Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-08-22
NEW YORK.
Methodist East India Mission - The
TlchbOrne Claimants Counsel Re-
turns to England.
The italian NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
ing DevelOpments-Erie Railway
The Iron Merchants.
The Palestine ExplOrers-Sherifi'S Sale
OF City PrOperty-MOre Immigrants
Etc., Etc.. Etc.

NEW YORK, August 21.-The mis-
sionary society of the Methodist Episco-
pal church sent out yesterday, as laborers
in its East Indian field, Rev. DR.. Gray,
Mr.. and Mrs. McHenTy, Rev. MIR. Man
sell, Rev. J. E. Scott, Miss Mcneil and
Miss Lenning. The two last ge out
under the auspices of the women's for
eign mission society.
Mr.. Whalley, member of parliament,
who has been in this and other cities in
search of evidence for the Tichborne
claimant, has sailed for England. He
said his visit was satisfactory in all re-
spects, and that its object had been fully
realized.
s. L. NJ. Barlow, according to the
| Times, affirms as correct the Wall street
report that the Erie railway company is
sending two millions of consolidated
mortgage bonds to Europe for uegotia-
ton by Beschoffsheim, that double
tracking and other projects may be car
ried out.
The Iaborers in Devoe's oil-works,
Brooklyn, were fatally injured yesterday
] by fall from the tank, and an explosion
in the Standard oil-works caused the
death of one man from fright.
The examination into the case of
Vincenzo Motto, the alleged Italian
Uadrone, was continued to-day, and
then held over till Saturday. A boy,
aged eleven, testified to even greater
cruelties practiced upon him by Motto
than those related yesterday. Joseph,
child, aged seven, shrank away with
terror when asked to place his hand on
Motto, if 1t was with him be had lived,
and was only prevailed upon to do so
when accompanied by an officer.
London advices by mail state that the
Oriental Typographical corps Of New
York, during recent explorations in Pal.
estiHe, inaugurated system of forest
tree planting among the people, which
several hundred thousand trees annually.
George May Powell, of the expedition
in order to prove that pedestrianism is
practicable for geological and botanical
SURVEYS in that climate, made q Journey
from Jerusalem and from Nazareth ana
Mt. Carmel to Mt. Lebanon, on foot, in
midsummer, and in twenty-four hours
less than the usual horseback time.
The iren-merchants of this city at
tribute the lockout at Manchester, Eng
land, to the fact that the high price of
English iron and the increased produc-
ton in this country have rendered the
American market almost wholly indie
pendent of Great Britain. The import
alton of British iron to this country is
very light, and is confined to special
products, such as Scotch pig iron.
American iron is now sent to Canada,
and consumers who formerly obtained
all their iron from England are now
buying it in Pittsburg and this city. An
extensive dealer said on making an es-
innate this week in regard to eleven
hundred tons of sheet-iron, he found he
could buy it of American manufacturers
at half a cent per pound less than the
price of an inferior grade imported.
Sixty more MennOnites arrived per
steamer Helsatia. They will follow
these who left for Minnesota some days
ago.
The sheriff has posted notice of the
sale, on Tuesday next, of the furniture
in the comptrollers office and pictures
in, the governors room, City Hall, to
satisfy a judgment of thirteen thousand
dollars obtained against the city by
Judge Fowler.
]. r. Shepard, an agent of the West
Shore and Chicago railroad, ,at HobOken,
has been missing since Saturday.
In addition to the testimony in the
case of the Italian boys, the deputy
marshal testified that in two houses in
Crosby street he found one hundred and1
fifty children: in each room he found
twelve boys tied by the wrists with a
cord, and 2 man in charge of every
room. In some cases the children were
marked by pGdrOReS by branding on
the cheek, lip, or ear.