Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1873-10-05
NEWS OF THE DAY.


No bank statement was issued from
New York yesterday.
Thiers says the Left must defend the
Republic of France.
/ General Burnside was a visitor to the
exposition at Indianapolis yesterday.
l Count de Chambord, says q Paris
telegram, will issue a manifesto next week
. The grand jury Of New York have IN
dicted Kate StOddard for the murder Of Good
rich.
A large number of deputies have
visited President Thiers since his return to
Paris.
is reported that the crops have failed
in Hungary, and that famine prevails IN some
sections.
New York specie shipments yester-
day amounted to one hundred thousand dol
lars in silver bars.
A steamer left Plymouth, England,
yesterday, for New York, with sixteen thou
sand dollars in specie.
! TeU accompanies Of soldiers, of the es-
cort Of the Ecrthern Pacific survey, arrived
at HaDktOn yesterday.
! Boston furnished the usual baseball
report yesterday. the Importance Of which we
I faII 10 discover, you know.
/ Az. Saville, the telegraph-oper2tor
l who went from this city 10 shreveport few
[ weeks ago, is reported dangerously i'll
Steamers arrived ST New York yesteT
] day with large amounts OF bullion on board,
which will be placed in the sab-treasury-
The steamship, City Of Antwerp, with
/ Captain Buddington and associates OF the PO-
/ laris on board, has arrived at New York.
Daniel E. King, of Minnesota, has
I been appointed surveyOr-geDeral OF the
! United States for the district OF Minnesota.
/ Mayor Pierce, of Boston, has received
! the Republican nomination for congress from
the third district, Massachusetts, % nh a va
cancy.
A dispatch from Alexandria, Egypt,
SAYS financial panic prevails in that city
and money is very scarce. No failures yetre-
ported.
A Washington telegram says there is
/ no financial excitement in that city, and that
/ currency is becoming comparatively plentiful
again.
The Indianapolis exposition will be
continued through ueX5 week. There are DO
/ less than five thousand head OF stock on e1-
hlbitiOn.
The number Of deaths in New York
during the past week was five hundred and
seven, q decrease OF one hundred and SIX nom
the previous week
The financial week in Cincinnati
closed with improved confidence, and thus far
very few worl1nen have been discharged from
the manUfactOrles-
The change Of gauge on the entire
line Of the Grand Trunk railway was com
plefed yesterday, and trains will resume their
regular trips to-morrOW-
Henry Young, alias Charles Williams,
colored. was Yesterday sentenced in Washing
ton city to be hanged, for the murder OF
Frank Calm last December
The Echo de Parliament, Of Brussels,
says il has private inform alton from Paris
that a monarchy will certainly be proclaimed
on a proposition OF a majority OF the assem-
bly,.
At Yankton, yesterday, during the
transfer OF troops from one boat to another;
Private Rennessey, Of the eighth infantry, LelI
overheard and was killed by a stroke Of a
wheel Of the steamer
Mavor Havemeyer, of New York, has
sent communication TO the board OF alde;-
men suggesting that special meeting oe
held TO tender the hospitality OF the clty 10
the Evangelical Alliance.
The Old Catholic Bishop ReiDkins,
who was recently recognized by emperor
William as = Catholic bishop, will take The
oath Of allegiance 70 the German empire III
Berlin, on the seventh instant.
At Wilkesbarre, Pennsylvania, Fri
day night, thief named George Law was shot
dead by Mr.. Frank Espey; The thief was was
agoing through" Mr.. Espey's premises, and
got more than he bargained for,
/ A dispatch from Columbus, Ohio
SAYS that the Hooking canal when v as
nearly swept away by the freshetS last July,
| bas been Thoroughly repaired and is now in
better condition than for years.
James Warner was lodged in prison
[ At WilkeSharre, Pennsylvania, yesterday,
CHARGED with the murder Of a man named Mi
nor, who had used insulting language and IN
decent behavior toward the formers wife.
