of Snithfeld, a Liberal
Republican, takes the place Of Vance on
the Greeley Electoral ticket in North
| Carolina.
i jeremiah Smell, Republican member
Of the Assembly from Montgomery coun-
ty, New York, in 1869, repudiates Grant
and supports Greeley.
The number of deaths in New York
York city last week was six hundred
and thirty-eight-a decrease Of ninety
from the preceding week.
John L. Clark, Of Decatur County,
! Iowa, has just resigned his position upon
the Radical State Central Committee,
and declared himself for Greeley.
NJ. D. Estee, late Secretary Of the Re-
publican State Committee Of California,
addressed a large Greeley meeting IN
San Francisco on the fourteenth
| instant.
Mrs Charlotte Lamb was arrested at
| Trumbull, Wisconsin, last Saturday,
charged with poisoning i've persons last
| September, among them her husband
and two children.
A destructive fire occurred at Dallas,
Texas, last Thursday night, consuming
property to the amount of fifty thousand |
dollars. Il is supposed to have been the |
work Of an incendiaFy. ~ ..a. ~ |
The body Of Mrs. G. M. Howard, who |
had been married only two days before,
and was OF the victims of the Nets |
disaster, was picked up yesterday at |
Providence, Rhode Island.
A Petersburg telegram says the West 1
ern Iron and Nail Association have de- 1
cided to raise the price on iron four
dollars on the previous rates, and nails
twenty-five cents per keg.
Mr.. Boutwell, writes that the prospect /
in Maine is good. He never saw such
spirit among the mass of Republicans as
nown As much as to say that it Is
going to be very tight" race.
Robert A. Lee, q colored member of
the Grant Republican Committee of
Nansemond County, Virginia, resigns
bis position IN published letter and de-
clares for Greeley and Brown.
z. 5. Westbrook, one of the delegates
to the Grant State Convention, at Ell
York, repudiates Grant, and has declar-
ed his intention to support Greeley. 4
Dix doesn't want to accept the Grant
nOminatiRn for Governor Of New York.
The doughty General never did like to
play losing game. If be goes back on
you, oh RAIDS, shoot him on the spot"
Lansing A. Briggs, Republican Mayor
of Auburn in 1857, '5S and '59, having
IL
Grant, and is a member Of the Greeley
and Brown Cuyahoga Republican Com
mittee. r
A Columbia, South Carolina, telegram
says Bill Lucas and Ned Harriss, col
ored, were hanged there on Friday, for
murder. Owing TO the rope being i'm
properly adjusted the culprits had hOr-
rible struggles, lasting for ten minutes,
in their desperate efforts to free them
selves
Hon. Wilson Graham, of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, has come out for Greeley
and Brown. Mr.. Graham has been a
reliable Republican for many years.
He formerly represented one ofthe As
sembly districts of that city in the Leg
islature, and served as a City Attorney.
Ex-Governor Stone, Of Iowa, who has
been vehemently urged to join the
Grant interest in that State, writes q
public adhesion to the cause Of reform,
and announces his intention Of support
ing Greeley and Brown. Ex-Governor
Stone Is 8 man Of the first prominence
in his State, and his action is not relish
ed by the Grant people.
Governor Stanford's mare Aurora,
purchased few days since for six thou-
L ~
training, trotted five heats, in San 1
Francisco, on Saturday, against Hay
woods Lady Blanchard, winning the
race, and making the fourth mile in
2:27, the best time ever made IN Cali
fOrnia.
A squad of about two hundred ARA
pahOes, under the lead of their chief,
Little Raven, attacked a government
train, destroying the wagons, running
Off the teams, and killing and wound +
ing nearly all the escort. Mr.. Bryan,
in charge of the train, was skinned
alive.
The Western railway trunk lines, con-
sisting Of Erie, New YORK Central, II
Hudson River and Pennsyfvania Cen
tral Companies have just agreed to adopt
the increased freight tariff from the sea-
board to the Vest, which win take eff '
feet to-day. The increase on first-class =
is from twenty to thirty
per cent TgUyT
Nettie Cline, Amanda L. Stevenson,
and Catharine DutrO, widows Of James
B. Cline, Judge Stevenson and Thomas
Z. DutTO, who were murdered by q
mob, in CaSs county, Missouri, some
months ago, for alleged issue Of fraudu-
lent county bonds, have brought suit
against Sheriff Bryant and some thirty
five other citizens OF Cass county, Mis-
souri,, for the murderer their husbands.
These suits will reopen the entire Cass
county affair, and attract almost uni ,
yersal attention. The amount Of dam
ages claimed in each case Is five thou :
sand dollars, that being the sum limited /.
~ law. s
A San Francisco dispatch says that '
he California, Atlantic and Pacific
Railroad Company to cooperate with
81. Louis in constructing the thirty-fifth
parallel, has completed its organization
md issued its prospectus Saturday. The
Individual subscriptions to the capital
ltOck now amount TO nearly seven hum
ired thousand dollars, and are increas-
ng at the rate Of fifty thousand dollars 9
Der day. Thirteen Directors have been
elected by the stockholders. The city
II San Francisco b asked to subscribe
en- millions Of dollars to the capital I
tock, and a proposition to vote that I
amount Is to be submitted to the people
II California at the November election. y