/ The Northern Ohio fair closed at
/ Cleveland yesterday. 1t is represented TO have
I been an unprecedented success, both imam
I cially and in exhibition. over one hundred
thousand people were in attendance during
! the week.
A telegram from Rome yesterday
saws that the pope, in an address to deiega
tiOn of three hundred OF the faithful, used
the following words: "ConfusiOn has entered
the enemy's camp. They strive 10 induce me
70 leave Rome, bat never will
The grand jury OF Brooklyn yesterday
indicted Cortland SprGgue, ex-citv treasurer,
and Marvin J. ROdman, his deputy, for en-
bezzlement. The Jury stated, that, after
careful examination, they found that only
the above were concerned in the frauds.
The Supreme Court Of Illinois, in ses-
sion AT Ottawa has rendered a decision,
through Justice Scott, afhrm1ng the Ealldlty
OF the state liquor law, which, II VIII pc re-
membered. is similar TO that in force in Ohio
The opinion, which is quite long, sustains the
law on all its points.
William Barnes, section-boss on the
st. Louis and southeastern railroad, was shct
and mortslly wounded by George owens,
striker in the machine shops OF the same com
pany, at Mount Vernon, Illinois, Thursday
evening. The affair grew out Of the discharge
Of John Owens, brother OF Geergei as q s. G.
tion-hand.
John Howard Young, mOney-order
clerk in the Brooklyn postof1ce, has been
missing from his desk s1nce saturday last
and hurried examination of his accounts
shows that deficiency exists An expert &C
countant is now making a careful eNamina-
ton TO ascertain the exact amount Dir.
Young was looked upon as an honest officer.
A Melbourne, Australia, dispatch re-
ports that anarchy prevails ia Tepe Island.
Many Of the white settlers refuse TO pay taxes,
and have taken up arms TO resist their collec-
ton. The British and German consuls have
iutervened TO restore order. The commander
OF a British gunbOat has forbidden the sab
iects Of Great Britain from enlisting in the
Australian army.
A terrible affair is reported from
schuyler, Nebraska. II appears that son OF
Mr. Fahey, living near schuyler, who was
suoiect to crazy fits, became enraged last
tuesday at some action OF bis sister and
father. and struck the former over the head
with gun, knocking her ssnseless, and then /
tried 10 cut her throat with haiehet sub
sequently be attacked his father, and beat his
brains out with the butt end OF the gun. He
was arrested.
A Paris telegram says that the G0aLoiS
having announced that the list wOuld be-
opened at that once for the enrolment OF ali |
persons who desired to Join a Bonapart-
League, the ministers Of the interior has issued 1
an order forbidding the carrying out OF the
project. The republican members OF the
general assembly are Fastening TO Paris for
consultation and TO adopt a line OF action in
opposition TO the schemes Of the monarch
lists.
A special dispatch from Washington
SAYS: Ex-Governor Cooke, in conversation !
Yesterday, announced that the firm of Jay /
Cooke & Co. viii soon make a proposition 10
their creditors, Tor the purpose OF enabling 10
10 resume business. TIE members Of the firm
have pooled their private property and per
sonal Is sets and will place iJ Al the command 1
of their creditors ia liquidation Of their in
debtedness. They propose 70 pay every cent
fbev owe both principal and interest. The
details OF the pTopOsiiic n will be made public
in due time.
A New York telegram says that the
u,eetinr of the committee on privileges and
elections Of the United states senate, 10 con
sider q . an for charging the constitution 4
with reference TO the method OF electing The
President, which was 70 have taken place
there Friday, was not held, in consequence q
the absence Of a quorum. senators MofJoni
earn snter. Anthony and Bayard, IN answer 20
fnQuiries said il would be impossible to Indi-
eate the character OF the committees repors,
It was certain, however, that the method ot
electing the President by direct vote wonld
not be recommended, for the reason that 10
would be impossible to get the necessary t9o-
third vote, but instead OF such a plan, certain
deficiencies in the present method which sA-
peTieDce hsd made manifest, would be sup
piled. A quorum OF the committee was eX-
peetsa IN the city yesterday